Team 3 Reporting: Arses Kicked

[KimeyDiann]

I will finish The Seventh Bride tonight. It fits in the "walking the dog" task. A miller's daughter is engaged to marry a noble lord, who also happens to be a magician/sorcerer.

[Deborah]

for Fairy Tale -

for An Affair to remember Month - I swear I would only read this annoying author of multiple moronic women for such a challenge. Yuck, yuck, double yuck!
20 points - I deserve at least 50!

[jaxnsmom]

Annette wrote: "Finished for Open That Bottle Night... if you look at their feet there are spilled beverages. I assume the beverage still counts even if it's been spilled."

Don't forget to make a new drink to represent your book.

[Travis]

I finished The Terminal Man for Lame Duck Day. Goodreads has a rating of 3.3. I personally felt it was worth a 4. I enjoy Crichton's writing and often times he was ahead of the game with his concepts and visions for science. often times we end up passing him by or proving him right or wrong. I think it is important to realize when crichton was writing the particular book you are reading.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I read Trailer Park Fae for the American Pie holiday "Great American Pie Month" so 20 points.

It ties into this verse:

And while Lennon read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
We were singin'

It could have been a trailer park. And one of the main characters sings people to death. The fae have to hide at dark so they don't die. And there were four main characters, who were from faerie.

[Lara]

Okay, I have the object of my flirting. Of living people I would like to flirt with John Cusack. Of previous stars, I would like to flirt with Yul Brynner.

[Lara]

And I finished listening to for American Heart Month - (view spoiler)[someone is killed due to being shot over and over with a nail gun (hide spoiler)].

[Sam F]

Ughh my skin is crawling - I do profess I hate romance novels. In particular teenage angsty romance novels. It was such a short book but painful to get through. I did it though - with bouts of reading a great non-fiction/true crime in between!.

For • An Affair to Remember Month - I read - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn. It has the main page genre of romance. I hope we get the 20 points as a result. You couldn't pay me to see the movie. :)

[Annette]

Finished for Tell a Fairytale Day... it's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast and takes place in the magic land of the Beast's imprisonment.

[Lara]

I just finished reading for National Children's Dental Health Month.

[Deborah]

Sam F wrote: "Ughh my skin is crawling - I do profess I hate romance novels. In particular teenage angsty romance novels. It was such a short book but painful to get through. I did it though - with bouts of read..."

yes, it was revolting.....as per my review!

[Peg]

I just finished reading . I also ate a bit of pizza while I was reading. Unfortunately that food truck eluded me when I went looking, so I ended up making my own. I love mushrooms on my pizza, but a spicy chicken is my go to! Gave me a few extra bonus points!
I had planned on getting a few more books in, but life had other plans. It was great seeing what others were reading, growing my tbr list and, sigh, I believe eating a little dust!

[Kristie, Moderator]

Sam F wrote: "Ughh my skin is crawling - I do profess I hate romance novels. In particular teenage angsty romance novels. It was such a short book but painful to get through. I did it though - with bouts of read..."

Oh yes...teenage angsty romance novels are awful! They're even worse when they have a love triangle...ugh.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I finished What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the Oscar Night task. I thought it was good.

I saw the movie years ago, but to be honest don't really remember it. All I can say to compare the two is that I rated the movie 4 stars online and I think I'm rating the book 3 stars. I'd probably give it 3.5 stars if possible. So, I guess the movie was slightly better. I know that Johnny Depp played Gilbert and Leonardo DiCaprio played Arnie and they both put in amazing performances. I read somewhere that during the awards season Leonardo was not nominated for an award because people thought he was actually mentally retarded. He played the role that well!

[Deborah]

I suddenly thought of the perfect book for American Pie for this stanza:

"When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me"

So I got it out and read it -

(Oberon, Titania and Puck, of course - oh, and the ass's head as the 'coat')

20 points


Should be able to knock off one more fairy tale or something before bed.....as I am certainly not getting up before the six am finish (your 12 noon)!

[Lynn]

for National Pistachio Day

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for National Pizza Day.

I ate pizza while reading. Evidence:


(on instagram hashtagged #tbrtoppler if you want to check when it was posted and not linking an old photo)

15 points

[Deborah]

did you enjoy it, Rusalka?

the book, not the yummy pizza!

[Travis]

I believe you Rusalka. But then I've eaten pizza 5 times this week which is fairly normal for me so I'd never doubt the eating of pizza.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I did, Deborah. I've put it off for years as I thought it must have been overrated (even by my Mum who told me to read it asap). It was sweet (and I can see your criticisms), but I really loved the characters and I thought it touched on some big issues in WWII, some of which I hadn't heard of. I will go and explore those more, but was a welcome read. Particularly after the one before it. And sorry Mum.

The pizza was also well enjoyed. Supreme, no pineapple, added garlic, yes I want the chilli, yes I want the anchovies.

And Travis, I would be eating it that often along with you if I did as much physical work as you!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

And sorry for the delay in responding. The eldest chicken roosted on my wrist for the night, promptly went to sleep with the mouse under her wing, and wasn't moving for anyone.

[Deborah]

I am glad you enjoyed it....it was sweet, despite my criticisms! And the Channel Islands occupation was real, I have seen the tunnels and the prisons.

My very final read.....just finished was for American Pie, same stanza as the last:

"When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me"



Any amount of kings, 2 queens and a dwarf as jester.....and Aslan's voice

20 points!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Deborah wrote: "I am glad you enjoyed it....it was sweet, despite my criticisms! And the Channel Islands occupation was real, I have seen the tunnels and the prisons."

I have no doubt. I don't know what it's like in NZ, but we have a very limited narrative in Aus about WWII. We sort of talk about the very big details of the war, and those that affect Aus. But we don't tend to talk about things like the Channel Islands, or the occupation of Eastern Europe for example. Books like this are great as they show I need to go an learn more.

Would have been a lovely part of the world to visit!

And I love Prince Caspian as we are introduced to Reepicheep!

[Lynn]

American Pie - I'm not very good at interpreting words to songs so I'm not sure if I've done this right .... but thought I'd give it a go.

"Did you write the Book of Love
And do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so"



An m/m romance, where one of the MC's is from a very religious family who don't accept him and is major part of the plotline, including (view spoiler)[on his birthday sending him a bible versus highlighted with post it notes telling him he's an abomination etc. (hide spoiler)]. A heartbreaking part of the story which influenced a lot of the book.

20 points.

If my interpretation doesn't work then put it down as Hoodie Hoo Day

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Sounds to me like it fits. Love, faith, big g God, the Bible. I'd say you're good

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Urgh flirting role play.

Umm... He'd say


And I'd say "Let's play weeping angels. Everytime I look at you, you get..."
Actually, this got MA15+ rated quicker than I imagined.

[Lynn]

And I got there with the last book!

Borrowing Trouble for Hoodie Hoo Day

[Kristie, Moderator]

I finished Scrappy Little Nobody for Pistachio Day!

[Lori Z]

I finished Two to Mango for Ground Hog Day. Book is set in Kauai which is where I'd love to be for the month of February.

[Kristie, Moderator]

It looks like we ended up with 980 points. Nice work everyone!

[Kristie, Moderator]

OK...upon second review, it looks like I may have missed something earlier and we ended with 995 points! Let me know if any of my points or math is wrong.

[Deborah]

Rusalka wrote: "Deborah wrote: "I am glad you enjoyed it....it was sweet, despite my criticisms! And the Channel Islands occupation was real, I have seen the tunnels and the prisons."

I have no doubt. I don't kno..."

well, I am English born and went back there and spent 20 years in England and Europe between age 32 and 52 then came back for Family reasons. In NZ it's much similar to what you described which can seem a bit....unreal when you grew up with the English/European thing. They are like....'oh we were afraid Japan would invade' and I'm like....'REALLY?' Aus had it much harder.

Reepicheep is the best!

[Deborah]

Ha! so we came second by a very small margin with sick team mates - very well done indeed to the best Teamies around!

[Kristie, Moderator]

Yes, it seems it was quite close!