Fall 2024 Read-a-Thon: Team Knights

[Erica]

Hey Allie did you read Not In Love twice? You have it filled in for multi pov (math) and character in stem (Science).

edit: It seems someone has fixed the spreadsheet so just ignore me.

[Sheyanne]

I just finished the audiobook of The Butterfly Garden. I will add it for round two of the animal on the cover prompt.

[Erica]

I am working on The Chemist as audio. It's over 500 pages and I've got 12 hours left. It's good for pencils if someone finishes a 500 page book before me.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Erica wrote: "I am working on The Chemist as audio. It's over 500 pages and I've got 12 hours left. It's good for pencils if someone finishes a 500 page book before me."

Great, I was afraid we would have trouble with that one because most of us choose shorter books for Read a thon.

[Sheyanne]

I just finished The Woman in White, which is over 500+ pages.

[Erica]

Perfect Sheyanne!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished The Seven Year Slip and put it under Career in the Arts - the main character is in book publishing.

[Kathy]

I finished Cantoras for a book set in the southern hemisphere.

[Erica]

Finished Marriage & Masti for the retelling prompt. I think I'll try and finish Black Beauty for the children's classic prompt.

[Kathy]

I finished The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography for memoir, biography, or autobiography.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished Letters of a Woman Homesteader and put it under Real Historical Figure

[Kendra]

I finished After the Dragons and used it for the 3 primary colours prompt.

[Roxana]

Forgot to say yesterday but I finished A Scandal in Mayfair and placed it on the plant on the cover prompt. Today I'm hoping to finish more than one book, but especially one I've got a book club meeting for in 4.5 hours 😅 that'll be The Memory Police, which fits a number of open prompts; I'll probably put it on sci fi or translated once I finish it.

[Kathy]

I finished Big Tree by Brian Selznick for a book involving travel. The seeds from the tree do a lot of traveling. It also works for a book over 500 pages.

[Allie]

I stayed up late and finished Tryouts (sports) and Picture Day (Young adult). I will be finishing Double Walker, All is Nat Lost, Timid, The Worst Ronin, and Apprentice to The Villian in the next few hours.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished The Resurrection Mystery and put it under Set on an Island, on the grounds that Britain is an island.

[Erica]

Finished Black Beauty for published more than 50 years ago.

[Kendra]

I finished Mina's Matchbox and I used it for the historical fiction, but I can move it to the hobby prompt if someone else has a historical fiction book.

[Kathy]

I'm reading a historical fiction book, but don't move your book yet, Kendra. I hope to finish the book but just in case . . .

[Kathy]

I finished Things You Save in a Fire for a book involving a person in a STEM field. The main character is a firefighter with medical training.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished Bestest. Ramadan. Ever. and put it under hobby features in book since 2 characters draw and go to an art exhibit.

[Roxana]

Kendra wrote: "I finished Mina's Matchbox and I used it for the historical fiction, but I can move it to the hobby prompt if someone else has a historical fiction book."

I just finished The Memory Police, by the same author (I put it on translated). Funny coincidence! What did you think of Mina's Matchbox?

[Kathy]

Finished The Letter Writer for 3rd historical fiction. I couldn't find another place for it.

[Kendra]

Roxana wrote: "Kendra wrote: "I finished Mina's Matchbox and I used it for the historical fiction, but I can move it to the hobby prompt if someone else has a historical fiction book."

I just fi..."

I liked it, but I didn't love it. There were some really good parts, but it just didn't draw me in like The Housekeeper and the Professor did. It might have been my mood though. The stories within the story were the best part imo. What did you think of The Memory Police?

[Erica]

I finally finished The Chemist for the 500 pages prompt. We now have four prompts left for the second term.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I got a last book in and put it on Under 200 pages.

[Roxana]

Kendra wrote: "Roxana wrote: "Kendra wrote: "I finished Mina's Matchbox and I used it for the historical fiction, but I can move it to the hobby prompt if someone else has a historical fiction bo..."

I loved The Memory Police (so did the rest of my book club in fact) - including the story within the story, actually, lol. It reminded me a lot of Greek Lessons, which I also loved pretty recently. I haven't read anything else by Yoko Ogawa, though, I'll check out The Housekeeper and the Professor next!

[Kendra]

Well I thought I could fit one more book in, but I don't think it's going to happen. We still managed to get at least a B in all the subjects, so I'm happy. It was fun reading with you team.

[Kathy]

We did great! It was fun reading with all of you.

[Erica]

I finished one final book and it could maybe be interrupted for set during a war. The two main characters are highly competitive at school and mean as they go back and forth one upping each other. Too much of a stretch?

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Erica wrote: "I finished one final book and it could maybe be interrupted for set during a war. The two main characters are highly competitive at school and mean as they go back and forth one upping each other. ..."

Well, that wasn't the intention, especially since it was under History.

[Erica]

Good point. I did read a book 56 page book about Remembrance Day that would have been perfect it except it was too short. :(

[Erica]

Anyway, I had a lot of fun reading with you guys. You pushed me to read 18 books and I finished ATY as well.