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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2023
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Kayt wrote: "Completed
Sky Without Stars
read 11 Feb 2023
Pages: 582
rating 4/5
Can I say that i loved this book!!!!!! I am a musical theater geek, who wa..."
Titles can't be used for the Uno cards, so Inspector doesn't work for a 5. I wish it did!
The mini-challenge doesn't start until 2/14. Books can be started at anytime since Uno began, but they can't be finished until the countdown reaches zero. The countdown can be found on page 1, post #5, but I'll also link it here.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Ok I miss understood the mini challenge, sorry about that. Thank you for the clarification. For some reason I had it in my head that it had to be finished by the 14th :) I am planning on reading the second book, just ordered it, but it is is about 200+ more pages. We will see how much it grabs me when I start. It might be a mini challenge yet.Also I am getting ready to start Nevada So this could cover a 5 :).
Eldarwen wrote: "Emelie wrote: "I'm sorry, I haven't been able to get into the reading at all. I'm considering dropping out."Sorry to hear you aren't in the reading mood for the time being, but the month is still..."
Thank you, that's comforting to know! I will give it a bit more time!
Emelie wrote: "Thank you, that's comforting to know! I will give it a bit more time! ":-D
CompletionBookcover:
Book: Extraordinary People
Date Read: 12/2/23
Pages: 321
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
6 - C: Sophie
8 - title
SKIP - A: Peter May
For the mini challenge, I can cover the following:#7 - a book with Dawn in the title
#27 - a book with Twilight in the title
I'll pick up one of them as soon as I'm done with my current book, but the other task can be grabbed by someone else if someone has a book. I'll choose something else then.
Since you've probably planned a dragon book already, LaurLa, that task is yours. :-)
(If you aren't going to read because of a plan change, give me a shout and I'll read for it.)
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹You Can Run
Read🔹02.11 ★★★★
Possible Cards
0 - author Rebecca Zanetti
1 - #1 Laurel Snow series
3 - char Huck Rivers
5 - char Ena Ilamoto
6 - char Laurel Snow
7 - char Kate Vuittron
8 - char Ena Ilamoto
Skip - char Kate Vuittron
Eldarwen wrote: "Since you've probably planned a dragon book already, LaurLa, that task is yours. :-)(If you aren't going to read because of a plan change, give me a shout and I'll read for it.)"
Yep, finally getting to this one
And if for some reason I get behind, I'll read this shorter one
That dragon silhouette on the second cover looks a little odd hehe.
Oh!I can cover the martial arts task. Unexpectedly, I just found characters sparring in Thunderhead and they're using martial arts called Black Widow Bokator. Bokator originates in Cambodia according to the Wiki list that has been provided with the task :-)
You can put me down for 2 & 12 as well... I have plenty to fit those :)
Eldarwen wrote: "For the mini challenge, I can cover the following:#7 - a book with Dawn in the title
#27 - a book with Twilight in the title [bookcover:Tempt Me at Twilight|626471..."
I love The Hathaways! Although I've read them completely out of order.
Sammy wrote: "You can put me down for 2 & 12 as well... I have plenty to fit those :)"Would you mind posting your covers for those, pretty please? You have no idea how many orange and teal covers (orange especially!) we've looked at in the captain's group that aren't right, so I get nervous! :)
Does anyone want the Bird on cover task? I've got one I can read for Turf Wars that works, so I'm planning my next few days reading.Same thing for the fire on cover task.
If no one finds something with a character flying, I can delve into my sci-fi stash and find plenty of spaceships. And aliens, for that matter.
LaurLa wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Since you've probably planned a dragon book already, LaurLa, that task is yours. :-)(If you aren't going to read because of a plan change, give me a shout and I'll read for it.)"
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The Becoming also works for Blue letters on the cover. Or White letters. And trees on the cover, maybe? And 4 in page count. Would the Waterfall work for body of water on cover?
I've only read the first in that series, but mightn't it also work for the soldier/warrior task?
Completion PostBook: Angels' Blood
Date Read: 2/12
Rating: 5 stars
Cards it fits:
1 - #1 in series
3 - Character Sara Haziz
5 - Character Illium
6 - Character Sara Haziz
7 - Character Vivek Kapur
8 - Character Elana Deveraux
Skip - Character Vivek Kapur
Reverse - Read by Audrey Jane
Of course. I didn't post them at the time because dinner was ready, lol.Orange options I'm considering:
,
and
Priority teal books (though I have a LOT more):
and
Why don't you read Wolf Den and then you let me know what you think ;-)It's one of those that sounds interesting but I often get disappointed by mythology retellings. But I'm always curious.
I just realised that the book I'm about to start
has some teal text at the bottom of the cover, so that can cover task #1 :D
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹Time Lock
Read🔹02.12 ★★★
Possible Cards
0 - char Zilya
2 - title T
3 - char Hannah
6 - char Tony Scolerio
7 - char V'ru
8 - char Etoi
9 - char Neelah
Skip - char Kaz
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹The Shipwreck
Read🔹02.12 ★★★
Possible Cards
3 - char Halfdan
6 - title S
Skip - char Kimbery
This one doesn't really work for much and wasn't expecting to read it until I needed it for another challenge, so I won't be offended (ha) if it doesn't make its way to a card.
Even if it doesn't work for much, it does work for some things, and that's all that matters! :-)
Sammy wrote: "I just realised that the book I'm about to start has some teal text at the bottom of the cover, so that can cover task #1 :D"Teeny tiny bit of text but teal is teal!
Eldarwen wrote: "Teeny tiny bit of text but teal is teal!"That's what I thought, lol.
CompletionBookcover:
Book: The Reading List
Date Read: 13/2/23
Pages: 373
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
0 - C: Zac
2 - title
3 - C: Harish
5 - C: Izzy
6 - A: Sara Nisha Adams
7 - C: Vittri
SKIP - C: Priya
Completion
Bookcover:
Book: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Date Read: 13/2/23
Pages: 249
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
RED 1 & 3
1 - #1 in series
2 - title
3 - C: Herbert Greenleaf/A: Patricia Highsmith
4 - C: Freddie Miles
5 - setting: Italy
6 - C: Marge Sherwood
SKIP - A: Patricia Highsmith
A little reminderof the mini challenge beginning in a little over 12 hours!
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Only books finished after the countdown has reached 0 can be used, so please remember to put down all the tasks your books work for as well as the options for the regular cards :-)
Yay!An hour to go in my current book, then I'll line up my first mini book :)
Not much to this one, as it's a non-fiction with the wrong lettered author, lol. But read it for something else, and don't mind if it's not used ;)Completion
Bookcover:
Book: The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
Date Read: 13/2/23
Pages: 305
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
2 - Title
9 - Setting: New York
Completion PostBook: Written in Red
Date Read: 2/13
Rating: 5 stars
Cards it fits:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character: Tess
3 - Character: Henry Beargard
6 - Character: Simon Wolfgard
7 - Character: Vladimir Sanguinati
8 - Character: Erebus Sanguinata
9 - Character: Nathan Wolfgard
Skip - Character: Karl Kowalski
Reverse: Read by Eldarwen
When you post your completions, from here on out (in about 5 hours!), please put all tasks that it fits in the mini-challenge. Even if it only works for tasks that are already completed. That way we can move books around if needed!
Completion Post
Book: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Date Read: 13th February
Rating: 3 stars
Letters:
0 - stand-alone
2 - character: Emira Tucker
6 - character: Shaunie
8 - character: Emira Tucker
Skip - author
CompletionBookcover:
Book: April in Spain
Date Read: 14/2/23
Pages: 368
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
2 - C: Terry Tice
6 - C: John Strafford
7 - C: Paul Viertel
8 - #8 in series
SKIP - C: Phoebe
Tasks:
Claimed:
8. 'April' in title
Also fits:
10. Strafford guards Phoebe
12. orange cover
20. Terry flies to Spain (and doesn't like flying)
21. title in white
36. Harbour on cover
Yay, our first mini challenge task is completed :-)
Completion PostBook: Grave Surprise
Date Read: 2/14
Rating: 4 stars
Cards it fits:
2 - #2 in series
3 - Character Harper Connelly
4 - Character Felicia Hart
6 - Character Seth Koenig
7 - Character Victor Morgenstern
9 - Clyde Nunley
Skip - Character Seth Koenig
Reverse - Read by Audrey Jane
Mini-Challenge tasks:
(for purposes of cover tasks, I listened to this edition, and have asked for a librarian to add it: https://www.audible.com/pd/Grave-Surp...)
6 - Tree on cover
21 - White letters on cover
32 - Grey cover
39 - Shelved Mysterious by 3 people
Book: A Wind in the Door
Date Read: 2/14
Rating: 5 stars
Word Count: 48,484
Cards it fits:
1 - Character Calvin O'Keefe
2 - #2 in series
Skip - Character Proginoskes
Mini-Challenge
6 - Trees on cover
15 - Birds on cover
30 - Meg & Calvin fight the Echthroi
31 - Black letters on cover
35 - Snake character - Louise the Larger (and snake on cover)
Not sure what else it might fit, but does this look like fire on this cover?
Completed:
NevadaDate 2-14-23
Rating: 2/5 (seriously it was like reading someone's teenage blog....)
pages: 288
Cards:
0- Stand alone
5 - Author Imogen Binnie
6 - Location Star City
9 - Title and Location Nevada
Mini Challenge -
27 - Orange cover
28 - So Maria rides for a while, fast until her legs hurt and her lungs won't breath right any more, but she doesn't' really know which way SOUTH or west are.
32 - Right on time for work at NOON.
47 - She figured out that she needed to transition because she'd been going to work, coming home, drinking whiskey and reading, every day, week in and week out, until one evening she watched the sun go down behind the Statue of Liberty out her fifth-floor window in SUNSET Park and realized she hadn't left the house all day.
56 - Black letters on the cover
Laura wrote: "Not sure what else it might fit, but does this look like fire on this cover? "Sure, those are flames licking up the tree trunks :-)
CompletionBookcover:
Book: The Wolf Den
Date Read: 15/2/23
Pages: 464
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Title
3 - A: Elodie Harper
4 - C: Felix
7 - C: Victoria
8 - A: Elodie Harper
SKIP - Setting: Pompeii
Tasks:
Claimed:
12. Orange cover
Also fits:
6. The lyre would almost certainly have been made of wood
10. Gallus guards the 'she wolves' against assault by men wanting 'freebies'
14. default page count 464
18. Tagged Summer (x3)
21. white text
43. Wolf (Lupus)
Does anyone know what
was supposed to be a retelling of? Because as far as I could tell it was just historical fiction. There's no fantasy or mythology element to this either. It's purely a story about women forced into prostitution and what happens to them and the choices they make set in Pompeii (and no, no volcano action either, lol).It wasn't bad, just not at all what I was expecting, although I didn't think the author managed to tell the story in a way that made me feel much for the characters. didn't hate them, just didn't get much of an emotional impact.
Completion Post
Book: The Ice People 10 - Winter Storm by Margit Sandemo
Date Read: 15th of February
Pages: 280
Rating: ★★★★
Cards:
2 - Tristan Paladin (ch)
5 - Irmelin Meiden (character)
6 - Sandemo, Margit (author)
7 - Villemo Kalebsdatter (ch)
8 - Eldar Blackforest (ch)
9 - Niklas of the Ice People (or set in Norway)
Skip - Kaleb (ch)
Mini-challenge:
#21 - white letters on the cover
#31 - black letters
Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Book🔹First Drop of Crimson
Read🔹02.14 ★★★★
Possible Cards
1 - #1 Night Huntress World series
2 - char Turner
4 - title F
5 - char Ian
6 - char Spade
8 - char Emma
9 - char Nathaniel
Mini
- tree(s) or a wooden object on the cover - trees in background
- red or orange letters on the cover - not title/author but there are red letters
- character flying (on) a plane or (on) a spaceship - Spade and Denise fly in plaines (and in the air via Spade)
- white letters on the cover
- "HUNTER" or "PREY" in the title or series title - "Huntress" in series name
- character who fights demons or other otherworldly creatures or a book shelved as "Demons" - Denise fights a demon; tagged
- "NIGHT" or "MIDNIGHT" in the text (6 points) or title or series title (10 points) - "Night" in series name
- shelved as "Immortal" or "Mysterious"(min 3 tags) - immortals x 3
Sammy wrote: "Does anyone know what was supposed to be a retelling of? Because as far as I could tell it was just historical fiction. There's no fantasy or mythology element to ..."Oookay... then I remembered wrong? I thought it was Romulus and Remus but apparently not then.
And setting Pompeii without a volcano? That just seems like a waste.
Eldarwen wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Does anyone know what was supposed to be a retelling of? Because as far as I could tell it was just historical fiction. There's no fantasy or mytholo..."Nope, nothing like that. I suspect it's just been mis-tagged by people in about 12 different ways, as per usual, lol.
CompletionBookcover:
Book: Midnight Cowboy
Date Read: 15/2/23
Pages: 260
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
3 - A: James Leo Herlihy
6 - C: Sally
8 - C: Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
9 - Setting: New York
SKIP - C: Perry
Tasks:
Claimed:
37. Midnight in title
Also fits:
21. white text
Sammy wrote: "I suspect it's just been mis-tagged by people in about 12 different ways, as per usual, lol."No surprise there indeed haha!
Eldarwen wrote: "Laura wrote: "Not sure what else it might fit, but does this look like fire on this cover? "Sure, those are flames licking up the tree trunks :-)"
My daughter has been bugging me to finish ever since we both listened to the first one last week, so I'll be listening to this one this week. She just wants me to suffer the cliff-hanger until March, too!
Completion PostBook:
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesDate Read: 2/14
Rating: 5 stars
Cards it fits:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Thora Gudridsdottir
3, 4 - Author Heather Fawcett
8 - Title
Skip - Character Finn Krystjanson
Mini-challenge:
21 - White letters on cover
32 - Black cover
44 - Fae King (view spoiler) (don't click this spoiler if you ever intended to read the book!)
Book: Archangel's Consort
Date Read: 2/14
Rating: 5 stars
Cards it fits:
3 - #3 in series
5 - Character Illium
7 - Character Venom
8 - Character Elana Devereaux
6, 9 - Author Nalini Singh
Reverse - Read by Eldarwen
Mini-Challenge
10 - Elana & Raphael are guarding New York
14 - Default edition has 324 pages
20 - the angels all fly
21 - white letters on the cover
29 - Guild Hunter series (pre-assigned task)
CompletionBookcover:
Book: The Moving Finger
Date Read: 16/2/23
Pages: 299
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
1. C: Owen Griffith
2 - Title
3 - C: Megan Hunter
4 - #4 in series
6 - C: Richard Symmington
8 - C: Elsie Holland
9 - C: Superintendent Nash
SKIP - C: Mr Pye
REV - read by Emelie
Tasks:
Claimed:
2. Teal Cover
Also fits:
1. 'Marple' in faded teal
6. Wooden door
34. #4 in series
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Definitely!
The hunter/huntre..."
First Drop of Crimson is tagged Demons 235 times, so I'll put you down for that one!