The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Interstellar

Team Members:
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❅ Zoe Hays - Captain
❅ Katie Hanus - Co-Captain
❅ Natasha
❅ Katie Kearns
❅ Kat
❅ Carrie
❅ Leslie Ann
❅ Ashley M.
❅ Kayla L.
❅ Caresse



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

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Hello Team Interstellar!
(I absolutely love that movie!)

Welcome to Team Interstellar and our *stellar* group chat. I hope everyone is as excited as I am about UNO starting again. I look forward to it every year!


A few housekeeping things:

1. Here is the link to OUR TEAM TRACKING SPREADSHEET https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

We will track everything here as a team. My lovely co-captain, Katie H., and I will work to organize our books into the official spreadsheet so everything is covered and to update you if we need specific books read (this tends to happen at the end of the month). If you need any help navigating the spreadsheet, please reach out.

Don't forget to link your books in the spreadsheet and add every book to your UNO shelf.

2. Remember this is for FUN so don't stress too much. We all have lives outside of this, so please communicate if stuff comes up. Don't feel pressured to do everything or feel bad asking for help. We are a team! We support each other!

3. For general FAQs about UNO, please check out the threads specifically made for that purpose. The UNO threads have a ton of info, so check them out.

Looking forward to reading with you all over the next few months!

<3

Please introduce yourself! Name, pronouns, favorite random thing you love to eat, favorite genres of books, if you have played UNO before, and anything else that might be fun for you to share!


My name is Zoë she/they. I love to eat soup in all of its varieties, and I read a lot of horror, dystopian, mysteries, thrillers, feel-good stuff, and science fiction. I’ve played UNO since 2019, I believe. A fun fact about me is that I grew up partly in Mexico and moved back to the States about a year ago. I live in Boulder, CO, now. I work as a holistic health practitioner, fusing psychotherapy and physical health support. I have two cats named Christopher and Johnathan. They are both ginger boys, and honestly, I mostly call them critterfur and yon yon.

My name is Katie. This will be my first go at the UNO challenge and I'm super excited to help co-captain for the team. I've fallen in love with Goodreads challenges because they challenge me to read books that I normally wouldn't venture into. I enjoy reading romance of pretty much any variety.

I read via kindle, physical books and a lot of audiobooks. I'm always busy with family/work and tend to have an audiobook running in the background.

I am a business owner, wife, and mom to two sets of boy/girl twins (12 & 13 y/o). We have a kitten named Chicken, two dogs (Roscoe and Leroy), a parakeet named Sparkles, two Guinea pigs (Francisco and Charley), 13 chickens and about 150 rabbits. I was born and raised in a little town near Houston, Tx and we are recovering from a whopping 5 inches of snow that pretty much blew everyone's minds this week. LOL! I can't wait to get my heat and hurricanes back!!

Hi all - I’m Carrie (she). I live in PA (my home state) but have lived all over (my husband was in the military). I love to travel and I volunteer for an animal rescue.
My favorite genres are mystery, thriller, horror and Nordic noir but I will read just about anything!
This is my 7th year playing UNO. It’s always such a fun challenge.
Looking forward to getting to know you all better soon 😊

Hello!

My name is Kayla (she/her). I live in Iowa and have lived here most of my life. I love to read Thriller, Historical Fiction, Memoirs, RomCom and I'll pretty much try anything. This is my first UNO challenge and haven't really attempted any Goodreads Challenge before so I'm excited to learn and see what the hype is about! :)

I work in the Non-Profit field, have 2 wild boys, and a dog named Aikman (yes, after the quarterback). Looking forward to getting to know everyone and make a strong attempt at being a great team player!

Hi everyone!

My name is Ashley (she/her) and this is my 5th time participating in UNO. I am from Toronto, Canada and currently work in a grocery store but my career goal is to work in the museum field. I've got three cats (Tobey, Max and Nyo) and a chinchilla named Chubbs.

I'm not too picky when it comes to books and will read anything that catches my interest, but I mostly stray towards fantasy, sci-fi, mystery thrillers, and horror.

I look forward to reading with everyone for the next three months!

Hi,
I am Leslie Ann and I live in Lafayette, Co. I have played UNO many times. My hubby and I watch our 2 grandkids 2 days a week, love those kids. We recently bought a Aussie Shepherd, Charlie he is 3 months old and a cutie. I will read just about anything for a challenge. My favorite genres are Mystery , Horror and Science Fiction.

Hello everyone I’m Kat. I’m the only one of us In the U.K. I live in Scotland in Glasgow. I live with my fiancé John and our two cats Bonnie and Clyde. I work as a sales assistant for a heart charity. It will be ten years since I started next month! Time sure does fly!

My favourite genres are thrillers, crime, contemporary and new adult romance. And memoirs and biographies on peoples jobs and parenting.

This is my third year playing UNO and I’m looking forward to it. My iPad is a bit funny with spreadsheets but I’ll try with it.

Hi everyone!

I'm Katie (she/her). Looks like there's 2 Katies on the team so I'll be Katie K. This is my second year doing UNO and it actually really helped me to read more than usual last year so I'm excited!

I am from Ireland so my replies may come at odd hours sometimes!

I love to read mainly romance and fantasy - though I made an effort to try out other genres last year . My favourite authors are Cassandra Clare, Ali Hazelwood, Emily Henry and Stephanie Garber.

I'm looking forward to UNO starting!

Hello! I'm Natasha (she/her). I live in Minnesota with my husband, one-year-old daughter, 2 dogs and 3 chickens (soon to be 9 chickens as we will be getting chicks in March). I work for my local library in the acquisitions department. I love getting to see all the new books that come in. This is my sixth year playing Uno. I read pretty much every genre but I especially enjoy Thrillers, Historical Fiction and Non-fiction.

❀●○●○Ashley○●○●❀ wrote: "Hi everyone!

My name is Ashley (she/her) and this is my 5th time participating in UNO. I am from Toronto, Canada and currently work in a grocery store but my career goal is to work in the museum f..."

Hey Ashley! If possible can you please accept a friend request from either myself or Zoe so we can check in the team as ready to go? Thanks! -KT

Hi everyone!! I am loving reading about all of you and getting to know you in this way. And Leslie Ann we are neighbors! That’s awesome. I’ve never played with anyone who lives so close. Love that. Two players are UK/Ireland but otherwise all US players it looks like. Lots of pets all around too. And a wide range of genres so it sounds like we will have a chance to recommend books if needed.
We can check us in here soon and then get started on Feb 1st! Check the countdown to see what it starts in your time zone since people play from all over I know they did the time zone at something random that works for the most people. Potentially US eastern time? But it might be UK. I can’t remember and I’m on my phone. lol.
Make sure you have access to the spreadsheet please and remember that the Goodreads app is the worst but you can get on it through the browser on your phone. Please remember to put books on your UNO shelf (I always forget myself ha).
And please ask questions! Especially the newbies - we are all nice here, I promise. And it looks like we have quite a few UNO veterans on the team so everyone feel free to chime in if there’s a question and Katie and I aren’t around to answer.
Okay I’ll stop now. Hope everyone has a good few days before we start!

Zoë wrote: "Hi everyone!! I am loving reading about all of you and getting to know you in this way. And Leslie Ann we are neighbors! That’s awesome. I’ve never played with anyone who lives so close. Love that...."

My daughter lives in Boulder and my granddaughter is Zoe without the umlaut!

I have a book that works for blue 2
The Love Hypothesis
I will wait to read it until feb 1….

Are we going to have a worksheet to enter our books or do you want us to do completion post?

Leslie Ann if you go up to my first post there is a link to the spreadsheet there! You can enter everything in there. Let me know if you have questions about it!

Zoë wrote: "Leslie Ann if you go up to my first post there is a link to the spreadsheet there! You can enter everything in there. Let me know if you have questions about it!"

I can only view it. Also it links to our main ss?

Ah fixed it! I thought I had it set to everyone can edit but it was everyone can view. Thanks for letting me know!

I am still having trouble accessing the ss. Maybe it’s on my end. I will wait a couple of days and restart my ipad?

Make sure it’s this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Zoë wrote: "Make sure it’s this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/..."

This link works!

The link from your first message (still) brings me to the Google Sheets Homepage rather than the actual sheet, must be pasting weirdly or something

Normally we decide who’s taking what colour cards, are we doing that?

And coloured cards have disappeared from spreadsheet

I have the 2 blue covered..

Leslie Ann wrote: "I have the 2 blue covered.."

What will you be reading?

Kat wrote: "Leslie Ann wrote: "I have the 2 blue covered.."

What will you be reading?"

The Love Hypothesis, I entered into our planning ss

Leslie Ann wrote: "Kat wrote: "Leslie Ann wrote: "I have the 2 blue covered.."

What will you be reading?"

The Love Hypothesis, I entered into our planning ss"

Cool spreadsheets aren’t my friend lol

I can do red 3 or 8 with Apprentice to the Villain.

The colour cards cards have disappeared for me, where are they on spreadsheet

I asked for access to the main SS - ignore me lol - I thought I was asking for the tracking one 🤦‍♀️

When I pull up the Team SS, I only see March on all 3 months and there are no cards and colors. I can see them on the main SS though.

Yeah I haven’t filled in the team spreadsheet yet. Last time I was on we hadn’t been assigned cards yet. I’ll check it out now and get it organized!

And yes I’m good with claiming color cards for sure.

February Cards!

Card Total required
0 4
1 5
2 7
3 7
4 8
5 5
6 9
7 8
8 6
9 7
Skip 6
Reverse 10
Wild 4
Wild Draw 4 2

Color Cards

2 BLUE
1 BLUE
5 BLUE
7 YELLOW
5 YELLOW
4 RED
8 RED
3 RED

editing to add: We have two Wild Draw 4 cards this month too so those will be two more color cards to read from our list. So if someone grabbed one that you have one for too - you can still claim it! (at least twice :) )

I fixed the tracking spreadsheet link above so hopefully that should work now. Sometimes goodreads is weird with links. But now we have it in two places!

The spreadsheet should be all updated, but let me know if you see any issues with it or have any suggestions to improve it!
Feel free to start putting books in that you think you'll read next month!

Thanks Zoë! It looks good to me. I claimed 1 color card.

Kat wrote: "Leslie Ann wrote: "Kat wrote: "Leslie Ann wrote: "I have the 2 blue covered.."

What will you be reading?"

The Love Hypothesis, I entered into our planning ss"

Cool spreadsheets aren’t my friend lol"

Lol… i love ss

Top link isn’t the same as the other one, just so you know

Is non fiction allowed?

Kat wrote: "Top link isn’t the same as the other one, just so you know

Is non fiction allowed?"

The one labeled "Team Interstellar" that the UNO Pixie posted: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
You don't need to worry about. That is the official spreadsheet where I and my co-captain will fill things in as we go and it will be how the UNO Pixie(s) track all the teams.

The one labeled Team Interstellar: Team Tracking is for just us and no one else has access to it. That is the one that I posted. :)

And yes non-fiction is totally allowed. I will have some for sure this time through! Here is a question and answer from our FAQ in the Captain's Group;

What's the rules with non fiction Books? Can the real life people of history say be used as "characters" and the same with locations used as "settings"?
Not for the majority of non fiction books, (it opens the doors to books that have a zillion royals listed for example), unless of course the non fiction book is something like "Eat Pray Love" which is told like a novel with limited characters.

So if you are unsure - just ask! And if I am unsure, then I will ask in the Captain's Chat. Never hesitate to ask!

Thanks

TEN: The decade that changed my future is the main one I’ll be reading.

Kat wrote: "Thanks

TEN: The decade that changed my future is the main one I’ll be reading."

It works for standalone and for “T” for sure so that’s great!

UNO has begun! I see some people have our books on the tracking sheet already. Woohoo! Excited to start!

Started reading and ready to go!

Hope everyone enjoys their reading

Am I remembering right that we can’t add books we started before the 1st

Kat wrote: "Hope everyone enjoys their reading

Am I remembering right that we can’t add books we started before the 1st"

Correct!

I finished a book today that can work for Blue 1, 2, or 5 for one of the Wild Draw 4 cards. I put it in the spreadsheet but I'll wait to see which one works based on what the other Wild Draw 4 card ends up being since this one is flexible!

I also grabbed 5 Yellow and 3 Red - but if someone else really wants one of these let me know!

Zoë wrote: "Kat wrote: "Hope everyone enjoys their reading

Am I remembering right that we can’t add books we started before the 1st"

Correct!"

Thanks

Just so you all know I've added a few books I will be reading this month whilst got a use of a computer as ipad isn't easy to update at home. I have just left the date to be added.