January 2014 Read-A-Thon

[Charleen]

It is here! The first Read-A-Thon of 2014. Stop by and let us know how you are doing over the next week. Tell us about the books you have read, the good and the bad, especially the bad (so we can avoid them)!

and HAVE FUN!!

[Dee]

I think i'm going to set my goal for this RAT at 1000 pgs, with this weekend being a long weekend, and still being limited on what I can do workout wise, I think its doable...I'll post my books in a little while (when I figure them out)

[Charleen]

I am a mood reader so I can't quite stick to a list of books to read. I would love to clear out my currently reading list but I cant find one of the books! Argh.

I have a long list of books that need to be reviewed so I am going to tackle that.

[Dee]

so do I (review books) - haha

[Nancy H]

I started off well with 107 pages of Girl With No Shadow but alas, real life calls so I will be back later after some more progress this evening. (Sigh)

Hope everyone is busily reading!

[Heather (Heatso)]

Currently Listening:
The Wishing Spell - 6 hours 27 minutes left
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - 4 hours 53 minute left

To Read?:
World After
The Shade of the Moon

January 18th
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - listened to 4 minutes

January 19th
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - listened to 1 hour 7 minutes

January 20th
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - listened to 2 hours 25 minutes

January 21st
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - listened to 1 hour 17 minutes - finished
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - listened to 1 hour 12 minutes

January 22nd
The Next Always - read 5 pages


Total
6 hour 5 minutes and 5 pages

Finished:

[Dee]

Currently Listening:
The Silver Brumby - a classic from my childhood - not sure on time left

Currently Reading:
Spokes
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
Until There Was You

[Joi]

Currently Listening
1. The Lost Hero
2.The Casual Vacancy
3. Tuesdays With Morrie (191 pages 3 hours and 41 minutes)
Currently Reading
1.The Darkest Minds
2. Quiet as It's Kept (60%)
3.House of Secrets
4.Temptation

Day 1

1.Tuesdays With Morrie (191)---Finished
2. Quiet as It's Kept (60% read during TBR) Finished
3.House of Secrets (30 pages)
4.Temptation (39 pages)

Day2
1. Temptation (12 pages)
2.The Darkest Minds (10 pages)
3.The Lost Hero (3 hours)

Day3
1.The Bean Trees (18 pages)
2.The Lost Hero (5 hours)
3.In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis (6 pages)
4.

[Anne]

I would like to finish at least 3 books, and I plan to continue reading Les Miserables and David Copperfield. I also will be starting The Once and Future King since it is group read that I already committed to taking part in but haven't started yet. I also have a large pile of library books waiting to be read. Thus, I will probably jump around from book to book quite a lot. Below is a list of books I plan to read at least portions of during the readathon, although my final list may look quite a bit different.

In progress before readathon:
1.Les Misérables
2.David Copperfield
3.Paladin of Souls
4.The Stepsister Scheme
5.Daughter of the Empire

Begun during readathon:
1.The Once and Future King
2.The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
3.Guilt
4.The Casual Vacancy

[Samantha]

Currently listening
Inferno

Currently Reading
One Breath Away(Just started it today)
Jane Eyre(mostly for bedside reading)
London(my year long project)

[Elizabeth]

I hope to finish 7 books or at lest 5 books.
1.Goddess of the Night by Lynne Ewing Done
2.Into the Cold Fire by Lynne Ewing Done
3. Night Shade by Lynne EwingDone
4. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix Done
5. At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers Done
6. Airman by Eoin Colfer
7.Scent of Butterflies by Dora Levy Mossanen

[Charleen]

I started off with a clean slate for the read-a-ton.

Day 1:
Currently Listening:
Enders

[Samantha McNulty]

Currently Reading:
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

[Joy]

Currently reading Bookmarked For Death by Lorna Barrett. I hope to finish two books and fat at least 50 pages more into each of Don Quixote And Mill on the Floss. We shall see how I do!

[Anna- Maria]

Currently reading:
Sex in the title by Zack LoveSex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
The Broken by Ker Dukey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and
The power to see by Jennifer Anne DavisThe Power to See

[Amy]

This is my January TBR:

I finished:
Time Between Us
Twisted
The Red Book
The Truth About You & Me

Currently Reading:
Eon (Audio book)
Time After Time
Goddess Interruppted

[Gwennie]

I can't preplan like that, I'm a mood reader too. For me it's going to be going right into the next book when one's completed and see how many I can read this week. :)

I already finished , at 231 pages.

[Ann A]

In progress and hoping to finish this week:
Anna Karenina
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Bookseller of Kabul
An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

and a couple of Newbery winners (trying to read them all):
Caddie Woodlawn
Dobry

If I finish all those, I have several other library books that need attention!

Good luck, everyone!

[Shan ~A~]

Currently Reading:Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley @ 50% starting RAT.

Finished Rock Chick this morning 01/19
Read 50% since last night.

Currently reading: Started 01/19Somebody to Love
Have read as of this post: 109 pages
As of this post 01/20/14 now at 224 pages

Also started Ghost Shadow and Any Duchess Will Do today.

As of 01/21/14 I have finished reading Ghost Shadow
As of 01/22/14 I have finished reading Any Duchess Will Do

[Alli]

currently reading::
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Rot and Ruin

TBR::
Eve
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

[Alicia]

Morrigan wrote: "It is here! The first Read-A-Thon of 2014. Stop by and let us know how you are doing over the next week. Tell us about the books you have read, the good and the bad, especially the bad (so we can a..."

If I didn't get a chance to post in the Read-A-Thon sign up can I still participate?

[Wendy]

I just finished Chosen by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. I read 130 pages of it during the readathon. Next up is the next book of the same series Untamed.

Page total: 130 pages

[Rosina]

Right now I am reading Across a Moonlit Sea
Has anyone read this? I am struggling with it. Lots of nautical terms.

[Dee]

Alicia wrote: "Morrigan wrote: "It is here! The first Read-A-Thon of 2014. Stop by and let us know how you are doing over the next week. Tell us about the books you have read, the good and the bad, especially the..."

sure thing Alicia - come and join the fun (and insanity)!

[Dee]

Rosina- if you ahve any questions - nautical terms wise - lemme know - 8 years in the Navy - maybe I can help out ;)

[Eileen (Bangor Belles)]

currently reading Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Burning Up
Lucky Number Four

[Janeka]

Day #1

Currently reading:
The Mephisto Club - 125 pages
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - 48%

TBR until the end of RAT
Fathers and Sons
Mariana
Angelfall
All Quiet on the Western Front

[Rosina]

Dee wrote: "Rosina- if you ahve any questions - nautical terms wise - lemme know - 8 years in the Navy - maybe I can help out ;)"

Thanks Dee so far its ship terms about 500 years old looks like lits if research in this research

[Alicia]

Thanks! I'll join in tonight! Does the read-a-thon go for the whole week? Is it over on Friday?

[Dee]

It goes until next Saturday at 10am Pacific time

[Anne Hawn]

I am going to try to clear some of my "currently reading" books. I have a few in there that I keep putting off, either because they aren't very good, or I just don't feel like reading them right now:

MockingjayI will finish this tomorrow!!
Longbourn
More Than a Skeleton
Deadline
The Mysterious Howling
The Hidden Gallery
The Unseen Guest
The Interrupted Tale Chapter 10
The Hyde Park Headsman

[Ava Catherine]

Day 1
I am reading Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset.

I was flattened by a migraine yesterday, so I haven't made much progress thus far. Hopefully, today will be a better reading day.

Day 2
Finished Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset : 672 pages
I got so involved in this biography of Elizabeth that I was still reading at 3:30 a.m. I love it when I get so engrossed in a book.
Reading Oscar and Lucinda

Day 3
Finished Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey: 515 pages

day 3 total: 1,187 pages

Reading Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia
Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
and
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere

Days 4 and 5
Read Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope 452 pages
&
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere 400 pages

Total 2,039 pages

[Joy]

Day 1 Bookmarked for Death: 105 pages
Don Quixote: 7 pages

Total pages: 112

[Nancy H]

Day 1 Progress:
Girl With No Shadow p.93-200 = 107p. (started before RAT, goal is to finish this week)
Bride of New France (also started earlier) - p. 26-53 = 27p.
Flat Out Sexy - 74p.
It's All Greek To Me - 26p.

Total pages Day 1 = 234p.

[Richard]

Just getting started as we were out all day. I just started reading "Coleridge Poetical Works". It is 516 pages. As it's going be a busy week and not an "easy" read so I will be happy if I finish this week.

[Nancy]

Just getting started as I was out all day yesterday celebrating my BFF birthday. I'm currently reading Love at First Flight by Marie Force. I'm 197 pages in and can't wait to see what happens next.

[Anne]

Since Stepsister Scheme is a weird book about a bunch of fairy tale princesses, and I hadn't read any of the original stories in at least 25 years, I went back and reread the stories of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. I then skipped around and read portions of 4 books. I will probably skip around a lot today as well. Here is my progress for the first day of the readathon.

In progress before readathon:
1.Les Misérables
2.David Copperfield- listened 3.5 hours, 80 pages
3.Paladin of Souls
4.The Stepsister Scheme- 79 pages
5.Daughter of the Empire

Begun during readathon:
1.The Once and Future King- 44 pages
2.The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
3.Guilt
4.The Casual Vacancy
5.Snowdrop, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty- 62 pages
6. The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece- 40 pages

Finished:
1.Snowdrop, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty

Total pages: 305

[Dee]

I just finished up book 1 for the read-a-thon - Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - I was at 4% when I started - so 360 pages

[Janeka]

Day #2
Finished
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - 278 pages

Currently reading:
The Mephisto Club @ page 125

TBR until the end of RAT
Fathers and Sons
Mariana
Angelfall
All Quiet on the Western Front

[Joy]

Day 2-

Bookmarked for death: 179 pages- finished!
Mill on the Floss: 4 pages

Total Pages: 183

[Jenn]

Hoping to get some reading done tonight as I was out all day yesterday. My goal is to finish the book I'm currently reading - Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen.

Day 3 -
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen - 23 pages

Day 4 -
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen - 34 pages

Day 5 -
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen - 48 pages - Finished!

Day 6 -
Beach Beginnings by Christie Ridgway - 32 pages
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich - 24 pages

Day 7 -
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich - 44 pages
Beach Beginnings by Christie Ridgway - 4 pages

[Karin]

I'm going to attempt to read the following:

Takedown Twenty
Brownies and Broomsticks
Clockwork Angel
First Love

[Karin]

I read the following number of pages over the weekend:

Takedown Twenty - 99 pages
Brownies and Broomsticks - 39 pages
Clockwork Angel - 57 pages
First Love - 0 pages

Total Pages Read: 195 pages

[Dee]

Finished Books
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - (started at 4%) - 360 pages
Spokes (started at pg 27) - 211pgs

Total - 571pgs

[Michael]

Reading about a Chinese attempt to ruin the US and its financial institutions.
Next will come a book for a reading club,

[Nancy H]

Day 2 Progress:

Girl With No Shadow - 135p.

Not a good reading day, but a great day visiting with friends and family. Will do better tomorrow.

Total RAT pages: 369p.

[Ann A]

Days 1 and 2 Report:

Anna Karenina - 180 pgs, Finished - 5*!
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - 76 pgs

Running total: 256 pages

[Anne]

Reading Les Miserables has really made me wish I knew more than 15 words of French. The translator seems to have misunderstood the reason for translations. If I knew any French, I would be reading it in that language in the first place. Leaving whole passages in French is not helpful.

In progress before readathon:
1.Les Misérables- 40 pages
2.David Copperfield- listened 3.5 hours, 80 pages
3.Paladin of Souls
4.The Stepsister Scheme- 263 pages, completed
5.Daughter of the Empire

Begun during readathon:
1.The Once and Future King- 44 pages
2.The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
3.Guilt
4.The Casual Vacancy
5.Snowdrop, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty- 62 pages
6. The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece- 40 pages

Finished:
1.Snowdrop, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty
2. The Stepsister Scheme-

Total pages: 529

[Ann A]

Anne wrote: "Reading Les Miserables has really made me wish I knew more than 15 words of French. The translator seems to have misunderstood the reason for translations. If I knew any French, I would be readin..."

Anne, if you can manage to find a copy of this translation, I highly recommend it (translated by Julie Rose):

[Joy]

Day 3-
Started "Matters of the Heart" - 6 pages

Total: 6 pages

Not a good day, I hope to make it up in the next few days.