The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Hi Everybody,
My name is Paige, and I’ve never played uno before! I just joined this group in late 2020 with my aunt. I read pretty much anything, my preferences are historical fiction, and stories with struggles is the best way to put it ( Ellen Hopkins-ish, Go Ask Alice, A Child Called It). But I’m game for anything!! I can’t wait to play! So how does this work do I have to be chosen on a time or are teams assigned randomly?

Hey Mods,

Is it still the 50% Tin Eye rule for colours this year? Or Captain's Call?

Thought I'd just check before I start getting a head's up on the colour covers. Searching for those tricky ones is the best UNO fun!

I can answer you Lisa.

We do not rely on Tin Eye this year...

It is a Captain's call, and if the Captain isn't sure, they ask the other captains.

Hi. My name is Preeti and I live in India. I have played UNO in the past but old age seems to be catching up and I can't remember just how many times. However more importantly what I do remember is that I had a blast of a time and know that I will this time too.

The genres I read used to be a lot more limited before I started taking part in reading challenges. I love that as a result of them I have been introduced to many more genres, authors, books and have discovered new favourites.
There are very few genres I will not read. I am always willing to give every book a try. Having said that, romance is a genre I still find difficult, particularly contemporary romance. But I will never completely say no to it as I have read some that pleasantly surprised me.

I have way too many books that I want to read in 2021 to list here.

Some of the books I have loved:

Blue


Green


Yellow


Red


I am very much looking forward to this challenge. See you all there.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "I can answer you Lisa.

We do not rely on Tin Eye this year...

It is a Captain's call, and if the Captain isn't sure, they ask the other captains."

Good one Jenny. That tin eye is crazy sometimes, LOL.

Hi everyone


ı have never played uno before but ı looked at the rules and ı think ı get it. I'm Öykü ı have 1-2 team challange experiance favorite geners fantsy romance and horror for 2021 ı CANTTT wait to read for green ı think thats green blue and Lonely|43204703] ı dont have any recomandattions for yellow for red well thats all cant wait to play with you guys

Categorically love this challenge.

📕 Name: Apoorv
📕 Team Challenge experience: To the point of being considered an addict.
📕 Have you joined UNO before?: Pshaw! Duh! Almost all of them. :P
📕 Favourite genres: Everything under the sun (except maybe religious fiction)
📕 Book you can't wait to read in 2021: Tons! But, as every year, the focus is going to be on reading more books by PoC authors, queer authors, books where representation matters.
📕 Your recommendation for book with the best yellow, red, blue, or green cover:

Blue Covers

Green Covers

Yellow Covers

Red Covers

@ Paige

Paige wrote: "Hi Everybody,
My name is Paige, and I’ve never played uno before! I just joined this group in late 2020 with my aunt. So how does this work do I have to be chosen on a time or are teams assigned randomly?"

Entry forms will be available on 14 Jan - so in 5 more days. You fill that form out and then you will be assigned to a team before the end of the month. UNO Starts on February 1st...

@robynne

I’m not sure how to quote you in my response, but thank you!! Is there anyway to ensure that my aunt and I are on the same team? We joined this book club together

I love this challenge I've done it 3 times!

Paige wrote: "@robynne

I’m not sure how to quote you in my response, but thank you!! Is there anyway to ensure that my aunt and I are on the same team? We joined this book club together"

@ Paige - if I remember rightly there should be a space on the application form (14 Jan) asking who else you want to be with, on the same team - you list their name there. The mods will do their best. Since there are only the two of you, it should not be too much of a problem - but no guarantees.

@Robynne

Thank you so much! You’ve been so helpful!

We are going to give you all a head start on sign ups seeing that you are super keen and made your way to this chat thread!

A sign up announcement will go out on the 14th, but here are the details for you all early.

Please remember to read the rules and commit to the challenge for 3 months. That is Feb 1 - April 30. You will need to be active on goodreads at least once per week during this period.




Fill out this SIGN UP FORM with a few details and we will start assigning teams the second last week of January. You will need to "check in" to your team thread by January 25 or you will be replaced
If you have problems with the form, please let us know.
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SPECIAL NOTE: If you signed up last year, but were replaced because the captain did not hear from you, or you withdrew from the challenge, you will need to send a message to the Pixie account as to what has changed this year. Your sign up will get flagged and you will not be placed in a team unless you message us first.
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You can see if your form responses worked, and check out who else has signed up here

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◈ Every month when the team gets their monthly UNO hands the Captain will need to work with the team to create a plan for how to read the hands. We will provide you with a spreadsheet to complete.
◈ We would expect the captains to track the teams books
◈ At the end of each month the Captain will need to check their teams books are marked as "read" and meet the page counts and submit their team's info to the moderator to have points confirmed

Tips to prepare for sign up

* Think about how many books you can read in a month.

There is no benefit in UNO to under-estimate because each team has a fixed number of books to read each month. It is best to be as accurate as you can so that your team doesn't finish the month early and then is bored for a week!. Have a look at what you read over the last 3 months, or for previous players what you read over last UNO.

* Do you want to be in a "chatty" team?

Consider your interaction on Goodreads. Do you want to log in at least every other day? If so you may want to select your preference for a "chatty team".
If you can only commit to checking the team once per week, a chatty team is not for you.
If you don't think you can make it onto Goodreads once per week (even if you haven't read anything) then UNO is not for you.

* Set up your UNO Shelf.

This helps your team captains check your books, and is also quite cool later when you want to see what you have read in UNO over the years. Goodreads help explains how to add a new shelf if you haven't done it before here

YOUR USER NAME IS VERY IMPORTANT

every year we have sign-ups that don't get this right. If you do not enter it correctly, we can not find you, which means you won't be placed on a team.

To find your user name:,
1. go to the desktop version of Goodreads. This means use a web browser on your tablet/phone/computer to go to www.goodeads.com
2. (sign in if required) Look at the top right hand side and you will see the far right circle that is your profile picture. Click on it, and then select "profile"
3. What you now see in the URL bar is not www.goodeads.com but instead your profile name. For example, this Pixie account shows www.goodreads.com/user/show/52624155-...
This means my user name is 52624155-uno-pixie
4. In the sign up form you will be asked to enter the number and the name separately (this helps with our formulas and to make sure people enter this information correctly). So my number would be 52624155 and my name would be uno-pixie

@ Paige

As you can see the sign up form (what I called the application form) is now available. There is no specific request for teammates, but there IS A space for anything else you want to add. So I would suggest that you add a note in that space that you want to be on the same team as your aunt - best to include her Goodreads ID - name and number as well. She needs to the same adding your ID name & number when she signs up as well. HTH

Yay looking forward to this! Played it the first time last year and really excited about what our theme names will be.

I read all kinds of genres and it just depends on my mood. But mystery/thrillers, classics, and regency romances are my main staples.

Book Recommendations for Color Covers

Hey everybody! I'm Lauri from Hawaii & I LOVE UNO! It's a little challenging with limited library visits, but I made it work last year...
This will be my 6th year playing. So hard to believe. I can't wait to play again!
Some favorite color covers for me are:

Hope to visit with some old friends and meet some new ones!

Hi. I signed up but completely forgot that I wanted to ask to please be on the same team as Jammin Jenny. Please let me know if I can still add this and how I should do it. Thanks.

📕 Name: Lori
📕 Team Challenge experience: not much so far I have been doing more individual challenges than team ones
📕 Have you joined UNO before?: no
📕 Favourite genres: mysteries, historical and fantasy
📕 Book you can't wait to read in 2021: I’m a mood reader so I don’t plan or really think about what I’m going to read over the year
📕 Your recommendation for book with the best yellow, red, blue, or green cover:

Yellow


Red


Blue


Green

Where is the application? I can’t find it

Paige wrote: "Where is the application? I can’t find it"

It’s in message 63 (7 posts before your one - UNO Pixie posted it).

Are you using the app? Because I can see it really clearly on the website but in the app I can only see a part of that post and it cuts off before the link.

@Lori Thank you I found it!

Preeti wrote: "Hi. I signed up but completely forgot that I wanted to ask to please be on the same team as Jammin Jenny. Please let me know if I can still add this and how I should do it. Thanks."

I have added to the spreadsheet comments :)

Hi all

Name - Sally - I live in Australia

Team Challenge experience - lots, I may be a bit of an addict 😂😂
I stick with my team to the end - no dropping out and leaving the team in the lurch - not my style.

Have you joined UNO before? Yes a few times - not last year.

Favourite genres - fairly eclectic - lean towards cosy mysteries, paranormal romances and middle School/YA

Book you can't wait to read in 2021 - Yours Cheerfully: A Novel is on my list, sequel to Dear Mrs. Bird and hopefully a new Nevermore Series book

Your recommendation for book with the best yellow, red, blue, or green cover - just a quick look at my TBR shelf came up with these:
Dear Mrs. Bird
Christmas Bizarre
To Catch Her Death
The Wedding Date

Feeling bright-eyed and bushy tailed after losing my mojo for the last few months of 2020 - crawling back now 😀👍

*waves* hi Sally.
You just reminded me that Dear Mrs Bird is on my tbr and a lovely shade of yellow 😉

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "*waves* hi Sally.
You just reminded me that Dear Mrs Bird is on my tbr and a lovely shade of yellow 😉"

Is a great book - sadly couldn’t hang onto it as was a library book. Hope we’re back on a team together - and Lisa.

Hi! I´m Alla and I´m from Iceland. I played UNO for the first time last year and it was also my first ever challenge and I loved it so much that I´ve been hooked on challenges ever since! I´m very excited to play this game again :)

My favourite genres are romance, historical romance, contemporary, fiction and I´m getting more into fantasy and paranormal lately.

Some of the colored books I recommend:

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Preeti wrote: "Hi. I signed up but completely forgot that I wanted to ask to please be on the same team as Jammin Jenny. Please let me know if I can still add this and how I should do it. Thanks."
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Thanks.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "*waves* hi Sally.
You just reminded me that Dear Mrs Bird is on my tbr and a lovely shade of yellow 😉"

And the audiobook is a lovely shade of blue which also works. I read it a good while back and have been meaning to read it again.

Sally906 wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "*waves* hi Sally.
You just reminded me that Dear Mrs Bird is on my tbr and a lovely shade of yellow 😉"

Is a great book - sadly couldn’t hang onto it as was a library book. Hope we..."


Hi Sally!! Good to see you back again for Uno this year. Hopefully the Uno Gods or is that Pixie... will get the band back together, LOL.

This is my first time hearing about this challenge. This seems exciting but I don't know how this works. I want to join. Can someone help me?

Krisselle wrote: "This is my first time hearing about this challenge. This seems exciting but I don't know how this works. I want to join. Can someone help me?"

Go to message 63 above, and you will see a link to the sign up sheet, right under the blue heading Want To Play?

On message 64, there are the basics for Uno listed out, including any sign up questions.

Welcome to the fun!!!!

Krisselle wrote: "This is my first time hearing about this challenge. This seems exciting but I don't know how this works. I want to join. Can someone help me?"

Sign ups don't start until January 14th. There are some specifics and rules regarding the challenge at the UNO 2021 thread to help you out as well!

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

Hi Everyone, I hope everyone is have a good start to the new year. This will be my fifth year playing UNO. It is one of my favorite team challenges. I have also participated in other team challenges. I have shelves for the different color uno covers. I don’t have a specific recommendation at this time.

Annalisa wrote: "Hi Everyone, I hope everyone is have a good start to the new year. This will be my fifth year playing UNO. It is one of my favorite team challenges. I have also participated in other team challenge..."
Hi,
Thanks for your uno shelves it will help alot. It's my first time playing. Cant wait!

Lori wrote: "📕 Name: Lori
📕 Team Challenge experience: not much so far I have been doing more individual challenges than team ones
📕 Have you joined UNO before?: no
📕 Favourite genres: mysteries, historical and..."

Good picks! My first time playing also.

Carrie wrote: "Sign ups don't start until January 14th."

The sign up form has been opened already, see msg #63 in this thread.

Sooo looking forward to this challenge!!

Well hello!
My name is Gustaf and I am from the very cold country in the north, Sweden.

I only started doing team challenges last year. My first one was a six month long scavenger hunt and after that I was stuck. I'm now a team challenge addict. It's my first time playing UNO though. I might be a little lost in the beginning but I am excited. It seems like a lot of fun. I totally love the real thing. I work at a book store so I read a bit of everything to be updated but my go to genre and what I read most of is MM romance. It's probably 90% of my reading.

For this year: Out of Character and any future releases by Briar Prescott is high on my tbr.

Hmm here's some cover colored recommends:
Yellow:


Red:


Blue:


Green:

Good to see old faces and some new ones. Don't worry if you haven't played before I'm sure your team will help you along the way. It's all in good reading fun.

I missed last year, but thanks to Jenny, I didn't miss this year!!

Yay! Glad you made it Angie!

Can add another “yellow cover” suggestion.

Sadly I am reading it now as is a library book and due back before the challenge starts - very popular so on two week loan and I can’t extend. Is an amazing book though.

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Is this green enough for UNO - ? I've had my eye on this for ages.

Hi. I have a doubt. When we look at cover colours, are we looking at the default edition or the edition that we read? Thanks.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Is this green enough for UNO - ? I've had my eye on this for ages."

According to tin eye it is 69% green - the rule is more than 50% - so I think you have your green book 😀👍

Sally906 wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Is this green enough for UNO - ? I've had my eye on this for ages."

According to tin eye it is 69% green - the ru..."

Woo Hoo. Ordering it from the library...

Preeti wrote: "Hi. I have a doubt. When we look at cover colours, are we looking at the default edition or the edition that we read? Thanks."

You should look at the edition that you read.

It's always the edition you read.

And stop looking at Tin Eye :-p

Eldarwen wrote: "It's always the edition you read.

And stop looking at Tin Eye :-p"

But - but - but it says I can in the rules! 😂😂😂🍷