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

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

Ok hear me out. I think I can do another juggle with the cards to fill the teacher one, just in case Vivi needs it.

The book A Million Reasons Why read by Felicity fits the Thriller one. Now it's in the M, which can be filled by one the recent logs by Apoorva. This will liberate a Pixie card (this card was only used for the mini), and a couple of moves more we could fill the teacher task.

Lynne wrote: "Verónica wrote: "UNO ends on Saturday 1 May 9.00 am UTC

Main cities, FYI:

Saturday 1 May 2021
San Francisco 2am
London 10am
New York 5am
Mumbai 2.30pm
Tokyo 6pm
Sydney 7pm

You can see the countd..."

Done!

Vivi, how are you doing? Need back up?

UNO ends on Saturday 1 May 9.00 am UTC

Main cities, FYI:

Saturday 1 May 2021
San Francisco 2am
London 10am
New York 5am
Mumbai 2.30pm
Tokyo 6pm
Sydney 7pm

You can see the countdown here:

COUNTDOWN

Only tasks left:

11* read a book with a character who is a teacher - Vivi
32a*: read a book that you can connect to another team's movie (be as creative as you wish) - Lynne

Lynne, Felicity finished a book that fits your task, what do you think?

Four books away people!

11* read a book with a character who is a teacher - Vivi
13* read a book with a bad-ass character - Veronica
B15*: read a book with a character who is a vampire - Elena
32a*: read a book that you can connect to another team's movie (be as creative as you wish) - Lynne

I have 4hrs left of my audiobook, unless I manage to do an afternoon marathon, I'll probably update tomorrow.

Thanks Alejandra. If other team member has another book that fits any of the task left let us know, just in case.

We are very close to finish the mini.

Veronica:
8* read a book with the word "neon" in the text
13* read a book with a bad-ass character

Vivi:
11* read a book with a character who is a teacher

Elena :
B15*: read a book with a character who is a vampire

Felicity:
B16*: read a book with a character who is a detective or police officer

Lynne:
B17*: read a book with a fabulous dress on the cover
32a*: read a book that you can connect to another team's movie (be as creative as you wish)

Kaylee, your book The Only Good Indians has a character named Richard! We will use that for the R task.

About the stylist task, I think I know how to solve it. I have Over the top in the shoulder pads task, but it fits in the hairdresser task, so I'm going to change that and use a pixie book that has shoulder pads to substitute. So yes, we can use our last pixie to fix that.

Is this the book you were planning to read?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

ok Lynne, I used a Pixie for the Thriller. I asked if there is a book for 19 in the Pixie shelf, fingers crossed.

Good news everyone.

With Jodi's books and one more log from Poongothai we completed all our hands!

Also three more books were logged in the mini, it seems we might be able to finish it too. One of the books recently logged filled the 350 pages task.

So, we still have 2 pixie books to use. From the ones pending I found for:

Thriller - The Perfect Daughter
Fabulous dress - Pride and Prejudice
Bad ass - Ready Player One

To everyone that has a pending book on the mini, please confirm if you would finish or maybe we'll have to look for a substitute from pixie. There's only one task left to fill (something with R). Brittany if you are still looking, look for R's ;). Lets finish 'em all!

Lynne wrote: "B18 was already done.
I am working on the rest (already halfway through two of them), and I will prioritize the As :)"

Ops! you're right.

Good morning.

We are 14 books away of hands completion. If Jodi updates the spreadsheet we'll be done. Jodi, could you please at least put them in your UNO shelf? That way we can still use them.

The list for the mini is:

Vivi:
11* read a book with a character who is a teacher

Lynne:
19*: read a book with a character who goes to the hairdresser or stylist
B17*: read a book with a fabulous dress on the cover
32a*: read a book that you can connect to another team's movie (be as creative as you wish)
33a*: read a book with MPG Thriller or Mystery

Alejandra:
38a*: read a book from the Listopia Books That Are Also TV Shows

Felicity:
B16*: read a book with a character who is a detective or police officer

Elena:
B15*: read a book with a character who is a vampire

Veronica:
5* read a book where the first word in the text starts with E
8* read a book with the word "neon" in the text
13* read a book with a bad-ass character
20*: read a book with "spandex" in the text or on the cover

Not assigned:
28*: read a book with 351-400 pages

I'll finish two of mine today. I definitely will finish all by Friday.

Brittany, please check if the books you're about to log can fill any of the mini task mentioned as pending. If not, there are some B tasks left where we they could be used. Regarding the cards, most are easy ones, we'll probably find where to put them. If you have time to pick something else, you can look for a 5.

Lynne, please give priority to the books on your A tasks. Maybe some of the books pending to log could be used for the B's.

Felicity wrote: "So I am trying to finish this challenge strong. So far I finished 2 books today. The first was and was easy to..."

Yes, I think it could be use for the course task. Any other of the books you have pending could fit the 350 pages one? If not, we can still use a Pixie card for it.

If anyone else has a 350-400 pages currently reading (that is on a B section) speak up :D.

Great Lynne! I finished the 5 Blue too, so that's a wrap for the color cards :D.

To be fair all team members have been active. So maybe we can say two per person and we'll be ok. But with Lynne and I reading a little bit more it can be possible even if most are not as available.

With Lynne and I doing maybe 6 each that's 12. Elena and Alejandra maybe 3 each, that's 18. Kaylee mentioned finishing at least two and Vivi 1, that's 21. Brittany mentioned having 2 pending to log, that's 23. Three more and we make it.

Good morning everyone.

I'm sorry for all of you that are having tough times. I hope today is a good one, so you can have some peace and recharge.

But well, as the very realist person that I am, I'm not sure we can finish our April hands (that's a motivational speech, amIright?). We need to read 26 books total (32 minus 6 from Pixie). It seems doable in the 9 days left, between 9 of us will be 3 per person, but since other things have priority in our lives we should settle for what we can. I think the only one missing logs is Jodi, and a couple from Brittany. If you can update as soon as possible we could have a clearer picture and maybe a more positive forecast.

I'm up for 7 more books. I do have time and energy for it but I wont be self-flagellating about it either. I'm having a good reading streak this month, I hope that doesn't change next week. It would be a new record for me.

Please keep us informed on how you are doing, books and all else. Sharing sometimes can help a little while, AKA just vent.

Hi.

I removed my log of the book of 450 or more (Firefly Lane), I found books for the spandex and headband tasks, for the length of Firefly lane I can read (actually audio) these two shorter ones. I don't think I can do all three. Maybe we can find a Pixie book for the 450 task.

For the 5Blue we had in the log a Lynne book, but it seems it didn't qualify so I'm reading a short one for that, probably finishing tomorrow. After Lynne finishes the yellow left, we'll be done with the color cards. We already completed all WD4.

I keep getting sludged by a self-help book, maybe I should speed read that one and move on. I don't know why I keep trying with this genre. And even though I imposed a heavy load on myself this month, most are on the short side, so I think I'll be able to finish all on time.

Brittany wrote: "Question So I read Triplets for the Millionaire would it count for the connect to teams movie? In the book the characters go to the Stanley hotel that serves as the inspiration for Stephen kings Th..."

Yes, I think is a good connection.

Brittany wrote: "I have two books that I finished yesterday and one I am almost done with. I should be able to get things updated tonight and I will see how they work with the mini."

Ok, since you already finished those, if they fit a task already taken (but not completed) I think you can replace, but just let us know first.

Good morning.

We are in pretty good shape, only 4 color cards left:

1Red - Elena - Beloved
8Yellow - Lynne - The Councilor
5Blue - Lynne - A Lady's Formula for Love
9Yellow - Veronica - Looking for a Miracle

Plus three WD4, so any duplicates for color cards are welcome.

If your book is a 5 or 7, and want to log it yourself in the copy of the Official sheet, jump right to it on the corresponding hand. Otherwise fill in order.

As intimidating the mini might have looked at first, we have almost fill all A tasks (with plans at least). There's one section, A2, that seems a little bit more difficult, luckily we still have pixie cards to use and they might be helpful there. We'll wait and see further down the road where they can be most useful.

We could mentalize ourselves on getting the completion bonus for the A tasks, but honestly I think it's still a great idea to fill as many tasks as possible, since all of them are worth 10 points. If we can finish A, great! if not let's just try to finish all our planned books and get all those extra B points.

Just in case you are still looking for something to contribute to the mini A tasks, still vacant are:

- Almost all of section A2 (6 tasks).
- 25*: read a book with 201-250 pages.
- 31a*: read a book that you can connect to your own team's movie (be as creative as you wish).

Brittany, Juhi, Poongothai,  Apoorva and Jodi, please check if you have something for one of those.

Bonito fin de semana! :)

Lynne wrote: "

Do y’all think this is enough to count as a bright pink cover for the mini? If not, I have a few other ideas I could choose from."

Yes I think it does.

Lynne wrote: "Oh darn! I thought I was doing the Blue 4. Oh well. It can count for something else I guess."

It can still work for a WD4.