Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~’s Comments (group member since Mar 19, 2019)

Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

Grab your wands and move those butter beers aside, Team Grindelwald's Grim & Tonic's have entered the Three Broomsticks: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hi everyone and welcome to UNO 2024 - Team Grindelwald!

I'm Gem and I'm your captain. I live in the UK and am an avid reader of a variety of genres but my favourites are thrillers, mysteries and horror.
This will be my 5th UNO and its by far the best challenge! For those of you who are new to the game, its very easy to pick up and those of us who have played before can help you in any way you need. The main thing is to have FUN!

So please introduce yourselves; what's your favourite genres? What's the books you recommend to absolutely everyone? And do you have any Red, Blue, Yellow or Green covers you're hoping to get to in this challenge?

I love were in a Harry Potter related team, my sister Klare will confirm I've been obsessed for a very long time.

The books I recommend to you are:

And I really like a spreadsheet so here's a link to my coloured covers I could use for the challenge: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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Team Grindelwald's Recommended Reads:

Rules
This is a 3 month team challenge starting 1 February 2024

◈ At the end of the challenge 30 April 2024 the team with the most points wins!

◈ At the start of each month each team is given a minimum 14 hands of 7 "UNO" cards

◈ The idea is to "play" each hand for points. It is up to the team how many "hands" they can get through in the month, but they must play one hand completely before being able to get points for the next

◈ The team can choose to skip an entire hand to get to the next one, but they are not given a replacement hand. (You can only skip one hand in a month)

◈ For book titles starting with an article (A/An/The), the article can be ignored or used. So The Hiding Place, for example, could be used as title starting with T or H

◈ Re-reads are ok provided it has been more than 6 months since last read

◈Word Count Verification: https://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx
Books must be more than 100 pages in length
(Children's books, Graphic Novels, Manga, Cook Books, Plays and Poetry cannot be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com or more than 3 hours of audio using a reputable website (e.g. audible, overdrive)

◈For coloured cards, the cover needs to be 50% or more of the colour. If in doubt, ask your captains as we can check it and/or take to the captains group for another opinion. Here are some suggestions: (remember that you have to read the specific edition)

◈ Note: it is up to the teams how they divide up the cards to read across the team players. Just remember, you can only get points if a hand is completed, and in order.
So, if you complete all of hand 1, some of hand 2, and all of hand 3, you will only get points for hand 1 and the books read of hand 2.

0-Z | 1-O | 2-T | 3-H | 4-F | 5-I | 6-S | 7-V | 8-E | 9-N | skip-K or P Letters - Name of book (OK to discard articles), FN or LN of Author, or characters (NN - nicknames OK, no titles), Location (needs to be obvious)

REV=read a book that a teammate has read
Wild=duplicate a card in that hand
Wild Draw 4=duplicate any color card
Draw 2=use the same book for two cards in a hand
Color=book cover has specified color and book meets specified number criteria.


COUNTDOWN
Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count.

The challenge starts on Thursday February 1, 2024 at 9am UTC time. To see when this starts, use this : https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Spreadsheets

TRACKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
- please use this to track your current reads

OUR OFFICIAL SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
- this is only editable by myself and Hailey, please do not ask for access!

CURRENT TEAM RANKINGS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Shelves

❅ Gem = Uno 2024
❅ Hailey = Uno 2024
❅ Rosina = 2024 Uno
❅ Kelly = Uno 2024
❅ Liza = Uno 24
❅ Klare = 2024 Uno
❅ MelanieJoy = Uno 2024
❅ Lorii = Uno
❅ Rachael = Uno 24
❅ Dominique = Uno Shelf
❅ Alejandra = Uno 2024
❅ Laila Jane = Uno 2024

◈ Your finished books need to be on your Uno shelf AND marked as "read" for them to count. I will send out reminders if you forget.

I started my spreadsheet the end of 2022, and it grows with my reading style. That being said I’ve only just this week finished cataloging all the books I own and previously read. 1400 books takes a lot of time to add in. But so glad I did :)

Thought id share my spreadsheet too:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Ive read The Castaways today 5*, and it was set in Fiji, so I took the asia square :)

Congrats!!! Had a blast as always!! Thanks mods <3

Well done everyone. We earned every single point we possibly could in this challenge. So although we didn’t win (luck of the cards) we absolutely smashed it!! Thank you all for a super enjoyable 3 months! Those of you playing TTX, see you there and good luck!!

Does anyone have a book read that covers spring? I will finish my book tomorrow but I’m not getting spring vibes from it yet. I searched the ebook for spring and it comes up 12 times so thought I was safe but I’m not quite sure?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Insiyah, as you finish yours please can you add all 3 Rick Riordans to your UNO shelf? Ill only have my piddly little laptop over the weekend and its harder to check so just brining it up now so I dont forget :) THANK YOUUUU

Laura wrote: "Andrea wrote: "If Robin or anyone else wants to take over mine on the mini for Grey, White or Red cover please do. I am still going to try my best to finish Meredith, Alone in time but it’s going t..."

Yep, weve got no empty tasks unless someone drops out of theirs. I'll be sure to keep an eye on things over the weekend but as it stands were so very nearly there!!

Also Meredith, Alone was a fantastic book. I buddy read it with a friend who’s agoraphobic and it was really insightful

No problem, I’ve removed it. I’ve taken the spring one, so we just need a sarcastic character and also something to cover red lipped bat fish, so either white, red or grey cover, or can do lips or legs on the cover, a rare book (less than 1000 ratings), features someone who lured someone in…lots of possibilities

I don’t think we have a librarian on the team. There’s a group called goodreads librarians where you can request editions and amendments. I’m not entirely sure how it works anymore. I can go to the kids if we’re having issues

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Insiyah wrote: "Robin, you're amazing!!!"

🥰 Thanks!!! Naw, not really. I probably have more time on my hands than most of us. I'm mainly at home--it's just me and my mom here--and we are home bodi..."

I dont think you need to get a life, you are LIVING THE DREAM!

Ingeborg wrote: "I can take the tyrant task! Reading (well, listening to) for the main challenge, and there's a tyrant in that one.
Should I just go an switch out the ..."

Oh wonderful,
yes please I have removed Pixies