The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Astronaut Pie

Team Members:

❅ Judith - Captain
❅ Nanci Drum - Co-captain
❅ Melanie
❅ Amber M.
❅ Robynne Lozier
❅ Chava
❅ Sarah
❅ Patti Mansfield



♕ Team Spreadsheet

Team Member UNO Shelves

❅ Judith: UNO2020
❅ Nanci Drum: UNO2020
❅ Melanie: UNO-2020
❅ Amber M.: perks-uno-2020
❅ Robynne Lozier: UNO Feb 2020
❅ Chava: UNO 2020
❅ Sarah: uno-challenge-2020
❅ Patti Mansfield: UnoChallenge

Important Links

Spreadsheets
-Team Spreadsheet
-Tracking Spreadsheet
-Current Spreadsheet

General Information
-General Rules
-UNO FAQs

Other Resources
-Cover Color
-Page Count Check

Countdown
-Countdown to UNO 2020Start!
-Start of Feb Mini Challenge
-End of Feb Hands
-Start of March Mini Challenge
-End of March Hands
-Start of April Mini Challenge
-End of April Hands

Completion Summary

Hands Completed: 5 of 16

Cards Completed: 109 of 112

Cards Remaining Breakdown

1: 1
2: 1
6 Yellow


updated 4/27/2020

Color Card and WD4 Card 'assignments'

COMPLETED


updated 4/27/2020

April Mini Challenge

Link to mini: April Mini Challenge

Spell it out:
COMPLETED

Word Search:
13 of 15 Completed
2 of 15 Claimed
0 of 15 Unclaimed

ice cream Nanci
eggs Nanci


Story:
All books for story completed

Story not written or posted


updated 4/27/2020

Hello Everyone!

I’m Judith, your captain for the next 3 months on an apparent galactic food adventure. I’m curious to see where this theme goes, I’m sure the mods have stuff up their sleeves.

Anyone new to UNO this year? This game is one of my favorites and is fairly straightforward. But if you’ve never played, things can get confusing. Please ask any questions you may have

Tomorrow I’ll set up posts with links to rules, tracking, cards, etc.

Hey everyone!!!

I am so excited for this challenge. I have done UNO a few years now and absolutely love it.
I live in Melbourne, Australia, so I'll likely be asleep when most of you post. I'll be 2 weeks in London, UK for a family wedding from 12-26 of Feb and might not be able to post as often (and likely only from my phone).

Greetings!

Looking forward to this. I haven't played this particular challenge before, but have no doubt it will be a blast. I sort of took some time off from team challenges, and missed it sooo much. Very eager to get back into community reading!

Thanks for getting things organized, Judith :)

Checking in. My name is Robynne. I live in Canada. I am totally new to UNO - and to Goodreads.

My profile link since it does not seem to be linked
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...

My UNO 2020 shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

ETA - I prefer to read non fiction, history, memoirs & biography, and also some adventure, mystery, detective and historical fiction, and also sci-fi but NOT fantasy.

Can I jump the gun and claim a colour cover?

Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik for the 9 green in the 14th hand? Mostly green cover. N for author name

Thanks.

oh can we fill out already? I have 2 that I would like to claim :)
I've requested access. If I can't, that's fine too btw

Just claim the colour cover you can in this thread - the captains will fill in the spread sheets.

Remember the numbers & letters also have to be match as well. - not just any colour cover.

1 blue - the blue has to have a title or author name starting with O

5 green - the green cover has to start with F

7 red - the red cover has to start with V

2 blue - blue has to start with T

1 yellow - yellow has to start with O

3 red - red has to start with H

And I claim the 9 green.

I have Ink & Bone (Rachel Caine) for 1 (Book 1 in series) in Hand 1 and Zero Hour (Clive Cussler) for 0 in Hand 2. Both will be rereads but its been ages since I last read them.

Oooh... I love the requirement for the Reverse cards...

I have the following

0 in hand 6: The Inn (stand-alone)

Skip in hand 1: Lost by James Patterson (author starting with P)

4 in hand 2 or 6 in hand 11: You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster (author's name starts with S and F)

I'm excited this team has people so ready to start the game! It's much more fun that way.

I have populated my top posts with a bunch of information and links for reference if people need them. I'll be updating that as needed or in the case of the card completion, almost daily.

How I have done things in the past that seems to work well is only have people 'assigned' to the color and WD4 cards and then Nanci and I place the others. We tend to fill some of the harder to find cards first and leave the easier ones (like 1's, 0's, 2's) towards then end of the month in case we end up in a scramble.

Also, it is not uncommon for books to get moved around throughout the month as books get read that work for fewer cards. Knowing all the cards a given book works for is helpful to allow Nanci and I to do that.

I have a tracking sheet set up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/.... The link to this is also in my important link top post so you can easily find and don't have to hunt for this post.

You can add books you are planning to read now (and just fill in the date read once you finish the book), add them once they are read, or if you aren't comfortable with using the spreadsheet you can simply post in this thread when you are finished the book and Nanci and I will take care of the rest.

If you put everything in the spreadsheet yourself, we don't need a completion post. I find it to be a duplicative effort for people to do both the spreadsheet and a completion post. And want things to be as easy as possible (and therefore fun!) for people.

But I also know not everyone either likes spreadsheets or they can have issues accessing the spreadsheet (especially if only on their phone). So do what works for you and Nanci and I will make sure you books get logged.

Robynne I have you down for reading for the 9 Green card.

Chava wrote: "I have the following

0 in hand 6: The Inn (stand-alone)

Skip in hand 1: Lost by James Patterson (author starting with P)

4 in hand 2 or 6 in hand 11..."

Chava, I went ahead and put these on the tracking sheet so people can see some examples of how to fill out the information. Your books might work for other cards as well, I only used the info in the post.

Thanks for providing some examples for me ;)

Hello everyone! I'm Melanie and I'm looking forward to the challenge starting. Out of all of the team challenges I've been in, UNO is definitely one of my favorites.

After several back to back challenges I took a break from reading mostly in December and January, so I'm excited to get back in the swing of things.

Here is my UNO shelf.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Robynne wrote: "Just claim the colour cover you can in this thread - the captains will fill in the spread sheets.

Remember the numbers & letters also have to be match as well. - not just any colour cover.

1 bl..."

Remember that things like book setting, character names, series numbers, or number in title also work. There are a lot of options and most books end up working for at least a couple cards.

Both spreadsheets (our official spreadsheet and the tracking) have a list of what works for each card as a reference.

Judith wrote: "I have a tracking sheet set up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/..."

When I try to open the tracking sheet, it says I need to request access. Is that the way it's supposed to be setup? If it is, I'll submit the request but I wanted to check first.

Robynne wrote: "Checking in. My name is Robynne. I live in Canada. I am totally new to UNO - and to Goodreads.

My profile link since it does not seem to be linked
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1......"

Robynne, I sent a message to the mods/UNO Pixie to fix the link for your profile in the first post.

Melanie wrote: "Judith wrote: "I have a tracking sheet set up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/..."

When I try to open the tracking sheet, it says I need to request access. Is that the way it's supposed to b..."

No, sorry. I forget it automatically locks when you make a new sheet. Does the link work now?

Judith wrote: "No, sorry. I forget it automatically locks when you make a new sheet. Does the link work now?"

Yup, all good now!

Wow, just looked at our cards and we definitely got hit with lots of color covers between the cards and WD4s. I have books that work for most of the cards we have (the only one I don't have is 5 Green), so I'll let others claim what that want and go from there.

My options, let me know if you think any aren't enough of the color.

1 Blue


7 Red


2 Blue


1 Yellow


3 Red

I think any of those are fine color-wise.

But it would be great if you read either The Lady's Guard or Vicious for 7 Red.

I've read both and there is also a Reverse and a Draw 2 card in the Hand 6 with 7 Red. So if you read one of those, we can use it for all three cards.

Also, I feel like every green cover book I have works for everything BUT card 5.

LOL

Judith wrote: "I think any of those are fine color-wise.

But it would be great if you read either The Lady's Guard or Vicious for 7 Red.

I've read both and there is also a Reverse and a Draw 2 card in the Hand..."

Ok, I'll pick up The Lady's Guard for the 7 Red. I love it when books are easily found to fit those Draw 2 spots.

Judith wrote: "Also, I feel like every green cover book I have works for everything BUT card 5.

LOL"

Haha, yep. My greens work for practically every other card but the one we need.

Worst case scenario, I re-read Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews. It's been a long time since I read that series. And, it's Ilona Andrews so it's always worth another go :)

Hmm, would you say Magic Bites is green enough?



I've been wanting to reread it for a few years so I can finally read the rest of the series (only read the first 4 books). In person, the top 2/3 is tinted green which you can kind of see online, but I'm not sure it's enough as the cover doesn't really scream green to me.

There is a lot of brown going on there too. It doesn't say green to me either.

But, we do need 7 reverses and 9 5's so if you want to, I'd say read it (I've read the whole series). Also that series has a ton of characters so it's a great series for this game.

I did find on my nook which takes place in Ireland.

I was thinking how about if we list the books we have that fit into one or more of the hands?

I have a book called Qualify by Vera Nazarian that would fit a 7 or a 9 card - and I really want to read it. It would also fit a 1 card since it is the first in a series.



Colour is mostly black for space with some blue and yellow - but not 50%.

YAAAY I figured out how to add a book!!

Ok I get it now. I am filling in the tracking spreadsheet with all the books that I have that fill the requirements. I can do that!!

Then you guys (Captains) can choose which book we can do for each hand.

I think I have a 1 blue - An absolutely remarkable thing by Hank green - the sequel comes out in July 2020 so this is the 1st in a series and it is mostly a blue cover!!



And I have not read it yet!!

The Great Library Series is a really good series! I finished the last book a few months ago. Was satisfied with the conclusion. At first I was annoyed the series was extended to 5 books instead of 3, but I was happily wrong about there being more story to tell.

Judith wrote: "The Great Library Series is a really good series! I finished the last book a few months ago. Was satisfied with the conclusion. At first I was annoyed the series was extended to 5 books instead of ..."

Yeah but I only have the first 3 books, not all 5.

Sword and Pen is book 5, Ash and Quill is book 3.

OOps Thanks Judith

I have lots of Peggy L Henderson books - mostly historical romance and loosely in a series - Most of which I have read. Can be used for P and H.

I also have several Helene Hanff books for the H as well.

I have read Inferno by dan brown for the I - if anyone needs a reverse

I also have read Dan Brown's Origin - again for a reverse and for the O title

Author J P Penn for the P card - and series - I have 3 in the Arkane series - not read yet

I use Kobo books and my books are ALL over the place - so hard to find!! LOL Filed under date I last read or looked at them. So disorganized. And previews are all mixed up with books as well. So many previews...

The Pelican brief by John Grisham for the P card - available for reverse - I read this ages ago when the movie came out. brilliant movie - one of my all time favourites!!

Hidden figures - I have read that - for H title and reverse

Clara Hughes Biography - Open Mind, open heart - - H for author and O for title and for reverse.

J Robert Kennedy - K author and 1,2,3 in a series for James Acton character series