Rachael’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2013)

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

Yep. Ideally it would be good to try and get the coloured cards out the way with cos they'll be the harder ones to get.

Reese wrote: "Yes! Does everyone have a list of books to read ready or are you all going to wing it? I’m kind of hoping the books I want to read will fit in with what we need but I have a long backlog of tbrs I ..."

Changed :)

Not long to go now. Every one excited?

They normally set a number of mini challenges throughout the months.

They have a different theme each year but it will have things like 'Read a book that has a saucepan on the cover'. They give us the chance to earn extra points to go to our overall score.

Romina wrote: "Hi Raylene!
What is the blind group date?? Never heard of that before.

As far as colors, I have books for these(adding names so I remember later)

3 Blue (Faithful)
2 Blue (The Girlffriend)
7 Gree..."

I love All the light we cannot see! You've picked a good one there.

Cool so it looks like we have a few options for the colours. Phew!

The characters is a tricky one. I kinda just go from the blurb for the main characters names. Books that have turned into films you can usually check on imdb but that's about it.

Haha ok we'll stick with the second.

We do have quite a few colours to collect so I wonder whether we should pick one each as our starting book and then read whatever you like from there.

We have:
9 Yellow
3 Blue
2 Blue
7 Green
8 Blue
4 Red
1 Yellow

Does anyone have a preference for which one?

Hello, sorry been away with work.

The first year I played we assigned cards beforehand but then if some people were slower than others to do their cards, other team members got frustrated as it held up us gaining points.

In the two years I've captained my team has just read books, told me which card they could fit and I just slotted them in where I could. I also kept an active log to show how many of each card we had (i.e three 1's, 2 two's, six 3's) so people could see if there were particular cards we needed to get rid of.

Which way round would you prefer?

Great to meet you all.

I'm jealous Romina, it's absolutely freezing here. Scrapping the ice off my car each morning.

I read all genres as well. The only one I avoid is sci-fi.

Denise, what other challenges do you do?

We are up and running! :)

Hello everyone.

I'm Rachael and I'll be your team captain. This is my third year of being a team captain and think this is definitely the year we'll win ;)

I'm from Birmingham in the UK. I read about 4 books a month and one of those is for a book club I attend once a month.

As well as reading I am very into sports and usually swimming, running or jumping off something every day.

Looking forward to getting to know the rest of you :)

There haven't released a league table so not sure where we finished but they announced Ty and Zane won.

Thanks all- it's been a great three months! Hopefully see you in another challenge

Yay! So the grand total for the mini challenge was 664

Well done guys. Will let you know where we finished as soon as it's up

Hi all,

It's the last day!!

So today we should finish:

Bones:
Dragana to finish The nature of a pirate
I'm finishing Brooklyn

Heathcliff:
Alissa is finishing the Secret Garden
Caly is finishing Confessions of a pagan nun

Robert Langdon:
Tina is finishing Paper Princess

Altogether that will give us an extra 65 points

If any of you have any time to finish another book today that will fit any of the other cards we get another 10 points per book so if you can I would greatly appreciate it!

We are flying through the books!

Card update:

Bones:
Dragana will read a book where the MC's go to the zoo
I'm reading a book with 7 & 2 in the word count

Heathcliff:
Alissa is reading a book with a garden on the cover
Caly is reading a book with 8 &0 in the word count

Peeta Mellark:
Dragana is reading a book where the characters dance

Robert Langdon:
Marie is reading a book for K
We need someone to read a book for I
Tina is reading a book for E

Sybilla;
Alissa is reading a book with pots and pans on the cover

Hi Tina,

Could you go for the E card please?

Updated cards:

Bones:
Tina is reading a book set in Italy
Read a book first published in 2011
Read a book where the MC's goes to the zoo
Read a book with a 7 and a 2 in the page count. (any combination)

Heathcliff:
Alissa is reading a book with a garden on the cover
Caly reading a book with an 8 & 0 in the page count

Peeta Mellark:
Read a book where the characters dance
Dragana is reading 'The secret' for the 5th-15th century card

Robert Langdon:
Marie is (hopefully if it counts) reading a book for the K cards
Read a book with an I
Marie has (hopefully if it counts) read the T card
Read a book with an E

Rose Hathaway:
I'm reading a book with a funeral
Marie is reading a book where the MC works in a church

Sybilla:
Alissa's 'Bran new death' will finish this hand

I've double-checked the original clue which was 'Spell out Kite'. I'm double checking whether that's the normal way of authors/characters/titles or whether it's just book titles

Updated cards:

Bones:
Tina is reading a book set in Italy
Read a book first published in 2011
Read a book where the MC's goes to the zoo
Read a book with a 7 and a 2 in the page count. (any combination)

Harry Dresden:
Ingeborg reading a book for this?

Heathcliff:
Read a book with a garden on the cover
Caly reading a book with an 8 & 0 in the page count

Peeta Mellark:
Read a book where the characters dance
Dragana is reading 'The secret' for the 5th-15th century card

Robert Langdon:
Read a book with an I
Read a book with a T
Read a book with an E

Rose Hathaway:
I'm reading a book with a funeral
Marie is reading a book where the MC works in a church

Sybilla:
Alissa's 'Bran new death' will finish this hand

Marie wrote: "I have just noticed that the works in a church says MC - the church worker in Purple Hibiscus is the narrator's father he is in the book a lot but not sure if it counts as MC

however..."

I've moved Purple Hibiscus to the K card so if you could please read A fatal winter for the church card

Caly ☯ wrote: "Oh and Rachael, Confessions of a Pagan Nun has 208 pages not the 280 you have on the spreadsheet. Still works of course but don't want anyone to notice the discrepancy. 8-)"

Argh sorry updated now

So we're now at:

Buttercup:
Once Caly has finished 'Pegasus' that hand is finished

Harry Dresden:
Ingeborg reading a book for this?

Heathcliff:
Read a book with a garden on the cover
Caly reading a book with an 8 & 0 in the page count

Mercy Thompson:
Once Tina has finished June that hand will be finished

Peeta Mellark:
Read a book where the characters dance
Dragana is reading 'The secret' for the 5th-15th century card

Rose Hathaway:
I'm reading a book with a funeral
Marie is reading a book where the MC works in a church

Sybilla:
Alissa's 'Bran new death' will finish this hand