Cat’s Comments (group member since Jan 12, 2017)

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

Camilla wrote: "Finished my R book, can't link since on app but see my Uno shelf or earlier message."

Melissa: it's this one - Crash by Michael Robertson

so unread letters are:

J - Emma just finished Shooting Star - Jake character)
R - Camilla just finished Crash - Robertson author

L - Cat reading for it (Crash - Loveling author)
D - Melissa reading for it (Destroy Me - D title)
N - Shaw reading for it
T - Andrea reading for it (Wait for Me - Tiffany character)
E

Right? We are so awesome, team!

and I'll start Crash with author Loveling for the L

I've finished Inspector Hobbes and the Curse: Comedy Crime Fantasy Romance by Wilkie Martin
characters:
Hobbes
Andy Caplet
Felix King
Violet
Billy Shawcross

Mark Watney did it using all letters for 262 points:

R H Y M E R S
P A T T E R N
K N O B B L Y
W Y N D S
J E R K S
N Y M P H S
R E F R E S H
B E N T

Totally!
My current book has an H. Will keep my eyes out for others.
Like I said, can't read much tomorrow, but will sprint on Friday

Finished Jigsaw by Ed McBain
Characters Steve Carella, Arthur Brown, Meyer, Irving Kutch, Cotton Hawes

I'm going to suggest we switch the nymph M book to the P, as I am going to start a book with MPG author surname...

Melissa - don't forget to use Frisco Lessons (F title / Joe & Stephen characters)

finished He Who Hesitates and Frisco Lessons, which was SUPER silly. brand names dropped everywhere, as if the author was on the scrounge for the manufacturers to give him free goodies in return for the product placement!

Emma wrote: "Cat what did you think of Fire mage? I really liked it."

the ending annoyed me a LOT! it just stopped, before the characters had done much improving or anything! not sure I'm going to hunt down #2.

You are a total trooper, Camilla, reading random weird self-pub'ed kindle freebies like this!

For reference, letters we need for the words we've picked are:
P
K
L
F
H
T - 2
R - 2
S - 2
N - 2
E - 3

Bonus full completion (changing the words we report) would need additional
J
P

I can certainly take at least one of the Es, with Ed McBain books, which are short and unpainful, and might read those free ones Camilla's read for Ys - which meets the H & F

and that completion of all the hands has - for the moment - pushed us into 1st place! woo hoo!

yay Melissa!

Emma: is Greensmith Girls long enough? GR says 77 pages / 20k words....

going to read He Who Hesitates next

Assuming we want to focus on NYMPH next:
we'll use Camilla's House Calls for the Y (author)
switch my Grief is the Thing With Feathers to P (Porter author)
replacing it with Andrea's Everything I Left Unsaid for M (Molly author)
and He Who Hesitates for H (title)

which would just leave an N required to finish that word :)

(that plan is entered into the tracking sheet, if you want to cut & paste ;) )

Finished Fire Mage 28 Mar

Characters: Talis Storm, Mara, Rikar, Nikulo,

I can read that Fire Mage - with Talis character next

finished: Inspector Hobbes and the Blood
mini: yes
letters: I (title); W, M (author Wilkie Martin), characters Hobbes, Andy Caplet, Billy (oooh! lookit a B!), Phil

I shall! It's not often that I play the tourist in my home town.
Not 100% sure on the full itinerary, but we are going up the Shard (Weeee! tall building! yay!)

It's just Weds & Thurs, so I shall be reading as normal today, tomorrow & Friday :)

I've created a new tab in the tracker, with the books we've used for the scrabble challenge, putting in the other letter info, in case we decide to swerve word options at the last minute. ;-)

I've not done all the books yet though....


I'm not sure how much reading I'll get done between now and Friday: got a couple of days with the boyfriend doing tourist stuff (just in London, but we seem to have lucked out with the weather!). I'll do my absolute best, but just in case, that's my effort for the team to help maximise points!