Daniela’s Comments (group member since Feb 04, 2016)

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

Good going so far :) I'm sadly not progressing in my reading, I have a migrain since tuesday and can't completely get rid of it. I hope I'll finish my book somewhat next week.

Christina wrote: "Colleen wrote: "#22 - Trevor's dad is a secret & the family can not be seen/live together"

I could be wrong, but I don't think this is what they meant by someone having a secret family... what are..."

to me it sounds like more along the line of that someone was cheating and has a whole other family somewhere else. But I think this is something we might take over to the captains chat

So we are on the detective team (naturally, I don't think Nancy Drew has one single bad bone in her body). There are lots of quests, so please read through them!

Once we finish all tasks we can claim task 45. "read a book someone on a CRIMINAL team has read since UNO began". So have a look through those teams UNO shelves, maybe someone finds a book they have at home or wanted to read for a while :) but this task really only becomes important once we are close to finishing all the other tasks, so no hurry!

Also make sure, only books finished from March 15 onward count, so check out the countdown in my previous post!

March Mini Challenge

March is where your team will take on the role of Detective or Criminal and either solve a crime, or try to get away with one!

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

◈ Books with a read date between March 15 - March 31 count. (countdown to the start of the mini challenge is here)
◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (Feb 1)
◈ As a team, you will have a mixture of tasks to complete. These include spell-it-outs, cover items, words in text, and words in title. All of the tasks you need to complete are on your team spreadsheet

☞☞ If your team has been allocated to the DETECTIVE group:
In order to solve the crime you will need to complete all of your tasks AND read a book that someone on a CRIMINAL team has read during UNO. Once that is done, you have caught the criminal and will be given 30 bonus points

☞☞ If you team has been allocated to the CRIMINAL group:
In order to get away with the perfect crime you will need to complete all of your tasks AND read a book that someone on a DETECTIVE team has read during UNO. Once that is done, you are free and will be given 30 bonus points

◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ The usual book length rules apply
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with a mini challenge tab so that you can track your books and claim your points

Spell-it-out rules
For this mini-challenge, you are using the same rules that apply for UNO. So a letter needs to be the first letter in the book title, author first name or surname, character name or nickname, or setting. Articles (a/an/the) can be ignored in the book titles. For this spell-it-out, you can also use the first letter in the series name.





DETECTIVE TEAMS ☟

Alex Cross
Hannah Swensen
Harry Bosch
Inspector Maigret
Kurt Wallander
Maisie Dobbs
Miss Marple
Nancy Drew
Sally Lockhart
Stephanie Plum



CRIMINAL TEAMS ☟

Cormoran Strike
Daisy Dalrymple
Flavia deLuce
Inspector Erlendur
Inspector Morse
Inspector Rebus
Jack Frost
Jack Reacher
James Bond
Jane Rizzoli
Lily Bard
Mikael Blomkvist
Nick Charles
Phillip Marlowe
Phryne Fisher
Sherlock Holmes
Veronica Mars

finally finished my first book of march, another Nancy Drew mystery. I really enjoy them, but at the same time it's basically all the same lol

how is everyone doing? :)

I'm 30% away from finally finishing my first book for this month!

Sisa wrote: "

Does this audiobook cover look green enough? Authors last name is Hoffman, so I could listen for 3 Green, if y’all think so."

To me there's so much going on, the green doesn't seem to dominate. I personally don't think this will work, but what are the others thinking?

I have an important exam on monday, so will log off for the rest of the weekend. I will check in with y'all monday evening or on tuesday :) have fun reading and have a lovely weekend!

Just a quick overview regarding more "difficult" letters to find. Have a lookout for following letters:

Os - 9
Hs - 8
Is - 8
Ns - 9

Thankfully we only got 4 Reserve - one is already covered and I'm currently reading a Reverse card.


Coloured cards not being claimed yet (as far as I've seen):
3 Green
2 Green
6(!) Wild Draw 4 - which is quit a lot, so have a lookout for coloured books. And remember, we can only duplicate each coloured card ONCE!

There's only 7 more books to read than last month, I think we've got this :)

So we were 99.9% right, it was in the matress. We are still getting our points, but I wonder what is missing in the answer lol anyway, congratulations, we got the max. points we could achive for this month. Well done everyone!!!

I'll go over our spreadsheet now, I ask everyone to double check if you have all your books shelved in your UNO shelf. But I think everything should be in order :)

We can also officially read for March now! Here's to another great reading month!

Our first guess was wrong, I'll send the guess about Elaine

We still got around 10 hours to submit guesses, I'm sure we'll be able to get the bonus points ;)

I'll send it now, thanks Sisa :)

I need to send something in soon!

So we think:
- Who killed Faustus Dutton? - Donna
- How was it done? - injected the poison
- What was it about the killer that gave him or her away? - idk

What shall we send in? We ought to try our first guess soon!

I'm no good with mysteries, so I'm waiting for a proper guess we can send in. But the mini challenge needs to be completely finished before I can send our guess in.
Would be great to have a first proper guess until tonight, I'll be done with my book by then

I'm sick again and have to study, sorry for not replying quicker.
By Thursday we have to send our guess for the mystery to get the points (if we finish the mini challenge by then).

I'll be done with my book by tomorrow for sure, only got around 30% left

Clue 3

FROM THE FORENSICS REPORT
The fact that the victim was apparently unable to rise from
bed to summon help indicates that a large dose of the toxin was
administered. However, the body was too decomposed to
determine into which part of the body the injection was delivered

I can't look at the spreadsheet at the moment. But I'm sure there are letters left for the mini challenge?

Otherwise I'd suggest reading a book you wouldn't use for the challenge e.g. a really long one :)

Yes I'm still reading it. Will finish in time