Team Narwhal

[Melissa]

Oh! That looks lovely!!! I might even go and purchase that one :)

[Tammie]

Mahi wrote: "Finished my first book (Tress of the Emerald Sea) today and I absolutely loved it! It was really charming"

So I’m looking at this series…I read Warbreaker…loved it….it’s on this list…do you know?…can all the books on this list be read independently? https://www.goodreads.com/series/1351...

[Mahi]

Tammie wrote: "Mahi wrote: "Finished my first book (Tress of the Emerald Sea) today and I absolutely loved it! It was really charming"

So I’m looking at this series…I read Warbreaker…loved it….it..."

That’s the list of all the books in the same universe, but some of them are their own series.

Some standalones other than Warbreaker:
The Emperor’s Soul - a novella but it really packs a punch (this is what I read first!)
Elantris - Sanderson’s debut so it’s simpler than the rest of his books but still fun imo
Tress of the Emerald Sea - more whimsical than any of his other novels

And then there’s Mistborn (https://www.goodreads.com/series/4091...) #1-3 is it’s own trilogy, and that’s definitely where I’d recommend you read next (unless you want to read a standalone)

Finally The Stormlight Archive (https://www.goodreads.com/series/4907...) is going to be 10 books, with each 5 books being a sub-series - 4 of them are out. This series is absolutely amazing imo but it’s also a lot so you need some trust in the author (or if you already read a lot of long fantasy). It does a good job of not being bogged down with too many characters and complexity that way, the difficulty is that you are dropped into a completely new world and slowly understand things that are happening

I hope that helps!

[Tammie]

Mahi wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Mahi wrote: "Finished my first book (Tress of the Emerald Sea) today and I absolutely loved it! It was really charming"

So I’m looking at this series…I read Warbreak..."

Thanks Mahi

I loved Warbreaker…that’s where I started only to find out I’d have to wait a few years for the next

I’m ok with long..but I didn’t enjoy A Game of Thrones asan example. In my view the book had way too many characters

I’ll take your advice and start next with Mistborn but when I’ve got more time to concentrate on the book.

I’m may check out a couple of standalones in the meantime

[Emma (M)]

So I’ve started reading my first book but my sleep has been terrible this week so I’ve been exhausted and keep falling asleep every time I read, lol.

I’ve also started #4 in the Mistborn series, but not sure how long that will take to get through.

It seems like we have a lot of Brandon Sanderson fans in this team 😀

[Mahi]

Emma (M) wrote: "So I’ve started reading my first book but my sleep has been terrible this week so I’ve been exhausted and keep falling asleep every time I read, lol.

I’ve also started #4 in the Mistborn series, ..."

I don’t know how much you’ve read through but just a heads up the the second era of Mistborn is pretty different from the first one. Still good but like how Legends of Korra was good but not completely like Avatar.

[Melissa]

I've finished A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Beekeeper's Apprentice - both of which I liked very much!

[Emma (M)]

Mahi wrote: "Emma (M) wrote: "So I’ve started reading my first book but my sleep has been terrible this week so I’ve been exhausted and keep falling asleep every time I read, lol.

I’ve also started #4 in the ..."

Thanks for the heads up!

[Tammie]

I really liked November 9…would recommend for romance readers. Very easy read.

[Melissa]

Jax, I noticed that you read Carrie Soto. What did you think of it?

[Tammie]

Jo wrote: "Tammie wrote: "I really liked November 9…would recommend for romance readers. Very easy read."

I'll definitely have to give it try! Romance is my favourite genre and I haven't read..."

I recommend starting with Ugly Love if you haven’t read any…you’ll love it

[Jax]

Melissa wrote: "Jax, I noticed that you read Carrie Soto. What did you think of it?"

I read Malibu Rising and was ambivalent about it. But a friend read Carrie Soto and said I would like it and I LOVED it. (I was meh about Daisy Jones which I read right after). I think what made this really land with me was yes, it's in the Taylor Jenkins Reid universe but there was a lot about competition and sport and just how people are motivated.

[Melissa]

Jax wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Jax, I noticed that you read Carrie Soto. What did you think of it?"

I read Malibu Rising and was ambivalent about it. But a friend read Carrie Soto and said I would like it and I ..."

I also loved Carrie Soto! I really loved the competition and how true Carrie Soto seemed as a character. She was imperfect and unapologetic, and also had a thoughtful side at the end.

I read Daisy Jones first, and thought it was interesting. I haven't read Malibu Rising. I really loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

[WitchinglyBookish]

Hey Y'all! Sorry I haven't been active this week, I do travel nursing and took a contract with a facility that has absolutely no cell/internet service( Well they have a satellite service but do not allow us to use it). I have to go back for another week so I'll likely not be able tp update again until next weekend. I was able to come home today for a bit so I packed up some books so I'll hopefully have a bunch to add! Hope you all are enjoying your reading so far!

[Tammie]

Fallyn Nichole wrote: "Hey Y'all! Sorry I haven't been active this week, I do travel nursing and took a contract with a facility that has absolutely no cell/internet service( Well they have a satellite service but do not..."

Thanks Fallen for the update and for your courageous work.

[Sarah]

Hey everyone! I just finished Regretting You by Colleen Hoover, and it was also a fantastic read if you're in the mood for a well-written romance novel with a bit of a serious undertone in regards to the main characters' struggles. I'm focusing on reading Lethal by Sandra Brown right now, which is the first of an only-two-book series, but I'm loving it so far! It's more crime and thriller than romance, so a nice change of pace for me! Happy reading to all!

[JL]

Just checking in with the team to see how everyone's reading is going. I am currently in the middle of Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2). I did the buddy read of book 1 with Tammie and Melissa and now I've been sucked back into the Mercedes Thompson universe (I'm completely okay with it). Hope everyone else is loving their reads!

[Tammie]

JL wrote: "Just checking in with the team to see how everyone's reading is going. I am currently in the middle of Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2). I did the buddy read of book 1 with Tammie and Melissa and n..."

I just finished Blood Bound as well! Thanks for checking in!

[Tammie]

@ALL…🌴ALOHA😎…I’m traveling thru Friday!

Melissa reports we’re making excellent progress! Hopefully we’ll have the mini by this weekend…please plan to checkin at least by Sunday for details.

[JL]

Tammie wrote: "@ALL…🌴ALOHA😎…I’m traveling thru Friday!

Melissa reports we’re making excellent progress! Hopefully we’ll have the mini by this weekend…please plan to checkin at least by Sunday for details."

I love the minis, can't wait!

[JL]

Question about the Draw 2. When it says under reason 1 and 4 Red do we find a book that can cover both a 1 and 4 red or would it be two different books?

[Tammie]

COUNTDOWN to mini Start > https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

The mini has arrived!
A couple of suggestions…
1. There’s a few tasks that have the option for 10 pts vs 6 pts…let’s 1st try for the 10 pt option and also…let’s try to claim these tasks sooner than later
2. If you are currently reading a book that also works for the mini, if you can, hold off finishing until our mini start time. I know most of us are doing other challenges, so this may not be possible.
3. Please ask any questions here in our thread…captains will get answers for you.

Mini Details -> https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
There will be a tab added to our WSS soon.

[JL]

I can hold off finishing both of mine till Monday and both can be used for mini's.

#43 Read a book with the name of any officially recognized animal constellations in the title .

And #26 Read a book with some kind of metal or a metallic object on the cover

[JL]

Does it have to be in the title, or would it work for the subtitle for *Read a book with the name of any officially recognized animal constellations in the title ?

[Emma (M)]

Hi All, just checking in. Unfortunately I haven’t read as much a hoped due to a series of migraines. I’m looking to catch up this weekend. I’ll be sure to check out the mini as well :)

[Tammie]

JL wrote: "Does it have to be in the title, or would it work for the subtitle for *Read a book with the name of any officially recognized animal constellations in the title ?"

I’ll double check…but I believe as long as it shows up with the title when you search, it’s fine…be back in a minute as I’m sure that question was already discussed


*subtitles are fine

@All, please be sure to ‘link’ the version you are reading…I know…
I’m behind on my links because of travel…I’ll catch everything up tomorrow

[Melissa]

Emma (M) wrote: "Hi All, just checking in. Unfortunately I haven’t read as much a hoped due to a series of migraines. I’m looking to catch up this weekend. I’ll be sure to check out the mini as well :)"

No worries. We all go through ups and downs in the reading challenges - I hope your migraine has gone away!

[Melissa]

JL wrote: "I can hold off finishing both of mine till Monday and both can be used for mini's.

#43 Read a book with the name of any officially recognized animal constellations in the title .

And #26 Read a b..."
Sweet

[Melissa]

JL wrote: "Question about the Draw 2. When it says under reason 1 and 4 Red do we find a book that can cover both a 1 and 4 red or would it be two different books?"

Just looking back at the directions, it says:

Draw 2
Use the same book for two cards in this hand (and get points for both cards)

So I think we get to have one book for two slots (in this case the 1 and the 4) and we get points for both, even though they are the same book.

We don't get points for the Draw two card though - that's why it is greyed out.

We have another one of those in hand 8.

[Tammie]

I hope everyone is enjoying your books...I had a chance to take a look at our SS today and wanted to report in some detail where we currently are.

We show 33 completed cards out of 105 possible. At this pace we would finish a few cards short of all our hands; however I asked us to hold off finishing so I know there's a few out there that just need a chapter or 2 read etc. We should be fine. Realize each month will add one additional hand.

We do have 2 color cards left...a YELLOW 2 and one WILD DRAW 4 which can be a duplicate of any of our colored cards except for those already claimed (no 2Green or 1Blue)

If you haven't already, please check out the MINI...any book that is finished after the mini countdown ends can be used...and books read for the main, can also be used for the MINI...I'd like to make sure that anything already on our UNO card has a spot on the MINI if at all possible.

Countdown to start of MINI > https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

[Melissa]

I'm going to move my to the Yellow Two, because it fits! I should finish that tomorrow to include it in the mini.

[Deb]

Hi Everyone

I know I read somewhere about a page limit for books that we read for UNO challenge. Could someone please tell me what it is? I can’t find it anywhere.

I’m not a huge reader (would like to read more, just don’t always have as much time as I’d like) but have been driving a lot for work the last couple of weeks and have quite a few trips over next few weeks so have been listening to a few audiobooks and realised that one I listened to was only 139 pages.

[Melissa]

Deb wrote: "Hi Everyone

I know I read somewhere about a page limit for books that we read for UNO challenge. Could someone please tell me what it is? I can’t find it anywhere.

I’m not a huge reader (would l..."

No worries!
The page limit is 100. With a book close to the page limit, I usually check the word count - in fact, I just did that this morning for one of my books. That can be found on the AR bookfind - mostly if it is a middle grades book, or a graphic novel. The word count is 25,000.

If you'd like, I can check the word count? Just let me know the title :)

[Tammie]

@All
There's been a question in the past about book limits too...I wanted you to know that unlike a few other challenges, you can read as many books as you want...the mods account for the fact that readers typically read more books during challenges for this one.

It all evens out as our real lives catch up to us sometimes and then there's the fact that sometimes we like to read a longer book now and then too.

[Tammie]

COUNTDOWN to mini Start > https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

About 13 hours left to the start of the mini - if you haven't already found a place for your current reads on the mini SS...please do so.

If something fits in a spot that's already taken, let's make a note of that or try and move things around to maximize

Thanks everyone!

[Tammie]

@Jax...I found a few spots for a few of your books on the UNO Mini spread sheet
...Evelyn Hugo book ...autumn tags
...Three Bags Full ...animal tags
...Daisy Jones ...tagged summer

@Melissa...I put Remarkably Bright Creatures with 'water' on the cover

If you end up not reading these/chg your plan, feel free to nix.

[Jax]

Tammie wrote: "@Jax...I found a few spots for a few of your books on the UNO Mini spread sheet
...Evelyn Hugo book ...autumn tags
...Three Bags Full ...animal tags
...Daisy Jones ...tagged summer

If you end up n..."
Thanks for looking that up. I read Daisy Jones and Three Bags last week (I updated the spreadsheet). I thought I updated these as I went along but looks like I missed them. (Also, for anyone interested, Daisy Jones was pretty good. Three Bags Full was pretty bad to me).

[Tammie]

Jax wrote: "Tammie wrote: "@Jax...I found a few spots for a few of your books on the UNO Mini spread sheet
...Evelyn Hugo book ...autumn tags
...Three Bags Full ...animal tags
...Daisy Jones ...tagged summer

..."

Ooops...delete/delete.

thanks

[Tammie]

A few lists to help with searches

Title/Series (we'll resort to words in text if we can't find books soon)
East/Eastern
South/Southern
West/Western
North/Northern
Beast/Predator
Noon/Day
Hunter/Huntress/Prey
Night/Midnight
Dawn/Sunrise

tags (at least 3)
Spring (or Spring month in Title -March, April, May for U.S.)
Summer (or Summer month in Title-June, July, August)
Fall (or Fall month in title-September, October, November)
Winter (or Winter month in title-December, January, February)
Justice or Enemies
Immortal or Mysterious
Animals
Gods

Covers
...for the creatures, alt is that they can be featured in the story
dragon
bird
tiger
turtle or snake
White Cover

[Tammie]

@jo I put Neon Gods on the mini for tagged ‘gods’

If you end up not reading this/chg your plan, feel free to nix or move

@melissa…insect book…please correct version so full title shows…I’m looking at mini and f.o.u.r is not showing in title…hope this makes sense…this book looks interesting…will be interested to hear about it.

[Emma (M)]

I’ve tried following the directions to link a book in the SS, but I don’t seem to have that link symbol in my version on the iPad for some reason. Lots of other ones, but not that one.

[Melissa]

I don't mind linking your books, Emma! I'll look at your read list and put them in that way.

I put the correct title in Tammie - thanks for the catch! For some reason, when I put the date in it says NA in the points category. Do you know why that might be happening?

The book was eye opening. I had wondered why I don't see so many fireflies in the summer, and why I don't splatter as many insects on a road trip in the summer. Well, there's a reason! Insects are in sharp decline - due to agricultural practices, global warming, and manicured lawns. (in a nutshell) A bit doom and gloom - but necessarily so it seems.

[Tammie]

Melissa wrote: "I don't mind linking your books, Emma! I'll look at your read list and put them in that way.

I put the correct title in Tammie - thanks for the catch! For some reason, when I put the date in it sa..."

Yes...on colored cards the formula is incompatable so we need to delete the formula and put 30 pts there. It's a manual entry. This only applies to colored cards. I chgd it.

Thanks !

[Tammie]

Melissa wrote: "I don't mind linking your books, Emma! I'll look at your read list and put them in that way.

I put the correct title in Tammie - thanks for the catch! For some reason, when I put the date in it sa..."

Not good I think. I've got a book about the decline of bees to read as well. I might try and pick this one up and read it one day.

[Tammie]

Emma (M) wrote: "I’ve tried following the directions to link a book in the SS, but I don’t seem to have that link symbol in my version on the iPad for some reason. Lots of other ones, but not that one."

Emma I have never figured out how to link from an iPad

@ALL...if anyone knows how, please share!

For the purpose of our challenge, just be sure the book version you read is correct when you put it on your shelf. The captains will link you up if you can't :)

[Tammie]

@Emma I added Four Thousand Weeds to the Mini...black letters on cover.

@Jo I added It Ends with us to the Mini...tagged 'summer'

@Fallen I added it Ends with us to the Mini...tagged 'spring'


If these don't work for you, please erase.

[Mahi]

I think High Risk Rookie wouldn't work for Dragon task 4 since wolf is in the series name, not the title. So I moved it to Turtle 4 (#4 in series) and moved my book somewhere else

[Tammie]

@JL...same task+ Blood Bound and High Risk Rookie...I notice your finish date is 2/13...our soonest finish date for your time zone is 2/14...so unless that is wrong, it won't work for our mini. Please do a double check on this.

[Mahi]

Also @Jax I moved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo to character flying on a plane, since I have a book that only works for the autumn tag

[Tammie]

❤️💛💙Happy Valentine's Day everyone!🧡💚💜