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Day 6 ReportWell-Schooled in Murder - 27 pgs, Finished
The Sense of an Ending - 93 pgs, Finished
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading - 66 pgs
The Moonstone - 14 pgs
Total for Day 6: 200 pgs
Running total: 611 pages
At the end of the readathon:Books finished:
Die Jagd (Das Tal Season 2, #3) (264 pages)
Paper Towns (332 pages)
Soulless (357 pages)
Hidden (336 pages)
Cinder (387 pages)
Books in progess:
Scarlet (45 pages)
Pages read: 1.721 pages
I got more done in previous marathons, but I am quite happy with my results.
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Nono, I am in Germany and started Saturday morning... now it is Saturday here again...
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It is 1 now. I am sorry for messing up the schedule. I always started tge readathons at midnight and stopped them at midnight. Same with my daily page count.
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Nadine wrote: "At the end of the readathon:Books finished:
Die Jagd (Das Tal Season 2, #3) (264 pages)
Paper Towns (332 pages)
Soulless (357 pages)
Hidden (336 pages)
Cinder (387 pages)
Books in progess:
Scar..."
Way to go, Nadine! Looks like you had a great Read-a-thon!
I'm going to read as much as possible in my last 15 hours...
Yeah sorry for confusing. :-) For the first time I read one book after the other, I usually read some 50 pages here then some 50 pages there during the readathon. And I have to say I like the new way much better. I might have to think about my general reading habits ;-)
I am reading the second part of Cinder now and like it too, although it isn't as easy to get into as Cinder was. I do love the way there are hints to the all known fairy tales, but she made something very new from it. Also some bits are completely different (would spoiler too much to explain, but I like that she manages to surprise me.
And yay, enjoy your final hors of the readathon! For me the last day was a bit slow reading wise, I also fell asleep in the evening, I think due to some nights in which I couldn't put my books down during the week.
If you count the book I finished about an hour after my time was up, then I met all my goals. I finished 5 library books, finished 4 books that had been on my currently reading list a long time, and made progress on some challenges. It was by far my most successful readathon.Completed:
1.Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (listened 11.5 hours= last 250 pages)
2.Triple Shot, Double Pump, No Whip Zits: A ZITS Treasury (208 pages)
3.The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (184 pages)
4.Libriomancer- (last 247 pages)
5.Whispers Under Ground (last 259 pages)
6.The Death of the Necromancer- 58 pages during readathon, final 53 pages right after time was up for me
Begun before Readathon, still reading:
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman- listened for 7.5 hours (about 210 pages)
Started during Read-a-thon, still reading:
1.Assassination Vacation 28 pages
Total pages: 1444
Updatedfinished
180 pages read
377 pages
149 pages
371 pages
496 pagesFinished-1
Read-4
Pages-1,573
Anne wrote: "If you count the book I finished about an hour after my time was up, then I met all my goals. I finished 5 library books, finished 4 books that had been on my currently reading list a long time, a..."You did good Annie! Doesn't it feel good when you finish with so many done?
Tracy wrote: "You did good Annie! Doesn't it feel good when you finish with so many done? "It does feel good :) I really needed that readathon, and it was great that it nicely coincided with a slow week at work. I had more free time than usual, and I took full advantage of it to get a little caught up. I'm still 11 books behind if I want to get to 100 this year, but finishing 6 books in a week certainly helps in my efforts. Mixing a few fun, quick reads in with my more serious works made it a rather enjoyable week of reading.
It looks like you did great as well.
Day 7 ReportTolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading - 20 pages, finished
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland - 111 pgs
The Moonstone - 28 pgs
The Silver Linings Playbook - 44 pgs
Total for Day 7: 203 pgs
Grand total: 814 pages
Something seems to have happened to Goodreads since yesterday. I had a difficult time adding two of my links here - the only way it could find the books was when I copied and pasted the ISBN numbers from my currently-reading shelf. Weird...
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with my results. I would like to have gotten to 1000 pages, but I did finish 3 out of the 5 books I had in progress, and made some good headway on the other 2. Also started 1 new one.
Way to go, Anne and Tracy!
Finally got time to sit down at the computer and post my final tally.Since my last post I finished:
Orleans : 324 pages
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Chocolat : 306 pages
Final totals-
Books Read: 4 1/2
Pages Read: 1,542
Not as good as I wanted it to be, but a migraine yesterday really knocked me back.
It's been fun! Great job everyone!!
Here is what I read during the read-a-thon:My Secret History - last 405 pgs.
Once We Were Brothers - first 46 pgs.
Audiobooks
Shella 240 pages
Suspect 320 pages
The Dog Who Knew Too Much last three disks - 112 pages
Still listening to:
Ready Player One - 4 disks so far (115 pages)
Die For Me (Romantic Suspense, #7) - first 12 disks (412 pages)
Total pages: 1650
Day 1 - The Sour Cherry Surprise - 75p.Day 2 - Finished -
-83p.Started: If Fried Chicken Could Fly - 24p.
Continued reading: The Potato Factory - 56p.
Continued reading: The You I Never Knew- 60 p.
Day 3: Finished
- 272p.Finished:
- 421p.Continued reading: The Potato Factory - 30p.
Day 4: Finished reading:
- 207p.Continued reading: The Potato Factory - 50 p.
Started: Confessions of a Lingerie Addict - 28p.
Started: Some Like It Hot-Buttered - 18p.
Started: Troubles and Treats- 10p.
Day 5: Continued reading: Confessions of a Lingerie Addict - 244p.
Day 6: Finished:
- 100p.Continued reading: The Potato Factory - 80p.
Continued reading: Some Like It Hot-Buttered - 26p.
Started: Mozart's Last Aria - 13p.
Started: Mortar and Murder - 56p.
Final Day: I didn't get as much reading time as I had hoped because of having company (they were fun, though, so it really wasn't a problem!):
Finished:
- 253p.Continued reading: Troubles and Treats - 78p.
Total pages for Read-a-thon: 2,184
I did meet both my goals: to finish at least 5 books and to read at least 2,000 pages: I finished 6 books and read 2,184 pages. I am very happy with my progress this week.
I had to work yesterday so I'm just not getting my totals up here for the past couple days :PFriday, May 24
Books Read: 0
Progress Made on Books: Emma (9 pages), The Great Gatsby (44 pages)
Pages Read: 53 pages
Hours Spent Reading: 1 hr
Saturday, May 25
Books Read: 1
Progress Made on Books: The Great Gatsby (138 pages)
Pages Read: 138
Hours Spent Reading: 1 hr 40 min
Overall Total
Number of Books Read (and completed): 5
Number of Pages Read: 878
Number of Books Listened to (and completed): 0
Number of Hours Listened to: 0
Number of Books Half-Finished: 2
Approximate Number of Hours spent doing the Readathon: 19 hours
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Books Read: 2
Progress Made on Books: Carrie (71 pages), The Bungalow Mystery (180 pages), The Great Gatsby (22 pages)
Pages Read: 273
Hours Spent Reading: 4 hr 55 min