Team Captivating Cryptic Conquerors - chat and planning

[Tejas Janet]

If I'm understanding correctly, the list of titles read by our team is available for us to compose a sort of poem that describes our mystery date. It can be funny or serious. I don't think we have to use all the titles we read, but those are the ones available to us. Make sense?

Titles read by Team C:

I am Malala
Never Let Me Go
Play It as It Lays
Lolita
The Bell Jar
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Forest - Love, Loss, Legend
Chercher Sam
Still Life
Fairest
Je voudrais qu'on m'efface
Brides for Brothers
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
Notorious Nineteen
Water for Elephants
Le Liseur du 6h27
Takedown Twenty
Sidetracked
The Marriage Risk
The Color of Magic
Top Secret 21
The Fifth Woman
Legend
Cheat River Three
Letters to My Daughter's Killer
Ready Player One
Nemesis
Tangled
Deep Down Dark
Howard's End is on the Landing
The Truth about Alice
Esperanza Rising
A Certain Justice
The Good Girl
The Undertaking
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Maze Runner
We Are Completely Besides Ourselves
Frostbite
What We Keep
Appointment with Death
The Death We Share
Mama Always Put Vodka in her Sangria
Lock In
As She Climbed Across the Table
A Wind in the Door
The Girl with No Shadow
The Haunting of Hill House
Darwin, his Daughter, and Human Evolution
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Morality Play
Snow Hunters
The Giver
Gathering Blues
How I Live Now
Vampire Academy
Lady Chatterley's Lover
We Were Liars
The Things I've Lernt About Love
The Color Purple

[Kerri]

I thought it was using the pictures off the book covers?

[Berit]

I think it is the cover thing we need to make a date from bookcovers using head, eyes, torso, shoes. I think that's right I will go reread it right now.

[Berit]

We need a creative and technical mind to come up with a good-looking date :-) any volunteers?

[Elsbeth]

Are these all the bookcovers we can use for building our Mystery Date? (I probably missed some...):

[Berit]

I am under the understanding we can use any cover of any books that we read during the week.

[Ava Catherine]

could use

[Elsbeth]

Lady Chatterly's Lover was already on my list (the second from below) - but I like your version better. ;)

[Berit]

Honestly I do not know how to manipulate the covers into any kind of order, otherwise I would try.

[Elsbeth]

I looks like our Mystery Date is a woman!

[Ava Catherine]

yes, I just realized that and removed it from my list.

[Berit]

Hey whatever works :-)

[Elsbeth]

What do you think? :)
Is she mysterious, or what?

[Berit]

Perfect!! Nice job :-)what is her job?

[Elsbeth]

Librarian, I guess...
;)

[Ava Catherine]

Do we need to give her some eyes? or let her remain behind the veil? We have the eyes in Never Let Me Go if we need them.

I like her.

[Elsbeth]

For eyes who could also use .
But I thought this one was more mysterious. But than again, maybe at this point the Mystery Date should NOT be a mystery anymore...

[Ava Catherine]

I like the eyes, too. I think we need eyes and shoes. Looking at the directions again, it says that the date is not complete without all the elements.

[Berit]

I think I like her still being a mystery, kind of goes with the whole theme of the whole week, right? Am I to believe there's some kind of voting going on after this?

[Ava Catherine]

Jmom will decide which team wins and that team gets 25 bonus points.
I like the mystery, but I think we need to follow the rules. It will not hurt to include eyes and shoes. Just my opinion. I think will be penalized for not following the rules

[Berit]

I think you're right Connie, we do need eyes and shoes. This is all getting very complicated :-)I did however like the veil.

[Elsbeth]

In the Mystery Date Bonus thread I can't see anything about including all the elements. Was it somewhere else?

It does say we can enter more than once. So we can create more?

[Berit]

Maybe we should do that one with the veil one with eyes and shoes then all of our bases are covered

[Ava Catherine]

I know. I agree that it is more pleasing for us, but we need to follow the guidelines. The veil is so nice, isn't it?

The red heels in The Death We Share are very sexy though. What does everyone think about them on our date? or do you have something else in mind?

[Berit]

I think if we can submit more than one then let's go with it, they all are fabulous. I'm going to go and read the directions one more time.

[Berit]

I reread the directions, I think we do need to use all four body parts to complete that section. We can submit more than one entry, so if we have more than one all the better :-)

[Ava Catherine]

I know I read that somewhere, but I can't find it now. I'll just ask Jmom to be sure.

[Berit]

I think I read it too, but it is probably a good idea to ask ;-) I'm going to take a nap I stayed up all night reading, and I am very tired. I have no kids here so it's nice and peaceful. I'll check on you guys when I wake up :-)

[Ava Catherine]

I have submitted a question to Jmom about this ruling under the Questions and Rulings thread. I am going to be away from my laptop for a while, so you may want to check the thread and see what she says about this question.

I know you will create very lovely and mysterious dates for our team.
: )

[Tejas Janet]

Okay, I'm getting it now. Sounds like you guys have this covered.

Meanwhile, I did a "spine poem" since that appeals to me. No extra points, but maybe it will inspire you all to create wonderful mystery dates from the cover art : )

[Tejas Janet]

We Were Liars
Gathering Blues
The Color of Magic
Esperanza Rising

The Good Girl
The Girl with No Shadow
Deep Down Dark
Lolita
Mama Always Put Vodka in her Sangria
As She Climbed Across the Table

Play It As It Lays
Fairest
Tangled
Nemesis
Legend

Lady Chatterly’s Lover
The Maze Runner
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
Sidetracked
Appointment with Death

We Are Completely Besides Ourselves
The Marriage Risk
Morality Play
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Never Let Me Go
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Top Secret 21
The Giver
Blue Shoes and Happiness

(dedicated with love to my secret valentine)

[Sandra, Moderator]

Wow TJ! I smell a gift there!

[Sandra, Moderator]

The cover collage looks great to me. Let's see what Jmom rules about the number or covers we need.
I think we are suppose to do a thread to post it.

[Berit]

That was really really cute,TJ :-)

[Berit]

eyes, A torso, legs, and shoes. I think one of those was put together already, then I think we need to put it in some kind of thread, how all this is done is way beyond the scope of my knowledge ;-)also if we feel like it we can submit more than one entry, when all this needs to be done, I am not sure. I give my improve my approval on every and all entry. I have faith you guys will come up with something amazingWell the ruling as in we need to use five book covers, including all five body parts listed in that section, to create a mystery date.:-) So, we need a head,

[Berit]

Somehow my above post got flipped basically we need to use the five body parts to create one mystery date. We can do this as many times as we want. Good luck to whoever chooses to do this, I would volunteer, but I have no clue how to do that.

[Berit]

TJ I saw your question, I think you are the perfect choice to do this. You seem to have a very creative neck :-) I liked your pome especially. Also thanks again for stepping in and organizing us:-) Happy Valentines Day!

[Tejas Janet]

Berit wrote: "Hey whatever works :-)"

I like the way you think!

[Berit]

LOL, well if I'm not good at something I am definitely not going to tell anyone else how to do it. Creativity is definitely not my strong suit, so whatever you guys come up with is in my opinion perfect.

[Tejas Janet]

Happy Valentines Day, bare it!

[Tejas Janet]

Or, um hmpfh, bear it!

[Berit]

LOL, happy Valentines Day to you as well :-) I have done nothing but lay in bed and eat all day. I am going to have to do 10 hours of cardio tomorrow :-( none of my kids are here the older two went to the beach at my youngest one is with his dad, Enjoy the rest of your evening.

[Tejas Janet]

I don't know how to pronounce your name, Berit ; )

[Tejas Janet]

Me too! Hubby off playing duplicate bridge all afternoon.

Me home. Eating snacks, tallying, posting here.

[Tejas Janet]

Sent my husband an anonymous letter that he received 21 years ago today - wink nudge smile.

[Berit]

That is cute :-) how long have you been married?

[Tejas Janet]

Berit wrote: "That is cute :-) how long have you been married?"

Since November 8 of 1996.

[Kerri]

Tejas Janet wrote: "Or, um hmpfh, bear it!"

I just about choked on my drink reading this! lol
I love the poem.

[Berit]

My name is pronounced light bare it , It is Norwegian I am second generation hear from Norway.

[Berit]

Too bad the bonus points aren't for a pome, I think we'd win that one ;-)1996, I had my first son that year in November as well the fifth, which is also my birthday. Enjoy your evening we can come up with the date tomorrow.