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

[Rachel]

Maybe I'm a little confused about this, but can someone post a list of all the games we've had so far? I think I've participated in all of them...but I'm not sure anymore.

[Elín Birna]

I don't have the list and am on my phone so I can't really easily list them Rachel, but you can go into the read-a-thons folder in the group and most of the ones marked Read-a-thon #2 are the games.

I added to my word count a little today, and read Persepolis (started it a few months ago, but started over since I hadn't gotten so far in), 341 pages. So three books finished in total :)

Seems like we will score a full bingo card, I'm so impressed with us! It's been a lot of fun, I'm glad to have participated with you guys :)

[Marta]

It's been fun for me, too! Now tgat I am done with the categories I am just going to read my slow slogs... Moby Dick and How To Read Novels Like a Professor.

[Jody]

I've had a lot of fun too, and I have to say that I've really, really enjoyed the team part of the readathon. Thanks guys! :)

[Rachel]

Ok, so if I've counted correctly, there have been 11 games so far?

[Marta]

I think I have now completed all games...

[Zaz]

Rachel, there are 10 games ;)

[Marta]

Jody wrote: "I've had a lot of fun too, and I have to say that I've really, really enjoyed the team part of the readathon. Thanks guys! :)"

What Jody said. The team aspect was so much fun! Our mods rock, to come up with it and run it so well! Kudos!

[Rachel]

Zaz wrote: "Rachel, there are 10 games ;)"

Ok, clearly I can't count lol. I saw that someone had posted a list earlier in our thread of which games had already been done (which had 9), so I tried to just add the ones I didn't see listed there. Clearly math is not a skill of mine.

[Katie]

I guess Rachel didn't want to name names, but that someone (ahem, me) counted the halfway check-in as a game, which it wasn't meant to be. Oops.

Shout out to Marta & Rachel for completing all 10 games.

1. Title Scramble - Katie, Joann, Andrea, Rachel, Marta
2. Alphabet Soup - Emm, Andrea, Jody, Joann, Debra, Rachel, Marta
3. Guess That Cover - Andrea, Elin Birna, Joann, Rachel, Marta, Jody, Katie
4. Infinite Book Challenge - Joann, Rachel, Andrea, Katie, Marta, Emm
5. Five Facts About Me - Joann, Debra, Rachel, Emm, Jody, Katie, Andrea, Marta
6. On My Shelf! - Rachel, Debra, Joann, Katie, Marta, Andrea, Jody, Elin Birna
7. Match the Quote Game - Debra, Rachel, Marta, Katie, Andrea
8. Unpopular Opinions Book Tag - Joann, Marta, Rachel, Mimmi, Jody
9. Character Scramble - Rachel, Andrea, Marta
10. NY Times by the Book Tag - Rachel, Marta

[Katie]

We are officially done! Great work team!

FINAL BINGO CARD:

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B1-Finish 10 Books - An Unsuitable Jod for a Woman, Your Perfect Life, Dark Matter, Dog Songs, Solaris, milk and honey, American Vampire, Vol 1, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Tease, Necessity
B2-Read Something with a One-Word Title - Callum
B3-Read 5 Books for the ATY Challenge - A Child Called "It", Yoga for Life, The Graveyard Book, How to Lead a Life of Crime, Love Letters to the Dead
B4-Read a Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
B5-Read 2 Books by a Female Author - Your Perfect Life, Before We Visit the Goddess

I1-Complete Every Read-a-Thon Game - Completed 8/28
I2-Read 2 Graphic Novels or Manga - American Vampire Vol 1, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
I3-Read a Book in a Series - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
I4-Read 2 Books Set in Summer - Tease, Essential Maps for the Lost
I5-Read a Mystery or Thriller - Dark Matter

N1-Read the Rainbow - Dark Matter, Martian, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, The Wind in the Willows, The Perfect Life, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death and the Cask of Amontillado
N2-Read Outside for 6 Hours - Completed 8/23
N3-Every Team Member Recommends a Book to the Team - Completed 8/23
N4-Listen to 20 Hours of Audiobooks - Compleded 8/24
N5-Read a Poem - Milk and Honey

G1-Finish a Book or Story in One Sitting - A Child Called "It"
G2-Read 3 Short Stories or Novellas - Long Way Down, And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead, Trigger Warnings
G3-5 Members Read for 1 Hour Straight - Completed 8/22/2016
G4-Finish 3 Books Started Before the Read-a-Thon - Blaze, Yoga for Life, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
G5-Strategize with Your Group - Completed 8/22/2016

O1-Read 4000 Pages - Completed 8/25
O2-Read Something Historical - Wouldn't It Be Deadly
O3-Read a YA, Middle Grade, or Children's Book - Mummies in the Morning
O4-Read a Book with an Article in the Title - How to Lead a Life of Crime
O5-Add 3 Books to the ATY Reading Map - A Child Called "It", Love Letters to the Dead, Dark Places

[Rachel]

Katie wrote: "I guess Rachel didn't want to name names, but that someone (ahem, me) counted the halfway check-in as a game, which it wasn't meant to be. Shout out to Marta & Rachel for completing all 10 games.

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Actually, I also would have counted it as a "game" to be honest. I considered any of the posts that asked people to participate as some kind of game. I was just confused about how there were going to be 12.

So glad we finished the whole card! I'm definitely not having as much luck on the individual bingo, lol

[Katie]

I feel like we're so accomplished! You guys are awesome readers & team members. I think we had a great group & it was fun to work together and totally rock this read-a-thon. Thanks for letting me take on the tracking as well. Even though it got a little hectic trying to keep track of everything, I thought it was great how well we all worked together.

Go #teamcherry!

[Joann]

Thanks for all your work keeping track of our progress, Katie.

[Marta]

Yay! This was a lot of fun, congrats, team!

Katie, you did an amazing job, thank you for doing all the updates and tallies! That was a lot of work, thanks for taking it on!

[Rachel]

My stats for the last day (sorry it's posted after everything's over):

Audiobook hours: 0
Hours read outside: 0
Pages read today: 431
Pages read in total: 1473
Number of total books completed: 1 short story, 1 play, and 5 books (2 of which were children's 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
Longest single reading session: 4 hr
Total approximate time spent reading: 28 hours (6 today + 22 over the past two days)
Books started prior to challenge: 0

Thanks Katie for all of your hard work, and I really enjoyed the team challenge!

[Andrea]

Day #7 (8/28) Stats:


Audiobook listening hours: 0
Book reading hours: 1.5
Pages read today (excluding audiobook): 96
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 638
Total approximate time spent reading: 16.5 hr
Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 6.5 hr
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 4

Hours read outside: 0
Total hours read outside: 1
Longest single reading session: 3 hr
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 2
Rainbow color of completed books' covers: N/A
Read-A-Thon game participation: 9/10
Books started prior to challenge: 0
Story read in one sitting: The Happy Prince

I completed my Week 51 ATY challenge book,

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

collection of short stories
article in the title
children's book
cover is burgundy (N/A)

[Andrea]

I had an awesome experience. Katie, you did an amazing job. Thanks, Team Cherry!

[Elín Birna]

Yes thanks to everyone, and especially Katie for organizing us and keeping track of everything, you did a great job!

[Jody]

Thanks Katie! :)

[Mimmi]

Thank everyone, this was so much fun! Katie, you did a great job, thanks for keeping everything in order!

[Katie]

I see that Rachel and Andrea posted their final stats from yesterday. If anyone else wants to post their final stats, I'll incorporate that into our team cherry wrap-up on the group bingo thread.

[Mimmi]

I read a total of 932 pages, that's the only thing I haven't written in here yet.

[Marta]

Final update

How many pages have you read?
816 + 2.5 hrs audio ~ 67 pages = 883 pages

How many books have you read?
3 finished, parts of 4 others

What are you reading now?
Trigger Warning
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
Moby Dick

What have you finished reading?
Solaris
milk and honey
The Wind in the Willows.
Read 178 pages of The Lady Elizabeth before bailing.

Completed all games.

[Jody]

My total pages were 802, and I read for 4 hours outside. Not sure of my estimated total reading time, sorry! Maybe 8 hours total.

I finished Mummies in the Morning, The Blind Assassin, The Old Man and the Sea and Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Plus two short stories. :)

[Elín Birna]

Stats:

Total approximate time spent listening to audiobooks: 3 hrs 10 min
Pages read in total (excluding audiobook): 760

Total hours read outside: 2 hrs
Total number of books completed for read-a-thon: 3; Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom, Dark Places, The Complete Persepolis
Number of ATY challenge books completed: 2 (weeks 45 and 46)

[Michelle]

You did awesome, Team Cherry. There will be an award for your hard work soon. I'm just really behind right now. :x