Lexi’s Comments (group member since Dec 08, 2018)

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

New week, new question:

Q: What are the top 1-3 book(s) you are looking forward to that will be published in 2023?

Lexi wrote: "Q: What is your favorite book/series from childhood or as a young teenager?"

Answering my own quesiton and then I will get another one up for the new week,

I loved anything with dragons so The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons / Searching for Dragons / Calling on Dragons / Talking to Dragons was a favorite and the The Thief series is still a favorite with the third in the series being tied with Murderbot for favorite book ever.

Silje wrote: "It turns out the cover of my book is more 50/50 red and yellow, not sure it is red enough? "

I think it is neither red nor yellow once you account for the other colors.

Also, since everyone has checked in and we seem to come from a wide range of places, I thought some book questions might be fun.

Q: What is your favorite book/series from childhood or as a young teenager?

We have 2 Wild Draw 4 that need to duplicate a color card so we can use your yellow book there if you want

I am good with both being yellow.

I use Tineye more for percent than the color. If it says grey, I am fine with blue but if it says 40% then I won't say it is 50%

Yellow tends to be the hardest cover color and then red/green. Blue never seems to be as much of an issue.

I fixed the spreadsheet. Everyone should be able to edit now.

Welcome everyone, I am back from my conference and glad to meet everyone so far.

Here is the planning sheet if anyone wants to claim color cards or do general planning: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Hi all, My name is Lexi (she/her/hers). I live in Northern Indiana (EST), and am in the 2nd year of my postdoc. I especially enjoy reading fantasy and sci-fi, and am trying to read authors from a wider range of countries. I have played and captained UNO before. I am currently getting my continuing education credits at a conference and off to lecture on diseases in free ranging and captive alligators that starts in three minutes.

Welcome to UNO and Team Lilac-breasted Roller.

Please introduce yourself (include your preferred pronouns), and if you have played UNO before. To get us started what are 3-5 books that you recommend to team mates. I'll start with Murderbot (the first books is All Systems Red) (I will recommend this series to complete strangers), The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet series, and the Penric's Demon series – I am doing a reread on audio right now before UNO starts.

Also, just a reminder that all books must be started after UNO starts, so you have about two weeks to finish anything you already started and read.

Please feel free to ask any question now and throughout. You can ask here in the thread or message me. I will add some books to the planning spreadsheet as an example once I get that set up in the next day or two.

Mini Challenges
To be added as they are known

Our Team Planning Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Using the Planning Sheet
1. You can add books to the SS that you plan to read or after you read them
2. Please mark the book date you finished the book and ADD it to your UNO shelf
3. Please mark all options so captians can move books arond as needed
4. I will mark colored cover books as they are claimed (above)

February Cards

 
Card		Number Needed

TBA

Welcome to Team Lilac-breasted Roller

RULES
Here
Books must be more than 100 pages in length.

Children's books, Graphic Novels, Manga, Cook Books, Plays and Poetry books can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com (also arbookfind.co.uk and arbookfind.com.au) or more than 3 hours of audio using a reputable website (e.g. Audible, Overdrive)

Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count. The challenge starts on Wednesday February 1, 2023 at 9am UTC time. To see when this starts, click here: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Color Covers
The general agreement on colors:
1. Use your eyes and common sense
2. You can use Tineye to verify if it's over 50% (link: https://labs.tineye.com/color/)
3. When in doubt, ask here in the thread and not in the general chat. Captains can take it to the captain's group as a final say if needed.

Melindam wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I loved the Goblin Emperor."

Me too. It's been a favourite book of mine ever since I read it first and I reread it every year. Or relisten to it. The audiobook narrator is really g..."

I just downloaded the audiobook from the library after reading this. I have 12 hours of travel tomorrow (most by train or bus) and needed an audiobook.

Sammy wrote: "And I recently read Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the first time, which I would have adored as a kid."

That movie terrified me as a child. It is up there with "All Dogs go to Heaven" as deeply scarring.

Melindam wrote: "I will have to read The Thief eventually. :)"

The first is much younger than the others, and many people like it least, so I would highly recommend giving the second a try even if you are on the fence with the first one. I think the third one is the best.

Cat, The Thief was likely me. I try to get entirely random people to read it and I may finally convince my mother to read it this year.

📘 My earliest reading memory
Of a non-picture book, and were both series I loved in first grade
📗 My favourite book growing up

📒 The book that changed me as a teenager
- I lost vision in high school for about three months and audio books back then were tapes mostly at my library and generally not great. This was the first book I read again (as a reread) when I could see enough to try
📕 The book I came back to
- 2nd try on the series
📘The book I could never read again
Usu this is discovering children's book are incredibly racist, antisemitic, sexist etc.
📗 The book I discovered later in life
- only after college
📒The book I am currently reading
and

📕 My comfort read
and

Great job, everyone. We came in 8th (which is entirely dependent on the card randomizer as we read every card). Great job again, and I'm sure I'll see some of you in other challenges.