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

[Debra]

1. Where do you live?
Wisconsin USA
2. What is your first book you remember reading?
Amatyville Horror
3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite?
Favorite genre is horror least favorite is romance
4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads?
I have a friend on here that we have been friends for 43 years
5. Name one book you totally hated?
Pride and prejudice
6. Name your all time favorite author?
Steven King
7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be?
Castle rock Maine
8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but never can finish?
I have never had a book that I could not finish but hate the classic as they seem so dry.
9. What or who got you interested in reading?
A teacher and my mother reads alot too.
10. Name a book that made you emotional?
There have been a few but the one that jumps out at me is

[Samantha]

1. Where do you live?
Myrtle Beach -- and it's finally the end of Tourist Season! Hoorah!

2. What is your first book you remember reading?
Make Way for Ducklings

3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite?
Favorite: Horror/Thriller
Least Favorite: Contemporary (they're usually just meh for me)

4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads?
Had to actually look this one up: Jenni B, a friend from college

5. Name one book you totally hated?
Wuthering Heights or Cold Mountain or Nothing But the Truth These are the only three books I have legitimately harsh feeling towards. I keep telling myself to re-read them because I can't possibly have really hated them that much, but... ugh.

6. Name your all time favorite author?
Edgar Allan Poe

7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be?
The Well of Lost Plots from The Well of Lost Plots

8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but never can finish?
There are several. Especially anything by James Joyce or Ayn Rand.

9. What or who got you interested in reading?
My grandparents. They read to me always as a baby, and had substantial kid-book libraries for whenever we visited them.

10. Name a book that made you emotional?
I can't think of a specific one, but I tend to get emotional at tragedy involving animals or end-of-life/elderly love stories.

[Joan]

1. Where do you live? In the country in Dinwiddie, Virginia. It is south of Richmond, VA.
2. What is your first book you remember reading?I'm thinking of when my sister read to me when I was little. It would have been Lamont the Lonely Monster. A book I read on my own was probably a Judy Blume book or Beverly Cleary.
3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite? I don't know if I have a complete favorite. I read a lot of YA and science fiction, classics. Least favorite might be chicklit.
4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads? It would probably be my friend from high school Brian Brantley. He was automatically friended with facebook.
5. Name one book you totally hated?Eat, Pray, Love - although I thought her actual writing was pretty.
6. Name your all time favorite author? Honestly I'm not sure I have one. I get fickle. I read a certain genre or author for awhile and then I get bored and switch up.
7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be? Honestly I think in the Twilight world just because I'd like to be immortal........
8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but never can finish? no not really. It will take me awhile if I hate it but I'll finish it. There were a couple of books I fought to the ending for and then I found there was a surprise that turned my thinking on the book.
9. What or who got you interested in reading? I'd have to say my sister just from reading to me when I was little. And then my mom used to get her hair done every week at the mall and I'd go to the bookstore.
10. Name a book that made you emotional?It Ends with Us and Me Before You

[Samantha]

Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles! Our rainbow is complete.

[Joan]

Samantha wrote: "Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles! Our rainbow is complete."

awesome - because I still have 300 pages to go in Winter. I got caught up in work this week and my son's football games and soccer game.

[Brianna]

DAY SEVEN

completed
I3 - read the rainbow

in progress
• G4 - complete every read-a-thon game
✓ Sunday | ✓ Monday | ✓ Tuesday | ✓ Wednesday | ✓ Thursday | ✓ Friday | ✓ Saturday | Sunday
• O2 - strategize with your group
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books
Samantha - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
I3 - read the rainbow - indigo

[Brianna]

what we need

G4 - complete every read-a-thon game

O2 - strategize with your group
Only 10 comments left!

[Brianna]

Good idea with the '10 Things About Me' Debra!

1. Where do you live?
Rio Rancho, New Mexico

2. What is your first book you remember reading?
My grandma's Nancy Drew books.

3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite?
My favorite is definitely going to be fantasy. I can't say I have a least favorite, but I do struggle the most with science fiction and literary fiction.

4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads?
I have no clue. lol

5. Name one book you totally hated?
Pride and Prejudice (hides)

6. Name your all time favorite author?
I love Sarah Dessen and John Steinbeck.

7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be?
Hogwarts!

8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but never can finish?
Anything by Gabriel García Márquez.

9. What or who got you interested in reading?
I grew up around books so I don't really know. lol

10. Name a book that made you emotional?
Where the Red Fern Grows, hands down!

[Brianna]

Debra wrote: "1. Where do you live?
Wisconsin USA
2. What is your first book you remember reading?
Amatyville Horror
3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite?
Favorite genre is horror least favorite is rom..."

I'm so happy I'm not alone in my dislike for Pride and Prejudice!

[Brianna]

Samantha wrote: "1. Where do you live?
Myrtle Beach -- and it's finally the end of Tourist Season! Hoorah!

2. What is your first book you remember reading?
Make Way for Ducklings

3. What is your fav..."

Edgar Allen Poe is also in my top list. He's the author of my all time favorite poem!

[Brianna]

Joan wrote: "1. Where do you live? In the country in Dinwiddie, Virginia. It is south of Richmond, VA.
2. What is your first book you remember reading?I'm thinking of when my sister read to me when I was little..."

Me Before You also totally broke me - but not in a bad way, necessarily. What did you think of the movie adaptation?

[Joan]

Brianna wrote: "Joan wrote: "1. Where do you live? In the country in Dinwiddie, Virginia. It is south of Richmond, VA.
2. What is your first book you remember reading?I'm thinking of when my sister read to me when..."

Well with any movie adaptation it wasn't as good as the book but as far as adaptations go I did like it. Did you see it?

[Samantha]

I did today's game - both Scrabble for today and the You're Not Good Enough game.

[Brianna]

Joan wrote: "Brianna wrote: "Joan wrote: "1. Where do you live? In the country in Dinwiddie, Virginia. It is south of Richmond, VA.
2. What is your first book you remember reading?I'm thinking of when my sister..."

I liked it. It was definitely different (as any adaptation is), but I enjoyed it.

[Brianna]

Samantha wrote: "I did today's game - both Scrabble for today and the You're Not Good Enough game."

Awesome! I'll get today's game checked off!

[Debra]

interesting things I have learned about team members will have to check out me before you

[Jennifer]

1. Where do you live?Wheeler, WI

2. What is your first book you remember reading?The Wolfling: A Documentary Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies

3. What is your favorite genre? Fantasy. Least favorite? Romance

4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads? Debra(my mother)

5. Name one book you totally hated? I haven't come across any I hated yet.

6. Name your all time favorite author? Robin Cook

7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be? Shannara

8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but never can finish? Nope

9. What or who got you interested in reading? My mom

10. Name a book that made you emotional? My Sister's Keeper

[Sarah]

1. Where do you live? Calgary,Alberta
2. What is the first book you remember reading? The little house on the prairie books.
3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite genre?
Favorite would probably be romance. Least maybe science fiction.
4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads?
That would be my sister
5. Name one book you totally hated.
The Scarlet Letter was one I really didn't enjoy reading.
6. Name your all time favorite author.
Nora Roberts
7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be?
The Well of plots would be a fun place to live. Or any place in a Nora Roberts book would be great!
8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but can never finish?
Sadly it would be Gone With The Wind.
9. What or who got you into reading?
My grandma was a big reader and always encouraged me to read.
10. Name a book that made you emotional.
The book thief made me cry

[Brianna]

Jennifer wrote: "1. Where do you live?Wheeler, WI

2. What is your first book you remember reading?The Wolfling: A Documentary Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies

3. What is your favorite genre? Fantasy...."

I just read the first three books of the Shannara series! It would be pretty cool to live there. lol

[Brianna]

Sarah wrote: "1. Where do you live? Calgary,Alberta
2. What is the first book you remember reading? The little house on the prairie books.
3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite genre?
Favorite would pr..."

I read my first Nora Roberts a few weeks ago (and am currently reading another) and she's a good author!

[Brianna]

There's about 25 minutes left in the read-a-thon and all that's left is to get our discussion posts to 175 and to do the last game - Bookish Scenarios! So close!

[Brianna]

I did Bookish Scenarios so we're done with that square!

[Brianna]

DAY SEVEN

completed
G4 - complete every read-a-thon game

in progress
• G4 - complete every read-a-thon game
✓ Sunday | ✓ Monday | ✓ Tuesday | ✓ Wednesday | ✓ Thursday | ✓ Friday | ✓ Saturday | ✓ Sunday
• O2 - strategize with your group
165 | 175 comments

[Brianna]

what we need

O2 - strategize with your group
Only a couple comments left!

[Brianna]

And here is our updated BINGO board - almost a complete blackout!

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[Joan]

Oh my gosh we made 175 messages!!! Awesome job guys!

[Debra]

awesome team wtg

[Kelly]

I know we don't need anymore comments, but I wanted to do this anyway!

1. Where do you live?
Camden, DE. It is right outside Dover, and we are glad tourist season is over too. The locals can now act like tourists.

2. What is your first book you remember reading? Probably Goodnight Moon. I have very fond memories of Archie comics, The Babysitters Club, and American Girl Books also.

3. What is your favorite genre? Least favorite?
Oh I like so many! I enjoy sci- fi, thrillers, mystery, ya, Christian fiction, you name it. I don't like steamy romances and have to really be in the mood for a non fiction.

4. Who is your oldest friend on goodreads?
I don't know. Sadly I don't have too many friends on here. Most of my real life friends either don't read, or aren't on Goodreads. If anyone wants to add me, I am happy to see what everyone is reading!

5. Name one book you totally hated?
The Scarlet Letter. I actually changed English classes because of it.

6. Name your all time favorite author?
This is tough too, but I will go with either Iris Johansen or Hugh Howey.

7. If you could live in any place from a book where would it be?
Maybe Atlanta with Eve Duncan or Bloomington with the Baxters.

8. Is there a book that you have tried reading multiple times but never can finish? Not that I can remember.

9. What or who got you interested in reading? My mom is a huge reader. She has read over a 1000 books this year so far!

10. Name a book that made you emotional? Oh so many- Marley & Me, The Fault in Our Stars, Book Thief, The Last Lecture, etc.

[Kelly]

Thank you for letting me play along! I had a great time reading along with all of you.

[Brianna]

We did it guys!

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[Brianna]

This was fun and I'm glad we were able to get some reading in this week!

[Joan]

Brianna wrote: "This was fun and I'm glad we were able to get some reading in this week!"

I definitely enjoyed the group bingo!

[Jennifer]

WTG team! Sorry I was MIA the last couple days, darn job was taking up my time.

[Sarah]

Look at us go we got the whole card done! Good job everyone! I had a blast being on this team!