Lisa’s Comments (group member since Dec 27, 2020)

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

Finding books for the color cards (or mini challenges) is one of my favorite parts of UNO! Here's a list of the color cards we'll need in February:
🟥 2 Red
🟥 3 Red
🟥 5 Red
🟦 3 Blue
🟦 5 Blue
🟦 7 Blue
🟩 4 Green
🟩 9 Green

Going through my TBR, I could easily do
Funny Story - 3 Blue (ALN = Henry),
The Wake-Up Call - 5 Blue (CFN = Izzy),
or The Final Gambit - 3 Red (3rd in series).
I'm not wed to any of these books yet, though, so if anyone else has their eye on one of these color cards for a book they want to read, feel free to claim it. Plus we have four wild draw four cards, which means we'll need to repeat four of the color cards as well. Next week I'll have a little more time to look for books that work for the other cards and I'll plan on claiming something that's still open then.

Hello Everyone, I'm Lisa your co-captain for this year's UNO challenge! I think it is my fourth year playing UNO and second year co-captaining. I am excited for the game to start and to meet all of you.

I live in Ohio (USA) and have two cats. Besides reading, I like to quilt and cross stitch. I work night shift, so my sleep schedule is a bit messed up and you may find me on goodreads at any time of the day.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Congratulations! Thank you also to the mods for this fun reading competition - I know it is a lot of work and it is appreciated!

Housekeeping Post

My last post has probably been buried by now, so I'm not sure you saw it Trio - below is what I need from you currently.

Please add finish dates to Fen and Making it So; please add start and finish dates to Raven, part 2.

Thank you!

I finished my last book this morning! I just updated the spreadsheet with the data.

I haven't done a good job at completion posts this month, so I'll do one large one now :)

I Am Not a Serial Killer - I gave it four stars. Definitely YA (told from point of a 15 year old male). Definitely went in a direction I wasn't expecting! I'm looking forward to the next one in series.

One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns - both five stars, also YA but I enjoyed the unique magic system and dark, gothic vibes.

Vicious - five stars, I also loved this one, possibly because it was so much different than I expected again. The second in the series is waiting at the library for me on my hold shelf

Garden Spells - thank you Cris for recommending this one! I gave it four stars - it felt like a Hallmark movie! I need to get the second one so I can read her sister's story.

Thank you all for a fun quarter of UNO. It sounds like I'll see many (all?) of you at Book Games in a couple of weeks.

Housekeeping Post

Ashley can you add Crown of Midnight to your UNO shelf?

Cris can you add How to Solve Your Own Murder to your UNO shelf?

Trio can you add a finish date to Fen?

Thanks everyone!

Andy wrote: "added one for mini task 46 - Read a book with a plot (trope / plot device / action / occurrence, etc.) that can be connected with your team villain
also covers the '9' task for the main

I think th..."

I think that works for plot device/occurrence, Andy...hopefully everyone else will agree too.

I am listening to Down Among the Sticks and Bones as it has a vampire in it and therefore will work for task #48. It is a re-read for me, plus it is a novella, so it should go quick (and I'll be able to re-start this series which I've wanted to do as I never got past book 2 in the past).

Then I'm debating if I should finish The Familiar or instead read I Am Not a Serial Killer which will get us the Red 5 card? I can only do one; both fill the same task on the mini sheet. But abandoning The Familiar will mean we have a 4 card open.

Does anyone want to read ?
It would work for our Red 5 card.
I've checked it out from the library, but I don't know that I will have time to read it before the end of the month.

I'm not sure where we could put it in the mini - but maybe task #11? That would mean I'd need to find a new spot for The Familiar, which might possibly be 46 or 48 as it has been shelved "vampire" 11 times and Spike is a vampire....but I'm not far enough along in that book to know for sure.

Lisa wrote: "Trio wrote: "Team - I need help assigning this book - I know it would fit in the MINI challenge:

The Dragon's Tale

I'm sure it would work for #48 but I'm not familiar with all tho..."

Trio - we're too late! Cris has already filled the slot regarding other team's villain - which is great because it is a bit of a difficult prompt I think.

Also, I realized my book Two Twisted Crowns has a fair amount of poetry in it - one of the characters is often speaking in verse/is a poet, and since Spike is described as a (bad) poet it would work for prompt 48. But then we'd need something to fill that slot (something tagged romantic suspense or gothic romance).

Trio wrote: "Team - I need help assigning this book - I know it would fit in the MINI challenge:

The Dragon's Tale

I'm sure it would work for #48 but I'm not familiar with all those other team..."

Do any of the characters in your book share any traits with count adhemar? He seems to come from the same period in time so I thought might be most likely.

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Coun...

I'm also not familiar with most of these villains, so I have been googling them. My current book has someone who traveled through a portal so I was trying to figure out if any of the other teams villains were also portal travelers, but I don't think they are....if anyone knows otherwise, let me know!

Ashley wrote: "Ok, Sunday update! Just 2 Days : 17 Hours left in the challenge! Here is what we have left to read... let us know ASAP if you won't finish something you've claimed!


Unclaimed Cards

5 Red
0
5
7..."


I claimed "dark fantasy" on the mini and am doing a reread of Every Heart a Doorway. I put it under 8 on the main spreadsheet, but it would also work for 9.

Andy wrote: "just looking at latest haul from library - nothing else approaching green for me for remainder
anyone good for green 5, 8 or Skip?"

I think I have Green 8 covered - Garden Spells was recommended by Cris at the beginning of UNO and I've had it checked out since then. It is green and has a "sinful" apple on the cover! And according to goodreads has two characters whose names start with an E.

Andy wrote: "more in hope than expectation

does this look greenish to anyone else?
"

I'd say it is more gray than green...but it is a very good book so you should still read it! ;)

Cris (The Biblio Blonde) wrote: "What do we think of this book? Blue or Green? Tin Eye says 50% blue, but it looks green to me.

Using for the mini and I was wondering if I could fill one of the green color cards left as well.

[b..."

To me it looks blue too....

I think it works Andy. The description says it is a book of short stories plus two poems. It meets the page requirement of >100 pages. And it is yellow! Ashley - do you see any problems with it?

Which book is it Andy?

Housekeeping Post

I'm not finding the following books on your UNO shelves; please add them when you have a chance. Thank you!

Ashley - The Shadows Between Us
Andy - Making it So
Cris - Finding Margaret Fuller

Ashley - I was looking for a book for task #50:

"Read a book that one of the other teams are reading/have read for any of the tasks under 1-45"

And found that a book you're planning on reading fits - Listen for the Lie. I put it in that slot (at least temporarily) for you as I didn't see it anywhere else on the mini.

megan wrote: "Lisa wrote: "megan wrote: "
I'm reading this for a red cover. Can it count as a siniste..."

I heard more back in the captain's group and learned that task is purely based on color - so I was overthinking it. They said black, gray, red, green, purple, orange could all be sinister/sinful. So any of our red covered books will work! It's a much easier task than I thought. If you find another task it fits that's open, make sure to make a note as we have several red covers left for claiming yet.

Completion Post
Cutting for Stone
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I enjoyed this story, although it was slow moving which might not have been best for an UNO month!