The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Do you guys think this book will fit the clue for a character going into a book?
The Book of Lost Things
If not it will be The Book Jumper but I'd prefer the first one.

Yayyy!! Awesomazing 🎉

Well done team! We did great with the guesses

Laura wrote: "Do you guys think this book will fit the clue for a character going into a book?
The Book of Lost Things
If not it will be The Book Jumper but I'd prefer the first one."

The first book sounds like it will work Laura

Tina ❣ wrote: "The first book sounds like it will work Laura"

Great! I don't think it will have many options for the main challenge though but we'll see.
Also good luck with your move! Moving is always exciting and stressful :) and especially if you're moving out to live on your own.

As far as I can see by the tracking spreadsheet we still need the few colour cards Tina listed. My Eclipse book is either a Yellow 1 or 4 but maybe Apoorv can wangle it to fit both somehow hahahaha.

Anyway, I'll finish it by tomorrow but thought I'd hit the library today for one or more of the others. Short books if I can find them!

Anyone got one of the colour covers on their list already?

Apoorv I mentioned my copy of Evil Under the Sun cover colour discrepancy a while back. If the Mods accept the colour is the same as the e version listed (it really is( but shows upas a dirty brownish on the paperback it would be a Yellow 1

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I added a Red 4 to the tracking sheet. If someone else has it covered I can wait for the April hands. Also picked up a Green cover which I wanted to read. Not sure if it has a 5 card in it but similarly we can use it for April.

Update: The Green does have character called Iain.

I'm pretty sure I can get through both in a week. With any luck someone will fall in love with their boss as well!

Elisabeth wrote: "Anyone got one of the colour covers on their list already?"

Nope, I don't have any colour cards on my list. I'm currently reading my last book that I signed up for the mini challenge.

I don't have any colour cards planned. I might be able to fit one in though if necessary, I've almost finished Circe and then it's only the Book of Lost Things that's still on my list.

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After the Eclipse Ebook version
Author: Fran Dorricott
Pages: 448
Date; March 24th
Cards
Yellow 55.3%
1 C: Olive
4 Author: Fran

Mini Challenge
Eclipse in title

Tina ❣ wrote: "guesses for the songs yet?"

I guess I missed the 'guessing the songs' post. I knew them all, but never saw where we shared our guesses. At least that part is done. That is awesome!

Danah, we didn't guess them in a post. Apoorv sent us all a message at the start of the challenge to tell us where we'd be putting in our guesses so as to keep it a secret from the other teams.

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Book: Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Author: Thérèse de Lisieux
Pages: 306
Date: 25-March-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
2: Author- Thérèse de Lisieux
6: Title- Story of a Soul

Mini Challenge:

#7. Read a book shelved as "Christian" or "Religion/Religious"

hey all. finally bouncing back from being majorly sick. hope everyone is doing well!

Kathryn wrote: "hey all. finally bouncing back from being majorly sick. hope everyone is doing well!"

Glad you're feeling better Kathryn :)

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Book: 44 Scotland Street, Series 1-3
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Pages: 325
Date: 25-March-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
1: C: Olive
2: C: Mr Todd
3: C: Hugo Fairburn
4: C: Fairburn, Hugo
5: C: Irene Pollock
6: Title S; Author S
8: P: Edinburgh
Skip: C: Pollock, Stuart

Cover - Blue

Mini - 42 - Set in Scotland

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Book: Mrs. Everything
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Pages: 466
Date: 25-March-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
2: C: Tim
3: C: Harold Jefferson
4: C: Finkelbein, Shelley
6: C: Shelley Finkelbein
7: C: Valerie Cohen
8: C: Elizabeth Kaufman
9: C: Nonie Scotto
Skip: C: Kaufman, Jo


Cover - Red



(tin eye is coming up as 47.7% but the pink in it reads as red to me... hopefully it can count!)

Mini - 19 - Set in Detroit


(I know we were looking for Red 1 but I think there's a Red 7 it can be swapped with!)

Started my book for 29. Read a book where the MC falls in love with their boss(es) last night

It also has a yellow cover, and will fit for Yellow 4 which I think is still needed?

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The Corpse on the Court
Author: Simon Brett
Pages: 224
Date: March 26th
Cards
Green cover 59.6%
1 C: Oenone
2 C: Tonya
3 C: Hazlitt
4 C: Felicity
5 C: Iain
6 A: Simon
8 C: Edgerton-Beris
Skip C: Piers

Paris wrote: "Started my book for 29. Read a book where the MC falls in love with their boss(es) last night

It also has a yellow cover, and will fit for Yellow 4 which I think is still needed?

Paris, I just covered the Yellow 4 and it's been added to the sheet but mine also fitted Yellow 1 so Apoorv might want to do some shuffling.

We have our April cards!!

Card / Total required
0 2
1 7
2 9
3 11
4 6
5 9
6 10
7 9
8 5
9 7
Skip 7
Reverse 9
Wild 3
Wild Draw 4 1
0 Green 1
0 Red 1
0 Yellow 1
2 Blue 1
2 Green 1
2 Red 1
3 Yellow 1
4 Yellow 1
5 Blue 1
5 Yellow 1
7 Blue 1
7 Green 1
7 Red 1
8 Blue 1
8 Green 1
8 Red 1
9 Green 1
9 Red 1

COUNTDOWN
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Thursday 1 April 2021
San Francisco 2am
London 10am
New York 5am
Mumbai 2.30pm
Tokyo 6pm
Sydney 8pm

We have HEAPS of coloured cards! Great for points but hard to find...


Does anyone agree that the above books are >50% red and green? Tineye is being unhelpful again.

Woah! That's loads of coloured cards😂

I shall plan out my books for next month accordingly! I have one which will fit for yellow.

@Tina: The red one looks > 50% for me, not sure about the green one though.

Oh wow that's lots of colours but I'm sure we can do it! Go team! I'll take a look at my options this weekend. I'm currently grading exams in between listening to students' presentations for their oral French exams. Such fun.
I agree with Vanessa, the red for sure but not so sure about the green one.

Bugger. Ah well. Thanks Vanessa and Laura

Laura wrote: "Oh wow that's lots of colours but I'm sure we can do it! Go team! I'll take a look at my options this weekend. I'm currently grading exams in between listening to students' presentations for their ..."

That sounds really busy Laura! Best of luck with the grading

Wow! Looks like April will be a colour focused month.

I currently have x2 blues, x2 yellows, & x1 bluey green on loan from the library, so I will focus on those first!

I always find red the hardest to find..

I think the library will be opening back up to the public in mid April - which means I'll be able to actually go in and browse, if so, it will be easier for me to find some colour appropriate covers!

Tina - I think they would both work. I wonder if the red looks more prominent because it is brighter / a stronger contrast against the black.

Elisabeth wrote: "Paris wrote: "Started my book for 29. Read a book where the MC falls in love with their boss(es) last night

It also has a yellow cover, and will fit for Yellow 4 which I think is still needed?

Pa..."

Paris you book would work perfectly. I have Elisabeth's book as 4 Yellow for now, because it is the only Yellow covered book that we have read this month that works for both 1 and 4.

If we can have your 4, then I can switch hers to 1!
Great collaboration! :)

Paris wrote: "Completion Post

Book: Mrs. Everything
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Pages: 466
Date: 25-March-2021."

So, according to the Mods, this doesn't work for Red! :-(

Apoorv wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Paris wrote: "Started my book for 29. Read a book where the MC falls in love with their boss(es) last night

It also has a yellow cover, and will fit for Yellow 4 which I think is..."

Actually, I take that back.
The Mods don't like Elisabeth's book for Yellow! So we have one more cover color to search for. :='(

Oh! Will this work? If it does, I can read it over the weekend orelse I'll save it for the next month.

Hold on to that, Vanessa! The jury is split on the Yellow one. Maybe we may not need it, but it all hinges on the next vote. :P

Thanks for being flexible with your reads though!

EDIT: The Mods/other caps approved (yellowish-brown they say), but we are good for now. Phew!
Vanessa, if you want to read, that book can now be used for April. :D

Alright I seem to have a lot of blue books! So I can probably get one or two in. Yellow and green are harder for me to find.

I'll definitely be reading Pachinko in April, I was going to read it in February AND in March but both times I postponed it because of the mini challenge - and it's a good thing too because I received a copy of it last week in my book subscription box! It took three weeks to get here so imagine if I'd read it in the meantime, I would've been really ticked off :o
Anyway it's pretty blue, I thought I could use it but apparently it's not blue enough according to tineye (40.3%). Lame :D I'm still going to read it though.

There's also this one, which is 45.8% on tineye but really, it's
a blue cover, no?

I can also read Klara and the Sun for a red book.


And then we'll see what else happens!
Seriously though, SO many colour cards!

Okay so we do we need the Red 4 I'm reading, for March?

Better check the cover for me Apoorv, after those Mods decisions!
TinEye says it's okay when I include background which seems obvious as it's red.


If someone else has it covered I'll slow down for April. It's not a page turner for me so that'll be easy.

I have a couple of Blues and Greens in my TBR pile, and a Red one of those brick sized Ken Follet books which I could work on for the whole month.

Elisabeth wrote: "Okay so we do we need the Red 4 I'm reading, for March?

Better check the cover for me Apoorv, after those Mods decisions!
TinEye says it's okay when I include background which seems obvious as it'..."

If that cover does not work for Red, then I'm going send dog poop in the mail to someone. LOL! :P

That is as red as it gets!

Apoorv wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Okay so we do we need the Red 4 I'm reading, for March?

Better check the cover for me Apoorv, after those Mods decisions!
TinEye says it's okay when I include background which se..."

Haha. After the yellow argy bargy I wasn't sure what to think.
I checked it for the April list and so far the only April Red it fits is Red 2 using the 'The' of the title. I'd better finish it for March, I think

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Book: What You Wish For
Author: Katherine Center
Pages: 320
Date: 26 Mar 2021

UNO Cards it fits:
2: Character T - Tina
6: Character S - Samantha
Skip: Author K/P - Katherine
Color: Blue 60.1%

Mini: MC falls in love with her boss

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Book: A Woman Is No Man
Author: Etaf Rum
Pages: 339
Date: 27 Mar 2021

UNO Cards it fits:
1: Character O - Omar
3: Character H - Hadid, Yacob
4: Character F - Fareeda
5: Character I - Isra
6: Character S - Sarah
9: Character N - Nora
Skip: Character K/P - Khaled
Reverse: Vicki, Apoorv
Color: Blue 61.9%

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Book: Circe
Author: Madeleine Miller
Pages: 433
Date: 27-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Standalone
1: Character O - Oceanos, Odysseus
2: Character T - Theseus, Tethys, Telegonus, Telemachus
3: Character H - Helios, Hermes
5: Character I - Icarus
6: Character S - Scylla
8: Character E - Eurylochos
9: Character N - Nereus
Skip: Character P - Perse, Perses, Pasiphaë, Penelope
Reverse: read by Vicki, Tina

Mini challenge:
#3 a book where a character is a god - they're practically all gods or demigods :)

Update

We are done with all our number hands for this month, EXCEPT two colored cards i.e. 1 Yellow and 4 Red, which I understand we have books underway by Paris and Elisabeth, respectively.

If either of you have any issues getting those done, please let the team know so that we can backfill those and complete all our hands in time. :)

Mini Challenge

We have a few books to go here.

1. Read a book with a crown on the cover/the word "crown" in the title or in the series title - Kathryn

4. Read a book where the MC is involved in a criminal organization - Vicki

10. Read a book with a shapeshifter character - Kathryn

13. Read a book where a fictional character ends up in real life or where a real life character gets transported into a book - Laura

25. Read a book where a character is royalty/ shelved as "royal(s)" or "royalty" - Kathryn

28. Read a book set in a "dark" (dystopian, evil, etc) world - Vicki

29. Read a book where the MC falls in love with their boss(es) - Paris

39. Read a book set in Wales / with a character from Wales - Apoorv

Plus, we have these two that do not have any takers yet,
12. Read a book where a male character is wearing his hair long/with a long-haired man on the cover
23. Read a book where a character has permed hair/gets their hair permed

Thanks, Apoorv. I just wanted you all to know that I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just fallen into some holes. Meaning, RL issues with such a large family!

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Book: Spiders in the Grove
Author: J.A. Redmerski
Pages: 288
Date: 21-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
1: Character O - Osiris
3: Character H - Hestia
4: Character F - Fredrik
5: Character I - Izabel
6: Title S -
7: Character V - Victor
9: Character N - Naeva
Skip: Character - Kessler

Mini-challenge
4. Read a book where the MC is involved in a criminal organisation I posted the reason on the Mini-Challenge Tab.

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Book: Beautiful Disaster
Author: Jamie McGuire
Pages: 319
Date: 24-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
1: Character O - #1 in Series
2: Character T - Travis
3: Character H - Hayes, Parker
4: Character F - Finch
6: Character S - Shepley
8: Character E - Ethan
Skip: Character - Pidge

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Book: Walking Disaster
Author: Jamie McGuire
Pages: 448
Date: 24-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
2: Character T - Travis
3: Character H - Hayes, Parker
4: Character F - Finch
6: Character S - Shepley
8: Character E - Ethan
Skip: Character - Pidge

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Book: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Author: Linda Sue Park
Pages: 128
Date: 23-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Standalone
6: Place S - Sudan
8: Place E - East Africa
9: Character N - Nya
Skip: Author - P

I'm wrapping up a couple books today. and then I'm going to speed through another one tomorrow.

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Book: The Identicals
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Pages: 581
Date: 20-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Character Z - Dr. Zimmer
2: Character T - Tabitha
3: Author H - Hilderbrand
4: Character F - Franklin
5: Title I -
6: Character S - Sadie
8: Author E - Elin
9: Place N - Nantucket
Skip: Character - Phelps

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Book: A Walk Across the Sun
Author: Corban Addison
Pages: 371
Date: 20-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Standalone
2: Character T - Thomas Clark
5: Place I - India
6: Character S - Sita Ghai
9: Character N - Naresh
Skip: Character - Priya

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Book: Twisted Perfection
Author: Abbi Glines
Pages: 272
Date: 23-03-2021

UNO Cards it fits:
1: Character O - Odom, Jefferey
2: Title T
4: Place F - Florida
5: #5 in Series (Rosemary Beach)
6: Character S - Sloane, Della
Skip: Character - Kerrington Woods