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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2020
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Didn’t think to check the release date 😒I suppose I’ll keep looking
What about Alphas: Origins by Ilona Andrews? It’s a bit short at 135 pages though.
I almost got jealous there haha ;-)But
works as well, yes.
Tiarra wrote: "Does 
work for green?"That would most definitely work for green!
Sharon picked up the last green cover in the meantime though, so we're good on the colour covers. Thanks though!
Absolutely keep this one in mind for April because we'll most likely have another green card or two coming then!
Completion Post
Book: Love Life by Lexy Timms
Date Read: 10th March
Rating: 3 stars
Uno Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - author
3 - character: Allison Holbrook
6 - character: Blake Smithson
Adding a few this afternoon after our annual mandatory CPR/First Aid training!
Ah the fun of mandatory CPR training every year! It's got to the point I know what jokes the people that run ours are going to make before they do...
COMPLETION
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
5*
11/3
Read for 4 Green - also works for
2 - Terrence Skinner
3 - Leo Hoyt
4 - title
6 - Terrence Skinner
7 - Victor
8 - Everest
9 - Thomas Nightingale
Skip - Peter Grant
On the Steel Breeze Alastair Reynolds
11/3
4*
Read for yellow 1 - also works for
1 - title
2 - Travertine
3- Hanu Akinya
8 - Eunice Akinya
Hopefully from here my reading will speed up a little! Feel like it's been a bit of a crawl so far this month.
Hi Team! and Hi Kayla and Tiarra, welcome! :)Sorry I've been quiet over the last week, I've been struck down with sickness! (Not Convid..) My reading has been completely shelved, I haven't been arsed to do anything, but feeling a lot better now so I'll try and get this book finished and onto the next one! :)
How is everyone this week?
Poor you! Glad to hear you are starting to feel better.I'm good, getting ready for COVID to have an impact at work (I'm training to be a GP) so trying to keep up to date with the heaps of guidance coming out.
Sophie wrote: "Poor you! Glad to hear you are starting to feel better.I'm good, getting ready for COVID to have an impact at work (I'm training to be a GP) so trying to keep up to date with the heaps of guidanc..."
Oh my, good luck! I can't imagine working is a hospital atm - I'm sick of working in an office and having everyone moaning and panic buying over it. You'd think it was the end of the world.
Frankly, I've arrived at the point where I'd be happy if people were panicking a little more over it here, because honestly, this insouciance over the virus is getting to me a little. People are NOT paying attention and they're still not cancelling the bigger events for the most part.. it's a little frightening, especially considering we're smack dab in the middle of ever-growing trouble zones..
Sorry to hear about you being down for the count though, Kate! Sucks when you're feeling so crap that you aren't up for anything at all but at least that's where mindless TV can come in quite handy sometimes. And sleeping.. ah, sleeping. Utter bliss! :-DGlad to hear you're feeling better! :-)
I forgot to add the book I was reading!I’m reading Fangirl by: Rainbow Rowell
It fits for Green and 4 so far :)
I’ll update when I finish because I’m headed to work now
It's tricky because for the majority of individuals, it'll be pretty mild. The problem is if it isn't, ITU and health services all over the world are going to get swamped v fast. Italy has a lot of ITU beds compared to the UK and USA and they've already reached the point that if you're under 65 you don't get in. The more we can spread out the number of people getting it, the better we can treat everyone who needs it.The other thing to remember is not to get in a car crash etc as the hospitals might not be able to treat you.
Basically each person is likely to be fine, but if you're unlucky or otherwise ill, you'd really like it if everyone was cautious.
Completion post
Here and Now and Then
Book: Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
Dates: 3/8/20-3/11/20
5 stars
Cards-
3 Blue- Title begins with H and Blue cover/ Heather Stewart
4-Markus Fernandez
6- Kin Stewart
7- Veronica Bamford
Skip-Penny Fernandez
The ending on this one really pulled at the heartstrings.
Hey guys I just looked at the spreadsheet and I don’t really get why it has so many red ticks in the corners.I just look at it from my desktop and now the spreadsheet has red ticks, it didn’t on the app so I’m just wondering why it has those?
Those are on there where we are using a book for multiple cards (i.e. the draw 2 hands). It stops the spreadsheet double counting the number of books each person has read - so helps to see if we need new team members!
Sharon - I'm glad the book was so good! Always a pleasure to find a series that pulls at the heartstrings
Starting
unless someone has something better for the Green.
Enjoy! I don't think we've had other suggestions for that card in particular.We've still got 4 reverse cards to read for. I'm going to look through some of your shelves later for ideas of what to start next to fill one of them. Haven't got a book that's particularly calling to me.
Sophie wrote: "Sharon - I'm glad the book was so good! Always a pleasure to find a series that pulls at the heartstrings"Sophie,I don't think this was part of a series which actually helps the ending. The book took a little while to get started but I'm glad I stuck with it. I don't find books to often that make me feel both happy that it ended so perfectly or sad that it's over.
Sophie wrote: "Enjoy! I don't think we've had other suggestions for that card in particular.We've still got 4 reverse cards to read for. I'm going to look through some of your shelves later for ideas of what to..."
Do you have a particular genre you like?
So I’m starting a 4 day trip across the US on the 19th and wanted everyone’s recommendations on audiobooks for the almost 40 HOURS of driving.
Fantasy, Crime, Romance, any that intersect those. Basically any fiction that isn't horror!
My recommendation would be the Rivers Of London series if you haven't already listened to them. Kobna Holbrook Smith does an incredible job with them.
Sharon wrote: "So I’m starting a 4 day trip across the US on the 19th and wanted everyone’s recommendations on audiobooks for the almost 40 HOURS of driving."Dresden Files!!
They're read by James Marsters, aka Spike.
First book is: Storm Front
Once I'm done with
, I was thinking about maybe picking up
for reverse as Sophie has read it. I've been meaning to read it for a while. Or maybe - because I'm so terrible at sticking to reading plans - I'll pick up something entirely different but I'll try for it to be a reverse one way or another haha.
Completion post
Book:Origins
Read: 3/11/20
4 stars
Cards:
Green- green cover
1- Oklahoma/ Origins title
2-Karina Tucker
3- Henry ( no last name)
5- Ilona Andrews
8- Emily Tucker
Book:Mermaid Inn
Read: 2/13/20-3/11/20
3 stars
Cards:
1- Olivia Powell
3- Jenny Holiday
5- Mermaid Inn
6- Sawyer Collins
8- Eve Abbott
Skip- Pearl Brunetta
Sharon wrote: "Book:Mermaid Inn
Read: 2/13/20-3/11/20
3 stars
Cards:
1- Olivia Powell
3- Jenny Holiday
5- Mermaid Inn
6- Sawyer Collins
8- Eve Abbott
Skip- Pearl B..."
Had to take breaks in between this one with other books because it took forever to get going. Fortunately I finally finished and hopefully it covers some good cards.
Thanks for the recommendations! Both sound great and I couldn’t decide between them so I got both. Can’t wait to start. Also a disclaimer audiobooks definitely take me longer than if I’m reading them, with extended periods in the car it shouldn’t be an issue but just so everyone is aware.
Tiarra wrote: "I’m reading FangirlIt fits for Green and 4 so far :)
It’s also a reverse with Eldaerwen I believe"
Yep, I've read that one years ago. Can't remember much of what happened in that one though apart from the odd fanfic parts.
Sharon wrote: "Had to take breaks in between this one with other books because it took forever to get going. Fortunately I finally finished and hopefully it covers some good cards."It's a shame when books take so long to get going, especially when they're as big as this one.
Every card is a good card! :-)
Though, I do have a question about the 5 you mentioned? Mermaid Inn is the name of a place, right? In that case, it will not count for 5, since for locations only the very first letter can be used for cards.
Glad you liked the suggestions! No worries over audio taking longer.Well done on getting Mermaid Inn finished. I've had a couple of books like that recently and they really do go slowly!
I've settled on Triptych which E read a while ago as my next book to start.
Actually the location of the story takes place in various parts of Moonflower Bay aka Matchmaker Bay. The inn is more a focal point in the story. I think I was going for the title starting with I for that anyway. Oh well hope it works in other ways!
Tried to add these last night - had the whole post and then accidently deleted it. Went to bed instead. So here we go. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Date Read - March 8
Color - Yellow (I know we don't need any more but if you need to move things around)
0 - Stand alone
1 - None
2 - Place - Tuscany
3 - Title - Heat
4 - None
5 - Place - Italy
6 - None
7 - None
8 - Person - Elisa
9 - Place - New York City
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
March 10th
0 - Stand Alone
1 - Place - Ormoc Bay
2 - Person - Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita
3 - Author - Hornfischer
4 - Place - Formosa
5 - None
6 - Place - Samar
7 - None
8 - None
9 - Vice Admiral Nishimura
Skip - Vice Admiral Kurita
Sophie wrote: "I've settled on Triptych which E read a while ago as my next book to start."Good choice!
I actually need to pick up the next book in that series.
Please remember for nonfiction books that characters do not count for the cards - unless it is written like a novel as for example Eat, Pray, Love.
Hi guys sorry I have not been updating but I have had a really bad week so far. I am struggling to read
but will contnue to push through it. I am also going to pick up
as a reverse because I believe Sophie, Kate H, Sharon, Dima & Kayla have read it.
Sorry to hear you've had a bad week so far! Hopefully it'll pick up a little bit. And that the book isn't too much of a struggle the further you get!
Completion post:
The Wrath and the Dawn
author : Renée Ahdieh
color - Red
0 - Musa Zaragoza
1 - Omar al-Sadiq
1 - First in series
2 - Tariq Imran al-Ziyad (Tariq)
6 - Shahrzad
Skip - Khalid ibn al-Rashid (Khalid)
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That is definitely a green one, yes.
Do you have an ARC??