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Completion
Book:
Mini Challenge - Either
Team Carina- (or Team Mensa- )
Both have trees on the cover

Or

Team Haumea-
Both have the word "star" (?)

Just checking in! I don't think I'll finish anything else in Feb as there's so little time left but I am so looking forward to the challenge for March! Can't believe how many books we've read collectively x

Sarah wrote: "Just checking in! I don't think I'll finish anything else in Feb as there's so little time left but I am so looking forward to the challenge for March! Can't believe how many books we've read colle..."

Thanks for checking in! And yeah, it is a lot collectively. Definitely very proud of the whole team :)

Mini Challenge Update

Hi all!

Just wanted to give you a little update on Feb's mini challenge since the month is (somehow) almost over already.

Part 1
All six books have been read! Currently, by my count, 4 of 6 comments have been made to other teams' threads for those books read. If you haven't left a comment and read a book for that part, please do so when you get a chance before the month ends. It's an easy 5 points, and with so many Draw 2 cards this month, each point counts :)

Part 2
We are down to 10 books left to fill. I'm trying to finish one for Team Grus now, which would take us down to 9. I plan on making a list in the next day or so of alternate possibilities for all the placed books so if you finish one and can't figure out an open spot where it fits, I can move books around as needed to get us as many points as possible!

Thank you so much to all of you for your hard work all month long! :)

I have made the comment in Team Neptune's thread.

Avni wrote: "I have made the comment in Team Neptune's thread."

Great! Thank you, Avni.

Completion

Book:
Date Read: 2/25/18

Mini Challenge - Team Pyxis
Yellow and green covers

Completion

Book: An Improper Situation
Date Read: 2/25/18

Mini Challenge - Team Haumea Still Alice
Set in Boston

Can the connection be a word in the title?

Amanda A wrote: "Can the connection be a word in the title?"

Unfortunately, no :( If the titles are the same and it's just a one-word title, that is allowed, but not just a word in the title.

Just finished The Merciless III: Origins of Evil by Danielle Vega but I'm struggling to find where it could fit in the mini-challenge!

It features supernatural women, exorcisms, and has a symbol on the cover only aside from the title/author.

Sarah �� I will check and see what I can find. What are some of the main characters�� names? Same character first or last name should count, so that’s an option too if we can find any that match. If you just let me know character names for the book you read, I can look for connections with the others.

Kaley wrote: "Sarah �� I will check and see what I can find. What are some of the main characters�� names? Same character first or last name should count, so that’s an option too if we can find any that match. If ..."

Oh! Okay, characters names were:
Riley, Brooklyn, Elijah, Hope, Gavin, Pastor Joe/Joe.

Completion:
Book:

I couldn't find any connections for the cover and I have to go to bed, but I can look again tomorrow. Just thought I'd post it in case you could think of some way it could fit before I'm able to get back to it.

Characters are Molly, Michael, Heather, Helen, Dave, Jean, and Mr. Simmons.

I believe I have found a place for both of them!

Catie -- Just by reading the description of that book, it sounds like there is a ghost character that can communicate with the human characters. Is that accurate to say?

Yes! There is a ghost that communicates with the characters, thank you!

Catie wrote: "Yes! There is a ghost that communicates with the characters, thank you!"

Great! I'm using that to connect it to Harry Potter (Nearly Headless Nick character). Just had to do some switching around of some others, but I have both that one and Sarah's The Merciless III: Origins of Evil added in.

Everything posted up to here is now in the spreadsheet.

Just to let you know, I'll be finishing one of the books on Team Tucana's list tonight or, at the very latest, tomorrow, so if you're moving things around, don't worry about that one. Thanks!

Completion
The Hate U Give
Team Tucana, same book

Hi team!

We are in the last day of February and we are so close to done with the mini challenge! I still have to add a few of your books this morning, and then we are just a few books away.

All books for the mini challenge and comments for part 1 of the mini challenge need to be completed before reaches zero for it to count for the mini challenge. Anything finished after that we can start counting for March!

We only need one more book to finish the mini-challenge! Does anyone think they will be finishing a book in the next 13 hours? I believe there's a bonus for filling up all the slots!

I think Amanda may have a few? It looks like there are some on her read shelf from the last day or two that she hasn't posted here yet (because I know she usually waits to post a few at a time). I just always feel a little creepy if I just am adding books from people's shelves before they've commented :)

Amanda -- those good for me to look at connections for?

And yes, there is a completion bonus if we finish both parts! So if those books are good to go and I can find connections for them (whether on the open team or on others so I just need to move things around) then we will just need one comment from Part 1 still to get us the completion bonus!

I plan on finishing “Dorothy Must Die�� tonight! I don’t have to much more to read. Just need to get off of work to read! Great job everyone this month!!!

Kaley wrote: "Amanda -- those good for me to look at connections for?"

Yes, I have not had a chance to look for connections yet. I don't mind if you add books from my shelves before I post a completion.

If Charly's book works for a connection, please use it instead and I will take the last few books off of my Uno shelf.

Nikk's comment is here!
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Charly wrote: "I plan on finishing “Dorothy Must Die�� tonight! I don’t have to much more to read. Just need to get off of work to read! Great job everyone this month!!!"

Hi Charly -- were you able to finish this last night? If not, no big deal because we can use something else, but I wanted to see if you finished first!

We did it! We finished out February strong. I still have one book to add to the spreadsheet later today, but we will have finished the whole mini challenge and, pending the mods' approval of all the connections in Part 2, will get a completion bonus as well. You all worked so hard in February, so great job!

And now here we are in March! So that means....shifting focus to March cards. We have 15 hands this month and 8 colored cards, plus 4 Wild Draw 4 cards.

Here are the color cards for March:
6 Yellow
1 Red
0 Green
1 Yellow
8 Blue
0 Yellow
5 Blue
4 Yellow

Let me know which you all want to claim! I can take either 6 Yellow or 1 Yellow with and 8 Blue with . . . I'm in the middle of those two anyway.

And most of these we can have a duplicate for since we have a few Wild Draw 4s. The only one not to duplicate would be whatever we use for 6 Yellow, because that one is in the same hand as a Draw 2 and Wild Draw 4, so we can use that the Draw 2 to make that one book count for both.

I did finish it last night! It was such a good book and I plan on starting the second book in the series either today or tomorrow. I highly recommend it!!

Charly wrote: "I did finish it last night! It was such a good book and I plan on starting the second book in the series either today or tomorrow. I highly recommend it!!"

I'm glad you liked it! At some point I will have to try to read it again since I never got to finish it.

I didn't like it as much as I thought I was going to. I really love the original Oz books and I generally like spin-offs, but Dorothy Must Die rubbed me the wrong way. You'll have the read the second and tell us how it compares to the first!

Completion Post

This was a collection of short stories so there were a lot of characters. I put down the names of all the characters that fit. I'm sorry if that's confusing, feel free to only use one of the names per number

Book Title: The Color Master: Stories
Author: Aimee Bender
Date Read: 3/1/18
Cards it Counts For/Ways it Fits:
0 - Standalone book
1- Place: Ohio
2- CF: Tina
3- CF/L: Hans Hoefler, Hank, Hannah
4- CF: Fred
6- CF: Sloane, Sylv, Susan, Sandy, Sherrie-Marla, Stillford
7- CF: Valerie
8- CF: Esther, Edward, Edgar, Edwin
9- CF: Nina, Nature
Skip: Place: Kyoto

This thread has been pretty quiet! How is everyone doing? How are you feeling about Uno now that we are one month down?

The colour cards confuse me a little bit, do they have to line up with the number AND colour?

For March so far I am planning to read Heart of Mist (this one is 86% blue! Not sure if it can count though?)
The Gender Secret by Bella Forrest
Blood Moon by John David Bethel

I haven't thought much further ahead than those three, but I'm sure there will be more :)

Sarah wrote: "The colour cards confuse me a little bit, do they have to line up with the number AND colour?

For March so far I am planning to read Heart of Mist (this one is 86% blue! Not sure i..."

Yes, they have to match the color and the card number! That's why they require a little extra planning ahead of time :)

So for example, this month I'm finishing up this one:

Which can count for our 1 Yellow (first in series), 6 Yellow (Character last name Swensen) or 4 Yellow (Author last name Fluke), but it cannot count for 0 Yellow because it doesn't fit the criteria for a 0 card.

Regarding Heart of Mist, our only blue cards this month are 8 & 5 ... so just by looking at the title/author it wouldn't be able to fill a colored card, but just be on the lookout for character names that start with E or I when you're reading to see if they can :) If not, no big deal because it will definitely fit somewhere!

Hi! Sorry, it's midterms week at my university so I might be a little quiet. I just finished Every Day, I can find ways it fits tomorrow, I just wanted to post it now since the thread is pretty quiet :P

Completion

Book: F814 by Eve Langlais
Date Read: 3/1/18

Cards:
2 - #2 in series
4 - CF: Fiona
6 - CF: Solus
8 - AF: Eve

Completion

Book: The Captain's Bluestocking Mistress by Erica Ridley
Date Read: 3/2/18

Cards:
2 - T: The Captain's Bluestocking Mistress
3 - #3 in series
8 - AF: Erica

Completion

Book: by Celeste Ng
Date Read: 3/3/18

Cards:
0 - Standalone (works for 0 Green - 56.84% Green per TinEye)
2 - CF: Trip
5 - CF: Isabelle
8 - CF: Elena
9 - AL: Ng
Skip: CF: Pearl

Completion

Book: Forest of the Pygmies
Date Read: 3/4/18

Cards:
3 - #3 in series
4 - T: Forest of the Pygmies
5 - AF: Isabel
6 - CL: Santos
9 - CF: Nadia
Skip - CF: Kate

Catie wrote: "Hi! Sorry, it's midterms week at my university so I might be a little quiet. I just finished Every Day, I can find ways it fits tomorrow, I just wanted to post it now since the thre..."

From what I found it could fit 1 (first in series), 8 (E title), 9 (CF: Nathan), Skip (CL: Poole), and Reverse because Nikk has read. If when you have time you see anything I've missed, let me know :)

Good luck on your exams!

Thanks Amanda!

Hi team! Just wanted to remind everyone to please check in to this thread at least once every 7 days. Even if you have no updates, just drop in to say hi so I know all is well with you :)

Thanks!

Hello everyone! I plan on starting a new book today. Only half day at work. Not sure which one I’m going to start. Hope everyone is having a good week!

hey guys! So I still have 10 days till my last exam. After that I am gonna really buckle up. I did however find time to finish one book (even exams dont stop me from reading ;) )

Book: Neanderthal Seeks Human
Author: Penny Reid
Date Read: 3/3/18
Cards: One- Read the first book in a series
Five- Read a book with a character surname with F (Finney)
Six- Read book with character surname starting with S (Sullivan)
Eight- Read a book with character name starting with E (Elizabeth)
Skip- Read a book starting with k

I'll be on spring break starting Friday so hopefully, I'll get a lot more reading done. As it is, I'm slowly working on a few books. I posted most the books I'm planning to read this month as currently reading. Good luck on your exams Avni! And happy reading Charly!

Charly wrote: "Hello everyone! I plan on starting a new book today. Only half day at work. Not sure which one I’m going to start. Hope everyone is having a good week!"

Hope you are having a good week as well :)

Avni wrote: "hey guys! So I still have 10 days till my last exam. After that I am gonna really buckle up. I did however find time to finish one book (even exams dont stop me from reading ;) )

Book: [book:Neand..."

Good luck on your exams! :)

Catie wrote: "I'll be on spring break starting Friday so hopefully, I'll get a lot more reading done. As it is, I'm slowly working on a few books. I posted most the books I'm planning to read this month as curre..."

Yay for spring break! Hope you get to do something fun :)

Kaley wrote: "Avni wrote: "hey guys! So I still have 10 days till my last exam. After that I am gonna really buckle up. I did however find time to finish one book (even exams dont stop me from reading ;) )

Book..."

Catie wrote: "I'll be on spring break starting Friday so hopefully, I'll get a lot more reading done. As it is, I'm slowly working on a few books. I posted most the books I'm planning to read this month as curre..."

Thanks :D

Hiya, checking in as I haven’t been in much lately. Work is still kicking my butt so I am exhausted by 5he time I get home and so am not much on goodreads. I will update my reads so far for March on the spreadsheet today