September Read-a-Thon Summaries

[Ann A]

Dee asked me to put up the summary thread, as she is participating in a triathlon today (go, Dee!)

Did you meet your goals? How many books/pages/hours did you read? What were your favorite books?

[Ann A]

Here is my summary:

Books started earlier and finished during the RAT:
It
Quo Vadis
Awakenings
The Lost Art of Gratitude

Still in progress:
Devil's Trill
Great American Speeches
A Bend in the River

Total pages read : 1007

My goal was to finish the 5 books I had started earlier, and I did finish 4, so I'm fairly happy with that. Awakenings was very interesting, and The Lost Art of Gratitude was a pleasant read (as A.M. Smith's novels always are) - can't say I LOVED any of the books I read this week.

Great job, everyone!

[Anne]

I did meet my goals. I got 6 books completed, and I have a real possibility of finishing another yet today (only about 200 pages left out of around 780). The best book I completed was Shades of Grey, which is a really odd dystopian novel that reminded me at times of a mixture of The Giver, Brave New World, and 1984, yet it was still original somehow. Dombey & Son is a really well-written and interesting book, but I can't quite say I loved it. It was definitely worth reading, though, and I'm glad I finally finished it. It's around 1000 pages long, so I've been reading it for a long time. I am also enjoying The Gathering Storm a lot.

Summary:

Books finished: 6 (2 were begun before the readathon)
Still in progress: 3
Hours read: about 23
Hours listened: 16
Pages read: 1503

[Bec]

Well, I certainly did a lot better than I was planning, my goal was to read five books during the read-a-thon, including one classic, Carmilla and one nonfiction, Immediate Action. I managed to read 7 books. I also read all of the books that were on my list. I've never read this much in a week before, a good reading week is usually finishing 3 books, not 7! I think it came from having two very interesting series to read.

My favourite book would have to have been Trophy Hunt. My least favourite Immediate Action, it could have been a great book if it was 200 pages shorter.

Completed reads:

Pay Off 240
Carmilla 115
Ultimate Weapon 506
Force Of Nature 385
Immediate Action 512
Trophy Hunt 352
Dead and Gone 312

Total pages read - 2422

[Dee]

Congrats guys! It looks like you all had an awesome read-a-thon!

[Amy]

Here is what I completed

Audiobooks:
In progress at the start of RAT and completed:
Last two disks of Faceless Killers (35 pages)
Last ten disks of Live To Tell (360 pages)
Last six disks of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (208 pages)

Listened to in their entirety:
So Cold the River (528 pages)
Sold (263 pages)
The Last Lecture (206 pages)

Books completed:
Locke and Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom: last 100 pages
The Cold Cold Ground (320 pages)

Books started and still in progress:
The Light Between Oceans – 90 pages
The Orphan Master's Son - 38 pages

Total pages: 2148

[Ava Catherine]

Completed 9 books this week:

1. The Obituary Writer: 292 pages
2. Half Broke Horses: 272 pages
3. The Mysteries of Udolpho: 654 pages
4. Into the Wild: 207 pages
5. Monkey Bridge: 272 pages
6. Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own: 256 pages
7. Good Old Boy: 156 pages
8. The Circus Fire: a True Story: 370 pages
9. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: 416 pages

Total pages 2,895

[Nancy H]

I read over 2,000 pages (my page goal) and I finished 6 books and have two in progress, as well as two e-books that I didn't even mention because I literally just started them, with a few pages in each. My BIG accomplishment, however, was that I finished a 800+ page book that has been lingering on my TBR stack since I first picked it up back in May! It turned out to be really good, so I don't know why I waited but this RAT was just the push I needed to get back to it. Overall I am very satisfied with this RAT, and am looking forward to the next one!

Total pages during RAT: 2,082

Books finished:
In Like Flynn
The Summer Book
Texas Two Step
The Potato Factory
Come Fly With Me
The Paris Wife

Books in progress:
Just In Time
The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog

[Dee]

Congrats Nancy - did u end up enjoying the potato factory?

[Nancy H]

Dee wrote: "Congrats Nancy - did u end up enjoying the potato factory?"

Yes, I really, really liked it once I got into it. I thought it started out a bit slowly, but then when I got into it, I couldn't stop reading it. When I posted my review on here, I also discovered that there are two sequels, which I will definitely be reading. (although I have some other stuff to read first before I get into another long one!)