Read-a-Thon #3 - Team Cake

[Jillian]

Sounds good, Chrissy. I will get you updated on the list. I put you down for read-in-2019 since I have someone else pending for the library and no one in the read in 2019 spot.

[Jill]

Jillian wrote: "I have update post 2

Contemporary-Come Find Me (9)~Samantha

Library Books-The Simplicity of Cider (3)~Samantha

Wishlist- [book:The Book of Strange New Things|2069..."

That’s the one!

[Jillian]

Thanks!

[Traci]

I finished Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance for coming-of-age and updated the spreadsheet. I should finish The Ensemble for music tomorrow afternoon.

[Jillian]

Great job, Traci!

I have about 4 hours left on my audio book so I should finish it tomorrow morning.

[Jillian]

Great job, post 2 has the shelves that currently has openings. Though we can shift some books around if needed.

[Deborah]

I finished Heart of Iron which we have down for retellings for now.

[Jillian]

Thanks, Devin and Deborah!

We need to finish 5 more shelves to complete Quest 1 and we have members working on 10 books so hopeful those extra books will work for Quest 2.

[Deborah]

Good morning all! I expect to finish Ten in the next few hours (super fast read). It would work for realistic-fiction which I think is still open.

[Traci]

Good morning! I ended up listening more than expected last night and just finished the ensemble for music. I'm not able to update the spreadsheet now. I'm excited to see where we are when I check back in this afternoon!

[Chrissy]

I’ll update for The Ensemble, which brings us to 10 complete. Great job!

[Jillian]

Way to go Traci! I updated post 2 and some else got the spreadsheet updated. I jumped ahead in my counting earlier we now need 5 more 5 shelves.

Let me know if I missed anyone's books.

[Jillian]

I have about 2 hours left of my audio book so I'm going to get back to cleaning and listening.

[Alaina]

Good morning everyone! I'm about halfway through Obsidio right now so I'm hoping to knock out the rest of it by the end of the day.

[Perri]

Sweet job on the spreadsheets, Cake Leaders! So, I'll likely finish my book today, am I correct that we won't know the next topics until we finish this quest? Trying to decide what to read next!

[Jillian]

Perri, I think that is correct. I have been looking at the other groups too in case they finish quest 1 before us. Then we might have an idea of quest 2.

[Perri]

Jillian wrote: "Perri, I think that is correct. I have been looking at the other groups too in case they finish quest 1 before us. Then we might have an idea of quest 2."

Sneaky! I like it!! :)

[Chrissy]

I finished Kingdom of the Blind, and will update the spreadsheet now.

[Jillian]

I just finished Stormbird and will get it updated.

I have to go into work for a bit and then I will see about starting a new book.

[Jillian]

Chrissy or Traci, I added my book to the spreadsheet but I'm unsure how to add the gray coloring. Would one of you be able to do that?

[Chrissy]

No problem!

[Chrissy]

It looks like we’ll get to 15 today or tomorrow, so I’m going to wait and see what the next quest is before starting a new book. In the meantime I can get some housework and other stuff done! And probably read the books I started before the readathon that don’t count.

[Perri]

Finished Strange New Things for Wishlist

[Deborah]

I finished Ten for realistic-fiction!

Not likely to finish anything else today or tomorrow and itvlooks like we just need one more, but hopefully will be making progress on something that will work for the next quest!

[Jillian]

Great job, Perri and Deborah!

[Traci]

Great job everyone! I'm back home now and reading some books (one physical, one audio). It's likely someone else will finish the quest, so I'm hopeful they'll count for the next one!

[Jillian]

My next books will work for Contemporary but I think someone else will finish a book before me. So, I'm going to wait to add my book.

[Jill]

I just finished Dear Martin.

[Traci]

Woo Hoo! Way to go Jill!

[Traci]

Hey mods - We've finished 15 shelves and are ready for our next Quest!!

[Jillian]

Traci, I also posted a note to the mods in the team assignment thread in case they miss your post.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Quest #2

Sometimes a quest takes you closer to home than you expect. The next step of the journey focuses on your "home" in the ATY group.

Read 10 books that are somehow related to the ATY group. This includes (limited to) the following:

- A books with that starts with a letter found in "AROUND THE YEAR"
- A book that one of the moderators rated as 5 stars
- A book for the 2019 or 2020 challenge
- A book for the Fall/Autumn Challenge
- A book you originally discovered within the group
- A book from ATY's "lesser known" book list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

For any other teams that may or may not be lurking in other team's threads, you're in luck with this quest. But future quests may not be discovered quite so easily ;)

[Jillian]

Laura, for the prompt "A book for the 2019 or 2020 challenge" I'm guessing for the 2019 it just has to fit the prompt rather than be the actual book you use (I have completed 51 of the prompts and my last book has less 125 left so I cannot use it).

[Traci]

Laura - Is it correct that there are no rules for how to fill books into these groups? For instance...could all 10 come from just one category?

[Traci]

Team...if you like spreadsheets I did make a very basic one for this quest (Quest #2 - as before, feel free to change/add), but there's not as much strategizing so feel free to just post instead. I'm also going to make a "Books" tab since I saw in a different group that books that don't fit in this quest can be used in future quests.

[Deborah]

Yay for a new quest!

My next reat will be The Arrangement which would work for a title starting with a letter from our group name and possibly other categories, though I'm not sure if I will be able to start before tomorrow.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

The book does not have to actually be applied to the prompt, it just has to fit one of the prompts.

You also can apply books to the same prompt as many times as you would like.

[Jillian]

Thanks!

[Traci]

Laura wrote: "The book does not have to actually be applied to the prompt, it just has to fit one of the prompts.

You also can apply books to the same prompt as many times as you would like."

Thanks Laura!

[Traci]

I've added a Books tab, and I believe I have entered all books that are listed in posts and on the spreadsheet tabs for quest #1 and #2. I'll try to keep it updated, but I've listed team members in alphabetical order, which should make it more readable. No pressure to read all the books listed, and there were a few listed in posts that I didn't add, since I think they might have had under 125 pages left so not count (let me know or update if that is incorrect).

[Sarah]

Ya team! I just logged on to say that I finished Love and Death Among the Cheetahs for quest 1 but we are onto quest 2 already!

This book was published this year so we can use it for A book for the 2019 or 2020 challenge it fits into week 51. A book published in 2019.

[Alaina]

Way to go everyone on completing the first quest!

I just finished Obsidio which can work for a title that starts with a letter found in "AROUND THE YEAR." I'll also start The Dog Stars later tonight, which can work for a book for the 2019 challenge, as this fits prompt 14 to read a book with a title that relates to an astronomical term.

[Perri]

Woot, Don't we all just take the cake??

Does anyone know the rule about Graphic Novels? Mod Sophie has Nimona as a 5 star fav and I could easily pick up a copy from my library tomorrow. I think that was a prompt I once voted for and the Lesser Known List One as well!

Also started The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss

[Perri]

Adding books to the list I see what others are reading:

Traci, have you used up all your kleenex with A Monster Calls?
Jillian at the opposite spectrum I thought Furiously Happy was Furiously Funny
Chirssy-man I didn't get Flatland, you must be smart!

[Jill]

I a, going to start Me Talk Pretty One Day. It fits “a book for the 2019 or 2020 challenge” - a book not written in a traditional novel format. I should finish on Tuesday.

[Deborah]

Perri wrote: "Woot, Don't we all just take the cake??

Does anyone know the rule about Graphic Novels? Mod Sophie has Nimona as a 5 star fav and I could easily pick up a copy from my library tomo..."

Lol take the cake! :)

I think graphic novels woyld count, but need to meet the 125+ pages requirement? Unless i missed any added rules.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Nimona is fine since it's plenty long (272 pages)

[Traci]

Perri wrote: "Adding books to the list I see what others are reading:

Traci, have you used up all your kleenex with A Monster Calls?
Jillian at the opposite spectrum I thought Furiously Happy was Furiously Funn..."

I've barely started A Monster Calls....I need to stop looking at spreadsheets! I've been warned though...

I enjoyed Flatland, but I was a math major in college, so there's that.

[Jillian]

Perri wrote: "Woot, Don't we all just take the cake??

Does anyone know the rule about Graphic Novels? Mod Sophie has Nimona as a 5 star fav and I could easily pick up a copy from my library tomo..."

I'll ask in the mods to see what they say about Graphic Novels.

I also update post 2 with the completed books.

[Jillian]

Perri, Katie said " Graphic novels work as long as they meet the page requirement."
So, your book is good to go!