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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2017
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Team Sybilla (Billie) Bridgerton
I've got Eleanor & Park that I'm reading now (that'll count for Valentine 1.3). And I have one more book for card #5 that I'd like to get to before the end of the month. But beyond that, I think I'll be tapped out.
Murder on the Orient Express will fill numbers:1
3
4
5
6
7
8
SK
Babitix wrote: "I think I read The Last Kingdom from 14 February to 15. Yes! I live in a famous city called Santos (the city of Pelé's futebol team) but I just went to a small city to run away from the crowd lol..."
Wow, that is crazy! I hope you're enjoying your getaway!
Book CompletionJust To Be With You
2/17/17
Character Tatiana Landon (2)
Book #4
Character Ian Sullivan (5)
Character Ian Sullivan (6)
Character Valentina (7)
I FORGOT to post this one. I had read several books while away on vacay and wasn't able to access the spreadsheet. I got all the others posted but somehow missed this one. Sorry about that.
The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop by Carolyn BrownRead: 02/25/17
Possible: 2 (Setting: Texas); 3 (Series: Book 3); 6 (Character: Stella); Skip (Character: Piper)
Updated Challenge Spreadsheet till post Post 257 Total Books Read: 69
Total Hands Completed : 10
Feb Challenge - Valentine's Points : 191
TOTAL POINTS: 1765 + 191 = 1956
NOTE
The numbers left to be covered are as follows:
1 = 1
2 = 2
3 = 1
7 = 1
Wild = 1
Wild Draw 4 = 2
As I mentioned previously, the Wild's will be the last 3 books we will read.
Book Completion
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Read: 2/27/17
Cards: 0 - stand-alone, 1 - char. Otis Amber, 2 - char. Turtle Wexler, 3 - char. James Hoo, 4 - char. Flora Baumbach, 6 and Skip - char. Sydelle Pulaski, 8 - author Ellen Raskin, 9 - char. Barney Northrup, Reverse - yes (Plethora, Rachel, Apoorv, Carmen)
Valentine - added by Pepperpots on 2/12/14
Book Completion
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Read: 2/27/17
Cards: 0 - stand alone, 2 - title, 3 - char. Henrietta Lacks, 5 - title, 6 - author Rebecca Skloot, 7 - setting Virginia, 8 - char. Ethel, Reverse - yes (Plethora, Sassafrass)
Valentine - 1.3 - published 2/2/10, read by Pigletto
Book Completion2/27/17
Eleanor & Park
standalone (0)
setting: Omaha (1)
character Tina (2)
character: Sheridan, Park (6)
characer: Eleanor Douglas (8)
Setting: Nebraska (9)
characer: Park Sheridan (Skip)
Valentine 1.3 published date 2/26/13, read by Ashleigh
Book CompletionFilthy English
2/28/17
book 2 (2)
character Hartford (3)
title F (4)
Author Ilsa Madden-Mills (5)
character Elizabeth (8)
Setting: North Carolina
I think that will be my last book for the month. Looking forward to March!!
Ok, so how are things looking? Do I need to try and fill one more book in the next 14 hours? LOLor are we set to cover that last #2 and the wilds?
Sassafrass wrote: "Ok, so how are things looking? Do I need to try and fill one more book in the next 14 hours? LOLor are we set to cover that last #2 and the wilds?"
If you can squeeze one in, that would be great. More wouldn't harm, I guess. I know Elena, Plethora are reading currently, I am trying to squeeze one in too, but we need 4 more books to complete all our hands (3 wilds, 1 two).
I have two books to post tonight. This is a slammed busy week for me.Was out most of weekend, have things most nights this week and the weekend is again filled.
Oh and the one I finished last night starts with a T, So it will complete the 2(this is one of the two mentioned in the previous message)
I have two in progress - Tesla's Attic and A Pale View of Hills (audio), I will definitely finish first and will try to get the second done too (they both work for mini challenge). I really hope we get our final 4 done! By the way any books started in Feb and finished after deadline can count towards March, which is great given there's an extra hand added, so if anyone wants to start reading but not sure they'll be done in time, start away! :)
And please make sure all books read in February have been added to your UNO shelves, dated and marked read. Thank you!
I just read Murder on the Orient Express:1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 KP
Book CompletionTo One Hundred by Melissa Blue
Read 2/28
Book 1 (1)
Title T (2)
Victor (7)
Eva (8)
Book Completion
No Sex Please, I'm Menopausal! by Stevie Turner
Read 2/28
Stand-alone (0)
Author Steve (6)
Title: N (9)
Character: Peter (skip)
Book Completion
Dark Domination by Lili Valente
Read: 2/28
Book 1
Character: Jackson Hawke
Author (7)
I am currently finishing up with
which was read by Pigletto I should be finished with it within the hour.
Book Completion
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Read by: Pigletto
Read: 2/28/17
Book 1 (1)
Character: Tally (2)
Character: Shay (6)
Character: Peris (skip)
Book Report
Tesla's Attic (The Accelerati Trilogy, #1) by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman
Date read: 2/28/17
Cards: 1 - 1st in series, 2 - title, 6 and 9 - author Neal Shusterman, 7 - char. Vince, 8 - author Eric Elfman, Skip - char. Petula
Valentine - 1.3 - published 2/11/14, read by Kirsten
I won't have time to finish the second book, it will work for one of our color tasks for March though :)
CompletionTwenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Read: 02/27/17
Possible: 2 (Title: Twenties); 6 (Author: Sophie); 8 (Setting: England); Skip (Author: Kinsella )
CompletionA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Read: 02/28/17
Possible: 1 (Series #1); 2 (Character: Tamlin) 4 (Character: Feyre ); 6 (Author: Sarah)
FINAL FEBRUARY UPDATE
Updated Challenge Spreadsheet till post Post 275
Total Books Read: 81
Total Hands Completed : 13
Feb Challenge - Valentine's Points : 235
TOTAL POINTS: 2000 + 235 = 2235
ACHIEVEMENTS
- All Hands = COMPLETE
- Valentine's Task 1 (Part 1) = COMPLETE
- Valentine's Task 1 (Part 2) = COMPLETE
- Valentine's Task 2 = COMPLETE
NOTE
Two books, unfortunately remain unaccounted for, for the February's task list, as either all the hands were completed and/or they didn't fit in the requirements of Valentine's Task 1 (Part 3) requirements; viz. Dark Domination (Carmen) and Twenties Girl (Plethora).
Do let me know, if I missed any of your books, and I will check if I can fit them in the Valentine's Task 1 (Part 3).
This was a superb month! We exceeded our BpM Tally and completed all our hands! Congrats to the whole team for being so determined and awesome! :D
You guys are the best!! :D
Woohoo! Awesome work everyone :-)
Update - March CardsSo, just to summarize all our 14 hands for the month of March, here is what we are dealt with.
1 - 5 times | Max. 100 points
2 - 3 times | Max. 60 points
3 - 6 times | Max. 120 points
4 - 8 times | Max. 160 points
5 - 7 times | Max. 140 points
6 - 8 times | Max. 160 points
7 - 8 times | Max. 160 points
8 - 7 times | Max. 140 points
9 - 7 times | Max. 140 points
0 - 3 times | Max. 60 points
Skip - 6 times | Max. 150 points
Reverse - 7 times | Max. 175 points
Draw 2 - 7 times
Wild - 4 times | Max. 120 points
Wild Draw 4 - 4 times | Max. 120 points
Additional Cards
1 Red - 2 times | Max. 40 points | Red Cover
1 Blue - 2 times | Max. 40 points | Blue Cover
1 Green - 1 time | Max. 20 points | Green Cover
5 Yellow - 1 time | Max. 20 points | Yellow Cover
6 Green - 1 time | Max. 20 points | Green Cover
9 Green - 1 time | Max. 20 points | Green Cover
Hands completed - 14x15 = Max. 210 points
MAX TOTAL POINTS = 2175
Hopefully, this should give us an idea of roughly what kinds of books, with what letters, we need to read in the next month.
Woohoo! Well done everyone!!Thanks for doing the March breakdown, Apoorv. To the drawing boards! :))
Hey!only book started by March 1st Will count, or can I read those I started on February?
guys, I will update the last book I read on our spreadsheet. but I can't in my mobile!
Babitix, books started in February and finished in March will count too!
Book Completion(s):Obama's BlackBerry
3/1/17
Standalone (Z)
Character Barak Obama (1)
Character Clarence Thomas (2)
Character Hilary Clinton (3)
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After the Kiss
3/2/17
Book 1 (1)
Character Mitchell Forbes (4)
Character Evelyn (8)
Setting: New York City (9)
Character Kelli Kearns (Skip)
Looks like a great start to the new month already! Sadly we're one team member short - Denise couldn't continue and asked to be taken out of the challenge. Best of luck, Denise, and hope you get to play next time!
A fresh tab has been added to our planning sheet, please use it to record your March reading. I did my best to move books over and I'm very sorry if something got lost in transaction.
Things are a bit different this month - in addition to an extra hand we have a new task (copied from challenge info) -
As UNO number cards are coloured Blue, Green, Red and Yellow, we have added eight new cards to each team that have a colour attached. So, for example, rather than receiving card "7", you may see it says " 7 Green". This means you need to find a book that not only matches the criteria for 7, but also has a colour cover of green (the cover should be more than 50% green - use this colour extrator tool to determine colours if you are unsure).
Apoorv listed our cover tasks here. Please keep an eye out for ones we need and if in doubt or colors are debatable, let us know and one of us will check it or run it by the mods.
Elena,this Color Extractions says the cover of my Harry Potter book is 61.9 % Atomic (Blue).
So I have to find something to fit also in the number 1? Hory Sheet!
LOL Babitix! If you find one, that'd be great! And if not just file it as a regular UNO book, we'll need lots of those too. :)) I haven't seen this HP cover before, it's really pretty!I'll try to finish
today, it's over 70% green and covers either 1- ch. Ogata, 6 - ch. Sachiko or 9 - setting Nagasaki.It seems the toughest color task for us to find would be yellow 5. Does anyone have a book in mind for this one?
What about this one? I'm going to try to use this Tin Eye thing but I've had problems with it in the past.
ETA: it says it's only 35.7% yellow but dangit, it looks yellow!!
I'm afraid it won't work :( Rules state it has to be at least 50%, sorry.
Well if anyone wants to read this horrid book:
it's 54% yellow! LOL
LOL! Does it have characters or locations that start with I?
Elena wrote: "LOL! Does it have characters or locations that start with I?"Nope. you lucked out on that one. LOL
I've got one guys!!!
I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a WomanIt's 91% yellow on TinEye AND it starts with "I". Woot, woot!!
Awesome, Sass! I actually read it not that long ago (completely skipped my mind!). It's a fun, quick book, you'll probably be done with it in 20 min the way you read. :D
Elena wrote: "Awesome, Sass! I actually read it not that long ago (completely skipped my mind!). It's a fun, quick book, you'll probably be done with it in 20 min the way you read. :D"Perfect, I'll read it tonight and that way it'll be out of the way!
Book Report
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Read: 3/2/17
Cards: 0 - stand-alone, 1 - ch. Ogata, 4 - ch. Fujiwara, 5 - author Kazuo Ishiguro, 6 - ch. Sachiko, 8 - ch. Etsuko, 9 - setting Nagasaki, Skip - title.
Cover - Green (1, 6 or 9)
I didn't get a chance to get my reading in last night. I'll finish my book some time today. I hope everyone is having a good Friday!!
Book Completion
I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman3/3/17
Standalone (0)
Title I (5)
Author Nora Ephron (8 and 9)
YELLOW COVER can be used for 5 Yellow
Sassafrass wrote: "Book Completion "Interestingly enough, the cover of this book is considered a 86.6% Green (Golden Fizz to be precise with a Base of Green), per this tiny eye thingy, wonder how it can see with that!
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!! That sucks I checked that thing and I swear I read golden fizz as yellow. Seriously, I give up on this thing. Someone else is going to have to find yellow. LOL
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It looks like we're well on the way to finish Part 1.2 of the mini challenge! Go team!!
Countdown to the end of February reading and automatic start of March. About two and a half days to go and 10 books left to fill out all our hands if I did my math right. Can we do it?! :)
And speaking of March, looks like mods are turning things up a notch next month, more here. :)