The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Muppets




Team Members:
Karen (captain)
Sofie (Co-captain)
Noa
Mary-Ellen
Lisa - (Aussie Girl)
Sally906

Team Muppets Spreadsheet

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MARCH CARDS

March Hands

Card	Frequency
0	4
1	6
2	8
3	5
4	5
5	6
6	8
7	6
8	6
9	6
Draw 2	8
Reverse	4
Skip	6
Wild	4
WDraw4	4

Note: I have taken out cards where we can use a draw 2 (you will see on our team spreadsheet where I have made notes) ; so for example, hand one has a Draw 2 and also 2x8 ; so I'm assuming we will just use the same book for both of those 8 cards.
Where there is a hand like hand 5, we will use the draw 2 for 2 different numbered cards so I haven't removed any of them yet as we don't know what they will be.

Our tracking spreadsheet is here I'm happy to share with you all to be able to edit, you can enter in your books that you intend to read and then once they are actually read I'll add in the read date and hand number they are being used for. Or if you just want to post in our team thread, then me or one of the co-caps can add into the s/sheet :)

Team Shelves
Karen Shelf

Sally Shelf

Lisa Shelf

Mary-ellen Shelf

Sofie

Noa Shelf

Woo Hoo - I'm a Muppet!!!!!


LOVE the Muppets - my English friends calls me a muppet when I do something silly - sort of like a dag I think - a term of endearment rather than insult :)

I know some of you already - nice to meet everyone else.

I live in Darwin and I am an eclectic reader - leaning to the lighter side of books aka light and fluffies!

I was a Fraggle last year and a Muppet this year... maybe I should branch out a bit more? lol

Welcome to the team :)

Hi gals, Love the Muppets. Snuffy the Snuffleupagus is my favourite although I always had a soft spot for Miss Piggy - my year 9 English teacher was a dead ringer for her, LOL.

I read romance, all genres of, from clean to... not so clean.. - and throw in the odd historical (maybe there is another Edward Rutherfurd we can read for this challenge..)

So looking forward to getting started. I've already stockpiled lots of V and Z's..

I've stock piled nothing - have a huge TBR pile - and a nearby library so should cope with whatever is thrown at me.

Will be learning as I go as this is my first Uno - friends from another group insisted I play :)

Hi Sally (waves).. I'm sure we've been on a team together somewhere... great to be teammates again.. This is my first UNO as well.

Yay! I love the Muppets too. Especially Miss Piggy and the drummer who used to always go wild. I can't remember his name, but he always makes me laugh.

I like to read lots of different books. I particularly enjoy YA and fantasy, but have also been catching up on a few classics recently,

Looking forward to doing Uno with you all :)

Pleased to meet you Mary-ellen. I read YA and fantasy as well, my favourite YA writers are Cassandra Clare and Richelle Mead.

Oh I haven't even thought about stockpiling letters - thanks for being so organised Lisa!
I haven't had a chance to check out our hands yet. I'll do that later today when the kids go for a day nap and see what we will need.

I found last year it worked quite well to have a tracking spreadsheet and for every book read, if you list all the ways it may fit then we can add them to the tracking spreadsheet and manoeuvre things around through the month as needed. I'll create one later and share so you can see what I mean :)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Pleased to meet you Mary-ellen. I read YA and fantasy as well, my favourite YA writers are Cassandra Clare and Richelle Mead."

Nice to meet you too Lisa :) I've read lots of their books, they're fantastic authors. I also love Sarah J Maas, Laini Taylor, Neil Gaiman and Brandon Sanderson.

I sense my TBR list is going to expand on this challenge!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hi Sally (waves).. I'm sure we've been on a team together somewhere... great to be teammates again.. This is my first UNO as well."

We have - and are friends already :)

Karen wrote: "Oh I haven't even thought about stockpiling letters - thanks for being so organised Lisa!
I haven't had a chance to check out our hands yet. I'll do that later today when the kids go for a day nap ..."

Great idea Karen. That always works well and gives the greatest flexibility to get the task done.

Karen wrote: "Oh I haven't even thought about stockpiling letters - thanks for being so organised Lisa!
I haven't had a chance to check out our hands yet. I'll do that later today when the kids go for a day nap ..."

I created a shelf - not sure if we are supposed to but it is uno-2016

Just a heads up - on Good Friday (25th March) we will be flying to Europe and not getting back until 14th April.

I will still be reading - no problems there - and I will have internet access but may be spasmodic.

As long as I know my tasks I will be able to keep up and post when I can.

Gosh does this make me a real addict if I can't even go on the holiday of a lifetime without sorting out that my challenges don't suffer!!!

LOL!!

And I just realised last year Mary-Ellen, Sofie and I were all on the same UNO team. Sorry ladies hope you don't mind having me again! When putting teams together I don't tend to look at names, just location and book numbers :o

Lol Sally! No problems :) sounds like a wonderful trip

Sneaking in here...

Ahh I have so many great memories of the muppets! Watching The Muppet Christmas Carol (along with the Disney version) was my childhood Christmas tradition :)

Chilhood tradition? It's still mine ;) haha

Karen wrote: "And I just realised last year Mary-Ellen, Sofie and I were all on the same UNO team. Sorry ladies hope you don't mind having me again! When putting teams together I don't tend to look at names, jus..."

I'm so excited to be on your team again Karen :) I was hoping I would be. You are such a great team captain. It's so lovely to be teamed up with you and Sofie again. You have both contributed new additions to my ever expanding to read list over the last year. I found out about Flavia de Luce through you Karen and loved it. Sofie's comments about Risk made me add that too.

I've just checked out my pile of shame and I have quite a few books that will work for the trickier letters ... I'll have to start a 'save for Uno' pile.

Sally906 wrote: "Karen wrote: "Oh I haven't even thought about stockpiling letters - thanks for being so organised Lisa!
I haven't had a chance to check out our hands yet. I'll do that later today when the kids go ..."

How exciting Sally. I love long flights ... reading time! I hope you have a fantastic time in Europe.

Karen wrote: "Chilhood tradition? It's still mine ;) haha"

I've only stopped because they don't air them on TV around Christmas anymore! I probably should buy them and resurrect it

Oooooo, a chatty team. Awesome.

My ears pricked up at European trip of a lifetime... sorry to be nosy but what countries are you visiting Sally?

And I did a couple of weeks of the TT challenge in NBRC from Hawaii last November from my I-phone, the Goodreads app works just fine... so again it is perfectly normal to do challenges whilst on holidays, big LOL..

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Oooooo, a chatty team. Awesome.

My ears pricked up at European trip of a lifetime... sorry to be nosy but what countries are you visiting Sally?

And I did a couple of weeks of the TT challenge ..."

We are doing one of the scenic river cruises. Amsterdam to Budapest.

I am really excited - so the countries are The Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Hungary.

We tried to do this back in June 2013 - flew into Budapest only to be told the cruise was cancelled as the biggest floods in 500 years were happening. So we stayed in Budapest for 5 days while we organised our trip back home. Was devastated. We weren't with Scenic that time - but were abandoned by the tour company we were with (Viking).

Funnily enough the Scenic people helped us no end - and that is why we are going with them this time - they did every thing they could to help - drove us to Qatar Air office so we could change our flights. They did not have to do that as we weren't booked with them.

We leave 6 weeks today - 42 days - not that I am counting. Have 5 physical books packed - and a couple of 100 on kindle App on my iPad - so should be fine - I'll think about clothes later - the books are the important things!!!

Oh thanks Mary-ellen, that's lovely.

I do need to check out my upcoming books and see what I can also put in a UNO pile :)

Ashley wrote: "Karen wrote: "Chilhood tradition? It's still mine ;) haha"

I've only stopped because they don't air them on TV around Christmas anymore! I probably should buy them and resurrect it"

I bought the DVD (twice as I lost it in a move and then found it again lol). Every year we put up the xmas tree on Dec 1 while watching The Muppets Christmas Carol and drinking champagne :)

Sally906 wrote: "We are doing one of the scenic river cruises. Amsterdam to Budapest.

I am really excited - so the countries are The Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Hungary. ..."


Awesome! Oh how awful that you didn't get there last time. I hope everything is hassle free for this trip :)

March cards

Card	Frequency
0	4
1	6
2	8
3	5
4	5
5	6
6	8
7	6
8	6
9	6
Draw 2	8
Reverse	4
Skip	6
Wild	4
Wdraw4	4

Note: I have taken out cards where we can use a draw 2 (you will see on our team spreadsheet where I have made notes) ; so for example, hand one has a Draw 2 and also 2x8 ; so I'm assuming we will just use the same book for both of those 8 cards.
Where there is a hand like hand 5, we will use the draw 2 for 2 different numbered cards so I haven't removed any of them yet as we don't know what they will be.

Our tracking spreadsheet is here I'm happy to share with you all to be able to edit, you can enter in your books that you intend to read and then once they are actually read I'll add in the read date and hand number they are being used for. Or if you just want to post in our team thread, then me or one of the co-caps can add into the s/sheet :)

Karen is it okay if I just post what I'm reading for the Captains to post to the spreadsheet. I'm not that experienced with them and don't want to muck it up.

Sally906 wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Oooooo, a chatty team. Awesome.

My ears pricked up at European trip of a lifetime... sorry to be nosy but what countries are you visiting Sally?

And I did a couple ..."

That's wonderful Sally. I'd love to do one of those river cruises. I'm sure everything will go well this time. My daughter and I are booked to do an ocean cruise with APT from Istanbul to Venice in June, I'm a bit nervous but happy to be travelling with an Australian company. I went with Scenic to Canada and Alaska and it was the best organised tour I've ever done.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Karen is it okay if I just post what I'm reading for the Captains to post to the spreadsheet. I'm not that experienced with them and don't want to muck it up."

Yes, of course. Sorry I should've put that is fine too :) I'll edit

Will books started in February, but finished in March count, Karen? Or do they need to be started in March?

I'm happy to update the tracking spreadsheet as I finish books. I can't write to it at the moment though.

I'm thinking this could be a good opportunity to get through some of the books that have been on my to read list for a long time ...

We made it start date from March 1.

Yes, I'm going to see what I want to read this challenge and try and make a plan :)

If you send me your email I can share the editing rights for the s/sheet with you

Oh, and can everyone also let me know when you have created your UNO shelf as I'll add them to message 6

Karen wrote: "MARCH CARDS

March Hands


Card Frequency
0 4
1 6
2 8
3 5
4 5
5 6
6 8
7 6
8 6
9 6
Draw 2 8
Reverse 4
Skip 6
Wild 4
WDraw4 4


Note: I have taken out cards where we can use a draw 2 (you will see on..."

I am trying to understand this - pardon my ignorance - so taking card 9 - you have the frequency of 6. Does that mean we have to read 6 books that fit one of the criteria for card 9 (I know its between us - we don't have to read 6 each) - have I got the right end of the stick here?

So for card 3 we have to read 5 books - and so on?

Karen wrote: "We made it start date from March 1.

Yes, I'm going to see what I want to read this challenge and try and make a plan :)

If you send me your email I can share the editing rights for the s/sheet wi..."

Okay, so I won't start on my Uno books until March 1. That's good to know. I'll try and make sure I get everything else finished beforehand :)

Sorry Sally, I get carried away sometimes ;)

Yes, the frequency is how often we have that card for March.

Card Nine x 6 times, you are exactly right :)
So, one of the ones that stuck out to me was card 7 which we have six times - which is probably one of the tougher ones (V). So between our team we need to read six books during march that fit card 7
I also think card 5 (I) may also be challenging.
Card 0 is Z but we can also use standalone books so that should be fine.

Oh, and we need 4 x reverse which means reading a book someone else on the team has already read. I have sent friend requests to everyone I didn't already have added so that I can 'compare shelves' and see what I may have to be able to read to cover some of those :)

OK - got it!!!

These are the books I am reading on holidays - which will be end of March/April
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Tricky Twenty Two by Janet Evanovich - will be a March read for sure - as will
A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Victoria Laurie and Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
These are planned flight books (hello - 17 hours in a plane!!!)

The others may more be for April so worth keeping for that so I won't have to go hunting while away.

OK - so if you can put me on the spread sheet for:

Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich – 2 (has a 2 or Two in the title)
A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Victoria Laurie – 7 (author first name or surname starts with V)
Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich – 3 (3rd in a series)

Sally906 wrote: "OK - so if you can put me on the spread sheet for:

Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich – 2 (has a 2 or Two in the title)
A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Vict..."

Thanks sally! I've added to our tracking s/sheet along with character names/setting options that may help too :)

My shelf name is UNO - 2016... original I know but it does the job!

Here's the link. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Teehee that's my shelf name too ;)

Guess what mine is? uno-2016

Is there a theme going here?

This is my link I didn't post it before:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

My first two books - which I've been saving specially for UNO are - drum roll please...


Characters:
Zaira Neve 0 & 9
Aden Kai skip
Kaleb Krychek skip
Vasic Zen 0 & 7
Ivy Jane Zen 5 & 7
Lucas Hunter 3
Hawke Snow 3 & 6
Faith Nightstar 4 & 9
Pax Marshall skip
Title : Shards of Hope 6
Author; Nalini Singh 9 & 6


Book 8 in a series: 8
Setting: New Mexico 9
Characters: Alexander Reyes Farrow 4
Cookie Kowalski Skip
Osh'Ekial 1

Nice one!

Woooo! I have been soooo excited for UNO! And I'm in a group with mostly the same people as last time :D I have:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 0, 9 (character Nick Dunne)
Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines 0, 9 (Night in title)
My Sister Rosa by Justine Laralestier 0, 2 or 3 (character Che Taylor)

Yay! Hi Sofie
I think that is what happens being from Aus. Because we try and keep people in similar time zones together you end up seeing the same people through challenges ;)