The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
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Team SpongeBob
Currently reading:The Killing Lessons
p. 79 "An orange running track with peaceful white lines."
p. 259 "Valerie sat for a few moments blowing on her hot water and lemon."
and
Shadows...I will need to check.
Completion Post
Mar 25
4 1/2 stars
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 am currently reading 
I will figure out what words are in them and let you know.
Finished Finish Date: 3.26.16
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
0 - Z
1 - O
2 - T
3 - H
4 - F
5 - I
✔6 - S Title - Shadows
✔7 - V Character - Officer Vaughn
✔8 - E Character - Elizabeth "Bethany" Williams
9 - N
Skip - P Character - Philip Williams
Easter Challenge
The only word I could find:
Loc 3566 "Grabbing two glasses, I filled them with orange juice Mom must have picked up on her way home."
Has Hello Kitty memory been claimed yet?Team Hello Kitty
♥ The first book I can remember reading without being forced was in the 4th or 5th grade. I picked up the book "Tiger Eyes" by Judy Blume in our school library. I couldn't even tell you why, I wasn't into reading for fun or anything and I don't remember regularly checking out books. Anyway I fell in love with it. I continued to read every now and then but was not completely addicted to books Until around 2009 when my then boyfriend (now husband) wanted me to ride in a golf cart and watch him play golf....ahhh sooo much fun yeah right, so of course I asked him to stop at the Grocery Store thought I would grab a magazine or something but I ended up buying a paperback titled "The Other Daughter" by Lisa Gardner. Let me tell you I was hooked from page one! My boyfriend throughout the day would say something like wow did you see that shot?" And I would respond with "sssshhhhhhh I'm trying to read!" That book relit my flame for reading and I have been a die hard reader ever since.
I used to believe I only wanted to read serial crime novels. The more gruesome and descriptive the better but somehow over the years I have broadened my interests. I enjoy a variety of books now. Crime (fiction or true), Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Smut, Romance, Historical fiction, Biographies..... I guess now I would have to say if the synopsis grabs my attention I will try it. I have a love/hate relationship with cliffhanger endings. (to be honest on more than one occasion I may have gotten to the end of a book with a cliff hanger and if the next book isn't out yet and available for purchase I may have cussed a bit and created new cuss words.!)
will work. It's Main Page Sci Fi. Let me know and I will post in Hello Kitty
Memory Team Minions♥ I have loved to read ever since I can remember. I would never get awards in school for sports or anything in the way. However I would always get the bookworm award for pages read. I remember reading Beverly Cleary books and the babysitter club books for hours.
won several literary awards
Team Princesses♥ I can't say that there is just one book that changed me or made me the avid reader that I am. However, my fondest memory is of my mother taking my brother and I to participate in the Summer Reading program at our local library. It was always a competition between my brother and I to see who could read the most books and get the most prizes. I can remember reading 2 or more books in a day, in the summer, as a teenager. Now, an adult and teacher, I try to instill this same love of reading in my students. Oftentimes, this is the most difficult part of my job.
there are siblings in the book.
Team Star Trek♥ I have had a lifelong obsession with books. We used to move around a lot when I was younger due to my Dad's work. When I was 7 we finally settled in one place and one Saturday after going swimming we went to the library next door where I got my first library card. I can remember being told I was allowed to take out 5 books at a time, while my Dad searched the "boring" books I went to the colourful section and found The Famous Five , we went home and started reading and I was hooked. Every Saturday after swimming we would go to the library and choose some books, I devoured the libraries stock of The Famous Five and soon moved on to other Series books including The Secret Seven and Mallory Towers .
When I moved up into the junior's at school we were introduced y the school library where we would have to pick one English and one Welsh book to read during our reading hour. It was here I found other author's and genres, quickly devouring the Sweet Valley High and Nancy Drew stock. In my final term before High School our class teacher started reading The Hobbit as our class read. There wasn't enough copies for everyone to have their own so we had to share between 2 or 3 of us :( I can remember when we went to the library that weekend asking whether they had a copy and proudly took it into school with me for our next reading session. The only problem with that was as our teacher was reading aloud from the book and getting others to take their turn to read I would be reading ahead of them so when it came to my turn I had to be reminded what page we were on. After this happened a couple of times, my teacher realised what I was doing and signed me up for a national reading test, it came back that at the age of 10 my reading age was 13, he never asked me to read aloud in class again as he felt it was wrong to stop me from reading!
I couldn't believe it when I went to high school and was shown the school library there were so many different books, but they were all a little bit worn. But then the library was redecorated and when they let us back in there were some "new, shiny" books, in amongst the shelves. I picked up a hardback book and couldn't believe the smell, I didn't look at the title I just knew I had to read it before anyone else did. I got it home and started reading and I was in awe, the book was Ten Little Niggers and my love affair with Agatha Christie began. I read all the Agatha Christie books that my school library and town library had and loved Poirot my Dad would even get me a new Agatha Christie every birthday and Christmas.
For years I would only read Mystery books and was introduced to Dick Francis, Ngaio Marsh, Colin Dexter and the "Wycliffe" series. Then when completing my degree my housemate was engrossed in a book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, I can remember thinking but they're kids books, she suggested I try it and see. At the time I was into "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice, I think I was in love with "Lestat", It was a few months before I had the courage to actually try my housemate's recommendation and that was only because I'd seen it for sale in a discount book store, and needless to say I loved it.
I have expanded my range of books that I read now including, YA, Fantasy, Paranormal and Chick-Lit. Needless to say my first love will always be mysteries but I am willing to give any book a try, to the point of if friends ir customer's of my OH are getting rid of books they always seem to end up on my shelves. I rarely re-read books the only books I have re-read are And Then There Were None and Colin Dexter and that was only because it's been over 20 years since I read them last.
Main page Genre Chick Lit
Let me know if you want me to post any of these memories.
currently readingonion
ch 7 page 75
...cheese, red and green peppers and spring onions
9 Dante Notte
6 Lynsay Sands
not sure what other cards off hand
carrot
Ch 16 pg 204
"She wants you to cuff your carrot before sharing it?"
I've finished 
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Card 1 - 1st in series
Card 2 - Title starts with T (The)
Card 4 - Title starts with F (Friday, ignore the)
Card 9 - Place N (New York)
Skip - Author first name (Kate)
p. 169: "two fat-free blueberry treats"
p. 147: "There is carrot cake in the kitchen"
p. 89: "chamomile tea"
p. 141: "Grapes are a very interesting fruit"
p. 88: "the lemon frosting"
p. 366: "orange muffins"
p. 126: "like spinach salad"
Ora wrote: "Let me know if you want me to post any of these memories."Can you please post Team Minions' memory?
We've got Hello Kitty and Princesses already.
Ashley is working on The Killing Lessons for team Star Trek, but if she shouldn't finish on time, we can use your book instead.
Great job on the March mini challenge everyone!
Just a heads up on the Easter challenge as well...looks like some of the words (specifically carrot, lemon, and orange right now at least) have many books that will fit. So, if you can check for all words that might work that would be great and Maria Helena and I can arrange things as needed so we get as many words covered as possible. OR, if you don't have time or can't check for the words (I know it can be a huge pain especially with audio and physical books!) please just let us know in your post and I will look them up. :)I'm guessing based on your posts that you guys have already been doing this but just wanted to make sure. So far the books with words already used will all fit somewhere else so hopefully we'll find a spot for everything read this last week. (I've got a ton of books to finish so hopefully they will have some of the words - of course all but two are physical library books so I need to find online previews for everything, lol.) Thanks! :D
And Happy Easter, everyone! Hope you all had a great day/weekend. :)
Oh and also, on the spreadsheet we have a 5 and 9 open yet, besides the 6 Wild/Draw 4 cards. I also think we've lost Jim (haven't heard back from a PM several days ago) so we'll have to cover his draw 2 book in hand 12. I have Celebrity in Death in that hand already for a 9 and it will also cover either of the cards we had Jim in for, so we can use that one for the draw 2. We'd just need another book for either a 4 or a 6!
Like I told Maria Helena earlier, I have a lot of books left to finish but I've been in a weird reading mood where I read a bit of everything and don't actually finish books, lol! But I shouldn't have a problem finishing what I've signed up for in March. I'm more than halfway through most of them, and the two I haven't started yet are super quick reads. So I'm good for anything I have in the hands (I have some extras on the tracking sheet that I haven't put into hands yet and will most likely move to April). I don't know that I'll be able to finish anything extra, though if we need them I can probably manage 2-3 for wild cards. I've been saving some novellas and short books that are maybe 120-140 pages so I could throw a couple of those in if I had to.
We're so close to finishing everything! Even if we're a bit short we should still finish 12/13 hands, plus the full mini-challenge and probably 10+ words in the Easter challenge. Awesome job, everyone! :D
Hi, I'm Lori from team Hello Kitty.
♥ 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;)
Moon Called - the moon comes out at night when you were read to by your Mom
♥ 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;)
Moon Called - the moon comes out at night when you were read to by your Mom
Currently reading:
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs
Card 0 - stand alone
Card 7 - Author V
Card 8 - Author E
Card 9 - Title N
Gin & Daggers by Jessica Fletcher
Card 1- First in series
Card 4 - Author/Character Last name F
Card 8 - Setting England
I'm almost finished with
which could work for the 9 card. I don't think I will be able to squeeze in anymore books until April.
Sweet! I'm not on the spreadsheet atm (finally seeing Jurassic World, lol!) but I'm thinking I'll put Ashley's book in for the 9, Maria Helena's first book in for a wild and the second for the 4 to take care of the draw 2 in hand 12. That leaves us with just a 5 and 5 more wilds. :D Basically we just need 6 more books overall - if none of them fit for a 5 I'll easily be able to rearrange the books a bit and make everything fit. I finished Emerald Green today (still have to post for both mini-challenges for that yet) and I'm close to finishing The Invasion of the Tearling and Calamity and should finish them tonight/tomorrow. That still leaves me with 4 I signed up for lol, but I can still knock them all out before end of the month. Two of them are 600+ pages though and I'm not far into them yet, so I'll see where we are tomorrow. I could easily move one or both of the long books to April and fit in a few short books instead. I've been meaning to reread Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series for a while now - they're tagged middle grade I think but they're all over the minimum word count. All five of those together would be less pages than those 2 long books of mine and let us fill in an extra three spaces, so that might be best depending on what everyone else will be finishing in the next few days. :)
Please welcome new team member Nicole!Any books she has read that were started after March 1 count :)
Oh, yay! Welcome, Nicole! :D When you have a chance, could you please make a shelf for this game and add on anything that you finished this month (and started on or after March 1st)? I've also sent you a friend request. :)
Everyone else, I just took a quick glance at Nicole's books and she read several in March. I didn't check start dates but I think there are probably enough to cover those last empty slots we have in the hands. So no one should need to try and rush to finish more books by the end of the month. :) We still have lots of words open in the Easter mini-challenge though, so if you do finish anything definitely post here and I will use them there if possible.
I'm definitely going to move The Aeronaut's Windlass to April for myself, since I don't have to have it back to the library until 4/16. Replacing it with Over Sea, Under Stone which is also first in a series, and has the word "saffron" in it to knock out one of the more difficult Easter words.
Fantastic job, everyone!!! :)
I've just finished a fifth and seventh book in the series over the weekend if that's helpful too :) Just posting the reviews and then I'll get to making a shelf and having more of a look around here. Also, hello everyone I don't already know!
edit: Here is my shelf for this game.
I have read 11 books for the month of March. Hopefully this helps!
Welcome Nicole! Glad to have you :)
FinishedDate Read: 3.29.16
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:
Team Star Trek post - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Oh good, we had one 5 card left so I'm glad I won't have to go rearranging stuff on the sheet, lol! Your books help a lot - they will fill in the last of the cards that we had open. :) I'm updating the spreadsheet and mini challenge stuff now and then I will post an update.
Oh and Nicole, there are two mini-challenges going on right now - I think we're good on the regular March mini-challenge, but we're still working on the Easter mini-challenge. For that one, we can only use books finished from the 25th through the end of the month, and we're doing a scavenger hunt for several different words:
♔ Blueberry
♔ Grape
♔ Walnut
♔ Dill
♔ Chilli
♔ Turmeric
♔ Spinach
♔ Chlorophyll
♔ Onion
♔ Carrot
♔ Paprika
♔ Cranberry
♔ Raspberry
♔ Hibiscus
♔ Orange
♔ Lemon
♔ Chamomile (or Camomile)
♔ Celery
♔ Cumin
♔ Saffron
Each word found gets us double points for one card, so we're trying to fill as many as we can. I can check the books you've already finished from 3/25 to now, but if you finish anything in the last couple of days let us know if you notice any of those words. We can still use those books for the mini-challenge even though we have all of the hands filled. :)
I'll post an update for the Easter mini-challenge tomorrow once I've searched Nicole's books and the books I have to finish yet this month. At this point though, I know we have found orange, lemon, carrot, onion, raspberry, grape, walnut, and saffron.
Here's a quick update on where we are with the hands and the regular March mini-challenge. :) March mini
Team Minions - Ora - Dark Lover - I know you completed the book and posted here, but I can't find the post in the Minions thread? Not sure if I'm just missing it, but could you please give me the link? :)
Team Peanuts - Denise - Over Sea, Under Stone - I'm going to read this in bed once I'm off the laptop. Should finish tonight (only about 35 pages left) so I'll post in their thread tomorrow when I get online
Team TMNT - Denise - The Well of Ascension - should finish this tomorrow and will post when I'm done!
That's all we have left for the March mini, so we will get all of the points there plus the bonus. :)
March Hands:
Hand One - complete
Hand Two - Karla, Moonwalk, currently reading
Hand Three - Denise, Onyx, currently reading
Hand Four - Denise, Over Sea, Under Stone, finishing tonight
Hand Five - complete
Hand Six - complete
Hand Seven - complete
Hand Eight - Denise, The Well of Ascension, will finish tomorrow
Hand Nine - complete
Hand Ten - complete
Hand Eleven - Denise, Calamity, will finish tomorrow - Maria Helena, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks, currently reading
Hand Twelve - Maria Helena, Gin & Daggers, currently reading
Hand Thirteen - complete
If anyone isn't going to be able to finish anything that I posted, just let me know! Nicole still has a couple of books read that I didn't use, so I can absolutely rearrange stuff if needed and we'll still finish all hands. :)
I'm pretty confused with what time zone this game is running in, haha. I'm waiting for confirmation from the mods on the exact time March "ends" and will post a countdown as soon as I have it. Hopefully the April cards will be posted soon, as well. Then we can start filling in some of those spaces. :)
I will definitely finish no shortcuts to the top but not sure I'll get gin and daggers done by Thursday.
Denise wrote: "Here's a quick update on where we are with the hands and the regular March mini-challenge. :) March mini
Team Minions - Ora - Dark Lover - I know you completed the book and posted h..."
I haven't yet. I was not sure if it was going to be used or not. I will post now and then here with the link.
Completion Post
already in spreadsheet Mar 27
onion
ch 7 page 75
...cheese, red and green peppers and spring onions
Denise I just wanted to let you know about Guns and Dogs. I think it is being used for a few cards. The release date got pushed back and there is no page/word count on the book page yet. I just got a message back from the author, the word count is 63K. I'm not sure if you have to turn in the page count when submitting our hands this month, but I wanted to make sure you had when you verified the books.
I was looking at our April hands. Is there something specific we need for a card when it has a color with it? 7 Red, 7 Blue, 1 Green, etc.
And do we only have to have our books completed after April 1st for them to count for April's hands.
Thanks for the Minions link, Ora! And thanks for verifying the word count for that book, I know we have it in for a draw 2 and two other cards. I'm not sure how closely the mods check page counts and such (it's pretty much for the captains/co-captains to do, I think) but I have a spot on our tracking sheet where I've been putting in the word counts for any books that might be questioned so I will add that info there! :) Also, yes, for April (and May) only the finished dates count for books. So you guys can start now if you want to and just make sure you finish after the official start of April.
Countdown to end of March/start of April
And yes, there are a few new cards for April, and also an extra 14th hand. The new cards will have one of the Uno card colors (Yellow, Red, Green, or Blue) as well as a number. There are four of them scattered throughout the hands, and three in the last hand. For those cards - say 7 Red for example - we need to use a book that not only fits the criteria for the number 7 but also has a red cover (50% or more). I can check with the mods on anything we aren't sure of and want verified. These color cards are worth 30 points each. :)
At some point later today I will post all of the cards for April here - I'm going to update that post at the beginning of our thread and keep track of what's open the same way we did with March. I'm actually kind of sad because I just checked out a book that is yellow but none of our color cards are for yellow, lol! We have one green card and then three each for red and blue. We'll probably want to try and cover those first if we can.
I have
to use for either Red 1 or Red 7 (First in series/V character according to GR page). :)
I have been wanting to read
since it came out in December. I will plan on reading it this weekend and see if it will work for one of our blue cards.
Think this is enough green? It would work for 1 green. 
Nice! :D So far I don't think I have anything else planned that would work for any of the color cards - I have a green book but it's a standalone and I don't think there are any O characters. I'd have to actually read it to know for sure!
Oh actually, I will probably read
and I am nearly positive there is an I character so that could be used for the 5 Blue card.And now that I've refreshed the page and actually seen all of the posts, lol...Ora, I would think that would work for green, but I will ask the mods to be sure - they actually made a separate thread in the captain group for verifying cover colors, lol. :)
Ok. I will plan on the three books above to be my first ones of the month.
One last color book Denise9 Red
Neal Shusterman
I will be reading this book the first week of April
Ora, your green book is good, so I'll put that in for 1 Green when I'm on the spreadsheet tonight. :)So of the colors, so far we have covered:
1 Green
3 Blue
5 Blue
9 Red
1 Red OR 7 Red
And maybe the 7 Blue depending on UnBound (my blue book has a lot of strange names so if I happen to find a V I'll let you know)
Awesome, it's not even April yet and we have 5 out of 7 of the hard cards already figured out. ;)
That's awesome.bingo was just called in another group, I am going to be reading
5th in series by the middle of next week. Not sure all of the cards that it will work for other than 5 stood out to me.
I'm kind of lost on what is still open as far as the color cards go ;)but here is what I have planned so far for April.
by Patricia McLinn
0 - Stand Alone, Z
✔1 - #1 in a series
2 - T
3 - H
4 - F
5 - I
✔6 - S Title
7 - V
✔8 - E character - Elizabeth “E. M.” Danniher
9 - N
✔Skip - P Author
Reverse - another team member
by Cormac McCarthy
0 - Stand Alone
✔1 - #1 in series
2 - T
3 - H
4 - F
5 - I
6 - S
7 - V
8 - E
9 - N
Skip - K, P
Reverse - another team member
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
0 - Stand Alone, Z
✔1 - O Title
2 - T
3 - H
4 - F
✔5 - #5 in a series
6 - S
7 - V
8 - E
9 - N
✔Skip - K character - Katy
✔Reverse - Read by Ora
by Tana French
0 - Stand Alone, Z
✔1 - #1 in series
2 - T
3 - H
✔4 - F Author
✔5 - I Title
✔6 - S character - Detective Sam O'Neill
7 - V
8 - E
9 - N
Skip - K, P
✔Reverse - Read by Maria Helena
maria helena wrote: "I will definitely finish no shortcuts to the top but not sure I'll get gin and daggers done by Thursday."Oops just saw this...no worries, we still have a couple of Nicole's books left! I'll leave yours in for now and see what happens. It would take moving a few books around to cover that card, so I'm not going to worry about doing it unless I have to. ;)
Woo! We're officially done with the March mini challenge, got the full 350 points! :)
I will finish my book before the cut-off. For April I'm going to read
by Gretchen McNeilCards:
One: book 1 in a series
Skip: has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P - Character named Kitty
I wonder if we could use this for Reverse, I listened to the book on audio last year.
Ora wrote: "That's awesome.bingo was just called in another group, I am going to be reading
5th in series by the middle of next week. Not sure all of the cards that it will wo..."Awesome! The 5 cards can be a pain sometimes. Even if we don't need it for a 5 the Mercy books tend to fit in a bunch of places - 2/3 for Mercy/Adam (last names), Skip for the author, Reverse (I've read everything out so far), sometimes some other cards depending on which if any fae show up. :)
Lol Ashley, even I was confused by that point with what color cards were still open. ;) I've updated the post at the top of our thread with the April cards and I'll post it here in a minute.
Karla, good to know you'll finish your book in time! I'd seen you were partway through a few days ago and figured you probably make it. :) As for the April book, sadly the Reverse doesn't count if you were the one who read it before and it's a reread, it has to be another team member. We have a lot of Skip cards in April though, so I'll probably use it for one of those!
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The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Card 1 - 1st in series
Card 2 - Title starts with T (The)
Card 4 - Title starts with F (Friday, ignore the)
Card 9 - Place N (New York)
Skip - Author first name (Kate)
p. 169: "two fat-free blueberry treats"
p. 147: "There is carrot cake in the kitchen"
p. 89: "chamomile tea"
p. 141: "Grapes are a very interesting fruit"
p. 88: "the lemon frosting"
p. 366: "orange muffins"
p. 126: "like spinach salad"