The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Harry Potter




Team Members:
Jingles (captain)
Megan
Rachel (co-captain)
Emily
Pratyusha

Team Harry Potter Spreadsheet

Welcome new team! All your books read since Feb 1 count. On the spreadsheet in the message above you will see your Feb hands.

Jingles and Rachel please send me your email address that you use to log into Google and I will give you edit rights for the spreadsheet

Card Task Descriptions
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◈◈◈Perks UNO cards◈◈◈

O (Zero)
Read a book that either:
- 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 ; or
- is a "stand-alone" book (i.e. not part of a series)

1 (One)
Read a book that either:
- 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 ; or
- is book 1 in a series

2 (Two)
Read a book that either:
- 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; or
- is book 2 in a series

3 (Three)
Read a book that either:
- has a 2 or Three 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 ; or
- is book 3 in a series

4 (Four)
Read a book that either:
- 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 ; or
- is book 4 in a series

5 (Five)
Read a book that either:
- has a 5 or Five 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; or
- is book 5 in a series

6 (Six)
Read a book that either:
- 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; or
- is book 6 in a series

7 (Seven)
Read a book that either:
- has a 7 or Seven 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 ; or
- is book 7 in a series

8 (Eight)
Read a book that either:
- 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 ; or
- is book 8 in a series

9 (Nine)
Read a book that either:
- 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 ; or
- is book 9 in a series

Skip
Read a book that either:
- has a title starting with S,K,I or P
- has an author first name or surname starts with S,K,I or P
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S,K,I or P
- is set in a place name starting with S,K,I or P; or
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 160 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 40,000 words using arbookfind.com (hide spoiler)]

Member Shelves
Emily: Team HP
jingles: Team Harry Potter
Megan: Team HP
Rachel: Team Harry Potter
Pratyusha: Team Harry Potter

Completed Hands



HAND ONE | Completed Feb 11:
9 | Empty Mansions|02.07
Wild Draw 4 | Raven|02.06
3 | The Fairest Beauty|02.11
4 | Four Blind Mice|02.03
2 | Takedown Twenty|02.02
5 | Willow Springs|02.07
Skip | Spin|02.01

HAND TWO | Completed Feb 13:
2 | The Boy Book|02.10
Wild | The Last Heiress|02.03
4 | I Am Half-Sick of Shadows|02.01
1 | Spy High Mission One|02.02
Wild | The Painted Veil|02.08
Skip | The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After| 02.02
Reverse | Divergent|02.13

HAND THREE | Completed 02/14/15:
4 | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation|02.13
Skip | The Silkworm|02.03.15
Draw 2 | Used the Skip Card and the #2 Card (the Silkworm)
2 | The Silkworm|02.03.15
Draw 2 | Used Card #2 and Card #8 (Beowulf)
Reverse | The Lost Hero|02.14.15
8 | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation|02.13

HAND FOUR | Completed Feb 14:
8 | Tamed|02.11
3 | Voyager|02.06
1 | Hot Blooded|02.04
5 | The Firebird|02.13
2 | A Woman of Fortune|02.11
Wild | In the Forests of the Night|02.11
Wild Draw 4 | Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came|02.09

HAND FIVE | Completed 02/17:
5 | Love in the Time of Cholera|02.15
Wild | Little Women|02.05
Skip | The Peach Keeper|02.10
8 | The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender|02.14
8 | Murder by Mocha|02.05
3 | Whispering Rock|02.09
4 | Back Spin|02.17

HAND SIX | Completed 02/19/15:
3 | Little Women|02.12
4 | I Am Morgan le Fay|02.18
4 | The Confessions of Catherine de Medici|02.19
9 | Witness in Death|02/17
0 | Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy|02.18
7 | J is for Judgment|02.17
1 | Gunpowder Alchemy|02.05

HAND SEVEN | Completed 02/21/15:
Wild Draw 4 | Good Wives (Emily) |02.21
8 | The Gates of Zion|02.16.15
0 | Cinder and Ella|02.20.15
6 | A Daughter of Zion|02.18.15
1 | Spin|02.08.15
2 | The Eyre Affair|02.20.15
5 | Good Wives (Rachel) |02.21.15

HAND EIGHT | Completed 02/23/15:
3 | Trace|02.23.15
Skip | Into the Wilderness|02.21.15
6 | Dark Wine|02.21.15
6 | Until Proven Guilty|02.22.15
7 | Delirium|02.21.15
2 | Breaking Dawn
3 | Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover|02.23.15

HAND NINE | Completed 02/27/15:
9 = Need|02.23
7 = Manhunting|02.26
7 = Ravishing in Red|02.27
9 = The Great Gatsby|02.25
5 = The A.B.C. Murders|02.24
4 = Up at Butternut Lake|02.08
1 = One Summer|02.25

~BINGO Mini Challenge~

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

◈ Books with a read date between February 14 - February 28, 2015 count
◈ As a team, get "BINGO" by reading books for five squares horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to create a line (there are 12 possible lines)
◈ Only one book per square
◈ For each line completed, your team receives a "BINGO Bonus" of being able to chose one card in any hand for the duration of the challenge (Feb 1 - April 30) that you can claim double points for
◈ Books used for BINGO do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ "Free Space" square means you can read any book
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 160 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 40,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Team spreadsheets have been updated with a BINGO tab so that you can track your books and claim your bingo lines





Notes
◈ Current Best Seller: We will accept any major best selling links, just provide the link with the book. A good website to use is http://www.bookdepository.com/bestsel...
◈ Colours on the cover need to be the predominant colour. If unsure you can post here for a ruling
◈ It is one book per square, but remember that lines overlap, so in total to cover all the bingo squares is 25 books

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Good afternoon, team! I'm jingles. I'm very excited about playing this game with you all. I've never played before, so for those of you who have, you might have to keep me in line a bit until I get the hang of it.

Let's get this party started!

To make things easier to track, please create a shelf for the books you read for this challenge, and post the link here. This will make the verification process move much easier and quicker :)

Since we are starting late, and anything we've read from Feb 1 forward can count towards the challenge, if you will post a list of the books you've read so far for February, we can start figuring out where best to place those books for the hands we've been dealt. That way we can start getting our points recorded.

If you need help with your shelf or your books, just let me know. I'm always happy to help :)

My shelf is:

Team Harry Potter




☀All the Light We Cannot See|Anthony Doerr
☀The Bungalow|Sarah Jio
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards|Lilian Jackson Braun|WRC: Birth of a Reader
☀Cheating to Survive|Christine Ardigo|CCC: 1-2-3 (Published 05/09/14)
Cold Mountain|Charles Frazier|WRC: Through the Decades...Goodreads Style
Emory's Gift|W. Bruce Cameron
Fall from India Place|Samantha Young|ACATT: A-Z Character Spell
The First Man in Rome: 1|Colleen McCullough|SRA: A Walk Through History
Guilt by Association|Marcia Clark|WRC: Why Buy the Cow?
J is for Judgment|Sue Grafton|WRC: All in the Cards
The Memory Keeper's Daughter|Kim Edwards|WRC: Candlelight (#5-Author Initials)
On the Beach|Nevil Shute|LOEL: 2015 You Must Read This
☀Once Upon a Tower|Eloisa James
The Paris Vendetta|Steve Berry|WRC: Cotton Malone Series Challenge
Reached|Ally Condie|WRC Young Adult Genre Challenge
☀Rusty Nailed|Alice Clayton|WRC: New Adult Genre Challenge
Storming the Castle|Eloisa James|WRC: Wacky Operation
☀The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender|Leslye Walton (20Q Book)
Trace|Patricia Cornwell|WRC: Candy Crush Level 1
Up the Down Staircase|Bel Kaufman|CCC: A Chain Reaction (Arby's #2, Pub 1964)
Wild Man|Kristen Ashley|WRC: Alpha Addict Challenge
Witness in Death|J.D. Robb|WRC: In Death Series Challenge

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CARRY OVER FROM JANUARY 2015

JANUARY 2015 READING PLAN
2. Blueberry Muffin Murder|Joanne Fluke
8. The Edge of Reason|Helen Fielding
15. The Mapping of Love and Death|Jacqueline Winspear
18. Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover|Sarah MacLean
26. Still the One|Jill Shalvis

Hi team! Looking forward to playing this :)

My shelf is: Team HP



1. The Last Heiress by Mary Ellis | 2/3/15 | 4 stars
2. Raven by Pauline Creeden | 2/6/15 | 4 stars

Hi Megan! It's nice to meet you. Welcome to the team!!

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

Hi Rachel! Welcome!!

I have already read Spy High Mission One this month and am almost finished with Little Women

I'm so excited to play! My Mom is on team Betty Boop, and in my opinion I am already beating her because my team name is cooler :)

That is awesome, Rachel. Have you and your mom ever been on the same team together?

Nope, this is the first time I've never played, I just joined Goodreads.

So lets all get to know each other! I'll start.

I'm Rachel, and I am 14. My hobbies are reading, singing, drawing, and poetry. I am a homeschooler and homesteader. I have FIVE younger sisters. My favorite book is Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke.

Wow, you are very busy, Rachel! Sounds like you have lots of fun though. Lots of hard work too, I know with school, younger sisters, etc.

I've never read anything by Janette Oke, though I've heard much about her over the years.

I'm jingles. I live in the southern part of the US. I read all the time, though it seems the more I read, the more I keep adding to my TBR.

I have a little black & tan long-haired dachshund, who is a real joy, but sometimes also a very difficult little boy. His name is Oscar, and he is 2 years old.

Jingles - We can complete the first hand with just your finished books! You must be a fast reader. Do you think that The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After could count as the ninth in a series

LOL. Not a fast reader, so much as all I do is read.

I've been looking at our books in relation to our hands, as well. I thought I would wait a bit longer to see what our other team mates have so far for February.

I'll start matching up our books read to our hands drawn tomorrow. That way we can get some points on the board.

I'm not sure if the Bridgerton book can be used as 9th in a series or not. If not though, I've got a 9th in series book on deck, so I'll be able to cover it if no we don't have anything else.

Hi Jingles, Rachel and Megan - Welcome! I have PM'd all team members so hopefully everyone will check in over the next day or so

Jingles & Rachel - I have just added your emails to the spreadsheet so you have edit rights and I have also invited you both to the captains group. Here's a tip for you... each team's spreadsheet link is posted in message 2 of their discussion thread so you can check out how each team is doing their tracking (everyone has a slightly different style)! ;)

Good morning, Perks! Thanks for the spreadsheet and the info. Will definitely check it out.

Jingles - I have just finished reading The Fairest Beauty so that can be added to the books we don't have to worry about :)

Jingles - I have put some books into the spread sheet. Things may still need to be moved around, but at least we have some points now!

Rachel wrote: "Jingles - I have put some books into the spread sheet. Things may still need to be moved around, but at least we have some points now!"

Rachel - please change the reason description for Card 4. It currently reads:

'has "three" in title.

It should read:

has "four" in title

Thanks :)

Never mind, Rachel. I finally figured out how to get to it. Thanks!

ops! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. :)

Not a problem at all my dear. Between the two of us, we got it done!

So....wonderful news team mates. The spreadsheet is all caught up to date with all the books we've read so far. I think we are somewhere around 545 points, give or take a few.

Card One is completed, and Card Two is very close. I'll update this later on towards the end of the evening, so that we can see our completed cards here very easily. I'll put it at the top of the thread.

Also, in my message #10 above, I've removed the books I had completed, and I've posted the books I have planned still to read for February (along with those I carried over from January). So that will give everyone an idea of what I've got planned to read. As I read them, I will add them to our spreadsheet, and remove them from the list.

You all are welcome to follow the same format if you like, or create your own way of tracking your books, or not track them here at all. Which ever you prefer, and works best for you.

The main thing of course is to let us know when you've finished a book so we know to add it to our spreadsheet for points. You can do that by posting a new message with the book title or the book title link. Be sure to tag it to your team shelf, as that is where we will look for verification.

If you'd like to do things differently, just let me know that as well. I'm pretty easy and am always open to suggestions and changes.

Now, I'm off to read a bit.

Jingles - Any ideas what books to do for the reverses?

What we have to do for the Reverse card, Rachel, is someone on our team has to read a book that another team member has already read.

I did a book comparison today and came up with a book or two that will work. The problem is, I don't think I can get either one of them in until March.

I'm hoping that one of our other team members will have a book they've already read in February that will fit that task.

In the mean time, if you want to compare your books to Megan and I to see if you have anything coming up that she or I one has already read, that will at least show us if you have anything potentially that you can read prior to March. We need to get the Reverse card done before March 1 though, or we are going to loose alot of points.

Ok, Keep in mind that we can loan books on kindle to each other, that may help with the books you are talking about. Also I have read WAY more book than on my Goodreads acount, I just haven't gotten around to putting them in. So don't just trust my account for what I have read.

I didn't think about the kindle loan. I am working on getting my hands on either Divergent or The Fault in Our Stars now - both of which you have read if memory serves me. The third Harry Potter book is also an option for me.

That is where my focus is now in terms of tracking down a February book. And I really need to do the audio version of whichever book I get, as that moves much quicker for me.

I found a couple books I can move from Feb to Mar, so that will free up some space for me in terms of time.

Still, it would be great if another team member comes aboard and already has something that will work.

We'll see what happens over the next couple of days.

I haven't read the fault in our stars, because the language is not appropriate for someone my age.

I posted on the captain's group about our missing team mates, also if we can find a link to there profiles we can message them.

These should be our team mates links:


Anne
Tiina
Trisha

Good deal. I'm sure we'll hear from them soon.

It must be Megan then, that has read The Fault in Our Stars. I don't know anything about it, so I wasn't aware of content.

At least we have a plan of action in place, which is really good. When I have time tomorrow, I'll take a look at Card 3 and my reading list to see what I can work on there.

I'm going to try and fit in a book to work for the reverse, but I don't know how successful I'll be. I found several on your shelf, Jingles, that are ones I'd like to read so hopefully I can get one of them read before the end of the month. :)

Thanks for those links, Megan. I'm on my mobile so couldn't do it right away.

Sounds like a good plan on the reverse book. And just a heads up - we have a couple more of those reverse cards further down from card 2. I want to say we may even have one card that has 2 reverses on it. Can't remember for sure.

In any case, at the very least I think we need at least three...before March 1. LOL

Nope... I was wrong. We do NOT have 2 reverses on one card. But... We do have another one on card 3 and still one more on card 12.

So three reverse cards total. We can't worry about 12 right now. We need to get card 2 and 3 done first I think.

I agree. I think it might help if we plan books right now so we know what to read. Then we can put the points in as we finish each book. Just a suggestion.

Sure, I don't mind doing that. I will plug my planned books into the spreadsheet tomorrow.

The ones on my list with the little symbol next to them - those are the ones I have to read in February. I will add those in tomorrow to the spreadsheet. The other books are the ones I will get to after I've finished the must reads for Feb. in with that, I'll work the carry over books from Jan as I can.

Ok! Tomorrow I will put mine in the spreadsheet also

Megan - Do you have any more books for your Harry Potter shelf, so jingles and I can put them in the spreadsheet? That way we all can just look on the spreadsheet to see what needs to be read next.

Jingles - I see you have read To Kill A Mocking Bird. I have been meaning to read it, so that can be a reverse.

I finished In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 2/11/15.

Rachel wrote: "Megan - Do you have any more books for your Harry Potter shelf, so jingles and I can put them in the spreadsheet? That way we all can just look on the spreadsheet to see what needs to be read next."

Do you mean to add books that I plan/hope to read or only the ones I've finished this month?

Yes, the books you mean to read as well. If everyone's books are on the spreadsheet, we won't end up reading books and having no where to put them on the spreadsheet, if that makes sense.