Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Laissez les bon temps rouler! It's Mardi Gras time!

This week, your Krewe is going to work together to collect beads for Mardi Gras. Each bead has a set of prompts that must be completed, as well as a required pendant that you can earn from reading and listening to books.

YOUR KREWE:
CAPTAIN: Emily
Elizabeth
Robin P
Kathy
Kellie Lyn
Sheyanne
Chrissie
Laurii

PURPLE
- Earn one pendant
- A book with purple on the cover
- A book in which a character gets justice
- A book written by an author whose first or last initial is found in NOLA
- A book that is "spicy"
- A book whose main character's name starts with a letter in MARDI GRAS

GREEN
- Earn one pendant
- A book with green on the cover
- A book set in (or written in) the 18th century
- A book whose cover shows a source of light
- A book where the outdoors plays a significant role
- A book featuring a character who is overcoming a life or death struggle

GOLD
- Earn one pendant
- A book with gold on the cover
- A book set in France
- A book featuring a king or queen
- A book featuring someone who wins at something
- A book with a family drama

PINK
- Earn one pendant
- A book with pink on the cover
- A book that includes a dance or ball
- A book where someone goes to a hotel
- A book in which a character plays a musical instrument
- A love story

SILVER
- Earn one pendant
- A book with silver on the cover
- A book related to mythology
- A book whose cover has someone wearing jewelry
- A book in which a character cooks a meal
- A book with a character whose name starts with a letter in SILVER

BLACK
- Earn one pendant
- A book with black on the cover
- A book that has a food item on the cover
- A book where alcohol is featured
- A book whose main character breaks a law
- A book whose title begins with a letter in BLACK

BLUE
- Earn one pendant
- A book with blue on the cover
- A book set in the southern US
- A book where someone travels to another state/country
- A book with a body of water on cover
- A book whose author has a first or last name starting with a letter in BLUE

Your Team's Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
To learn more about Mardi Gras krewes, check out this page on the New Orleans krewes: https://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/p...

Hey team! looking forward to getting started on these fun prompts! (:

Hooray team! I'm just glad I was able to get all of these threads posted early enough for us to plan and for me to enjoy the next couple days of reading.

Ooh, best team ever! (though they all are)

I guess I'll spend my evening figuring out how my current library books will fit the prompts!

Oh and HI!

Hello everyone! Looking forward to reading with all of you.

Howdy y'all! I am excited to be reading with you this week.

During the week, I plan to read

Ink Blood Sister Scribe - purple cover or gold on cover
Good Time Coming - set in southern US
not sure after that

I have The Suspect (at 25%) and Cherry Cheesecake Murder (at 30%) started. I will wait to finish them this weekend. I am about to start Shadow and Bone and should have it ready to finish over the weekend as well. All of them have several different categories they can fit into. School starts back up on Monday so my reading will taper off during the week.

Oh Robin, Ink Blood Sister Scribe is so good!

I'm not very far into any of my current reads, though I do plan on reading a bit tonight. I'll make sure to save 100 pages for tomorrow! My books fit a good number of prompts so I'll see where it falls when I finish them.

Happy start day, y'all! Hope you're all having a chance to read a really great book today!

Hi everybody! I've got about 175 pages to go in Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, so hopefully I can finish that before my son's basketball game this afternoon. After that, I'll look through my stack of library books to see what prompts I can fill.

Currently reading:
A book that is "spicy": Book Lovers (as an audiobook)
A book where the outdoors plays a significant role: In the Woods (as an audiobook) *Finished
A book with pink on the cover: The Poet X
A book where someone travels to another state/country: One Italian Summer *Finished
A book related to mythology: The Maidens *Finished

I finished The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood and put it under Gold - a character wins something. Kind of an odd book to be reading but I have one challenge to read a childhood favorite and another where archery is one of the options.

15 minutes left one Ask Again Yes but I have to go out so I guess I won't finish till later ugh haha

Good Morning and Happy Reading! Just finished Cherry Cheesecake Murder and put as a cover with food. It looked like one of the ones with the least amount of possible choices so put it there, I was not sure how we were doing the completed page but went ahead and put it in the same column as Robin's book. If this is incorrect please move. Moving on to finishing The Suspect.

I finished Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries and put it down as related to mythology since there was nothing else on the plan for that prompt.

I just started The Three of Us which fits quite a few prompts. I'll choose one when I finish.

I'll also be starting the audio of A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder which fits quite a few also.

I finished Rules for Visiting and put it under Someone stays at a hotel. Now I have some longer books to get to.

I finished A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder and put it under Blue: A book with a body of water on the cover.

Yay! I haven't logged in all day (trying to get some reading done!) and I'm so excited to see we are already finishing our first books of the challenge.

As you finish books, please move your column from the Plans tab to the Completed tab, and if you feel so inclined, shade the row for the prompt you put down, so that we know that one is already used. We can start with a yellow shading for our first round of beads.

Hooray! Let's keep earning those pendants!

Slotted Obsidio into the justice prompt but feel free to move it around if needed!

I just finished The Collected Regrets of Clover which was lovely.

I'm not 100% sure how I should pick which prompt it fills as it fills several, and I'm not a spreadsheet person and have no idea how to shade things. I'll mark it for 'purple on the cover' but it certainly could be used for others.

I finished my audiobook, Ten Birds That Changed the World and put it under outdoors plays a significant role.

I also read two shorter books: Poison in Paddington by Samantha Silver, which I put under silver on the cover; and White Holes which I put under black on the cover (it's nonfiction about theoretical physics- I don't think it really fits anything else).

I finally finished The Suspect. Not sure where to put it. Maybe something will standout tomorrow. I am hoping to finish Shadow and Bone tomorrow before everyone arrives and the game.

Chrissie, I'll fill in Clover for purple on cover for you on the spreadsheet!

I put The Suspect on "Green on the cover". It does fit other prompts but all of them seem to have many books so I went with the least. Decided to put off Shadow and Bone I am hoping to finish Bride and The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek today.

I finished:
The Three of Us and put it under "pink on the cover."


The Revolution of the Moon for "character who name starts with a letter in SILVER" Character name: Don Alterio

I was tied up all day with church and driving to a friend's out of town for Super Bowl. Should be able to catch up tomorrow.

I finished Blackouts last night, and put it for the title that starts with a letter (or, in this case, letters) in BLACK. It was good, surprising, not my usual type of book but I really got into it.

I'll be driving to my parents' house for Mardi Gras today, so I'll clock some audiobook time. Hopefully I can start my new print today but we will see how the toddler cooperates!

We only have one more prompt for our first bead - Black!

I read Silver Buckles, so I'll put that down for silver on the cover and change Poison in Paddington to main character breaks a law and our bead will be complete!

I finished The Rosie Effect, which I put under character cooks a meal. The main character Don cooks many meals which are described in the book.

Also finished L'enfant multiple (Multiple child) and put it under Set in France.

For both of those we only had 1 or 2 choices, compared to some others where we have 5 or 6.

Ohhh Robin, what did you think about The Rosie Effect? I reread The Rosie Project last month, but I struggled getting into the second one.

I finished The Quarry Girls. a tough read about secrets and growing up and figuring out you can't trust everyone you're supposed to be able to trust.


I put it under an author with an intial in NOLA but again, it could go so many places. I think I even figured out how to turn the square yellow!

Emily wrote: "Ohhh Robin, what did you think about The Rosie Effect? I reread The Rosie Project last month, but I struggled getting into the second one."

You had to suspend disbelief more in the 2nd one but I did enjoy it. The audio is great at showing Don's logical manner.

I read How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. The only place we have left where it seems to fit is blue on cover.

I didn't finish anything today but should finish at least one for tomorrow.

Happy reading!

Finished The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek and put it on struggle with life and death. I am going to start Shadow and Bone. Hope to finish tomorrow.

We are so close to finishing so many beads! My current read will likely end up being a second use for a prompt we've already filled, as it doesn't fill any open prompts. Hooray team!

I finished Letters of Two Brides and put it under "set in the 18th century." We've finished the Green bead. A pendant needs to be added. Not sure how to do that.

I added the pendant for Green and marked it as complete!

I will finish Legends & Lattes today. I am thinking to use it for someone wearing jewelry on the cover, which will complete the silver bead!

I also finished Your Inner Fish and put it under A book whose main character's name starts with a letter in MARDI GRAS.

I finished Queen Bee and marked it for "a book featuring a king or queen." One of the main characters is called Queen Bee. Also another character raises bees and talks about the queen.

I finished Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and put it under 'a book where a character cooks a meal' because heaven knows Vera was always cooking stuff that sounded just delicious!

We are doing amazing for this challenge! Great job team!

I finished The Eyes and the Impossible: by Dave Eggers to finish off a blue bead. It put it under "author's first or last name starting with letters BLUE."

Having a busier week than I thought I would ugh. Really hoping to finish a book today. And at least the 2 audiobooks I'm listening to sometime this week.

Hey all! I'm not sure if my reading has gotten slower or I'm just more distracted than I used to be, but I finally finished The Librarianist. I started our second black bead... I figured we finished that one first and easily, so that might be an easy one to get a second one of. It didn't finish any beads we don't have yet.

I'm going to pick up The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard tomorrow and I should get through it quickly after slogging through a lot of literary fiction recently.

I had some things come up yesterday and today that really slowed down my reading, hope to do better tomorrow. As a team, we are doing great.

I finally finished Shadow and Bone and put it in a story with ball or dance. While the ball is not most of the book, it does have a very significant event happen at it that propels the story. If that is not acceptable, let me know and I will move it. I am starting Remember Me and hope to finish tomorrow or Friday.

I read Dawn's Desire for a spicy book and finished the purple bead.