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Team Lestat's Corpse Reviver
Sarah wrote: "Woot! Great call on thinking of that!"I'm always trying to stretch my books to fit something. Especially when the task says be creative! :)
Laura wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Woot! Great call on thinking of that!"I'm always trying to stretch my books to fit something. Especially when the task says be creative! :)"
I am not…but will happily find books to read for what we need, lol 😂
That’s why I’m trying to fill in the second tasks for the drinks because cover color and text color tasks are easier to fit.
Completion BooksBook #4
Book: Say Goodbye
Author: Lisa Gardner
Pages: 370
Date Read: March 15th
Cards:
#6 - Say Goodbye (Title)
Skip: Kimberly Quincy (Main female character name)
Maybe Mini: Annie Wilkes' Hanky Panky : Is the writing orange enough?
Book #5
Book: The Last Song
Author:Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 474
Date Read: March 20th
Cards:
#0: Stand alone
#6: Nicholas Sparks (author name - S)
#7: Veronica Miller (female character name - V)
#9: North Carolina (setting - N)
Reverse: Read by Ashlee: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Book #6
Book: Her Lucky Charm
Author: Cassie Cole
Date Read: March 21-22
Pages: 321
Cards
#0 - Stand alone
#7: Victor (male character name - V)
Skip: Keller, Roman (male character last name - K)
Mini:
Patrick Bateman's Death in the Afternoon: Black writing on cover
Book: Things We Hide from the LightDate Read: 3/23
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
2 - Title
3 - Character Grave Hopper
5 - Character Agent Idler
6 - ALN Score
9 - Character Nash Morgan
Skip - Character Knash Morgan
Reverse - Read by Ariel
Mini:
Mean Girls Stiletto - Pink cover; Lina stabs a bad guy in the thigh with her stiletto (and it breaks!)
Book: Endless Terrors
Date Read: 3/23
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
0 - Character Zara
1 - Character Oliver
4 - Character Fortuna Sworn
5 - #5 in series
6 - ALN
8 - Title
Skip - AFN
Mini:
Cocktail name -
Endless Terrors, Fortuna Sworn, K.J. Sutton, Brown (cover color), Setting: Hell
Ariel wrote: "Completion BooksBook #4
Book: Say Goodbye
Author: Lisa Gardner
Pages: 370
Date Read: March 15th
Cards:
#6 - Say Goodbye (Title)
Skip..."
You also have Second Chance Storms on your Uno shelf. Don't forget to post it!
And the writing for Say Goodbye totally works for Orange!
I have this book:
. The captain's group said that the background looks dark pink. But the main character is being hunted by a serial killer, who does have a POV in the story, so it's not just a hunt, but he's a character. I think that would work for Hannibal Lector. So my question is, is anyone reading a book with a pink cover, or a book that would work for Hannibal Lector's Red Wine Spritzer. So red wine on the cover, or a character really likes red wine.I have another pink cover, but since we only have one Reverse left and Paula is reading for it, I was going to save this pink one for next month.
Laura wrote: "Ariel wrote: "Completion BooksBook #4
Book: Say Goodbye
Author: Lisa Gardner
Pages: 370
Date Read: March 15th
Cards:
#6 - Say Goodby..."
I forgot to take it off since it doesn't meet page requirements and I didn't realize that until after it was read.
Gotcha. I hadn’t even gotten as far as looking at the page count.
Completion PostBook #7
Playing for Keeps by R.L. Mathewson
Pages: 332
Date Read: 3/23-24
Cards
#1: Book 1 in Neighbor from Hell series
#3: Hailey Blaine (Main female character - H)
Skip: Playing for Keeps (title - P)
Reverse: Laura has read it.
And Reverse. I’ve read the first three Neighbor From Hell books.
Completion PostBook: Throne of Glass
Date Read: March 24
Rating: 3.5
Cards
1: First In Series
2: Title (Throne)
3: CLN (Havilliard)
6: CLN (Sardothien)
8: CFN (Elena)
9: CFN (Nehemia)
Skip: CFN (Kaltain)
ReverseL Laura
Maybe Mini (might be a stretch)
Celaena has three large scars on her back from when she was enslaved and tortured
Completion PostBook: Free Me
Date Read: 3/24
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
4 - Title
6 - Character Shiloh
Skip - Character Knox
Mini:
Hannibal Lector's Red Wine Spritzer - Mr. X is a serial killer
Sarah wrote: "Maybe Mini (might be a stretch)Celaena has three large scars on her back from when she was enslaved and tortured"
I think we can make that work. :)
Laura wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Maybe Mini (might be a stretch)Celaena has three large scars on her back from when she was enslaved and tortured"
I think we can make that work. :)"
Woot! 😊
Here's a quick update.Color cards - We have 3 greens left. Cindy is reading a green that works for the Skip or the 6. I have found 2 short greens that I can read.
Mini challenge: We have 8 tasks left in the top portion.
Daryl van Horne's Bloody Mary
Paula - Read a book with a white cover.
Mayday's Tuxedo
Paula - Read a book with a yellow cover.
Agent Smith' Margerita
Laura - Read a book that relates to the cocktail - for example: the cover features a flower, a character is called Margerita...
Scar's Lion Tail
Laura - Read a book with an orange cover.
Mean Girls' Stiletto
Laura - Read a book with a pink cover.
Wicked Witch of the West's Brass Monkey
Cindy - Read a book with a green cover. (We have 3 green covers coming. We can use one of them here and the 2 with the best stuff for a drink name in the second section)
Laura - Read a book that relates to the cocktail - for example: the book features a monkey, the cover shows an item made of brass... The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
Patrick Bateman's Death in the Afternoon
- Read a book with black writing on the cover.
For the second section, the drink names, we can do up to 25 books. We have 4 books for this section already.
So, to finish the mini challenge, we need 29 more books. Which works well because we need 32 more books to finish our hands for the month!
Our hands for April have been added to the spreadsheet. There's a lot of color on there, especially Yellow! I'll be posting about those cards tomorrow. I don't want to overwhelm anyone with next month while we're still working to finish this month!
I have a couple books to log once I get to my computer tomorrow
Everybody take a deep breath and start searching through your color covers!For the month of April, we've got a new twist. There are no more Draw 4 cards. They have been replaced with the OVERLOAD card. Overload cards are cover color cards. But, they have no number requirement associated with them. And the colors are:
- purple
- pink
- orange
- brown
- grey
- white
- black
Each color can only be used once, so we'll need to coordinate these. We have 4 of these cards.
Our other color cards this month:
Yellow 2 - Sarah
Yellow Skip
Yellow 4
Yellow 1 - Laura
Yellow 5 - Laura
Yellow 3 - Laura
Yellow 9 - Cindy
Yellow 8 - Laura
Yellow 7 - Sarah
Red 5
Red 4
Red Skip - Cindy
Red 7 - Laura (works for 9)
Red 9
Green 3 - Sarah
Green Skip - Laura
Green 2 - Cindy (works for 1, 3, Skip)
Green 1 (x2) - Laura, Laura
Blue Skip - Laura
Blue 5
I can do:Yellow 5 -
Yellow 1 -
Green 1 -
Green 3 or Skip -
Yellow 8 -
Yellow 3 -
Blue Skip -
Red 7 or 9 -
I'm hoping to get this one from the library in time to use for the Yellow 7. It looks like a 2-3 month hold, but I'm hoping it goes faster.
Green or Blue?
I can read these:Yellow 2 or 9-
Red Skip:
Green 1, 2, 3, or skip:
Laura wrote: "I can do:Yellow 5 -
Yellow 1 -
Green 1 -
Green 3 or Skip - [bo..."
I would lean more towards green for that
I can grabGreen (I think?):
3: CLN (Hollis)
Yellow:
7: CLN (Vega)
Yellow:
1: CFN (Olivia)
2: Title (The)
8: CFN (Emilia)
Completion PostBook: Kept by her Daddies
Date Read: 3/25
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
4 - Character Frank Evans
5 - #5 in series
6 - Character William Stonehurst
8 - Character Frank Evans
Skip - Title
Mini-Challenge:
Scar's Lion Tail - Orange cover
Cindy wrote: "I can read these:Yellow 2 or 9-
Red Skip:
Green 1, 2, 3, or skip: [bookcover:The Naughty, The Nice and The Na..."
These all look good to me. I'll put you down for them.
Sarah wrote: "I can grabGreen (I think?):
3: CLN (Hollis)
Yellow:
7: CLN (Vega)
Yellow:
1: CFN (Ol..."
I'm going to ask the captain's group about Afterlife. I'm not super-confident in my color cover skills!
ETA: Captain's say Afterlife is good for Yellow!
If you have something for a color card, please post it here. Even if my name is already there, my reading for April is not set in stone and I can always change what I'm reading to pick up the other things we need. We have 10 5s and 10 7s, so any changes I make will just go there.
Completion PostBook: The Revenant
Author: Michael Punke
Read: 3/17/24
Rating: 3
0-Standalone
3-Hugh
4-John Fitzgerald
6-Stubby Bill
Skip: Author
Mini: Black writing on cover?
Book: Scrooged
Author: Vi Keeland
Read: 3/22/24
Rating: 3
Green cover
0-Standalone
3-Mason Hanks
6-Title
7-Author
8-Meredith Eden
9-Nancy
Skip-Author
Completion PostBook 1
Five of a Kind
3-17-2024
258
Card 4: Title
Card 5: 5th in series
Card 3: Character Henry
Book 2
Messy
3-18-2024
204 Pages
Skip: Katie Author
0: Stand alone
Book 3
The Kind Brothers
3-19-2024
259 Pages
Card 2: Title
Card 6: 6 in series
Card 9: Nathan Character
Book 4
Saving Thea
3-23-2024
260
Card 6: Title S
Card 0: Standalone
Book 5
Kiss of a Stranger
3-25-2024
282
Skip: Title
Card 1: 1st in series
Laura wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I can grabGreen (I think?):
3: CLN (Hollis)
Yellow:
7: CLN (Vega)
Yellow: [bookcover:The Beach at Summerly|611025..."
Great! Do you want me to go ahead and plan to read all three, and then use them where we can?
Sarah wrote: "Laura wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I can grabGreen (I think?):
3: CLN (Hollis)
Yellow:
7: CLN (Vega)
Yellow: [bookcover:The Beach at S..."
Yes, please! We have so many colors this month!
Completion PostBook: The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk
Date Read: 3/25
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
0 - Character Senora Zola
2 - Title
3 - Character Hannah
4 - Character George Fayne
9 - Character Nancy Drew
Skip - ALN
Mini:
Wicked Witch of the West's Brass Monkey - Brass item in title
Book: A Touch of Darkness
Date Read: 3/26
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Title
3 - Character Hades
6 - Author
7 - Character Valerie
Skip - Character Persephone
Mini:
Agent Smith's Margerita - Cover features a flower
Book: Sweet
Date Read: 3/26
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
3 - ALN
4 - #4 in series
6 - Title
7 - Character Spider Villalobos
8 - AFN
Green 6
Mini:
Wicked Witch of the West's Brass Monkey - Green cover
Drink Name - Sweet, Elizabeth Hunter, 7th and Main, Green cover, Cherries, Pie, Spider, Daisy
@Laura - that we do!I had to dig deep on my TBR list for anything yellow...turns out I don't read a lot of books with yellow covers, lol
Sarah wrote: "@Laura - that we do!I had to dig deep on my TBR list for anything yellow...turns out I don't read a lot of books with yellow covers, lol"
Yellow is the worst! I often have to go to my historical fiction books for those. The ones where the woman's dress takes up a lot of the cover.
Completion Post:I added The Fairy Tale Killer to my shelf.
The Wife Between Us
By: Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Date Read: 3/25/24
Blue Cover
0 - Standalone
2 - CLN Thompson
3 - ALN Hendricks
6 - CFN Sam
7 - CFN Vanessa
8 - CFN Emma
9 - CFN Nellie
Skip - CFN Kate
Other Characters: Charlotte, Richard, Maggie
For the remainder of the month, I am still struggling my way through ACOTAR. (I'm told that I have to get through and the rest of the series is amazing.) I should have this done by Saturday, March 30.Do we need someone to read for the pink or white cover? I could find something short to squeeze in. I am planning to devote all of my Spring Break to relaxing and reading.
Laura wrote: "Sarah wrote: "@Laura - that we do!I had to dig deep on my TBR list for anything yellow...turns out I don't read a lot of books with yellow covers, lol"
Yellow is the worst! I often have to go to..."
Exactly!
Ashlee wrote: "Do we need someone to read for the pink or white cover? I could find something short to squeeze in. I am planning to devote all of my Spring Break to relaxing and reading."I'm currently reading a pink cover. Paula said she had a white cover, but we haven't heard from her for a bit. I sent her a message this morning to make sure she'll have them finished in time.
Anything that you read will go toward the Drink Title section of the mini.
Ashlee wrote: "Completion Post:I added The Fairy Tale Killer to my shelf.
The Wife Between Us
By: Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Date Read: 3/25/24
Blue Cover
0 - Standa..."
Thanks!
The Wife Between Us is also a Reverse. I've read it.
Ashlee wrote: "For the remainder of the month, I am still struggling my way through ACOTAR. (I'm told that I have to get through and the rest of the series is amazing.) I should have this done by Saturday, March ..."Hang in there. It is soooo worth it!
Completion PostBook: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Date Read: March 26
Rating: 2.5/3
Cards
0: Standalone
1: CFN (Oliver)
3: ALN (Hallett)
6: CFN (Sonia)
8: CFN (Ellie)
Skip: CFN (Pippa)
Mini:
White/yellow writing - if we need to move books around
Mini: Part 2
Potential Words: Blue, angels, mysterious, wings, eclipse
For our first cocktail name, I've put down:Hades & Persephone's Endless Terrors.
But, we have a book title Sweet, and a book title Messy, as well as a book with Angel wings on the cover (or Angel in the title). Or series title Neighbor From Hell.
Any other ideas than what I came up with?
Laura wrote: "For our first cocktail name, I've put down:Hades & Persephone's Endless Terrors.
But, we have a book title Sweet, and a book title Messy, as well as a book with Angel wings on the cover (or Ange..."
I'm second guessing myself. Would Hades & Persephone's Neighbor From Hell be better?
I have the next Hades & Persephone book audio checked out from my library, so we could potentially do multiples with those names.
Laura wrote: "Laura wrote: "For our first cocktail name, I've put down:Hades & Persephone's Endless Terrors.
But, we have a book title Sweet, and a book title Messy, as well as a book with Angel wings on the ..."
Love the train of thought!
What if we removed "endless" and replaced with "sweet"
Hades & Persephone's Sweet Terrors - reminds me of what a good idea I think a drink/shot is (sweet), and the terror that comes after, lol
I like it!What about Hades & Persephone’s Messy Angel for another one? Or Blue Angel?
Laura wrote: "I like it!What about Hades & Persephone’s Messy Angel for another one? Or Blue Angel?"
I like that one too! Plays off the opposites :-)
We also have Kind in a title. So we could do H & P’s Kind Neighbor From Hell.
I’m listening to a second Hades & Persephone now. I’ll finish it and at least one more. There are 4 in the series. So we can do multiples, building off our team drink, Corpse Reviver.
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