Denise’s Comments (group member since Mar 28, 2018)

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

Komal wrote: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Cards:
0 : standalone
2 : (character) Tony
2, 5, 9 : (title) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
3 : (author) [author:M..."

This works for Reverse as well! I've read it.

Komal wrote: "Finished Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

1 : Title : Once Upon a River
3 : char : Henry Daunt
4 : char : Frederick May
6 : author name : Diane Setterfield
7 :..."

I think you just have to finish after April 15.

Komal wrote: "Extremely sorry fellow members. I dropped the ball. I have been working 12-14 hrs per day for more than a month now. So could not contribute to reading. Just saw we are still at 17th place, which i..."

Komal--life happens to all of us. Enjoy your weekend off!

One more question-- I have a yellow book here. I don't think it will work for the remaining numbers, but it would work for 3. Would it work to rearrange cards or should I find a different yellow book?

Also, please see post above about 9-Red. I'm almost done with that one.

Poongothai wrote: "I have connected to Nancy Drew #2

Both have people going up the staircase in their cover"

I did read #1 Lily Bard...does that count? 😉

UPDATE: If we need to connect to Lily Bard books--the books are set in Shakespeare, Arkansas. Main character is very into Marshall Arts. She cleans houses for a living. She has moved to Arkansas to overcome a traumatic past. I know book 3 involves a Christmas wedding.

Yes, thanks. I wasn't sure what we'd decided either.

Assuming we think this is red, I can use it for Red - 9 (location New York City)


I used an actual photo of the book, and tineye called it Coral. When I used the Goodreads image of the audiobook jacket, tineye called it Cinnabar (red). It looks red to me. :) I'm listening to the audio in my car this week.

Camilla wrote: "Poongothai wrote: "I think we need 40 books for the mini. All mini had 40 books to complete."

Are you sure? B = 7 books, B1 = 7 books, B1b = 8 books, B1bb = 8 books. I didn't first notice that the..."

I wonder if the number 40 includes the option to duplicate up to ten tasks for bonus points.

Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
(I just had to!)
Cards:
1 - book 1 in the Lily Bard series (yay!)
2 - char Thea
3 - author Harris
4 - char Friedrich
6 - setting: Shakespeare, AR
7 - char Varena
Skip - characters Pardon, Kenya

mini:
1B - street on the cover
3B - char in the hospital
12B1 - Lily Bard team name
9B2 - char Raphael
10B2 - author Charlaine
12B2 - characters Albee, Alvah
15B2b - char Deedra
16B2b - char Raphael
17B2b - char Albee, Alvah
20B2b - author Charlaine
25B1ab - someone dies
28B1ab - word star (p. 129...the star drill)
30B1bb - word money (p. 74, 186, 191)
16B1a - char Bard
17B1a - char Albee, Alvah
18B1a - author Charlaine
26B2aa - someone is attacked
27B2aa - book has a villain
27B2ab - word lucky (p 93, 149, 150)
26B2bb - character starts over

Bitter Orange
Cards:
0- standalone
4 - author Fuller
5- char Isabel
7- char Victor
8 - setting: England
Skip - char Peter
Cover - Green


mini:
2B - new to me author
3B - main character ends up in hospital
5B - first word in text starts with T (They must think I don't have long...)
9B1 - cover is a nature scene (an orangery in England)
10B2 - author Claire
20B2b - author Claire
25B1ab - someone dies
26B1ba - character who never marries
29B1ba - no people on the cover
29B1ab - contains the word famous (The pictures were of famous Italian buildings...)
27B2ab or 29B1ab - contains the word lucky (I am lucky to have my own room...)
30B1bb - contains the word money (He's always worrying about money.)

Whew! :)

For whatever it's worth, I can cover 9B1, 11B1, 12B1, and 13B1 by the weekend. If we like the B2 stream better, I'm sure these would work for something there as well.

Camilla wrote: "I have questions about some of the tasks. Just trying to find as short books as possible.

14B2*: read a book with only a person's head on the cover: would this work or does it have to show the who..."

I think these look like they should all work... especially the first two.

Thanks so much, Poongothai!

You probably saw this, but just in case it's helpful, on the mini-challenge spreadsheet, there are tabs at the end for every possible path...just do you don't do extra work.

I also saw that if we complete everything, we can do any ask twice for bonus points (up to ten tasks). I will finish my Lily Bard book shortly and will update books read ASAP.

Finished for the #7 green cover. It works for several tasks on the B path...too many to list. I'll update when we know our stream.

Sha wrote: "

^^ I finished the first two today and I think I can do the other two as well. The gre..."

If you asked me, "What color is this book?" I would definitely say red. My vote is yes.

Camilla wrote: "Should we choose also the further steps from the B stream? It would make it easier to list all the options for a book once we know where we're going. I think we should avoid the connect tasks if po..."

Yes, I'd love to know which tasks all the way through. I don't have a preference. To me, B2 looks easier than B1 for the first choice, but further down the line the B1 tasks look easier than the B2 (especially at the end).

I will also be fine with you all just telling me what's needed. With what I am hearing so far and what I have started for books, these appear to be three decent options:

B-B1b-B1ba (or B1bb...they are similar)

B-B2-B2b-B2bb

A-A2-A2b-A2bb

To me, the B stream seemed like it had better choices. There's was a whole section in the A stream on connecting to the Lily Bard series and that seems challenging to me (Titles are Shakespeare's Landlord, Shakespeare's Trollop, Shakespeare's Counselor, etc.)

But if someone feels strongly, please speak up! I'm just trying to start the discussion so we can choose books. I don't have a strong preference for or against any particular stream.

Camilla wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamamanda Ngozi Adichie 04/14/19

Cards:
0: Standalone
1: first name O - Olanna
9: setting N - Nigeria"

And 3 for title."

Camilla, you are so good at this! I can't keep it all in my head.

Sha wrote: "I would suggest avoiding the number of pages options because some of those page counts are long. Also possibly avoid the "connected to" options because all the examples listed there may be hard to ..."

That's a really good point. The number of pages options appear in both A and B streams, but there's another option for both streams that would probably be easier...unless someone's reading a long book already.

Veronica wrote: "Hello,

Thank you all for being patient with me. I've been battling a bad upper respiratory infection. I am not 100% but better than before.

Thank you for switching around the cards to accommodat..."

Get well soon! You've had a rough spring. Hope you are feeling better.