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

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

1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
2. Eight Perfect Murders
3. 10 Things I Hate About Pinky
4. Full Throttle

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My hold for the audiobook of Educated came through so I can start on that today. I’m excited for it since I constantly hear about how good it is :D

1. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2. Soulless byGail Carriger
3. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
4. Recursion by Blake Crouch

For this one, we’re going to work together to create top 10 lists.

Each person posts one thing to add to the list. The last person to post the 10th thing picks the new category. For example, Favorite Ice Cream Flavors.

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I'll start with Favorite book of 2020 so far

Thanks, Vanessa! I was starting to think we were going to need a wild card.

I started The Grace Year last night and blew through 60 pages. It’s really good so far! That makes 109 pages total for yesterday. I have some time to hopefully read before work today.

Tracy wrote: "Laura wrote: "Sorry for going MIA! Busy work day today.

I didn’t get much reading done yesterday because it was my day to volunteer at the shelter and to drop off my compost.

But I’m going to fi..."

I liked it! I’m not sure that it was quite a 5-star read for me. I’m deciding between 3.5 and 4. I definitely liked the way it handled grief and the nods towards the supernatural.

Just finished The Whisper Man for ‘Shere Khan’. Only one prompt left in this level!

I’m starting The Grace Year now. Unfortunately, it only counts for one prompt for each of the levels remaining.

It seems like we have slightly more options for Dinosaur. Do we want to go there next?

Sorry for going MIA! Busy work day today.

I didn’t get much reading done yesterday because it was my day to volunteer at the shelter and to drop off my compost.

But I’m going to finish The Whisper Man now. I’ll double check the categories for it :)

Big Cat looks good to me!

Rachel, the book has to be finished during the corresponding round. I think we’re moving at a great pace though so just count that one for pages :)

Today’s game is simple. Use the first letter of your current book in order to fill in each of the questions/categories.

I’ll start:

The Whisper Man by Alex North

4 LETTER WORD: Wack
BOY NAME: Wyatt
GIRL NAME: Wanda
OCCUPATION: Writer
A COLOR: Walnut
BEVERAGE: Whiskey
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Wash rags
A PLACE: Washington
REASON FOR BEING LATE: Woke up late
FOOD: Watermelon
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: What the...!!

Ana A wrote: "1. I'm a first year MBA student.
2. I'm getting really into designer table top games and have a group who plays almost every Saturday!
3. I used to be a teacher and want to do it again some day. I ..."

Wrinkle release spray for the win 👏🏻

I didn’t get to read as much as hoped yesterday because I filled out a job application. Which meant updating my resume and writing a cover letter.

But I did get in 137 pages. I’ll definitely finish The Whisper Man today :)

Kathy wrote: "Laura wrote: "Kathy wrote: "I finished Witch World and added it for "rescue." Feel free to move if needed."

Is this the correct book? Witch World by Andre Norton

If so, I’ve counted..."

No worries! I just realized that as well 😂

Kathy wrote: "I finished Witch World and added it for "rescue." Feel free to move if needed."

Is this the correct book? Witch World by Andre Norton

If so, I’ve counted for ‘ants’

I just added a guide under the spoiler. It contains a grid guide and potential routes.

If you don’t want to see solutions, the grid guide basically just gives you letters on the horizontal and numbers on the vertical. So the exit square would be L5.

1. I’m a therapist in a high school.
2. I have a 10-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (Nicholas) and adopted an all black rescue kitten last summer (Sofie)
3. I love creative art journaling and anything DIY. Thrifting is my favorite weekend activity
4. I volunteer at a local animal shelter
5. I recently went vegan (still slowly stopping dairy) and am loving it

ZeeJane wrote: "1. I have a BA in English/Creative Writing and Political Science
2. I live in a 150 year old house situated on a river, that we're completely renovating ourselves (okay, my husband is doing all th..."

That would be my dream! I really wish my husband or I were more handy...

We have a ton of new members this year (yay!) so our first activity of the read-a-thon is going to be an opportunity to get to know our members a little better.

Simply list 5 things that the group may not know about you.

Sarah wrote: "Morning everyone. I finished The Toll this morning. It works for about six of the insect prompts so does anyone have a preference which I put it in?"

It looks like we have the most options for ‘legs’ so I just wouldn’t do that one. Just pick one of them and then we can move it if needed :)