Shan ~A~’s
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(group member since Jan 07, 2022)
Shan ~A~’s
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Judith wrote: "Shan,When you get a chance, can you add Sable Peak to your UNO shelf?
Thank you!"
Will do. Thanks!
Funnily, I was sitting here thinking, how do they know I read Yellowface. I'm so smart 🤦🏽♀️😂
Judith wrote: "Shan,how did you like Yellowface? I've been meaning to read that one. Would you recommend?"
Overall I thought it was a good book. I didn't like the characters, but I don't think you're really supposed to.
My review if you're interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nanci wrote: "Great goals, Shan! Glad that you selected UNO as one of your selective challenges!"Thank you, Nancy!! I haven't held up to any of those things🤣, but I love UNO.
These are the things I always tell myself:I'm going to reread a few favorite series this year
I'm going to finish some of the series that I started
I'm going to finish series that I started, but got stalled on by going to the beginning and rereading to refresh my memory
I'm going to read a new to me genre or one that I don't read as much
I'm finally going to complete a 50 states challenge
I'm going to read at least one book in my favorite categories that were nominated for GR awards
I'm going to update my individual challenges more often
I'm going to be more selective or not join as many challenges this year
I'm going to read more books, or delete, that have been on my GR TBR for a while
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Jen I'm on the same page as you with being a mood reader, so it's hard for me to plan ahead also. It's why I only added one book to the SS because who knows what I'll be reading by the time the challenge starts.
@Melanie I ended up watching it with my daughters. I wasn't sure if I would like it but ended up falling in love with the characters.
Hi all! I'm Shan and I'm not quite sure how many times I've participated in UNO, but I'm definitely not a virgin. Thank you, Judith and Nanci, for steering our ship.
I'm from Louisiana, where we're actually getting very rare snowfall. I'm married, this year will make 23 years, and we have 4 children, 18-28, so this year will be the year that we become empty nesters until some weekends and college breaks. I also have 4 grandkids (all from my oldest which includes a set of twins) and I have to mention my nephews and niece that also include a set of twins. My sister and my son both have 3 boys and a girl. Her set of twins are the two oldest, and his set is the two youngest.
I told them they must be in a race (they were either trying to catch up with me or they're trying to surpass me 🤣)
As to reading, I mainly read romance, but I will definitely throw in mystery/thriller/suspense, horror, biographies/memoirs, young adult (mainly fantasy), urban fantasy, and a few others.
Definitely agree with overlooking GR improvements to commune with likeminded people.
Phœbe wrote: "Hi everyone,I’m Phoebe, 24 and relatively new to Goodreads and the group.
This will be my first challenge and I’m looking forward to share the experience with other readers (also to tackle my *m..."
Hi Phoebe. None of my local friends read at all. The only people in my life that do happen to be my daughters and a coworker (and my boss' wife). One of my daughters is into romance novels, but she's still in college and doesn't get to read for pleasure as much, plus she doesn't really talk books. My oldest is an eclectic reader, but she and I tend to discuss books all the time even if it's something that the other doesn't necessarily like. My youngest likes YA, but she has to be in the mood, since she has to do a ton of reading for her English class that she's taking in HS. She's getting ready to graduate and then college, so it may be a while before she's in the reading for fun mood again. 🤣
My mom always says she doesn't know where my love of reading comes from, since I'm the only one out of all of her siblings and their kids that loves to read and have done so since I was a kid.
It's been a running joke in my family since I was a kid that if you're looking for me, I'm probably somewhere with some milk and cookies reading a book. 😂
That still holds true.
I probably shouldn't have started reading everyone's posts. Now I'm like, "Oh yeah, I forgot about that", so my list of books I want to read in 2024 is getting longer. 🤣
Sharon wrote: "Oh I'm so glad I didn't miss sign-ups! I love starting off the new year with a team challenge.📕 Name: Sharon
📕 Team Challenge experience: I feel like I'm an old hand at challenges now - UNO, Whe..."
Good luck decluttering your TBR. I plan this every year and fail, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Name: ErinTeam challenge experience: lots of them
Uno before: once, years ago, don't remember it fully
Favorite genres: urban Fantasy, horror, mysteries
Book you can't to read in 2024 - Not sure yet!"
Not sure yet is what I probably should have said.
Kat, I have read a few by Kendall Ryan and I have a few on my TBR that I haven't gotten to yet. I'll be adding The Two Week Arrangement because two of my faves are narrating.
📕 Name: Shan ~ A (really just Shan, added the ~ A after someone with the same name joined a group I was in so everyone could tell us apart)📕 Team Challenge experience: Tons of experience. They actually really help with my yearly reading goal since I tend to read a bit more than usual while participating in the competitive ones.
📕 Have you joined UNO before? Yes, but I'm not sure when I started. I just know that it's one of the ones I look forward to
📕 Favourite genres: Mainly romance, but I read or will read urban fantasy, mystery/thriller/suspense, bio/memoir, horror, sci-fi, historical, young adult (mainly fantasy)... I guess the one thing I really don't read is Westerns (unless it's a romance set in the west or western themes (cowboy, etc..) ~ this year hoping to branch out into True Crime
📕 Book you can't wait to read in 2024: I've preordered so many that I can't keep them straight, but Karen Marie Moning has a new book coming out later this year The House on Watch Hill (no cover yet) that I'm looking forward to a lot. I've read all of her books (finally finished the Fever series in December after doing a reread throughout 2023) to date. I may start all over again as I have done in the past with The Highlander series. I'm also looking forward to rereading The Rock Chick series by Kristen Ashley at some point this year and the rest of her books that I haven't gotten to yet. I just auto buy them and then get behind.
Other books: Completing the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs and her Alpha & Omega series; The Choice by Nora Roberts (several by her actually); Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett; Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (others by her as well) and more
Author's I'm looking forward to reading (either I own several or they're in KU and I didn't read them much or at all in 2023): Kennedy Ryan, Vi Keeland, Dylan Allen, Brittiany C. Cherry, Mia Sheridan, Riley Sager, Devney Perry, Sarina Bowen and the list goes on.
I'm also planning to read more diverse books this year and maybe a little out of my comfort zone to see if I can surprise myself.
I should have just said, Too Many!!!
ZODIAC ChallengeJan 1st - Dec 31st 2024
Progress: 0/30
TASK LIST:
1. Read a book with stars on the cover
2. Read a book with a planet or planets on the cover
3. Read a book with the sun on the cover
4. Read a book with the moon on the cover
5. Read a book with a house on the cover
6. Read a book with an imagery on the cover related to one of the 4 seasons
7. Read a book with the letters O*R*B*I*T in title and/or series title and/or author's name (any order)
8. Read a book with the letters P*L*A*N*E*T in title and/or series title and/or author's name (any order)
9. Read a book with the word "ZODIAC" in title or series title or in text
10. Read a book with the word "HOROSCOPE(S)" in text
11. Read a book where you can find at least 2 of the following words (elements) in the text "air", "earth", "fire", "water"
12. Read a book with 1 & 2 in the page number (any order)
13. Read a book where the publication date contains 12 (can be year, month or day, any of the publication dates count even if it isn't your edition)
14. Read a book from a series that has at least 12 instalments
15. Read a book by an author who published at least 12 books
16. Read a book from the shelf gods
17. Read a book from the shelf Astronomy
18. Read a book from the shelf Future
19. Read a book where there is a change of seasons
20. Read a book with a character who is very active and/or forceful
21. Read a book with a character who is inflexible or dislikes change
22. Read a book with a character who can be considered resourceful
23. Read a book where a character has some kind of elemental magic
24. Read a book where one of the major characters is some kind of ruler
25. Read a book where a character is under the influence of another
26. Read a book with a fortune teller or a character who foretells some kind of future event
27. Read a book featuring interstellar travel
28. Read a book set in one of the countries found on the Northern Hemisphere
29. Read a book with the author's initials from the word TELESCOPE
30. Read a book where the title starts with a letter from the word ASTROLOGY
2024 POPSUGAR Reading ChallengeProgress: 0/50
TASK LIST
[] A book with the word "leap" in the title
[] A bildungsroman book
[] A book about a 24-year-old
[] A book about a writer
[] A book about K-pop
[] A book about pirates
[] A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
[] A book by a blind or visually impaired author
[] A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author
[] A book by a self-published author
[] A book from a genre you typically avoid
[] A book from an animal's POV
[] A book originally published under a pen name
[] A book recommended by a bookseller
[] A book recommended by a librarian
[] A book set 24 years before you were born
[] A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
[] A book set in space
[] A book set in the future
[] A book set in the snow
[] A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"
[] A book that centres on video games
[] A book that features dragons
[] A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours
[] A book that was published 24 years ago (2000)
[] A book that was turned into a musical
[] A book where someone dies in the first chapter
[] A book with a main character who's 42 years old
[] A book with a neurodivergent main character
[] A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
[] A book with a title that is a complete sentence
[] A book with an enemies to lovers plot
[] A book with an unreliable narrator
[] A book with at least 3 POVs
[] A book with magical realism
[] A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
[] A book written during NaNoWriMo
[] A cosy fantasy book
[] A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
[] A horror book by a BIPOC author
[] A memoir that explores queerness
[] A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
[] A second-chance romance
[] An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll
[] An LGBTQ+ romance novel
Advanced
[] A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours
[] A book with 24 letters in the title
[] A collection of at least 24 poems
[] The 24th book of an author
[] A book that starts with the letter "X"
"HOME IS WHERE OUR STORY BEGINS" ChallengeDuration: 09/09/2023 - 09/08/2023
Tracking in SS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
◈ Books for tasks can be finished in any order
LIST OF TASKS
◈ Build your house
1. Read a book with a building on the cover (can be part of a building or a small one, as long as it's clearly a building)
2. Read a book with (a) muscular man/men on the cover
3. Read a book with a character who is very rich
4. Read a book where a place (house, flat, office, barn etc.) gets renovated or built
5. Read a book with any cargo transport vehicle word in the text (cart, lorry, van, truck etc., plural form is accepted.)
6. Read a book with the letters B*U*I*L*D*E*R in the title (subtitle can be used as well)
◈ Interior Design
7. Read a book with a room interior on the cover (view spoiler)
8. Read a book where a character is painting or decorating something
9. Read a book with at least 4 different colours on the cover (percentage does not matter, letters of the title/author count as well)
10. Read a book with two of the five Feng Shui elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) in the text (plural form accepted).
For tasks 11-16, every piece of decor or furniture can be used only once. (view spoiler)
11. Read a book with some kind of furniture or decor piece on cover or the word in the text
12. Read a book with some kind of furniture or decor piece on cover or the word in the text
13. Read a book with some kind of furniture or decor piece on cover or the word in the text
14. Read a book with some kind of furniture or decor piece on cover or the word in the text
15. Read a book with some kind of furniture or decor piece on cover or the word in the text
16. Read a book with some kind of furniture or decor piece on cover or the word in the text
◈ Garden and Terrain
17. Read a book with a geographical place name in the title or series title (e.g.: valley, creek, river, mountain, sea, desert, etc.)
18. Read a book with one of the 4 cardinal directions or their sub directions in the text (the adjectives are also accepted: North, Northern, Northwest(ern), etc.).
19. Read a book with the letters G*A*R*D*E*N in the title (subtitle can be used as well)
21. Read a book with a flower(s) on the cover OR from this list - Flowers on cover
(You can read any edition of the books listed, as long as they meet the usual page/length requirements. If the book listed is part of a series, it can be substituted with any other book from the same series.)
22. Read a book with any word related to the weather in the title or series title (any form is accepted, e.g.: rain(s), rainy, raining, etc.)
23. Read a book from this list - Doors, Portals, Gates
(You can read any edition of the books listed, as long as they meet the usual page/ length requirements. If the book listed is part of a series, it can be substituted with any other book from the same series.)
24. Read a book with some kind of road or stairs on the cover (view spoiler)
◈ Home and Dry
25. Read a book with the title or series title containing a word of address (e.g.: avenue, alley, road, street, lane, close, square, park, etc)
26. Read a book with a number in the title (any format is accepted) (view spoiler)
27. Read a book with a character who has a pet(s)
28. Read a book where both the words "home" and "library" can be found in the text
29. Read a book with a character who is moving to another place (can be just moving house or to a different geographic location)
30. Read a book shelved as "locked-room" (1 tag is enough)
locked room shelf
31. Read a book where a character visits their neighbours
32. Read a book with a happy ending
For tasks 33-40, you can choose either "A" or "B" setting to complete, or both, if you prefer.
You can use any aspect of your book (title, cover, plot, setting, places, characters, activities...) to cover tasks 35-40. Every aspect can be used only once, but feel free to be creative. (view spoiler)
◈ "A" Setting - Choose your own habitat - "I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep"
A33. Read a book from this list - Cities
(You can read any edition of the books listed, as long as they meet the usual page/ length requirements. If the book listed is part of a series, it can be substituted with any other book from the same series.)
A34. Read a book with MPG Urban Fantasy
A35. Read a book that connects some way to life in a big city: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have in your imaginary city
A36. Read a book that connects some way to life in a big city: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have in your imaginary city
A37. Read a book that connects some way to life in a big city: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have in your imaginary city
A38. Read a book that connects some way to life in a big city: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have in your imaginary city
A39. Read a book that connects some way to life in a big city: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have in your imaginary city
A40. Read a book that connects some way to life in a big city: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have in your imaginary city
◈ "B" Setting - Choose your own habitat - "Small towns and big dreams"
B33. Read a book from this list - Small Towns
(You can read any edition of the books listed, as long as they meet the usual page/ length requirements. If the book listed is part of a series, it can be substituted with any other book from the same series.)
B34. Read a book with MPG Mystery
B35. Read a book that connects some way to life in a small town or village: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have at your imaginary settlement
B36. Read a book that connects some way to life in a small town or village: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have at your imaginary settlement
B37. Read a book that connects some way to life in a small town or village: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have at your imaginary settlement
B38.Read a book that connects some way to life in a small town or village: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have at your imaginary settlement
B39.Read a book that connects some way to life in a small town or village: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have at your imaginary settlement
B40. Read a book that connects some way to life in a small town or village: places, activities, institutions, etc. or what you would like to have at your imaginary settlement
completed and posted to ss
