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

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

Caraval I am reading at the moment is a library book so that could cover that prompt for board 2 if needed :)

[Chrissy]

Laura, can we apply books we finished before the second board was posted, but during the readathon to the new categories?

If we can, then I read Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too in one sitting on Sunday, so it could count for either that square and/or for graphic novel.

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My pages read for Pompeii was 370.

I also read 200 pages of Night Music: Nocturnes Volume Two.

Total: 570 pages

[Chrissy]

Where can I find an easy list for "reject prompts"? I am about to finish Provenance, and it seems like I should be able to fit it in somewhere!

[Tracy]

Chrissy wrote: "Laura, can we apply books we finished before the second board was posted, but during the readathon to the new categories?

If we can, then I read [book:Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too|3249..."

This could count for both because I think that the one sitting prompt is available for an overlap.

For the rejects, there is a thread for last years rejects :
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sarah]

Finished The Hunchback of Notre-Dame today. Works for author born before 1950 if we still haven't done that one. 229 pages read for me.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Chrissy, yes, that’s perfectly fine.

I’m on mobile but there is a thread for this year’s rejects also. I can post it once I’m on my computer later.

[Sarah]

Just realised I never posted my book rec. I think I'll go with The Lies of Locke Lamora. It was my favourite book that I read last year.

[Bryony]

Hi team, I’m so sorry not being around the last day, unfortunately I’ve been ill.

I’ve just updated the second post in the thread so now there should be:
- board one updated with all the squares we’ve completed
- tasks left on board one
- board two ready to be updated once we complete a square
- list of all the tasks for board two

If I’ve missed any completed squares please say and I’ll get the board updated. And sorry again to have been missing in the middle of the readathon!

[Bryony]

Chrissy - here’s the list of rejected prompts for this year so far: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Bryony]

And, I can definitely contribute three books to the children’s books / picture books task. My little one loves to read so I probably read at least fifteen books a day!

Three we’ve read today are:
Slinky Malinki by Lynley Dodd
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

[Tracy]

Just read 3 children books with my daughters (they were all towards our ATY Picture Book challenge, so you can count me for my 2nd ATY book).

Island: A Story of the Galápagos
What Do You Do with a Problem?
and
Baby Dolphin's First Swim

Total pages: 111

[Sarah]

Bryony wrote: "Hi team, I’m so sorry not being around the last day, unfortunately I’ve been ill.

I’ve just updated the second post in the thread so now there should be:
- board one updated with all the squares ..."

Hope you're feeling better Bryony. You can reveal number 7 on the 1st board. I posted just before you so you might have missed it :)

[Chrissy]

Bryony wrote: "Hi team, I’m so sorry not being around the last day, unfortunately I’ve been ill.

I’ve just updated the second post in the thread so now there should be:
- board one updated with all the squares ..."

Bryony,
Hope you are feeling better!
We just completed squares 3 and 7 on the first board, and 1, 16, and 21 on the second.

[Tracy]

welcome back Bryony!!!! Hope you're feeling better.
Square 17 on board 1 is completed (Games Saturday through Tuesday)

[Bryony]

Thanks everyone. :-)

Both boards are now updated - 3, 7 and 17 on the first board and 1, 16 and 21 on the second are revealed.

[Tracy]

Oh another book/movie recommendation....

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is playing now on Netflix. I enjoyed it so much I watched it three times last week!

Hannah, Loved the LOTR movies! The books, those were a struggle for me. I had a thing for Legolas in the movies, I don't know why lol.

[Chrissy]

I finished my audiobook on the way home from work, Provenance, for the AtY challenge and added it as a "reject prompt" so square 5 on the second card can be uncovered.

My next audiobook is The Power, but I won't finish it by Monday. It will still add to my audiobook hours, though.

[Peter]

Chrissy wrote: "I finished my audiobook on the way home from work, Provenance"

How was Provenance? I've read two of the "Imperial Radch" series and have the third, Ancillary Mercy, on my list this year. I've loved Ann Leckie so far, and Provenance is on my list to get to sooner than later. I'm interested in what you thought about it and if you've read any of her Ancillary books how it compares.

Also, I'm fairly certain book 1 on grid 2 is (view spoiler)[ Paper Towns (hide spoiler)]

I'm also going to hazard a guess that the theme is going to have something to do with (view spoiler)[locations (hide spoiler)]

For a book to movie adaptation... I really like The Princess Bride. It's one of the few times I think the movie did it better.

[Tracy]

Peter wrote: "Also, I'm fairly certain book 1 on grid 2 is (view spoiler)"

Definitely agree with book #1

[Chrissy]

Peter wrote: "Chrissy wrote: "I finished my audiobook on the way home from work, Provenance"

How was Provenance? I've read two of the "Imperial Radch" series and have the third, [book:Ancillary ..."

I liked it - it is in the same universe as the Ancillary series and briefly references events there, but focuses on the human diaspora and the Geck, rather than the Radch. (not sure I spelled those right, since I was listening.) A "smaller" story, but interesting.

[Tracy]

Read 240 pages today ( in addition to my children book post # 119)

Finished The Voyage to Magical North which can be used for a book with children characters prompt.

Total pages to date : 642
Books read : 5 ( 1 plus 4 children's)
ATY books read : 2 ( max )
Audio hours to date : 5

[Rachel]

Only 87 pages today. Still making my way through Dreams of Gods & Monsters, much slower than I would have liked.

[Chrissy]

One more square completed: #8 on the second card.

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

Almost finished Caraval (a book borrowed from the library + ATY book)
My next planned read is Elizabeth is Missing (a book with a red cover + ATY book)

[Veronica]

I read 65 pages plus one more hour of audiobook.

I have played all the games so far.
My book recommendation is The Hate U Give. Such a well- written book that handles a current issue superbly (police shooting innocent people) without getting preachy or anything.

[Bryony]

Board two is now updated with square 8 revealed.

I can see we only need a book recommendation from Christine to complete that task for board one. Christine, I can see you haven’t posted here for a few days so I’m not sure if you’re still able to participate in the team game. If you see this please could you add your recommendation. Thank you!

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Bryony wrote: "Board two is now updated with square 8 revealed.

I can see we only need a book recommendation from Christine to complete that task for board one. Christine, I can see you haven’t posted here for a..."

I think Christine is having a few problems navigating Goodreads. She posted this in the thread for group 2 - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....

I did reply to her with a link to our thread but she doesn't appear to have been back to the thread.

[Bryony]

Thanks Lori! I’ll see if Christine’s profile is set up to accept messages so I can send her a link to our thread

[Christine]

Hi guys so sorry I'm late I recommend BORN EVIL by Julia Derek... what else can I do? I am new to this game so I don't know what board we are on... can anyone help me get situated?

[Christine]

On board One I have listened to 5 hours of audio book Pond Scum by Michael Lilly for number 15

[Tracy]

Christine wrote: "On board One I have listened to 5 hours of audio book Pond Scum by Michael Lilly for number 15"

welcome Christine!! You found us :-)

Chrissy posted our spreadsheet in message #26 here, so you can see what "task" are open. We are working on both boards.

Completed The Halfway check in and also the recommendations thread, whichever counts for todays game.

Chrissy, thanks so much for all the hard work you're doing on the spreadsheet :-)

I have a few possibilities I can work on for categories that aren't already filled :

Everything, Everything for romance
Little Fires Everywhere for trees on the cover
When Breath Becomes Air for non fiction
still have for beautiful cover ( I think so anyways)
F-A-L-L in the title???? Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine!!!

if anyone has input I just keep stacking up books on the table so at this point I can't figure out what to pick up next lol

[Chrissy]

Tracy,
I think F-A-L-L might be a hard one to fill, so maybe start there after you've finished whatever you are currently reading?

Christine,
Welcome! If you are able to, tell us about a poem you find, and tell us your favorite movie adaptation of a book. And just keep reading and checking in here to update us with your pages, hours of audio, and completed books.

[Tracy]

Chrissy wrote: "Tracy,
I think F-A-L-L might be a hard one to fill, so maybe start there after you've finished whatever you are currently reading?"

Agreed, I had to go almost all the way to the bottom of my ATY challenge list to find that one... Dropping the kiddos off at 2, then coming home to some peace and quiet and 2 days worth of reading uninterrupted.

I'll finish up Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital for published in September and then read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine for the F-A-L-L prompt.

[Veronica]

I have about 85 pages left in Lab Girl which will work for a plant on the cover, a non- fiction, book or borrowed from the library. I should be finished with it today.

[Tracy]

Veronica wrote: "I have about 85 pages left in Lab Girl which will work for a plant on the cover, a non- fiction, book or borrowed from the library. I should be finished with it today."

Oh, I would throw that in the plant on the cover category. Is it good? Its been on my TBR forever, but my TBR is so huge that I can never get around to all of the books :/

[Chrissy]

Square 2 can get filled in!

[Christine]

Do we need anything else? Umm I read a poem by Lord Byron "do not go quietly into that goodnight" I have loved that one since I read it in high school...

[Sarah]

Currently reading Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror. It has trees on the cover + child protagonist but I think they've both been taken.

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

Caraval finished and it was amazing!

Total pages read so far: 752
Audiobook so far: 30 minutes
Number of completed books: 2

[Bryony]

I’ve just updated board one so square 2 is revealed. Thanks for keeping track of it all Chrissy!

[Chrissy]

Christine wrote: "Do we need anything else? Umm I read a poem by Lord Byron "do not go quietly into that goodnight" I have loved that one since I read it in high school..."

Pretty sure that’s Dylan Thomas? See if you can find something new online maybe, in the spirit of the prompt.

[Chrissy]

Lisa wrote: "Caraval finished and it was amazing!"

Do you want to slot that I for something? Maybe beautiful cover?

[Tracy]

Chrissy wrote: "Christine wrote: "Do we need anything else? Umm I read a poem by Lord Byron "do not go quietly into that goodnight" I have loved that one since I read it in high school..."

Pretty sure that’s Dyla..."

Definitely Dylan Thomas....I just watched the movie Dangerous minds lol, they picked the poem apart along with the lyrics for "hey Mr Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan.

Also Christine is back over in group 4? She listened to 2 hours of audio

[Chrissy]

Bryony, we just go to 5000 pages to check off square 6!

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I finished The Silent Companions

317 pages
I read it for the ATY 2018 gothic task.

My favourite book to movie adaptation is To Kill a Mockingbird. Very faithful, truly captures the spirit of the book and Gregory Peck was perfect as Atticus.

[Tracy]

Lori wrote: "I finished The Silent Companions

317 pages
I read it for the ATY 2018 gothic task.

My favourite book to movie adaptation is To Kill a Mockingbird. Very faithful, truly captures th..."

Oh good one!! I read it for the first time last year and then immediately watched the movie. Great adaptation! I loved it.

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

I borrowed Caraval from the library so could be used for that prompt? Or any other that needs to be completed that it fits really x

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

My book to movie adaptation has to be Watership Down

[Sarah]

My book to film rec is Little Women. It's the only one I can think of where I love the book and the film equally