Fall 23 Read-a-Thon: Team Top Hat

[Alicia]

Reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Probably won't finish today but will finish by tomorrow. It can fit under non-fiction for trivial pursuit.

[Bec]

Samantha wrote: "I am not sure I understand the rolls or how they should be as a team so didn't do anything further. Thus demonstrating why I never want to be a captain. I always seem to be lost!

I agree. Not sure how that part works either so I put my books in and hope for the best! I'm also now sure if we are meant to move completed books from the planning tab and put into completed, so I just leave them and add into completed.

[Sophia]

Bec wrote: "Samantha wrote: "I am not sure I understand the rolls or how they should be as a team so didn't do anything further. Thus demonstrating why I never want to be a captain. I always seem to be lost!

..."
Yes, definitely move things from Planned to Completed when you've finished a book! We'll double-check for things listed on both tabs as we go along so don't worry if you forget or just let us know here if you can't access the spreadsheet for any reason.

[Bec]

Sophia wrote: "Yes, definitely move things from Planned to Completed when you've finished a book! We'll double-check for things listed on both tabs as we go along so don't worry if you forget or just let us know here if you can't access the spreadsheet for any reason..."

thank you :)

[Alicia]

Also started A Murder in Postcript which can count for murder but also military character, which is likely harder to fill.

[Sophia]

Murder's usually pretty popular!

[Sheena]

Well yesterday was sadly a 0 read day for me, but I'm making it up for it today :D

I've got The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice playing on audio and will start reading My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises after work.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool on audio and put it under Trivial Pursuit: Science & Nature. It is about raising sheep, then the whole process for turning wool into yarn.

[Samantha]

Sophia wrote: "Bec wrote: "Samantha wrote: "I am not sure I understand the rolls or how they should be as a team so didn't do anything further. Thus demonstrating why I never want to be a captain. I always seem t..."

Thank you for your guidance!

[Alicia]

Finished I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and put it under trivial pursuit nonfiction. Am I terrible for not liking Maya Angelou’s biography?!?!

Reading Murder in Postscript. Will probably finish it tomorrow.

[Bec]

I'm still finishing off The Karma Map. Hopefully I can finish tonight.

I started an audio book, listened to about 2 hours and then decided I'm not loving it so started another one...So whilst I can count the listen hours, I'm still a little way from finishing the new one!

[Sheena]

@Alicia .. No way!! But I totally relate the the guilt of not liking something you feel like your supposed to.

I'm almost through my audiobook and about half way done MGSHRAA.. snuggling in to read for the rest of the night so I *might* get it done tonight.

[Sheena]

@Bec .. the extra hours will be helpful and there are way too many great books to read to slog through something you're not enjoying. Hope you're enjoying the new pick.

[Sheena]

Morning team, We're halfway through our challenge and more than halfway through the prompts with 15 completed and 10 left to go!! Way to go, Top Hatters

If you're choosing your next book we have a few prompts with only one possibility so may benefit from a 'plan b'
- A book with a weapon of any kind on cover
- A book that has circle, square, cube, or cross shape on cover

Also - A book with 2 or more authors has one for the count (and the formula looks correct) but I can't see an x anywhere so if you meant to mark a book with two authors let me know and I'll see if I can find the issue? (a space, white letter? gremlins : ) )

[Samantha]

I should finish with Happiness Falls this morning. I has a very round moon on the cover would this work for a circle?

[Alicia]

Definitely think moon counts for circle.

Will finish Murder in postscript this afternoon and that will go to military.

I’ll look at what prompts are left before picking my next read.

[Samantha]

I completed Happiness Falls and put it under A book that has circle, square, cube, or cross shape on cover.

I am not sure what I am reading next, I am going to see if I can find something with a weapon but will get started on one of my other books if I can't find anything.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I have the weapon! I finished Well Met . The drawings in the background include a sword.

[Samantha]

Today seems like it might be a bad reading day for me. I listened to an hour of The Spare Room and it is set during Covid lockdowns. Happiness falls had a Covid time line as well and I am not sure I want to be in that world again so quickly.

I am in book limbo, can't decide to continue on or move on to something new...

[Alicia]

Move on! Don’t waste time if it’s not bringing you joy. We can still get rolls from what you did read

[Bec]

I finished The Karma Map and slotted it in for set in India.

I'm currently reading/listening to The Queen's Gambit. Enjoying it more than I thought I would. Funnily enough I used a different book called Check Mate for the book related to chess as chess isn't my thing at all and this was a fun romance...now I'm reading The Queens Gambit all about Chess and loving it. I'll be watching the netflix show once its finished.

I also just started First Victim.

[Alicia]

Bec, where do you think those will fit. I'm thinking of finding something for 2+ authors which we don't seem to have something for.

Was thinking either Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch or The Personal Librarian. Won't be able to start till tonight

[Bec]

Alicia wrote: "Bec, where do you think those will fit. I'm thinking of finding something for 2+ authors which we don't seem to have something for.
..."

First Victim will fit book with a murder. 2 murders in the first chapter!
I assume I could count The Queen's Gambit as entertainment and arts with chess.

[Alicia]

Started Good Omens which will fit two authors. But I’m tired so going to head to bed early. Probably won’t finish till Friday but I’ll keep adding time read

[Veronica]

Just finished reading King's Cage. It fits a few, like includes a royal character but im leaning towards A book where war is involved as that may be a bit harder to fill. I'll let our leaders decide and see what primpts are open to decide my next read.

[Sheena]

Veronica wrote: "Just finished reading King's Cage. It fits a few, like includes a royal character but im leaning towards A book where war is involved as that may be a bit harder to fill. I'll let o..."

There's a war in My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises so if I fill that and you do royal character we can check both off.

I also just finished The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice so can check of murder too but of course feel free to swap around if there's a better strategy for getting all the prompts filled.

[Sheena]

I just double checked and cleaned up some formatting on the spreadsheet.

Three prompts left to go, all with some logged book options
Two unused rolls, so we just need one more roll to complete round one ;)

Edited to update progress ...
- A book with 2 or more authors
- A book relating to History
- A book relating to Entertainment & Arts

[Samantha]

Good morning, I ended up reading Fangirl, Vol. 3: The Manga last night.

The main character writes fanfiction based on a Harry Potter type story. Would this count as arts or even entertainment? Because it was a graphic novel it also had art work in it so maybe that counts?

Edit: I entered it as entertainment but can move if need be.

[Samantha]

Bec wrote: "Alicia wrote: "Bec, where do you think those will fit. I'm thinking of finding something for 2+ authors which we don't seem to have something for.
..."

First Victim will fit book..."

For Queen's gambit I think Chess is considered sport or leisure. But it being turned into a TV show could make it count as entertainment. I think it could also work for History since it is historical fiction.

[Samantha]

Alicia wrote: "Finished I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and put it under trivial pursuit nonfiction. Am I terrible for not liking Maya Angelou’s biography?!?!

Reading Murder in Postscript. Will probably finish i..."

I don't know how I missed this but you are not terrible! I didn't really care of The Diary of a Young Girl for me it was dull but it had nothing to do with Anne Frank just the content wasn't my thing.

I don't like to rate biography's or memoirs because I feel weird about rating someone's life.

[Veronica]

Sheena wrote: "Veronica wrote: "Just finished reading King's Cage. It fits a few, like includes a royal character but im leaning towards A book where war is involved as that may be a bit harder to..."

Sounds good, Sheena. Thanks!

[Alicia]

Omg I didn’t like the Anne Frank one either, and I felt terrible then too. Haha

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I have felt guilty for decades because I never read Anne Frank! I have heard/read about it of course.

[Alicia]

I’d say that’s a better type of guilt lol

[Sophia]

Somehow I forgot to check in yesterday, sorry everyone! Just finished Otherworld Barbara, Volume 1 and moving onto Vol. 2, and trying to get through Veronika Decides to Die (I feel like several of us have made weird choices this week that turned out not to be super fun and this is currently mine). I've started a second round of Parcheesi and we're doing such a good job getting in pages!

If we're still short on 2 author options I can squeeze in a quick Kit Rocha or Ilona Andrews? Urban fantasy is my favorite kind of junk food book anyways.

[Alicia]

Good Omens can fit there but if you finish the other first I don’t mind. Good omens can fit multiple places. A little slow in reading today because my small human was home sick. Hoping to finish it by Saturday

[Alicia]

That said, if we’re looking to complete another round of prompts, I have a couple other shorter books I can get through and add 2 more books read by Sunday. At this rate, I’ll probably just be done with good omens

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I read the short When You Had Power and started a new column under Life - character gets a job. I am now reading The Widows of Malabar Hill, which would go under Set in India for a 2nd round.

[Bec]

I finished listening to The Queen's Gambit on my lunchtime walk today. This was the quickest I've ever listened to a book, whenever I could I had it on (driving in the car, walking around the house, walking anywhere else, on the train etc).

It has the genre as history on goodreads so I've slotted it under history.

[Samantha]

I finished Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere and put it under non fiction.

Does anyone no if we finished when we go to bed on Saturday or on Sunday?

[Alicia]

I finished Good Omens. May not be able to update the spreadsheet till later but it fits 2 authors.

I’m torn. The writing was good and so funny. But it was also all over the place with two many characters.

[Alicia]

And it’s when you go to sleep Sunday night

[Sophia]

Alicia, I updated the spreadsheet with Good Omens so you're all good! We've officially finished one of each board game, way to go team! I tip my (top) hat to everyone 😉

Robin, did you want us to move Marmee to the completed section? I couldn't find anything in this thread mentioning it.

I also finished and put it under cover - mustard yellow. I've started marking our 2nd round entries in purple so let's see how far we get!

[Alicia]

Thanks Sophia! I won’t be able to pick up something new until tonight but I’ll check where we’re at and see if I can close any for a second round

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Sophia wrote: "Alicia, I updated the spreadsheet with Good Omens so you're all good! We've officially finished one of each board game, way to go team! I tip my (top) hat to everyone 😉

Robin, did you want us to m..."

Yes, I finished Marmee and It could go under Arts & Literature or History for Trivial Pursuit or under War or Takes aRisk under Risk.

[Bec]

so not much reading yesterday. After finishing the Queens Gambit at lunchtime, I decided to start the neftlix series after work....3 episodes in....ate into my reading time!

[Sophia]

I've put Marmee under History for now and I burned through In Waves (a very fast graphic novel and also the fastest a book has made me cry!) so I put that under Sports & Leisure, which means we're halfway through another round of Trivial Pursuit already!

[Alicia]

Ok starting the family game. It’ll be my last book but I’ll finish it by Sunday to put somewhere

[Bec]

I'm listening to an audio book that is 4 hours and 23 minutes....does anyone know if that would equate to at least 100 pages? It's audible only so no book to check page numbers - Last One to Leave

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Bec wrote: "I'm listening to an audio book that is 4 hours and 23 minutes....does anyone know if that would equate to at least 100 pages? It's audible only so no book to check page numbers - [book:Last One to ..."

That should be fine. I think we figured one minute per page but even at 2 pages a minute it would be over 100 pages.