Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Roll the dice and see where you land in this team challenge!

EARN ROLLS
For each book completed, the team must have at least 500 pages read OR 10 hours of audio listened in order to claim the prompt as completed. Your spreadsheet will keep track of rolls earned and used.

CLUE
- A book set in large house or mansion
- A book that includes a murder
- A book with a weapon of any kind on cover
- A book whose cover is predominantly white, green, mustard yellow, plum, peacock blue, or scarlet
- A book with a character that makes some kind of mistake

PARCHEESI
- A book set in India
- A book that contains a royal character
- A book whose page count contains any combination of 2, 3, and 4
- A book that has circle, square, cube, or cross shape on cover
- A book with a two-word title

RISK
- A book that takes place in at least 2 countries
- A book where war is involved
- A book with 2 or more authors
- A book with a character that takes a risk of any kind
- A book with a character who is military or ex-military

GAME OF LIFE
- A book that centers on a family
- A book that's set in school or college
- A book with a character gets or changes job
- A book featuring a wedding or childbirth
- A book with a character of retirement age

TRIVIAL PURSUIT
- A book relating to Science & Nature
- A book relating to History
- A book relating to Sports & Leisure
- A book relating to Entertainment & Arts
- Any nonfiction book

THE TEAM
CAPTAIN: Kat
CAPTAIN: Charlsa
Rose
Roxana
Christene Paula
Sue
Ellie
Caitlin

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

what up team doggos! 🐶

Hi team, it's Saturday morning here and I'm about to head out for a very busy weekend, but have got a bit of reading in so far, and have added my current reads to the worksheet. Happy reading everyone from sunny Western Australia!

Hi everyone, I just looked at the list and have several books that are currently on loan from libraries or sitting in my own TBR stack that will fit several of these prompts.

I'm looking forward to reading or listening with you all!

Happy Readathon! Good luck with your reading and let us know if you have any questions.

Kat wrote: "Happy Readathon! Good luck with your reading and let us know if you have any questions."

Can I admit I'm amused that someone named Kat is captaining Team Dog? 😆

I've added a number of my books to the spreadsheet but I have more options I might pick and choose from depending on which prompts turn out to need more help as we continue. I saved a few novellas for this week, haha.

Hi everyone checking in

Currently reading:
entered it on the ss

No idea. Do we have to roll the dice first before getting a prompts or the other way around.

I hadn't thought about the Kat/Dog thing. I always play as the dog so I was just so excited to be in this group. (It's uncanny how the mods always seem to put me in the group with the name I like the most)

Usually in a readathon I spend the first few days reading whatever I want or had already planned and slotting it into what ever prompt makes the most sense. This years I've used it as the push to catch up on the regular ATY challenge. Later in the week I start to see what prompts need completing and find a book that works. There are always a couple of prompts that are harder to fill.

Good morning Team Dog!

@Christine Paula We can't complete a prompt until we have a roll. It's structured like this to slow us down a bit as past readathons teams would finish their challenge far too early. However it looks like the spreadsheet is set up so we can slot the books in prompts as we finish and allocate the rolls as we get them.

Ellie wrote: "Good morning Team Dog!

@Christine Paula We can't complete a prompt until we have a roll. It's structured like this to slow us down a bit as past readathons teams would finish their challenge far ..."

Oh thank you Ellie for the clarification. :)

I've finished Gwen & Art Are Not in Love which was super fun and cute. I've put it down against weapon on cover (one of them has a sword) but also works for royalty or 2, 3 and 4 in page count.

Hello, Team Dog! Excited to be here since this is my go-to Monopoly piece. ;-)
Currently reading a whole mess of things, so hopefully I can finish lots this week.

I finished both The All of It and The River We Remember.

Mod Note: Pages read and hours listened are working a bit differently this Read-a-Thon. You must accrue "rolls" in order to officially fill prompts - which means each prompt read needs one book and one roll in order to mark it as completed. You earn rolls by reading 500 pages or 10 audio hours as a team. You assign rolls by marking a "1" in the Rolls Used column next to the prompt. This will tally on the Rolls tab on your spreadsheet, so you can keep track of how many rolls you have available and how many you have used. If you have any questions, please post on the Team Challenge Intro and FAQs thread!

Emily, thanks for the clarification about how the rolls work!

Team- we've got 2 rolls so far (I suspect most of us will be putting in our daily pages at the end of the day (time zones dependent of course), I know I will anyway, lol, so I imagine we'll have more by tomorrow) so I went ahead and put those in for two of the prompts we already completed with books, if that's okay with everyone?

Oh, and I finished two books today, forgot to include that. The Hike, which I put down for sports & leisure, was a fun thriller set in Norway, about a group of friends who frankly should take mountain hiking a little more seriously, lol. The other one was The Salt Grows Heavy, I put it for the Clue colors prompt; a weird, creepy novella (barely long enough to count for this readathon, but it just made it!), which I...liked? but not quite as much as the author's previous novella.

I've only just updated the spreadsheet as I fell asleep reading. I finished The Love Hypothesis and have put it against Science and Nature.

There are a couple of books on the Completed tab that haven't been assigned to a prompt if you want to slot them in somewhere.

I completed one book today — Mammoths at the Gates, which fits a few different prompts. I put it under complete but didn’t plug it in anywhere yet. If anyone wants to, please feel free. =)

I am on my phone so don't want to risk editing formulas, but our roll tracking doesn't seem right. We've accrued and used 5 rolls at the moment as of Sunday morning.

Thanks for pointing out that Ellie, I think it's fixed now.

I've put Mammoths at the Gates down for related to History. There seem to be lots of books that could work for risks or mistakes. We can always move things around later if needed.

Mod Note: (Hopefully this is the last one lol) I have lowered the requirements to earn rolls. It is now at 400 pages or 6 hours of audio. Your spreadsheets have already been updated!

I just completed Now Is Not the Time to Panic. I won't finish anything else today as I'm reading a longer book this time although I am well into it.

I was too sleepy to finish my current read yesterday so I'll hopefully fit it into my lunch break.

I had a lot of interruptions yesterday, so didn't read as much of Happy Place as I'd hoped. I'll try and do some audiobook listening today, and it's my partner's D&D night so I can read peacefully after 7!

I've finished my second book Bullet Train. It took me a bit longer than I anticipated but hopefully my next couple of reads will quicker.

Finished The Secret Place last night and added it to the "set in a school" prompt. I should be finishing In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology today, too, I think I've got about an hour left of it.

On that note, I wanted to ask what the group thinks about using a collection of short stories, where not all stories fit a given prompt? For example, at least one of the stories in Hallowed Halls is set in a large house, but not all of them, so would that make it count for the house prompt? Or do you think it needs to be present in all the stories, or at least half the stories, or anything like that? (Might be a moot point, because it *definitely* fits "more than one author", and that might be a more needed prompt, haha)

I interpet it as the whole book or at least a majority should be set in a large house. But prompts are always open to personal interpretation.

My current audiobook is set in a castle which is nothing more than a big old house, and hopefully I'll finish that today, or if not definitely tomorrow. So you might want to use it for multiple authors instead. The other book on the plans for that one a graphic novel I have lined up, but I wasn't sure if illustrator really counted as a second author!

I did finish In These Hallowed Halls earlier today, though I wasn't able to get over to goodreads til now, and I've put it on multiple authors :) thanks for the feedback!

Any recommendations for a book set in India?

The Covenant of Water though it's a long book, I heard a lot of good reviews about this book

I finally finished a book! Telling Tales. I have coded it under "a book with a character who gets or changes job". I should also finish my audiobook today, and then will press on with my 600+ page classic (less than 300 to go), and will start another audiobook. Impressed with how much you are all reading!

Kat wrote: "Any recommendations for a book set in India?"

I have a copy of The Covenant of Water which I am very keen to read but it is very long, so I might start The Siege of Krishnapur for the "set in India" prompt. It won the Booker Prize back in 1973, and I just picked it up at a booksale on Sunday!

I have finished Happy Place for wedding/childbirth.

I was going to read The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel next but I can have a look for something set in multiple countries if it's needed. There's nothing on the plan for it yet.

Ellie wrote: "I was going to read The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel next but I can have a look for something set in multiple countries if it's needed. There's nothing on the plan for it yet."
Actually, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is set in 2 countries - I didn't know that when I started reading it, and will try to finish it today

I finished a re-read of one of my all-time favorite books, Gaudy Night. I also finished The Prisoner of Heaven which completes the trilogy.

Hello everyone! Popping in to say I’ve joined (a tad late!). I’m in the process of reading Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Should have both done by the weekend.

Charlsa wrote: "I finished a re-read of one of my all-time favorite books, Gaudy Night. I also finished The Prisoner of Heaven which completes the trilogy."

Charlsa, I love Gaudy Night so much! recently reread it, too, but having just reread To Say Nothing of the Dog (which refers to Gaudy Night extensively) put me in the mood to reread it yet again...

I have finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and coded it as a book that takes place in at least 2 countries. It will be a couple of days before I can finish anything else!

Welcome to the gang Caitllin.
I woke up ridiculously early so managed to finish my third book which works for large house or mansion.
I've updated some bits on the spreadsheet so we have now read enough books to complete Clue and Game of Life. Only 4 prompts left for round 1!

Kat wrote: "Welcome to the gang Caitllin.
I woke up ridiculously early so managed to finish my third book which works for large house or mansion.
I've updated some bits on the spreadsheet so we have now read..."

Thank you! Bit of a board game nut so really didn't want to miss the theme of this one.

Kat wrote: "I've updated some bits on the spreadsheet so we have now read enough books to complete Clue and Game of Life...."

Woohoo! Although who did the murder? Was it Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick? 😁

I finished my audiobook of The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, and put it on the final Risk prompt for when we have enough rolls. But if we want to do a second round of Clue, you can move it to a large house as I think most books fit that risk prompt!

We can always play around later in the week if needed. I hadn't noticed before this week how many of the books I read have people making mistakes or taking risks.

Kat wrote: "We can always play around later in the week if needed. I hadn't noticed before this week how many of the books I read have people making mistakes or taking risks."

Agreed, I think both of those have been true of every book I've read or planned so far, haha.

The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel done, it was a pretty good adaptation, though felt a bit rushed at the end. Feel I need something cheery to counteract it now!

Roxana wrote: "Charlsa wrote: "I finished a re-read of one of my all-time favorite books, Gaudy Night. I also finished The Prisoner of Heaven which completes the trilogy."

Charlsa, I..."

I've probably read it 15 times over the last 30 years. I didn't know To Say Nothing of the Dog had so many references to it until I read it fairly recently.

I didn't finish anything today, but I made it about 3/4 of the way through an audiobook.