Meg’s Comments (group member since Jan 05, 2017)

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

We've already got an acorn - go team apple!

🥕Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
🥕 Edamame: A translated book
The Bird Tribunal✔︎
🥕 Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World✔︎
🥕 Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
🥕 Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
🥕 Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Mullumbimby✔︎
🥕 Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages
🥕 Peas: A book that is part of a series
🥕 Garlic: A book that features food
🥕 Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
🥕 Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book
My Best Friend's Exorcism✔︎
🥕 Onions: A book with more than one point of view

I can definitely do mystery and dystopia. Both are genres i enjoy. I'll have a look for food too

Thanks Emily!

Just realised I have 94 pages left of my current read! Oops

I love these prompts! (Eggplant lol)
Question: can you participate in both the team and individual challenge and use the same books across both?

I have 2 questions, sorry if they've been answered elsewhere and I didn't find them!
1. What is the audio equivalent of 100 pages left?
2. Say you have read 200 pages of a 300 page book pre sept 10, do the full 300 count to an acorn or only the 100 you read during the official time?
Tia

Hi, I'm joining team Apple! I'll fill in all my details and plans later today.

Is it too late to join? This would be my first readathon with this group.
1. Fast
2. My usual would be about 5-6 books in a week
3. Australian East Coast
4. For sure!

English and Australian books are sometimes published under different titles in the US for some reason, eg Migrations/The Last Migration

I think this is the first time I've been disappointed by the results. The prompts that got in are all fine (i was neutral on them all), but there were so many prompts i loved that didn't make it!
Loneliness and apartment were two of my favourites across all the votes, so i hope they get suggested again

I agree that library reading makes it more difficult - you have to be very organised, and lucky, and flexible.
I actually read more than ever when I had my baby. She never slept so I always had an audio book on. And I did the marathon feeds with an ebook in hand - hours of reading!

I'm really enjoying it, and doing some other challenges in order too. At the moment i want to do it again next year, but i also try to have a different general theme or goal to my challenges each year so i may go a different way.

I like list prompts and agree that both millions and npr are great lists

Just wanted to add that i love these suggestions: Set in an apartment building, popular names, and the ones based on songs

Tracy wrote: "Meg wrote: "How about this phrasing for the Woman behind the man concept... a book about a woman who was overlooked by history or literature"

@Meg, last night when I couldn't sleep I came across t..."

Thanks for the list! It definitely shows that there are plenty of books for this prompt.
And re fiction / non-fiction, there seems to be a trend for fiction books on this topic too, e.g. about women from Greek myths ( Circe The Silence of the Girls ) and retellings of other literature ( The Wife Upstairs Gulliver's Wife)

I rarely make it to suggestion threads so I'd love for someone else to suggest it if they like it.

Another good Australian prize for the list is the Stella: https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/...

I've gotten behind. My mythology book The Women of Troy is taking too long from the library. I should have it next week.
But I've finished week 31 (>10y) with Tell No One

How about this phrasing for the Woman behind the man concept... a book about a woman who was overlooked by history or literature

Pamela wrote: "someone suggested an Australian book award? Anything coming of that?"

I like this one. I don't think it's been suggested in a thread yet though