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Woohoo! Is everyone ready for some fun? I know I am.
Hi! I'm super excited but this is my first time doing one of these so I may need a little help. :)I just borrowed Unaccustomed Earth from my library so I'd like to start there. If I understand correctly, it fits under the following shelves:
Own
Book-club
Currently reading
Fiction
Asia
2016
2017
Audiobook
Abandoned
Any suggestion as to which shelf is best for this? Or am I jumping the gun and should just hold off until a team leader is chosen to get things organized?
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Anyone particularly interested in being team leader? :)
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2018-Reading-Challenge
Abandoned
Book-club
Books-i-own
Currently-reading
Did-not-finish
Have
Maybe
Own
Series
To-buy
Want
Adventure
Fiction
Mystery
ARC
Audiobook
Borrowed
Kindle
Library
2017
So obviously a lot of options for this one ;)
I'm currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm a little slow on the shelf thing. There are a ton for this book. Do I just have to match one that we need from the bookshelf challenge list?
Thanks Laura! So If I start reading something tonight I can count it even though we don't officially start until tomorrow?After Unaccustomed Earth, I have Night by Elie Wiesel in the queue which could work for lots of shelves:
Books-i-own
Currently-reading
Own
Series
To-buy
5-stars
Memoir
Non-fiction
Library
Audiobook
Kindle
Europe
Germany
2016
2017
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Joan, I went through and cross-checked the top shelves with the challenge list.
I have enough pages left in Journey to the Center of the Earth to count for the read a thon. I'm on the app tonight so I can't check the shelves yet. I'll try my best tomorrow to grab the computer to check.
I updated the original post to include the shelves for those having difficulty seeing them on the other topic from the GR App and for easier reference.
Hi team Pink! I have a weeks vacation next week so I'm ready to do a whole lot of reading.This is just an idea, but would it be easier to use a spreadsheet where we can cross of which shelves each book matches and then decide which shelf to use each book for?
This was just a quick layout:
Spreadsheet team pink
It should be open for anybody to edit!
Shelves completed: 55/81
Personal Shelves
✔ 2018-Reading-Challenge: Home - Danielle
✔Abandoned: Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Zaz
Book-Club: Daughter of the Forest - Danielle
✔ Books-I-Own: Joyride to Jupiter - Marina
Cover-Love:
✔ Currently-Reading: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons - Laura
Did-Not-Finish
✔ Have: The Silent Corner - Laura
✔ Maybe: Heather, the Totality - Katie
Need: The Night Masquerade - Danielle
✔ Own: Fahrenheit 451 - Rachel
✔ Reviewed: Lies We Tell Ourselves - Marina
✔ Series: Darth Paper Strikes Back - Zaz
Stand-Alone:
TBR
To-Buy
✔ Want: Beneath the Sugar Sky - Danielle
Wishlist
Rating Shelves
1-Star
2-Stars
✔ 3-Stars: Maybe in Another Life - Rachel
✔ 4-Stars: Losing Leah - MKay
5-Stars: The Broken Eye - Danielle
Favorite
✔ Favorite-Authors: Beartown - Marina
Hated
✔ Loved: The Hunger Games - Amanda
✔ Must-Read: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Jennifer
Genre Shelves
✔ Adventure: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts - Amanda
✔ Biography: Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield - Joan
✔ Contemporary: M Is for Magic - Marina
Cyber-Punk
✔ Epistolary: Lady Susan - Marina
✔ Fantasy: The Hero of Ages - Zaz
Fiction
✔ Ghost-Story: Heart-Shaped Box - Helen
✔ Gothic: We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Marina
✔ Graphic-Novel: DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 1: Enlisted - Danielle
Historical
✔ Horror: Wraith - Helen
✔ Humor:What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Jennifer
✔ Legal-Thriller: The Whistler - Helen
Memoir: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster - Jennifer
✔ Mystery: Prædikanten - Marina
✔ Mythology: The Lost Hero: The Graphic Novel - Marina
✔ Non-Fiction: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story - Katie
✔ Poetry: Dickinson: Poems - Amanda
✔ Romance: Never Never: Part Two - Laura
✔ Sci-Fi: Journey to the Center of the Earth - Amanda
✔ True-Crime: The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld - Katie
✔ Urban-Fantasy: City of Bones - Danielle
Western
✔ Young Adult: The Hate U Give - Hilde
Source/Format Shelves
✔ ARC: The Twilight Wife - Katie
Audiobook:
Borrowed
✔ Bought: Black Coffee - Marina
✔ Kindle: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Helen
Library:
✔ Nook: Leviathan Wakes - Danielle
✔ Paperback: DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 2: Allies - Danielle
Location Shelves
✔ Africa: Out of Africa - Hilde
Antarctica
✔ Asia: Unaccustomed Earth - Rachel
✔ Australia: The Light Between Oceans - Helen
✔ Europe: A Tale of Two Cities - Katie
✔ North-America: Passing - Hilde
✔ South-America: The Penguin Lessons - Helen
China
✔ France: Roslend - Zaz
✔ Germany: Night - Rachel
✔ Italy: The City of Falling Angels - Amanda
Malaysia
✔ Mexico: The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir - Rachel
✔ Spain: The Vacationers - Rachel
Thailand
United-Kingdom
✔ United-States: The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet - Katie
Year Shelves
✔ 2016: The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Laura
✔ 2017: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right- Katie
✔ 2018: Land ingen har sett - Hilde
So I've filled in the three books I definitely expect to read and finish this week. It takes a little time to fill in the spreadsheet so I don't know if it's any help at all.The three books I'm reading this week is:
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Beartown
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
If I have time I'll add one or two more books to the list but let's wait and see!
Good morning, team Pink! Excited to start this:) I am currently at a ski resort, so only have the app available. I will check the shelves at the computer when I get home tonight.
I am currently reading 'Out of Africa', which I an sure will check a lot of shelves. I actually only have 115 pages left, but I will read the last ten once more so I can use it.
Next up is Passing by Nella Larsen.
The spreadsheet seems like a really good idea, Marina 😊
Hi everyone :)Good idea for the spreadsheet Marina!
I’ll check which books I’ve to read/I’m currently reading and the associated shelves to see if something matches.
As usual, the read-a-thon will start at night for me, so I’ll be there later and will check most of my reads near the end of the week.
Morning Pink team! I'm in England so the challenge for me starts at 5pm this afternoon - will be mice to relax with a book after a day spent with the in-laws!!My picks for the read-a-thon so far are : Wraith by Joe Hill, The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
They are very different genres to each other so hopefully will give a bit more scope to the shelves they could possibly fit in. But I'm prepared to swap and change if it is necessary. Looking forward to getting started.
I was thinking it started at midnight last night. It is messing with my Sunday order. I usually read in the morning and work in the afternoon but I guess I'll swap this Sunday!!I'm having a hard time figuring out what books to read this week. As soon as I do I'll fill out the spreadsheet. Next weekend I'm going to my daughter's dance competition which will be dark. Whatever books I'm going to read there will have to be on a kindle. She has 5 dances but I'll have to sit through 12 hours worth of other dances. A good chance for reading a lot as long as the other moms don't talk to me the whole time.
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I'm going to add my current book now. I'm not sure which book I'll be reading next but I'll look through my options later today.
I put Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield on the spreadsheet. I'm currently reading that one. I thought that might be the most helpful to start with since it is a non-fiction and might check off some boxes we don't have. Too bad a war book wasn't on there or Afghanistan!!
Marina, I love the spreadsheet. It's actually exactly what I was thinking would be a good way to track books! So how will we note when we're done reading the book? Maybe shade the column a different color? And does that mean you're volunteering to be team leader, Marina?
I have A Tale of Two Cities and The Great Quake you finish this week. Then I'm not sure what I'll pick after that. And I'm on my phone, so I can't look up the shelves right now. I'll do that later.
I vote for Marina as team leader (if she wants to, of course)!I updated the spreadsheet with Unaccustomed Earth and Night, which are the first two books I'm reading and will choose the next once we have a better idea of which shelves need to be filled.
I can be team leader, I have the entire week off so I have time enough 😊Katie, my thought was also that we could shade the column or row in another colour when that book or shelf is done.
I'm going to copy the list of shelves in my first post (#11), so we also have a list here where we can see which shelves is covered and which are missing.
I guess I should read directions before I start. I technically can't count The Picture of Dorian Gray because I have under 125 left. I have a little over 100 left. Also I saw where you could only count the list on the first hundred topics. I missed that before so I went back and corrected what I did. I decided I'll read The Girl with All the Gifts this week. That helped fill in sci-fi at least.
Good evening, Pink team! I filled out the spreadsheet with the two books I am fairly certain I will finish; Out of Africa and Passing.
I also took the liberty to add a "countif" formula in column B, and marked it with an extra pink color ;) Not so fan of that color personally, but we are after all Team Pink! Here you can easy see how many books we have for each shelve, and which one are still open with zero books.
Unfortunately I can not update the spreadsheet myself but I can let you know what shelves my books fit.My first book is What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions and it fits
Non-fiction
Humor
Own
2016
Audiobook
Kindle
To-buy
Books i own
Wishlist
Library
2017
Currently reading
2018
Didn't finish
Abandoned
Maybe
Borrowed
Sci-fi
Graphic novel
Good idea with the columns, Hilde!Jennifer, I'll fill your book into the spreadsheet, no problem!
So it's almost 10 in the evening here in Denmark so I'll soon be off to bed. Right now I'm working on Lies We Tell Ourselves and I think I might be able to finish it tomorrow.If any of you don't have time to check which shelves your books can fill let me know and I'll be happy to help.
I think it's too early to tell which books we should use for the different shelves. It'll be easier once everybody has had a chance to check in with their books.
I'll probably have a look tomorrow to see if any books seem obvious for a certain shelf.
Happy reading everybody and see you tomorrow!
I'm hoping to finish Unaccustomed Earth tonight (with 2 straight hours of reading for the individual challenge!) and since that's currently the only book with Asia, it probably should be slotted in there. I'll confirm later or in the am (US East Coast time) once completed.Have a good night Marina and thanks for all the hard work!
I've filled in the sheet for Journey to the Center of the Earth. I'm thinking of reading The City & the City (which would hit urban fantasy) and The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts this week. But I'm trying to keep an eye out for books that will hit categories we haven't filled in yet.
I should finish my "France" book tomorrow, so I'll check it as done on the spreadsheet.
I have read my first nook for this read-a-thon : Wraith. Not sure how we're marking them as read on the spreadsheet. I'll start on The Penguin Lessons tomorrow (as it's my bedtime in England!) but I have a large assignment due in on Thursday and quite a few appointments this week so can't see me reading more than the three books I've committed to. Hopefully the shelves they'll fit on to will be varied enough. Happy Reading Pink Team 😀👍😀
Goodmorning Team Pink!Yay, our first book and shelf done 👍 I've put it on the plan for horror so far. On the spreadsheet I've striked out the shelf and book but I don't want to remove it in case we want to shuffle things around in the end of the week.
I've also put down a few of the other books for a certain shelf, you can have a look in post #11. I tried to cover some of the more difficult shelves first: Location and the less common genres. But everything can be switched around as we go along.
Let me know when you finish a book and I'll update the list!
Good morning Team Pink!Hurray for first book done :-)
I just started an audiobook; Land ingen har sett, and added it to the spreadsheet. I am not 100 % sure I will be able to finish it in time, but will try. This only fills the more generic shelves (to read, 2018, currently reading etc), as it is not a known book outside of Norway with few people following it. But we need those as well, so hope it will be fine :)
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I've finished Unaccustomed Earth so we can strike Asia off the list. I've started Night which is short (but long enough to qualify) so I'm hoping to finish that tonight and will try to find something in my TBR list that would mark off a shelf we don't have covered.Who is willing to take one for the team and read a 1 star book?? ;)
Laura wrote: "I'm really hoping I can finish The Silent Corner today. I'm not feeling overly enthusiastic at work today so that just means I'll get out of here ASAP and read ;)"Go Laura ;-)
I've put it down for "have". It was the only book matching that shelf so far but there are lots of other shelves we can move it to if needed.
I finished Lies We Tell Ourselves today. It's on the reviewed shelf for now but it can also tick off lots of other possibilities.
I'm going straight to Beartown tonight. I've been reading for most of the day so I'm just taking a short break :-)
How's it going with everybody else?
Rachelnyc wrote: "I've finished Unaccustomed Earth so we can strike Asia off the list. I've started Night which is short (but long enough to qualify) so I'm hoping to finish that tonight and will try to find somethi..."Great, I'll mark it as completed. And well done. Good luck with Night, it's a short but powerful read!
I was thinking the same with the 1 star shelf 😉
I've finished The Penguin Lessons - maybe mark that one down as South America. I'm going to start Murder on the Orient Express tonight.If I get that one finished, I'm willing to look at 1 star reads, as long as I can find a Kindle version for a reasonable price. I'm prepared to take one for the team!!
Having just had a look at the 1 star reads, there are 3 on there that are on my TBR list and that I already own: The Catcher in the Rye, The Fault in Our Stars and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It may be more beneficial if I change my third book from 'Murder ...' to one of these instead. All the shelves that Murder can fit onto can be filled by other choices. I'll have a look at the length of the books when I get home.
You're a machine, Helen!! I already had you on the list for South America so it's marked as completed now.
I just checked the three books you mention, but I don't think the 1-star shelf is among the 100 top shelves for any of them.
I think it's going to be tough finding a book for that category!
I am reading
and still have plenty left in that one. It will fit the UK and not sure what else. It is a mystery.
MKay wrote: "I am reading and still have plenty left in that one. It will fit the UK and not sure what else. It is a mystery."I added it to the spreadsheet. There are a few shelves we can use it for but I've reserved "4-stars" for this one.
I finished Journey to the Center of the Earth this morning. I added The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts to the spreadsheet. I'll start that this afternoon.
Great work Pinkies!6 shelves completed already 👍
Amanda, I have put Journey down as Sci-fi and The bad-ass as adventure. We'll see how that works out 😀
I added A Tale of Two Cities (which I'll finish today) and The Great Quake to the spreadsheet.Can someone with mad spreadsheet skills add it so it does the sums for the shelves across in addition to the sums that are already there for each book. (I don't speak spreadsheet that well, so hopefully that makes sense.) It would make it easy to see which are the "rare" shelves.
Katie, there's a sum in column B. Isn't that what your looking for?
I finished the 24 in 48 last night, which also took place during this readathon, so I finished 4 books during that time (all over 125 pages>First I finished Leviathan Wakes which can count for:
Sci-Fi
Audiobook
Mystery
Wishlist
Adventure
Abandoned
I also finished City of Bones which can count for:
Urban Fantasy (also a bunch of others, but that seems to be the most needed)
I also finished DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 1: Enlisted and DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 2: Allies which can count for:
Graphic Novel
Science Fiction
I finished Darth Paper Strikes Back which is shelved as humor (also audiobook, series & library). It's epistolary but sadly not shelved as it :((
Wauw, you guys are flying through all the books!Danielle, I'm adding your books to the spreadsheet and have a look which shelves they fit.
Look at that, that's exactly what I meant. I guess that's what I get for ooking at Google Docs on my phone. Thanks!
Around the Year in 52 Books
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Home (other topics)Land ingen har sett (other topics)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight (other topics)
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (other topics)
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Hello Pink Team! Welcome to your 1st read-a-thon of 2018! This topic is just for you to discuss your strategy and progress throughout the week. Make sure to take a moment to read over the rules of the challenge here before you dive in.
It is also helpful, before getting too far into the challenge, for someone to take on the role of Team Leader. This person will keep the team updated on progress throughout the week so they'll need to check in more regularly. If you're interested in taking on that role, please let the team know.
Team Roster
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For those having difficulty seeing the shelves from the Goodreads App or for quick reference, here they are...
Personal Shelves
2018-Reading-Challenge
Abandoned
Book-Club
Books-I-Own
Cover-Love
Currently-Reading
Did-Not-Finish
Have
Maybe
Need
Own
Reviewed
Series
Stand-Alone
TBR
To-Buy
Want
Wishlist
Rating Shelves
1-Star
2-Stars
3-Stars
4-Stars
5-Stars
Favorite
Favorite-Authors
Hated
Loved
Must-Read
Genre Shelves
Adventure
Biography
Contemporary
Cyber-Punk
Epistolary
Fantasy
Fiction
Ghost-Story
Gothic
Graphic-Novel
Historical
Horror
Humor
Legal-Thriller
Memoir
Mystery
Mythology
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Romance
Sci-Fi
True-Crime
Urban-Fantasy
Western
Young Adult
Source/Format Shelves
ARC
Audiobook
Borrowed
Bought
Kindle
Library
Nook
Paperback
Location Shelves
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
Europe
North-America
South-America
China
France
Germany
Italy
Malaysia
Mexico
Spain
Thailand
United-Kingdom
United-States
Year Shelves
2016
2017
2018