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Thanks, Betty!We've already gotten some good team names. But I was poking around and found a few more (I'm not creative enough to come up with them on my own!) Feel free to ignore if we're going with one from above.
Better off Read
Sleuths on the Loose
Plot Twisters
Clueless Readers
I've added a few books that I plan to read for now. However, the numbers for the possible fits column/row don't seem to be changing. Am I supposed to add or change them myself? Sorry, I'm not quite spreadsheet savvy.
Hi team! So excited for my first readathon with the group! I’m away for the weekend but I just wanted to jump in to say hi. I’ll chime in on Monday once I look over the prompts and what books I can read.
1. How many books do you think you'll be able to read over the 10-day event? 7-10
2. Can you commit to checking in with your team approximately every 2-3 days throughout the 10 days of the readathon?
Yes
3. Are you willing to assume the role of leader or co-leader for your team?
Not for my first readathon here
4. Have you participated in a team readathon before?
Yes, but not with this group
5. Are you able to accept messages on Goodreads?
Yes
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Who 2/7, What 4/7, When 3/7, Where 3/7, How 6/7, Why 4/7, Bonus 0/8
Update to message #95/6
I was one short of hitting my goal. Challenge not completed.
I'll sign up for 10.14/10
SUMMER BUCKET LIST
Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2024
Make a craft
Plant a garden
Eat ice cream
Learn to surf
Sing and dance
Go swimming
Visit a library
Bake cookies
Go sailing
Sleep in a cabin
Pick berries
Go wine tasting
Wear flip-flops
Get a tattoo
Attend a concert
Volunteer
I would love to go for 24 but realistically, I think I'll shoot for 10.15/10
SUMMER GAMES
Duration: July 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024
Sports List
Aquatics 🏃♂️👩🦽
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Badminton 🏃♂️👩🦽
Basketball 🏃♂️👩🦽
Boccia 👩🦽
Boxing 🏃♂️
Breaking 🏃♂️
Canoeing 🏃♂️👩🦽
Cycling 🏃♂️👩🦽
Equestrian 🏃♂️👩🦽
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Field hockey 🏃♂️
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Goalball 👩🦽
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Gymnastics 🏃♂️
Handball 🏃♂️
Judo 🏃♂️👩🦽
Modern pentathlon 🏃♂️
Rowing 🏃♂️👩🦽
Rugby 🏃♂️👩🦽
Sailing 🏃♂️
Skateboarding 🏃♂️
Sport climbing 🏃♂️
Surfing 🏃♂️
Table tennis 🏃♂️👩🦽
Taekwondo 🏃♂️👩🦽
Tennis 🏃♂️👩🦽
Triathlon 🏃♂️👩🦽
Volleyball 🏃♂️👩🦽
Weightlifting 🏃♂️👩🦽
Wrestling 🏃♂️
Host Cities and Years
1896 Athens, Greece 🏃♂️
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1904 St. Louis, United States 🏃♂️
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1912 Stockholm, Sweden 🏃♂️
1920 Antwerp, Belgium 🏃♂️
1924 Paris, France 🏃♂️
1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands 🏃♂️
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1936 Berlin, Germany 🏃♂️
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1952 Helsinki, Finland 🏃♂️
1956 Melbourne, Australia 🏃♂️
1956 Stockholm, Sweden 🏃♂️
1960 Rome, Italy 🏃♂️👩🦽
1964 Tokyo, Japan 🏃♂️👩🦽
1968 Mexico City, Mexico 🏃♂️
1968 Tel Aviv, Israel 👩🦽
1972 Munich, West Germany 🏃♂️
1972 Heidelberg, West Germany 👩🦽
1976 Montreal, Canada 🏃♂️
1976 Toronto, Canada 👩🦽
1980 Moscow, Soviet Union 🏃♂️
1980 Arnhem, Netherlands 👩🦽
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1984 Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom 👩🦽
1988 Seoul, South Korea 🏃♂️👩🦽
1992 Barcelona, Spain 🏃♂️👩🦽
1992 Madrid, Spain 👩🦽
1996 Atlanta, United States 🏃♂️👩🦽
2000 Sydney, Australia 🏃♂️👩🦽
2004 Athens, Greece 🏃♂️👩🦽
2008 Beijing, China 🏃♂️👩🦽
2012 London, United Kingdom 🏃♂️👩🦽
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I will sign up for 5.6/5
ROAD TRIPPING
Duration: July 1 - July 31, 2024
People don't take trips, trips take people.
-- John Steinbeck
Get ready to explore the open road, the destinations to which they lead, and more. This month's challenge will take us on an expedition through decades of road trip travel adventures. Buckle up and enjoy the ride!
To join, post a message telling the challenge leader know how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our challenges, you can learn more about how they work in this thread.
1. On the Road (1957)
Kerouac’s classic book details his travels with his friends as they travel across America in this quintessential slice of countercultural Americana.
• Read a book about a group of friends, written by an author of the Beat Generation, or involving a road trip.
In 1960, John Steinbeck set out across America with his French poodle, Charley. Steinbeck's son said the reason for his journey was that he knew he was dying, and he wanted to see the country one last time.
• Read a book involving a pet, with a character who is seriously ill, or involving any kind of travel.
Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee 7/16/24
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
Robert Pirsig’s book tells the story of a father and son motorcycle trip with a pair of friends but also delves into fundamental questions about how to live life and tries to reconcile science, religion and more.
• Read a book about a father and son, involving bikes, or about spirituality.
4. Jupiter’s Travels (1979)
Ted Simon traveled by motorcycle over 63,000 miles through 45 countries in Africa, South America, Australia, and Asia before returning home to London.
• Read a book set on two or more continents, about any kind of exploration, or an adventure book.
Heat-Moon set out to travel along the smaller roads, marked blue on the map, in order to discover small-town America.
• Read a book set in a small town, with blue on the cover, or first published in the 1980s.
NYPD Red 6 by James Patterson 7/19/24
Mike McIntyre hitchhiked across the U.S. from San Francisco to Cape Fear without so much as a penny, so he would have to rely on complete strangers in order to find rides, eat, and have a place to sleep.
• Read a book involving any act of kindness, with a subtitle, or with any currency on the cover.
Made in Asian America: A History for Young People by Erika Lee & Christina Soontornvat 7/21/24
Erika Lopez turns the "white man's road trip" trope on end with prose and illustrations that result in a wild and wonderful ride.
• Read a comedy, a book with a female main character, or a book written by a woman.
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis 7/8/24
8. American Nomads (2003)
Richard Grant wandered the American West documenting the lives of hobos, truckers, retirees, and hippies, contrasting them with historical characters, frontiersmen, and conquistadors, who wandered the same lands centuries ago.
• Read a book involving any kind of wanderer, set in the American West, or a historical fiction involving a conquistador.
Chuck Klosterman set out on a road trip across America exploring the deaths of famous musicians.
• Read a book involving music, a biography or memoir about a famous musician, or a book involving any kind of death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 7/16/24
Brad van Orden and his wife Sheena quit their jobs and headed south in Nacho, their beat-up Volkswagen van, driving through Central America and South America to the “end of the earth” in Patagonia.
• Read a book with a couple as main characters, set in multiple countries, or with a van, car, or truck on the cover.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 7/30/24
I'll sign up for 4.2/4
THE ROAD LESS-TRAVELED
Duration: July 1 - July 31, 2024
1 Made in Asian America: A History for Young People by Erika Lee & Christina Soontornvat 7/21/24
2 Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories by Sandra Proudman 7/24/24
3 Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles
4 Sisters Matsumoto by Philip Kan Gotanda
Update to message #124/4
Challenge completed.
Finished! The end, Part 6, was my favorite. I sped through that so quickly bc I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Looking forward to the next book!
I just finished Part 4. Love a good heist. Loving the little references to Shadow and Bone.
I'd like to sign up for 4.CHANGE BY ANY OTHER NAME
Duration: June 1 - June 30, 2024
4/4
1. Accommodate: provide a service; to provide suitably.
Read a book in which a character accommodates guests, with a character who works in a service-related role, or with a main character who has a disability.
Read a book in which a character must adapt to a new environment or circumstances, or read a book that has been adapted for the stage or screen.
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie 6/17/24
Read a book with alternate timelines, in which the POV shifts between characters, or in which a character changes form (vampire, werewolf, shape-shifter, etc.)
The Guest List by Lucy Foley 6/23/24
Read a book in which a character ages from childhood to maturity or matures in some way over the course of the novel, with a child or teen main character, or a book with strong character development.
Finally Heard by Kelly Yang 6/4/24
Read a book from a genre you don’t usually read, that challenges you in some way, or that has a main character that is a different race or nationality from your own.
A Call for Kelp by Bree Baker 6/14/24
6. Naturalize: confer citizenship upon; accustom; familiarize.
Read a book about immigrants or immigration, or read a book from a favorite author or genre.
7. Translate: to turn from one language into another; to change the form, condition, nature.
Read a book in translation, or read a book in which a character or environment undergoes a major transformation.
8. Variation: the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree.
Read a book with non-human characters, a retelling of a classic novel or fairy tale, or a book with a diverse cast of characters.
I'd like to sign up for 6.LIFE CHANGES
Duration: June 1 - June 30, 2024
5/6
Examples
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Finally Heard by Kelly Yang 6/4/24
* Becoming a parent (birth, adoption, foster, etc.)
* Becoming an empty-nester
* Graduating from high school or college
* Moving (out of parents' home, relocating, etc.)
* Starting a new job or career
* Having a major illness in oneself or a loved one
Kernel of Truth by Kristi Abbott 6/23/24
* Surviving a tragic accident or natural disaster
A Call for Kelp by Bree Baker 6/14/24
* Emigrating from one's birth country
* Departing or joining a religion, faith or belief system
* Coming out as, or realizing one is, LGBTQIA+
* Undergoing a gender transition or de-transition
* Experiencing sudden wealth or a sudden loss of money
Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson 6/30/24
* Joining the military, or leaving the military for civilian life
* Becoming disabled, or overcoming a disability
* Moving to assisted living, or needing in-home healthcare (oneself or a loved one)
Update to message #910/10
Challenge completed
Update to message #712/10
Challenge completed.
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Challenge completed.
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Challenge completed.
I’m sorry. It’s turned out to be a hectic month. I’m finally starting Six of Crows today.
