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

[Rachel]

Much better today, thanks!

I ended up reading 286 pages today (the rest of If I Could Turn Back Time, and 172 pages of Newtown: An American Tragedy). I'd been hoping to finish Newtown today to count as my non-fiction and give me a Bingo on the individual Bingo cards, but I didn't quite get there. My own fault for procrastinating today, when I literally had the whole day to read.

[Tracy]

Rachel wrote: "Much better today, thanks!

I ended up reading 286 pages today (the rest of If I Could Turn Back Time, and 172 pages of Newtown: An American Tragedy). I'd been hopin..."

Rachel, so glad you're feeling better. You were so hard on yourself in the beginning of the challenge but you really picked up in the end :-)

I noticed that you had started reading Newtown: An American Tragedy. Its coming up on my ATY challenge for "Place in the Title".... I'm both curious/fascinated to read and terrified.... Sandy Hook Elementary School is only about 15 minutes away from where I live, and I drive by it when I go to visit my mother. There is a light post in the middle of the Intersection in front of the old school ( I think I heard that they moved it and built a new one down the street?) that is covered with art and memorials and it just makes me cry every time I drive by it. I will never forget that day. It affected me horribly at work in the hospital, and I was also a new mother which just made me think about the parents suffering. I went home and slept with my daughters and I remember just laying there listening to them breathe and praying that it never hits any closer to home.

[Peter]

I had a few things come up yesterday and didn't get to finish my audio book.... I ended with a total of 8 hours audio and about 300 pages read.

[Rachel]

Tracy wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Much better today, thanks!

I ended up reading 286 pages today (the rest of If I Could Turn Back Time, and 172 pages of Newtown: An American Tragedy)...."

Lol, well I was frustrated that the project I had from work took up way more time than I expected, so I had almost no time to read. The only reason I "picked up" at the end (in reality, back to my normal reading rate) is because I actually had the time.

[Chrissy]

It was fun watching everyone’s progress. Great job team!