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Winter20 Read-a-Thon: Team Joy
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An explanation:
You can record your page count at the top portion of the Tracking tab on the spreadsheet. Every audiobook minute counts as one page.
On the second half, you can put the book title and who read it, and then how it fits for the prompts. It should automatically tabulate the points you earned for each book! Please only post completed books on the Tracking tab!
You can use the planning tab to plan how your books will fit the news articles. Feel free to adjust this tab to fit your group's preferences.
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I'm off this week from work and I have a lot of self-care planned (ahem, bubble baths and reading) so hopefully I get through at least 3 books.
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Can't wait for it to start tomorrow. I need to catch up again in the overall challenge.I'm reading Dorothy Must Die. I'm trying to figure out the game and what category it might fit in. I'm not being imaginative enough right now I think.
I'm also planning to read some graphic novels:
Mooncakes
Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale
They are both over 200 pages.
I'm hoping to get through 3 of the Dorothy Must Die books. Books 2 and 3 are:
The Wicked Will Rise
Yellow Brick War
Can't wait to see how it all works.
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I'm in the middle of One Hundred Years of Solitude! At first glance, it could work for any of the categories about army veterans, or for "Beautiful Mural in Warsaw Eats Up Smog, Purifying The Air Equal to 720 Trees" for the trees on the cover. I'll look more tomorrow!
I still have about 150 pages left of Thunderhead for tomorrow. Are there any rules around counting books started before the read-a-thon? I looked and didn't see anything, but it's very possible that I missed it.
Good Morning Team Joy. I’m really excited about the read-a-thon & our team. I’m reading The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 To Present by David Treuer. I’m pairing it with, New Mexico School Buys $2,800 of supplies for Navajo Nation After Year End Class Trip Is Canceled. Good Luck everyone.
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So far I am going to use
for the news story about the blind little boy who saw the stars for the first time because of the title. If I list some of my library books here could yall help maybe place them?
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Just the usual. At least 100 pages remaining at the start :)
Question - I guess we google the news story to see how it would apply to the book? I still need help placing Dorothy Must Die. I like Laura's idea. I'm just making sure there isn't a better option.
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I was looking at the spreadsheet and my name isn't added to the top to track my pages
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I'm going to work on linking the stories onto the spreadsheet to make it easier for everyone. Give me a few minutes to get that done!
Emily wrote: "Sorry, Heather, I just saw you were added. Welcome! Feel free to add your name!I'm going to work on linking the stories onto the spreadsheet to make it easier for everyone. Give me a few minutes ..."
it's okay! Can someone explain to me the layout of the spreadsheet?
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The bottom half is where you fill in the books you've completed. When you write how the book applies to the news article, it will automatically tally our points earned. (You can see the example I wrote on the Bee article)
Emily wrote: "The top half is for recording pages read (1 audio minute = 1 page, if you do audiobooks). For every 1000 pages read, we get a wild card.The bottom half is where you fill in the books you've compl..."
So how do we use the planning section?
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Emily wrote: "I envisioned people putting the name of the book at the top, then putting x's or explanations of how it would fit all of the various possible news stories, just to track what we have possibilities ..."Could you set an example on that part of the spreadsheet too? I am a little confused on the layout of it and want to add Starsight!
Hello everyone! My day has been non stop already. I am finally going to do some audiobook listening. I have no idea about placement of where my book or audiobook would fit in. I have 4 and a half hours left in A Little Thing Called Life by Linda Thompson. I will look tonight at all the articles. I will try to fit my book in too.
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Ahh, so a book can check off multiple connections for an article if applicable? Interesting. I just checked my dad out of a rehab center for a broken hip so my reading (and life :)) is a bit in chaos but hoping to catch up a bit as he gets stronger each day. I got in a few good pages today at least.
Any suggestions for Zorba the Greek? Would the athlete trying for the Special Olympics work?
Hi everyone! I've added the book I'm reading, A Children's Bible, to the spreadsheet and I should finish it tomorrow as it's a relatively short read. I'm hoping to get a lot of reading done this week since I won't be visiting family for thanksgiving. Good luck to all!Also, Emily, I really liked Behold the Dreamers when I read it, and it has stuck with me in the years since. I hope you enjoyed it.
Sorry I haven't checked in more. I had a full day of work from home today, and then a 2.5 hour long ordeal trying to order dinner (long story short, we ordered from DoorDash and then the app completely crashed, so we had no idea whether the order went through and couldn't get on to cancel it either). On the plus side, I've been listening to the audiobook of Unfollow Me and I have about an hour left. It's late now, but I'm probably going to just stay up and finish it off anyway. I also read another 46 pages of Thunderhead. I'd been hoping to finish both books tonight, but the dinner ordeal kind of derailed everything.
Hi all. I have 123 pages left in my book. My goal is still to finish today. I thought for sure yesterday I had read at least 100 pages but when I did the math it was only 81 pages. Very disappointing. I have a question that may of been asked. Do you have to read the articles or are we going just by the titles? If we have to read the articles how do we get to them? Sorry I need step by step instructions. It’s going to be in the 50’s here so a good day to read.
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Jen, yes the goal is to find a book that will connect to the articles in a variety of ways!
Sherri, you can find the links to the articles either in the Group Challenge Introduction thread or on the spreadsheet where they are linked. Ideally, you would pick an article that looks like it would fit then read it and see if we can make any other connections.
I'm starting The Space Between Worlds this morning, which should be a quick read. Just have to figure out where it will fit!
Good Morning everyone!! I have about 2 hours left of Starsight then I will have to find another book that fits an article
Finished Starsight and started The Vanishing Stair
Good morning! I'm still plugging away at One Hundred Years of Solitude but I decided I don't want to rush it - I'm really enjoying spending my mornings in that strange, hazy world. So I started People of the Book last night so that I can keep up the pace!
I found a spot for The Vanishing Stair and I should finish it within the next few hours
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I've gotten 140ish pages read of The Space Between Worlds, and I'm really glad for this Read-a-Thon because it is one that I probably would have stretched out for days if not for the push to read. A bit slow moving and has some gaping plot holes that I'm hoping will get filled by the end of the book.
Good Afternoon Team Joy, I finished The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to Present by David Treuer. I put it on the spreadsheet. I'm going to take a break & do something else. My next book is Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy,Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro.
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I'm finishing The Vanishing Stair now and will pick another one
Hello all! I have finished my audiobook, A Little Thing Called Life by Linda Thompson. Now I have to find an article it fits. I will try to pick my next audiobook with the articles in mind. I am reading Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane, and it is slow going for me. I find it rather repetitive.
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We currently have 6 books completed and another 2 wild cards earned, for a total of 8/50 news articles reached. Don't forget to update the spreadsheet with page counts!
Just updated my pages and I did finish Zorba the Greek yesterday but still struggling as to where it would best fit...
I didn't get to read today but I read 144 pages yesterday. I'll read a little before I go to bed.
I finished Thunderhead today (which I had started before the readathon, but had about 150 pages left by the time it started), and read the first 102 pages of The Toll.Unfortunately, haven't had a chance to even begin to look at the articles yet to see where the two books I've completed so far fit in. They are Thunderhead and Unfollow Me. I was thinking Unfollow Me might fit the article about the sports team using social media, but I haven't had time to look at it in detail. If anyone wants to find a place to fit these in, please feel free! I'm working 9-5 tomorrow, so I probably won't have a chance to look until late in the evening.
Also, how am I supposed to log audio hours on the spreadsheet? I saw in another thread that it's counted as 1 page per minute, but that seems a bit weird to me. The 9 hour audiobook I listened to yesterday would work out to 540 pages, even though the book physically would be only 350 pages. It feels a bit weird to count it for almost double the length. I put in my page count for today, but I'll hold off on yesterday's until I know what to do.
Good Morning Team Joy. I volunteer at our library 4 hours this morning so will read this afternoon. I’m liking Inheritance A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro. It not a long book but probably won’t finish it till Tuesday.
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Jen K, looks like you could put it under the splitting the lottery with a friend article, since it seems like a major theme of the book was friendship?
Rachel, the 1 minute = 1 page rule is just to keep things simple and keep us from having to work out calculations. So you can go ahead and count it like that.
I'm starting Gemina after having read Illuminae earlier this month. It should be a really quick read, but high in page numbers since it's written in memos and letters and chats. Hoping I can finish it by Thursday!
I am reading The Storm Crow right now and also started Love Your Life to fit in the Italy story!
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Jen K, looks like you could put it under the splitting the lottery with a friend article, since it seems like a major theme of the book was friendship?
Rachel, the 1 minute = 1 page..."
That's a great series, Emily! I didn't love the later entries as much as the first one but that's mainly because I like the first one so much. Perfect choice for a read-a-thon!
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This event's team challenge is focused on finding that good. In this time's team challenge, you and your teammates will be tasked with reading books to go along with positive news stories from 2020.
Each book read for the team will need to connect in some way to one of the positive news stories. The more connections you find, the more points you can earn.
Theme (i.e. age, storyline, topic, etc.): 1 point
Numbers (i.e. dates, article topics, page count, etc.): 1 point
Location: 2 points
Names (incl. authors, characters): 3 points
Title (article subjects found in title of book): 3 points
Objects (found in article and on cover of the book or major plot-point): 3 points
Own Voices: 5 points
Grand Prize!
Finish a book connected to every positive news story below: 75 points
What about pages?
This is a bit of a bonus. For every 1,000 pages read as a group, you earn one wildcard. Wildcards allow you to cross one article off your list, getting you closer to the grand prize!
For more information about our group challenge (including FAQs), check out this thread.
Members:
Sherri
Rachel
Joan
Hannah
Johanna
Jen K
Kelly
Emily B
Karissa
Heather
Team Spreadsheet will be posted soon.