Apoorv ’s Comments (group member since Nov 23, 2013)

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

You folks were the absolute best!
What a wonderful performance from us - we scored every single point allotted to us for a whopping 9092 points! :O

Thank you SO MUCH for being true team players and making this challenge so much more fun and exciting. I had a blast finding and reading books with all of you - I for sure am going to be spending time in your bookshelves here and getting some new books added to my list.

THANK YOU ALL!
I am very sure I will bump into all of you in these GoodReads aisles pretty soon! :)

Team, I have our little story ready.
Head on over to the Apr Mini tab in our spreadsheet if you want to read an amateur attempt at writing. LOL!

Please let me know if you have a more fun story and I would be only happy to change it over to your creative masterpiece! :)

Judy wrote: "Will be finishing on time but it'll be tomorrow morning (before the deadline for sure) - ended up being out of the house longer than I thought today!"

Sweet deal. Here is the countdown for easy reference.
Just about 10 hours to go.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Judy, take us home! :)
Last day - last book - woot woot!!

I got you, Raquel. Will link the final book and complete it in the spreadsheet.

Thanks for having a backup for the final task ready. If you could drop in the title and add it to your challenge shelf, I can complete the remaining bits incase we need it.

UPDATE

All cards are completed! Woohoo!
We only have the last 2 Mini books to be finished and both are claimed.

- Read a book where strangers are thrown together on a journey (e.g. road trip, cruise, expedition). - Raquel
- Read a book that explores philosophical questions, the meaning of life, or what comes after death. - Judy (Fever Pitch)

And now I am onto create a story for the bottom part of the mini. :P

Judy wrote: "Joe spends a lot of time "on the move" in The Berry Pickers but not because of adventure, but because he's running away (from the consequences of his actions) which didn't quite fit the vibe the ta..."

Judy, one of Raquel's book fit the "warrior" task - so if you want to shift focus to "Fever Pitch" instead, that would totally work.

We are very close to wrapping it all up.
There are a handful tasks left in our hands, biggest of which are 3 colored cards.
Jill is covering 2 and I am taking the last one. But we should be good with getting these done.

Quick check on the pending mini tasks.
- Read a book featuring a warrior, protector, or a defensive strategy.
- Read a book with a character who’s always on the move — a traveller, driver, or adventurer.
- Read a book featuring a problem-solver, inventor, or builder.
- Read a book where strangers are thrown together on a journey (e.g. road trip, cruise, expedition).
- Read a book that makes you feel weightless – dreamy, poetic, or mind-bending.
- Read a book that’s the last in a series or features a character’s final journey.
- Read a book that explores philosophical questions, the meaning of life, or what comes after death.
- Read a book with surreal, mind-bending, or speculative elements that challenge your view of reality.

But before we go searching books for these last tasks, these are some books that have been read that havent been assigned a mini task yet.
Let's check if these open books fulfill some of these aforementioned tasks.

Jill
- Fangers Inc.: An Anthology of Vampire Stories
- Midlife Mountain Devil
- Pink Guitars and Falling Stars
- Second Chance Boss's Secret Baby
- Truce
- Crazy Ladies in Capes Debut
- Doctor Smug
- Going Down and Man Candy
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Possessive Billionaire’s Twisted Hunt
- My Roommate’s Sexy Daddy
- Hot Head
- The Beauty of the Beast
- Blue Summer
- Inheriting Miss Fortune

Raquel
- Well Met
- Never Have I Ever
- The Lie

Christine
- Lethal Prey

Judy
- The Berry Pickers

Please drop in a word, if any of these books fulfill any of those tasks, so we can narrow it down to what needs to be read in the last couple of days.
We are soooooo close! :)

Jill wrote: "FYI, for my Dark Melody I see Shea O'Halloran on the spreadsheet. She's in another book in the series but not this one. In this one there's a side character, Shea Dubrinsky, a healer ..."

Oh that's a good catch, Jill. I saw that in the book metadata and added it - thanks for the note. Will update!

APRIL MINI CHALLENGE IS HERE!!

Head on over here for more details!

The tracking spreadsheet is updated with a new tab that lists all the tasks.
Also, the main tracking page has a column where I urge you to write the task numbers, if your book applies to more than one mini task.

Books can be started at anytime after Feb 1,
but CANNOT be finished before the start of the Mini Challenge.
Countdown to the Mini Challenge Start: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Raquel wrote: "Oh man... thanks to whoever added all my books for this week. I was about to go in and start adding and saw they were already done. Thank you!"

Haha. It's all good. :)
Please add in any other details I may have missed with respect to character names and all.

Hey Jill, I asked this in the captain's group. Got response from fellow captains and they said it should be okay, albeit no word from the Mods. So we will go ahead and consider Violet/Purple as the same color in this context.

Having said that, we have used an Overload card for Violet/Purple and we can only use one color at a time. But, I would be happy to move things around if you are reading your Violet/Purple book this time around.

Sweet, Raquel! Thank you so much for that note!
Yaay, we should be all set now! :)

Christine, Jenny: how are your books looking to finish by tomorrow? Let us know if you wont be able to get to it and need someone to read backups! Thanks!

We have read ALL our hands! YAAAAAY!
All that is left now are the last few tasks for the Mini Challenge.
Here is what is to be done.

On-going tasks:
- Read a book that has been translated into at least 3 different languages. | Judy | Rhythm of War
- Read a book with the word GUIDE in title (subtitle incl.) or series title. | Christine | A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer
- Read a book that features a restaurant. | Jammin Jenny | A Dish to Die For

Additionally, Raquel, could you please verify that the following book works for the task? I looked through the Galaxy list as you mentioned, but could not find the book in there, but maybe I missed it - so if you could note down the page number of the list this book is present then we can close the task.
- Read a book from the shelf UNIVERSE or GALAXY | Barbarian's Hope

Jill wrote: "Have a question about a book, not for this month but in case I need next month. This book, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K26NXAU/......"

I can add it to GoodReads, Jill. Will do it in the next few hours and drop the updated link here. Sometimes it might a minute for it reflect on GoodReads, but should be up soon. :)

EDIT: Here you go, Jill.

Christine wrote: "@Apoorv - Would you like us to start filling in the mini sheet or hold off? I know we can't finish the books until Sunday. Thanks :)"

Absolutely. We can start filling in the details. Also, lets add all other relevant tasks a book might work for so it is easier to move things around later.

As always, primary focus will be to cover the comparatively tricky tasks that are not obvious from just looking at the book.

MARCH MINI CHALLENGE IS HERE!!

Head on over here for more details!

The tracking spreadsheet is updated with a new tab that lists all the tasks.
Also, the main tracking page has a column where I urge you to write the task numbers, if your book applies to more than one mini task.

Books can be started at anytime after Feb 1,
but CANNOT be finished before the start of the Mini Challenge.
Countdown to the Mini Challenge Start: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

UPDATE

Only things left to complete.
- 1 Reverse

Minis
- Read a book tagged "Magic" or "Magical Realism" (at least 10x). | Christina
- Read a book tagged "Space Opera" (at least 10x). | Raquel
- Read a book with a brown cover. | Raquel

Jill wrote: "Thanks to whomever realized that Game of Thrones worked for reverse. I completely forgot to check Judy's books."

Haha! I would have been surprised if none of us had read that book. :)