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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2024
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Team Lestat's Corpse Reviver
Completion PostBook: Death of a Charming Man
Date Read: 4/18
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
3 - Character Hamish Macbeth
6 - Sally
Skip - Character Priscilla
Mini:
20 - Shelved Cozy Mystery 75 times
42 - Sally manipulates her way into several meals with Hamish to make Priscilla mad
43 - Peter is murdered
45 - Peter seduces all the wives in town, so seductive
52 - Hamish Macbeth series ran for three seasons on BBC
Laura wrote: "Here are some ideas for #46, as suggested by some of the other captains (I haven't actually read/seen Interview With a Vampire!). I have a book for the Character trait task, but I was struggling wi..."More options:
character is a vampire or immortal, character is from another time period, character was born in the 1700s, character is from France, is very vain and concerned with fashion, actor or in a rock band, fond of music, loves reading, bisexual, can read minds, character is rich
plot: character sings, plays the piano or violin, someone turns into/is turned into a vampire, character sends large gifts to friends, relieves the financial debts of someone, a play is performed on stage, someone gives a musical concert, adopting a child
Completion PostBook: A Grave Robbery
Date Read: 4/18
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
2, 6 - Character Stoker Templeton-Vane
7 - Character Veronica Speedwell
8 - Character Eliza Elyot
9 - #9 in series
Red 7
Mini:
13 - skulls on cover
15 - Graveyard on cover
20 - Shelved Cozy Mystery 8 times
35 - Veronica and Stoker assume Eliza is innocent, but her intentions are murderous
42 - Veronica and Stoker are tricked by Eliza (and by Julius)
43 - Ambrose is murdered
Completion PostBook: A Ryan Recollection
Date Read: 4/19
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
6, Skip - Author
Overload - Black cover
Mini:
47 - The MCs are the head of the Mafia in New York, connecting plot to Michael Corleone
Completion PostBook: The Assassins of Thasalon
Date Read: 4/20
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
2 - Title
9 - Character Nikys
Skip - Character Penric
Mini:
2 - Assassin is synonym for Villain
Quick update for you all:Overload cards - Completed!
Color Cards:
Blue - Completed
Green - Green 1 left (Laura reading)
Yellow - Skip (2 or 9 could be switched); 4; 5 (Laura currently reading)
Red - 4, 6 (many of what we have read can be swapped for either of these, so any red should work); 5 (Laura reading)
Mini Challenge: 17 out of 55 tasks completed!
We need 49 more books total for the regular hands, which should also be enough to complete the mini!
It might be close again this month, but I believe we can do it!
If anyone is looking for a quick Hard Science Fiction book, the first Murderbot, All Systems Red, works. I highly recommend it. Audio if you have access to it! I would re-read it, but I've read it too recently.
Completion PostBook: The Nanny
Author: Lana Ferguson
Pages: 432
Date Read: 4/18-20
Rating: 3.5-4 stars
Cards:
0: Standalone
2: Title (The Nanny)
4: Author's last name (Ferguson)
5: Character name (Iris)
6: Character name (Sophie)
Completion PostBook: Loud Mouth
Date Read: 4/21
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
3- #3 in series
5 - Character Ian Petrov
6 - Character Shelby Blanton
Skip - Character Ian Petrov
Yellow 5
Mini:
34 - Enemies to Lovers (tagged by 35 people)
35 - Ian misunderstands Shelby's intentions multiple times
Book: Mostly Harmless
Date Read: 4/21
Rating: 3 stars
Cards:
2 - Character Trillian
4 - Character Ford Prefect
5 - #5 in series
Mini:
27 - Shelved Cult Classics (4 people); #1 in series shelved 21 times)
Ariel wrote: "Completion PostBook: The Nanny
Author: Lana Ferguson
Pages: 432
Date Read: 4/18-20
Rating: 3.5-4 stars
Cards:
0: Standalone
2: Title (The Nanny)
4: Author's la..."
Ariel, this one is tagged Erotica for the mini Challenge, but I was wondering if it might fit these tasks:
28 - Underhanded Plotting/Intrigue
42 - Character tricked/manipulated
45 - Character considered to be seductive (she does have an OnlyFans account, so I'm assuming)
I'm also going to check the other teams' spreadsheets to see if it works for one of those tasks.
Completion Post:Book: North to Paradise
Date read: 17 april
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
0 - Standalone
1 - AFN Ousman
9 - Title North
Mini:
Synonyms of Villain:
Criminals - "you would have thought we were dangerous criminals or terrorists", page 107.
Synonyms of Wicked
Guilty - "But I felt guilty, so I lied to my boss" p.18
Rotten - "You had some rotten luck" p61
Vile - "After witnessing and enduring so much vile explitation on my journey" p123
42. Read a book where a character is tricked or manipulated in some way - Ousman is tricked by the smugglers
43. Read a book where a character is murdered - The guide to Libia is murdered
Completion PostBook: Rule Number One
Date Read: 4/21
Rating: 2.5 stars
Cards:
1 - One in title
2 - Character Tim
3 - ALN Hastings
5 - Character Ivy
8 - Character Ethan
Skip - AFN Katherine
Green 1
Mini:
31 - It turns out that Jimmy is married
42 - Ivy is tricked by Jimmy in that he is married
45 - Ethan is seductive
46 - Ivy's life is completely changed because of meeting Ethan
Paula wrote: "Completion Post:Book: North to Paradise
Date read: 17 april
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
0 - Standalone
1 - AFN Ousman
9 - Title North
Mini:
Synonyms of Villain:
Criminals - "you wou..."
Can you put this one on your Uno shelf, please?
Completion PostBook: Red.
Author: London Miller
Read: 4/19/24
Rating: 3
Cards:
0-Z (nickname)
1-series
3-Elias Harrington
4-Declan Flanagan
5-Isabelle
6-Sarah
7-Nicklaus Volkov
8-Elias
9-Nicklaus
Mini:
4-5: monster in text “looked every bit the monster” 12%
7-10: dark/bad in text “his hair wasn’t dark” 5% “some kind of fucking bad dream” 13%
13: someone smoking on cover, maybe sinful?
25: MPG Romantic Suspense
26: tagged anti-hero x6
43: Sarah is tortured and murdered in front of Niklaus
Completion PostBook: Brennan
Author: Anna Castor
Read: 4/21/24
Rating: 3
Cards:
2-Theresa
3-series
4-Fiana
6-Sean
8-Errin
9-Niall
Skip-Kayla
Mini:
4-5: monster in text “flesh tearing little monster” 27%
7-10: evil in text “go all evil Errin” 62%
45: both mc’s are seductive
Completion PostBook: Fangs, Frost, and Folios
Date Read: 4/22
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
0 - Character Zain
2 - Character Tenzin
3 - ALN
4 - Title
5 - #5 in series
6 - Character Sadia
7 - Character Giovanni Vecchio
8 - AFN
9 - Character Nicholas Mortimer
Mini:
#48 - The MCs are all vampires, like Lestat
Cindy wrote: "Completion PostBook: Red.
Author: London Miller
Read: 4/19/24
Rating: 3
Mini:
13: someone smoking on cover, maybe sinful?"
Maybe not sinful, but definitely has a sinister association with cancer!
Completion PostBook: Troubled Blood
Date Read: April 22
Rating: 3.5/5
Cards
2: Title (Troubled)
4: CLN (Fuller)
5: #5 in Series
6: CLN (Strike)
8: CLN (Ellacott)
9: CLN (Nancarrow)
Skip: CLN (Phipps)
Mini
19. Read a book shelved as Crime or True Crime (Marked Crime 668 times)
Laura wrote: "If anyone is looking for a quick Hard Science Fiction book, the first Murderbot, All Systems Red, works. I highly recommend it. Audio if you have access to it! I would re-read it, b..."Love this series (well, read the first two books)
The third book: Rogue Protocol is available on audiobook...does this cover this task?
I am driving for work this week...just happens to be a smidge over 3 hours....so this would work perfectly!
Sarah wrote: "Laura wrote: "If anyone is looking for a quick Hard Science Fiction book, the first Murderbot, All Systems Red, works. I highly recommend it. Audio if you have access to it! I would..."The task is Hard Science Fiction OR Dystopia. People being odd, it is actually tagged Dystopia 23 times. It is tagged Hard SF 7 times, but I don't know if that works. So we can just call it for Dystopia.
Enjoy! I love to listen to these books. I own them all and I listen a few times a year. Murderbot is one of my comfort reads. I love him (the narrator is male, so I always end up calling it a he).
And we have one Reverse left, so this will cover that, too.
If anyone is looking to cover the Noir tag task, it looks like nearly all the Harry Dresden books work there.
Completion PostBook: A Time to Die
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Read: 4/22/24
Rating: 3
Cards:
1-Series
2-Title
3-Howie
4-Kara Fischer
6-Elyse Shepard
7-Vince
8-Eric
Skip-Kara
Mini:
4-5: Monster in text “the monster disease” 61%
7-10: dark in text “his dark eyes” 6%
Completion Post:Book #1:
By: Jack London
Date: Apr. 10
0 - Standalone
2 - LN Thornton
4 - FN Francois
Skip - FN Perrault
Book #2:
Date: Apr. 13
1 - first in series
2 - FN Tori
3 - ALN Hoover
6 - FN Sydney
Book #3:
Date: Apr. 20
3 - ALN Hoover
6 - FN Sydney
Book #4:
Date: Apr. 20
0 - Standalone
2 - AFN Tahmima
RED cover
MINI: 31 - Husband, Cyrus, becomes CEO of his wife, Asha's company. With this she loses total control of the decision making.
Ashlee wrote: "Completion Post:Book #1:
By: Jack London
Date: Apr. 10
0 - Standalone
2 - LN Thornton
4 - FN Francois
Skip - FN Perrault
Book #2:
[bookcover:Maybe Someday|6..."
I've actually read all of these except the last one, so our last Reverse is covered.
And just so you know for future Unos, if a book is a .5, we go by the first number. So Maybe Not, as a 1.5 can be a 1.
Also, The Startup Wife would also work for a 6, because we can use or ignore articles.
Laura wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Laura wrote: "If anyone is looking for a quick Hard Science Fiction book, the first Murderbot, All Systems Red, works. I highly recommend it. Audio if you have access ..."Thanks...didn't have the breakdown in front of me...glad we can use it!
I loved the first two books. I actually started reading them because they were suggested in my Turf Wars team :-)
Never listened, so excited about that too.
Laura wrote: "Ashlee wrote: "Completion Post:Book #1:
By: Jack London
Date: Apr. 10
0 - Standalone
2 - LN Thornton
4 - FN Francois
Skip - FN Perrault
Book #2:
[bookcover:..."
Thanks! I didn't know about that 1.5.
Totally missed that 6 in Startup Wife, though.
Completion PostBook: Legendborn
Date Read: 4/23
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - AFN
4 - Character Felicity
5 - Character Isaac
6 - Character Selwyn
7 - Character Victoria
9 - Character Nick
Mini:
13 - Red Mage Fire has a sinister association with Shadowborn within the world of the book.
28 - So much underhanded plotting: (view spoiler)
43 - (view spoiler)
53 - MPG Retellings
Laura wrote: "Ariel wrote: "Completion PostBook: The Nanny
Author: Lana Ferguson
Pages: 432
Date Read: 4/18-20
Rating: 3.5-4 stars
Cards:
0: Standalone
2: Title (The Nanny)
..."
I just saw your message - it would definitely count for the seductive. Both the main male character and female were seductive throughout - especially through the OF.
Ariel wrote: "Laura wrote: "Ariel wrote: "Completion PostBook: The Nanny
Author: Lana Ferguson
Pages: 432
Date Read: 4/18-20
Rating: 3.5-4 stars
Cards:
0: Standalone
2: Titl..."
We had another one that only really fit that category, so I put yours down for the Erotica task.
Completion PostBook: Red Rising
Date Read: 4/24
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Titus
3 - Character Harmony
8 - Character Eo
9 - Character Narol
Skip - AFN
Mini:
28 - So much plotting and scheming. It's described as Ender's Game meets Hunger Games, but I think it has an element of Lord of the Flies as well.
39 - Shelved as Revenge 38 times
43 - So much murder
Laura wrote: "Completion PostBook: Red Rising
Date Read: 4/24
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Titus
3 - Character Harmony
8 - Character Eo
9 - Character Narol
Skip - AFN
..."
I just saw someone else mention this on BookTok (don't judge me, lol). Gonna reserve it at my library now!
I know I saw it a while ago, but a booktok video convinced me recently. It really is Ender’s Game meets Hunger Games. But there’s a good helping of Lord of the Flies, for sure!
Wasn’t a big Lord of the Flies fan. I tried so hard to like it because I know it’s considered a classic!
I didn’t really care for it either. But it works in Red Rising.
Completion PostBook: Room for Just a Little Bit More
Author: Beth Ehemann
Read: 4/23/24
Rating: 3
Cards:
0-Zach
2-Taylor
3-Series
4-Fred
6-Sophia
7-Viper
8-Author
Skip: Kacie
Mini:
4-5: devil in text “enough about the devil child” 1%
8-10: dark in text “puts a dark cloud over it 33%
Cindy wrote: "Completion PostBook: Room for Just a Little Bit More
Author: Beth Ehemann
Read: 4/23/24
Rating: 3
Cards:
0-Zach
2-Taylor
3-Series
4-Fred
6-Sophia
7-Viper
8-Au..."
We don't need any more Reverses, but I loved this whole series!
Completion PostBook: Murder of Crows
Date Read: 4/25
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
2 - #2 in series
3 - Character Henry
4 - Character Steve Ferryman
6 - Character Simon
7 - Character Vlad
8 - Character Erebus
9 - Character Nathan
Skip - Character Karl Kowalski
Mini:
17 - Letters of CURSE in title
18 - Murder in title
20 - Shelved Paranormal Mystery 5 times
25 - Shelved Romantic Suspense 5 times
Completion PostBook: A Short Walk Through a Wide World
Date Read: April 25
Stars: 3.5/5
Cards
0: Standalone
1: CFN (Ollie)
2: CLN (Tourvel)
3: CLN (Holcomb)
6: Title (Short)
7: CFN (Vaughn)
8: CFN (Emily)
Skip: CLN (Kyengi)
Mini
43. MC is surrounded by three large men...she kills them with her spear
Completion PostBook: Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door
Date Read: 4/25
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
0 - Character Mrs. Zimmerman
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Riley Thorn
4 - Character Dickie Frick
6, 9 - Character Nick Santiago
Skip - Character Kellen Weber
Yellow 2
Mini:
25 - Shelved Romantic Suspense 34 times
43 - Several murders
51 - Read by Catwoman's Black Velvet for March Mini #32
Completion PostBook: Never is a Promise
Author: Winter Renshaw
Read: 4/25/24
Rating: 3
Cards:
2-Series
3-Harrison
5-Ivy
6-Sam
7-Rebecca Valentine
9-Title
Mini:
5: Rogue in text “wiping a rogue tear” 25%
8-10: Dark in text “in every dark night” 2%
Completion PostBook 1
4-16-2024
424
Card 4 : Title
Card 1: 1st in series
Card 9: Author Nicole
Book 2
4-18-2024
246 Pages
Skip: Author Piper
Card 8: #8 in series
Book 3
4-19-2024
254 Pages
Card 2: Title
Card 3: 3 in series
Card 6: Chloe Scott Character
Book 4
4-21-2024
369
Card 3: Character Holt
Card 1: 1st in series
Book 5
4-23-2024
344
Card 0 Standalone
Card 2: Title
Card 6: Author Suzanne
Book 6
4-23-2024
289
Card 1: 1st in series
Card 8: Author Erin
Book 7
256
4-25-2024
Skip: Author Piper
Card 6: Title
Card 1: 1st in series
Card 8
274
4-25-2024
Card 6: Author Sterling
Card 3: 3rd in series
Completion PostBook: Burn for Me
Date Read: 4/26
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
2 - Character Troy
3 - Character Cornelius Harrison
4 - Character Grandma Frida
5 - AFN
9 - Character Nevada Baylor
Skip - Character Penelope
Mini:
13 - Burning building on cover (sinister)
20 - Shelved Paranormal Mystery 8 times
26 - Shelved Anti-Hero 31 times
28 - All the underhanded plotting!
38 - The 3rd eye of Shiva is a mcguffin
Completion PostBook: Rogue Protocol
Date Read: April 26
Rating: 4/5
Audio Length: 3 hours and 46 minutes
Cards
3: #3 in Series
Mini
4. Read a book shelved as Hard Science Fiction or Dystopia (tagged Dystopia 23 times)
Completion PostBook: The Seven Year Slip
Date Read: 4/26
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
0 - Stand alone
2 - Title
4 - Character Fiona
5 - Character Iwan
6 - Title
7 - Seven in title
Skip - ALN
Yellow Skip
Mini:
Nothing
Completion PostBook: White Hot
Date Read: 4/27
Rating: 5 stars
Cards:
2 - #2 in series
3 - Cornelius Harrison
4 - Grandma Frida
5 - AFN
9 - Character Nevada Baylor
Skip - Character Penelope
Mini:
20 - Shelved Paranormal Mystery 5 times
26 - Shelved Anti-Hero 13 times
28 - It's all about underhanded plotting/scheming
Quick update. We need 10 more books to complete the Mini, and 16 to complete our hands. So if you finish a book that doesn't work for a mini task, please post it anyway!April Color Cards
Red 5 - Laura (working on series re-read to get to this one.)
Red 6 - Laura (Up next)
April Mini-Challenge:
TASK LIST
Corrupt Covers
(Use your own interpretation and imagination/creativity (fears). Images/imagery can be of persons, animals, symbols, weather, etc. There may be overlaps between objects/images. That's OK, just don't use the same thing twice. When in doubt, consult your Team and Captains. Captains have the final say.)
Cindy - 13. Read a book with an object on the cover that has a sinister or sinful association
17. Read a book with the letters C*U*R*S*E in the title and/or author's name
For 13 & 14, if you have a cover that seems to fit more of the "imagery on cover" task, rather than the "object on cover" task, we have one that we can swap.
For #17, we do have 2 books that can swap in there, so if you have a book shelved Romantic Suspense/Gothic Romance OR Hard Science Fiction/Dystopia, that would work as well.
Guilty Genres
(Tasks 19-26: minimum 5 tags)
Cindy - 22. Read a book shelved as Noir or Hard Boiled
If anyone is looking for a recommendation for #22, nearly all the Dresden Files books work. They are narrated by James Marsters, and the audio is really good.
Tricky Types & Tropes
(Use your own interpretation. When in doubt, consult your Team and Captains. Captains have the final say.)
28. Read a book with an underhanded plotting/intrigue taking place
35. Read a book where a character's intentions are misunderstood
Evil Extras
(Use your own interpretation. When in doubt, consult your Team and Captains. Captains have the final say.)
49. Read a book with a character sharing some trait with another team's villain (must be different from 48)
55. Read a book from the Shelf Hollywood OR Bollywood*
We have a book we can swap, so if you have a book with a character who works/worked in the film industry, it can swap with the Hollywood task.
*(50, 51, 52, 55) if a book on the shelf is part of a series, any book from that series counts
I think the book I’m reading now will work for 13 and then when I finish I will read a book for the noir task
Cindy wrote: "I think the book I’m reading now will work for 13 and then when I finish I will read a book for the noir task"I'll add that to the plan
Completion PostBook: Providence
Date Read: 4/27
Rating: 4.5 stars
Cards:
0 - Stand Alone
2 - Character Talia Beanfield
5 - Character Isiah Gilligan
Skip - Title
Red Skip
Mini:
41 - The Salamander aliens are very antagonistic.
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Purity in Death is also a Reverse. I’ve read the whole series.