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Welcome to your team for this week's read-a-thon Group Bingo Challenge. This thread is totally yours, so feel free to take time to learn more about the members of your team, discuss books and activities for the read-a-thon, and to plan your strategy for tackling the challenge.

Your goal is to complete most of the categories on the Bingo card (we'll be super impressed if you get them all!) by working with the members of your team. Some squares are a team effort (with a maximum per member contribution indicated between the brackets), others can be done individually to help push your team closer to their goal. Pay attention to the Bingo card. Matching colors can't be overlapped with one another. Black and yellow squares can overlap with any of the other squares.

We recommend you come together, as a team, and pick some team captains to help do re-caps and keep track of what your team is working on and what progress you've made. Mods will be exempt from this role.

As a team member, it will be your job to check in with your team as you start and complete tasks to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Team Scarecrow Roster:
Brianna
Kelly
Sarah
Erica
Jennifer
Ira
Debra
Samantha (sgiffin)
Jessica
Joan

Bingo Card

Hello team!

Hello!
I'm excited about this week and I'm all about strategy. So I'm reading Winter now and also plan on reading The Time Machine and A Monster Calls this week. The Time Machine will qualify for the book 10+ years ago. After I complete Winter I'm also planning on reading 4 of the short stories that go along with it. I'm sure some characters will be fighting in Winter!

What are you all planning on reading?

Hello everyone! I am excited to start tomorrow.

I'm not sure what I'm planning on reading yet - coming out of a book slump so kind of just going with the flow. lol I'm excited though! Now that I'm reading again I've been dying to do a read-a-thon.

I'm definitely a planner and am willing to help be a captain if no one else wants to be.

I finished the book I was reading at 3am last night to be ready for the read a thon. I am ready to help! I have to think about about where to start. I am not big on poems, graphic novels, or audiobooks though. I am sure I can help out on reading outside, for an hour straight, and I just got notification that a book in a series I read comes out on Tuesday (YAY) and it is not on my TBR yet!

Brianna- if you want to be Captain- I will support you in any way I can.

Brianna - please be captain! That would be great!

I have some poem books that my Mom was just giving away so I'm sure if no one else wants to I can help on that.

I usually listen to an audiobook of non-fiction but I'm in-between those at the moment and don't what to start.

I am not an audiobook person either so that may be our biggest struggle. Maybe some of our other teammates are listeners. I'm a big reader of YA and do read graphic novels so I can definitely help with those categories.

I'll tentatively reserve some spots for tracking things until we hear from the rest of the team.

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B1 - Read a new book (not on TBR) - Finish (from beginning to end) a brand new book that was not previously on your TBR.
� � Ira - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

B2 - Read 3 Short Stories or Novellas - Three members of your team will need to read a short story or novella to complete this task.
� � Debra - He Tweaked My Nose, Officer: A True Crime Short Story by Paul Tosh
� � Erica - The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands by Stephen King
� � Sarah - Greenshaw's Folly: A Short Story by Agatha Christie

B3 - Read a book published 10+ years ago - Read a book that was published prior to 2007.
� � Joan - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

B4 - Read a Book with an Article in the Title - That's any book with "A," "An," or "The," in the title. That shouldn't be too challenging, right? If any member of your group reads a book with an article in the title they can claim this square for your team.
� � Sarah - Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers by Bob Eckstein

B5 - Read 5 books for the ATY Challenge - Your group needs to have collectively finished reading (from beginning to end) a total of 5 books that count for the ATY Challenge. Each member can only contribute a maximum of 1 book to this total.
� � Debra - The Day Human Prince by B. Kristin McMichael
� � Kelly - Never Never by James Patterson
� � Ira - The Call of the Wild by Jack London
� � Joan - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
� � Sarah - Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

I1 - Read Outside for 6 Hours - Summer is coming to a close, guys! Get outside and enjoy that fresh air while you still can. If your team collects 6 hours of quality reading time in the great outdoors you can snag this square. Members can contribute a maximum of 2 hours for their team toward the total.
� Ira - 30 minutes
� � Joan - 2 hours
� Kelly - 1 hour 20 minutes
� Jennifer - 30 minutes
� � Debra - 2 hours

I2 - Read 3 YA, middle grade, or children's books - Three members of your team will need to read a young adult, middle grade, or children's book to finish this task.
� � Brianna - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
� � Erica - The Animal Boogie by Debbie Harter
� � Sarah - Sammy Spider's First Hanukkah by Sylvia A. Rouss

I3 - Read the Rainbow - As your team reads the many books it will read, pay attention to the colors of the cover. You can check this off if your team is able to read a book with a cover that corresponds to each color of the rainbow.
� � RED - Debra
� � ORANGE - Brianna
� � YELLOW - Kelly
� � GREEN - Debra
� � BLUE - Joan
� � INDIGO - Samantha
� � VIOLET - Debra


I4 - A character eats - Pay attention to the events in your stories. If one member comes across a character eating then you can cross off this task.
� � Joan - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

I5 - 5 members read for one straight hour - 5 different team members must read for an uninterrupted hour each to scratch this off your card.
� � Debra - 1 hour
� � Brianna - 1 hour
� � Kelly - 1 hour
� � Joan - 1 hour
� � Erica - 1 hour

N1 - Read a nonfiction book - Any subject, doesn't matter. Only one member of your group has to read something nonfiction for the team to claim this square. Share a snippet or interesting fact from what you learned with your team!
� � Erica - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

N2 - Finish 10 Books - Your group needs to have collectively finished reading (from beginning to end) a total of 10 books to claim this square. Each member can only contribute a maximum of 2 books to this total.
� � Ira - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
� � Debra - The Game Begins by Victoria Danann
� � Erica - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
� � Sarah - Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers by Bob Eckstein
� � Ira - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
� � Debra - Once Upon a Sunday by Renee Allen McCoy
� � Brianna - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
� � Jennifer - The Muse of Violence by Bruce Hartman
� � Kelly - Haunted by James Patterson
� � Erica - Swing Time by Zadie Smith

N3 - Add 5 books to a map or timeline - Five members will have to read a book and submit it to be added to either the ATY Group Reading Map, Author Map, or Timeline. Since we're only adding ATY Challenge books, this should encourage you to plug away at your challenge list! Squad goals!
� � Debra - The Day Human Prince by B. Kristin McMichael
� � Sarah - Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
� � Brianna - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
� � Jennifer - The Muse of Violence by Bruce Hartman
� � Kelly - Haunted by James Patterson

N4 - Finish a book or story in one sitting - Sit down and read up! If any member of your team can plow through a whole book (no matter how long or short it is) in a single sitting, they can claim this square for your team.
� � Debra - The Game Begins by Victoria Danann

N5 - A character travels (leaves original location) - Pay attention to the events in your stories. If one member comes across a character who travels to a different location then you can cross off this task.
� � Debra - The Game Begins by Victoria Danann

G1 - Read 4,000 pages - As a group, read 4000 pages total through the week. Speed readers, keep your cool! Each member can only contribute a maximum of 600 pages to your group's total.
� Brianna - 600
� Kelly - 600
� Sarah - 489
� Erica - 600
� Jennifer - 27 + 257
� Ira - 215 + 126
� Debra - 600
� Samantha (sgiffin) - 246
� Joan - 278

G2 - 2+ characters fight - Pay attention to the events in your stories. If one member comes across a a fight (verbal or physical) between at least two characters then you can cross off this task.
� � Kelly - Haunted by James Patterson

G3 - Read a poem - Read a poem. You don't have to read a whole book of poetry... just one poem. That's it. Any member of your team can read a poem to complete this square.
� � Kelly - Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

G4 - Complete Every Read-a-Thon Game - This doesn't mean that every member of your team has to do every read-a-thon game. It doesn't even mean that one member of your team has to do every read-a-thon game. It means that between all of you, at least one team member must have participated in and completed each of the read-a-thon games. Although we'd like to think that everyone is playing along, it's possible for one team member to participate in all the games and score this square for their team. It's also possible that each team member only play one game to check this square off. Divide and conquer however you like, readers!
� � Sunday
� � Monday
� � Tuesday
� � Wednesday
� � Thursday
� � Friday
� � Saturday
� Sunday

G5 - Read a Book in a Series - Any member of your team can read a book in a series (doesn't have to be the 1st book in the series) to complete this square for the team.
� � Kelly - Haunted by James Patterson

O1 - Every team member recommends a book to the team - You're going to be spending a lot of time together so why not recommend a book to your fellow teammates? If every teammate drops a recommendation, you get this easy square. You do not need to read any of the recommendations for the challenge, this is just a fun little social task. Call it a freebie. ;)
� Jennifer - Mutation by Robin Coook
� Debra - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
� Joan - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch or It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
� Ira - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
� Brianna - Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
� Kelly - Pandemic by A.G. Riddle
� Samantha - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
� Sarah - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
� Erica - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

O2 - Strategize with Your Group - Keeping up with your group is vital to your success in this challenge. If your group's discussion topic reaches 175 or more comments, you can claim this square.
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O3 - Read 2 Graphic Novels or Manga - Two members of your team will need to read a graphic novel or manga to cross this off your card.
� � Jennifer - A Quest of Heroes: The Graphic Novel (Episode 1) by Morgan Rice
� � Sarah - Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": The Authorized Graphic Adaptation by Miles Hyman

O4 - Listen to 30 hours of audiobook - Your team must come together and listen, collectively, to 30 hours of audiobook goodness. Each member can only contribute a maximum of 6 hours to the overall total.
� � Sarah - 6 hours
� � Erica - 6 hours
� � Debra - 6 hours
� � Ira - 6 hours
� Samantha - 4.5 hours
� Jennifer - 4.5 hours

O5 - Read 2 Books by a Person of Color - Two members of your team will have to read books written by a person of color to check this square off your card.
� � Erica - Swing Time by Zadie Smith
� � Debra - Once Upon a Sunday by Renee Allen McCoy

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Hi there, there's no mod on your team (most of you already did a group read-a-thon), so if needed, we're available by private message or in the other topics ;)
Have fun!

Hi everyone! I have a few books lined up to start reading tomorrow and I think most of them can be put in a few spots so we can use them for what ever slots we need to:
Odd and the Frost Giants
Shirley Jackson's the Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers
Lair of Dreams (this one is an audiobook)

Welcome Sarah!

I've started filling in what you guys have said y'all may be able to complete! I'm on GoodReads daily (multiple times really) so I'll keep that as up to date as I can!

Brianna wrote: "Welcome Sarah!

I've started filling in what you guys have said y'all may be able to complete! I'm on GoodReads daily (multiple times really) so I'll keep that as up to date as I can!"

Looks good Brianna!

Hi everyone!

I can do a short story (currently reading Skeleton Crew), a children's book (I lead a Story Time today, so I'll read a few!), and I can do non-fiction if you like (I have Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex out from the library). I can also try to contribute to audiobook hours but not till Wednesday... Wednesday-Friday afternoons at work I can listen to an audiobook while I lesson plan :)

Hi team I can do YA, a book on the aty challenge and audiobook also
I am ready to go and will fill in where we need the most help

audiobook - Needful Things 6 hours total
aty challenge - The Day Human Prince
book in one setting , YA, one in a series - The Game Begins

Welcome Debra!

I am going to start with . I just got it today, so it is not on my TBR. I don't know if we want to use it for the rainbow, it is hard to decide what color. If not, I am sure it will fill other categories!

Hi. I'm going to try reading A monster calls today. it is a book that was not originally on my tbr. After that I'm planning on reading The call of the wild. It can count towards a book from the aty. If the weather is nice like the predictions said, I'm taking the book with me to the beach, so that could count as outside reading. I can easily contribute with the audiobook part of the bingo.

Welcome Ira!

I'll update the main posts when I can as people let me know what books they're working on and what they'll count for. Just let me know when it is actually completed/page count/hour count/etc so I can update our bingo board!

I just finished a book I was currently reading so I can now start a book specifically for the read-a-thon and I'm excited! Now to pick which one... lol

I decided to start Illuminae which will count for:

� G1 - my 600 pages
� I2 - YA book
� B5 - an AtY book
� I3 - orange cover

has a green cover if we want to use it for the rainbow

Hi Everyone,

I can definitely add my -O4 (6 hours of audiobook listening). I'm currently working on The Pillars of the Earth but can switch to something else if we can't use books started before the Read-a-thon began.

I'm also going to read Cinder, which can count for the following:
-I3 (Rainbow) Red [or Violet]
-B5 (ATY Book)
-I1 (Read Outside) 2 hrs
-G1 (Pages) 390
-I5 (1 hr Straight)
and either -I2 (YA Book) OR -G5 (Book in Series), whichever we need it to count for

My copy of Cinder also has a bonus short story, "Glitches" so that can count for
-B2 (Short Story)

And when I finish that, I'll move on to The Hound of the Baskervilles, which can count for:
-I3 (Rainbow) Blue [or Violet]
-G1 (Pages) 236 (rounding out my 600 pages)
-N2 (Finish a Book)
and either -B3 (10+ years old) OR -B4 (Article in Title), whichever we need it to count for

Hi team!

I can read a book in a series and do audiobook time. If the rain ever stops I might be able to do outside reading. Also, if I can find a graphic novel at my library i will do one of those.

Welcome Samantha and Jennifer!

Ok I finishef A Quest of Heroes: The Graphic Novel (Episode 1) for a grapgic novel.

Also i will recommend Mutation

my book recommendation is Mr. Mercedes
this is a long boo but really good and they made a mini series from it

I have read for one hour straight also

I recommend Dark Matter or It Ends with Us. Those were my surprise reads this year. I've also had a lot of fun with the Lunar Chronicles this year.

I my book The Game Begins three of the characters are eating also the main charcater moves from austin tx to oxnard california

My recomendation is The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
It was very original and I'm sure not for all, but it is worth a try.

I have finished reading A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. My edition has 215 pages. It can count towards a book originally not on my tbr, as I found it in the library and picked it up on a whim.

I have also listened to 4 hours of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain.

I have also read outside for 30 minutes.

I was able to read for an hour straight and that was hard! I never realized how ADD I was when it came to reading. I would read for about 15 minutes and want to play on my phone. I didn't, but it wasn't easy! lol I'm enjoying Illuminae more this time around though!

My recommendation is Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch. It's a cutesy (but not too cutesy as a theme is coping with grief & loss) young adult romance set in Italy. It was such an easy read and really helped pull me out of my reading slump. If you need something nice and fluffy, then this is for you!

I came up with an update post to track things each day. It'll be for what categories/books we finish and those categories that are kind of ongoing. If something isn't correct, or you want me to include different/more/less information, let me know! (I'm also keeping track in my private group of all the books that are in progress and what categories they may apply to so I do have that documented as well if desired.)

DAY ONE

completed
B1 - read a new book (not on TBR)
B3 - read a book published 10+ years ago
I4 - a character eats
N4 - finish a book or story in one sitting
N5 - a character travels (leaves original location)

in progress
� I1 - read outside for 6 hours
2.5 hours | 6 hours
� I5 - 5 members read for one straight hour
2 hours | 5 hours
� N2 - finish 10 books
02 | 10
� G1 - read 4,000 pages
434 | 4,000
� G4 - complete every read-a-thon game
� Scrabble
� O1 - every team member recommends a book to the team
07 | 10
� O2 - strategize with your group
45 | 175 comments
� O4 - listen to 30 hours of audiobook
5.25 | 30 hours

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books
Ira - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
B1 - read a new book (not on your TBR)
N2 - finish 10 books
G1 - read 4,000 pages - 215

Erica - The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands by Stephen King
B2 - read 3 short stories or novellas

Joan - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
B3 - read a book published 10+ years ago
B5 - read 5 books for the AtY Challenge
I3 - read the rainbow - blue
I4 - a character eats - They eat a lot of fruit.
G1 - read 4,000 pages - 118

Debra - The Game Begins by Victoria Danann
N2 - finish 10 books
N4 - finish a book or story in one sitting
N5 - a character travels (leaves original location) - moves from Austin, TX to Oxnard, CA
G1 - read 4,000 pages - 101

Jennifer - A Quest of Heroes: The Graphic Novel (Episode 1) by Morgan Rice
O3 - read 2 graphic novels or manga

Side note - if we've started a book before the read-a-thon begun, it won't count towards all categories. We can count them towards our reading goals - like pages, audiobook hours, reading outside, etc. but not like 'read a nonfiction' or 'read the rainbow'. (according to the rules discussion & postings in other groups)

I finished my book in one setting The Game Begins
101 pages read

Ok I finishef A Quest of Heroes: The Graphic Novel (Episode 1) for a grapgic novel.

Also i will recommend Mutation

Oh and I have finished 1 hr 16 min of an audiobook so far.

I recommend Pandemic by A. G. Riddle. It is on the line of apocalyptic fiction, really fast paced, and has lots of action.

So far in my book the main character Harriet Blue has physically fought two people and has taken a trip which required an airplane and rental car to get to her destination. So we can use Never Never for one of those since it won't be in the rainbow and we won't have overlap.

Ok so here is my contribution today - I probably won't be as successful the rest of the week.

I read The Time Machine in one sitting. I was saving this one for a read-a-thon since it was so short.

Here is what it can count for (I also read it outside for over 2 hours)
B3 published 10+ years ago
B5 counts towards my ATY challenge
N4 Read in one sitting
I3 Cover is blue
I1 Read outside for over 2 hours
I4 (they ate a bunch of fruit)
G1 read 118 pages so far

Hi all, it is morning here in China, so I am just getting started. So far I have read a short story: The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands by Stephen King

I'll update again tonight my time :)

Hi everyone,

Didn't get much reading done today, but tomorrow will be much better for me.

In the meantime, my book recommendation is The Eyre Affair or any of the books in the series. If you like British humor, alternate reality timelines, and boat-loads of Literary references, you'll love this series by Jasper Fforde.

I got everything updated in the posts above. We've knocked a few categories as well! Yay!

Jennifer - Did you want to count the pages from the graphic novel towards G1 (read 4,000 pages - 600/member) or towards N2 (finish 10 books - 2/member)?

Erica - Did you want to count the pages from your short story towards G1 (read 4,000 pages - 600/member) or towards N2 (finish 10 books - 2/member)?

Samantha wrote: "Hi everyone,

Didn't get much reading done today, but tomorrow will be much better for me.

In the meantime, my book recommendation is The Eyre Affair or any of the books in the series..."

I've heard so many good things about this book. I've had it on my wishlist for the library and it's almost always available for check out. I seriously need to read it already!

Put me down for reading for a straight hour! It was actually longer than that, which means I am going to have a groggy Monday morning. Oh well, it was worth it.

I have 2 hours of audible done today

Hi, almost bed time for me.

So far I have read:
170 pages (including the short story)
I'm about halfway through Bonk already and it is fascinating, so that is my recommendation (but beware if medical procedures or sex make you uncomfortable).

And I read a ton of children's books. Maybe count The Animal Boogie.

Ok, back to reading!