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Lois wrote: "I just finished 
and slotted it in for Orange cover on Cornucopia 1 for the 2nd time. We are doing great! Kinda funny that the acorns are what's stopping more from bein..."That's what I think too, Lois. I have more reading time today so I hope to get a lot of hours and pages.
Finished Zom-b Bride. slotted it into YA but it potentially could go under black + white cover as only the title is in another color.
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Hooray for finishing another book! I'll be starting Black Cake next.
I finished The Bone People - oof, glad that one's over! I put it in for Family Dynamics, Cornucopia 4 (our second one, which is now complete except for the acorns).I have two library books due on Friday - started one Monday and will start the other tonight or tomorrow. One of them doesn't fit any categories but it will be a quick read and pages for acorns!
Just over halfway through I'm Glad My Mom Died. it's so good, but so heavy idk how much more of that I'll read tonight so probably gonna switch to a cozy or a manga.
Completed Chess Story. The only place it really fit was a book set in the 1900s.
I finished The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family last night and placed it under "A Book that takes place at a school".
Team Cranberry is on a roll. We earned another 3 acorns which I applied to Cornucopia 4. We now have completed each of the five cornucopias once! We have another two that could be completed a second time ... once we have more acorns.
Amazing work, team! I seem to have shifted to books that will help with acorns but not much else. I finished To Be Taught, If Fortunate, which doesn't seem to apply to any prompts. Currently working on Still Life and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, which only apply to pretty well-populated prompts. I have several books sitting in my read-soon pile, so I can probably jump to another if we have an orphan prompt with the acorns to support it--I'll keep an eye out over the next couple of days.
I finished two audio books this afternoon. I put Blackberry Crumble under "A Mystery/Thriller" and The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom under "A book set in or about nature".
Finished A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea. It is a memoir, not a novel. However, I consider the accounts of the author's life in North Korea more disturbing than anything I have read in a dystopian novel.Question for the team, would it be appropriate to count this for the dystopian prompt? Otherwise it would be another book set in the 1900s.
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Emily wrote: "I think it wouldn't count as dystopian, since dystopian (by definition) is fiction. But I agree that that book is darker than most dystopians I've read."I was afraid you might say that. Thanks!
I'm currently just reading as much as I can. I've got Drama and As Close As Sisters going in books. Listening to Full Moon.
Happy Friday! This work week has finally ended!!! Sorry about the drop out this week, work has been awful. I did manage to squeeze in a couple of books:
for a yellow cover and
for book set outdoors. Not sure what is next will have to look at Libby and see what is still there. Hope to finish a couple of them this weekend. Looks like everyone had a great reading week. Happy I can join back for the weekend.
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I finished
and started
. I will add my books to the spreadsheet if I need to but not sure we will need any more books for prompts until the end. I will add mine in if needed, but for now just reading to get acorns. :) Oh when I added my hours for yesterday we had enough to finish another Cornucopia so I went ahead and completed #2 for the 2nd time. :)
Hey all! I have been feeling a bit under the weather so I didn't check in before I went to bed last night. Good news is that I tend to read more when I am sick. I managed to finish both Genesis Begins Again (Book with a first name in the title.) and Loves Music, Loves to Dance (Book written by an author who is no longer alive.) I am still plodding my way through The Pageant of Chinese History. I keep getting distracted with other books; I may or may not get it finished before the end of the read-a-thon.
Finished Open Season for "set outside" and A Mango-Shaped Space for "orange cover". I am starting Fragile which is over 400 pages. I am hoping to finish this evening or in the morning. I also have The Black Witch for an audio tomorrow it is 600 pgs so that should help with acorns.
GO TEAM CRANBERRY! WE ARE DOING AMAZING!I finished two more books today. They were The Giver(A Dystopian Novel) and The Pageant of Chinese History (A book with 400+ Pages.). I am hoping to read/finish at least one more book by the end of the read-a-thon tomorrow.
We are doing awesome! I just logged some hours and pushed up to a total of 24 acorns! I finished off another cornucopia which gives us 8. There are 2 more that are full minus acorns. Go team cranberry!
Finished my last book Life As We Knew It and added it to "dystopian". This has been fun as always. Thanks for a great week of reading.
I managed to squeeze in two more books. Neither one really fits any prompts...so these are for acorns: Friends and Foes and The Doll's House. With that I think I am done for the challenge. We did awesome! Go Team Cranberry!
I finished my last book As Close As Sisters. Added my pages and hours. I enjoyed reading with all of you this week!
I finished my fourth book today, another one that doesn't fit any of the prompts, but at least I got the individual challenge done. I'll probably read a bit more tonight but not a significant number of pages as I'm currently grading homework assignments and getting tired of reading! I debated whether to join a team for this readathon since I knew my schedule wouldn't allow a lot of reading time, but it's been fun even though I couldn't check in as often or contribute as many books as usual. Thankful for a great team - 'til next time! :)
I finished off Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 6 and I used it for the animal prompt. I won't manage anything else. Way to go team, this has been fun.
Great job Team Cranberry... and such fun. We ended up with 9 completed cornucopias, one acorn shy of completing a 10th and two more cornucopias complete minus the requisite acorns. It looks like everyone has logged their pages and time. If so, the final total is 15,000+ pages read and 209+ hours of listening. 75 books completed!WOW.... Until we read-a-thon again, happy reading!
It has been delightful to read along with you guys, and I got some fun ideas for future reads! I came down with a stomach bug mid-week, which had mixed effects on my participation, but I read a few books I have really been looking forward to, especially Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I'm glad that I actually got to participate this time--like the challenge overall, this was a great motivator for remembering to choose reading over other leisure activities that I actually don't enjoy so much!
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Used our 3 remaining (at the moment) acorns to finish off one Cornucopia 1, We need 6 more acorns to complete 2 other cornucopias that have 4 prompts completed.
So, as Lois mentioned, we need acorns and less need to worry whether a book fits a prompt (or not). We are doing well at the midpoint. Go Cranberries!