Team Count Adhemar's Bourbon Lancer

[Annalisa]

Heather wrote: "Completion Post


The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Date 2/17/24
Pages 416

Cards
0 - stand alone
1 - CFN Otha
2 - Title
3 -..."

Heather can you please add this to your Uno shelf?

[Heather]

Annalisa wrote: "Heather wrote: "Completion Post


The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Date 2/17/24
Pages 416

Cards
0 - stand alone
1 - CFN Ot..."

Done

[Annalisa]

SS updated to here.

For the mini we are doing great with the drinks. We could use direction words in the title, Author names with F, I, N, or D, Black covers, and only black text on the cover.

[Heather]

Completion Post


If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Date 2/18/24
Pages 290

Cards
0 - stand alone
4 - AFN Frances
5 - Title
6 - Location Seoul
9 - New York
Skip - Kuryi

Mini
Author first/last name starting with F, I N or D - AFN Frances
Spirits - 4:11:56 - 4:12:26 - No, that's okay, whiskey is good.

[Suzanne]

Completion Post

The Duke's Perfect Wife by Jennifer Ashley
Date Read: 16Feb2024

Cards:
2 - title
3 - CF: Hart
4 - CL: Fellows
5 - CF: Ian
8 - CF: Eleanor

[Suzanne]

Completion Post

Look to the East by Maureen Lang
Date Read: 16 Feb 2024

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - CL: Toussaint

Minichallenge:
EAST in title

[Suzanne]

Completion Post

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Date Read 17 Feb 2024

Cards
0 stand alone
2 Title
6 AL: Spark
8: Setting: Edinburgh

Mini-challenge
Only black text on cover

[Alla]

Completion

Title: My favorite souvenir
Author: Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward
Date: February 19, 2024
Rating: 3 stars

Cards:
0 - Character Zara
2 - Series Wallflowers #2
3 - Character Hazel
4 - Character Felicity
7 - Author Vi Keeland
8 - Character Ed
9 - New York (half of the book)
Skip - Author Vi Keeland

Mini:
Spirits: "Umm...You´re sucking back vodka like it´s water". Ch. 6, loc. 1044

Fruit: Ed placed another vodka and cranberry in front of me. Ch. 2, loc.298

Herbs and spices: "Would you like some fresh pepper?" Ch. 17, loc.2744

[Heather]

Completion Post

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Date 2/18/24
Pages 291

Cards
0 - stand alone
2 - Title
3 - CFN Hilda
5 - CFN Irwin
6 - AFN Sylvia
7 - CFN Valerie
8 - CFN Esther
9 - CLN Nolan
Skip - ALN Plath

Mini - Cover over 50% black

[❀●○●○Ashley○●○●❀]

Completion Post

Book - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Pages - 320
Date Completed: Feb.19

Cards - 0 (SA), 5 (Title I)

Mini - #34 (Fruit) - "Pineapple's really high in sugar, but you can have some of this cantaloupe and honeydew." (CH 29 PG 1)

[❀●○●○Ashley○●○●❀]

Completion Post

Book - Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
Pages - 583
Date Completed - Feb.19

Cards - 0 (CFN Zade), 1 (1st in Series), 4 (Title H)

Mini - #25 (Spirits) - "I shake my head casually, taking a sip of my whiskey." (CH 41 PG.5)

[Louise]

Completion Post

Fifty Fifty by James Patterson and Candice Fox
Date Read: 15 February

0 - CFN Zack
2 - #2 in series
3 - CFN Harriet
4 - Title
6 - CFN Sam
8 - CFN Elliott
9 - CFN Nigel

Bonus: ALN Candice Fox

[Louise]

Completion Post


We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to Be French by Emma Beddington
Date Read: Feb 16

0 - CFN Olivier
4 - NLN Emma Fenney
8 - AFN Emma Beddington
Skip - place Paris

Bonus
spirit -
Pg27 - drink too much tequila

Mixer
Pg16 - drinking cans of coke

[Louise]

Completion Post

V for Visa by Mona Ombogo
Date Read: Feb 19

0 - ALN Mona Ombogo
1 - #1 series
2 - CFN Theo
3 - CFN Rain Handa
7 - Title

Bonus
Pg 49 it’s coke and rum "on the house"
Pg97 it’s bruschetta with tomatoes and basil
Pg135 he’s back with sliced bananas and a jug of water

[Louise]

Completion Post

Come A Little Bit Closer by Bella Andre
Date Read: 20 February

2 - CFN Tatiana
6 - CFN Smith
7 - #7 in series
9 - CFN Nicola
Skip

[Suzanne]

Wow what great reading everyone is doing - thanks! I will enter books as soon as I get back from my errands.

[Suzanne]

@Alla - can you mark "My Favorite Souvenier" as read and put it on your uno shelf?

[Suzanne]

Updated to here, except for "My Favorite Souvenier".

We are doing great with filling things in. We only need 12 more books to finish up our cards!

For the mini challenge - we need one each of :
Spirits, mixers, fruit, herbs and spices

We need 4 more "Direction in title" although I'm currently reading 2.
We need 3 more Author's first name starting with F, I, N or D
We need 2 more black covers
We need 4 more "ONLY black writing on cover" - those are surprisingly hard to find. I am reading one more, and the whole (cozy mystery) series works for these, so I will try to get through as many as we need.

Anyway - we seem to be in pretty good shape - 9 days of reading left!

[Heather]

Suzanne wrote: "Updated to here, except for "My Favorite Souvenier".

We are doing great with filling things in. We only need 12 more books to finish up our cards!

For the mini challenge - we need one each of :
S..."

I am reading one with black letters and one of the authors.

[Suzanne]

Awesome - ty!

[Heather]

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Date 2/20/24
Pages - 211

Cards
0 - Stand Alone
3 - CFN Heather
4 - CLN Freeman
5 - CFN Ivy
6 - Location Syracuse
8 - CLN Evans
9 - CFN Nichole
Skip - CLN Petrakis

Mini
All black text on cover

[Suzanne]

Great find Heather!

[Alla]

Completion


Title: Eternally North
Author: Tillie Cole
Read: 2/22/24

Cards:
0 - Standalone
2 - Character, Tudor
3- Character, Henry
8- Title
9 - Character, Natasha
Skip - Character, Pamela

Mini:
North in the title

[Alla]

Suzanne wrote: "@Alla - can you mark "My Favorite Souvenier" as read and put it on your uno shelf?"

Done! Sorry, I forgot to do that after I posted it!

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: Spring Clean for the Peach Queen by Sasha Wasley
Date: 19/2 4.5★

0 - stand
1 - cfn Olivia
6 - title
8 - cfn Elizabeth
skip - cfn Pris

Mini
spirits - "In the absence of vodka, I reached for a lamington." p.75
fruit - peach in title

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: See Jane Score by Rachel Gibson
Date: 20/2 1.5★

2 - series
6 - title
reverse - read by Louise

Mini
spirit - " the vodka and Triple Sec" p.84
mixer - "she bought a coke from the vending machine" p.125
fruit - "a muffind and orange juice" p.41
spice - "she looked at his chili pepper tie" p.313

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Date: 21/2 3.5★

0 - stand
2 - title
4 - cln Feldman
6 - cln Shaw
7 - cln Vermano
8 - cln Einstein
skip - cln Keen
reverse - read by Heather

Mini
spirit - "and spilling whiskey" p.103
mixer - "drinking a Diet Coke" p.236
fruit - "he took an inch off the banana" p.120
spice - "pulled off a piece of cinnamon roll" p.271

[Annalisa]

I'm also reading an author name book.

[Suzanne]

Completion Post

Littered with Trouble by Eryn Scott
Date Read: 21 Feb 2024

1 - #1 in series
3 - CL: Henry
8 - AF: Erin

Mini:
Only black letters on cover

[Suzanne]

Out of House and Home by Drew Hayes

Date Read: 21 Feb 2024
1: Title
3: AL: hayes
4: CF: Fred
7: #7 in series

Mini:
Directional word in title (Out)

[Suzanne]

Updated to here

Only a couple books needed for the cards
For the mini - we only need
2 "f,i,n,d" authors
2 black covers
2 only black writing on the cover
1 direction in the title

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
Date: 22/2 2.5★

1 - series 13 (you didn't tell me if this worked or not last time)
2 - title
3 - series 13
4 - aln
5 - afn
6 - cfn Scaramanga

Mini
FIND author
black cover

[Louise]

Suzanne wrote: "Updated to here

Only a couple books needed for the cards
For the mini - we only need
2 "f,i,n,d" authors
2 black covers
2 only black writing on the cover
1 direction in the title"

Going to be reading by Helen H. Durrant in the next day or two. Works for black cover or d author

[Heather]

Completion Post

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Cards
0 - Stand alone
1 - Location Ohio
3 - CFN Hannah
8 - Title
9 - ALN Ng

Mini -
F.I.N.D author - ALN Ng

[Suzanne]

Completion Post

Hands Down by Mariana Zapata
Date Read: 22Feb2024

Cards: 0 - AL Zapata
2 - CL Travis
3 - Title


Mini - Directional word (Down) in title

[Suzanne]

Updated to here

Only 3 wildcards left to fill for cards

For the mini we need:
1 more direction (I am reading one that'll I'll finish tomorrow, but if someone else wants to claim that, I don't mind)

1 more FIND - Annalisa is reading

2 more black covers - Louise is reading one

2 more black writing only on the cover

Well done team!

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Date: 23/2 4.5★

1 - series 10
3 - cfn Hercule
skip - cln Poirot

Mini
direction - ? ON

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: The Duke's Wager by Edith Layton
Date: 23/2 3.5★

1 - series 1
2 - title
6 - cfn St.John
8 - afn

[Alla]

I´ll cover one of the black letters only cover

[Heather]

Suzanne wrote: "Updated to here

Only 3 wildcards left to fill for cards

For the mini we need:
1 more direction (I am reading one that'll I'll finish tomorrow, but if someone else wants to claim that, I don't min..."
I am reading a black cover, and one with black text.

[Suzanne]

Great - that's so helpful ladies!

[Suzanne]

Status:

We need one more card (Wild) that fits 5 or 9 - although I'm sure I could move things around and fill it.

We are DONE with the mini challenge except for books people are reading for tasks.

What does that mean? Well first off - nice job! As for reading the rest of February - well, I'm not going to stop. It never hurts to have backups in case life happens and someone doesn't finish. This is also a nice time to read some longer books, catch up on your netflix shows, or whatever.

For those who have books reserved - please speak up if your plans change and you'll no longer be reading for that spot.

I'd guess we'll see our March cards soon.

Thanks for being so responsible everyone.

[Suzanne]

Oh forgot to say updated to here.

[Annalisa]

Completion Post
Corsairs: Bethiah
Pages: 589
Date: February 23rd
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:
2 - CFN Tessa
5 - Corsair Brothers # 5 series
6 - CFN Sophia

Mini: Ruby Dixon works for author

[Annalisa]

I updated the SS. Thank you for holding down the updating while I was sick Suzanne. I'm feeling much better.

Great job team. We have one book left for uno hands and all the mini books are claimed. I'll post a countdown for March start. Only books finished after the count down reaches zero will count towards March books.

[Suzanne]

I'm so glad you are feeling better!

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


The Temporary Husband by Barbara Allister
Date: 24/2 2.5★

0 - stand
2 - title
4 - cln Fairleigh

[Catsalive]

Cats' Completion


Book: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Date: 25/2 5★

0 - cfn Zaphod
2 - cfn Trillian
3 - cfn Hactar
4 - cln Ford
6 - cfn Slartibartfast
skip - cln Prefect

Mini
FIND - afn
cover - black

[Heather]

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Date 2/24/24
Pages 320

Cards:
1 - 1st in series
2 - CFN Thora
3 - AFN Heather
4 - ALN Fawcett
8 - Title
Skip - CFN Krystjan

Mini -
Black Cover
FIND - ALN Fawcett

[Catsalive]

So, should I stop posting books now, until March?