Drop Everything And Read discussion

“Sᴛᴏʀɪᴇs ᴏғ ɪᴍᴀɢɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛᴇɴᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴜᴘsᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ ᴏɴᴇ.”
― Tᴇʀʀʏ Pʀᴀᴛᴄʜᴇᴛᴛ

♚ Aqsa ~ Captain
♚ Jess
♚ Anna
♚ Greta
♚ Mari

Points thread

Get-Away Pool (used to directly complete any row, column, or diagonal without having to read all the five books in the row/column/diagonal - can only be used twice)

• David Copperfield
• The Outsider
• Animal Farm

For information on the BINGO Challenge, click here

For information on the Spell-the-Word Challenge, click here

What If It's Us
The Hate U Give
Heartless
Only Time Will Tell
To Kill a Mockingbird
All the Light We Cannot See
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Girl on the Train

For information on the Book Pool Challenge, click here

Hey guys! Thanks, Hallie :)

Hi team :)

Hey Jess!

Hello! :)

Helloo!!

So who's as excited as me?

heeey! this is so cool.

I have a question- should I add English or Lithuanian titles?

i guess you could do either

Yes, either :)

So listen everyone, when you read a book come to this thread:

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

It's important that you stick to the format given there. I'll update it then in the team's progress.

The Mini challenges will start in 2 weeks, so we have time to read random books. They will go in Free Reading.

cool thanks!

any book recommendations to start the challenge with?

It's upto you. Which genre would u prefer?

Where are Jess and Anna?

anything YA except science fiction usually, i enjoy a lot poetry too

Here are some I enjoyed:

An Ember in the Ashes
Spinning Silver
Heartless
I Am the Messenger
The Night Circus
One of Us Is Lying

All of these 5 stars. Let me know if u prefer romance too.

I finished a book!

thanks for the recs! and congrats for finishing a book! which one was it?

I finished one too. I don`t know anything about the other Aqsa`s recommendations, but The Night Circus is truly magical :)

mari wrote: "thanks for the recs! and congrats for finishing a book! which one was it?"

Sawkill Girls :)

Greta wrote: "I finished one too. I don`t know anything about the other Aqsa`s recommendations, but The Night Circus is truly magical :)"

Yes it really is. You finished one? Did you mark in the points thread?

I saw that you did :)

Hey i'm back! sorry i was absent, i was sick and had to deal with some problems but i'm here now

Btw, does The Wide Window count? because i'm going to finish it today

oh, and i dnfed a book today called Commander in Chief and i was 205 pages through it when i decided to put it down.

Sorry. I'm here. I finished a book yesterday so I'll go ahead and add it

AnnaNeverLands wrote: "Hey i'm back! sorry i was absent, i was sick and had to deal with some problems but i'm here now"

I hope you're better now. Welcome back :)

AnnaNeverLands wrote: "Btw, does The Wide Window count? because i'm going to finish it today"

If it has more than 100 pages :)

Jess wrote: "Sorry. I'm here. I finished a book yesterday so I'll go ahead and add it"

I really loved that book. Did you enjoy?

Aqsa wrote: "Jess wrote: "Sorry. I'm here. I finished a book yesterday so I'll go ahead and add it"

I really loved that book. Did you enjoy?"

I enjoyed it for the most part but wasn't really satisfied by the ending.

(view spoiler)[I would have liked to have known more about this rehabilitation scheme. Who were the Plague Doctors? Are they from the future? Is Blackheath real or part of some virtual world? Why did they think that solving a murder means that you are rehabilitated to rejoin society (hide spoiler)] I think it could have been better explained.

I think:

(view spoiler)[Blackheath was real and in the past. The case was never solved. The plague Doctors are like jailers. Rehabilitation that way meant that the person had to be firt willing to help and willing to be better for them to solve the said cases, I'm not sure but it did seem like our protagonist couldnt have solved if he didn't have good intentions. This s weak but idk. I'd like the answer to this last question. (hide spoiler)]

hey! what happens if i'v read a book that is less than a hundred pages, it doesn't count?

mari wrote: "hey! what happens if i'v read a book that is less than a hundred pages, it doesn't count?"

I'm afraid it doesn't :/

I just read two that were under 100 and it sucks, huh?

so sad hahaha but it's okay

thanks :)

:)

Hey guys!

See this: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Which one do you want first?

We'll vote (right here)! Or should we have them simultaneously?

I vote for Simultaneously!

I think Simultaneously as well. That will give us the most options. But maybe we should focus on book pool first as that calls for specific books so we might need time to get them.

I don't mind, i'm fine with whatever it is that you guys prefer!

Alright, we shall go for them all together. They'll be up soon. I'll discuss how we'll go about them once they start :)

Just to confirm: You're doing all three challenges simultaneously, aren't you?

Hallie wrote: "Just to confirm: You're doing all three challenges simultaneously, aren't you?"

Yes :) We'll look at them together, but we'll have till end of March anyway, right?

Yes :)

Your challenges are up here:
• BINGO
• Spell-the-Word
• Book Pool

Enjoy!

Hallie, I wanna ask if one book can be used for more than one challenge?