High Five: reporting ONLY

[Marie Claude]

We were away only for the day, it was my daugter's birthday this week and we decided to make a day-trip to Montreal today. It was fun, we had great food, I found a couple of books I wanted and bought my daughter her birthday gift (she's 22 and at university, so gift is now "buy what you want up to that amount" LOL)...

I couldn't read as much as I wanted this week before she was home and felt a little lonely... so instead of reading I spent as much time as I could with her, which meant no transportation time (I usually take the bus, but she kept the car and drove me home after work) to read, and no quiet time while cooking... But she will go back to school tomorrow and won't be back home before Christmas, so it was time to enjoy her presence :) I will read next week LOL Sad the Toppler is already over... ;o)

[Marie Claude]

Tejas Janet wrote: "Hmm, don't know. Here and maybe the Toppler-opoly thread?

But wow, what a great toppler. My only regret is maybe for anyone who read a book they didn't enjoy just to help out their team. I know t..."

I read books I was planning to read someday, so even though Slaughterhouse-Five was really not my favoite book of the year, I would have experienced it someday ;o)

I am amazed at the number of books some of you have managed to read during the week! Even in a great week I don't think I could manage more than 6 or 7...

Congratulations all! and thank you Gail for the spreadsheet it was helpful and nice to see the progress :)

[Tejas Janet]

Six books in a week is a big deal for me, for sure.

I have mixed feelings about Slaughterhouse-Five. I love this book, but I came to it early in life before adulthood.

Not sure what I'd think about it coming to it as an adult now.

But I stand my high rating.

[Marie (UK)]

I really struggled with this toppled, mainly because all the set up happened whilst i was on holiday. I never really understood what i was doing but maybe better next time

[Marie (UK)]

damm spell correct toppler!!

[Gail]

Sorry, I completely overlooked Hex on the Ex when I was going through the spreadsheet again last night. So in fact we have 670 points. :-)

[Elsbeth]

Gail wrote: "Sorry, I completely overlooked Hex on the Ex when I was going through the spreadsheet again last night. So in fact we have 670 points. :-)"

That's great - no matter how many points the other teams have!!

[Gail]

How many do the other teams have?

[Marie Claude]

Hex on the Ex was 304 pages long, the other 2 were under 300 pages. So that's 1 book for me over 300 pages...

304 pages

[Dawn]

I only have 1 book over 300 as well.
Endless Night by Agatha Christie was 303 pages.

[Tejas Janet]

I had 4 books over 300 pages:

314 pages for The Paris Wife

336 pages for 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World

306 pages for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

304 pages for Buried in a Bog

[Gail]

Two of my books were over 300 pages:

312 pages for The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

314 pages for The Color Purple (glad I read the ebook edition, or it would have been just under 300!)

[Rebecca]

I had 9 books over 300 pages.
Three Little Words-329 pages
Christmas Angel-352 pages
Menu for Romance-317 pages
Forget Me Not-335 pages
See Jane Score-309 pages
Frederica437 pages
Because of You-375 pages
The Hero-413 pages
A Brother's Honor-381 pages

[Sharon]

I had 3 books over 300 pages:

The God of Small Things, 321 pages
Lady Macbeth, 340 pages
Station Eleven, 333 pages

[Canadian Dragon]

I had 3/5 that were over 300 pages

horns- 398
Interview with the vampire -340
Forrest of the night -384

[Elsbeth]

I had none with more than 300 pages - all 5 are between 200 and 290 pages...

[Tejas Janet]

I had some time so I looked up what outstanding team members and books we had for reporting over 300 pages. I hopefully didn't leave anybody or any books out and have the correct books/authors selected.

Marie
300 Elephant Moon - not sure if counts
309 This Green and Pleasant land - yes

Marnie
313 The Fault in Our Stars - yes
368 Blackberry Wine - yes
261 Euphoria - no

Paaki
374 The Hunger Games - yes
176 Dead Poets Society - no
288 Mr. Monk Gets Even- no
272 The Screwtape Letters - no


Pragya
374 These Broken Stars - yes
332 Vampire Academy - yes
176 The Pleasure of my Company - no
190 Insanity - no