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

[Chrissy]

Sorry I was MIA, sleeping in on the West coast! I think I’ve gotten the spreadsheet updated, Tracy is right about 2 more squares.

[Sarah]

I'm currently reading Record of a Spaceborn Few. Has the library book prompt gone? I think that's the only one it would fit into.

[Sarah]

And can anyone make out the word before author on square 18? I can't for the life of me figure out what it says

[Chrissy]

At this point, the book specific squares are all done or nearly done. We just need more books completed, audiobook hours, the daily games, and a few more “everybody” entries.

[Chrissy]

Sarah wrote: "And can anyone make out the word before author on square 18? I can't for the life of me figure out what it says"

Pretty sure it’s bestselling.

[Tracy]

finished the game for today "Character Word Scramble", that was a tough one!!

Still working on the F-A-L-L prompt

I'm reading away but I'm maxed out on all my book contributions. I can still do 2 more hours of audio later, that'll bring me to my 9 hour max.

I will say that just for the purposes of the bingo card, Im reading a few extra today:
from The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury: Celebrated Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud:
Madeline
and
The Snowy Day
and also
The Little Prince
and
The Japanese Tsunami, 2011
And that will black out my Bingo Card.

I'm so excited to read The Little Prince. I have never read it yet, and my daughter grabbed it off the shelf at the library the other day and was very insistent that "We need to read this book"!
Last night as I was reading Everything, Everything I got really intrigued because this little book seems to play a huge part in Maddy's life. I'm interested to read it and see how it parallels what she went through in the story.

This second board is making me crazy, I'm still thinking about #5... I know I've seen it before, also #2 i'm pretty sure is somewhere on my TBR, I just have to look because the titles not coming to mind... no clue on #6??

[Tracy]

Chrissy can you check me off for voting please?

[Sarah]

Chrissy wrote: "Sarah wrote: "And can anyone make out the word before author on square 18? I can't for the life of me figure out what it says"

Pretty sure it’s bestselling."

D'oh! It's so obvious now you've said it!

[Christine]

just finished the autistic brain by temple Grandin non=fiction, 242 pages

[Bryony]

Board two updated. :-) Squares 10 and 20 are now revealed.

I’ve just finished Inspector Chopra and the Million-Dollar Motor Car which could be counted for book with a red cover if we still need to complete that one.

[Bryony]

Just updating my number is books completed and pages read...

Inspector Chopra and the Million-Dollar Motor Car by Vaseem Khan (112 pages)
The Perfect Murder by Peter James (148 pages)
More About Paddington by Michael Bond (154 pages)
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (112 pages)

And, 106 pages of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

So that’s 4 completed books and a page count of 632 pages.

And I’ve participated in the 2019 list making too.

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Listened to 4.5 hours of audiobook.

Book 2 is

[Veronica]

I thought I had posted my poem but maybe not? The poem I read was Sonnet 38 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white,
Slow to world-greetings, quick with its 'Oh, list,'
When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst
I could not wear here, plainer to my sight,
Than that first kiss. The second passed in height
The first, and sought the forehead, and half missed,
Half falling on the hair. O beyond meed!
That was the chrism of love, which love's own crown,
With sanctifying sweetness, did precede.
The third upon my lips was folded down
In perfect, purple state; since when, indeed,
I have been proud and said, 'My love, my own.'

[Veronica]

I've been racking by brain on book to movie adaptations. I think i will recommend Clueless, which is an adaptation of Emma. Its one of my favorite movies and I only found out it was based on the book a few years ago.

[Tracy]

Lori wrote: "Listened to 4.5 hours of audiobook.

Book 2 is "

Awesome Thanks Lori!!

If everyone can jump on and either vote in the polls or contribute to the voting thread discussion we can uncover a bottom square on book #6 and maybe be able to tell what cover it is?

I still have no guess for #5 and no ideas for the theme

[Rachel]

I think the last book on the second board might be

[Tracy]

Rachel wrote: "I think the last book on the second board might be "

Good one Rachel!! I think you're right

Now we need to figure out the theme (view spoiler)[NY times bestsellers ?? (hide spoiler)]

[Veronica]

I voted for the poll!

[Peter]

I haven't voted yet, but I seconded one of the options.

Has anyone been able to figure out book 5 on the second board.... the one with the logs in the river? It's actually driving me crazy. I can't stop thinking about it because I KNOW I've seen it and read the synopsis, but I can't remember what it's called!

[Veronica]

Tracy wrote: "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 tod..."
Sorry I didnt notice this sooner Tracy!
I loved Lab Girl! It was part memoir, part science lesson and the combination works very well. I saw Jody's review and thats what made me read it.

[Christine]

Tracy wrote: "Christine wrote: "Hi Tracy, thanks for the help... yes, I finished Born Evil, Abel's Revenge, Pond Scum and will soon finish the autism book... by noon today eastern time... Pond scum was 9 hours o..."

uh no could you send me the link? I'm reading a 500 page book right now

[Peter]

Ok, for grid two we've got four of them figured out. Anyone have ideas about books 2 or 5?

1 - Paper Towns
2 - ???
3 - Change of Heart
4 - Unaccustomed Earth
5 - ???
6 - The Lucky One

[Tracy]

Peter wrote: "Ok, for grid two we've got four of them figured out. Anyone have ideas about books 2 or 5?


Lori got #2 earlier ...its Olive Kitteridge.

I still can not figure out #5, and I'm going as crazy as you!! I know that I know what this book is....

I threw a guess for the theme in post #227, total stab in the dark

[Tracy]

Christine wrote: "uh no could you send me the link?"

Lori left you the link yesterday in post #180. It is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Peter]

Tracy wrote: "Peter wrote: "Ok, for grid two we've got four of them figured out. Anyone have ideas about books 2 or 5?


Lori got #2 earlier ...its Olive Kitteridge.

I still can not figure out #5..."

Oops, I must have missed that comment.

I think you might be on to something with Bestselling Author. Not all of them are New York Times though, but it looks like they all (I can't tell about book 5) have some sort of "Best Selling Author" comment on the cover.

[Rachel]

Paper Towns, Change of Heart, and The Lucky One were all published in 2008. I wonder if the other three books were as well?

[Peter]

SERENA!!!!!!! omg relief!! lol.

Serena

Rachel, you definitely got to theme right. Bestsellers from 2008. I just spent the last 2 hours pouring over best seller lists, lol. It clicked when I saw your comment. I had only made it back to 2015...so I would have had a ways to go if you hadn't mentioned to 2008 link, lol.

I searched this list to find it - https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...

[Tracy]

Peter wrote: "SERENA!!!!!!! omg relief!! lol.

Serena

Rachel, you definitely got to theme right. Bestsellers from 2008. I just spent the last 2 hours pouring over best..."

GAH!!!!!! I freaking OWN it lmao...... Except I bought this edition because the movie must have just come out and I thought the original cover was ugly.

And 2 hours of list searching, you would have a lot of hours to go Peter, to get back to 2008!! I was looking for a while but my girls were starting to try and kill each each other so I had to abandon ship

[Peter]

Tracy wrote: "GAH!!!!!! I freaking OWN it lmao"

That's funny! lol. I had no idea it had been made into a movie. I might check it out. I had this on my TBR at one point and took it off at some point when I was cleaning it up and trying to cut it down a bit. I just re-added it to my TBR, more because I feel like I need to read it after spending so much time figuring out the cover than anything else.

[Rachel]

I finished off Dreams of Gods & Monsters today, but it doesn't look like that will help in any categories.

I've also been playing the games every day, and I participated in the Wild Discussion.

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

I have voted in the poll :)

[Bryony]

Brilliant work team! You guessed all the books and the theme (view spoiler)[ (published in 2008) (hide spoiler)] correctly. I hope you all enjoyed the game. I can keep updating the boards if you want to carry on completing the tasks to reveal as many squares as you can.

[Tracy]

Bryony wrote: "Brilliant work team! I can keep updating the boards if you want to carry on completing the tasks..."

I think we can get everything done except the audio hours.

I'll have the F-A-L-L prompt done by tomorrow latest and I know that at least 2 of us have finished the Red cover category
Bryony with Inspector Chopra and me with Persepolis and we have a book in progress slotted there already.

So all thats left are the games and recommendations :-)

We Killed It!!!! What a great week, I had so much fun.

[Tracy]

For Board #1 it looks like we can open up Square # 8 ( I read Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, published in September) and also # 15 ( we have a total of 37 hours of audio to date).

If Sarah wants to post a poem, we can uncover # 15 and complete that board :-)

[Tracy]

For Board number 2 - we're almost done actually :-)

We can uncover:
#2- we've done at least 33 books total
#4- we have at least 2 members who have done the "red cover"
#7- Veronica posted her movie adaptation
and
#14- we have 37 hours of audio

In progress and will be done by monday
#12- I'm working on the F-A-L-L prompt and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is pretty entertaining so I'm sure I'll have my nose in this all day
#17- the games will all be done by monday

so that only leaves 2 squares that we may or may not get to:
#15- the audio Hours... we're at 37/45, the max for everyone is 9 hours. I can do 2 more this weekend, driving to my moms, its an hour each way :-)
and
#24 read 40 books...we're at 33?/40. The max for everyone is 8.

I think thats correct but I haven't really read through all of the posts....I know Chrissy works on the board later, she's on the opposite side of the country from me :-)

[Chrissy]

I was busy most of yesterday with guests! I can update the spreadsheet uf needed, but since we have mostly finished and gotten the puzzle solved, do people feel it’s necessary?

I’m impressed with our collective efforts! I was hoping to finish one more book before the end, but given that there still over 300 pages left that is not looking likely.

[Tracy]

Chrissy wrote: "I was busy most of yesterday with guests! I can update the spreadsheet uf needed, but since we have mostly finished and gotten the puzzle solved, do people feel it’s necessary?

I’m impressed with..."

I don't think it's necessary but it might be fun to see the boards completed since we did the work. I am amazed by how much we got done! All but 2 squares on the 2nd board is pretty impressive. I have 2 more books I'm planning on finishing towards my ATY challenge and also to finish up my Bingo card ( I feel like I cheated a little with it lol) . Overall its been a great week and lots of fun!

And Chrissy, thank you for putting in all the hard work with the spreadsheet, I was team lead on our first read-a -thon this year and it was no joke...so much work, it made my head spin most days. You did a great job!!

[Bryony]

Thanks Chrissy for updating the spreadsheet and keeping track of everything. I hope it didn’t take up too much of your reading time!

I’ve just updated both boards with the list of completed squares Tracy posted (thanks Tracy!). There aren’t many categories left to complete now. I should finish at least one more book before the end of the readathon so that would take my total to five. I could probably also fit in another short book to help get out total number of books read towards 40.

[Tracy]

Bryony wrote: "Thanks Chrissy for updating the spreadsheet and keeping track of everything. I hope it didn’t take up too much of your reading time!

I’ve just updated both boards with the list of completed square..."

You're welcome :-)

I'm just sitting here avoiding going to my moms house for the night lol. We're having a family campout and I can't imagine being comfortable right now sleeping in tent on the ground, without any outlet for my heating pads and I'm not lugging my body pillow and Weighted blanket there, I already have to bring the Dog and the crate and the kids. I'll probably end up sleeping inside with my kids ( who have never camped out and will probably get scared) and my brothers 1 month old, who will be crying every few hours to eat. Either way between the indoor situation and the outdoor situation ( taking enough pain meds to sleep outside) I'm not sleeping tonight.

At least I'll finish off the read-a- thon with 10 books. Trying to find something positive....

[Tracy]

Finished the game for the day "scattergories"

[Sarah]

Whoops, thought I'd already poster a poem!

This is what you shall do by Walt Whitman

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

[Tracy]

Listened to one more hour of audio, and will do my 9th hour on the way home from my moms tomorrow. Not sure that it makes a difference but I started , so I’m gonna just keep going ;-)

[Rachel]

Stopping at 190 pages for today. Been feeling very congested and sneezy for the past couple of hours, so I really hope I'm not getting sick! I also played the Scattegories game today.

[Lisa (the.running.bookworm)]

I am unlikely to finish Elizabeth is missing today. Plan was to read non stop yesterday but had a bit of a family crisis. Therefore read nothing in the end yesterday 👎🏻

[Tracy]

Read 70 pages of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine last night. It was a campout of epic proportions with my nieces and nephew and brothers and girls ( in my moms backyard)! I'll try and finish it today, but we have to get ready for school tomorrow so not positive I'll make it to the end.

Rachel, hope you're feeling better soon

Lisa, hope you're family is OK.

[Tracy]

Finished our last read- a - thon game " Infinite Books"

[Tracy]

1 more hour of audio, which is my 9th hour. And I think I might be done... Unless I get any reading in before midnight but now we're in the mad rush to get ready for the first day of school tomorrow.

[Bryony]

Hope last night was okay Tracy, that really doesn’t sound like a fun situation for you. Hope you’re feeling better today, Rachel, and that your family are okay Lisa.

I finished reading Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson yesterday. I’m going to add up my page count this evening after I’ve finished all my reading for the readathon.

Good luck with first day of school prep Tracy! Schools in London started today, I’d almost forgotten until I took my son to the park this afternoon and it was so quiet compared to the last few weeks.

[Sarah]

I'm done for the night at 301 pages

[Tracy]

Bryony wrote: "Hope last night was okay Tracy, that really doesn’t sound like a fun situation for you. "

Bryony, The campout was actually a blast! I have so many nieces and 5 of them were there, plus the oldest ones friend, so with my daughters that was a total of 7 screaming little girls ( ages 6-12) in a tent....they were up until 1:30 am.

I tripled up on my pain meds so i could sleep outside with them and then just didn't take anything but tylenol and some other mild meds until this evening. I got so caught up in sitting and talking away into the night with my brothers and my uncle and nephew that I barely read any Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, only about 81 pages once everyone was asleep, and I also read 25 pages of a chapter book Maggie & Abby's Neverending Pillow Fort to help the kiddos fall asleep...worked like a charm ;-)

Mad rush to get ready for school is done...Everything is organized and ready to go and the kiddos are finally asleep. I have an hour and 15 minutes to try and get as much of my last book done as possible but I'm actually exhausted so I doubt I'll make it through the whole thing. I really am enjoying it though, I'm so curious to find out what Eleanors story is and how all of these characters are going to come together.

I can't believe the summer went by so fast...