Read-a-Thon #3 - Team 1 Group Discussion

[Katie]

Great idea to put them under spoilers so that multiple people can get to guess!

[Ann]

Thank you all for using spoilers. I like to play too.

[Ann]

I went thru all 330 of (view spoiler)[ books made into movies (hide spoiler)] and could not find the last one. Dang it.

[Traci]

Just finished and put it in the red cover slot. It actually could have been child/elderly character too. We can get square 4 uncovered!

[Traci]

I found the last board much easier because I had read most of them (or they were on my TBR). I only got the first one this time around! Looking at your spoilers, sure enough, haven't looked at these books before!

[Traci]

Oh, and also, we only need one more book for square 24!

[Pam]

Greetings Team!

To help solve the last square on the bottom, we need #23 and/or 24, which is 1 more book finished and our 2 last members to participate in the 2019 voting process. (We are not going to count Heather since she hasn't checked in all week.) I know with one or two more squares filled in, we will get it!

[Ira]

Hi team. I just finished reading Ready Player One that is 274 pages long

[Katie]

I just finished Dracula.

[Pam]

Katie - Looks like 24 can be uncovered now! So close to solving the puzzle!

[Chinook]

I updated that I’ve participated in the voting process.

[Vanessa]

I found out the last book, it is (view spoiler)["As I Lay Dying", and this have a movie (hide spoiler)]

[Katie]

I've updated the game boards in message 3. That includes completing all the tasks on board 1, since one of our team members hasn't been with us.

For the second board, you guys did great at guessing the covers & finding a link between all of the books. And it wasn't even the link we were thinking of. Feel free to try to figure out the other link if you like. I've added a hint for the second board if you want it.

HINT: (view spoiler)[The link between books on board 2 has to do with the authors. (hide spoiler)]

[Pam]

Vanessa wrote: "I found out the last book, it is [spoilers removed]"

I would have never guessed since I've never seen that cover. But, I was thinking of one of the authors that is listed as an influence for this author. (view spoiler)[ I had the right river (Mississippi) just didn't know the book. (hide spoiler)] Good job Vanessa! Have you got the connection?

[Pam]

Katie wrote: "I've updated the game boards in message 3. That includes completing all the tasks on board 1, since one of our team members hasn't been with us.

You guys did great at guessing the covers & finding..."

Is your hint for the first or second board?

[Katie]

It's for the second board. I just went & updated my post.

[Pam]

I've got a second connection! Probably not what you are looking for but it is a similarity. (view spoiler)[ All of the authors are well known as novelists but also wrote short stories! (hide spoiler)]

[Katie]

Ooh, another great connection. Still different from what we were thinking. Keep the ideas coming; I'm loving it.

[Erika]

I forgot to say that yesterday I participated in the voting process. I voted and seconded a book for the next mini poll...can’t remember what it was called! Also I’m still working on my book for a tree on the cover. Struggling with it because I’ve been busy!

[Pam]

This is my last guess on the connection and I think it is the right one! (view spoiler)[ All authors were born in September: Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, Stephen King, William Faulkner, H G Wells, and F Scott Fitzgerald! (hide spoiler)]

[Pam]

Katie - Can you uncover #23 please?

[Pam]

Ann wrote: "I went thru all 330 of [spoilers removed] and could not find the last one. Dang it."

But it was! (view spoiler)[ 2013 movie (hide spoiler)]

[Johanne]

My reading hasn´t been that great. Yesterday I attended a social event, today and tomorrow I´m working. But I will try to read tonight and finish the book for child/ elderly character. It´s about a 12-year old girl and her 92-year old great grandfather, so it fits perfectly.

[dalex]

Good morning team! I apologize that I haven't checked in for a couple days. It was a long crazy stressful week. :/

I'd hoped to have a good bit of reading time this weekend but.....plans changed. Today we're going out for breakfast and then we'll be spending several hours at the city-wide yard sales. (This used to be an annual tradition with my sister-in-law but we haven't gone for the last few years. So when she called me yesterday to ask if we could go, how could I say no?) And then tomorrow we're having about 20 people over for a cookout, which was a last minute impulse thing, but I'm certain it will be a blast. And on Monday I have to go visit my mother-in-law who was admitted to hospital this week (and that is a 4-hour roundtrip drive). So, yeah, not a lot of reading hours in there.

Hope everyone on the team is getting lots of books read and having a ton of fun with the challenge!

[Katie]

Pam, you got it! That was exactly the connection we had in mind. Great job. (view spoiler)[I thought it was a hard one! I don't think I would've gotten it myself. (hide spoiler)]

[Ann]

Pam wrote: "Ann wrote: "I went thru all 330 of [spoilers removed] and could not find the last one. Dang it."

But it was! [spoilers removed]" still can't find it

[Chinook]

I finished Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. Are there any prompts left to fill at all?

[Ann]

I finished a book but I don't think
it matters anymore

[Katie]

Hey, we can still see how many books we finish total as a group!

[Johanne]

I think the elderly/ child character still needs to be filled.

[Johanne]

... and I'm reading one for that, just if some of your other books fit we can pr them there.

[Pam]

Is everyone adding their own books? If you can’t access the spreadsheet just state your total books read and I’ll update it for you.

I took yesterday off from reading but am back on it today, reading my last book Ostland, a legal thriller set in Germany in 1941 and 1959 (dual timeline), for the ATY challenge! Hope I can finish it by Monday! Have a great weekend everyone!

[Traci]

I realized after I started reading it that my red cover also fits the childhood/elderly prompt if we have a different red cover, but we have plenty of time to fill that task at the rate we're all reading! I'm trying to decide if I'm going to try and read like crazy and go for a blackout or just chill out. I have a problem with goals when it comes to reading!

[Vanessa]

Hi team!
I still can't finish my books that I'm reading.
I saw that only the tasks 7,8 and 17 are missing for the complete board :) .

[Johanne]

Hi all!
I finished Dallas København that has a child as the main character, and is also about her great-grandfather, so it counts as #8 a child/ elderly character. It also fills a category in my ATY (place in title). I updated the spreadsheet.

[Pam]

Johanne - Great!
*Katie-Will you pls uncover #8?

[Pam]

Katie - Can you pls uncover 4, 8, and 23? Thanks!

[Chinook]

The Magician's NephewI finished

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I'm updating the second board in the main topic :)

[Katie]

I just updated the board in message 3.

dalex & Erika, if you can share your favorite book to movie adaptation, and if someone can do the Infinite Book Challenge game I just posted, we'll be able to clear board 2.

[Pam]

Katei- I completed the Infinite Book Challenge so you can uncover #17. Thanks!

[Erika]

I totally forgot to list that one, sorry!! It’s probably cliche but I’d say Harry Potter is my favorite book to movie adaptation.

[Johanne]

Hi all.
Thanks for a great read-a-thon - my very first!
Glad I joined a team; even though it wasn´t my greatest reading week, due to being busy, it was very motivating to be on the team and see all we accomplished together.
I updated the spreadsheet with yesterday´s reading :)

[Vanessa]

Hi team!
Thanks for all, I really enjoyed to participate with the team.

[Pam]

My first time participating, too! It was a lot of fun!