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[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "Too obvious haha - but yes.
In my defense, I tend to ignore title so the "The" doesn't always register with me.

Eta: and it is even a #2 in series. Didn't spot that either haha."

I often forget that too when I'm looking for books. :D

[Sammy]

I just checked my tbr, and I can definitely cover any of the coloured cards that are left. Just lemme know what you want me to cover if no-one wants them :)

[Sammy]

Just realised... we need 2 yellow 8s (not counting wild draw 4), so we could technically have 4 in total if we add wild draw 4s to the count :D

[Eldarwen]

I copied those cards from the sheet. And still the second 8 Yellow didn't make it onto the list?! Sometimes I wonder if it's google sheets having a laugh at me or my work keyboard telling me to go screw myself *rolls eyes*


Eta: an entire bloody hand went missing! o.O That's 3 colour cards... thanks a lot, Sammy!!

[Eldarwen]

Laura wrote: "I’ve been wanting to read , so I’ll do a Wild Draw 4 for the Yellow 8."

Put this down for the 3 Yellow.

[Sammy]

No problem. ;)

[Eldarwen]

Sammy wrote: "I just checked my tbr, and I can definitely cover any of the coloured cards that are left. Just lemme know what you want me to cover if no-one wants them :)"

Always good to know! :-D

[Sammy]

Completion:

Bookcover:
Book: The Surgeon's Mate
Date Read: 24/3/23
Pages: 416 pages
Rating: 2.5 stars

CARDS:

2 - title
6 - title
7 - C: Diana Villiers

MINI:

Peron's Tree Frog - Also known as the laughing tree frog - Captain Aubrey laughs often, and tells terrible jokes throughout the book

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: Book Lovers
Date Read: 3/24
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
Using Draw 2 in hand 13
Reverse - Read by LaurLa
9 Blue - Character Nora Stephens; blue cover

Mini Challenge:
Chrysso spider - those native to Peru are yellow; cover has yellow suitcase and yellow top

Book: The Witch Tree Symbol
Date Read: 3/24
Rating: 3 stars
Word count: 34,324
Cards it fits:
0 - Character Alpha Zinn
2 - Title
3 - Character Henner Glick
4 - Character George Fayne
9 - Character Nancy Drew
Skip - Author Carolyn Keene

Mini Challenges:
Anoles - move with great speed and agility; in addition to being super quick (1.5 hours) read, there is an Amish buggy race

[Laura]

For April I can do:


6 Blue - author Sarah Blue


6 Red - Character Anna Sun

- Blue? If so,
Wild Draw 4 for Blue 6 - Character Stowe

- yellow? If so,
1 Yellow, 2 Yellow, 8 Yellow

- Yellow? If so,
1 Yellow, 7 Yellow

- Green? If so,
6 Green


Yellow 1


Green 9, Green 6, Green 3,


Green 8, Green 6, Green 3

- TinEye says blue, but I think it's one of those that could be blue or green.
6, Blue or Green?

[LaurLa]

Eldarwen wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Completion Post🔹LaurLa


Book🔹Ravenous
Read🔹03.23 ★★★★"

This doesn't appear on your read shelves. Searching for it gives me no read date and no rating? Weirdo GR glitch possibly?"

No glitch - me being spacy. It's updated now.

[Eldarwen]

Thanks, LaurLa :-)

[Eldarwen]

And a little update again:

These are our colour cards for March:

Skip Green - Laura - The Plight Before Christmas
9 Blue - Eldarwen - Nightblade
Wild Draw 4 - Jodi - 9 Red - The Maid




These are our normal cards for March:

0	1
2	1

Leftover March Mini Animal Tasks:

Alaskan Hare
- Location: Emily - set in Alaska
(Laura has a reserve if necessary)

Chameleons
- Location: Emily - set in Africa

Anoles
- Colour: Laura The Plight Before Christmas

Peron's Tree Frog
- Location: Kayt The Thornbirds - set in Australia

Chrysso spiders
- Characteristic 3: Jodi After the Fairy Tale

[Eldarwen]

ATTENTION ATTENTION

Can those people who have claimed to read certain books please let us know as soon as possible if you're still able to finish your books?

We're nearing the end of the month and now is the time to read back-ups in case you cannot, for whatever reason, finish your books.

Thank you!



Eta: Laura, I know you'll be able to read yours.
I am currently reading and enjoying my 9 Blue.

[Eldarwen]

Laura wrote: "For April I can do:"

Do you have any preferences for which ones to read?

As happy as I am though that you would have a 7 Yellow option, Venus is not yellow enough, it's more goldish and other stuff :-/

The Chase is also a no.

The Anne Bishop is neither green nor blue. It's one of those teal covers hehe. Keep that up your sleeve for the next "read a book with a teal cover" task :-)

Eta: the rest are all good!

[Sammy]

Completion:

Bookcover:
Book: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Date Read: 25/3/23
Pages: 121 pages
Rating: 4 stars

CARDS:

1 - #1 in series
2 - Title
3 - C: Hercule Poirot
5 - C: Emily Inglethorp
6 - C: Superintendant Summerhaye
8 - C: Emily Inglethorp
SKIP: C: Hercule Poirot
REV: Read by Emelie (does she still count, as she's left the team? Fewer teamies means reverse pool is smaller, lol. I know we don't need it for this round, but useful to know for April)

[Eldarwen]

Good question actually. Since she wasn't replaced, I'd go with yes. Usually it's only team members, but most team members are also replaced by other people, which isn't the case for Emelie - or Eli for that matter.

[Laura]

I should have my 2 done today.

For April, my preferences for reading:
One Pucked Up Pack, Love Starves, Touch of Regret, the 2 green historicals, The Heart Principle, and Chase and the Girl Who Came Back in that order. But they’re all on my TBR, so I’ll read whichever we need most.

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Date Read: 3/25
Rating: 3.5 stars
Cards it fits:
1 - #1 in series
3 - Character Devenand Hunter
9 - Title

[Laura]

Eldarwen wrote: "And a little update again:

These are our colour cards for March:

Skip Green - Laura - The Plight Before Christmas
9 Blue - Eldarwen - Nightblade
Wild Draw 4 - Jodi..."

E, you don't have it included in this list. Is someone reading for the location on the Alaskan Hare?

[Laura]

I found this Amazon freebie, Two Cabins, One Lake. I should be able to fit it in by the end of the month, if no one else has anything.

[Sammy]

Eldarwen wrote: "Good question actually. Since she wasn't replaced, I'd go with yes. Usually it's only team members, but most team members are also replaced by other people, which isn't the case for Emelie - or Eli..."

Awesome :)

[Eldarwen]

Laura wrote: "E, you don't have it included in this list. Is someone reading for the location on the Alaskan Hare?"

Yes, Emily is. Or should be - we haven't heard from her in a while so I'm hoping it's still the case :-)

[Laura]

Gotcha. I didn’t see her name on the spreadsheet, so I was concerned.

[Eldarwen]

Laura wrote: "I should have my 2 done today.

For April, my preferences for reading:
One Pucked Up Pack, Love Starves, Touch of Regret, the 2 green historicals, The Heart Principle, and Chase and the Girl Who Ca..."


Put you down for 6 Blue and 3 Green as well for now.

We'll wait for others to weigh in before assigning more colour cards :-)

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: Dance Butterfly Dance
Date Read: 3/25
Rating: 4.5 stars
Cards it fits:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Tatum Valor
3 - Character Beckett Hart
6 - Character Savy St. James
7 - Character Tatum Valor

Mini Challenge:
Cephalopods - pattern on cover

[Laura]

Do we think this cover is yellow? Because I still have my Little House books from when I was a kid, so I have this cover. And it's #7 in the series.

[Eldarwen]

Don't think that's over 50% - lots of colourful people on there, too!

[Audrey Jane]

Apologies for only checking in now. I've recently started my new job and I was absolutely knackered the last couple weeks due to all the new intake, new people, and all the mandatory socializing (so draining ! ). I'm gradually recovering haha. However I was only able to finish one book during that time, will post in a minute.

[Audrey Jane]

Completion Post


Book: Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
Date Read: 26th of March
Pages: 158 (can't remember the page limit in this group, hope it qualifies)
Rating: ★★★★

Cards:

1 - book 1 in the Wilmington Years series
2 - Thomas Barnhill (ch)
5 - Ilona Andrews (author)
Skip - Kate Daniels (ch)
Reverse - Laura read it

Mini: It seems all tasks have been covered so far.

[Audrey Jane]

For our April colour cards, I can read two of the below in April - please let me know which ones you want me to prioritize :)

1 Yellow:
(Olivia - ch)

9 Green :
(title)

6 Green: Is this one green enough ?
(title)

1 Red:
(title)

6 Red:
(title)

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa



Book🔹Hearts Collide
Read🔹03.24 ★★
Possible Cards
1 - #1 Infinity Prism series
2 - char Trevor Jameson
3 - title
4 - char Eddie Falcon
5 - #5 Quantum series
6 - char Marlowe Sloane
8 - char Emelia Greene
Skip - author Kylie Walker

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa



Book🔹Until the Sun Falls from the Sky
Read🔹03.25 ★★★★
Possible Cards
1 - #1 Three series
5 - char Isobel
6 - char Stephanie
8 - char Edwina
9 - char Nestor
Skip - author Kristen Ashley

[Eldarwen]

Audrey Jane wrote: "Apologies for only checking in now. I've recently started my new job and I was absolutely knackered the last couple weeks due to all the new intake, new people, and all the mandatory socializing (s..."

Haha, it is a lot to take in the first few weeks - and yes, the mandatory socialising :-p
But as long as the new job is to your liking and the people are nice, then the above is a small price to pay :-)

[Eldarwen]

Audrey Jane wrote: "For our April colour cards, I can read two of the below in April - please let me know which ones you want me to prioritize :) "

6 Red is yours of course - wouldn't want to keep you from reading Laura Purcell :-)
9 Green - Nettle & Bone is yours, too.

The other covers I wasn't certain on anyway, so those two if you want!

[Sammy]

Although even if not reading for the colour card, I definitely recommend Orphan X! Excellent series!

[LaurLa]

Sammy wrote: "I'd love 2 & 8 yellow please, as I'm going to be reading them for another challenge anyway :)


(2 yellow)

(8 yellow)

L..."

I almost forgot about this. Sorry! All done now.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa



Book🔹The End of Tomorrow
Read🔹03.26 ★★★
Possible Cards
2 - author Tara Brown
3 - #3 The Burrow
4 - char Fitz
6 - char Servario
8 - char Evie Evans

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: The Plight Before Christmas
Date Read: 3/26
Rating: 5 stars
Cards it fits:
Green Skip - Green cover, Author Kate Stewart

Mini Challenge:
Anoles - color = Green

[Eldarwen]

These are our left-over cards for March:

9 Blue - Eldarwen - Nightblade
Wild Draw 4 - Jodi - 9 Red - The Maid




Leftover March Mini Animal Tasks:

Alaskan Hare Location Emily - set in Alaska
(Laura has a reserve if necessary)

Chameleons Location Emily - set in Africa
(Sammy has a reserve if necessary)

Peron's Tree Frog Location Kayt The Thornbirds - set in Australia
(Laura has a reserve if necessary)

Chrysso spiders Characteristic Jodi After the Fairy Tale



As you can see, we are almost done. All that remains is knowing if those who have claimed books will be able to finish them. Every single person has been contacted via pm since we haven't heard from them so far.

Nightblade will be done before April rolls around but not much before. It's enjoyable read though :-)


COUNTDOWN!
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

[Sammy]

I'm starting a book later today that takes place in Africa, which can be a reserve for that task ;)

[Sammy]

LaurLa wrote: "Sammy wrote: "I'd love 2 & 8 yellow please, as I'm going to be reading them for another challenge anyway :)


(2 yellow)

..."

Thanks LaurLa, you're a star! :)

[Eldarwen]

Sammy wrote: "I'm starting a book later today that takes place in Africa, which can be a reserve for that task ;)"

Perfect, thanks :-)

[LaurLa]

I just finished a book we can use for the final 0. Garrett's Destiny with char Zane. I'll officially post shortly.

[Eldarwen]

Sounds good, LaurLa! :-)

[Audrey Jane]

Eldarwen wrote: "But as long as the new job is to your liking and the people are nice, then the above is a small price to pay :-)"

Indeed :) ! I can't believe I'm going to write this but I'm happy at work haha. Glad I decided to change.

[Audrey Jane]

Eldarwen wrote: "6 Red is yours of course - wouldn't want to keep you from reading Laura Purcell :-)
9 Green - Nettle & Bone is yours, too.

The other covers I wasn't certain on anyway, so those two if you want!"

Great ! I will start those then :) Will let you know about the Laura Purcell book ;)

[Audrey Jane]

Sammy wrote: "Although even if not reading for the colour card, I definitely recommend Orphan X! Excellent series!"

I saw a couple of your updates with this series, I've been meaning to prioritize it ever since. Looking forward to start it. Although the title would be perfect for a spell it out challenge ;)

[LaurLa]

Completion Post🔹LaurLa


Book🔹Garrett's Destiny
Read🔹03.27 ★★★★
Possible Cards
0 - author Rebecca Zanetti

If you need to know what else this works for, just let me know.

[Eldarwen]

Audrey Jane wrote: "Will let you know about the Laura Purcell book ;)"

Haha, yes, please do! :-)