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Read-a-Thon #3 - Team Pie
Thanks Kathryn, they're resolved for now. Heading off to bed :)
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Good job team Pie! :)I will finish a book today that can count for prompt 1.
Good morning Pies!Great work yesterday. Now on to quest 2 😉
I'm listening to Det lille bageri på strandpromenaden /Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan which I plan on using for the food prompt. Yes, I know... Cakes isn't really food, but she bakes a lot of bread and focaccia and bagels is food for me 😁
I'm trying to find another book I can read at home, but this evening I'm going to the cinema with my mum, so I don't know how much time I'll have to read.
Marina H wrote: "Good morning Pies!Great work yesterday. Now on to quest 2 😉
I'm listening to Det lille bageri på strandpromenaden /Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan which I plan on using ..."
It took me a few seconds to work out what food had to do with anything, and then remembered it was on this year's challenge!!
Enjoy the movies, and your time with your mum, Marina!
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Did you figure out if books we didn't use in quest 1 can be used for quest 2? If so, The Kappillan of Malta, which I finished yesterday, can be used for "A book that starts with a letter found in "AROUND THE YEAR" - I've put it in the spreadsheet just in case.
I should finish Warcross this morning, which works for prompt 40 "A book you stumbled on" - I'd never heard of it until it was mentioned in a different challenge I do. I've also put that one in the spreadsheet.
I finished Ragnarök: De ondergang van de goden for prompt 1: A book that starts with a letter found in "AROUND THE YEAR".I added it to the spreadsheet.
Trish, I'm pretty sure I saw Laura say, that we can use books we didn't use for quest 1 :-)Great work team, we've already finished 3 books for quest 2!!
Marina H wrote: "Trish, I'm pretty sure I saw Laura say, that we can use books we didn't use for quest 1 :-)"I found it in message 67:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
:)
Well done on quest 2 so far, everyone!!!Ira - does The Silent Patient work for any of the categories for quest 2??
Trish wrote: "Having been rubbish for quest 1, I'm going to try to do better for this one. Did you figure out if books we didn't use in quest 1 can be used for quest 2? If so..."
And yes, we can definitely use your book you finished yesterday, Trish!
Johanne wrote: "Happy elections today. You live in Norway as far as I recall?"Yep, that's correct! It was exciting indeed, as there were big changes from last time.
I don't know the English terminology, so I'm gonna take it in Norwegian (sorry):
Var bare kommunevalg denne gangen, Johanne - men komplett omveltning fra valget for 4 år siden. Så det gjør Stortingsvalget om to år veldig spennende!
Kathryn wrote: "And oops - I've just scrolled across and seen the list of tasks over to the right!! Sorry, Hilde!No, don't be sorry! Please feel free to make any changes you'd like, it was just a suggestion from my side.
Well done, all! Three books already for Quest 2, that's awesome:) I'll try to do better for Quest 2, it's been and still is busy here now!
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Did you figure out if books we didn't use in quest 1 can be used for quest 2? If so..."
And yes, we can definitely use your book you finished yesterday, Trish!"
Awesome. I've also just finished Warcross, so that's entered in the spreadsheet.
I have an hour left on Season of the Witch so I'll be finishing that on my commute later. Then I have The Testaments to listen to!
Hilde wrote: "Johanne wrote: "Happy elections today. You live in Norway as far as I recall?"Yep, that's correct! It was exciting indeed, as there were big changes from last time.
I don't know the English ter..."
Ah, yes that is interesting. I think "kommune" is somewhat similar to "municipality" or "county". And that´s the elections they had in Norway. For outsiders: Danish and Norwegian are very similar languages, so we understand each other fine (at least in writing or slow speaking).
Ellie wrote: "I have an hour left on Season of the Witch so I'll be finishing that on my commute later. Then I have The Testaments to listen to!"
Excited to hear what you think of testaments!
Ellie wrote: "I have an hour left on Season of the Witch so I'll be finishing that on my commute later. Then I have The Testaments to listen to!"Ooh, The Testaments - that's exciting! Do tell us how it was when you've finished! I love the tv-series, at least the two first seasons, wonder if the book goes in the same direction or not.
Kathryn wrote: "Well done on quest 2 so far, everyone!!!Ira - does The Silent Patient work for any of the categories for quest 2??"
It fits A book for the 2019 or 2020 challenge and A book you originally discovered within the group
Ira wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Well done on quest 2 so far, everyone!!!Ira - does The Silent Patient work for any of the categories for quest 2??"
It fits A book for the 2019 or 2020 challenge and A book you o..."
I've added your book to the spreadsheet 😊
I finished Det lille bageri på strandpromenaden quicker than expected so we've completed 6 out of the 10 books now.
Yay, I finished a book! We're whizzing through this second quest.
I’ve just finished a book too, and I’ve added it to the spreadsheet! Only need two more now, Pies! 🥧
Aaaaand, I just finished another one. It was a super quick read (still hit the page limit though!). Only one left now!
Oh wow, Jody - you’re really on a roll! Reading slump no more 👏🏻
It's definitely busted! I'm listening to an audiobook too, but it's loooong (21 hours), but hopefully I'll finish it at some point this week so it can count too. Now to decide what to read next ...
I’ve just finished The Finkler Question so we’ve finished quest 2!I’ve got about 60 pages of my other book and 16 hours of my audiobook to go, so I’ll keep reading them and hope they fit into quest 3.
I’ve been lurking on the other threads, and it looks like quest 3 will be different for all teams, so I’m excited to see what it is ...
Great work, Pies! I'm excited to see what our next quest will be 😊I'm just home from the cinema. I saw a film about a Danish photographer who was held hostage by ISIS in 2012 and came home after 13 months. That was a hard one to watch!
Now I'm going to get ready for bed, so there won't be a lot of reading for me this evening.
I don't know which book to pick next. I'm hoping our next quest will be revealed soon 😀
Happy reading and talk to you guys tomorrow!
What! already? Go pies!You look away for a few hours and - bam!
Mods - can we please have our awesome quest #3?
Hooray! Well done, Team Pie, while I’ve been sleeping!! I’m excited to see the next quest as well (and I’ve had a little peek at the other teams and Teams Cake and Brownie are also up to the third quest, but they haven’t been posted yet either). In the meantime, keep track of your books as you finish them. I’ve set up a (currently empty) Quest #3 tab in the spreadsheet, and a tab for unassigned books so we can keep track of them.
Thanks Kathryn, I thought of that but I'm on my way to bed and didn't bother to turn on a computer :)I started Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano. I am also listening to Ud og stjæle heste by Per Petterson. I listen on my bike ride to work and it should be finished in a couple of days. Hopefully they'll work for quests :)
Goodnight to the Europeans and good morning to Kathryn!
Johanne wrote: "Thanks Kathryn, I thought of that but I'm on my way to bed and didn't bother to turn on a computer :)..."Totally understand, Johanne!
Sleep well to the Europeans and Brits, and I'll keep reading - although not as much as I'd like, since it's a work day!
and you Kathryn, are Australia.Sorry tired now, will sleep. Just so excited for quest 3
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For our next stop, we're going to take a trip back in time... for most of us. Some of the group may remember being a member of the girl scouts in school, even if for a short time. If not that, you may enjoy the lovely time of year (my personal favorite) when we order girl scout cookies.
Girls scouts haven't always been treated the same way as their male counterparts. Since then, many have advocated for increased equality and, in June of this year, they added 42 new badges for girl scouts, encouraging more well-rounded skill development and exploration.
So for this challenge you get to explore some of those badges. Each team will be asked to read books somehow connected to the various categories. This can include a number of different things, including title, content, setting, cover, etc. In the spirit of equality, you will also be asked to read books linked to the various boy scout badges. Use your imagination and have fun!
Girl Scout Badges
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math [2 books needed]
- Digital Arts [Computer Expert, Digital Photographer, Digital Movie Maker, Website Designer]
- Coding for Good [Coding Basics, Digital Game Design, App Development]
- Robotics [What Robots Do, Programming/Designing Robots, How Robots Move, Showcasing Robots]
- Investigation [Senses, Detective, Special Agent, Truth Seeker]
Outdoors [1 Book Needed]
- Adventure [Letterboxer, Geocacher, Night Owl, Traveler]
Life Skills [3 Books Needed]
- Athlete [Fair Play, Practice with Purpose, Good Sportsmanship, Cross-Training, Coaching]
- Storytelling [My Family Story, Scribe, Screenwriter, Novelist]
- Do It Yourself [Household Elf, Gardener, Woodworker, Room Makeover]
Entrepreneurship [1 Book Required]
- Cookie Business [Count it Up, Meet my Customers, Cookie CEO, Business Plan, My Portfolio, Research and Development, Talk it Up, Give Back, Customer Insights, Marketing, Customer Loyalty, P&L, Think Big]
- Financial Literacy [Money Counts/Manager, Business Owner, Budgeting, Financing my Future, On My Own, Making Choices, Philanthropist, Savvy Shopper, Comparison Shopping, Buying Power, Good Credit, Financing my Dreams]
- Innovation [Inventor, Product Designer, Entrepreneur, Social Innovator]
Note: You only have to read the number of books specified for each section. Each list contains multiple badge categories (i.e. digital arts). The specific badges are listed in parentheses (i.e. Computer Expert). You may read multiple books from the same category, just like a scout can explore each area more in-depth. But you can't earn more than one of the same, specific badge.
Boy Scout Badges
Boy Scouts have a whopping 137 badges to choose from, with subjects spanning all the way from "Bugling" to "Dog Care". For the remainder of your quest, simply choose 8 topics from the (modified) list. You are only permitted to read 1 book per item so you will read 8 different "topics".This should give you a total of 15 badges in order to move forward.
Architecture
Art
Astronomy
Aviation
Bird Study
Camping
Canoeing
Chemistry
Chess
Citizenship in the World
Coin Collecting
Communication
Cooking
Crime Prevention
Cycling
Disabilities Awareness
Dog Care
Electronics
Energy
Engineering
Family Life
Fire Safety
First Aid
Fishing
Forestry
Game Design
Gardening
Genealogy
Geology
Graphic Arts
Hiking
Horsemanship
Indian Lore
Insect Study
Inventing
Journalism
Landscape Architecture
Law
Lifesaving
Medicine
Music
Nature
Nuclear Science
Oceanography
Painting
Personal Fitness
Pets
Photography
Pottery
Radio
Railroading
Reading
Rifle Shooting
Sculpture
Space Exploration
Sports
Textile
Theater
Weather
Wilderness Survival
Woodwork
Again, be creative in your connections. This is all for fun and there is no need to be literal. For instance, for the financial literacy category, you may even read a coming-of-age story for someone moving away from home in order to fulfill the "On My Own" badge.
OK, Team Pie - we've got our third quest!!I've done up a spreadsheet, but it isn't anything very fancy, so if you can see a way to make anything better, please feel free to change it! I think this seems a fairly easy to achieve quest, in terms of filling categories because there are lots of options, so I think if you read whatever you want, you should be able to slot it in somewhere when you finish it. Because of this, I didn't put in a column for whether your book is completed or not - I figure we can just enter books as we finish them. However if people would rather fill in what they're working on, we can still add a column for completion...
I've set it up so that the various badge categories are available to choose from for the different groups (so if you're going for Life Skills, you can select Athlete, Storytelling or Do It Yourself from the drop-down menu) but I don't know that there's a way to then have the relevant badges appear depending on which you choose. So if you chose Storytelling, all the badge options for the different Life Skills are available, but you'd only be choosing from the Storytelling options of My Family Story, Scribe, Screenwriter or Novelist.
But if anyone has a better idea of how to set the spreadsheet up, feel free!!
And if you finish a book and can't work out where to slot it in, post here and someone will be able to give you a hand!
Morning pies!Wow lots of options in quest 3, looks intriguing.
Time to get creative it seems :)
happy reading today!
...after that thing called work...
I've just added to the spreadsheet - realised I forgot to leave a column for book title(!), and I added a column for other possibilities so that if we want to juggle books around, we know what other categories particular books will work for.And if you have books that are suitable for multiple options, there are numbers next to the badges in column K, so if listing all the possibilities in words takes up too much space, you can use the numbers.
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I've added Academic Curveball for Life Skills: storyteller (the main character is a research assistant for a TV show), which I should finish today. It could also fit Detective (cozy mystery) or Athlete (baseball on the cover), so if anyone needs to move it for a harder category, then go for it.
Do you think Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park might fit either STEM: digital arts or Entrepreneurship: innovation? If it can, then I'll carry on reading it today. If not, then I'll go for something else.
Good morning Pies!Oh wow, that's some quest. I have a couple of books I was thinking I would start reading today, but I'm not really sure where they fit in.
We'll just have to see how it goes :-)
Trish wrote: "I've added Academic Curveball for detective, which I should finish today. Do you think Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park might fit either STEM: digital ..."
I'm thinking Station X might work for Coding Basics - although they were decoding Enigma, and it involved doing more than just the basics!!
Marina H wrote: "Good morning Pies!Oh wow, that's some quest. I have a couple of books I was thinking I would start reading today, but I'm not really sure where they fit in.
We'll just have to see how it goes :-)"
Good morning, Marina!
Don't forget the last little paragraph in Laura's post:
Again, be creative in your connections. This is all for fun and there is no need to be literal. For instance, for the financial literacy category, you may even read a coming-of-age story for someone moving away from home in order to fulfill the "On My Own" badge.
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Maybe Truth Seeker and Special Agent, too, in that case: codebreaking is truth seeking, and they were all working in intelligence.
Marina H wrote: "Good morning Pies!Oh wow, that's some quest. I have a couple of books I was thinking I would start reading today, but I'm not really sure where they fit in.
We'll just have to see how it goes :-)"
Good morning, Pies! I echo your wow, that's some quest...!
Think I need to read over it once more, I was too tired this morning when I first saw it. But that last paragraph in Laura's post helps :)
I need some help I'm currently reading Zee van verbeelding, it is a Dutch book with fantasy and Sci-Fi short stories. But I have no idea where I could put the book (I will finish the book today or tomorrow morning).
I’m reading The Red Pony - I’ll put it against Horsemanship in the Boy Scout section. 😁
Trish wrote: "Cool. Thanks, Kathryn.Maybe Truth Seeker and Special Agent, too, in that case: codebreaking is truth seeking, and they were all working in intelligence."
Sounds good, Trish. So I see you've got both Station X and Academic Curveball in the spreadsheet already - have you finished both of them now?
Lieke wrote: "I need some help I'm currently reading Zee van verbeelding, it is a Dutch book with fantasy and Sci-Fi short stories. But I have no idea where I could put the book (I will finish th..."Is there a common theme in the stories, Lieke? Based just on the fact that they're fantasy and sci-fi, which therefore often need worlds invented just for the story - maybe they could go in "inventing" in the Boy Scouts badges section? Or "inventor" in the Innovation section of the Girl Scouts badges?
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I had a little sneak peak at the other teams (hush), and I saw that Quest 2 will be the same for all teams. So since we are close to the finish line for Quest 1, I played a lit..."
And oops - I've just scrolled across and seen the list of tasks over to the right!! Sorry, Hilde!