Emily’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2017)

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

Hey Edie! You can join Team Snow Leopard!

Thanks Traci!

Good to know, Alison. The History of Sound has had no skips from me, which is unusual for a short story anthology!

Yea, I think those books will either be their main page genres or just for wild card reading. You may be able to move the other books in your group around to accommodate those main page genres.

Whoops! Forgot to update here.. will do that now!

Thanks Sheena! I agree - I've never seen such a strong start in a read-a-thon (there's usually one or two people who sign up and don't end up participating).

Traci, you're not alone... I seem to be averaging two audiobooks for every one print I finish these last couple of months. I'm glad the read-a-thon helped give me a push this weekend to put my phone down.

In that case, I would switch to the main page edition of the book (so switch to the kindle or paperback version) and use that instead.

If none of the editions have more than a handful of shelves, you can just use what's there, but I think it's fine to look for tags on different editions of the same book (reading is reading!)

In those cases, I'd probably allow any genres on the main page to count as well. Can y'all send an example?

I've applied our four wild cards that we've earned, and wow! Every person on our team has finished at least one book! That's so impressive for a read-a-thon!

Alison, how is The Book of Love? It's the longest book on the Tournament of Books shortlist so I'm dreading it a bit lol

I've finished The Vibrant Years, and I'm going to put it on Kindle-Unlimited!

Congrats Jillian!

I've still got three to go, but I have two of them currently in progress!

We earned another Wild Card! Anyone have a preference on how we use it? Or would y'all rather we hold on to them to apply them later?

I don't think there's a point in waiting... we can see there's some tags that we have no options for, and we can always move them if something does come up. (Admittedly, I'm eager to see our count move up lol)

Up to you, JennH! If you want to look at how many pages each chapter would be on average (so 300 page book with 10 chapters would be 30 pages each), you could log it that way, or you can wait until you're finished with it to log all of the pages.

I have the same issues with an ARC I'm reading but it does give me a percentage, so I'm just multiplying the percentage I read times the total number of pages of the book (according to GR).

I've used our first Wild Card on the "Hated" tag. I saw in another group's thread that that has very few options, so I figured I'd cross it out and be done with it.

Hey Teams! I have updated the spreadsheet to include a Wild Card tracker and Books Read tracker.

To use a wild card, simply place WILD CARD in any box and check the box at the end of the row. The counter should pick it up, as long as the only thing that is in the box are the words WILD CARD (capitalization not required). Let me know in the FAQs thread if it's giving you trouble.

Hey Teams! I have updated the spreadsheet to include a Wild Card tracker and Books Read tracker.

To use a wild card, simply place WILD CARD in any box and check the box at the end of the row. The counter should pick it up, as long as the only thing that is in the box are the words WILD CARD (capitalization not required). Let me know in the FAQs thread if it's giving you trouble.

Hey Teams! I have updated the spreadsheet to include a Wild Card tracker and Books Read tracker.

To use a wild card, simply place WILD CARD in any box and check the box at the end of the row. The counter should pick it up, as long as the only thing that is in the box are the words WILD CARD (capitalization not required). Let me know in the FAQs thread if it's giving you trouble.

Jillian (and everyone else), I updated the spreadsheet to reflect Wild Cards, as well as total books read!

Those would be tags people used to designate years. For example, I have a shelf for every year through 2017 that contains the books I read each year. It's not necessarily publication year, but if it's in the top 100 tags, you can use it.

Look at all of these books completed on the first day!! I'm impressed, Penguins!