TEAM Pointer Sixters

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #29

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 19/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 94.25 hrs

🔸🔸🔸 DAY 9 (11.0 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ Charmed Life - 4.25 hrs (orphan, adoption, separated)
✔️ The Vanishing Type - 6.75 hrs (adoption, loner, club, found family, historical family)

I marked those two in pale yellow, and haven't added them to the tracking tab yet. Where would you like me to add them?

[Carmen]

TerryJane wrote: "Update to Message #29

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 19/7
🔖PAGES:
🎧HOURS: 94.25 hrs

🔸🔸🔸 DAY 9 (11.0 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ Charmed Life - 4.25 hrs (orphan, adoption, separated)
✔️ [book:The Vanishing Type..."

Great! 👏👏
Since, Deidre is not sure of finishing "The murmur of bees" in time, we can put "Charmed life" for adoption.
I'm reading an additional book too that fits some prompts, just in case, I added it to the tracking tab in the "non-prompt" section for the moment so we can moved it later to the prompts if needed, you can do the same with "The vanishing type"

Thanks so much! 😘

[Cordelia]

Oh, I read a different edition of The World That We Knew. My copy is 400 pages even, I just picked the first edition they chose for the link because I'm tired and didn't realize there'd be such a difference.

[Carmen]

Cordelia wrote: "Oh, I read a different edition of The World That We Knew. My copy is 400 pages even, I just picked the first edition they chose for the link because I'm tired and didn't realize there'd be such a d..." 👍
I corrected it on the tracking tab
How about the hours?

[Cordelia]

Carmen wrote: "Cordelia wrote: "Oh, I read a different edition of The World That We Knew. My copy is 400 pages even, I just picked the first edition they chose for the link because I'm tired and didn't realize th..."

I guess I don't really get what the issue is here? I haven't listened to any of these on audio. I'll remove hours spent reading.

[Carmen]

Cordelia wrote: "Carmen wrote: "Cordelia wrote: "Oh, I read a different edition of The World That We Knew. My copy is 400 pages even, I just picked the first edition they chose for the link because I'm tired and di..."

🔖PAGES: Pages read (books/ebooks)
🎧HOURS: hours listened (audiobooks)

Precisely, if you didn't listen to any audiobbok you don't have to report any hour, just pages.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Carmen wrote: ""Charmed life" for adoption.
I'm reading an additional book too that fits some prompts, just in case, I added it to the tracking tab in the "non-prompt" section for the moment so we can moved it later to the prompts if needed, you can do the same with "The vanishing type""

Done! I just started The Husband Quest, which will fit looking for a partner or family title, just in case we need either of those. Once everything is covered for sure, I may be able to read one of my Sept., Q3, or BR books, and add it to non-prompt.

[Carmen]

TerryJane wrote: "Carmen wrote: ""Charmed life" for adoption.
I'm reading an additional book too that fits some prompts, just in case, I added it to the tracking tab in the "non-prompt" section for the moment so we ..."
👍

[Shari]

Hello Team. I finished Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club last night. I don't think it fits the "club or group" prompt. The Lakeside Supper Club is the name of a restaurant. So, I have already been reading The Book Spy on my Kindle at work during lunch which fits the same prompt, so I have switched these 2 books on the spreadsheet. I'm over half-way through The Book Spy, so I should be able to finish it today. And still hoping to read Spy today too. Guess I'll be doing a lot of reading today.

[Carmen]

Good morning Sixters! 👋

READATHON ENTRY: DAY 9
🔹️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: 62
🔖PAGES: 9,862
🎧HOURS: 176.06
📒PROMPTS: 29 (Singles: 12 /Doubles: 12 / Triples: 5) 3,900 points
🧮POINTS: 25,499

IMPORTANT

🔸️I've tried to fix the tracking discrepancies, taking into account the info in the books' pages, but I need help, please check the right number of pages of the editions you've read with the actual report you posted.

[Gwen]

I have updated my books and daily totals and everything is equaling out so please do not change my numbers again. Just in case they get changed again, I will add them here.

Island Time - 635 pages (in the version that I read)
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating - 345 pages
Patchwork - 100 pages
Wicked Beauty - 400 pages
Impossible Knife of Memory - 390 pages
Up All Night - 220 pages
Hollow City GN - 272 pages
My Lady Jane - 14 hours
Romantic Comedy - 300 pages

I'm still trying to place Romantic Comedy (for now I've placed it in the page points only section). It could potentially fit in one of these unfulfilled categories:
Read 3 books featuring the found family trope
Read 3 books featuring a group or club
Read a book featuring an only child

[Cordelia]

Happy Sunday!

Last week I had the problem where I had too many books in progress and was feeling really restless in my reading because of it, so I made the decision to really focus until I could finish them all and start a new batch but less. I made a really good dent in that this week, and am currently working on The Golden Enclaves which could maybe work for a book featuring a group? Because different cities basically have different enclaves of witches and wizards, so there's a lot about the politics of those groups and the main character deals with one in particular frequently.

The main character is also an only child.

I think I should be able to finish today, but I guess that depends on what timezone this challenge finishes in.

[Cordelia]

I haven't been as active with updates as I would have liked, the past 2 weeks ended up being unexpectedly busy and chaotic. But at least I was able to read a bunch and finish some books, including some big ones! Hopefully next readathon my life will cooperate more.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Cordelia wrote: "I think I should be able to finish today, but I guess that depends on what timezone this challenge finishes in."

Since this group has members worldwide, our readathons always begin and end at midnight in each individual's time zone.

Carmen is in Spain, four team members are in USA, and we don't know where you and Stacy are, so who knows when it ends for the team. But you can read until your own midnight. 🕛 If you don't finish by midnight, you can count any partial completions at the bottom of the tracking tab in the non-prompt/DNF/<100 pages section.

Glad you got in lots of reading, despite life trying to get in the way, and that you enjoyed it enough to talk about the "next readathon." 😊

[Carmen]

🥁🥁GREAT NEWS🥁🥁

We are 1 book away from completing all the prompts!!!!
Ole, que ole que ole!!! 💃🎶

I've been shuffling about the completed books and I ended up with this final allocation:

Singles:
❌Read a book with a character/author on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum (1/1)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate TerryJane ☑️
❌️Read a book about someone who is looking for a partner (1/1)
Red, White & Royal Blue Carmen☑️
❌Read a book about a person who has taken a vow of celibacy (religious, etc.) (1/1)
The Novice's Tale TerryJane ☑️
❌️Read a book about a lost family member (1/1)
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. TerryJane☑️
❌️Read a book about a family that has been separated (1/1)
The World That We Knew Cordelia☑️
❌️Read a memoir in which the author describes their family (1/1)
The Soul of a Woman TerryJane☑️
❌️Read a book featuring an orphan (1/1)
Solo el tiempo lo dirá Carmen ☑️
❌Read a book that involves the mob (fiction or nonfiction) (1/1)
The Kingpin of Camelot Cordelia ☑️
❌️Read a book featuring an only child (1/1)
The Impossible Knife of Memory Gwen☑️
❌️Read a book about someone living with a caretaker other than their parent (1/1)
Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream TerryJane ☑️
❌️Read a book about a person who becomes a parent (1/1)
Eleven Hours TerryJane☑️
❌️Read a book about a family vacation (1/1)
Island Time Gwen ☑️
❌Read a book about the loss of a family member and/or its aftermath (1/1)
House of Earth and Blood Cordelia☑️

Doubles:
❌️Read 2 books that have dual POVs (2/2)
Dry Season Carmen ☑️
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating Gwen☑️
❌Read 2 books with a parental figure as the main character (2/2)
Las horas subterráneas Carmen☑️
Sagitario Carmen☑️
❌️The Family Pets: Read 2 books with an animal as the main character (2/2)
The Dog Who Knew Too Much TerryJane☑️
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 with a character who has secret or unknown heritage (2/2)
Loyalty Shari ☑️
Things in Jars Cordelia☑️
❌Read 2 books that were recommended by one of your family members (2/2)
Me llamo Lucy Barton Carmen ☑️
Tormenta de nieve y aroma de almendras Carmen☑️
❌️Read 2 books about families living in foreign countries (2/2)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads TerryJane☑️
And the Mountains Echoed TerryJane☑️
❌Read 2 books about siblings (2/2)
The Good Sister TerryJane☑️
The Notebook Carmen☑️
❌Read 2 books about ‘nontraditional’ families (2/2)
The Story of a Beautiful Girl TerryJane ☑️
The Bone People Carmen☑️
❌Read 2 books about best friends (2/2)
The Little Wartime Library Deidre☑️
Yours Cheerfully Shari☑️
❌️Read 2 books about grandparents (2/2)
Donde el corazón te lleve Carmen☑️
El abuelo Carmen☑️
❌Read 2 books about children in foster care (2/2)
Ruby Holler TerryJane ☑️
All the Children Are Home Shari☑️

Triples:
❌️Read 3 books featuring the found family trope (3/3)
The Last Anniversary TerryJane☑️
Rewind Carmen ☑️
Romantic Comedy Gwen ☑️
✅Read 3 books featuring the title of a family member in the book title (ex. Dial A for Aunties, My Sister’s Keeper) (2/3)
The Magician's Nephew Stacy ☑️
The Zookeeper's Wife Stacy☑️
➡️Her Mother's Hope Stacy or ➡️The Husband Quest TerryJane
❌Read 3 books with elderly protagonists (3/3)
El Hombre De La Mascara De Hierro Carmen☑️
Las amigas Carmen ☑️
El misterio de la bala perdida Carmen☑️
❌️Read 3 books about characters who are viewed as ‘loners’ or ‘outsiders’ (3/3)
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise TerryJane ☑️
Umami Carmen ☑️
Niebla ardiente Carmen☑️
❌Read 3 books in the Family Saga genre (3/3)
The Forsyte Saga Volume Three Carmen
Book 1☑️
Book 2☑️
Book 3☑️
❌️Read 3 books about people who were adopted (3/3)
Meet the Austins Carmen ☑️
Charmed Life TerryJane☑️
The Vanishing Type TerryJane☑️
❌️Read 3 books about blended families (3/3)
Las primas Carmen☑️
How to Talk to a Widower Carmen☑️
Patchwork Gwen ☑️
❌️Read 3 books featuring historical (fiction or nonfiction) families (3/3)
Hidden Valley Road TerryJane☑️
Los pecados del padre Carmen☑️
My Lady Jane Gwen☑️
❌️Read 3 books featuring a group or club (3/3)
Las doce puertas: Parte I Carmen ☑️
Los inocentes Carmen ☑️
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle Shari☑️
❌Read 3 books featuring poly relationships or characters (3/3)
The Wives TerryJane ☑️
Wicked Beauty Gwen☑️
Four Psychos Carmen☑️
❌Read 3 books about family conflict (3/3)
Hello Beautiful TerryJane☑️
The Gazebo Carmen☑️
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club Shari ☑️

[Carmen]

Update to message #20:

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
👶👦🧑👧🏼👨🏽🧔🏻👨‍🦰👨🏽‍🦱👨‍🦳👨‍🦲👩👩‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦱👩‍🦳🧑‍🦳👱‍♂️👴👵
DAY 10
PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 31/26
🔖PAGES: 3,814
🎧HOURS: 60.46

🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰

❌️Read a book about someone who is looking for a partner (1/1)
Red, White & Royal Blue Carmen☑️

❌️Read 3 books featuring historical (fiction or nonfiction) families (3/3)
Los pecados del padre Carmen☑️

❌️Read 3 books featuring a group or club (3/3)
Los inocentes Carmen ☑️

[Gwen]

Great job, team! I think we have had a very successful readathon!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Carmen wrote: "🥁🥁GREAT NEWS🥁🥁

We are 1 book away from completing all the prompts!!!!
Ole, que ole que ole!!! 💃🎶

✅Read 3 books featuring the title of a family member in the book title (ex. Dial A for Aunties, My Sister’s Keeper) (2/3)
The Magician's Nephew Stacy ☑️
The Zookeeper's Wife Stacy☑️
➡️Her Mother's Hope Stacy or ➡️The Husband Quest TerryJane"

I finished The Husband Quest, so we've done ALL the prompts! Yay! 😁

[Stacy]

I will have Her Mother's Hope finished before midnight.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Final update to Message #29

Progress:
📚BOOKS: 21/7
🔖PAGES: 0
🎧HOURS: 102.25 hrs

🔸🔸🔸 DAY 10 (8.0 hrs) 🔸🔸🔸
✔️ The Husband Quest - 5.25 hrs
✔️ Forget Me Not - 2.75 hrs

[Deidre]

Final Update to Message 40:

2/4 books read
1270 pages

I have updated the spreadsheet with my info.

[Stacy]

I've 2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: Pointer Sixters

PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 3/3
🔖PAGES: 221
🎧HOURS: 29 hour 49min


The Zookeeper's Wife 10 hours 55 min - Completed

The Magician's Nephew -221 pages, completed

Her Mother's Hope- 14 hours 51 min completed

Undetected- 4 hours 3 min into audio book

[Carmen]

Good morning, Sixters! 👋

While waiting for the latest updates from the team mates who have not done so yet, I'm proud to announce that:
we have completed all the tasks and then more!!!

Right now (08:00 a.m. G.M.T. +2) we've got 31,554 points!!!

🥳🧮👯‍♀️BRAVO POINTER SIXTERS!!!👯‍♀️🧮🥳
🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈

[Carmen]

2023 We Are Family Readathon
Team: 6 "Pointer Sixters"
👶👦🧑👧🏼👨🏽🧔🏻👨‍🦰👨🏽‍🦱👨‍🦳👨‍🦲👩👩‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦱👩‍🦳🧑‍🦳👱‍♂️👴👵

PROGRESS:
📚BOOKS: 70/70 +9
🔖PAGES: 12,470
🎧HOURS: 206.53
📒PROMPTS: 36 (Singles: 13 /Doubles: 12 / Triples: 11) 5,750 points
🧮POINTS: 31,989

🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰🟰
Singles:
❌Read a book with a character/author on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum (1/1)
To Be Taught, If Fortunate TerryJane ☑️
❌️Read a book about someone who is looking for a partner (1/1)
Red, White & Royal Blue Carmen☑️
❌Read a book about a person who has taken a vow of celibacy (religious, etc.) (1/1)
The Novice's Tale TerryJane ☑️
❌️Read a book about a lost family member (1/1)
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. TerryJane☑️
❌️Read a book about a family that has been separated (1/1)
The World That We Knew Cordelia☑️
❌️Read a memoir in which the author describes their family (1/1)
The Soul of a Woman TerryJane☑️
❌️Read a book featuring an orphan (1/1)
Solo el tiempo lo dirá Carmen ☑️
❌Read a book that involves the mob (fiction or nonfiction) (1/1)
The Kingpin of Camelot Cordelia ☑️
❌️Read a book featuring an only child (1/1)
The Impossible Knife of Memory Gwen☑️
❌️Read a book about someone living with a caretaker other than their parent (1/1)
Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream TerryJane ☑️
❌️Read a book about a person who becomes a parent (1/1)
Eleven Hours TerryJane☑️
❌️Read a book about a family vacation (1/1)
Island Time Gwen ☑️
❌Read a book about the loss of a family member and/or its aftermath (1/1)
House of Earth and Blood Cordelia☑️

Doubles:
❌️Read 2 books that have dual POVs (2/2)
Dry Season Carmen ☑️
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating Gwen☑️
❌Read 2 books with a parental figure as the main character (2/2)
Las horas subterráneas Carmen☑️
Sagitario Carmen☑️
❌️The Family Pets: Read 2 books with an animal as the main character (2/2)
The Dog Who Knew Too Much TerryJane☑️
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 with a character who has secret or unknown heritage (2/2)
Loyalty Shari ☑️
Things in Jars Cordelia☑️
❌Read 2 books that were recommended by one of your family members (2/2)
Me llamo Lucy Barton Carmen ☑️
Tormenta de nieve y aroma de almendras Carmen☑️
❌️Read 2 books about families living in foreign countries (2/2)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads TerryJane☑️
And the Mountains Echoed TerryJane☑️
❌Read 2 books about siblings (2/2)
The Good Sister TerryJane☑️
The Notebook Carmen☑️
❌Read 2 books about ‘nontraditional’ families (2/2)
The Story of a Beautiful Girl TerryJane ☑️
The Bone People Carmen☑️
❌Read 2 books about best friends (2/2)
The Little Wartime Library Deidre☑️
Yours Cheerfully Shari☑️
❌️Read 2 books about grandparents (2/2)
Donde el corazón te lleve Carmen☑️
El abuelo Carmen☑️
❌Read 2 books about children in foster care (2/2)
Ruby Holler TerryJane ☑️
All the Children Are Home Shari☑️

Triples:
❌️Read 3 books featuring the found family trope (3/3)
The Last Anniversary TerryJane☑️
Rewind Carmen ☑️
Romantic Comedy Gwen ☑️
❌️Read 3 books featuring the title of a family member in the book title (ex. Dial A for Aunties, My Sister’s Keeper) (3/3)
The Magician's Nephew Stacy ☑️
The Zookeeper's Wife Stacy☑️
The Husband Quest TerryJane☑️
❌Read 3 books with elderly protagonists (3/3)
El Hombre De La Mascara De Hierro Carmen☑️
Las amigas Carmen ☑️
El misterio de la bala perdida Carmen☑️
❌️Read 3 books about characters who are viewed as ‘loners’ or ‘outsiders’ (3/3)
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise TerryJane ☑️
Umami Carmen ☑️
Niebla ardiente Carmen☑️
❌Read 3 books in the Family Saga genre (3/3)
The Forsyte Saga Volume Three Carmen
Book 1☑️
Book 2☑️
Book 3☑️
❌️Read 3 books about people who were adopted (3/3)
Meet the Austins Carmen ☑️
Charmed Life TerryJane☑️
The Vanishing Type TerryJane☑️
❌️Read 3 books about blended families (3/3)
Las primas Carmen☑️
How to Talk to a Widower Carmen☑️
Patchwork Gwen ☑️
❌️Read 3 books featuring historical (fiction or nonfiction) families (3/3)
Hidden Valley Road TerryJane☑️
Los pecados del padre Carmen☑️
My Lady Jane Gwen☑️
❌️Read 3 books featuring a group or club (3/3)
Las doce puertas: Parte I Carmen ☑️
Los inocentes Carmen ☑️
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle Shari☑️
❌Read 3 books featuring poly relationships or characters (3/3)
The Wives TerryJane ☑️
Wicked Beauty Gwen☑️
Four Psychos Carmen☑️
❌Read 3 books about family conflict (3/3)
Hello Beautiful TerryJane☑️
The Gazebo Carmen☑️
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club Shari ☑️