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Read-A-Thon #1: Team Cocoa Pebbles
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The book I'm currently reading works for every level, so I'm fine with whatever seems easiest or the best to start with. I've also input all of your names on the spreadsheet, so feel free to add your books and your pages read each day.
Mystical animals fire breathing
phoenix tears
Yeti
unicorn blood
ancient gods
pegasus
half horse half man
The Little Mermaid
sea creatures
Mother of Dragons
Sphinx riddles
werewolf
pot of gold
Nessie
Care of Magical Creatures
I'm currently reading Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon. I will have to add the page counts once I finish since my kindle edition does not have pages numbers just location but looking on amazon. I have around 490 pages left. Though I plan on reading it today so I guess I will have to recalculate the number.
I add my book to the spreadsheet just where the author's name works. If we need to I can run a word search through the book but I'll wait to see if that is necessary. I'm not sure I understand the title prompt and I don't think my cover works anywhere.
Emily, I'm not understanding how your book matches the title option. Unless, I'm miss reading the rules your books matches the first letter but the rules say the phrase has to be in the title which I don't see.
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That makes sense. On the planning thread, I was wondering if we should add a line of the date we think we will finish our book. That might be helpful in deciding which level we want to work on first.
These are the 4 possible books I will get read during the read-a-thon. The first three I'm reading in order. Also the first 2, I have started. I'm putting what I have left to read on them and then will up date the pages/hours since I plan on making some progress today. The 4th book is a side read so I can read/finish it when needed. edit page/hours for 2/22/2020
Dragonfly in Amber/Diana Gabaldon (pages left 410).
Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati (hours left 10 hrs 10mins).
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (I have not started. 12hr 47 mins)
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Side read already started 166 pages left).
Hi Team Cocoa Pebbles (a cereal I have never eaten!)Looking forward to this. Emily would you please freeze the list of words on the spreadsheet so that they show when you move to the right. I wasn't able to see them when I added some of my books... and anyone adding books after me won't see them as well. I did shrink some columns to help me which hopefully won't cause a problem.
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I am currently reading Unsheltered which I suspect will have a number of the words/phrases for Dinsosaur and Insects levels and perhaps Big Cat. I am waiting to start the other books after the team settles on a level to work on . I have no preference as to which one we choose.
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I’ll be reading The Deep and Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me this weekend, and continuing World Without End on audio. I’m not sure where they will count, but I can check out the spreadsheet.
Morning everyone! I placed the book I know for sure I'm reading this week in the appropriate sheets:
Veronica wrote: "Morning everyone! I placed the book I know for sure I'm reading this week in the appropriate sheets:"Loved this book. It is one of the few books I might reread sometime. .. and I almost never reread books.
Emily wrote: "Why don't we just decide to start with the dinosaur level? That seems to be where we have the most options for this first round of books."On to dinosaur level.
Edie wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Morning everyone! I placed the book I know for sure I'm reading this week in the appropriate sheets:"Loved this book. It is one of th..."
Thanks Edie! I have heard so many good things about it, I'm really excited to finally read it!
Dinosaur sounds good to me!
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Ok, I will update the spreadsheet once we decide, but in addition to what I have listed I will probably be starting a new audio book in the next day or two.I went through the categories that we don't have any choices for yet and could possibly meet:
Insects: Springtime
Puppy: Sit and Stay
Puppy: Snoopy
Big Cat: The Lion King
If its not narrowed down by tomorrow night/Sunday morning I will pick one of them.
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After that, I guess we can see what books we still have in progress and move them over to whatever level has the most options in progress after that? Unless y'all would rather us pick the order right now so that you can plan ahead?
Greetings, fellow cocoa pebbles!I am about a third of the way through A Game of Thrones, hopefully I can finish this week, but for sure will count for pages. I just started an audio book last night. And I have several easy books penciled in, so I should be able to get a few done this week.
Now, off to check the spread sheet!
I think, it makes the most sense to pick the next levels after we finish dinosaur. If this read-a-thon goes by like most we will finish the first level really fast over this weekend and then slow down some over the week.
Would Red, White and Royal Blue count for a cover related to The Lion King? with the prince, in full princely regalia, pictured on the cover? Or is that too much of a stretch? (It’s my first readathon, I know nothing, lol, but I’m planning to read RWRB anyway!)
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I'm just waking up with what I hope is a sinus infection but may possibly be strep throat (the joys of working with snotty teenagers...) so I'll be heading to the doctor this morning. The good news is that I have nothing else on the agenda for the day, and I fully plan on being completely lazy and reading until my eyes close tonight.
I'm (slowly) reading Homegoing, and supplementing with All the Ways We Said Goodbye, and I just picked up The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery on audio, so I have some good options!
Good morning! Sorry to hear you’re ill, Emily! :( I’m off to run a 5k real quick (who even am I??), then hopefully spend a large portion of the rest of the day just reading. I’ve got Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu), Penny For Your Secrets (Anna Lee Huber), Red White and Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston), and an audio of TS Eliot poetry that’s quite short and should cover the t-rex prompt with author initials, lol. And I’m also finishing up a Witch-themed readathon that’s lasted all of February, so I may pop a couple of witchy kids books in there too. Who knows.
Good morning everyone!!Right now I have a little over 100 pages left in both of the books I'm reading, The Other People and Here Comes the Sun. I added them to the spreadsheet and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to finish one if not both of them today.
I hope you feel better soon Emily!
Good morning!I have to work today so won't be able to get any good reading done until this evening. I'm starting Where the Crawdads Sing and really hyped for this one. Likely won't finish it today but will try to get as far as possible.
Feel better Emily!
Oh gosh, Emily, I hope it's not strep! I'm reading:
Daisy Jones & The Six and The Concrete Blonde but probably will not be finished for a few days
Good morning, cocoa pebbles! Hope you get some good meds and feel better, Emily!
Start my audiobook this morning. Hopefully I can get it done today.
Emily, I hope you feel better.My plan is to read 4 chapters of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History today (I already got one done) and the other 4 tomorrow. I'll also be jumping between my other 2 books and hopefully finish them by Tuesday.
Emily hope the doctor is able to help you get sorted out and you are on the mend quick. I am going to get started on The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel and am finishing up the audio book for Little Women. I had questions on both that I posted on FAQ page, once I know how to handle I will add them to the spreadsheet.
I hope to finish both today.
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Don't forget to update pages read as well! We want to earn those wild cards!
Hi Team,Today I started and finished The Poet X: A Novel by Elizabeth Acevedo (it is a story told in poetry). It was 3.5 hours of audio! I plugged it in for carnivore which of the six categories it fit had the lowest number of possible options. It could be moved to one of the other options as needed. I really liked this and as not much of a poetry reader, listening to the author read this was definitely the way to go.
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Emily wrote: "That's great, Edie! I have wanted to read that one but was always intimidated by the poetry aspect. Might go for the audio!"I don't know that I could have "read" this... certainly not in a day. I couldn't bear to stop the audio... wanting to know what happened next. With the author reading this it was a "page turner".
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As our day winds down, team, don't forget to put in your pages and audio hours for the day. If you can't make it to the spreadsheet, feel free to post it here and I can add it for you.
I thought I might finish Peace Like a River today but it will be tomorrow before I finish.I will add my pages read before I go to bed. Didn’t get as much reading done as I had hoped, too many errands to run, but tomorrow looks better for reading.
I’m reading Red, White and Royal Blue, and just want to share my glee that I found the following passage: “I’ve seen Jurassic Park. Did you know birds are directly descended from raptors? That’s a scientific fact. Raptors in my bedroom, Henry.” Didn’t expect it to fit so many dinosaur prompts at once, but here we are...
I added my books and reading time to the spreadsheet. I finished The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel not sure where I should put that.
Looks like I won't finish little women today, hopefully tomorrow. Then I just need to figure out what comes next...
I finished my book and added to spread sheet. I used "roaming the land" because David Livingstone certainly did!
I finished Here Comes the Sun but didn't quite finish The Other People, but I should definitely get it done tomorrow. I'll also update the spreadsheet.
Got 72 pages read of Where the Crawdads Sing. I seem to be reading pretty quickk yuh so will likely finish it tomorrow.
I added my audio hours to the spreadsheet and I will add my page numbers once I finish my books (I cannot keep track of pages read per day).
189 pages into RWRB ... and a single page read of Penny for Your Secrets, lol... plus the half hour of audio I listened to during my run this morning. All logged in the spreadsheet! I should finish up this audio book tomorrow morning, that’ll work for the t-Rex prompt, which doesn’t seem to have many options, and hopefully finish either RWRB or Penny by tomorrow night. And now, 20-ish hours after I got up this morning, good night 😅
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I just checked out the spreadsheet and WOW we got some work done yesterday! It looks like we've earned four Wild Cards, and we've knocked out four words from Dinosaur!
I have some errands to run this morning, so I'll be getting in some audiobook hours, but once I'm home, I'm home for the day, and will hopefully get reading done.
Samantha- when you finish a book, just put it anywhere it will fit, preferably one with fewer options. But we can always move it, but may not need to with the wild card options!Happy reading today!
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Samantha, I just put it on "munching on leaves", since that had the lesser books of the two options you had.
Good morning Team Cocoa! Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day, so I spent it in my garden. Today is rainy so I should get some reading done :)
I finished Peace Like a River this morning so I added it to the spreadsheet for “extinct.”
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As a reminder, here are the people on this team:
Team Captain: Emily
Jillian
Chrissy
Edie
Lois
Samantha (Message 16)
Jill
Perri
Veronica
Kathy Jo
Devin
Roxana
Cheryl
Rose
Alaina
The rules can be found at this thread.
Your team should begin by choosing which level they will tackle first! You must complete the level you chose before moving on to the other levels.
For each word/phrase in a level, you must fill it in one of four ways:
1: Both of the author's initials are in the word/phrase
2: The word/phrase is in the title
3: The cover depicts something related to the word/phrase
4: The word/phrase is written exactly or acted out within the book
The words/phrases are:
Big Cat Level
1. Sahara desert
2. pride
3. fastest mammal
4. kittens
5. whisker
6. tigers and panthers
7. rescue
8. The Lion King
9. roar
10. Shere Khan
Puppy Level
1. dog breed
2. animal shelter
3. labrador
4. lick your face
5. sit and stay
6. tennis ball
7. who's a good boy?
8. Snoopy
9. let's play fetch
10. fluffy
Dinosaur Level
1. carnivore
2. extinct
3. munching on leaves
4. stomp
5. Jurassic Park
6. triceratops
7. ancestors to birds
8. roaming the land
9. t-rex
10. ancient predators
Insect Level
1. spider web
2. creepy crawling
3. legs
4. thorax
5. millions of bugs
6. ants
7. grasshoppers
8. many species
9. springtime
10. don't step on them!
Don't forget to track your pages read each day! This can earn you Wild Cards to knock out those tricky words.
Here is a link to your group spreadsheet, where you can track and plan: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Happy reading!
Reminder: The Read-A-Thon does not begin until you wake up on Saturday. Use this time to plan your books and start strategizing!