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Read-a-Thon #2 - Team Butterfly
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Is our author female?
Is our author alive?
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Is our author alive? Yes
I’ll work on The Pride which is a comic about LGBTQ+ superhero’s that came out this month. It was on my list of things I wanted to read on comiXology. Comics don’t normally take me too long so I should be able to crank it out in a couple hours.
Emily wrote: "We've hit our page goal for Bucket 6, and we have one book completed... we still need one more book published in the summer, and one that was discovered via the Read-A-Thon.Anyone able to tackle ..."
I should be able to finish The Silver Star within 24 hours and it is a June publication date. If someone else fills this soon, I can hold off finishing since this will fit for a celestial body down the road.
Emily, the planning tab only seems to go to Bucket 8, can this be expanded to included ALL the prompts we have left?
Thank you to Jackie for mentioning Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are dead! It was a quick, fun little read that I had totally forgotten about until you mentioned it.I've read 355 for 6/9.
Emily wrote: "We've hit our page goal for Bucket 6, and we have one book completed... we still need one more book published in the summer, and one that was discovered via the Read-A-Thon.Anyone able to tackle ..."
I'm listening to The Masterpiece which was published in July. I'm listening on 1.5 speed and I have 5 hours left. I think I'll be able by finish tomorrow.
Wow so much going on in this group the last couple of hours!And good guessing Tracy!
I read 531 pages today. Didn't finish books that count as more than pages (shorter than 100 pages and a long book not finished).
It's 2 am and I am off to bed.
Please help me decide what to read tomorrow. I mean I can just keep reading pages, but I have loads that fit the next couple of buckets.
I have George It fits the lgbtq book.
Or I could start the rainbow? It seems purple is the hardest. These are short reads I could read in a day, except The Binding, so if you guys can tell me what to read in the next 24 hours that would be grand :)
yellow
Orange
is it orange enough?Red
Green
Blue
Purple-ish. This is longer and I will take a couple days to read it I think. And is it purple enough?
It was my birthday weekend and family time ate up my reading time!6/7 300 pgs
6/8 131 pgs
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Johanne, excellent reading today! It all depends on how fast you read... we have a few books to fill tomorrow, so if you think you will take until Tuesday (or the end of Monday, possibly) to finish these, I would start on the rainbow. I'm assuming people will be reading less once the work week starts back up, so it may be slower going for these buckets?
Don't forget to work on those Read-A-Thon games! And feel free to add your books to the Planning tab on the spreadsheet!
Happy birthday, Meg! Hope you had a great time.
I have started reading Searching for Sylvie Lee today. It is going to take a couple of days since I have to work. 😞But it will work for the rainbow covers, the cover is blue. I added it to the planning tab.
I will add my pages later since it is only 6pm here.
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My current read would work for published in summer, but since it sounds like there are a few other options for that I looked into summer holidays. I found a few references via Google that indiicate that July 7 is International Ponytail Day which seems to fit!
I will catch up on the game when I can get to an actual computer to type out those spoiler tags.
I finished The Pride Season One which came out this month. It was 168 pages. I’m probably going to be done reading for today, but I’m technically still on vacation until Thursday so I’ll have lots of free time to read the next couple of days. I’ll look over the summer holiday stuff to see if there’s something short I can read for that tomorrow during the day.
I just went through my TBR list and found Tolstoy and the Purple Chair which has a big PURPLE chair on the cover. I was able to download it from my library. For now, I will concentrate on the books I have in progress, but as we get closer to needing to read the rainbow, I can switch to that book. It is 250 or so pages which I should be able to read fairly quickly if we need it.
Johanne wrote: "Wow so much going on in this group the last couple of hours!And good guessing Tracy!
I read 531 pages today. Didn't finish books that count as more than pages (shorter than 100 pages and a long b..."
Looking at the spreadsheet, it seems we will need a lbgtq book.
All the excitement happened on my Monday morning when I was away from the computer!!! :-(Congratulations to Tracy! I don't think Anita Shreve was on the Wikipedia list I copied the deceased authors from, but it looks like she only died last year, so maybe the page hasn't been updated since, and I was ignoring the authors listed as still living! And it's Wikipedia - it crossed my mind that it might not have been accurate!
And ugh, Christy!!! What an experience! Good thing you hadn't brought the book home and let it sit on the shelf for a week or two before getting to it (as I often do!)!!! I wonder if they'll contact people who had the book before you!!
I'm still reading Kakadu Sunset (less than 100 pages left), but I don't think it works for any immediate buckets - it WAS published in summer - but mine, not the northern hemisphere summer - so December! I'm never keen on the "quirky" holiday idea categories - I feel like you could stretch anything to fit, but then it doesn't feel right, to me, but if anyone wants to make a case for Kakadu Sunset fit any of the quirky summer holidays, go right ahead. Otherwise I was thinking I could leave finishing it until we are on bucket 8 - since it has a sunset on it, I'm thinking it could work for a yellow or orange cover:
I'm listening to
and am about halfway through. I will take a while yet to finish it, but it could work for bucket 9 (spans several years) or 10 (child as main character).
I finished Don't Ever Tell
which should work for a summer holiday. Ponytail Day in July (cover hairstyle) and Sisters Day in August (there are two sets of sisters playing significant roles in the book).
I was under the weather on June 9th, so I didn't get much reading done.June 9 - 18 pages completed
Brittany wrote: "I finished The Pride Season One which came out this month. It was 168 pages. I’m probably going to be done reading for today, but I’m technically still on vacation until Thursday so..."Is that 168 pages in addition to the 144 already recorded for you for yesterday?
Bucket 6 complete.I'm a bit annoyed with myself that I finished my last book a day too early as it had a bi main character. I thought we were further away from bucket 7 but you are all just too efficient!
Is anyone current reading a book with an LGBT+ character?
I have George by Alex Gino it has a trans main character, it's 200 pages and I will be able to read it today. It is a holiday in Denmark and I am off work. I have other stuff I have to do though, so I won't get to it right a away.
Happy birthday, Meg! I missed that earlier.Not much reading today :-(
I got 47 pages of Kakadu Sunset read throughout the day.
I got 6 pages of The Pearl Thief read before the iPad needed charging! But I guess every page counts...
I got 149 pages of A Night Divided listened to an audiobook while at the gym, driving, and while crocheting this evening since I couldn't read my ebooks as my iPad was charging.
So my total for Monday is 202 pages.
So I decided to procrastinate my boring stuff to do today, and finished George by Alex Gino, so that's our lgbtq book done.It's a middle grade book about a girl in a boy's body. A touching read, and I cried a bit. I always do when kids struggle. The problems of being trans are universal in some respects, but the book also show the difference from USA to Denmark. One of the main plots of the book is the mc who wants to play Charlotte in the school play, and this causes a lot of fuss because it's a girl's role. In my kids' school they happily play different genders in plays and dress up across gender for last day of school and things like that. I am not saying it's easy to be transgender here, gender roles are still firm, but people are at least a bit more openminded (at least where I live in Copenhagen, in a really diverse neighbourhood so that probably also plays in).
Edie wrote: "Johanne wrote: "Wow so much going on in this group the last couple of hours!And good guessing Tracy!
I read 531 pages today. Didn't finish books that count as more than pages (shorter than 100 pa..."
Aren't we done for a LGBT book - it's easy to miss things, but I saw Brittany said she's finished The Pride which she'd said in message 254 should count for this...?
It looks like we're still looking for another quirky summer holiday - in addition to Deborah's Don't Ever Tell. I can't help with anything I'm reading, but I just wondered whether anyone was working on that?
Edit: I'm just looking ahead, because the next bucket is the rainbow one. Is anyone working on orange or yellow? Because I'm reading Kakadu Sunset: The Porter Sisters 1 and can hold off until we're up to that bucket if necessary, but I was wondering what people thought - is this yellow enough? Or orange enough? I'm more inclined toward calling it yellow - or does anyone else have orange or yellow covered with unambiguous colours?!!
I think that was used for released in June, but I may be wrong. If not we'll just count George for pages.
Johanne wrote: "I mean The Pride"Ah yes, it was too - and I didn't see your post Johanne before I posted - forgot to refresh! But we're done for that one with your book anyway!
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We only need one more book for the summer holiday, and then we are done with Bucket 7! Y'all are all amazing.
Does anyone have a book that they will be finishing this morning that will fit this category? Here's a list for June, July, and August. If you are close to finishing a book, please take a peek at these lists and see if you can squeeze it in anywhere!
For the rainbow, it seems we have a lot of yellow books, and none for red or green, so if you're looking to pick up a new book, check out those.
We will also need a book on the 6th page of someone's TBR... for that, the mods did specify that it has to be sorted by date added, oldest to newest, but they didn't specify how much had to be on a page. I'll put in a question to the mods about that, but please look at your TBR and see if something you were planning on reading fits there.
Here's a link to the game for the day, so go answer it when you have a moment! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
We also have one question to ask. I can ask about author nationality again, if you all agree with that. We do know that we have a female author who is still alive.
I just posted for the game, and now it's off to bed!
I've finished the book reader problem tag and the favorite things challenge
For June 9 I read a total of 319 pages. Happy birthday Meg
Oh Kristi, I feel your horror. Who knew! Hopefully your house is not now infested. Is the library checking out the rest of their books? What a nightmare!!
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Emily wrote: "Good morning folks!We only need one more book for the summer holiday, and then we are done with Bucket 7! Y'all are all amazing.
Does anyone have a book that they will be finishing this morning ..."
I have started Letters to the Dead which was on the 6th page of my TBR list. I can focus on that today, but I have 300 pages to go and PT and some other commitments, so am not sure whether I can get it done today.
I have also started Tolstoy and the Purple Chair which would cover purple in the rainbow. I have fewer pages to go in that (it is shorter), so guess that should be my focus and leave the book on the 6th page of TBR to someone else.
167 pages on The Silver Star I am very close to finishing this, but holding off to see where we might need this.
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We got to this bucket faster than I expected. I would have liked to have been close to done with at least one of these books.
Thanks for the birthday wishes! ;)Pages Read 6/9: 150 on The Cruelest Month
Just did Book Reader Problems & A Few of My Favorite Things
Where are we at on Buckets? I have 2 books I'll probably finish today, and lots of options on what to start next.
Sorry didnt update last night before bed but read 186 pages on 6/9.
Just wanted to do a quick update I finished Book Title Synonyms & Antonyms and the favorite things challenge.
I have less than 100 pages in The Bell Jar with a red cover, so can finish that up quickly when the time comes.I'll take another look at the holiday lists too to see if anything jumps out at me, but I won't be able to tackle a new read until after work and thats a lot of hours away. :(
My 6th page of the TBR is all super long books that I definitely won't be able to get through this week.
I have about 100 pages left in The Hunger which is a retelling of the Donner Party journey which could work for National Trails Day or Take a Road Trip Day in June. :)
Hey team! Happy birthday Meg! I started reading
last night figuring we could use it as an orange cover. I can't update the planning tab on my tablet, and that is all I have. I have some pages read last night, but I will just add them to today's total.
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