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Book: Eon
Date Read: 25th March
Rating: 4.5 stars

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - character: Tyron
3 - character: Hollin
5 - character: Ido
8 - title
Skip - character: Kygo

Mini:
fantasy painting

Eni wrote: "It went by so fast :(

Also .. Loki ended on a cliffhanger.... Come on Marvel!!! U suck!!!"

Is Loki any good? Haven't watched but considering to.

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Book: Endangered
Read: 03.25 ★★★★
Possible Cards:
1 - #1 Whiskey Creek
2 - author RaeAnne Thayne
3 - ch Verl Handley
6 - ch Ryder Shaw
7 - ch Verl Handley
8 - title E

Mini:
Classical painting

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Book: Kept at the Argentine's Command
Read: 03.25 ★★★
Possible Cards:
0 - standalone
2 - ch Trixie
4 - ch Félicienne
8 - author Lucy Ellis
Skip - title K

Mini:
white cover
set in Scotland, Argentina, France
character X - Xavier

I think this one is slated for Souvenirs but just in case wanted to point out there is a small character Xavier who was in 2 scenes - not sure if it's quite enough to count as a character but if it is, now you know if you need to move things around :-)

To be fair and transparent, not sure I will get another white cover done but is this one brown enough - can we do that instead?


Also, I still need to read Bloodfever this week which could work as a Fantasy painting, is Guarding Kelsey pink enough to move to the Walls?

I need to squeeze in both Bloodfever and Marked this week, so let me know either way.

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Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May
Date: 3/25
Rating: 3 stars

0: standalone
4: AFN
5: Isobel
8: Emmeline
9: Nathan

Mini:
Black cover
W title

I'm not quite sure on Marked being brown, to be honest. Looks like a bit of a mish-mash between brown and orange on my screen.

Bloodfever is good for the fantasy painting.

But don't worry about the Marked cover! We're good on the tasks. Somehow we've managed to read even more of them than we initially seemed to have thought and a couple of us are still reading a few so we're absolutely covered for the mini tasks :-)

Anything beyond the ones marked on the spreadsheet are just extra and will give the possibility of potentially moving things around to maximise points.

I've started The Cat Who Saved Books which is one of those magical realism Japanese books. Seems good so far, hopefully it'll stay that way :-)

Eldarwen wrote: "I've started The Cat Who Saved Books which is one of those magical realism Japanese books. Seems good so far, hopefully it'll stay that way :-)"

Oh, that one sounds good and I love the cover!

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I Think I Might Love You by Christina C. Jones
Date: 3/26
Rating: 3.5 stars

Works for:
1: #1
4: Freeman, Calista
5: title
Skip: Kadan

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I'm So (Not) Over You
Date: 3/26
Rating: 3 stars

Works for:
0: standalone
1: Olivia
3: Hudson
8: Evans, Divya
Skip: AFN

W: Wallace

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Noor

Date: 3/26/22
Rating: 4 stars

0: Standalone
1: ALN Okorafor
4: CFN Force
Skip: Title

Mini:
Brown cover?
Set in Alternative Nigeria
Fantasy painting

Snowtulip wrote: "Oh, that one sounds good and I love the cover!"

Yes! The cover is adorable :-)

APRIL HANDS HAVE BEEN POSTED

0	5
1	8
2	4
3	9
4	6
5	10
6	6
7	9
8	13
9	5
Skip	1
Reverse	12
Wild	5

Lots of Reverse cards this time around and a lot of Draw 2 cards as well, which may dip a fair bit into our points unfortunately, but it will mean reading less cards.

A few things have changed ;-)
You will notice once you look at the spreadsheet hehe.

A little something about that, you can read here (Wild Draw 4 cards have been replaced by Overload cards).



Countdown to April:https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

OUR APRIL COLOUR CARDS

Skip Red -
Skip Yellow -
Skip Green -
Skip Blue -

7 Yellow -
1 Blue -
2 Red -
4 Red -
7 Blue - Eldarwen - The Archived
1 Red -
9 Yellow -
6 Red -
8 Blue -
0 Red -



Overload - Tina - The Right Swipe
Overload -
Overload -




Who can read for what? :-)

It seems like this is finally the year where I can read all those colour books I've been keeping aside for these special cards haha. The yellow in March and now the 7 Blue in April ;-)

I'll read for the 7 Blue.

I'll also read for one of the Overload cards unless some of your are dying to read some cover colours that fit. :-)

I could read for the 0 Red.

If we think that is green enough, I think it should work for the Skip Green. I would be surprised if there wasn't a K or P character somewhere in there.

If we think that is blue enough, I could read that for the 1 Blue. (verified this to be 89k+ words)

Some possibilities:


Blue 1 or 8


Blue Skip


Yellow 7 or 9


Yellow(?) 9


Yellow Skip


Red 2


Red 0, 1, 6 or 8


Green Skip


Overload Orange? or Reverse (Stacie)


Overload Pink


Overload Purple or Reverse (ST, Stacie)


Reverses
Snowtulip
ST, Stacie

I have two chapters left of Akutbjällran, set in Sweden. Should I finish it or wait a few days so we can use it in April instead? Do we have what we need? Or we need it for our regular cards?
If we need another book with a pink cover, we can also switch Akutbjällran for Tango i tabernaklet ( ).

I will take a look at our cards for next month and let you know what I have:)

I can read
Overload pink

Red 1 (red enough?)

or

Blue Skip

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Book: Bloodfever
Read: 03.27 ★★★★
Possible Cards:
1 - ch Derek O’Bannion
2 - #2 Fever
4 - series Fever
7 - ch V'Lane
Skip - author Karen Marie Moning
Reverse: E, Stacie, ST

Mini:
fantasy painting

Tina wrote: "I have two chapters left of Akutbjällran, set in Sweden. Should I finish it or wait a few days so we can use it in April instead? Do we have what we need? Or we need it for our regu..."

We'll probably need it for the regular cards, depending on how much else will still be incoming in the next 5 days. :-)

But then again, a pink cover brings slightly more points than a country setting, so...... if you're willing to switch, switch away!

I'll start shouting if we don't get enough books to fill up the regular cards and we'll need your Sweden book as well hehe.

LaurLa wrote: "Some possibilities:


Blue 1 or 8


Blue Skip


Yellow 7 or 9


Yellow(?) 9
[bookcover:The Re..."


Great list!
I'm only going to veto the Lindsey Sands one for yellow and the Kristen Ashley for purple. Everything else is a go!

Which ones would you like to read? Or, which ones are already on your April plan? :-)

Tina wrote: "I can read
Overload pink

Red 1 (red enough?)

or

Blue Skip "



I'm not entiiiiirely sure about the red one because the black is quite present, the other two are good though.

Do you have a preference for which one you'd like to read or are you itching to read all of them?

I'll get my books up soon. Just a quick note. I'll be out of town from April 1 to April 10th ish. I will have internet but I'll potentially be stuck to the app depending on if I bring my laptop. This also means I'll be stuck to ebooks because if I pack physical books, I won't have any room left for clothes haha.

So I'll probably split my books into what I can read before the 10th and then after :)

Thanks for the heads-up, Stacie!

Don't worry about posting your completions here until after you return if the app is too much of a pain (which it generally is) :-)

Haha, besides needing to pack clothes, you'll probably also want to leave a little space for potential new books you might be buying... ;-))

Eldarwen wrote: "Tina wrote: "I have two chapters left of Akutbjällran, set in Sweden. Should I finish it or wait a few days so we can use it in April instead? Do we have what we need? Or we need it..."

I finished 3/20/22 so it's up to you if you want to switch them around:)
I'll wait till I hear something from you, otherwise I'll finish Akutbjällran in April.

Eldarwen wrote: "Tina wrote: "I can read
Overload pink

Red 1 (red enough?)

or

Blue Skip "



I'm ..."

I want to read the most:)

would also work for Reverse so we can still use it if someone else wants the pink cover.

Tina wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Tina wrote: "I have two chapters left of Akutbjällran, set in Sweden. Should I finish it or wait a few days so we can use it in April instead? Do we have what we ne..."

I knew the name sounded familiar haha!

Eldarwen wrote: "Which ones would you like to read? Or, which ones are already on your April plan? :-)"


I'll wait a bit and see what everyone else has and fill in where I can. Probably the one I'd LEAST like to commit to is Spitfire.

Also - what is everyone's take on this cover... red or pink??

Pink

Skip Red - or

Skip Blue - (ch Patroclus) -- after April 11

Skip Yellow -

Skip Green - ch - Karina


1 Blue - -- after April 11 (also works for 8 blue)

8 Blue -


Here's what I can do reverse wise:

- read by LaurLa
- read by LaurLa
- read by E and ST

I know there are more but either GR or my internet is being painfully slow and I can't take it anymore so I'll be back with more reverses later.

Stacie wrote: "Pink"

Seconded.

Stacie wrote: "Skip Blue - (ch Patroclus) -- after April 11"


No on this one for being Blue, but the others pass inspection hehe.

well if it's not blue then I will read it now :)

Stacie wrote: "well if it's not blue then I will read it now :)"

Enjoy! :-)

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Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye
Date: 3/27
Rating: 3 stars

How it fits:
1: #1
2: Teo
4: ALN
6: Sloane
9: Nazanin

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Book: It Had to Be Fate
Read: 03.27 ★★★
Possible Cards:
0 - ch Zane Steele
2 - author Tamra Bauman
3 - #3 It Had to Be
5 - title I
6 - ch Zane Steele
8 - ch Eric
9 - ch Nick Steele
Skip - ch Kip

So plot twist... I am not going out of town anymore. Long story short, my mother in law's surgery was postponed so our trip is on hold.

Oh, sorry to hear that you aren't going to be going on the trip. And I hope the surgery was just something minor and that nothing terrible has happened to postpone it!

It was a 2nd knee replacement surgery. I guess the wrong doctor signed off on it so now she has to have a new one do it? It's weird.

That does sound weird.... but oh well? They should know what they're doing... one would hope!

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Trail of Broken Wings

Date: 3/28/22
Rating: 3.5 stars

0: Standalone
2: Title
6: AFN Sejal

Green cover

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The Bone Scroll

Date: 3/28/22
Rating: 4 stars

0: CFN Zhang
2: CFN Tenzin
3: CFN Hirut
5: 5th in series
6: CFN Saba
7: CLN Vecchio

Mini:
Fantasy painting?

I hate when I catch up on a series and have no more books to read!

And so the wait for the next book in the series begins ;-)

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Book: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Date Read: 28th March
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:
0 - stand-alone
6 - author
9 - author

Mini:
set in Japan

Eldarwen wrote: "Are you even surprised??
How else are going to make money if things don't end on a spoiler and people aren't reeling for the sequel? :-p"

True :/

Emelie wrote: "Eni wrote: "It went by so fast :(

Also .. Loki ended on a cliffhanger.... Come on Marvel!!! U suck!!!"

Is Loki any good? Haven't watched but considering to."

It's ... Strange. In retrospective, i suppose they were working to get into the multiverse. It has a lot of parallel realities and a little bit of time traveling. So if you don't like that, then you won't like it.

I'm going to read for April . It could work for overload brown

I'll get back on what books I could read for April.

Still reading my Iran book, hopefully will get done before April!