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Laura wrote: "Laura wrote: "It might be Alec. Now I have to go look."It is Alec. Just a brain fart on my part. :)"
Okay, I feel better now haha. It would have been so odd to change it! Though it wouldn't have been the first time that names are changed in different languages, which I personally find silly but oh well.
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Book: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Date Read: 28th April
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
2 - #2 in series
4 - title
9 - character: Lieutenant Nulty
Skip - character: Philip Marlowe
Mini Challenge:
2. Read a book with at least one ear on the cover. (;-))
21. Read a book where someone eats or makes breakfast. (Marlowe makes breakfast a couple of times.)
25. Read a book featuring a sarcastic character. (Marlowe loves snark, or maybe that's just Chandler living through him.)
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Book: Appleby Farm by Cathy Bramley
Read: 29/04
Rating: 3.5 stars
Possible Cards
1 - first in series
2 - character: Tilly
3 - character: Eddie Hopkins
4 - character: Freya
5 - character: Ivan
6 - character: Aunt Sue
Skip - setting: Kingsfield
Mini
11 - character likes to bake
29 - 2 word title
Emily, can you add this to your Uno shelf as well, please? Thanks! :-)
Eldarwen wrote: "Emily, can you add this to your Uno shelf as well, please? Thanks! :-)"Sorry about that, done!
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Book: Spider's Trap by Jennifer Estep
Date Read: 29th April
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
1 - character: Owen Grayson
4 - character: Finnigan Lane
6 - title
8 - author
Skip - character: Lorelei Parker
Mini:
claimed Panda Ant's "get creative" bit because panda ant is a spider and the MC is called The Spider, and spider is in the title
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Book: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Date Read: 28th of April
Pages: 256
Rating: ★★★
Cards:
📗 9 Green - Title starts with N
0 - stand alone
Mini:
16. Read a book with a green cover.
Laughing Kookaburra - author's name is also a bird.
Team Echidna - their backs are covered with sharp spines (needle on the cover) ?
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Dragon on Top
Read🔹04.29 ★★★★
Mini
Leafy Seadragon - Partial animal name in title
REMINDER OF COUNTDOWNhttps://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
We have almost 1 1/2 days left, so if you have more books you are currently reading, go for it and finish them off!! The more the better :-))
A few cover colours or animal names would be easiest at the moment, since the creative parts are mostly taken, unless you go for one of the animals that have not had any tasks read for yet. They are the following:
Boatbill
h.
Casper Octopus
i.
j.
Echidna
k.
l.
Firework Jellyfish
n.
Laughing Kookaburra
v.
Platypus
ii.
jj.
Quokka
kk.
ll.
Sea Pen
pp.
Sugar Glider
ss.
tt.
Thorny Devil
xx.
Venezuelan Poodle Moth
yy.
zz.
Completion PostBook: Black Gold
Date Read: 4/29
Rating: 3 stars
Word Count: 32,446
Mini Challenge:
animal on cover has 4 legs - Bearcat; Echidna; Quokka; Sugar Glider; Thorny Devil (also, they are fast and Black Gold was fast); Venezuelan Poodle Moth (white)
Color on cover - Bearcat (brown); Boatbill (blue); Caspar Octopus (white); Echidna (brown); Firework Jellyfish (pink on jockey's silks); Laughing Kookaburra (brown); Platypus (brown); Quokka (brown); Sugar Glider (brown & white); Thorny Devil (brown)
Book: Untrue Blue
Date Read: 4/29
Rating: 5 stars
Mini Challenge - Blue Angel - Blue in title
I feel like it would be awful for us to ignore our own animal. So I did a quick search on my Kindle and found a book with the word Platypus in the text, Extra Credit. I should have it done in the morning.Also reading my Black Stallion book, and listening to
. I should get some interesting tasks out of that one. :)Since these will all be quick ones, I'll see if I can get another Marguerite Henry horse book in.
Ha, yes, Jane usually provides ;-)
And very very true! Poor platypus was our animal for the past three month and not a single task went to the animal :-(But you've actually managed to find the name in text so that's cool! :-)
And maybe someone else will have a book with a brown cover or something else we can link to platypus??
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹With Everything I Am
Read🔹04.30 ★★★★
Possible Cards
6 - char Sonia Arlington
Mini
21-Read a book where someone eats or makes breakfast. - as back-up: Sonia and Regan make a fancy crepe breakfast for the family on Christmas: After that, Regan and Sonia made breakfast. It was Sonia’s recipe. Crepes filled with cream cheese sweetened and flavored with almonds [loc 404.9]
Firework Jellyfish - there are firework displays twice in the story: looking for fun because the main celebrations were over as the fireworks had gone off as planned. [loc 608.0]
Not quite 12 hours left to go! :-)I'll finish my book really down to the wire but I'm enjoying it a lot.
Completion PostBook: Blood Cross
Date Read: 4/30
Rating: 5 stars
Mini challenge - 21 - Jane and Angie have oatmeal for breakfast several times; Jane and Bruiser breakfast over a meeting
Book: Son of the Black Stallion
Date Read: 4/30
Rating: 3.5 stars
Mini Challenge:
Boatbill - the color on it's neck looks like the color of this sky
Caspar Octopus - get creative; black is the opposite of white
Sugar Glider - has black eyes; black on cover
2 1/2 hours left if anyone still has anything they're finishing up or need posting!I'll be down to the wire but will be done with my Aussie book - which mentions a kookaburra by the way hehe. Without the "laughing" bit but still!
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Book: Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Date Read: 1st May
Rating: 4 stars
Mini:
set in Australia
And I guess that is a wrap!Laura finished her last book last night and put it on her Uno shelf but was too tired to post a completion post, but it is done.
Sammy also finished a couple more that have been added to the spreadsheet.
And we've inserted the Pixie books we were allowed to use for those who quit the challenge.
In the end, we finished all our cards, the entire first part of the mini challenge and we were only missing 5 books to finish off the second part of the mini challenge as well, which is quite a feat!!
Eldarwen wrote: "And I guess that is a wrap!Laura finished her last book last night and put it on her Uno shelf but was too tired to post a completion post, but it is done.
Sammy also finished a couple more that ..."
Way to go Team Platypus!
Congrats everybody, you all did so well!
And Winners have now been officially announced!Here.
Team Luna Moth made it, with Laughing Kookaburra very closely behind them.
We ended up in 10th place, which is really quite good, considering the loss of team members over the course of the road :-)
Great job guys! So sorry I had to unexpectedly disappear towards the challenge, but our fabulous captain was able to sort my books for us anyway. Thanks E!Uno is fast becoming a favourite challenge for me, as there's no pressure and I can get those shorter books out of the way! lol.
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We can use this for Mini - partial name in title for Leafy Seadragon"
Cool :-)