Read-a-Thon #4 - Team 4 Group Discussion

[Silvia]

I forgot: 399 pages more for The NIght Circus for my pages count
(It has 502 pages, but I reported 103 before).

I feel sad that we finished with the children books. I borrowed a bunch of picture books from the library and I don't have excuse to read them anymore :P

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Haha Silvia! They can still count as pages/books read, I assume. I'm not sure if there's a page limit on books completed...

[Samantha]

I finished Sadie and Evidence of the Affair for a total of 270 pages.

Both were for the ATY Challenge which I have now finished!

I will start something new today just not sure what yet.

[Silvia]

Emily wrote: "Haha Silvia! They can still count as pages/books read, I assume. I'm not sure if there's a page limit on books completed..."

I don't think they count. I will read them anyway :D I finished with The Night Circus and you were right, it was wonderful !!! I think it fits for the reject option and ATY.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Silvia, I'm so glad you enjoyed The Night Circus. I chose it as my favorite adult fiction read of the year.

And with that, we have finished our first of the book prompts! (And we are one away from finishing the next one as well!)

Laura, we can clear #3, #25, and #37.

[Kathy]

I finished
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

- fits a reject prompt: A book by an author who is from a country different than your own

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Great Kathy! Make sure you give me a page/audio update on that book!

Laura, we can clear #3, #25, #29, and #37.

[Kathy]

80 pages today on Bury Your Dead, Emily.

[Kathy]

My guess for the book on the lower left is (view spoiler)[Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (hide spoiler)]

[Debra]

sorry not much reading down today I managed to get 76 pages read in Murder In The Library

[Rachelnyc]

183 pages since last check in and I started There There and it is really good so far!

[Kathy]

Sunday Update

Pages read - 105 (had reported other pages in msg 208)

Finished book - A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
- works for ATY 2018 book: a short book (if needed)

Audiobook hours - 2 hours

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Everything is updated! We completed the second book goal!

Laura, we can clear #3, #24, #25, #29, #37, and #46!

[Lauren]

Sunday update:

I read 84 pages of In the Prince's Bed and finished the book.

[Marina]

We cleared the first board! Well done team 😊

I didn't get much reading done last night because of some family issues but I'll try to catch up today. We're just staying at home my hubby and me. I'm not really into all that New Year stuff and can't be bothered going anywhere, so we'll just take it easy at home.
Are you guys doing something special tonight?

[Bernadette]

I managed to read 79 pages yesterday and with that I finished Scarlet.

I can't get back to the first page (in the app), so I can't see the opening post with the prompts. Not sure if Scarlet fits one of the prompts.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

We have filled up all of the prompts, so we are just looking for page, audio, and book count now!

Great work team!

I read 200 pages yesterday of Modern Lovers, which is moving pretty quickly and I hope I'll finish it before midnight.

Marina, I WISH we were taking it easy at home, but my husband has us party hoping to a few of his friend's houses... not sure where we will be at midnight, but I'm almost positive it won't be in my own bed asleep, which is a bit of a bummer for me haha! I'd much rather ring in the new year with a good book than champagne.

Laura, we can clear #3, #24, #25, #29, #37, and #46!

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Updating the boards now :)

[Marina]

I've spend the day in company with this book: Hvor taler du flot dansk!.
That's one more book completed and another 197 pages to my total.

[Kathy]

I'm hoping to finish two more books by tonight:
A Christmas Escape and I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, books that are 160 pages each.

My husband and I are probably staying in tonight too. It's supposed to snow later today so it should be nice to be cozy inside. Happy New Year everyone!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Laura, you can clear #30 as well! Only one more page goal to go!

[Samantha]

Happy New Year team!

I really didn't get much reading done yesterday. I started onThe Last Time I Lied but kept getting interrupted as I was reading the first chapter and just wasn't feeling git or never really got into a grove. I will try again today!

[Kathy]

Pages: 325
Audiobook: 1 hr., 15 min.

Finished 2 books:
A Christmas Escape
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

All updated! Happy new year everyone!

[Bernadette]

Read 225 pages. And finished whispers of the death.

@Samantha, hope you'll enjoy the last time I lied. I loved it!

[Lauren]

Happy New Year!

Monday update:

I read 227 pages of Murder on Lexington Avenue

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

All updated!

Laura, you can clear #30.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Final day today! We are 1,500 pages short of our last page goal, and 5 books short of our next book goal. I don't know about you, but I plan on being on the couch with my first 2019 read today!

[Marina]

I've finished Meldt Savnet and another 352 pages.

I'm not sure I'll be able to finish more books but I'm working on another book so we'll see how many pages I'll get though.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Sweet! Great work this Read-A-Thon, Marina!!

We are now only 1,000 pages away from meeting that final page goal and 4 away from meeting the next book goal!

Laura, you can clear #30.

[Rachelnyc]

Happy New Year everyone!

I will definitely be reading a lot today and will finish at least one book.

[Marina]

Emily wrote: "Final day today! We are 1,500 pages short of our last page goal, and 5 books short of our next book goal. I don't know about you, but I plan on being on the couch with my first 2019 read today!"

I'm with you, Emily! Although I'm not sure which book to read. I feel like I should start working on my ATY challenge but I've made no plan at all and now I don't know where to go 😁

And happy New Year, team! I hope everybody had a wonderful evening and a good start at the new year.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Marina, start with an easy prompt to fill, like Something New or the book you've owned for more than a year... or, even better, the book you stumbled upon since you have no idea what to pick up! If I weren't reading in order, that's what I would go for.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Updating the board now :)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Thank you for all of your work throughout this Read-A-Thon, Laura! You’re been a great moderator!

[Silvia]

I finished the game Would You Rather?

I couldn't read anything yesterday :( ... I was too busy celebrating :D
I am reading The Incal. I will let you know as soon as I finish.

Happy New Year.

[Silvia]

I think there is a mistake with my count of books, it says 3, but I have read 4 books and one graphic novel during the readathon, making a total of 5 (4 for ATY) The page count is right.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ah sorry about that Silvia! Should be updated now!

[Silvia]

Emily wrote: "Ah sorry about that Silvia! Should be updated now!"

Don't worry. Thank you for all your work . You are really great! :)

[Kathy]

I've read 10 books, Emily, not 8. Just telling you so we can get a little closer in our total books read.

Thanks for all your hard work during the Readathon!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Kathy, the max per person to record for the prompt is 8 books, which is why I haven't recorded all 10 of yours. But congrats on reading 10 books -- that's a huge accomplishment!

[Bernadette]

I read 372 pages and finished Eeny Meeny.

[Kathy]

Emily wrote: "Kathy, the max per person to record for the prompt is 8 books, which is why I haven't recorded all 10 of yours. But congrats on reading 10 books -- that's a huge accomplishment!"

Oops! Didn't notice that. Thanks, Emily!

[Rachelnyc]

I'll be back later for final page count but I finished There There. It was excellent but depressing.

Wow 10 books! I feel like such a slacker with just 4...

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yay! We finished our next book goal!

I agree Rachel.. I just finished my 4th book of the Read-A-Thon and I felt very accomplished, until I compared my totals across the spreadsheet lol

Laura, you can open up #27!

[Kathy]

Some of my books were fairly short - I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life was 130 pages, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well was 288 pages but with many illustrations.

[Silvia]

I played Match the Quote ... and realized I don't remember any quote of the books I read, not even from those I loved so much :(

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Laura, you can open up #17 and #27!

[Silvia]

I finished with The Incal - 307 pages
It's a ATY - SciFi book (a graphic novel)

I also listened 15 minutes of audiobook... if that works for something :P One of the picture books I borrowed had a CD. A very lovely picture book narrated by Emma Thompson. It made me smile :) The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit

And because here is already midnight, this is the end of the read-a-thon for me. Thanks everyone. We were the best team :)

[Debra]

finished Murder In The Library 243 pages