Fall 2025 Read-a-Thon: Team Red Car

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Welcome, Team Red Car! The theme of this Read-a-Thon is the Game of Life! So let's get into our little car and start playing!



Each group will be asked a series of questions, which you will answer with the books you read. You can answer these questions using the title, cover, or plot of the book.

THE PROMPTS

Childhood
A book with a bright colored cover
A book with a child as a major character
A book whose title includes the letter A, B, and C
A book related to a fairy tale, myth or legend
A book featuring a game or sport
A book by a debut author
A book with a main page genre of Child or Children
A book by an author who was once a child (*wink wink*)

Adolescence
A coming of age book
A romance
A book featuring a group of friends
A book where someone leaves home
A book with scenes in a school or college
A book with a pink cover
A book by an author whose initials are found in HIGH SCHOOL
A book with a rebellion

Adulthood
A book set in a workplace
A book where someone gets married
A book where money is a concern
A book with a house on the cover
A book where a child is born
A book with a green cover
A book by an author who has written 5+ books
A book featuring a dinner party

Middle Age
A book where someone changes jobs
A book that includes family problems
A book featuring a professional (doctor, lawyer, scientist, etc.)
A book where a relationship ends
A book where a character achieves success
A book where a character travels
A book whose title starts with a letter in ADULT
A book with an orange or red cover

Older Age
A book featuring a character over 65 years old
A book where someone deals with a death
A book you have been wanting to read for a long time
A classic
A book with a gray or white cover
The most recent book an author has published
The first book a prolific author (10+ books) had published

*Note: Just because a prompt is under a specific stage of life does not mean the main character needs to be that age. For example, you can choose a book featuring elderly people leading a rebellion, or middle aged people falling in love


The Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Team Leaders: Kate and J

Irene
Jessica MHR
Katherine
Tammie
Kellie Lynn

[Tammie]

checking in...hi everyone :)

[J]

Welcome to the Red Team!

It's always exciting starting a new read-a-thon. And it's lucky to be on the red team. Red cars go faster.

When I was a kid, the cars in the game of Life were minivans, but I picked up an older copy from a second hand store that had '57 chevy wagons for the cars.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

J wrote: "Welcome to the Red Team!

It's always exciting starting a new read-a-thon. And it's lucky to be on the red team. Red cars go faster.."

Red cars also get more speeding tickets...

[Kate]

Hello red team! Very excited to be your captain and fellow participant. I love readathons, and usually use them as an excuse to work through some more novella length works.

I've never actually played the Game Of Life despite being a board game fan, shockingly! I do wonder if it's more popular in America (I'm from Australia myself).

[Irene]

Hi team! I haven't actually played the game of life either, but I do drive a red car in real life!!

[Katherine]

Hi Everyone! Looking forward to reading with you this week.

Some friends and I once drove a red rental car across the country, and wouldn't you know it, we got a speeding ticket somewhere in the midwest. Luckily, I wasn't the one driving at the time.

[JessicaMHR]

Hi everyone. FINALLLY getting back on here since yesterday. Glad to see the team have been posted. Looking forward to this read-a-thon, already getting my books all set up and got some started a bit already. Don't worry I have enough pages left to still count the book.

I have a bunch of books that fit in to these choices. I was hoping to start inputting onto the spreadsheet but I guess it can wait until the morning.

Good luck everyone and happy, plentiful reading!

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Hey Red Team-- you have a new teammate-- Kellie Lynn from Texas!

[Kellie Lyn]

Hey there all! I am excited to be joining the team. This is going to be a crazy reading week. I am taking part in a 48 hour readathon this weekend and another one next weekend. I began and finished The Good Daughters this morning and caught a nap. I am reading The Last Vigilant now and hope to finish this by this evening. I will update the spreadsheet soon.

[Kellie Lyn]

I put The Good Daughters under Adulthood: A child is born since that was central to the story. It could fit several other places and can be moved it needed.

[Irene]

Good morning all! I hope the team leaders don't mind but I added our names to the spreadsheet since it hadn't been done yet and highlighted the completed book in the planning tab so it's easier to see what's been done. I'm currently reading The Wild Robot for my local bookstore's summer challenge ("a book that's been made into a movie") and should be able to finish it and start another book later today.

Does anyone think it counts as having a grey cover?


And @Kellie Lyn thanks for getting a tough prompt out of the way early on!! Glad this readathon lines up with your other readathons :D

[Tammie]

Irene wrote: "Good morning all! I hope the team leaders don't mind but I added our names to the spreadsheet since it hadn't been done yet and highlighted the completed book in the planning tab so it's easier to ..."

I think it's mostly green

[Tammie]

I entered my first completion. Hopefully it's how you want things...feel free to change if needed.

[Kellie Lyn]

I finished The Last Vigilant and put it in as Middle Age: Someone changes a Job. It seemed to have the least amount of possibles. I am hoping to finish Two Twisted Crowns tonight and start another one before I crash for the evening. I have 4.5 hours of the audiobook left so should go pretty quickly.

[JessicaMHR]

Hello. Spent the day out shopping but managed to listen to a good chunk of my audiobook while I was doing it... that is until my earbuds died.

It is The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai and deals with a guy who is an art gallery development director and also deals with the AIDS epidemic, so alot of death I am to presume. I mean it starts at a memorial for his friend so...

But my physical book I am reading is Murder by Cheesecake and stars the Golden Girls so a group of friends, people over 65, and has a pink cover.

After I check out the spreadsheet I will go back to reading.

[Kate]

Hello everyone! Afternoon of the 7th here (Australia!) and I finished Black Rabbit Hall yesterday for "A book where someone gets married".

I am planning to finish up Bunny and Hospital today, which fit a few prompts, though based on our planning sheet I think I will put them in "A book with a pink cover" and "A book by a debut author" respectively.

[Kellie Lyn]

Finished Two Twisted Crowns and put for a white or gray cover which seemed to have the least possible answers. I am starting The Age of Enchantment. I will finish it tomorrow after a bit of a nap.

[JessicaMHR]

Just finished Sticky Notes: Memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments and used it for book with a bright cover since it is a very vibrant yellow.



Now on to the next.

[Irene]

@Tammie, thanks, I marked it as fitting the green cover prompt instead!

I finished The Wild Robot today and started Peril at End House. I plan to read They Called Us Enemy either today or tomorrow as well.

I hope it's okay that I removed the highlighted rows from the "Completed Plans" tab. If the entire row is highlighted, you can't see which prompt a complete book was used for, which makes it harder to move books around if needed. I highlighted the entire rows on the Plans tab instead. Feel free to change it back if preferred but this is the way I've seen it done for many past readathons so I think this generally works well. I also added a bunch of columns to the Plans tab.

[Tammie]

Irene wrote: "@Tammie, thanks, I marked it as fitting the green cover prompt instead!

I finished The Wild Robot today and started Peril at End House. I plan to read [book:They Calle..."

Thanks...we definitely need it highlighted on the plans tab...I personally think that's good enough.