The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

I just hit up the GR complaints/ comment page again with the book page glitches. I wasn't very polite about it. I wonder what the response will be.

Do you get responses?? I haven't ever gotten one!

I have. If I get one this time I will share it with you.

Cool!!

Can we play hooky from work tomorrow?? The whole team - we'll have a party!!

Yes. I have declared tomorrow to be pets and books and bourbon appreciation day, and no one can do that from the office.

Clearly I have the power to make such holidays.

You are a goddess!!

My niece brought me a pound of coffee that a local coffee cafe makes themselves. It's bourbon infused....SO good!

Damn. That sounds so good. My sister makes a coffee and chocolate liqueur that I add to my coffee on the weekends. I would do it in a weekday, but I have to use the big saw and other power tools at work, and being a bit tipsy isn't a great idea. teehee

Jenny wrote: "Damn. That sounds so good. My sister makes a coffee and chocolate liqueur that I add to my coffee on the weekends. I would do it in a weekday, but I have to use the big saw and other power tools at..."

Wow, Jenny! What exactly is it you do? If I drank at work, probably nobody would even notice! The worst that could happen would be misspelled words! Or maybe I’d laugh/cry simultaneously or just crawl under my desk for a nap. Hmm… no that’s called Wednesday. Wait…

I’ve got a bunch of books almost finished! I was trying not to be greedy, too! I’ll see where they can fit for the mini. I am really enjoying One Last Stop & Welcome to the School by the Sea!

I'm home today, still on the coffee part of my day, but nearing guiness & pizza hour. I found a D4 yellow 3 that will also work for the dragon task in the mini. That will be it for me for the month - but I'm enjoying the mix of audio and text reads again :)
edit: scratch that - Tineye is saying brown where I see yellow - erg:

My long-standing gripe with GR (which they have heard about a few times) is how there is no way to avoid adding duplicates to your shelves when entering a giveaway that is offering a different format. Honestly, how hard is it to add a "enter and switch to this edition" button to the giveaway? Can also have an "enter and add this edition" button which would do what it currently does. The best option would be to have a book entity page that allows a user to tag for multiple formats with the same title (entity) but that would mean a major db overhaul, so I get why they aren't doing that.

Damn. I see yellow too. Let me get the other caps to weigh in on it.

Jenny wrote: "On another note, we still need one color card book- 5 Red, and one Wild Draw 4- any of the Yellow cards or Red 5.

Any takers?

Also, there are very few books claimed on the mini-task so far. I di..."

My day didn't worked out like I planned to, so I didn't finish the book. I'm missing about 100pages or so, so I'll go cuddle up in bed with it until I end it.

I was looking for something else to read this afternoon and nothing came up. So any suggestions would be appreciated Jenny. Just bear in mind I don't read ermhmm.. such colorful books as Sónia :p

I love to recommend books. What are you in the mood for Eni?

Here are the KU books I found to fit a bunch of the mini tasks-

1- 2- 5- 7- 13- 15- 16- 23- 25- 27- 28- 33- 38- 39- 44- 45-

I was excited for the mini and like many of you, have been sucked into streaming.

We finally got hulu, so been doing Only Murders in the Building. I do have a few books to add, and hopefully I'll just turn the tv off!

Ok. I’ve come up with 4 more books I’m about to finish & ways to use them for both our regular hand AND the mini. Pick and choose, do as you will. I should finish all this week!

Inked Up
Terri Thayer
Works for the following cards:
1 - character Olivia Ferguson
2 - author
3 - character Hector Valdez
4 - character Scott Ferguson
5 - title
6 - series Stamping Sisters #2
7 - character Xenia Villarreal
8 - character Ed Buchert
Skip - character Pedro Villarreal

Mini #28 Fall/Autumn
The catch? I can’t read all the tags! Stoopit GR! It takes place at Halloween and has autumn leaves & pumpkins on the cover!

Welcome to the School by the Sea
Jenny Colgan
Fits the following cards:
0 - character Zozie Saurisse
1 - 1st in series
2 - character Theodora Offili
3 - character Hattie Prosser
4 - character Felicity “Fliss” Prosser
5 - character Imogen Fairlie
6 - character Simone Pribetech
7 - character Veronica Deveral
8 - character Evelyn Prenderghast
Skip - character Fleur Parsley

#33 Mini - Northern in text Pg. 166
‘Northern European countries have always celebrated the depths of winter…’

Sweep in Peace
Ilona Andrews
Fits the following cards:
1 - character Oreo
2 - #2 in series
3 - character Hector Marais
5 - author
6 - title
8 - character Sean Evans
9 - character Nuan Cee

#44 - Royalty
Character Caldenia ka ret Magren is revered and referred to as ‘your Grace’

One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
Fits the following cards:
0 - stand alone
5 - character Isaiah
9 - character Nico
Skip - character Inspector Primeaux
#13 Southern in text - Pg. 104
‘Please, sir, Myla says in a terrible Southern accent…’

They are on the spreadsheet!

Jenny wrote: "They are on the spreadsheet!"

You ARE the bomb, girl!

Jenny wrote: "Damn. I see yellow too. Let me get the other caps to weigh in on it."

Thanks Jenny - let me know what's decided!

Sorry, forgot to check in the results. One vote for yellow, three for brown. Sorry. Apparently TinEye was correct.

Still looks yellow to me. bah.

Jenny wrote: "Sorry, forgot to check in the results. One vote for yellow, three for brown. Sorry. Apparently TinEye was correct.

Still looks yellow to me. bah."

Bummer - thanks for checking!

Ok, I found a Red 5 that will also work for the dragon on the cover mini task - whee!

Nicely done!

Completion Post!
Welcome to the School by the Sea
Finished 2/19/23
Page count: 304

See Msg #218 for all particulars

Completion Post!
Inked Up
Finished 2/19/23
Page count: 260
Please see msg #217 for all particulars…



Could someone please mark these both as finished today on our spreadsheet? Thank you!

Done.

Can someone turn the clock back so tomorrow is not Monday please?

I second Jenny's "not Monday" request!! :-P

Sadly, the not monday request was a bust. And my daily meeting happened anyway... but, since most people is off today, it was lead by the business unit boss.

The only thing I thought was "good thing I'm not in my pajamas"

LOL

Anyway, tomorrow is mardi grass, aka Carnaval if you're not in New Orleans, so no working for me, YES!!!!

Btw, did you know today is international Cat day? (In Europe, that is. Apparently cats are so awesome, they have several Cat Days around the globe)

One of my pet sites had this image and I had to share it!



I'm off to give my kitties some love.

Aech, who is sitting on my lap, and Kayso, who is having his breakfast totally approve of cat day!!!!

I love the little Oscar statuettes.

i switched the ninth house book to fit the mini task - snake on the cover. I figured it was easier to find a black cover than a book with a snake.

And i started Alibis in Alpha Sector. It looks like fun, so ty Jenny!
The kindle edition has no listed pages on GR. It's telling me 212 on kindle. Let me know if you want me to switch to the paperback version or if someone can edit the pages.

Stooopid GR and changing the stooopid book page thingy! Couldn't find the shelves so i went for The Forging of Dawn instead >_<

I hope we get some Blues next month :)

I agree Teddie, I’m swimming in a sea of blue books!

In the US it’s President’s Day & a Federal holiday! So I am still in my pajamas & plan to stay in them all day & evening! Yaaayyy! Also ugly & rainy all day & nice & cool. Great day for reading in bed!

I get my cat fix only at work. One big male tiger we call Bubba is my special friend. We also have several therapy dogs (all either Labs or Retrievers,) a bunny & a Guinea pig for the patients. On Valentine’s Day the techs brought a dog & the Guinea pig to our office for some love! They thought we needed some therapy! Isn’t that sweet?

Aww. I would love to have a work kitty, but pet hair and framing don't go well together, alas.

I love staying in bed with a book and the rain.

Jenny wrote: "Aech, who is sitting on my lap, and Kayso, who is having his breakfast totally approve of cat day!!!!

I love the little Oscar statuettes."

Aech, like Ready Player One?!? And Kayso like queso?!?! If not... I still LOVE the names!

Yes on Ready Player One, and not on the cheese dip. I named him after what Abby Von Normal said often in Bite Me: A Love Story.

Read with a Valley-Girl accent...

Part of chapter one of Bite Me
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Chapter 1: Hello Kitty

Being the Journal of Abigail Von Normal,
Emergency Back-up Mistress of the Greater Bay Area Night

The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge, shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency back-up mistress of the greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Which isn’t, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.

Still, I think that this battle of dark powers, the maintenance of my steamy, forbidden romance, the torturous break-in of a new pair of red vinyl, thigh-high Skankenstein platform boots, as well as the daily application of complex eye make-up and whatnot, totally justify my flunking Biology 102, (Introduction to Mutilation of Preserved Marmot Cadavers, with Mr. Snavely, who totally has his way with the marmots when no one is around, I have it on good authority.) But try to tell that to the mother unit, who deserves this despair and disappointment for cursing me with her tainted and small-boobed DNA.
Allow me to catch you up, S‘il vous plait. Pay attention, bitches, there will be a test.

Three lifetimes ago, or maybe it was like last semester, because like the song says, “time is like a river of slippery excretions when you’re in love” — anyway — during winter break, Jared and I were in Walgreens looking for hypo-allergenic eye make-up when we encountered the beautiful, red-headed Countess Jody and her consort of blood, my Dark Lord, the vampire Flood, who was totally disguised in jeans and flannel as a loser.

And I was all, “Nosferatu.” Whispered to Jared like a night wind through dead trees.

And Jared was all, “No way, you sad, deluded, little slut.”

And I was all, “Shut your fetid penis port, you spunk-breathed poseur.” Which he took as a compliment, so that’s how I meant it, because while Jared is deeply gay, he’s never really gayed anyone up, except maybe his pet rat, Lucifer. Strictly speaking, I think Jared would be considered a rodentsexual, if not for the difficult geometry of the relationship.( See, size does matter!)

Note to self: I should totally set Jared up with Mr. Snavely and they can talk about squirrel-shagging and whatnot and maybe I won’t have to repeat Bio 102.
Anyway, Jared is a fitting support player in the tragedy that is my life, as he dresses dismal chic and excels at brooding, self-loathing, and allergies to beauty products. I’ve tried to talk him into going pro.

‘Kayso, the vampire Flood had me meet him at a club, where I offered up myself to his dark desires, which he totally rejected because of his eternal love of the Countess. So he bought me a cappuccino instead and appointed me to be their official minion. It is the duty of the minion to rent apartments, do laundry, and bring the masters a sack with a tasty kid in it, although I never did that last part because the masters don’t like kids.

‘Kayso, the vampire Flood gave me money and I rented a très cool loft in the SOMA (which is widely accepted to be the best hood for vampires because there’s mostly new buildings and no one would suspect ancient creatures of purest evil to hang out there). But it turns out was like half a block from the très cool loft in the SOMA that they already lived in. ‘Kayso, when I take the key to them, hoping they will bestow the dark gift of immortality upon me, this limo full of wasted college-age guys and a painted blue ho with ginormous fake boobs pull up. And they’re all, “Where is Flood. We need to talk to Flood. And let us in,” and other demanding shit. And I’m all, “No way, step off Smurfett. There’s no one named Flood here.”

I know! I was all, Oh-my-fucking-zombie-jebus-on-a-pogo-stick! She was blue!

And I’m not racist, so shut up. She clearly had self-esteem issues which she compensated for with giant fake boobs, slutty blue body-paint, and doing a carload full of stoners for money. I’m not judging her by the color of her skin. Everyone copes. When I got braces I went through a Hello Kitty phase that lasted well into my fifteens, and Jared maintains that I am still perky at heart, which is not true. I am simply complex. But more about the blue hooker later, because right then the Asian guy looks at his watch and says, “Too late, it’s sunset.” And they drove off. Which is when I opened the door into the stairwell to the loft and was confronted by Chet, the huge shaved vampire cat. (Except, at the time, I didn’t know his name, and he was wearing a red sweater, so I didn’t know he was shaved, and he wasn’t a vampyre yet. But huge.)

So I’m all, “Hey, kitty, go away.” And he did, leaving only William, the huge shaved cat homeless guy, lying on the steps. I thought he was dead, because of the smell, but it turns out he was only passed out from alcohol and partially drained of blood and stuff. But I’m pretty sure he’s dead now because, later, Foo and I found his stank-ass clothes on the steps of the loft, full of the grey dust that people turn to when a vampire drains them.
So upstairs I’m all, “There’s a dead guy and a huge kitty in a sweater on your steps.” And the Countess and Flood are all, “Whatever.”
And I’m all, “And there was a limo full of stoners here who were totally hunting you.”

And they were all, “Whoa.” And they seemed more freaked out than you’d think, for ancient creatures of dark forbidden romance and whatnot. And it turns out they weren’t — I mean, aren’t. I mean, sure, their love is eternal, and they are creatures of unspeakable evil and stuff, but they are not ancient at all. It turns out that the vampyre Flood is only like nineteen, and he’s only known the Countess for like two months. And she’s only like twenty-six, which, while a little crusty, is not that ancient. And despite her advanced age, the Countess is beautiful, with long, totally nach red hair and milky skin, green eyes like emerald fire and a smoking body that could turn a girl totally lesbo if she wasn’t already a slave to the mad, man-ninja sex-fu of the delicious Foo Dog. (Foo keeps insisting that he can’t be a ninja because he’s Chinese and ninjas are Japanese, but he’s just being stubborn and goes all Angry, Angry Asian on me whenever I bring it up. )

‘Kayso, in the master’s loft I see these two bronze statues, one of this crusty businessman-looking guy, and the other looks like the countess, except it’s totally naked, or in a leotard, and bronze. And I’m all, “Exhibitionist, much, Countess? Did it come with a pole?”
And she’s all, “Help Tommy move furniture, Wednesday.” Like that makes any sense at all. (Turns out that Wednesday is a Gothish character from some crusty movie.)

Kayso, later, by virtue my extensive research and sneaking around and whatnot, I find out that the statues aren’t statues at all. That the countess used to be inside the statue of her, and that inside the crusty businessman statue, is the real ancient creature of unspeakable evil, the nosferatu that turned the Countess. And the vampyre Flood, who wasn’t a vampire at all at the time, had bronzed the two of them when they were sleeping the deep sleep of the daytime dead, which is like the deepest sleep you can get. (You should know right now, that there’s not yawning, gentle drift into sleepytime for vampyre. When the sun breaks the horizon, they drop rag-doll dead on the spot, and you can pose them, paint them, put their hands on their junk and post the pics on the web, and they won’t know a thing until sundown when they come on like a light and they’re wondering why their naughty bits are green and their in-box is full of propositions from elfin_love.com.)

I know. Whoa!
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Woohoo!

Our March cards have been dealt, and the March tab is on the spreadsheet. Start grabbing up those yummy color cards!!!! We have a lot.

The February Mini challenge tasks that have not yet been claimed are-

15-Read a book featuring a bird (shapeshifter accepted) or with a bird on the cover
16-Read a book with fire on the cover
19-Read a book shelved "Justice" or "Enemies" (min 3 tags)
25-Read a book featuring a tiger (shapeshifter accepted) or with a tiger on the cover
28-Read a book shelved "Fall" or "Autumn" (min 3 tags) or with one of the Autumn months in the title
32-Read a book with a black or grey cover
38-Read a book shelved "Winter" (min 3 tags) or with one of the Winter months in the title
39-Read a book shelved as "Immortal" or "Mysterious"(min 3 tags)

If any of these are ones you guys can claim, then have at it!!!!

I grabbed a few for March, and I can do 1 more for Feb, so grabbed mini task: 25-Read a book featuring a tiger (shapeshifter accepted) or with a tiger on the cover.

I just got 3 yellow books in from Holds - lol.

I should be able to finish love and other words for the February UNo challenge, sorry I don't read that many books a month to be able to help with the mini challenge :/

My giveaway book for A Sinister Revenge just came in the mail, so I'll have to add that to March :D

question: will the "enemies-to-lovers" tag work to cover the task:
Read a book shelved "Justice" or "Enemies" (min 3 tags)
?

Someone asked that in the captains thread. Let me see if I can find it.

And the answer is no, unfortunately.

Jenny wrote: "And the answer is no, unfortunately."

bummer - ok, thanks for checking!