The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

I just saw the hands for March! For sure, I can do one of the blue or green cards! I’m almost done with Half Blood Prince and I’m about to start Caraval!

Elena wrote: "Woohoo, we're doing so good!

Kaley, I found a book for 24 in case you need backup :)

Any word on when we can have a peek at the March hands?"

If you'll have time to read the book for 24, go for it! All the ones I found are longer, and I don't want to push the deadline too much.

Gwen wrote: "I'm willing to take a try at the "Void Tartlet" recipe if that is still something we want to do, just let me know."

It's definitely something we should do since it's bonus points :) If you want to try it, please go ahead :)

Holy Blue & Green, Batman!!!!

Here are our color cards for March...

8 Blue
3 Blue
9 Green
0 Green
8 Green
1 Green
8 Blue (again)
0 Blue
1 Green (again)

And two Wild Draw 4s

Like I said, I can definitely claim one of the blue and green cards! I’m not picky about which one 😁

Ilsen wrote: "I just saw the hands for March! For sure, I can do one of the blue or green cards! I’m almost done with Half Blood Prince and I’m about to start Caraval!"

Awesome!

Ilsen wrote: "Like I said, I can definitely claim one of the blue and green cards! I’m not picky about which one 😁"

Take as many as you want! :-P Will you finish HBP after March 1, do you think?

Yea I have a lot of currently reading books and I don’t think I’m doing a lot of reading this weekend because of midterms so I can definitely finish it in March so it can count!

Ilsen wrote: "Yea I have a lot of currently reading books and I don’t think I’m doing a lot of reading this weekend because of midterms so I can definitely finish it in March so it can count!"

Ok, perfect. So for green we have 0, 1, 8, & 9. I know for sure it'll fit 9 (Neville/Nymphadora Tonks) but I can't think of any Z, O, or E characters that are prevalent in HBP off the top of my head. Can you? If not, I'll reserve 9 for it.

Kaley wrote: "Gwen wrote: "I'm willing to take a try at the "Void Tartlet" recipe if that is still something we want to do, just let me know."

It's definitely something we should do since it's bonus points :) I..."

Okay, I'll see what I can come up with. Should I post my efforts here?

As for the March color cards, I'd be happy to help out! Let me take a look at my TBR list...

Gwen wrote: "Kaley wrote: "Gwen wrote: "I'm willing to take a try at the "Void Tartlet" recipe if that is still something we want to do, just let me know."

It's definitely something we should do since it's bon..."

Posting it here is fine! :)

Kaley wrote: "If you'll have time to read the book for 24, go for it!..."

Okay, on it!

I can take one of each, I dont care what ones

Okay, here is the recipe thus far:

Recipe for Void Tartlets

Ingredients:
Pastry for double-mooncrust pie (9 inches)
2 tablespoons star sugar
1 tablespoon celestial starch
1 package (12 ounces) frozen unsweetened black-hole berries
1 tablespoon ultra-tart lemon juice

Topping:
1/3 cup heavy cosmic cream, siphoned from the Milky Way
1/4 cup lemon curd
1 teaspoon star sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Black food coloring
Fresh black-hole berries, optional

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 4000°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Using a 4-in. round cookie cutter, cut 12 circles, rerolling scraps as necessary. Press circles onto bottoms and up sides of ungreased muffin cups to create your craters.
2. Mix star sugar and celestial starch; toss with berries and lemon juice. Spoon 2 tablespoons filling into each crater. Bake on a lower oven rack until pastry is crusty and black and filling is smoking, 2-4 minutes. Cool for several light years before removing to set on a satellite panel.
3. For topping, beat cosmic cream until soft peaks form. In another bowl, mix lemon curd, star sugar, black food coloring, vanilla and 1 tablespoon cosmic cream; fold in remaining cosmic cream. Spoon over filling. If desired, top with fresh black-hole berries. Refrigerate until ready to eject contents into the black inky void.

I love it!! Thanks soooo much for doing the recipe Gwen!!

This is great Gwen!

This is amazing, Gwen!! Thanks so much for doing that!

I hope it works for what we need! I'm glad I could work on it, I was bored at work... :-)

I can read The Graveyard Book for the 3 Blue card. CL Liza Hempstock.

I can also read Garden Spells for the 8 Green card. CF Emma Clark

If needed, I can also read Lullabies for Little Criminals for one of the 1 Green cards. Author Heather O'Neill

The recipe is fantastic!!! Thank you so much for doing this, Gwen, love it!


I can do one of Blue 8 with , if approved lol. It looks blue to me, but it's one of those hues I'd rather have confirmed :)

Gwen -- Those should all work. let me know if you will be reading all three or just one or two -- I can write you down for those.

Elena -- Looks blue to me, but I'll ask because I understand about those hues!

I can take one of the 8 Blues also

Thank you, Kaley! And I meant approved by the team, didn't mean to create any more work for you, sorry :)

No worries, it is a simple ask! Plus, I always like having the confirmation from other team capts -- that way I have more protection if it's challenged.

It got 3 votes for blue (and no votes for anything else) so far and usually we only get a few responses so I feel comfortable saying we're good to go with blue!

Awesome, thanks!!

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Book: Scoundrels
Author: Timothy Zahn
Date Read: 2-26-20
Cards it fits:
0 – Author LN Zahn
2 – (T) Author FN Timothy
3 – (H) Han Solo
6 – Title
7 – MC Avrak Villachor
8 - MC Eanjer Kunarazti
Skip- MC Bink Kitik

I went through my shelves and I can take one of the Green 1 books.

Girls of Paper and Fire
Author: Natasha Ngan
Date finished: 2/26/20
Card it Fits:
0 - Character FN Zhen and Zhin
1 - Book 1 in a series
2 - Character FN Tien
3 - Character LN Hanno
5 - Setting Ikhara
6 - Character FN Soraya
8 - Character Eira
9 - Author name Natasha Ngan
Skip - Character FN Kenzo
Reverse - Anna has read

I FINALLY FINISHED ONE!! Hopefully I will be more of help next month!

Kaley wrote: "Ilsen wrote: "Yea I have a lot of currently reading books and I don’t think I’m doing a lot of reading this weekend because of midterms so I can definitely finish it in March so it can count!"

Ok,..."

Ok so I found everything for Half Blood Prince so it can go for any of those:

0 - Character LN Blaise Zabini
1 - Character LN Garrick Ollivander
8 - Character LN Lily Evans (although this one is a stretch)
9 - Character FN Neville Longbottom

For Caraval, the only thing I found was one character named Hector but he doesn’t even speak so I doubt he counts for 3 Blue. I’ll mention it anyways to see if it is allowed but if not, I guess I’ll just use it for a regular card 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm planning on reading for March. Would this count as a Blue cover?

Kaley wrote: "Gwen -- Those should all work. let me know if you will be reading all three or just one or two -- I can write you down for those."

Kaley - I will definitely read The Graveyard Book and Garden Spells but I'm on the fence about Lullabies for Little Criminals, I'll look it over again and let you know.

Should I submit the Void Tartlet recipe to UNO Pixie? Or is that something the captains will do?

Natasha wrote: "I'm planning on reading for March. Would this count as a Blue cover?"

I'm going to ask in the capts group. It's kind of a grayish blue so I'm not sure.

Ilsen wrote: "Kaley wrote: "Ilsen wrote: "Yea I have a lot of currently reading books and I don’t think I’m doing a lot of reading this weekend because of midterms so I can definitely finish it in March so it ca..."

I'm going to mark HBP down for 9 Green since I have something that will work for 0 Green.

For Caraval -- Usually they need to have speaking roles for it to count. So we may just have to use it for a regular card, unless upon reading you find something!

Gwen wrote: "Kaley wrote: "Gwen -- Those should all work. let me know if you will be reading all three or just one or two -- I can write you down for those."

Kaley - I will definitely read [bookcover:The Grave..."

OK, I'll mark you down for 3 Blue and 8 Green for now. If you decide to do the last one later and we still have color cards open, just let me know :)

And I submitted the recipe last night so we are all good on that front. Thanks again for doing that!

Ok, for color cards this is who I have written down so far. Does this look right to everyone? Am I missing anyone?

0 Blue
3 Blue - Gwen
8 Blue - Elena
8 Blue - Kaley
0 Green - Kaley
1 Green - M
1 Green
8 Green - Gwen
9 Green - Ilsen

And then we do still have two Wild Draw 4s, so any of the above can be duplicated for those.

Congrats on your recipe!

Great work. 30 points has been added to your spreadsheet!

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Yay for a break from yellow! I’ll see what I have to cover the remaining colors

Natasha wrote: "I'm planning on reading for March. Would this count as a Blue cover?"

This one was ruled not blue enough, so we won't be able to use it as one of the color cards.

I just need a clarification on one thing. If I start a couple of books now but don't finished them until Saturday or Sunday can they be used for the March cards?

M wrote: "I just need a clarification on one thing. If I start a couple of books now but don't finished them until Saturday or Sunday can they be used for the March cards?"

Yes! As long as they were started after the challenge started, they can be used in the month they’re finished during. So depending what time you finish them, they can be used for either feb or March (Countdown is in the info post on the first page of the thread, but I’ll post it here again in a few hours because I’m going to post another update)

February, final days — PLEASE READ

Hi all,

I just wanted to check in and see where we all stand for the end of the month so I can see how many more books will be coming in.

If you will have another book(s) by the end of the month, please let me know so I can plan accordingly. Right now we have 7 books left (one is my 1 Blue -- so technically 6). There are three spots left in the mini, but they should all be accounted for.

Elena and Laila -- are you still planning to finish your 24 and 120 books before the deadline?

The countdown to the start of March is here. As of the time of my posting, we have just under 41 hours left to finish up February.

Who all will have another book before Feb ends? If you know that you won't finish anything else in Feb, let me know that as well please :)

I am currently reading The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden and plan on finishing it tonight (I'm almost done). It fits 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, Skip, and Reverse but I will post the details after I actually finish the book.

I probably will not finish another book until Monday so this will be it for me in February.

I really liked The Bear and the Nightingale and sequel! Haven't read the third yet but looking forward to it!

Yes on 24. I'm reading Cell, works for 0, 2, 6, Skip, and will definitely finish before deadline.

Book: Contest
Author: Matthew Reilly
Date Read: 2-28-20
Cards it fits:
0 – (Z) standalone
3 – (H) Holly Swain
4 – (F) Mike Fraser
6 – (S) Dr. Stephen Swain
9 – (N) Setting New York
Skip- (K/P) the Konda

Elena wrote: "I really liked The Bear and the Nightingale and sequel! Haven't read the third yet but looking forward to it!"

I really like it, too! I'm hopefully going to pick up the second book tomorrow at the library.

Kaley wrote: "Natasha wrote: "I'm planning on reading for March. Would this count as a Blue cover?"

This one was ruled not blue enough, so we won't be able to use it as one of t..."

Thanks for checking on this!

Finished!
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
Author-Adam Makos
Date read-2-28-2020

Cards it fits:
0-Standalone
1-Place- Oberaussem, Germany
3-Place- Heidelberg, Germany
4-Character- Paul Faircloth
6-Title-Spearhead
7-Character-Sylvester Villa
8-Character- Bob Earley
Skip-Character-Kathy Esser

This is the last book I'll be able to finish for February.

So sorry! I was hoping to finish my 120 pg book today, but I’m too exhausted from work. I’ve got less than 60 pgs to go so I’ll be done in the morning

Hey Team!

Sorry for the hiatus!

I finished two books while I was away:

by Ernest Cline
Settings: a bunch! Columbus Ohio, Oklahoma, OASIS, and a bunch of planets in the OASIS
Characters: Wade Watts (Parsival), Aech, Sorrento, Daito, Shoto, Art3mis, James Halliday
Read by Wil Wheaton

by S.A. Chakraborty
Setting: Daevabad, Am Gezira and 1 other?,
characters: Dara, Ali, Nahri, Mutandhir, and so many more! Sorry, I'm exhausted, if we need other options I can go back in and fix this later.

I was planning on reading and but I don't have strong interest, so I may just read whatever strikes my fancy and let you guys know later. I'll keep you posted! Hope each of you had awesome ends to February!

Book: Ivanhoe
Author: Walter Scott
Date Read: 2-28-20
Cards it fits:
4 – (F) Waldemar Fitzurse
5 - (I) Title
6 – (S) Author LN
8 - (E) Richard I of England/ Setting: England
9 – (N) Robert von der Normandie
Wild: Possibly for the Wild in Hand 12

I will probably finish one more before the cut off tomorrow