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Deeksha wrote: "Oh sorry, I haven't. I am just trying to finish categories, so you can take it. :)"Hey, it's okay!! I didn't put my name on it so it's still free game. The same goes for everyone, if you finish a book ahead of me that fits the category with my name, go ahead and let me know and change it!! :)
Deeksha wrote: "We are behind so I thought if I could finish a category we could be back on track. If you don't mind me asking, do you think that you could finish the book that you have chosen for the prompt withi..."I can try! It's not that long and if I just sit and read it, I should be able to finish it! I can start reading it right now
Deeksha wrote: "Do chimneys/windows count as furniture?"I think those are more fixtures so no..it would not fit
31% through Sal & Gabi break the universe taking break till tomorrow I'm hoping to finish it by the end of next week.
Sorry guys it was a very busy week for me. I have routine procedures every three months. They were Wed. I’m pretty recovered now. I can see everything on the spreadsheet.
I’ve finished Ella Enchanted and will listen to 2 audiobooks today.
Prompt 52 and 55. It will be books 4 and 5 of the Whatever After series and will close out #11 A Tale As Old As Time.
I added my name to a few more prompts. I own most of the Whatever After series. They are short, I like them and fill some prompts.
Deeksha wrote: "I have been reading Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, do any of you know what prompt that could fit?"46 its in the mystery genre
Possibly
83 a quest to find treasure? It sounds like a quest to me from reading the summary.
Deeksha wrote: "AurorainBookland wrote: "Deeksha wrote: "I have been reading Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman, do any of you know what prompt that could fit?"46 its in the mystery genre
Possibly
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Your welcome! Im fine with that.
Hey, we are so close to finishing another group! Congrats everyone and hope everyone is having some good reading and in life! If we finish this group and a couple more we will be ahead!
Aeriell wrote: "Hey, we are so close to finishing another group! Congrats everyone and hope everyone is having some good reading and in life!"Awesome! Sal and Gabi Break the Universe is interesting though Im disappointed by all the not kid friendly tv and movie refrenses and the spanish not explained in english. Could have had a glossary of what all the spanish scentences mean in the back.
DNF ing Sal and Gabi Break the unverse page 159 veiled f word "zucks."Authors not every teen curses, very disappointed.
CAPTAIN) Jessica - Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks - getting this from the library soon
I know currently, I am trying to figure out which ones of my books will fit stuff.Here is the known middle-grade series I own that I have currently with me:
Waterfire Saga by Jennifer Donnelly
Percy Jackson, Heros of Olympus, Apollo, Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
Disney Descendants Isle of the Lost series by Melissa De La Cruz
Ever After High series by Shannon Hale
Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland
Shark wars sereis by E.J. Altbacker
I'm trying to figure out what prompts they would fill!
Aeriell wrote: "I know currently, I am trying to figure out which ones of my books will fit stuff.Here is the known middle-grade series I own that I have currently with me:
Waterfire Saga by Jennifer Donnelly
Per..."
Prompt 38 A book with a character who works abroad - I believe The red pyramid Kane Chronicles book 1 fits Sadie lives in London and Carter her brother travels all over the world with their Egyptologist dad.
31 A book from the perspective of a villian - Isle if the lost fits this prompt since its about a Villians kids who are mini villians or 32 for any book in the Descendants series good vs evil is the focus and is also the focus of star wars
123 protagonist lives with a group of unrelated kids - Ever After High series boarding school
AurorainBookland wrote: "Aeriell wrote: "I know currently, I am trying to figure out which ones of my books will fit stuff.Here is the known middle-grade series I own that I have currently with me:
Waterfire Saga by Jenni..."
Do you mean prompt 19 or is there another prompt for abroad? Also 31, yeah I guess since they are the kids of villains that would work
Aeriell wrote: "AurorainBookland wrote: "Aeriell wrote: "I know currently, I am trying to figure out which ones of my books will fit stuff.Here is the known middle-grade series I own that I have currently with me..."
Your welcome sorry have been reading the wrong set of numbers. wings of fire can fit the prophecy prompt 41 Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy
Update: We are so close to closing out groups 11 and 16! Also, with group 4 we have one prompt left open. Group 8 has two prompts left open. The ones I have marked in those groups will be read soon! If we have books to fill those slots that is 4 groups knocked out!
So it’s been brought up to my attention is that:1.When imputing the date,make sure it’s in the British format,Apprently not everyone has been using that format. I’m going to go through and see what is not put in correctly and fix it but make sure y’all get it in correctly.
2.Who has prompt 55? Kadi says as she sees is the dates and no book title
3.When putting an author in,use the authors name.
I thought and looked at the sheet and it looked all fine to me but apprently not. I will be taking a look!
I have 55. The title is there. Tap on it if you don’t see it then click view comment. Sorry, I completely missed the instructions about English format.
Deeksha wrote: "For the 96th prompt, the character is an FBI agent, can they also be a secret agent for the government?"The FBI is part of the government so yes they would be like a secret agent
Deeksha wrote: "For prompt 132 parents should be spies, can the grandfather also count?"I think it says only mother and father so don't think so
Kadi brought up something in the captians chat:Who is up for her adding 50 more tasks onto the list? She mentioned how she dosen't want everyone to finish all the tasks before the end of the month and adding some more tasks would give us more plans for things because who knows what these would be. We are still currently in second place!! (Go us!)
What do you guys think? Would you guys want more tasks to be added? It might help yall with other books that couldn't fit these prompts. She said they will add them on the 15th with the bonus ones if we want these 50 more tasks.
Aeriell wrote: "Kadi brought up something in the captians chat:Who is up for her adding 50 more tasks onto the list? She mentioned how she dosen't want everyone to finish all the tasks before the end of the month..."
I think the flexibility of adding more tasks would be very helpful. The downside is that so far only 3 of us on our team have recorded books as read. 50 more tasks is a lot for 3 people in two weeks. It will be tough for us either way to complete every task.
I don’t think I can keep up this pace until the end of the month. It will probably be 3 books a week for me. I’m okay with whatever the Captains and Kadi decide.
I understand that, I feel as it might fit in more books that some of the others have that don't maybe fit all these prompts and could also not be reading as fast as others are. If these prompts get more access to more of the books then it might be more help
Aeriell wrote: "I understand that, I feel as it might fit in more books that some of the others have that don't maybe fit all these prompts and could also not be reading as fast as others are. If these prompts get..."Im fine either way. 2nd place awesome! Ill be picking up save me a seat reccomendation prompt this week hopefully, sorry I haven't been much help I didnt have many books that fit the prompts. I get most of my books from the library.
Deeksha wrote: "A book with a main character as a horse -Prompt 73Does anyone have any recommendations for the above prompt?"
Black Beauty unabridged by Sewell, Anna it has to be this version since its the only MG version but it's a sad book trigger warning animal abuse. I havent read it and dont plan to.
Deeksha wrote: "A book with a main character as a horse -Prompt 73Does anyone have any recommendations for the above prompt?"
Black Beauty - however, according to https://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx some books are MG and others are LG.
Deeksha wrote: "Does anyone have an idea to what book, I can read for prompt Prompt 97. I have a gift card that I can blow off but I don’t know what book will work for this prompt."Any Spy Kids book by Lenhard, Elizabeth
Main character is a spy in training and her mom is a spy its MG+ and might get graphic (a part mentions torture thats when I DNFed it years ago)
Deeksha wrote: "I found a book to read but, the page count is exactly 96 pages long. Is it okay if I continue on with that book?"The rules are the book has to be more than 100 pages long. So no that wouldnt count. Sorry.
Anyone have prompt 83? If not I’m gonna take it
Deeksha wrote: "AurorainBookland wrote: "Deeksha wrote: "Does anyone have an idea to what book, I can read for prompt Prompt 97. I have a gift card that I can blow off but I don’t know what book will work for this..."No, Im new to the group.
This is my first year, I recently started taking part in readathons a couple of months ago….
Question: Does anyone know what prompts Nevermoor and Wundersmith books would fit? I just got them and didn’t know if anyone else has read them.
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I just wanted to pop in and say well done on all your hard work and fantastic team work! I hope you’re all enjoying some great books!
You can now find the 12 bonus tasks on your team’s spreadsheet. I’ve added clarifications about some of the tasks on the Task Guidance sheet so please make sure you check that out too.
If you have any questions about the tasks please put them to your team captain to bring to me!
Reminder of how points are awarded for the bonus tasks:
- The first 5 tasks are worth 3 points each and the last 7 tasks are worth 5 points each.
- Completing the first 5 tasks will give your team 10 extra points and completing the last 7 tasks will give your team 15 extra points.
- There are no extra points for having just one member complete the tasks!
Deeksha, the book for bonus prompt number 6 will not count because:Also guys I completely forgot to say: only books started on or after 15th August can count towards the bonus tasks! (Quote from kadi)
Your book was started on the 9th
Hey ya'll!! Quick update: We are three points away from being tied with the team currently in the first place!!!
Aeriell wrote: "Hey ya'll!! Quick update: We are three points away from being tied with the team currently in the first place!!!"Awesome! Im working on prompt 50 going to have this book finished by the end of the month
Hey everyone, just checking in and seeing how things are going. I thought we had the 3rd bonus task done already by the way? Because the points were counted on it yesterday and we only needed one more 3 point bonus task to finish them.
Deeksha wrote: "Aeriell wrote: "Hey everyone, just checking in and seeing how things are going. I thought we had the 3rd bonus task done already by the way? Because the points were counted on it yesterday and we o..."What book was it?
Okay, because I saw Norse gods on there at one point and I was just confused. Also on my end there is no reasons filled in for some books that are finished.
I would like to listen to
for prompt 68, but I’m not sure if it qualifies for the challenge. It’s audio only so no book formats. Length wise it would be about 170 pages. Does it qualify if there is no book format?
I finished Can you see me? By Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott it was great and only had two things in ut that I found problimatic and you can read my minor spoiler review to see those points.The spreadsheet only lets me put in comments.
I start the review with a non spilor review/statement
Libby Scott is an autistic girl and advocate and this book was wonderfully written and I think everyone who is or knows someone who's autistic or who works with kids, teachers, doctors etc should read this and continue to listen to and get their information about being autistic from autistic people. The hashtag red instead and the series ask an autistic by Amythest Schaber on YouTube are great places to start.
AurorainBookland wrote: "I finished Can you see me? By Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott it was great and only had two things in ut that I found problimatic and you can read my minor spoiler review to see those points.The s..."
I asked Kadi how to fix that because it doesn't show the points for it either.
Also hello team!! I just finished another book and we are currently tied with first place!!
Aeriell wrote: "AurorainBookland wrote: "I finished Can you see me? By Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott it was great and only had two things in ut that I found problimatic and you can read my minor spoiler review to..."Thanks, maybe its because I use a tablet?
Hey team! Sorry for not saying anything these past few days! College has started up and dealing with first week stuff! We have dropped to third and nice!!! I will try to get a book or two in but saying this now before the end of this month: Y’all are amazing! We did so much amazing reading this month and y’all were so much fun to do this with!
Aeriell wrote: "Hey team! Sorry for not saying anything these past few days! College has started up and dealing with first week stuff! We have dropped to third and nice!!! I will try to get a book or two in but sa..."I hope everyone is/had fun doing this challenge it was fun reading with you all.
Hey everyone! Make sure all your stuff is filled in properly! some books are missing the reasons why it fulfills a prompt on my end!!
Good effort team. It was a fun challenge. And it was great meeting all of you.
Thank you Aeriell for being our captain. It’s much appreciated. Kadi as well.
Congratulations on 2nd place! Thanks for reading along with me everyone, it was super fun! I'm looking forward to doing this challenge again next year.
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I stated earlier about prompt 76, unless you already finished a book for that prompt then go ahead and take it.