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Read-a-Thon #2 - Team Bumblebee
My book is the only down for green, and I still have over 500 pages left, so someone else is welcome to read for the that spot. (I didn't realize how quickly we were going to move through buckets!)
I just finished this book. Book:
Author: Nicola Yoon
Pages: 384
Date Read: 6-10-19
It should count for the green cover.
I loved Beartown! It was really good. You'll have to tell me what you think about it. I binge read the second book in the series this past weekend because I needed to know what happened with all the characters.
I have just finished Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. About 160 pages (converted from audio). It does have a lot of sport examples in it, and while it is not a sports book, I would say the sport examples are pretty important. Baseball, basketball, swimming, running, bicycling are a few that are mentioned.
I read 149 pages today to finish off Empire of Storms, and also did that My Favourite Things activity. To be honest, I've completely lost track of where we stand in terms of buckets. If we need anything specific in the next few days, let me know and I'll try. I have quite a few library books stacked.
I finished The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer today. I do not think that it will help to meet the current bucket qualifications except for page count. I have noted the page count on the spreadsheet and in my progress note (message 33.)
Hi Team, am just back from a weekend trip. Very impressed with our team's progress so far! I have read 112 pages since my last update and completed the Antonyms and Synonyms game. I have also updated the team spreadsheet. Will try to finish my book (A Pelican at Blandings) today.
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I will definitely be finishing The Craftsman today for the 6th page prompt.
We still need:
- Orange
-Blue
- Purple
- 6th page of TBR
I have a book for purple but someone else might beat me to it.
Marta, unfortunately we're not quite ready for the sport prompt so we will need a different book for that.
I can finish my book today for the blue cover.
I can do a purple cover if noone else does.
We've got another question under the games section.
I have done the books adaption game
I also did the Guess the Movie Adaptation, will add it to the spreadsheet when I get home.
did the movie game and posted on spreadsheet
I humiliated myself with my lack of movie knowledge Guess the Adaptation Game and added to spreadsheet. The things I do for my team! :)
Is anyone currently working on the page 6 of the TBR one? If not I could pause my current book and work on it.
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.
Devin wrote: "Candie wrote: "We've got another question under the games section."You want to ask if she's currently alive? I'm being completely unimaginative and following the pattern we used last time lol"
I'm good with that question. The list one was good too. It really helped narrow it down last time. Only if it's on it though I guess.
I'm good with the alive or deceased question as well
I think either the list question or the dead/alive question is a good start.
Personally, I'd save the list question for later in the guessing, after we find out if it makes a lot of sense. When we guessed it the first time we knew we had a dead European guy, so the list seemed very plausible. I do like the 'is the author alive' question, and I think some of the other questions we asked, like narrowing down which letter the name might start with, and time period, worked really well.
Yes I think the question if she is alive on not is a good one.
Everyone seems to be in support of that question, so I'm going to take this as consensus. Is the author alive? YES
Someone should go spy on the other groups to see what questions they're asking to guess their authors. Haha.
I'd go with:
Is the author American? or European?
Does the author's surname being with a letter A-M?
Was the author born after 1970?
Is the author American? or European?
Does the author's surname being with a letter A-M?
Was the author born after 1970?
Lori wrote: "I'd go with:Is the author American? or European?
Does the author's surname being with a letter A-M?
Was the author born after 1970?"
I think one of those questions would be good.
Is the author American? or European?
Does the author's surname being with a letter A-M?
dalex wrote: "Someone should go spy on the other groups to see what questions they're asking to guess their authors. Haha."I'm on it. (taking off my butterfly and ladybug disguise) Mostly the same questions. One about if the author writes novels , which was one of our possibilities, and one about being Caucasian, There was a 1001 books which might have been stolen from us! haha
I feel we should narrow it down by surname first, then birth year.
I just did the Synonyms and Antonyms game
Today I read:- 288 pages of The Prince and the Dressmaker
-118 pages of The Sun Is Also a Star (Counts towards a book with an epilogue)
-96 pages of The Wicked King (Count towards book with blue cover)
Just did the Guess the Movie Adaptation Challenge, A Few of My Favorite Things and Synonyms and Antonyms
I also (finally) did all the games! Will head over to the spreadsheet to update now. And I am very sorry, but I have lost track - which bucket are we on now?
Finished
for the blue cover book 240 pages
Candie wrote: "Lori wrote: "I'd go with:Is the author American? or European?
Does the author's surname being with a letter A-M?
Was the author born after 1970?"
I think one of those questions would be good.
I agree. As I was struggling with keeping straight which questions in the spreadhseet were for author 2, I added a tab with questions (and my apologies if I didn't get all the QA correct) just in case anyone else is having the same problem.
Hilde wrote: "I also (finally) did all the games! Will head over to the spreadsheet to update now. And I am very sorry, but I have lost track - which bucket are we on now?"
Ok, I think I got it, working on Bucket 8.
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But I'm working on the page 6 prompt and am finishing up my book.
So we have that and the purple cover left for bucket 8.
Like I said, I have a purple book but since I wouldn't be starting until later tonight, someone else will likely beat me.
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I'm working on the purple cover book I should be done in about 2 hours or less
at 60% now
I can do a blue cover if no one else grabbed it already. I'm about to start Men Explain Things to Me and my copy has a blue cover. It's definitely more blue than Empire of Storms.
finished
for the purple cover 144 pages
Rachel wrote: "I can do a blue cover if no one else grabbed it already. I'm about to start Men Explain Things to Me and my copy has a blue cover. It's definitely more blue than Empire of Storms."The blue cover has been done
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That means we need:
- 2 books that span several years
- A book in which a sport/game is important to the story
I put off dinner to finish my book but I can check my stack after I eat :)
Debra wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I can do a blue cover if no one else grabbed it already. I'm about to start Men Explain Things to Me and my copy has a blue cover. It's definitely more blue than Empi..."Ok, great. I was about to offer a purple cover instead, but I see that's been done too. Guess I need to be quicker than that, lol.
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