Read-a-Thon #2 - Green Team's Battleship Strategy Topic

[Edie]

Laura wrote: "Hello Green Team! I hope you guys are as excited about this challenge as I am. They're predicting a snow storm this weekend in Southern Ohio and next week is spring break. So it's a great week for ..."
So where do I find the "getting to know you" Kick-off questionnaire, etc.? I want to participate... and I understand the book tasks, but where are these other items?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Debra, your read got us our second guess for started before the read-a-thon (6 books total now).

So now we have another team guess available.

Tammy, since it is 96 pages I'm going to count it as a novella. So it will be pages read but not a book task. We're very ahead in guesses so I think we're still in good shape overall. As far as Olive Kitteridge, we're allowed to earn more than one guess with the 'started before read-a-thon' so that is our 7th book for that task.

Edie, if you click the 'Read-a-Thons' link at the top of this page then you will be taken to the general folder. You should be able to see them there.

[Edie]

Laura wrote: "Debra, your read got us our second guess for started before the read-a-thon (6 books total now).

So now we have another team guess available.

Tammy, since it is 96 pages I'm going to count it a..."

Laura wrote: "Debra, your read got us our second guess for started before the read-a-thon (6 books total now).

So now we have another team guess available.

Tammy, since it is 96 pages I'm going to count it a..."


Thanks. Found them and have completed "Kickoff" and "Getting to Know you"

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Samantha mentioned H8 earlier... can we use that for one of our group guesses?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Just finished As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner for 384 pages! It was written by a woman and is historical fiction.

[Susan]

I also completed the Recommendations task

[Jennifer]

Finished The Great Gatsby which counts for book started before readathon and 120 pages.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Just as a heads up, I am about to head out to an all-day conference (I'm taking 9 middle schoolers so wish me luck!). I am going to update the tasks and map for any guesses when I return this evening.

Happy reading everyone! :)

[Lieke]

I did:
- Kick-off
- Getting to Know You
- Bookish A-Z
- Recommend a Good One!

[Tammy]

I have participated in:
- Kick-off
- Bingo
- Getting to Know You
- Bookish A-Z
- Recommend a Good One!
- Progress Reports

[Jennifer]

Listened to over 2 hrs of Crime and Punishment so that completes my 5 hours of audiobook.

[Edie]

I have completed Bookish A-Z and recommendations.

Finished a book started before the Readathon. The Importance of Being Seven. It can count for "Read a book in a Series". 257 pages were read AFTER the start of the Readathon. The book is 311 pages long.

[Lieke]

Today I read As in tas, it can count for published outside the 5 major publishers.

It brings my page total to 336 pages.

[Perri]

Finished my first book : The Supernatural Enhancements It's an ATM book , I read for Gothic challenge. Do I choose another not lightning category?

353 pages.

I also recommended it
Laura, I hope you had a fun, but not too tiring day!

[Tammy]

Finished book #2 (doesn't include novellas completed over weekend or the book started before the challenge) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It could be classified as science fiction or dystopian. It's over 10 years old, on my ATY List, and it is a one word title. Fit it in wherever you can!
232 Pages For The Day (This puts me over the 600 per Person Limit)

[Samantha]

I listened to 2 and a half hours of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things and read the rest of Just Between Us.

Total Audiobook time 5.5 hours
Total pages read 376

Just Between Us is a ATY book, written by a female, and its a mystery.

[Lieke]

I did the Candy Book Tag.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I did the candy book tag as well!

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

H8 - Hit! The first 3-block ship has been sunk.

Emily, your book earned us a guess for female author.

Emily, you also earned your own guess for the historical fiction.

We earned another team guess for Edie's book ('started before the read-a-thon. Edie, I misunderstood the percentage rule. We can't books started before the read-a-thon, no matter the percentage, except for the 'started before the read-a-thon' task and page count.

Perri, yes, you can choose a non-lightning category which will earn you 1 guess.

We earned a team guess for Tammy's book, as it was our 5th for the ATY challenge. Tammy, you also earn your own guess.

The team now has four available guesses.

Samantha, you earned 1 guess for the mystery.

[Lieke]

Can we do K3 for one of the group guesses?

Not sure if you missed mine or are still going through the posts but I think I earned a guess (post 113). I'll take J1.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'll second K3 and use F12 for my personal guess!

[Debra]

did the candy tag

[Tammy]

I did Candy Tag, too!

I'll take L11 for my guess.

[Jennifer]

Completed candy tag

[Perri]

Did the Candy Tag and I'll add the horror genre for Supernatural Enhancements

[Samantha]

I will take 1i has my guess. Thanks!

[Susan]

Finished my first book- Bonjour tristesse by Francoise Sagan.

I read 113 of the 132 pages during the read-a-thon.

[Debra]

I listened to 2.5 hours of Under the Dome audiobook

finished reading for the snow cover book it also works for the mystery prompt. 207 pages read

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I'm sorry, Lieke, I added your guess to the summary on page 1 but forgot to actually comment it.

K3, J1, F12, L11 I1 are all misses.

Perri, you have 1 guess.

Susan, I added your pages to the total and the book is 1 of 3 for our next round for 'started before the read-a-thon'.

Samantha, you still have 1 guess available and the team has 3 guesses.

[Susan]

Bonjour tristesse may count for a summer book cover.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Susan, unfortunately we can't count it for any additional tasks since you didn't read the entire thing during the read-a-thon.

[Debra]

Finished AshesThis book is a ATY book used it for week 30 of the challenge can use it where we need to.

[Lieke]

Laura wrote: "I'm sorry, Lieke, I added your guess to the summary on page 1 but forgot to actually comment it. "

No problem :)

Can we do G10 as a team guess?

[Debra]

I believe with my reading Murder in winter and ashes this would complete my read 3 books prompt

[Tammy]

Debra wrote: "I believe with my reading Murder in winter and ashes this would complete my read 3 books prompt"

Way to go, Debra.

[Debra]

Is there a page minimum on books to read for the prompts?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I believe 125 was stated at some point. There's some ambiguity in what is typically considered a novella but if it's technically a novella then it would count for the other prompt and not the book prompts.

So I counted Ashes for the novella prompt and added it to the page total. Murder in Winter brought your total to 2 books for the 3 books task. You still earned 1 guess for Murder's snowy cover.

G10 is a miss.

Only 20 pages away from 4,000!

[Edie]

Finished The Night Child

227 pages all read during readathon which should put us over the top on pages read!

Could count for "woman author" or book "set in winter". It also is an ATY prompt for me (debut book).

Can we guess B11 for a team guess?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm good with B11. Can we also use a team guess for C1?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Edie, You earned a guess for set in winter. We also earned two team guesses for making it over the 4,000 pages and female author.

Using B11, that leaves us with 3 team guesses remaining.

C1 and B11 are both misses.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

G6 for a team guess?

[Perri]

How about H3?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I finished The Whsipering Room so that's one more for 'started before the read-a-thon and 369 pages.

I'm starting The Stars Are Fire tomorrow and will be reading Dawn next (only 89 pages)

G6 is a miss

H3 is a hit!

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I've decided to get rid of the text-only board because it is hard to read and difficult for me correctly place markers.

I will update the graphic map every time now.

[Tammy]

Completed 3rd and 4th novels started after challenge today:
The Fifth Witness can fit as mystery/thriller, series (the Lincoln Lawyer series), and it is one of my ATY books. 421 Pages

Interpreter of Maladies This fits female author, author is a POC, Rating between 4 - 4.3, there is a flower on the cover, and the version I have is violet in color. 209 Pages

[Veronica]

Ugh, this week had been a lot more crazy than expected and I have not had much reading time. Hopefully the rest of the week is better.
So far, I have read 56 pages of A Man Called Ove. I started it prior to the start of the readathon, so can only count the pages read.

[Samantha]

Well I don't have much to report in the way of reading today, I started Hausfrau and got about 15 pages in before getting distracted. I am going to try again tomorrow it is set in Switzerland so would be good for a guess. I wont waste too much time on it so might DNF at and start something I think I will enjoy more.

On a more fun note I have a guess and I would like to choose H4.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

We earned one more team guess since Tammy's reads fulfill the 'Read 3 books' task.

Tammy, you've earned you're own guess for The Fifth Witness (series). Unfortunately you're at the 2-book limit for ATY so we can't count it for that.

The team also earned a guess for Interpreter of Maladies and for POC author. We have to choose female or POC and I chose POC since that gives us the 2 we need for a guess. Tammy, you also earned your own guess for flower on the cover.

Veronica and Samantha, I'm going to hold off on adding your pages until you finish the books or decide to not finish. Just so it is less confusing.

H4 is a miss.

We now have 4 team guesses.

[Jennifer]

How about I3 for a team guess?

[Tammy]

I support Jennifer's Choice for I3 as a team guess. I'll hold off on my two guesses to see if we have some success on the group guess. I'll back whatever the team picks for us!