Read-a-Thon #2 - Team Butterfly

[Deborah]

305 pages for me on the 11th

[Jackie]

June 11 - 176 pages completed

[Kath]

June 11 - I read 185 pages

[Deena]

6/11: 212pages

[Ira]

Finished reading An Echo of Things to Come. That is 300 pages that I read yesterday. I just started reading The Silkworm today.

[Johanne]

Finished Kraken by Benni Bødker for child as a main character.

I also did The Movie Adaptation game (or I tried to...) and the Favourite game.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Excellent work everyone! We have completed Bucket 9 and already have one book checked off for Bucket 10. We also have our page count completed through Bucket 13!

I know Tracy was working on The Sun Is Also a Star for the celestial body, and multiple people have mentioned child main characters, so please update us as soon as you finish those!

Now's the time to mention if you have epilogue books or books with beautiful spines.

We also have two questions to ask! I'll go with the two questions people have tossed out there...

Does our author have a book on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list?
Has the author had any of their books turned into movies?

[Jackie]

Halfway Check-in Completed

[Kathryn]

I'm about a third of the way through The Little Bookshop on the Seine for a book that we can use for a beautiful spine, but if we get through the next bucket quickly, someone else might have a suitable book before I can get that one finished.

My reading for today:
85 pages to finish A Night Divided
8 pages of The Pearl Thief read before I switched to a book with a beautiful spine!
110 pages of The Little Bookshop on the Seine

Total pages for Wednesday = 203 pages

[Tawallah]

Read 244 pages on June 11.

[Tracy]

Im halfway through the sun is also a star and will finish today.

I havent started my child book yet but will start on one as soon as I finish my current read. IIf anyone else is working on one that fits and gets done first we can always use mine for page counts or I can look and see if it will fit towards something else.

Have a few places to go today, will update page count and game tonight

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Tracy wrote: "Im halfway through the sun is also a star and will finish today.

I havent started my child book yet but will start on one as soon as I finish my current read. IIf anyone else is working on one tha..."

If it has an epilogue, we can count it towards that (if the children's prompt gets finished first!)

[Katie]

Does our author have a book on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list? NO
Has the author had any of their books turned into movies? NO

[Meg]

6/11 - Read 140 pg in Little Fires Everywhere

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ok we are halfway through our questions for this second author, and I am... stumped.

Here's what we know:
We are looking for an American female author who is alive. She writes novels that were not published in the 1900s and has a last name that begins with letters M-R. She is not featured on the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, and she has not had any books that were made into movies.

Maybe next questions can be narrowing down her last name further...

[Johanne]

Maybe we could ask something like, if she writes genre fiction? (if that is not a too ambiguous term).

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Hm.. you may be right, Johanne. She seems to be a contemporary author, so maybe I can just start asking by genre, like "Does she write either mysteries/thrillers or historical fiction?" and narrow it down that way?

[Tracy]

Emily wrote: "Tracy wrote: "Im halfway through the sun is also a star and will finish today.

I havent started my child book yet but will start on one as soon as I finish my current read. IIf anyone else is work..."


Emily since I havent started I will look for a book that fits both so we can use it towards either. I have a collection ( library lol) full of middlegrade novels.

[Johanne]

I think someone else than me was reading a child as main character book, so Tracy if you concentrate on The Sun is also a Star. If not I have half a house full of unread children´s books with child mc´s and I am currently at work full of the same, and I can read one tonight (in 4-ish hours)

[Kathryn]

No ideas about the author - I’m off to bed and am half asleep, but I remembered I hadn’t posted that I did the halfway checkin, if that’s today’s game. Goodnight!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Thanks Kathryn!

Johanne, there were a few people who mentioned the children mc book, and we already have one complete so we only need one more! Hopefully they check in through the day and we can knock this bucket out before tonight.

[Johanne]

Emily wrote: "Thanks Kathryn!

Johanne, there were a few people who mentioned the children mc book, and we already have one complete so we only need one more! Hopefully they check in through the day and we can k..."

Great. I hope I didn´t confuse you, Tracy - we posted at the same time.

[Jill]

I am working on a book with an epilogue. I can finish that today. Working from home so I can check and see when you are ready for it to be checked off as done.

[Johanne]

I did the Halfway Check-in

And when I am off work later I will read on in Murakami and be ready for the island author when we reach that.

[Edie]

Tracy wrote: "Im halfway through the sun is also a star and will finish today.

I havent started my child book yet but will start on one as soon as I finish my current read. IIf anyone else is working on one tha..."

I have been waiting to finish The Silver Star which I finished now that we have hit that bucket, so the celestial body is covered. 37 pages to finish it.

[Sarah]

I didn't check in before I went to sleep yesterday but I did start and finish Hercule Poirot's Christmas which I am not sure fits with any of the prompts but is 288 pages for Tuesday June 11.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Oh great Edie! We can count that as the celestial body, and Tracy's The Sun Is Also a Star could fit as a child mc (they are teenagers... I would still count that as a child, right?)

[Dina]

6/11 - I read 248 pages

[Deborah]

I do have an epilogue book lined up if needed. I only need to read the epilogue of The War of the Worlds, so we have a backup.

[Johanne]

@Emily, if they are under 18 I'd say we are safe to call them children. The UN definition is 18 that they set when they made the children's rights and I believe they put a lot of thought to that :)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

That's what I was thinking, Johanne!

[Edie]

91 more pages on The Sound of Glass i'm reading a large print version, so the pages go pretty fast.

[Edie]

Half-way Check-in completed

[Kathy]

I'm reading Tangerine which is a debut novel. I'm halfway through.

[Jill]

Done with Searching for Sylvie Lee which has an epilogue.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Oh no, Jill! You're early! We haven't had our second child main character book finished yet. Unless we can count it for the child main character?

[Christy]

After doing an inordinate amount of pre-coffee math converting audiobooks and Kindle percentages to pages, I have ascertained that I read 92 pages yesterday (6/11).
I'm reading two very big books right now, but I also have Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" from the library and I could switch to that if it would fill any prompts?

Also, regarding the author: I believe the answer was that she did not write the majority of her books in the 1900s, not that none of her books were in the 1900s. Is that matching everyone else's interpretation?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Oh, you're right about that. Thanks for the clarification, Christy.

[Jill]

Oh my goodness, I misread, I thought you were ready for it. I am so sorry. The characters are adults so it will not work.
It looks like Deborah has a book with an epilogue that would work.
I will do a better job of reading next time.

[Brittany]

I finished Rain Reign. It’s main character is in fifth grade so it counts as a child mc and was 226 pages long. I think I’m going to start working on Americanah as it could count for the character who travels to another country.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

No worries, Jill!

Ok now we are moving on to Bucket 11!

I have Kathryn slotted in for the book with an interesting spine, and Deborah on deck for the book with the epilogue. If someone finishes a book that would qualify for either of these, we will slot them in, so keep the posts coming!

We also are two games short of getting another game question, and we have a question available for Bucket 10. What do we want to ask?

[Nancy]

Finished the Halfway check-in today.

I am not sure if I read this- or dreamed it. But I would like to throw Sara Maas out as a possible author.

Or another thought is maybe to narrow down the last book written by the author. So maybe ask if it was in the last decade.

[Deborah]

Okay - my epilogue book The War of the Worlds is done!

I also did the halfway check-in.

[Kelly]

I have completed the Halfway Check-in!

[Jill]

I have completed the Halfway Check-in.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Excellent! We have another question.

I'm going to go with Nancy's suggestion of narrowing their publishing.

Was the author's most recent novel published in the last 5 years?

[Christy]

I finished the Halfway Check-In.

[Sarah]

I finished the Halfway Check-in.

[Katie]

Was the author's most recent novel published in the last 5 years? YES

[Brittany]

I finished the half way check in. I’ve changed my reading plan to An Age of License: A Travelogue. It still fits the travel prompt but it’s something I know I’ll be able to finish today or whenever we need it. Americanah is probably going to take a few days.