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Sorry, take care of yourself! 😘

READATHON ENTRY: DAY 4
🔹️I've updated our progress (post #7)
🔹️ Books read check marked (message #32).
🔹️Spreadsheet updated too ‼️
Team Pointer Sixters Progress :
📚BOOKS: 25
🔖PAGES: 3,972
🎧HOURS: 72.96
📒PROMPTS: 4 (Singles: 2 /Doubles: 2 / Triples: 0) 400 points
🧮POINTS: 9,236 ‼️
‼️IMPORTANT
We have a difference of 333 pages and 9.46 hours between the totals (columns M & Q)

PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 2/5
🔖PAGES: 742
I believe I have corrected the spreadsheet for my reading.
Please let me know if I need to correct anything.
Thanks! 😊

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 9/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 41.75
✔️ The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
✔️ The Story of Beautiful Girl
I am late with my update due to technical problems. The Story of Beautiful Girl audiobook was assembled in the wrong order. They numbered the conclusion and author's notes as if it were the second disc. How spoiler-y! It was an amazing story from a shameful part of US history, despite the need to read the second disc twice.
This was the second part of the non-traditional family double, so I marked those two YES on the tracking tab. Looks like we may have completed 5 of the Doubles. Yay!

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team 6 -- Pointer Sixters
Progress:
Books read: 2
Pages: 1350
The World That We Knew (read about a family that has been separated)
✅ House of Earth and Blood (about the death of a family member)
✅ The Kingpin of Camelot (he's a kingpin so basically fantasy mob/mafia if that would count)
Things in Jars
The Golden Enclaves
Witch of Wild Things

Shari wrote: "How does column N get populated? It shows 224 for me, which is the number of pages I read on the first day of the read-a-thon, that's not how many pages were in the book I fini..."
I edited my tracking numbers not to reflect books that I am not counting for this challenge (and instead added them at the bottom of the spreadsheet), so hopefully that clears up the misunderstanding.
I will also add my progress from day 1 till now with all of the books that I am reading, as I'm not allowed to track them in the spreadsheet.

✅Patchwork - only 100 pages
Wicked Beauty - 96 pages
Lady Jane (not counting unless needed) - 3.31 hours
Hollow City (not counting) - 100 pages
9/16
Wicked Beauty - 158 pages
Lady Jane (not counting unless needed) - 6.13 hours
✅Hollow City (not counting) - 170 pages
9/17
✅Wicked Beauty - 146 pages
Island Time - 111 pages
9/18
Island Time - 151 pages
Up All Night (not counting unless needed) - 38 pages
Impossible Knife of Memory (not counting unless needed) - 104 pages
9/19
✅Island Time - 373 pages

It's a drizzly overcast morning ..."
Confirmed!


PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 2/5
🔖PAGES: 742
I believe I have corrected the spreadsheet for my reading.
Please let me know if I need to correct anything.
Thanks! 😊"
Thanks to you, Shari!
It seems something is wrong, you have 741 on your daily page tracking, but 751 on your books tracking...
Also, you did't add the title of your Non-prompt book 😅

I will also add my progress from day 1 till now with all of the books that I am reading, as I'm not allowed to track them in the spreadsheet."
Gwen, of course you are allowed to track all your books in the spreadsheet, but you have the add the same data on your daily tracking and on the books tracking ( prompts or non-prompts), I mean the pages/hours have to be the same in both totals, if not we have a problem
I've updated your pages/hours in your daily tracking, maybe now you see how it works.
Are you sure none of the "non-prompt" books you're reading fulfill any prompt?
Also, in the preliminary assignments, I matched "Island time" for the triple prompt "Family conflict" instead of for the single "family vacation." Can it be left in the triple or do you better think not?
If not we can make some adjustments.
Thanks for your time and understanding 😘

Yes, I think this way it's easier to get the tracking right
Cordelia wrote: "UPDATE
2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team 6 -- Pointer Sixters
Progress:
Books read: 2
Pages: 1350
Hours: 19.5"
Can you update your tracking on the spreadsheet, I don't know how to distribute pages/hours
Thanks! 😊

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
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PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 16/26
🔖PAGES: 1,627
🎧HOURS: 33.2
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Today I finished 4 books and have 2 in progress
✅Read 2 books that were recommended by one of your family members (1/2)
Me llamo Lucy Barton Carmen ☑️
❎️Read 2 books about siblings (2/2)
The Notebook Carmen☑️
❎️Read 3 books with elderly protagonists (3/3)
Las amigas Carmen ☑️
✅Read 3 books about characters who are viewed as ‘loners’ or ‘outsiders’ (2/3)
Umami Carmen ☑️

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 10/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 50.25
🔸🔸🔸 DAY 5 (8.5 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ Hello Beautiful - 8.50 hrs
This was the third book for the family conflict Triple prompt. 😊

READATHON ENTRY: DAY 5
🔹️I've updated our progress (post #7)
🔹️ Books read check marked (message #32).
🔹️Spreadsheet updated too ‼️
Team Pointer Sixters Progress :
📚BOOKS: 34
🔖PAGES: 5,753
🎧HOURS: 107.86
📒PROMPTS: 10 (Singles: 3 /Doubles: 5 / Triples: 2) 1,500 points
🧮POINTS: 14,444 ‼️
‼️IMPORTANT
🔸We still have a 10 pages difference in Shari tracking.
🔸Cordelia, I divided the pages of your last post according to the info of the books , though I'm not sure what editions you read, but I can't figure out how to assign the hours. Do you have more books in progress? Because right now we have 19.5 hours without accounting for. Please, take a look and help me here.
🔸Stacy, I noticed you finished "The zookeeper's wife", but we're missing pages/hours for this book (only 2 hours assigned), please report your progress or update the sheet yourself.
🔸If you find something that is not correct on the spreadsheet, please let me know. Thanks!
We're doing very, very well 👏👏👏
WAY TO GO, SIXTERS!!!

Sorry, I hadn't seen you had updated your original tracking post. My mistake 🫣
I've updated your data on the tracking spreadsheet, and matched "Undetected" with the single prompt "looking for a partner" but if you think that it matchs another prompt better, just let me know, please.
Thanks! 😉

✅Patchwork - only 100 pages
Wicked Beauty - 96 pages
Lady Jane (not counting unless needed) - 3.31 hours
Hollow City (not counting) - 100 pages
9/16
Wicked Beauty - 158 pages
Lady Jane (not..."
Hi Gwen!
Can I match "The knife of Memory" with the single prompt "Only child"?
I think "Hollow City" matchs some single prompts too: orphan/caretaker other than parent
Not sure about the other books, but maybe we could find some matchings too.
You can see the prompts that are not fulfilled yet in message #32, but we can move books around if needed.
Thanks! 😉

That works fine for me. I'll update the spreadsheet later today
Carmen wrote: "I think "Hollow City" matchs some single prompts too: orphan/caretaker other than parent"
Unfortunately, I can't use Hollow City for any prompts because it was a graphic novel

That works fine for me. I'll update the spreadsheet later today
Carmen wrote: "I think "Hollow City" matchs ..." 👍

PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 2/3
🔖PAGES: 221
🎧HOURS: 14 hour 58 min
The Zookeeper's Wife- 10 hours 55 min - Completed 09/18/23
The Magician's Nephew - 221 pages- Completed 09/19/23
Her Mother's Hope - in progress
Undetected- in progress 4 hours 3 min into audio book
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2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
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DAY 6
PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 20/26
🔖PAGES: 2,169
🎧HOURS: 37.99
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Today I finished 4 books and have 2 in progress
❌Read 2 books that were recommended by one of your family members (2/2)
Niebla ardiente Carmen☑️
❌Read 3 books in the Family Saga genre (3/3)
The Forsyte Saga Volume Three Carmen
Book 2☑️
Book 3☑️
❌Read 3 books featuring poly relationships or characters (3/3)
Four Psychos Carmen☑️

READATHON ENTRY: DAY 6
🔹️I've updated our progress (post #7)
🔹️ Books read check marked (message #32).
🔹️Spreadsheet updated too, but we keep on having different counting between the two totals
Team Pointer Sixters Progress :
📚BOOKS: 40
🔖PAGES: 6,905
🎧HOURS: 124.15
📒PROMPTS: 13 (Singles: 3 /Doubles: 6 / Triples: 4) 2,250 points
🧮POINTS: 17,574

I forgot to post my update last night for Day 6.
Progress:
📚BOOKS: 11/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 59.75
🔸🔸🔸 DAY 6 (9.5 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After - 5.5 hrs
The Last Anniversary (in progress) 4.0 hrs so far

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EDIT: I switched to a different aro/ace book... To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 13/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 68.75
🔸🔸🔸 DAY 7 (9.0 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ The Last Anniversary 6.0
✔️ To Be Taught, If Fortunate 3.0 (ace/aro)
Plans to add message #32:
The Soul of a Woman memoir where author describes family
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. lost family member
The Guncle living with caretaker other than parent
On the planning tab, no books are currently allocated for the third historical family. It's shown as Spy on message #32, but is not on the spreadsheet. I can add Once Upon a Wardrobe to cover that if needed. It is historical fiction about C.S. Lewis's early life. That would be more valuable to the team than the singles.

"TerryJane wrote: On the planning tab, no books are currently allocated for the third historical family. It's shown as Spy on message #32, but is not on the spreadsheet. I can add Once Upon a Wardrobe to cover that if needed. It is historical fiction about C.S. Lewis's early life. That would be more valuable to the team than the singles."
I know, I asked Shari not to delete it from her schedule, but in the end, since she didn't answer me, I'm not sure if she can read it or not. Anyway, since Cordelia is already reading a book that fits (The world that we knew), I moved it from the single prompt "a family that has been separated" to this triple.

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
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DAY 7
PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 22/26
🔖PAGES: 2,269
🎧HOURS: 44
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I finished 2 books and have 2 in progress
✅Read 2 books about grandparents (1/2)
Donde el corazón te lleve Carmen☑️
✅Read 3 books featuring the found family trope (2/3)
Rewind Carmen ☑️

READATHON ENTRY: DAY 7
🔹️I've updated our progress (post #7)
🔹️ Books read check marked (message #32).
🔹️Spreadsheet updated too, but we keep on having different counting between the two totals
Team Pointer Sixters Progress :
📚BOOKS: 45
🔖PAGES: 7,321
🎧HOURS: 139.16
📒PROMPTS: 13 (Singles: 4 /Doubles: 7 / Triples: 4) 2,450 points
🧮POINTS: 19,048
IMPORTANT
🔸Sorry for being a bore but I have to insist that we have to be as meticulous as possible tracking our progress.
🔸Since we are facing the last leg of the readathon, I think it would be good to do a recount of the tasks that each of us has assigned and, honestly, decide if we can carry them out or not, and thus see if we should make any shuffling with the books already read in order to obtain the greatest possible profitability.
🔸I've added a new mark (➡️) to the books we have in progress (message #32)
🔸If you're reading books that don't fit any prompt, maybe we can match them for the duo "recommended by a family member" (I think we can fit anything here) and see if the books already read for this prompt fit in other tasks.
COME ON, SIXTERS. WE CAN DO IT!!!

I was looking through the list of prompts and see where the book Spy would fill the same prompt at The Orphan Collector. I know I can get the Danielle Steel book read fast, so I may substitute it. I've never read any books by the author of The Orphan Collector so not sure how fast I can read this book. I will leave both on the list for now and see which one I have time to read. Maybe I'll get them both read.
Sorry that I deleted the book Spy. I had already deleted it when I saw your message. I've added it back.

✅Impossible Knife of Memory
Read a book featuring an only child (1/1)
✅Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
Read 2 books that have dual POVs (2/2)
I also have one in progress, My Lady Jane which could potentially fulfill one of these briefs
Read 2 books about family ceremonies, rituals, traditions (wedding, funeral, reunion, etc.) - two of the MCs get married
Read 2 books about families living in foreign countries - (not sure if this would count) story takes place in England/France
Read 3 books about characters who are viewed as ‘loners’ or ‘outsiders’ - one of the MCs looked down on for being a bookworm
Read 3 books featuring historical (fiction or nonfiction) families - fictional story about Edward Tudor and Lady Jane Grey

Hi!
Shari, don't fret, if you're not able to read Spy or The Orphan Collector, we have some books that fit the prompt too and we can shuffle books around while the thing it isn't over, and if we don't get all the prompts done it's alright too.
Enjoy your books and have a nice weekend! 😘

✅Impossible Knife of Memory
Read a book featuring an only child (1/1)
✅Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
Read 2 books that have dual POVs (2/2)
I also have one in ..."
Great, Gwen!
Good to know that we have more options. Like I said on a previous post we can use the double "recommended by a family member" as a wildcard if needed 😁
Happy reading, enjoy the weekend! 😘

🪇📚📚📔📓📕📗📘📙📖📙📘📗📕📓📔📚📚🪇
Sisters are doin' it for themselves
Standin' on their own two feet
And ringin' on their own bells, we say
Sisters are doin' it for themselves
Now this is a song
To celebrate
The conscious liberation
Of the female state
Mothers, daughters
And their daughters too
Woman to woman
We're singin' with you
Have a nice bookish weekend!! 😘

🪇📚📚📔📓📕📗📘📙📖📙📘📗📕📓📔📚📚🪇
Sisters are doin' it for themselves
Standin' on their own two feet
And ringin' on their own bells..."
Another benefit to audiobooks, is I can dance to that song and read at the same time!
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Progress:
📚BOOKS: 16/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 80.0 hrs
🔸🔸🔸 DAY 8 (11.25 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ The Soul of a Woman - 3.25 hrs
✔️ The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. - 4.25
✔️ Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream - 3.75
I was going to apply the last one for the separated family prompt, but when I got to the tracking tab, I found that it's partially completed. Instead, I used it for caretaker other than parent, so I won't need Guncle.
With only two days left, I can pick up one or more of the triples if needed. Alternately, I could go ahead and fill in blanks wherever, and extras can go into the Page Points Only section. Until/unless I hear otherwise, I will look for the single, becomes a parent.
No plans yet -- becomes a parent
In Progress -- looking for partner, separated family, vacation, found family, family title, blended family
TBR (not started yet) -- orphan, historical, group/club, adopted

I was doing some adjustments to the assigments taking into acount what Shari and Gwen told, so right now we have all the doubles completed, and all the tasks fulfilled but the single "becomes a parent".
I'm looking forward to hearing from Cordelia, Stacy and Deidre, to get a clearer view of our real situation.
Only two days left and things are looking pretty good.
SIXTERS, WE ARE FAMILY!!!

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
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DAY 8
PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 26/26
🔖PAGES: 2,969
🎧HOURS: 46.13
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I finished 4 books an I have 2 in progress
❌️The Family Pets: Read 2 books with an animal as the main character (2/2)
Crenshaw Carmen☑️
❌️Read 2 books about family ceremonies, rituals, traditions (wedding, funeral, reunion, etc.) (2/2)
Noches de luna rota (Wedding) Carmen ☑️
Written in Black (Funeral) Carmen☑️
❌️Read 2 books about grandparents (2/2)
El abuelo Carmen☑️

📚BOOKS: 2/3
🔖PAGES: 221
🎧HOURS: 21 hour 22 min
The Zookeeper's Wife- 10 hours 55 min - Completed 09/18/23
The Magician's Nephew - 221 pages- Completed 09/19/23
Her Mother's Hope - in progress,
Undetected- in progress 4 hours 3 min into audio book

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 17/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 83.25 hrs
🔸🔸🔸 DAY 8 (14.5 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ The Soul of a Woman - 3.25 hrs
✔️ The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. - 4.25 hrs
✔️ Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream - 3.75 hrs
✔️ Eleven Hours - 3.25 hrs

READATHON ENTRY: DAY 8
🔹️I've updated our progress (post #7)
🔹️ Books read check marked (message #32).
🔹️Spreadsheet updated too, but we keep on having different counting between the two totals
Team Pointer Sixters Progress :
📚BOOKS: 56
🔖PAGES: 9,032
🎧HOURS: 160.10
📒PROMPTS: 25 (Singles: 9 /Doubles: 12 / Triples: 4) 3,550 points
🧮POINTS: 23,255
IMPORTANT
🔸Sixters, please, report your progress.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! 🫸🫷📚

Audio hours:
164.01 daily total (L25) - 148.43 book total (O131) = 15.58 hours difference (more hours recorded daily than recorded in book details)
Stacy has 18.97 hours in her daily breakdown, but only 14.97 hours in her book details, a difference of 4.0 hours.
Gwen's 11.58 + Stacy's 4.0 = 15.58 hours. Correcting those two errors will eliminate the audio discrepancy.
I will look at pages next.

9136 daily total (L12) - 9472 book total (N131) = -336 difference (more pages recorded in book details than in daily section)
390 + 345 + 100 + 400 + 635 = 1870 (prompt pages)
270 + 220 = 490 (page points only)
1870 + 490 = 2360
417 + 304 + 384 + 411 = 1516 (prompt points)
261 (page points only)
1516 + 261 = 1777
410 + 300 + 104 = 814
220
-361 + 25 - 1 + 1 = -336
Correcting the above entries will eliminate page count discrepancies.
It's like accounting. The pages or hours you record each day at the top should equal the pages or hours you list in your book details for that day at the bottom.

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
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DAY 9
PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 28/26
🔖PAGES: 3,371
🎧HOURS: 51.21
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I finished 2 books an I have 2 in progress
❌️Read a book about a family vacation (1/1)
Tormenta de nieve y aroma de almendras Carmen☑️
❌️Read 3 books about blended families (3/3)
How to Talk to a Widower Carmen☑️

Thanks! 😘"
You're welcome, Carmen. The differences weren't going away, and I wanted to solve the mystery. 🔎😉


Books read: 4
Pages: 1951
Hours read: 33.5
✅ The World That We Knew (read about a family that has been separated)
✅ House of Earth and Blood (about the death of a family member)
✅ The Kingpin of Camelot (mafia or mob)
✅ Things in Jars
Things in Jars needs to be added to the spreadsheet but I'm not sure where.

You can do it, Deidre!

Books read: 4
Pages: 1951
Hours read: 33.5
✅ The World That We Knew (read about a family that has been separated)
✅ House of Earth and Blood (about the d..."👍👏
Well done, Cordelia!
I've made some readjustments and matched "Things in Jars" with "a character who has secret or unknown heritage" and moved the book first assigned to this prompt to the single "featuring an orphan".
Now, as for the pages/hours you indicate, I can't figure it out. According to the links to the books in your post, the total pages would be 1,923, which does not coincide with what you report, so... HELP! 🤯
I understan that If you listened for 33.5 hours you have to subtract this from the total pages
For the moment, I am going to assign to each book the pages indicated in the links, when you clarify the pages/hours that you read/listened to for each book I will correct it
Thanks! 😘
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The Forsyte Saga Volume Three (other topics)Niebla ardiente (other topics)
Umami (other topics)
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (other topics)
El misterio de la bala perdida (other topics)
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