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Read-a-Thon #3 - Team 1 Group Discussion

I'm excited to get this started! How do we report and track??

Team Spreadsheet:
Here is our official team game board. Whenever we complete a task, I'll be updating the image below to display the book covers below.
Edited 9/3 am:



I stopped at the library on the way home from work and picked up a pile of books to read this weekend. Excited to start bright and early tomorrow morning!


I'm currently reading El Negociador (The Negotiator), I'm on pag 322 of 480, it could count for:
- A book for AtY challenge
- A Thriller
Also I'm reading Cumbres borrascosas (Wuthering Heights), I'm on 60% of 397 pages and it could count for:
- A book by an author who was born in 1950 or earlier


So can definitely cover 14 or even 15 1, 12,19, or 21.


Hope everyone has lots of grand reading plans for the day.

I read after midnight and competed the following tasks:
11. Read a poem � Dream by Anna Akhmatova
16. Read a short story - Understanding Entropy by Barry Malzberg
I'm reading The Bean Trees and will report my pages and time read later today.
Does everyone have a poem they can read this weekend? (If not, you can find one on-line.) That’s an easy one to knock off!
Have fun everyone!!!





Go for it Pam! I started the tracking since it was there, but will turn the reins over to you. Thanks for volunteering.



I think so! I'm new at this, too! Once I have access to the worksheet, I will add info when I see it. There is also a Progress thread to post your hours and books completed.


I recommend The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle. It is a story of a young girl Rosa during Cuba's struggle for freedom in 1896. If you know any Spanish at all, the bilingual edition is wonderful! The story is told through a series of poems, alternating between several characters. It has won several awards including the 2009 Newbery Honor Book, the 2009 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative and the 2009 Bank Street - Claudia Lewis Award, and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

I think the way the document is set up, only the creator has access. Maybe Traci can change that so it is open access.




Hi Dalex - I see from your progress post that you finished West. Yay! Does it count towards ATY and one of the other tasks?

But it does count for task 20, a nonfiction book. So that's good news. One more task completed.



Both books can be counted for the group as ATY books and my edition of Exit West has an orange-ish cover and could be counted for #4.
That's enough books for today. The wife would like me to spend the evening with her watching a movie. Oh, and there's pasta! And wine! Yay.
Hope all the team members have a very successful reading day. See everybody tomorrow, bright and early. :)


Sorry about that, I didn't realize the spreadsheet wasn't editable and just got back home. It should be fixed now. Let me know if it isn't, I'll be in and reading for the next couple of hours and will check in the morning since I'm in Pacific time zone.

- I finished Cumbres borrascosas (Wuthering Heights) for prompt "A book by an author who was born in 1950 or earlier"
- I'm on page 394/480 of El Negociador (The Negotiator)
. Pages read: 220
See everybody tomorrow, i hope to finish El Negociador tomorrow


Great job everyone! We have 7 tasks completed! Please read a poem and make a book recommendation on this thread so we can complete those 2 group tasks.

Please reveal task #s: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, and 20!
Thanks!







I read by Billie Collins. He's one of my favorite poets and a poem about books seemed quite appropriate for this Team Task.
I recommend The Book of M by Peng Shepherd, which is far and away my favorite book of the year so far. It's an end of the world story but very unique with a magical realism spin to it. Plus it is very well written and compulsively readable.
Ok, I'm off to find a cup of coffee so I can settle in to read for a few hours. Have a fantastic day with your books, everybody.


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Team Roster:
Katie (mod)
Ira
Pam
Ann
Traci
Danielle
dalex
Chinook
Vanessa
Heather
Erika
Johanne
Note: Tasks with a 🍁can be overlapped with the other tasks
READING TASKS
2. Every team member recommends a book
11. Every team member reads a poem and tells the team what they read
15. Listen to 25 hours of audiobook (max 5 hours per team member)🍁
17. Complete every readathon game (Saturday through Tuesday)
24. Complete 20 books total (max 5 per team member)🍁
1. Read 3,000 pages total (max 500 pages per team member)🍁
2. Read a book with trees or a plant on the cover
3. Complete 30 books total (max 4 per team member)🍁
4. Read a book with a red cover
5. Read a book that fits a “reject� prompt
6. Read 5,000 pages total (max 1,000 pages per team member)🍁
7. Every team member shares a favorite book to movie adaptation
8. Read a book with a child/elderly main character
9. Read 7,500 pages total (max 1,500 pages per team member)🍁
10. Read a romance book (or a book with a romance element)
11. Read a book that you borrowed from the library
12. Read a book with F-A-L-L in the title
13. Read 10 picture or children’s books (3 per member)
14. Listen to 30 hours of audiobook (max 5 hours per team member)🍁
15. Listen to 45 hours of audiobook (max 9 hours per team member)🍁
16. Read a comic book or graphic novel
17. Complete every readathon game (Wednesday through Monday)
18. Read a book set in a country different from your own
19. Read a book with a beautiful cover
20. Read a non-fiction book
21. Finish a book or story in one sitting 🍁
22. Read 6 books that count for the AtY challenge (max 2 per member)🍁
23. Every team member participates in the 2019 list making process
24. Complete 40 books total (max 8 per team member)🍁