The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Catie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I'm planning on reading Hunted in Feb but wanted to check if it meets the 50% requirement for Green?

Fits elsewhere if needed but might be useful :)

Hunted"

Unfort..."

Yes, it's coming up at less than 50%. Although I think some of the areas that the tool is counting as black are actually dark green, the percentage would still be less than 50 green, even if that got overruled. But we can definitely use it as one of our non-colored cards!

Catie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I'm planning on reading Hunted in Feb but wanted to check if it meets the 50% requirement for Green?

Fits elsewhere if needed but might be useful :)

Hunted"

Unfort..."

No worries! It fits in elsewhere but worth a shot haha. I'll check the colour shelves we have and see if there's any on there I could pick up in case!

I'm getting ready for this challenge!!! I have 6 books that I would like to read in February.
1. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
2. "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
3. "Dorothy Must Die" by Danielle Paige
4. "The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige
5. "Yellow Brick War" by Danielle Paige
6. "The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah

I'm trying to push myself a little with reading. I can normally read 3 to 4 books a month so this is a personal goal for me to try and achieve. I can't wait to start!

Charly wrote: "I'm getting ready for this challenge!!! I have 6 books that I would like to read in February.
1. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
2. "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch..."

Awesome! Looks like a good list. Let me know how you like Dorothy Must Die once you've finished it! I started it once but never got to finish it (it was due back at the library, and I haven't gotten around to picking it up again yet, though I still plan to at some point).

I will let you know how it goes! I'm excited to start that series. I have the first 3 that I would like to finish. It sounds like a good series!!

Charly wrote: "I'm getting ready for this challenge!!! I have 6 books that I would like to read in February.
1. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
2. "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch..."

Nice! I loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Really wanna read the rest of the series :)

I'm planning on reading some kinda cheesey but fun YA:

The First 15 Lives of Harry August - Claire North
Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
Topaz Reign - Teresa Richards (really cute Princess and the Pea retelling!)
Hunted - Meagan Spooner

I read Dorothy Must Die as well, it wasn't really my thing, but a lot of people really loved it!
For February, I hope to read 10 books (a lot of them are pretty short), I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it because my workload this semester is really heavy, but we'll see.
Release, Schuyler's Monster, Future Home of the Living God, The Twenty One Balloons, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, Lost Boy, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Great Divorce, and Words in Deep Blue

You are all so prepared! I love it. So far I only have two books planned for February . . . Evernight by Claudia Gray (to cover our 7 Red) and Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. After that, I figure I'll just see what cards from our hands need filled and choose from there.

I usually read about 2 books a month, but can add in another book or two because I listen to audiobooks during my commute as well. Though during last year's UNO, I found the "challenge" aspect to be very motivating and ended up doing more... so my goal will be 6-8 from combined reading/listening to audiobooks.

I have officially started my first book and am hoping to read about 20-25 books in Feb. I managed 20 in January and that was even being crazy busy so hoping feb will be a better reading month :-)

I have a lot of series I am slowly catching up on and want to continue on with in feb. I especially want to catch up on the psy-changeling and Guild hunter series by Nalini Singh because i am meeting her in April. can't wait! Also want to catch up on the Mercy Thompson series, book 9 of the kate Daniels series and continue on with the Elder races series

The challenge has officially begun!!

Just a few notes as we start:

1. As a reminder, when you have finished with a book, please post a comment here in this thread with the following information
Book Title: (please link to book if you can)
Author:
Dates Read:
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
Cover Color: (if it fits the requirements for a colored card)

Please make sure you include all the ways in which the book can fit! Remember, the letters we use to fit cards are Z,O,T,H,F,I,S,V,E,N,K,P -- and there are other ways to fit them as well, which can be found here.

2. Make sure each book you use for this challenge is marked as Read on your UNO shelf with the date read set -- that is the only way we can count it! Remember, only books started after this challenge began (about four hours prior to this post) will count.

3. Please check in to this thread at least once a week now that the challenge has started, even if you have not finished a book in that time. That way, we know you are still active and participating in the challenge.

Also -- I am pretty sure there will be a mini challenge later this month that involves the book recommendations that UNO Pixie asked for. For those of you new to UNO, there are typically mini challenges each month that start near the middle of the month that allow teams to get bonus points based on reading books that fill certain requirements. When I know more, I'll let you know.

I think that's it for now. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask. Nikk, Catie, and I are all here to help.

Happy reading!

COMPLETION POST

Book: Angels' Blood
Author: Nalini Singh
Date Read: 2/1/18
Cards it Fits: ZERO- Has a character with first name with Z (Zoe)
ONE- Read book one in a series (Is book one in the Guild Hunter series)
SIX- Read a book with a character whose name starts with S (Sara)
SEVEN- Read a book with a character name starting with V (Venom)
EIGHT- Read a book with a character name starting with E (Elena)
NINE- Read a book with author's name starting with N (Nalini)
DRAW 2 (we have cards 7,6,9)

Completion

Book: Alone by Lisa Gardner
Date Read: 2/1/18

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
6 - Character Susan
8 - Character Elizabeth
9 - Character Nathan

So exciting we already have some reads! I'm hoping I can get my reading count up this month :)

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Book Title: Kinked
Author: Thea Harrison
Dates Read: 2/2/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
2 - Author first name: Thea
3 - Author last name: harrison
6 - #6 in series
9 - place: Numenlaur
Skip: Title: Kinked

Awesome! You all are rocking it so far :)

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Book Title: The Twenty-One Balloons
Author: William Pène du Bois
Date Read: 2/2/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
1- Title
4 - character: Mr. F
6 - character: Professor Sherman (+place: San Francisco)
Skip: place: Krakatoa
Cover color- Green

Book: The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald A. Norman
Date read: 03/02/18
Cards counted:
0 - Standalone
9 - Author's last name
Cover color - yellow

That was a bad call on my part to choose a non-fiction. Had no places and no characters.

PS: Can someone post the hands drawn? Or a link to the place where it has been? I couldn't find it.

It's at the very top, in the first post, it says Team Spreadsheet. Sorry I can't post the link, I'm on my phone, but just check the first post.

P.r. wrote: "That was a bad call on my part to choose a non-fiction. Had no places and no characters.

PS: Can someone post the hands drawn? Or a link to the place where it has been? I couldn't find it."

Not a bad call at all! It still fits for a few things and that's what matters :) Plus, 0 Yellow was one of our colored cards this month, so it was actually a really helpful read as it could fill that spot!

Also, you can find all of our hands for the month on this spreadsheet.

Completion

Book: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Date Read: 2/3/18

Cards:
2 - character Tara
3 - character Alcide Herveaux
4 - #4 in series
6 - character Sookie
8 - character Eric Northman
9 - character Eric Northman
Skip - character Pam
Reverse - Nikk read

Oh. Wow. The hands makes it super convenient!

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BOOK: Archangel's Kiss
Author: Nalini Singh
Date Read: 2/2/18
Date Read: 2/1/18
Cards it Fits: TWO- Read book two in a series (Is book two in the Guild Hunter series)

SIX- Read a book with a character whose name starts with S (Sara)

SEVEN- Read a book with a character name starting with V (Venom)

EIGHT- Read a book with a character name starting with E (Elena)

NINE- Read a book with author's name starting with N (Nalini)

DRAW 2 (cards 7 and 6 in hand 1)

WILD- We have cards 2,6,7,9 besides a wild in hand 1 and the book fits them all

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Book Title: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Author: Matthew Quick
Date Read: 2/3/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
6 - character: Herr Silverman
9 - place: New Jersey
Skip: character: Leonard Peacock
Cover color- Red

Title: "The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Author: Mitch Albom
Dates Read: 2/1-2/3
Cards it counts for:
0-stand along book
3: set in a place with a H (Heaven)
5: F within the title: " The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
8: Character's name with an E (Eddie)
Draw 2 card
I do not know about the color. I couldn't figure out how to use the website for it.

Charly wrote: "Title: "The Five People You Meet in Heaven"
Author: Mitch Albom
Dates Read: 2/1-2/3
Cards it counts for:
0-stand along book
3: set in a place with a H (Heaven)
5: F within the title: " The Five P..."

Got it! In case you wanted to know: You just have to "copy image address" from the book cover image and paste that into the bar — but I have no problem checking books for you (or anyone)! Looks like this one is mostly yellow so we can use it as a Wild Draw 4 since it dupes the 0 Yellow card :)

Everyone is doing awesome! Hope everyone is enjoying their reads so far! To keep you updated on my end — I should finish my first sometime today (that's the goal at least) and finish my second (the audiobook) sometime during the week this week.

The Gender Game
Read: 4/2/18

Cards:
1 - is book one in a series
2 - title starts with T (The Gender Game)
4 - author last name starts with F (Forrest)
7 - Character name starts with V (Viggo)

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Book Title: Cry Wolf
Author: Patricia Briggs
Dates Read: 2/2/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:

Green cover
1 - book #1 in series
2 - CL: Taggart
3 - CF: Heather
6 - CF: Samuel
skip - AF Patricia

Thanks Kaley!


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Book Title: Words in Deep Blue
Author: Cath Crowley
Date Read: 2/4/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
3 - Character: Henry Jones
4 - Character Frederick
6 - Character: Rachel Sweetie
Skip- Character: Katia
Reverse- Amanda A. has read
Color: blue

Completion

Book: Midnight's Kiss by Thea Harrison
Date Read: 2/4/18

Cards:
2 - author Thea Harrison
3 - author Thea Harrison
8 - #8 in series

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Book Title: Every Exquisite Thing
Author: Matthew Quick
Date Read: 2/5/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
1 - Character: Nanette O’Hare
2 - Character: Stella Tackett
6 - Character: Stella Tackett
8 - Title: Every Exquisite Thing
9 - Character: Nigel Booker
Skip- Character: Janene Priestly
Reverse- Nikk has read

Hunted
Meagan Spooner
6/2/18

6 - has an author first name or surname starts with S (Spooner)
0 - Stand alone novel
3 - title starting with H (Hunted)

Completion

Book: The Truth About Love and Dukes by Laura Lee Guhrke
Date Read: 2/5/18

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - T: The Truth About Love and Dukes
3 - CF: Henry
5 - CF: Irene
6 - CF: Sarah

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Book Title: Release
Author: Patrick Ness
Date Read: 2/5/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
2 - Character: Adam Thorn
4 - Place: Frome, Washington
6 - Character: Shelley Morgan
7 - Katherine Van Leeuwen
8 - Enzo Garcia
9 - author: Patrick Ness
Skip: author: Patrick Ness

Topaz Reign
Teresa Richards
6/2/18

2 - has an author first name or surname starts with T (Teresa)
0 - character name (Owen)

To update you all — We have the first two hands completely filled in already! :) And a few books filled in throughout some of the other hands.

Kaley wrote: "To update you all — We have the first two hands completely filled in already! :) And a few books filled in throughout some of the other hands."

Wow! That's excellent! Everyone has been reading so much, it's making me want to read more haha. I think I'll beat all my goals this year :)

Tell No One
Harlan Coben
Date: 6-2-18
Cards:
0 - standalone
2 - Character's name (Tyrese)
3 - Author's first name
8 - Character's first name (Elizabeth Parker)
7 - Character's first name (Shauna)
Skip - Character's last name (Elizabeth Parker), Place of setting (Philadelphia)
Cover: Red

Everyone has been doing so good!! I’ve been trying to read more but work had been busy this last week. Keep up the good work. Looks like lots of good books have been read!!!🤓

Should we consider looking into items we can use for Reverse cards? :)

Completion

Book: Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco
Date Read: 2/6/18

Cards:
2 - #2 in series
3 - T: Hunting Prince Dracula
5 - CF: Ileana
9 - CF: Nicolae
Skip - AF: Kerri

Sarah wrote: "Should we consider looking into items we can use for Reverse cards? :)"
I've been checking for all of mine! If you click on the book's page, you can see which of the people on your friends list have read it. A decent amount of the books I've decided to read someone else from the group has read, too-- especially if they're popular books.

To add on to what Catie said (which I have found to be the easiest way to see what fits for Reverse, though you can also browse teammates' "read" shelves), we also have a surprisingly low number of Reverse this month (only 3). We do have several right now that could fit Reverse, but I have placed them differently in the spreadsheet because (aside from colored cards) I have been filling the first hands first.

So, technically none of those three Reverse spots have been filled yet. If you want to find books for Reverse, I say go for it :) But don't feel like you have to. I can always rearrange the spreadsheet later if needed to move around ones that can fit for Reverse that are currently placed as another card.

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Book Title: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Author: Aimee Bender
Date Read: 2/8/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
1- CL: Eddie Oakley
3 - Place: Hollywood
6 - CF: Sherrie
8 - CL: Rose Edelstein
Skip: CF: Paul Edelstein

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Sweet Tea Tuesdays
Ashley Farley
9/2/18

0 - Stand alone
4 - Author last name (Farley)
6 - Title starting with S (Sweet)

Side note, this book made me ugly cry in the best and most heart breaking way lol

Catie wrote: "Completion Post


Book Title: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Author: Aimee Bender
Date Read: 2/8/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
1- CL: ..."

Oh, I've been wanting to read this for a while!

Sarah wrote: "Catie wrote: "Completion Post


Book Title: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Author: Aimee Bender
Date Read: 2/8/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalon..."

It was sooo good! From what I can tell, it seems to be a very divisive book, you either love it or you hate it, but you should definitely give it a try.

Completion

Book: Death of a Kitchen Diva by Lee Hollis
Date Read: 2/7/18

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - CF: Travis
3 - CF: Hayley
6 - CF: Sergio
8 - CF: Edgar
Skip - CL: Powell

Completion

Book: Make Mine a Bad Boy by Katie Lane
Date Read: 2/7/18

Cards:
2 - #2 in series
3 - CF: Hope
4 - CF: Faith
6 - CF: Shirlene
Skip - AF: Katie

Completion

Book: The Escape Diaries by Juliet Rosetti
Date Read: 2/7/18

Cards:
1 - #1 in series
7 - CF: Vanessa
8 - T: The Escape Diaries
Skip - CF: Kip