The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

I just deleted Dima's Sinful Empire from our February hand 5 + the Feb Mini sheet. I doubt she'll see/check our messages, therefore won't put the book onto her uno shelf, and I was worried we might forget that we need a backup for this one, so I just deleted it (sorry).
I'm sure there'll be another book to cover Dima's, especially since Jenny apparently keeps reading and reading and reading haha! (and Nikki & Daniela will finish their mini challenge books as well which aren't in our normal uno cards yet) :)

EDIT: putting Marie's book into Dima's spot in our feb sheet ;)

Completion post!

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Finished Feb. 23.

Works for

0- stand alone
1- title
2- title

Works for 2nd challenge-
Pyxis- She Rides Shotgun (palm tree on cover).
That's all I have found so far, but I will look for another connection this weekend.

Christina - could we use Marie's book to link kto Milky Way for Part 2 because

In the Woods
also has a detective as a main character?

That would cover my Milky Way spot and I could slow down and keep my book for March. Especially since is doesn't sound like we need my book for the regular Uno hands either with Jenny finishing two more?

Marie's book already is linked to Milky Way ;)
Now that Jenny finished her book, we will move your (Laura's) Macaron (I think?) book to Milky Way and put Jenny's book into Pyxis & then we got everything covered for the mini challenge :)))

(I'm on my phone rn so one of us will do that tomorrow :))

Completion Post

Book:Sleeping Giants
Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Page Count: 377 pages
Date Completed: 02/23/18
All cards it works for:
1 - First in a Series
4 - Character last name Franklin (Rose Franklin)
6 - Both the title and author's first name
7 - character first name Vincent (Vincent Couture)
9 - Authors Last name
Skip - character first name Kara (Kara Resnik)

This was my book from Team Pluto's list of recommendations. I will be posting a comment in their thread shortly and I will link the comment as soon as I do so :)

EDIT: Link to my comment on team Pluto's thread

Christina wrote: "Marie's book already is linked to Milky Way ;)
Now that Jenny finished her book, we will move your (Laura's) Macaron (I think?) book to Milky Way and put Jenny's book into Pyxis & then we got every..."

I can do that, Christina. (once I figure out what you are talking about, hah)

Ok all in, so far. Mini challenge will be complete once Daniela finishes her book.

& then with Daniela completing her book that will also complete all our hands for Feb!

Take a deep breath and maybe even a week reading break, all! ;) Any additional books currently being read can be used in March as long as they aren't finished until March begins. ;)

GO TEAM!

Yea us!
Captains, if you go over the books, and we need anything covered, let me know, I would be happy to read something else for the challenge. Until then, time to pick up stuff I started in January!

I finished my book last night, our spreadsheet is completely full :)
I'll go over it in the afternoon, but so far it should be all good.

I'll take these 4 days to finish my book I started before the challenge. Make sure if you're already reading for March, that the finish date has to be 1st of March otherwise they don't count. So take a break or finish your books you read before the challenge :) I think March will have a hand more to fill

COMPLETION in case we need it
Alone
24/02/2018

Cards
1 - number 1 in a series
2 character tony
3 Harvey Jones
6 Susan character
8 Dr elizabeth Lane
9 Nathan
SKIP prudence

Mini Task
Spoils one word title Team Sculptor
The Hypnotist number one in a series team Mensa

Wow! Great job all!! I can also finish my book if needed for February hands if anything changes.

I just checked the standings and we are currently in first place!!!

It may not last, but at least we were there at some point!

Laura wrote: "I just checked the standings and we are currently in first place!!!

It may not last, but at least we were there at some point!"

I've just checked the standings as well haha! :) most teams more or less have finished their February cards, but still have some spots in the Mini challenge to fill, so I doubt we'll stay in first place. that's not our fault though - that's just how the cards were dealt. I for one think we did an amazing job! :)

Question: has everybody made sure their books are long enough?

100 pages, right?

I checked mine.

Laura wrote: "100 pages, right?

I checked mine."

Yup, well at least 101 pages. ;) "Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books, Graphic Novels, Cook Books, Plays and Poetry books can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com"

All of mine were longer than 100 pages, or over 4 hours for audiobooks.

Yup I checked mine, had to go to the amazon page for one of them lol. For some reason Goodreads didn’t have a pagecount on any editions, but I had bought the kindle version so I just went back to the store page and checked the page count listed there.

all mine were long enough don't think i have read anything that i haven't also used for cutthroat and their minimum page length is 160.
We have done brilliantly

Thanks for checking, all! :)

I see the March hands are up!
Here are our 11 color cards:
4 Yellow
3 Blue
1 Red
7 Red
4 Blue
9 Red
1 Blue
7 Yellow
3 Wild Draw 4 cards

We also have 9 Reverse cards

I'm going to check my books for color cards and reverses now.

I can cover any or all of the following:
1 Red
4 Blue
7 Yellow
3 Blue
9 Red
(Note to self: all on KU)

1 Reverse (Lady Hardcastle - Marie)

New cards!

I can cover several colored cards. The ones I have found so far are...

3 blue
1 red
7 red
4 blue
1 blue- Outlander could also be a reverse card.

I have more to search, and I am not claiming all of them. I am, however, almost done reading Heaven on Earth, by Michael Shermer, which I have been putting off finishing until March. I need to double check, but it should work for 3 blue.
There are a couple that I need to check the percentage on when I am at my computer tomorrow. Always on the hunt for yellow cards too.

I suggested this one before, and I don't remember who professed an interest, but The Female of the Species is an incredible book, and it would work for 4 yellow, and reverse. Just a tbought.

I'll copy and update the chart for our March hands in a bit :)

Thanks for letting us know they're online btw, last time I checked they weren't yet.

Christina wrote: "I'll copy and update the chart for our March hands in a bit :)

Thanks for letting us know they're online btw, last time I checked they weren't yet."

The chart in our March spreadsheet is up and running - if you spot any mistakes or errors at any time, please let me know.
We have to read 98 books in total, 13 more than in Feb! (Draw 2s are already factored in)

I'll start the month with Call Me by Your Name (which covers 1 Blue) so I can watch the movie afterwards, but before the Oscars! so I'll be on some sort of a time limit here haha!

I'll check my books once I get home, but I have 3 blue ones laying around I want to read :) but I can always take them over to April

How was everyone's weekend? :)

I can cover 2 coloured cards so far:
1 or 3 Blue
7 Red

I checked the color thingy, and
works for blue 3 (title), so as I am almost done with it, I will wait and finish it in March for the challenge.

13 more books! That’s a lot!

Laura wrote: "13 more books! That’s a lot!"

We can totally do it. I already have three books that I keep switching between to keep from finishing before March 1. Plus I started another on audio that I should finish on Thursday or Friday, so we will start the month with a bang. I am probably not alone in this either.

Since this is my first time doing a challenge, I don't know this... will there be another mini challenge this month? Any clue what it would be?

Jenny wrote: "Since this is my first time doing a challenge, I don't know this... will there be another mini challenge this month? Any clue what it would be?"

there's usually a mini challenge each month, yes. I remember e.g. an Easter and an ESC one, but 1, Easter is super early in April and 2, ESC always is in May. so no idea.....

Jenny - That will be a great start! And you’re right, because I have 3 I will finish pretty early on in March.

Yes, we will get an additional hand each month. Our count is also affected by the number of Draw 2s. And yes, we will get a new mini-challenge each month as well! In the past we’ve had spring themes, Eurovision Awards, hmmm... I can’t the others besides Valentines...

Laura wrote: "Jenny - That will be a great start! And you’re right, because I have 3 I will finish pretty early on in March.

Yes, we will get an additional hand each month. Our count is also affected by the num..."

Eurovision is a "song contest" haha, not awards x)

I just checked spreadsheets from the previous years, and what stood out to me were scavenger hunts. I'm pretty sure we'll get one of those, but no idea what the theme could be... and I remember the Bingo mini challenge confused me to no end! (but I think I got it now, in case we should get one ;))

Cool, thanks guys.
Easter theme, hmmm. How many books do I own with bunnies on the cover?

I started 3 different books as well, so hopefully I'll get them done by the end of the week to start off the challenge lol

I am a little limited this month - i will read and cover cards but i had a cataract op yesterday and at the moment neither ! or my husband can drive (he had knee replacement 5 weeks ago) as our nearest library is 3 miles away- my usual one even further i can only read what i have to hand. So far not found any colour matches but will keep looking

Marie,
I hope your surgery went well. I can't speak for the team, but my feeling is that we've got your back this month. Don't worry about color card books, it looks like we have found possibilities for a lot of them already. Just get better.

Question for the captains-
If I am reading a non-fiction book, that doesn't have "characters", can people mentioned in the book count as such? For example, I just started a book on physics, and there are scientists named and written about in it, so would they count as characters for the Uno cards?

Unfortunately not, Jenny. You can check the FAQs in the Question thread to find out why (can't link or copy anything as I'm on my phone right now).

Marie, I hope your surgery went well! If I remember correctly you have KU or so anyway, so I'm sure you'll find lots of books to read nevertheless ;)

Jenny wrote: "Marie,
I hope your surgery went well. I can't speak for the team, but my feeling is that we've got your back this month. Don't worry about color card books, it looks like we have found possibilitie..."

Christina wrote: "Unfortunately not, Jenny. You can check the FAQs in the Question thread to find out why (can't link or copy anything as I'm on my phone right now).

Marie, I hope your surgery went well! If I remem..."

I will find books and i will definitely be reading or listening

A new month has begun - which means we can finally read for the challenge again :)

Have a look out for books that fit card 4 - we've got 11 of them this month! And if you start a coloured book let us know so we can keep track of how many we still need and what other members should look out for :) other than that, just read whatever flows your boat ;)

I just finished my first audio book for this month and hopefully will finish my other book by next week

COMPLETION POST
1. Dunbar
read 01/03/2018
Rating 3 stars
Pages 244
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Cards it will fit
0 - stand alone
3 Character Henry Dunbar
4 character Florence
6 and 8 Author Edward St. Aubyn
SKIP character Peter

2. The Heart's Invisible Furies
tin eye suggests this is 68% red
Read 01/03/2018
Rating 5 stars
Pages 582

Tasks
Colour Cards
1 red - character - Paedar O'Murcha

Number cards
0 standalone
1 as above
2 character Terwilliger
3 title
4 character William Finney
5 character Ignac OR set in Ireland about 70%
6 Character Jack Smoot
7 and 8 Character Eamon De Valera
SKIP character Ignac Kritz

I will get to Hag-Seed this month which Daniela has read

I also have Sleeping Giants on reserve at library from Nikki's shelf

I may get to The Bone Collector read by Jenny

The Mystery of the Blue Train Kirsten has read

Yay, a new month! I finished the last forty minutes of Michael Shermer's Heavens on Earth this morning, so...

Completion post!

Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

Finished March 1.

Works for
3 blue- title
0- stand alone
6- author

Completion post!


Endeavor by Ralph Kerns

Finished March 1.

works for
1- first in a series
2- character Tom
3- character Harry
6- character Samson
8- title
skip- author

COMPLETION
Elmet
01/03/2018
Pages 311
Rating 2

Cards
0 - stand alone
1 - character Daniel Oliver
2 and SKIP -Character Tom Price
3- character Adam Hardcastle
4 - Author - Fiona Mozley
6- character John Smythe
7 - chatacter Vivian
8 - title Elmet

Marie (UK) wrote: "2. The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne tin eye suggests this is 68% red
Read 01/03/2018
Rating 5 sta..."

The Heart's Invisible Furies has no read date, Marie. and unfortunately it won't work for a red card since it's 50+ % pink...

but yay team, we're doing great !!