Christian Fiction Bloggers discussion

Team One

Staci
Sarita
Yannick Tricia
Megan
Davina
Andrea

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Challenge starts: 1/25/2021
Challenge ends: when a team completes five boards

-Books must be at least 200 pages
-No picture books, graphic novels, cookbooks...basically anything with little words and majority pictures
-Books must be started on or after challenge start date

Countdown to start of challenge: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Yeah team. Looking forward to this! I am on vacation till Feb 2nd (won’t stop my reading) so I will post my books read when I’m back!

Sarita wrote: "Yeah team. Looking forward to this! I am on vacation till Feb 2nd (won’t stop my reading) so I will post my books read when I’m back!"

I hope you are enjoying your vacation. :)

Hello team!!

Hi! I'm excited :).

Hi team. :)

I just wanted to note that I noticed a typo in my board - I missed the E and added K. I don't know how I did that, but it is now fixed. Letters are A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J. So sorry about that. I feel so silly not to have noticed it sooner. :p

Hi, team! Melanie just added me. What’s our strategy and where do I need to help? So excited!

Welcome Andrea! We actually haven’t discussed strategy yet. I was just thinking reading as much as possible to get a chance at a lot of board pins :-)

What is your ideas?

Maybe try a checkerboard pattern until we find some hits? That usually works pretty well. We could do it from two different corners, since there are so many of us, if we like.

I’m open to other ideas too, of course.

I should have my first book done tonight. I hit a really great audio today that I’m blazing through. Such a tough story, but it’s deep and emotional, which is exactly what I love. The Feathered Bone

That book sounds so good!! adding it to my wishlist :)

It does feature suicide, to let you know. I wasn’t expecting that.

Ooh I loved The Feathered Bone! I've had the pleasure of meeting the author and hearing her speak. Very talented.

First review posted!

Great job, Staci!

Fantastic guess, Staci! It was a hit!

So exciting!

Do we want to all focus on uncovering the rest of this first ship or search for a second one? Either way works. I'm just trying to decide what to do when I finish my book tonight and would love y'all's input.

Good question. I lean toward searching for the next one, but don’t have strong feelings about it.

Sounds great. Thanks for the thoughts, Staci. I'm heading over to post my book.

I’m also keen on everyone searching for the next ship - how many ships are on one board again?

Hope to have 2, maybe 3 books to post on Wednesday when I’m back from vacation.

Ooh! I hope you're having a nice vacation, Sarita. There are five ships on each board.

My guess of A-2 was a miss, but Staci's on a roll with two straight hits.

I have a few books I can't count coming up (started them before 1/25), but I'll keep starting new ones that I will be able to count as well. I usually have many books going at once. It's just a bit of a transition over here as I finish up some titles for other challenges. So my reading pace might pick up a bit in a few days to a week.

No prob! I also have a few books going at once.

Vacation is nice - our beaches are still closed but at least we can walk and can jog along the beach road and the change in scenery is always nice!

I didn't have any work hours today, so I cruised through two audiobooks at 2.5x speed. Karen Kingsbury's 9/11 series is so emotional! I really enjoyed it. I didn't think the latter two books would be able to hold a candle to the first one, which blew me away both times I read it, but book #3 (Every Now and Then) was just as good.

How's your reading coming heading into the weekend?

I loved that series!

I’m about 70% done with my one book, so should be done after the weekend. Hopefully will be done with the other one by Wednesday. It is Opening Moves from Steven James - so good and fast pace but creepy so try to not read too much of that at once.

Ooh. I recently read a book that I had to take breaks from for that same reason. I hope the rest of the book goes okay for you, and that you have a light and happy book to read next.

Yes, my other book is a light read 😊

So glad you found balance there. I did that too. After my creepy read, I chose a Melissa Tagg book. ☺️

Audios are helping me cruise at a good clip right now. Which book format do y'all prefer?

My preference is paperback, but I read Kindle and audio as well. I'm such a moody reader, so I often go with my mood on which format I choose on any given day.

Posted another book. :) Hoping to cruise through another audiobook tomorrow after church.

If I had unlimited funds and reading time - paperback for sure. But 90% of my books is kindle and then audiobooks! For some reason I was against audiobooks for a while, then tried one and found it a great option especially during boring work tasks. I recently Remembered as a child I also listened a lot to tapes. The only thing I find with audiobooks is that I sometimes miss part of the story’s details when I get focused on something else.

Yes! Books on tape were a childhood staple for me. I never thought of them as audiobooks, because we always called them books on tape, until just a few years ago when I was reminiscing about them.

I know what you mean about missing some details. That happens to me sometimes too. But I love that I can listen while doing chores around the house.

That unlimited funds thing sounds great. Let me know when you find that mysterious money tree! Hehe.

Hello all! I very rarely listen to audio books. I've listened to a couple on road trips over the past 10-15 years so not often at all. However, I did just this month start listening to Little Women via audio book as I thought that might be an easier way to stay with it. May continue on with classics.

I like physical and Kindle books equally. Wouldn't say I prefer one over the other.

Sarita, hope your vacation and birthday have been spectacular!

Happy birthday, Sarita!

Staci, that’s a great way to explore more classic books. Enjoy!

I have six books waiting to be checked. I'm trying for another one or two today.

Thank you @Andrea

@Staci - our final two nights away. Just sad beaches was closed. Some rules don’t make sense. We are not allowed to go to beaches which is outside and lots of space but we can go to restaurants and malls. Anyway - we could take walks on beach boardwalks and watch the waves which is always good for the soul!

I love listening to classics on audio

I'm sorry the beaches were closed. None of the covid-19 regulations make sense to me, and they're usually all used hypocritically. I'm so ready for the restrictions to all be lifted and allow us to live in freedom again.

I'm glad you've been able to find some fun things to do despite the closures. Hopefully there are some unique and enjoyable memories you've made.

Checking in on...

Davina, Megan, and Tricia

How is the reading coming along, gals?

Woohoo! First ship has been sunk. :-)

So exciting!

Hey team, I'm sorry I haven't posted yet. I had a crazy week with some personal hardships and it's the last week of the semester in school, so I needed to get the grades in order, etc...
Buuut I think, I can finish my first book tonight or tomorrow and then I have a week off and will be able to read a lot!

Sarita, I'm sorry about the beaches, it really doesn't make sense. We've been in hard lockdown in Austria since Christmas and I just had to cancel our plans for our holidays next week - we wanted to spend time in a little, cozy tree house...would have been perfect, but well, maybe another time.

I'm also listening to a lot of audiobooks these days because of finances. I have a Scribd subscription and love it.
But I also just ordered a few used copies of some classics and can't wait to finally sit down and read them.

I'm currently listening to It's so good. I recommend it very much of you are a homeschooler or educator or mom. Really wonderful!

I’ve also discovered Scribd end last year and love it. So much nicer and cheaper than audible!

Ooh Austria! I would love to visit there someday. Best wishes on final days of the semester.