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Happy Easter team Heathcliff Team Peeta Mellark...something fun to read!
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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Date Read: 08/04/17
Rating: 4*
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character T: Tillman
6 - Author S: Simsion
Reverse: Read by Sophie
Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Date Read: 12/04/17
Rating: 4*
1 -#1 in series
6 - Character S: Sybilla
Skip - Location K: Kent
Reverse - Read by Sophie
Easy Magic by Kristen Proby
Date Read: 14/04/17
Rating: 3*
5 - #5 in series
6 - Character S: Shelby
7 - Character V: Van
8 - Title E
9 - Setting N: New Orleans
Skip - Author
All books have been added to the spreadsheet. Gavin don't forget to add your book to your UNO shelf.This is what we still need
1 - 5
2 - 5
3 - 5
4 - 5
5 - 5
6 - 3
7 - 3
8 - 5
9 - 5
SKIP - 1
And the coloured cards
Yellow 2, 5
Green 0, 6
Blue 4, 6, 7, 8
Happy Easter from Team Ove!!
Thanks guys! And a Happy Easter to you fellas :)
Happy Easter from Team Elizabeth Bennett! 
Happy Easter from Team Robert Langdon!
Happy Easter from Team Ron Weasley!
Hi Katie!
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you are all getting time to do the things you enjoy.Finished:
2: Timothy Schaefer (character)
4: Foley Sullivan (character)
6: Daisy Sullivan (character)
7: Violet Sullivan (character)
Skip: Kinsey Milhone (character)
2: 2nd in series
3: Tammy Hollins (character)
Louise: are there any of the coloured cards in early hands that we need to concentrate on?
Sophie, we have a 0 green in hand 5
5 yellow in hand 8
The remaining colored cards are in hand 15
Team Heathcliff, Eve Dallas wishes you an Easter free from all brooding!
Easter Mini Challenge
The Easter bunny has been busy here around the Perks and has hidden a number of eggs within the team threads. (one per team thread)
Some of the eggs have tasks for you to read to gain extra points. Some require you to fill in the missing word/s or solve the riddles she left you and PM the answer to Pixie. For these ones, your captain/co-captain will send a PM with you answer to me (Pixie).
To speed up the process a bit, please try to send a few answers in each PM. Please allow for time differences and RL when replies are not instant
To give you a head start, we will give you one of the hidden eggs here so you know the kind of thing you are looking for (a post by Pixie with an Easter related picture and the details will be under the spoiler tag)
This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.
There are lots of points on offer! 10 points for each task completed! (unless otherwise specified) Plus an extra 5 bonus points for each completed egg (i.e. you complete all the tasks given for that team egg)
❀ Only books read April 15-30 will count for this challenge. (Start of mini challenge is April 15, 7pm Sydney, Australia time)
❀ Please note that books started before April-15 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
❀ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
☆Egg dyes were once made out of natural items such as onion peels, tree bark, flower petals, and juices. Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
• Onion
• Peel
• Tree
• Flower
• Petal
• Juice
Words can only be found once, and only one word / book
☆In Salfeld, Germany Easter is synonymous with an egg-bedecked tree that's the source of much local pride. Every year for more than 40 years, a prominent local family has decorated an apple tree outside its home with a spectrum of painted and embellished Easter eggs. What began as a dozen and a half plastic eggs is now a monumental collection requiring nearly two weeks to hang. Last year's tree was dressed with 9,800 eggs, many painted in extraordinary detail with landscapes and town scenes, and some covered in crochet netting and sequins.
✤ Read a book with a decorator
✤ Read a book set in a small town
✤ Read a book with a character is obsessed with a holiday
☆The largest ever Easter egg hunt was in Florida, where 9,753 children searched for 501,000 eggs.
✥ Read a book with over 500 000 ratings
✥ Read a book with over 10 000 reviews
✥ Read a book with an important character is younger than 15
☆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
☆✿ Read a book with a rabbit on the cover
✿ Read a book with a white cover
✿ Read a book with an orange cover
✿ Read a book with a bird on the cover
☆On Holy Thursday in the Medieval town of Verges, Spain, the traditional "dansa de la mort" or "death dance" is performed. To reenact scenes from The Passion, everyone dresses in skeleton costumes and parades through the streets. The procession ends with frightening skeletons carrying boxes of ashes. The macabre dance begins at midnight and continues for three hours into the early morning
✳ Read a book where the characters dance
✳ Read a book where a main character dies
✳ Read a book based during the 5th - 15th century
☆The Easter bonnet parade is a tradition shared by Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Australian kids go around school and up and down the streets wearing hats decorated with bunny ears, chicken designs, Easter eggs, and chocolate.
❈ Read a book set in Australia
❈ Read a book with a hat on the cover
❈ Read a book with a parade
☆The tallest chocolate Easter egg ever was made in Italy in 2011. At 10.39 metres in height and 7,200 kg in weight, it was taller than a giraffe and heavier than an elephant!
✲ Read a book set in Italy
✲ Read a book first published in 2011
✲ Read a book where the MC's goes to the zoo
✲ Read a book with a 7 and a 2 in the page count. (any combination)
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out P
Y
S
A
N
K
A
(Normal Uno rules apply, For this spell-it-out, you can also use the first letter in the series name.)
☆The task for this egg is to spell out
L
U
C
K
(Normal Uno rules apply, For this spell-it-out, you can also use the first letter in the series name.)
☆ The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century
❖ Read a book set in Germany
❖ Read a Book with chocolate on the cover
❖ Read a book that is 1st in a series
☆The first Easter baskets were made to imitate bird nests
Spell out
B
A
S
K
E
T
☆Don't forget a fork if you're in this southern French town on Easter Monday. Each year a giant omelet is served up in the town's main square. And when we say giant, we mean giant: The omelet uses more than 4,500 eggs and feeds up to 1,000 people. The story goes, when Napoleon and his army were traveling through the south of France, they stopped in a small town and ate omelets. Napoleon liked his so much that he ordered the townspeople to gather their eggs and make a giant omelet for his army the next day.
✧ Read a book where the MC works in the food industry
✧ Read a book set in France
✧ Read a book where all the letters in Haux can be found in the title
☆Children in Finland go begging in the streets with sooty faces and scarves around their heads, carrying broomsticks, coffeepots and bunches of willow twigs. In some parts of Western Finland, people burn bonfires on Easter Sunday, a Nordic tradition stemming from the belief that the flames ward off witches who fly around on brooms between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
✢ Read a book with a grey cover
✢ Read a book with witches
✢ Read a book where there is a fire
☆Pouring water on one another is a Polish Easter tradition called Smingus-Dyngus. On Easter Monday, boys try to drench other people with buckets of water, squirt guns or anything they can get their hands on. Legend says girls who get soaked will marry within the year. The refreshing tradition has its origins in the baptism of Polish Prince Mieszko on Easter Monday in 966 AD.
✦ Read a book with water on the cover
✦ Read a book where a character goes swimming
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title
☆Easter is such a popular time for Norwegians to read crime novels that publishers actually come out with special "Easter Thrillers" known as Paaskekrimmen. The tradition is said to have started in 1923 when a book publisher promoted its new crime novel on the front pages of newspapers. The ads resembled news so much that people didn't know it was a publicity stunt.
✾ Read a book where the genre on the main page in Goodreads is Crime
✾ Read a book where the genre on the main page in Goodreads is Thriller
✾ Read a book where the genre on the main page in Goodreads is Suspense
♥The act of exchanging gifts of eggs dates back to the time of the Egyptians and Persians! Painted eggs were given as gifts to symbolize fertility and new life✣ Give Easter gifts/greetings to the other teams.
1p / greeting. Each gift / greeting must be different to count
Augustus Waters
Becky Bloomwood
Bones
Buttercup
Elizabeth Bennet
Eve Dallas
Harry Dresden
Heathcliff
Hercule Poirot
Jack Torrance
Kate Daniels
Liesel Meminger
Mark Watney
Mercy Thompson
Ove
Peeta Mellark
Rachel Watson
Robert Langdon
Ron Weasley
Rose Hathaway
Sybilla (Billie) Bridgerton
Ty & Zane
Will Traynor
Yvaine
COMPLETE
☆Bermudians celebrate Good Friday by flying home-made kites, eating codfish cakes, and eating hot cross buns. According to Bermuda-Online.org, the tradition is said to have begun when a local teacher from the British Army had difficulty explaining Christ’s ascension to Heaven to his Sunday school class. He made a kite, traditionally shaped like a cross, to illustrate the Ascension. The traditional Bermuda kites are made with colorful tissue paper, long tails, wood, metal, and string.
Spell out
K
I
T
E
☆In Ireland in the past, a mock funeral for a herring would be held on Easter Saturday, which marked the end of the Lenten period where Catholics would abstain from eating red meat.
✟ Read a book where a funeral takes place
✟ Read a book with a vegetarian
✟ Read a book where the MC works in a church
(other places of religious worship are also ok)
☆On the morning of Holy Saturday, the traditional "Pot Throwing" takes place on the Greek island of Corfu: People throw pots, pans and other earthenware out of their windows, smashing them on the street. Some say the custom derives from the Venetians, who on New Year's Day used to throw out all of their old items. Others believe the throwing of the pots welcomes spring, symbolizing the new crops that will be gathered in the new pots.
❇ Read a book with pots or pans on the cover
❇ Read a book where a character is a cook or a chef
❇ Read a book where the characters go to a cafe or restaurant
☆✴ Read a book that contains the word egg in the text or title
✴ Read a book based in Washington, D.C
✴ Read a book where a character is a President or First Lady
☆❃ Read a book that is in the "Best Books Ever" Listopia List
❃ Read a book that won a Goodreads Choice Award
❃ Read a book with a Number between 1-500 in the title (can be spelled out)
☆✻ Read a book which has one or more rabbits on the cover
✻ Read a book with an Australian native animal on the cover
✻ Read a book where a main character is an animal
☆❉ Read a book based on a tropical island
❉ Read a book that contains the word Easter in the text or title
❉ Read a book with a statue on the cover
from Harry Dresden and his team mates
Wishing you a wonderful Easter from Team Yvaine :)
Easter Challenge Hi team all the Easter Eggs have been found and the associated tasks are above. I am just waiting on the answer to 3 questions to get our last tasks.
We get 10pts per task and an additional 5pts for completing an Easter Egg. When posting your book let us know as many options as possible it will work for.
As you've probably guessed part of the challenge is to post an Easter Greeting/ Gift in each teams thread. 1pt per unique gift. If you wish to post a greeting link your post here so we can track.
To start us off my Easter Gift to you all
Happy Easter Team Heathcliff from Team Bones!! Enjoy your day!
Happy Easter everyone from Team Hercule Poirot!
I went to Team Ty & Zane, Robert Langdon, Mark Watney, Rachel Watson, Bones, Augustus Waters, Buttercup, Elizabeth Bennet, Eve Dallas, Harry Dresden, Hercule Poirot, Liesel Meminger, Ove, Peeta Mellark, Rose Hathaway, Sybilla Bridgerton, Will Traynor, Yvaine, Ron Weasley and Becky Bloomwood and posted an easter greeting =)
From Team Rose Hathaway =D
Paula wrote: "I went to Team Ty & Zane, Robert Langdon, Mark Watney, Rachel Watson, Bones, Augustus Waters, Buttercup, Elizabeth Bennet, Eve Dallas, Harry Dresden, Hercule Poirot, Liesel Meminger, Ove, Peeta M..."Great stuff Paula.
The Corner Shop of Whispers by Debbie Viggiano
Date Read: 15/04/17
0 - Standalone
2 - Character Tom
3 - Character Harriet
4 - Character Florence
7 - Author Viggiano
Lovestruck in London by Rachel Schurig
Date Read: 17/04
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Thomas
3 - Character Thomas Harper
6 - Author - Rachel Schurig
8 - Character - Elizabeth (lizzie)
Colour Blue
EASTER MINI
●Letters S (author);L (title); C (character Callie ); T (character) E (character)
● 1st in series
● 7&2 in page count
● Characters go yo a cafe
● Text: Monday -pg27; Egg- pg134; Onion - pg134; Tree -pg22; Flower -pg 46
Sophie, your Kinsey Millhone book works for Blue also. Don't forgetto add a read date to your books and add it to your Uno shelf.
I'm finishing a book today and I'll start a blue book tomorrow that will work for 6 blue and with that we'd have almost all blue cards
Just checked The Corner Shop of Whispers coming up as 60% blue, I'll slot it into 7 Blue, with yours Paula that's all the blue cards complete :-)
Louise - The Chocolate Garden has been tagged etc, but is being temperamental about showing up on my shelves so might cause a problem. Hopefully it'll fix itself soon.Going to read
which should work for green 0
Great!Finished
Boom read: El león, la bruja y el ropero by C.S. Lewis
Date read: 17/4
Rating: 5stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character: Tumnus
4 - Character: Fenris Ulf
6 - Character: Susana
8 - Character: Edmundo
9 - Setting: Narnia
skip - Character: Pedro
Easter Mini
Augustus Waters:
Onion (Cebolla): p. 81
Flower (flor): p.115
Tree (árbol): p.120
Becky Bloomwood:
P:Pedro, S: Susana, A: Aslan, N: Narnia
Buttercup:
1st in series
Elizabeth Bennet:
A: Aslan, S: Susana, E: Edmundo, T: Tumnus
Harry Dresden:
Over 500,000 ratings: has 1,521,916 Ratings
Over 10,000 reviews: has 14,616 Reviews
Important character younger than 15: Lucía is younger than 15
Liesel Meminger:
There's a witch: Jadis, the White Whitch
Peeta Mellark:
Lucía and Tumnus dance
Robert Langdon:
T: Tumnus, E: Edmundo
Ty & Zane:
It's in the Best book ever list (#150, and the whole saga is #6)
Will Traynor:
L: Lucía, U: Fenris Ulf, C: señor Castor
Book Read: Bear My SoulDate Read: 4/17/17
Rating: 2 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
2 - Author: TS Joyce
SKIP - Character: Cody Keller
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Tree - Loc 1062
✥ Read a book with an important character is younger than 15
✳ Read a book with 1 & 6 in the page count
❈ Read a book with a parade
❖ Read a book that is 1st in a series
☆The first Easter baskets were made to imitate bird nests
B or T
✢ Read a book where there is a fire
☆ Spell out KITE
T
❇ Read a book where the characters go to a cafe or restaurant
Book Read: Archangel's Enigma
Date Read: 4/17/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
5 - Character: Illium
6 - Author: Nalini Singh
8 - Book 8 in series
9 - Author: Nalini Singh
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Tree - Page 18
Flower - Page 163
✤ Read a book set in a small town
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out PYSANKA
A, N, S
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out BASKET
A, S
✢ Read a book where there is a fire
✦ Read a book where a character goes swimming
Book Read: Mister MoneybagsDate Read: 4/18/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
2 - Character: Dexter Truitt
7 - Author: Vi Keeland
9 - Setting: New York
SKIP - Author: Vi Keeland
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Tree - Loc 1435
Flower - Loc 2501
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out PYSANKA
P, K
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out LUCK
K
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out BASKET
K
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title
Loc 761
☆Spell out KITE
K
❇ Read a book where the characters go to a cafe or restaurant
✴ Read a book that contains the word egg in the text or title
Loc 1310
Will you guys be updating a post or reposting so we know which tasks have been covered? I don't want you guys to have to wade through a billion repeats if you don't have to. :)
Book was started before challenge start date, so it won't be able to count :(
Does anyone have a book Set in Germany or that has Chocolate on the cover they can read :)
Book Read: Spencer Cohen, Book OneDate Read: 4/19/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
6 - Title S
9 - Author: NR Walker
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out PYSANKA
S, N
❖ Read a book that is 1st in a series
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out BASKET
S
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title
Page 48
❇ Read a book where the characters go to a cafe or restaurant
Book Read: Easy with YouDate Read: 4/19/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
6 - Character: Asher Smith
8 - Title E
9 - Setting: New Orleans
SKIP - Author: Kristen Proby
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Peel, Page 75
Tree, Page 51
✥ Read a book with an important character is younger than 15
✳ Read a book with 1 & 6 in the page count
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out PYSANKA
P, K
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out LUCK
K
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out BASKET
K, E
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title
Page 42
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out KITE
K, E
❇ Read a book where the characters go to a cafe or restaurant
Book Read: Red Dirt Heart
Date Read: 4/19/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
2 - Character: Travis Craig
6 - Character: Charlie Sutton
9 - Author: NR Walker
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
✳ Read a book with 1 & 6 in the page count
❈ Read a book set in Australia
❈ Read a book with a hat on the cover
☆The task for that egg is to Spell out PYSANKA
N
❖ Read a book that is 1st in a series
✦ Read a book where a character goes swimming
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title
Page 29
❇ Read a book where a character is a cook or a chef
✴ Read a book that contains the word egg in the text or title
Page 21
to the wonderful Team Heathcliff from Team Becky Bloomwood...
I'll be going through the Easter tasks over the weekend to see what we can fill.
Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark
Date Read: 18/04
2 - Character Tommy
3 - Author H
4 - Character F: Flower
6 - Character S: Sam
7 - #7 in series
8 - Character E: Edmund
9 - Character N: Nora
Easter
Read a book set in a small town - Branscombe
Read a book with an 8 & 0 in the page count: 304pgs
Read a book where the genre on the main page in Goodreads is Thriller - Mystery Thriller
Letters: B, A, S, E, T, C,
Book Read: Jed Had to DieDate Read: 4/20/17
Rating: 2 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
0 - Stand Alone
2 - Author: Tara Sivec
6 - Author: Tara Sivec
8 - Character: Emma Jo
SKIP - Character: Payton
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Peel, Loc 2066
Tree, Loc 1440
Flower, Loc 1791
Juice, Loc 1615
✤ Read a book set in a small town - Bald Knob, KY
✳ Read a book where the characters dance
✧ Read a book where the MC works in the food industry
✦ Read a book with Monday in the text or title
Loc 2218
❇ Read a book where the characters go to a cafe or restaurant
✴ Read a book that contains the word egg in the text or title
Loc 892
Letters: T, S
Book Read: Archangel's Heart
Date Read: 4/21/17
Rating: 4 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
2 - Character: Tasha
3 - Character: Hannah
5 - Character: Illium
6 - Author: Nalini Singh
7 - Character: Valerius
8 - Character: Elena
9 - Book 9 in series
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Peel, Page 139
Tree, Page 207
Juice, Page 251
✴ Read a book that contains the word egg in the text or title
Page 27
Letters: A, N, S
Book Read: Witched At Birth
Date Read: 4/21/17
Rating: 3 stars
Card It Can Be Used For:
1 - Book 1 in series
2 - Setting: Texas
4 - Character: Winnie Foster
SKIP - Setting: Paris, TX
Cover Color: N/A
EASTER:
☆ Find the following 6 words in the text of 6 different books.
Peel, Loc 1115
Tree, Loc 1073
Flower, Loc 31
Juice, Loc 701
✥ Read a book with an important character is younger than 15
✳ Read a book with 1 & 6 in the page count
❈ Read a book with a hat on the cover
❖ Read a book that is 1st in a series
✢ Read a book with witches
✢ Read a book where there is a fire
✦ Read a book where a character goes swimming
Letters: P, C
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