Apoorv ’s Comments (group member since Nov 23, 2013)

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

Anne and Robynne - great selections!! Love the enthusiasm! Isn't it amazing finding books with all these little things - I love challenges like this. :)

Edit: I have added your selections on the tracking spreadsheet, Both of you should be set for now! :)

Robynne wrote: "There are 40 tasks - do we (as a team) have to do ALL of these tasks and read all of these books?

The Mini Challenge is optional. But, it is always far more fun and exciting to do it. Plus extra points - only way to win this thing. Haha.
So, yes, we will collective as a team do these tasks. The good thing is, all the mini challenge books count for UNO books - so we don't have to read anything extra, Yaay!

Thanks for your feedback on choosing cities.
We also have to connect all our books to the tasks in the A setting, if we chose that, especially tasks 35-40! That would take some teamwork and we will be working together to come up with our own city.

FEBRUARY MINI CHALLENGE IS HERE!!

Head on over here for more details!!

I will get our tracking sheet set up later today.
Time to start thinking of our fancy house! :D

Update

How do you define home?
Think about it! ;=)

Vicki wrote: "Apoorv wrote: "Vicki wrote: "FYI I am back from my birthday vacation. We were gone for almost two weeks and really enjoyed ourselves. Family from Arizona surprised me so I got to see 3 of my grandc..."

Vicki, I needed a spreadsheet to keep all the names and kids in order. How do you manage? Haha! :P

P.S. Jay sounds like such a goofball. Cute indeed! And hey he thought you were broken but 5 years old, I would take that bargain! Haha! :P

Carrie wrote: "Completion Post:

Book:Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Pages: 302
Date Read: 2/7/2022

I read this too, yaay! :D
To that point, if any of you find someone else in the team reading the same book you have also read, drop in a word - that accounts for a Reverse card and we wouldn't want to miss it.

Vicki wrote: "FYI I am back from my birthday vacation. We were gone for almost two weeks and really enjoyed ourselves. Family from Arizona surprised me so I got to see 3 of my grandchildren (adults) and 3 of my ..."

Glad you had a super duper vacation. Always fun to hear your grandkid stories - but do take the necessary precaution for CoViD. Hope it fizzes off soon and you get to be out and about soon.

Vicki wrote: "Captain O' Captain and Co-cap, do I mark the box on the SS for books being on my UNO shelf because I don't see anyone doing that. Did you want us to leave it for the two of you to check off? "

Either way works. I will be checking the UNO shelves anyway, but if it is serves as reminder for you to add it to the UNO shelf and then check it off, go for it.

Also, if we are adding our books to the SS, do you also want them posted in this thread?

Fine if you don't. As long as it has all the information at atleast one location, I should be good to take it from there.

The fun thing about this challenge is that we don't necessary have to plan too much, because almost all books tend to work for this challenge, and the chances of finding atleast one of these letters across titles, author names, characters, setting is higher than not.

So, the biggest help, as I have mentioned earlier and as all of us are doing diligently so far, is to keep adding any relevant details to our spreadsheet. I can work on moving around books to fit the comparatively difficult letters after that (also something that I really love doing. hehe!)

Val wrote: "Hey guys - are we okay on all of our prompts for this month? are there any certain letters/colors that we still need to work on?"

We are doing fine so far. F, I, V are the tougher to find letters generally, so if your read book has anything that fulfills that, definitely mention that.

Color-wise, luckily we are only looking at two colors this month - but that means more green books!

Just a quick reminder that if you're not making a completion post here, please ensure that there is a completion date on the tracking spreadsheet (Column D) and add the book to your respective shelf, so that it gets counted.

Gwen wrote: "bamaace83 wrote: "Quick question about the spreadsheet. I marked my books read on the February tab but do I also fill out the February read tab? "

No, I think Apoorv moves it there when a book is ..."

This is why we have a wonderful co-captain. :)
People make sure all the questions are directed to Gwen - you'd get the right answers! Thanks, Gwen! :D

Stay safe everyone who is in the throws of the storm.
We had one of the biggest in the history snowstorm this past weekend here in Boston (around 24-26 inches of snow), so I totally hear you.

Hopefully the power stays on, the internet stays on and you are indoors and safe.

Thanks everybody for being so due-diligent with your completion posts and keeping the spreadsheet updated with your reads. It definitely smoothens the process out. We are doing great so far! :D

WE ARE JUST HOURS AWAY FROM THE START OF THE CHALLENGE!!

Thank you all of being so excited.
This excitement is definitely communicable and I can wait for the clock to turn over.

Do take a quick peak at the initial posts incase you need a refresher as to what you would need to do before and after you finish a book.

Also, quick request, if something comes up and you have to attend to that in real life, please if possible drop in a line here or send me a message, so that you are accounted for.

But more importantly, ENJOY every bit of this fun challenge. I'm sure we will end up with a lot of happy moments and some new cool new books added to our TBRs.

LET'S DO THIS!! :D

Val wrote: "Apoorv wrote: "Ok- wanted to make sure I was reading it correctly❤️"

Nope, you are absolutely right!
We have 5 green and 3 yellow cards this time.

Val wrote: "It seems like we didn’t get many colors this round…"

We did not! And I am sure if that is a good or a bad thing. Haha! :)

Anne wrote: "Apoorv,
I am still having trouble with the spreadsheet and so I would like to take you up on your offer of listing my reads in this thread. I could put them all in one post and update it whenever I..."

Anne, that is fine.
Just a quick request for you to make a new post every time you finish a book. That way the chance of me missing the book is slim and every read book gets accounted for.

Also, please detail out everything that would fit a UNO alphabet if your book has it. The alphabets to be on the lookout for are E, F, H, I, K, N, O, P, S, T, V, Z.

Anne wrote: "Apoorv,
I am sorry that I am not very familiar with the spreadsheet, so if I put things in wrong, I apologize.
For instance, the first 2 titles I put in came out highlighted and underlined, the th..."

Hey Anne, no need to apologize at all. We are all learning. :)
Robynne wonderfully explained how to do it, and honestly, if you are having any trouble and prefer to just mention everything in a message here, that would be fine. I can transfer over the information onto the spreadsheet.

The only reason I prefer everyone doing it there is that it is live and you can update things as you read instead of having to type in multiple messages here where some might get lost in the mix.

But, feel free to chose whichever option makes it easier for you.
I will be going through each book all of us posts before officially logging it in, so don't worry if something doesn't work out in the first go.

And the spreadsheet would not break so go ahead and play with it. If something does indeed goes wrong, it is not too complicated a formatting fix, so all good there.

Val wrote: "Can anyone help me figure out how I can get our group's conversation on notification rather than all of The Perks of Being a Book Addict??"

Val, go to the group home page. Under the title and description, there would be some called "Edit Membership". If you click on it and scroll all the way to the bottom and click on "edit group discussion updates" - you would be able to sort out your notifications. You can switch "all group discussions" to none for no notifications, and then switch on only the notifications for this message board, if you want.

Hope that helps. Drop in a word if you having any trouble with it.