Read-a-Thon #2 - Team Cherry Discussion Topic

[Elín Birna]

I know! It took me half the day before I realised what the last two covers were...

[Mimmi]

I finished Tease by Amanda Maciel, it would fit in a one word title and female author but don't know if those squares are filled yet. I read 200 pages and may read some more tonight. Everyone should read Tease, it deals with a very important topic in such an interesting way.

[Mimmi]

And I guess it could fit in with read a book set in the summer. There are two timelines and one is set in July and August.

[Elín Birna]

Daily (moderate) update:
audio: 1hr 15min
pages: 16

[Rachel]

I've just participated in the cover guessing game (Does it still count if I didn't get them all?) and the "five facts about yourself" thread.

[Joann]

I just finished Wouldn't It Be Deadly which would work for either historic or mystery

I'm now up to 767 pages total read and 2 hrs listened to an audiobook

[Michelle]

Yes, Rachel, participation counts.

[Debra]

I have completed 3 hours of audiobook

[Katie]

I just finished Plotted: A Literary Atlas for today's book. 128 pages.

I just had two days of 11+ hour meetings and am exhausted! I'll update our cards and lists tomorrow.

Happy Wednesday, team.

[Michelle]

I haven't read at all today but I'm about to get started. I did do the Five Facts game though.

[Rachel]

Day 3 Update:

Audiobook hours: 0
Hours read outside: 0
Pages read today: 110
Pages read in total: 503
Number of total books completed: 1 short story and 1 book (play)
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 0, but one in progress
Color of completed books' covers: Yellow (if we are counting Harry Potter for that)
Read-A-Thon game participation: 5/12 (I think that's how many there have been so far?)
Longest single reading session: 3 hr
Total approximate time spent reading: 12 hours (3 today + 9 over the past two days)
Books started prior to challenge: 0

One thing I've really learned my lesson on in the past few weeks - to actually stop reading when I start getting tired. I used to sometimes feel like I needed to push myself to keep going, either because I really wanted to read more or I didn't feel like I had read "enough." I've learned by now not to force it, and just stop when I get tired otherwise I don't actually absorb anything or enjoy what I'm reading.

Today felt like a very slow day though. Very busy day of work and a few things to do at home afterwards led to not very much motivation to read.

[Marta]

Today's totals:
102 pages read - The Lady Elizabeth
30 mins audio - Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

Total for readathon:
403 pages
2.5 hrs audio
2 books finished

[Jody]

I swear I'm reading less this week than usual. 14 pathetic pages yesterday! But the weather was so magnificent here, we spent all afternoon by the lake with friends ... it was way too nice to read. Yes, I really did say that ...

[Andrea]

I apologize for the posting delay. My dog needed a bath, and I accidentally lost my first posting attempt. It's late.

Day #3 (8/24) Stats:

Audiobook listening hours: 3.5
Book reading hours: 4
Pages read today (excluding audiobook): 144
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 334
Total approximate time spent reading: 8 hr
Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 6.5 hr
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 2

Hours read outside: 0
Total hours read outside: 1
Longest single reading session: 3 hr
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 0
Rainbow color of completed books' covers: N/A
Read-A-Thon game participation: 3/12
Books started prior to challenge: 0

I finished two non-ATY challenge books. They are as follows:


Necessity by Jo Walton

one-word title
sci-fi/fantasy
female author
book in a series (amazing conclusion to the Thessaly series)
cover is mostly brown (N/A)

and

The Sisters Brothers written by Patrick deWitt and narrated by John Pruden

contains an article in the title
OverDrive lists it as historical fiction, but I viewed it more as a darkly humorous western
in book format, the cover is mostly black and white (N/A)
(Do audiobook "covers" even count?)

It appears as though our industrious team has met the relevant red-starred goals, but I hope that the total counts help. :)

[Michelle]

Day 2
Audiobook Hours: 0
Hours Read Outside: 0
Qualifying Pages Read Today: 96
Qualifying Pages Read in Total: 284
Number of Total Books Completed: 1 Book; 1 Short Story
Number of ATY Challenge Books Completed: 1
Color of Completed Book Covers: The Graveyard Book = Blue
Read-A-Thon Game Participation: 2/12 (Alphabet Soup; Five Facts)
Longest Single Reading Session: 3 Hours
Qualifying Books Started Prior to Challenge: 0

[Katie]

Updates from the end of Day 3!

Newly completed tasks:

B1: Mimmi's and Andrea's books finished yesterday brought us to 10. Thanks everyone for contributing!
N4: We've exceeded our audiobook hours. Thanks Andrea, Debra, Elin Birna, Emm, Joann, and Marta.
O2: Joann and Andrea both finished a historical fiction.

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We're close to our total page goal. We're at 3722/4000. I bet we'll complete that today!

[Debra]

I just finished a book that I started prior to the read-a- thon and read 212 pages book finished is for week 29 so can be used for g4 and o1

[Elín Birna]

I read 40 pages today. Our guests are leaving tomorrow morning so after that my pace will pick up again :)

[Mimmi]

I only read about 20 pages today, just wasn't feeling like reading. I'm hoping to read a good chunk of All these things I've done tomorrow.

[Marta]

I am abandoning The Lady Elizabeth. The writing is just grating on me, and I already know the story - from her nonfiction book, which is excellent. This is a slow, long slog and I can't bear to spend more time on it.

I still highly recommend Alison Weir's nonfiction, but she is not a novelist.

I searched my house for another green cover and found The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows. Mine is a 1969 edition and could not find it on Goodreads, but here is a photo - it is green! This can work for the children's book category.

[Marta]

Today's total: 86 pages
(48 Lady Elizabeth, 38 Wind in the Willows)

Total for week: 489 pages, 2.5 hrs of audio

[Rachel]

Day 4 Update:

Audiobook hours: 0
Hours read outside: 0
Pages read today: 203
Pages read in total: 706
Number of total books completed: 1 short story, 1 play, and 1 book
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 1 (Love Letters to the Dead, which has also been added to the Map thread)
Color of completed books' covers: Yellow (if we are counting Harry Potter for that)
Read-A-Thon game participation: 6/12 (I'm losing track of the numbers a bit, but I've participated in all of them so far)
Longest single reading session: 4 hr
Total approximate time spent reading: 16 hours (4 today + 12 over the past two days)
Books started prior to challenge: 0

Today, I finished reading Love Letters to the Dead, which I think can fill in a few gaps (YA book, female author, etc). I read 203 pages, bringing my total up to 706 all week so far.

[Andrea]

Day #4 (8/25) Stats:

Audiobook listening hours: 0
Book reading hours: 2
Pages read today (excluding audiobook): 53
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 387
Total approximate time spent reading: 10 hr
Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 6.5 hr
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 2

Hours read outside: 0
Total hours read outside: 1
Longest single reading session: 3 hr
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 0
Rainbow color of completed books' covers: N/A
Read-A-Thon game participation: 5/12
Books started prior to challenge: 0

[Jody]

Day 4, I read 5 pages of short stories and 127 pages of The Blind Assassin. 26% to go on that one.

Today, I'm planning on finishing the rest of my book for the children's book category. And reading another big chunk of TBA.

[Jody]

I've just finished Mummies in the Morning, which can count for a children's book, female author, series, article in the title, fantasy ... just a few. :)

I also read for over an hour straight last night, so you can pop me on that list too!

[Debra]

anyone here that knows our progress?

[Katie]

I'll tallying it all right now.

[Katie]

Here's what we've accomplished the last 2 days:

B3: Debra, Elin Birna, Emm, Mimmi & Rachel took care of the ATY books.
I4: Mimmi & I read books set in summer.
G4: Debra, Joann & Elin Birna all finished books started prior to the Read-a-thon.
O1: We got to 4000! Shout outs to Joann & Rachel for meeting the 600 page limit.
O3: Jody read a children's book.

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[Katie]

Here are the few things we have left going into the home stretch.

I1: We're on track with the read-a-thon games. We've participated on all of them so far and will just keep rocking it through Sunday.

I2: Graphic Novels: We have one read & need one more. I know a few of you mentioned reading one, so we'll see who finishes first.

N1: Rainbow: We have Emm doing The Martian for orange, Marta doing The Wind in the Willows for green, and Joann doing The Raven, The Masque of the Read Death and the Cask of Amontillado for violet. Joann, did you finish your violet book? I wasn't clear on if you finished the whole book. Emm & Marta, are you both good to finish your books by Sunday?

O2: Reading Map: Debra & Rachel have added books to the reading map. We still need one more.

Only 4 squares left! Great work team. I wonder how the other teams are doing?

[Rachel]

Day 5 Update:

I didn't have much time to read today, so progress was very slow.

Audiobook hours: 0
Hours read outside: 0
Pages read today: 72
Pages read in total: 778
Number of total books completed: 1 short story, 1 play, and 1 book
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 1 (Love Letters to the Dead, which has also been added to the Map thread)
Color of completed books' covers: Yellow (if we are counting Harry Potter for that)
Read-A-Thon game participation: All so far
Longest single reading session: 4 hr
Total approximate time spent reading: 18 hours (2 today + 16 over the past two days)
Books started prior to challenge: 0

[Andrea]

Day #5 (8/26) Stats:

Audiobook listening hours: 0
Book reading hours: 2
Pages read today (excluding audiobook): 65
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 452
Total approximate time spent reading: 12 hr
Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 6.5 hr
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 2

Hours read outside: 0
Total hours read outside: 1
Longest single reading session: 3 hr
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 0
Rainbow color of completed books' covers: N/A
Read-A-Thon game participation: 5/12
Books started prior to challenge: 0

[Marta]

Today I read 174 pages of The Wind in the Willows. I am almost finished, definitely by tomorrow!

Totals for the week:
663 pages
2.5 hrs audio
I have completed the one hour straight reading as well.

[Rachel]

Marta wrote: "Today I read 174 pages of The Wind in the Willows. I am almost finished, definitely by tomorrow!

Totals for the week:
663 pages
2.5 hrs audio
I have completed the one hour straight rea..."

How is it? It's one of those books that I've been meaning to read forever, but never actually got around to.

[Michelle]

I should finish it tomorrow.

[Mimmi]

Do we have yellow dor the rainbow or am I supposed to read Silver linings playbook for that one? For my stats I read 90 pages of All these things I've done on friday and I hope to finish it today.

[Elín Birna]

Mimmi wrote: "Do we have yellow dor the rainbow or am I supposed to read Silver linings playbook for that one? For my stats I read 90 pages of All these things I've done on friday and I hope to finish it today."

I think Katie put down Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for yellow.

My Friday stats:
Pages: 87
Audio: 30 min

Off to read! :)

[Joann]

Yes, I finished the Violet colored, sorry for not letting you know. Do we have an orange book yet? I've got only one hour left on my audiobook

[Jody]

I just finished The Blind Assassin. My ebook has a green cover if we need it!

[Marta]

I just finished The Wind in the Willows, you can check off green! Add 34 pages today.

@Rachel, it is delightful. One of the best children's books I have read. The language is superb and it is just so good natured and whimsical. I loved it!

Total read: 697 pages, 2.5 audio, 3 books finished

[Jody]

I've had a super reading day today. Four hours under an umbrella by the lake ... I finished off The Blind Assassin and also read The Old Man and the Sea in one sitting (well, one lying down). I'll have to get onto finishing Persepolis tomorrow for the graphic novel!

[Mimmi]

I finished All these things I've done, reading 120 pages. I think it can count as a read cover if we need that.

[Jody]

I've finished Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - graphic novel. Yay!

[Elín Birna]

I've finished Dark Places and added it to the ATY reading map. Then I saw that it already exists there, but not the secondary location which I also added. Emm, would you say it counts as a Reading Map submission for our bingo card?

Are we missing any colors of the rainbow? I was planning to read The Complete Persepolis tomorrow, but since Jody has already read it, and there's no need for another summer book (I was planning to read The sun also rises), maybe there's something else missing that I can get onto? Otherwise I might just read Persepolis anyway, been looking forward to reading it :)

Stats:

Audiobook listening hours today: 0
Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 3 hr 10 min
Pages read today (excluding audiobook): 119
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 419

Total hours read outside: 2
Longest single reading session: 1 hr
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 2
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 2
Rainbow color of completed books' covers: N/A (black, and white/gold)
Read-A-Thon game participation: Guess that cover, and On my shelf.

[Katie]

I'm just on my phone today, so I can't do a full update, but just so we're all on track with our card, here's a quick status. Today you awesome ladies finished 2 of our remaining blocks.

I2: Jody finished a graphic novel to complete this square.
O5: Elin Birna took care of our third group reading map posting.

So we just have our read-a-thon games, which we've been doing great with. And our rainbow. With Joann on violet and Marta on green, all we need is orange. Joann or Emm, whichever of you can finish your book by tomorrow, we can use that.

You guys are so awesome! We are so close to the end of the read-a-thon and bingo domination.

[Joann]

I just finished my orange book, .
I really enjoyed it, don't typically read humor books so it was a nice change.

[Michelle]

Also finished my orange book...



I'll update when I get home though.

[Katie]

Woohoo! All blocks complete except for the games, and that one is going great!

[Joann]

Katie wrote: "Woohoo! All blocks complete except for the games, and that one is going great!"

Awesome team!

[Rachel]

Day 6 Update:

Audiobook hours: 0
Hours read outside: 0
Pages read today: 264
Pages read in total: 1042
Number of total books completed: 1 short story, 1 play, and 2 books
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 1 (Love Letters to the Dead, which has also been added to the Map thread)
Color of completed books' covers: Yellow (if we are counting Harry Potter for that)
Read-A-Thon game participation: All so far
Longest single reading session: 4 hr
Total approximate time spent reading: 22 hours (4 today + 18over the past two days)
Books started prior to challenge: 0

Today I read Devoted, and I have to say, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would!

[Andrea]

Day #6 (8/27) Stats:


Audiobook listening hours: 0
Book reading hours: 3
Pages read today (excluding audiobook): 90
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 542
Total approximate time spent reading: 15 hr
Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 6.5 hr
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 3

Hours read outside: 0
Total hours read outside: 1
Longest single reading session: 3 hr
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 1
Rainbow color of completed books' covers: N/A
Read-A-Thon game participation: 7/12
Books started prior to challenge: 0

I completed my Week 10 ATY challenge book,

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

poem
added to ATY reading map
one-word title
cover is brown (N/A)