Team New Wave Upside Down Cake

[Kristel]

Updated to here.

[Kristel]

We still have one mini task not claimed:

23. Read a book where someone prepares (lots of) food.

From the captains' thread, to help you figure out what can work:):
#23 I was wanting to keep that open to include people who are constantly preparing food in a cafe etc (for example) as lots of people are reading cozy mysteries. And for some reason those characters are always and constantly preparing food haha.

[Lauri]

Kristel wrote: "Lauri wrote: "Hello dear captains! Please don't forget my msg. #533 -- I finished Blood of the Earth for a green color cover (either 4 or 8)!

[bookcover:Blood of the Earth|24452922..."

So sorry, Kristel! Guess I'm just bored and anxious all at once... This is a very strange situation that we suddenly all find ourselves in.

The governor of Hawaii just instituted a mandatory 14 day quarantine to anyone arriving here from elsewhere. Residents must stay at home & visitors must stay at their hotels/lodging. This will effectively seal our borders...
Because I work at a hospital, I am deemed essential -- even though I am not direct patient care. My husband works for Napa, a store that provides auto parts, so he's also considered essential. My son is a cook at a bar & grill. They will not be doing take out orders, so he is now unemployed...

Anne, the mayor & governor here listed veterinary services among essential. You have a very important job. 😊 Who knows? You may be pressed into people-tending service? Eek!

[Lauri]

Completion post!
The Bride Test
Helen Hoang
Finished 3/23/20
Works for the following cards:
3 - author
6 - character Sara
7 - character Vy
8 - MC Esme
9 - character Ngoc Anh
Skip - character Khai Diep



Could someone please add this to our spreadsheet for me? Thank you!

[Anne]

COMPLETED
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

0 - Stand alone
1 - Author FN Ocean
2 - Character Trevor
7 - Author LN Vuong

[Anne]

Lauri wrote: "Kristel wrote: "Lauri wrote: "Hello dear captains! Please don't forget my msg. #533 -- I finished Blood of the Earth for a green color cover (either 4 or 8)!

[bookcover:Blood of th..."

I actually used to be a people nurse - a VERY long time ago! So it wouldn't be too strange. But I do prefer the animal patients!

[Heather]

Completion Post

Horns by Joe Hill
Read 3/24/20

0-Stand alone
2-Character LN Tourneau
3-Title
5-Character FN Ignatius
8-Character FN Eric
9 - Character LN Nicholson
Skip - Character LN Perrish
Reverse- Read by Lauri

Mini # 19 - Pitchfork on the cover

[WitchinglyBookish]

Fallen Too Far
by Abbi Glines
read 3/25/20
221 pages
(1) 1st in series
(4) Title
(4) Set in Florida
(4)LN Finlay

[Heather]

I could read
for#23. It's listed on goodreads as food fiction, and the synopsis says there is a character who bakes a lot of cakes.

[Kristel]

Heather wrote: "I could read
for#23. It's listed on goodreads as food fiction, and the synopsis says there is a character who bakes a lot of cakes."

It seems to work:) I'll add you to this task.

[WitchinglyBookish]

Never Too Far
by Abbi Glines
read 3/25/20
254 pages
(2) 2nd in series
(4) LN Finlay
(4) set in Florida
(6) FN Nannette
(9) Title
(9)set in Sumit

[Anne]

COMPLETED
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

0 - Stand alone
6 - Title "Salvage the Bones"
8 - Character Esch

[Anne]

Is "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame O.K. to read? It is a kid's book, but I don't understand the web page that you listed ate the beginning for assessing kids books. My e-book edition has 159 pages.
I just need something simp,e and pure to read.
Thanks.

[Kristel]

Updated to here.

[Kristel]

Anne wrote: "Is "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame O.K. to read? It is a kid's book, but I don't understand the web page that you listed ate the beginning for assessing kids books. My e-book edition h..."

According to Accelerated Reader Bookfinder "The Wind in the Willows" has 58 286 words, so it fits:)

[Heather]

Completion post
Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman
Read 3/26/20

0-Stand alone
3-Author LN Hoffman
4-Title
8-Place, City, East China
9-Place, City, Newton
Skip-Character LN Perry

#1 mini - cup of tea on the cover

[Kristel]

Updated to here.

[Jeanette]

Hi girls, hope you are all well out there.
I promise to finish my last 2 coloured books this weekend, just in case some of you are getting a bit nervous about if I make it ;-)

I completed “Nine Perfect Strangers today”. It can be placed as number 3 (character named Heather)

[WitchinglyBookish]

how do I find a page count for Together We Caught Fire?, I'm not seeing any other options when i search it and no other editions

[Heather]

I will have time to read at least one more book after my current book. Is there anything that we need?

[Kristel]

Fallyn Nichole wrote: "how do I find a page count for Together We Caught Fire?, I'm not seeing any other options when i search it and no other editions"

If you go to Together We Caught Fire page under "Amazon" And "Online Stores" is a link to other editions where you can choose the one you read.

This book had 3 other editions:
Hardcover - Together We Caught Fire
Kindle - Together We Caught Fire
ebook - Together We Caught Fire

Pick whichever you read and then click "switch to this edition" and that should do it:)

[Kristel]

Heather wrote: "I will have time to read at least one more book after my current book. Is there anything that we need?"

We are doing quite well and all of our cards will be covered, so not really. Feel free to read whatever you want:)

[Anne]

COMPLETED
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
0 - Stand alone
2 - Title "The Wind in the Willows".
Skip - Author FN Kenneth

[Anne]

Is the story for March mini supposed to be space based as well?

[Kristel]

Anne wrote: "Is the story for March mini supposed to be space based as well?"

From March mini thread:
Once you have everything you need to get ready, tell us a little story, why don't you?
A little anticipation on what you expect to encounter in your preparations, or your travels. Maybe a crazy mishap during your travels, maybe a totally wonderful yet incredibly unbelievable romance....

Use the titles of 15 books to tell us your memoirs. Be as creative as you like. You can use as much or as little of a title as you see fit.

From that, I understand that it should be spacey at least a little bit😅.

I'll post a list of all the books we could potentially use for the story in my next comment, so all of us can see what we have to work with:)

[Kristel]

Books we could use for the story:

1. The Reptile Room
2. Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?
3. The Three-Body Problem
4. AREA 51
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
6. Outtakes from the Grave
7. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered
8. Cocoa and Chanel
9. Lothaire
10. The Wedding Date
11. Blood of the Earth
12. The Meat Hunter
13. The Fox Hunt
14. Together We Caught Fire
15. Anne of Green Gables

16 Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons
17 The Third Angel
18 Ace of Shades
19 Finding Perfect
20 The Bride Test
21 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
22 Fallen Too Far
23 Never Too Far
24 Salvage the Bones
25 Nine Perfect Strangers
26 Sugar Free
27 Concealed in Death
28 The Wind in the Willows
29 Sorcery of Thorns


We have to use 15 books to tell the story. We can use as much or as little of a title as we see fit.

[Anne]

So I could use "tattoo" instead of "tattooist" ?

[Anne]

She had the BODY of a REPTILE - slow and cold - but the mind of a crafty FOX. She was a PERFECT STRANGER to me but TOGETHER WE CAUGHT FIRE.
On our WEDDING day we received our sacred, matching TATTOOS and then blasted off to the planet LOTHAIRE for our honeymoon.
ON EARTH WE were BRIEFLY GORGEOUS, but on Lothaire we were FINDING PERFECT. THE MEAT HUNTERS brought us gifts of BONES as we floated down the SUGARy, COCOA-flavored river while THE THIRD ANGEL sang to us. (The first and second angels were tone deaf.)

[Anne]

1. The Three Body Problem
2. The Reptile Room
3. The Fox Hunt
4. Nine Perfect Strangers
5. Together We Caught Fire
6. The Wedding Date
7. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
8. Lothaire
9. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
10. Finding Perfect
11. The Meat Hunters
12. Salvage the Bones
13. Sugar Free
14. Cocoa and Chanel
15. The Third Angel

[Jeanette]

Wow! That’s great!🤗🤩

[Anne]

Jeanette wrote: "Wow! That’s great!🤗🤩"

I was just playing around and having fun. I also wanted to know if the task was actually possible!

[Kristel]

Anne wrote: "So I could use "tattoo" instead of "tattooist" ?"

I don't know about that. Going from "tattooist" to "tattoo" is changing the word and it isn't in the title. I'll try to add to the story to make something work:)

Otherwise, your story is amazing! Great work!😃

[Kristel]

Anne I just realized that you used Finding Perfect and The Third Angel in your story. Both were previously in the task portion of the mini and we can't use a book both for the task part and the story part.

Thankfully I think I managed to find alternatives for the tasks:

9. Read a book that was first published in 2019.
Switched Finding Perfect with Exhalation: Stories

24. Read a book with lights on the cover.
Switched The Third Angel with Stella in Stilettos

[Anne]

Kristel wrote: "Anne I just realized that you used Finding Perfect and The Third Angel in your story. Both were previously in the task portion of the mini and we can't use a book bot..."

Thanks for remembering annoying things like RULES! 😉
And of course modify as you see fit. Or chuck out completely if something better comes along. 😆

[LaurLa]

Anne - your story is awesome!! Way to go!!

[Heather]

Great job Anne!

[LaurLa]

Kristel wrote: "Heather wrote: "I will have time to read at least one more book after my current book. Is there anything that we need?"

We are doing quite well and all of our cards will be covered, so not really...."

Do we need anything to be read as back-up these last few days?

At this point, should I post books in the tracking SS?

[Kristel]

Anne wrote: "Kristel wrote: "Anne I just realized that you used Finding Perfect and The Third Angel in your story. Both were previously in the task portion of the mini and we can'..."

What can I say. I'm a spoilsport😅

[Kristel]

LaurLa wrote: "Kristel wrote: "Heather wrote: "I will have time to read at least one more book after my current book. Is there anything that we need?"

We are doing quite well and all of our cards will be covered..."

If everybody reads all of the books they have promised, then we don't need any backups. I don't think it's necessary for you to add your books to the ss.

[Kristel]

April cards are out!

Colour cards:✔️
7 Yellow📒 - Afterlife - Anne
4 Yellow📒
3 Yellow📒 - Meet Cute - Su Ah
1 Yellow📒
9 Green📗 - Little Fires Everywhere - Heather
9 Green📗
8 Green📗 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Anne
7 Green📗
3 Green📗
7 Blue📘
6 Blue📘 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Heather
3 Blue📘 - Faithful - Heather
6 Red📕 - Catching Fire - Heather
4 Red📕 - Freefall - Jeanette


WD4 (3 Blue📘) - The Overdue Life of Amy Byler - Heather
WD4 (6 Blue📘) - Spin the Dawn/Twice in a Blue Moon - Su Ah
WD4
WD4

[Heather]

I can read for 6 Red

[Heather]

I could read for 6 Blue

[Heather]

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler This is in the list of approved Green books, even though it looks blue to me. It is already on my Kindle, so if y'all think it is okay, I can read it for 3 Green.

[Heather]

meant to add the cover

[Heather]

Can also read for 9 green

[Heather]

Could also do this for 3 Blue. I'm going to stop now, I promise!

[Kristel]

The captains' team also agrees that The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is more blue than green, so it can't be used for green. Added everything else:)

[Heather]

Kristel wrote: "The captains' team also agrees that The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is more blue than green, so it can't be used for green. Added everything else:)"

I could read it for a WD4 for 3 blue.

[Jessamine]

I can read:
- 3 Yellow
- 6 Blue
- Also works for 6 Blue

[Heather]

Completion Post
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Read 3/28/20

0-Stand Alone
2-Title
4-Character LN Ferris
6-Character FN Sawyer
7-Character FN Vance
8-Character FN Emily
9-Place North Carolina

Mini #23 Emily bakes cakes throughout the book. There is also a big barbecue festival in the book.