The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2024
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Team Aunt Entity's Sidecar
Kirsten wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I'll take an Overload/Reverse with 
. I bought it when I was in BN today LOLI can always read some In Death series books which majority of them take..."
Tineye says 46%
Here’s a pickle for you. I have a book to review. The covers on amazon but not here can it be used? For a colour card. It’s this one Emma, Disappeared
Hi, Kat! Do you mean Happy Place is 46% pink, or Key of Knowledge is 46% orange? I would take that to the captain’s group. As for Emma, Disappeared, I will ask a librarian to add the Amazon cover—I think that works. I’ll keep you posted.
Melis, I’ll get June Farrow posted. Good luck finishing your last book—it and my Show Girl are the only 2 we’ve got left for our hands.
Kirsten wrote: "Hi, Kat! Do you mean Happy Place is 46% pink, or Key of Knowledge is 46% orange? I would take that to the captain’s group. As for Emma, Disappeared, I will ask a librarian to add the Amazon cover..."
I mean Nora roberts sorry I was trying to help.
Thanks for asking to add cover
Kat wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "Hi, Kat! Do you mean Happy Place is 46% pink, or Key of Knowledge is 46% orange? I would take that to the captain’s group. As for Emma, Disappeared, I will ask a librarian to add ..."
I figured! Thanks.
I can add the cover Kat. Can you post the link to the Amazon page? Thanks!
Great, Melissa--are you a librarian? I have a request that's been sitting in the captain's group for 3 days.
This is the message I posted to the librarian thread in the captain’s group on Monday—no response yet. Hello! Can I get a page counted added for For nEver Mine?
It's available on Smashwords at 56,131 words: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
TIA
I’m happy to give them a day or two, but I do want to use it for the mini.
It might be because of the source. We do need to have a legitimate source for word count and I don’t think Smashwords counts. But let me double check!
Melissa, I just heard from the librarians and I can put in the word count in as a comment and use the book. Thanks!
Hello, cardsharks!
We are nearly finished with March. Congratulations! Except for Melis' in process The Last Russian Doll (skip yellow) all our hands are complete, March Mini Part I is complete, and we've read the 25 books we can use to make cocktails. If you finish another book this month, you don't need to log it on the spreadsheet or in a completion post for March. You can, however, hold off finishing (like waiting on the last chapter, which I'm doing for a book I started last week) until Monday and log it for April. If you've got a book with a 5/I or a 7/V or 9/N and can hold off, please do. We have a bunch of those for April.
Our final task is fun and creative and you can participate as you like or not. Let's make some drinks!
We need to come up with drink names and descriptions for part 2. These do not need to be real drinks but they need to follow the Name of Person Name of Drink (like Aunt Entity's Sidecar). Below, I have the 25 books we can draw from. You may use words from the title of the book, the series title, the author's name, any item on the cover, any color on the cover (it doesn't need to be 50%), any name from the book and any setting in the book. You can add any connecting words (in, and, of, the, etc) and you can make anything plural or possessive.
Here are the books--you can click the links to find info about the colors, cover items, etc.
I Let Her In
Secret Santa
Chase in Shadow
The Wife Upstairs
With This Bling
Guilt by Association
Breaking Dawn
Three Kings
✔Moonlight Becomes You
Sunflower Sisters
What It Looks Like
Love Language
Letters to Half Moon Street
The Prince's Vessel
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Resisting Double Trouble
The Bachelor's Valet
For nEver Mine
Show Girl
It Will Come Back
Even Though I Knew the End
The Crimson Moth
Shift Work
✔The Unmaking of June Farrow
Good Girl, Bad Blood
You can use 2-6 words from any book you choose, but you can only use each book once.
When you come up with a drink, please put the drink name and description, the name of the books you used and the element. For example:
The Bachelor and the Wife's Love Mistake: A love like this could never be a mistake! Neither is this drink! Pink champagne is poured over a sugar cube dissolved in bitter absinthe.
The Bachelor's Valet --title
The Wife Upstairs--title
Love Language--title
For nEver Mine--series title
Ask if you have questions!
Before you post your drink, make sure no-one has claimed the book yet. Play if you like, but there's no pressure to contribute if this isn't your thing.
I should have my book done tonight if not I will definitely be done before the end of the month. I only have 150 pages left.
Are the books that have been used for drinks, marked on the spreadsheet so I know what's left to use?Should the submissions go here or on the spreadsheet?
Here's one.
Starry Moonlight - Crown Royal Blackberry Whiskey over crushed rice. Just sit back and relax.
Books. The unmaking of June Farrow (stars on the cover)
Moonlight becomes you.
I'm trying, but as usual not sure I'm following proper instructions.
Hi, Leanne--At this point all the listed books are in play. I thought that when people made a drink, I'd cross off the books in the instructions post.I think your example would work if you included a name/person like in all the drink examples (June's Starry Night, or using another book, Cassie's Starry Night, with the MC of I Let Her In) and if the justification for "Starry" is that the cover shows a starry sky (because we can't change words except to make them plural or possessive).
Kirsten wrote: "Hi, Leanne--At this point all the listed books are in play. I thought that when people made a drink, I'd cross off the books in the instructions post.I think your example would work if you includ..."
ok, I'll worry about it next time since all the books are already in play. Thanks for trying to help.
Leanne, I’m so sorry not to have been clear. I meant that you could use any and all books. Nothing has been claimed yet. I can mark June Farrow and Moonlight becomes You. And do as many as you want.
I’ve finished the final book! Here’s the information for the Mini part 2 if we need it. 
The Last Russian Doll
Kristen Loesch
Woman, key, flowers, building
Yellow, white, brown, red, green
Rosie(Raisa), Tonya, Valentin, Lev, Sasha, Alexey, Viktoria
Russia
First I want to make sure you guys know that I have no issues whatsoever where my books are used 🙃 Feel free to do whatever is best for the team. But as far as I was always aware when you use Tin Eye it’s only a guide and you are supposed to uncheck the Exclude background and Exclude interior background boxes. When you do that
is over 80% orange. I own this book and the entire cover besides the words are orange. I’m only bringing this up because I know Tin Eye is picky and weird sometimes and I know how challenging it can be when trying to find cover books and making sure they are enough of a certain cover. So for future knowledge I just wanted to say that.
I am super laid back and will go with whatever flow works LOL. I’m honestly not mad or upset or annoyed or anything like that. You can use the book for Skip or Overload or 9 or wherever it fits best. I just don’t want us to be searching for a book to cover Overload when we have one read.
And that’s all I’ve got 😆 We’re doing such an awesome job everyone!! I’ll try to log on tomorrow night and help with some drink names if we still need them.
Melissa wrote: "First I want to make sure you guys know that I have no issues whatsoever where my books are used 🙃 Feel free to do whatever is best for the team. But as far as I was always aware when you use Tin..."
I’ve tried your cover and one from amazon excluded background and I get 45% and 46%
Hi, Melis—I’m not good with colors and I thought Key of Knowledge looked more salmon than orange. As always when there’s a question, I like to either get consensus or ask the captain’s group; Uno uses consensus rather than tineye. I checked the SS last night and I don’t think Key of Knowledge has been logged yet and I haven’t checked with captains (I was waiting on team consensus but it doesn’t look like we’ve got that). I’ll do that now and based on what they say I’ll log accordingly.
Lisa and I aren’t trying to control where books go, but just want to be sure things work where we put them for the final reckoning.
We’re nearly done with March! If you’ve got ideas for cocktail names, please let us know ASAP. We need to get the official spreadsheet updated for our books to count. Here’s a countdown to the end of the challenge: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Also, if you get TinEye to show the 80% orange, if you copy the link and post in a comment, that should provide the cover and evaluation. https://labs.tineye.com/color/5ca0a0a...
MN Lisa wrote: "Also, if you get TinEye to show the 80% orange, if you copy the link and post in a comment, that should provide the cover and evaluation. https://labs.tineye.com/color/5ca0a0a......"
I did not know we could use that! I thought this was a no tineye challenge. Seems sorted then.
I just double checked and you can do either/or or both. You can use TinEye, but if it comes back and doesn't make sense, then you can go to the captains group. At least that is how I interpret it. I just try to avoid going after color covers since I'm so bad at it. :)
From Captain's Thread:
To find if a cover is more than 50% of a colour, you can use this link
https://labs.tineye.com/color/
You are NOT REQUIRED to use tineye. It is linked here as it is usually the best place to check if you are unsure.
Every so often, a cover will look like a certain cover, but the tool tells you otherwise (as the image may not accurately reflect the cover). If you think you have an example of this, and want your fellow captains opinion, you can post here.
Captains group just said orange, so we’ll get that logged, Melis. There is a small chance we’ll move it into N because we need so many of them, but that’s only if we have some backup colors.
No problem!! Like I said I really don’t care where the book goes I was trying to help since I think (I’m sorry if I’m wrong!) it’s your first time captaining a challenge!? And I remember my first time captaining so I wanted to just give some advice (not trying to overstep at all!) Plus book colors all look weird depending on your device so it’s more than possible it looks salmon on yours 🙂Also here’s the link if we still need it https://labs.tineye.com/color/b51b46e...
Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 🐣🐰
I don't celebrate Easter, Melis, so thanks for that reminder. And I'm always counting on teammates to help keep things on track--Lisa has never even played Uno before and it's my first time captaining, although we both have a bunch of experience captaining (Lisa especially) in other challenges.And yes, happy Easter if it's your holiday.
Gotcha. You both are doing a great job with this challenge keeping everything on track! It’s a lot of work being a captain sometimes.
April has started! Our last month. We did great last month and completed all our hands plus the mini. Let's make sure we can do it again!Don't forget there are still a number of Color Cards that can be claimed. These get us 30 points each so we should try and finish those first.
Let Kirsten or I know if you have any questions. Go Team!
We also need a total of 12-Ns, 8-Ss and 9Is. If you've got them let us know. I do review the spreadsheet, but with these I'd place them as soon as we can so I can track what we still need.
Once I get through the 3 more I've claimed I'll be able to see how many more I can read and I'll grab some more color books or 5s/9s depending on what's left. I do have one I just got from the library that will fit either a 5 or a 9 so I'll most likely get that one done. I also just claimed the 2 Red but if someone else has something that will fit there feel free to move my book and I'll look for something else.
I wanna use this book for skip blue It's a Mum's Life unfortunately this edition doesn’t have pages. Another does but it’s not blue it’s white. The edition I read is it’s a mum’s life (was re released )Authors surname is King
Also could go under 6 blue as it has a character called Susan
Hi, Kat (and Melis, you can correct me if I'm wrong), but without an official page count or word count, librarians can't add that. If you can get an official word count (either from the Amazon listing or from the publisher), then we can get that verified. Post the GR book listing as well as the url for the page/word count verification.The list of color covers has been up to date, so check that if you're looking to fill something in (6 Blue and Skip Blue have been claimed).
Kirsten wrote: "Hi, Kat (and Melis, you can correct me if I'm wrong), but without an official page count or word count, librarians can't add that. If you can get an official word count (either from the Amazon list..."When I checked yesterday it was still looking to be filled. No worries
Can someone add this for me please - Added to UNO shelf It's a Mum's Life by Sophie King
Pages: 434
Date read: 3.4.24
Justification: Has author first name beginning with or character S (6) Has author surname beginning with K (Skip)
You’re correct Kristen. Kat if you can post the link to Amazon showing the cover and the word count I can update Goodreads. It can’t hurt to have a Skip Blue as backup. My book covers a 9 as well so it can be moved there if we needed it.
Melissa wrote: "You’re correct Kristen. Kat if you can post the link to Amazon showing the cover and the word count I can update Goodreads. It can’t hurt to have a Skip Blue as backup. My book covers a 9 as well..."
Just noticed that there isn’t a page count on amazon either 🙄
Kat, if you can find a word count or page count (publisher, other sites like Smashwords, ABE books or Barnes and Noble, Netgalley, etc), I can ask the mods if we can use the book. But without a page count, it can't be used. I had a book last month without a page count but I was able to give the mods a link to smashwords with a word count and even though the librarians didn't add it, I could use it with a note for Uno. We also still need an 8 Blue and 1 Blue, so if it had an E or an I name or place we could use it if there were page numbers.And I should have been clear--either page numbers or word counts will probably work, but will need an okay from the mods.
I will take it to the mods and see what they say. Thanks!
Hello, cardsharks! We're not quite a week into April and we've already finished 10% of our books! Every month, the challenges get harder and we get more hands, so we're in super shape to finish strong.
We did everything we could do in March, but some teams had much better cards than we did, so we ended up in 15th place, which is about in the middle.
Did you read anything good this week? I blew through Gregory Ashe's Iron on Iron series and it was amazing and intense and a great story of friendship. If you read MM or romantic suspense, you should be reading Ashe, I think.
Please continue to log your books and put them on your uno shelves. And please do check in! I want to know what you've read.
Hi, Kat, and here's what I've heard about It's a Mum's Life.My question:
Hi, librarian friends--
A player would like to be able to use this book: It's a Mum's Life. Neither GR nor Amazon have a page count, but she did find this listing with one: https://play.google.com/store/books/d...
and my friend Amanda found this because she is super helpful: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/its-...
Can the page count be added to GR, or can she receive permission to use it anyway?
And the response:
Sorry but Goodreads doesn't consider Google books or Barnes & Noble acceptable sources for book data: https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...
I also can't find a source that is allowable by GR with a page count, or an audio version. So I'm sorry but she won't be able to use it unless she can find either of those .
So, it doesn't seem like It's a Mum's Life will work.
Kirsten wrote: "Hi, Kat, and here's what I've heard about It's a Mum's Life.My question:
Hi, librarian friends--
A player would like to be able to use this book: It's a Mum's Life. Neither GR nor Amazon have a ..."
That’s annoying.
Thanks
Ah nvm I see Kristen filled the 8 Blue. I don’t think it fits a 1 but I’ll keep it in mind as I’m reading.
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I've finished
Title: The Unmaking of June Farrow
Author: Adrienne Young
Color on Cover: white, blue, yellow, orange
Item on Cover: Trees, light
Names: June, Gran, Birdie, Mason, Eamon, Esther, Margaret, Annie, Caleb, Callie (horse)
Setting: Jasper, North Carolina; farm, flower field, flower shop, farmhouse, river, bridge, barn, fair
As a side note, if anyone enjoys reading this type of book you need to read this. It was such a great book!
I'm going to start my final book for March