The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Tasmanian Devil

Team Members:
❅ Stacey - Captain
❅ Charly Hart - Co-Captain
❅ Carina Amaro
❅ Diana Costa
❅ Laura
❅ Alma
❅ Stephanie
❅ Skye
❅ Becky Cuddhy
❅ Anna R

♕ Team Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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Welcome to Team Tasmanian Devil!

Please Introduce yourself. Include your name, where you are from, if you have played UNO before, favorite genres, and a good book you have read recently. Also, please include a link to your UNO shelf.

On our official team spreadsheet you can see our hands and where what we have completed and added to date. The team will use the tracking sheet. Please include all options in case we need to move things around.

Official Team Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Status Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Information on what the cards mean can be found at the top of our tracking sheet and on the cards tab of our official sheet.

Game rules: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Shelves to help find books for color cards
red covers
yellow covers
green covers
blue covers
***Note, some of the covers don't look like the color shown. There may be a different cover that fits. You need to read the book with the color cover for it to count (please shelf this edition as well). Also, sometimes we don't all agree on what color a book is or if it is 50% or more. When in doubt, please check.

Books must be at least 100 pages long. Children's books, poetry, graphic novels, and manga can only be used if they have at least 25,000 words.
To find a word count: https://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.a...
Books that have already been checked: https://www.goodreads.com/genres/uno-...

FEBRUARY

Hands:
15 hands
9 Color cards: R1, R8, G1, G2, G6, G9, B3, B6, and one WildD4 (duplicate any one of these)
We need 9 - 7s! Start looking for Vs or 7 in the title or # in the series
There are 6 Reverses, so start looking for books your teammates have read

Color Cards:
Red 1 - TBD
Red 8 - Stacey
Green 1 - TBD
Green 2 - Laura
Green 6 - Alma
Green 9 - Skye
Blue 3 - Diana
Blue 6 - Charly
Wild Draw 4 (duplicate of TBD) - Diana, Blue 6

Countdown to start of UNO: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

March

April

Color Covers

Red 1 - Stephanie
Red 2 - Charly
Red 2
Red 7 - Laura
Red 9 - Laura
Yellow 1 - Charly
Yellow 2 - Laura
Yellow 3 - Stacey
Yellow 5 - Alma
Yellow 7 - Stephanie
Green 0 - Laura
Green 3 - Stacey
Green 5
Green 6 - Stephanie
Green 8
Blue 3 - Laura
Blue 7 - Becky
Blue 9 - Stacey
WD4 - Becky (Red 1)
WD4 Sky (blue)
WD4

Cards: 3-0s, 7-1s, 9-2s, 4-3s, 11-4s, 11-5s, 7-6s, 9-7s, 9-8s, 5-9s, 6-Skips, 5-Reverses, 3-Wilds

Total Cards for points: 110
Total Draw 2s: 8

COMPLETION POST

You can update on the spreadsheet or in a post. You do NOT need to do both.

For a completion post, Please include the link to the book, the author name, date you finished, and all of the cards that the book could work for and why.

Example:

Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
Read: 1/6
1: First in series
4: CFN Frankie
8: CLN: Frankie

So excited to start UNO! I'm Stacey, your captain for UNO this year. I live in Ohio (US), with my husband, daughter, and my dog (who is my avatar). This is my 4th year of playing UNO and it is a favorite challenge. I tend to go for mystery/horror and speculative fiction, but I just love good writing. One of the more interesting books I've read lately is Lakewood, and I also really enjoyed Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

My uno shelf: uno-2023

Hi everyone, I’m live in Ireland with my hubby, my two boys and an evil cat. This is my third year playing UNO and I can’t wait to start. I tend to read romance but I can go for anything and I tend to do loads of challenges so I get out of my confort zone. I also enjoy YA, mysteries and a few other genres if I’m in the mood.

Hello Team- I joined this friendly group because they played UNO, but this is my first game. I live in Pennsylvania, US. and like practically all genres, especially mysteries and biographies. and enjoy hearing about what others are reading. currently reading= Violeta, it's interesting. Looking forward to getting to know the Tasmanian Devils and playing.

my shelf=2023 uno

Stacey wrote: "So excited to start UNO! I'm Stacey, your captain for UNO this year. I live in Ohio (US), with my husband, daughter, and my dog (who is my avatar). This is my 4th year of playing UNO and it is a fa..."

My dog, Bear, is my pic, too

Alma wrote: "Hi everyone, I’m live in Ireland with my hubby, my two boys and an evil cat. This is my third year playing UNO and I can’t wait to start. I tend to read romance but I can go for anything and I tend..."

Cats are fun too, especially evil ones

Hello Everyone!

I'm Charly one of your co-captains and this is my 5th year playing first time as a co-captain. I live in Orange County, CA with my 2 dogs, and 2 cats which are my world. I normally go for murder/mystery/thriller and recently more romance books. The last great book I read was The Kiss Curse and it was adorable!


The Kiss Curse


Link for my Uno-2023 shelfhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hello team! I am Diana, I'm from Portugal and this is my 6th time playing UNO. I love this challenge and I can never say no to it, although in recent years my reading time has sadly been slowly decreasing...

Some really nice books that I read last year:
The Invention of Wings
Anxious People
The Silent Patient
Ask Again, Yes

My uno shelf is here.

Can't wait to start playing with you all! :)

Alma, I finally visited Ireland this year. It was so much fun! I want to go back and my daughter is debating going to college there. (She seems to think I'll be against this for some reason).

Laura, I love your profile pic! So cute! I love animals. I had an evil cat that I miss. Sadly, my husband doesn't really like cats and I think my dog wouldn't do well with one.

Diana, welcome back! Um, your reading is still impressive. Can't wait to check out some of your favorites.

Just realized that the team tracking sheet was restricted. Sorry! It is now unlocked and you can all start using it.

I’m glad you enjoyed your stay here. I hope it didn’t rain too much. But it wouldn’t be the Emerald Isle if it wasn’t for the weather ☺️. Where did you go and what was your favourite?
My husband doesn’t like our cat either and she has a tendency to sleep on his lap. We’re always very weary of her sudden bad moods just in case.
I agree with you Stacey, Laura H photo is adorable.

Charly wrote: "Hello Everyone!

I'm Charly one of your co-captains and this is my 5th year playing first time as a co-captain. I live in Orange County, CA with my 2 dogs, and 2 cats which are my world. I normally..."

Oh, I loved The Ex Hex

Diana wrote: "Hello team! I am Diana, I'm from Portugal and this is my 6th time playing UNO. I love this challenge and I can never say no to it, although in recent years my reading time has sadly been slowly dec..."

Maybe this UNO will increase you reading. Ask Again, Yes looks good

Stacey wrote: "Just realized that the team tracking sheet was restricted. Sorry! It is now unlocked and you can all start using it."

Thanks, I'm going to check it out.

Hi all, I'm Skye. I've played once, I always miss the sign up time. I barely squeeked in at the last moment this year. I don't remember how, but I'm sure I'll pick it up quick.

I'm in California. I live with my Hubby, and 3 young men. 2 are my sons 19 and 21, and my nefew will be 19 next month. I read primarily m/m romance. When I venture outside that I usually go with either urban fantasy romance--or non romance.

My reading has slowed down a lot over the last year or so. I'm still hoping to be able to complete 3 books a week. The last couple months I've been only doing about 2 a week.

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

Laura wrote: "Charly wrote: "Hello Everyone!

I'm Charly one of your co-captains and this is my 5th year playing first time as a co-captain. I live in Orange County, CA with my 2 dogs, and 2 cats which are my wo..."

It was so cute! I really enjoyed it. I'm trying to mix in a different book between my murder/thriller books and I find that romance is cute and the genre is growing on me a little at a time.

Welcome Skye! Glad you signed up. If you are a little late, we always pull from reserves along the way, so signing up late can still work (for future).

Alma, my sister and I took our parents to Ireland. We did a tour with a small tourguide of SW Ireland, primarily. There were 12 people on the tour, 8 of which were my family, so it was lovely. We also had amazing weather. We spent a few days in Dublin before and after the tour. So many fun things! My favorite was Skellig Michael; we were there for puffin nesting which was so great. I also really want to go back to the Gougane Barra Hotel and spend time there. Plus there is so much we didn't see!

We are still waiting for 1 member, hopefully, she will stop in soon. Does anyone want to start claiming colored cards? If you have any you would really like to read for, let me know. I like to have them accounted for near the beginning so we make sure to get them all.

I don't really recall how this works.
I found 2 green books


green cover and author starts with N

and Green 6
or
green cover and MC's name starts with S

Sorry, just trying to remember. Does every book has to be a color and the number?
or is it a book has to be a color or the number?

For each hand we have a certain # of color cards. There are 8 color cards we need to read for plus one Wild Draw 4, which means we need to reread one of the others. For the colors, the covers have to be over 50% of that color. The two for Green 6 don't look like quite enough. Not sure about Green 2. Since these are harder, and tend to be fun to find, we will try to make sure everyone who wants one can get one.

For the remaining cards, we don't need to worry about the color, just the #. So, 0 is zero in title, stand alone book, or title, author name (first or last), character name (first or last), or place that starts with Z. The top of the spreadsheet lists everything to help you remember.

There are a few special cards. Skip is K or P. Reverse is reading a book another member has read. If you friend the other members, it makes it easy to see if any of them have read a book you are reading.

For the other cards, the co-captains and I will figure out how to put them into the hands based on strategy - for example, 7s are hard so fill them first. That is why we ask for you to let us know all the ways books fit. That way we can move things around if needed.

Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆ wrote: "Hi all, I'm Skye. I've played once, I always miss the sign up time. I barely squeeked in at the last moment this year. I don't remember how, but I'm sure I'll pick it up quick.

I'm in California. ..."

I also plan on two a week, and am learning the game too

Stacey wrote: "For each hand we have a certain # of color cards. There are 8 color cards we need to read for plus one Wild Draw 4, which means we need to reread one of the others. For the colors, the covers have ..."

thanks for info!

I have found a book for Green 6 can we start adding info to the SS? I am on my phone and I can’t add the book here so you can see but it is green for sure and the author starts with S.
“My not so perfect life” by Sophie Kinsella

Yes, you can start adding to the spreadsheet. That one is definitely green!

I'll add a 3 Blue to the spreadsheet:
Edit: the spreadsheet is set to read-only :)

Diana wrote: "I'll add a 3 Blue to the spreadsheet:
Edit: the spreadsheet is set to read-only :)"

Are you using the tracking sheet or the official sheet? Only the captains have access to the official sheet. I fixed the tracking sheet the other day and it says that anyone with the link has access. If you still have issues, let me know and I'll try to figure it out.

Stacey wrote: "Diana wrote: "I'll add a 3 Blue to the spreadsheet:
Edit: the spreadsheet is set to read-only :)"

Are you using the tracking sheet or the official sheet? Only t..."


I'm talking about the tracking sheet. Anyone with the link can see it, but not edit it.

Ugh. Sorry! I promise it is fixed now.

I have a red 8, happy to let someone else have it, but I will have to read this either way.

Stacey wrote: "Ugh. Sorry! I promise it is fixed now."

Can confirm all is working now :) Thank you!

I was looking at all the 7's that we have and I have 3 books on my shelf right now that I can work towards them:

7: AFN- V.E. Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)
7: AFN- Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen)
7: AFN- Victoria Aveyard (Glass Sword)

Thank you guys for your patience with me! I plan on checking in weekly, probably more. There are few days in April I will be offline, but will still be reading. I said two books per week, but will likely be able to read more.

I'm pretty confused about how to start playing but I'm hoping if I watch the first hand play out, I'll get it.

For February I definitely want to read , So probably first, if it fits the group's plan:
Yellow cover, Title H, Author first K last W, Character M, Setting A
Author first S, Characters M and T, Setting E

Also I could read 7th in series or 7 in title:

Hello everyone! I'm Carina, I also live in Portugal and this is my first year playing UNO (I might be a bit lost, sorry, but I'm making an effort to keep up). I like reading pretty much everything, Right now I'm reading the Happinness Advantage and Metropolis, but I also love a good mistery and a good novel.
I read here that someone is reading Violeta, I read it pretty much right after release and I love it! Recent books that I also loved were Afterlives and the entire Thursday Murder Club series.
Looking forward to go for this, I couldn't quite understand how the cards and the distribuition of books work, so if anyone could tell me a for Dummies version would be much appreaciated.

Hello all! My name is Stephanie and this is my 3rd or 4th time playing. I'm from NYC and I live with my husband and 10 month old daughter. I read a lot of fantasy and historical fiction but will be branching out this year into more non fiction. I'm a librarian so books are life! I'll add my uno shelf when I get to a computer. The app doesn't have a link feature that I can find. Recent read I loved was actually a contemporary romance. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. It's a YA.

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

Stacey can you add a reverse book for me?I don’t know where to add it and I don’t want to mess up your SS. I want to read Five feet apart and I saw Laura H has also read it. Remind me, is that how reverse card works?

Just to help look for books a team mate has read....does anyone else on the team read m/m romance?

Alma wrote: "Stacey can you add a reverse book for me?I don’t know where to add it and I don’t want to mess up your SS. I want to read Five feet apart and I saw Laura H has also read it. Remind me, is that how ..."

hello! I will help Stacey add the reverse card for you. You are correct as that is how the reverse card works. When you finish the book, just notate who else read it just in case it gets lost in the thread.

Alma wrote: "Stacey can you add a reverse book for me?I don’t know where to add it and I don’t want to mess up your SS. I want to read Five feet apart and I saw Laura H has also read it. Remind me, is that how ..."

Yes, that is exactly how it works. For books that don't fit our color cards, please also add all the different options. I'll explain below. I've udpated the book on the spreadsheet for you with the info I could find easily. You can update while/after reading with additional characters, or place if those work.

Hi all! With a lot of new players (or newer), the rules and spreadsheets can be tricky. How I like to tackle UNO:
1 - We assign the color cards to make sure we have them covered
2 - For all other books we add in all of the options it fits

If you check out the tracking sheet now, you can see how Skye's book is listed. Name for the book, actual book below. This is helpful in case you decide to change your book.

For non color covers, I've highlighted Alma's book Five Feet Apart. Based on the info on Goodreads, it fits for 5 different options (see column R). This is great as both 5s and Reverses are tricky, so we can use it for either based on how books work out.

If you don't like spreadsheets, or that is too complicated, you can just do a completion post in this thread and we can add it for you. You do not need to do both, one works.

The orange sections are for the captains to ensure that everything was checked and mark where a book was used to help us with adding to the official spreadsheet.

We will do periodic updates to let you know where we stand and what we need.

Laura wrote: "Thank you guys for your patience with me! I plan on checking in weekly, probably more. There are few days in April I will be offline, but will still be reading. I said two books per week, but will ..."

Thanks Laura! We don't need any yellow cards this month, but I've read Hide so it can work as a Reverse along with some other good cards.

Any of the 7s would be great.

And sorry all for not responding quickly! I do work. My job is pretty flexible most of the time so I often check in multiple times a day in case there are questions. Yesterday I was traveling for work and wasn't able to check in at all. That may happen from time to time, but I'll be around and Charly and Carina are also here to help.