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I finally got around to doing some reading - working on O3 (children's book) with Mummies in the Morning.
Katie, if it helps you keep track for I1 there should be 12 read-a-thon games and the wrap-up. I will be exempt from participating in some of these because I know the answers so I'll have to defer to my awesome team. ;D
Thanks Emm! Also, as a mod, could you answer this question forMimmi (post 43):I read for an hour outside and finished my first book. I only had like 60 pages left of it so I don't know if it's allowed to count for anything? The whole book was 430 pages so it can't count for the "read a book you started before the readathon".
Also Emm, does the Kick-off post with the questions count as a game?
No. Neither does the Wrap-Up.As for Mimmi's question, you can count any books you started before the read-a-thon toward any of the squares. It would have had to have been less than 75% completed to count for G4.
Oh, great! Then How to lead a life of crime can be used for a book written by a woman or a book with an article in the title!
And it can also be used for the read a book from the AtY challenge!
It can only be used for one of those squares so we'll have to decide where to put it.
Mimmi, which week of the ATY challenge are you using it for?
Yes exactly I was just listing every square it can be used for so everyone knows :) It's a book from my Goodreads recommendations page, not sure which week it is, will look it up!
Ah, very good.I just finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I started it before the read-a-thon and was listening to the audiobook. You can mark me down for 1 hour of audiobookage. ;D
Oh, well, I guess we can count The Graveyard Book for something else also since we can combine a non-starred square with a starred square. I read this for my ATY Challenge (week 43; a thing that goes bump in the night) or we could use it for a book with an article in the title.
do all of the members have to finish the games or just some to get the i1 spot
Not everyone has to do every game. Just as long as at least one person from our team has participated we get credit. If every one of us only participates in one game we get credit as long as all the games were done by at least one person on the team.
I've started Summer Sisters by Judy Blume as a non-audiobook. I'll have an audiobook and regular book going pretty much the whole time. When I figure out my next audiobook, I'll let the team know. I intend to read Summer Sisters for I4 (set in summer).
It's the end of the day here in Sweden so I thought I would sum up my stats for the day. I read one hour outside, finished one book and in total read 140 pages.
Should we talk the rainbow prompt? Anyone reading any books that fit these colors?Red - Dark Matter - Katie
Orange
Yellow - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two - Rachel
Green
Blue - Your Perfect Life - Joann
Violet
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Dark Matter and should finish it tonight or tomorrow. It's nice and red!
I just finished An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.It could be used for a Mystery, a book started before the read-a-thon, female author and an article in the title.
I also read for 1 hour straight.
Katie wrote: "Should we talk the rainbow prompt? Anyone reading any books that fit these colors?Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Violet
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Dark Matter and should fini..."
I'm planning on reading this one
which would fit for blue.
My reading summary for the day (I'm stealing your format Katie :) ):Audiobook hours: 1 hour
Hours read outside: 0
Pages read: 141
Number of books finished: 1
Books finished: Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom - a book for the ATY challenge (w 45, book related to a hobby or passion you have), or a book started before the tradition
And now I'm going to sleep (I'm also in Sweden Mimmi!), so good luck and see you guys in the morning!
...should be 'book started before the Readathon', not tradition :P Damn autocorrect, Readathon should definitely be in the dictionary!
I just finished Crawl which can fit in the category one word title with this book done my total read pages would be 197
I just completed the word scramble game. Some of them were really hard for me!
Looking good team! Nice work, Katie keeping it all organized.
Hello! I'm just checking in, I was traveling today and I had bad signal.I'll start recomending A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
I'll let you know as I read everyday, I liked the daily post method
I forgot to add my recommendations:Defending Jacob - A book I've recommended a few times before, but it was the best book I read last year. It's a thriller/suspense book about a teenage boy who is accused of murdering a classmate. I don't want to say too much more because it would give it away, but it is one of the few books from last year that really stayed with me.
If anyone is looking for a great scary book, I'd suggest Little Girls. Definitely very creepy! It's about a woman who moves back to her childhood home and the young girl living next door strongly resembles her childhood neighbour, who died many years ago. I don't often read scary stories because I'm too much of a coward about them, but this one was amazingly written and definitely scary!
I'd also highly recommend any book by Jodi Picoult. Her books tackle controversial issues such as organ donation, euthanasia, school shootings, etc. but in a way that explores the topic from multiple perspectives. It's rare that an author can explore those kinds of subjects without showing their own bias.
You guys are rocking it with Day 1!I just finished Dark Matter, which I totally need to add to my recommendations! I enjoyed it so much.
So we have our red book done. Joann is doing blue. So we're down to orange, yellow, green & violet. I feel like orange & yellow might be difficult!
I listened to it on audiobook, and I've listened to 5 hours & 52 minutes of audiobook today, so that covers my portion of the audiobook task.
This could also count for Sci-Fi, Thriller & a book started before the Read-a-Thon. We'll see which of those 3 we end up needing it for.
I think that Rachel said she's reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which we could use for the yellow book. Since the rainbow task isn't starred, we could use it for something else also.
I have just finished 1.5 hours of audio for Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances. The funny thing is, I don't listen to audiobooks normally - it was a test if I would like it. Well, chores have never been so much fun :) I think I will continue. I listened to two short stories - The Lunar Labyrinth and The Thing About Cassandra. So this can count for 1.5 hr of audio, and short stories.
I was saying before that I am reading a green-Brown book - would this qualify for green? How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Also,
is brown - orange... probably pushing it.
Emm wrote: "I think that Rachel said she's reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which we could use for the yellow book. Since the rainbow task isn't starred, we could use it for something ..."Yes, I will be starting it within the next couple of hours. Just got delayed by reading Callum. I noticed that it was included in my copy of Noughts & Crosses! Maybe we could include it as a short story?
Recommendations. I am one of those who gives out lots of five stars - I pick most of my reads from "best ever reads" - those that I think I would like. So I could recommend at least half my reads this year. I will go with the most recent standouts:Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - an eminently readable excellent book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her role in feminism, written by her Tumblr groupies. Lots of fun and very educational.
All Quiet on the Western Front - heartbreaking, beautiful, so intimate, gut-wrenching, a must read.
Americanah - a non-Anerican black woman's insight into race in America - also a coming-of-age story, insight into Nigeria, and a love story - from an incredible writer.
Mmm, I'm not real sure I'd count either of those Marta if I was judging from a mod perspective. As a Team Cherry member, I'd love to use them both but I'm getting mostly brown vibes from both of those. :xI think I might have an idea for the orange book though. I have
down for one of my challenges. It's orangey.
I agree with Emm that I consider those colors mostly brown (which I love, by the way. Brown is my favorite color. And my last name.)
Emm, I just reread the directions at the beginning of this thread and realized that it says that unstarred blocks can't overlap other unstarred blocks. I'm assuming that doesn't include blocks that relate to time/pages read. Can you confirm that?The way I'm reading it, I'm now assuming that our Finish 10 books, Read 5 books for the ATY, Read the rainbow, and Finish a book in one sitting cannot have any overlapping books among these 5 categories. Am I understanding this right?
THANKS!
You know, I never think of these things until you guys point them out. Eek. That really isn't how it was designed but, yeah, that is how it reads. I'm fixing it now.
Okay, I fixed it and hopefully this will make things a little clearer for you all. I'm sorry. I've just posted this to the other teams and to the Bingo Card Rules.I've modified the card. Hopefully it's early enough that this will not cause a big hiccup. I know every is working hard and plotting out their reads with care but the instructions were too vague and I want to make sure everyone is on the same page. Unfortunately, when I make these things, it can be difficult to anticipate how you guys will read them and what questions you will have so what makes sense in my head doesn't always translate well. So,yes, hopefully this is clearer.
Some squares were designed to overlap. Some squares were not. The change is:
Any square that has a red starred square cannot be overlapped with any other red starred squares. Any square with a blue star cannot be overlapped with any other blue starred square. And any yellow star symbol cannot be overlapped with any other yellow starred square.
Thank you very much, Emm! Also I'm eagerly awaiting whatever new excitement you're cooking up that you've alluded to a few time!
Since I'm nocturnal, it may be posted after you normal folk are already snug in your beds. But that'll just mean something to look forward to in the morning. ;D
I finished a short story also! I read And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander. I'm still reading/listening so I'll post my final word count/audio minutes at the end of my day.
Thanks, Emm and Katie, I thought it was pushing it... :)Ok, so I finished my mostly brown Solaris. Sci-fi, book started before readathon, one word title
Total for today
Read: 50 pages. (Solaris)
Audio: 1 hr 30 min (Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances) . 2 short stories.
Or something to distract me when I'm supposed to be getting ready for work, hahaha. Based on the last 24 ours, I'm trying to figure out when you sleep, Emm!
Emm of Mod wisdom, does a short story count for the Finish 10 Books category or not?
Mmm, in the case of my short story, I'd say no. As far as I know, it's only been published on a sci-fi website so it would be really pushing it. If someone were to read a short story collection I'd say yes, but not for mine.I don't sleep much. Usually between 6AM EST and 12PM EST. I work 12 hour night shifts. ;D
That's what I was thinking for short stories as well. Thanks.
I didn't read anywhere near as much as I planned today. I'm only about a third of the way through Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, but I'm really enjoying it!
Great progress today, #teamcherry!We're close to having all of our recommendations done. We're just still looking for recommendations from Elin Birna & Jody.
I decided it might be good also to have a spreadsheet, so then we'd be able to see things as a matrix. I thought this would especially help us for the red starred boxes, so we can easily what we've got covered and what's missing.
I'll put a link in the FINAL CARD post & here's a link below.
Team Cherry Bingo Spreadsheet
I created a tab for tracking by books & a tab for tracking by person. On the book tab, the gray lines represent books people are currently reading/talked about reading. The lines in black are books that have already been red.
I hope this is helpful.
Aaaand we're already to message 100! Excellent Day 1.
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It is a title scramble that looks like fun!"
I was able to unscramble all of the titles and posted it. One game down for our team