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[Annalisa]

On the March spread sheet you have me as reading Caraval. I think it was Ginger who was going to read it.

If it is okay, I'll post as I finish books. I have a feeling I won't be able to read as much this month as last month and I don't want to over commit.

[Eldarwen]

Ah sorry, my bad. I'll change the name.

No worries! It'll be easier to just fit them as they come in rather than planning too much. There are other challenges to consider after all and mood reading, too.

[Annalisa]

Thanks for fixing the spreadsheet. I'll post as I finish books, and let you know what I'm reading next. If we need something specific at any point let me know. This early in the month it shouldn't matter yet.

[Chris]

Mood reading?

[Annalisa]

Reading something because it will improve your mood. That's my best guess. Then again. I often look at my stack of books and say I'm not in the mood to read these. That often means I want something a little lighter.

[Eldarwen]

Mood reading is basically what Annalisa said. You read something you're really in the mood for, or even something you really do not want to read because you aren't up for it. Or something you know is going to make you all cheery because you'll enjoy it.

[Annalisa]

The historical romances I've been reading are brain candy and they do make me cheery. I guess they fall into the mood read category. I've been needing cheery reads recently. I had to stop reading dark dystopian novels. Shiver...I started wondering what the trigger moment was, and if we have had a trigger moment. So now I'm reading cheery novels.

[Eldarwen]

I'm pretty sure there is a trigger moment in there somewhere.
I do like a good dystopian novel, but I can't focus solely on those. (Btw, if you haven't read We, I highly recommend it.) There just always comes that moment where you're wondering far too much about their message. Or I do, anyhow.

Sometimes a really easy-going read is just what the brain needs, especially if you've had a tough week at work (or school). My go-to feel-good book is Can You Keep a Secret? - it reminds me of awesome times when I first read it and it always makes me smile, no matter how many times I've read it.

But fantasy, it's always fantasy. When I'm fed up with everything else, I go back to fantasy. It's like coming home, even though I know how silly that may sound.

[Lauri]

My brain candy mood reads are usually mysteries (cozy or otherwise) or paranormal. My guilty pleasures are Charlaine Harris - the Sookie Stackhouse series and Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books. Last year I finished #22 on a plane!! I was trying my best not to laugh out loud (and failing miserably!!) The books I've set out for March are books I'm already reading or books I need to finish for other challenges.

[LaurLa]

There is definitely a place for mood reading. Sometimes, though, I hold off a book I'm really looking forward to just to build the anticipation. How weird is that? It's like sitting your favorite dessert in front of you while eating your chicken liver (insert your least favorite food here) dinner - you're salivating for that dessert but make yourself be good and eat your dinner first. And then that dessert just tastes so dang good then!

[LaurLa]

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Sandpiper Island - Donna Kauffman
Read: 03.02
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
1 - O - character (Delia) O'Reilly
2 - T - character Ted Weathersby
3 - Book 3
4 - F - character Ford Maddox
6 - Title
8 - E - character Eula March
Skip - K - author Donna Kauffman
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Also works for Blue 8 and Blue 4 if needed.

[Lauri]

Annika wrote: "I've read a couple of years ago :)"

Thanks, Annika! I've been wanting to to read this one for awhile. I can do it for reverse!

[Lauri]

Eldarwen wrote: "I've read A Thousand Splendid Suns a couple of years ago."

Thanks, Eldarwen! I have to read this for another challenge, so I can do it for a reverse!

[Lauri]

Multiple Completion post!

The Devil Amongst the Lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb
336 pages
Finished 3/2/17
Can work for: 6 card - author Sharyn McCrumb / 7 card - takes place in Virginia / 8 card - character Erma OR 8th in series / 9 card - character Nora Bonesteel



A Prayer for the Damned by Peter Tremayne
320 pages
Finished 3/2/17
Can work for: 4 card - character Sister Fidelma / 5 card - set in Ireland / 8 card - character Brother Eadulf / 9 card - character Nessan / Skip - author Peter Tremayne

[Eldarwen]

LaurLa wrote: "There is definitely a place for mood reading. Sometimes, though, I hold off a book I'm really looking forward to just to build the anticipation. How weird is that? It's like sitting your favorite d..."

Hahahaha :-)
I totally get it though! You save the best for last! That's how I do it with food on my plate, and then sometimes I curse myself for waiting because I'm practically full by the time I get to the best parts ;-)

[Eldarwen]

What a name for a character... Bonesteel.... ;-)

[San]

I am also sometimes a mood reader. I'm planning to read something for long time but then I read something different. After exams etc I always choose some light, easy to read book probably romance. So maybe next week I will read something by Colleen Hoover

[Eldarwen]

is lovely but it's an ugly cry book, if you're prone to that kind of thing but if you want to read Colleen Hoover, that one comes recommended =)

I also really enjoyed her idea behind the male MC in .

[San]

Actually I was thinking about these two cause their are on my bookshelf for to long. I think it's time to read one of them. Or - it's so hard to decide which book read next!

[LaurLa]

Eldarwen wrote: "I totally get it though! You save the best for last! That's how I do it with food on my plate, and then sometimes I curse myself for waiting because I'm practically full by the time I get to the best parts ;-) "

OMG!! I totally do this too AND get upset because I'm too full. What is wrong with us???

[Eldarwen]

Hahahah :-))

Wrong? Tsk... We're completely and utterly normal, LaurLa! It's everyone else who's a bit backwards :-p

[Eldarwen]

Ginger wrote: "Actually I was thinking about these two cause their are on my bookshelf for to long. I think it's time to read one of them. Or - it's so hard to decide which book read..."

It IS hard! And apparently that one is quite good, too. Haven't read it yet though, but then again, I've been told numerous times that Hoover can't disappoint, so... I think whatever you end up choosing in the end, you'll enjoy it :-)

[San]

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Player: Ginger



Raspberries and a Cherry Tree by Mirella Muffarotto
Read: 03.03
Rating: ★★
Possible Cards:
0 - place Orgiano
1 - 1st book in series
4 - Character Federico Brunelli
Draw 2

[Annalisa]

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Book:Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Rating: 4
Possible Cards:
2 - Second in series
4 - Character Farley
6 - Character Shade
7 - Author First name Victoria
9 - Location Norta
Skip - Character Kilorn

Cover color Blue.

Currently slotted for hand hand 10 blue 4.

[LaurLa]

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Resisting the Bad Boy - Violet Duke
Read: 03.0
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
1 - Book 1
3 - H - charcacter Helen Sullivan
6 - S - charcter Connor Sullivan
7 - V - author Violet Duke
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

[Eldarwen]

You're all so quiet o.O

I hope you had a nice weekend! :-)

[LaurLa]

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Escaping Reality - Lisa Renee Jones
Read: 03.04
Rating: ★★★
Possible Cards:
1 - Book 1
6 - S - character Liam Stone
8 - E - Title
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Forgot to post this the other day. Hope it helps with something!

[Eldarwen]

Every book helps :-) Thanks, LaurLa!

[LaurLa]

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Nothing But Trouble - Lisa Mondello
Read: 03.06
Rating: ★★★
Possible Cards:
0 - standalone
6 - S - character Melanie Summers
8 - E - character Edmund Summers III
9 - N - Title
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

[Annalisa]

Our team seems really quiet.

I thought I'd drop in to say I'm reading 2 books and listening to 1. I should be finishing them all this week. One is a reread I read in 2015. I'm hoping I gain some tidying insight even if the book is silly.

I hope everyone is having a good beginning to March.

[Annika]

I know what you mean, it's spooky quiet in here. ;)
My excuse is that I've been away over the weekend and haven't had much internet access. When I got home, I got lost in a book ;)

Silly books can be entertaining as well when you are in the mood for them :)

[Eldarwen]

What's the silly book, Annalisa? Might be something we enjoy as well?

Yeah it is very, very quiet. My lame attempt at conversation the other day didn't really catch anyone's attention either ;-)

Annika, which book did you get lost in? The Enemy of my Enemy or whatever it was called again (something with enemy...)? The one you were dying to read?

Over the weekend, I managed to finish two of my books, Shopaholic and Sister and The Wrath and the Dawn.

[LaurLa]

I'm diving into our namesake this week! I read A Questionable Client over the weekend and am now in chapter 4 (I think) of Magic Bites.

It's definitely a different world. And the author(s) definitely have dropped you into the middle of it without a lot to go on. But I think that's a sign of a really good author - they can teach you their world through the story-telling and not just a bunch of data-dump. So while I don't necessarily understand everything (yet) about Kate's world, I don't feel completely lost in it and the story is keeping my interest to learn about the world as well as about the story itself. And as I've heard so much about Curran... I'm dying to meet him. Not quite there yet!

[Annika]

Eldarwen wrote: "What's the silly book, Annalisa? Might be something we enjoy as well?

Yeah it is very, very quiet. My lame attempt at conversation the other day didn't really catch anyone's attention either ;-)..."

You are on the right track :) I'm re-reading the entire enemy series so that I have everything fresh for Enemy Within. I'm going to harass the publisher later this week to find out when the ARCs will be available :D
I finished book 1 yesterday and went straight for book 2 :)

[Eldarwen]

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll get an ARC, and soon! :-)

Oooh that's awesome, LaurLa!! :-D
I agree, it's definitely a sign of a good author (in my book anyhow) when they throw you in and teach you the necessities gradually throughout the story and through the characters themselves. It isn't always easy to follow, but it makes for good reading.
So excited for you to meet Curran! You'll have to let us know what you think! :-)

[LaurLa]

I'm frustrated that I have to be at work today and can't keep reading!!!

[Annalisa]

My silly book is the life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo. I have way to much stuff. Not sure it would be for anyone else, unless you have a desire to discard and organize your belongings.

[Eldarwen]

LaurLa wrote: "I'm frustrated that I have to be at work today and can't keep reading!!!"

Good sign!!!

[Eldarwen]

I've been told a few times already that tidying up with such a book might actually do you some good. Not sure if it was the same author or not, but an acquaintance of mine got rid of a looooot of stuff.

Has it helped you? Or is it helping?

[Annalisa]

It helped some. I tried a few years ago and got stuck. I'm starting over now and I'm being a little more organized with how I go about the sorting and discarding. Hopefully it goes better this time. The books were really hard the first time so I'm not looking forward to sorting them into keep and give away.

[Eldarwen]

I think that's the part I'd have the most trouble with. Discarding books. Everything else, I'm starting to slowly weed out. There is just too much stuff lying around and it's starting to put me on edge.

Maybe I should look into that book - if only to get a few ideas not because I want to do it properly. Because decluttering on the bookfront? Naah...

[Annalisa]

The author sets out an order for you to sort categories. It starts with clothes which was pretty easy, although I realize now I could have gone even farther. Next is books. I do read books that have been on my shelves for years but haven't gotten to yet. I ended up doing that a little different I sorted into what I had read and what I hadn't read. Then I sorted the read into keep and not keep. I gave away over 100 books in that category. Then of the ones I hadn't read I let go of about 50 because I had not interest in reading them. I think they were likely given to me by someone who handed me a box of books. Now when I finish a book I own I decide immediately keep or let go. Most of the time I let them go because I won't reread it.

Paper came next and that was more difficult than I thought it would be. From there the categories are less specified until you get to the last which is memorabilia.

I'm hoping to make it all the way through this time. Last time I got stuck in paper because I kept finding memorabilia and not putting it aside for later. I'll let you know how it goes this time. Hopefully I'm able to let go of the things I don't need.

[LaurLa]

Annalisa wrote: "
The author sets out an order for you to sort categories. It starts with clothes which was..."

That sounds like a really great way to go about it. I wonder, do you do all rooms at once, or go by the suggested order room by room? or does it matter?

[Annalisa]

The author says all of one category at once. I'll use books as an example, so if you have books in multiple places (rooms) you sort them all at once and in one location. It helps to see everything. When you put things away afterwards, it helps with creating a better storage system having everything in that category ready to be put away.

[Eldarwen]

That really is an interesting way to go about it!

But if you do it category by category and not room by room, don't you end up having piles of various things lying about and accumulating until you are ready to put them back into place? Or do you put them back in place right away?

I'm just trying to picture the actual organisation of this when you're doing it item after item.

[LaurLa]

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Magic Bites - Ilona Andrews
Read: 03.07
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
1 - Book 1
2 - T - character Ted Moynohan
5 - I - author Illona Andrews
6 - S - character Jim Shrapshire
9 - N - character Nick the Crusader
Skip - K - character Kate Daniels
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards
Reverse - Elderwen read Oct 2014

[Annika]

[Annalisa]

Eldarwen wrote: "That really is an interesting way to go about it!

But if you do it category by category and not room by room, don't you end up having piles of various things lying about and accumulating until you..."

The way I understand is you sort one category and then you put it away. Putting it away may displace something else. Marie Kondo has some interesting ideas about putting things away. "Everything has a home", and if you find the home for your belongings you won't have to tidy because you will always put things back where their home is after you are done using them.

If you didn't have other people to annoy with your piles of belongings, it might be beneficial to leave them all on the floor until you were done sorting everything. I don't have that luxury though, so I will be putting things away after I sort them.

[Eldarwen]

Yay, LaurLa!! And??? End verdict?? :-))

[Eldarwen]

Hmm, true, finding a home for your things make everything much less untidy and it automatically looks less like clutter. I do have one room where currently everything is just being piled up as I wait for a moment of peace where I can just start sorting through it all and sort into rubbish and useful.

So maybe, maybe... without the book's guidance... I'm feeling motivated all of a sudden hehe.