Team Neverwhere

[Jennifer]

Deanna wrote: "Since we have so many Reverse cards this month and just to get to know one another better let's talk books. Generally speaking, what are your favorite books? It can be individual books, series, or ..."

Here is a sampling of some of my favorite authors, in no particular order:
Debbie Macomber
J.K. Rowling
Harlan Coben
Janet Evanovich
Stuart Woods
John Flanagan
Robert B. Parker
Ernest Cline
Kiera Cass
Sue Grafton
Marissa Meyer
Amie Kaufman
But the list could go on and on…
Some individual books that I really like:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

[Jennifer]

For 1 Yellow I could read



by Christina Lauren. The main characters name is Olive.

[Kate]

I'm trying to finish up a few books before Uno starts and I just finished . I think my eyes are crossed from all the science. It was fun though.

[Keri]

Jennifer wrote: "For 1 Yellow I could read



by Christina Lauren. The main characters name is Olive."

Also I e read that so it also works for a reverse. That may be my favorite by them!

[Keri]

Kate wrote: "I'm trying to finish up a few books before Uno starts and I just finished . I think my eyes are crossed from all the science. It was fun though."

I really want to read that but know I’ll need to be in a science-y mood

[Deanna]

Keri wrote: "I will be reading , which looks yellow to me, TinEye says 40.2% so I'm not sure if it will work but it fits "3 Yellow"

I also can take "8 Green" with [bookcover:..."

Reckless Girls passed on the captain's board, so I'll put you down for 3 Yellow.

[Deanna]

Moving this over so I don't have to keep flipping back and forth, we have:

Colored Card Tracking

0 Red - Keri
1 Yellow - Jennifer
1 Blue - Heather
3 Yellow - Keri
4 Blue - Jennifer
5 Green - Deanna
6 Blue - Heather
8 Green - Keri

Wild Draw 4 - 8 Green - Nicole
Wild Draw 4 - 0 Red - Heather
Wild Draw 4 - 1 Blue - Deanna

[Deanna]

I can take 5 green with and will add my next In Death and Stephanie Plum to the Reverses pile.

The planning sheet is here if anyone want to add books.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Jennifer]

I could also do 4 Blue with
The
The
MC: Felix

[Heather]

I could do for 0 Red Wild Draw 4

[Nicole]

Jennifer wrote: "I could also do 4 Blue with
The
The
MC: Felix"

I have also read this one so it could be a reverse as well.

[Sharon]

I rely a lot on library books so I can't really plan out as much, but I can try to pick out books from my loans that will fit best with what we need.

[Jennifer]

Nicole wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "I could also do 4 Blue with
The
The
MC: Felix"

I have also read this one so it could be a reverse as well."

Awesome, thanks!

[Jennifer]

I have started adding some books I plan to read to the planning spreadsheet. So excited to get started!!!

[Deanna]

I can duplicate 1 Blue for the last Wild Draw 4 with . That takes care of all of our color cards!

[Deanna]

Happy Friday Team Neverwhere!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend. We're supposed to get another round of light snow here in Virginia. I'm ready for a nice cozy weekend reading books inside. :)

You may have noticed that this year's UNO theme is fictional places. That made me wonder, if you could visit any of the fictional places as a tourist or choose to live there, which would be your TOP 3 picks? :)

[Deanna]

My choices:

1. Gertrude Hunt Inn absolutely!!

2. The Shire

3. Diagon Alley

[Jennifer]

Beauty and the Beast Library
Diagon Alley
Whoville

[Sharon]

Jennifer wrote: "Beauty and the Beast Library
Diagon Alley
Whoville"

Ooooh definitely the Beauty and the Beast library!! Good one!

[Heather]

Diagon Alley
Narnia
The Shire

[Kate]

I have always wanted to live in Jane Austen’s world and environment so Georgian England, Hogwarts Castle, Fraiser’s Ridge

[Kate]

Is everyone getting excited? We are getting a snow/ice storm that will come in on Tuesday evening so I am looking forward to some bonus reading time on Wednesday!

[Deanna]

Almost time!!

We have just over 18 hours until the start of the challenge!

Start time: Tuesday February 1, 2022 at 9am UTC time

Official countdown - https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Main cities, FYI:

Tuesday 1 February 2022
San Francisco 1am
London 9am
New York 4am
Mumbai 2.30pm
Tokyo 6pm
Sydney 8pm

[Heather]

I can't wait!

[Sharon]

I'm finishing up a book today so I can start a new one for the start of the challenge. Can't wait!

[Jennifer]

Yay! Uno is awesome! Planning to skip sleeping tonight to finish the 2 books I'm currently reading, start a new book tomorrow. =)

[Deanna]

I have about 50 pages left in my last book for January to read tonight. My plan is to get up early and get some reading in tomorrow morning before the kids are up.

[Sharon]

And we’re off!! Let’s go Team Neverwhere! 💜💜

[Keri]

Deanna wrote: "Keri wrote: "I will be reading , which looks yellow to me, TinEye says 40.2% so I'm not sure if it will work but it fits "3 Yellow"

I also can take "8 Green" wit..."

Yay!! Glad it works!

[Keri]

So excited to be starting some books for this!! I’m starting with my color cover books :-)

[Shan ~A~]

Sorry, I haven't been getting notifications from this thread for some reason.

We do start today, correct?

[Sharon]

Completed

Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
Read - 2/2
Pages - 368

UNO cards:
0 - Feliks Zhirov (character)
2 - 2nd in series
3 - Mrs Haggerty (character)
4 - title
5 - Irina (character)
6 - Steven (character)
7 - Vero (character)
9 - Nick (character)

Blue cover

[Sharon]

I hope it’s ok to post my completed books here. I always worry about messing up the spreadsheet!

[Deanna]

Sharon wrote: "I hope it’s ok to post my completed books here. I always worry about messing up the spreadsheet!"

Absolutely! Whichever way you are most comfortable with is fine with me.

[Deanna]

Finished for Wild Draw 4 and for Reverse. Spreadsheet updated.

[Heather]

Shan ~A~ wrote: "Sorry, I haven't been getting notifications from this thread for some reason.

We do start today, correct?"

Yep, we have started. :)

[Nicole]

Completion post for The Gilded Wolves. Details added to planning spreadsheet.

[Sharon]

Completed

The Singles Table by Sara Desai
Date - 2/4
Pages - 322

UNO Cards:
0 - Zara (character)
3 - 3rd in series
5 - India (character)
6 - title
8 - Elias (character)
Skip - Parvati (character)

Yellow cover

[Deanna]

Finished for a green card. Reading and listening to for reverses. Spreadsheet updated.

[Heather]

Finished my 3 color cards; spreadsheet updated

[Kate]

Finished two this week and working on a third - I'm usually about a two book a week person.
Finished:
and
Working on:

[Kate]

Update:
All books have been put on shelves - thanks all!
One reminder - please make sure you put a date in when you finish a book vs. leaving it just for the month. It just makes it easier to sort and find, especially as we get later into the month!

Because I'm a nerd and I like to track how in %s. In just 4 full days we've knocked out about 18% of the books for Uno this month. And we are just starting the weekend. Amazing job team!

[Keri]

I’ll be finishing my first color cover book today and starting on my second one :-)

Figure I’ll knock those three out first and then see what else we need!!

[Keri]

Kate wrote: "Update:
All books have been put on shelves - thanks all!
One reminder - please make sure you put a date in when you finish a book vs. leaving it just for the month. It just makes it easier to sor..."

I’m a nerd who loves that kind of stuff too!!

[Heather]

Finished , spreadsheet updated

[Kate]

Finished - updated on spreadsheet.

[Heather]

Finished , spreadsheet updated

[Keri]

Completion Post

Well Met
Author: Jen DeLuca
Finished: 2/5/22
Pages: 319
Card:
8 Green—MC is Emily, and cover is green

[Jennifer]

Finished
and

spreadsheet updated
Now I'll start reading my next color,

[Heather]

Finished spreadsheet updated