Readathon Team: Guardians of the Library

[Snezana]

Okay, I don't quite understand the new spreadsheet. I had had put three books in it but have two assigned? And which book is for which task? Also one of them was for the party prompt which is considered a hard prompt but it wasn't assigned to my book? I'm sorry, but I'm a little confused.

[Snezana]

Snezana's list

Assigned:
Kushiel's Dart - Read a book with at least 25 chapters or sections ✔ Completed
Tangle of Need - Read 2 books in a series, one with at least 12 books ✔ Completed
Shadow and Bone - Read 4 books about making new friends ✔ Completed
Suddenly You - Read 4 books that feature a bibliophile, bookworm, librarian, or bookshop - ✔ Completed
Weather - Read 3 books: one you'd recommend to your 25-year-old self - ✔ Completed

[Alyana]

Alyana's List:

✔1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - COMPLETE
*Assigned: Read 2 books with a title consisting of 25 characters minimum.
Read 4 books about making new friends.

✔2. Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin - COMPLETE
*Assigned: Read 2 books starting with “L” and "Y".

✔3. Yes No Maybe So - COMPLETE
*Assigned: Read 4 books with a party (Bat Mitzvah).
Read 3 books you shelved in the month you joined this group.
Read 4 books about making new friends.

✔4. The Guest List - COMPLETE
*Assigned: Read 4 books with a party (wedding).
Read 4 books about making new friends.

✔5. The Choice - COMPLETE
*Assigned: Read the 12th and 25th books on your TBR list.
Read 3 books by an author who has written 25 or more books.

BONUS PROMPTS:
✔ The Push - COMPLETE
A book read by a teammate for this readathon.

✔ The Girls I've Been - COMPLETE
Read a book with at least 25 chapters or sections.

✔ Dad Is Fat - COMPLETE
Read 2 books with 25,000+ ratings each on Goodreads.

✔ The Foxe & the Hound - COMPLETE
Read 3 books by an author who has written 25 or more books.

✔ Beach Read - COMPLETE
Read 3 books you wish to read at 25, you read at that age, and you'd recommend to your 25-year-old self.


Updated Msg #159.

[Angie]

Avery wrote: "Hello Everybody! Big thank you to those who worked on the spreadsheet! I think I understand it but I’m a little bit confused why it says “one more” under my name tag. If anybody could clarify that ..."

Hi Avery,
Karin put "one more" there because she was unsure which prompts your "Midnight Club" book go with. Could you please confirm again? Thank you!

Also she asked everyone to set up a list of their books:
"Please set up ONE message thread to enter your books similar to how we do it for the monthly, quarterly and yearly challenges, I'll note them in a list and put your suggestions. Then you can add another message referencing the first one when you finish books or have new ones to mention."

[Karin]

Sample list

You don't have to do the strike outs, but I am using them to show which books I am not reading because there were too many people for the number of tasks :)

So, to show you what I first had and how it changed as Angie and I planned, etc. One is not yet assigned. Now I can look for other books based on what has been assigned on the spreadsheet so I can read at least 10

Read a book in a series with at least 12 books. Read a Lacey Luzzi one

Read a book either published in 2012 or included in the Best Books of 2012 listopia. Protection for Hire by Cany Tang (have here now)

Read a book with over 25,000 ratings on Goodreads The Sun Also Rises, Olive Kitteridge

Read a book with a title starting with “Y,” the 25th letter of the alphabet (ignore “a” and “the”). Yodelling book ASSIGNED (that's not the title) (and Alyana will read the L book as she and I discussed in this thread since we both had one of each :) )

Read a book with the word ‘silver’ in the title or with a silver cover. ASSIGNED -The Silver Pigs

Read a book in a series of 4 (25% of a series)- ASSIGNED Read a book published in 1996 (25 years ago). Book in a series of 4 SIGN OF THE DOVE

[Karin]

One More Announcement :)

I thought of this during my shower (off to work in a few minutes) and during that time Angie PM'd me this same point, so I'll go for "great minds think alike."

On the Spreadsheet, Angie or I will enter the information.

On the Tracking Sheet - everyone enters their information. But the names are in a different order since I didn't set this one up, so watch carefully :)

You'll see (which I didn't see all of us during the migraine-from-hell that was beyond my "normal" ones) that you can enter your daily pages, hours and, if you finish your task, you can mark it below.

For the multi-book ones, please enter Completed in the top available row under your name, but it would be really great if you could also mark your list with a check or something and also let us know :)

Don't forget to reserve a spot for your lists :)

[Angie]

Snezana wrote: "Okay, I don't quite understand the new spreadsheet. I had had put three books in it but have two assigned? And which book is for which task? Also one of them was for the party prompt which is consi..."

I'm very sorry about the confusion. I charged ahead too quickly with the assignments. Please have a look at the current spreadsheet with the most up to date assignments made by our team captain and forget everything I put there prematurely.

[Snezana]

Angie wrote: "Snezana wrote: "Okay, I don't quite understand the new spreadsheet. I had had put three books in it but have two assigned? And which book is for which task? Also one of them was for the party promp..."

I am talking about the current spreadsheet. It doesn't make sense to me at all. Only two out of my three books were assigned and I don't know which ones? If I had known you wouldn't want to use that book for the readathon I would have finished it days ago. It's unnecessarily complicated. The previous one was much simpler, at least to me. I'm sorry, maybe I'm just dumb.

[Sunny]

Snezana wrote: "Angie wrote: "Snezana wrote: "Okay, I don't quite understand the new spreadsheet. I had had put three books in it but have two assigned? And which book is for which task? Also one of them was for t..."

Snezna ... if you know which prompt you are assigned ... you can match it up with the book you were planning to read -- from a list that I assume you made for yourself somewhere else besides here?

[Angie]

Snezana wrote: "Angie wrote: "Snezana wrote: "Okay, I don't quite understand the new spreadsheet. I had had put three books in it but have two assigned? And which book is for which task? Also one of them was for t..."

Snezana, I understand your frustration and I'm really sorry for all this back and forth. Please don't give up on your third book! There might still be a way to fit it in. Karin is our captain and ultimately it's her call to set up the spreadsheet. I can't make any decisions without talking to her first. Please bear with us, while she/we work(s) something out.

[Sunny]

Karin/Angie

I put in for 4 books when I signed up, but now that I see how things are done, I can do more than this. So ...

Unless someone else wants these:

I can take prompt 11 A book written when the author was under 25 years old. The book: Coward's Kiss

I can also do prompt 20: title consisting of 25 characters minimum. The book: The Cat The Quilt and the Corpse.

I can also do prompt 25: A book written by an author who has written 25 or more books. The book: Miss Silver Came to Stay.

If you see places where we are lacking, let me know and I'll be glad to see if I can find something to help fill the prompt. This is all I'm working on for the next couple of weeks so I won't have any problems reading.

I'll be reading first thing in the morning Coward's Kiss for Prompt 13 published 1996 and will report in tomorrow afternoon on my progress.

You're both doing a great job 💜

Let's Go Guardians!

[Karin]

Snezana wrote: "Angie wrote: "Snezana wrote: "Okay, I don't quite understand the new spreadsheet. I had had put three books in it but have two assigned? And which book is for which task? Also one of them was for t..."

Smezana, our guideline was to only assign 1-3 tasks and I went by the initial pledges only to keep it consistant. Of course you can read more as you finish your tasks. My initial pledge was to read at least 10 books which I know I can easily do, but only gave myself three tasks to start, so not to worry, you'll get more! I went from a list Angie helped me by working through first which took time and care from her, and then made some hard choices.

Would you like to switch tasks if no one is assigned that? I won't be on again until tomorrow, so won't be assigning that task to anyone yet. Please feel free to PM me so I can know from my email before I come here and see, but start with a different book task first.

If you set up your list as I asked and put that book there, I will be checking these as people finish their assigned prompts. As soon as you complete your first assigned one, I'll add another for you.

The book you read for that prompt will be whichever book fits that prompt, as Angie said :)

The planning sheet is what everyone is going to read first.

[Karin]

Sunny wrote: "Karin/Angie

I put in for 4 books when I signed up, but now that I see how things are done, I can do more than this. So ...

Unless someone else wants these:

I can take prompt 11 A book written w..."

I'll keep this in mind. Could you edit your list and take out "I can do" and list the task first and then with the books? My list wasn't well done, but I was rushing to teach piano to the family I teach live at their house (they homeschool and we are all very safe, etc).

[Karin]

Avery wrote: "Avery’s List-

Midnight club- book that features 2+ people reading, book by an author with 25+ books

Lord Edgware Dies- book by an author who has written for 25+ years, L book

The Tommyknockers-..."

Okay, great--I'll update that second task on the spreadsheet for the book we have already chosen (that was Angie, and many thanks to her!) I have to see it to make that choice and don't have much time on here to come back and forth.

[Karin]

One more thing, just in case I forgot this earlier. When looking for other books to read, first check the planning sheet to see what has been assigned and/or completed. If you like, you can check people's lists, but one of the things I am going to try to do tomorrow is to find books that fill more than one prompt.

It's a challenge to juggle everyone's books when so many of us have books that fill the same tasks; also, it is possible two people will choose a book for the same difficult task.

[Karin]

Angie suggested, and I agree, that I'll explain about how these assignments are made.

As you probably all know from the rules, one book can only count for one task. If you choose a book that can fit multiple tasks that helps because it makes it easier for me as team captain to work with so you are more likely to be able to read it. But I can't assign more than one person to each task. Some prompts have more than one task, but there is a limit.

So, for one book tasks, only one person can read one book for them, thus I have only assigned one person and for each person's book, just one task. For prompts that require 2, 3 or 4 tasks to complete, then more than one person will be assigned that prompt.

Angie helped by giving me some of the book titles and the possible prompts, but ultimately as captain I need to try and assign them so that we can cover all of the tasks. Like some of you, I am not going to be able to read every book I had hoped to for this; already I won't be able to read at least two of the ones I had hoped to so that everyone could have assignments. I made an arbitrary decision about how many tasks to assign so that the really fast readers who pledged a lot can finish a book every day or two.

When I had my unusual mega-migraine someone started changing the spreadsheet in a way that differed from the group moderators' intent.

Everyone has at least one task assigned now, and as I said, no matter how many you are assigned now, you can read more, but bear in mind that there are only so many spots per prompt.

[Trisha]

Updated msg#148.

1. Magpie Murders ✅
Read 4 books that feature a bibliophile, bookworm, librarian, or bookshop.

Will update the spreadsheet later.

[Angie]

Happy readathon everyone!! Wishing us all lots of 5-star books! ;-)

Go Guardians!!

[Snezana]

I'm sorry, I was only wishing to help us with what I considered a difficult prompt. I have adjusted my books according to the tasks assigned to me.

Happy readathon everybody! 😊

[Trisha]

Updated msg#148.

2. Never Let Me Go ✅
Read 3 books you shelved during the month you joined this group.

Overall, 2 books finished.

@Karin/Angie, could you please assign my next prompts? I’m more than half-way through Wonder, so I’d prefer reading it over any other book, but feel free to assign any prompt(s). I can finish about 2 prompts tomorrow but you don’t have to assign 2 if you want to save it for the others; I can continue to read outside of the readathon. Since I’m free now, I’ll continue with Wonder or pick up Beneath the Sugar Sky.

Also, please correct me if I’m wrong- I’m only supposed to update my page count on the tracking sheet and nothing else, is that right? One of you will be updating the planning sheet and marking the prompts complete on the tracking sheet? Is my understanding correct?

PS: Happy readathon everyone!

[Angie]

Trisha wrote: "Updated msg#148.

2. Never Let Me Go ✅
Read 3 books you shelved during the month you joined this group.

Overall, 2 books finished.

@Karin/Angie, could you please assign my next prompt..."

Wow, you're so fast Trisha! Congrats on finishing your first two books!

Karin does the assignments. I'm sure she will get in touch as soon as possible.

[Karin]

Avery wrote: "Just a heads up that due to time zones, I will probably be one of the last people to get my page count in. Where I live, it’s still several hours away from it being Thursday. I will try and get my ..."

Avery, you live one province east of where I was born and mostly raised and went to university.

It's fine because I will post Thursday's numbers on Friday before 6 pm (4 pm your time). That will give everyone time to post Thursday's updates even if we have someone from Hawaii :).

I can be on 3-4 times a day, but not for really long, so will gather info as I go and do my best to get the next assignment. That way I can check for those in the Europe and east Asia, ideally before their evenings that day. I am not sure where everyone lives as I didn't check all of that out.

[Karin]

Trisha wrote: "Updated msg#148.

2. Never Let Me Go ✅
Read 3 books you shelved during the month you joined this group.

Overall, 2 books finished.

@Karin/Angie, could you please assign my next prompt..."

Yes, I'll work on it now. I still have to search up your list of books and prompts. It will be my mission for this session checking in.

[Trisha]

Karin wrote: "Yes, I'll work on it now. I still have to search up your list of books and prompts. It will be my mission for this session checking in."

My list is in msg#148 - I'm regularly updating the msg number in all my posts so that you don't have to search for it.

[Karin]

@Trisha--I gave you three more and marked the two you had complete. Yes, if you could update the Tracking. Is 322 pages your total or are there more? I'll do the official update later today. I forgot where you are, so am going to try to make sure you have more to allow for the 12 hours difference at this time of year.

I will try to check in between 10 and 11 am my time--usually before that I am tied up with stuff I need to do. If there is a morning I can't do that, I'll ask Angie to check yours for you.

If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I know mine and will know more as I order more books today).

[Karin]

Snezana wrote: "I'm sorry, I was only wishing to help us with what I considered a difficult prompt. I have adjusted my books according to the tasks assigned to me.

Happy readathon everybody! 😊"

And it was VERY appreciated! But it's a juggling act with all of the books and the various possible tasks people have.

[Trisha]

Karin wrote: "@Trisha--I gave you three more and marked the two you had complete. Yes, if you could update the Tracking. Is 322 pages your total or are there more? I'll do the official update later today..."

Thanks much, Karin!
Also, 322 was my total when I last updated, I'll update the final value just before going to bed - it'll be on time for you. :)

[Alyana]

Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I know mine and will know more as I order more books today).."

Hi Karin, my reading list is on message #159. I also put a link on it under my name on the planning/tracking tab on the sheet for easy access.

[Karin]

Trisha wrote: "Karin wrote: "@Trisha--I gave you three more and marked the two you had complete. Yes, if you could update the Tracking. Is 322 pages your total or are there more? I'll do the official update later..."

Great.

[Karin]

Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I know mine and will know more as I order more bo..."

Great idea with the link!

[Alyana]

Karin wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I know mine and will know more as ..."

Is it okay to record the number of pages and hours for one book I'm reading?

[Sunny]

We're having bad weather here all day today and I this is the only time I will be able to report in.

Karin I will get my entire list fixed for you tomorrow. No time today. I'm working in between storms that are going through where I live.

I filled in the tracking sheet with:

Promises of Home
A book written in 1996
I have read: 100 pages

See y'all when I check into tomorrow.

[Trisha]

Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I know mine and will..."

Hi Alyana, I’ve answered this before. You can record both the pages and audio hours but not for the same content (chapters).

So say there’s a 250 pages book and you read the first 100 pages, then switch to the audio and listen for 2hours, then switch again to your physical book and read another 50 pages - in this scenario, your record should show:

150 pages & 2 hours. So fill in both the values in the right cells.

We just need to avoid duplications. Are you good?

Sorry Karin, answered in your place. This is a question quite a few teams have had, so I’ve my answer by heart.

[Alyana]

Trisha wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I kno..."

Oh now I get it. It should not be for the same chapters, I missed that. Thanks for the clarification Trisha, my mind was probably somewhere when you explained this to me.

[Karin]

Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I know mine and will..."

You can update as you go during the day if you like! I won't be taking the numbers until tomorrow so you can add more pages/hours for today so that all of Thursday's information is in your Thursday spots on the tracking sheet :).

If you finish a book you can post that here at any time g any time today or tomorrow before 5 pm New York Time (so I have time to get it) - in fact that makes it easier for me for the next assignment. However, I won't be on here after 5:30 pm today, and possibly a bit sooner pm today (Thurs) due to other things. Normally it will be 6.

[Karin]

Trisha wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If anyone needs help organizing their lists, Trisha's is message 148 and very easy to read--I plan to model mine after hers (but then I kno..."

Trisha, thanks--since you are a group mod I am happy if you answer questions like that. since we are often on at different times. I came on for a minute for something else and realized I didn't get out of all of my GR pages. I'll be back in the afternoon and then between 5 & 5:30ish pm my time, but I have to also do some things for other groups.

[Alyana]

Karin wrote: "If you finish a book you can post that here at any time g any time today or tomorrow before 5 pm New York Time (so I have time to get it) - in fact that makes it easier for me for the next assignment. However, I won't be on here after 5:30 pm today, and possibly a bit sooner pm today (Thurs) due to other things. Normally it will be 6."

Karin, are you based in NY too?

[Karin]

Alyana wrote: "Karin wrote: "If you finish a book you can post that here at any time g any time today or tomorrow before 5 pm New York Time (so I have time to get it) - in fact that makes it easier for me for the..."

No, I am in Massachusetts, but people often say New York time--I could have said Boston time, since my son goes to university/college there.

[Karin]

Sunny wrote: "We're having bad weather here all day today and I this is the only time I will be able to report in.

Karin I will get my entire list fixed for you tomorrow. No time today. I'm working in between ..."

Sunny--I hope you all stay safe! Once all is well, just let me know if you have finished that book :)!

[Trisha]

Updated msg#148.

3. Wonder ✅
Read 2 books either published in 2012 or in the Best Books of 2012 listopia.

Talk to you tomorrow, folks!
Good night/have a lovely day (well, whatever suits you) you all! 💗

[Shari]

Shari's List:

1. The Tiger's Wife ✅
*Assigned and Completed*
Read 2 books with 25,000+ ratings each on Goodreads.

2. Where Are You Now? ✅
**Assigned and Completed**
Read 3 books by an author who has written 25 or more books.
Read 3 books by an author who has written for 25+ years.

3. The Wildwater Walking Club
**Assigned - waiting on library to get me the book**
Re-read a book you read in 2012.

4. The Dance✅
**Assigned and Completed**
Read 1 book in a 4 book series.

5. Fortune and Glory✅
**Assigned and Completed**
Read a book by an author who has written 25+ books.

[Karin]

Avery wrote: "Hello team! Just wanted to do a bit of a reading update

I finished my first book of the readathon which was “The Midnight Club”. I had originally marked down this book for the prompt “a scene with..."

Avery, I will use this book for your other assignment, but there are already other people in line to read a book written by an author for 25+ years, so can't guarantee you another spot. The idea is to share those among more than one person unless we get to the very end and a spot is open that won't be filled.

Let me look at everything after everyone has reported.

Could you make a message with all of your books with all of your requests? I don't see you in my Word sheet, so I didn't find one after I requested it back in the 140s.

[Karin]

@Trisha

Could you add all of the possible shelves for your books? At least one of those hard to fill spots has more people wanting to read it than there are spots.

[Karin]

Reminder

It is probably not going to be possible for everyone to read every book on their lists, so if you can find more books and add them, that would be great. Also, if you can find all of the possible shelves--I don't have time to look all of that up for each person's book.

For example, as it stands right now, 4 people have books with titles of at least 25 characters and there are only 2 spots. One is already assigned.

Plus, for the duets, trios and quartets, the first choice is to divide those with 2, 3 or 4 people per prompt. This doesn't mean that will necessarily happen, but I will be giving priority to team members who have not yet been assigned or completed a task for one of those prompts.

[Trisha]

Karin wrote: "@Trisha

Could you add all of the possible shelves for your books? At least one of those hard to fill spots has more people wanting to read it than there are spots."

Alright Karin, I’ll do that asap!

[Trisha]

Karin, I've updated my post as requested. Let me know if you're expecting anything else.

I've also updated my link in the spreadsheet like Alyana did.

[Karin]

Avery wrote: "Karin, I apologize as I think I may have worded my comment wrong. I do not want another spot in an author who has written for 25+ years, I only want to use the assigned spot I have for “The midnigh..."

Great--yes, I gave you that spot since you were assigned it :)

[Karin]

Trisha wrote: "Karin, I've updated my post as requested. Let me know if you're expecting anything else.

I've also updated my link in the spreadsheet like Alyana did."

Thanks, that's helpful.

No one has to put all of the tasks, but I am trying to help everyone read as many of the books they have as I can.

[Karin]

Way to go, everyone :)! Not everyone has checked in yet, so I will wait to post our numbers until after 5:30 Boston time, but so far everyone has read (just waiting for Alyana's numbers whenever she is able to get here), we have earned one wildcard (I'll save this until we really need it, of course), and we have completed 4 prompts plus the wildcard which means 5! There is no point in using wildcards until we know which prompt(s) we might have trouble filling.

Happy Reading :)!

[Alyana]

Karin wrote: "Way to go, everyone :)! Not everyone has checked in yet, so I will wait to post our numbers until after 5:30 Boston time, but so far everyone has read (just waiting for Alyana's numbers whenever sh..."

Hi Karin, I have put in my hours from yesterday, I have listened to almost 7 hours. I'll be doing mostly audiobooks, the only physical copy I have is my L book but I'll be reading a bit on my kindle before bedtime as I can't pick it up during the day because my kid is attending class remotely. I hope that is okay.

Edit:
The book The Girls I've Been that I started a few days ago can be counted as has at least 25 or more chapters so I'll be adding the hours that I listened to it yesterday as well.