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Read-A-Thon #1: Team Frosted Flakes
I saw, and we got the go ahead! Woooohhh!
Good morning, team! Or good evening, for most of you! Crazy morning for me, so I won’t get to check Goodreads much until later today, but it looks like we’re doing well!!Happy reading, and sleep well, for those heading to bed soon!!
Hi all, I somehow missed the start of the readathon...but have found I'm in this group and ready to roll. I actually didn't read much over the weekend but I'll go back and see if I can work it out. I'll try and catch up with what's been happening and what's going on.
I saw you added 0,5 of audio, but we no longer have to enter audio as we got all audio Wildcards! We are now allowed to use the pages listened to for total read pages!Also welcome! Glad to have you 💜
Alhough I would personally love it if we keep logging audio hours in a different color (to show from when they were no longer needed, and that of those hours the pages were logged) just to see how much we’ll have listened to in total!
Carmen wrote: "I saw you added 0,5 of audio, but we no longer have to enter audio as we got all audio Wildcards! We are now allowed to use the pages listened to for total read pages!Also welcome! Glad to have y..."
Okay thanks. I'm not sure how to work out pages read for audio.
Bec wrote: "Carmen wrote: "I saw you added 0,5 of audio, but we no longer have to enter audio as we got all audio Wildcards! We are now allowed to use the pages listened to for total read pages!Also welcome!..."
For the audiobook I’ve been listening to today, I’m planning on not logging any “pages” for it until I’ve finished it, probably by tomorrow. When I’ve finished the book, I’m going to just log the number of pages in the UK paperback version in one go, and only break them down by date on my personal progress page. I think that’s probably easiest for me, so I don’t accidentally log some pages twice.
I'll just do an average: if a book is 250 pages in the physical edition and 10 hours audio, every hour is approximately 25 pages.Much too late for me now. Goodnight!
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Wow, look at us go - we're already 3 books into the Big Cats level - only 7 more to go!Carmen wrote: "I would personally love it if we keep logging audio hours in a different color (to show from when they were no longer needed, and that of those hours the pages were logged) just to see how much we’ll have listened to in total!..."
I've just added a line to the audio section of the tracking tab of the spreadsheet. So below that line is what we've listened to since we maxed out the audiohour wildcard limit. HOWEVER, this will not be counted automatically in our pages tracking - this section is now just for interest.
If you listen to an audiobook now, to include it in the tracking that will count toward more wildcards, it also needs to be included in the section above that, which is tracking pages.
Hannah, Johanne and Emily all have good ways of working out how many "pages" of an audiobook they have read, so you can use any of those methods.
Bec wrote: "I'm not sure how to work out pages read for audio..."
And no dramas, if you still can't work it out - if you post here in the thread how many minutes you listened to and how many minutes the entire book is, and how many pages the book is in an ordinary format, someone will be able to help you work it out.
:-D
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I'm well impressed with you audio "readers" - I can't do audio. I lose track of what's going on.
Should finish Stone Cold Crazy today, and then I'll see if I can fit any of my other short-term reads in.
Oh no my son has broken his arm in 2 spots so we are waiting for surgery. It may be tonight or may be in the morning. Luckily I have my book but no kindle if I finish it.
Trish wrote: "Morning. I'm well impressed with you audio "readers" - I can't do audio. I lose track of what's going on.
Should finish Stone Cold Crazy today, and then I'll see if I can fit any..."
Some audiobooks I find difficult to concentrate on too, Trish - it depends on the book and on the narrator. It also depends on what I’m doing while listening - walking is generally good, sometimes driving (depending on where I’m going). Sometimes I listen while cooking, but that’s not always successful - for either the cooking or the book! And then sometimes I just think I’d rather read a certain book than listen to it because I want to curl up and devour it!
Bec wrote: "Oh no my son has broken his arm in 2 spots so we are waiting for surgery. It may be tonight or may be in the morning. Luckily I have my book but no kindle if I finish it."Oh no, Bec! Looks like a long night ahead for you, then! Hope your book lasts you out. Sometimes hospitals aren’t necessarily a place where I get lots of reading done anyway as there can be too many distractions! Hope your son isn’t in too much pain while waiting!
Good morning everyone!Hope your son's alright, Bec.
Audios- Some books and narrators work better than others. And I can only do a limited amount of things
simultaneously- anything with movement from a to b where i know the way - riding bike, walking etc. And jigsaw puzzling. And VERY simple housework like folding clothes and sometimes I can't even do that without either losing track of what I am doing or the story.
I'm off work today, but what to read? I have several going so it's a matter of choice.
Johanne wrote: "Good morning everyone!Hope your son's alright, Bec.
Audios- Some books and narrators work better than others. And I can only do a limited amount of things
simultaneously- anything with movement f..."
Decisions, decisions, Johanne!! Hope whatever you read is fantastic!
I decided on The Secret Runners of New York last night - which doesn't fit any of the Big Cat categories, unless I come across one of the words/phrases in the text - and it's a little strange, but quite good...
So that I can keep an eye out for the words/phrases, my current bookmark is a piece of notepaper with the Big Cat categories written on it!
Ira wrote: "I finished listening to Age of Death by Michael J. Sullivan"Excellent, Ira! I've updated the spreadsheet to cross off "fastest mammal" for it.
Six more books to go to finish the Big Cats!And I'm off to bed! Keep up the good work! Good night, all!
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Just realised that Animal Farm works for the Lion King, which is another one we're short of, as well as pride and roar, so I'll read that next...
When did we get to 5/5 for Big Cats!? Look at us go!I'm focusing on finishing Treasure Island today (works for 1, 2 & 6) and House of Hades, of which I've listened 25% already (works for 1, 2, 6 & 9). I'll try to not sleep all day tomorrow haha!
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I've put it in for "The Lion King" as the only other book which had marked - Carmen's The Sight by Erin Hunter - had other options as well. Hope that's okay, Carmen?
When we finish Big Cats, can I put in a preference for Puppy next? The next two books I plan to read have text matches there, but not to the dinosaur ones, and neither the covers nor the initials work.
Urn Burial, Kerry Greenwood
The Library of Lost and Found, Phaedra Patrick
Trish wrote: "Okay, so after a quick couple of hours, Animal Farm, George Orwell is done. Its short, but thought provoking, and I was far too young when I first read it, in my late-teens, too appre..."Oh yes go for it! I haven't started The Sight yet anyways :) . (I put it in because it's about cats and fits a lot haha!)
Bec wrote: "Oh no my son has broken his arm in 2 spots so we are waiting for surgery. It may be tonight or may be in the morning. Luckily I have my book but no kindle if I finish it."Oh no! I hope he’s alright, Bec.
I’ve finished A Single Thread and added it for pride. It looks like we will some be finished with Big Cats, so we should maybe think about choosing our next category. I’ve got books that work for both, so I’m happy to go with either category.
I have read more then half of The Rithmatist will definitely finish it tomorrow. It can work for roar but would also work for Tennis Ball in Puppy.
Hi everyone, I got home half an hour ago (its 22:35 here) and am so tired … I didn't manage to read a lot today, but will calculate/turn my hours into pages and will add them to the spreadsheet in the next hour. Sadly I won't be able to finish any books tonight, tomorrow I'll have more time and will finish them.
Evening everyone.Didn´t read much today considering I had the day off... But different stuff took up some time. I had to do some things to prepare a meeting with the bank on thursday (I mean how adult can it get, right? If someone would take over those responsibilities so I could jut read!) And then my 16-year old has a crisis, and he was ready to talk today, so you just grab that chance when your teenager is in the mood to open up.
I did reach my meditative state with an audiobook, doing a superhero-themed jigzaw puzzle and folding clothes for a couple of hours, after all the audio talk I chose to listen to Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith, narrated by herself - which is great.
I also read a chapter in The Hobbit for my youngest son.
I put it all in the spreadsheet. I converted the audio, but also put the hours ( we talked about it would be cool to see and it doesn´t count for any more wildcards, was that correctly interpreted?)
I may be able to read a bit more before bedtime, but I´ll register that tomorrow.
Tomorrow I should be able to finish Year of the Monkey. It fits "roar" (in the text) and "Tigers and panthers" (author initials), but if anyone else finishes anything else first, it also fit several in both Puppies and Dinosaurs, so I´m cool with whatever.
Wow - that's amazing, Team Frosted Flakes! Only 2 more words/phrases to go!!And shall we look at Puppy level once we're done with Big Cats?
Unfortunately I have another busy day which means not much time to check Goodreads, but more importantly, not much time to read! I'm hoping things will slow down after today, though!
Johanne wrote: "I converted the audio, but also put the hours ( we talked about it would be cool to see and it doesn´t count for any more wildcards, was that correctly interpreted?)..."
Yes, that's right, Johanne!
Kathryn wrote: "Wow - that's amazing, Team Frosted Flakes! Only 2 more words/phrases to go!!And shall we look at Puppy level once we're done with Big Cats? ..."
Don´t we have three left?
And puppies are good.
It's two now, I just finished Treasure Island! Puppy as next level is fine by me, as I'm not picking reads to fit the prompts. Have also listened to 1h40 of House of Hades so far, and will listen some more after feeding the bunnies. I probably won't finish this before Big Cats is filled up, but I'm sure it'll work for the other levels as well!
I only have 3,5 hours left of House of Hades, and I haven't pressed pause yet, though I'm going to bed soon. I'll definitely finish that tomorrow, whether for Big Cats or the next level!
So yup Kathryn was right....didn't get much reading done at the hospital so didn't even finish the book I had. Got home around 11.30pm and too tired for reading. My husband subbed in and stayed the night at the hospital whilst I stayed with my daughter. He had surgery last night and was in so much pain.
Hopefully I can get more read tonight!
Bec wrote: "So yup Kathryn was right....didn't get much reading done at the hospital so didn't even finish the book I had. Got home around 11.30pm and too tired for reading. My husband subbed in and stayed the..."You might be too tired tonight and need an ultra-early night, Bec!!
Carmen wrote: "I only have 3,5 hours left of House of Hades, and I haven't pressed pause yet, though I'm going to bed soon. I'll definitely finish that tomorrow, whether for Big Cats or the next level!"Goodness - you must be up late, Carmen!! Aren't you in Europe?!
I am, yes! It’s just gone 3am 😊 I am a night owl who needs a lot of sleep so I end up sleeping most of the day and then read all night 😂 I put down my audio (5h15/204 pages to be added!) and will see if I can read a bit before sleeps. Perhaps a chapter of the ebook I should finish before the month is out 😂
Morning all. I'm sitting in a train on my way to a meeting in another city (3hrs each way). My boss is also here, but we did agree it is way too early to talk, we did already prepare for the meeting and I brought my headphones, so going to listen to some audio.
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Bec and Johanne, I hope everything is okay with your kids! It must be stressful, and they're the important thing.
Thanks Trish. He's alright, it's nothing new, but he's not always ready to talk about it.
I just finished The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and ticked off "tigers and panthers". We are 9/10 for Big cats yay!
Great job, Viktoria and all the Frosted Flakes!!Just one more to go - "roar" and then we can move to puppy level...
I'm afraid I've read nothing today so far! May get a chapter or two in now, but it won't be much and it won't finish a book!!
Maybe I'll get a bit more reading time tomorrow. 🤞
If no one ticks it off before me, in a few hours I can tick off Roar!
I read about a 100 pages this morning.But I won't finish my book for another 5 hours, have to work now... :(
Luckily it can also work for one of the Puppy level prompts :)
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Go for it!
I've started Urn Burial, but it isn't going to work for roar, so I'll probably pause just before the end, until we're officially Puppy-ing!
You could use yours for something else right, Carmen?I've 20 minutes audio left for 'roar' but it also fits puppies.
I finished 'Year of the monkey' that has 'roar' in the text. Are we onto puppies now?
Johanne wrote: "I finished 'Year of the monkey' that has 'roar' in the text. Are we onto puppies now?"I can't believe you beat me to it haha!
Yess Puppy is next!
House of Hades only works for 'labrador' so no one'd better take that in the next 100 minutes hahah!
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We are quite the audio team!:)
I asked the mods if we can convert the future hours to pages from here on.