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

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

Ashley wrote: "Verónica wrote: "*** UPDATE ***

We are at 68% of the main, with only 8 days to finish. Five color books pending:

Sarah D 4 Blue
Hannah 8 Blue
Ashley 3 Green
Veronica 1 Green
Veronica 5 Yellow

Th..."

OK, I corrected it.

*** UPDATE ***

We are at 68% of the main, with only 8 days to finish. Five color books pending:

Sarah D 4 Blue
Hannah 8 Blue
Ashley 3 Green
Veronica 1 Green
Veronica 5 Yellow

The mini looks OK, I think we can finish the Part I, for Part II we don't have many.

The ones pending are:

Octopus in the Title (Ashley)
Set in Australia (Ashley)
Read a book with a blue cover. (Hannah E)
Read a book where someone eats or makes breakfast. (Hannah E)
Read a book with an inoffensive character, i.e. someone who is considered to be pleasing. (Hannah E)
Read a book featuring vampires. (Mary)
Read a book with a purple cover. (Veronica)
Read a book with a two-word title. (Veronica)
Read a book with a white cover. (Veronica)
Read a book featuring a pest, or a disease/illness. (Veronica)
Read a book with 3 things that are the same on the cover (Veronica)
Read a book where someone doesn't ever seem to use the bathroom.(Veronica)

Most of mine are audios, so I can finish no problem. How is everybody doing?

We have used all of our pixies, so the remaining 36 books are all on us. We have 22 on the log.

For colors in Part II we have to use the images used for the UNO teams, and for connections we can complement the description in UNO with info we find elsewhere.

Found one. So we've covered the bathroom one.

Let's try make a dent on that Part II.

I'm looking for a shorter Green 1, and since most my choices are non-fiction I think they'll work for the bathroom one.

And yes, the order doesn't matter .

Books still pending for Part I:

set in May - or spring in general. (Ashley)

where someone lives in a community. (Hannah E)
with a blue cover. (Hannah E)
where someone eats or makes breakfast. (Hannah E)
with an inoffensive character, i.e. someone who is considered to be pleasing. (Hannah E)

where a characters lives in or takes a trip to the mountains. (Mary)
where a great deal of the story/action takes place at night. (Mary)
featuring vampires. (Mary)

with a character who lives at or takes a trip to the beach. (Sarah D)

set in North America. (Sarah S.)

with a green cover. (Veronica)
with a red cover. (Veronica)
with a purple cover. (Veronica)
with a two-word title. (Veronica)
with a white cover. (Veronica)
featuring a pest, or a disease/illness. (Veronica)
with 3 things that are the same on the cover. (This can be 3 items/plants/people/etc.) (Veronica)
featuring a tyrant. (Veronica)
with a rock on the cover. (Veronica)

I'm about to finish three, and some of the books of my list are short so I can definitely finish them, but I don't think I can add any more for Part II.

*** UPDATE ***

So, I changed my ice cream book to the grey cover and found something on Pixie for the ice cream one. With all books in place and the 8 pixie used, the only remaining task is the bathroom one. All tasks claimed but not finished yet stay put.

We need to fit any books not yet on the mini to the Part II tasks. All new books added to the log will go to Part II.

I saw a few changes from the moment I posted to now. So I'll review everything and update the list. Hold your horses.

There're four finished books that have more than one option, so I arrange them as follows:

The Fiancée Farce - someone ends up (practically) naked
Murder in an Irish Cottage - a character who likes to bake.
The Woman in the Library - a character is considered to be attached to someone, or with a clingy character.
Flashfire - where someone goes for a swim.

Please confirm this is correct.

With these four assigned, and using seven pixies it's how I got the list I posted with the remining tasks. I'll write it down in the log so there's no confusion, I haven't done it because I was working on them trying to find the best scenario. But I think this will be it.

*** EDIT ***

Ok , I just saw The Fiancée Farce assigned o the LGBTQ task, so I'll use the Magpie Murders for the naked one.

Also Mary put The Woman in the Library in no luck character, so the clingy one still open.

Mary C wrote: "Wow. Lots of "set in Australia" tasks for part 2. I don't like my current Australia book enough to read more of that series.

Looking at that list to see if a couple books that won't be needed for..."

According to the log, Flashfire works for swimming, is that not correct?

Yes, if it’s not on the list I posted it means I found a Pixie for it.

*** UPDATE ***

We need to find books for the following tasks:

Read a book where someone doesn't ever seem to use the bathroom.
Read a book featuring vampires.
Read a book where a characters lives in or takes a trip to the mountains.
Read a book where a great deal of the story/action takes place at night.
Read a book with a character who simply has no luck, or good fortune.
Read a book with an inoffensive character, i.e. someone who is considered to be pleasing.
Read a book with a gray cover.

So for the books still not finished, please assign it to one of this tasks if you have any in progress.

The remaining unclaimed tasks can be completed with four books that are finished but not logged in the mini (because task undecided) and using 7 of the pixie books.

16 tasks have been claimed but need to be finished.

Two books that qualify for the mini don't have any mini task assigned:
Lucy - How High We Go In The Dark
maria helena - Inget kvar att förlora

Any chance they fit in one of the remaining tasks? If not we might still use them for some points of Part II.

As per main, everything OK.

Ok, I have something for green 1.

Sarah wrote: "Veronica- I noticed you slotted one of my books into different 2 spots for different color cards. My book is used for both Green 1 and Green 9 so we are going to need to fix that. Looks like Sarah ..."

You're right, good catch!

I must have mixed them up when I was trying to take advantage of the Draw2, I moved them around too much. Yours is Green 9, Sarah D is Green 1.

April Mini Challenge is out indeed
April Mini Challenge

Give it a look and throw us your questions.

Here's the countdown:

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

Remember that only the books finished after the mini starts count for the mini.

For what I see they've tried to spice things up a little this time. There are more tasks that can humanly be finished in two weeks, doesn't matter how fast the readers are in our team. So we'll have to make some decisions.

*** UPDATE ***

We're going at a very good pace, 25% completed in the first week.

Ten more color cards to finish, but all WD4 are completed. With my Green 9 and Mary's Green 0 we'll also complete our Reverses. Five more 7's and three more 5's and we're done with those.

Ok, that'll do then. We have covered all colored cards and reverses. We didn't get as many 5's and 7's this time, but still we need to tackle those.

Also Ashley's Blue 3 and Hannah's Blue 7 work for Reverse in others Draw 2 combo. I guess we wont have as much problem this time covering our Reverses. No need to look for any more than we have already logged.

I will change my Green 9 to the WD4 left by Sarah, I found that The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo works for Green 9 and Reverse and we have that Draw 2 combo in one hand. That means Sarah D keeps the Blue 4, and I keep one of the Green 9 and the WD4 for the same card.

On the same note, there's a hand where we have a Draw 2 with a Reverse and WD4, I think we could use this with Mary's Green 0 book, that means that the WD4 for yellow 8 wont be necessary. We just need to decide if either Ashley or Mary keeps the Yellow 8.

We only need to find a Yellow 7. I found one on my library but it's an ebook and I'm not sure I can add another one to my list, it's on the short side though. If no one else finds one I'll commit to it.

Sarah D, your book House of Sky and Breath works for Blue 4, we talked about using it for WD4 but we need the Blue 4, do you want me to assign it to you?