Team Heathcliff

[Louise]

Gavin, don't forget to post a link to your shelf :-)

[Gavin]

Sure thing :)

[Gavin]

My Uno Shelf

Three of those books are currently being read, but here are the templates for the ones I have read:

Book Read: The Martian Chronicles
Date Read: 2/9/17
Rating: 4 Stars
Card it can be used for:
0 (Is a collection of short stories, albeit two of them aren't collected in the book, however there is now official #2)
6 (Major Character in one of the stories named Spender)
8 (Minor Character named Elma in another story)
Wild
Wild Draw Four

Book Read: The Empire Strikes Back - So You Want To Be a Jedi
Date Read: 2/5/17
Rating: 4 Stars
Card it can be used for:
2 (Star Wars Illustrated Novels #2)
3 (Major Character Named Han Solo)
7 (Major Character Named Darth Vader)
8 (Empire Strikes Back-So You Want To Be a Jedi?)
Wild
Wild Draw Four

[Gavin]

So You Want To Be a Jedi is shelved as both middle grade and ya. Can it still be used?

[Paula]

Gavin wrote: "So You Want To Be a Jedi is shelved as both middle grade and ya. Can it still be used?"

According to http://www.arbookfind.com/bookdetail.... it has more than 25,000 words, so yes! it can be used =)

[Gavin]

Paula wrote: "Gavin wrote: "So You Want To Be a Jedi is shelved as both middle grade and ya. Can it still be used?"

According to http://www.arbookfind.com/bookdetail.... it has more..."
Thx!

[Katie]

Gavin, I think you're (or we're) going to have to friend everyone in the group so we can see your shelf. :)

[Katie]

Lol...I'm so used to people's friend question being "Why do you want to be friends" that I think I answered your "What's your favorite book" with Uno... :P

[Gavin]

Katie wrote: "Gavin, I think you're (or we're) going to have to friend everyone in the group so we can see your shelf. :)"

Sorry! Forgot about that

[Gavin]

Katie wrote: "Lol...I'm so used to people's friend question being "Why do you want to be friends" that I think I answered your "What's your favorite book" with Uno... :P"

So, you're favorite book's UNO, huh? :p

[Sophie]

Hi Gavin!

Katie - having spent yesterday with my best friend and her 2 year old I think you probably have less time than someone who works full time!

I've just finished:
Last Seen in Massilia
Read 11/2
3 stars
Works for:
3 - Hieronymous (character)
4 - Finder (nickname)
6 - Steven Saylor (author)
7- Vitruvius (character)
8 - 8th in series

[Katie]

Book Read: Naughty Boss
Date Read: 2/11/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
9 - Title N

[Louise]

Added your shelf to the 1st page Gavin.

Ladies if you haven't already can you friend Gavin so that you can view his shelves.

[Louise]

Completion Post

Date Read: 11/02/17
Rating: 4*

1- 1st in series
6 - Character: Saira
8 - Character: Saira Elein


Date Read: 12/02/17
Rating: 3*

1 - 1st in series
3 - Author Last Name: Hoover
6 - Character: Silas
9 -Title: Never

[Louise]

All books have bern placed, this is what wr still need

0 - 1
1 - 6
2 - 4
3 - 4
4 - 3
5 - 4 (currently reading Iron Kissed)
6 - 2
7 - 5
8 - 3
9 - 4
Skip - 3
Reverse - 5

[Ana]

I've just finished my first book!!! Yay!!

Book read: Alice in Zombieland
Date read: 2/12/17
Rating: 3.5 stars
Cards it can be used for:
1 - #1 in a series (White Rabbit Chronicles)
2 - Trina (character)
3 - C. Holland (character)
4 - Frosty (character)
6 - G. Showalter (author)
8 - Emma B. (character)
Skip - Kathryn (character)

[Louise]

Valentine Mini Challenge

Our Valentine

Part One:
As a team:
❤ Read up to five books your valentine team has read this month for 10 points each
❤ Read up to ten books your valentine team has read in Feb or added in Feb of any year for 8 points each
❤ Read up to fifteen books your valentine team has read that was first published in Feb of any year for 5 points each

Bonus
❤ Read one book that was first published on the 14th of February of any year for 10 points

[Louise]

Part one of the valentine mini challenge is posted above.
⚫ Books need to be read between 14-28th Feb

When posting completed books, please check if our Valentine team has read it and if it matches any of the February options.

[Teddie]

Hi Team Heathcliff!

We'll be nosing around your shelves (in a non-nasty way) for the next couple of weeks. We've already found a few good ones, (I'm reading one of yours Sophie - Hi!) so thank you for your reading!

Best of luck with the Valentines Mini Challenge!

[Katie]

Book Read: One Fell Sweep
Date Read: 2/13/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - "One" in title
2 - Setting: Texas
3 - Book 3 in series
5 - Author: Ilona Andrews
6 - Character: Sean

[Paula]

Finished another one =)
Book read: El guardián entre el centeno
Date read: 2/14/17
Rating: 4 stars
Cards it can be used for:
0 - Stand alone
3 - Character Sally Hayes
6 - Author J. D. Salinger
8 - Title
9 - Setting: New York
Skip - Character Phoebe
Reverse: Read by Sophie

[Paula]

For Valentines mini challenge I can start:
Stardust - Read by Dima from team Yvaine on 2/2/2017
Harry Potter #7 which was added by Sarah from team Yvaine on 2/12/2014

[Louise]

Valentines Mini Challenge - Part 2
Part 2:
~~Read books that fit these valentine tasks for 5 points each~~

Each task can only be completed once.
There are 30 tasks to choose from and you can choose up to 15.

❤ Read a book where there is a secret wedding
❤ Read a book where a character is in jail
❤ Read a book where a character is named Julia

❤ Read a book where two characters fall in love
❤ Read a book where there is unrequited love
❤ Read a book where there is a first kiss

❤ Read a book set in China
❤ Read a book first published on the 7th of any month
❤ Read a book first published in July of any year

❤ Read a book where the main character has a pet
❤ Read a book with a 3 in the page count
❤ Read a book where someone gives a gift


❤ Read a book where the main character is, and remains, single
❤ Read a book where characters go on a date
❤ Read a book where the characters go to a dance

❤ Read a book where there are a group of 3 or more friends
❤ Read a book where a new friendship is made
❤ Read a book by an author who is known to be a friend of another author (Google is great to find these. Some examples are: Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway, or Beth Revis & Victoria Schwab)

❤ Read a book set in the Middle Ages (5th to the 15th century)
❤ Read a book with a young man as the main character
❤ Read a book with a young woman as the main character

❤ Read a book where a character is a nurse or a Doctor
❤ Read a book written in the 1800s
❤ Read a book with chocolate on the cover

❤ Read a book that contains a shakespeare quote
❤ Read a book where the character writes or receives a letter
❤ Read a book based in Italy

❤ Read a book based in India
❤ Read a book where a husband gives his wife a present
❤ Read a book where there is a character who is an Emperor

[Louise]

Part 2 tasks of the mini Valentine challenge are posted above. When posting your books please indicate if it will work for any of the above tasks also.

Happy Reading

[Andrea]

Return to the Isle of the Lost
Date Read: 2/14
- 2: 2nd book in series
- 8: character Evie
- 3: setting called Hell Hall

Valentines day challenges: 3 or more group of friends, and a 3 in page count

[Katie]

Book Read: Burn for Me
Date Read: 2/14/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
2 - Setting: Texas
3 - Setting: Houston
5 - Author: Ilona Andrews
9 - Character: Nevada Baylor

Book Read: Moonshadow
Date Read: 2/14/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
2 - Author: Thea Harrison
3 - Author: Thea Harrison
6 - Character: Sophie Ross
8 - Setting: England
9 - Character: Nikolas Sevigny
Valentine's Pt 2
❤ Read a book where two characters fall in love
❤ Read a book with a 3 in the page count
❤ Read a book where someone gives a gift
❤ Read a book where there are a group of 3 or more friends
❤ Read a book where a new friendship is made
❤ Read a book where a character is a nurse or a Doctor
❤ Read a book where the character writes or receives a letter

[Andrea]

im thinking about reading this book called vDo I Look Fat in This?: Life Doesn't Begin Five Pounds from Now but idk if it applies to the challenge. its self help and over 250 pages but some pages have pictures and little text messages so im not sure how many words it has.

[Sophie]

Teddie - I hope you enjoy it!

Finished The Gunslinger
Finished 15/2
3 stars
0. Zoltan character
1. Book 1 in series
2. First letter of title/location Tull
6. Stephen King - author
Skip Stephen King

3 in page count
1st kiss
New friendship

I'm going to try and read Hag-Seed (Karen) and Neverwhere (Dima) for the 1st part of the Valentine's challenge

[Paula]

From the rules of the mini challenge:
❤ Only books read February 14-28 will count for this challenge.
❤ Please note that books started before Feb-14 don't count for this mini-challenge
❤ The countdown to the start of this mini challenge is here
❤ The usual book length requirement for UNO apply
❤ Complete all tasks and your team gets a bonus 30 points
❤ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands

So if you started a book before the 14, it wouldn't count =/

[Katie]

Book Read: Anything You Can Do
Date Read: 2/15/17
Rating: 1 star
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
2 - Character: Lucas Thatcher
3 - Setting: Hamilton, Texas
❤ Read a book where two characters fall in love
❤ Read a book where there is unrequited love
❤ Read a book where someone gives a gift
❤ Read a book where the characters go to a dance
❤ Read a book where a character is a nurse or a Doctor
❤ Read a book where the character writes or receives a letter

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Hello team Heathcliff!

Coming over to you from your valentine Yvaine :)

I hope you have all found some books on our shelves that you would like to read.

Wuthering Heights is one of my all time favourite books. I fell in love with it as a teenager when I found a copy in my grandmother's books. I have various editions from 1920 through to about 1990 and I re-read the book every year or so.
Heathcliff in particular is one of my favourite literary characters. When I first read the book I couldn't stand him! As the years have gone by I find myself thinking of him differently, even with sympathy. And that is one of the reasons why I love the book so much, it gives me different thoughts and feelings on each read. Oh, and I've seen it done as a play multiple times too.
Now I've said all of that.... Maybe I'm on the wrong team? LOL!

[Gavin]

So, any chance you'd like to join us? ;)

[Gavin]

Book Read:: Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Whimsy #12)
Date Read: 2/15/17
Rating: 4 Stars
Cards it can be used for:
3 (Harriet)
7 (Vane)
Skip (Peter)

[Gavin]

If anyone's interested, it was a pretty good book, and can be used for multiple Valentine's mini challenges. Unfortunately, I started reading before the 14th :(

[Sophie]

Karen - you'd probably do better here than most of us who don't seem to have read it!



Also I've finished Q is for Quarry
15/2
3 stars
Can be used for:
1. Oliphant (character)
3. Henry (character)
6. Sue Grafton (author)
Skip Kinsey (character)

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Gavin wrote: "So, any chance you'd like to join us? ;)"

haha
Maybe next year ;)

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

lol Sophie

Well hopefully I can encourage one or two of you to pick it up sometime :)

[Paula]

Andrea wrote: "im thinking about reading this book called vDo I Look Fat in This?: Life Doesn't Begin Five Pounds from Now but idk if it applies to the challenge. its self help and over 250 pages bu..."
Andrea, it depends on the word count, if it has more than 25,000 words you can read it for the challenge. But if you can't assure the word count, I believe we can't use it =/

[Andrea]

Paula wrote: "Andrea wrote: "im thinking about reading this book called vDo I Look Fat in This?: Life Doesn't Begin Five Pounds from Now but idk if it applies to the challenge. its self help and ov..."

i cant find the word count anywhere :(

[Andrea]

Super Rich: The guide to having it all
Rating: 4 stars
Finished: 02/16

Only can count for 6: Author - Russell Simmons

[Paula]

Now, I'd like to know if we're going to plan the mini challenge, because those are a loooot of books to read and some are quite difficult (specially Part 1)
I did a little research to make things easier =)

Read a book your valentine team has read this month
Karen's read this month:


Nikk's read this month:


Kathleen's read this month


Sally's read this month:


Lisa's read this month:


Chava's read this month:


Sarah's read this month:


Dima's read this month:




We need to read only 5 books from this list, currently I'm reading Stardust (read by Dima), I know Sophie's reading Hag-seed (read by Karen) and that she intends to read Neverwhere (read by Dima). So we have covered at least 2 books from this task :D
Is anyone else reading one of these books?

The idea is not to read more books than needed, because there are other tasks in this mini challenge.
I can research for the other tasks too if needed :P

[Katie]

Wow Paula! This is so helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

I'm going to be reading Force of Temptation (read by Sally) soon. I think the problem is that the books I'd be interested in reading are mostly in the middle of series and I can't just hop into the middle of a series. Depending on how my other challenges are going, I could read a couple more.

I'm finding a lot of options/book for Part 2 of the Valentine's challenge, so hopefully that section will be easier to complete.

[Louise]

I need to read for another challenge. I think the Valentine's cards will be the easiest to read for

[Gavin]

I'd like to read Wonder (read by Karen).

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

What Alice Forgot and Wonder are two of my favourite books. Great choices!!

[Gavin]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "lol Sophie

Well hopefully I can encourage one or two of you to pick it up sometime :)"

Actually, I'm thinking of starting it in a week or so... People say it's GREAT and my uncle recommended it to me...

[Andrea]

Ashley (She Just Reads) wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Paula wrote: "Andrea wrote: "im thinking about reading this book called vDo I Look Fat in This?: Life Doesn't Begin Five Pounds from Now but idk if it applies to the ch..."

thanks for trying :) im not gonna be counting the words, so ill just wait til after the challenge probably :)

[Gavin]

Is it possible to self-calculate the words? Like, count how many words are on a page then multiply that by the amount of pages?

[Gavin]

Oh, and I was able to pull off one of my rare binge reads.

Book Read: Wonder
Date Read: 2/17/17
Rating: 4.5
Cards it can be used for:
0 (Standalone)
1 (Olivia)
2 (Tuschman)
7 (Via)
Skip (Palacio)
Mini Challenges it'll work for:
Read a book your Valentine team has read (Karen read this)
Read a book where two characters fall in love (Via and Julian fall in love)
Read a book where the main character has a pet (Auggie's family has a dog)
Read a book with a 3 in the page count (page count was three hundred something)
Read a book where someone gives a gift (Auggie's dad and sister brought a surprise home for him, a friend gave Auggie's a gift in the past).
Read a book where the main character is and remains single (Auggie remains and is single)
Read a book with a group of 3 or more friend (Auggie, Jack, and Summer)
Read a book where a new friendship is made (lots are made)
Read a book where a character is a nurse or doctor (Auggie goes to lots of different doctors)

[Louise]

Good work Gavin.