The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2024
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Team Loki's Charred Gimlet
My weekend was good. We had a bit of snow (5 inches or so) on Friday, but it cleared out pretty well for the weekend. Library book sale went well. Now we are looking at 60 F weather with some rain but should clear out the remaining snow. Sorry about your Bills. It was a good game. Playoff football is fun.
I picked up a couple of books at the book sale and am holding on to them for UNO.
The only one I am confident about is
Yellow Skip, right?
Oh a late answer from me here. Weekend was good. Took it easy, but also spent some time with the horse. :) We did have quite a bit of snow and cold temps, but now a lot of it has melted/rained away and we have ice, ice everywhere. Fortunately crampons exist!Are you all reading any fun books right now? Finishing up anything before February? I always find it a bit difficult to time that stuff precisely so I have something enjoyable to read for the whole month, but am finished in time for UNO.
We have lots of rain, too, at the moment - great conditions for reading indoors lolI am finishing up my January reads, I hope everything works out and I can start all fresh on February 1st!
Yes for crampons!I'm teaching weather to my students right now - and we're covering all sorts of precipitation in real life. Sleet, freezing rain, rain and snow fell today...
Oh, the Bills. If it just wasn't a field goal..... still stings from many years ago....
Yellowface definitely works. Yellow skip is good.
I have a bunch of books I want to finish this weekend. One is going to be tough. Every time I open it, I fall asleep within 5 pages.....
Here's to another weekend! I will eventually have to try this charred gimlet!
@Brigia and Melissa: Sounds great! I'm sorry I didn't see these messages earlier. Evidently I forgot to turn on my notifications for this group, but I do now! lol Can't wait to BR with you two for the first time! :)
Vicki wrote: "@Brigia and Melissa: Sounds great! I'm sorry I didn't see these messages earlier. Evidently I forgot to turn on my notifications for this group, but I do now! lol Can't wait to BR with you two for ..."Do we have the threads, yet? I have never done a buddy read in this group, do we just create threads in the buddy reads folder?
Yes - we create a thread in the buddy reads folder. I can do that now.
Just added it:) On my cell phone so I can’t link it here…
Hi All,Just wanted to let everyone know, I haven't added any books to the tracker because the books I plan to read are all ones I haven't read before so I'm not sure yet what cards they will fit. My Uno shelf has been updated with what I have planed to read though.
Melissa wrote: "Just added it:) On my cell phone so I can’t link it here…"Thanks, Melissa :)
David wrote: "Hi All,Just wanted to let everyone know, I haven't added any books to the tracker because the books I plan to read are all ones I haven't read before so I'm not sure yet what cards they will fit...."
Sounds good.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...The countdown is on!!
A little over 10 hours before we dive in!!
Getting excited!I think I have listed my January books here.
I can't start a book for UNO until after the countdown, right? So, any book I read tonight will not be able to count for our cards?
UNO starts at 4 in the morning my time, so I am not too worried, just want to get it right.
I added links to the spreadsheet for the books I have planned so far. (I hope I did it right). Is this the preferred way of posting books in this group?
I am ready :) and excited to dive into new books this afternoon! @Vicki: Let me know if you still want to buddy read Fourth Wing, I’m going to start today and can make the thread.
Aidy wrote: "I added links to the spreadsheet for the books I have planned so far. (I hope I did it right). Is this the preferred way of posting books in this group?"
That sounds great
Aidy wrote: "Getting excited!I think I have listed my January books here.
I can't start a book for UNO until after the countdown, right? So, any book I read tonight will not be able to count for our cards? ..."
Yes!
With UNO, you can't start books until the start of the challenge (end of the countdown)
I am in Vegas on vacation and have been since Monday. I woke up at 3:50 this morning and decided to get up and read for UNO. lol I keep getting interrupted since my husband woke up but I am 70% finished. It's frustrating when you are in the middle of near the end of a book and you need to stop to make breakfast, drive to the store, etc. But I'll have my first book done shortly that wasn't even planned. lol I realized one of my NetGalley books is going to archive tomorrow so decided to get it read today. Thankfully it's really good.@Brigia and Melissa, I've had a BR planned for quite awhile in another group. If you'd like to join, let me know and I'll PM you the link so as not to advertise another group in this thread. That being said, I don't think we get extra points for a BR for this challenge, do we?
That’s fine Vicki, I’m also buddy reading Fourth Wing in another group :) I’m looking forward to reading Lady Tan with Melissa here. I’d still be interested what you think about the books, though! Have a great vacation with lots of reading time ;)
I'm also reading Fourth Wing in another group. lolI went over the SS and added my name to REVERSE for any books I've already read.
Vicki wrote: "I'm also reading Fourth Wing in another group. lolI went over the SS and added my name to REVERSE for any books I've already read."
That’s a good idea, I’ll do the same!
Brigia wrote: "Vicki wrote: "I'm also reading Fourth Wing in another group. lolI went over the SS and added my name to REVERSE for any books I've already read."
That’s a good idea, I’ll do the same!"
It makes it a lot easier than looking up every person on your team to see if they've read your books. lol
Vicki wrote: "I'm also reading Fourth Wing in another group. lolI went over the SS and added my name to REVERSE for any books I've already read."
Genius!!
Way to go Vicki!! Our first book read AND it fits all of the categories!!🤯
I know! I couldn't believe it fit all of them! lol I got lucky!
I am excited to get started. I have not done much reading yet this year. Uno always motivates me! I'm going to start with a Lisa Jewell novel. I have heard good things about this one.
I've started
and
and both are enjoyable so far. :)
I look forward to hearing how those books are!I am reading a VE Schwab book too -
and it's REALLY dark. But I think I'm out of the darkest parts now? It feels more like a comic book - and I like that part better.I'm reading
which I've wanted to read for a while. It's very good.
Okay, I made a slight change to the tracker. I put our color books up top, and I figure we can claim these as we go along. Dave, I noticed that you claimed one below, and I thought, right, that's a good idea. So, I moved your book up to the top :)I hope this will be easier!
and I'll stop ordering them by date read :) I thought that would make it easier, but I don't think it is....
Happy reading!! Happy weekend!!
I like the new tracker, Melissa, It's easier this way to figure out what we need. I claimed a yellow book :)I'm reading
and loving it! Also, I'm listening to the audiobook
and for nonficiton I'm working my way through the German edition of
. All three are very good reads, so far! Once I'm finished with Emily Wilde, I'll start Lady Tan's Circle, Melissa! Have you started already? I'm also buddy reading Emily Wilde, so i had to start with that.
@Ingeborg: I've got
checked out from the library, but I'm not sure I'll be able to fit it in this month. Do you like it?
Brigia wrote: "I like the new tracker, Melissa, It's easier this way to figure out what we need. I claimed a yellow book :)I'm reading
and loving it! Also, I'm listening to the ..."I have not started Lady Tan yet! I am thinking of starting it mid week.
Melissa wrote: "I look forward to hearing how those books are!I am reading a VE Schwab book too -
and it's REALLY dark. But I think I'm out of the darkest parts now? It feels more lik..."I read Vicious a few years ago. And the sequel. I liked them, they were quite intense! Dark and definitely fast-paced like a comic book. Schwab herself said that comic was the vibe she was going for with those books, so it's fun that this is what you're seeing as well. Apparently she's working on another in the series. I think it's meant to be a trilogy.
@Brigia - I just passed the halfway point of Threads of Power and I've been wavering on how I feel about it. There was a part that dragged a bit, but it's picked back up now. The writing is lovely and it is moody and suspenseful, it was just a tad to retrospective for a while. I liked the prequel trilogy okay, but it had a bit too much of a YA vibe toward the end with some characters. This one feels more mature and maybe better for it. We'll see! If you end up reading it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I love all of this talk of books 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I just DNFed a couple. On to the next stack!
Lady Tan, here I come!
Vicki wrote: "I am in Vegas on vacation and have been since Monday. I woke up at 3:50 this morning and decided to get up and read for UNO. lol I keep getting interrupted since my husband woke up but I am 70% fin..."Oooh Vegas! How is it?
Here is our link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
No, we don't get buddy read points.
Yes, PM me for your other group's thread :) please!
Melissa, I'm sorry I didn't see you post earlier...been so busy! It was just okay. I'm not big on Vegas but my BIL lives there. They had just gotten back from a trip and had gotten sick, so we only got to see them for about a 90 minute dinner out the night before we went home. It rained hard one day so we stayed in. It wasn't really warm enough to enjoy the pool area, so I mostly read while there which I love doing but I have to balance that with spending time doing things with Scott (my hubby). We made meals in our resort room all but the 3 times we went out to eat. We ate 1 Mexican meal, 1 Thai meal, and our dinner out with my husband's brother and his wife and I had salmon. The rest of our meals we did in our room. We didn't take in any shows this time, but my husband got a week off from work and he spent a little time in the hot tub so that was all he wanted...no work! lol
Vicki wrote: "Melissa, I'm sorry I didn't see you post earlier...been so busy! It was just okay. I'm not big on Vegas but my BIL lives there. They had just gotten back from a trip and had gotten sick, so we only..."Nice. I think Vegas would be overwhelming, but I do love the lights when I see images on the Internet. How was the Mexican food? We don't have very many good Mexican restaurants here - and that's my favorite food choice :)
Happy first week of UNO!!How's the reading going?
Anyone tried a "charred gimlet" yet?
The tracker looks great. I'm plunking things into the official spreadsheet - there's a link to it on our tracker. I might move things around yet, but so far, it's looking good!
Wow, one week down! I've finished 2 books, started 2 others and am having fun reading :) I claimed one of the colour cards as it turns out an audiobook I was planning on reading is blue enough.Have not tried a gimlet yet, charred or otherwise. I'm not big on alcohol, to be perfectly honest, but mayhap it could be done as a mocktail.
Hope you've all had a good week and that your weekend is nice and relaxing.
Go team! "None of this is True" lived up to the hype for me.
I also tracked down a book for Green 7.
It's a cozy mystery and is set in the 20s, so the cocktail might pair nicely 🍸🕵🏼♂️
Hope everyone is enjoying their reads!
Yes! I just finished
which was a nice biography about Annie Wilkins who traveled by horse across the US in the late 1950s. It was a nice, gentle read, with an animal lovers bent to it. I also read my first Maisie Dobbs book, which I really enjoyed too.
I read a couple of meh books, but that's okay :) I'm looking forward to getting to Lady Tan this week.
The Super Bowl is happening tonight! Gotta get ready :)
There is a mid-month mini challenge coming along soon! I'm going to read over the sneak peek during the commercials tonight.
Melissa wrote: "Go team! "None of this is True" lived up to the hype for me.
I also tracked down a book for Green 7.
It's a cozy mystery and is set in the 20s, so the cocktail might pair nicely 🍸🕵🏼♂️
[bookc..."
Most excellent!
Ingeborg wrote: "Wow, one week down! I've finished 2 books, started 2 others and am having fun reading :) I claimed one of the colour cards as it turns out an audiobook I was planning on reading is blue enough.Ha..."
Yes! Thank you, the weekend is good.
The February mini has been released!!!!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Books have to have been started after UNO started, and then finished after the mini starts! It starts in 11 hours....
I'll figure out this mini sheet thing!
I "borrowed" a template that looked nice :)For the directions - we have been told to be creative. Just imagine going to a secret bar (or coffee shop :) or tea shop :). Would you go DOWN the stairs or EAST towards Main Street?
It looks like fun! I always like to see if I can read something on my shelf and then pass it along.
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It's really cold here (4 F). I hope to sit and read for a couple hours today.
There is a football game we'll watch tonight. (Go Bills!)
That and preparing for the week ahead.