Lisa’s Comments (group member since Dec 27, 2020)

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

I think we have the French part of the cocktail covered from Andy - his book included the setting of France as it included info about the Tour de France. So everything in the mini is claimed!

We have two slots left on the main spreadsheet - line 76 which is card 5 and line 96 which is a wild draw 4. I think all of the blue cards were already repeated though - Ashley can you confirm? - I also have more trouble reading the spreadsheet with it arranged by hands on my home laptop (my work desktop works better as more fits on the screen). So we'd need a different colored cover book to repeat for that one.

It might - I think it depends on whether someone else (or you) finds another book with a block cover. For now, I'll just note on the mini spreadsheet that it works for "French" for the cocktail name. And now that it's been discussed here, everyone should know we could make that switch if they find a black covered book and want to claim it on the spreadsheet. :)

Andy wrote: "looks like I should finish mine for tomorrow
anything else we should be looking for to cover March or Mini?"

We still need three books for the main hands - a 5, Wild (either 2, 5, 9, or skip), and a WD4 card (which is a repeat of any of our colored cards that hasn't been repeated yet).

For the mini we need a book that will give us "French" for our last cocktail. So maybe something with title that includes "French" or a book set in France?

I like your guess too Andy! :)

Housekeeping Stuff:

Trio - Can you put Late Bloomers on your UNO shelf?
And Anything for You - the version on the spreadsheet is 106 pg, but the version on your UNO shelf is 93 pages. Can you switch the edition on your UNO shelf to be the 106 pg one, to make sure we meet page requirement rules?

Harley - can you put started reading and finished reading dates on When Breath Becomes Air?

Thank you!

Nope, I can manage it - I was just trying to be efficient as possible since we're still short a few books. I've been looking forward to it for a long time so it won't be a bother. Thank you, though!

ooh - I forgot about that - I liked that cocktail name! I'll make it work and keep Heartsong. But I doubt I'll be able to do anything else before the end of the month.

I finished my long book! A ​Court of Silver Flames - It was excellent.

Next up are Lion: A Long Way Home and We Are All the Same in the Dark.

At that point I think I'll read (based on Andy's recommendation!) Small Things Like These since it is shorter than my currently planned Green 4 book. It would mean moving Andy's Green Skip into my Green 4 slot and Small Things Like These taking the Green Skip slot. I could save Heartsong for April's Green Skip (ALN Klune) then. Ashley - can you move things around on the March spreadsheet to accomplish this - I'm afraid of messing up your system for transferring to the official sheet.

And since all these books are on the shorter side, I may have time to squeeze in one more book yet if we still need it.

I think that works really well!

Ashley wrote: "Ok, I've been thinking about the "SEX" word for "Fonzie's Sex (on) the Beach" and since no one has claimed that spot yet, I wanted to know if we thought this was good enough. The word is in the sub..."

I think that would work.

Wow! 27 color cards to fill next month!

Harley - when you have a chance can you put the start/end dates you read When Breath Becomes Air in for the book on your UNO shelf?

Ashley's better at saying which cards we'll need more of since she's transferring stuff from our spreadsheet to the official spreadsheet, but I think she's going to say 5's (I's) and 7's (V's) based on the dashboard.

We also still need a WD4 card - so if there's a color card you can repeat that hasn't already been repeated, that would also be a good one to focus on.

Thank you Andy!

It's been a better reading week than I expected - I've finished two books today.

The Frozen River - I loved it and feel it lived up to the hype.

My Contrary Mary - I liked this quite a bit too; these books are particularly good in audio format. It is historical fiction with a fantastical twist - in this one Mary The Queen of Scots can shapeshift into a mouse.

I have two books left on the spreadsheet to read, but I'm seeing that the dashboard says we still need 47 books for this month and there's only 20 planned/not counted yet on the spreadsheet, so I'm going to add in at least one more.

I've chosen We Are All the Same in the Dark -in terms of the mini it could work for black cover, agent smith cocktail (MC is a police officer which is an agent of the law), or "dark" could be part of a cocktail name.

Trio wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Trio wrote: "For the sexy beach cocktail, if they actually go to a beach in my book could I add that one?"

Yes, because that would be a setting. And they specifically told us it could..."

Perfect :)

Lisa wrote: "Trio wrote: "For the sexy beach cocktail, if they actually go to a beach in my book could I add that one?"

Yes, because that would be a setting. And they specifically told us it could be used even..."

As I look at the mini spreadsheet, I see we already have "the beach" covered with Cris' book The Beach at Summerly. So I was mistaken when I said we could add it because of the setting. We'd need to find a different word from the book to contribute based on the six elements we're allowed to use. I apologize as I answered too quickly the first time.

Cris - I see you have finished We Are the Brennans. Do you have a place where it will fit in part 1 of the mini? That's our priority since those are harder to fill.

But if not I was trying to figure out a way to make it fit in part 2....maybe we could use the MC's first name Sunday?

What does everyone think of Debutantes' Sugar and Spice Sunday Romance?

I added "spice" too as your other book The Divine Proverb of Streusel has cinnamon on the cover as well as sugar, so I thought that could work if we like it.

Trio wrote: "For the sexy beach cocktail, if they actually go to a beach in my book could I add that one?"

Yes, because that would be a setting. And they specifically told us it could be used even if it is the setting for only one scene in the book.

I like #1 better and love the poem too!

That's cool Andy - can you do one for Daphne Du Maurier's Blood Orange Mist? Or maybe the Daphne du Maurier's part is too niche?