Read-a-Thon #1 - Blue Team Discussion

[Tracy]

Spreadsheet.... Thanks to Emm. I take no credit. We should be able to access and check off where our books fit. Its starting to get a little crazy lol

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Tracy]

Jillian wrote: "After seeing what everyone is posting I'm thinking the tag "have" will be the best for this book. (I don't see this tag on anyone else's list).

[book:The Two Towe..."

Might put this under sci-fi, depending on what Debra reads- she has one with a "have" shelf

[Tracy]

Ok ladies .....pending changes and what all of us finish reading heres what we have so far:

Team Book List Tracker: Number Completed = 63

Claire-
✔Jane Eyre- Historical 1/28/18
✔7 dagen Kindle 1/30/18
✔To Kill a Mockingbird books-I-own 2/1/18
✔Uitgeteld 5-stars 1/30/18
✔One, Two, Buckle My Shoe borrowed 1/31/18
✔Doctor January paperback 1/31/18
✔Swimming Home romance 2/1/18
✔One Cup Of Flour Two Cups Of Murder own 2/1/18
✔Death of a Crafty Knitter bought 2/2/18
✔Case Histories 2017 2/3/18
✔Silas Marner 2016 2/4/18

Debra-
✔ The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare- Humor 1/28/18
✔ Finding Cinderella-contemporary 1/28/18
✔Outside- series 2/2/18
✔The Short Life of Sparrows- fantasy 2/1/18
✔Dying to Forget- Have 1/29/18
✔Thaw- horror 2/3/18
✔We Need to Talk About Kevin-book-club 1/30/18
✔Mother Night- germany 2/4/18
✔Heart of Darkness- fiction 1/30/18
✔Snowflower and the Secret Fan- asia 2/3/18
✔Olive Branches Don't Grow On Trees stand-alone 1/30/18
✔Jackie Four Currently-reading 1/30/18
✔On a Sea So Cold & Still: The Titanic-A Centennial Reader United- Kingdom 2/4/18
✔Baking is Murder3-stars 2/4/18

Emily
✔Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil gothic 2/1/18
✔Along the Infinite Sea library 2/3/18
✔Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda reviewed 2/3/18
✔Murder on the Orient Express 2018 2/4/18

Emm
✔Dark Matter- ARC 1/30/18
✔Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives- North America 2/1/18
✔Bull- mythology 2/4/18

Ira
✔Age of Swords- to- buy 1/29/18
✔The Return Spain 1/31/18
✔Small Favor Urban-Fantasy 2/1/18
✔Beneath the Sugar Sky 2018- Reading- Challenge 2/1/18
✔My Brilliant Friend Italy 2/2/18

Jill
✔The Distant Hours- audiobook 1/30/18
✔Behold the Dreamers- africa 2/1/18
✔What We Saw at Night- want 2/3/18
✔The Girl Who Played with Fire- Europe 1/28/18

Jillian
✔The Two Towers- sci fi 1/29/18
✔Throne of Jade- china 1/30/18
✔Journey to the Center of the Earth- France 2/2/18
✔A Sudden Light ghost-story 2/4/18
✔Allegiance maybe 2/4/18

Kathy Jo
✔Esperanza Rising- mexico 1/29/18
✔The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero- non fiction 1/30/18
✔Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology memoir 1/31/18
✔Into the Wild adventure 2/3/18

Samantha
✔ Something Rotten- favorite-authors 1/28/18
✔A Criminal Defense legal-thriller 2/4/18
✔Twist of Faith Favorite 1/28/18
✔Wedded to the Warriors 1-star 2/4/18

Stephanie
✔Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI- western 1/31/18
✔Far from the Tree tbr 2/3/18

Tracy
✔Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest true crime 2/3/18
✔Dark Places mystery 2/3/18
✔Milk and Honey- poetry 2/4/18

Veronica
✔The Maze Runner abandoned 2/2/18

Jody
✔Dracula did-not-finish 1/31/18
✔Born a Crime: Stories From a South AfricanChildhood biography 2/1/18
✔The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 4-stars 2/3/18

[Debra]

ok finished The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare shelved for United Kingdom on to the next

Finding Cinderella

[Jillian]

Tracy, that works too and the list looks great. I figure we might have to shuffle stuff around depending what books get finished. I also add my three books to the spreadsheet.

[Tracy]

Now we just have to read ... a lot. LOL. I've gotten nothing done so far hoping to dig in now.

[Tracy]

Debra wrote: "ok finished The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare shelved for United Kingdom on to the next

Finding Cinderella"


I changed the category to Humor- on the top 100, there is UK, but not United Kingdom. It has to be an exact match.

[Michelle]

I'm working hard on finishing Dark Matter. I'm going to try and push to read it all today.

[Stephanie]

I am currently reading Turtles All the Way Down and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, both of which I have more than 125 pages left. After these two, I am not sure which direction I am heading.

My shelf names are so completely personal--I use YA instead of Young Adult; Adult Fiction instead of Fiction and such. I have Audiobooks not Audiobook. I do have Mystery, the years, Romance, Fantasy, and Graphic Novel.

[Tracy]

Stephanie wrote: "I am currently reading Turtles All the Way Down and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, both of which I have more than 125 pages ..."

we'll figure out what shelves to fit them in. It's not your personal shelf names we're using, its the top 100 shelves for the book.
If you go to the books page, there is a list of top shelves.

I'm kind of jealous of what you're reading right now. Great choices. Hope you're enjoying them :-)

[Jody]

Believe it or not, Dracula doesn't have 'gothic' as one of the Top 100 shelves. 😐 I'm sure it will fit somewhere else though!

[Debra]

finished Finding Cinderella this was a good book and short started it this morning and was a very quick read.

[Michelle]

Like Tracy said, Stephanie, we're using the top 100 most popular shelves for a book. these are the top 100 shelves for Turtles All the Way Down, for example. On the right side of the page under genres you should see a link for "top shelves" when you pull up the book you're reading on Goodreads. :D

[Debra]

Tracy wrote: "Debra wrote: "ok finished The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare shelved for United Kingdom on to the next

Finding Cinderella"


I changed the category to Humor- on..."

Thats fine with me

[Tracy]

Jody wrote: "Believe it or not, Dracula doesn't have 'gothic' as one of the Top 100 shelves. 😐 I'm sure it will fit somewhere else though!"


Could've sworn I saw it in there.... will have to investigate. we could always use non fiction LMAO😂

Just kidding

[Tracy]

Debra wrote: "finished Finding Cinderella this was a good book and short started it this morning and was a very quick read."

Got it!

[Tracy]

Stephanie wrote: "I am currently reading Turtles All the Way Down and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, both of which I have more than 125 pages ..."

All set.

I put them under wishlist and western.

[Tracy]

Jody wrote: "Believe it or not, Dracula doesn't have 'gothic' as one of the Top 100 shelves. 😐 I'm sure it will fit somewhere else though!"

LOL...it fits under did-not-finish 😂

[Tracy]

shelves we haven't used, in case we need to make switches

must- read
need
wishlist
cover-love
2-star
loved
hated
nook
cyber-punk
epistolary
young-adult
Antarctica
Australia
South-America
Thailand
Malaysia
United-States

[Samantha]

Officially finished Something Rotten.

I should be able to finish Twist of Faith tonight as well, and then I'll pick up Jo Nesbo's The Bat which can be shelved as 'Australia'

[Samantha]

I'm also going to start listening to A Criminal Defense for the 'Legal-Thriller' shelf.

[Jill]

Finished The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Now onto The Distant Hours.

[Jillian]

I just started A Sudden Light by Garth Stein. I am not sure if I will finish it in time but if I do it would work for ghost-story which might be a harder tag to find.

[Samantha]

Finished my second book, Twist of Faith.

[Ira]

Finished reading Age of Swords
Starting on The Return. It takes place during the spanish civil war, so maybe it can be placed under Spain.

[Claire]

Finished Jane Eyre, now reading To Kill a Mockingbird.
Any shelves we haven’t covered yet?

[Tracy]

Good morning blue team!!!!

I have to go into work today so will be updating our list around 4 pm EST.

Ira and Claire I will check on Spain and TKAM for your books, it depends on what categories we have left, but we can shuffle.

Enjoy TKAM Claire. I loved it :-)

[Jody]

I'm almost done with Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood. Man, it's incredible. It will absolutely be in my Top 10 this year. I think I'll be done tomorrow, as I can't stop listening to it (although I had to as my earbuds were hurting my ears 😩).

[Jillian]

I finished The Two Towers/J.R.R. Tolkien 1/29/18

also I don't know how I missed the France tag for
Journey to the Center of the Earth/Jules Verne in case you want to switch the tag for that one.

[Michelle]

I'm nearly done with Dark Matter. Couldn't get it all done yesterday, much as I tried, but I'll definitely have it done today. After that I'll read Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives for the North-America tag.

[Debra]

Finished We Need to Talk About Kevin not a good book in my opinion very boring. only 2 stars in my opinion if that.

started to read Dying to Forget which I should be able to finish today also.

[Jody]

I wasn't the hugest fan of it either, Debra - for once I preferred the movie.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ok, first time here (and I already feel like I'm behind! ah!).

Please confirm that I did this right. I went to the book that I am currently reading, looked at the Top Bookshelves that this book has been placed on, then matched it with bookshelves we have to read (I used the list Tracy posted a few comments up).

So I'm currently reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which can go under Books-I-own, 2017, or 2018 (edit: Also works for Gothic - thanks, Jillian!)

Yea? Is that the correct process?

[Jillian]

Emily- You are doing it right. I also saw that it works for Gothic (that one has to be added back to the open list).

[Jillian]

Jody wrote: "I'm almost done with Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood. Man, it's incredible. It will absolutely be in my Top 10 this year. I think I'll be done tomorrow, as I ca..."

I'm glad to hear that it is so good. It is on my TRL for the spring.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I just went add my book to the spreadsheet, but I'm noticing most people haven't. Are we just updating that one as we finish the book? Or should we be adding books that we are committing to reading? Or should we not be worried about updating it at all?

[Debra]

Finished Dying to Forget will be reading Heart of Darkness next

[Jillian]

I add the 3 books I know I will finish but did not add the book I’m unsure if I will finish.

[Kathy Jo]

Monday evening check-in:
Esperanza Rising is done.
Getting ready to start The Plot to Kill Hitler.

I started an audiobook of Troublemaker by Leah Remini yesterday and should finish it this week. It may work best for "memoir", but also nonfiction, biography, book club, 2018, and to buy.

[Tracy]

Hi all , checking in from the emergency room😩.not sure what time I’m getting out of here but it looks like we have 10 shelves done. Good job!! If I don’t update the list tonight I will definitely get it done tomorrow- looks like I’ll have the day off from work.

[Michelle]

The ER?! Oh no! Are you okay?

[Jillian]

I hope you are ok.

[Tracy]

So its 12am EST. I just got home. I have been having intractable leg pain that has been worsening and today I temporarily lost feeling in my lower leg and foot and was unable to move my toes which scared the hell out of me. Heading off to bed with some pain meds which are making me feel a little pukey. I'm going to try and get into to work for at least a little while tomorrow and go through the posts to update what everyone has read. As for me, I'm useless when it comes to reading right now. Have 2 started , hopefully I can finish them by the end of the week.

[Jody]

Oh no, Tracy, I'm so sorry to hear that. Hoping you are able to get lots of rest and the pain meds start doing their job (and stop making you sick!).

[Claire]

Take care, Tracey.

[Claire]

Finished:
7 dagen

Deon Meyer
Pages: 376 p.
Date read: 30/1/2018
Rating: 4 stars
I have added it to the spreadsheet

[Veronica]

Get well soon Tracy!

[Tracy]

Thank you everyone. I updated the list of books read and added shelves where needed. Keep going !!! We have books that fit into 53 shelves!!!!!!

[Debra]

Tracy,
You have a book listed under my name that Claire read and the book We Need to Talk About Kevin I finished. so may have to update again.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Thanks for keeping up with this Tracy! If you need any help with anything, let me know!