The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Great KayLynn - that'll be awesome if you can finish the fingerprint book!

I think I should be able to cover the sunglasses - the audio book I found is only 5 hours, and I have enough grading to do, that it'll be easy to get it done.

Is anyone reading for character known for being blonde? I can listen to My Week with Marilyn on audible if no one is

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The husbands secret - Liane Moriarty
0 - stand alone
2 - title
4 - character LN (Fitzpatrick)
6 - setting (Sydney)
8 - character FN (Esther)
SKIP - character FN (Polly)

Mini challenge
27. L - author FN

I don't know of anyone reading for character known for being blonde - if you are willing to do that one, it'd be great!

Mini Challenge Incomplete (for now) Tasks

3. Fingerprint in title or text - Laila covered this
4. At least one fingerprint on the cover - KayLynn is 60% done
7. Character known for being blonde - Laila can do the Marilyn book
20. Money on the cover - Suzanne can read Aunt Dimity and the Buried Treasure
28-29. Letters O and U
31. Sunglasses on the cover - Suzanne is listening to a book

So wow! We are getting so close!

We still have some books to read for our hands also. I'll get things updated tonight. We have quite a few 8s, although I think we can also move previous things around if needed to cover some of them :)

Also we have SIX - yes SIX yellow book covers for April. So keep an eye out for any yellow books you want to read! :)

I’m looking at those colours now!! I can commit to a red and a green, a maybe on another green, and trying to find some yellows - I’m off to stalk the other groups for inspiration haha.

I felt like we'd done our yellow card time already. Lol one of the teams only got one yellow card the entire game!

I have 2 books I finished in the last few days that I still have to post and get in the spreadsheet, but I know for sure 1 of them can cover the fingerprint task on the mini.

Oh wonderful - thank you!

I can cover the U for spell it out and a couple of 8's. Also SIX yellow covers. I will start looking at what I can find.

Ok I have a list of yellow books that might help, and it turns out I also have three here on my list for April! I can cover:

Yellow 2 - the girl with all the gifts
Yellow 3 - big girl panties
Yellow 6 - give up the ghost

Some ideas I scored were:
Yellow 3 - tuck everlasting, dear mrs bird
Yellow 6 - the rule of one, the help
Yellow 9 - tuck everlasting, the wing girl

Kelly, if you read the girl with all the gifts I can do it for a reverse. It is my book club read next month

Perfect! There’s loads of reverses too so we’ll be awesome! It could also be a wild draw 4 for one of us? If it’s not a reverse?

Oh what masterful planning - thanks for helping me feel optimistic about April!

And ty for the great ideas too - I'll put them in the planning sheet when I get it set up, so that we have some good suggestions.

The Girl With all the Gifts also has a character named Helen, so it'd work for Yellow 3 as well as Yellow 2 :)

Cool!! I just went with what I could find from the other groups and the book descriptions. So we could both read it and count it for different cards!

Yeah great find!

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Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Can work for #4 fingerprint on the cover if needed

Spell-it -out
L: Lev Calder
U: Title
O: Location Ohio

I put my 2 books in:

Caramel Pretzel Murder - Hand 8 and it covers the mini for fingerprint in text

12 Days of Forever - Skip card

Suzanne wrote: "Thanks Melissa. I've always been curious about that book! I bet it is good."

I have too, it's a book that is always on those "Must read" lists.

I put the April Planning sheet up and filled in a few books. As always, we can move things around when we need :)

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Sparked - Helena Echlin and Malena Watrous

0 - stand alone
6 - title
8 - author LN

For the other colour cards, I can cover:

RED 1 - the girl who circumnavigated.... by Catherynne Valente (first in series)

GREEN 7 - in an absent dream by Seanan McGuire (character FN)

GREEN 6/WILD DRAW 4 - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet by Darynda Jones (character LN)

I have found a pile of books and will put them on the planning sheet when I get home. On a happy note I can cover a bunch of the 7's we need to do.

Thanks! We will enter April so prepared!!

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Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

All info on planning sheet

Spell-it-out
O - Character Osrik

Thanks M! I've been wanting to read that book.

I really love it. It is re read for since I just picked up the second one.

Oh awesome. I hope you enjoy the 2nd as much!

We are getting super close to being finished with all of our March tasks. Honestly, I wondered if it was possible, but wow you have all come through beautifully.

Mini-Challenge
Complete other than a few books in progress
KayLynn's fingerprint on cover
Laila's blonde book
Suzanne's Sunglasses (90% done) and Money on cover (40% done)

Cards
Very few are left:
6 - (2 cards)
2 - (1 card)
1 - (1 card)
4 - (1 card)

Its likely we could cover a lot of those with the unfinished mini-challenge tasks.

So...judge your reading accordingly. It is never a bad thing to read just for fun, or pick up a longer book that won't be finished til April, or- whatever you want.

Thanks for working (or at least reading) miracles :)

I’m reading The Keeper Of Lost Things which will be a 2 (title). I’ll be finished tomorrow.

Oh nice - ty!

I’ve got 2 books right now that will work for the main challenge.

Maybe Now - 6: CF Sydney
My Week with Marilyn - 1: CL Laurence Olivier

My book can also cover a 4 and a 6, so we’ve got some wriggle room too.

I love wiggle room :)

Honestly, you ladies have taken a lot of stress off my life - I can easily finish my two and its SO nice not thinking "oh no! I should try to finish 10 books this weekend!"

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The keeper of lost things - Ruth Hogan
2 - title
4 - character FN (Freddy)
6 - character FN (Sunshine)

Also, is this book suitable as a yellow cover? I've also currently got it out of the library and it would slot in for YELLOW 9 or WILD DRAW 4 really nicely!

A Magical Match

What a cute cover! It doesn't have enough yellow on Tineye, but I'll ask in the Captain's group.

They said no to yellow for that one, but oh well. We have time :)

Meh it was worth a try!!

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Princess in waiting - Meg Cabot
4 - fourth in series

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The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz


0 - Stand Alone
4 - Title

Mini Challenge:
Spell It OUt "M" - Author
Spell It Out "R" - Author

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Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt


1 - Squeaky Clean Mysteries Book 1
2 - C: Riley Thomas
3 - C: Harold
6 - C: Gabby St Claire (Or BFF Sierra)
7 - P: Virginia
9 - P: Norfolk, VA
SKIP - C: Detective Chip Parker

Mini Challenge:
FINGERPRINT ON COVER!!!!
Also - knife, fingerprint, DNA, detective and arrest in text. Will find if needed.
-Murderer was caught because she was blonde. She left her trademark blond hair in several locations and that ended up being her demise. Not sure if that counts.
-Harold has been in jail.
-Riley is a lawyer and Chip is a detective so they "go to court".
-Michael is having an affair on Gloria with Barbara, the blonde lady.
-Barbara is very, fatally jealous.
-"R" - Riley Thomas
-"C" - Author
-"C" - Detective Chip Parker
-"G" - Gabby St Claire
-"M" - Michael Cunningham

I know this is planned for a fingerprint one, but I saw someone else mention reading one that fit so I included everything else it works for as well...

It's a long shot but would this count as yellow?

KayLynn wrote: "

It's a long shot but would this count as yellow?"

Sadly - stilly tin-eye counts it as more brown - boo!

And thanks for the great check-ins! Awesome reading! And yeah - we will use yours for fingerprint - then we can use that other for the pesky "u" letter - and wow - SO close to being all done! Yay!

Ok - we are pretty much officially done with March! Laila - on the main hands - I put the spots for your books marked with pink so you'll know where to put them. But wow - yay for being done! Now we have 3 whole days to "relax" and then on to April - with extra hands and other treats in store - but we're up to the challenge :)

To count as April, books can be started anytime in the challenge but must be finished in April?
So I can start books but wait until the 1st to finish them?

Yes that's correct - if you start something now (or earlier in the challenge) and finish it April, it counts for April :)

Thanks Suzanne! I should be done with both books later today

Both my books are in. We are done for the month!

Awesome! Thanks all! I'm travelling home now. It was nice to have a couple days to focus on my parents!