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[Komal]

by Liane Moriarty"

Does this work for the mini challenge?"

Well, I am still trying to get my head around mini challenge. But i guess it does fit for 2 items though:

Mini challenge
lady : lady (actually multiple ladies) on the cover.
2 : Published in Feb, 2017

[Eldarwen]

Thanks!

[Sophie]

Ok, for the words in the mini-challenge we're looking for the word in the text or in the title, the word on the cover (i.e. a moon on the cover for example) or the cover being the colour of the object (i.e. starfruit are a pale green/yellow so the cover being that colour).

For the numbers we'd like page numbers that match (or add up to it for things like 6, 12), that number in the series or the number in the publication date (using numbers for the month).

Does that help it make more sense? Please tell us if you are having problems understanding the rules everyone! We'd much rather try and help than leave you confused in silence.

[Eldarwen]

Hello everyone!

Please read this long post - thanks ;-)





Shockingly, the first month of this challenge is starting to near its end. Time has been flying a little it seems! So here are a couple of things:

1. HERE is the Countdown to the end of February, and thus the beginning of March.

All books for the February cards and mini challenge need to be finished before this countdown runs to 0. All books finished after the countdown will count towards our March hands.

2. In terms of cards, as Sophie has already told you, we're good and don't need to worry. The difficult ones have all been filled and the rest will fill up on their own as we keep reading books.

The mini challenge however requires some attention. Please read through the rules of the mini challenge again if you aren't sure how it works. In the post before this one, Sophie has also given another brief explanation on how it works.

If you have questions , please do not hesitate to ask!

Please let the team know which words or numbers you are reading for or could read for next.


2. And this is an important issue.
I understand when people are busy - we all have lives after all. I also understand if you can't constantly be chatting on the thread.

But, this is a team challenge.

It requires interaction and coordination from the entire team and regular check-ins.

Like we did with the colour cards and reverse cards at the beginning of the month. That was awesome!

So I'd like to ask all of you to please check into the thread a little more often, interact with your team mates and let's rock that mini challenge!!

3. While we're on the topic of team work... There is a second part to the mini challenge (other than what you see on the team spreadsheet) and that requires us to compile a recipe .

Please have a look at Sophie's recipe suggestion and let us know if this is okay or if you'd like to see something more/different etc etc.

Thank you! :-)


4. Isn't that galactic unicorn cake awesome?? Wish I could create cakes like that!

5. I don't bite - honest!

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Birthday Mystery
Faith Martin
4*
11th Feb
Cards:
1 - 1st in series
2 - Place: The Beeches
3 - Character: Margie Harding
4 - Author: Faith Martin
5 - Character: Inspector Mollineaux
6 - Character: Jenny Starling
7 - Character: Vera
Skip - Character: Keith Harding


The Winter Mystery
Faith Martin
4*
11th Feb
Cards:
1 - Place: Oxfordshire
2 - 2nd in series
4 - Author: Faith Martin
5 - Character: Inspector Moulton
6 - Character: Jenny Starling
Skip - Place: Kelton Woods


The Riverboat Mystery
Faith Martin
4*
11th Feb
Cards:
1 - Character: Jasmine Olyney
2 - Character: Tobias Lester
3 - 3rd in Series
4 - Character: Lucas Finch
5 - Character: Inspector Rycroft
6 - Character: Jenny Starling


Persuasion
Jane Austen
4*
11th Feb
Cards:
2 - Place: Taunton
3 - Character: Henrietta
4 - Character: Frederick Wentworth
6 - Character: Sophia Croft
8 - Character: Elizabeth Elliot
Skip - Title

[Eldarwen]

Ah, lovely, bring on the completion posts! :-D

[Sophie]

I can't believe the month is nearly at an end!! Reading time today had been minimal with swimming lesson, seeing my dad, sister and niece and meeting the neighbours new cats.

The unicorn cake looks incredible.

I'm going to push the you not biting thing and point out that you've got 2 point 2s...

[Sophie]

Oh Faith Martin - read one of her books quite a while ago and really enjoyed it, but haven't read more since... Need to keep better track of these things

[Eldarwen]

Completion Post


Book: Until November by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Date Read: 21st February
Rating: 2 stars
Uno Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - character: Trevor Mayson
6 - character: Susan Mayson
9 - character: November (I've already forgotten her last name)
Skip - character: Kenton (no last name)


Mini Challenge:
cold - cold colours on the cover + female MC is cold at the beginning because she dislikes autumn weather
eggs & plate - they somehow cook breakfast quite often, and it usually involves eggs of some kind
stomach - pregnancy stomach
touch - lots of touching
1 - #1 in series
6 - published in 2013, which added up gives 6

[Eldarwen]

Sophie wrote: "I'm going to push the you not biting thing and point out that you've got 2 point 2s... "

*headdesk*

And I thought I'd been awake already at the time, having arrived at work already... oh well ;-)

[Sophie]

Getting to work on autopilot is very easy - doesn't say anything about how awake you were at that point (or at least it is for me).

[Sophie]

Also ouch on the 2star rating!

[Sharon]

For the mini challenge, can multiple words be used for the same book or does it have to be a different book for each word?

[Sharon]

I ask because the book I’m reading has the word Passionfruit on the cover but the word white in the text.

[Eldarwen]

It's one word per book, so in your case, I would definitely go for the more difficult one and use passionfruit :-)

But it's always good to have options in case switching needs to happen.

[Sophie]

It has to be a different book for each task. Given the 2 words that book might work for, I'd keep it for passionfruit - white is more likely to come up again

[Eldarwen]

Sophie wrote: "Getting to work on autopilot is very easy - doesn't say anything about how awake you were at that point (or at least it is for me)."

Eh... yeah... sort of. I take the bus and read on it and then I'm out in the cold for a while before I'm at work, so technically, I should be awake, but probably not as much as I should be hehe.



Aaaand yes, it was almost a 1 star rating because the book was a piece of work, to be quite honest. Ah well ;-)

[Sophie]

Will stay well clear of it in that case!

My drive to work gets a bit like that sometimes, audiobooks help.

[Sophie]

From the captaiins group it's been agreed that a book with a white cover will work for cornflour.

[Sophie]

I'm about to start this. I think the writing on it counts as the colour of either a starfruit or lime - anyone think differently?

[Sophie]

Alternatively I might read which has a starfruit on the cover and is on KU. It's got no ratings and is 504p which makes me slightly nervous...

[Sophie]

COMPLETION

Interesting Times Terry Pratchett
22/2
3* (I'm not a Rincewind fan)

2 Author 1st name
3 Lord Hong
5 Title
6 Saveloy (no last name)
Skip Author last name

Mini-challenge
Cold - word in text
Dry - word in text
glass -word in text
gloves - word in text
white - word in text

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


Orlando
Virginia Woolf
12th Feb
3*
Cards:
1 - Title
2 - Place: Turkey
3 - Character: Archduchess Harriet
4 - Character: Favilla
6 - Character: Sasha
7 - Author
8 - Character: Elizabeth I
9 - Character: Nicolas Greene
Skip - Character: King Charles II


Property Of The Rebel Librarian
Allison Varnes
12th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: June Harper
4 - Character: Dan Fuller
7 - Author
8 - Character: Emma Davenport
9 - Character: Natalie Bradshaw
Skip - Character: Principal Beeler


The Worst Witch
Jill Murphy
12th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow


The Worst Witch Strikes Again
Jill Murphy
12th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade


A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch
Jill Murphy
12th Feb
5*
Cards:
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
6 - Sybil Hallow
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Worst Witch All at Sea
Jill Murphy
13th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Character: Miss Tapioca
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
6 - Maud Spellbody
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade


The Worst Witch Saves the Day
Jill Murphy
13th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
6 - Maud Spellbody
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade


The Worst Witch to the Rescue
Jill Murphy
13th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
6 - Maud Spellbody
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade


The Worst Witch and The Wishing Star
Jill Murphy
13th Feb
5*
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
6 - Maud Spellbody
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade


First Prize For The Worst Witch
Jill Murphy
13th Feb
5*
Cards:
3 - Character: Mildred Hubble
4 - Title
6 - Maud Spellbody
8 - Character: Ethel Hallow
9 - Character- Enid Nightshade

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Completion Post


The Testaments
Maragret Atwood
14th Feb
4*
Cards:
0 - Character: Zilla
1 - Title
2 - Place: Toronto
3 - Character: Aunt Helena
5 - Character: Aunt Immortelle
6 - Character: Shunammite
7 - Character: Aunt Vidala
8 - Character: Aunt Elizabeth
9 - Character: Neil
Skip - Character: Paula

Mini Challenge:
Bananas - word in text
Circle - word in tex
Cold - word in text
Eggs - word in text
Glass - word in text
Gloves - word in text
Limes - Item on Cover: Green Cloak
Moon - word in text
Orange - word in text
Pen - word in text
Plate - word in text
Pure - word in text
Stomach - word in text
Sugar - word in text
Thickened - word in text
Touch - word in text
Vanilla - word in text
White - word in text
white - word in text
300 - Page Number

[Eldarwen]

Sophie wrote: "

I'm about to start this. I think the writing on it counts as the colour of either a starfruit or lime - anyon..."

Yeah, I think that colour could work for starfruit or lime. Maybe more the starfruit as the lime (usually) has an even stronger colour.

I'd definitely stay clear of the other one for now but just because it's so long. No ratings isn't necessarily a bad thing but if it isn't good and it's 500 pages... it can be a drag, especially since you might feel inclined to read it because we need a starfruit for the mini hehe.

[Sophie]

Kindle reckons it's a less than 4 hour read for me so I think the page numbers are screwy. certainly over 100 though. It's not too bad so far.

Raven - thanks for all the completions! They'll fit a good number of the remaining gaps

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Sophie wrote: "Kindle reckons it's a less than 4 hour read for me so I think the page numbers are screwy. certainly over 100 though. It's not too bad so far.

Raven - thanks for all the completions! They'll fit a..."

Thats okay when I get home tomorrow I will add my remaining completed reads to the feed which I think will be about another 12-13 books.

[Eldarwen]

Raven,

Childrens' books need to be verified with arbookfinder and they need to be 25k words or more.

Unfortunately none of the Worst Witch books fall into that category as they are all below that mark, most under 15k even.

I hope you enjoyed them though! I hear they're very good :-)

Sorry you went to the trouble of posting them all in detail, but rules are rules!

[Ravenclaw Library Books]

Eldarwen wrote: "Raven,

Childrens' books need to be verified with arbookfinder and they need to be 25k words or more.

Unfortunately none of the Worst Witch books fall into that category as they are all below that..."

Thats okay I totally forgot about that but have to say I did enjoy them.

[Eldarwen]

That's the main thing then :-)

[Sophie]

Hi everyone! I'm going to be a bit quiet today as I'm off to my grandmother's 87th birthday party.

Currently 1/3 through the starfruit book and it really needs an editor! The story itself isn't too bad but there's a lot of repetition of the same ideas 3-4 times in 1 paragraph and the main character is a bit of a know it all

[Eldarwen]

Good morning!

Oh, lovely! Have a good time :-)

Haha, yeah, KU and Kindle Freebies seem to have that in common that often the books aren't all that great.. :-/

[Sophie]

Thanks! We've had a great day, lots of yummy food including homebaked desserts that made me think of you all. Just driving home then time to get ready for another week.

Some KU really aren't bad and are on a par with properly published stuff, but some is truly terrible. This is in the middle somewhere.

[Kate]

Hi all!

Sorry for being so quiet, very busy weekend with the puppies! Good news, I'm on the late shift this week and when it's quiet I get to read at work! So hopefully, I'll finish my current book and squeeze another one in!

How was eveyone's weekend?

[Eldarwen]

Did the puppies leave your place in one piece? ;-)

Oh yay! Gotta love quiet times at work so you can read - best way to spend time at work for sure!

[Kate]

The house was not too bad, considering two puppies, I expected worse!

[Komal]

Completion post


by : M.L. Stedman

0 - Stand alone book
2 - Tom Sherbourne
3 - Hannah Potts
5 - Isabel Graysmark
6 - Author name, Sargent Spragg
7 - Vernon Knuckey
8 - Grace Ellen
9 - Neville Whittnish
Skip - Vernon Knuckey

Feb Mini:
spoon, touch, sugar, white - word in text

[Sharon]

Completion Post


by: Ellie Alexander

3 stars
Read: 2/21-2/24/20
Cards to be used for:

2- Torte(one of locations)
6- Sterling (no last name)
8- Ellie Alexander (author's name)
Skip- Professor (character nickname)

Feb Mini-
passionfruit -word on cover

[Eldarwen]

Keep those completion posts coming!


To everyone who hasn't been around for a while and hasn't updated their books yet..

Please do so as soon as possible !! We need to know where we're at for the mini challenge and the cards as we only have a few days left for this month.

Thank you!!

[Sophie]

Kate wrote: "The house was not too bad, considering two puppies, I expected worse!"

Glad there wasn't too much destruction!!

I've had a great weekend thanks. Seeing lots of family was really good, including one of my cousins I haven't seen in about 15 years (family politics got messy for a while...)

[Sharon]

I’ll try and read a few short books in the next few days.

[Eldarwen]

Sharon wrote: "I’ll try and read a few short books in the next few days."

Good idea :-)

Do you happen to have one lying around with exactly 120 pages by any chance? That would cover one of the tasks for the mini challenge.

[Sophie]

Yay thanks Sharon! That'd be great. Once I finish with Starfruit fun, I'll probably aim to do the same. Knowing me I'll pick up a 600p epic though...

[Eldarwen]

It's the epics that keep calling to me!! But it takes me ages to get through them at my current reading pace.

[Sophie]

I should only pick up epics for Tower Teams, but I often can't resist at other times during team challenges

[Eldarwen]

Just read whatever pleases you. After an epic, you can always squeeze in a short one to make up for taking longer ;-)

Or reduce the number of books you sign up with so you have more room for reading doorstops!

[Sharon]

This one is exactly 120 pages

[Sophie]

E that would be the smart thing to do!

Wonderful Sharon, well done for finding that!

[Sharon]

Completion post



3 stars
Read: 2/24/20
Cards it can be used for:

2- Tristram (no last name)
3- Mr. Hutchings
6- Sir Kevin Scatchard
8- Queen Elizabeth
9- Norman (no last name)
Skip- Buckingham Palace

Feb Mini-
120 pages exactly