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I need to actually go through my collection and see if I have any bingos. I should be finished with Persuasion later this week.
Eldarwen wrote: "Only 2 stars? Hmm... What was it that bugged you about the book?"
The characters were flat for me, the initial world building was new and unique, but that was painted across everything. I had really high hopes. From the discussion it looks like it’s one of those love or hate books :)
That is the cutest baby sloth ever!!
Since I watched all the movies on my flight here ;). It means I’ll be reading on the flight home this week, so I should get a lot of pages in! I’ll leave a few biggies for then.
Where are you flying from? I forgot where everyone is on vacation to. :)
I’ll be flying from Prague to New Mexico (US), 18 hours of flying and transferring around ;)
Yikes. I tend to dislike air travel, so good luck! Drink tons of water. :)I don't have any bingos on my TBR physical shelves, unfortunately. However, I have a butt ton of blue covers so I'm going to be aiming for those, since there is a prize for getting points related to our team sin.
Blue covers have been the hardest for me, I think I depleted most during last big challenge! I might just have to take a look at the library...hmm...might do that now...
These were on the sloth (blue) listopia, but want to verify color with you all...
Thanks!
Completion Post
10/15
3 stars
320 pages
Sin: Vanity, Contemporary MPG
Alternate: Avarice, anything goes
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Thanks!"
Both blue!
And Brent Weeks is a fab writer! Might read that one as well.
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I don't have any bingos on my TBR physical shelves, unfortunately. However, I have a butt ton of blue covers so I'm going..."
Anything Sloth related would be great :-)
I have so many blue covers. Like, of all the covers I think I could count for a color, only two of them aren't blue.Here are all my blue TBRs:
The last two are parts of series. All the Lunar Chronicles books are blue covers, so if I have time I might just re-read the first four before reading the epilogue book I haven't read yet.
Eldarwen wrote: "Snowtulip wrote: "These were on the sloth (blue) listopia, but want to verify color with you all...Thanks!"
Both blue!
A..."
The Black Prism is great! Thought I’d do a reread of the series since the new book is out later this month...finally!
Joy wrote: "I have so many blue covers. Like, of all the covers I think I could count for a color, only two of them aren't blue.Here are all my blue TBRs:
[bookcover:Pachinko|3405..."Oh, I got Pachinko for my birthday (a real paper book!)...I’ll need to finally read it :)
Also need to remember to eventually add my paper books to GRs.
Completion Post
Date Read: 10/12 (I had some irl distractions and couldn't post, so sorry!!)
4 stars
Pages: 421
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: LGBT+
Alternate: Gluttony (Pink cover)
Rachel wrote: "Completion PostDate Read: 10/12 (I had some irl distractions and couldn't post, so sorry!!)
4 stars
Pages: 421
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: LGBT+
Alternate: G..."
That book was so incredibly sweet! Can’t wait for the author to write another book!
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Date Read: 10/12 (I had some irl distractions and couldn't post, so sorry!!)
4 stars
Pages: 421
Sin: Vanity
Criteria: LGBT+
Alternate: G..."
Not to worry, Rachel! Happens to all of us :-)
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Here are all my blue TBRs:
[bookcover:Pachinko|3405..."I... am once again being difficult on the cover colours, sorry haha. If you have a physical edition and can confirm that they look bluer in real life than on the screen, I'm all for remedying my opinion!
The only ones that are blue enough on that list (for me) are:
Gemina
Cold Mountain
Stars Above
The others are either not >50% (Ink and Bone, A Crown of Swords, Pachinko) or don't have enough of a blue tinge.
Thunderstruck is the one I'm not sure about. It looks like it could be a dark and slightly washed-out blue but the screen makes it hard to tell.
Mod
How was Prague?? :-D
Eldarwen wrote: "Joy wrote: "I have so many blue covers. Like, of all the covers I think I could count for a color, only two of them aren't blue.Here are all my blue TBRs:
[bookcover:P..."I'm a little bit frustrated by cover colors this go around. They're worth so many points and there's no objective measure of what a cover color is, like there used to be with TinEye. All of these look blue to me IRL. Even if TinEye sometimes got it wrong, at least there was some objective way of identifying the covers.
Sorry for the rant. I'll leave it to you and the other captain to decide what color they are.
It was adorable SnowTulip!!!! I absolutely loved it. And my shelf has been updated!
Okay, here's a question for captains! I realized that I'm reading an abridged copy of Les Mis-- if I finish this abridged copy and go back later to read the bits that weren't present in this copy, would we be able to swap out which edition of Les Mis I read for more pages/points?
Completion Post, Book 14Book: Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Date Read: 16/10
Pages: 544
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Color - Blue:
Genre: MPG > Dark Fantasy
Stacie wrote: "Completion Post
10/14
280 pages
4 stars
Sin: Vanity, tagged contemporary x9
Alternate: Lust, look at the cover"
I love your reason Stacie for Lust 😂 Couldn't agree more 😍
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Ah, no, sorry. We use the edition you've actually read. While it's completely up to you whether or not you want to go read the bits that have been edited out (I assume, it's partially the massive tangents and descriptions), we can't swap out editions/books.
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It only becomes difficult when covers have variations of a colour that are hard to define (shades of aqua/teal/turquoise for example) or when there is a lot of other stuff happening on the cover as well, especially when those other things are in a colour that easily distracts from the one you want.
That being said, I'll give you Ink and Bone as well as it's more of a dark blue than black as I initially thought (work computer and home computer show colours sliiightly differently). But I've seen the Tom Hanks book IRL and it is more of a greenish turquoise to me than blue, sorry :-/
Joy,
and
are also blue enough.But a categorical NO to Panchiko / Spinning Silver / Thunderstruck (they all look grey to me) and Tom Hanks (green).
Fair enough. I'm good with what y'all have decided. :)I couldn't decide whether the Tom Hanks was blue or green. Thunderstruck looks pretty blue to me irl... I can try to post a picture later, but I'm also ok with it if you guys don't want to count it.
Completion PostLover Mine
Rating: 5 stars
Date Read: 10/16/19
Pages: 528
Sin: Lust
Criteria: Red cover, guilty pleasure on first page, lusty cover
Alternate: Gluttony (long series)
Sin Bingo: Yes
BOM: N
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Blue enough?"
Tricky one!
I'd be on the fence, but the overall cover is blue, and I think it falls along the lines of Joy's A Crown of Swords, which Melinda approved as more than 50%, so I think we can say yes to this one as well.
hi team, back from holiday. I'll be posting 3 books for this week...just need to have a little look to see where they fit! :)
Mod
Yay, bring on all the books!
How was your holiday? :-)
Eldarwen wrote: "Gemma wrote: "hi team, back from holiday. I'll be posting 3 books for this week...just need to have a little look to see where they fit! :)"Yay, bring on all the books!
How was your holiday? :-)"
Amazing thank you!! sad to be back home to normal life.
Completion PostBook: The Holiday
Author: T.M. Logan
Date Read: 16/10/19
Pages: 496 pages
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Cover
Justification: Blue cover
Alternate: Avarice (anything goes)
Sin Bingo: N
BOM: N
I'm going to read that one soon. I wish it had dark fantasy so it could be a bingo but it doesn't. Can I go find like 80 random people to add it? KIDDING!!
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I'm going to read that one soon. I wish it had dark fantasy so it could be a bingo but it doesn't. Can I go find like 80 random people to add it? KIDDING!!"
How do people not have that tagged as Dark Fantasy?? D-:
Certainly not on the first page of tags unless I missed it. I went to page two to see if it was close to page one and nope.
Gemma wrote: "hi team, back from holiday. I'll be posting 3 books for this week...just need to have a little look to see where they fit! :)"Welcome back!
Completion Post, Book 15, SIN BingoBook: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
Date Read: 16/10
Pages: 405
Sin: Lust
Criteria:
- Color: Red:
- Genre: Guilty Pleasure: Shelved 26 times
- Criteria: Books that you lust after: 29,708 people have read it and it has a gorgeous cover.
Another possible for book for Sin Bingo:Book: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
Sin: Lust
Criteria:
- Color: Red:
- Genre: Guilty Pleasure: Shelved 114 times
- Criteria: Books that you lust after (everybody has read but you - 192,198 people have read it)
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Book: Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris"
Around that time in the series, the books are still quite decent, so if you haven't read the series, go for it! The first ones go down really nice and easy.
Eldarwen wrote: "Snowtulip wrote: "Blue enough?"
Tricky one!
I'd be on the fence, but the overall cover is blue, and I think it falls along the ..."
Seconded. Blue enough.
Completion PostIt Happened One Autumn
Rating: 4 stars
Date Read: 10/17/19
Pages: 400
Sin: Lust
Criteria: Red cover, guilty pleasure on first page, lusty cover
Alternate: Gluttony (historical)
Sin Bingo: Yes
BOM: N
Mod
It Happened One Autumn
"I liked that one :-)
And the ending!! It made me itch to read the next one because right now, I am NOT liking the Duke. Though he seemed so cool in the Ravenel series!
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10/15
346 pages
3 stars
Sin: Vanity, tagged contemporary x9
Alternate: Lust, cover