Karen D’s Comments (group member since Aug 25, 2015)

Karen D’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Laura wrote: "Karen wrote: "I have Harmony Black, but I think that won't work, since that's the character's name?

I could also pick up Black and Blue from the library this afternoon..."

Oh good, then I won't worry about rushing through it :)

Also, if you don't already have something for the gray item on the cover, I finished Paperweight yesterday, and the color extractor confirmed that the paper birds and balloons and clouds are gray. That works for C, M, P, S, and T

I have Harmony Black, but I think that won't work, since that's the character's name?

I could also pick up Black and Blue from the library this afternoon, that will definitely work for "B", but from the description I don't see any other letters it will work for

Laura wrote: "Sounds great everyone. Do we want to complete this word again or spin? (if we spin we have to complete the color bonuses. )

Edit--if we want to do the word again we just need one "u" and one "o" (..."

Hahah I just finished reading that and already completely forgot that had "u" for it, glad that worked!

by Meg Haston
Finished 8/9
304 pages

Letters: A, C, E, H, J, K, M, P, R, S, T
Characters: Stevie, Anna, Josh, Eden, Ashley aka "CB", Teagan, Kate, Rain

Colors:
- Cover: Green
- Items on cover: Gray (the balloons, clouds and birds)
- Colors in text:
*Red - "Swirls of waxy blue sky over jagged red dirt" (p 2)
*orange - "lashes and orange foundation" (p 14)
*pink - "pearly pink acrylics" (p 2)
*green - "the only green I've seen in hours" (p 2)
* purple - "I point to the purple Italy" (p 13)
*blue - same as red
*brown - "stitched with tiny brown beads" (p 10)
*black - "a black suitcase sits at attention" (p 23)
*white - "the passenger seat of a white minivan" (p 2)
*grey - "gray cloth seats" (p 1)
*gold - "the thin gold watch" (p 43)
*silver - "a silver shooting star tattoo" (p 51)

by Lauren Urasek
Finished 8/8
224 pages

Letters: B, C, J, K, L, M, P, U
Characters: Lauren, Kathleen, Bobby, Christian, Matt, Jeremy

Colors:
- cover: pink
- Text on cover: white
- in Text:
*red - "weird stuff like red eye shadow" (p 69)
*orange - "to the point of looking like an orange" (p 161)
*green - "wearing a green t-shirt" (p 21)
*pink - "with only dumb, pink crap" (p 45)
*purple - "or purple lotion" (p 76)
*blue - "brown hair, blue eyes, mid-thirties" (p 38)
*brown - same as blue
*black - "slick black hair" (p 30)
*white - "handed me a white envelope" (p 35)
*grey - "countless long, gray days" (p 121)

By Sarah Maas
Finished 8/7
416 pages

Letters: A, C, E, F, M, N, R, S, T
Characters: Fayre, Elain, Nesta, Tamlin, Rhysand, Alis

Colors:
- Text on cover: White
- Items on cover with color: Black (dress)
- in text:
*red - "three small tins of paint -- red, yellow, and blue" (p11)
*orange - "bedecked in hues of orange and red and gold" (p 120)
*pink - "flushed with a delicate, vibrant pink" (p 14)
*green - "brown and tans and the palest blues and greens" (p31)
*purple - "this one of purple so deep" (p 69)
*blue - same as red
*brown - same as green
*black - "in a flash of gray and white and black" (p 6)
*white - same as black
*grey - same as black
*silver- "His massive silver body" (p 6)
*gold - same as orange

Should have known Cecily would beat me to finish the book with silver text!

Anyway, just finished The Strain, which can be used for Silver text on the cover, and fits with T, E, or V

by Guillermo del Toro
403 pages

Letters: A, B, E, F, G, K, M, N, P, S, T, V
Characters: Ephraim Goodweather, Abraham Setrakian, Eldritch Palmer, Kelly, Nora Martinez, Ansel Barbour, Vasiliy Fet

Colors:
- Text on cover: Gold, silver
- Colors in text
*red - "he chewed a boiled red beet" (p2)
*orange - "Shirt with blue and orange piping" (p 45)
*pink - "he used the pink pencil eraser" (p 13)
*green - "glowing green monochrome" (p 13)
*purple - "found the purple walls" (p 163)
*blue - same as orange
*brown - "her roughened brown hand" (p 144)
*black - "in bold black lettering" (p 19)
*white - "as white as the snow" (p 4)
*grey - "the ground landscape went gray" (p 78)
*gold - "With a gold watch" (p 131)
*silver - "with a silver handle" (p 1)

Jennifer wrote: "I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. How do you determine the % of the color for the cover?"

Oh Jennifer, I just finished reading the next two in the series (the girl who played with fire and the girl who kicked the hornet's nest) and I actually liked them even better than the first one. If you liked Dragon Tattoo you definitely have to check out the others!

by Monica Hesse
Finished 8/3
309 pages

Letters: A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V, W
Characters: Hanneke, Sebastian (Bas), Irene Ackerman, Mrs, Janssen, Christoffel, Mr Kreuk, Lotter Bierman, Pieter Bierman, Ollie, Elsbeth Vos, Willem, Dorothea, Rebekka

Colors:
- Text on cover: blue
- Items on cover: black filmstrip?
- Colors in text:
* Red - "Peach and red" (p 189)
*Orange - "Orange, the color of our exiled monarchy" (p 215)
*pink - "His face flushes pink" (p 7)
*green - "My green sweater" (p 36)
*purple - "another dress in dismal grayish purple" (p 220)
*blue - "a large blue house" (p 11)
*brown - "A brown skirt" (p 41)
*black - "When I look at black-and-white photos" (p 189)
*white - Same as above
*grey - "A little more gray" (p 223)
*gold - "I see a flash of gold" (p 7)
*Silver - "two rows of silver buttons" (p 41)

megan wrote: "Would have rather had them put the resources towards a more functional app."

Yes! totally agree. I hadn't noticed the new homepage until you mentioned that (just been refreshing pages)....not really a fan either, but maybe it will grow on me?

when you go into Amazon, click on the link for "your Account", and then "your Prime Membership", it'll pull up all the fun things you can get! (including two books!)

If anyone has Amazon prime, they offer two free books every month also (one is an early release copy and one from Kindle unlimited). It's a perk that's not advertised nearly as much as the tv shows they stream, so it's easy to miss!

I actually got Doubt from the early release books a month or so ago, but haven't read it yet, so definitely interested to hear your thoughts Megan!

by Elizabeth Strout
208 pages
Finished 8/3

Letters: B, C, E, J, K, L, M, N, P, S, T, V, W
Characters: Lucy Barton, William, Chrissie, Sarah Payne, Jeremy, Vicky, Kathie Nicely, "Toothache"

Colors:
- Text on cover: blue, brown
- In the book:
*red - "Mr Haley's face became red" (p 70)
*orange - "The orange line of the horizon" (p 191)
*pink - "Stuffing like pink cotton candy" (p 22)
*green - "The trees full with their green leaves" (p 30)
*purple - "A stalk of purple iris" (p 39)
*blue - "one more large structure against a blue sky" (p 3)
*brown - "really long brown snake" (p 67)
*black - "no longer black but beige" (p 15)
*white - "a glass vase against a white wall" (p 39)
*grey- "the sky was gray as we drove" (p 30)
*gold - "his plain gold wedding band" (p 56)

Laura wrote: "Karen wrote: "Can this work for a silver title:



it looks like the same color as Etiquette & Espionage to me...

If that's ok, I can grab that one from the library ..."

Great thanks! I'll go pick it up as soon as I get off work. I've been meaning to read this forever, so it's great to get these excuses to dig them out of the TBR list :)

Can this work for a silver title:



it looks like the same color as Etiquette & Espionage to me...

If that's ok, I can grab that one from the library today. It has a character Nora, so it will work for "n".

Laura wrote: "megan wrote: "Laura wrote: "Amanda wrote: "I finished my book for the Milton bonus!

Just a note: I looked up colors in the text on Amazon but it said there were no results found. I distinctly rem..."

I don't know if something's going on with Amazon's search inside. I used it a lot for a different group challenge with no problem, but the past few weeks, it has not been working at all! Really annoying. You can still do the google book search, it doesn't let you preview all pages, but some should work.

by Bruce Holsinger
Finished 8/2
432 pages

Letters: A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, W
Characters: John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ambrose Birch, WIll Cooper, Ralph Strode, Thomas Baker, Nicholas Brembre, Peter Norris, Edmund Rune, Michael de la Pole, Rose Lipton, Robert Faulk

Colors:
Cover: looks orange to me, but apparently is evenly split between red, orange, and yellow. Sigh
Title: Black
Colors in text:
*Red - "go red with blood" (p 15)
*blue - "The cheeks of a hanged man will go blue" (p 14)
*brown - "streaked with brown" (p 3)
*White* - "The iris is white" (p 15)

by Laura Lippman
384 pages
Finished 7/31

Letters: A, C, D, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, W
Characters: Tess Monaghan, Crowe, Whitney, Kitty, Patrick, Judith, Adam Moss, Senator Dahlgren, Ruthie Dembrow, Nicola DeSanti

Colors:
- Cover: Green
- Text on cover: Yellow
- Colors in book:
*Red* - "he could see the tape recorder's red light" (loc 242)
*Orange* - "running around in bright orange double knit" (loc 1575)
*Pink* - "The usual pinks and green" (loc 1181)
*Green* - same as above
*purple* - "lost under a head full of purple dreads" (loc 347)
* blue* - " Brown hair, blue eyes" (loc 861)
*brown* - same as above
*white* - "The white guy had an afro too" (loc 278)
*black* - "Shorn now, and back to his natural black" (loc 347)
*grey* - "a short, wizened woman with cropped gray hair" (loc 454)
*gold* - "tied together with gold string" (loc 3327)
*silver* - "a collection of silver martini shakers" (loc 2084)