Winter20 Read-a-Thon: Team Hope

[Sandra]

I've just finished Throne of Glass, don't think it works for any of the prompts though.

[Aimee]

Laura wrote: "On a side note, I keep hearing about The Only Good Indians and have it on hold. I'm interested to hear your thoughts when you're finished :)"

Finished it yesterday and I loved it. It's very dark, and so, so gruesome - there were lots of scenes I had to re-read because I couldn't quite believe the author had really gone there (in a good way). It's a bit slow to get going, but if you're fed up of the same old horror tropes and looking to be creeped out in a new way then I think you'll like it.

[Johanne]

Good evening all. Had a busy day yesterday, so didn't read much and today we've been watching the Danish bakeoff, mandalorian and having a lazy family day. I'm going to read for a couple of hours now. Will see where we're at on the spreadsheet, I have a couple of graphic novels.

[Johanne]

I read 'El Deafo', a graphic novel about a deaf girl and her superhero alter ego. Putting it for deaf hearing Beethoven. It's own voices, since it's about the author Cece Bell's own childhood and adjusting to life as hard of hearing.

[Ellie]

Decided to make a start on Christmas shopping yesterday so that turned into a massive time drain. Did get some audio in though and hope to finish a book today.

[Ellie]

I've out The Dark Archive under the woodpeckers making a comeback one for now but might be able to move it if someone still needs that one. Several characters make a comeback, fire is important and there are birds on the cover.

[Sandra]

I also finished Watchmen and A Quiet Kind of Thunder yesterday but don't think they fit any of the articles.

[Ellie]

Sandra do the page numbers or character ages match up with any of the numbers on the planning tab? I think any tenuous link is fine at this point!

[Sandra]

Ellie wrote: "Sandra do the page numbers or character ages match up with any of the numbers on the planning tab? I think any tenuous link is fine at this point!"

The main character in A Quiet Kind of Thunder turns 17 during the book, which is one of the numbers in "Athlete with Downs Syndrome". I can't find any other matches

[Aimee]

Sandra wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Sandra do the page numbers or character ages match up with any of the numbers on the planning tab? I think any tenuous link is fine at this point!"

The main character in [book:A Quie..."

At this stage you might as well go for it Sandra, any match is better than none!

[Hilde]

Good evening, team!

I finally finished the three books I have been reading this week.
I saw someone else reading The Silver Chair on another team, so I got good help with being creative in placing that. I used article 35 (World Puzzle to help entertain the queen) once more, as that seems to be a better fit than any of the unused ones so far.

I also used #26 once more (Innovative renovations of old hotels) for Northanger Abbey, as the only connection I could think of was that the building itself was central for the story both in the book and in the article.

Lastly I finished off The Blind Owl, and used the title connection with article number 19 (blind kid sees stars). Urgh, that was a boring and confusing read - I found it to be mostly ramblings from a mad man, and even though it was short in pages, it felt like thousand pages, never ending really. I needed it for a challenge, otherwise I would have DNF it. Glad I had the RaT motivating me to finish it off.

Hope you all have a nice Sunday evening :)

[Sandra]

Aimee wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Sandra do the page numbers or character ages match up with any of the numbers on the planning tab? I think any tenuous link is fine at this point!"

The main character ..."

Added it :)

[Johanne]

Hi all.
I'm heading to bed now.
I read Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega and put it for the bees surviving the Notre Dame fire. The theme of surviving against all odds, including a fire is a common theme.

We have quite a lot of wildcards, but when everyone is finished with their reading and put in the numbers we'll use them and see how far we are, right?

[Ellie]

With our wild cards we will have done 45 articles, well done everyone!

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Yay team! We’ll wait a bit to give everyone a chance to update their totals but great job, everyone!

I started a new book but didn’t get it done. It was great reading wee though :)

[Johanne]

Thank you all for a great readathon! I love these team challenges :D

[Aimee]

It was a lot of fun doing this with all of you, thank you :)