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January 2023 Read-a-Thon: Team Styczen
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Jan 25, 2023 05:55AM
I didn't finish any books yesterday but made progress on 3. One of them has a green cover and involves doctors and I was so excited when the library said it was ready for me. I hope to finish that one this afternoon once I am off work. If I can remember my headphones I should be able to listen to my audiobook at work.
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My hold for The Unhoneymooners just came in, and I was trying to figure out where it could fit based on the synopsis. Do you think physical illness can just mean "getting sick", (i.e. cold, flu, etc)? A bunch of people got food poisoning, so if so, I think this would fit that prompt.
Traci wrote: "I wanted to share: my niece got up (and made me get up) 1/2 an hour early today at 6:40 so we could finish a book before school since I left today. I love how much she and her brother both love books!"Love that she is a reader and that you both got up to finish a book!
I just realized that the manga I read last night was over 200 pages so could count and the main character is a doctor, so slotted that one in there. I saw discussion earlier about financial event and Fairy Tale would work for that as there is an inheritance key to the plot if people have other books to put in for sports related we could swap them around.
Edit: I finished Imago by Octavia E Butler and they have interesting big and extended families so went with big family for this one.
Finished A Thousand Miles to Graceland and put it on music, for our second round of Hobbies. I started The Villa today, it's pretty short and reads fast, so I'm looking at prompts - would y'all say that's a green cover? (I never know what should count as green vs blue, with this kind of hue!)
If not, or if someone else fills that first, I think it would also work for the financial event prompt (MC is going through a divorce and her husband is trying to claim more money than she feels he deserves, stuff related to that). It isn't a self-help book, but ironically it's got a major character who writes self-help books... so close, lol.
I'm bad at telling whether it's green or blue too. But I think that would definitely count for financial event!
We've completed all the categories except Money. The only prompts left for that are:
- financial event is important
- green cover
- self-help book
I'll probably finish self help book tonight, if not, I'll finish in the morning. I have books for the other two also, but am guessing others will finish books before I finish mine. Thinking ahead, is anyone else going to read a self help book for a second round? Or should we just try to finish one money?
I think The Villa looks blue, but I'm also not sure. Sometimes it depends on where you're looking or what screen you're on.
The blue-green thing is always hard, I tend to see green and my husband sees blue. I am not sure there is a right answer, I think the percentage of teal is 50/50 of each. I should finish The Violin Conspiracy tonight or in the morning and it can work for a financial event.
I have Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened on hold and in transit at the library it has some listings as a self help book - not sure myself as I think it might be a parody with some real help snuck in. Also it’s been in transit for a few days which is odd.
Traci, it's so awesome that your niece and nephew are readers!! And Roxana I'd count it as green!!
I'll be really busy until the weekend but I'm hoping to finish at least 3-4 more books by Sunday night. The issue I'm having is that I absolutely loathe the book I'm currently reading (The Perfect Marriage) and really don't want to finish it... I also just realized that literally every review on book's GR page is 1 star, so I probably should have skimmed the reviews before deciding to read it. Sigh.
I completed Caveat Emptor and put it under financial event so we just have green cover left to complete that category. I have about 200 pages left in the book I am reading for green cover so someone else might beat me to it as I won't be able to read a book until this afternoon. Going to focus on audio this morning as I head to work.
Irene, I think you should drop it if you loathe it that much! This coming from someone who keeps reading with a hope that it will get better and it rarely does, so I don't follow this advice myself!
I also say DNF. I’ve gotten more comfortable with doing that in the last year or so. There are too many good books and too little time.
I found a middle grade book, Sunny, with a green cover and a sport that's only 3 hours long. I've actually used this series for read-a-athons before, but since I already used 2 middle grade books, I feel kind of bad using another one. Maybe I'll look some more. Does anyone know if Firekeeper's Daughter would fit for sport? The blurb says there's a hockey player, but not sure how much sport there actually is (this one's longer at 13 hours, but since I listen at faster speed and have a free day on Saturday, I could get through it).
Irene, I say at least put the The Perfect Marriage aside. I think sometime the desire to get things read for a read a thon only increases my distain for a book I am struggling with. If after the read-a-thon is over you want to go back to it the it is meant but if not then you know it is a DNF. Traci I think that hockey plays and important role in the Firekeepers daughter and it would be a fit.
Ooh I loved firekeepers daughter! I think you would enjoy it and hockey definitely plays an important role. If you want to read another middle grade book you should do it. But don’t do it if it’s just for the read-a-thon. I’m sure we’ll find a green cover.
Great! I do like the middle grade series, but since I was going to read The Firekeeper's Daughter this year anyway, I might try for that. We'll see where my books sit after I finish what I'm working on. Of course I read The Winners last week!
Thanks everyone for the advice! <3 I really struggle to DNF books because very very occasionally books do get better towards the end and I always hope that's the case, but I think I'll definitely set it aside for now and get started on my other books!Edit: I might actually read the ending just to know how it ends since it's a murder mystery. At least it'd count for pages, LOL!
I feel like I let everyone down today but I just didn't get much reading done. I had too much other stuff interrupting me. Hopefully tomorrow I will catch up.
Don't feel bad Rachel, you always contribute so many pages!! I didn't read anything yesterday at all! xD
No worries, I’ve been the same. The week started out great and the last few days I’ve been struggling to find their motivation to read. Just finished Ex Talk. It was very meh. Not sure where I’ll put it yet.
I’ll make sure to finish Station Eleven by Sunday, but not sure if I’ll be able to get another book in after that
Rachel, don't feel bad about it at all, life is life and this is all a game, anyway :) plus, you've got a ton of pages logged already!I went ahead and put The Villa for green cover and used two bookmarks to finish the Money category. We now have one of each category! It does also really thoroughly fit the reading/writing prompt, if someone else finishes a more definitely green cover that doesn't fit much, though. (Loved The Villa, btw, I've enjoyed Rachel Hawkins's previous thrillers even when I don't think they're always toootally amazing, but this one was the best of them yet.)
Just got a tiny bit left of Knight's Castle, it fits several prompts so I'll probably check in tomorrow morning on what's open and needed for that. I'm going out of town for the weekend, and the cell reception & wifi at the place I'm staying are apparently rather inconsistent, so not sure how much I'll be able to check in, but I'm really hoping to finish a few more books before this is over... and show up late Sunday night to drop them all in the spreadsheet, probably, lol.
Agreed Rachel, don't feel bad.I finished The Luminaries (longest on my tbr) and slotted it into a career prompt. Then I checked out Farewell, My Orange, which is the shortest on my TBR, feels like quite the juxtaposition.
I also have 4 audiobooks checked out and am super curious where I'll end up going with those!
I was really struggling starting work this morning, so I finished an audiobook. Ha.
Thoughts for the team: In my procrastination, I just went through the completed tab and found two books without prompts. Based on their placement, I would guess at least 100 pages were read during the read-a-thon, but this should be confirmed.
RachelG - Sprinkle in Time - seems like a good spot is Health - food on cover.
Alicia - Ex Talk - put in Career - set in workplace and juggle Black White and the Grey to Career - blue collor/hands on worker?
(there are other ways to juggle too)
I'm going to now procrastinate more by going for a run!
Rachel you are such an amazing reader, I could only wish to get as many pages read as you do! Speaking of which I am slowly working my way through Memphis hopefully will be done early tomorrow. It will work for A book whose title starts with a letter in the word FAMILY if which is that last one needed to fill that category for the second round.
Traci it's awesome that your procrastination method is exercise LOL.Does anyone know why the FAMILY prompt is greyed out? (was it accidental?)
I don’t see it grated out, but I’m looking on my phone. Thanks Traci! I just finished last night and since I think it can fit a few was going to wait to see what other categories need help filling
Thanks Traci! I totally forgot about A Sprinkle in Time. I purposely had left Black, White and the Grey on the planning tab so I would remember to put it somewhere and should have done that for sprinkle.Thanks for the compliment, Samantha. I am fortunate that as a full time caregiver with a part-time other job I am able to spend time reading.
I have about 120 pages in my current book Bones in the Blackout and should finish in a couple hours.
Irene wrote: "Traci it's awesome that your procrastination method is exercise LOL.Does anyone know why the FAMILY prompt is greyed out? (was it accidental?)"
I mean, it's more often not exercising, but it feels better to procrastinate work by exercising than tv, and I've been trying to make myself go for a run for the last 3 days! But yes, it's good it's one of my methods!
I think I’m going to give up on Station Eleven, at least for now. It’s bugging me that for some reason every engineer/electrician/plumber died while all the actors and musicians seemed to die.
I picked up Adventures of a Vegan Vamp and haven't been able to put it down. It has an absurd premise but it's fun. I am actually looking forward to reading the next one in the series although I am not quite halfway through the first.
Ok I’m going to start The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina which can fit and finish up the prompt with a title that starts with a letter in FAMILY.
RachelG. wrote: "I picked up Adventures of a Vegan Vamp and haven't been able to put it down. It has an absurd premise but it's fun. I am actually looking forward to reading the next one in the seri..."That looks interesting. I'm going to mention it to my friend who is doing very long walks in the city to train for a trip this spring and needs easy/fun audiobooks to help get her through. I met up with her for 3 hours of one of her walks and her book of the day was from a werewolf romance series, this seems up her alley!
Alicia, I finished Memphis last night and put it under Family. I might be able to move it but not sure if nurse or hairdresser would be blue collar does anyone know? It is showing up as Pink when I search, never heard of pink.
No problem, it’ll fit other prompts. I did look up funeral director and it said green haha. I didn’t know there were so many colors of professions lol
I have a blue collar I'll finish pretty quickly today. I'll also finish mental health/illness today.
LOL I had no clue there was a green either I guess I am just behind the times. Traci glad you were able to find something that fits blue collar as the now collar system now has me confused :)
I don't see that anyone has a book with someone retired in process so I am looking for something quick that can fit and that I can get from my library. I found a perfect graphic novel but no copies available - argg!
I finished Farewell, My OrangeI and put it in blue collar. A lot of books I've read by Japanese writers have a different feel that I've found I really enjoy. I didn't look up collar color, but it's definitely hands on as she cuts meat and packages it for the supermarket.Not sure what I'll pick up next. If anyone has a category in mind, I can try to find something to fit a prompt. I'm going to switch to my audiobook while I make breakfast. I don't feel like reading another self help (though I don't mind them and even have a once quarterly goal) and no one has options there, so will probably not read my green cover unless it looks like it could go somewhere else (assuming it's out of transit and at the library, I haven't checked). Maybe I'll just read whatever and see if it fits somewhere since we should get 2 of all the others. Ramble over.
Oh, and forgot to mention there is a very minor retired character in Farewell, My Orange, so it could be moved if very minor counts.
I actually copied Irene and read Elevation for a retired character. I am say boat as you Traci about not being sure what to pick up next. It looks like we need one more for the a character who has a mental illness/disability to finish another Health category. It looks like we also need more bookmarks so any reading will be good!
I finished Adventures of a Vegan Vamp but haven't placed it anywhere and left it on the planning tab until I can figure out where it will fit. I started Legend by David Gemmell for a buddy read in a different group and I think I will need to read it before I know where it can fit. All I know so far is that war is on the horizon.
I've never read Stephen King and have now gone to look at two that have been read by this group. Makes me wonder if I should give him a try.I'll definitely finish a book for mental health today, maybe two.
I’m actually not a big Stephen King fan. I’ve tried two, but I’m always like meh. Which I know is crazy because he is THE Stephen King.
I finished Challenger Deep and slotted it into the mental illness prompt. Very interesting portrayal of mental health.
I added the 2 bookmarks to finish the second health category. I’ve been a bit slower in my reading, but I have about 9.5 hours left in this book that I should finish up tomorrow. So hopefully we can get another 2 bookmarks to complete the second Career.
Traci wrote: "I mean, it's more often not exercising, but it feels better to procrastinate work by exercising than tv, and I've been trying to make myself go for a run for the last 3 days! But yes, it's good it's one of my methods!"Definitely!! Honestly you're inspiring me to do the same - I'm going to try to go for walks/runs when I don't feel like working!
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