Book's Alive! (Team 8)

[D.G.]

Completion Post

Task: Energy
Book: by Benedict Jacka
Date Read: 10/7
Pages: 313
Rating: ★★★★

[D.G.]

I'm reading another Energy book:

[Jane]

Completion Post


Task: Legs/Feet:
Book:
Poor Little Witch Girl by Robin Roseau
Date Read: 10/7-17
Pages: 246
Rating: ★★★
How it Fits: Only legs on cover

[Jane]

I'm going to read Frankenstein next week and I think that would look since we are building his monster. :-)

[~Melissa~]

starting my hands book now :)

[Bunnita (Worth Reading It?)]

Completion post

task: legs/feet
Date read: 10/7
Pages: 155
rating: 3stars
How it fits: legs on cover
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Marty]

Completion Post

Task: Science Fiction
Book Read:
Author: S.A. Huchton
Date Finished: 10/7/17
Pages: 429
Rating: 5 stars
How it fits: Has science fiction as one of the top genres on its page

[D.G.]

Jane wrote: "Completion Post


Task: Legs/Feet:
Book:
Poor Little Witch Girl by Robin Roseau
Date Read: 10/7-17
Pages: 246
Rating: ★★★
How it Fits: ..."

Hi Jane - I'll use this book for energy because Bunnita posted her read for legs. Thanks!

[Book Concierge]

COMPLETION POST

Task: Brains: Nonfiction
Book: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
Date finished - 07Oct17
pages - 496
rating - 3***

[Book Concierge]

D.G. -

On the spreadsheet I notice that you have ME as reading historical ... I'm NOT reading historical ... I think Jane is doing that category.

I signed on for Brains: Nonfiction -and- Setting: Europe

[D.G.]

For updated reads, please check Message #2 - that post includes all the reads up to date plus all the book selections.

(I created a spreadsheet because it was required by the mods but it's really not necessary and more work to maintain than just updating message 2 manually. When we're done with the challenge, I'll just updated it backwards using the info from post 2.)

[D.G.]

Completion Post

Task: X in Cover
Book: by Laurelin Paige
Date Read: 10/8
Pages: 302
Rating: ★★½
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[D.G.]

Update!

Completed: 14/ 21 ~ Watts: 500

Tasks left to read (7):
Set in College
Arms/Hands
5 Energy

[~Melissa~]

Completion Post

Task: Hands
by Isobel Starling
238 pgs
Finished 10/8/17
Rating 5 stars

Side note ~ OMG had no idea it would have a ton of quotes from The Princess Bride ~ loved it ~ favorite movie of mine!! After I read it thought Duh with the name of the book you idiot :)

[D.G.]

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Task: Energy
Book: by Tessa Bailey
Date Read: 10/10
Pages: 336
Rating: ★★★½
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[~Melissa~]

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Task: Energy
by R. Cooper
Finished 10/10/17
Pgs 192
Rating 2★

[D.G.]

Update!

Completed: 17/ 21 ~ Watts: 700

Tasks left to read (4):
Set in College
3 Energy (two of these are unassigned so they are first come first serve...)

[Book Concierge]

COMPLETION POST -

Task - Energy / watts
Date finished - 09Oct17
Book - Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
Pages - 295
Rating - 3.5***

[Book Concierge]

Have you seen that Lanelle has now added a BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN set of tasks to also build because the teams are almost done and we're only 9 days into the competition....

Are we going to try to build the bride as well?
Do we want to reassign any of the books currently assigned to"energy" (If they fit any of the Bride tasks, that is ...)

[~Melissa~]

I'm currently reading a 2nd book in a trilogy that would work for the bride and I'm about to start a mystery book that would work for her stolen heart.

I love the Bride idea!

[Jane]

I also think we can do the bride.

[D.G.]

Book Concierge wrote: "Have you seen that Lanelle has now added a BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN set of tasks to also build because the teams are almost done and we're only 9 days into the competition....

Are we going to try to ..."

I didn't notice! Let me check it out...

I'm also up for the bride...please let me know if you're not up for it...

[D.G.]

Ok, here are the tasks for the bride...I'll move one of the "the two people on cover" from the 'Energy' in Frankie to Bridie. :)

For those of you who read 'energy' books, please let me know if they fit any of these tasks so I can move them to the bride, specially those that relate to MCs i.e. scars, black hair, medical, etc.

THE MOVIE
Made into a movie
2nd in Series
Wedding happens

THE BRIDE
MC has prominent scars
MC has black hair
MC wears a white dress
1 medical MC (for the bandages)
1 genius MC (for the brains)
Mystery novel (for her stolen heart)
Red cover (for the blood)

[D.G.]

Start requesting your bride tasks!

I can pretty much read any of these but those that relate to the MCs are more difficult to find so I'll have to start checking book descriptions.

[Book Concierge]

D.G. .... you're missing one task for "about the movie" ..."only two people on the cover"

I've got only two people on cover and mystery (stolen heart)


ALSO ... we need another 10 books for energy for the bride.

[~Melissa~]

I can take the #2 in a trilogy - I'm doing one right now Cronin's Key II and I'll be starting a mystery book this week - so I can take 'the stolen heart' task. It's Murder, My Son

None of my energy books work for anything for the bride :(

If you need us to take more than 2 tasks - I can do the MC black hair as I'm going to listen to Silence Fallen - Mercy has black hair

...but I don't want to take too many tasks right out of the hop. So I'll work on the first two I put down and see what others take

[Jane]

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Task: 1 genius MC (for the brains)
Book:
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Date Read: 10/11-17
Pages: 227
Rating: ★★★★
How it fits: Frankestein is a genius

[Jane]

I don't know if we want to use it for the Bride.

Frankenstein's monster is described to have black hair
Loc 662. His hair was of a lustrous black,

The book is of course also made into a movie

I would also say that Frankenstein himself was a genius as he built his monster.

[D.G.]

Book Concierge wrote: "D.G. .... you're missing one task for "about the movie" ..."only two people on the cover".

"ALSO ... we need another 10 books for energy for the bride."

I'm not missing that task...I had said in the beginning of post 123 that I would move one of the "energy" tasks with two people in the cover from Frankie (Frankenstein) to Bridie (the Bride).

ALSO, right now I'm concentrating in coordinating for the non-Energy tasks, just like I did with the first monster. The Energy Tasks don't need to be assigned right now and can be read first come first serve. We read almost 18 books as a team in 10 days or so, so we should be fine with an additional 21 books in 2 1/2 weeks.

I've been captain dozens of times in games...I got this. ;)

[D.G.]

Jane wrote: "I don't know if we want to use it for the Bride.

Frankenstein's monster is described to have black hair
Loc 662. His hair was of a lustrous black,

The book is of course also made into a movie."

Oh totally! We shouldn't waste that on energy! I think we should use it for 'Made Into a Movie'! (I think genius might be easier to find in other contexts).

[D.G.]

I'm keeping track of the Bride in Message 3 but here's the rundown of the movie/setting tasks and what's taken.

THE MOVIE
Made into a movie - Jane (previously Frankie Energy - already read)
2nd in Series - Melissa
Wedding happens
Two People in Cover - D.G. (previously Frankie Energy - already read)

THE BRIDE
MC has prominent scars
MC has black hair - D.G.
MC wears a white dress
1 medical MC (for the bandages)
1 genius MC (for the brains)
Mystery novel (for her stolen heart) - Book Concierge? (not sure from your post if you had a book for this? )
Red cover (for the blood)

[Jane]

I’ll just add that in my completion post then.

[D.G.]

FYI...I can find a book for pretty much every single Bride task left, I'll just need some time to find them. If you have any issue with the tasks, remember there are energy tasks left for both so you can pick those up.

[~Melissa~]

Bride of Frankenstein Task Done ~ 2nd in a series

Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker

Finished 10/11/17
Rating 4♥
195 pgs
How it fits: #2 in Cronin's Key series

[~Melissa~]

DG ~ I just started a mystery book for the Bride task (Stolen Heart) [*book:It's Murder, My Son|8688021]
and I spoke too soon about Silence Fallen. I know Mercy has black hair but there is no mention in the book about her hair ....or anyone else's being black in this one....bummer :( I'll use it as a task as I've picked it for SOS Bingo Science fiction book

[D.G.]

~Melissa~ wrote: "Bride of Frankenstein Task Done ~ 2nd in a series

Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker"

Hey Melissa - Just FYI...you used the wrong cover here...the book in the link is 2nd in a series but the cover is the 1st in the series...

[D.G.]

~Melissa~ wrote: "DG ~ I just started a mystery book for the Bride task (Stolen Heart) [*book:It's Murder, My Son|8688021]
and I spoke too soon about Silence Fallen. I know Me..."

Hi Melissa - I'm not sure if Tessa (Book Concierge) asked for a Mystery genre just before your post so I'm checking with her. If she didn't, you'll use that for the task...or if not, we can always use it for Energy! (Also watch out if the MC wears a white dress at some point!)

[D.G.]

Re-Black Hair...I'm reading this for Bingo where Julius, the MC, has black hair.


Quote from the first book in the series...
"In the end, he had to settle for mostly clean, raking his shaggy black hair into some semblance of order with his fingers and wishing he’d had a chance to get it trimmed before his life had gone down the drain. "

[D.G.]

Something funny...I was checking this listopia called "Scars is Sexy" (link below) to see if I found a book that fit the scars task and found out that I've read 50 out 100!!! I guess this trope is very popular in the books I read!

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

Anyhow, I won't pick any more tasks because I have two already BUT as if nobody can find a book for this that fits, I also can pick this.

[~Melissa~]

D.G. wrote: "Re-Black Hair...I haven't picked my Science Fiction book for Bingo but my choices are


I'm reading this as Julius, the MC, has black hair.

Quote..."


I have this series (I think 1 and 2) on my tbr. I keep hearing good things about it.

[~Melissa~]

D.G. wrote: "~Melissa~ wrote: "DG ~ I just started a mystery book for the Bride task (Stolen Heart) [*book:It's Murder, My Son|8688021]
and I spoke too soon about Silence..."

Sounds good - I'll keep an eye out for what Tessa reads and go from there.

[~Melissa~]

D.G. wrote: "Something funny...I was checking this listopia called "Scars is Sexy" (link below) to see if I found a book that fit the scars task and found out that I've read 50 out 100!!! I guess this trope is ..."

I just checked I've read 51 from the list, lol.

[Jane]

D.G. wrote: "Start requesting your bride tasks!

I can pretty much read any of these but those that relate to the MCs are more difficult to find so I'll have to start checking book descriptions."

Yes, I don’t think we will have any problem finishing these tasks but some of them might just turn up while we are reading.

[D.G.]

~Melissa~ wrote: "I have this series (I think 1 and 2) on my tbr. I keep hearing good things about it."

This series is AMAZING. The world building is really interesting with a very unique magic system, the most original MC in UF and the plots are so intricate that you have no clue how things will be resolved and what's going to happen.

In a genre where every MC is either kickass or learns how to, Julius' superpower is that he's nice in a world where dragons are supposed to be ruthless. He's optimistic, always tries for the "win-win" scenario, never gives up and always finds a way when everybody has given up. In the first book he's literally the runt of the litter (or the clutch in this case), a dragon everybody walks on and by the end of the third book, he's changed his whole clan.

Oh and the women are the scariest characters in the series. His mother is both horrible and hilarious and some of his sisters are the type that you would run away from if you find them in a dark alley.

I TOTALLY recommend it. Oh and the audiobook narrator is so freaking good!

[D.G.]

~Melissa~ wrote: "I just checked I've read 51 from the list, lol. "

LOL, glad to see it wasn't only me!! hahahaha!!

[D.G.]

I've keep checking listopias for some of the tasks...here are two about weddings:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

[~Melissa~]

D.G. wrote: "~Melissa~ wrote: "I just checked I've read 51 from the list, lol. "

LOL, glad to see it wasn't only me!! hahahaha!!"

well....I'm guessing you and I have both read the series that are on there, lol BDB, IAD, Dark Hunter etc :D along with a few others thrown in

[~Melissa~]

D.G. wrote: "~Melissa~ wrote: "I have this series (I think 1 and 2) on my tbr. I keep hearing good things about it."

This series is AMAZING. The world building is really interesting with a very unique magic sy..."

good to hear narrator is good as I have them in audio :)

[Book Concierge]

COMPLETION POST

Task: Energy / Watts
Book / Author - / Simon Van Booy
Date finished - 11Oct17
Pages - 212
Rating - 3.5***

[Book Concierge]

D.G. wrote: "Mystery novel (for her stolen heart) - Book Concierge? (not sure from your post if you had a book for this? ) ..."

Yes .. currently reading MYSTERY book: Murder in the Paperback Parlor ... but if someone else wants Mystery you can slot this one for energy/watts. Just let me know.