Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Hello Team 1! 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.

Team Roster:
Mindy (team leader)
Edie
Lieke
Diana
Traci
Joan
Tabitha
Shelley
Erica
Mini
Veronica

BOARD ONE - FINISHED



✔1. Read 3,000 pages total (max 500 pages per team member) ❄️
✔2. Read a book with snow or ice on the cover
✔3. Complete 30 books total (max 4 per team member) ❄️
✔4. Read a book with a purple or blue cover
✔5. Read a book that fits a “reject” prompt
✔6. Read 5,000 pages total (max 1,000 pages per team member) ❄️

✔7. Read a book with a character born after 2000 (child main character)
✔8. Read a book first published in December or January (of any year)
✔9. Read 7,500 pages total (max 1,500 pages per team member) ❄️
✔10. Read a book with a cold or chilly atmosphere
✔11. Read a book that you borrowed from the library
✔12. Read a book with S-N-O-W 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 read-a-thon game
✔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. A book by a new author (one you haven't read before)
✔24. Complete 40 books total (max 8 per team member) ❄️

BOARD TWO


25. Read 10,000 pages total (max 1,500 pages per team member) ❄️
✔26. Read a book with a "wintery" cover
27. Complete 50 books total (max 8 per team member) ❄️
✔28. Read a book with sparkles or metallics on the cover
✔29. Read a book that fits a “reject” prompt
✔30. Read 12,500 pages total (max 2,000 pages per team member) ❄️

✔31. Read a book that won or was nominated for an award in 2018
✔32. Read a book first published in December or January (of any year)
33. Read 15,00 pages total (max 2,500 pages per team member) ❄️
✔34. Read a "heartwarming" book
✔35. Read a book with an author's name starting with J, A, or N
✔36. Read a book with N-E-W in the title
✔37. Read 20 picture or children’s books (6 per member)

38. Listen to 60 hours of audiobook (max 10 hours per team member) ❄️
39. Listen to 75 hours of audiobook (max 13 hours per team member ❄️
✔40. Read a comic book or graphic novel
41. Complete every read-a-thon game (Dec 28 - Jan 1)
✔42. Read a book that is first in a series

43. Read a book with a beautiful cover
✔44. Read a non-fiction book
✔45. Finish a book or story in one sitting ❄️
✔46. Read 12 books that count for the AtY challenge (max 4 per member) ❄️
✔47. Read an author's debut novel
48. Complete 60 books total (max 8 per team member) ❄️

Note: Tasks with a ❄️can be overlapped with the other tasks

GROUP SPREADSHEET

"Games:"
- Kick-off
- The Grinch Book Tag
- Hidden Books
- Synonyms/Antonyms
- Book Emojis
- Book's First Sentence

Excited to begin this. All my books are from the library, so I can cover that, if need be. I have a non-fiction book that I will try to finish for this.

Hi Edie, me too! I’m reading a book set in North Dakota so I’ve got number 10. I’ll look at the challenges more thoroughly tomorrow to see what else I can cover. Maybe others will have checked in by then.

Go Team 1! LOL

I'm excited!

I have a graphic novel I can read. I also have a couple of new authors. These are the books I was planning on:

Gone Rogue - graphic novel
A Christmas Carol
The Girl in the Ice
Eversea

Most of them are blue covers as well.

Excited to get this started! I'm in the middle of Jane Eyre, which is set in England and I live in the United States so that can be used for 18.

Just a heads up that prompt 7 has been corrected to: Read a book with a character born after 2000 (child main character)

Hi team! I’m starting We’ll Never Be Apart, which can count for the protagonist born after 2000 I think. She is 17 and the book was published this year. Or new author.

I can also read my 3 children’s books today. Not sure how much reading I’ll get done over there the holidays though. I’m having a bit of a songwriting phase so spending more of my free time on that rather than reading.

Super excited to start this! I’ve been in a slight reading slump due to finals but this readathon will hopefully help me finish the year strong.

I made a new copy of Emily's amazing spreadsheet and updated it for our use! This way we can upload all our books that fit for each prompt.

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

Reading The Great Gatsby which would fit for #5 "reject" prompt. Book made into a movie. Thanks for posting the spreadsheet Diana.

How do, team!

I started this morning with a book I borrowed from the library yesterday, 'Ashfall' by Mike Mullin (almost finished) after that I'll probably finish one of the several books I've already started.

Qu: do we actually have to be tacking part in ATY2018 to do item 22 or can we count books that meet one of the challenges anyway?

I’m fine with people reading books that would count for a prompt, even if they aren’t technically counting it as part of their personal challenge. Especially since many are finished with the challenge.

Keep in mind that the read-a-thon goes until the 1st so there’s potential for counting a book for the 2019 challenge. If you finish it on the 1st :)

Thanks for the clarification, Laura. I will relook at my books to see if any of them fit prompts. Also, I hadn't thought about having this go through January 1, so I could read something I have been putting off reading until the new year.

I'm currently reading:
-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which works for 7 or 23
-Methuselah which works for 8 or 23
-The Solace of Water which works for 4 or 23
-The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness which works for 8, 11, 12, 20, or 23
-Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History which works for 11, 12, 20, or 23

I know some of these tasks have already been covered so the pages read from the books will count for tasks 1, 6, and 9.
I'm also listening to the audiobook of Maybe Someday which is 10 hours and 40 minutes long so that will count for my hours for tasks 14 and 15.

Completed The Great Gatsby . Will use this for #5 a rejected prompt. (book made into a movie) It has a blue cover, but it looks like someone else can check that box.

This can also count as a ATY challenge book (book with A,T,Y in the title). 111 pages of this were read today and can count for the readathon.

Recorded on Diana's spreadsheet.

I read 3 children’s books today:Baby Loves Quantum Physics, Sheep in a Shop, and Chu’s Day at the Beach.

Off to a great start, thanks everybody! Diana, thanks for copying the spreadsheet for us.

We have a number of categories covered or pending. We still need:

Read a book with snow or ice on the cover

Read a book with S-N-O-W in the title

Read a book with a beautiful cover (pretty subjective so shouldn't be too hard. haha)

I completed #16. I read Gone Rogue today.

324 pages total for today.

I think The Girl in the Ice would count for snow and ice on the cover. There is ice on her face. Let me know if you agree.

Are we highlighting the completed prompts to differentiate them?

The blue coloring indicates uncompleted books while normal black is completed (as according to Emily’s notes on the bottom).

I’m also reading How to Survive in a Science Fiction Universe, which would count for S-N-O-W

Mindy, let me know which squares your team completed on Saturday and I can update your board.

I know you have the spreadsheet but I don't want to assume anything.

Hi everyone. I'm excited for the read a thon but will be reading less than usual since I'm visiting family for the holidays. I'm reading a non - fiction book set in another country that's from a library, so any of those prompts are still open when I finish, we can slot it in.

I did read a picture book yesterday.

Yesterday I read my library book, Ashfall, and some of Mortal Engines. 503 pages in total.

Laura, do you want me to post updates here or should I send you a message? Or something else?

You’re fine to just comment here. Usually leaders just say “we cleared #x and #x”

Good Morning Team,

It looks like we should have several squares uncovered. What a great start!

Finished all we ever wanted this morning. One of its main characters is a teenager which covers #7 "main character born after 2000" It also can count for a ATY prompt... book published in 2018. It adds 278 pages to my page count. I have recorded those in the spreadsheet.

Now I really need to get to wrapping presents!

Mindy,

Would it help if we yellow highlighted squares on the grid when a task has been completed?

Joan, yes, totally agree for Girl in the Ice, thank you.

Laura, I've confirmed that as of this writing, Team 1 has completed tasks 4, 5, 7, 11, 16, and 21.

Hi Edie,

I think I can keep track okay with the blue vs black text, but I'm not opposed to highlighting if that's helpful to others. :-) Thanks!

I completely forgot the start of the read-a-thon 😳
I will have more time to read starting tuesday, will be in the car to competitions on 4 days.

I completed Maybe Someday 10 hours and 40 minutes audiobook
I finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 197 pages
I also completed the Kickoff and the Grinch Book Tag games for task 17.

Great, Tabitha. I've added your achievements to our spreadsheet. I counted Maybe Someday as fitting the reject prompt "A fiction or nonfiction book where music plays a part in the story". Let me know if that's off. Thanks!

Hi Laura,

At the end of day 2, we've completed tasks 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 16 and 21.

Also, will you please copy our spreadsheet link into the top post?

Thanks!

The board has been updated and the spreadsheet link is at the bottom of the first post :)

I think the title for 1,2,7,8 is (view spoiler)[One Hundred Years of Solitude (hide spoiler)]

Mindy, I think for the math to work on the spreadsheet, you have to use whole numbers. It might work with decimals, like 3.75 but it can't total entries with hours and minutes as part of the cell. Also there is a limit of 5 hours per person for #14 and 9 hours for #15.

I've read a few shorter stories over the past two days, and have some others already selected and ready to go while I'm on my (first) holiday trip. Once I get home tomorrow I'll go through and start selecting things specifically to fill out spots.

So the books so far are (view spoiler)[ One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende; Don Quixote, Cervantes; Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges

Connection all originally written in Spanish/by Spanish writers? (hide spoiler)]

Edie, thanks, I've corrected the fields. I guess it's obvious who's new to this.

Mini -- I like it! Should we wait to reveal more squares to make a guess? Not sure how that part works.

Mindy

Has anyone tried today's game, Hidden Books? Seems like a toughie.

I tried Hidden Books... and actually got one.

Mini wrote: "So the books so far are One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende; Don Quixote, Cervantes; Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges

Connection all originally ..."

Wow, great work figuring these out. Yeah Team 1

Mindy wrote: "Mini -- I like it! Should we wait to reveal more squares to make a guess? Not sure how that part works.

Mindy"

I don't know how that part works either. Is there a penalty for wrong guesses?

Mindy wrote: "Has anyone tried today's game, Hidden Books? Seems like a toughie."

I've got 5 so far: (view spoiler)[RIP Fluffy is 'Pet Sematary'; Crunchem Hall is 'Matilda'; Hispaniola Ferry is 'Treasure Island'; The Shire is 'The Hobbit'; Corvus Street is 'The Crow Road' (hide spoiler)]

ETA and (view spoiler)[Keep Smiling is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (hide spoiler)]

Mini wrote: "Mindy wrote: "Mini -- I like it! Should we wait to reveal more squares to make a guess? Not sure how that part works.

Mindy"

I don't know how that part works either. Is there a penalty for wrong ..."

In the past there hasn't been a penalty for wrong guesses... the team keeps identifying titles until they get them all right. The Moderator weighs in and lets the team know when they are correct, leaving the spoilers in place so those who want to figure it out can do so.

We've completed 2 more tasks, #19 and #22.

I won't be around tomorrow so I'll wish everyone who celebrates it a Merry Christmas. I'll be back and rarin to go Wednesday.

I’m about to go on vacation, but I’ll be reading Man’s Search for Meaning which works for the nonfiction prompt/blue cover prompt and A Man Called Ove for the different country setting.

Merry Christmas everyone! The board has been updated :)

If 2 hasn't been completed yet, I finished The Arctic Incident which has ice on it.

I think box #19 revels (view spoiler)[Kiss of the Spider Woman (hide spoiler)] whish I don't think fits my connecting theme guess :-/