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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2023
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Team Platypus
Hahahah, I'm loving some of your ideas for the second part of the mini, ladies :-)The crazier, the better - we're using those ;-)
Eldarwen wrote: "Coulour cards for April:6 Green - LaurLa - With Everything I Am
8 Red - LaurLa - Twisted Threads"
Eldarwen wrote: "Tasks - Part One
❅ 16. Read a book with a green cover. - Audrey or LaurLa
❅ 24. Read a book with a purple cover. - LaurLa"
These are all I'm reading starting Monday - I'll get them done!
Completion:Bookcover:
Book: Lanny
Date Read: 23/4/23
Pages: 210
Rating: 3 stars
CARDS:
0 - stand alone
2 - C: Dead Papa Toothwort
SKIP - A: Max Porter
MINI:
Leaf Sheep/Leafy Seadragon - leaf on the cover
Completion:Bookcover:
Book: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Date Read: 23/4/23
Pages: 390
Rating: 4 stars
CARDS:
0 - stand alone
1 - C: Eleanor Oliphant
2 - C: Sammy Thom
3 - A: Gail Honeyman
8 - C: Eleanor Oliphant
SKIP - C: Keith Thom
MINI:
32. white cover (claimed)
LaurLa wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Coulour cards for April:6 Green - LaurLa - With Everything I Am
8 Red - LaurLa - Twisted Threads"
Eldarwen wrote: "Tasks - Part One
❅ 16. Read a book with a green cover. - Audr..."
Superb, thanks LaurLa! :-)
Not shuffling cards around if it isn't absolutely necessary, so only adding the next two that work for 9 :-)And then LaurLa's Jagged for the last open 5 card.
Anything else is colour cards or covered with the last open Draw 2.
Well done!!
Now let's cracking on those many many mini challenge tasks we can still cover if we so wish hehe.
My Turf Wars list for this week is a horse one. Trying to decide all of my reads off of it. If I read The Black Stallion and Satan, could we get creative for one of the animals with Devil in the name, since Satan is another name for the Devil?
If I read The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt, could this work for the bat, since bats are often associated with blood?
If I read The Island Stallion, could that associate with Tasmanian Devils, because Google tells me that Tasmania is a large island?
Actually, I see that Get Creative has been used on both Devil animals. But Queen of Shadows could get moved to a different animal with white fur, if we want to use one of the above books.Also, I'm reading another book with Blue in the title, so that one can go toward name for Blue-footed Booby.
Also planning to read
. Looks like the color would be good for Blue-footed Booby, among others.I've also got multiple two word titles planned.
Completion PostBook: Empire of Storms
Date Read: 4/22
Rating: 5 stars
Cards - #5 in series if LaurLa doesn't get hers done
Reverse
Mini Challenge:
Firework Jellyfish - Fire on cover looks a bit like a show, like fireworks
Bearcat - looks like there's a lot of grey on them
Boatbill - Grey on the neck
Narwhal - grey animal
Laura wrote: "My Turf Wars list for this week is a horse one. Trying to decide all of my reads off of it. "I loved those books :-)
Now I feel the need to reread them hehe.
In case you need another one and you haven't read this one yet: The Silver Brumby.
The ideas would all work and we may be able to switch things around easily enough. Or you might find something else. :-)
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Dirty Rogue
Read🔹04.23 ★★★★
Possible Cards
3 - #3 Dirty series
4 - char Frank
8 - char Elijah (Christian) Pierce
9 - set in NYC
Skip - char Elijah (Christian) Pierce
Mini
29 - Read a book with a two-word title.
Boatbill - top feathers can be called a crest, model has a crest tattoo.
Ground Pangolin - the Ground is often dirty, the title has Dirty in it
Lilac-breasted Roller - you can see this gentleman's breasts
Quokka - the model and animal have similar stance, standing there with their arms at the side
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹All In With Him
Read🔹04.23 ★★★★
Possible Cards
1 - char Owen
2 - char Troy
3 - #3 Men of Summer
6 - char Declan Steele
9 - char Nikki
Mini
Honduran White Bat - the MCs play baseball which use bats.
Laughing Kookaburra - the model on the left appears to be laughing
Lilac-breasted Roller - model on the right has a open wingspan tattoo, similar to the bird's open wingspan in the picture
Sugar Glider - model on the right has a open wingspan tattoo, similar to the glider's open wingspan in the picture
Completion:Bookcover:
Book: Metronome
Date Read: 24/4/23
Pages: 320
Rating: 3.5 stars
CARDS:
0 - stand alone
2 - A: Tom Watson
MINI:
21. characters have porridge with seaweed for breakfast
Leafy Seadragon/sea pen - sea on cover
Narwhal - Has a protruding tusk & and book cover has an island protruding from the sea
Eldarwen wrote: "Laura wrote: "My Turf Wars list for this week is a horse one. Trying to decide all of my reads off of it. "I loved those books :-)
Now I feel the need to reread them hehe.
In case you need anoth..."
My library doesn't seem to have that.
Completion PostBook: Meet Cute
Date Read: 4/24
Rating: 4 stars
Cards: Yellow 3 - Author Helena Hunting
Mini Challenge - Red Lipped Batfish - Red lips on cover
Eldarwen wrote: "Aaaand here is a little update on our remaining cards for this last month of Uno!Coulour cards for April:
9 Green - Audrey - Nettle & Bone
6 Green - LaurLa - [book:With Everythin..."
Meet Cute is done. Kingdom of Ash will be up right after I finish listening to Tower of Dawn.
If no one else finishes a 9 before, Tower of Dawn has an N character. At least her name sounds like it starts with an N in the audio. :)
Completion:Bookcover:
Book: Mine
Date Read: 25/4/23
Pages: 496
Rating: 3 stars
CARDS:
No 9s, sorry!
MINI:
Leafy Seadragon - teal on both animal and cover
Team Lilac-breasted Roller - cover a similar shade to the feathers on top of the bird's head?
Completion:Bookcover:
Book: Day by Day Armageddon
Date Read: 25/4/23
Pages: 260
Rating: 3 stars
CARDS:
No 9s, sorry!
MINI:
Thorny Devil - looks yellow-ish to me, and there's a lot of yellow on the cover. OR creature looks intimidating, as does armed man on the cover
Streaked Tenrec - black and yellow on animal and cover OR, animal has spines for weapons & man on cover is holding a weapon
Echidna - animal has spines for weapons & man on cover is holding a weapon
Also, found out that leaf sheep are hermaphrodites, in case that crops up in anyone's book, lol!
Completion PostBook: Tower of Dawn
Date Read: 4/25
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
9 - Character Nesryn Faliq
Mini Challenge:
Wings/bird on the shield on the cover fits (only animals without a Get creative already): Blue-Footed Booby, Honduran White Bat, Lilac-breasted Roller, Venezuelan Poodle Moth
We could actually use that for animal's colour for Blue-footed Booby. That way we could have a flexible get creative task free for the books that don't have easy cover colours. So I'll take the liberty of switching it around :-)
I have a blue cover incoming too... ;)
Completion:Bookcover:
Book: A Second Chance
Date Read: 26/4/23
Pages: 298
Rating: 4 stars
CARDS:
Nothing useful, sorry!
MINI:
Streaked Tenrec - If it's a highland streaked tenrec (I totally can't tell them apart), it's habitat could be in the mountains on the cover! ;)
Boatbill - Has blue feathers - blue cover
Lilac-breasted Roller - Has blue feathers - blue cover
Actually... The above book also has:5 - C: Ian Guthrie
If we still need a 5? :D
Could you also add it to your Uno shelf, please? Seems to be missing - thaaanks :-)5 we shouldn't need since LaurLa is reading one, but always good to know! :-)
Eldarwen wrote: "Could you also add it to your Uno shelf, please? Seems to be missing - thaaanks :-)5 we shouldn't need since LaurLa is reading one, but always good to know! :-)"
Oops! I have TT on the brain and put it on the wrong shelf :D :D
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Read🔹04.24 ★★★★
no cards
Mini
Lilac-breasted Roller - bird on the cover
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Jagged
Read🔹04.25 ★★★★
Possible Cards
5 - #5 Colorado Mountain
Mini
24 - Read a book with a purple cover
Sammy wrote: "Oops! I have TT on the brain and put it on the wrong shelf :D :D"Haha understandable!! I nearly put TT shelf instead of Uno shelf ;-)
Question:
- Enough brown to work for any of the brown animals?This one will probably take me a couple of days to finish, especially because I'm unlikely to read tomorrow as going into hospital for a minor procedure, and will be loopy with the drugs they'll be pumping me full of afterwards.
Sammy wrote: "Question: - Enough brown to work for any of the brown animals?"Yes
Fingers crossed that all will go well with the procedure, even if minor, and that you won't be too loopy with the drugs :-)
And we have our final countdown!(And yes, I'll refrain from posting the song this time around :-p)
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Uno will end on 1st May 9am UTC time, so in noooot quite 4 days now. Not long anymore!
READ READ READ - we have a few more tasks to cover hehe ;-)
I WILL have mine finished but it will go down to the wire. Feel free to replace them if you're more comfortable doing that. 
- will be done today for the mini
- tomorrow for Red 8
- for Green 6, probably Sunday since it's a doozy on pg count.
Not at all a problem if it's down to the wire. End time is Monday morning for me and it's a bank holiday, so all good. I'll be finishing my Australia book on Monday as well :-)
Great! I have to fit a Penny Reid book into the mix at some point too. Challenges have not been friendly the last week or so with books fitting multiple challenges! Such a problem to have!
Completion PostBook: Drama King
Date Read: 4/27
Rating: 4 stars
Mini Challenge:
36 - 3 snowflakes on cover
Kirk's Dik-dik - appears to be a deer-like animal; reindeer heads on cover
Red-lipped Batfish - red cover
Update on my books:Color Card - Kingdom of Ash - about 7 hours left in audio. Should be done tomorrow (already assigned to mini-challenge task).
Mini - Challenge:
Part 1 - 2 word title - today or tomorrow
Part 2 - Blue Angel/Blue-Footed Booby - should both be done by Saturday
I should be able to get 2 or 3 more than these done, since I'll be focused on the younger horse books after I finish these. I'll make sure someone eats breakfast in one of them. We want to get that bonus for the top part!
If there is no breakfast, then mine will work. Gin is always making breakfast in this one haha.
Eldarwen wrote: "If there is no breakfast, then mine will work. Gin is always making breakfast in this one haha."Alex is always eating breakfast before he goes out to the barn in the Black Stallion books, so we can save Gin for the Panda Ant. :)
Completion PostBook: Fonseca's Fury
Date Read: 4/27
Rating: 3 stars
Mini-Challenge: Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America
He is called Alex in the English version?It's Alec in the German ones - never understood why. Unless it's supposed to be pronounced the same way?
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Dance with the Devil
Read🔹04.27 ★★★★
Possible Cards
no cards
Mini
Tasmanian Devil or Thorny Devil - partial animal name in title
It might be Alec. Now I have to go look.
Laura wrote: "It might be Alec. Now I have to go look."It is Alec. Just a brain fart on my part. :)
Completion PostBook: Pedigree Unknown
Date Read: 4/27
Rating: 3 stars
Mini - Challenge - 2 word title (also, breakfast is eaten several times)
Book: Kingdom of Ash
Date Read: 4/28
Rating: 5 stars
Card: Yellow 7
Mini Challenge - Narwhal get creative
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Twisted Threads
Read🔹04.28 ★★★★
Possible Cards
Red 8 - char Emily Drake
Mini
Red-lipped Batfish - Red cover?
Also could work for breakfast if needed - Sean makes breakfast each morning for him and Emily before they leave for work.
Before I finish my green book, I'm quickly going to read Dragon on Top.We can use this for Mini - partial name in title for Leafy Seadragon
Completion PostBook: Blue Smoke
Date Read: 4/28
Rating: 3 stars
Mini-challenge - Blue-footed Booby - partial name in title
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Book🔹When Darkness Ends
Read🔹04.22 ★★★★
Possible Cards
2 - char Tonya
4 - char Fallon
5 - author Alexandra Ivy
6 - char Styx
7 - char Viper
Skip - char Keeley
Mini - Part Two - all very stretchy!! My fave is Kirk's Dik-dik
Bearcat - mostly brown hair/fur, model has brown hair
Blue-footed Booby - brown coloration around the head, model has brown hair
Echidna - brown coloration, model has brown hair, brown clothing
Kirk's Dik-dik - that stare! Just like the cover model's stare!
Platypus - mostly brown hair/fur, model has brown hair
Quokka - mostly brown hair/fur, model has brown hair