The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Starting

Fruit Cake and Fear
which could connect to

- Carina because they mentioned Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe in which Ari is described as an angry teen

-Mensa - knife on the cover like their recommended Cut and Run

Marie (UK) wrote: "I am having cataract surgery next Monday I may be limited to audio books for a few days"

that's alright, just make sure you switch the audio edition of Jamaica Inn to the default one -> ! :)

good luck with the surgery; I hope everything goes well & recovery will be quick

I’m loving The Perks of Being a Wallflower! I wish I had read it when everyone else did. There’s so much I relate to - the high school of the 90s, the music mentioned (especially the Smiths)! I tend to avoid books when everyone is raving about them. I need to stop doing that!

FEBRUARY MINI CHALLENGE UPDATE
(many books can still be switched around)

PART 1 (2 books per team; total of 6 possible books - 5 read, 1 claimed):

Team Musca - Kirsten ✓ & Jenny ✓
Team Neptune - Christina ✓ & Jenny ✓
Team Pluto - Daniela ✓ & Nikki

PART 2 (2 books per team; total of 36 possible books - 18 read, 5 claimed)

Andromeda - Christina & Laura ✓
Betelgeuse - Laura ✓
Carina - Laura ✓
Ceres - Marie ✓
Grus - Christina & Dima ✓
Haumea - Christina & Daniela
Hydrus - Laura ✓ & Marie ✓
Jupiter -
Kuiper -
Mensa - Christina ✓ & Laura ✓
Mercury - Daniela ✓
Milky Way - Marie ✓
Pyxis - Laura ✓
Saturn - Marie ✓
Sculptor - Marie ✓ & Laura ✓
Triangulum - Marie ✓
Tucana - Jenny ✓
Venus - Dima ✓ & Kirsten

Completion post!

Dead guilty by Beverly Connor

Works for
1- character Veda Odell
2- 2nd book in series
3- character Pris Halloran
4- Character Diane Fallon
5- Character Izzy Wallace
6- Character Steven Mayberry
7- Character Vanessa Van Ross
8- Character Elwood Jefferson
9- Character Neva Hurley
skip- Character Kendall Williams

For second part of the mini challenge this could work for three teams. There is a silhouette of a tree on the cover. Team Triangulum has A Court of Thrones and Roses, and team Saturn has American Gods, both with trees. Or, I can link this one to Tucana's Gone With the Wind again, as again, they both take place in Georgia.

COMPLETION
The Bawdy Basket
21/02/2018
Rating 3 stars

Cards
1. Character Owen
3. Edmund Hoode
4 Lawrence Firethorn
6 Sir Slaney
5 James Ingram
7 Vincent Webbe
8 Author
9 Nicholas Bracewell
SKIP Preben vanLoew

Part 2 matches

Team Hydrus - has alliteration in title as does The Bawdy Basket
Team ceres woman on cover

Jenny wrote: "Completion Post!


They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
For mini challenge (first part) from team Musca.

Can be used for

0- stand alone
2- title..."

Please post the link of your comment when you make it. :)

Kirsten, I already looked for Jenny's post + added it to our Feb Mini spreadsheet last night? 😂

Completion Post:


The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Date: 2/21/18
Cards:
0 - Standalone
2 - Title
3 - character Aunt Helen
6 - author Stephen Chobosky
9 - character's nickname - Nothing
Skip - Title

Part 2 Connections:

-Mercury - book was made into a movie like their recommended The Neverending Story

-Milky Way - book was made into a movie like their recommended Eat, Pray Love

- Triangulum - book was made into a movie like their recommended Me Before You

-Ceres - book was made into a movie, starring Emma Watson, just like their recommended Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

- Jupiter - book was made into a movie like their recommended The Girl on the Train

-Kuiper - book was made into a movie, starring Emma Watson, just like their recommended Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

-Betelguese - book was made into a movie like their ecommended Hunger Games

-Tucana - book was made into a movie like their recommended Bridget Jones's Diary

-Pyxis - book was made into a movie like their recommended The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

- Carina - book was made into a movie like their recommended Wonder

Completion post!

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S, Lewis

works for

1- first in series
3- character Hyoi
8- character Elwin Ransom
skip- character Kankaberaka

For 2nd part of mini challenge,
Out of the Silent Planet was written by C.S. Lewis, who taught at Cambridge. This links to Saturn's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as Douglas Adams went to Cambridge, plus they both take place in space.

Great connections, Jenny!

Christina wrote: "Kirsten, I already looked for Jenny's post + added it to our Feb Mini spreadsheet last night? 😂"

Great! :)

Finished Sixth Grave on the Edge by Darynda Jones Finished on 2/20.

Cards:
2- Officer Tate - Charecter
4- Reyes Alexander Farrow - Character
6- Title
8- Title
9- Setting: New Mexico

Dima wrote: "Finished by Darynda Jones Finished on 2/20.

Cards:
2- Officer Tate - Charecter
4- Reyes Alexander Farrow - Character
6- Title
8- Title
9- S..."

can anybody find sunglasses on a cover? or another a connection?
/ do you think this counts as sunglasses?


PS: Dima, you still need to add Sinful Empire to your uno shelf!!!!!! (and are you going to tell us about King? *wonders*)

King by T.M. Frazier. Finished 2/21.

Cards:

1- First book in a series..
2- Author's name.
4- Author's name.
5- Isaac. Character
6- Samuel Clearwater - Character.
9- Nickky - Character.
Skip - Character Preppy.

thanks ;)

Laura wrote: "Great connections, Jenny!"

the Cambridge connection is indeed insanely good, Jenny!! (I do have a feeling it might be too farfetched though.... we still got a place for it, so don't worry ;))

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FEBRUARY MINI CHALLENGE UPDATE
(many books can still be switched around)

PART 1 (2 books per team; total of 6 possible books - 5 read, 1 claimed):

Team Musca - Kirsten ✓ & Jenny ✓
Team Neptune - Christina ✓ & Jenny ✓
Team Pluto - Daniela ✓ & Nikki

PART 2 (2 books per team; total of 36 possible books - 23 read, 5 claimed)

Andromeda - Christina & Laura ✓
Betelgeuse - Laura ✓
Carina - Laura ✓
Ceres - Marie ✓ & Marie ✓
Grus - Christina & Dima ✓
Haumea - Jenny ✓ & Daniela
Hydrus - Laura ✓ & Marie ✓
Jupiter - Christina & Dima ✓
Kuiper - Laura ✓
Mensa - Christina ✓ & Laura ✓
Mercury - Daniela ✓
Milky Way - Marie ✓
Pyxis - Laura ✓
Saturn - Marie ✓
Sculptor - Marie ✓ & Laura ✓
Triangulum - Marie ✓ & Jenny ✓
Tucana - Jenny ✓
Venus - Dima ✓ & Kirsten

I’ve been reading mine for team Pluto off and on today. I think I can get it done today. I definitely want to anyway I’m really intruigued so far.

I am currently reading , and listening to .
If any of you run across covers with lightning on them (for Dead Secret), or stylized clouds (for Irreligion), can you let me know? Those are the obvious book cover bits. Thanks in advance.

Nevermind the above post. I found from team Carina for Irreligion (sun rays), and from Betelgeuse for Dead Secret.

I should be able to finish both of those by Friday at the latest, leaving time for even more. I'm an addict. I admit it.

Well done everyone :) I couldn't be online much the last 2 days, work is crazy! hopefully the weekend will be less stressfull and I can finish my book

Completion Post


Fruit Cake and Fear
Date: 2/22/18
Cards:
4 - author Agatha Frost
6 - main character Julia South
8 - 8th in series
Skip - setting is Peridale

- Carina because they recommended

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
in which character Ari is described as an angry teen; angry teen character in my books as well (Jessie).

-Mensa - knife on the cover like their recommended

Cut & Run

Starting


Possible Part 2 Connections:

-Mercury - characters who have secrets that get shared as in their recommended


-Kuiper - main characters who take into their homes girls who need a home and safer life as in their recommended


-Saturn - authors' first names are the same as in their recommended

finished all 3 books which I had started last week, and weirdly enough I gave all of them 4 stars x)
Looking for Alaska
The Vile Village
Bossypants

On my phone now, so can’t insert books, but...

Also starting A Most Curious Murder.
For Part 2, it could Connect to:

-Milky Way - they suggested Eat, Pray, Love, author’s first name is also Elizabeth

-Kuiper - they suggested A Discovery of Witches, which also has a library in it.

Completion post!

Irreligion by John Allen Paulos

finished Feb. 22

Works for

0- stand alone
5- title
skip- author

Connects to Carina's
sun rays on both covers.

COMPLETION
Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece
22/02/2018
rating 3 stars

Cards
0 Zeus Character
1 Ouranos Character
2 Theia Character
3Hermes Character
4 Author
5 Iapetus Character
6 Author
7 Venus Character
8 Echo Character
9 Narcissus Character
SKIP poseidon Character

Matches for mini challenge
Team Hydrus and Team Milky way The Song of Achilles Achilles is part of the greek Gods and myths

Completion Post

Birthday Cake and Bodies
Date: 2/22/18
Cards:
2 - character Theo Brown
3 - character Heather Brown
4 - author Agatha Frost
6 - main character Julia South
8 - character Ethan Brown
9 - 9th in series
Skip - setting Peridale

Part 2 Connections:

-Betelgeuse - main characters help solve murders better than the Detective Inspectors assigned to the case

Running Girl

-Mercury - characters who have secrets that get shared as in their recommended

Eliza and Her Monsters

-Kuiper - main characters who take into their homes girls who need a home and safer life

Purge

-Saturn - authors' first names are the same as in their recommended

And Then There Were None

- Sculptor - set in England, same as their recommended

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Starting

Gingerbread and Ghosts
which will link Pyxis because they recommended a book in which the main character is baker!!

The Storyteller

first of all, we only have 6 more books (maybe 7, if Dima doesn't put Sinful Empire on her uno shelf) to read for our February cards!!!!!


FEBRUARY MINI CHALLENGE UPDATE
(books can still be switched around if needed)

PART 1 (2 books per team; total of 6 possible books - 5 read, 1 claimed):

Team Musca - Kirsten ✓ & Jenny ✓
Team Neptune - Christina ✓ & Jenny ✓
Team Pluto - Daniela ✓ & Nikki

PART 2 (2 books per team; total of 36 possible books - 31 read, 2 claimed) only 3 (maybe 4) more books needed!

Andromeda - Christina ✓ & Dima ✓
Betelgeuse - Laura ✓ & Jenny ✓
Carina - Laura ✓ & Laura ✓
Ceres - Marie ✓ & Marie ✓
Grus - Christina ✓ & Dima ✓
Haumea - Jenny ✓ & Daniela
Hydrus - Laura ✓ & Marie ✓
Jupiter - Christina ✓ & Dima ✓
Kuiper - Laura ✓ & Laura ✓
Mensa - Christina ✓ & Laura ✓
Mercury - Marie ✓ & Daniela ✓
Milky Way - Marie ✓
Pyxis - Laura ✓
Saturn - Marie ✓ & Laura ✓
Sculptor - Marie ✓ & Laura ✓
Triangulum - Marie ✓ & Jenny ✓
Tucana - Jenny ✓
Venus - Dima ✓ & Kirsten

Hi Team Eris! I want to say thank you to Kirsten for pointing me in the direction of The Language of Flowers. It was a very sweet story. I actually enjoyed the discussions of the different flowers and they're historical meanings. The ideas of alternate (or secret) communication within families and the melding of modern families really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing this title.

I'll definitely finish my book for part 2 ;) only 39% left

Right now I am reading 2 books that would cover Pyxis and Milky Way. I should be done with one today and one tomorrow.

And Jenny is still reading Dead Secret, so with some shuffling we will definitely finish our mini challenge!!! :)

Nikki & Kirsten, how are you going with your books for the mini challenge?

Good morning, or whatever time of day it is for you all!

Christina, I have about 50 pages left in Dead Secret, which I will finish this morning. The next book in that series is , which I can read this weekend. So, while shuffling books in the challenge, if there is a link to a house on fire, or another "it takes place in Georgia" book, that can work for the challenge too.

I am also listening to at work, and will probably finish that today too. The only link I have found for that is a palm tree, which links with "She Rides Shotgun" from Pyxis, but I will try to find another if we need it.

Kate S wrote: "Hi Team Eris! I want to say thank you to Kirsten for pointing me in the direction of The Language of Flowers. It was a very sweet story. I actually enjoyed the discussions of the di..."

Yay! Glad you gave it a try & like it! :)

Christina wrote: "And Jenny is still reading Dead Secret, so with some shuffling we will definitely finish our mini challenge!!! :)

Nikki & Kirsten, how are you going with your books for the mini challenge?"

My book (Guernsey...) is complete, I updated the spreadsheet accordingly (around 1:30am my time this morning). Since it sounds like we will having everything covered by the books others are currently reading I don't think I'll start a new book until March. In the meantime I will see about either knocking off some of my "currently reading" books from pre-Uno or read more of Lament (the book I started for Uno but put on hold for March).

Christina wrote: "And Jenny is still reading Dead Secret, so with some shuffling we will definitely finish our mini challenge!!! :)

Nikki & Kirsten, how are you going with your books for the mini challenge?"

Over halfway done and I’m off work today so should have it finished this evening. :)

Completion post!

Dead Secret by Beverly Connor
finished Feb. 23

works for

1- character Veda Odell
2- Steve Taggert
3- Charlotte Hawkins
4- Diane Fallon
5- Izzy Wallace
6- Mike Seger
7- Vanessa Van Ross
8- Emmett Taggert
9- Neva Hurley
Skip- Kendall Williams

2nd challenge links-
Team Haumea- The Lightning Struck Heart (lightning on cover)
Team Tucana- Gone With the Wind (takes place in Georgia)

Completion Post:


Gingerbread and Ghosts
Date: 2/23/18
Cards:
4 - author Frost
6 - main character Julia South
Skip - setting - Peridale
It seems like it will only work for the Wild in Hand 12, unless I missed something.

Part 2 Connection:
Pyxis - recommended a book in which the main character is also a baker:

The Storyteller

I have a spreadsheet question. I was looking at ours, and there are a few books that are on the list more than once, not as WD4 or wild cards. I don't understand why. Are they put there as place holders? do we have a lot more to read in order to finish all of the hands? I did look at the instructions again, and this duplicate book thing wasn't covered.

Thanks.

Jenny - Are they Draw 2 cards? If so, the title would appear in a hand 3 times: once to signify it is a D2 card, and twice for both cards.

In hand two, The Handmaids Tale is listed under 2, draw2, and red1.
In hand three, The Man Who Was Thursday is listed under 0, draw two and 5. In hand four, Death Around the Bend is listed under draw 2, 4 and 8.How does that work?

Sorry,
I thought it just meant that you could double a book.

Jenny wrote: "I have a spreadsheet question. I was looking at ours, and there are a few books that are on the list more than once, not as WD4 or wild cards. I don't understand why. Are they put there as place ho..."

There are Draw 2 cards (as Laura mentioned) which allow us to "Use the same book for two cards in this hand (and get points for both cards)". Where we have covered those cards a hand will essentially have three entries for 1 book (the draw 2 card and then the two cards in the hand we are applying that draw 2 card to). These aren't just place holders they are legitimate plays.

However if you do come across a book that is in more than one hand or is duplicated in a single hand but there is no "draw 2" card in the same hand it is being used for, let us know! That could be a case where us captains were over zealous when entering books and didn't realize another captain already put it in.

So do we really need only 4 more books?

Also, If we as a team finish all of the hands, do we get more hands? or, do we roll over books to the next month?

Jenny wrote: "So do we really need only 4 more books?

Also, If we as a team finish all of the hands, do we get more hands? or, do we roll over books to the next month?"

Yes we really just need 4 more.
No we don't get any new hands (until March 1st to begin the new month). Books that are completed in Feb in excess unfortunately don't get rolled over they just get lost in the black hole of Feb. However if a book is started in Feb but we don't finish it until March it can be used on March's cards.

Cool. Thanks. I will definitely finish two of the books I am reading before March 1st., and perhaps a third. I will check to see if they match what we need.

Jenny wrote: "Cool. Thanks. I will definitely finish two of the books I am reading before March 1st., and perhaps a third. I will check to see if they match what we need."

Great! Also just adding in Gingerbread (of Laura's) now so we really only need 3 books total! Wow. Also remember nothing is set in stone so we can shuffle books around in order for nearly any book to fit into our cards.

COMPLETION
Alone
23/02/2018
Numbers
2 character Tony Rocco
3 cjaracter Harvey Jones
5 Dr iorfino
6 character Susan
8. Character
9. character nathan
SKIP character Prudence