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[Kate]

Hi all,

I thought this had posted last week but apparently it had not. I've been doing a lot of unexpected traveling for work, mostly in rural Oklahoma which is the main reason for my silence - it's hard to follow conversations when I'm on the road most of the day or in meetings and I have found it especially hard to try and follow strategy without being more involved in the conversations. I apologize for that and I'm hoping that March will slow down, especially as we are bringing someone on board in my office to help with events coming up.

On to the completion post
Completion Post
Winter Garden
Author - Kristin Hannah
Date Read - Feb 19, 2020
0 - Stand Alone
1 - Setting - Orchard (farm is an apple orchard)
2 -
3 - Author - Kristin Hannah
4 - Character - Danny Flynn
5 -
6 - Location - Sitka, Alaska
7 - Character - Veronika
8 - Character - Evan
9 - Character - Nina
Skip - Author - Kristin Hannah

Will likely finish one more this week that will fit numerous numbers as well.

[Sophie]

Welcome back from rural Oklahoma! I feel like a lot of us are in Europe as well which means that we're probably more active at times you're either asleep or working.

[Eldarwen]

Sharon wrote: "Completion post



3 stars

Speedy read! Thanks for taking that one - and luckily it seems like it wasn't too bad ;-)

[Eldarwen]

Kate wrote: "Hi all,

I thought this had posted last week but apparently it had not. I've been doing a lot of unexpected traveling for work, mostly in rural Oklahoma which is the main reason for my silence - i..."


Gotta hate when work gets in the way of reading ;-)

Sounds like it's quite stressful for you though. I hope as well that things will settle a bit on March.

Also, adding this to the Feb Mini for 2 as the book was published in February, on the 2nd even!

[Eldarwen]

Jessica wrote: "
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness"

Since we haven't gotten a response on this regarding the mini challenge, I added it for "moon" as item on the cover.

Sophie, I've moved yours to "diagonally" instead.

[Eldarwen]

What's left to complete for the mini challenge

- cold
- cornflour
- dry
- glass
- kiwifruit
- limes
- orange (Sharon is reading for it)
- peaks
- plate
- pure
- shredded
- starfruit (Sophie is reading for it)
- stomach
- sugar
- thickened
- touch
- white (E is reading for it - almost done)
- 1
- 3
- 6
- 12
- 24
- 300


I assume that a number of these will be filled with the books Raven still needs to post. Jessica still has a few she hasn't posted either.

Remember:
For the numbers, the page numbers need to be exact. Or it has to be a number in series or in relation with the publication date.
For cornflour, lime, kiwi, orange etc, we can also use cover colours.

I have a book with exactly 300 pages I can start today - I will be done with my white book shortly - but I can also pick up a book for a different number in case someone else has a book with 300 pages they're dying (or at least willing hehe) to read.

[Eldarwen]

Cards we have left to read for:

- 1
- 1
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 6
- 8
- 9
- Skip


We also have 1 Wild card to fill, which can be any of the cards in that hand, meaning it can be 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 or Skip.

[Sharon]

The current book I’m reading has orange in the text.

[Sharon]

It also has stomach if you need one more than the other

[Eldarwen]

Awesome!

Those are two good ones to have.

We can always switch books around if necessary as well. I've had a stomach book or two, but don't recall orange in any of them.

[Sharon]

Completion Post



Read: 2/24-2/25
4 Stars

Cards it can be used for:

1- Allen O'Brien
2- Bradley Thompson
4- Sir Francis Dashwood
6- Daniel Sheppard
7- Vlad Balakirev
9- Bill Noone/ New York
Skip- Kendra Donovan/ Peter Carson

Feb Mini-
orange, stomach

[Sophie]

Hopefully I'll be finished with the starfruit book tonight and will have time to get 1 or 2 more done by the deadline, but no promises!

[Eldarwen]

Completion Post


Book: Pegasus and the Flame by Kate O'Hearn
Date Read: 25th February
Rating: 4 stars
Wordcount: 67333 words as per arbookfind
Uno Cards:
1 - #1 in series
6 - character: Steve Jenkins
8 - character: Emily Jenkins
Skip - title, author

Mini Challenge:
- cold: Agent J has cold eyes
- sugar: Olympians need a lot of sugar in their diet
- white: item on cover, word in text
- 1: #1 in series

[Eldarwen]

Next up: a book with exactly 300 pages.



Or in English: For every solution, a problem ;-)

[Sophie]

Gisborne: Book of Pawns is next up for me. Published 24th February for either 2 or 24.

Will do a completion post later for my last book.

[Eldarwen]

Wow, you were up early, Sophie!
Joe not sleeping well?

[Sophie]

Unfortunately he's up sometime between 1-3 most nights. I just didn't manage to go back to sleep quickly this morning.

[Eldarwen]

Attention attention!


Our March hands have been added to the spreadsheet!

A more thorough update will follow but here are the interesting cards ;-)

Reverse: 8
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1 Yellow - Sophie On the Steel Breeze
6 Green
3 Blue
7 Red - Eldarwen Silver Silence
3 Red
4 Blue
5 Green
4 Green
5 Blue



Wild Draw 4 cards: 3
(for these we need to duplicate 3 of the colour cards)
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[Sophie]

Exciting! Will have another look through my books and see what I can cover. Sure there will be some reverse options, even if just from what everyone has been reading last month.

[Eldarwen]

I've already nabbed the 7 Red so I can read Silver Silence :-)

I really really want to read Chasing Cassandra with its lovely blue cover but at first sight I don't see it fitting for any of the blue cards we have, but I'll have a look inside the book tonight at home, maybe something will jump out at me.

For Reverse, I could read Water for Elephants and there are a few other options I found last month.

[Sophie]

will work for Yellow 1 and has been on my TBR forever

[Sophie]

COMPLETION

Elements Combine by S.E. Nielsen
26/2
2*

1 1st in series
2 Tupa
6 Saci
8 title
Skip Kunur
No surnames for anyone

Read for starfruit - one on the cover

[Sophie]

Just put my review for Elements Combine up. I feel bad because it's the only review the book has and it's not great. You'd have thought the author would have at least bribed family members/friends to put some positive reviews up to get things going.

[Eldarwen]

That's a shame... But oh well. Maybe there was a reason family/friends didn't (want to) read ;-)

[Kate]

Completion Post



Read: 17/2-26/2
3 Stars

Cards it can be used for:

0 - Stand Alone
6 - Author: Susana Constantine
8 - Character: Esme Monroe
Blue - Cover is light Blue


Feb Mini-
White / Cold (Refer to Snow on cover?)

[Kate]

Add on to prev message:
(This may be a bit of a stretch but...)

Mini Feb: Glass (the house on cover has glass windows?)

[Sophie]

I'd be happy with the glass explanation

[Sophie]

How's everyone doing this morning? Ready for the last couple of days of February?

I got a decent stretch of sleep last night so am feeling better than I have for most of the last week.

[Eldarwen]

Sophie wrote: "I'd be happy with the glass explanation"

Yeah, I'd be on board with that, too.

It's an item on the cover after all :-)

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
Feb 15th
4*
Cards:
1 - Character: Ori
2 - Author
3 - Place: Hobbiton
4 - Character: Fili
6 - Character: Smaug
8 - Character: Elrond
9 - Character: Nori
Skip - Character: Kili

Mini Challenge:
words in text: Cold, dry, eggs, glass, peaks, plate, spoon, stomach, touch, white


The Demon Headmaster
Gillian Cross
Feb 16th
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Harvey
5 - Character: Ian
6 - Character: Sarah
7- Character: Mr Venerables
8 - Character: Eddy Hair

Mini Challenge:
1= 1st in series
words in text: Cold, eggs, glass, oranges, plate, sugar, white


The Demon Headmaster and the Prime Minister's Brain
Gillian Cross
Feb 16th
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Harvey
5 - Character: Ian
6 - Character: Sarah
7- Character: Mr Venerables
8 - Character: Eddy Hair

Mini Challenge:
2= 2nd in series
words in text: Dry, eggs,cold, glass, circle, plate, sugar, white, spoon, sharp, pen

[Eldarwen]

Raven,

before you go to the trouble of posting all the other books in the Demon Headmaster series...

Can you confirm if the word counts are over 25k for all of them?

I can only find books #2 (Prime Minister's Brain) and #3 (strikes again) on arbookfind and those are the ones I thus know are over 30k, but the others...

Without certainty of a wordcount over 25k, we can NOT use books with the childrens' tag. (It's in the rules.)

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Eldarwen wrote: "Raven,

before you go to the trouble of posting all the other books in the Demon Headmaster series...

Can you confirm if the word counts are over 25k for all of them?

I can only find books #2 (Pr..."

They are all on arbookfind and are all have a wordcount over 30k

[Eldarwen]

I can't find them o.O

Even when I look with the ISBN.

But since you can confirm, then all good! :-) *phew*!

[Sophie]

Think this might come down to using the UK version Vs others. I'll have a look in a bit and sort any others you've read

[Eldarwen]

The two sites should share their database. Would make people's lives much easier.

[Sophie]

I've found them all, so add them whenever you are ready

[Sharon]

I found one for sugar if it’s still needed. Should be done later today.

[Sharon]

Or 12 because the book takes place in December (12th month) does seem a bit of a stretch though

[Eldarwen]

Awesome - sugar is still needed, yes.

Thanks :-)

[Eldarwen]

Sharon wrote: "Or 12 because the book takes place in December (12th month) does seem a bit of a stretch though"

That would work, too.

Either one is good!

12 might be better since that is probably more difficult to fill.

For sugar, we can switch stuff around if necessary with other incoming books.

[Sophie]

Fab thanks Sharon. Unless something v surprising happens I don't think we're going to manage to finish the mini-challenge in the next 2 days, but anything we can add helps.

We've got 4 slots left in the main cards - Wild, 1, 2, Skip and we're aware of people reading to cover them all so the pressure is off for those. Well done everyone for reading so much this month to get the main cards done.

Those of you who have looked at the spreadsheet will notice there's another card of 7 books to read next time round, so I hope you aren't all sick of reading yet.

[Sharon]

At least we are able to finish the main challenge. I’ll be limited in the first 2 weeks of March due to moving. I’ll do my best though

[Sophie]

I'm reading something that covers shredded and one for 24.

This leaves us with:
Cold
Cornflour (can be a white cover)
dry
Kiwifruit
Limes
Pure
Stomach
Thickened
Touch
1
3

[Sophie]

Good luck with the move! Hope it goes smoothly - audio books might be the answer if you get desperate to read

[Eldarwen]

Since there were no further comments with regards to the team's recipe, I think we can safely say that we're done with it.

Sophie, would you please send it per pm to the Pixie account at your convenience so we can snag our bonus points for the mini challenge?

Thank you! :-)

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster
Gillian Cross
Feb 17th
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Harvey
4 - Character: Mrs French
5 - Character: Ian
6 - Place: The Sty
Skip - Character: Hunky Parker

Mini Challenge:
3= 3rd in series
words in text: Cold, sharp, circle, orange, plate, sugar, white, lady



The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again
Gillian Cross
Feb 17th
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Harvey
4 - 4th in Series
5 - Character: Ian
6 - Character: Simon James

Mini Challenge:
words in text: Cold, sharp, plate, white, touch

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Demon Headmaster Takes Over
Gillian Cross
Feb 18th
5*
Cards:
1 - Place: Orchard Street
2 - Title
3 - Character: Harvey
5 - Character: Ian
6 - Character: Mr Smith
Skip - Character: Professor Claudia Rowe

Mini Challenge:
words in text: Cold, glass, circle, sharp, plate, pen, white, touch


Facing the Demon Headmaster
Gillian Cross
Feb 18th
5*
Cards:
3 - Character: Harvey
4 - Title
5 - Character: Ian
6 - 6th in Series
8 - Character: Ellie
Skip - Character: DJ Pardoman

Mini Challenge:
6th in Series
words in text: Cold, glass, sharp, eggs, bananas, white, pen, electric, orange

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Demon Headmaster Total Control
Gillian Cross
Feb 18th
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Place: Hazelbrook Academy
4 - Character: Mrs Foster
7 - 7th in series
8 - Character: Ethan
Skip - Character: Piotr

Mini Challenge: Thickened word in text


Gunpowder Chowder
Lyndsey Cole
Feb 20th
4*
Cards:
1 - Character: Olivia
2 - Character: Tasha
3 - Character: Hannah Holiday
4 - Character: Charles Fuller
6 - Place: Simply Sweets
7 - Character: Vern Mason
9 - Character: Noah
Skip - Character: Officer Pam Larson

Mini Challenge:
words in text: Cold, touch, plate, glass, white, egg, dry, stomach, sugar

[Sophie]

What do we think about the cover of being the colour of a kiwi fruit i.e green and brown bottom half?

[Sophie]

GOOD NEWS

With that set of Raven's completions we've finished the main challenge for the month! Well done everyone and thanks for your reading time.

2 task remain to us:
1. Finish the mini-challenge. We've got books earmarked for all but 4 of the tasks so it's achievable with a bit of planning now. If anyone has a quick book with a white cover they could read for cornflour, that would really help.

2. Start planning for March! If anyone has something they can read for the colour cards or the reverse we'd love to hear about it!