Team Heathcliff

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Please welcome new team members Andrea and Rukmani!

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The first story of a rabbit (later named the “Easter Bunny”) hiding eggs in a garden was published in 1680.

✳ Read a book with a garden on the cover
✳ Read a book with 1 & 6 in the page count
✳ Read a book with an 8 & 0 in the page count (hide spoiler)]

[Katie]

Hi Andrea and Rukmani! We're happy to have you here. :)

[Andrea]

I'm so happy to be a part of this years UNO :) I already started reading!


https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[Katie]

Book Read: Hard Hitter
Date Read: 2/2/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Character: Patrick O'Doul
2 - Book 2 in series
3 - Title H
6 - Author: Sarina Bowen
SKIP - Character: Patrick O'Doul
For Reverse - Read by: Katie

[Louise]

Welcome Andrea & Rukmani. Good to have you on board.

Nice one Katie.

[Paula]

Well done Katie starting us up! Just a little tip, in reverse you have to write down if any other member had read the same book, for example, when Ashley finishes Pride & Prejudice, she can write
For Reverse - Read by: Paula

I added Katie's book to the tracking spreadsheet

Welcome Andrea and Rukmani, I hope you'll have a great time playing with us =)

I'll finish my first book today, in a couple of hours ;)

[Katie]

Ah I see. I'll be sure to do that next time.

[Louise]

Have added Andrea's shelf to the first page. You can check if anyone else has read your books by clicking on their profile and comparing books, just choose read on their shelf and compare with your Uno shelf.

We have 7 reverse cards to complete with each one worth 25 points.

[Paula]

I finished my book
Book read: La espera by Camila Valenzuela
Date read: 3/2/2017
Rating: 4Stars
Card it can be used for:
0. Stand alone
5. Character name: Ignacia
7. Author last name: Valenzuela
8. Title (La) Espera (La is an article in spanish)
9. Character name: Nadia

It's in the tracking ss and I suggest we hold it for now because it can be use for a lot of cards :)

[Paula]

I can't decide what to read next hahaha

[Laura]

HI Paula and Louise * waves*

[Katie]

Book Read: Lost Lake
Date Read: 2/3/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - 1st in series
3 - Character: Jack Humphry
6 - Author: Sarah Addison Allen
8 - Character: Eby Pim
SKIP - Character: Kate Pheris

[Paula]

Hola, Laura!! Good to see you playing UNO again :).
Katie you're really fast :O!

[Paula]

I just started Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern :)
How is everyone else doing? Have you discovered a good book?

[Louise]

Hi Laura, will have to go and check where you are.

I know a few people that have read The Night Circus you'll have to let me know how you find it.

Currently reading It Ends with Us should be finished by the morning. Then on to Killer Cupcakes, Marking Time, Iron Kissed and Lover Enshrined

[Katie]

Book Read: Good Boy
Date Read: 2/4/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - 1st in series
2 - Setting: Toronto
6 - Author: Sarina Bowen
8 - Author: Elle Kennedy
SKIP - Author: Elle Kennedy

Book Read: Tempting the Law
Date Read: 2/4/17
Rating: 2 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
2 - Title: Tempting the Law
8 - Character: Eden

[Paula]

I suggest saving Pride & Prejudice for a reverse card, I read it last year =)

[Louise]

I agree, the reverse and the standaolones are probably going to be he hardest.

Finished It Ends with Us adding to spreadsheet.

[Katie]

Book Read: Curvy
Date Read: 2/5/17
Rating: 2 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
4 - Character: Flynn Long

[Louise]

Other than Katie's last book I have provisionally placed everyone's books. To complete the 1st three hands we need the following:

3 - 1
4 - 3( Katie's Curvy can be used here.)
5 - 1
6 - 1
8 - 2
9 - 4

[Paula]

Louise, are you talking about the books that are already finished?where did you placed them? not in the team ss, right? because I can't see them there

How are Anna, Andrea, Sophie and Rukmani doing? We haven't heard much from them =S

[Louise]

I placed them in the tracking ss, on the 2nd Feb tab, I will move them across to the team spreadsheet tomorrow.

Rukmani hasn't checked in yet, I will send her a follow up pm to get her to check in.

Have finished Killer Cupcakes and going on to Marking Time

[Sophie]

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the quiet - I work in A+E (emergency department) and I've had a nasty run of shifts over the last week so have pretty much either been at work or asleep. I've got the next 5 days off so should get through a bit more reading and be more sociable on here as well.

Currently I'm reading The Fourth Bear.
It can be used for:
2 - 2nd in series
3 - H character - Hatchett family (Josh or Henrietta)
4 - FForde (author) or title
7 - Victor character
Skip - Pandora or Prometheus as characters

[Louise]

No worries Sophie, can you post a link to your shelf

[Sophie]

It's in this post https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Katie]

Book Read: Heir to the Shadows
Date Read: 2/6/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
2 - Book 2 in series
3 - Title H
6 - Character: Saetan
SKIP - Setting Kaeleer

[Louise]

Got it Sophie:)

[Katie]

Book Read: One Soldier: From Letters to Love
Date Read: 2/8/17
Rating: 2 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
1 - One in title
2 - Character: Taylor
SKIP - Character: Kellie

[Ana]

Hi!!
I'm so sorry, I'm not really a good team mate :(
I'm currently reading two books for the challenge (The Here and Now by Ann Brashares and Alice in Zombieland (#1) by Gena Showalter) but I'm also struggling with all the books I have to read for school (12 before April help me) and my homework. I'll try to make those count for the game. Do French books count?

[Sophie]

Anna - my understanding in similar challenges has always been that if you can tag it as read on Goodreads it'll count.

I've finished The Fourth Bear (details above) and also:
Book Read: Rules of the Game
Date Read: 2/8/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - stand alone
2 - Claire Thornton (character)
9 - Nora Roberts (author)
Skip - Parks Jones (character)

[Louise]

Anna wrote: "Hi!!
I'm so sorry, I'm not really a good team mate :(
I'm currently reading two books for the challenge (The Here and Now by Ann Brashares and Alice in Zombieland (#1) by Gena Showalter) but I'm a..."

I am a firm believer in every little helps and as Sophie said as long as you can tag it as read on Gr it counts.

:)

[Louise]

Main spreadsheet is updated with all books. We are doing well and only need one more book to complete our first card :-D

[Katie]

I think you're a great teammate, Anna. Everybody reads at different speeds and we all have different things going on in our real lives. You're doing just fine. :)

[Katie]

Book Read: Highlander Most Wanted
Date Read: 2/8/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
2 - Book 2 in series
3 - Title H
6 - Setting: Scotland
8 - Character: Eveline

[Paula]

Anna don't worry, if I can read in Spanish, of course books in French count. And as Katie said, we all read at different speeds, so as long as we know that you're still there, it'll be ok.

I'll finish a book tonight :)

[Paula]

Finished!

Book Read:Calíope, agente de Nunca Jamás by J.L. Flores
Date Read: 2/9/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0- Santd Alone
1- Character: Oberón
4- Author last name: Flores
5- Character: Isabela
6- Character: Simón
8 - Character: Elikura
Skip: Character: Peter

I took the liberty of assigning it for the last 4 in hand 1 so we have our first hand completed =)

[Andrea]

You guys, im sorry ive been in such a reading slump lately :( but i am in the middle of two books, so next week i will have something to contribute !! I promise im gonna get better :)

[Paula]

I started The catcher in the rye so we can use out as a reverse card, because Sophie read it :)

[Louise]

Finished Lover Enshrined

[Louise]

Have updated our master sheet, we have 2 hands complete. Will post what we need once I'm back on my tablet.

Keep going we're doing great.

[Katie]

Book Read: Jude's Law
Date Read: 2/10/17
Rating: 1 star
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
4 - Author: Lori Foster
6 - Setting: Stillbrook, Ohio
SKIP - Character: May Price

[Katie]

Book Read: Falling Down
Date Read: 2/10/17
Rating: 1 star
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
4 - Title F
6 - Author: Selena Kitt
SKIP - Author: Selena Kitt

[Sophie]

Katie - you're absolutely racing through things! I always used to think I read fast, but a lot of you on here put me to shame

[Katie]

I'm a stay at home mom, so while I'm definitely busy watching and playing with the kids, I do get a few minutes here and there to read (like during naptime! BEST time of the day...). My husband also works long hours, so I get reading time there, too. :) What's more impressive are those people who work, have kids, and still manage to find time to read!

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Please welcome new team member Gavin!

Books started after Feb 1 can count :)

[Katie]

Hi Gavin! It's good to have you here. :)

[Louise]

Hi Gavin welcome to the moors :)

[Katie]

Book Read: Mackenzie's Mountain
Date Read: 2/10/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
3 - Author: Linda Howard
SKIP - Character: Mary Potter

[Gavin]

Hi!

[Ana]

Thanks to all of you for your kind words and understanding! I'll probably finish to read a book this weekend...

Welcome Gavin!! Tell us what you've been reading lately :D