Team Hello Kitty

[Treavor]

Hey guys! Sorry I just got back from my trip; wanted to say hi. As I've never played before, would someone mind informing me what hand we are on. Or is it easier to simply tell you guys whatever I read? Any input helps. Thanks again.

[Savannah]

I finished Indutrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong. I am almost finished with Red Headed Stepchild. I see that Paper Towns hasn't been set up for the spread sheet. Just making sure everyone get s all my books.


1.Cinder for Hand 1 Card Reverse /Someone else read

2.The Son of Neptune for Hand 2 Card 0/ Character with A Z-Zeus

3.Paper Towns for Hand 4 Card 2 / Title starting with T

4.Industrial Magic for Hand 4 Card 8/ Character with E- Eve.

5. Red-Headed Stepchild for Hand 5 Card 1 / Book 1 in a series

[Ashley]

I just finished Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. It would work for a 1 because it is the first of a two part series.

[PNJ]

Ashley, how was me before you? I have it on my list to read and wondered if it's a bump up so good or it's just ok. Thanks ~Janet

[Stacie]

Hi Kittens! Stacie from TMNT with a memory connection.

♥ The first book I can remember reading without being forced was in the 4th or 5th grade. I picked up the book "Tiger Eyes" by Judy Blume in our school library. I couldn't even tell you why, I wasn't into reading for fun or anything and I don't remember regularly checking out books. Anyway I fell in love with it. I continued to read every now and then but was not completely addicted to books Until around 2009 when my then boyfriend (now husband) wanted me to ride in a golf cart and watch him play golf....ahhh sooo much fun yeah right, so of course I asked him to stop at the Grocery Store thought I would grab a magazine or something but I ended up buying a paperback titled "The Other Daughter" by Lisa Gardner. Let me tell you I was hooked from page one! My boyfriend throughout the day would say something like wow did you see that shot?" And I would respond with "sssshhhhhhh I'm trying to read!" That book relit my flame for reading and I have been a die hard reader ever since.
I used to believe I only wanted to read serial crime novels. The more gruesome and descriptive the better but somehow over the years I have broadened my interests. I enjoy a variety of books now. Crime (fiction or true), Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Smut, Romance, Historical fiction, Biographies..... I guess now I would have to say if the synopsis grabs my attention I will try it. I have a love/hate relationship with cliffhanger endings. (to be honest on more than one occasion I may have gotten to the end of a book with a cliff hanger and if the next book isn't out yet and available for purchase I may have cussed a bit and created new cuss words.!)

Book: Hammer & Nails Romance, smut and cussing ;)

[Dima]

I just started reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. Has any one from this team read this book? Can I use it for a Reverse card?

[Veronica]

Completed Opening Belle by Maureen Sherry. 3.0 Stars

Opening Belle read like a manual, a snapshot view of Wall Street before the housing crash via a woman's point of view. It was a mediocre read. It held my interest. But it lacked some sort of essence; flat. I wanted to know more about some of the characters. I did like to read about Wall street, the success of women, and how the system doesnt allow women to have it all ( stable marriage, kids, and a lucrative career.

[Veronica]

I am currently reading by Stephen King

Characters :Annie
Paul Sheldon

Location: Colorado

[[deleted user]]

Welcome Treavor and Ashley! Good to have you on the team.

[Raylie]

Happy Sunday, all! :) I just finished vampire academy. It can be used for either an one card or seven card. I don't know if anyone has dibs for either of those cards for future hands. But, whatever card needs to be filled, you can use it.

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The spreadsheet has been updated with the books read.

We've completed the first 5 hands. Although, I do need the dates for the 2 books that Dima has read.

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Spreadsheet updated re Rachel's book.

[Dima]

Hand Two:
#2- 2nd Chance (Has the number 2 in title AND it's second book in a series so can it be counted twice??) Finished Reading it on 3/5/2016

Hand Six:
#4 - All the Bright Places Finished Reading it on 3/17/2016

Hand Eight:
#5 - Never Let Me Go Finished Reading it on 3/12/2016

I just started The Big Bad Wolf it can be used for either for a #9 card or a skip for the Patterson.

[[deleted user]]

The first 6 hands have been completed.

Hand 7

5 - Janet Rot & Ruin
8 - Ashley Vanishing Acts
Wild Draw 4 - Veronica Misery

Hand 8

1 - Savannah Red-Headed Stepchild
3 - Lori The Raven Boys
5 - Lori Sourcery
7
8 - Rachel The Diviners
9 - Dima The Big Bad Wolf
Wild Draw 4

Hand 9

3
3
5
5
8 - Lori Moon Called
9 - Dima The Goldfinch
Wild

[Kme_17]

Hi Team Hello Kitty . I am from team minions!

♥ The first book I can remember reading without being forced was in the 4th or 5th grade. I picked up the book "Tiger Eyes" by Judy Blume in our school library. I couldn't even tell you why, I wasn't into reading for fun or anything and I don't remember regularly checking out books. Anyway I fell in love with it. I continued to read every now and then but was not completely addicted to books Until around 2009 when my then boyfriend (now husband) wanted me to ride in a golf cart and watch him play golf....ahhh sooo much fun yeah right, so of course I asked him to stop at the Grocery Store thought I would grab a magazine or something but I ended up buying a paperback titled "The Other Daughter" by Lisa Gardner. Let me tell you I was hooked from page one! My boyfriend throughout the day would say something like wow did you see that shot?" And I would respond with "sssshhhhhhh I'm trying to read!" That book relit my flame for reading and I have been a die hard reader ever since.
I used to believe I only wanted to read serial crime novels. The more gruesome and descriptive the better but somehow over the years I have broadened my interests. I enjoy a variety of books now. Crime (fiction or true), Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Smut, Romance, Historical fiction, Biographies..... I guess now I would have to say if the synopsis grabs my attention I will try it. I have a love/hate relationship with cliffhanger endings. (to be honest on more than one occasion I may have gotten to the end of a book with a cliff hanger and if the next book isn't out yet and available for purchase I may have cussed a bit and created new cuss words.!)

Book read: Cross Justice by James Patterson
Date finished: March 17
Rating: 4 stars
Connection: This is a crime novel.

[Rosina]

Hi Team Hello Kitty....Rosina from Team Happy Feet
The book I read The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe relates to this memory below.
1. It hooked me from the first chapter and I couldn't put it down.
2. Its a mystery crime novel with some gruesome and descriptive methods of how people were killed.


The first book I can remember reading without being forced was in the 4th or 5th grade. I picked up the book "Tiger Eyes" by Judy Blume in our school library. I couldn't even tell you why, I wasn't into reading for fun or anything and I don't remember regularly checking out books. Anyway I fell in love with it. I continued to read every now and then but was not completely addicted to books Until around 2009 when my then boyfriend (now husband) wanted me to ride in a golf cart and watch him play golf....ahhh sooo much fun yeah right, so of course I asked him to stop at the Grocery Store thought I would grab a magazine or something but I ended up buying a paperback titled "The Other Daughter" by Lisa Gardner. Let me tell you I was hooked from page one! My boyfriend throughout the day would say something like wow did you see that shot?" And I would respond with "sssshhhhhhh I'm trying to read!" That book relit my flame for reading and I have been a die hard reader ever since.
I used to believe I only wanted to read serial crime novels. The more gruesome and descriptive the better but somehow over the years I have broadened my interests. I enjoy a variety of books now. Crime (fiction or true), Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Smut, Romance, Historical fiction, Biographies..... I guess now I would have to say if the synopsis grabs my attention I will try it. I have a love/hate relationship with cliffhanger endings. (to be honest on more than one occasion I may have gotten to the end of a book with a cliff hanger and if the next book isn't out yet and available for purchase I may have cussed a bit and created new cuss words.!)

[Raylie]

I'm half way done with the Diviners by Libby Bray. We could use it for a Card 1 ( for the first in the series) or Card 8 (the characters name starts with a E). I dunno if anyone have dibs on these future cards. But, I'm hoping to be done with the book in 2 days.

[Perks Moderator, Know-it-all]

Please welcome new team member Snowtulip!

[Veronica]

Hello Snowtulip

[Lisa]

I just finished the Milliners Secret

What hand are we on and what cards are available.? Are any of you doing the mini challenge?

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Lisa wrote: "I just finished the Milliners Secret

What hand are we on and what cards are available.? Are any of you doing the mini challenge?"

Details are in post 215. However, I don't have details of SnowTulip's books yet so these will need to be added.

I must admit I haven't yet looked at whether any of my books fit any of the memories. I must do that.

[[deleted user]]

Welcome SnowTulip!

[[deleted user]]

If anyone has completed any of the memory options for the mini challenge let me know and I'll add them on to the spreadsheet so we can claim the points.

[Lisa]

Welcome SnowTulip!

[Lisa]

Pigletto wrote: "Lisa wrote: "I just finished the Milliners Secret

What hand are we on and what cards are available.? Are any of you doing the mini challenge?"

Details are in post 215. However, I don't have detai..."

ok Great and we have to be careful there are rules as to who can do what in the mini challenge (I have to admit I am a bit confused) haha

[Dima]

Dark Places By Gillian Flynn
Finished reading it on 3/22/2016
three and a half stars.

Still Reading The Big Bad Wolf

Also just started reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

[PNJ]

I'm about done with Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry. It's the first book in a series. (And I dreaded reading it and now I'm thrilled to finish the series!)

[Snowtulip]

HI everyone! Thanks for having me on the team :)

I'm going to make some dinner, then come back and catch up on rules and your posts in this thread...can't wait!

[Snowtulip]

Pigletto, I just added the books I've read since March 1 to my Uno bookshelf...so use however you want and let me know if you want me to list out characters etc. to make it easier for you in a post.

So after reading through the thread, I'll just list the books as I read them and what cards it could match and let the captains switch around and add as makes sense. If my book isn't used, no problem :) If you want me to do it different then this just let me know, but it looks like the team is using this method, as well as picking for specific cards.

[Snowtulip]

I didn't see anyone listed on the spreadsheet for the memory mini challenge...so I'd like to claim Team Princess, thanks!

Update: Team Princesses Post

[Snowtulip]

Yipee, glad to see that the mini challenge books do not have to be different from books that you read for your hand!

I think a few other books that I've read between March 14-today could match other teams memories.

I don't want to claim anything anyone else is doing, so again, let me know and I'll fit to whatever teams are left.

[Eldarwen]

ST!!! *waves*

So happy to see you joining Uno after all :-D

[Lisa]

Dima wrote: "Dark Places By Gillian Flynn
Finished reading it on 3/22/2016
three and a half stars.

Just in case this helps... I have read "Dark Places" in the past before the challenge. Not sure if we have a reverse card left.

[Lisa]

I am currently reading The Paris Wifeby Paula McLain . It will fit in with Card Number 8 (Character first name starts with E" Ernest Hemmingway) or Card 3 (Character first name starts with "H" Hadley) or Wild Draw 4 or skip card (Character first name starts with "K" Kate and author first name starts with "P" Paula) and last but not least it can be used with card 0 because it is a "stand alone"

[Lisa]

Dima wrote: "I just started reading Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. Has any one from this team read this book? Can I use it for a Reverse card?"

Yes I read the book! It was Great.

[Lisa]

Question can more than one book I read be used in a hand?

[Lisa]

Hey Guys I just posted in Team Cars for the Mini Challenge that I am reading "The Paris Wife" by Paula McClain based on the memory below. I will let you know once I am finished for the points.

♥ I love a lot of different types of books....I love romance most of all...historical romance in particular. I think to date..my favourite is the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon...

[maria helena]

Hi Team Hello Kitty - Team SpongeBob here to share a book connection.

♥ The first book I can remember reading without being forced was in the 4th or 5th grade. I picked up the book "Tiger Eyes" by Judy Blume in our school library. I couldn't even tell you why, I wasn't into reading for fun or anything and I don't remember regularly checking out books. Anyway I fell in love with it. I continued to read every now and then but was not completely addicted to books Until around 2009 when my then boyfriend (now husband) wanted me to ride in a golf cart and watch him play golf....ahhh sooo much fun yeah right, so of course I asked him to stop at the Grocery Store thought I would grab a magazine or something but I ended up buying a paperback titled "The Other Daughter" by Lisa Gardner. Let me tell you I was hooked from page one! My boyfriend throughout the day would say something like wow did you see that shot?" And I would respond with "sssshhhhhhh I'm trying to read!" That book relit my flame for reading and I have been a die hard reader ever since.
I used to believe I only wanted to read serial crime novels. The more gruesome and descriptive the better but somehow over the years I have broadened my interests. I enjoy a variety of books now. Crime (fiction or true), Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Smut, Romance, Historical fiction, Biographies..... I guess now I would have to say if the synopsis grabs my attention I will try it. I have a love/hate relationship with cliffhanger endings. (to be honest on more than one occasion I may have gotten to the end of a book with a cliff hanger and if the next book isn't out yet and available for purchase I may have cussed a bit and created new cuss words.!)

I just read Anatoli Boukreev's biography The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (co-written by Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt) and in it, Anatoli is described as the Tiger Woods of Himalayan climbing.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Hello! Team Simpsons Here for Team Hello Kitty Memory:

♥ I don't remember a day of my life that I didn't like reading a book (except of course for my school books which I hated even looking at them) I used to read so much that my parents used to prohibit me from reading any books not related to school during the school year. So I used to borrow romance books and put them under my school book and pretend to be doing homework/studying and I would read for hours. haha.
I read for a lot of Arabic writers (since Arabic is my first language) like Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Al-Sebai يوسف السباعي, Ihsaan Abdulqdous إحسان عبد القدوس, Nizaar Qabbani نزار قباني, Ghadda Al-Samman غادة السمان. I also read translated books by Russian authors like Nikolai Gogol, and Maxim Gorky

Then when I moved to the US and learned English.... and worked at a library for five years .. I was like a kid at a candy store. haha. I loved every minute of it. Some of the books that I read in the past I really liked were: The Master and Margarita, The Harry Potter series, The Hunger Games series ,The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Giver series. to name just a few that come to mind as I type this.
Lately I have been more into the mystery and thriller or fantasy/ sci fi genres.

Connection:
Book Read: City of Bones 3/23/16
Read by: Barbara
Reason: English isn't Barbara's first language. She is from Brazil and read a book that isn't her native language plus it is a YA Fantasy book and Harry Potter is a YA Fantasy book.

[Savannah]

Done with Red-headed Stepchild

[Dima]

Done with The Big Bad Wolf

[[deleted user]]

Lisa wrote: "Question can more than one book I read be used in a hand?"

Yes

[Lisa]

Hey guys I just posted in Team Glee for the mini challenge because I read The Milliner's Secret by Natalie Meg Evans. I used this memory

"♥ I remember going to the old Orpheum Theater with my mother and my best friend to see “Gone With the Wind” ’in the summer of 1969. I was so excited to see my first grown up film. I can see the maroon curtains unveiling the movie screen as the lights dimmed. Not a sound could be heard, but the opening strains of music and there was Tara! I was smitten. Laura and I sat through the second showing too. Exhausted, but roiled up was I when I got home. On my lonely supper plate laid my very first copy of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind! Needless to say, I wolfed down supper and went to my room and began reading the book that I’ve had a love affair with since that summer day. I was 12 years then. And I read the novel each year."


I used this memory because both books are both historical fiction and I love books about the past.

[Snowtulip]

Hopefully this helps to add my books I've read this month to the spreadsheet:


Can be used for: 2 (2nd book in series)


Can be used for: O (stand alone), 4 (character named Fenton)


Can be used for: 2 (2nd book in series), 4 (character named Flynn), 6 (Author first name Sarah)


Can be used for: 1 (book one in series), 3 (set in Hobart Aust), 4 (character named Fran), 6 (character named Simon), Skip (author surname Kennedy)


Can be used for: Zero (character named Zardo), 1 (first in series), 2 (setting is Three Pines), 3 (character surname Hadley), 6 (character names Suzanne), 9 (character surname Neal), Skip (character named Peter)

[Snowtulip]

Continued:


Can be used for: 1 (character surname Ortiz), 2 (second in series), 3 (character name Hector), 6 (character name Samuel), 9 (setting New York), Skip (character name Kaye)


Can be used for: 1 (first in series), 2 (character surname Turner), 3 (title Hyde), 6 (author Stewart), 8 (character name Eden), 9 (character name Nick), Skip (character surname Poole)


Can be used for: 2 (character surname Thorne), 3 (third in series), 5 (character name Iko), 6 (character name Scarlet), 8 (character surname Erland), Skip (character named Kai)


Can be used for: Zero (stand alone), 2 (character named Tom), 4 (author Fesseden), 9 (setting New York), Skip (character name Kevin)

[Snowtulip]

Continued:


Can be used for: Zero (stand alone), 7 (author Vi), 8 (character surname Easton), 9 (setting New York), Skip (Author Keeland)


Can be used for: 4 (character name Foster)


Can be used for: 1 (first in series), 3 (character surname Horton)


Can be used for: Zero (stand alone), 2 (character named Teddy), 3 (character named Hannah), 4 (character named Frederick), 8 (character surname Erlich),


Can be used for: 1 (first in series), 2 (character name Tolver), 3 (character name Henry), 4 (character name Falin), 6 (character surname Stewart), Skip (author Price)

[Raylie]

I just finished this. It could be used for 1 as the 1st book, 2 for characters Theta or Terrance, 6 for the character Sam, 8 for the Character Evie, or Skip for the last name Knight.

Whatever we need the most, you can use this book for. I hope everyone is enjoying this challenge so far.

[Snowtulip]

I've had my eye on that book Rachel, how did you like it?

[Raylie]

Snowtulip wrote: "I've had my eye on that book Rachel, how did you like it?"

I really enjoyed it. The librarian, that I know, recommended it to me and I was a little weary about it at first.. But, I loved the jargon that's used from that time period and the plot. I couldn't put it down. Although, I felt like the beginning started a little slow.

I can't wait to read the next book. I think she is writing four books for this series. So, it'll be interesting how the story unravels. If you decide to read it, let me know what you think. :)

Also, I dunno if I welcomed you into the group or not. I've been a bit behind on things of that nature. Sorry about that.

[Snowtulip]

Thanks Rachel, I'll let you know what I think :D