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

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

I agree - I think that works for turquoise and it is definitely enough.

Completion Post - I finished The Inheritance Games and enjoyed it. It had short chapters which helped make it a quick read. Hopefully the next book will fit one of our April color cards as I'm looking forward to continuing the series.

I found an audiobook I can add to my list - and has green writing on the cover.
My Contrary Mary
I listened to My Calamity Jane by these authors in the past and enjoyed it- they make good audiobooks.

Ashley wrote: "Lisa, I moved your book "A Court of Silver Flames" to Pt 1 (Phantom of the Opera's Love Potion), since there is a mask on the cover. :)"

That was an excellence catch - I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't see that connection myself :)

I have finished The Stolen Kingdom and Night Will Find You this weekend.

I needed an Aladdin retelling and Stolen Kingdom fit the bill. It was better than I expected.

I chose Night Will Find you because we needed a book with orange writing on the cover (I think I originally found it on Anne Bogel's summer reading list). I very much enjoyed it and am looking at the author's backlist.

I have four more books on the spreadsheet to read this month; I'm hoping I'll fit in a fifth as well, but it might be tight as one of my spreadsheet books is on the long side.

Trio wrote: "for "fluffy critter", the book I'm reading now has a cuddly dog in it... could I use this for relates to cocktail for Pennywise's Fluffy Critter?"

Yes, I think that works.

I love both of our drinks so far!

megan wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Oh no - I finished Elantris early - Our dashboard on the spreadsheet had the mini starting this morning, but I see the official timer still has 18+ hours on it. I'm sorry everyone; I m..."

Megan, In case you're wondering where your book went, I moved Weyward to cover our Green 4 card - we now have that one filled!

Trio wrote: "How about for Frozen Calamity we could change the cocktail name to Frozen Calamity Kiss
and add any book with something that takes place in winter (or winter sport) and possibly my book [book:The O..."

One caveat - you wouldn't have to add anything that takes place in winter for that drink. The "frozen" part of the name is contributed by the book The Frozen River. Any other books that contribute to the drink name have to contribute a different word(s).

Trio wrote: "How about for Frozen Calamity we could change the cocktail name to Frozen Calamity Kiss
and add any book with something that takes place in winter (or winter sport) and possibly my book [book:The O..."

Yes! You're getting it now. I agree that while the title/author are easy to determine before reading the book, that some of the other categories are harder to figure out before reading the book. However, I think we can probably find something from every book that will fit a drink and the mods made it easier than it could have been in that we can use the same element more than one time in each drink (i.e., we use something from the title from two different books in the same drink).

Cris (The Biblio Blonde) wrote: "If someone wants to put me down on the mini for “red wine spritzer” for the part where it talks about red wine, there have been a couple scenes in “The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend” and I shou..."

Done! :)

Oh no - I finished Elantris early - Our dashboard on the spreadsheet had the mini starting this morning, but I see the official timer still has 18+ hours on it. I'm sorry everyone; I meant it to count for both.

I've finished ! I still like the Mistborn series better, but this may be my second favorite Brandon Sanderson story.

Yes, March color covers can be used for color covers in the mini.

I don't think we can use the main themes of any book as those don't fit the categories they gave us to work with. Although I wish we could too!

That said - I think "Misbehaving" will make an excellent addition to a cocktail name:

Misbehaving Werewolves' ....
Misbehaving Rebecca's....

I'm guessing that once we have all our elements amassed we may end up rearranging them to get the all around best names.

I think we could still use the setting from non-fiction books and depending on the type of non-fiction some names as well (I'm guessing that biographies, memoirs might work better for that but also other nonfiction books that have a defined list of "characters" would be easy to pull a name from too).

We need every book we can get - this mini has 55 book slots whereas the February one only had 40, plus we have an extra UNO hand this month - so we'll get creative and make everything fit somewhere. :)

Not quite, if I'm understanding you Trio.

You get to contribute one element of the drink name from your book. So you could contribute "Candy Darling's" to the third drink we need to create (or take Werewolves' from the first and move it to the third drink if you feel that "frozen" or "calamity" go particularly well with "candy darling's").

Or you could pick a different element from your book to contribute - like the pink color of the writing and add it to the first drink - "Werewolves' frozen pink calamity" would be the name for that one then. You're allowed to use any color from the cover (no matter the percentage).

I don't think you could use "martini" even if it is the main character's drink in the story as it's not pictured on the cover and otherwise doesn't fit the elements of the book that we're allowed to use: book title, series title, author name, item on cover, cover color, character name, setting.

Does that help?

Yes, I'll change it to werewolves as that is maybe more obvious looking at the cover. I agree, we don't need to overthink it.

I think calamity works! To me it would be the last word in a drink. Once we get a few more adjectives in there it'll probably become more obvious.

I put shapeshifter/werewoles' in the same drink as calamity for now, but we can move the various items around if our drink names will become more fun by doing so...

Thanks Cris - everything looks good now!

I put one of the six books I still have planned for March on the mini spreadsheet. It definitely meets the spirit of the challenge, but thought I'd double check with everyone to make sure we agree it meets the rules for elements.

Heartsong is the third book in a series about shapeshifting wolves. There are pictures of the wolves on the cover, so I thought "Shapshifter's xyz" would make a good drink. The shapeshifters are characters, but I think since they appear on the cover we can use that for "item" on cover? I don't think "item" needs to be an inanimate object?

If this is stretching it too much, there are several other categories it would fit.

The March Mini has been announced! Here's the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I think part 2 is going to be especially fun - I can't wait to see what we come up with.

Ashley and I are working on spreadsheets where you'll be able to start claiming prompts that work for your books. Until then, start perusing the prompts to see what you want to claim.

March Mini starts:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Books you're reading now can count for the mini as long as you finish them after the mini starts.

Harley - when you have a chance your book When Breath Becomes Air needs start and end dates recorded. Thank you!

Cris - I was just verifying your books and there are a bunch of books on your UNO shelf that don't have start dates (I thought they did the last time I looked at your shelf, so I'm not sure if I was reading it wrong last time or if goodreads is spasming like it sometimes does). But can you take a look and see if you can add start dates for them? There is also one that needs to get onto your UNO shelf as well (Blueberry Blunder).

missing start date ones:
Spells and Scones
Some Enchanted Éclair
Charms and Chocolate Chips
The Maid
Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti

Thank you!

I agree with your assessment Cris - not quite red enough.

I was looking at the spreadsheet and realized that Andy's Green Skip book would also work for Green 4, so if anyone has found a Green Skip book they want to read, we could swap those.