Verónica’s Comments (group member since May 14, 2020)

Verónica’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

Hello everyone!

April mini has been posted
April Mini Challenge

Countdown
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

Corina wrote: "Hi Verónica, I'm good with reading both of the Greens as I own both. I didn't know if we are already covered for the Green skip, so there was no point in me starting that one, so I needed to go for..."

We only need 4 & 9 Green, Jojo is reading the 4 and you have the 9.

Corina wrote: "I'm currently reading a 2 Red but its on the longer side hehe...will finish it this week though. I have a shorter Green 4 and Skip, but it doesn't seem to cover Green 9 as well. I found another one..."

I found another one for 9 Green, is shorter, and more appealing right now. If you're not feeling like reading yours I'll take the card.

We're done with the 7's 🙌, only one 5 and one Reverse left, I just started one for Reverse.

And with Jojo's green book we'll only need a 9 Green. I do have a book for that but is on the longer side. So if someone else has one let me know.

2 Red still pending, I'm reading the 4 Red.

+++ UPDATE+++

For week 1 we are doing pretty good.

Left:
Five 5's.
Two 7's.
Four Reverse.
Just one more Overload and I'm on it.

Colors:
6 Yellow
2 Red
4 Red
9 Blue
1 Green
4 Green
9 Green
Skip Green

I'm reading a 6 Yellow and a 9 Blue, which leaves six more color cards, not surprisingly most of them are Greens. A really cool combo would be 1 Green and a Reverse. Corina your book "Britt-Marie was here" has both 😁. A few of Draw 2 cards were conveniently placed in the same hands of some of the hard cards.

Corina wrote: "I also have one book that works for Blue 2, 3 and Skip and one Blue book that works for 3 and 9. I was planning to start either one of them tonight or tomorrow."

The Blue 2&3 will be more helpful.

If someone has a Blue book that's a 2 and 3, we can use it to kill two color cards with that one book in the 17th hand.

Corina wrote: "The one I had put down for the March Mini was a purple. I can squeeze it in for March or leave it for April.
Otherwise, for April card, I'm pretty sure have black, white, pink and orange covers on ..."

I mean if you were going to start the purple one for the mini, but there's no need to rush it then we can use it for April, so I'll skip purple in my plan. We all can log books for the rest of the colors and we'll decide as we move along.

Corina wrote: "Oh great! :) In that case, after I finish my current read if we don't need extra books for the mini, I guess I can start reading for our April cards then, match some books."

The color cover books can still work for April overload cards, what color do you have? since we can do each color just once, I want to look for books to plan.

Bella wrote: "I'm currently working on a Q that I'll finish by tomorrow if that helps!"

Yes! 😁

Corina, maybe a Q will be even better. We were able to fill all 10 for covers.

Corina wrote: "Thanks, Verónica! No worries, I will focus on the 2 painting ones I'm currently reading and see how I go for time after that :)
I also have I'll Be Gone in the Dark, have to get to that one at one ..."

Sounds like two much needed Reverse cards to me 😁. And we have a hand with a 5, a Reverse and Draw 2. That book will work pretty well there.

JoJo_theDoDo wrote: "Just finished Piranesi and updated the spreadsheet. This counted as a Fantasy painting in the mini.
Since we are good on the locations section of the mini I will take my time on fi..."

Nice! With your painting book, Corina's and mine that I'm about to finish we'll be done with the mini. And I just added the April tab to log books.

I loved that book (I'll be gone) 😀. There's also a great documentary based on it.

Corina wrote: "Thanks for the update, Verónica!
I think will have to do some digging for those green covers, but I'm sure we will manage! :)
For the March Mini, I have 2 books for paintings I'm currently reading..."

I think painting is still the priority. If you can start the color cover one and finish it, that's cool, but if you don't finish it we can still use it for next month.

Vanessa wrote: "And I have actually finished reading it. So thats why:("

Vanessa, please check if it's ok now

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Hi everyone!

Things have been a little bit smoother this month, right?

We are just three books from finishing the mini. I think we're all set. If someone has a book for Q or for color cover categories we can still maximize points. Just sayin'.

April cards are in, here is the countdown:

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

We have some interesting changes in April. The WD4 card is out and instead we get Overload cards, which I think were inspired by the alternative color covers on the mini. They work only for colors, so no letters attached to them. We can do each color just once. They count the same points as WD4's.

Another change is a Colored Skip card. They work the same as regular color cards but now with K's and P's.

So, how was our luck with the April hands? Well... all I can say is 10... TEN! 5's 😓. How about 7's? NINE. And we got six green covers, not a nice thing to get, but manageable. We are an excellent team anyway 🦾.

So 16 color cards and one more hand to complete as per usual on April. This is the final stretch before the May reading hangover. Enjoy!

Vanessa wrote: "Yup it was. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth. I'll add it tomorrow once I get a confirmation of the number of pages, so that we get more points."

Is this the book ?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Vanessa wrote: "I actually finished one of the books for colour but I can't find it on Goodreads. I guess I need to add the book."

Was it for cover? If it is, we can ask in the group for a librarian to add it. Covers give us more points, we can replace one of the books we have for text..

We finished countries! Now we can focus on paintings.

Vanessa wrote: "Hey Veronica... I had a doubt. The book I'm currently reading is majorly based in Italy thought it starts in US. So can we use it for countries?"

No, they were very specific on not having any part of the book set in the countries mentioned.