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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2020
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Team Galactic Crème Brûlée
Completion Post:The Handmaid's Tale
date : 20-Apr-20
author: Margaret Atwood,
1 - first in series, Offred (character)
6 - Serena Joy
8 - Aunt Elizabeth
9 - Nick
Skip - Pam
Mini -??
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Univers
Date : 20-Apr-20
Author : Benjamin Alire Sáenz,
1- First in series
2 - Tuscan (place where Ari's aunt lives, and they visit her)
2, 5 - Ileana Tellez
8 - Charlie Escobedo, El Paso (place where Ari and Dante live)
9 - Gina Navarro
Skip - Sylvia
Mini
Aristotle - character
Sorry, I am not able to get my head around the Mini challenge. I read the recipe, but what next? How do we score point on this recipe?
For the mini, there are three parts:1. Spell-out
We're almost done with this part and picking books as they come in to fit it.
2. Words in the recipe/text
You look for words in the recipe that might also be found in your book's text or in the book's title. Or maybe the word in the recipe is something on your book's cover.
3. Teatime story
Using 15 book titles, we write a story about our tea time party.
The idea is to bake the recipe and to prepare tea time and then narrate the tea time story to the team whose recipe we've baked.
Completion Post
Book: Evermore by Alyson Noel
Date Read: 22nd April
Rating: 4 stars
Uno Cards:
1 - #1 in series
3 - character: Haven
6 - character: Sabine
8 - title
9 - author
Mini Challenge:
spell-out:
as above
A/D (character: Damen Auguste)
M (character: Miles)
Completion
Impostor by L.J. Ross
22/4
4*
Red
1 - 1st in series
2 - Tom Reilly
5 - title
6 - Seamus Murphy
8 - Emily Kelly
9 - Niall Byrne
Skip - Liam Kelly
Mini-challenge
Niall Byrne
Alexander Gregory
Seamus Murphy
Liam Kelly
Connor Byrne
Cathy Jones
Emily Kelly
Bill Douglas
Sean Walsh
Tom Reilly
Hi All,Long time no speak! Sorry I've been so quiet - it's been a rough couple of weeks at home. I don't think I'll be much help in the UNO challenge unfortunately due to home circumstances, which I'm sure you'll understand. I did manage to listen to an audiobook and read a book at the beginning of the month so I thought while I've got a free minute I'll add and try and help the team - if I'm lucky enough to read enough book before end of April ofcourse I'll try and add it. Hope everyone is staying safe and giving those they live with extra tight cuddles!
Completion Post:
1 - Character: Oedipus
2 - Book 2 in Series
3 - Title: 'Heroes..'
4 - Author Surname: Fry
6 - Author Firstname: Stephen
1 - Book 1 in Series
2 - Author First name: Tom
8 - Character name/ Title: Eve
Colour: Black?
Take care all.
Hey Kate!Good to hear from you!
Keep staying safe :-)
If by any chance you swing back by, then a read date would be good for both those books, thanks! :-)
(And maybe adding them to your uno shelf.)
Thanks for popping by when you could Kate! Always good to hear from anyone who can swing by.
Completion
While the Duke Was Sleeping by Sophie Jordan
24/4
3*
1 - 1st in series
4 - Poppy Fairchurch
6 - author
8 - Enid Autenberry
Skip - Poppy Fairchurch
Green enough? If yes it could be switched to green 5 in one of our next few hands.
Yep, green enough for me! And please let me know what you think of the book. I've been wondering about the Warrior Cats for some time now :-)
It was ok, not amazing. I've seen them on the library app for ages and thought I'd give it a chance. Will probably pick up the next one but not sure if more than that yet.
Hey guysSorry I haven't checked in my internet has been down. I'm feeling better. I have been reading alot so should be about 9- 12 books to come
This will be the first of my Completion Posts:
The Other Wife
Claire McGowan
6/4
3*
Blue
1 - Title
2 - Tom Khan
3 - Alison Hegarty
5 - Ivy Cottage
6 - Suzi
8 - Elle
9 - Nora
This was ok but did see why there was such hype around this book
The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
7/4
5*
Read for Reverse due to Eldarwen reading it previously
I loved it will definitely need to pick up the next in the series
Harry Potter 1
JK Rowling
8/4
5*
1 - Oliver Wood
2 - Dean Thomas
3 - Harry Potter
4- Professor Flitwick
6 - Professor Snape
7 - Vernon Dursley
9 - Neville Longbottom
Skip - Petunia Dursley
I just really needed an old favourite to get me through
I will upload some more of my completed posts over the next couple of days.
Bah, sucks when internet is down at the best of times, but these days it's even harder to get someone to come by to fix it!Glad to hear you're doing better :-)
Sophie wrote: "It was ok, not amazing. I've seen them on the library app for ages and thought I'd give it a chance. Will probably pick up the next one but not sure if more than that yet."They're probably geared towards a younger audience, which might make it less fun for us to read.
I think I'd probably have enjoyed them when I was the right age, the concept is great
Completion Post
Book: Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
Date read: 26th April
Rating: 4 stars
Uno Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - character: Thomas Cresswell
6 - title
7 - character: Victoria Edwards
8 - character: Lord Edmund Wadsworth
9 - character: Nathanial Wadsworth
Skip - author
Reverse - Raven has previously read it
Mini Challenge:
spell-out:
S - title
T/C (Thomas Cresswell)
K/M (Kerri Maniscalco)
L (cousin Liza)
W/B (William Blackburn)
A/W (Audrey Rose Wadsworth)
V/E (Victoria Edwards)
- butter (referenced several times)
- science (referenced a lot)
- egg (the top of a skull is compared to the top of an egg)
Cosmic Affogoto invites Galactic Creme Brulee to a tea party and a wonderful story about our team's latest quest to save they day! One awesome day, a human named Alice strode into C.A.’s head office and demanded help in solving a mystery. She swore the DODOs on Planetfall had stolen her top-secret recipe for Galactic Crème Brulee. This is no ordinary recipe mind you. After eating a ramekin of this lovely dessert, one is game for all kinds of inappropriate activities.
Well, the C.A. powers decided, it's best to hightail it to Planetfall to see what in the world is going down. Jenny charged towards the mind capsule and exclaimed to the C.A. Keepers, “Best to plan for the worst, and get Batman and Nightwalker to tag along if we can. If we do not take this one, the DODOs may double down, and our recipe will likely be next.”
Nightwalker agreed as his goal was to get his hands on the recipe for himself and Batman went along with it because he wanted his hands-on Alice.
After enduring a voyage that was one rise and fall after another, the ship landed just north of upside down. Everyone disembarked, falling like an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains!
Jenny started barking out orders, “Let’s get this mystery solved! Keri you make sure Batman and Alice behave. Michael you are responsible for DODO patrol…get Tammie and Carrie to help you. Zoe, you and Harmony make sure the ship is ready for DODO prisoners if we must cart any of those Neanderthals home with us! Laura, Nightwalker, you are with me…let’s find that special recipe. If we are not back by sundown, please send out a search party.
“Well what do we have here,” Laura whispers. “Looks like we’ve come across DODOs trying to sell the recipe to those lying ODOs. You don’t suppose they are telling the truth to those game playing Neanderthals do you?”
“On three, 1-2-3, hands up you thieving DODOs! Nightwalker read them their rights.”
As eloquent as ever, Nightwalker complied, “DODOs, you have the right to a last wish. It must be agreed to by sundown providing you hand over Alice’s secret recipe pronto.”
The DODOs thought it over carefully, “all we ask is that if we can’t have the delicious Galactic Crème Brulee recipe, then all we really want is some of that awesome Cosmic Affogoto. To go if possible.”
Well our journey has come to an end. A toast to our UNO Pixies for a great challenge!
Well done! :) Another completion post. Hopefully I'll have one more.
Stars: 4
Started: April 16
Finished: April 24
0 Blue: stand alone
words: water p. 154
FINAL COUNTDOWN
In some ways, time went by fast, and in others, not so much. But nevertheless it is almost the end of April, which sadly also means the end of Uno!
Not quite 2 days left!
Please finish up your current reads and get your completion posts in before the Countdown goes to 0!!
Thank you :-)
Completion post
8- Eleanor
Skip- Park
Cover is Yellow (?)
2-Tina
6-Steve
Ah Eleanor & Park. Fun times!I hope you enjoyed the book :-)
Can't believe we've got less than 2 days left!Thanks Tiarra and Kayla for those completions.
Now a couple from me:
A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
27/4
3*
1 first in series
2 author surname
3 Helena Sommers
4 inspector Forrest
5 Ian Routledge
6 Helena Sommers
Mini
Probably only the story
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
29/4
3*
2 - 2nd in series
3 - author surname
6 - Stormy
Skip - Peter Kavinsky
Mini
Ingredients - from ingredients to dessert, it's like magic (Ch 10)
Bread - like expensive bread Ch 35
The author of this begins with E. I'm happy to read it before the end to cover in case Kayla doesn't get Anna K done for Blue 8
Thanks for that, Sophie! :-)I'll finish up the last 10 pages of Scythe tonight and then dive back into Limited Wish, which I'm hoping to have done before the deadline!
It's a good thing that 1st May is a bank holiday, so I don't have to worry about staying up late to finish because there's no alarm clock in the morning haha.
Completion Post
Book: Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Date Read: 29th April
Rating: 4.5 stars
Uno Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - character: Citra Terranova
4 - character: William Faraday
6 - title
7 - character: Alessandro Volta
8 - character: Esme
9 - author
Skip - character: Kohl Whitlock
Mini Challenge:
rest, water, choice
spell-out as above and some others
quite a few food references but not in the baking line
Nearly there! Any and all completions v gratefully received!!
My last completion post is probably going to be tomorrow morning. Since the deadline is fairly late in the morning for me this time, and bank holiday as mentioned, I'll just do a relaxing morning on the couch with the rest of my book.Just as an fyi so we know that one is still incoming :-)
Later today, I'm going to play around with the titles for the story as well so we can snag those points and invite Science Brioche for teatime fun!
I've got an hour left in mine. Think that will be all I manage to finish before the deadline now (unless I get lots of time this evening...)
Story time tomorrow morning when my brain is fresh. It won't flow at the moment.There are 13-ish hours left on the clock!
Completion Post 1 of 4
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
8/4
4*
Reverse because Eldarwen has read it
Limelight
Emily Organ
9/4
4*
Red
1 - 1st in series
2 - Joseph Taylor
3 - Highgate Cemetery
4 - Edgar Fish
5 - Inspector James Blakely
6 - Sebastian Colehill
8 - Author
Skip - Penny Green
The Rookery
Emily Organ
10/4
4*
Blue
1 - Reuben O'Donoghue
2 - Tom Clifford
3 - Hugo Hawkins
4 - Edgar Fish
5 - Inspector James Blakely
6 - St Giles
7 - Adam de Vries
8 - Author
9 - Winston Nicholls
Skip - Penny Green
The Maid’s Secret
Emily Organ
11/4
4*
1 - Mrs O'Donnell
2 - Tom Clifford
3 - Hyde Park
4 - Edgar Fish
5 - Inspector James Blakely
6 - Sophia Glenville
7 - Viscount Wyndham
8 - Author
Skip - Penny Green
Completion Post 2 of 4
The Inventor
Emily Organ
12/4
4*
Green
1 - Old Jewry
2 - Title
3 - Mr Hamilton
4 - Edgar Fish
5 - Inspector James Blakely
6 - Simon Borthwick
7 - Mr Villier
8 - Author
Skip - Penny Green
Curse of the Poppy
Emily Organ
13/4
4*
2 - Tom Clifford
3 - Emma Holland
4 - Edgar Fish
5 - Inspector James Blakely
6 - Mr Sherman
8 - Author
Skip - Penny Green
Completion Post 3 of 4
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
19/4
4*
1 - 1st in series
2 - Citra Terranova
4 - William Faraday
6 - title
7 - Alessandro Volta
8 - Esme
9 - author
Skip -Kohl Whitlock
Mini Challenge:
rest, water, choice
Chocolate, Clues, and Catastrophe
Meredith Potts
21/4
3*
1 - 1st in Series
2 - Tilden Lane
4 - Kristina Fowler
6 - Scott Webster
9 - Nancy
Skip - Author
Mini: Baked
Pretzels, Problems, and Peril
Meredith Potts
21/4
3*
2- 2nd in Series
4 - Kristina Fowler
6 - Scott Webster
Skip - Author
Cake, Coincidences and Casualties
Meredith Potts
21/4
3*
1 - Oliver Perkins
2- The Majestic Cove Bakery
3 - 3rd in Series
4 - Kristina Fowler
6 - Scott Webster
Skip - Author
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco
24/4
4*
1 - 1st in series
2 - Thomas Cresswell
6 - Title
7 - Victoria Edwards
8 - Lord Edmund Wadsworth
9 - Nathanial Wadsworth
Skip - Author
Mini Challenge: Butter, science, egg
Completion Post 4 of 4
The Gaslight Stalker
David Field
25/4
5*
1 - Osbourne Street
2 - Martha Turner
3 - Harry Turner
4 - Author
5- Inspector Reid
6- Spitalfields
8 - Esther Jacobs
9 - Polly Nicolls
Skip -Pearly Poll
Mini Challenge: Sugar, salt, butter, milk
The Night Caller
David Field
26/4
5*
2 - Helen Trenchard
3 - Mr Hemmingsworth
4 - Author
5- Inspector Modley
6- Spitalfields
7 - Victoria Park
8 - Esther Jacobs
Skip -Percy Enright
Mini Challenge: Sugar, salt, butter, milk, bread, water, dry
The Prodigal Sister
David Field
25/4
5*
1 - Edgar Ormonde
2 - Teddy
3 - 3rd in Series
4 - Author
5- Inspector Wallace
6- Swindon
8 - Esther Enright
Skip -Percy Enright
Mini Challenge: Dry, dehrydration, water, egg, milk, rest , oven
Sorry everyone for the delay in posting my completed posts but sadly I have lost some really good friends recently. Hopefully next year's Uno challenge will be better.
Hello friends at Team Galactic Creme Brulee. We at Team Void Tartlet would like to thank you for your galactic creme brulee recipe and share with you a story of our tea party!It was a miserable, hot summer morning when the group of fairies gathered at the shore to hear the story of their friend, the astronaut, and his trip to outer space. Their friend had left on an extravagant adventure nearly a hundred days ago and promised to regale them with tales of his adventures upon his return. He said he would meet them at first light, but the sun continued to rise without any sign of him. The Blue Fairy, always in a temper and bored by the quiet morning, huffed, "How dare he keep us waiting?"
"Oh, calm down," the Pink Fairy replied. "You know how mortals are. Their sense of time is not as acute as ours."
The Blue Fairy folded her arms across her body in reply.
"I think it's wonderful that he even is willing to share his stories with us at all," chimed in the Green Fairy, who stood up and began to dance daintily around their tea table. "And he promised to bring us the most delectable desserts from his travels! How lucky we are!"
"I am getting rather hungry," replied the Purple Fairy. "I do wish he would get here with breakfast already."
Just then, a shadow loomed over the four fairies. They looked up to see the astronaut heading toward them, a tray in his hand.
"Oh, he's here!" the Green Fairy exclaimed, and she spilled over a glass of water in her excitement.
The Blue Fairy sighed again. "It certainly took you long enough."
"Don't be cross," the astronaut replied, "for I have the most wonderful stories to tell you. But first, we eat."
He set down the tray of Galactic Creme Brulee desserts, and the four fairies each grabbed one. They spooned pieces into their mouths and looked up expectantly.
"Well?" they asked together.
The astronaut looked at each of them separately, then leaned in toward them so they could hear better. "Let me start from the beginning."
The Veiled Heart - read for blue 8 Elsa HollandThe Consuming Fire - works for 2 title and 6 author John Scalzi
I finished both of these overnight. Skeleton completion for now to check it's in on time
RavenclawLibraryBooks wrote: "Sorry everyone for the delay in posting my completed posts but sadly I have lost some really good friends recently. Hopefully next year's Uno challenge will be better."
I am so sorry to hear that! My condolences!
Yes, I think practically everyone in the challenge is hoping for a better challenge next year. It's been ... odd this year, to say the least. Thanks for all the completions!
Sophie wrote: "The Veiled Heart - read for blue 8 Elsa HollandThe Consuming Fire - works for 2 title and 6 author John Scalzi
I finished both of these overnight..."
Still almost 2 hours left on the clock, so you're good :-)
Countdown
A little over an hour left.
I'm going to have breakfast now and finish up my book. Then I'll write the story.
If anyone else has another completion post.... now is the time!! ;-)
Completion Post
Book: Limited Wish by Mark Lawrence
Date Read: 1st May (using 30th April on spreadsheet to avoid confusion)
Rating: 3 stars
Uno Cards:
2 - #2 in series
3 - character: Nick Hayes
6 - character: Simon
9 - character: Nick Hayes
Mini Challenge:
milk
Aaaaaand that was it for the Countdown!And that was also it for Uno 2020!
Not quite for Sophie and myself as we need to get the spreadsheet finalised and the story finished and posted to the Science Brioche team thread hehe.
Unfortunately, we are missing quite a few books and are therefore unable to finish the challenge this month :-(
Thank you to all those of you have kept reading and popping in from time to time despite everything that has been going on in everyone's lives! :-)
Now I've got a little breathing space thanks to the TV babysitter!Thanks for all the completions Raven. I'm so sorry to hear about your friends - look after yourself as much as you can. This year has been a weird one, I hope the rest of the year improves for you (and everyone else).
Love the fairy story - good company for our tea party today
Tea Time Story - from Galactic Crème Brûlée for Science BriocheThis month, Team Galactic Crème Brûlée have not actually participated in a quest but they have been told the most marvellous story at an afternoon tea the team had been attending.
Wanting to share this story, we have decided to try out a new recipe for tea time snacks, created by Team Science Brioche, and we therefore invite all the members of Team Science Brioche to attend our lovely afternoon tea so that we can tell you this wonderful story.
While the Duke was sleeping, the Duchess - a good friend of the team and the one who told us this story - decided she was no longer tired and certainly not up or lying in bed doing nothing. She therefore decided to venture out into their very large gardens, despite their sometimes somewhat threatening shadows in her eyes, to go for a bit of a stroll. And maybe a little adventure, who knows?
What she did not know however was that her wish was going to come true because on this very night, their gardens had become the grounds of an incredible test of wills. Or was that more a ridiculous feat of strength?
Several people were gathered in what seemed to be an area cleared of benches and potted plants to create free space to conduct nothing less than a duel! Now, the Duchess was usually a very dignified person but she was now intrigued and wondered what kind of rich people problems these guys all had - because they had to be rich, judging from that clothes they wore.
Edging closer, she unobtrusively settled herself on one of the benches the nightly visitors had considerately moved into her path, and began to observe the proceedings. Their words weren't very clear but when one of them suddenly started shouting and the Duchess heard something along the lines of: "If I had your face, I would exile myself so as not to subject others to it!" she figured it just had to be a dramatic development between suitors - probably of one of the lovely young women standing on the sidelines, oohing and gasping when appropriate.
It brought back memories of her own, of times before her engagement to her husband, the Duke. It had not always been smooth sailing. Rather, his courting had more resembled chaos than anything else but it had made him extremely endearing to her, even if her mother had certainly not thought so. There was this one memory in particular when they had been unchaperoned and.... well this is not the time for such stories and in all honesty, it was a story she had never told anyone. It was too precious and certainly not one for afternoon tea... There would be far too much gasping and clutching of pearls involved if she did.
All the while the drama in the garden had been unfolding and her heart was beating fast by the time the men were done hurling insults and were actually proceeding to do the deed. They drew pistols from their waistbands.
And just as it was about to get interesting, the Duke stepped onto the lawn. Everyone froze as he looked them over and then turned his head to raise an eyebrow at the Duchess who was merely shrugging and grinning at him.
"What a coincidence..." he muttered though there was an amused glint in his eye. Turning to the uninvited guests, he sighed: "What did you think this was going to achieve? Have you any idea of the consequences this would ensue? The potential casualties?" Shaking his head at the sheepish looking young men who were putting away their pistols much to the relief of their female companions, he told them to go home.
"So it wasn't a lover's splat or a suitor trying to take out the other?" the Duchess asked her husband as they supervised the young men putting everything back into place before disappearing out of their vast gardens with their retinue.
"You read too many romance novels," he accused her with a laugh.
What do you think? Can we share it as is? Want to change something?
I love it! Well done for such a complete story with the titles we gave you
Thank you for the lovely story, Kaley!!(I put a thank you note in the team Void Tartlet thread :-))
The Perks Of Being A Book Addict
Books mentioned in this topic
Limited Wish (other topics)The Consuming Fire (other topics)
The Veiled Heart (other topics)
The Veiled Heart (other topics)
The Consuming Fire (other topics)
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