Jonnie’s Comments (group member since Mar 29, 2016)

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

Starting Game of Love

I am sure it will meet the Valentine requirement by either someone being alone or someone falling in love based on the plot summary. I will let you know which one it fits once I finish.

Finished Rise of the Valiant
2/13

Works for:
2 - Second in Series
7 - Place Volis
8 - Place Escalon
Skip - Character Kyra

Laura wrote: "Here we go:

Valentine's Mini-challenge

2 rules:
- Books can't be started until Valentine's Day - Countdown
- Lots of extra points available (including 30 extra points for finishing everything!)..."

Ok so since I am new to this and confused, are we all doing this Valentine's Day mini challenge? Do they have these mini challenges often? What exactly do I need to do?

Nanci wrote: "Jonnie wrote: "The Book Thief

Date Read 2/6
Works for:

0 - Author Zusak
2 - Title
3 - Character Hans
5 - Character Ilsa
6 - Character Steiner
7 - Character Vandenburg
Reverse - Read..."

It took a few chapters to get into the writing style but I like the book and the point of view it gave.

Finished
You Don't Want To Know
Date: 2/11

0 - Stand alone book
2 - Character Tanya
6 - Character Snyder
8 - Character Evelyn
9 - Character Noah

Hollie wrote: "The Grisha Trilogy is one of my favourite series, so to see those as big budget movies would be phenomenal. However, unfortunately, adaptations have been pretty poor recently (Divergent, TMI, Vampi..."

I agree about the recent adaptations. Eragon has been the worst adaptation I have seen in a long time. It was a great book and the movie was a complete disgrace.

Laura wrote: "We finished our first hand!"

WooHoo go team!

I have another book to add to my list for this month. Rise of the Valiant It is the second book in the Rise of the Dragons series.

The Last Orphans

Date Read 2/6
Works for:

1 - First in a series
2 - Title
6 - Character Shane
Skip - Character Kelly

The Book Thief

Date Read 2/6
Works for:

0 - Author Zusak
2 - Title
3 - Character Hans
5 - Character Ilsa
6 - Character Steiner
7 - Character Vandenburg
Reverse - Read by Laura

Rise of the Dragons

Date read 2/4
Works for:
1 - first in series
2 - Character Thanos
7 - Place Volis
Skip - Character Kyra

Ok so here is where my newbie ness is kicking in. Laura do you tell us what cards you need to have filled for this hand then we read those books or do we just start reading from our list and you use them where you can?

Laura wrote: "As long as a character has a speaking part we can use it, so you can use any of the characters. But probably not the authors. Does the book have an editor? Can you link it here so I can check it out?"

Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives, Volume 1


It says edited with an introduction by Otto Penzler.

I do have a question before I try to look it up in the other discussion folders. I have a book I want to read that is made up of short stories by various authors, it is 416 pages, can I use that in this challenge for anything other than a wild card? Since each story has different main characters and there are lots of authors I didn't know if I could actually count any of them.

OK I think I have my book list and the connected UNO points figured out:


The Last Orphans 1,2,6,Skip

Rise of the Dragons 1, Skip

The Book Thief 0, 3, 5, 6, 7

You Don't Want To Know 0,6,9


I hope this shows up correctly. If anyone has read any of these in the last 6 months I guess let me know.

Here is my shelf. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Laura wrote: "Jonnie wrote: "Oh and since I am not tech savvy. How do I post my shelf here?"

You click on your shelf, and then copy the URL in the top bar. Then just paste it here. But I can also grab it for yo..."

Thanks. I got it. I usually am on my tablet and it doesn't show all the url's or even give me half the options my desktop does with this site.

Laura wrote: "Jonnie wrote: "Hi all, this is my first team anything for reading. I am from Oklahoma and I am married with two kids. My husband works full time and I recently started a part time job opposite his ..."

Yeah my daughter has a lot more attitude at this point then my son did. He is now 9.

Oh and since I am not tech savvy. How do I post my shelf here?

Hi all, this is my first team anything for reading. I am from Oklahoma and I am married with two kids. My husband works full time and I recently started a part time job opposite his schedule. One of my kids is 2 so I am mostly with her. I like to read a bit of everything. But my favorites are Stephen King, Anne Rice, James Patterson, and Rick Riordan. I am a read what I want whenever type of reader. But if the majority of people want to schedule it out I can work with that.

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