Read-a-thon #3 - Team 4 Group Discussion

[Hilde]

Good morning team! I just looked at the spreadsheet as well, and my book count should be two. And way to go folks, we have almost checked off everything!!

[Hilde]

Also, I think we might be missing a prompt in the spreadsheet, but I could have just overlooked it as well. It's #13. Read 10 picture or children’s books (3 per member).

[Jody]

Happy weekend, team!

I'm going to read Dog Man today, which will count for graphic novel/comic. I bought it for my girl when we were in the US, and she loved it so much she read the next two in the series in two days at her desk in the kleine pause (little break) at school. A friend's buying her the next two for her birthday, which I haven't told her about - she will be rapt! She wants me to read it too, so I can hardly say no, right?

I'll knock off three picture books today too.

Also - I just voted in the 10th poll, so you can mark me off as participating in the list-making process.

[Hilde]

Btw, Emily, Jody and Tammy; after hearing about your terrific decluttering skills, you are all more than welcome to come to Norway to help with mine, lol.

The boxes are flying here, and I'm swearing and sweating bullocks as we speak !! 😳🤣

[Jody]

Glide, I’d come up there in a heartbeat. Norway is very close to the top of my destination list!

[Jody]

Hilde ... autocorrect got me and I can’t edit in the app!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ok spreadsheet is updated. I was DEFINITELY missing that #13 prompt 🙈 so thanks for catching that, Hilde.

This week has been a trainwreck, but it's Saturday and I've got rainy weather on the schedule, and my husband has a new video game to play, so it is prime reading weather! Hoping to knock out at least 2-3 books this weekend and start September off on a better foot than August ended.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Just so it isn't overlooked, I participated in the list making process considering I moderate it :P But I also voted.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I already checked you off Laura haha!

Also, we can reveal #24 on the first board!

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

The board is updated. We finished board 1! :)

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I should have a really solid reading day finally today. I'm hoping I can finish Us Against You and move on to a new book.

[Jody]

I’ve finished Dog Man, so we can check that off - graphic novel/comic. It was cute!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Great Jody! Laura, we can check off #15 (finished those audiobook prompts!) and #16.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Updating now :)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Oh! #19 and #12 should also be checked off. Not sure if I missed posting that.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I actually just saw that on the spreadsheet and was double checking. Updating again!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I finished another book! It helps that A Visit from the Goon Squad had 50 pages of powerpoint slides in there...

[Jody]

292 pages from me today.

[Hilde]

Jody wrote: "Glide, I’d come up there in a heartbeat. Norway is very close to the top of my destination list!"

I might be a tiiiny bit biased, but it's well worth a visit. The northern and western part are especially beautiful:) I love traveling, so many nive places to see!

[Hilde]

I have been decluttering all day, and have made quite a progress. Just landed on the coach, and will pick up a movie or something before I call it the night.

I found an audio of Winnie the Pooh: A. A. Milne's Pooh Classics, Volume 1 at Libby, so I started listening to that while packing, it is so sweet and entertaining:) Have some stories left, as I had to switch to music at some point to get going, but I will finish it tomorrow. It can count to towards the children book and page count if still needed. I haven't heard the stories in English before, and in my head Winnie-the-pooh is still 'Ole Brum', lol.

[Liz]

Zero pages yesterday. ZERO! 😩😂 But our family did spend a wonderful day at the lake with other homeschool families, & we celebrated my daughter’s birthday with friends. I think that’s a pretty good trade off. 🙂 I’m anxious to get back to reading today though! 🙌🏻

[Jody]

I hope your daughter had a wonderful birthday! How old is she? Mine just turned nine, and I’m wondering where the time went. 😥

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I finally finished a book!!

Us Against You
I read the entire thing during the read-a-thon so we can count all 448 pages

I'm moving on to The Deep since it's the last book I have to complete to return my current set to the library. It counts for red cover.

[Liz]

Jody, she just turned 7. Time goes by ridiculously fast! I have a 9 & 4 year old boy as well.

[Liz]

Laura, you’ll probably beat me with the red cover. I’m distracted by a different book right now. :)

[Samantha]

I finished Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails bringing my total pages read to 857. This is also a book the the ATY challenge.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I just added the one chapter of my next book to our page count, and we have officially completed all of the page prompts!

[Hilde]

I finished the sweet Winnie the Pooh: A. A. Milne's Pooh Classics, Volume 1, which brings my total books to 3, and 150 more pages. Can count for the children prompt if needed.

Don't think I will get any more books finished for the read-a-thon, but I started The Secret History yesterday, have wanted to read that for a long time. It is a bit of a chunkster, so will probably plug along for a while.

Enjoy your Sunday, everyone!:)

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Board updated for #9.

Don't forget to guess the link between the books!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I still don't know what the books even are haha!

My guess at the link would be (view spoiler)[YA fantasy (hide spoiler)], but that's a shot in the dark since I can really only identify one of the covers.

[Hilde]

Me neither, Emily, haha. I only know two of the covers (view spoiler)[Watership Down and The Fellowship of the Ring (hide spoiler)]. I guess I haven't heard of/read any of the others, so I'm probably not gonna get it even if we receive more hints anyway. Those two that I know are (view spoiler)[1 in series, fantasy and classics (hide spoiler)], so there's a shot in the dark.

[Hilde]

Played the game of the day (Book Scattergories).

[Jody]

Today I finished Dog Man Unleashed and Dark Matter (which counts for red cover, if we still need it).

I also finally finished the decluttering of the toy "stuff", which felt goooood, and made the most amazing whiskey caramel sauce (for pancakes for my ex-husband for Aussie Father's Day). I always feel super chuffed when I have a mega win in the kitchen - I love cooking, and making an "OMG THIS IS INCREDIBLE" anything is the best feeling.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Jody, I'm drooling over the sound of that sauce.... mmm.

Laura, we can clear #4!

[Jody]

It was so good. I'm going to make some vanilla ice cream tomorrow, to give me a good delivery system for the leftovers. 🤣 Winter body, here I come.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

It looks like so far we have correct guesses for books:

(view spoiler)[1. Warm Bodies
2.
3. The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Watership Down
5. Hyperion
6. Shiver (hide spoiler)]

So we only need book 2 (which you just revealed more of) and the connection. Let's go team!

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I read 150 pages of The Deep yesterday. I'm still hoping to finish it today but it looks like we only need the book and page counts at this point.

Samantha, don't forget to share your book to movie adaptation!

[Michelle]

I read 77 pages of Ulysses today. Oh and I also voted on the 10th mini poll so I participated in the list making process.

[Jody]

Michelle! You started it!! I'm scared to ask ... how was it?

[Michelle]

I’m not quite sure what happened in the story but reading the words out loud make them sound like music to my ears! Haha

[Jody]

You’ve motivated me to download it onto Serial Reader. I’ll read the first one tonight!

[Hilde]

Listened to a lot of audio hours today when cleaning, but no more books finished.

Thank you all for a fun week! 😊

[Joan]

I played the game today - infinite book challenge

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Updated!

We can clear #17

[Jody]

I got a good start on my next AtY book today, but no more finished books. It was definitely a successful week for me, and this team was definitely a big factor in that. Thanks everyone!

[Liz]

I completed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

[Liz]

I’m halfway through Magpie Murders, but I don’t think I’ll finish it in time.

[Joan]

I have a little over 100 pages left in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. I'm hoping to finish tonight just to hit my own goals for the read-a-thon. Oh and plus I'm really enjoying it!

[Liz]

Joan, I absolutely loved that book.

[Samantha]

Well the last few days have not been reading days for me :( In any case I really enjoyed reading with you all great team to be on!