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Team Interplanetary Biscotti
Book: Fool Moon
Author: Jim Butcher
Date Completed: 14 Feb 2020
Uno Cards:
2 (Two) - - is book 2 in a series
3 (Three) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with H - Harry Dresden
4 (Four) - - has a title starting with F
6 (Six) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S - Susan Rodriguez
Skip - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P - Karrin Murphy
Mini Challenge:
3. circle - has a circle on the cover and a full moon
4. cold - the cover is in the middle of the night and it looks cold
7. dry - word in text - "If I don't catch these guys, whoever they are, politics will hang me out to dry. " pg 34
8. eggs - word in text - "All your eggs in one basket?" pg 223
10. glass - lots of windows made of glass on cover
11. gloves - word in text - "He had thick glasses and pudgy fingers, and would have looked more at home with a pocket protector than with the spiked leather gloves on his fingers." pg 41
13. lady - word in text "The next night, it was a little old lady walking past Washington Park." pg 32
15. moon - title
16. orange - word in text - "Deep in those eye sockets, there was a flickering of orange light, which grew and solidified into twin points of lambent illumination. " pg 50
19. pen- word in text- "Books, notebooks, defunct ballpoint pens, broken pencils, boxes, plastic containers, old butter bowls, empty jelly jars, and plastic Baggies lay next to other containers of every size and shape that held the spices, rare stones, bones, fur, blood, oddments, jewelry, and other ingredients useful to wizardly pursuits and studies." pg 51
20. plate - word in text - "Mac caught my attention from behind the bar by waving a hand at me, and slid a couple of plates of steaming food onto the polished surface of the crooked oak bar." pg 8
21.pure - word in texto - "I was still shaking a little, a pure and primitive reaction to a very primal fear." pg 35
22. sharp - word in text "She stabbed her fork into a cut of steak, a sharp, vicious gesture" pg 12
23. schredded - word in text "The Beetle wasn't really blue, not anymore. One of the doors had been replaced with a green duplicate, the other one with white, when something with claws had shredded the originals." pg 15
24. spoon - word in text - "The very best wizards don't need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff." pg 141
26- stomach - word in text - "My stomach made an unhappy noise." pg 8
29. touch - word in text - " Marcone smiled at me, but it didn't touch the corners of his eyes." pg 77
31. white - word in text - "The White Council of wizards did not allow the discussion of demons that could be called to earth, beings of spirit that could gather flesh to themselves." pg 11
32. 1 - Published January 1st 2001 by Roc
33. 2 - second in a series
Lau Maia wrote: "Did you like this one ambi and Christina by the way? I have the paperback lying around"I liked how it all came together at the end, but I remember I wasn't really that much into the book x)
Book: A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Author: Tom Standage
Date Completed: 15 Feb 2020
Uno Cards:
2 - author first name - Tom
3 - title starts with H
6 - author last name - Standage
Mini-challenge
glass - glass on cover and title
vanilla - white cover
3 - 336 pages
6 - 336 pages
Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.
Book: A Short History of the Girl Next Door
Author: Jared Reck
Completed: 2/15/20
Uno:
0: Standalone book
2: character Tabby
4: character Trip Fogel
6: title A Short History of the Girl Next Door (or character Mrs. Shepler)
8: character Mr. Ellis
Mini Challenge: All word in text except white cover)
Circle 6:19:50
Cold 5:54:05
Diagonally 51:46 (diagonal)
Glass 2:09:19
Gloves 4:01:15
Orange 14:28
Pen 7:20:25
Plate 2:14:40
Pure 1:59:12
Sharp 4:11:09
spoon 5:54:02
Stomach 6:52
Sugar 3:07:51
Touch 51:22
Vanilla 3:07:39
white - cover is white
Ashley wrote: "Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.Book: A Short History of t..."
That's totally fine :) if it's too much of a hassle you don't have to listen for so many words ;)
Ashley wrote: "Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.Book: A Short History of t..."
for the audiobook I just finished I looked for the various words in google books, that helped a lot :)
Title: The Lost Recipe for Happiness
Author: Barbara O'Neal
Read: 2/13/20
How it works:
0 - standalone
1 - author - Barbara O'Neal
2 - title - The
3 - character - Hector
5 - character - Ivan
8 - character - Elena
Skip - character - Patrick
Title: Exchange of Hearts
Author: N.R. Walker
Read: 2/14/20
How it works:
0 - standalone
4 - character- Harrison
6 - setting - Sydney
8 - title - Exchange
9 - author - NR Walker
Title: Home Game
Author: Odette Stone
Read: 2/15/20
How it works:
0 - character - Zoey
1 - author - Odette
2 - series # - #2
4 - title - Home
6 - author - O Stone
7 - setting - Vancouver
Skip - character - Ryan Parker
Mini challenge:
Circle - loc 2865 "..as he turned around in a circle."
Cold - loc 264 - "You were out cold."
Dry - loc 430 "...and also stay relatively dry."
Eggs - loc 2455 ..."and cracked eggs open mid-air with his spatula."
Gloves - loc 3202- "I tucked my gloves under my arm...."
Lady - loc 849 - "I have a cleaning lady."
Moon - loc 4115 - "...we were over the moon."
Orange - loc 160 - "...going through lights that were more orange than yellow."
Pen - loc 125 - "I took the proffered pen and signed a paper napkin."
Plate - loc 271 - "He shoved a plate in front of me...."
Pure - loc 4079 - "My thoughts were pure torture,..."
Sharp - loc 2527 - "Bianca's voice was sharp."
Spoon - loc 3158 - "Bianca lifted a spoon to his mouth"
Stomach - loc 247 - "I felt like my stomach was trying to eat itself."
Sugar - loc 2737 - "Not doing this for you, Sugar,"
Touch - loc 144 - "I didn't mean to touch you."
White - loc 664 - "Pain made her face white and pinched."
2 - series - Vancouver Wolves Hockey #2
SandyL wrote: "Title: Exchange of Hearts
Author: N.R. Walker
Read: 2/14/20
How it works:
0 - standalone
4 - character- Harrison
6 - setting..."
did you finish this before the mini challenge officially started?
Ashley wrote: "Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.Book: A Short History of t..."
please add this to your shelf :)
Daniela wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.Book: A Sho..."
Oops! Yesterday was a bit chaotic! Done!
Christina wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.Book: A Sho..."
Some of them I looked up in the Kindle version of the book.... but figured I had to have the time since the version I read/shelved was the audio. Would page numbers be acceptable even if listening to the audibook?
Daniela wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Y'all, documenting the mini challenge for an audiobook is not easy. Times are approximate within a few seconds.Book: A Sho..."
I just get excited when I hear them... but a lot of times I'm driving or in the shower. Not exactly prime times to take note of them. It's no big deal though... just harder to grab that exact moment and I wasn't sure how specific the times had to be.
Title: The Duchess War
Author: Courtney Milan
Read: 2/16/20
How it works:
1 (One) - - is book 1 in a series
2 (Two) - - has a title starting with T
6 (Six) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S - Sebastian Malheur
7 (Seven) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with V - Violet Waterfield
Mini challenge:
3. circle - "My circle of acquaintance is never so large that it cannot include more young ladies.” loc 37
4. cold - "At their age, they should have been resting at home by the fire on a cold November night, not gallivanting out to attend musical evenings." loc 39,3
7. dry - "But her eyes were dry and clear and fixed on the pavement." loc 149
8- eggs - "But Robert had far more memories of Violet tweaking Sebastian and sending him climbing trees for hawks’ eggs in a fit of rage, than he did of Violet getting Sebastian to behave." loc 166
11. gloves - "But she adjusted her gloves, glancing down, before looking at him again" - loc 199,7
13. lady - on cover
15. moon - "Up at the quarter moon, gleaming through the fringe of clouds, up at stars that twinkled for queen and peasant alike." loc 255,5
16. orange - ". He gave the cigarillo another flick and watched orange sparks fly." loc 448,2
18. peaks - "The fabric molded to the peaks of her nipples" loc 405,6
19. pen - "The sign over the pen that held the children read: THESE ARE NOT." loc 273,3
20. plate - "She lifted her chin and returned her attention to the toast on her plate." loc 392,5
22. sharp - "Years of looking over fashion plates with Lydia hit her with a sharp sense of loss, one that seemed like a staggering blow." loc 400
24. spoon - "She set her spoon down as a servant removed her soup bowl" loc 214,3
26. stomach . "He was touching her stomach." - loc 244,7
27. sugar - "The clink of her teaspoon as she stirred in sugar interrupted a silence that seemed weighted down by a hundred conversations they’d never had." loc 354,4
29. touch - "So he didn’t move to touch her now." loc. 360,9
31. white - letter in cover
33. 2 - Audible Audio, 12 pages
36. 12 - Audible Audio, 12 pages
Title: Grave Peril
Author: Jim Butcher
Read: 2/16/20
How it works:
2 (Two) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with T - Thomas Raith
3 (Three) - - is book 3 in a series
4 (Four) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with F - Father Anthony Forthill
6 (Six) - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S - Susan Rodriguez
Skip - - has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P - Karrin Murphy
Mini challenge:
3. circle - "The five-sided star within the circle was the symbol of my magic, of what I believed in, embodying the five forces of the universe working in harmony, contained inside of human control." loc 18.8
4. cold - cover - looks cold
6. diagonally - lights on cover
7. dry - "My mouth went dry, and I got ready to blast her." loc 231,5
8. eggs - "His eyes were normally a shade of blue so bright as to rival robin's eggs, but today they were heavily underlined, shadowed." loc 132
11. gloves - "I stripped off my gloves, trying to look casual, and offered him my hand." loc 373,2
13. lady - ""Lady Bianca, I'll be sure to tell my father all about this dizzying display of hospitality."" loc 379
15. moon- "My head swam, images of the faerie sorceress flooding my thoughts: those berry-sweet lips pressing to my naked chest, smeared with my blood, rose-tipped breasts bared by the light of fire and full moon, her hair a sheet of silken flame on my skin." loc 412,6
16. orange - "In a sack made of fishnet, Bob's skull hung from my fist, the orange skull-lights glowing dimly, like candles." loc 539,5
19. pen - ""Do you have a pen?"" loc 39
20. plate - "My stomach reminded me that I'd been ignoring it, and I got out the plate of cold cuts while I was there." loc 124,7
22. sharp - ". Shadows fell in sharp slants from all the tall trees and tall houses, turning the streets and sidewalks into candy canes of light and darkness." loc 162
24. spoon - "I hung up the phone and tore around the house frantically, collecting car keys and putting together an improvised exorcism kit from stuff in my kitchen: Salt, a wooden spoon, a table knife, a couple of storm candles and matches, and a coffee cup." loc 268,8
26. stomach - "My stomach reminded me that I'd been ignoring it, and I got out the plate of cold cuts while I was there." loc 124,7
27. sugar "The thing's body just started melting away, like sugar in water, starting at its feet and moving up." loc 319,0
29. touch - "I would never have been able to touch this had not the one who held it betrayed its purpose."" loc 323,0
31. white - "Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle." loc 345,9
33. 2 - Published December 2nd 2008 by Roc
35. 6 - "He wore a pair of jeans and a T-shirt with JOHN 3:16 across his chest." loc 284
36. 12 - Published December 2nd 2008 by Roc
@Ashley I think it's ok to look them up on Kindle as well if you do an audiobook. It's still the same story/sentences.
Daniela wrote: "SandyL wrote: "Title: Exchange of Hearts
Author: N.R. Walker
Read: 2/14/20
How it works:
0 - standalone
4 - character- Harri..."
No I finished after
SandyL wrote: "If you need more Reverse cards, I've read The Duchess War that Lau Maia just finished"Thanks for the info, I already put that information in ;)
Ambi wrote: "What is this sending recipe bonus?"as far as I understand, we just need to send a recipe of biscotti to the moderators? I'll have to check that again, but Christina and I will do that soon and let you guys know.
A little overview of cards we still need: 0 - Z: 2
1 - O: 4
2 - T: 3
3 - H: 2
4 - F: 2
5 - I: 2
6 - S: 3
7 - V: 2
8 - E: 1
9 - N: 2
Skip - K/P: 4
Reverse: 1
Wild: 3
Wild Draw 4: 3
We only have 32 books left to read, and still 13 Days to go. Good job everyone!
Mini Challenge: There are 30 spots left to fill in, so we should be able to cover that with uno card books, without having to read more than the 32 books we have left to read.
I think the hardest will be: airtight, passionfruit, starfruit and thickened. So keep an eye out for these!!
Book: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Author: Frederick Douglass
Date Completed: 2/17
Uno Cards:
4 - author first name - Frederick
9 - title starts with N
Mini challenge:
lady: "Lady of the Lake" pg 100
cold: "the damp,cold floor" pg 17
pen: "my pen and ink was a lump of chalk" pg 44
Daniela wrote: "Ambi wrote: "What is this sending recipe bonus?"as far as I understand, we just need to send a recipe of biscotti to the moderators? I'll have to check that again, but Christina and I will do tha..."
actually, I'm not good with that stuff - I'm neither a baker, nor very creative, nor have much 'interplanetary' knowledge hah, let alone in English x)
so if anybody wants to work on /create a recipe for Interplanetary Biscotti it would be really appreciated :) all I can come up with is mixing flour with stardust lol
Ingredients🌟1/2 cup oil extracted from meteor showers
🌟1 cup white rocks from Venus
🌟3 1/4 cups stardust flour
🌟3 dead stars
🌟1 tablespoon Mercury's liquid core
🌟1 tablespoon Halley's comet extract
Instructions
Preheat the Sun to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease the huge cookie sheets or line with asteroids .
In a medium bowl, beat together the oil from meteor showers, dead stars, white rocks and Halley's comet extract flavoring until well blended. Combine the stardust flour and Mercury's liquid core, stir into the dead star mixture to form a heavy dough. Divide dough into two pieces. Form each piece into a roll as long as your cookie sheet.( It has to be REALLY long). Place roll onto the prepared cookie sheet, and press down.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated Sun, until golden brown. Remove from the baking sheet to cool on a wire rack. When The interplanetary biscotti are cool enough to handle, slice each one. Place the slices cut side up back onto the baking sheet. Bake for an additional 6 to 10 minutes on each side. Slices should be lightly toasted.
Ambi wrote: "Ingredients🌟1/2 cup oil extracted from meteor showers
🌟1 cup white rocks from Venus
🌟3 1/4 cups stardust flour
🌟3 dead stars
🌟1 tablespoon Mercury's liquid core
🌟1 tablespoon Halley's comet extra..."
Haha great, thanks!
I haven't even read the full prompt for what we have to do for a recipe. I just thought it's easy to take an existing one and throw in random galagtic words x)
Daniela wrote: "I haven't even read the full prompt for what we have to do for a recipe. I just thought it's easy to take an existing one and throw in random galagtic words x)"That's what I did. If you want to change anything, feel free to do so. :D
Ambi wrote: "Ingredients🌟1/2 cup oil extracted from meteor showers
🌟1 cup white rocks from Venus
🌟3 1/4 cups stardust flour
🌟3 dead stars
🌟1 tablespoon Mercury's liquid core
🌟1 tablespoon Halley's comet extra..."
this is a Biscotti recipe though, right? because I only see 'cookie' in there.. just wondering :D also, I laughed out loud when I read 'Preheat the Sun' xD
Yeah it is but at this point this is inedible. Haha
Ok I name dropped Biscotti in there. You can find the recipe here.https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/172...
Do you think this pink is passionfruit pink?
Passionfruit is more lilac, isn't it? This cover seems too pink to me
Yeah I think passionfruit is more is more of a dark purple?
: / Thanks for the clarification though. :)
I purchased a cozy mystery last night in hopes it has cornflour in it since the MC of the series owns a café and does all of the baking for it herself. Sadly not. No cornflour. I'll check later if maybe it is in one of the earlier books I own. I can however cover thickened with my book :)
Ok so I just finished The Fault in Our Stars (absolutely brilliant by the way) and I will try to get my completion post thingy up ASAP
Book: A Good Debutante's Guide to Ruin
Author: Sophie Jordan
Date Completed: 2/17
Uno Cards:
6 - author first name - Sophie
8 - setting - England
Mini challenge:
gloves on cover
300 - 373 pages
Ambi wrote: "Yeah it is but at this point this is inedible. Haha"maybe we should leave out the Mercury core 😂😂 I love the recipe Ambi, awesome job! :)
Natalie wrote: "Ok so I just finished The Fault in Our Stars (absolutely brilliant by the way) and I will try to get my completion post thingy up ASAP"I JUST CHECKED AND THERE'S PASSION FRUIT IN IT!!!!!
again, these are the words that are harder to find/cover + some tips on how else they can work as discussed in the captain's chat: airtight - spaceship or submarine on cover
cornflour
starfruit - star on cover
the five word categories are:
- word in title
- word in text
- colour of book cover
- colour of item on cover
- item on cover
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and for the numbers:
- page numbers
- series number
- publication date
although we got asked for creativity, there's no creativity with the numbers. numbers need to be exact. as an example, 362 pages does NOT work for any of the numbers, not 2, not 3, not 300.
the harder to cover numbers as they almost only can get covered through page count:
120
270
300
PLEASE let us know if you can cover any of the words/numbers mentioned here - I don't think I can finish anything else this month except for the books I've already started.
I have a book with 300 pages I can read. I should be able to finish my current book + another one
But if anyone is quicker than me, that's fine as well :) I'm having so many migraines at the moment, I hope it'll be over soon and I can get back to reading more
I'm kind of I a reading slump at the moment... When I get back on track I'll check what I have
@Lau maybe you stumble upon some suggestion for the group? :) you don't have to read the books yourself if you're in a slump
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Book: Changeling
Author: Molly Harper
Date Completed: 14 Feb 2020
Uno Cards:
1 : Ch - Owen; 1 in series
2: Ch - Tom
3: Author - Molly Harper
5: Ch - Ivy
6: Ch - Sarah
8: Ch - Elizabeth
Skip: Ch- Phillip
Once I have a chance I'll look through the mini and let you know what both books work for.