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By: Naoki Higashida
Read: 10/19/19
Pages:135
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Blue
CLOSED FOR WEEK TWO
Completion Post
Book: The Whisper Man
by Alex North
Pages: 355
Date Read: 10/21
Sin: Sloth- Mini Challenge
Criteria: Butterfly- located at 20.78% in audiobook, "I edged carefully over to the window, where the BUTTERFLY was still fluttering against the glass... "
by Christina Skye
pages: 544
Date read: 10/22/19
Sloth mini challenge:
flying squirrel (loc 3702)
kingfisher (loc 4834)
macaw (loc 3728)
or
Sin: Gluttony-shelved historical romance (MPG)
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood by Oliver Bowden
Date: 10/22
Pages: 521
Easy Animal: Horse
"I’ve stabled some horses just beyond Saint Peter’s, outside the precincts of the Vatican."
or if you need to move it to a sin instead
Sin: Envy
Criteria: young adult is on first page of tags [used 4 times]
The Crow: The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite
Date: 10/22/19
Pages: 336
Easy Animal: Bird
the bird is on the cover of the book but if you'd also like a sentence: "A woman walking along Prytania Street hears the bird's grating cry, looks up to see a violent smudge of ebony against the summer twilight, "
or if you need to move it to a sin instead
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: dark fantasy is on the first page of tags [used 3 times]
Book: 16th Seduction
Author: James Patterson
Pages: 350
Finished: 10/21/19
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: Tagged "contemporary" 9 times
by Courtney Milan
270 pages in default edition (I listed to audio)
Read: 10/23/19
Sloth Mini Challenge: Albatross
Pg 240 "an albatross stood, stretching its wings to the sky"
or
Sin: Wrath
Cover is 66.7% brown
Read: 10/22/19
Pages: 436
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: purple cover
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Date: 10/23
Pages: 246
tricky animals:
glow worms: "You never heard of glowworms, Mr. Straight-A Science Guy? Their shit glows in the dark."
angelfish: "It’s easier to imagine her turning into an angelfish"
[not sure if this one works? they are talking about a girl turning into a fish so the first option is probably safer]
it also has a lot of easy animals in it - including wolf on cover and in title - and the cover color shows up as yellow on tineye
[edit for easy animals: alligator, wolf, chicken, gecko, buzzard, dog, sheep, turkey, octopus, fish, buzzard]
Book: Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Author: Petina Gappah
Pages: 320
Sin: MINI CHALLENGE
Read: 10/23/19
Mini challenge - EASY- Donkey Chapter 8 "Muanamuzungu gave us a cow and a donkey."Other easy - Lion, cow
Book: Never Have I Ever
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Pages: 352
Sin: MINI CHALLENGE
Read: 10/23/19
Mini challenge - Angelfish 62% through "Over the deck of a wrecked schooner, playing my light over a pair of angelfish to make their sunshine-yellow sides flash."Easy - Piranha, crab, Barracuda, Octopus
Book: The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
Author : Diana Marcum
Read: 10/23/19
Pages: 225
Sin-Sloth
Criteria - pg. 225 - Puffer fish, by the way, are a threatened species.
Book: How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Author: Sy Montgomery
Date Read : 10/23
Pages: 219
Sin: Sloth- Mini Challenge
Criteria: Tricky animals: Echidna- pg 115 or Cuscus- pg 115 or Pademelon Pg 116
by Karen Abbott
Pages 356 in default edition
Sloth Mini Challenge
Guinea Fowl (tricky) pg 68 "supreme of guinea fowl"
Pheasant, Turkey, Duck & Goose, oyster, lobster, crab (easy) pg 69 (animals served at a banquet)
or
Sin: Tineye isn't working-small chance it might be a brown cover.
Lust: picture of scantily clad Victorian era prostitute on cover, also lots of sex in this book (it's about a brothel)
Book: The Enlightenment of Bees
Author: Rachel Linden
Date Read: 10/24
Pages: 336
Sin: Sloth- Mini Challenge
Criteria: Tricky animals :
Bull Shark pg 93 "That's a BULL SHARK!"
or
HoneyBee pg 294 "A HONEYBEE buzzes in through the farmhouse's open window, "
Book: Spirit of 1787: The Making of Our Constitution
Author: Milton Lomask
Pages: 181
Finished: 10/24/19
Sin: Sloth - Mini Challenge
Criteria: "If he couldn't pay, he lost everything - his homestead, his tools, his furniture, the last potato in his cellar and the only cow or pig in his barn." [p. 67]
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
Date: 10/24
Pages: 384
Easy animal: Crocodile
"He studied the glimmering sheen of the platforms, the whiteness of the feather, and the shadowy hollow of the crocodile’s jaws beyond."
alternately can be used for Sin: Envy [Young Adult on first page of tags, used 5 times]
Book: The Anteater of Death
Author: Betty Webb
Pages: 261
Read: 10/25/19
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Mini-Game
Tricky Animals:
Anteater - pg 3: Tuesdays, Tropics Trail with the giant anteater and the spectacled bears
Aardvark - pg 8: Especially not with that nasty aardvark.
Capybara - pg 36: squirrel monkeys, the Chacoan peccary, the Capybara , and last but not
Macaws - pg 5: Macaws squawked for joy.
Mandrill's - pg 46: collecting feces or staring up some mandrill's snout.
Ocelot - pg 38: Keeping an uneasy eye on the ocelot, he said,
Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
Date: 10/25
Pages: 288
Word Count: 49562 via arbookfind
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: 53.0 %Cowboy (Brown) according to tineye
can also be used for easy animal: dog
"She started down the street, screeching to a halt as a small white dog stopped in front of her, barking furiously."
Completion Post
Book: The Whisper Man by Alex North
Pages: 355
Date Read: 10/23
Sin: Sloth- Mini Challenge
Criteria: Butterfly- "I clicked the padlock back in place, sealing the butterflies within" (75).
Fish- "Just enough bait added to the hook to keep the fish from swimming off" (81).
Dog- "As I pushed the gate, a dog began barking..." (139).
Book: Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger
Pages: 384
Read: 10/23
Sin: Envy
Criteria: Green Cover 60.5%
Per TinEye:
#698b86 33.0 % Gumbo (Green)
#9ccfb1 23.3 % Vista Blue (Green)
#4b3439 16.9 % Cab Sav (Brown)
#21263c 14.0 % Valhalla (Blue)
#6e1628 5.7 % Scarlett (Red)
#c9c5bd 2.4 % Quill Grey (Grey)
#7b9a68 1.6 % Highland (Green)
#a49c58 1.4 % Gimblet (Green)
#625133 1.2 % West Coast (Green)
#b0132a 0.6 % Cardinal (Red)
Also works for Mini Challenge
Easy animals:
Dog- "A woman walking her dog found a body" (23).
Fish, Deer, Birds- "But they were just hunting fish and deer and birds?" (151).
Different form of word:
Goose- "Overhead chevrons of geese move across the fading blue-gray sky" (227).
Tortoise- "He'll come back with dead birds - once he even brought back a dead turtle"
Book: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 699
Read: 10/22
Sin: Envy
Criteria: Genre - Tagged Young-Adult on first page of tags by 1,918 people
Also works for Mini Challenge
Easy animals:
Fly- "I waved away a fly that buzzed..." (2).
Bear- "Their forces were well trained, but they often relied on the great white bears that stalked the realm for any unwanted visitors" (116).
Cat, Bird- "A cat with a bird
Eagle- "A great golden eagle- with talons" (411).
Fox- "White foxes scuttled about underfoot..." (586).
Dog, Horse- "I'd gotten the dogs and horses out the night before - along with the servants and their families (608).
Read: 10/25/17
Pages: 572
Sin: Lust
Criteria: tagged guilty pleasure 28 times
Book: Lunar Heat
Read: 10/25
Pages: 262
Sin: Pride
Criteria: Purple Cover 56.5%
Per TinEye -
33.6 %Toledo (Violet)
9.6 % Eminence (Violet)
7.7 % Venus (Violet)
5.6 % Rose Bud Cherry (Violet)
Also may be used for the Mini Challenge
Tricky Animan
Tiger Shark- "Below a tiger shark darted after a grouper and disappeared into the depths" (4).
Book: Border Lord
Read: 10/24
Pages: 306
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: Brown Cover 57.22%
Per TinEye-
18.2 % Prairie Sand (Brown)
17.1 % Redwood (Brown)
13.3 % Wood Bark (Brown)
7.3 % Vesuvius (Brown)
1.4 %Hemp (Brown)
Can also be used for tricky animal: (Once approved by captains)
"Why would Her Majesty send a...a woman? No offense, of course. Some of my best feathers come from female birds. Take the moorhen--" (31).
Book: War Storm
Read: 10/25
Pages: 662
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Blue Cover 65.3%
Per TinEye-
57.9 % Blue Zodiac (Blue)
7.4 % Heather (Blue)
Can also be used for easy animal:
Alligator- "I won't be held responsible for anything an alligator does" (246).
Carmen, I had this for Border Lord, post 132, but wasn't 100% sure it would count. I'm adding it here and when you confirm one way or another, I'll add it or not.Possible Tricky for Mini Challenge
"Why would Her Majesty send a...a woman? No offense, of course. Some of my best feathers come from female birds. Take the moorhen--" (4).
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Date Read: 10/24
Sin: Will work for Sloth or Vanity
Criteria: Sloth - Blue cover - 89.4% Teal Blue (Blue); Vanity - Award winning book (Goodreads Choice 2015)
Teen Frankenstein by Chandler Baker
Date: 10/26
Pages: 336
Sin: Envy
Criteria: young adult is first tag [used 36 times]
Easy Animal: Rat
"The new specimen is a field rat acquired from outside the main house."
pages 270
Read 10/25/19
Mini Challenge:
Tricky: anteater, macaw, capybara,
Easy: Emu, Orangutan, leopard, monkey, dog, giraffe,
or
Sin: Wrath-cover 63.3% brown.
My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
Date: 10/27
Pages: 320
Sin: Gluttony
Criteria: cover is 58.7% pink
Easy Animal: Cow
"No, we don’t carry that sort of thing here. Does it have to be a cow brain?" @ 36%
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Date Read - 10/27/19
Pages - 304
Sin - Sloth
Criteria - Blue cover (87.4% Teal Blue - Blue)
Book: The Koala of Death
Author: Betty Webb
Pages: 250
Read: 10/27/19
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Mini-Game
Tricky Animal:
Ocelot - pg 202: in the meantime you're taking over the Ocelots.
The Guardian by Margaret Mallory
Read: 10/27/19
Pages: 354
Sin: Gluttony
Criteria: Tagged historical romance 250 times
Dry by Neal Shusterman
Pages: 390
Sin: Greed
Criteria: Tagged dystopia 258 times
Also has tricky animal:
Clown fish: "A large portion of the tank's face has been smashed in, violently drained of all its water--that is, except a thin layer at the bottom, maybe an inch, where a small clown fish sucks water in..." (64).
Carmen, I added my sentence to post 132 in case we get confirmation or you already have. I know one captain approved it but I think you're waiting on one more to agree.
By:Abigail Keam
224 pages
Read 10/27/19
Honeybee
Vicki wrote: "Carmen, I added my sentence to post 132 in case we get confirmation or you already have. I know one captain approved it but I think you're waiting on one more to agree."Got it thanks :)
I added an easy animal to post 133 for War Storm.
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