The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

✼ Danielle ✼ wrote: "I finished a reverse and put on tracking sheet the other day - Rock Chick Reawakening."

Thanks Danielle, I'll update that one now for the Draw 2 and Reverse in Hand 5.

I finished a 5 green and a couple reverses.

I've got Wild Country, which Danielle read. Though, I think you might have them all covered now. :) I'll try to update tonight.

Wild Country will be good for the map task - presuming you finished it 15th or after :)

Great! :)

Not sure if someone else is doing this already but Im currently reading a book that was read by someone from a detective team to work for the final card of the mini challenge :-)

Plenty of colour cards upcoming in April —

0 red
3 red
4 red
6 red

1 yellow
2 yellow
3 yellow
4 yellow

2 green

1 blue
5 blue
6 blue
7 blue
8 blue

two wild draw 4 cards

I've actually got 5 yellows, 1 red and a couple blues coming up next month. We'll see what I can get to. :)

Completed post 27/3/19

Maybe This Time by Jill Mansell 336 pages

Mini Challenge

16 Mimi, Cora and Cal go shopping - Chapter 11

I added Wild Country to the sheet. I didn't add Task 40 for the mini because I haven't checked, but I would be surprised if nobody on the Detective teams has read this one.

Katie wrote: "I added Wild Country to the sheet. I didn't add Task 40 for the mini because I haven't checked, but I would be surprised if nobody on the Detective teams has read this one."

A few have (Cat included). I think Ashley has one for task 40.

Ok. I included the map task on the sheet already. Just thought to mention that it would also work for 40.

It looks like we're just missing the word sword in the text or title and a book with a weapon on the cover. I have a book that I can read by end of day Friday with the word "sword" in the text unless somebody can get one red before then.

I finished a weapon on cover book.

Completed post 3/4/19

The House at Greenacres by Darcie Boleyn

2 Title
3 Holly
4 Fran

Is the cover blue enough?

255 pages

Ashley what do you mean by NN?

Rachael wrote: "Ashley what do you mean by NN?"

I think it’s nickname

Completed post 7/4/19

A Country Escape by Katie Fforde

384 pages

0 stand alone
2 Tig
4 Fran
5 Issi
6 Seb
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✼ Danielle ✼ wrote: "Rachael wrote: "Ashley what do you mean by NN?"

I think it’s nickname"

Yes sorry just seen this, it was for a nickname! :)

Just finished and added Decline and Fall to the book sheet :)

Completed post 10/4/19

The One Who’s Not the One by Keris Stainton

218 pages

0 stand alone
1 Title
3 Harvey
6 Sean
9 Nick
Skip Kelly

Have you all seen the April mini challenge? Anyone have a preference as to whether we do the A stream or the B stream?

I can’t find the post where the April mini Challenge is set out. Do you have a link please?

Rachael wrote: "Have you all seen the April mini challenge? Anyone have a preference as to whether we do the A stream or the B stream?"

I would say A stream but I don’t really mind :)

Kelly wrote: "I can’t find the post where the April mini Challenge is set out. Do you have a link please?"

I’m not sure if this is what you need but hope it helps!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'll vote for A stream as well, but am happy with whatever the majority votes for.

Thank you :) I’m fine with A.

A is good.

Whatever the team goes with is good with me. :)

Seems A stream is the one. I think we need to sort out out full stream.

Looking at it, I’d go with either of these two streams. Anyone else have a different way to go?

A > A2 > A2b > A2ba
Tasks: (view spoiler)[
A stream
1A* read a book with a phone on the cover
2A* read a book with a police car, officer, or station on the cover
3A* read a book with phone, telephone, call, or police in the title
4A* read a book with H-A-T in the title (doesn't need to be in that order)
5A* read a book where the first word in the text starts with H
6A* read a book where the title starts with A
7A* read a book with an author name (first or last) starts with T

A2: Spell-it-out! The non-uno letters of MEDICAL AID (M, D, C, A, L)
8A2*: M
9A2*: D
10A2*: C
11A2*: A
12A2*: L
13A2*: read a book with a person (head-toe) on the cover
14A2*: read a book with red writing on the cover

A2b - Spell-it-out! The non-uno letters of MELODRAMATIC (M,L,D,R,A,M,A,C)
15A2b*: M
16A2b*: L
17A2b*: D
18A2b*: R
19A2b*: A
20A2b*: M
21A2b*: A
22A2b*: C

A2ba - Connect a book to a book in the series of a team name by finding something common (e.g. read a book with the same number of pages, same publication date, a similar item on the cover, cover colour etc. Feel free to be creative, but justify your reason). If your team name does not have 5 books in the series, you can re-use another book in the series for the purposes of the task (i.e. book #1, 2,3 or 4 can be connected to again)
23A2ba*: Connect a book to book #1 in the series of your team name
24A2ba*: Connect a book to book #2 in the series of your team name
25A2ba*: Connect a book to book #3 in the series of your team name
26A2ba*: Connect a book to book #4 in the series of your team name
27A2ba*: Connect a book to book #5 in the series of your team name
28A2ba*: Connect a book to book #1 in the series of A DIFFERENT team name
29A2ba*: Connect a book to book #2 in the series of A DIFFERENT team name
30A2ba*: Connect a book to book #3 in the series of A DIFFERENT team name

Your stream is complete. You can duplicate any 10 of your tasks for bonus points!
Bonus 1*
Bonus 2*
Bonus 3*
Bonus 4*
Bonus 5*
Bonus 6*
Bonus 7*
Bonus 8*
Bonus 9*
Bonus 10*
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Or

A > A2 > A2a > A2ab
Tasks: (view spoiler)[
A stream
1A* read a book with a phone on the cover
2A* read a book with a police car, officer, or station on the cover
3A* read a book with phone, telephone, call, or police in the title
4A* read a book with H-A-T in the title (doesn't need to be in that order)
5A* read a book where the first word in the text starts with H
6A* read a book where the title starts with A
7A* read a book with an author name (first or last) starts with T

A2: Spell-it-out! The non-uno letters of MEDICAL AID (M, D, C, A, L)
8A2*: M
9A2*: D
10A2*: C
11A2*: A
12A2*: L
13A2*: read a book with a person (head-toe) on the cover
14A2*: read a book with red writing on the cover

A2a - Page Counts
15A2a*: read a book with 101-150 pages
16A2a*: read a book with 151-200 pages
17A2a*: read a book with 201-250 pages
18A2a*: read a book with 251-300 pages
19A2a*: read a book with 301-350 pages
20A2a*: read a book with 351-400 pages
21A2a*: read a book with 401-450 pages
22A2a*: read a book with more than 450 pages

A2ba -
23A2ab*: read a book where a character goes on a date
24A2ab*: read a book where a character meets someone on the internet
25A2ab*: read a book with a female on the cover with long hair
26A2ab*: read a book with a fabulous dress on the cover
27A2ab*: read a book where a character has an affair
28A2ab*: read a book with where someone has never been married
29A2ab*: read a book with a passionate reunion
30A2ab*: read a book with romance MPG

Your stream is complete. You can duplicate any 10 of your tasks for bonus points!
Bonus 1*
Bonus 2*
Bonus 3*
Bonus 4*
Bonus 5*
Bonus 6*
Bonus 7*
Bonus 8*
Bonus 9*
Bonus 10*
(hide spoiler)]

Either looks good to me, Danielle. Thanks for mapping those out. :)

A Perfect Cornish Summer by Phillipa Ashley

0 - Zennor
2 - Troy
6 - Samphire
8 - Evie
Skip - Author

416 pages

I’ve covered the first couple of tasks following A1 but can also cover D and C in A2 if needed.

4A - Title
6A - Title

9A1 - Cover

Shall we go with the first option stream from post #230, as there’s less specific tasks, so easier to fill in?

I'd say that sounds like the better idea. :)

✼ Danielle ✼ wrote: "Shall we go with the first option stream from post #230, as there’s less specific tasks, so easier to fill in?"

I think that sounds good.

I’m happy with that too!

As we’ve decided on the stream I’ll amend my comments for A Perfect Cornish Summer

9A2 Drew
10A2 Chloe
13A2 Cover

Liz can you mark Othello as read and put it on your Uno shelf please?

Hi all, I'm going to see if I can move a few books around but as it stands we still need for the main challenge:

Two 1's
One 1 yellow
One 2
One 2 yellow
One 3 yellow
One 4
One 5
Two 7's
Two 9's
Three Skips
Four reverses
Two Wild draw 4's

Also anyone spoken to Filipa? Not heard from her this month

Ah we still have a ways to go! And no I haven’t heard from her.

I’ve a yellow 2.

I've got a yellow 3 and 3 reverses I can try to get in.

I’ve one or two reverses I can read.

Completed post 21/4/19

Escape to the Little French Cafe by Karen Clarke

3 - surname - Houlihan
4 - Fleur
6 - Simon
8 - Title
9 - Natalie
Skip - Author

Mini
18A2a - 290 pages
25A2aa - Love mentioned halfway through chapter 1 - ‘but whatever mysterious alchemy made two people fall in love, it hadn’t happened for us.’
28A2aa - Heart on the cover

I've still got a couple of your books from the spreadsheet to add so it will change it a little bit but just to let you know we still have:

3 yellow
Reverse x 4
1
5
Skip
2 yellow and skip (needs to be for the same book)

I'll log some more tonight

Also for the mini challenge we have left:

1A* read a book with a phone on the cover
2A* read a book with a police car, officer, or station on the cover
3A* read a book with phone, telephone, call, or police in the title

13A2*: read a book with a person (head-toe) on the cover

25A2ba*: Connect a book to book #3 in the series of your team name
26A2ba*: Connect a book to book #4 in the series of your team name
27A2ba*: Connect a book to book #5 in the series of your team name

This is listed in order of priority as we don't get the later points if we don't complete the earlier challenges

So sorry I didn’t check until now!! Othello is on my UNO shelf. Sorry about that!

I've just started my 3 yellow book.

The copy of Candide I read has a person head to toe on the cover.

I've shifted around a few books so now all that's left is:

3 yellow (which Katie is reading)
Three reverse cards
1 yellow