Winter 23 Read-a-Thon: Team Gingerbread

[Allie]

Is anyone okay with this being "ugly cover"?
Hemlock Island

[Ellie]

Allie wrote: "Is anyone okay with this being "ugly cover"?
Hemlock Island"

If you think it's ugly, it counts!

[Edie]

Completed Beautiful Country which fits perfectly for the immigrant experience prompt. This memoir chronicles the early years in the U.S. of an undocumented Chinese immigrant in NYC. Qian Julie Wang, a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School, is now a successful lawyer. This book gives a graphic description of the life immigrants can face.

[Katherine]

Ellie wrote: "Allie wrote: "Is anyone okay with this being "ugly cover"?
Hemlock Island"

LOL! It's not an island I'd like to visit! :-)

[JessicaMHR]

Allie wrote: "Is anyone okay with this being "ugly cover"?
Hemlock Island"

Works for me.

[Sue]

I read a quick one today - the only prompt it fits is a book with less than 200 pages. Sitters

[Ellie]

Three books left for silver, I think all these prompts have books in progress:
Read a book related to Christmas
Read a book with a fruit on the cover
Read a book starting with a letter in the words BACON or PIG

My sci-fi book is short stories so I can pause before the last one if necessary. It's shorter than I thought.

[Katherine]

I should finish the book for fruit on the cover sometime today. We only have 2 marked for the Christmas prompt, and one of those books is mine. I KNOW I won't be able to finish my Christmas book before at least Saturday, so hoping the other one will be completed! It would be fun to get to Gold!

[Ellie]

I just have a little bit of the Q&A left on Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection so I can finish whenever. I feel it might be more useful for gold than the pig/bacon silver prompt which looks like it has a lot of options.

It's Friday evening here, so if I started a Christmas book it definitely won't be read before Saturday.

[Allie]

I just realized that I have This Winter sitting on my shelf. I could read that tonight :)

[Ellie]

I've put mine down against the bacon one and I'll find a sci-fi novella to read. That just leaves Christmas with whoever gets there first and then we're onto gold!

[Allie]

I apologize from the depth of my heart; I can not figure out how to format the spreadsheet.
But I did put in the last silver prompt!

[Ellie]

Yay, thank you Allie! I'm about the finish Rogue Protocol so perfect timing. I guess we'll just see how far we get with gold this weekend.

[Sue]

I finished Hearing Maud and added it as non-fiction. I won't finish my other book before the end of the readathon so will just add pages. It's Sunday morning here and I have a free day but it's beautiful weather so will spend the morning working in the garden and save reading for the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!

[Bec]

Ive finished The Woman in Me and put it in for a title that begins with The King.
I'm hoping to finish Gold! today, but not guaranteed.

[Bec]

Okay finished my final book of the read-a-thon with
I've slotted it in for book with 0 in page count as my book has 305 pages. Lucky for the bad weather here in Adelaide today - lots of reading time!

[Ellie]

Bad weather on both sides of the world! It's absolutely miserable here and so many roads are flooded. Of course the dog still wants walking 🙄 Gonna hunker down with more Murderbot this afternoon.

[Ellie]

I've finished Exit Strategy for "larger than life character", I think Murderbot counts. I won't finish another book today, but may get a few more pages in.

[Bec]

I think we have done pretty well with the challenge. Definitely a busy time of the year so harder to fit reading in.

[Edie]

Completed No One Leaves the Castle. It filled several prompts we still need, but put in "with a hat on the cover" While hats are not prominent on the cover, at least one of the small figures looking out the castle windows has a very small hat on. Sorry I couldn't do more. It was a very busy weekend with family activities.

[Ellie]

Good reading everyone! We got pretty close and it was a lot of prompts to get through, especially for this time of year. I've only been reading one book a week lately so getting through 6, even short ones, was a huge improvement.

[JessicaMHR]

I managed to get through one last book last night before falling asleep. I used A Shiloh Christmas for a book with a 7 letter word, which left us with only 3 empty prompts and only 6 more candy canes needed.

We all did great. I know I felt very accomplished this week. I was kind of irking my sister because I was like 'No, I gotta read!' LOL!