Team SpongeBob

[Ora]

I'm starting Hawke Sawyer Bennett
It works for
5 5th in series or
7 Vale Campbell

[♦Ashley♦]

FINISHED


by Dennis Lehane
3.17.16
✔0: Stand Alone
1: O
✔2: T Character/Nickname - Edward "Teddy" Daniels
3: H
✔4: F Character - Fred Baker
✔5: I Character - Ike Ganton
✔6: S Title - Shutter Island
✔7: V Character - Paul Vingis
✔8: E Character - Edward "Teddy" Daniels
✔9: N Character - Dr. Jeremiah Naehring
✔Skip: K or P Character - Paul Vingis
✔Reverse: Read by Denise
*Mini Challenge - Team Dr. Who mentions their current favorite genre is mystery/thriller
Post Link - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sally906]

G'day - Sally here from Team Muppets, I have just finished:
The Gargoyle Gets His Girl by Kristen Painter

This is my Sponge Bob memory as it was an utter page turner and the memory mentioned being eager to get to the next page before it was turned - I even snuck read it at work this afternoon as I couldn't stop turning the page to see what happened next.

[Teddie]

Hi Guys - Teddie visiting from Team Minions.

I'm linking the book I just finished, The Passage by Justin Cronin, to your memory.
In the book Wolgast reads books to a young girl, Amy, and he is amazed when she starts to read the books soon after, to him, often from memory.

[✿~Danielle~✿]

Hello Team SpongeBob. Stoping in from Team Peanuts


Memory •
♥ I cannot remember not being able to read, but my Mom did briefly think I was a genius as a child. She told me she would read to me at night until one night I started reading to her. She thought her toddler could read! ...until I was going to the next part of the book before she turned the page. Guess I loved the book so much I just memorized it;)

Book read • Guilty Pleasures
Date read • 18 March
How books connects to memory • I've reread this books so many times it's pretty much memorised.

[♦Ashley♦]

FINISHED

Date Finished: 3.17.16

by A.R. Torre
0:
✔1: #1 in Deanna Madden series
✔2: T Title - The Girl in 6 E
3: H Character - Henry Thompson
4: F Character - Uncle Frank
5: I
✔6: 6 in Title
7: V Character - Derek Vanderbuilt
8: E Character - Simon Evans
9: N
Skip: P Character - Patrick Henton
Reverse:
*Mini Challenge - Team Glee mentions romance genre
Link - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Ora]

Completion Post

BookHawke Sawyer Bennett
Completed Mar 18
Rating 3 1/2 stars


Cards
5 (Five)
- is book 5 in a series

7 (Seven)
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with V
Vale Campbell

[Ora]

Tonight I'm reading January Audrey Carlan. It's a short book just over 100 pages. It works for
1 1st in series
6 character name Mia Sheridan

Tomorrow I will be starting A Gathering of Shadows V.E. Schwab
card 7 for author initials

I'm not too sure what else I will be reading this weekend. I do need to read Dark Lover V character name. I have to read it by Tuesday since I have it on Overdrive.

[Laura]

HI team SpongeBob!

I'm Laura from team Star Trek. Book memory:

I cannot remember not being able to read, but my Mom did briefly think I was a genius as a child. She told me she would read to me at night until one night I started reading to her. She thought her toddler could read! ...until I was going to the next part of the book before she turned the page. Guess I loved the book so much I just memorized it;

I finished The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag today. My book connection is that I loved this book.

Thanks for sharing your book memory.

[Ora]

Completion Post

Book January Audrey Carlan
Completed Mar 18
Cards 1 1st in series
6 character name Mia Sheridan

[Melissa]

Hello Team Spongebob - I am from Team Princesses and would like to share a memory! I have read Ink and Bone about a few young adults who have been chosen by The Library to study and learn the ways of the librarians. One of the girls is a genius just like you mentioned your mom thought you were when you were younger!

♥ I cannot remember not being able to read, but my Mom did briefly think I was a genius as a child. She told me she would read to me at night until one night I started reading to her. She thought her toddler could read! ...until I was going to the next part of the book before she turned the page. Guess I loved the book so much I just memorized it;)

Happy Reading!!

[maria helena]

COMPLETION POST (not in spreadsheet)



Book: Everest: Mountain without Mercy by Broughton Coburn
Date: 3/19/2016

Card 0 - Stand alone
Card 7 - Character Ed Viesturs
Card 8 - Title E

Memory: Team Happy Feet post here

[Stacie]

Hey Spongebob! Stacie from TMNT

♥ I cannot remember not being able to read, but my Mom did briefly think I was a genius as a child. She told me she would read to me at night until one night I started reading to her. She thought her toddler could read! ...until I was going to the next part of the book before she turned the page. Guess I loved the book so much I just memorized it;)

This Song Will Save Your Life -- female MC learns quickly, is quick to say she isn't a genius but precocious

[Ora]

Completion Post

A Gathering of Shadows V.E. Schwab
Mar 20
5 stars


Cards
1 (One)
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with O
Ojka

2 (Two)
- is book 2 in a series

- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with H
Holland

7 (Seven)
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with
Vasry

8 (Eight)
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with E
Alucard Emory

Skip
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P
Kell

[Ora]

My next three books I am reading are

I think Forrest Gump could work for this Scooby memory with Jenny's dysfunctional childhood. This is me hoping the movie didn't change anything in the book since I have never read it.

♥ I have loved books for as long as I can recall. I had a rather dysfunctional childhood and books were my escape and best friends. Reading was my strongest subject in school and I remember getting in trouble in reading group for reading ahead of the others in my group. So many childhood books that I loved...Harriet the Spy, The Cricket in Times Square, Misty of Chincoteague, The Secret Garden, Gone With the Wind, etc.

As an adult I continue to be a big patron of the library, but I have learned to read ebooks too and like the ease of reading them in bed at night on my ipad without a lamp that would disturb my husband. My favorite genre is historical fiction, but I also love well-written fiction, non-fiction, and anything that makes me think, or helps me to learn more about a subject. I do not like horror, sci-fi, or fantasy. As a retired educator, my favorite season has always been summer, because I can just read and read to my heart's content!

[♦Ashley♦]

@ Ora - glad to see you liked the new Schwab book:) I've got that one on hold.

[Denise]

Ora wrote: "Completion Post

(slready in spreadsheet)
Mar 17
4 stars

Mario Bros

Mar 16
5 stars"

Hey Ora! Can you please post the link to your post in the Mario Bros thread for the mini challenge so we can claim the points? Thanks! :)

[Denise]

I finished the following books over the last few days:

The Queen of the Tearling, 3/17, already on spreadsheet
Mini Challenge post - Team Simpsons
Sapphire blue, 3/17, already on spreadsheet


Finished 3/18/16, 4 stars
0 - character Zee
1 - character Orlaith
2 - character Mercy Thompson
3 - character Adam Hauptman
8 - character Edythe
9 - book 9 in a series
Skip - author first name starts with P


Finished 3/20, 3.5 stars
1 - book 1 in series
2 - character Primrose Tunstell
4 - character Lady Featherstonehaugh
6 - character Sekhmet
Skip - character Prudence

[Denise]

Aside from the 6 Wild cards (3 wild and 3 draw 4) we have one each of the following numbers unclaimed: 0, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9. :D

I think I have everything up to date to here, except Ora's Forrest Gump needs to be added yet. I did put Ora in for the Scooby Doo mini-challenge though, I'm assuming the book is close enough to the movie that it would work!

The unclaimed spots for the mini challenge are:
Hello Kitty
Minions
Princesses
Star Trek

If I've missed anything please let me know! :)

[Jo-Jo]

Hi Team Spongebob, from Team Happy Feet! *waves*

I'm connecting to the following memory:

♥ I cannot remember not being able to read, but my Mom did briefly think I was a genius as a child. She told me she would read to me at night until one night I started reading to her. She thought her toddler could read! ...until I was going to the next part of the book before she turned the page. Guess I loved the book so much I just memorized it;)

The book I read was ...and my connection is that I loved it so much that I WISH I could memorize it just like the young child in the memory memorized the book her mom was reading to him/her.

Thanks so much, and good luck in the challenge!

[♦Ashley♦]

Currently reading:


Haven't had a chance to see what cards this would work for yet. What are the results regarding #0.5 of a series?

and


by Saul Black
✔0: Stand Alone
1: O
✔2: T Title - The Killing Lesson
✔3: H Character - Valerie Hart
4: F
5: I
✔6: S Author - Saul
✔7: V Character - Valerie Hart
8: E
✔9: N Character - Nell
✔Skip: K Title - The Killing Lesson
Reverse:

[Ora]

I love the Lux series. I hope you enjoy it.

[♦Ashley♦]

Ora wrote: "I love the Lux series. I hope you enjoy it."

I love it so far:) I've read the first 4.

[Sarah]

Hello Team SpongeBob, popping in from Team Batman for the mini challenge.

I listened to the audio of Chomp. My connection is about memorisation - there is a character in the book who loves to memorise the Latin names for plants and animals.

"Guess I loved the book so much I just memorized it;)"

Thanks for the memory. :)

[Laura]

Hi Team SpongeBob! Laura from Team Mario Bros. popping in to say hi!

I read A Call to Arms, which connects to your memory because it is a page turner, and you mentioned turning the pages.

♥ until I was going to the next part of the book before she turned the page.

[Denise]

♦Ashley♦ wrote: "Currently reading:


Haven't had a chance to see what cards this would work for yet. What are the results regarding #0.5 of a series?"

It won't work for any of the numbers in a series, so we'll have to see where it fits for settings or character names, etc. Or we can use it for a wild card somewhere if it doesn't fit for another open card. :)

[Ora]

Denise wrote: "Ora wrote: "Completion Post

(slready in spreadsheet)
Mar 17
4 stars

Mario Bros

Mar 16
5 stars"

Hey Ora! Can you please po..."

I thought I already did, let me double check.

[Ora]

Written in Red Post for Super Mario Brothers.

I didn't think about posting a link to my post.

[Ora]

Completion Post


Mar 22
4 stars

already in spreadsheet

[Ora]

♦Ashley♦ wrote: "@ Ora - glad to see you liked the new Schwab book:) I've got that one on hold."

I didn't want it to end. I hope you enjoy it. I think it is better than the first one.

[Ora]

Denise wrote: "Aside from the 6 Wild cards (3 wild and 3 draw 4) we have one each of the following numbers unclaimed: 0, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9. :D

I think I have everything up to date to here, except Ora's Forrest Gump..."

I plan on reading Forrest Gump this afternoon/evening and let you know if it won't work.

[Ora]

Denise I have a 5th in series I need to read by Thursday for SS.Grace Juliana Stone

[maria helena]

Spreadsheet updated to here.

[Denise]

Woohoo! Thanks, Ora! :D

And thanks for updating, Maria Helena! :)

[Ora]

So Jenny's childhood isn't mentioned in this book, however I am using another Scooby memory for Forrest Gump with how he always keeps his word when he says he is going to do something.


Scooby Doo
♥ I think the book that has always meant the most to me and has had the greatest significance is the first book I ever read. It was called Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. This book has such a significance to me because I was only about 6 or 7 when I read it and I felt like I completely understood what was going on. I have never re-read the book and anytime anyone asks me about it I tell them exactly my thoughts on it when I was just a little kid. I think the most shocking retelling of what I thought it meant was when I was in high school and we had to read it, but I chose not to read it because I had already read it. I sat down and typed the whole paper based on those really young thoughts of mine. What shocked me is that I actually got an A on the paper and the teacher said that I had come the closest to the moral of the story. And that made me think about how as a kid I could even to some extent comprehend what was going on. But let me tell you guys how I ended up with this book and how I became to love reading after this book.

So, one day my grandmother and I were at the Salvation Army just looking around. She was really one of those older ladies that loved finding weird antique things that I used to think were ugly or creepy looking. Anyways, I would always roam around and try to see if I could find something I liked. Well one day I was walking around and seen this really velvety type of cloth. I went to grab it and it was pretty heavy. And that's when I realized it was attached to something else. So I'm down all on the ground getting my stockings all dirty (I got in trouble for that later on, but it was worth it) trying to rummage through this box to try to find what it was attached to. Finally I figured out it was attached to a book; it was a velvety bookmark for this book. So I was sitting there opening and closing it trying to figure out if I could get the cloth to come out without having to keep the book too. I really didn't want the book at all. After about 5 minutes I realized that wasn't possible. So I just went to find my granny so I could tell her I wanted the book. Once I found her, she said I could get it. I was excited and walked around behind her slapping the cloth across my face.

So we get to the checkout and the guy says I can get the book for free as long as I read it and tell him all about it next week. Granny and I went in there once I week after I got out of school. I thought okay, I'll read this book and get the little velvety cloth for free. I was so eager that when I got home I opened the book and began to try to read it. My granny never helped with reading because she didn't finish school herself, so she just gave me a dictionary to help me with words I didn't know. So I was reading and then next thing I know I was all into this thing. I was so worried about this poor seagull with no family and he couldn't find a family or friends because he couldn't fly. And I remember sitting there like I really hope learns to fly or he might never find a family and be stuck on ground forever. I eventually finished the book before we had to go back to the Salvation Army the following week. The guy was just so impressed that I actually kept my word and started to become a thing that I could get a free book every week as long as I told him about the book I read. At first, I was just ecstatic about getting free things. But eventually I became caught up in the stories of these people that I felt had to live somewhere and I might happen to past them one day and I could be like, "Hi, I'm Brianna. I read all about you."

[Ora]

Completion Post

Forrest Gump Winston Groom
Mar 23
3 1/2 stars

Link for Scooby post

[maria helena]

Completion Post



Countdown by Iris Johansen
3/22/2016

Card 2 - Character Mark Trevor
Card 5 - Author Iris Johansen
Card 6 - Book 6 in Eve Duncan series
Card 7 - Character Carl Venable
Card 8 - Character Eve Duncan

Edit: I used this one for Team Princesses's book memory (post here). One of their members talked about loving to read series and sharing her love of books with her daughters. My book is part of a long series (and the focus in this one was on the daughter of the main character).

[maria helena]

Completion Post



The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weson DeWalt
3/23/2016

Card 0 - stand alone (non fiction)
Card 2 - Title T

Edit: I used this for Team Hello Kitty's book memory (post here). One of their memories mentions reading the book Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume as well as reading biographies. The Climb is a biography, and in it Anatoli is described as the Tiger Woods of Himalayan climbing.

[maria helena]

Spreadsheet updated to here.

For the March mini challenge, no one has yet claimed Team Minions or Team Star Trek.

[Ora]

Has someone claimed the last zero yet?

After I finish Never Fade, I am reading Hero Samantha Young stand alone

[Ora]

Completion Post

Grace Juliana Stone
mar 23
4 stars

5 5th in series

[♦Ashley♦]

I can take care of Team Star Trek with The Killing Lessons.

[maria helena]

Ora wrote: "Has someone claimed the last zero yet?

After I finish Never Fade, I am reading Hero Samantha Young stand alone"

I've added Hero to the last zero :-)

[Karla]

I've finished which is already in the spreadsheet.

Do NOT read unless you have finished the book! Major spoiler alert! (view spoiler)[I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I knew Clyde was the killer! I thought he was for most of the book. He was the least likely suspect, so I knew he was the Web Master! (hide spoiler)]

[maria helena]

♦Ashley♦ wrote: "I can take care of Team Star Trek with The Killing Lessons."

Great!

[Ora]

maria helena wrote: "Ora wrote: "Has someone claimed the last zero yet?

After I finish Never Fade, I am reading Hero Samantha Young stand alone"

I've added Hero to the..."

I'm hoping to start it tomorrow

[maria helena]

There's an OPTIONAL BONUS CHALLENGE for Easter weekend

Books with a read date from Friday 25 March until 31 March count.



Easter Scavenger Hunt
Find these words... they are all products used to naturally dye eggs for Easter

For each book your team reads that contains one of these words in the text or title (plurals are acceptable), you can claim DOUBLE points for one of your cards.

Your TEAM can claim EACH WORD only once and you can only claim ONE word per book. This means your team has the ability to claim up to 20 cards as double points. Wow!!

♔ Blueberry
♔ Grape
♔ Walnut
♔ Dill
♔ Chilli
♔ Turmeric
♔ Spinach
♔ Chlorophyll
♔ Onion
♔ Carrot
♔ Paprika
♔ Cranberry
♔ Raspberry
♔ Hibiscus
♔ Orange
♔ Lemon
♔ Chamomile (or Camomile)
♔ Celery
♔ Cumin
♔ Saffron

◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands or for your memories mini challenge.
◈ Books read between March 25 and 31 count for this mini challenge
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Captains - to claim your double points, please change the points in the appropriate cell and your spreadsheets will be updated to enable you to track the words.

[maria helena]

I'm currently reading:



The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak by Ed Viesturs

Card 0 - stand alone
Card 7 - Author V
Card 8 - Author E

Easter challenge: ONION
p.19 "...sliced potatoes, onions and liberal mounds of pungent yak cheese."

[Ora]

For my current book (already in spreadsheet)


Orange
Ch. 2 page 25 You're the only orange here now

Lemon
Ch. 22 page 266
..not the fake lemon smell from Black Betty's past life as a cleaning..

I will be finishing this book tonight.

[maria helena]

I've finished