Team Pemberley

[Lexi]

Jax wrote: "I don't have strong feelings either way but if we do list B I have one of the books on the Small Towns list (#100) on my shelf to be read this month anyways.

Looking at the main post there's 32 t..."

Yes, that is correct. We need 40 books total as a team and they word for both mini and main UNO cards.

[Elisabeth]

I'm happy with A or B. I also have a "locked room" Agatha Christie book on my TBR pile so I can do No. 30 from the compulsory section. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

[Jen]

I am definitely a mood reader, so I can more or less make either list work. So I say go with what works for everyone else. I'm flexible either way.

[Elisabeth]

Actually I'm reading a book right now that is set in a small English village so suits B, if that helps make a decision. I'm halfway through so can time it to finish at the right time.

[Lexi]

The planning sheet for the mini is up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Elisabeth]

Would this park bench count as furniture?


The MPG is mystery so it works for that.

[Lexi]

Elisabeth wrote: "Would this park bench count as furniture?
."

Yes, it works. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_fu...

[Lexi]

Note: each piece of furniture can only be used once so only one bench, one shelf etc.

[Lexi]

A Psalm for the Wild-Built works for builder in title if anyone has not read it and likes very charming, peaceful scifi

Edit: I found another one that works - Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences.

[Elisabeth]

Okay. I guess it will depend if we have trouble covering some of the prompts. My other book The Harp in the South has a woman sitting on a chair on the cover but who knows if furniture is easier than compass points? I see swapping and switching in Lexi's future :)

With that in mind should we list somewhere the other mini options a book has?

[Lexi]

Elisabeth wrote: "Okay. I guess it will depend if we have trouble covering some of the prompts. My other book The Harp in the South has a woman sitting on a chair on the cover but who knows if furniture is easier th..."

That is a good idea and I just added a column. Also, it is direction in text and not title, so that may be easier to find.

[Elisabeth]

Lexi wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "Okay. I guess it will depend if we have trouble covering some of the prompts. My other book The Harp in the South has a woman sitting on a chair on the cover but who knows if furn..."

Whoops! Oh well south may pop up in the text.

[Lexi]

Anyone should feel free to bump any of mine. I was just playing around and except for God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which I need for blue. I am flexible.

[Elisabeth]

I did a bit of shuffling for my Harp in the South book. After getting the cover/ text word thing wrong I now realise the cover image is really someone sitting on a verandah rather than in a room because the window blind is on the other side of the glass.

But the word bed is definitely in there as is waggons (spelled that way) carrying cargo! :)

I'll start a third book today to slow down so as to finish three of them after Monday's mini kick off.

[Jen]

Book Completion Post:
Date Completed: Feb 12, 2022


Book: As the Shadow Rises
Author: Katy Rose Pool

Rating: 4/5 Stars

I always love in the story when the characters after doing their seemingly own thing end up connecting to each other. I mean you know it's going to happen, but it always feels satisfying when it does happen. For a middle book in a series this book was actually quite good, and the pace didn't slow down from the first book to this one.

[Mary X]

I swapped out the book I had for blue cover for this:



it looks green and yellow to me but tin eye color extractor says it's 54% blue.

This one of a bunch of library borrows I waited a long time for that decided to all come in at once and mess up my challenge reading plans.

[Lexi]

Mary C wrote: "I swapped out the book I had for blue cover for this:



it looks green and yellow to me but tin eye color extractor says it's 54% blue.

This one of a bunch of li..."

It looks blue to me so I think you are good.

[Lexi]

Due to some moving books around, we need a Blue 5 (letter I or 5 in series or title) if someone has one they want to read?

[Mary X]

I found a short one that I can read on my plan rides later this week. Added it to the spreadsheet.

[a Contradiction]

Lexi wrote: "Due to some moving books around, we need a Blue 5 (letter I or 5 in series or title) if someone has one they want to read?"

Hey
While searching for a Blue 5, I stumbled upon this book.
I Can't Remember The Title But The Cover Is Blue


I would like to read it, but I am not sure if it will work based on the number of words. It is a compilation of stories with sketches.

No. of Pages - 218 (Kindle edition)
No. of Words - >65K based on www.wordcounters.com which I can hardly vouch for (couldn't find on arbookfind.com)

[a Contradiction]

Since Mary has one, I can just read it for a five, if the word count fits.
Please guide me here.

[Elisabeth]

Finished Feb 14 Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

I really enjoyed this. It's a fictionalised account of a true event in the Great Plague of 1665/6. The village of Eyam in Derbyshire, England voted to quarantine themselves to prevent the plague spreading from their village to the surrounding unaffected small isolated villages. It lasted a year and 2/3 thirds of the villagers died but the quarantine prevented their neighbours from dying too.

The book deals with the effects on the villagers and follows the true characters of the Rector and his maid who survived.
4 stars

[Lexi]

a Contradiction wrote: "Since Mary has one, I can just read it for a five, if the word count fits.
Please guide me here."

You only have to prove wordcount for children's, poetry, comics, travel books, and illustrated books. No illustrator is credited and it does not say illustrated in the blurb, such as for this book How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories. If it is illustrated than you can't use it, as we can't prove wordcount. Wordcounters just uses an average word per a page calculator and does not account for spacing or pictures. Hope that helps.

[Lexi]

Mary C wrote: "I found a short one that I can read on my plan rides later this week. Added it to the spreadsheet."

That is great. Thank you

[a Contradiction]

Lexi wrote: "a Contradiction wrote: "Since Mary has one, I can just read it for a five, if the word count fits.
Please guide me here."

You only have to prove wordcount for children's, poetry, comics, travel b..."

Thank you.

[Elisabeth]

Finished Feb 14
The Harp in the South
Ruth Park


This is an Australian classic written in 1953 and set around 1949 in an inner Sydney slum area. (Now upmarket and gentrified) It captures the era and the ups and downs, tragedies, kindness, cruelty, hilarity and craziness of the mix of people the central family know as friends and neighbours.

A great read.

4 stars

[Ella]

Elisabeth wrote: "Finished Feb 14 Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

I really enjoyed this. It's a fictionalised account of a true event in the Great..."

I had to read this book for English class in year 10! I found it quite interesting and loved being able to study it and go into the deeper messages of the book! I am glad that you have enjoyed it!

[Ella]

Also, I just looked on the spreadsheet and I thought I had Addie LaRue down as a blue read. I looked today and I couldn't find it on the spreadsheet. I was just wondering if someone removed and if so why? I am happy to do it for a blue cover read.

Thank you! Also, I know that I haven't finished it yet but I am making massive progress on it and I do not want it to go to waste. Please don't change things without telling me first. I will definitely finish it before the end of Feburary.

[Elisabeth]

Ella I added you as having read Year Of Wonders in the reverse column. It would have been a great book to study in class, so much happening in it.

I saw your Addie La Rue book is the last on the list and is down as blue. I think the list shifts about as Lexi adds books to the final spreadsheet.

[Lexi]

Ella, I wrote you a note in the captains group. Go read it there please. Everything is explained on where books are moved. Generally that is a good place to look first.

[Tina ❣]

I added in some books I read and my name to a book that one of you had read. I'll keeping adding books in but I have to get back to work oops

[Lexi]

Welcome back, Tina. Hope you are feeling better.

[Lexi]

Posting in this group for Ella, in case it was missed before:

Ella, I jut realized that you have read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in Sept 2021. That is less than 6 months ago so we cannot use the book for Feb UNO. Note Rules: "Re-reads are ok provided it has been more than 6 months since last read"

However, we might be able to use it next month if you don't finish before March 5th, but I would need to ask the mods if the 6 month is finish or start date. Either way, it won't work as a blue card for this month.
I have removed it from the SS for this month. Feel free to ask any clarifying questions.

[Ella]

Lexi wrote: "Posting in this group for Ella, in case it was missed before:

Ella, I jut realized that you have read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in Sept 2021. That is less than 6 months ago..."

I replied in the captain chat. Just to add, I will have to, unfortunately, finish it before the end of this month as my book club is hoping to discuss it around the 28th of February. It honestly sucks but I can't do much about it.

[Lexi]

That is fine. I was just trying to find a work-around for you. I hope you are enjoying reading it either way.

[Ella]

Elisabeth wrote: "Ella I added you as having read Year Of Wonders in the reverse column. It would have been a great book to study in class, so much happening in it.

I saw your Addie La Rue book is the last on the l..."

Don't worry I have sorted things with Lexi and I am happy for you to put me down in the reverse collum. It was an interesting read and there were many things to discuss.

I study it in part for a comparison piece I had to write. It was a comparison between the book Year of Wonders and film The Crucible!

[Jen]

Book Completion:
Date: Feb 15, 2022


Book: Into the Dying Light
Author: Katy Rose Pool

Rating 4/5 stars

Another series finished (yay), the story was interesting and the series ended well. I would recommend reading this series overall.

[Elisabeth]

Finished Feb 15
The Other Wife
Michael Robotham

4 stars

Another great thriller in the series featuring Joe O'Loughlin, a psychologist who has Parkinson's disease. Robotham's books are always emotional, heartwrenching and exciting.

[Elisabeth]

Has anyone else come across books they read pre Goodreads while running through the lists for the Mini? I just came across The Moonstone which I read as a teenager. Also Vanity Fair and several Thomas Hardy's. So many books and so little memory hahaha

[Mary X]

Are we short on Reverse books? I can peruse some shelves. I just added my name to Murder of Roger Akroyd. First Agatha Christie book I ever read.

[Lexi]

We seem to be ok for now but I’ll check again closer to the end of the month. Thank you for asking

[Elisabeth]

Mary C wrote: "Are we short on Reverse books? I can peruse some shelves. I just added my name to Murder of Roger Akroyd. First Agatha Christie book I ever read."

I have about 50 pages to go with Roger. It's really intriguing but I have a theory as to whodunnit.

It fills a lot of mini spots--a locked room story, set in a village, plenty or ornaments and neighbours visiting each other galore etc

[Elisabeth]

Finished Feb 16
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie


Classic Agatha Christie with Hercule Poirot exercising his little grey cells to solve the locked room murder. Lots of suspects but Poirot sorts it all out in style.
4 stars

[Ella]

Finished Feb 17th:
A Court of Frost and Starlight

4 out of 5 stars!

Amazing little novella to end the main trilogy of books. I loved the Christmas vibes it had throughout the book and I can definitely see myself rereading this book during this upcoming Christmas. I am super excited to continue on with ACOSF.

I am now focusing on It's in His Kiss! Hoping to finish sometime either this weekend or during next week!

[Lexi]

We are doing great everyone on the mini. The only hard one unclaimed is:

25. Read a book with the title or series title containing a word of address (e.g.: avenue, alley, road, street, lane, square, park, etc.)

[Jax]

Lexi wrote: "We are doing great everyone on the mini. The only hard one unclaimed is:

25. Read a book with the title or series title containing a word of address (e.g.: avenue, alley, road, street, lane, squar..."

I have The Lost City of the Monkey God sitting to be read if that would work (City is in every address)

[Lexi]

Jax wrote: "Lexi wrote: "We are doing great everyone on the mini. The only hard one unclaimed is:

25. Read a book with the title or series title containing a word of address (e.g.: avenue, alley, road, street..."

Let me go ask since while a city is in every address, the word city is not.

[Lexi]

From the mods:
"City is too broad a term and won't be accepted in this instance. The examples listed point to more specific words of address."
Sorry, Jax

[Elisabeth]

I found this in one of our bookshelves: Ash Road

It's classed YA so it should qualify as not a necssarily a children's book. A quick read.

[Lexi]

Elisabeth wrote: "I found this in one of our bookshelves: Ash Road

It's classed YA so it should qualify as not a necssarily a children's book. A quick read."

It still has Childrens as main page genre so we still have to check but it is over 50,000 words so you are good.

Link: https://www.arbookfind.com.au/bookdet...