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

yeah! where's all the red wine quaffing, eh?!

reading Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

is "Gentlemen wear tuxedos" too tenuous? (or we could say, it's a black cover, like tuxes)
If it is too much of a stretch, Red Queen is an excellent part 2 element :)

hmmmmm.... throat cut with knife is compelling. Danielle & I might have a chat about this one!



in other news: I finished the orange cover

re She Who Becomes Emperor - was there an assassination (attempt)?

if so we could link that to the Stiletto

otherwise I suspect that a cocktail name with Dragon will be in the offing! :)

fluffy cat is a lovely fluffy critter!

I finished which can bump Marie for the blue 7.

It had lion and tail in the text (not together, though there was a sphinx that was what prompted the use of both those words). Work for the cocktail?

Marie (UK) wrote: "my next book is is it PINK"

I think that's a pink cover!

Marie (UK) wrote: "The Housekeepers
will add to SS

is surname - de Vries considered to begin with D or V - there is a gap between the words in the text"

the official answer is "however it would be shelved in the library"
my answer is: we won't be using author last name for this one as it's too confusing! H is good - we need 3s :)

such as... finished

oooh! found an orange cover read by Richard Armitage - perfect! Will have to strive hard not to start and binge it before the mini deadline though!

March Mini Part One Tracking!

Daryl van Horne's Bloody Mary
with a white cover
that relates to the cocktail - Vian / Interview with the Vampire (so much blood)

President Snow's White Negroni
with white writing on the cover - Vian / The Vampire Lestat
that relates to the cocktail

✔️Mayday's Tuxedo
with a yellow cover - Sarah / Golden Couple
that relates to the cocktail

Agent Smith' Margerita
with yellow writing on the cover - Marie / The Graveyard Book
that relates to the cocktail

✔️Scar's Lion Tail
with an orange cover - Cat / Mania
that relates to the cocktail - Cat / CryoBurn (both lion and tail in text)

✔️Annie Wilkes' Hanky Panky
with orange writing on the cover - Danielle / Branded by Fire
that relates to the cocktail - Frida / The Fire & the Ore (polygamous shenanigans)

Pennywise's Fluffy Critter
with a red cover
that relates to the cocktail - Sarah / What You Are Looking For (cat on cover)

✔️Hannibal Lecter's Red Wine Spritzer
with red writing on the cover - Sarah
that relates to the cocktail

✔️Mean Girls' Stiletto
with a pink cover - Marie
that relates to the cocktail

✔️Prince Septimus' Last Word
with pink writing on the cover
that relates to the cocktail - Marie / Fourth Wing (Last & Fourth are both ranking words)

✔️Jack Sparrow's Sea Breeze
with a turquoise cover - Sarah / Weighed in the Balance
that relates to the cocktail - Sarah / The Night Ship (ship on cover)

Wicked Witch of the West's Brass Monkey
with a green cover - Vian / The Queen of the Damned
that relates to the cocktail - Cat / The Lost Metal (brass is a metal, also in text)

✔️Voldemort's Snakebite
with green writing on the cover - Danielle
that relates to the cocktail - Cynthia / ? (pet snake)

✔️Phantom of the Opera's Love Potion
with a black cover - Danielle / Hostage to Pleasure
that relates to the cocktail

✔️Patrick Bateman's Death in the Afternoon
with black writing on the cover - Cat / Signed, Picpus
that relates to the cocktail - Danielle / Only Bad Options (many people die)

will totally work! snakebite is yours! :)

Sarah wrote: "Sounds good, Cat.

I'll be starting today while my yellow is on pause - I think that's probably the cover. Anyway, there's a ship at sea on the cover so should ..."

for sure! shall pencil you in there :)

Frida, that's pretty perfect either way!

I'd thought that we'd try to fill in the "match the cocktail" first part to start with, and only move to the second section after the first lot is done / claimed. (mainly because it means we only have to have one creative thinking hat on at a time, reducing options and decision-paralysis)

Thoughts on that as a strategy?

certainly can't!

This is pretty creative task, beyond the cover colour / text colour tasks, so do shout out with connections to the cocktails as you read your books!

Full details here

The colour tasks are:
- Read a book with a white cover.
- Read a book with white writing on the cover.
- Read a book with a yellow cover.
- Read a book with yellow writing on the cover.
- Read a book with an orange cover.
- Read a book with orange writing on the cover.
- Read a book with a red cover.
- Read a book with red writing on the cover.
- Read a book with a pink cover.
- Read a book with pink writing on the cover.
- Read a book with a turquoise cover.
- Read a book with a green cover.

Then we need a book that relates somehow (creativity encouraged!) to the cocktail names (or owner)
- Daryl van Horne's Bloody Mary
- President Snow's White Negroni
- Mayday's Tuxedo
- Agent Smith' Margerita
- Scar's Lion Tail
- Annie Wilkes' Hanky Panky
- Pennywise's Fluffy Critter
- Hannibal Lecter's Red Wine Spritzer
- Mean Girls' Stiletto
- Prince Septimus' Last Word
- Jack Sparrow's Sea Breeze
- Wicked Witch of the West's Brass Monkey


Then we get to create cocktail names using items from our books.

The mini tab is up on our planning sheet, which will hopefully help :)

So, call out with suggestions for your books - finished on 15 Marc, after the countdown (check out the tracker sheet) ends :D

Marie, can you check on The Wishing Game - it's not on your UNO shelf, and is on your read shelf without a read date. Thanks!

do we think this is a (moderately repulsive) yellow? or too much brown?

Update on Mini!

We only need a black cover and one black text on cover, both of which are in progress. (Sarah, Frida)

So, if you aren't reading specifically for those tasks, feel free to slow down to hold your books over till March now. Or use this time to start sixteen different books ready for March! Or to read books that won't fit this challenge! :)

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fab work, thank you!

Thanks Mel! love a book that fits multiple tricky challenges! and it's been a stretch since I read Coraline. creepy Gaiman in order now :)