Steph’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2022)

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

Thanks for adding those in! You made quite the dent with the Part 1 prompts!

When you get a chance, could you add The Woodsman to your UNO shelf please?

I’m out of town this weekend, so haven’t been able to make too much of a dent on my current books. I was actually looking to swap one or two out to cover some of the open prompts on Part 1 of the mini.

How’s everyone else’s reading coming along? We still have quite a few mini prompts to complete, but we might have to get creative and move some things around to make sure we complete Part 1 and get those 30 bonus points. I’ll be doing a more detailed update once I’m in front of a computer tomorrow to confirm the specifics we need for the last week.

Stacie wrote: "I double checked and every book I have read so far in March is on the tracking sheet."

Thanks for confirming! All of the ones you’ve added in should already be accounted for in the main sheet.

Same here. I feel like I started the month strong, but these last few books have been really rough. Thankfully I just finished an audiobook I was struggling through, so hopefully my next one will be better.

Sarah wrote: "Looks like March Mini challenge just got posted"

Yes, the March mini challenge has been posted! Below are the details for the challenge. Books completed starting on March 15th will count for the mini challenge.

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

There's a March Mini sheet in our tracking sheet document, so feel free to start adding books for the various prompts. Let us know if you have any questions! Part 2 seemed a bit daunting to me, but we'll just have to get creative with it.

@Jenny, I have some follow-up questions from the mods re: The Lake of Lost Girls. Because we're not able to find an official page count in the accepted sources, they want to know where the page count of 248 is coming from. Is that written on the pages in the ebook or is that what what is shown on the screen (e.g. when I read a book on my phone it may say 1000 pages and on my computer it is 300)? If you use something like the Calibre page count plugin we can use that estimate and note it in the book data.

Hope that all makes sense! Thanks for bearing with me on this back and forth 😅

Heather wrote: "OK, I'm finally back from the flu. Worst part was that I felt so bad I didn't even feel up to reading.

Now I need to get cranking on my reading!"

Glad to hear you're feeling better!

Jenny wrote: "Steph wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Steph wrote: "Jenny, can you share the page count for The Lake of Lost Girls, please? Neither of the two editions on Goodreads has it listed out, so we'll need to get a ..."

Thanks for confirming, Jenny!

Jenny wrote: "Steph wrote: "Jenny, can you share the page count for The Lake of Lost Girls, please? Neither of the two editions on Goodreads has it listed out, so we'll need to get a librarian to add that in.

S..."

Sorry, I forgot to ask this. Was the copy you read a hardback or an ebook? And I'm guessing it was an ARC, correct?

Jenny wrote: "Steph wrote: "Jenny, can you share the page count for The Lake of Lost Girls, please? Neither of the two editions on Goodreads has it listed out, so we'll need to get a librarian to add that in.

S..."

Thank you!

Jenny, can you share the page count for The Lake of Lost Girls, please? Neither of the two editions on Goodreads has it listed out, so we'll need to get a librarian to add that in.

Sarah, could you add Women of Good Fortune to your uno shelf when you get a chance?

Heather wrote: "Sorry for going MIA the last few days! I had a super busy weekend with kid and family stuff, and now I have the flu and just want to stay in bed.

Steph, that event sounds like so much fun!"

That sucks about the flu! Hopefully you'll get past it soon!

That's definitely been me, heads down trying to get some reading done 😊. I'm going to a Tia Williams talk on Thursday with Taylor Jenkins Reid, so I'm trying to get through as much of her new Ricki Wilde book as I can. I've never been to an author event like this, so I'm pretty excited!

Our team did really well in February! The points for our hands in February was middle of the road, but we're currently tied for second! I think our hands for this month will yield more points, given how many Reverses and color cards we have. And I was worried about those Reverses, but I think we have a good amount slotted so far 😅

No worries. Thanks for confirming!

Sarah, for Homegoing, did you finish that on the 20th or the 22nd? The tracking sheet doesn't line up with the date on your shelf, so just wanted to confirm before adding it to our main sheet. (I thought I posted this note yesterday - sorry if it ends up being a duplicate!)

Hi team! I'm finally back from my beach vacation, just in time for the March hands to get posted! Here's a quick recap of the cards we have for the month. We have quite a few red and green cards, and a bunch of reverses again. So feel free to start adding in your planned reads for those cards (I see Jenny's already on it 😊).

How are the last few books of the month coming along? My all black text book (Unveiled) is ROUGH, but thankfully I'm more than halfway through.

I think "in" counts for the direction prompt.

Exciting that we’re so close! I realized that the book I finished today did have an herb mention, so we just need one more for that.

After finishing A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, I was planning on starting Unveiled to get another all black text on the cover. For my next audiobook, which I should be starting this weekend, I can try to find a 3 green or something with directions in the title (or ideally, one that covers both).

Tati wrote: "I had put a couple of books in the mini challenge, but I see they were removed. Can't they be used both in the main and the mini challenges?"

For the mini, only reads completed on the 14th or later count. So any new reads you have from then on, they can count for both the main challenge and the mini. I remember seeing one in there that was completed on the 11th, so that’s why that one was removed.

Thanks for adding that! I did the same to one of my recent books.