The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Minions




Team Members:

Kristie (captain)
Teddie
Jen
kme_17
Maddie

Karen

Team Spreadsheet

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Oh yeah! Teams are posted and we are team Minions!! Yay! Welcome my minions to the challenge. :)

Important links:

Minions planning

UNO how to

March
Quantity needed - card (qualifications)`
4 - 0 (0, Z, standalone)
7 - 1 (1, O, 1st)
6 - 2 (2, T, 2nd)
7 - 3 (3, H, 3rd)
6 - 4 (4, F, 4th)
6 - 5 (5, I, 5th)
8 - 6 (6, S, 6th)
6 - 7 (7, V, 7th)
6 - 8 (8, E, 8th)
6 - 9 (9, N, 9th)
7 - Skip (K or P, skip card)
6 - Draw 2 (same book, two cards)
8 - Reverse (read by other member)
3 - Wild (any requirement)
4 - Wild Draw 4 (any book)

April
Quantity needed - card (qualifications)
4 - 0 (0, Z, standalone)
5 - 1 (1, O, 1st)
5 - 2 (2, T, 2nd)
6 - 3 (3, H, 3rd)
6 - 4 (4, F, 4th)
8 - 5 (5, I, 5th)
7 - 6 (6, S, 6th)
6 - 7 (7, V, 7th)
6 - 8 (8, E, 8th)
8 - 9 (9, N, 9th)
8 - Skip (K or P, skip card)
5 - Draw 2 (same book, two cards)
6 - Reverse (read by other member)
3 - Wild (any requirement)
4 - Wild Draw 4 (any book)

Plus, colored cards:
6 Green
4 Yellow
9 Blue
3 Yellow

And our last hand:
Draw 2
Draw 2
8
4
0 Red
3 Green
3 Yellow

May
Quantity needed - card (qualifications)
4 - 0 (0, Z, standalone)
6 - 1 (1, O, 1st)
7 - 2 (2, T, 2nd)
8 - 3 (3, H, 3rd)
7 - 4 (4, F, 4th)
6 - 5 (5, I, 5th)
6 - 6 (6, S, 6th)
8 - 7 (7, V, 7th)
7 - 8 (8, E, 8th)
5 - 9 (9, N, 9th)
6 - Skip (K or P, skip card)
8 - Draw 2 (same book, two cards)
6 - Reverse (read by other member)
4 - Wild (any requirement)
3 - Wild Draw 4 (any book)

Plus:
3 Blue (Hand 2)
8 Blue (Hand 4)
9 Blue (Hand 9)
0 Red (Hand 12)
9 Blue (Hand 14)
2 Yellow (Hand 14)
4 Blue (Hand 14)

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Checking in : ) I am glad to be on team with you all. My name is Kim. I am from Alabama USA. I love to read pretty much every thing.

Welcome, Kim! I'm in Virginia, just moved down here from Massachusetts about 3 months ago. Thanks for checking in. I'm looking forward to getting started. :) Do you already have some books planned for March? Or are you more of a mood reader?

Hi team! If everyone could just check in on this thread, that would be great. :) I'll be pm-ing everyone today to let you know it's here, if I haven't heard from you yet.

Also, could you please list any books you already plan to read in this thread and any cards you think it fits? That will help us to get started. I have already made my list and will post it later today.

I will also list the cards we need to complete in March later, so that we can start checking them off, organizing, and planning reads for cards that aren't already filled by preplanned reads.

Glad to have you all on the team! :)

I am more of a mood reader . However, I do know I am going to read which work for the zero card

Ok, here is the tally of what we will need for all 13 hands. In the parenthesis, I have added the qualifications for the card as such (number in title, letter for title, author, character, or location, # in series).

Quantity needed - card (qualifications)`
4 - 0 (0, Z, standalone)
7 - 1 (1, O, 1st)
6 - 2 (2, T, 2nd)
7 - 3 (3, H, 3rd)
6 - 4 (4, F, 4th)
6 - 5 (5, I, 5th)
8 - 6 (6, S, 6th)
6 - 7 (7, V, 7th)
6 - 8 (8, E, 8th)
6 - 9 (9, N, 9th)
7 - Skip (K or P, skip card)
6 - Draw 2 (same book, two cards)
8 - Reverse (read by other member)
3 - Wild (any requirement)
4 - Wild Draw 4 (any book)

We will need to read 8 books that other members of our group have already read. Since we only have 5 members, we should start looking at bookshelves soon and planning those reads.

Please note that there are many qualifications that cover each card, so each book could fit several different cards. Character names, author's name, book title, and locations count for the letters. We will probably do some moving around to make sure that the books are used to fill up the cards we need first.

The first few hands we should focus on are:

Hand 1:
Skip
6
1
skip
Draw 2
5
Wild Draw 4

Hand 2:
5
4
7
7
1
4
2

Hand 3:
4
Reverse
2
Skip
Wild Draw 4
7
3

Also, focusing on the more difficult cards (V title, other's shelf) might be a good plan.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts on how we should progress or what you plan to read.

My planned reads are:

The Forgotten Girls, which is 7th in a series, so would be good for card #7. Could also work for cards 4 or 6.

Forever Odd - cards 1, 2, 4, skip

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, skip

My Name Is Lucy Barton - 0, 5, 6, 8

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - 0, 5, 6, skip

I'm hopeful I can read all of these. Has anyone else read any of these already? If so, please let me know and I'll add 'reverse' to the list of cards they fit.

Kme_17 wrote: "I am more of a mood reader . However, I do know I am going to read which work for the zero card"

This will also work for 1 (Oakridge setting), 2 (Tennessee setting), and skip (author Kiernan). We can add character names after you read it, as they're not listed.

sounds good Kristie. I can already tell you are going be a great captain : )

Thanks, Kim! :)

"waves" hi to Teddie!!

Hi guys! I'm Jen. I'm new to this group, and I really just joined because I stumbled upon this challenge and I was looking for another group game to do. I'm really excited for this to start. I need to organize my books a little better before I will know what I will be reading when it starts, but I love the idea of doing the harder cards first.

Hi Jen : ) welcome. yeah organizing is all ways the hard part.

Hi Jen! Welcome. :) Once you now what you're reading, let us know and we'll start matching up books with cards.

Important information for books when decided how to assign it:
Title
Author's name
Setting
Character's names
If it's part of a series, # in series

Hoping Karen & Teddie check in soon too. :)

Hi All - glad to be a Minion!

I'm more of a mood reader, but will read almost anything - my tbr should be able to accommodate whatever we need wrt cards. I'll shortly post a few books I know I want to read in March - from there I can find something to read that fits what we need :)

Excellent! Thanks, Teddie. Welcome to the team!

I am reading Slaughter House Five right now. I am about half way through. I am reading A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Grey next.

Slaughter House Five can count for a number five card.

A Thousand Pieces of You can count as a two card.

Hi Karen - Books don't count for this challenge unless they are started on March 1st or after. Right now, we are just in the planning stages of deciding which books we will read in March to fit the cards. Will you be starting A Thousand Pieces of You during the challenge?

Edit: Cards for this book: 1 (1st in series), 2 (T title), Skip (character Paul)

Yes I will, as I'm currently reading two other books.

Sounds good! :)

I am glad to see you all : )

Hi everyone! I copied this from the general UNO thread:

Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count.

The challenge starts on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 7pm AEDST (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time). To see when this is in your time zone, use this countdown.

Main cities, FYI:
Tokyo: 5pm, 1st March
London: 8am, 1st March
New York: 3am, 1st March
San Francisco: Midnight, 1st March

Woohoo! I'm excited for this.

Here are some of the books I will be reading around that time:
The 5th Wave
The Night Sister
I'll Give You the Sun
The Truth About Alice
The Silver Star

So, any of those are a possibility. Maybe we can compare with every else's plans and I can pick which to start with.

In a couple hours I will add info about my book options n

Okay, I got out class a little early. Woohoo
Here are the books I have on hold on overdrive (so they might take a little longer but I can also read them in print if needed).

Fangirl
Author: RR
Characters: Cath, Wren, Levi, Reagan
Cards: reverse, 0

Red Queen
Author: VA
Mare, Shade, Maren
1st in series
Cards: 6, 1

The Program
Author: SY
Sloane, James
1st in series
Cards: 1, 2, 6

All the Bright Places
Author: JN
Theodore, Violet
-- Read by someone in our group --
Cards: reverse, 9, seven,


These are the ones I own and are waiting by my bed to be read
I'll Give You the Sun
Author: JN
Jude, Noah
-- Read by someone in our group --
Cards: 5, 0, 9, reverse

The 5th Wave
Author: RY
Cassie, Evan
-- Read by someone in our group --
Cards: reverse, 2, 1, 8

The Silver Star
Author JW
Bean, Liz, Charlotte
Setting: California
-- Read by someone in our group --
Cards: 6, 0, reverse


Unlucky 13
Author: JP
Yuki, Cindy, Lindsay, Claire, Joe
13th in series
Setting: San Fran
-- Read by someone in our group --
Cards: skip, reverse, 6

The Truth About Alice
Author: JM
Characters: Alice, Brandon, Kelsey, Elaine, Kurt
Cards: 2, 0, skip, 8

Excellent! Thanks for doing that. :) It's really helpful when assigning cards.

My week started off a little slow. I didn't get enough sleep this weekend so every morning has been rough. Anyways, how is everyone else's week going?

I haven't had enough sleep this week either. I've been sooo sleepy, but I slept well last night and I'm back on track. I'm doing a reading challenge this week that is taking a lot my time and I'm looking forward to starting this challenge too.

There is never enough sleep.

My game plan is to slow down on reading a little now and work on getting some school work done now. I have a couple a papers and small things I can get done. Then, when March rolls around I will have time to read a little more.

Maybe a couple days before everyone can pick their first book, and we can make sure we are covering different things.

Good plan, Jen. :) I figured I would ask about first books a couple of days before, but feel free to post any time if you already know where you want to start.

I am planning to start with:
Forever Odd - cards 1, 2, 4, skip
and
My Name Is Lucy Barton - 0, 5, 6, 8

Our starting hands are:

Hand 1:
Skip - Odd Thomas (Kristie)
6 - The Never Hero (Teddie)
1 - Odd Thomas (Draw 2) (Kristie)
Skip - A Thousand Pieces of You (Karen)
Draw 2 - No Book
5 - My Name is Lucy Barton (Kristie)
Wild Draw 4 -

Hand 2:
5 - Illumnae (Teddie)
4 - The First Wave (Jen)
7 - Burned (Jen)
7 - Never Go Back (Teddie)
1 - The Pioneer Woman (Kim) ✓
4 -
2 - 1356 (Karen)

Hand 3:
4 -
Reverse - The Passage (Teddie)
2 - Scarlet (Teddie)
Skip -
Wild Draw 4 -
7 -
3 -

I have added in my cards, but can move them just around as needed. Just figured I's start somewhere. If everyone wants to add a comment with their first planned books, I'll start adding those in too.

I plan to leave the wild draw 4 until the end of the month, since anything will fit there.

Ok, Minions, just a couple of days left! Are you all ready to get started?! I know I am. I have a couple of books to finish up before the end of the month, then I'm looking forward to starting my new books on the first.



LET'S GO, MINIONS!!!

I will be starting the book 1356 tomorrow as well as a Thousand Pieces of You.

Minions! It's almost time... countdown

Remember to check in to tell me what you're planning to read. Also, let me know once you've completed a book so that I can add it to our spreadsheet. If you can give me a breakdown of cards that your book fits, as Jen did above, that is very helpful so I don't have to bug you for information.

I have my books on my nightstand waiting to start. Can't wait! Of course this challenge starts at 3am for me, so I won't be starting exactly on time!

Karen - Just linking your book, so I can add cards. Let me know if I missed any. The only character I know is Thomas, because he's the only one listed. I also don't know the setting. :) 1356 - card 2 (character Thomas)

I will have to ask Karen how to rank that in a series. It may be a standalone??

I can take H1 6 and H2 2 with these (both work for both): The Never Hero - location Seattle, character Jonathan Tibbs, and Scarlet - begins with an S and second book in series. I'm on hold at the Lib but should be getting it soon.

I can also take H2 5 or 1: Illumnae - I or first book in the series.

I'd also like to reread The Passage (want to read The Twelve and have forgotten half of what happened in the first book) so depending where we are on hands, that can work for SKIP, 1, 9, 3,4,5 or Reverse, if anyone else has read it?

Oh, and I can do a H2 7 with: Never Go Back - location Virginia

Thanks, Teddie. I'll update our list. I have read The Passage, so we can use it as a reverse. I've also read The Twelve. :)

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Kristie wrote: "Thanks, Teddie. I'll update our list. I have read The Passage, so we can use it as a reverse. I've also read The Twelve. :)"

Awesome!

Hi guys!! I had an exam and a big project due yesterday so I've been really busy.
I started to read Burned by Ellen Hopkins.
It's 1st in a series. The authors last name is H and main character is S. So it can cover one of those.

After this one, in going to read The Fifth Wave