Team Interplanetary Biscotti

[Ambi]

Ashley wrote: "Daniela wrote: "I'm currently reading for sports MPG, in case you wanna read another book instead :)"

I feel like this is a stupid question, but what is MPG?

Also, does buying cereal at a gas sta..."

MPG is an abbreviation Goodreaders use to say that the tag should be in the Main Page of the book link.

[Ashley]

Ambi wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Daniela wrote: "I'm currently reading for sports MPG, in case you wanna read another book instead :)"

I feel like this is a stupid question, but what is MPG?

Also, does buying cere..."

Thanks! I mostly only use Goodreads for tracking my books, so I didn't know... but that makes sense!

[Ashley]

Sorry to be SUPER obnoxious but I just read: "I push my carts through Walmart and Winn-Dixie, schlep the merchandise to the trunk and steer my car straight back to a house that is starting to feel more and more like a prison." Good enough for shopping? In case you can't tell, I apparently REALLY want one of my books to work for shopping.

[Ambi]

Haha. I bet that works Ashley.

[Christina]

Ashley wrote: "Daniela wrote: "I'm currently reading for sports MPG, in case you wanna read another book instead :)"

I feel like this is a stupid question, but what is MPG?

Also, does buying cereal at a gas sta..."

MPG means Main Page Genre = the genres that show up on the main page of a book on goodreads. I hope that makes sense. for this mini challenge, we don't need any MPGs though, just 'tagged' adventure, sports or science-fiction is enough :)

not sure about buying cereal at a gas station. what does everybody else think?
I could still move HP1 over to the shopping task if someone has a book where somebody owns a dog.

[Christina]

Ambi wrote: "Is this a glass?

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it's a goblet, I don't think it'll count, but we can decide as a team if anybody wants to weigh in :)

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I can do a drink on the cover since I'm reading Live and Let Chai (if this will work)

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Title: Poison Is Not Polite
Author: Robin Stevens
Date: 3/22/20
How it works:

2- book #2 in a series
3 - character Hetty (H) ; character Hazel (H)
4- character Felix (F) ; set at Fallingford (F)
6- character Saskia (S) ; character Stephan (S) ; author Robin Stevens (S)
Skip - title starting with P ; character Kitty (K) ;

Mini challenge:
#25- a character who goes to a party - the characters go to Daisy Well's birthday party

[Christina]

Ashley wrote: "Sorry to be SUPER obnoxious but I just read: "I push my carts through Walmart and Winn-Dixie, schlep the merchandise to the trunk and steer my car straight back to a house that is starting to feel ..."

sorry I missed this last night, I was dumb and didn't realize we were on a new page already *facepalm* it does work imo, they clearly were out shopping :)

[Christina]

Christina wrote: " would you say there's a blanket on this cover? or is my mind just playing tricks on me? x)"

to go back to this - the shortbread is lying on a checkered tin box, but behind it there's some more checkered stuff - is it a blanket?!

[Christina]

Natalie wrote: "
Title: Poison Is Not Polite
Author: Robin Stevens
Date: 3/22/20
How it works:"

this isn't on your uno shelf yet ;)

[Christina]

Natalie wrote: "I can do a drink on the cover since I'm reading Live and Let Chai (if this will work)"

I'd say it works, there's still something left of the drink in the glass, right? ;) might also work for glasses (I just asked in the captains group if they want plural or if it can be just one glass too)

[Christina]

updated list of what we still need for part 1 of the mini challenge

on cover:
- a drink - claimed by Natalie
- a blanket - claimed by Daniela
- stars
- glasses (for drinking)
- work tools - claimed by Sandy

tagged:
- science-fiction

character who:
- goes shopping - claimed by Ashley

please let us know if you can cover any of these!

[Ambi]

I thought goblets were used for drinking. Man, my dreams of drinking like the monarchy has washed away. :)

Well, if it doesn't work for the mini-challenge, it will atleast work for the main.

[Christina]

Ambi wrote: "I thought goblets were used for drinking. Man, my dreams of drinking like the monarchy has washed away. :)

Well, if it doesn't work for the mini-challenge, it will atleast work for the main."

In my head a goblet isn't really a glass, although it's used for drinking. if that makes any sense lol.

but I was just told it needs to be glasses anyway. plural.

[Ashley]

Christina wrote: "updated list of what we still need for part 1 of the mini challenge

on cover:
- a drink - claimed by Natalie
- a blanket
- stars
- glasses (for drinking)
- work tools - claimed by Sandy

tagged:
-..."

Put me down for stars. Once I finish my current read I'll do

[Ashley]

Christina wrote: "Christina wrote: " would you say there's a blanket on this cover? or is my mind just playing tricks on me? x)"

to go back to this - the shortbread is lyin..."

I asked my husband by pointing to it and saying "What is this?" After getting a response of "I don't know, plaid?", I asked him what object it was and he said it was a tablecloth. I kind of see where he gets that because of the "slats of wood" in the front it looks like a table with a tablecloth. I'm not 100% committed to blanket or tablecloth on this one.

[Daniela]

I finished my book for the "tagged sports" task yesterday and I have around 40 pages left of my yellow cover book. I'll try to find another audio book I can listen to while playing video games (I play way too much lately), will let you guys know what it works for, once I chose one

[Christina]

Btw, audible is offering free books which you don't need a membership for. They're mainly books for kids and teens, so you'll have to figure out which books are okay to use for uno (everything longer than 3hrs). From what I've heard, this was created so kids currently don't /only/ sit in front of screens.
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

[Daniela]

Also, Paulo Coelho is offering a few of his books for free. https://paulocoelhoblog.com/books-online/

[Daniela]

I think I'll be listening/reading the first HP book for the task"tagged adventure". It's a quick read, I should be able to finish it easily before the month ends

[Christina]

I started listening to HP2 today x)

[Christina]

I'm already 35% in as I'm listening to 1.8x speed :D

Disney+ came out here today so I think we can guess what I'll be doing in the next couple of days lol so I'll try to listen to HP2 as much as possible today :)

According to my mum Spotify is currently free as well? Idk if it's true though...

[Ambi]

Title: The Beautiful
Author: Renee Ahdieh
Date: 3/24
How it works:

1 - #1 in series
6 - ch - Sebastian
9 - setting - New Orleans

[Daniela]

@Christina are you using your HP for tagged adventure? I'll look for another book then, haven't started yet :)

[Daniela]

So I'll be reading We Are Okay for "blanket on cover"

[Christina]

Daniela wrote: "@Christina are you using your HP for tagged adventure? I'll look for another book then, haven't started yet :)"

great, I already finished it :D

[Ashley]

Book: Love & Luck
Author: Jenna Evans Welch
Finished: 3/24/20

Uno:
2 - 2nd Book in a Series
5 - ch Ian and location Ireland

Mini: could count as takes a risk or someone is on a mission if something needs to get moved to cover a different mini challenge item.

Apparently, this one doesn't work for a whole lot, but it was a cute little book.

[Christina]

^ great, can you tell us how/why it works for the 'on a mission' prompt? I'll move Catching Fire over to tagged sci-fi then :)

[Daniela]

To all the creative people in here: can someone start to write a story with the book titles we have so far in part 2 of the mini challenge? :) we don't need to use the whole titles, just parts of them.

[Christina]

can we finish 16 more books this month? because that's what we'd need for the mini challenge. I don't think there's a need to start writing the story unless we finish all the prompts for part 1 and all 15 books for part 2.

[Christina]

I'll try to cover glasses (for drinking) with the audiobook of !

[Daniela]

The parts should be independent from each other? At least I understood it like that. We just won't get the finished bonus?

[Ashley]

Christina wrote: "^ great, can you tell us how/why it works for the 'on a mission' prompt? I'll move Catching Fire over to tagged sci-fi then :)"

This is kind of a mild spoiler I guess because we don't know what his plan is right away... so I'll just put SPOILER ALERT out there.

I consider it "on a mission"... Ian is on a mission to visit several spots in Ireland that are relevant to the history of his favorite band and make it to Electric Picnic to see them live without his parents finding out. (He is American and his parents think he is in Italy).

[Ashley]

Christina wrote: "can we finish 16 more books this month? because that's what we'd need for the mini challenge. I don't think there's a need to start writing the story unless we finish all the prompts for part 1 and..."

I should be finishing 1 more today. After that one, I will finish 1-2 more depending on how quickly I can get through A List of Cages. So I should be able to get a total of 2-3 more done by the end of the month.

[SandyL]

Title: That Secret Crush
Author: Meghan Quinn
Read: 3/23/20
How it works:
2 - title - That
3 - series # - Getting Lucky #3
7 - character - Victoria
8 - character - Eve
Skip - character - Reed Knightly

[SandyL]

Title: Fix Her Up
Author: Carey Heywood
Read: 3/24/20
How it works:
1 - series # - The Fix #1
2/9 - character - Noah Thompson
3 - author - Carey Heywood
4 - character - Finley

Mini challenge
#19 - tools on cover

[Ashley]

Book: The Last Breath
Author: Kimberly Belle
Finished: 3/25/20

Uno:
0 - Standalone
2 - set in Tennessee (Rogersville)
4 - ch surname Jake Foster
6 - ch surname Dean Sullivan
8 - ch first name Ella Mae

Mini: Gia goes shopping at Walmart and Winn-Dixie

[Ambi]

Book: Treasure Island
Author: R. L. Stevenson
Finished: 3/25/20

Uno:

0 - standalaone
2 - title
3 - ch - Hawkins
6 - author last name

[Christina]

Daniela wrote: "The parts should be independent from each other? At least I understood it like that. We just won't get the finished bonus?"

yes, but do we need to write a story if we haven't read 15 books for part 2? I honestly don't know...

[Christina]

updated list of what we still need for part 1 of the mini challenge

on cover:
- a drink - claimed by Natalie
- a blanket - claimed by Daniela
- stars
- glasses (for drinking) - claimed by Christina

a character who:
- starts something new - claimed by Christina


Can anybody cover a book that has stars on the cover?

For part 2 we need 8 more books. I think we could do it :)

[Ashley]

I'm taking care of stars on the cover. I I started A List of Cages today for this one. I claimed it previously, but it must've gotten mixed up in all of the other posts! :)

[Daniela]

Christina wrote: "Daniela wrote: "The parts should be independent from each other? At least I understood it like that. We just won't get the finished bonus?"

yes, but do we need to write a story if we haven't read ..."

I understood that we need to start it in order to claim the points? But we can always do it on the last day of the month

[Christina]

Sorry Ashley, I must have missed it

I'll most likely finish A Simple Favor for glasses today already. If not then tomorrow.

[Daniela]

I'll probably finish my ebook tomorrow or Saturday. I should be able to manage one more book then, probably a Nancy Drew book as they are quite quick to read.

[Christina]

So how's everybody doing at this point, especially mentally? Are you in a lockdown (sort of at least), do you still have to go to work? I hope everyone's staying safe and you don't feel too shut in yet.

[SandyL]

My work keeps changing their mind. I do taxes and last week we were working, then on Friday morning I got a text "absolutely do not come into the office." Then, on Monday they said to come back, but we can't have clients in the office. So we're making phone calls, sending emails and trying to prepare taxes virtually. At least our filing deadline has been moved from April to July.

[SandyL]

Title: The Viscount Who Loved Me
Author: Julia Quinn
Read: 3/27/20
How it works:
2 - series # - Bridgertons #2
4 - character - Penelope Featherington
6/skip - character - Kate Sheffield
7 - character - Violet
8 - character - Edwina

[SandyL]

Title: Killer Pancake
Author: Diane Mott Davidson
Read: 3/27/20
How it works:
2/6 - character - Tom Schultz
3 - character - Harriet
4 - character - Francis
5 - series # - A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery #5
6 - character - Goldie Shultz
9 - character - Nick
Skip - character - Marla Korman

[Ashley]

I'm doing alright. I haven't left the house in a little over 2 weeks. I got outside in our yard, but that's it. I live in Ohio and we are currently under a "stay at home" order which basically is the same as sheltering in place or lockdown. We can still go to the grocery store but are to limit trips as much as possible. I'm getting super frustrated with other people who seem to not understand how important this is and are taking their kids out for ice cream and sitting at picnic tables with people they don't know. Or a variety of other things people are doing that are not safe right now. I could go on a very long rant about this and am thinking about ignoring social media for a while, because I'm starting to have difficulty keeping my mouth shut. My husband has been working from home and I am just not working. I miss taking our toddler to her little tumbling class and story time at the library more than anything else I guess.