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Read-a-Thon #2 - Team Butterfly
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Jun 13, 2019 01:18PM
I have no clue how you keep track of all of this Emily, but if you are ready take on the challenge I love the idea of another author.
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We have two questions available, so we will ask:
Is our author female?
Is our author alive?
those question seem tried and true so I vote yes.
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Oh that's so cool! Author guessed and buckets ahead!
Katie wrote: "CONGRATULATIONS TEAM BUTTERFLY. YOU HAVE GUESSED YOUR SECOND AUTHOR!On a side note, her novel A Place for Us is probably my favorite read of the year. Highly recommended."
I really liked this too and recommend it... not quite as much as Where the Crawdads Sing. but probably my second favorite so far.
It seems my page count for yesterday (12th) isn't in the spreadsheet: 138 pages.Going to bed to read a bit and will post today's pages before going to sleep. (albeit not a lot)
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But you are busy spreadsheeting and keeping track on all of us :) That can't be easy.
Emily, your sacrifice of reading time for the good of the team is much appreciated!
Agreed! Emily, you are doing an amazing job keeping us reading butterflies organized! :)
Yes, agreed. The one time I was a team leader, I had much less time for reading... and that read-a-thon was much less complex than this one and the teams were much smaller. We've already had over 650 comments and we are just over halfway through the challenge. Many Thanks to Emily and Ellie
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This Read-A-Thon definitely was more challenging and time consuming than previous ones... I'm not sure if I like it or not. I felt a lotttt of pressure to read quickly for certain books to fill buckets, which I guess was good? But I don't generally like a lot of pressure when I read, so... I don't know. Conflicted! But I guess I'll figure it out before the survey comes out later lol.
Good night everyone, it's 11.30 pm where I am.Happy reading!
Read 102 pages today (13th)
I just got the The Art of Racing in the Rain for our animal bucket! It has been a busy day for me, so I will try doing the game and getting some reading done. Wonderful job on the second author guess!!!
Good morning from Australia again! And well done to Edie and Kathy for picking our author! I think I should be banned from guessing - I've never even heard of this author, and I'd never have thought of our first author either!Thanks to Emily for keeping on top of all of this, and to Ellie for helping out! You two are doing so well!
This is my first ATY read-a-thon, so I have nothing to compare it with, but I agree with your comments, Emily, about pressure to read. On the flip side, working as a team is fun. I was thinking yesterday that it feels like it's starting to drag a little for me - I really enjoyed the first weekend and earlier in the week, but it feels like it's a bit too intense for a whole week. I've read books to meet certain categories, but I've got other books piling up here (that I don't think will work for any categories)!! Maybe if the required pages had been a bit higher, that would have slowed down the necessity to read certain books for certain categories and would have meant we just needed to read books for pages which would have taken some pressure off...?
However, having said that, no criticism is intended for the mods - they've done a brilliant job of thinking all this up (I can't even begin to imagine how they came up with the concept!). I will certainly be looking forward to the next read-a-thon!
Johanne wrote: "Just checked the back cover of 'One of us is lying' and there is a question: 'Everyone has secrets, right?', don't we think that's what's meant with the question in synopsis?"Also, I think One of Us Is Lying came out in 2017 and I've seen a lot of book buzz about it, so it could also go for that.
Is anyone working on a book in a country they've never been to? I have about 200 pages left in mine which I think is doable tonight. I do have have another Australia based book at home I could start on tomorrow if we don't have another one underway.
Kathryn wrote: "Good morning from Australia again! And well done to Edie and Kathy for picking our author! I think I should be banned from guessing - I've never even heard of this author, and I'd never have though..."I've never heard of the author either Kathryn!
And another hello from Australia!
Yep I agree with you Kathryn - people are reading so fast that I can't even finish a book before we are onto the next bucket.
But that said, I just finished Symphony late last night (morning in Australia now) which would count for a book in a country I've not visited (it's based in the UK), but depends on when the bucket before was filled I guess.
Kathryn wrote: "Good morning from Australia again! And well done to Edie and Kathy for picking our author! I think I should be banned from guessing - I've never even heard of this author, and I'd never have though..."I want to say we filled the previous bucket around 5ish hours ago?
Bec wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Good morning from Australia again! And well done to Edie and Kathy for picking our author! I think I should be banned from guessing - I've never even heard of this author, and I'd n..."
It definitely moves very fast - and fun, but I think your idea that having more pages required before moving to the next bucket could definitely ease the pressure a bit of worrying about the timing of when you finish books.
This is only my second readathon with a team challenge involved and this one is very different from the last one. The mods to an amazing creative job coming up with all of this!!
And I'm off work for my 3-day weekend in Mexico! For Bucket 17, I could switch to Barracoon to cover the book by an author of color and read it on the plane. However, I won't be able to check in to confirm I've read it until late tomorrow when I get to the hotel wifi. Shall I just proceed with reading it and it's ok if someone gets there before me?
Christy wrote: "And I'm off work for my 3-day weekend in Mexico! For Bucket 17, I could switch to Barracoon to cover the book by an author of color and read it on the plane. However, I won't be able to check in to..."That sounds fun (and like a much better idea than reporting to work tomorrow) - I'm jealous! :) As to the reading, sounds like it could be good timing!
Bec wrote: "I've never heard of the author either Kathryn!..."Maybe we missed the hype in Australia! I haven't heard of her book either!
Deborah wrote: "It definitely moves very fast - and fun, but I think your idea that having more pages required before moving to the next bucket could definitely ease the pressure a bit of worrying about the timing of when you finish books..."I wouldn't have even known where to start in thinking about how many pages should be required for a bucket if I'd been making up the challenge!! And I imagine it could be a fine balance between having a few more pages to make it move a little more slowly and having too many more pages so that the pace feels glacial!
Kathryn wrote: "Bec wrote: "I've never heard of the author either Kathryn!..."Maybe we missed the hype in Australia! I haven't heard of her book either!"
I was going to say I didn't recognize the author either... then noticed the book mentioned is on my TBR so at some point I must have heard of her!
Deborah wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Bec wrote: "I've never heard of the author either Kathryn!..."Maybe we missed the hype in Australia! I haven't heard of her book either!"
I was going to say I didn't recognize th..."
That's so funny! That's the sort of thing I would do!
EDIT: And I just double-checked - definitely NOT on my TBR or read shelf!!
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Emily wrote: "I missed logging your book, Deborah, but that was a good solution! We are finished with Bucket 14!Next up is Bucket 15 with a book with a twist ending and a chick-lit or romance. We have quite a ..."
I'm looking ahead at buckets. I was thinking I might hold off on finishing The Little Bookshop on the Seine - it's a light, frothy read, definitely not un-put-down-able! - so that it will work for a book with more than 20 letters in the title. I'll start something else in the meantime, and maybe finish off The Pearl Thief, but I'll just read for the page count, as I don't think any of the books I have sitting here waiting patiently for me will work for anything else, or else I won't finish them in time!
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Sounds great, Kathryn! We need pages read!
At this point, team, we are still a bit less than 2,000 pages away from this bucket's goal, so reading for pages is important! Don't feel like you should skip a book you want to read because it doesn't fit with the prompts... pages are pages!
Emily wrote: "No, Laura, I've been doing it myself... at the beginning, the group members said that they would rather me and Ellie tackle it. And it hasn't been bad! I just think having 4 or 5 groups would be a bit more intimate and we wouldn't be going through the buckets as quickly..."Laura wrote: "I have allowed my team to do it themselves and it's been much easier on me. I just asked that they not edit the main table at the stop of the tracking..."
Actually, Laura's point isn't a bad one, Emily... At the beginning I said I'd be scared to be adding things in myself and potentially stuffing things up(!), but I wouldn't be scared to put my own page counts in, and that I'd done the game for the day, if you wanted to change to that for the last few days. It might mean you and Ellie get a bit more reading in over the weekend...?
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So I've added a protected range so only Ellie or I will be able to edit the top half of the sheet (Buckets and Game Questions), but everyone should be able to add in their own page numbers and if they have completed the game. That will definitely be a help to Ellie when I leave this weekend as well.
That being said, if you still aren't comfortable with using the spreadsheet, feel free to post your page counts and game completions here, and I'll add them in for you!
Laura wrote: "Just for perspective, the teams only made it to 15,000 pages in the last read-a-thon (for the full time). We do have more people per team this round. So next we will likely change the number of tea..."While I am having lots of fun being on a large team, I do think the requirement you can't finish books for Bucket 2 until you have completed Bucket 1, etc and the very large number of team members have made this a bit a of crunch. I was working on a book for an early bucket... and then waited several days to read the last 3 pages so it could count in a latter bucket. I have another book I would finish tonight, except that it wouldn't count for any of the prompts in the bucket we are on, so I will wait again to finish. I think if all the participants had been spread across more teams, the original set-up would have been great and there probably wouldn't have been a need to add buckets.
None of this is meant to diminish all the work the mods are putting in. The graphic is great. I have loved many of the prompts, albeit it has been frustrating to start a book for one of them, only to have it closed out well before I finished the book.
Kathryn wrote: "Emily wrote: "I missed logging your book, Deborah, but that was a good solution! We are finished with Bucket 14!Next up is Bucket 15 with a book with a twist ending and a chick-lit or romance. We..."
I have a book with more than 20 letters in the title that I can finish in 10 minutes whenever we get to that bucket, so if you want to read something, else, we can have that prompt covered. This is a book I started for the "purple cover" which was checked before I could finish my book.
Edie wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Emily wrote: "I missed logging your book, Deborah, but that was a good solution! We are finished with Bucket 14!Next up is Bucket 15 with a book with a twist ending and a chick-li..."
I don’t think my book fits anywhere else! But that’s fine, either way. Where are you, Edie? It looks like you’re in the States? I’m in Australia, so if the previous bucket is finished whenever you’re asleep, I might be available to finish my 20-letter book, and vice versa. Like a tag team! Does that work?
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I'm heading to bed, folks. Feel free to add your pages and games to the spreadsheet throughout the night, and I'll check in on completed books in the morning!
Emily wrote: "Kathy, does this book work for a book set in a country you've never been to?"The place really isn't specified, but it's about the author's love of books and the author is from England which I've never visited. So?...
Kathy wrote: "Emily wrote: "Kathy, does this book work for a book set in a country you've never been to?"The place really isn't specified, but it's about the author's love of books and the author is from Engla..."
It is illustrations based on her experiences one would imagine, and imagine further that many of those experiences were in England, so i would tend to think it works. :) It also looks like a fun little book!
I have 100 pages left in my Aussie book for one of the couuntey prompts, so expect i can wrap that up tonight.
If we still need one I just finished The Last Anniversary and it's set in Australia which I have never been to.So for today I have read 348 pages which I added to page tracking part of the spreadsheet.
I just borrowed Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1 for a manga book prompt on another challenge. Given that one of the first few pages has a panel with a sign congratulating Tokyo for hosting the 2020 games it can definitely work for the Olympics prompt.
I finished The Lost Man which counts for the country I've never visited prompt, so we should be covered for those two books even if counting Kathy's book us a little bit of a stretch. I have a little reading left in me, but will update my pages in the spreadsheet before the day ends! Happy Friday/nearly Friday, Butterflies!
It will definitely be easier with everyone updating their own page counts/games. We need another 566 pages for the page goal on our current bucket so please update your page count if you haven't checked in for a while.
I did the sort your shelf gameAnd I read 469 pages on June 12 and 138 pages on June 13
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All we are waiting on is the book with the heart on the cover or in the title, which I know Jill was close to finishing.
I don't think the mods answered our first questions about Author 3:
Is our author female?
Is our author alive?
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