Felicity’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2020)

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

Completion Post:

Two Old Women
by Velma Wallis
completed 3/23/23
4 stars

Mini challenge:

Alaskan hare - takes place in Alaska
Chrysso spiders - female with a blade. "Standing by it were the two old women armed with long, sharp, dangerous-looking spears." pg. 99

Completion Post:

Book: Murder at the Savoy
Author: Maj Sjowall and Per Wahoo
Completed 3/23
4 stars

Mini:
Alaskan and Arctic Hare:
character has dyed her hair: p. 247. "ends were almost white, darker streaks higher up, changing to brown an inch from her scalp."

Anole: this is a police procedural so there is lots of hierarchy, references to who is whose boss.

Arctic Hare: man shoots another man and then escapes through an open window. pg. 17

Peron Tree Frog. character wears "yellow shoes and socks of the same fierce color." pg. 85

Arctic Hare: attack- "A Turk got his guts ripped open with a stiletto on Hotorgef."

SS updated to here.

Completion Post:

Book: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
4 stars
completed 3/22/23

Mini Challenge:
-Takes place in Australia- works for Flower Spiders and Peron's Tree Frog
-Anoles: a person seems to be angry but turns out he is nice, working for the police and not a killer
- Golden tortoise beetle-person is believed dead and is really alive

Completion Post

Book: The House on Mango Street
completed 3/21/23
4 stars

Since I know we have filled all our uno cards except for wild draw4 and this does not meet a color qualification, I will omit the Uno cards

Mini:
Chameleon- character wears lots of makeup she gets from selling Avon. pg.23

Cephalopods- character sews "Now she draws with a needle and thread, little knotted rosebuds, tulips made of silk thread." pg 90

Flower spiders- chapter "The Monkey Garden" description of lush garden.

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Book: Small Victories
Author: Anne Lamott
completed 3/21/23
4 stars

Uno Cards
0 standalone
6 title
reverse read by Annalisa

Mini
Cephalopods: people snorkel pg. 41: We donned our gear and jumped in.

Arctic hare: MC has a black Labrador/ golden retriever mix dog

SS updated to here.

Jenny wrote: "Completion Post:


3/20/23
608 pages
3 stars

Uno cards:
0 standalone
3 CFN Hana
3 CFN Howard
3 CLN Heinrich
5 Setting Illinois
5 CFN Falada
5 CFN Fre..."

Hi Jenny,
Any ideas of how this would fit in the mini?

nicole wrote: "Completion Post


book: Half Broke Horses
author: Jeannette Walls
pages: 272
completed: 3/19/23
rating: 3.5 stars

FYI- this is a non fiction book so you cannot use characters or places from the book for uno cards. With non-fiction, you can only use the title or the author names.

UNO Cards:
0 -- ..."

Completion Post

Book: Georgie, All Along
Author: Kate Clayborn
Completed 3/20
4 stars

Uno Cards:
yellow cover
0 standalone
3 CFN Harry
4 CLN Fanning
6 CFN Shyla
8 CFN Ernie
9 CLN Nickel
skip AFN Kate

Mini Challenge
Tree Frog: yellow cover
cackles: pg 190 "Then they dissolve into cackles, one of them slapping their palm down on the table with barely contained glee, rattling the rickety table."
Anoles: a lot of crying in this book, from tears running down faces to sobbing uncontrollably.

SS updated to here.

Completion Post:

Book: Homegoing
Author: Yaa Gaasi
5 stars
completed 3/16

Uno Cards:
0 stand alone
1 CLN Other
2 CFN Tansi
3 title
4 CFN Fiifi
6 CFN Sonny
8 CFN Effie
9 CFN Ness
skip CFN Dojo

Mini Challenge
setting Africa (mostly). fits chameleons
cover pattern. fits Cephalopods
a lot of characters are solitary and alone- themes of separateness and then finding connection. fits Alaskan hare

SS updated to here.

I can read which would work for the WD4 yellow skip and color for the flower spider or tree frog.

Angela wrote: "If I am reading the spreadsheet correctly and our most recent color card update, it looks like we still need 2 Wild Draw 2's that I did not see claimed (please let me know if I missed it).
I can r..."

That would be great! BTW- It's 2Wild Draw 4's. Draw 2 is different and we covered those.

Completion Post:

Book: All the Dangerous Things
Author: Stacey Willingham
4 stars
completed 3/15/23

Uno Cards:
0 standalone
3 ch LN Harris
6 AFN Stacey
7 CFN Valerie
skip CFN Kacey

Mini Challenge
This can be used for mirror checking. (flower spider) pg. 315: "I caught a glimpse of myself as I was leaving to visit the prison; the life has flushed back into my cheeks, like someone dripped red dye into water and let it expand, creeping to the edges." many other places like that in the book.

Those all sound great, Angela.

SS updated to here.

Here are some ideas for the Mini borrowed from other groups. Hope this helps.

- Colour cover books have to be more than 50% of the given colour

- Location: where the book takes place or where the author is from


🐇Alaskan Hare:
*1. Colour cover: brown or white or black
2. 🌎Location: Alaska

Possible creative tasks:
- someone wearing a fur coat or topcoat, or are buying one
- a character has highlights in their hair or are there are at least 2 different colours in their hair or change their hair colour
- someone taking off their clothes (a piece of clothing b/c they are warm)
- change of seasons

🐰Arctic Hare:
1. Colour cover: brown or grey or white
2. 🌎Location: Canada

Possible creative tasks:
- change of seasons
- change of hair colour
- someone is losing their hair
- someone goes into hiding, a soldier wearing camouflage
- someone is hiding their true nature
- someone builds a house/hut...
- someone is looking for a place to hide / looking for protection
- a character escapes from someone/sth
- mention of ermine or ptarmigan
- labrador or Newfoundland dogs or area

🦎Chameleons:
1. Colour cover: Pink or Blue or Orange or Turquoise
2. 🌍Location: Africa

Possible creative tasks:
- someone visits a desert/rain forest, an activist trying to protect these places
- someone is ill and has fever or someone is always cold
- someone dresses up to catch another's attention or b/c they go to a party, etc
- mirror on book cover, a mirror playing an important role in a story
- the story features an object/metal that absorbs the light
- featuring some creatures of the night,
- a book where the temperature suddenly rises or drops
- someone wearing make up

🦎Anoles:
1. Cover Colours: Bright Green or Brown
2. 🌎Location: Americas

Possible creative tasks:
- a character who is aggressive, stressed or very emotional
- a dominant or subordinate character (alpha, omega characters, etc), someone who is a boss
of/assistant to someone
- tree(s) on the cover
- character has claws or claw-like hands/fingers
- someone climbing a wall/mountain
- someone is agile/fast
- someone who seems to be an angry character, but turns out nice- -someone is poisoned

🐸Peron's Tree Frog:
1. Cover Colours: Emerald Green or Grey, Brown or White or Yellow or Black
2. 🌏 Location: Australia

Possible creative tasks:
- a funny book that makes you laugh
- a character who laughs a lot, has a maniac laughter or "cackles"
- someone who does not like others to touch them, shy of intimacy, someone is a loner
- someone wearing emerald jewellery
- a character who is wearing yellow/black trousers/pants/tights
- someone who likes to wear vivid colours
- someone notices they are getting older


🐙Cephalopods:
1. Colour cover: colour(ed) pattern(s)
2. 🛥️ Location: Seas-Oceans

Possible creative tasks:
- someone goes on a cruise, the story takes place aboard a ship
- a character is a diver/goes diving
- travels to a location next to an ocean, lives by the oceanside, seaside
- a character gives a warning to someone else (about danger, another character, etc)
- features a signalling system
- a character who has good eyesight or a character who uses other censory input (has good smell, etc)
- a character who designs clothes, creates fabrics, creates dresses, does stitching, crocheting....
- creatures with tentacles, more than 2 pairs of legs
- beach / sea / ocean on cover


🌺🕷️ Flower spiders:
*1. Colour cover: Yellow or White or Green or Brown or Grey - Yellow cover - Elinor
2. 🌏 Location: Australia, New Zealand

Possible creative tasks:
- character is hiding something
- flowers on the cover
- character likes gardening, plants flowers
- someone is a painter/paints sth
- someone who is waiting for sth/someone, a patient character
- a character is attacking someone else physically or in other ways
- char moves like a crab
-reflections- like from a mirror


🪲 Golden Tortoise Beetle:
1. Colour cover: Gold or Reddish-Brown
2. 🌎Location: Americas

Possible creative tasks:
- character is a vegetarian/vegan
- someone wearing gold jewellery
- someone cooking/eating sweet potatoes
- a character planting morning glory flowers
- a character is believed to be dead/pretends to be dead

🕸️🕷️Chrysso spiders:
1. Colour cover: Black or Yellow
2. 🗺️ Location: Europe, North America, Asia, Brazil, Peru

Possible creative tasks:
- a character wearing vivid colours
- a character getting pale or going red/green, etc in the face
- someone wearing paint or tattoos on their bodies (not the face!)
- a person using a comb
- female character with a blade

Angela- I have seen a lot of ideas in other groups. A little later tonight I can post some ideas. It's not as hard as it looks the first time you read it. Covering some of the color requirements is not a bad thing either.