The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Apoorv, one of my books is wrong.
The Name of the Wind
It's used for a blue card, but it's not a blue cover.
I don't know how this happened, I definitely didn't mark it as a blue book in the spreadsheet.
One of the other editions does have a partly blue cover but not the one I read.
I read this one:

Elisabeth wrote: "Apoorv, I did discover that The Book Ninja was entered as March 28 when by the completion post and my shelves it was March 27."

See! My smartness! Told ya! :P
Thanks for catching that. Corrected.

I don't want to be annoying but I feel like my last message might've gone unnoticed because it was the first one on a new page and it's a pretty big mistake - I'd hate for us to lose points because of it!

Oh, thank you, for both catching that and pointing your message out. It did slip my eye because of the new page.

Great catch. I think it was the edition difference for the book because the other edition for The Name of the Wind works for Blue. Anyway, I did move stuff around to your own other book, Ballet Shoes. So, we should be good!

Thank you again, Laura! :)

Yikes! Aren't we only allowed to duplicate a colour card once? I just refreshed myself on what a Wild Draw 4 is.

We have the Blue 9 duplicated a few more times than that.

If I'm right and we need other colour cards I can probably finish the Green 9 I'm on by the deadline. Otherwise it'll be good for April.

Phew! Elisabeth, YOU ARE A SAVIOUR!!
Not going to lie, I had completely forgotten about that rule.
THANK YOU for catching that.

Fixed it and we should be good (hopefully I haven't done any more boo-boos, ugh!)

THANK YOU SO MUCH! :D

Also, thank you to everyone of you who diligently put in all the relevant information for each book you read in the spreadsheet. This is literally why we need that. The rearranging becomes a much smoother task in situations like these. THANK YOU ALL!

I didn't even remember what that Wild 4 card was! I was being impressed by how far my original Blue 9 stretched. hahahaha

So glad you a) saw my post and b) were able to do your magic shuffling. Can't beat teamwork.

Wow Elisabeth how great that you caught that! I didn't even think to check the actual cards, just my own books!

I'm about halfway through Pachinko right now so it'll probably be finished this weekend. Maybe today, but if I don't it'll be for the weekend because tomorrow is super busy with parent-teacher talks and calls to students to discuss their report cards. All online, so super fun... :D
I'll be able to read a lot in the next two weeks though because of Easter vacation! So yay :)

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Book: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 433
Date: 1 Apr 21

UNO Cards it fits:
1: first in series
2: Character T - Tamlin
4: Character F - Feyre
5: Character I - Isaac
6: Author S - Sarah
8: Character E - Elain
9: Character N - Nesta
Skip: Location K/P - Prythian
Reverse: Kathryn, Vicki, Tina
Color: Red 85.1% https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/comp...

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Book: The Pisces
Author: Melissa Broder
Pages: 288
Date: 01 Apr 2021

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Standalone
2: C: Theo
6: C: Steve
7: P: Venice
Skip: Title P

Cover - Yellow 85.7%

Yay for Danah and Paris! Our first two books of April are done!

Does anyone have any Easter plans this weekend?

Tina ❣ wrote: "Does anyone have any Easter plans this weekend?"

Attending mass and family lunch!😋 I gave up chocolates and ice cream for Lent.. so waiting to visit my favourite ice cream parlour 🍧🍦

What are your plans?

Tina ❣ wrote: "Does anyone have any Easter plans this weekend?"

We aren't religious so we don't generally do anything for Easter. Sometimes my parents-in-law invite us for brunch but it's really more of an excuse to get the family together.
But we're still not allowed to meet up with people inside here in Belgium, we can only meet in groups of max. 4 adults outside. They actually even just added some measures against covid (again) as the numbers are rising (again), so we're not doing anything this year.
Honestly I don't really mind about the Easter part of it but I would really like to have dinner at my parents' or something again soon. Or play board games with other people than my boyfriend - we're pretty evenly matched but still :D

Laura wrote: "Or play board games with other people than my boyfriend - we're pretty evenly matched but still :D"

Who is leading in the head-to-head? :P

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The Long Call
Author: Ann Cleeves
Pages: 384
Date: April 1

Cards
1 1st in series
2 Title: The
3 C: Hilary
6 C: Salter
7 C: Venn
Skip C: Preece

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The Perfect Guests
Author: Emma Rous
Pages: 304
Date: April 1

Cards
Green 75.4%
0 C: Zach
2 Title: The
3 C: Hendrik
6 C: Sadie
8 A: Emma
9 C: Nina
Skip T: Perfect

Laura wrote: "Wow Elisabeth how great that you caught that! I didn't even think to check the actual cards, just my own books!

I'm about halfway through Pachinko right now so it'll probably be fi..."

I only checked that because my blue book was the original one that was duplicated and there was only the one blue cover card. I only looked at mine too.

Easter is quiet for us. The weather is usually perfect at this time of year here--warm, still, clear days, chilly autumn feeling nights and leaves starting to change.

We usually go on long walks or have a family barbecue but my foot is sore atm (which is why I've been reading so much) so we're at home.

My husband had his Covid shot the other day but I'm in the next age group to come up. Our restrictions are minimal here now. There's been a short lockdown in Brisbane to jump on a small pocket of cases but that's under control now it seems. The only cases are in quarantined returning travelers and sometimes there's a breach.

We use a check in for contact tracing and distancing is still mandatory for larger gatherings but it's barely noticeable in day to day life.

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The Second Angel
Author: Philip Kerr
Pages: 464
Date: April 1

Cards
Blue The Second Angel 69.9%
1: Oloiboni, Ronica
2 C: Tanaka
6: Title "Second"
Skip A: Philip Kerr

A great read if you're into philosophical, futuristic sci fi. Written in 1999 but another one of those chillingly prescient story lines.

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Book: The Little Lies
Author: Valerie Keogh
Pages: 254
Date: 01-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
3: Character- Hill, Victor
4: Character- Flynn Douglas
7: Author- Valerie; Character- Victor Hill
8: Character- Emma Carlton
9: Character- Nate Bisby
Skip: Author- Keogh, Valerie

Cover Colour :Yellow (77.2%)

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Book: Five Ways To Fall Out of Love
Author: Emily Martin
Pages: 336
Date: 01-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
3: Character- Holland Sawyer
4: Title- Five
5: Title- Five; Character- Irene
6: Character- Sam; Character- Sawyer, Holland
7: Character- Veronica
8: Author- Emily
Skip: Character- Kevin

Cover Colour :Blue (84.2%)

Apoorv wrote: "Who is leading in the head-to-head? :P"

I don't really know but we can just assume it's me ;)

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Book: Cress
Author: Marissa Meyer
Pages: 560
Date: 2 Apr 21

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Character Z - Ze'ev
2: Character T - Thorne
3: third in series
5: Character I - Iko
6: Character S - Scarlet
7: Character V - Vargas, President
8: Character E - Erland, Dr.
9: Character N - Nainsi
Skip: Character K/P - Kai
Reverse: Kathryn, Apoorv, Tina
Color: I wanted to say the cover was blue, but TinEye says no.

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Book: Asking for a Friend
Author: Andi Osho
Pages: 384
Date: 02-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
1: Author O; C: Oscar
2: C: Todd
6: C: Simi
Skip: C: Kelly

Cover - This is very much Green in real life, however looks bluer in the picture & Tineye says blue.. 74.2%

Not sure what we want to count it as

Don't usually do a whole lot for Easter (apart from eat lots of chocolate...), however tonight is my first night of doing night shifts - 8pm - 5am for 10 nights, so will try my best to squeeze my reading in where I can!

I never usually do night shifts so it's going to be a big adjustment for the next couple days

Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend :)

What work do you do, Paris? Night shifts must be so hard!

I work in rail construction, we currently have a 10 day blockade at one of the main train stations in London, which means we are doing work 24/7 throughout, so lots of different shifts going on. We have been working on the planning of this for about a year now so it's very busy!

I'm tucked away in a site office on one of the platforms, away from all the action, but I have to get updates from the teams and monitor the schedule of works as things happen live, to hopefully keep us on track.

It's 3am now and I think I'm going to treat myself to some cake to get through the last 2 hours!!

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Book: Geekerella
Author: Ashley Poston
Pages: 320
Date: 04/02/21

UNO Cards it fits:
1: #1 in Series
2: Character T - Thorne, Rosie
4: Character F - Freeman, Darien
5: Character I - Imogen Lovelace
6: Character S - Stone, Jessica
7: Character V - Vance Reigns
8: Character E - Elle Wittimer
Skip: Author K/P - Poston, Ashley
Reverse: Vicki

Paris wrote: "I work in rail construction, we currently have a 10 day blockade at one of the main train stations in London, which means we are doing work 24/7 throughout, so lots of different shifts going on. We..."

Gosh, sounds as though you'd better not nod off! Cake and chocolate sound very necessary.

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Book: Save My Daughter
Author: Sam Vickery
Pages: 250
Date: 02-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
3: Character- Hannah
6: Author- Sam; Title- Save
7: Author- Vickery, Sam
8: Character- Ella

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Book:An Anonymous Girl
Author: Greer Hendricks
Pages: 384
Date: 02-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
2: Character- Thomas Cooper
3: Character- Hendricks, Greer
4: Character- Farris, Jessica
8: Character- Shields, Lydia
7: Character- Voss, Jodi
9: Character- Noah, Place- New York
Skip: Author- Pekkanen, Sarah
Reverse: Read by Apoorv & Vicki

Cover Colour : Red (50.6%)

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Book: The Snow Child
Author: Eowyn Ivey
Pages: 386
Date: 01-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
2: Title - T
4: Character - Faina
5: Author - Ivey
6: Title - S
8: Author- Eowyn

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Book: Left Drowning
Author: Jessica Park
Pages: 399
Date: 02-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Character - Zachary
1: #1 in Series
6: Character - Shepherd, Chris
8: Character - Estelle
9. Character - Nichole Rains
Skip: Author - P

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Book: The Songbook of Benny Lament
Author: Amy Harmon
Pages: 444
Date: 02-April-2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
1: Character - Otis Lee
2: Character - Theresa
3: Author - H
4: Character - Fat Tony
5: Character - Izzy McQueen
6: Character - Salvatore Vitale
7: Character - Vitale, Sal
8: Character - Esther Mine
9. Place - New York

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The Orchardist's Daughter
Author: Karen Viggers
Pages: 384
Date April 3

Cards
Green 54.3%

0: Standalone
1: Title
2 Place: Tasmania
4 C: Fergus
6 C: Shane
7 A: Viggers
Skip A: Karen

Elisabeth wrote: "Completion Post
The Orchardist's Daughter
Author: Karen Viggers
Pages: 384
Date April 3

Cards
Green 54.3%.

Elisabeth, did you happen to read another version of this? The one that you have linked most likely won't qualify as a green cover, unfortunately. :=(

I read the paperback version and TinEye said that percentage. Five different shades of green that totalled 54.3% . Did you get a different result?

Yeah, I got a 21.6%!

If we don't uncheck the "exclude background" button at the bottom, the result comes up to 54.3%, but we should probably uncheck that since we are looking at the entire cover without any exclusions.

Oh well...not a wasted read as far as Uno goes and it was pretty good.

Paris, it sounds like you definitely deserve that cake!

Elisabeth I have to say I'm a little jealous of you in Australia going about life in a nearly normal way. I was just happy that I got my hair cut a few weeks ago before the hairdressers had to close again after having been open for only three or four weeks. Restaurants have been closed since... October? maybe even earlier. I just hope it will all go back to sort-of-normal fairly soon here as well.

Apoorv about the tineye thing; the background button is sort of unclear to me. Like if I leave it checked when looking at this cover:

For one of the images it says that there is no red because it "excludes" all the red background. But then if I used another cover picture it was okay. So it sort of depends I think.

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Book: Pachinko
Author: Min Jin Lee
Pages: 552
Date: 03 April 2021

UNO Cards it fits:

0: Standalone
1: Character - Ono
2: Character - Tamaguchi
3: Character - Hoonie; Hansu, Koh
4: Character - Fatso
5: Character - Isak Baek
6: Character - Sunja
8: Character - Etsuko
9: Character - Noa
Skip: Title - Pachinko
Reverse: read by Apoorv, Vicki, Tina

Laura wrote: "Paris, it sounds like you definitely deserve that cake!

Elisabeth I have to say I'm a little jealous of you in Australia going about life in a nearly normal way. I was just happy that I got my hai..."

I know, I'm sorry. I was talking about this the other day with friends and we all feel bad when we tell friends o'seas how we're doing here ... it sounds as if we're boasting but that's just how it is. Some sectors are still doing it really hard financially though. People in the arts and tourist based industries are struggling.

Laura wrote: "Paris, it sounds like you definitely deserve that cake!

Elisabeth I have to say I'm a little jealous of you in Australia going about life in a nearly normal way. I was just happy that I got my hai..."

In Australia, most states were okay last year. Melbourne, Victoria was in lockdown for at least 6 months last year which was really hard on everyone. We're still facing hardships here but we're slowly recovering. It's definitely a team effort with everyone doing what they can to reduce the spread and risk. I think another fact to consider is that Australia's population is spread out in a big country. There's not a lot of us compared to UK or US and we aren't like European countries where there's a lot in a smaller area...

Vanessa wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Does anyone have any Easter plans this weekend?"

Attending mass and family lunch!😋 I gave up chocolates and ice cream for Lent.. so waiting to visit my favourite ice cream parlour 🍧..."

That sounds lovely Vanessa! I'm impressed you gave them both up and kudos to you :P

My Easter is actually in May so I didn't get up to much this weekend. I spent it practically moving the rest of my things to the new place (it's so tiring) and was working on Sunday. I have an extra day off due to the Easter break so I'll spend it doing things I need to do (chores, etc)

Laura wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Does anyone have any Easter plans this weekend?"

We aren't religious so we don't generally do anything for Easter. Sometimes my parents-in-law invite us for brunch but it's really m..."

As I get older, I'm starting to appreciate family get togethers more, so it's nice you can do that.

That's so disappointing Laura. Do you have any idea why they're rising? Is it the lack of society protocols and safety measures in place or is it the public? I hope you can see your family soon! What's your top 3 recommended board games? I've been wanting to try a few more that isn't monopoly or connect 4

Elisabeth wrote: "Easter is quiet for us. The weather is usually perfect at this time of year here--warm, still, clear days, chilly autumn feeling nights and leaves starting to change.

We usually go on long walks o..."

Is your family more a Christmas family than Easter? I like that you appreciate the weather! I find it a hit and miss with Easter in Melbourne but the weather has actually been good this weekend. BBQ is standard and delicious and I love that you can go on long walks with the family. The family event that I've been to, there's hardly ever a suggestion to go for a walk.

I wish your foot a speedy recovery Elisabeth! :P

But I am happy with Australia's recovery. I think having the harsh lockdowns certainly help with preventing transmission of cases.

Paris wrote: "Don't usually do a whole lot for Easter (apart from eat lots of chocolate...), however tonight is my first night of doing night shifts - 8pm - 5am for 10 nights, so will try my best to squeeze my r..."

Wow! All the best with the night shifts Paris! I know they can be hard on the mind and body so look after yourself! Eat well and rest when you need to.

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Book: Specials
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Pages: 384
Date: 4 Apr 2021

UNO Cards it fits:
0: Character Z - Zane
2: Character T - Tally
3: third in series
4: Character F - Fausto
6: Character S - Shay
Skip: Character K/P - Peris

Happy Easter!!

Laura wrote: "Paris, it sounds like you definitely deserve that cake!

Elisabeth I have to say I'm a little jealous of you in Australia going about life in a nearly normal way. I was just happy that I got my hai..."

Laura,
Exactly, so that button should always be "unchecked", so that TinEye covers the entire cover, without any exclusions. So, do keep an eye out on that check box, and uncheck it each time to get the best results. (Well, best is sometimes very weird when it comes to TinEye. :P)