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

C’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

Oh, I hadn't counted how many books we were at total. I was looking at how many categories we had space for in the spreadsheet, and that seemed like way more books than 150 (for a three month challenge), but maybe the spreadsheet has more space than we will need.

Ashley said no covering; I figured that would be the answer, but you don't know if you don't ask. So we will complete as we complete.

Thanks Ashley! I figured that would be the case, but I wanted to check. :)

And Anna, no worries; I feel you on that Fantasy challenge... And I like Fantasy well enough, but none of my Fantasy books are working for the prompts lol. So I'm actually reading other genres and just losing out on the genre points. :( Thanks for the heads-up on vacation! I have one mid-May and reading probably won't be a thing.

Hi Ashley, I'm guessing this is a no, but I'm campaigning for my team here. Are teammates able to cover for each other? Our case is that we have readers of different speeds, and expected vacations where reading won't be a priority.

Oh Fi, no, don't leave us!!! :( I feel behind too, since there are three categories going all at once. Let me ask Ashley if we can cover for each other.

Okay, and I know you're reading regardless! :) It's just been quiet here so making sure everyone is hanging in there. And if another event pops up, I don't want us to be too limited and miss bonus opportunities. :)

Hi everyone, checking how your reads are going! Richard, hopefully we'll have some new tasks for you to knock out soon; thanks as always for working on the lion's share (pun kind of intended ;) ).

Book: The Last Murder at the End of the World
Author: Stuart Turton
Task: Read a book with an MPG/Tagged Romance (sub-genre allowed)
How it Fits: tagged romance 2x
Date Read: 4/14
Pages: 368

Book: The Last Murder at the End of the World
Task: featuring time travel
How it fits: tagged time travel

Updating the spreadsheet imminently. Yeah, there should be some good word crossover into non-food books hopefully.

I didn't have any additional books for the event either, since I only got the two done and counted both already.

As y'all can see, I turned in Food, as I saw Fi posted a completion date, so remember to keep track of finished books since we're expecting new word tasks.

I'm planning to have my scifi book finished today, fingers crossed. For it not being the book I was wanting to read, it's been a good read so far. Not sure I'll keep the book, but it hasn't been a struggle bus.

🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians
🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Strongman's Sandwiches

🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🍿 Food Vendor: Strongman's Sandwiches

"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Tenacious
Book: The River by Peter Heller
Date Completed: 04/06/2025
Page Count: 253
Location: 121
Sentence: ""the tenacious will to live""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Robust
Book: Clever as a Fox by Sonja Yoerg
Date Completed: 04/07/2025
Page Count: 240
Location: p.179
Sentence: ""robust memory for a good meal""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Substantial
Book: Rebels by Peter de Rosa
Date Completed: 04/08/2025
Page Count: 576
Location: p.230
Sentence: ""put a substantial Irish breakfast on the table.""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Dense
Book: Broken Laces by Elise Faber
Date Completed: 04/08/2025
Page Count: 360
Location: Ch. 20
Sentence: ""completely dense if he didn't get that""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Formidable
Book: Betrothed to the Emperor by Kai Butler
Date Completed: 04/13/2025
Page Count: 282
Location: 0.28
Sentence: “Formidable indeed!”
"

I'll definitely update to include Fi's book, but since you already counted it, I won't repost unless we add others.

Can everyone check what books they finished the 9th and 10th regardless of start date, and see if they were fitting here (better than a book you swapped in)? I know we're tight on our tasks at the moment, but since idk what y'all had going and finishing, I want to give everyone a chance to review.

PLEASE complete review by 9pm Pacific time (about 11 hours from now) so that we aren't stretching Ashley's patience and good graces too much. ;)

Yes, Anna summed it up. From the QA, it sounded like books had to be started on the 9th to count. I'm not sure we would be able to count any of those books we'd started before the 9th in our attractions anymore to be able to use them for the event, but I know we definitely were mindful of that concept.

Prompt # / Name: 55: Moon Flowers
Book: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
Author: Alice Franklin
Date Read: 4/12
Pages: 304
Task: Read a book where the author's FIRST initial is found in LUNAR
How it Fits: author's first initial is A

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #22
Book: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
Author: Alice Franklin
Date Read: 4/12
Pages: 304
Task: Read a book with a plural word in the title
How it Fits: HACKS

Book: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
Author: Alice Franklin
Task: Read a book where a character cries
How it Fits: pg 236 "Look, she's crying now."
Date Read: 4/12
Pages: 304

Book: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
Task: you think would be good for a book club
How it fits: there were a lot of thought provoking moments, and the book club I'm in reads a lot of books I don't end up liking lol