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

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

Hey everyone, somewhat back in the land of the living! Hoping to finish up a handful of books before the end of the month so I can go into the challenge with a clean slate!
I’m going to be starting with a murder mystery that’s second in a series as it’s publish date is mid Feb and want to get my review done before release day!

Yeah sounds good, gives us somewhere to start

Yes we can, so if either of us are still reading for either dictionary or non fic, the other can start on the new set, we just can’t finish it. Will look see if anything I’m planning next week works for anything

Okay perfect. I asked in the q and a if we can start reading for the next set whilst we’re finishing up the books for the current.
Will see what the answer is

Can we start reading for the next set of tasks whilst completing the last book in the last set, if the book for the new set isn’t finished until after the book in the current set is.
Hope makes sense.

Klare dictionary is in Onyx Storm which came out on Tuesday. My copy is at home waiting for my arrival home later.
Are you happy to wait for me to finish it likely over the weekend or start of next week or have you found anything that fits that or Family MPG that we can shuffle around?

Tracking sheet updated to accommodate both types of format. Any issues please let me know

Oh this is a great idea Keri, thanks.
I’ll amend our spreadsheet and add in the additional columns so we can get a full breakdown of how it works for other cards. Thank you :)

Awesome, and just a reminder with this challenge, books can’t be started until the game starts

Thanks klare, will see what the others prefer too. If you wanted to start putting any reads on the tracking we have now, go ahead. We can move about before it starts :)

Team Avatar is ready for your introductions: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Can you please let us captains know which tracking style you prefer, we'll go with the majority. As youve all played before you may have a preference and both Keely and I have used both.

Tracking style 1 (you select what task your book works for, but let us know if it works for anything else incase we need to rearrange)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Tracking style 2 (you just list everything your book works for and the captains decide where to place it)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

We have been given our first hands, and we need to start planning or keeping an eye out for the following colour covers:
1 Green
7 Green
8 Green
5 Blue
9 Blue
8 Red
5 Yellow
8 Yellow
We also have 4 x WD4, which are a duplicate of any of the above (but each may only be duplicated once)

We also have 13 x 8s to cover, so keep an eye out for those E authours, titles and characters.

you can see the full breakdown on the tracking spreadsheet.

Hi everyone and welcome to UNO 2025

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 6th UNO and its by far the best challenge! I notice all of you have played before so you'll probably remember how it works, but if not let us know :)

Now, I am due my first baby May 1st, so I'm really hoping I can make it to the end of the challenge before they make an appearance, but who knows. Klare in the team is my sister so she can keep you all updated if theres any unexpected surprises.

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'm loving the sci-fi theme this year, I'm a fan of the first avatar film, but yet to see the second. This challenge might be the push I need

I've started a post in message 7 where we can share any books you recommend fellow players to read, doesnt have to be a colour cover, but it may help.

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/...

Team Avatar Reccommended 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. The mods generally want us to use common sense for this one, no TinEye required.

◈ 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 Saturday February 1, 2024 at 9am UTC time. To see when this starts, use this (LINK TO FOLLOW)

Spreadsheets

TRACKING SPREADSHEET: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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

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

Shelves

❅ Gem - Captain
❅ Keely - Co-Captain
❅ Keri
❅ Brittany Gass
❅ Klare
❅ Jane
❅ Kayt
❅ Tina

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

Hey, I wont update message 2 until we finish all the tasks.
I have just seen one I've put for MPG Family also works for dictionary, so make sure you look at the final column to see if any covers the empty tasks and I can move!

Klare wrote: "I’m in that worked"

Great!!