Rachael’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2013)

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

4 zero's
4 one's
3 two's
3 three's
5 four's
3 five's
3 six's
5 seven's
5 eight's
5 nine's
5 skip's
2 wild's
3 wild draw 4's
4 reverse's

Ozana wrote: "What should I read first? I am finishing S. Can I start HRry Dresden or can I read whatever I want and you can put it in columns?"

Hi Ozana, totally up to you, as we're at the start of the challenge there's still a lot of cards to fill so we don't need to do specific cards right now

Caly ☯ wrote: "Morning Rachel! I am trying to learn all I can about UNO so I can be a captain next year, so I was wondering your strategy of not using my book The Vegetarian for Skip on card 3 as it would complet..."

Hi Caly, mainly because I think the 7 card is harder to fill because V's are less common. With Skip you can use K or P so more chance of someone reading something with it.

4 zero's
4 one's
3 two's
3 three's
6 four's
3 five's
3 six's
5 seven's
5 eight's
5 nine's
5 skip's
2 wild's
3 wild draw 4's
4 reverse's

Two hands done! And just one more to go on the third

We have left:

4 zero's
4 one's
3 two's
3 three's
6 four's
4 five's
3 six's
5 seven's
5 eight's
5 nine's
5 skip's
2 wild's
3 wild draw 4's
5 reverse's

Doing well guys :)

Just need a 9 and 7 and we've finished the first hand!

Ah sorry! It's done on the american calendar so I have to remember to put the date the other way around

Ah so do I need to remove anyone's books?

I so far have marked as finished:

Less than zero
If nobody speaks of remarkable things
The sexy one
Gioconda
One to hold
Good boy
The spy who came in from the cold

Brilliant, well done guys! :)

Happy 1st February everyone!

I've sped through and finished my first book in one sitting (it was awful) so first points are on the spreadsheet. I've added books for Tina and Ozana so it should be up to date now.

Ooo what's the Wobble challenge?

Hi Ozana, welcome to the group!

I'm Rachael and I'm from the Midlands of the UK. This is my third Uno challenge.

A few of us have picked our first two books and the rest will read some to slot in later. Do you want to pick some to start or will you just see how you feel? Either is fine :)

Hello, I've had a play around with the spreadsheet and added the books people have suggested so far. I've tried to give everyone a card per hand.

For hand one we still have 9 and 6 to fill and for hand two a 9.

For those that are mood readers, just let me know when you've finished a book and I can slot it into available cards :)

Can't wait for 1st Feb!

Caly is correct so each card is basically one book and we only get points as we finish each hand. For me to record one of your books you must mark it as read and put it on your Uno shelf.

Ok so cards we can do so far:

Marie can do a 2 and 5
Ingeborg can do a 5 or 6 and 2 or 3.

My first one can go into 8 or 0

Nice to meet everyone.

Shall we start by picking two cards each and see how we get on?

Hi everyone, sorry for the slow response, I'm not very well :(

I'm Rachael and I'm your captain. This is my third uno challenge and I was captain last year.

I'm from the Midlands of the UK, I'm a member of a couple of book clubs and I've not read Harry Dresden either.

How would you like the challenge to be organised? In my first year we selected cards and filled the spreadsheet prior to reading the books, last year the group read books and I slotted them into the cards after. Happy to do either.

Hi all, does anyone have any last books to add to the spreadsheet?

Hi everyone, I'm back. Spreadsheet is now updated. Good reading everyone!

So as an update we've completed three Eurovision words and are on our way to a few more.

For May's uno we've now completed 7 hands :)

The books we have left are:

Four 8's
One 7 Red
Two 3's
Three 2's
One Wild
Two 5's
Five Reverse's
Two 9's
Three 1's
One 5 Green
One 0
One 6
One Wild Draw 4
Two 7's
One 6 Green
One 2 Red
One 2 Yellow

We've got one week to concentrate on these ones

Hi all,

Just to let you know that I will be away for a week so won't be able to update the spreadsheet until I get back.

Below is a list of the cards we have left. Could you please fill your name against one of the cards so that we know what there is remaining. I'm aware that we seem to have a lot of the same number so we can concentrate on them, rather than reading books that could no longer be used.

We really need a 1 Yellow, as that's stopping us from getting a lot more points.

So we have left:

1 Yellow
Wild
Wild Draw 4
7
9
9
4
5
8
3
4
7
8
8
Skip
1
2
3
7
8
Wild
7 Red
1
3
6
2
Wild
5
Reverse
3
9
8
Reverse
5
9
6
1
Wild Draw 4
Reverse
7
Reverse
8
1
Reverse
7
Skip
6 Green
2 Red
2 Yellow

We've also still got two hands with Draw 2 cards in. With Draw 2 we can use one book for 2 cards in the hand but in these hands all the cards are different so we need books that cover:

1
5 Green
0
2
8
9

And the other hand has two Draw 2 cards so we only need to read three books for this hand but they need to cover the following:

4
6
0
2
5

Hope this all makes sense and happy reading!

See you in a week

Updated the spreadsheet

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