Team The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Team The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Team Members:
❅ Annalisa - Captain
❅ Insiyah Rangwala - Co-Captain
❅ Maggie Robinson
❅ Alyana
❅ Kristen Joanne
❅ Debra Monteith
❅ Dänah
❅ colleen
❅ Ash
❅ Jessica McCann
❅ Ana

♕ Team Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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[Annalisa]

Welcome Team The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
You will find a lot of helpful information in these first couple of posts and if you have questions I recommend you look there. If you aren't sure about something feel free to ask in the thread and will will be happy to help!

Team Shelves
❅ Annalisa
❅ Insiyah Rangwala
❅ Maggie Robinson
❅ Alyana
❅ Kristen Joanne
❅ Debra Monteith
❅ Dänah ?
❅ colleen
❅ Ash
❅ Jessica McCann
❅ Ana

Team Planning Sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Team Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Annalisa]

Rules in a Nutshell
- 100 pages (verify 25k words / 3hrs for Children's, Poetry, Plays etc MPG)
- rereads OK after 6 months
- Spell out using title / author name / speaking character name / location
- Letters to find Z O T H F I S V E N K P
- Numbers in title or #series

Basic Expectations
-Check in once a week on the team thread, so that we know you are actively participating.
-Only books started after the challenge starts can count for this challenge.
-All finished books must be marked as read and must be on your Uno shelf.

Other Information
I prefer not to claim cards except for color cards. If you have a color card that you want to claim we will claim those. All other cards will not be claimed as books will often be moved around to make everything fit. When you are posting your completion post please post all cards the book works for.

Important Links
Rules and Updates thread

Helpful Links
Children's Books that have verified length
Uno Blue Ideas Shelf
Uno Green Ideas Shelf
Uno Red Ideas Shelf
Uno Yellow Ideas Shelf
For the color covers please be aware that different editions have different color covers and you will need to post the color cover that you read.

[Annalisa]

Completion Post Format

Completion Post

Title: It Happened One Autumn
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Date: January 19, 2021
Rating: 4 stars

Cards:
RED Cover
2 - Wallflowers #2
3 - Character Simon Hunt
5 - Title
6 - Character Simon Hunt
8 - Character Evie Jenner
Skip - Author

[Annalisa]

February cards
Normal cards:
Card/number of them
0 / 3
1 / 8
2 / 11
3 / 8
4 / 6
5 / 7
6 / 5
7 / 7
8 / 7
9 / 7
Skip / 6
Reverse/ 7
Wild / 2

Color card:
Blue 2 - Insiyah
Green 5 - Annalisa
Green 6 - Alyana
Green 7 - Maggie
Red 2 - Jessica (draw 2 Red 2 and Reverse)
Red 9 - Alyana
Red 3 - Dänah
Yellow 2 - Alyana

4 Wild Draw Four (this is a repeat of one of the books above. They can only be duplicated once.)
WD4 - Insiyah Green 7
WD4 - Ash (Red 3) Dark Matter
WD4 - Kristen Blue 2
WD4 - Kristen Yellow 2

[Annalisa]

March Cards
Card Total required
0 - 4
1 - 8
2 - 8
3 - 13
4 - 7
5 - 7
6 - 7
7 - 7
8 - 7
9 - 6
Skip - 7
Reverse - 6
Wild - 3
Wild Draw 4 - 3
8 Green - 1
3 Green - 1
3 Blue - 1
4 Blue - 1
7 Yellow - 2
5 Yellow - 1
2 Red - 1
6 Yellow - 1
4 Green - 1

[Annalisa]

3 reserve

[Annalisa]

4 reserve

[Annalisa]

Hi Team The Restaurant at the End of the Universe!

I’m really looking forward to playing UNO with all of you. I’m going to be sending out friend requests to all of you. Please accept those it makes it a lot easier for me to check your books throughout the month. You may also want to send friend requests to the rest of the team as it will make it much easier to find reverse cards.

Please introduce your self in your first post. Let us know if this is your first time playing UNO or if you have played before, where you are from, and what you genres you enjoy reading. You can also post a few favorite reads and if you feel like it the worst book you read last year. (I always find it really interesting to see what people hate.) Also, somewhere in that post please post a link to your Uno shelf.

[Insiyah]

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where everyone and everything is welcome! I'm Insiyah, playing UNO for the second time, and I've been waiting eagerly for this for more than a month now! I live in Dubai, and my timezone is GMT +4 or Gulf Standard Time.

I'm a huge bookworm, and generally try to read like a literature student, so classics and contemporary. I'm also aiming to read more poetry this year, and books in French which I'm learning.

I read the most amount of classics last year, with 5 of Jane Austen's books. And I purchased a lot of books last year, probably more than I should have.

I've already sent friend requests to everyone, so let's all hope to have a wonderful challenge! Feel free to message me if you have any questions - the challenge can be a bit confusing at first, but you have a team to help you out.

Uno shelf - uno_2022

[Insiyah]

March coloured cards left as of 12th March:



7 Yellow -
7 Yellow (checking to see if Kristen's book works)
4 Green

WD4 - Kristen -
WD4

[Insiyah]

Internal Team Spreadsheet (Using this is optional)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Insiyah]

Reserving 4

[Insiyah]

Reserving 5

[Annalisa]

Hi Team The Restaurant at the End of the Universe!

I’m really looking forward to playing UNO with all of you. I’m going to be sending out friend requests to all of you. Please accept those it makes it a lot easier for me to check your books throughout the month. You may also want to send friend requests to the rest of the team as it will make it much easier to find reverse cards.

Please introduce your self in your first post. Let us know if this is your first time playing UNO or if you have played before, where you are from, and what you genres you enjoy reading. You can also post a few favorite reads and if you feel like it the worst book you read last year. (I always find it really interesting to see what people hate.) Also, somewhere in that post please post a link to your Uno shelf.

Hi team,
I’m Annalisa. This is my sixth year playing UNO and my second year as a team captain. I was a co-captain for three years before that too. Please feel free to ask any questions you have as I remember my first year was a little confusing.

I’m from The mountains of Western North Carolina in the US.

I enjoy reading historical romance, fantasy, science fiction, romance, and I’m pretty much willing to read any genre although I’m not much for horror.

My favorite reads from last year were: and

My least favorite read was: I really didn't connect with any of the characters and it was very negative in outlook.

Uno shelf: Uno-2022

[Jessica]

Hi everyone! I am Jessica from the Hudson Valley upstate in NY..about 2 hours north of NYC. This is my first time playing UNO and I am excited to.play! Not understanding everything 100%!
I enjoy reading romance, romantic suspense, mystery, psychological thrillers, and legal thrillers, among others, I am sure I am forgetting something!
My favorite reads from last year were and
I tried , but couldn't get into it.

I started a book club in August, and we read for December, which was an unusual book for me, but I enjoyed it!
Jessica's Uno Shelf 2022

[Insiyah]

Hey Jessica, great to meet you!

[Annalisa]

Hi Insiyah and Jessica!

[Alyana]

Hi everyone! I'm Alyana from Queens, NY. This is my second time playing UNO and I had so much fun the first time! I'm also a full time mom and I just started to volunteer at our library.

I enjoy reading psychological thrillers, contemporary romance, crime/mystery/suspense thrillers and sometimes a few of historical fiction and memoirs. Not much of a fan of sci-fi fantasy, space operas and the likes.

I had a lot of favorites last year, a few of them were , , and more on my favorites shelf. I had a couple of books which I didn't like much and , I just can't get into them.

Here is the link to my UNO shelf.

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I'm Debra and I played UNO for the first time last year and loved it.
Favorite reads from last year
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
] Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

I better stop. There were so many that I loved.

UNO shelf
UNO 2022

[DJ]

Hi! I am Dänah in Waiblingen, Germany. I have done UNO once last year. My favorite book last year was by Kristin Hannah. I belong to a book club nearby here, so I get to read a lot of great novels, but I really do like young adult. I am usually reading up to three books at a time. I can’t wait to start and meet you all.

[Insiyah]

Welcome to the team, Alyana, Debra and Dänah!

It's almost midnight in Dubai, so I'm going to sign off now. I did want to mention one thing before I did - the coloured cards. If you have books that match our coloured cards (Message 14), please claim your card. I'll update the tracker tomorrow morning.

I'm claiming Blue 2 with

[Alyana]

I can claim one each of the colored cards that we have. I have plenty of blue ones that we can probably use for the WD4.

Red -
Possible cards: Red, 8, 9

Green -
Possible cards: Green, 1, 6, Skip, Reverse

Yellow -
Possible cards: Yellow, 2, 3, 6

Blue -
Possible cards: Blue, 2, 6, 9, Skip

[Jessica]

Id like to claim a red !

[BookishlyWise]

Hi all! I'm Ash (Goodreads and Insta handle - BookishlyWise) .

I'm from Chicago, US and this is my first time playing UNO.
Our fellow teammate Alyana coaxed me into checking this out :)
I love reading Non fiction and Mystery, but I enjoy almost every book that's well written and fun.

Favorite reads from last year -

Books that I did not enjoy much -


Here's a link to my UNO shelf - UNO-2022

[BookishlyWise]

I would Like to claim 2 RED with -

1 GREEN with -

1 YELLOW with -

1 BLUE with -

[Maggie]

Hi Everyone,

I'm Maggie. I'm from Bristol, Connecticut which is sort of right in the middle of our state. It's a little boring, but I can easily get to Boston or NYC both which I am starting to miss like crazy. We haven't been able to visit either city since late 2019.

I'm a stay at home mom of a teen and a tween. I'm a romance reviewer and I'm working on expanding my my blog site beyond just reviews. I'm using my site to try and teach myself HTML coding. My programmer friends will probably only let me keep going like this for another month before they take over for their own sanity. I get frustrated when things don't make sense to me quickly.

This is my first time playing Uno, however this challenge came up a lot over in the Romance Readers Challenge group in the team challenges I was doing over there so I thought I would give it a try.
I love team challenges for the interaction. I'm an extrovert who has been pandemicing for too long.

I mainly read romance these days as that's my blog's focus, however I also love thrillers/suspense - military or shadow like agency based ones are my favorite. I'm a Brad Thor junkie or authors along those lines. I like contemporary fiction, "chick lit", mystery, suspense, paranormal, and light fantasy. I'll probably never be able to get through Game of Thrones or LOTR. I like historical fiction with weird twists such as time travel, or shifting planes, or anything with a witchcraft bent or flavor to it.

I'm trying to get back to reading contemporary classics from the 90s through now. I'm also trying to read more own voice works - or at least have them in our home library. Our daughter is a sophomore in high school and our son is in middle school. I have a deal with them that if they have a required reading book that I haven't read yet, I will read it with them. So far they've introduced me to The House on Mango Street, Esperanza Rising, City of Ember, Four Perfect Pebbles, and Refugee.

I'm not a fan of horror. For some reason, those books stick in my head and don't leave. I'm also not a large reader of non fiction, biographies, autobiographies, or self help books. I also have some strong opinions regarding Steinbeck, Hardy, John Locke, and John Dunne. I won't read their works again. Even for my kiddos. 🤣

Books I loved last year (fair warning I ONLY read romance last year. It's my escape.) , and .

Book I hated - - I read this one for a team challenge to help the team. Never again. It ruined a lot of different sub genres for me.

That's basically me. I also talk too much in person, so rambling in text isn't too different from what you'd get in person.

I'm sure I'll have questions as we go along. The one thing I dislike is making mistakes that impact the team. I may ask really nit picky questions to make sure I'm logging reads properly. These are habits/issues left over from my project management career. Just let me know when I get annoying.

My Uno shelf is below:
Uno Shelf:Maggie's UNO shelf 2022

[Alyana]

Maggie wrote: "Hi Everyone,

I'm Maggie. I'm from Bristol, Connecticut which is sort of right in the middle of our state. It's a little boring, but I can easily get to Boston or NYC both which I am starting to m..."

Hi Maggie!! just want to say hi to my fellow stay at home mom and tri state neighbor! :)

[Alyana]

BookishlyWise wrote: "Hi all! I'm Ash (Goodreads and Insta handle - BookishlyWise) .

I'm from Chicago, US and this is my first time playing UNO.
Our fellow teammate Alyana coaxed me into checking this out :)
I love r..."

Hi Ash! Happy to be your teammate! I didn't know you were from Chicago! :D

[Alyana]

Dänah wrote: "Hi! I am Dänah in Waiblingen, Germany. I have done UNO once last year. My favorite book last year was The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. I belong to a book club nearby here, so I get to read a lot ..."

Hi Dänah! Looking forward reading with you!

[Alyana]

Debra wrote: "I'm Debra and I played UNO for the first time last year and loved it.
Favorite reads from last year
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
[bookcover:..."

Hi Debra!

[Alyana]

Jessica wrote: "Hi everyone! I am Jessica from the Hudson Valley upstate in NY..about 2 hours north of NYC. This is my first time playing UNO and I am excited to.play! Not understanding everything 100%!
I enjoy re..."

Hi there my friendly neighbor upstate! 😁

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Alyana wrote: "Debra wrote: "I'm Debra and I played UNO for the first time last year and loved it.
Favorite reads from last year
Foundation by [author:Isaac Asimov|1666..."
Hi! 😀

[Colleen]

Hi everyone!

I'm Colleen living in a Twin Cities suburb of Minnesota.

This is my 5th UNO challenge and I really enjoy it. Love the Teams theme this year and I'm always hungry to eat out! Let's make 2022 really great ;) !

I can pretty much read any genre.

Favorite books from last year:
The Golem and the Jinni
Lincoln in the Bardo
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Least favorite books from last year:
Mirror Mirror
Desirable Daughters
Displaced Persons
The End Games

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[Kristen]

Hello everyone! I’m Kristen and I’m from Southern New Jersey! This is my second year playing UNO and I had a blast playing last year! I love reading all types of books but I especially love suspense, horror, thriller, and romance! I cannot wait to play with you all this year! As soon as I get to my laptop I will post the link to my UNO Shelf and add the books I enjoyed last year! I look forward to speaking with you all soon!

[Maggie]

Alyana wrote: "Maggie wrote: "Hi Everyone,

I'm Maggie. I'm from Bristol, Connecticut which is sort of right in the middle of our state. It's a little boring, but I can easily get to Boston or NYC both which I a..."

Hi there!

[Insiyah]

Morning everyone, and hi to Maggie, Colleen and Kristen!

I somehow managed to skip mentioning this or doing it myself, but please also mention how your book works with your card, since your book needs to work with the card number as well as colour.

And a quick reminder - your cover needs to needs be at least 50% of the required colour (I think you're fine in that regard). And if your book doesn't meet the cards we have this round, keep it in reserve for the next rounds.


Blue cover, title starts with 'T'.


EDIT: Alyana, I've added your books to Red 9 and Yellow 2.

[Alyana]

Insiyah wrote: "Morning everyone, and hi to Maggie, Colleen and Kristen!

I somehow managed to skip mentioning this or doing it myself, but please also mention how your book works with your card, since your book ..."

Thank you Insiyah! My green fits with 6 too for the title. 🙂

[Jessica]

Alyana wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Hi everyone! I am Jessica from the Hudson Valley upstate in NY..about 2 hours north of NYC. This is my first time playing UNO and I am excited to.play! Not understanding everything ..."

Helllooo! Lol

[DJ]

Insiyah wrote: "If you have books that match our coloured cards (Message 14), please claim your card."

Is this a hard and fast rule? I've only played once and never heard of claiming color cards. We would bring up what color books we planned to read and state we could cover a certain color, but not claim it.

But I could do Red 3:H with , character named Harper.

[Annalisa]

Alyana wrote: "Hi everyone! I'm Alyana from Queens, NY. This is my second time playing UNO and I had so much fun the first time! I'm also a full time mom and I just started to volunteer at our library.

I enjoy ..."

Welcome Alyana, I agree with you that House of Hollow was missing something. I didn't hate it and it did get me thinking but it didn't work for me. I would not have read it without the BOM incentive. I read 9 November a while ago and loved it. I think we might have some common reads.

[Jessica]

Jessica wrote: "Id like to claim a red !"

Possible cards:
Red
1: first in series
2- main character's last names starts with "T"

[Annalisa]

Debra wrote: "I'm Debra and I played UNO for the first time last year and loved it.
Favorite reads from last year
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
[bookcover:..."

Welcome Debra, I've been meaning to read the foundation series for years. I don't know why I haven't but I might need to give it a try since that i author can be very nice for 5s and we do have 7 reverses this first hand.

[Annalisa]

Jessica wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Id like to claim a red !"

Possible cards:
Red
1: first in series
2- main character's last names starts with "T""

Will also work for a reverse and there is a draw 2 in the hand with the Red 2 so we can double up there!

[Alyana]

Annalisa wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Hi everyone! I'm Alyana from Queens, NY. This is my second time playing UNO and I had so much fun the first time! I'm also a full time mom and I just started to volunteer at our libr..."

Yeah I just read it for the BOM incentive, it's just the story was really weird for me.

[Annalisa]

BookishlyWise wrote: "Hi all! I'm Ash (Goodreads and Insta handle - BookishlyWise) .

I'm from Chicago, US and this is my first time playing UNO.
Our fellow teammate Alyana coaxed me into checking this out :)
I love r..."

Welcome Ash, if you have any questions please let us know. This should be a fun social challenge.
Less is on my tbr and I've been putting off for a while so maybe it is time to delete it.

[Annalisa]

Maggie wrote: "Hi Everyone,

I'm Maggie. I'm from Bristol, Connecticut which is sort of right in the middle of our state. It's a little boring, but I can easily get to Boston or NYC both which I am starting to m..."

Hi Maggie, Ask all the questions you want. I will not mind at all. I also have a tendency to ask questions. The first little bit of playing Uno can be a little confusing but it does quickly start making sense.