C’s Comments (group member since Dec 12, 2024)

C’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

Ah, yeah, definitely would have saved those, since we want the big ones for salary or earning spots. :)

I actually grabbed The Best Halloween Ever at 144 pages to end the turn. Were those two books longer or did I miss them? Google Sheets won't sort the spreadsheet, so there was some hunt and peck involved.

Team Historical Holdings
Starting Bank Account Balance: $4501
Money Paid: $38 to Team Mystery Manor
Money Earned: $0
Ending Bank Account Balance: $4463

*Turn Complete*
Take it away, LLD!

Our turn: we need a book with an illustrated cover, and I know I have some short books logged that will work, so gonna go grab the shortest and move us along. I will also check anything shorter than my shortest, just in case, since my books are around 200 pages, so already pretty low pg count. :)

Lol, Sci-Fi, we had a boring turn last time, so welcome to our therapy group. ;)

Team Historical Holdings
Starting Bank Account Balance: $4501
Rolled: 3
Landed on: The Tale of Genji
Timestamp: 10/30/2025 10:09:35
72-hour Deadline: 11/2/2025 10:09:35

Plan: complete task and pay rent to MM

Completed Books: 2/3
Completed Pages: 554/300

Evil Thing
Baking for Mercy

Completed Books: 6/5
Completed Pages: 1393/500

Poisons, Potions, and Parasols
Losing Wendy
Lonely Hearts
The Pub Owner’s Proposal
The Scoundrel's Christmas Challenge
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line

Completed Books: 0/1
Completed Pages: 53/100

Completed Books: 23/15
Completed Pages: 5857/1500

The Lion Women of Tehran
Merry Mazes and Mistletoe Magic
Crimes, Conspiracies, and Courtship
Pads, Purses, and Plum Pudding
I Didn't Do It
One Night on the Island
The Extra
The Odd Sisters
Hot Cross Burglary
How to Survive a Horror Story
All Gators Go To Heaven
A Twisted Tale Anthology
Poisons, Potions, and Parasols
Losing Wendy
Lonely Hearts
The Pub Owner’s Proposal
The Scoundrel's Christmas Challenge
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
Trifling With Trouble
Shoofly Die
The Witch at the Edge of the Wood
Evil Thing
Baking for Mercy

Yep, quite easy since we don't have to check the book log or scramble for a book to read. Although I'll put in the universe again that it would be nice to land on unowned properties. 😁

Our turn just ends. We don't have to do anything. :)

We just had a very unremarkable turn. We landed on War and Peace, which we already own.

Team Historical Holdings
Starting Bank Account Balance: $4501
Money Paid: $0
Money Earned: $0
Ending Bank Account Balance: $4501

*Turn Complete*

Team Historical Holdings
Starting Bank Account Balance: $4501
Rolled: 2
Landed on: War and Peace
Timestamp: 10/29/2025 16:22:01
72-hour Deadline: 11/1/2025 16:22:01

Plan: do nothing, we own it

MN Lisa wrote: "C wrote: "For Billy's Smile task, does it have to be a human face?"

What other kind of face is there? I think it was intended for Human face, but feel free to convince me what you want to use is a..."

What about animals where the head is visible, along with eyes, nose, and mouth, just like a human? ;) While it's animal and therefore non-human, the front portion of the head I would still refer to as a face in order to differentiate from the overall head. Is it that a face is required to be skin-covered rather than fur- or scale-covered?

I loved the first one, the second was okay, and then the rest were just there for me. Mostly they seemed like not much was happening. The last two got more interesting again, but they dragged a bit too.

Week: 6
Book Title: The House on Buzzards Bay
Author: Dwyer Murphy
Page Count: 288
Reflection: our common title word is HOUSE

Oh, you're on Anne's House of Dreams then... Yeah, the later books in that series took me forever to read...

Ouch. Chonker or just not that interesting lol?

Thanks Beth!