The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Wow, only one book left on the SRC challenge!!

Nice going, Cat! :-D

Cat wrote: "next book(s):
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
mini connections: horse on cover / translated into English

Maskerade by [author:Terry Pratchett|1654..."

Aides are awesome like that!
I slotted the Discworld book for Team Pyxies as they recommended Pratchett.

The other one, I had a quick look but didn't see a horse, but I might have missed one. Otherwise, we'll find something else for it to work :-)

A horse is also an animal.... I'm not worried!

Horses in Musca & Milky way

Ah I skipped Milky Way since we're done with that one (unless we need to switch).

Missed the ones in Musca haha. Will add it to the spreadsheet :-)

Eurgh... I'm not enjoying Crash & Burn...

I knew why I kept putting it off for ages. But I'm going to push through! I have 8 more days to finish it ;-) And then the series will finally be over.

I have this thing about finishing books and series, depending on how far I'm into the series when it turns to crap.

Maybe it'll turn around?

You can do it! Mix up with a book you like too, if that'll help?

Eldarwen wrote: "Ah I skipped Milky Way since we're done with that one (unless we need to switch).

Missed the ones in Musca haha. Will add it to the spreadsheet :-)"

Yeah, I thought we'd done Milky Way. The other link for Fever Dream is that it's a translation from the original Spanish, so I thought that one of the many Man Called Ove would also work? or are you nixing that connection?

Cat wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Ah I skipped Milky Way since we're done with that one (unless we need to switch).

Missed the ones in Musca haha. Will add it to the spreadsheet :-)"

Yeah, I thought we'd done Mil..."

Mmmhh that could have worked as well. And Ove was definitely recommended a lot.
I put it with the horse now because I quite like matching the covers - but that's just me ;-)

Cat wrote: "Maybe it'll turn around?

You can do it! Mix up with a book you like too, if that'll help?"

Yes, I started reading Blaze of Memory on the bus this morning, so I'll read that whenever I want to rip out my hair with the other one ;-)

Maskerade
20 Feb

Terry Pratchett author
Nanny Ogg char
Esme char
Salzella char

Mini:
Pyxis / #1 of Discworld rec'd

have witches in the story:
Grus / The Black Witch
Kuiper, Eris / HP
Musca, Kuiper / Discovery of Witches

have masks on the cover
Tucana / &

I like matching covers too, but I also like making sure we can use the books, so have to accept that alternative connections are possible, especially if it gives us more options to shuffle with later :)

Hehe true. Options are good to have, just in case!

ok, so I am not going to start Fever Dream today - reviews indicate it's best read when I can immerse myself in the hallucinatory experience, so I'll get to it later in the week.

In the meantime I've picked up:
The Frog Prince by KM Shea
F title
K / S author
Elle char
Henry char
#9 in series

for mini:
it's a fairy-tale retelling, so any of the Cinder recs (a fairy-tale retelling) would work.
or, becuase I know you love a cover match, covers with single female (see Katie's list of them here, cba duplicating the splendid effort!); or with a frog / animal on them (haven't looked)

Fairy-tale retelling sounds nice as well, so I slotted it in for that for Team Pluto :-) And used it to get rid of one of the Wild cards, which will then also finish another hand.

More and more slots filling up for the February mini challenge! Keep those books coming!! :-D

I'll post an update tomorrow with all the cards that are still open.

Just an FYI I’m still here and almost done with Harry Potter POA :)

Savana wrote: "Just an FYI I’m still here and almost done with Harry Potter POA :)"

*waves*

PoA is one of the best in the series. Sirius :-))

Eldarwen wrote: "*waves*

PoA is one of the best in the series. Sirius :-))"

Absolutely. It's right under HBP for me! :D

Finished The Frog Prince
20 Feb

Cards:
K S author
F title
Elle char
#9 series

Mini:
Fairytale retelling- Cinder
Single female on cover (see Katie’s list)

UPDATE

1 week to go!! Read read read like the wind :-)

February Cards

Card 1: 10 - 5 left
Card 2: 6 - 1 left
Card 4: 7 - 1 left
Card 7: 7 - 1 left
Card 9: 7 - 1 left

Wild: 3 - 2 left


Basically, this means we still have 11 cards open that need to be read for before the end of the month.

Mini Challenge

Part One
Savana, Ashlee, Louise and I still have to finish our books for this. At least 2 of us will soon be done.

Part Two
6 teams are completely done. (Pyxis, Mercury, Venus, Milky Way, Carina, Pluto)
5 are being read for. (Grus, Triangulum, Musca, Sculptor, Jupiter)

That leaves us with 17 books that still need to be read, 11 of which will also be used for the normal Uno cards, which basically means we're going to need an extra 5 books that won't be used for our February hands.

I know saying we "only" have one week left sounds a little daunting with 17 books still needing to be read for us to complete everything, but I'm confident we can do this!! :-D


ETA: Actually, I've now been editing this so much, I have completely lost track of how many books total we still need to read haha. But from the way it's looking now, it will be a piece of cake to finish everything on time! YOU ROCK!

totally doable! especially if Katie stops playing in her sewage filled basement and starts reading again! ;-P

Looool :-))

oh, I wondered if could be partnered, on cover basis, with any of:
- for circular type design on cover
- title of Silk Roads -> book has road on cover

(I restarted it on 14th, after the announcement of the mini, so it's legit)

Hmm, at first glance, I immediately think Language of Thorns would fit. They have that swirly design that sticks out.

that's kinda what I hoped :)

now to remember which team....!

ETA: Musca

Great! That means one more team is taken care of :-)

ETA: And it hasn't even been inserted for the cards yet, oops! One less card to fill, yay!

and I can cover the other half of Pyxis too next, as I'll be reading Six of Crows, which they rec'ed.

and it has an I char which'll help hand 9 out :)


For info: I'm about an hour off reporting a finish of Fever Dream, and have just under 4hrs of The Silk Roads to go

Fantastic!

I'm pushing through with Crash & Burn and am halfway through already. If work keeps quiet for a little longer, I might be able to get another few pages read today and then hopefully finish that off tomorrow.

Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
Date Read: 16/2/18
Rating: 3*

Cards:
0 - Standalone
3 - Location Hove
Skip - Author LN Powell

Feb Mini
Pluto
female on cover

Pyxis

road on cover

Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My! by Sara C. Roethle
Date Read: 20/2/18
Rating: 3*

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
6 - Location Shelby

Feb Mini
Pluto
The Bronze Horseman part face on cover

Pyxis
The Host part face on cover

On my reading list next:

Two Down, Bun to Go
Just like That
Deadlocked

Great, keep them coming, Louise! :-)

Deadlocked was one of those in the series I didn't enjoy very much. One of those towards the end where I was just thinking "alright, come on, end it already because you aren't in the mood to write these anymore."

Hope you'll enjoy it though :-)

Xoe would also work for Tucana partial face, right?

Hmmm, yes, I think that could possibly slide. Though that face isn't quite as partial as the others.

Louise wrote: "On my reading list next:

Two Down, Bun to Go
Just like That
Deadlocked"

All of these have been added to our February hands.

2 have also been added for the mini challenge.

I just haven't added to the mini yet.
What do you think of this one for a match from Tucana?
Both portray a certain amount of affection for the other person whether it's nibbling or cuddling/almost nibbling.

I think that's a good match

completed
Fever Dream
21 Feb
192pages

Cards:
standalone
F title
S author

Mini:
horse on cover (Alanna)
or - for switching options - it's translated into English, like eg Ove

To be fair, I don't want to be playing in my gross basement... :P

I have a book to post tonight. Maybe I can make it a couple! :)

Hehe ;-)

How are things on that end, Katie? Are you managing to get it all back under control and cleaned up?

Eldarwen wrote: "Louise wrote: "On my reading list next:

Two Down, Bun to Go
Just like That
Deadlocked"

All of these have been added to our February hands.

2 have ..."
Definitely a good match.

Well, we've got almost everything cleaned up. Just need to sort through some stuff to see what can and can't be claimed, and then it's on to the repairs.

Katie wrote: "Well, we've got almost everything cleaned up. Just need to sort through some stuff to see what can and can't be claimed, and then it's on to the repairs."

That's a good start already at least! Getting it all cleaned up is probably the most annoying part, the rest should follow easily enough. At least I hope so! :-)

March is aaaalmost here!

COUNTDOWN

to March 1st when you can start claiming books for the March hands.

Any books you started in February but can't finished in February, you can finish in March and use them for the March hands.

Just a little update for my current reading...

I will probably be finishing A Flair for Chardonnay tonight. So far it fits...
1 - 1st in series
2 - LN Tremiato
4 - Title
6 - FN Sadie
8 - FN Elena
Skip - LN Kramer

For the first part of the challenge, I am reading Shopaholic Ties the Knot. This can work for a reverse (also read by Eldarwen) in place of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , which I will not likely finish.

The new cutthroat sabotage has completely wiped out my To Do list for the rest of the week.

I hate to break it to you, but Shopaholic has two Es too, if you are hoping to get it done within Cutthroat...?

It's an arse of a sabotage, though, isn't it!

Ashlee, if you prefer someone else pick up a book for the first part of the mini challenge, so you don't have to check for quite so many tasks to fit one book, we can arrange that?

Then you can pick something that fits the new sabotage and we'll be able to fit it somewhere in the second part of the mini?

Just offering, in case that'll take a bit of the pressure off to find something that's suitable :-)

Nice going for the Chardonnay! :-)

If you want to read an easy Kinsella book with just one E, then there's this one:

Finding Audrey

Everything else of hers has a crapton of E's I just realised!

Cat wrote: "I hate to break it to you, but Shopaholic has two Es too, if you are hoping to get it done within Cutthroat...?

It's an arse of a sabotage, though, isn't it!"

Yeah, I know. I'm just not going to use it for Cutthroat. I have it out from the library, though, so I have to read it.

I’ve read Shopaholic Ties the Knot if that helps anywhere!

finished The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
22 Feb

S title
P F author
standalone

Mini: we decided Language of Thorns for similar circular swirly cover pattern