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

Nominations:

Nominations:



You may find ideas of books to nominate here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Great work everyone! When you're read the May thread is here

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IT'S A PERKS CONNECTED READ-A-THON

As a group let's see what we can read in the month of May and have a Read-A-Thon with a twist!

How this works...

* Each book needs to "connect" to the last one posted

* "Connects" can be based on by genre, author, title, character names, colour of cover, same award won or number of pages

* As soon as you have a book that you have read in May 2015 that can connect to the last one, post it with the reasons it "connects" and the running tally for you, and for the group for the month, and let's see how many books we can read and connect in the month!

EXAMPLE

Post 1:
Kristie posts:
Mr. Mercedes
Kristie's tally - 1 book
Perks Group tally - 1 book

Post 2:
Karen Posts
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Connected by: "King" (author and then title)
Karen's tally: 1 book
Perks group tally: 2 books

Post 3:
Kristie posts:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Connected by: Cover colour is yellow
Kirstie's tally: 2 books
Perks group tally: 3 books

.... hopefully you get the idea....

NOTE: You can read any book of any length, children's books and graphic novels also count. Please just remember to check the tally of the book ahead of you and add up the tally as you post

Books need to be marked as "read" between May 1 and May 31, 2015. (It doesn't matter when you started)

Sorry, yellow should be once. I've updated :)

Sarah - the context doesn't matter, just the word, so your examples would all be ok

KayLynn - I'll accept both as I think "beets" is more of an American term

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                                ~April Mini Challenge~

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players from April 7 to April 25.

Just when you thought Easter was over for another year! You are invited to join our UNO Easter Egg Hunt for some extra points in the last month of our team challenge.


Easter Egg Hunt
So many coloured eggs! Try and collect them all!
For each book your team reads with a cover that is predominantly one of these covers you can claim an extra 5 points. You can only claim one of each colour. If you do manage to collect at least one of each colour you will receive an additional 10 bonus points:
♔ Blue
♔ Brown
♔ Gold
♔ Orange
♔ Green
♔ Yellow
♔ Grey
♔ Purple
♔ Pink
♔ Red
♔ Black
♔ White

Easter Scavenger Hunt
Find these words... they are all products used to naturally dye eggs for Easter
For each book your team reads that contains one of these words in the text or title (plurals are acceptable), you can claim an extra 5 points per word found. Your team can claim each word more than once (there is no limit), HOWEVER, you can only claim a maximum of three words per book and each word only once per book. For example, if you find the word "tea" in your book 3 times, you can only claim 5 points. But it you find "tea" in your book and a team mate also finds "tea" in a book, you can both claim 5 points.

♔ Blueberry
♔ Grape
♔ Coffee
♔ Walnut
♔ Tea
♔ Dill
♔ Chilli
♔ Turmeric
♔ Spinach
♔ Chlorophyll
♔ Apple
♔ Beetroot (or Beet)
♔ Onion
♔ Carrot
♔ Paprika
♔ Cranberry
♔ Raspberry
♔ Hibiscus
♔ Red Wine
♔ Orange
♔ Lemon
♔ Chamomile (or Camomile)
♔ Celery
♔ Cumin
♔ Saffron

◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ You can't use the same book for the egg hunt and scavenger hunt. That means if you have a pink book that contains the words "saffron" and "grape" you will need to decide if you want to use it for the colour OR the words. It can not be used for both.
◈ Books read between April 7 to 25 count for this mini challenge
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 160 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 40,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with an April Mini Challenge tab so that you can track your books and claim your points

A few Easter related word suggestions

Autumn	 Family
Basket	 Flowers
Bible	 Hopping
Bonnet	 Hunt
Bunny	 Jellybean
Chicken	 Jesus
Chocolates	Lamb
Church	 Lily
Cross	 Parade
Daffodils	Rabbit
Easter	 Spring
Eggs	 Sunday

IT'S A PERKS EASTER READ-A-THON

As a group let's see what we can read in the month of April and have a Read-A-Thon with a twist!

How this works...

* Each book needs to "connect" to Easter. We have provided a list of words (in the next post) for ideas

* As soon as you have a book that you have read in April 2015 that can connect to Easter, post it with the reasons it "connects" and the running points tally for you, and for the group for the month, and let's see how many books we can read and connect in the month!

EXAMPLE

Post 1:
Kristie posts:

The Husband's Secret

Conection: "Easter". Story is told over the Easter weekend
Kristie's tally – 1
Perks Group tally - 2

Post 2:
Karen Posts

11/22/63

Connected by: "Chicken"... Quote from 42%"Beyond them a rooster and two bedraggled chickens pecked...."

Karen's tally: 1
Perks group tally: 2

Post 3:
Kristie posts:

Church Of Marvels

Connected by: "Church" in title

Kirstie's tally: 2 points
Perks group tally: 3 books

.... hopefully you get the idea....

NOTE: Books should be at least 100 pages or 25,000 words for children's books (check at arbookfind.com) to count.
Please just remember to check the group tally of the book ahead of you and add up the tally as you post

Cinthia wrote: "I'm assuming we're supposed to do February of 2015 in task 3, since that's when we were doing the spreadsheets?"

Sorry - I'll update! Should be 2015

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                                ~March Mini Challenge~

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

Saint Patrick's Day, is a cultural and religious celebration occurring annually on 17 March, the death date of the most commonly-recognised patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461).

In order to help celebrate this Irish tradition, you team is invited to participate in this optional mini challenge:

Task 1 (5 books)
Leprechauns are up to some mischief. Help clean up their mess by:
♔ Reading books that spell out the word CLEAN (Spell it out rules below)

Task 2 (4 books)
Four leaf clovers are hard to come by. You can find one by:
♔ Reading a book with 160-250 pages
♔ Reading a book with 251-450 pages
♔ Reading a book with 451-550 pages
♔ Reading a book with more than 550 pages

Task 3 (3 books)
Have a pint of Guinness with your neighbours by:
♔ Reading a book that a team member from a different team has read and rated 4 stars of higher (tip: go to another team thread and ask them for their favourite books!)
♔ Reading a book that a team member from a different team has read in February 2015 (tip: check their spreadsheets)
♔ Reading a book that has a character name which is the same as a a team member from a different team

Task 4 (3 books)
Join the parade by:
♔ Reading a book with a predominantly green cover
♔ Reading a book with a predominantly orange cover
♔ Reading a book with a predominantly white cover

Task 5 (2 books)
Reminisce about the old country by:
♔ Reading a book set in Ireland
♔ Reading a book by an Irish author

Task 6 (4 books)
Enjoy a traditional meal by going on a scavenger hunt and finding these words in the title, or text of your book (plurals are also acceptable):
♔ Potato
♔ Cabbage
♔ Bacon
♔ Bread

◈ For each task completed, your team receives a "March Bonus" of being able to chose one card in any hand for the duration of the challenge (Feb 1 - April 30) that you can claim double points for
◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ You can't use the same book for more than one task, or component of a task. For example, if you have a book by an Irish author that is also set in Ireland, you can only use it for one of those components of Task 5.
◈ Books read between march 14 and 31 count for this mini challenge
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 160 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 40,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with a March Mini Challenge tab so that you can track your books and claim your tasks
◈ Spell it out rules are: Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book’s title or series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name. If the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your word.

Brianna wrote: "I would like to play.

1. 5-7 books a month
2. US Eastern Time Zone
3. No thanks"

You have been assigned to team Fraggle Rock!

Yes, we believe so, but as her numbers are so far down we have added the latest sign-up Brianna to the team. Please make her feel welcome!

Please welcome new team member Bipul!

Bipul wrote: "1. 2-5
2. Asia(Nepal)
3. No"

I've added you to team Nightmare Before Christmas!

Janhavi wrote: "I'd like to be added to the reserves list

1. 2 or 3 books a month (more if I don't have a crazy schedule at work)
2. Asia (GMT +5:30)
3. No."

I have added you to team X-Men!

Please welcome new team member Janhavi!

Pratyusha wrote: "1. 7 books a month
2. Asia (GMT+5:30)
3. No"

I have added you to team Harry Potter!