The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Sherlock Holmes

Team Members:

❅ Louise- Captain
❅ Rina- Co-captain
❅ DoodlePanda
❅ Tina
❅ Nikki
❅ Carlie
❅ Dima
❅ Erin


♕ Team Spreadsheet

📌All About Uno
📌Q&A
📌 Color Extractor

🔗 Sherlock Holmes Books Read


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📚 Louise
📚 Rina
📚 DoodlePanda
📚 Tina
📚 Nikki
📚 Carlie
📚 Dima
📚 Erin

🗂 Our Team Spreadsheet
🗂Current Points Spreadsheet
⏳ Countdown to Start of Uno

(view spoiler)[February Cards
14 Hands: 98 Cards

Colored Cards
1 Blue
2 Blue
4 Green
5 Green
6 Green
7 Blue
8 Yellow (hide spoiler)]

March Cards
15 hands 105 Cards

0 2
1 3
2 3
3 2
4 2
5 1
6 3
7 3
8 2
9 2
Draw 2 -0
Reverse - 3
Skip - 1 (2)
Wild - 2
Wild Draw 4 - 1

Color Cards
3 Blue
4 Green
4 Yellow
✔️6 Green
6 Yellow
7 Yellow
✔️8 Blue
9 Green

April Mini

Choice A: Stick around to see if you can help

1A* read a book with a phone on the cover
2A* read a book with a police car, officer, or station on the cover
3A* read a book with phone, telephone, call, or police in the title
4A* read a book with H-A-T in the title (doesn't need to be in that order)
5A* read a book where the first word in the text starts with H
6A* read a book where the title starts with A Carlie
7A* read a book with an author name (first or last) starts with T Tina

A2: Go to the person that was hit by the car and try and give medical aid
Spell-it-out! The non-uno letters of MEDICAL AID (M, D, C, A, L)
you can choose these A2 tasks, or do the above A1 tasks - DON'T DO BOTH
8A2*: M
9A2*: D
10A2*: C
11A2*: A
12A2*: L
13A2*: read a book with a person (head-toe) on the cover
14A2*: read a book with red writing on the cover

A2b - You realise the pedestrian is your mortal enemy, and so you decide to not give CPR (queue melodramatic music)

Spell-it-out! The non-uno letters of MELODRAMATIC (M,L,D,R,A,M,A,C)
15A2b*: M
16A2b*: L
17A2b*: D
18A2b*: R
19A2b*: A
20A2b*: M
21A2b*: A
22A2b*: C


A2bb - The pedestrian wakes up, recognises you and grabs you around the throat trying to strangle you! You kick, punch, and run away!
"If you did the A2 and A2b tasks, you can choose these A2bb tasks, or the A2ba tasks - DON'T DO BOTH.

Do NOT do these tasks if you chose A1 or A2a above"
23A2bb*: read a book where a character is in a fight
24A2bb*: read a book with Suspense as the MPG
25A2bb*: read a book where a character does the wrong thing
26A2bb*: read a book with ""bad"" in the text or title"
27A2bb*: read a book with ""wrong"" in the text or title"
28A2bb*: read a book with ""kick"" in the text or title"
29A2bb*: read a book where someone thought to be dead, is actually alive
30A2bb*: read a book with red writing on the cover

Hello and welcome to Uno 2019!

I am your captain for this year's trip to search out the truth.

Please make sure your Uno shelves are correctly named and link it here in chat, thanks! I will link them above for easier access.

Please only put books onto your Uno shelf once they are read. It makes it easier for captains to check if we didn't forget to put a book onto the spreadsheet, verify read dates etc.

For those of you who are new to this challenge, or team challenges in general, please make sure you understand the rules. If you still have questions, feel free to ask away! Either here, or feel free to pm me.

I hope we're going to have a lot of fun! Enjoy the challenge! :-)

Hello! I'm really looking forward to this! I played for the first time last year and have been planning on joining again this year since then!

Hi everyone! I am Rina, it's my first UNO Challenge.

My shelf: Link

Doh, I forgot to link my uno shelf!

Hello, everyone! This is also my first UNO Challenge, although I've participated in other group team challenges.

My shelf is: uno 2019

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

Just a note I will be out of town and unavailable a few days in February -- the 14th and returning on the 17th. Going on a little vacation. I'm not sure if a hand is counted by the week or not but we can plan around it for me to get my books done before leaving if possible that week.

We get the hands by month I think, so we should be able to work around that :D

Okay great, I know the vacation coincided with the challenge so wanted to prepare in advance just in case so I don't leave anyone hanging :)

Good morning all. The cards we have for the month are linked above and in the s/sheet. In general the cards will fill out themselves with the books we read for the month. The only exception to this is the coloured cards and reverse.

Blue and green are the colours we need most of, check your shelves to see if you can help out on these.

We have 4 reverse cards, if you have a book that one of our team has Read, note it here and we can slot it in.

Hello everyone! So excited to play UNO with all of you:) This will be my 5th UNO Challenge.

My shelf is: UNO challenge 2019

Do you want us to let you know before we read a book, which cards it works for, or we let you know after we've finished?

I was just wondering if the Captain will be updating the sheet, or are we doing it ourselves? I know different groups did it differently last year :)

@ Tina if you're reading a book that covers one of the difficult cards, let us know e.g reverse, coloured, V's or E's or I's.

@DoodlePanda, Rina and I will be updating the s/sheet. I know a few groups have a tracking sheet but this can be overwhelming.

I've requested a thread be set up for Books Read so that all books can be logged there. Once we have this I'll link it above.

Oh that sounds great, my friend was in one of the groups with a tracking sheet and she didnt like it, so I'm glad we're not doing that! :D

Louise wrote: "Blue and green are the colours we need most of, check your shelves to see if you can help out on these.

We have 4 reverse cards, if you have a book that one of our team has Read, note it here and we can slot it in. ."

Okay, I will go hunting this week. Made a planning bookshelf for my own use just in case.

Hi people!

Sorry for checking in this late, I didn't see the teams were already made! I'm super excited to get started with the challenge.
My shelf can be found here!

Hello!! Sorry, I didn’t realize teams were set up :)

It’s nice to meet you all, this is my first Uno Challenge (and first Goodreads challenge ever, actually). My shelf is called Uno 2019. Looking forward to getting started!

Carlie wrote: "Hello!! Sorry, I didn’t realize teams were set up :)

It’s nice to meet you all, this is my first Uno Challenge (and first Goodreads challenge ever, actually). My shelf is called Uno 2019. Looking ..."

How exciting, I hope you like it! :D

Welcome both, shelves are linked. Hopefully Dima will be with us soon.

When was the deadline to check in? 22nd?

Yes, January 22nd

Hello everyone!
I am very excited to play with all of you. This is either third or fourth year for me playing UNO and I can't wait to start.
Here is my uno shelf.

Dima

Welcome Dima!

Welcome everyone, now we are all here lets' get some serious planning done.

If anyone can cover any of the coloured cards, let us know. We also have a whole bunch of Skip, 5, 2, 7 and 4.

We're all here and have some time to get to know each other before the challenge starts.

• Where are you from?
• What is your favourite genre?

I'll have a look to see if I find any coloured books in my TBR!

I'm from Norway, and i read mainly fiction, favourite genres are fantasy, scifi and horror :)

Louise wrote: "

Welcome everyone, now we are all here lets' get some serious planning done.

If anyone can cover any of the coloured cards, let us know. We also have a whole bunch of Skip, 5, 2, 7 and 4."

I plan on making some notes of colored books soon. I saw the helpful shelves provided by the mods that other day in announcements as well.

• Where are you from?
• What is your favourite genre?



Lakeland, Florida (Central), and my favorite genre is Urban Fantasy. I love Paranormal in all genres, though - mystery, romance, horror, childrens, you name it. I read a little bit of everything for the most part.

I am from Switzerland and my favorite genres are paranormal, fantasy, ya, mystery; bur I read almost all genres.

Some of the books I have a hold on and that I will get in February:

- 5 green, 6 green, reverse
- 2 blue, 7 blue, reverse
- reverse

2 Blue, 7 Blue
6 Green
8 yellow
Reverse
2 Blue, 7 blue

I live in a currently very wet South Wales.
My go to genre of choice is Mysteries, followed a close second by paranormal in all it's guises, in particular Vampires. I will read nearly anything.

I’m from Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia.

Favorite genre is a hard one! Historical fiction is high on my list, as is YA, but I’m on a bit of a fantasy kick at the moment.

I’m going to take a look at my library holds and unread bookshelf this week and see what I have that will work for our harder cards!

I've found two books we can use for Reverse and some books we can use for 2, 5, 7, 8 and SKIP. It's harder for me to find books that match a certain color. I don't know how many books I'll be able to read next month so let me know if it's something specific I should focus on. Otherwise I'll just read randomly and let you know:)

I'm from the south of Sweden and my favorite genre is Romance. I read YA, NA, contemporary, mystery, thriller, paranormal, as long as romance is a part of it:)

I'm from the Netherlands! I don't reaaaally have a favourite genre, most of the time as long as the story is interesting I'm just happy to read it, though I do love a good contemporary fiction book.

When I have some time tomorrow, I'll sit down and see if I can find some books for our coloured or the more difficult cards.

Louise wrote: "

We're all here and have some time to get to know each other before the challenge starts.

• Where are you from?
• What is your favourite genre?"

I live in Chicago but I'm originally from Syria. My favorite genre is fantasy/urban fantasy/paranormals or sci-fi but I read any book that I can put my hands on.

Doing some Uno planning today, and I've found a few books that will work :). I have several regular number cards figured out, but I'll just note the harder cards here.

Skip - The Kingdom of Copper

Draw 2 (from Hand Seven) - The Sisters of the Winter Wood

I'll keep looking and see if there are any Reverses or color cards I can cover as well.

Also - sorry if this is a silly question - do I need to plan on reading these at a certain time, or can I just read them whenever during February and they'll fit into our challenge as needed? Meaning, do I need to wait until Hand One is completely finished before I can start reading any books I planned for Hand Two, and so on?

As long as they are Read in February we can move things around as needed.

What will generally happen is that books that will fill the harder cards or the most frequent will be filled First and then others will be filled. So it could work out that we will have quite a few partially completed hands in the first week or two.

Louise wrote: "As long as they are Read in February we can move things around as needed..."

Perfect!

I note as well that you have a book marked for Draw 2. This is a card that we do not need to fill. It let's us use 1 book for 2 cards in the hand, in effect completing 3 cards in that hand. Again these tend to be filled as and when we can.

Louise wrote: "I note as well that you have a book marked for Draw 2..."

Oh yes, I just meant that particular book fills two cards in that hand, but I see now that it's probably really easy to fit in books for hands with Draw 2 cards :)

I'm not very good at planning ahead what to read as it depends a lot on what mood I am in, but I will list every card that the book I've read can count towards :)

At first glance I haven't found any coloured options from the books in TBR list, but I could have a look on amazon if i can find any on Kindle unlimited if we are struggling to fill some of them.

Less than a week to go!
I'm trying to finish up the stuff I'm currently reading so I will be ready to start reading for the challenge :)

I sorted some colored books in my bookshelves. Do we just mark here what book fits what once we're done, and then it will be moved to the right task on the spreadsheet?

Was planning to do a blue book at the beginning of February

All books will be posted in our Books Read Sherlock Holmes thread. Rina and I will be able to post to the s/sheet as needed. 😊