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Fall Read-a-Thon 2021: Team Wonderland
Thanks, NancyJ. Fortunately, Tylenol (it is the only pain med I can take), a coke and a nap worked. It also helped my books narrator had a very calm voice. Thanks, Nancy. I will try and move my next book.
I finished Coached to Death and really enjoyed it. I wish I didn’t have to wait for the next in the series. I am going to see what prompt to use it for later tonight.I plan to go to the library tomorrow to get some other options for animal print on the cover because I started The Whole Cat and Caboodle but it is not one I want to continue.
I saw a discussion on the team FAQ topic about "animal print." I though it meant animal tracks - or a dog's footprint - but now I'm not sure what it means.
For animal print I have Hana Khan Carries On
and A Man of the People
. I can read one or both of those next.
I was confused by animal print too, Emily said this:"I would say a picture of an animal wouldn’t work, since that’s an animal, not animal print. When I wrote the prompt, I was actually thinking of the fabrics type thing, like leopard print and cheetah print. But paw prints work as well, I think!"
Emily, so an actual leopard or cheetah wouldn't count then? Only if it's the print?
I took a peek at the other teams' spreadsheets and these are the books they have planned:
I'm not sure that last one actually fits. Not a lot of options here! Would a drawing of an animal be ok, like these?
Do you think that this book would qualify for animal print on the cover?
Judging by the above conversation, my book would not count for animal print. If you find out otherwise please let me know.
Deborah wrote: "Judging by the above conversation, my book would not count for animal print. If you find out otherwise please let me know."Does his shirt have an animal print on it?
I guess technically if you look really close the guy on the bottom right has on an animal pelt...but it isn't really obvious so I don't think it would count.
I was planning on using a cozy mystery with dog or goat paw prints on it but a book with a paw print is third in line for me so if someone else gets to it first than that is great.
I finished my previous book, so I've started A Man of the People. I added it to the plans tab in the spreadsheet. It's <200 pages, so I can probably finish it today.
I couldn't find anything else with animal print. For a green cover, I found
I have a library hold on The Last Thing he Told me, but I don't know if I'll get it in time.
I am so sorry I didn’t check in over the weekend. It has been a busy couple of days, I did put in my pages read for Saturday and Sunday.I finished
by Anthony Bourdain last night but I don’t really see anywhere it fits.My next book is
by Alexandria Bellefleur and I will probably finish the audio version of
by Diana Gabaldon tomorrow. I will add both books to the planning tab.
Hmm... GR is acting funny with my posts. I tried replying to Jill's post that I'm also listening to Voyager but it keeps changing it to a different book and deleting part of my message.
I have gotten in an hour of audio and 25 pages between three books today. Hopefully, I will read a bit more tonight but I'm pretty tired so it probably won't be much.
Good job team! We are making progress! We even managed to fill one of the pesky "Animal Print" slots! Yeah!
I just put
in another light source column. I thought about the green cover, but I don't think its really green. Let me know if you see a better spot for it.
I can not find one book in my collection that is animal print. Ugh.
The animal print one is really hard! I asked in the FAQ thread if it can be a drawing or painting of an animal, I have a few books on my TBR with that.I should finish The Royals Next Door today, and then depending on the answer to the animal print question will determine my next book.
I agree that the animal print is really hard. It is a bit of a challenge with so many cover prompts and not knowing the prompts early enough to plan. I already had books planned for this week for other challenges and they don't fit well unfortunately.
BTW we've slayed one of each monster! Great job team!
Ok Emily gave the ok for a drawing of an animal! That makes it a little easier, I think.
I'll destroy another Harpy this afternoon. I should be able to finish at least one or two more books today
I just completed the last book for our second Dragon (red/orange cover). I updated the plan page with a light blue background for that box. Let me know if that's not OK. I didn't highlight the completed column on the dragon page.
I have
on my TBR list for the animal print prompt but am having trouble getting excited to read it.Tomorrow I plan on reading What's a Ghoul to Do?. For some reason I grabbed the second book in the series this afternoon (Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend) and read it thinking it was the first.
I finished
this afternoon. I put it under a book that starts with a letter in "OGRE". It technically has a jaguar on the cover...but it looks a lot like a photo so I didn't think it would work for the "Animal Print" cover. Too bad...that one is a tricky one to fill.
I just finished Dragon Mage by M.L. Spencer and added it as a 500+ pages book. I recently read this book but if someone else wants to read it for the challenge, it should work for an "Animal Print":
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre:
Laurii: I just saw you are reading Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace, I read that over the summer and it is an amazing book.
Also, I think A Man of the People would count as an "Animal Print" if we want to move it.
I think this counts for "animal print on fabric"
I really liked Archivist Wasp!I did put A Man of the People down for animal print- it's listed on our first dragon column.
Okay, so I "think"
, has a peacock feather print on the cover? Can anyone concur? (please say yes)
I was on a page with all enlarged covers and spotted these two for animal skins. Treasure (by the author of My Sister the Serial Killer) has a snake skin print in the background. The Girl.. has an animal print pattern on her dress at the far right.
ETA
Ah forget Treasure. It's only a short story, so it won't help us with that spot.
I finished Voyager which I put for a book where a character dies. I also finished
which I put for a person with long hair on the cover.
Today, I went inside the library. It is the first time since before Covid. I have gotten a little bit of reading in today. I’ll try and update my pages/hours tomorrow morning for Tuesday and today.
I completed They Both Die at the End, which has 3 potential spots in Dragon or Banshee.. I didn't enter it into a spot yet, but put my initials in the possible spots. So if someone is working on those monsters, feel free to assign it a square, or I'll look at it tomorrow.
NancyJ it's up to you. We need one more animal print to get a third dragon, but we're also now working on our fifth banshee. Put it where you like and we can always move it.
I am hoping that third time is the charm for me reading a book with animal print. I got 50 pages into
and decided I did not want to continue. I just downloaded to my kindle
(there is a row of paw prints in the pink stripe at the top and something that looks like cheetah print on the ground) and I think it will be an interesting read. That was a long sentence to say that I plan to focus on filling animal print this evening.
NamcyJ, I started a short audio last night and it will work for a light source on the cover. I have not had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet but I should finish it today.
I am currently reading
. I am planning on using it for animal print. If Rachel can pull off her animal print (hopefully third time is the charm) we might be able to pull off two more dragons.!
Deborah wrote: "I am currently reading . I am planning on using it for animal print. If Rachel can pull off her animal print (hopefully third time is the charm) we mi..."Perfect! It's clearly designed to look like a tiger's stripes, and it looks better than most of the other ones. Thank you for searching for that!
Nancy wrote: "NancyJ it's up to you. We need one more animal print to get a third dragon, but we're also now working on our fifth banshee. Put it where you like and we can always move it."OK Thanks. I have guests coming in tomorrow so I won't be checking in very often. I expect to finish The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, and maybe another short one depending on how early they all go to bed.
How's everyone doing going into the weekend? I will finish Miss Kopp Investigates and Stiff at some point over the weekend, and that will likely be it for me, unless I can squeeze in one more shorter audio. My son has a football game in the morning and then a marching band competition tomorrow afternoon, but my husband won't be home in the evening which means more reading time for me.
We have a lot of rain in the forecast this weekend keeping me indoors and I don't have to work so I should have lots of time to read. Are there any prompts we need to focus on filling?
I'm finding the exact guidelines of the animal print a bit confusing. The book has a drawing of a bird and dragon so I put in the open animal print spot but I can easily move it to "A book featuring the death of a character"
Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien
I set the colors on the planning tab so the it shows that the rural prompt is currently the only spot missing one thing. On everything else we are ready to fill all the spots. I was not sure if we were doing something other than pink so if that needs to be changed that is okay with me.
I think that works for animal print! The wallpaper is an animal print.Jillian I had the colors set based on the number filled for each one. So green was 1 prompt filled, blue was 2, yellow was 3, pink was 4, purple was 5.
Nancy wrote: ". Jillian I had the colors set based on the number filled for each one. So green was 1 prompt filled, blue was 2, yellow was 3, pink was 4, purple was 5. ."
I changed the Banshee to purple and Wraith back to yellow. It looks like the last Ogre prompt got filled. Everything is ready to be filled. What color do you want to use for 6 monsters since we likely will get another Banshee?
I just finished The Haunting of Hill House and realized I could rearrange some of my books to fill that rural prompt and complete the Ogre!As for this weekend, tonight and tomorrow I don't have much to do, so should be able to get a good amount of reading in. Sunday, however, is a busy day for me, but I should have a little time to read in the evening.
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Jillian to move from one tab to another, select the column and cut (Ctrl X or right click and choose Cut) and then go to the Completed tab and paste it where you want it to go. I moved it for you but just so you know for next time.
The way I use the colors is green I know I'll finish during the week, I don't really think of it as next 48 hours, just that I will finish. Yellow means I hope to read and finish. Red is I really want to read it but likely won't finish during the week. So if I start a book Thursday, I'll make it yellow because there's a chance I could finish it by Sunday. Make sense? It's kind of arbitrary but an indicator for the others that a prompt will be completed during the challenge.