The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Ove

Team Members:
♦ Judith Brown (Captain)
♦ Daphne (Co-captain)
♦ Ashley Partch
♦ Kelsi
♦ Leslie
♦ Lisa
♦ Megan Fuller

♠ Team Spreadsheet

“Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty...”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

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Pouring water on one another is a Polish Easter tradition called Smingus-Dyngus. On Easter Monday, boys try to drench other people with buckets of water, squirt guns or anything they can get their hands on. Legend says girls who get soaked will marry within the year. The refreshing tradition has its origins in the baptism of Polish Prince Mieszko on Easter Monday in 966 AD.

✦ Read a book with water on the cover
✦ Read a book where a character goes swimming
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title

Ove (hide spoiler)]

Team UNO Shelf links:

♦ Judith: uno2017
♦ Daphne: uno2017
♦ Ashley Partch: uno challenge 2017
♦ Kelsi: uno 2017
♦ Leslie: uno
♦ Lisa: uno team ove
♦ Megan Fuller: uno challenge


COUNTDOWN TO START OF MARCH UNO
MARCH UNO Begins!!

Team Rankings
Current UNO 2017 Team Rankings

Team Tracking Sheet:
Team Ove Tracking Sheet


Color Extractor for Cover Colors
Book Cover Color

Cards by Type for April: 105/105 updated 4/26
9 Blue
6 Blue
6 Blue
4 Blue
5 Blue
6 Yellow
3 Yellow
4 Red
8 Blue
7 Red
0: 3/3
1: 7/7
2: 6/6
3: 6/6
4: 8/8
5: 4/4
6: 8/8
7: 8/8
8: 7/7
9: 8/8
Skip: 7/7
Reverse: 8/8
Wild: 3/3
W4: 4/4
Draw 2: 8/8

◈◈◈Perks UNO cards◈◈◈


O (Zero)(view spoiler)[
Read a book that:
- has a 0 or Zero in the title
- has a title starting with Z
- has an author first name or surname starts with Z
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with Z
- is set in a place name starting with Z
- is a "stand-alone" book (i.e. not part of a series)

1 (One)
Read a book that:
- has a 1 or One in the title
- has a title starting with O
- has an author first name or surname starts with O
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with O
- is set in a place name starting with O
- is book 1 in a series

2 (Two)
Read a book that:
- has a 2 or Two in the title
- has a title starting with T
- has an author first name or surname starts with T
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with T
- is set in a place name starting with T
- is book 2 in a series

3 (Three)
Read a book that:
- has a 3 or Three in the title
- has a title starting with H
- has an author first name or surname starts with H
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with H
- is set in a place name starting with H
- is book 3 in a series

4 (Four)
Read a book that:
- has a 4 or Four in the title
- has a title starting with F
- has an author first name or surname starts with F
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with F
- is set in a place name starting with F
- is book 4 in a series

5 (Five)
Read a book that:
- has a 5 or Five in the title
- has a title starting with I
- has an author first name or surname starts with I
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with I
- is set in a place name starting with I
- is book 5 in a series

6 (Six)
Read a book that:
- has a 6 or Six in the title
- has a title starting with S
- has an author first name or surname starts with S
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S
- is set in a place name starting with S
- is book 6 in a series

7 (Seven)
Read a book that:
- has a 7 or Seven in the title
- has a title starting with V
- has an author first name or surname starts with V
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with V
- is set in a place name starting with V
- is book 7 in a series

8 (Eight)
Read a book that:
- has an 8 or Eight in the title
- has a title starting with E
- has an author first name or surname starts with E
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with E
- is set in a place name starting with E
- is book 8 in a series

9 (Nine)
Read a book that:
- has a 9 or Nine in the title
- has a title starting with N
- has an author first name or surname starts with N
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with N
- is set in a place name starting with N
- is book 9 in a series

Skip
Read a book that:
- has a title starting with K or P
- has an author first name or surname starts with K or P
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P
- is set in a place name starting with K or P
OR you can choose to "skip" reading a book for this cards (and get no points for this card)

Draw 2
Use the same book for two cards in this hand (and get points for both cards)

Reverse
One member of your team must read a book another team member has already read

Wild
Read a book that can fit any of the requirements for cards 0-9

Wild draw four
Read any book!

IMPORTANT
Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com

Note
For book titles starting with an article (A/An/The), the article can be ignored or used. So The Hiding Place, for example, could be used as title starting with T or H
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Easter Egg Mini Challenge

Below are the number of tasks per team egg, what's been claimed, what's been read, and which eggs are complete.

And remember we get bonus points for completed eggs!!
24 of 24 Eggs Completed

♦Augustus Waters: 6 tasks, 6 completed
♦Becky Bloomwood: 7 tasks, 7 claimed, 6 completed
♦Bones: 4 tasks, 4 claimed, 1 completed
♦Buttercup: 3 tasks, 2 claimed, 1 completed
♦Elizabeth Bennet: 6 tasks, 2 claimed, 1 completed
♦Eve Dallas: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Harry Dresden: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Heathcliff: 3 tasks, 3 claimed, 1 completed
♦Hercule Poirot: 4 tasks, 3 claimed, 2 completed
♦Jack Torrance: 3 tasks, 2 claimed, 1 completed
♦Kate Daniels: 3 tasks, 1 claimed, 1 completed
♦Liesel Meminger: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Mark Watney: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Mercy Thompson: 3 tasks, 3 claimed, 1 completed
♦Ove: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Peeta Mellark: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Rachel Watson: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Robert Langdon: 4 tasks
♦Ron Weasley: 3 tasks, 1 claimed, 1 completed
♦Rose Hathaway: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Sybilla Bridgerton: 3 tasks, 2 claimed, 2 completed
♦Ty & Zane: 3 tasks, 3 completed
♦Will Traynor: 4 tasks, 1 claimed
♦Yvaine: 24 tasks, 24 completed

open minded

Hello Everyone! This is your captain speaking.

I hope you are all excited to start UNO! I love our team name. If you haven't read this book I highly recommend it. I wish Ove was my neighbor. haha

Please make sure you have an UNO shelf and let me know when you've done so and I'll add the links. If people had an easily identified UNO shelf, I already linked them. So please just check to make sure I'm linking to the correct shelf.

Also, expect friend requests from me :)

Hello fellow teammates!

I signed up for co-captain duties, and I hope I can help out wherever needed. Super excited to get started.

I personally haven't read this book yet. Have considered it for awhile now - maybe I will have to now that this is our team name lol.

Hello Team. I am so glad to see Daphne and Kelsi from my wobble team! Looking forward to meeting the rest of you. This will be my first time playing this challenge. Looks like fun. A little about myself: I live in Colorado and am a retired computer tech. I love to travel with my hubby. I love reading all kinds of books . My favorites are mystery, science fiction and horror. I read Ove last year and really loved it. Cant wait to start!

Leslie wrote: "Hello Team. I am so glad to see Daphne and Kelsi from my wobble team! Looking forward to meeting the rest of you. This will be my first time playing this challenge. Looks like fun. A little about m..."

*waves* Hello Leslie!

I literally just clicked send on a friend request for you :)

Daphne wrote: "Hello fellow teammates!

I signed up for co-captain duties, and I hope I can help out wherever needed. Super excited to get started.

I personally haven't read this book yet. Have considered it f..."


Daphne, make sure you request access (you do this from the spreadsheet) to the official team spreadsheet so you can edit.


The team tracking spreadsheet (in message 5) should be open to everyone on the team for editing. So if someone can't edit it, please let me know.

Just FYI to everyone. I am going to Cozumel Feb 16- Feb 25. I will be back the 26th. I won't have access to my computer, but I will have internet access on my phone. I won't be able to update the spreadsheet, but I will be able to post , so if someone else could update my info to the spreadsheet that would be great. Of course I will be reading .....beach time : )
Leslie

Leslie wrote: "Just FYI to everyone. I am going to Cozumel Feb 16- Feb 25. I will be back the 26th. I won't have access to my computer, but I will have internet access on my phone. I won't be able to update the s..."

That sounds fun and totally workable. Either Daphne or I will get your info on the tracking sheet.

I'll be in Iceland from Feb 11 to Feb 17 and will be in a similar situation. I think as long as Daphne and I aren't on vacation at the same time, it'll be fine.

Hi everyone! Shout out to Daphne and Leslie from wobble! Looking forward to getting started, Ove is one of my favorite books :)

Have fun on vacations Leslie and Judith!

It looks like you have the right shelf for me Judith.

Hey everyone! I am excited to start this challenge. This is the first challenge that I am doing since joining this group. I love reading. I love both fantasy and contemporary books. I have been wanting to read A Man Called Ove ever since I heard about it in the booktube community. Again I am very excited to start.

UNO 2015 was my first team challenge and is what I like to think of as the gateway team challenge. So many people have this as their first challenge game only to get addicted and never look back.

Hello everybody! I'm in the same boat as Ashley-this is also my first challenge! I'm really looking forward to it.

I enjoy reading graphic novels (shame I can't for the challenge!), contemporary fiction, and fantasy, but I will literally read anything. I also have not read A Man Called Ove, but it's on my TBR!

I'm excited that we have some new blood to bring to the dark side and turn them into reading challenge addicts. LOL

We are just waiting for Lisa to check in and then our whole team will be present and accounted for. Once she checks in, we can go through some strategies, etc for getting the cards completed.

This is my third round of UNO. The first time was in 2015 and as I mentioned it was my gateway game and sent me looking for other team challenges once it was over. Last year my UNO team came in second place, so hoping to improve on that this year :)

Like Megan, I'll read almost anything. But I do read a lot of mystery, historical fiction, paranormal, fantasy, and YA. Although when I get into challenge mode I tend to read a lot of contemporary romance because they tend to be short, quick reads and I can knock out a lot of tasks that way.

Kelsi wrote: "Hi everyone! Shout out to Daphne and Leslie from wobble! Looking forward to getting started, Ove is one of my favorite books :)

Have fun on vacations Leslie and Judith!

It looks like you have th..."

Were you guys all on the same Wobble team? I recognize your names from various discussion threads. That's cool to end up together on a team again. Which team was it?

I was captain of Flying Squirrels and loved playing all the different games. Although I admit I was burned out by the end and was ready for a bit of a reading break.

We all on Hawaiian Bobtail Squid. A really great group. We all wanted to stay together , but the Mods said that wouldn't be fair( kind of agree). So they spread us out : ). Wobble was my first challenge. I went from maybe reading 30 books a year to 100! Kind of caught the challenge bug ( may have signed up for too many). I can tell this one is going to be fun!!!!
Do you think you guys could put how each card can be used on one of your reserved spaces?
Thanks,
Leslie

Wobble was really fun, but I agree a bit exhausting since it was so long. After the decent break though, I am definitely looking forward to a new challenge! This is my second time playing this one, I really enjoyed it last year.

My main genres are fantasy, YA, and paranormal, but I also read pretty much everything. Lately I have been really enjoying mystery and historical fiction.

Leslie wrote: "We all on Hawaiian Bobtail Squid. A really great group. We all wanted to stay together , but the Mods said that wouldn't be fair( kind of agree). So they spread us out : ). Wobble was my first chal..."

Sure thing! I actually meant to do this earlier so thanks for the reminder :)


In the tracking spreadsheet there is also reminders of what works for each card both across the top of the spreadsheet (in abbreviated form) and in full explanation on a separate tab.

So when you are logging in your completed books you won't have to toggle back and forth between the team thread and the spreadsheet if you need to double check something for a given card. Hopefully that will make it easier for you guys when logging books.

I also added the countdown to when you can start reading books for UNO in my first reserved post (same post as the shelf links).

We are all in North America (I believe) so for us the start time is the early hours of the morning on Feb 1st depending on your given time zone.

Thanks Judith!

I can't believe this is only a week away, mostly because I can't believe how fast this month has disappeared!

I hope everyone is getting excited now that we are less than a week away from starting!

Hopefully Lisa will check in soon, but whether she does or not I plan on discussing strategy by this weekend and making sure to answer any questions people may have before the game starts. Especially with having people new to the game.

That being said please ask any questions you have at any time. This game is pretty straightforward but I've found sometimes challenge rules don't completely click into place until the game actually starts.

I think the most important rule to remember right now is books used for UNO can't be started until the game begins on Feb 1st.

Does everyone discuss what they will be reading for what card? I guess that is what I am most confused about!

Megan wrote: "Does everyone discuss what they will be reading for what card? I guess that is what I am most confused about!"

Sort of, especially later in the month when only certain cards are needed so choices need to be a bit more targeted.

However, we can move books around until the end of the month so I wasn't planning on assigning specific cards in hands to people.

This is where the tracking spreadsheet comes in handy (it's in message 5). Team members can log their books (or if you aren't comfortable with doing that Daphne or I can log them for you) and mark all the cards a book will work for. Then Daphne and I can enter them into the official team spreadsheet for points where it makes the most sense.

I tend to focus on the harder ones first list (7, 5, etc) and then leave the easy ones (2, 1, and wilds) until the end.

But what strategy the team decides to go with is something we can discuss as a group.

Do we have use the 0 cards and do we get points for them?

Sorry .., I have never played Uno : /

Never-mind... i found the explanation for the points. I think I get it now : )

Yes, Zero is just like the other number cards 1 to 9 in terms of points and actually is pretty easy to find a book to work for the card.

Not usually with the Z, but since any book that isn't part of a series works, it's not too hard to find one.

The only card that doesn't get points is the Draw 2 card, but it allows us to use the same book for two different cards. So the benefit of the Draw 2 card is we get to complete a hand faster. Example, our Hand 7 will only need 3 books to finish it.

Hopefully that helps some. But I'm happy to make up some examples if people are confused.

Hi team !!!!

Hi Lisa! :)

HI LIsa!!

Hello Lisa!!!

Yay, the whole team is here :)

Hello Lisa!!

Hello team,

I hope everyone is getting ready to start the game in just a few days. I'm not sure where January has gone, it's certainly been a crazy month. Sorry I haven't been posting more but works been nuts. Thankfully it's calmed down and will likely stay that way.

I know we have people new to challenges altogether and others new to this particular game. So please let me know if you all have any questions about rules, setting up bookshelves, filling out the tracking sheet, etc.

As for strategy, what worked well for my team last year was targeting some of the harder cards like 7, 5, 8, reverse first and then work on the easier cards. Wilds left to the end. Is this approach okay with everyone?

Hands don't have to be completed in order and no book is locked in place until the end of the month so we can move things around if need be.

If people have suggestions or an approach that worked well for their teams in previous years, I'm open to any and all suggestions.

That sounds like the approach my team used too and it seemed to work really well.

We also found using the tracking sheet and just writing in everything a book worked for was pretty helpful so we could easily pinpoint the hardest card it could fill and see what still needed to be filled in.

Since I am new to challenges if that approach is what worked for you in the pass then I am fine with that, I think that sounds like a good idea.

I might need help with the tracking sheet since I am new to this and also I am very busy with work and other stuff so I don't know how often I can update it.

That's fine about the tracking sheet. If you are only able to make a quick post on here when you finish a book and let us know which cards a given book works for, I can enter it on the tracking spreadsheet for you.

Also, one thing about characters. Character first name, last name, and nicknames can all be used.

The characters that qualify include both major and minor characters, so you are not limited to just using the main characters. But the character must move the plot forward in some way.

For example the main character's mother who she interacts with occasionally/has conversations with is okay but the main character's doorman who she only says hello to doesn't. Hopefully that makes sense. If you are ever unsure, post here with the specific example from the book you are reading and the team can weigh in.

can one book be used for more then one card ?

Lisa wrote: "can one book be used for more then one card ?"

Only for Draw 2 cards. Otherwise, it's one book per card. :)

SO excited the game is about to start. Can't wait to start playing with you all.

I have a uno shelf

Lisa wrote: "I have a uno shelf "

Let Judith know what it is titled, and she should be able to add it in for you. :)

Lisa, I have the link to your shelf now. At some point just check it to make sure it links to the correct place.

Some housekeeping items:

A little over 12 hours until the game begins!! Please remember any book started before the appropriate time tomorrow cannot be used for UNO. Allow for all of us it's the wee hours of the morning so I'm not expecting that to be an issue.

And please remember to shelve UNO applicable books on your UNO shelf so they are easy for Daphne and I to find when we are doing our captain thing.

All book for February must be started no earlier than Feb 1st and marked as read with the read date no later than Feb 28th. Books must be marked as read with a date of sometime during Feb 2017 to count.

The app sometimes lies about marking something as read. Daphne or I will let you know if there is an issue but it's good to periodically check, especially towards the end of the month when there is less time to fix something.

No graphic novels, books less than 100 pages, and children books need to be at least 25,000 words. If you have any questions about whether a book counts, please post the question here and Daphne or I will let you know.