Read-a-Thon #2 - Team Butterfly

[Samantha]

Sorry I haven’t checked in yet today. It’s been a crazy day, I got 89 pages of Buried read last night and listened to 26 pages of Evelyn Hugo. Not sure how much reading I will do in the next 24 hours I have a procedure tomorrow and not sure how bad I will feel after.

I am not sure if The Girls of Slender Means was used for any of the prompts. If not it looks like a red cover but might be purple. Not sure which.

[Kathryn]

Edie wrote: "Emily, Did we ever ask if this author was an American? I see it listed on the spreadsheet, but don't see it in the comments or a response. If asked, I assume the answer was NO or we wouldn't have a..."

I don't think we've asked that for this author - we did for the first author. Probably might be good to know...

[Tracy]

OK got it. I'll start The Sun Is Also a Star(celestial) tonight and then get to work on The Littlest Bigfoot ( main character is a 12 year old girl)

[Kathy]

51 more pages today (to add to the 154 I reported earlier

[Bec]

Okay just checking in - on Monday 10 June I read 122 pages.
Towards and

[Bec]

And I just did the game - A Few of My Favorite Things

[Jill]

6/10 -172 pages read

[Tracy]

Just went back and finished all the games... a little late
already had posted the kickoff, completed book reader problems, synonyms/antonyms and favorite things

[Tawallah]

I finished reading 377 pages for June 10.

[Kelly]

Wow this team really is flying through books and buckets! We may need more!

I did the Favorite Things game today and read 84 pages (6/10). Hope everyone has a good night!

[Sarah]

Last check in for the night for me, I read another 48 pages of Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil. I am hoping to finish it up tomorrow morning, but I don't think it fits in with any of the prompts we have left so it shall just count for the page count.

[Kathy]

Just finished Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, which has a green cover. . I’ll enter that page count tomorrow.

[Johanne]

It's morning here now and I am going to work. If we still need a yellow cover tonight (in 12-ish hours) I have one I can read in one sitting. I'll see where we are when I get off work. I didn't finish my blue book yesterday (someone else beat me to it and it was getting late) but it has a child main character, so I Can easily manage that one.

[Brittany]

I ended up not being able to sleep and finished How to Build a Girl so my total for 6/10 will be 339 pages. Since Kathy already finished a green cover we can slot this towards 6th page on TBR.

[Johanne]

I am sorry for your pain Tracy.

[Ira]

I finished reading Girl with a Pearl Earring that is 233 pages long

[Christy]

I read 109 more pages to finish The Map of Salt and Stars, which should count for the blue cover.

[Deborah]

My total for the 10th is 486 pages.

[Ellie]

I missed so much yesterday, partly for good reasons (boyfriend's birthday) but then we got some bad news.

So I only read 56 pages for the 10th.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ellie, I'm sorry to hear that!

Edie, I asked about the UK because I thought they wouldn't give us another American author, but I may have been wrong. That will be our next question.

All we have left is a yellow book for Bucket 8! I have about 100 pages left of Their Eyes Were Watching God, which can count, but whew, it's not a quick read, so if you're close to finishing a yellow book, I can count that one.

(Also, we have reached our page count for buckets 9 and 10 already! And it's only Tuesday!)

[Kathryn]

I finished Kakadu Sunset: The Porter Sisters 1 today. Is it yellow enough?

[Kathryn]

Today's page count:

102 pages to finish Kakadu Sunset: The Porter Sisters 1,
34 pages in A Night Divided, and
97 pages in The Pearl Thief

A total of 233 pages.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Great, Kathryn! I'm going to count that towards yellow.

And with that, we've finished Bucket 8!! Great work team!

Our question will be:

Is our author American?

[Jill]

I think I will be able finish The Proposal tonight which covers a book involving a sport.

[Deena]

Read a 170 pages yesterday

[Tracy]

I was flying through The Sun Is Also a Star last night almost 100 poages in before I fell asleep. I'll read more today but save the ending for when we get to the celestial bucket. Same for my book with a child character. Will update page counts tonight. I havent had any to add since the first day of the read a thon.

Finished Books to Movies game... failed miserably LOL. That was so hard!!

[Kathryn]

I've got less than an hour to listen to for my book with a child character - I'm off to bed now so will see how bucket 9 is going before I listen to it tomorrow.

I have attempted the game for today earlier - so hard!!

[Edie]

I checked out the movie game. Got 2 right. Then I looked at the spoilers. Haven't heard of several movies and would never have gotten the ones I had heard of. I'm a reader, not a movie goer.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I feel the same, Edie! I got four: two were childhood favorites, one was a movie I watched a week ago, and the other was a book I taught to my English classes. Some of the others looked familiar, but there was no way I could place them.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Just a reminder of questions for our mods:

Is our author American?

We also need to think about authors who are alive and have a last name starting with M-R. Should we use our next question to narrow down the letters further, or should we ask a different question?

Here's what we know:
We are looking for a female author who is alive. She writes novels, is not from the UK, and has a last name that begins with letters M-R.

[Meg]

Pages Read: 6/10
The Dire King - 151 pages (finished it!)
The Cruelest Month - 230 pages
(TOTAL: 381 pages)

And attempted The Books to Movies challenge... LOL. Not so great

[Chrissy]

I’m working on A River of Stars, which can count for the celestial body category.

[Kathy]

124 pages to add to June 10

[Deborah]

I don't seem to have any good options right now for a book covering several years. I think With the Fire on High has a pretty spine (lovely naked hardback hiding under the dust jacket) so will work on getting that closer to finished or work on my child character book if it comes in at the library.

Well done team!!

[Johanne]

I think I have some books covering several years, but they are, unsurprisingly, not short and easy reads. I can get one going in a while that I can probably finish by tomorrow, if no-one else is in the middle of something that might fit (or have one they are dying to read).

[Johanne]

And should I still finish my child as main character? I have 40 pages left in one I can easily finish.
EDIT: Oh sorry, the year span is the bucket before the child one. So I will hold the child one off till we reach that bucket.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I'm going to finish Their Eyes Were Watching God (God willing) today, and that will cover one of the time-spanning books.

[Tracy]

Is anyone reading books that span several years??

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

There's a few people who mentioned it earlier, so hopefully we get those coming in. Mine will count for one, so we only need one more. And Jill is reading the sports one!

[Kathy]

I'll start reading The Keepers of the House which spans several years.

[Katie]

Is our author American? YES

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ok! We have one more question available to us... anyone have a preference what we ask? I'm thinking about asking about when she was publishing books, so we can get an idea if this is a contemporary author or if it's someone who is still alive but published years ago.

[Johanne]

Oh cool. I am ready to read the rest of child as main character as soon as we're ready.

[Katie]

For anyone who felt stumped by the movie game, I added a note
on that post that linked to Bookstr, where the game came from. They included multiple choice options for each movie, if that might make it more fun for people. But of course, you aren't required to get all the answers to count toward playing the game.

[Nancy]

Completed what I could of the Movie adaptation game.

[Brittany]

I’m working on True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray which spans over 5 years I think so that could work for the years prompt.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Sweet. I'm glad we have a few options for that one!

[Deborah]

Turns out The War of the Worlds which wasnt neede for the TBR prompt has an epilogue, so will hold off finishing until we get there.

[Kathy]

I tried the movie game.

[Sarah]

I finished Guess the Movie Adaptation and for one of our questions I was thinking we could ask if any of their books have been turned into movies?