Laura’s Comments (group member since Oct 05, 2015)

Laura’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

LAURA'S TRACKING

CURRENTLY READING


DAILY TRACKING
Saturday, 7/18:
Sunday, 7/19:
Monday, 7/20:
Tuesday, 7/21:
Wednesday, 7/22:
Thursday, 7/23:
Friday, 7/24:
Saturday, 7/25:
Sunday, 7/26:

BOOKS FINISHED


BOOKS TBR

A1 - A book set in the outdoors, natural element on the cover, orange/yellow cover
A2 - A bit of a freebie since this one is about.... books!
A3 - A book set in space, circle on the cover, 4 or 2 in the page count or publish year
A4 - A book with a female character, about females overcoming obstacles, red cover, vampires

B1 - A fantasy book, end of the world/doom, mountain on the cover, purple cover
B2 - A book with a green cover, house on the cover, set inside
B3 - A book connected to a song, music as a theme
B4 - A book you already own, involving technology, animal on the cover

C1 - A book with an animal on the cover, travel theme, set in a location you have never read before
C2 - A mystery, name in the title
C3 - A book that has been turned into a movie, silhouette on the cover
C4 - A book inspired by the 7 deadly sins, a book with a cute cover

D1 - A book with a theme of revenge, a book with a recipe, a book involving baking, blue cover
D2 - A book you find intimidating, a long book, a book you can read quickly
D3 - A book involving time travel, doctor as a character
D4 - A book set in the past or future, involving death, bright cover

*These are only examples, to help inspire possible interpretations

If team games aren’t your thing, or you’re just looking for some additional challenge for the week, this read-a-thon has some solo fun for you!

Object: Read a book that is somehow connected to each of the designs in the Bingo board. What you consider a "win" is up to you. If you want to take on a big challenge then go for a full card. If that's a bit much for you, then go for some of the other Bingo patterns: 4 down/across, 4 corners, postage stamp, etc.

How can my book connect to the image? The connection can be anything that you can reasonably explain. That means you can connect colors on your cover, words in the title, or content/theme of the design. See the first comment for some examples. Be creative!

What about pages? For every 200 pages read, you earn the ability to count a book for two squares


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1. What is your estimated reading speed (slow, medium, fast)?
Realistically, slow these days. A little boost to my typical 'medium' would be nice though!

2. How many books do you usually finish in a week?
1-2

3. Which time zone do you live in?
EST

4. Can you commit to checking in with your team frequently during the read-a-thon?
Yes

5. Are you interested in being a team leader for your group? (i.e. keeping track of team totals, needed tasks, updating spreadsheet, etc.)
No thanks

A book with a monochromatic cover (One primary color)

For the racism prompt:

A book that fits the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign

"Marley Dias' book drive focuses specifically on books in which black girls are the main characters, not minor or background characters."

https://grassrootscommunityfoundation...

I went to the library today to browse inside and holy cow it was comforting.

I may have gone a bit over board but I couldn't bring myself to leave after getting only the book I came for. I left with:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Secret Place by Tana French
Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Like others have said, I’m excited to try to get back into reading this month. I had a major dip in my mental health in the past few months but am really trying to get back on track.

I’m nearing the end of You Are Not Alone and then I have a few checked out from the library.

The Fountains of Silence
American Dirt
If It Bleeds

I have very mixed feelings about reading American Dirt but in the end I would like to form my own opinions after reading it. I may just follow it up with an ‘own voices’ book on the topic.

Ellie wrote: "I'm not going to vote for the good things prompt for personal reasons, but my dog farted all the way up the stairs yesterday and oh we laughed. So I can read about dogs if it gets in."

😂😂😂😂😂

A book that fills a "hole" in your typical reading habits

That could be set in location that is often neglected, by a POC or LGBTQIA author, a genre you don't usually read, etc.

I would still love to see a prompt related to the group reading map, just because that project has really shown the areas that tend to be underrepresented.

It’s been exciting seeing South America fill in a bit because of this year’s prompt.

Right now, Africa, particularly central Africa continues to be very underrepresented. There’s also a list of countries in the thread that haven’t been read in the past two years (those that are italicized)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

What about "A book by someone with a background or point of view different from your own"?

Opens it up to include different socioeconomic status, birthplace, or ethnicity but also topics.

Serendipity wrote: "Scratch that. It seems that the threads for the favourite book each month are closed. I couldn’t post to the threads."

The goal of locking the threads has been to avoid splitting of the discussion into a bunch of different locations. That was happening particularly at the start of the new month when some people were putting a reflection in the previous month while others were putting it in the current one.

Traci wrote: "Laura wrote: "The map has been updated through message 593.

New locations this time:
Central African Republic
Malawi
Yemen
Guatemala
Hong Kong
Tanzania
Oman
Republic of Georgia
Qatar"

Laura - T..."

Thanks for letting me know!

The Wild Discussion, focused on general discussion of the list process, is live: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The voting process will start with a pre-poll, posted on June 25. This year we are trying to follow a predictable schedule. More info here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Warning: don't post in this topic.

Hi there :)

As with the previous years, we will be working as a group to create the challenge for 2021. If you're anything like me, you're just about ready for 2020 to be over already. So if we can't make time move any faster then we can at least look ahead a little.

We have to decide the categories, so we'll use suggestions and polls to formulate a list that is entirely member-created.

We don't want to spam all the members for each step, so if you're interested in doing suggestions, voting or following what's happening, you just have to subscribe to this topic (check "Notify me when people comment" at the bottom [PS: you can't subscribe from the app]).

We'll update when:
- a new topic is opened for suggestions
- a new poll is online

At the end of each poll, I'll add the winners in this first post. The suggestions that lost will be listed in a separate topic that will go live after the voting process starts.

The map has been updated through message 593.

New locations this time:
Central African Republic
Malawi
Yemen
Guatemala
Hong Kong
Tanzania
Oman
Republic of Georgia
Qatar

Maybe it would be easier to define “A book that won an award that you had never heard of” or something along those lines. It implies lesser known but doesn’t require you to decide what qualifies as lesser known.

I'm not sure if it happens to anyone else but I tend to get ideas for prompts here and there. Essentially a "oh, that would make a good prompt!" moment.

If people would find it useful, I can reserve this comment for people's ideas. That would allow them to be commented on ahead of the voting and saved for later :)

This has been suggested before but, A book recommended by an author
There's a fun summer article with recommendations: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1836

Emily wrote: "Hello, I just found out about this challenge a couple days ago but I think it's a sweet addition to the popsugar prompts. I've already read 62 books this year (thanks self isolation!) so I've slott..."

I'm so very jealous that you've read that many books while isolation!

Major props!