Read-a-Thon #3 - Individual Treasure Hunt Challenge

[Michelle]

Are you ready for an adventure, read-a-thonners? The individual read-a-thon challenge for our last read-a-thon of 2016 is a treasure hunt. Do you have what it takes to trek land and sea for riches untold? Come find out...


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RULES
1. Complete 5/10 tasks to claim the treasure. You do not have to complete all the tasks to win. You're welcome to, of course, if you're feeling really ambitious. You also do not have to read in order.
2. As always, overlapping is limited. It is one book per task with the exception of the Read 500 Pages, Read for Two Hours Straight, and Finish a Book tasks. If you're participating in the team challenge also, you can use books you read for the team challenge toward your individual challenge and vice versa.
3. Don't beat yourself up trying to find the perfect book for a task. They're open to interpretation so do what feels right to you. We're here if you have questions.
4. Have fun!

TASKS
1. Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Read a book about pirates on the open sea, a traveling circus, a move to a new town for a fresh start, an epic fantasy journey, a hike up the coast, or a road trip. There are any number of possibilities here.

2. Read a Book with a Dark Cover - This one's pretty self-explanatory but here's a few examples...



Use your own discretion. If it's a mostly dark cover, it works.

3. Read a Book for a Challenge - Any challenge. It does not have to be the ATY Challenge. If you're done with all your challenges for the year, pick a prompt from a challenge you haven't completed or read a second book for a challenge you have completed.

4. Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge - You can comb through the progress posts for inspiration or browse through the A-Z Folders. With such an active group and eleven months behind us, there's a good chance a book on your TBR has already been read by someone in the group. Use the search feature to search for a specific book (don't forget to select the "only topics" button below the search box to narrow your search).

5. Read a Book with a Great Villain Character - You know what they say, light cannot exist without darkness. A story just wouldn't be the same without a villain mucking things up for everyone. Take this opportunity to really appreciate how important a good villain is to a good story.

6. Read 500 Pages - Read-a-thons are all about reading! Your dedication to reading won't go unnoticed. You can claim this task with 500 pages read.

7. Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist - Basically, read a book that you've been dying to read - whatever that means to you. Maybe it's a new release, a library hold that finally came in, or a book you just haven't been able to get to yet.

8. Read for Two Hours Straight - C'mon, it's a read-a-thon! Find a cozy nook and curl up with a book for a couple of hours. Everything else can wait.

9. Read a Book with a Heroic Character - Heroes don't always wear capes or shining armor. There are plenty of heroic characters who come in all shapes and sizes. Go find your hero.

10. Finish a Book - Pick up a book and read it to the end. That's easy enough, huh? Please note, if you started the book before the read-a-thon, you must have been less than 75% done with it for it to count toward this task.

[Aastha]

Sounds really interesting!! Just have a question; when does this start and end? This is my first ever read-a-thon so I'm just a bit confused :)

[Michelle]

It started about an hour and twenty minutes ago, Aastha and it goes on for the whole week. All the basic read-a-thon info is over here. Hopefully that will help you get started. There's also a kick off post here.

Read-a-thons are such fun! I really hope you enjoy it. If you've got any other questions, just let us know.

[Michelle]

I'm going to take an ambitious crack at both the group and individual challenges for this read-a-thon so ... I'll be tracking my progress for this one here.

[✘] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan; Dash & Lily travel all over NYC retrieving a red notebook, Lily's parents travel to Fiji, Lily's grandfather travels from New York to Florida.
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover -
[✘] Read a Book for a Challenge - The Walking Dead, Vol. 02: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman; I read this for my 2016 Rejects Challenge (A Horror Book).
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge -
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character -
[-] Read 500 Pages - 291/500
[✘] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist - The Walking Dead, Vol. 01: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman; I just recently started watching The Walking Dead TV series, I'm 1.5 seasons in, and even though graphic novels aren't generally my thing I've been dying to read these before I get too far into the TV series.
[✘] Read for Two Hours Straight - I read for two hours straight on The Walking Dead, Vol. 01: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman, some of The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, and some of Seraphina by Rachel Hartman.
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character -
[✘] Finish a Book - Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

[Katie]

Tracking my individual progress here!

[✓] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout - The author travels to NM and works in the Gila National Forest.
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[✓] Read a Book for a Challenge - The Accident Season for the Seasonal Reading Challenge
[✓] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge - Murder on the Orient Express - A few people read this for week 16.
[✓] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character - The Eternal Ones - The villian didn't make himself known until late in the book, but man, was he a life ruiner.
[✓] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[✓] Read for Two Hours Straight - Completed 11/28
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character -
[✓] Finish a Book - The Accident Season

[°~Amy~°]

I'll track my progress here:

Currently Reading: Trains and Lovers

[-] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Trains and Lovers
[x] Read a Book with a Dark Cover -
[x] Read a Book for a Challenge - Henry & Isa (Around the World Challenge - New Zealand)
[x] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge - Thirteen Reasons Why read by several people for week 14 (One of the 5 W or H in the title)
[x] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character - A Christmas Carol
[x] Read 500 Pages Current: 725 pgs
[x] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist - Dying Breath (received my pre-ordered copy yesterday, woot!)
[x] Read for Two Hours Straight
[x] Read a Book with a Heroic Character Code Name Verity
[x] Finish a Book - Thirteen Reasons Why

[Elín Birna]

What a fun map, a reading adventure/treasure hunt!
I'm also going to see if I can check off some of these on top of the group challenge, we'll see how it goes... (borrowing your list Emm!)

[x] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Skugga-Baldur
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[x] Read a Book for a Challenge - Svartar fjaðrir
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[-] Read 500 Pages
[x] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist - The Handmaid's Tale
[x] Read for Two Hours Straight
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character
[x] Finish a Book

[Debra]

I will try this also but the group will take precedence over the individual one.
[x] Read a Book Where a Character Travels Cell traveled from Boston MA to Kings Pond NH
[x] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[x] Read a Book for a Challenge
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[x] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[x] Read for Two Hours Straight
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character -
[x] Finish a Book - Cell

[Jennifer]

[x] Read a Book Where a Character TravelsAll the Light We Cannot See
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[-] Read a Book for a Challenge
[x] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[x] Read a Book with a Great Villain CharacterProvidence
[x] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[x] Read for Two Hours Straight
[x] Read a Book with a Heroic Character -
[x] Finish a Book - Providence

[⚜️XAR]

[X] Read a Book Where a Character Travels: Unraveled by Jennifer Estep
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[X] Read a Book for a Challenge: Both books I've read so far are for the 2015 Popsugar Reading Challenge, in addition to the November Merged TCF Monthly/What's So Great About November? Challenge for The Challenge Factory Group
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[X] Read 500 Pages: 145, 337, 373=855
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[-] Read for Two Hours Straight
[X] Read a Book with a Heroic Character: Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb
[X] Finish a Book: No One But You by Donna Reimel Robinson, Size Matters by Alison Bliss, Unraveled by Jennifer Estep, Step by Step by Candace Calvert, Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb, The Pattern Artist by Nancy Moser, The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

[Michelle]

I fixed the typo on the map, haha. Sorry about that!

[Ed]

[-] Read a Book Where a Character Travels
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[✔ Read a Book for a Challenge- [book:Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities|6434363]
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[✔]Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[✔] Read for Two Hours Straight
[✔] Read a Book with a Heroic Character - The Eyre Affair- Thursday Next
[✔ Finish a Book- [book:Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities|6434363]

[Sara]

I'm in!
[-] Read a Book Where a Character Travels
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[-] Read a Book for a Challenge
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[-] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[-] Read for Two Hours Straight
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character -
[-] Finish a Book -

[Melanie]

This is my first read-a-thon with this group and I can't wait.

[-] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - You'll never walk alone: A true story about the 'Bangkok Hilton' by Debbie Singh

[X] Read a Book with a Dark Cover - Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth


[-] Read a Book for a Challenge -

[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge -

[X] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character - Stealing Jenny by Ellen Gable

[X] Read 500 Pages - 285pg + 104 + 115= 504
Four: A Divergent Story Collection - 285
Stealing Jenny - 104
You'll never walk alone: A true story about the 'Bangkok Hilton' - 115

[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist

[X] Read for Two Hours Straight

[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character -

[X] Finish a Book - Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth

[Kathy]

I'll be tracking my progress here.

Currently reading:
✔All the Birds in the Sky (on p. 84 at start of challenge) finished 12/2/2016 226 pages read
✔The Coincidence of Coconut Cake [on p. 84 at start of challenge] finished 12/1/2016 234 pages read
The Forgotten Garden (at 75% at start of challenge) at 88% 68 pages read
Swing Time - started 12/1/2016

[-] Read a Book Where a Character Travels
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[x] Read a Book for a Challenge The Coincidence of Coconut Cake for Popsugar
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[x] Read 500 Pages 12/2/16
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[x] Read for Two Hours Straight 11/30/16
[x] Read a Book with a Heroic Character All the Birds in the Sky - Patricia
[x] Finish a Book The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

[Lois]

This is my first read-a-thon! Looking forward to getting started!
[ x] Read a book where a character travels Sundance
[x ] Read a book with a dark cover. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
[ ] Read a book for a challenge
[ ] Read a book someone else read for the ATY challenge
[ ]Read a book with a great villain
[x ] Read 500 pages
[x ] Read a book on your reading wishlistThe Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
[ x] Read for two hours straight. --Spent two hours reading Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell
[ ] Read a book with a heroic character
[x ] Finish a book O Little Town of Maggody

[Rachel]

Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Anna Dressed in Blood. The main character moves to a new town at the beginning of the book, and there are many mentions of how frequently he's moved throughout his life.
Read a Book with a Dark Cover
Read a Book for a Challenge - Awkward, read for BookRiot 2016
Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
Read 500 Pages - Completed December 1
Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which has been on my list for quite a while
Read for Two Hours Straight - Completed November 28
Read a Book with a Heroic Character
Finish a Book - Misery (Completed November 29)

[Stephanie]

My first go at a read-a-thon

Read a Book Where a Character Travels
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[-] Read a Book for a Challenge
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[-] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[-] Read for Two Hours Straight
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character
[-] Finish a Book

[Marina]

Just for fun :-)

[✔] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Daisy Miller
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[-] Read a Book for a Challenge
[✔] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge - Sense and Sensibility
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[✔] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[✔] Read for Two Hours Straight - completed november 29
[✔] Read a Book with a Heroic Character - Number the Stars
[✔] Finish a Book - Daisy Miller

[Jody]

Tracking my progress here too!

(I'm assuming that "read a book" doesn't mean I have to actually complete it, right?)

[✔] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
[✔] Read a Book with a Dark Cover - Fuck It. The Ultimate Spiritual Way (John C. Parkin)
[✔] Read a Book for a Challenge - Ariel: The Restored Edition (Sylvia Plath)
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[✘] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character - Cress (Marissa Meyer)
[✔] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[✔] Read for Two Hours Straight
[✘] Read a Book with an Heroic Character - The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
[✔] Finish a Book - Charlie and Lola: My First Ever and Best Story Collection (Lauren Child)

✘ = in progress
✔ = completed

Ok, I've completed six!

[Michelle]

Jody -

You do have to complete it to get credit for it, yes. But you do not have to do all 10 items to win the game. You only need to do 5 to win the game, you can use the books you're reading for the group challenge, and remember that you can overlap Finish a Book, Read for Two Hours Straight, and Read 500 Pages. So, technically, you only really need to finish 2 books if you go that route.

[Zaz]

I like the idea. I probably won't complete all tasks, so for the moment my goal is 5 of them.

[✔] Read a Book Where a Character Travels: Bone Gap (travelled to another world)
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[✔] Read a Book for a Challenge: Five on a Treasure Island (A to Z challenge)
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[✔] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character: Gehenna (zombies are great villains :D)
[✔] Read 500 Pages
[✔] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist: Legion Skin Deep
[✔] Read for Two Hours Straight: Five on a Treasure Island
[✔] Read a Book with a Heroic Character: Okay for Now
[✔] Finish a Book: We are the Ants.

[Vanessa]

My first read-a-thon

At start of challenger:

- A Clash of Kings (at 63%)
- The Shining (on p. 160)

Challenger:

[✔] Read a Book Where a Character Travels: A Clash of Kings
[✔] Read a Book with a Dark Cover:

[✔] Read a Book for a Challenge: The Five Orange Pips for 2016 ATY Rejects Challenger (A book you can finish in a day with a title that starts with the word "The")
[✔] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (link)
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[✔] Read 500 Pages: Current 520 pgs
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[✔] Read for Two Hours Straight: December 01
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character
[✔] Finish a Book: A Clash of Kings

[Aidan]

Challenge:

[✔] Read a Book Where a Character Travels Comfort & Joy
[✘] Read a Book with a Dark Cover Three Dark Crowns starting soon
[✘] Read a Book for a Challenge The Shadow Queen
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[✔] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character The Midnight Star
[✔] Read 500 Pages Current: 514/500 The Wonder 304 pages Don't You Forget About Me 110 pages Comfort & Joy 100 pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist The Rose & the Dagger
[✔] Read for Two Hours Straight - The Wonder
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character
[✔] Finish a Book - The Wonder

- = to do
✘ = in progress
✔ = completed

[Tawallah]

✔ Read a Book Where a Character Travels-
✔ Read a Book with a Dark Cover-
✔ Read a Book for a Challenge-
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[-] Read 500 Pages
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[-] Read for Two Hours Straight
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character
✔ Finish a Book -

[Leonor]

At the beginning of the challenge (28-11-2016) I was reading Howl's Moving Castle at 50%. I have read 574 pages in total.

[-] Read a Book Where a Character Travels
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
✔ Read a Book for a Challenge: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (218 pages).
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
✔ Read 500 Pages
✔ Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, manga by CLAMP (180 pages).
✔ Read for Two Hours Straight: done with Howl's Moving Castle on Monday 28th.
[-] Read a Book with a Heroic Character
✔ Finish a Book: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (50%: 176 pages).

[J]

I hadn't planned on this part, but I think it works.

[x] Read a Book Where a Character Travels - Another Fine Myth
[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover -
[x] Read a Book for a Challenge - Very Good, Jeeves! (Discard Challenge)
[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge -
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character -
[x] Read 500 Pages Current: Player Piano (1st), Very Good, Jeeves! (3rd), and Another Fine Myth (4th) put me over the 500.
[-] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist -
[-] Read for Two Hours Straight
[x] Read a Book with a Heroic Character - Deadpool, Volume 1: Secret Invasion
[x] Finish a Book - Player Piano, I was at 51% when this week started.

[Silvia]

I did most of them just with GN, but here are my tasks :)

[✓] Read a Book Where a Character Travels : Sisters About a family in a road trip
[✓] Read a Book with a Dark Cover
[✓] Read a Book for a Challenge: Aya for the category of a book set in other continent (Africa) for AtY (Section GN) Challenge.
[✓] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge - The Grownup, read by many in the category of short story.
[ ] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character .
[✓] Read 500 Pages
[ ] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist
[✓] Read for Two Hours Straight. I read This One Summer in one sitting, is just a GN, but it actually took me much more than two hours.
[ ] Read a Book with a Heroic Character.
[✓] Finish a Book - I read Boy: Tales of Childhood for the category of autobiography in AtY

And Done! :)

[Marta]

I was doing the Team challenge, now I will see how many of these can I check off:

[✔️] Read a Book Where a Character Travels
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story author Amani's family relocates to Jordan and back to the US; later she travels a lot to conferences

[-] Read a Book with a Dark Cover - the ones I finished were all light
[✔️] Read a Book for a Challenge - 3 of 4 were for a challenge

[-] Read a Book Someone Else Read for the ATY Challenge
[-] Read a Book with a Great Villain Character
[✔️] Read 500 Pages
[✔️] Read a Book on Your Reading Wishlist - Wanted to read We Should All Be Feminists for a while
[✔️] Read for Two Hours Straight
[✔️] Read a Book with a Heroic Character - It does not get any more heroic than Nemecsek in The Paul Street Boys
[✔️] Finish a Book - Finished 4!

7/10 - I am starting to dig for treasure now.