Verónica’s Comments (group member since May 14, 2020)

Verónica’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

Hello everyone!

Sadly I have to give up on my captain duties and this year challenge. I wasn't really sure if I could keep up with stuff, but I don't want this to affect the team. I didn't want to leave since I really enjoy this challenge but hey, life happens.

Tara has been doing a great job! Keep going team 💪.
Have fun!

Hi Aiswrya! Welcome to our team. I gave you access to the spreadsheet, let us know if you have any questions.

Here is the link to the instructions:

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

Two key points:

- Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (Feb 1)
- Books need to be finished after the start of this mini challenge on Feb 14, 9am UTC (countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...) and before March 1 at 9am UTC (when the March UNO month begins).

Let us know if you have any questions.

Hello everyone!

Mini challenge is here! Please check the tab for it, see what can you find for your next read.

Kamaria wrote: "I have both The Heir and The Crown read by me and Fallyn, if they could be used as reverse cards instead of previously selected reasons?"

Kamaria, I only see your name in the Reverse column but is in you own log of the book. I don't see those read by Fallyn.

Fallyn, can you confirm that you have read The Heir and The Crown?

+++ UPDATE +++

Fortunately, we didn't get many 5's and 7's, so we're almost done with the 5's but 7's we have still a few.

The reverse's are the ones that could be a problem, we got to many for comfort, so please check the books logged, maybe you can spot something you have read, or maybe could chose something in there for your next read.

We've knocked down just two color cards, I have two almost done, but I don't see that many in progress on the log.

Kamaria wrote: "Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I'll be slow on my updates since both signal and WiFi are getting terrible in my area with all the bombings happening.
I'll be done with the book I'm readi..."

Hello Kamaria.

Sorry to hear that, I hope you and your loved ones are OK. Is it happening near your?

I guess a few of us have a little slow start, but well, we'll do our best and enjoy the game, that's the point after all.

I will post an update in a few minutes so we can see where we're at.

Yes to everything said by Tara. If we have in the log all the possible cards for each book, this helps us to move things around to fill every hand. Sometimes we decide to put a book in a card at the beginning, but maybe, specially at the end, we need to move them to accommodate books read by mood readers, or last minute reads that can be squished in. I try to leave at the end the easier cards (the 0, 2, 3), but it happens that a last minute book doesn't fit any of those.

Hello everyone!

It seems the team is complete, yay!

I'm glad everybody is on board. For edit authorization to our log spreadsheet please send me your email address or request access to edit within the file.

Here's the countdown:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

For the readers that like to plan, we can start logging to check specially if color cards are being taking care of. I prefer to be chill about who reads what, but I logged three color cards, so take that in mind, even though we have three WD4 anyways.

I'll be doing weekly updates on the cards status, probably on Fridays or Saturdays. We all are veterans, so you know what we need to look for more vigilantly, those pesky 5's and 7's and the yellows and greens.

Please let us know of any suggestion you may have on how to handle this, and we will vote on any decision to be made. How that sounds?

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First round cards:

0 - 3
1 - 8
2 - 8
3 - 8
4 - 9
5 - 6
6 - 6
7 - 5
8 - 7
9 - 6
Skip - 2
Reverse - 10
Wild - 6
Wild Draw 4 - 3

Color cards:

1 Green
Skip Green

0 Yellow
4 Yellow
Skip Yellow

5 Red
9 Red
Skip Red

3 Blue
6 Blue
7 Blue
Skip Blue

Hello everyone!

I'm Veronica and I'll be your captain for this year UNO challenge. This is so much fun! It's my fourth time playing, third as captain. And don't worry rookies, we veterans are here to help out, feel free to ask anything.

I'll love to hear from you, maybe a little introduction about who you are and what you like (books, food, life).

I'm from Mexico, and I work with data so Excel is my passion, hehe. Nah my real passion is reading. I like to read almost anything, but I do prefer non-fiction, mostly science, history, and psychology. I do enjoy fiction like classics, sci-fi, thrillers, horror and historical fiction. I love music, playing the guitar and being at home with my family (husband, three kids and a dog).

Looking forward to playing UNO with you all!

Team Log:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

- To get access to this file please send me you email address so I can grant it.

- You only need to log your books in the first tab.

- The file in the first comment (team spreadsheet) is only for captains use.

- Make sure you activate the notifications for this thread.

The good news is that we've finished the main, good job everyone!

I just have one book left for the mini, a really short audio that I will finish today, no problem. I see a couple of unfinished books on Part II, but I guess there is no pressure on those.

I'll update the Official spreadsheet once I finish my mini book, and we'll see how we did.

It was a pleasure to play UNO with you all. Hope to see you around. And I wish you a really short reading hungover, hehe.

UNO finishes on Monday May 1, 2023 at 9am UTC time.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Spreadsheets need to be updated within 24 hours from the end of the challenge.

*** UPDATE ***

I'm amazed! You knocked down a pretty big chunk. 11 books to go for the main, 14 logged. We are gonna make it! Aren't we? 😬💪

Mini Part I: 4 books left.
Mini Part II: 6 books left.

Lets do this!

*** UPDATE ***

We are at 74%, 6 days to the end of the challenge. 30 books left, but only 19 on the log. So we need 11 more books to complete the main.

Only 8 Blue and 1 Green remain of the color cards.

8 more task to finish Part I of the mini (most are mine). 3 more books to finish for points on Part II.

Lets try to find some really short books (min 100 Pages) to finish the main. Don’t worry about which cards works for, only easy ones remain, I can rearrange them if needed.

We have a pixie that works for blue 4, we can use that.