danielle’s Comments (group member since Jul 30, 2025)

danielle’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

I said I would park myself somewhere and do book stuff. Well, I parked myself on a recliner and then promptly fell asleep! LOL

Elizabeth wrote: "I wish I'd known about talpa months ago LOL it would've come in handy!"

Right? I saw it mentioned somewhere while playing bookopoly. Came in handy frequently!

Amanda wrote: "Oh also I found these two really cool websites yesterday as I was trying to find books that match the themes:

https://www.whichbook.net/
- this one is really cool because you can use sliders fo..."

Ooo… I will have to check these out. Thanks!!!

I have used the 3rd one. I have it bookmarked under a folder named “book tools”, alongside other things like tineye!

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Re: Spreadsheet - what is the Archive Log cell for? (Tried to find answers in all the information but could not find anything)

Made me think of Captain's log on Star Trek, hehe."

I’m curious too! I sort of assumed it was our “justification” field, but more in time travel ship & crew speak! But maybe I took it too far…

Elizabeth wrote: "Luckily some tasks between the two go together a bit!"

Yes! I was able to slot some of the same books in both!!

Amanda wrote: "🔍 Thematic Treasure Hunt
As a team, compile a mini-catalog of shared themes/motifs found across your individual reads: fire, moons, wings, mirrors, rebirth, keys — whatever pops up. Include quotes ..."

I’m going to try to work on this tonight to see what my list might be for the books I have slated. I do currently have all 11 books picked. I can always change my mind, but I’ll start with this set and see if anything useful comes up.

I’ve got some pain issues today so I need to just park myself somewhere for a while. Sounds like a perfect excuse to sit in front of the laptop for a good long while and ignore house stuff! 🤣

Elizabeth wrote: "I've barely looked at Tarot. I'm gonna be in trouble 🤣"

Most of those tasks have been out a while. But she published the 2 bonus ones (1st quarter & monthly one) yesterday too!

Yes! I think June? … I’m doing a bunch of those FBRs for the tarot game. Will try to use them here if the timing & tasks work out!

Elizabeth wrote: "it's on my tbr! I haven't read anything all the way except Carrie. I started Pet Semetary a couple years ago too. They're a lot just because of the length but I'd love to get through some of them. ..."

I did a big SK challenge in late 2023. Since then I’ve done a lot of his books. Not quite done with all of them yet!

Amanda wrote: "Firestarter will also work for the black cover bonus"

Not if you do the audiobook.

Amanda wrote: "oh also for the fire one :)"

This one is on my TBR. If it’s still up for a BR after Jan, I’ll probably be in. My fire book is way too many pages for me to swap it out. And I need to do that one in Jan.

Amanda wrote: "so for example, if we choose rebirth as a theme then we each try to find things in our book that aligns with some type of rebirth - literally or metaphorical?"

Right… so ONE list for all the books that month. And all 5 of us would have to find at least 1 book to hit it in order to take that bonus.

Does that sound right?

Amanda wrote: "Also, I'm always happy to BR so any book that anyone's interested in BR just lmk, even if I didn't put in the BR section,"
💛

Is it a list per month and then you select the books that work for it?

Elizabeth wrote: "Done for this round I think! I started Heartless by Marissa Meyer but it's 15 hours so I'm pretty sure I won't finish tonight."

I added a note in our notes tab.

I don’t think I’ll be finishing my current book tonight.

Amanda wrote: "btw if I put a ? next to a key, it means it sounds like it might work, but don't know for sure."

That makes sense!

Amanda wrote: "I was thinking about that too when I was adding stuff into the SS yesterday. One possible idea would be to maybe add a theme/motif(s) that come up while reading a book, and then people could add to..."

That would work. Since I’m audio, it’s helps if I know what I need to pay attention for, but I can always circle back & research for things in text, etc.

But we would still need all 5 of us to participate. I know Melinda from outside GR. I know she’s pretty busy until after the holidays. Michelle said she didn’t want to do BRs, but might do other team stuff. Meanwhile, we 3 are the chatty ones. 😉

At some point we need to come up with a game plan for maybe trying for the Team Treasure Hunt bonus for January. But I have not a clue on how to approach that.

Plus, for that one, we do need all 5 team members to participate in order to get the bonus. If we won't have that, then no sense spending time on it. Based on intros, looks like Team Read bonuses are not going to happen (BRs with all 5 of us).

I'd sooner spend time on stuff we can achieve vs stuff that will just be wasting time. You know?

Am editing our tab on our SS now. My thoughts were, replacing the monthly prompts each month & renaming those keys to match that month. But the rest will remain with their KEYs (or code) for the year.

I made a few edits... let me know what you think or want changed. Just trying to organize it, but open to ideas!

Amanda wrote: "danielle wrote: "Amanda wrote: "danielle wrote: "I had an idea about those 12 books to recommend... thought I'd run past you guys.

What it we each pick 4 books we really want to do this year (pas..."

Yeah... was just looking for some input since even I have you guys pick 4 of the books (1 each), I still need to come up with 8 recs myself. And I rather try to gear them towards preferred genres.