The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Just a group of ladies, trying to answer the age old question . . .


Team Members:
Jenny
Claire
Angie
Judith

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

For Reference:

◈ There will be no page/genre limits for this challenge. Any book is fair game. Also non-fiction books are accepted.
◈ Only books you start reading after creating your own thread and not earlier than 1 January 2025 can count towards the challenge.
◈ the following options can be used for spell-outs
- author's/narrator's/editor's/translator's first or last name
- characters' first or last name
- title, a/an/the may be used or ignored
- series title

Task set 1 - Private life
1. a book featuring multiple letters written (no email!)
2. Author's initials in PHILOLOGIST
3. An author or character named Christopher, Michael, Priscilla or John
4. MC has multiple children
5. all letters in EDITH in title
6. MPG Family
7. Character moves to a different country
8. a book set in South Africa
9. a book with a Christmas scene on the cover
10. a book tagged German or Germany at least 5x
11. an author who uses their initials for author name
12. a character who smokes
13. MPG Non-fiction
14. a book published in January
15. "dictionary" in text

LOL, love the Team name, Ladies.♡

It looks like a couple other teams have come up with a spreadsheet for this. Do you guys want to do that as well?

Pretty sure we can be blatant and steal one from another Hobbit Hole.

I can grab one. I think Sammy has one made too. There just wasn’t an official one when I made the thread.

And this week at work has been completely bonkers of course

No hurry, we have a while before we start anyway.

I am keeping my fingers crossed for you and your potential new head of agency.

Thank you! It’s going to be an interesting ride

There is now an "official" mastersheet which you can copy.

Made a copy of the master sheet and added it to our top post

Thanks Judith !

And good luck with that new head of agency thing.

Four of us, 15 books to read for the first tasks.
I grabbed a couple, and Judith did too. I thought I would wait to grab more until Claire and Angie got a shot at choosing.

1. a book featuring multiple letters written (no email!)
2. Author's initials in PHILOLOGIST
✔️3. An author or character named Christopher, Michael, Priscilla or John
4. MC has multiple children
5. all letters in EDITH in title
6. MPG Family
7. Character moves to a different country
✔️8. a book set in South Africa
9. a book with a Christmas scene on the cover
10. a book tagged German or Germany at least 5x
11. an author who uses their initials for author name
✔️12. a character who smokes
✔️13. MPG Non-fiction
14. a book published in January
15. "dictionary" in text

I grabbed a third since it's going to be one of my first reads of the year. I figured with 15 tasks and 4 people we'd all be reading at least 3?

I took #11.

Jenny,

Did Angie and Claire abandon us? Did they find a new fetish?

I mean, they are likely just busy but . . . they could of found a new fetish for the new year.

Hi Judith, I'm here. I'm here !

Sorry for the silence, I haven't been much on goodreads these last couple of days.

Happy new year !!!

I read the entirety of yesterday.
Would you count it as a "christmas scene"?

Claire wrote: "Hi Judith, I'm here. I'm here !

Sorry for the silence, I haven't been much on goodreads these last couple of days.

Happy new year !!!"

Happy New Year! I figured everyone was just busy :P

Claire wrote: "I read the entirety of yesterday.
Would you count it as a "christmas scene"?"

Yes, it's giving strong Christmas gingerbread house vibes

As the person who was responsible for thinking up this task (sorry! lol), it's a definite yes from me 😉

Judith, how could anyone abandon us? I'll go give Angie a nudge in case she never put on notifications for this one.

Jenny wrote: "Judith, how could anyone abandon us? I'll go give Angie a nudge in case she never put on notifications for this one."

Very true, we are too awesome to abandon.

Sammy wrote: "As the person who was responsible for thinking up this task (sorry! lol), it's a definite yes from me 😉"

Nice. Let’s count it then

So sorry, everyone!! I would never abandon you on purpose, (not even for a new found fetish)!! RL hasn't being my friend for the last couple of months and yesterday it threw me another curveball! Hoping things even out to my normal craziness here in a bit.

The Hunting Party doesn't work for anything, so let me see what else I'm reading this weekend and I'll claim some spots. Unless I'm reading something that only works for one task, I'm not really picky.

I don't mind grabbing other tasks either if any of you finish a book that works for one I put my name on.

Well, except the non-fiction one, as I am about to finish that one in a couple of hours.

I just finished a YA Fantasy one that has a few letters written in it :)
I just added it to the spreadsheet

Nice, that was a good task to luck into

Judith wrote: "Nice, that was a good task to luck into"

Yes. Otherwise I would have gone looking into my unread historicals. But I wasn't exactly in the mood. So it all worked out :)

I have already grabbed 4 slots, but I just realized that a book on my TBR is tagged German, so I am happy to take that one too. I have a couple of books to finish first, so shout out if one of you wants to grab that task!!!

I would just grab it, we have several more sets of tasks to work through!

Also, I just finished Clap When You Land. It's a beautifully, very poetically written book. Highly recommend and recommend on audio over written page.

Added to my TBR!

I finished the last book I had marked for the first set :)

Claire, if you have a book with "dictionary" in text that you want to read, feel free to snag that last task! It will be a couple days before I can get it read.

Thanks Angie. I'll see what I can read and will let you know. :)

I found one that fits that prompt. I'll start it tonight. :)

I should be done with my last one for set 1 tonight

I should be finishing my tagged German book tonight as well, barring interruptions.
This is really really good, by the way.

I'll do my best to finish mine soon so we can move on with set 2

And done ! :) We can move on to set 2

Go team! 🙂

FYI - my Oxford book can also be used for the University task depending on what else people are reading

Thanks for letting us know Judith.
On my side I'm making my way through my 3rd book for this set. I should probably be able to finish it tomorrow, if not tonight

My O book which I am starting later today starts off at a university according to the blurb, but I don't know if it continues there. I will change it up on the ss if I think it works.

I will be reading Murder your Employer and Small Admissions in the next few days. Will either work for "takes place at a Univerity" or MC teaches?

I know a couple of you have read those already.

I would say Murder Your Employer takes place at a university. You have to write and thesis and take classes, etc.

It's just not one you'd get a brochure for as they are teaching how to plan a 'deletion' and not get caught. LOL

Small Admissions characters are really the admissions staff at a private school and there aren't any teacher characters aside from minor interactions here and there. Or not directly connected to the school.

If someone has an R I can shift some things around.

The Whisper Man has been translated into a bunch of languages and Rag and Bone can work for NORSE (S can come from author name)

Judith wrote: "I would say Murder Your Employer takes place at a university. You have to write and thesis and take classes, etc.

It's just not one you'd get a brochure for as they are teaching how to plan a 'de..."

Thank you!

Judith wrote: "If someone has an R I can shift some things around.

The Whisper Man has been translated into a bunch of languages and Rag and Bone can work for NORSE (S can come from author name)"

I don't have an R, but The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda would work for NORSE.

Oh, wait, we can use Narrator so the same book would have Rebekkah Ross as narrator.

Okay, I'll move some books around!