The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Star Trek




Team Members:

Laura (captain)
Heather (co-captain)
Louise
Camilla
jingles
Ray Calaza
Kirsty
Paula
Andrea


Sharon Weiss
Samantha

Team Spreadsheet

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◈◈◈Perks UNO cards◈◈◈
O (Zero)
Read a book that:
- has a 0 or Zero in the title
- has a title starting with Z
- has an author first name or surname starts with Z
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with Z
- is set in a place name starting with Z
- is a "stand-alone" book (i.e. not part of a series)

1 (One)
Read a book that:
- has a 1 or One in the title
- has a title starting with O
- has an author first name or surname starts with O
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with O
- is set in a place name starting with O
- is book 1 in a series

2 (Two)
Read a book that:
- has a 2 or Two in the title
- has a title starting with T
- has an author first name or surname starts with T
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with T
- is set in a place name starting with T
- is book 2 in a series

3 (Three)
Read a book that:
- has a 3 or Three in the title
- has a title starting with H
- has an author first name or surname starts with H
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with H
- is set in a place name starting with H
- is book 3 in a series

4 (Four)
Read a book that:
- has a 4 or Four in the title
- has a title starting with F
- has an author first name or surname starts with F
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with F
- is set in a place name starting with F
- is book 4 in a series

5 (Five)
Read a book that:
- has a 5 or Five in the title
- has a title starting with I
- has an author first name or surname starts with I
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with I
- is set in a place name starting with I
- is book 5 in a series

6 (Six)
Read a book that:
- has a 6 or Six in the title
- has a title starting with S
- has an author first name or surname starts with S
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S
- is set in a place name starting with S
- is book 6 in a series

7 (Seven)
Read a book that:
- has a 7 or Seven in the title
- has a title starting with V
- has an author first name or surname starts with V
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with V
- is set in a place name starting with V
- is book 7 in a series

8 (Eight)
Read a book that:
- has an 8 or Eight in the title
- has a title starting with E
- has an author first name or surname starts with E
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with E
- is set in a place name starting with E
- is book 8 in a series

9 (Nine)
Read a book that:
- has a 9 or Nine in the title
- has a title starting with N
- has an author first name or surname starts with N
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with N
- is set in a place name starting with N
- is book 9 in a series

Skip
Read a book that:
- has a title starting with K or P
- has an author first name or surname starts with K or P
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P
- is set in a place name starting with K or P
OR you can choose to "skip" reading a book for this cards (and get no points for this card)

Draw 2
Use the same book for two cards in this hand (and get points for both cards)

Reverse
One member of your team must read a book another team member has already read

Wild
Read a book that can fit any of the requirements for cards 0-9

Wild draw four
Read any book!

◈◈◈Points◈◈◈
For each book read to match a 0-9 card, the team gets 20 points
For each book read to match a Skip or Reverse, the team gets 25 points
For each book read to match a wild or Wild draw four card the team gets 30 points
For each hand completed, the team gets a bonus 15 points

IMPORTANT
-Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com

Team Shelves

Laura

Heather

Camilla

Ray

Jingles

Louise

Paula

Kirsty

Andrea



Start to challenge is HERE





Star Trek Tracking Spreadsheet

UNO standings

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Hi everyone! I guess I'll be your captain this time around.
This is my second time playing UNO! I can't wait to play! I'm looking forward to meeting you all!

Hi Team Star Trek! I'm jingles. This is my second time to play, and it was a great deal of fun the first time. I'm really looking forward to playing the game and getting to know everyone.

my shelf

Somehow I seem to have found myself Co-Captain! My first time playing this but it looks like great fun!

Hi Jingles and Heather!

I think you will really like it Heather! Its a very fun game ... ha both on here and in RL. I have a deck of UNO in the cupboard. I would love to find/see all these specialty decks.

Hi team! I'm Camilla from Finland, this is my first time playing Uno, I just recently joined this group. Looking forward to getting to know you.

Hi Laura, Heather and Camilla!

Good morning, ya'll! How is everyone this morning? It's Friday in my part of the world, and I'm really very happy about that :)

Hello everyone! I'm Ray and I'm from Brazil (: This is my first time playing and I am so excited! It will be nice to meet y'all

^^

Oh I'm Irish but live in London - nice mix of the world here in Star Trek!

Hi Camilla & Ray!
Awesome we have a great mix..... I'm from Canada!
So last night I found a few of those hard to find " v" books. I put them on my Overdrive wishlist and put a few on inter library loans!

When everyone gets a chance can they please link up their UNO shelves and I'll add them with mine above.

Yeah to Friday's Jingle!!! It's a long weekend for us as Monday is a holiday!!

Link to my Uno shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Here's my shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I've sent out friend requests to the teamies who have checked in already. It makes it easier to check your UNO shelf as well I'd recommend everyone do it as we have a few reverse cards -Easy access to each others shelves to see what we have all read.

Heather your profile is private can you send me a friend request please?


I'll link those shelves tomorrow when I get on my computer.

A little book fun while we wait for the challenge to begin!!!

1. what is your favorite genre(s ) to read?

2. Recommend us your favorite book.

3. What book did you give 1 or 2 stars this year?

4. Favorite book you read in 2016 so far?

5.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

1. Favorite genre: Fantasy

2. Favorite book: Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen (just not to mention Harry Potter)

3. 1/2 Stars: The Big Green Tent, by Ludmilla Ulitskaya (Not finished yet and probably won't)

4. Favorite book 2016: Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon

1. All kind of spefi except steampunk, as well as horror

2. Umm, really difficult to choose only one... Maybe The Stand

3. 1-star reads this year: The Island, A Room with a View, The Void, A Stranger North, Mortis, The Snow and The Darkness. Several 2-star reads; I'm quite frugal with giving stars.

4. Definitely Pines and Wayward; now I'm waiting to get the third book from the library.

Laura wrote: "A little book fun while we wait for the challenge to begin!!!

1. what is your favorite genre(s ) to read?

I love YA, mystery, historical fiction

2. Recommend us your favorite book.
Hard to pick just one.




3. What book did you give 1 or 2 stars this year?
Do not read!!!


4. Favorite Book this year so far is

again hard to pick one...

I've linked our shelves in message #6. I 'll get everyone else when they arrive!

Sending out messages to the others and hoping they arrive soon though there is still 16 days until we officially start!

Karen sent me a tracking spreadsheet that she found very handy last year. I 've linked it at the bottom of message 6. If everyone enters their own books in this spreadsheet it would be easier for Heather and I to fit them on our team spreadsheet. It lets us see the options for each book. (there may be some juggling to fit books especially at the end of the month. I've seen a few readers squeeze in a few books just under the deadline!!)

I 've entered in a book I plan to read when the challenge starts so that everyone sees an example! I am a picky reader ..if I don't like a book I usually grab another and what I read depends what loans I have in from the library or from my OverDrive! (so I will add more books closer to the challenge)

If you can't access the spreadsheet PM your email!

*Sneaking in to wave hello to Laura* :-)

Hi everyone, this is my first time playing but really excited.
My Shelf Uno

what is your favorite genre(s ) to read?
Mystery, Thriller, Chick Lit, YA

2. Recommend us your favorite book.
Very difficult but I woukd recommend


3. What book did you give 1 or 2 stars this year? 
very bad

4. Favorite book you read in 2016 so far? 
I loved this

Hi Louise, welcome! Uno is lots of fun.... the hardest part is actually waiting for the challenge to start!

*waves* hi to Maria Helena, no need to sneak in all are welcome! We may as well "stalk" our friend's threads to see what they are doing and pass the time until the challenge officially starts!!!

I'm still waiting for that next Lars Kepler book.(Stalker ) I'm now 2nd in queue!

I see the first hand is showing on the spreadsheet coukd it also be posted here for ease of reference. I know I'm not always able to open the spreadsheets.

Sure Louise

Hand One
skip
6
9
9
2
3
3


Hand Two
reverse
reverse
four
seven
two
skip
three

Ahmm.... How do we divide the reading? Hehehe

However you guys want! For the most part everyone can read what they want and Heather and I will make it fit.

I have marked my first 3 books I plan to read on the tracking spreadsheet and all possible options.

We seem to have a real mixed bag of readers in our team so should make UNO extra fun and interesting!

Camilla isn't Crouch an excellent author? My favourite book of his is 'Run', I can't recommend it enough.

Hi team! I'm late in responding. Been sick all weekend with a wicked sinus infection.

Here's a link to my Uno shelf:

Uno2

1. what is your favorite genre(s ) to read?
Historical Fiction, Romance (historical and contemporary)

2. Recommend us your favorite book.
Gone with the Wind

3. What book did you give 1 or 2 stars this year?
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great

4. Favorite book you read in 2016 so far?
A Year on Ladybug Farm

*waves* Hi Laura! :)

Once I get home tonight I'll add those shelves and share that tracking spreadsheet with you all

Hope you are feeling better Jingles!

Favourite Genre... I enjoy many genres but I have to say there is rarely anything I enjoy more than a superbly written historical fiction!

Recommend your favourite book... A tough one as I have many but I would have to say 'This is All - The Pillowbook of Cordelia Kenn' by Aidan Chambers. It's been a favourite for almost a decade now and still stays strong. Really beautiful book.

What book did you give 1/2 stars to this year?...Little Girl Gone by Alexandra Burt! It was just frustrating and poorly knitted together. A book that needed a hell of a lot more work before being released.

Favourite book read in 2016 so far...I've read three books I've really enjoyed this year so far - The Green Mile by Stephen King, Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) by Robert Galbraith but my favourite would have to be the third which is Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant - some excellent historical fiction right there!

If anyone wants access to the tracking spreadsheet you can send me your email in a PM.

Heather... or anyone else.. did you get to watch TWD last night??

Well. Funny story there, I left Ireland in January 2015, right before the next season was due to recommence. And I haven't seen a NEW episode since then as I don't have Sky anymore. I've read what happened last night though!

Heather wrote: "Well. Funny story there, I left Ireland in January 2015, right before the next season was due to recommence. And I haven't seen a NEW episode since then as I don't have Sky anymore. I've read what ..."

It was one of the best episodes ever! I'll leave it at that since you didn't see it! I think I might go a little crazy if I couldn't watch it. It drives my co-worker batty as I watch it Sunday night and then she streams it on Monday and we can't talk about it until Tuesday!

It's really frustrating, I've been rewatching old seasons as I iron to satisfy. Last nights episode sounds so intense, it's crazy to read how far the character bonds have come. Just waiting for Negan now...

Tiny update:
I sent out messages to our missing members with a link to our thread but no luck so far. Karen has sent out PM'S to all missing members from all teams. Hopefully they will sign in or we will have new players!