2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion
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TEAM Literary Detectives: I Spy
Blagica wrote: "Lisa wrote: " Hey Literary Detectives! We have now passed the halfway-mark of the readathon, so some housekeeping is due.
First of all, I want to start of by saying that you are all beyond fanta..."
Looking forward to your comments on My Heart is a Chainsaw!
It's a reread I can link you my review if you want it
Blagica wrote: "It's a reread I can link you my review if you want it"Certainly!
Hola!I've finished the books for "occupation" and "accesory", so it seems I haven't assigned any more prompts!
Well done, Team!! 👏👏
Still working on proper title…Big Book…lot of pages! Hope to finish 2 books tomorrow. We are supposed to have lots of rain tomorrow. The remains of Debby…
I finished "The Flatshare" today.I didn't choose a prompt for it.
**Edited to add: I put this down as pages only, but it could fill a prompt, if needed. It looks like the remaining prompts are planned/in progress.**
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I will start another book tomorrow.
I may finish it before this event is over. We shall see.
Theresa wrote: "I finished "The Flatshare" today.I didn't choose a prompt for it.
I will start another book tomorrow.
I may finish it before this event is over. We shall see."
Great Job!
Awesome Job everyone Gunslinger is done on my end. I will review it tomorrow. Not much for page count for me today. Tomorrow is another day.
Great work, team! I love timezone diffferences - I say something and you all deliver while I'm sleeping :D
Theresa,
That's fine. I can move it to flowers if we need it.
Lorraine, would you prefer to focus on King of Scars, instead of Name of the Rose, or are you doing good on both?
Btw, Literary Detectives! Seeing as we will be completing all the prompts, we need a vote on whether or not to go for the extra prompts.
I'm personally leaning towards "no", but what do you guys think - Yay or Nay?
Lisa wrote: "Great work, team! I love timezone diffferences - I say something and you all deliver while I'm sleeping :D
Theresa,
That's fine. I can move it to flowers if we need it.
Lorraine, would you pr..."
I a doing good on both Name of the Rose and King of Scars. I am worried though about Les meurtres du Red Power for type of murder prompts. Do we have another book that can fit that prompt?
Lorraine wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Great work, team! I love timezone diffferences - I say something and you all deliver while I'm sleeping :D
Theresa,
That's fine. I can move it to flowers if we need it.
Lorraine,..."
No problem. I can pick up Murder on the Orient Express. On audio it's like 6 hours. Unless someone else has something they're yearning to get to.
Lisa wrote: "Lorraine wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Great work, team! I love timezone diffferences - I say something and you all deliver while I'm sleeping :D
Theresa,
That's fine. I can move it to flowers if we need..."
Great. Thank you so much! People might still be in bed in this part of the world. It is only 4:50 in the morning 🙀
Lorraine wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Lorraine wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Great work, team! I love timezone diffferences - I say something and you all deliver while I'm sleeping :D
Theresa,
That's fine. I can move it to flowe..."
Probably! It's almst 11am here, and I've been awake since 4am because what is sleep 🤣
Lisa wrote: "Btw, Literary Detectives! Seeing as we will be completing all the prompts, we need a vote on whether or not to go for the extra prompts.
I'm personally leaning towards "no", but what do you guy..."
How does it work?
Once we've completed all prompts, I can reach out to Bailey and unlock extra prompts. I've got no clue how many we're talking about, but from the setup in the spreadsheet, I'm guessing it's extra single, doubles, and triples.
Lisa wrote: "Once we've completed all prompts, I can reach out to Bailey and unlock extra prompts. I've got no clue how many we're talking about, but from the setup in the spreadsheet, I'm guessing it's extra s..."Do we lose points if we do not complete them all?
I don't think so. I couldn't imagine it being the case. if anything, we would just gain more points.
Then I would go for it but let's see what Carmen and the other team members think. :-)With you taking the type of crime away from me, I might be able to finish my 2 last books by tomorrow which would give me time for one of about 100+ pages on Sunday...just saying...
off for the day. Will try and read something in the car. Today I will just be adding pages. Enjoy your day and happy reading
Blagica wrote: "off for the day. Will try and read something in the car. Today I will just be adding pages. Enjoy your day and happy reading"Enjoy your day off!
One book left! King of Scars for proper title. Hope to finish by tomorrow.
I finished reading The Village Healer’s Book of Cures, and currently working through Murder on the Orient Express. I'll probably finish tonight before bed, which leaves me with the biome prompt tomorrow.
Lisa wrote: "I finished reading The Village Healer’s Book of Cures, and currently working through Murder on the Orient Express. I'll probably finish tonight before bed, which leav..."Thank you Lisa!
5 books to go! We can totally do this! Go Team go!
Hola!Today I finished one book and started another one, just for fun.
❌️Book Lovers (448 pp)
Farsa de amor a la española PROGRESS: 225 pp
If we end on time we could try the extra prompts
Great job Team!
I'm not sure how i ended up at -8. I am not sure how to fix it.
Blagica wrote: "I'm not sure how i ended up at -8. I am not sure how to fix it."What do you mean?
the prompt/ page tracker
I just did the math of all 12 books and got 4,261. which is what it should be so I dont know where I went wrong
two books done
-190
-352
I fixed it honey thank you!
Blagica wrote: "I fixed it honey thank you!"Great! You are the best!
I finished The Summer House and updated the spreadsheet. I have about another 45 mins in my last book and that one will be finished also.I vote to go ahead with the bonus prompts. We can try for as many as possible in the short time frame.
I would not be able to add a new book to my reading schedule but if one of my actual « reading list » fit a prompt I would try to finish it tomorrow. So, I second Shari and Carmen in getting the mystery prompts 🫢
Awesome, Shari! I'm about halfway through with my last book, which is a re-read so it's quick
Fair enough! I'll let Bailey know as soon as we've completed the last books.
I'm done with my last book! Which means we're down to the final two books to have completed all the prompts - Shari and Lorraine, you can do it!Once you're both done, please check whether your pages from the tracker at the top of the page, and the pages you've listed throughout the prompt tracker match. I've created a table at the bottom of the tracking tab, for convenience, where you can see the discrepancy (if there is one).
I’ll finish my book this morning. Go team go! 🤩🤩🤩
Lorraine wrote: "FINISH! GO SHARI GO!"
Awesome job!
Good evening Literary Detectives! We are now on the fast track! We've received the bonus prompts from Bailey, so feel free to take a look and see if anything fits your fancy!
I need to get my kid to bed but will be back a bit later. I just wanted to update you on the new prompts.
I have the made up word prompt covered with
. It's the only thing I have at home that could cover it
Blagica wrote: "I have the made up word prompt covered with . It's the only thing I have at home that could cover it"It's all yours, Blagica 😊
I added Dead In Dublin to the pages only area. It doesn't fit any needed/bonus prompts. I am not finished, but should be before the readathon ends tomorrow.I'll add the page count from yesterday and today later.
Theresa wrote: "I added Dead In Dublin to the pages only area. It doesn't fit any needed/bonus prompts. I am not finished, but should be before the readathon ends tomorrow.I'll add the page count from yesterday ..."
Great, Theresa! Thanks in advance 😊
Have I mentioned today how kick-ass you all are, Literary Detectives?
I was looking through the spreadsheet and it's looking fantastic. Thank you all for checking and making sure that the number of pages read match. It makes my look-through all the more easy-breezy.
We read a total of 53 books, thereby completing all the prompts! Which is beyond awesome :) Great work, everyone!
Which means that, as I was saying earlier, we've unlocked the bonus prompts. I've hid all the regular prompt, with the exception of Shari's work in progress (no stress!) on the planning tab to make the new prompts a bit more accessible.
This is what we're working with: 5 singles + 3 doubles + 3 triples:
Singles:
A made up word - Blagica
Tools
Temperature
Famous landmarks
Doubles:
Something you find in an office
Things found in the ocean
Triples:
Farm
Restaurant
School
I'm thinking we can probably move some of the books that didn't fit anything before, like for instance Carmen's Book Lovers, which means we just need one more to complete that double.
I'll take a look at what I have on Kindle and lying around on Netgalley that I may be able to squeeze in tomorrow.
And I think that wrap's this update up.
Have a good night and happy reading!
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We have now passed the halfway-mark of the readathon, so some housekeeping is due.
First of all, I want to start of by saying that you are all beyond fantastic!
I fi..."
my goal is to finish 3 more
The Gunslinger
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
and something just for fun