January 2014 Read-A-Thon

[Dee]

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 - which translation are you using?

[Andrea]

What day does this end?

[Dee]

it ends on Saturday Andrea

[Dee]

snow day here (DC area) today - but i have like no snow on the ground...but they do not far north of me...so I guess more reading time ;)

[Ann A]

Day 3 Report

An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media - 72 pgs
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - 28 pgs

Day 3 total: 100 pgs
Running total: 356 pages

[Gwennie]

Finished my second, .

Page count 463 pages.

Total page count for readathon: 694 pages

[Dee]

snow day today, so I finished another book

Currently Reading
Hunted

Finished Books
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - (started at 4%) - 360 pages
Spokes (started at pg 27) - 211pgs
Once Upon a Tower - 404 pgs

Total - 975pgs

[Anne]

Dee wrote: "Anne - which translation are you using?
"

I have the one by Wraxall, who is the person Hugo himself selected to do the translation. I have a different version on my phone, but I'm not sure which translation it is. They both had the same issue with leaving phrases in French. I did request the Rose one that was suggested above, so I'll see if that one is any better.

[Dee]

i used the Norman Denny translation, which is the one that come recommended by many colleges that have Les Mis on their syllabus - and it was good - I don't remember any huge paragraphs in french

[Anne]

My library doesn't have a print copy of that version, but it does have it as an e-book. It has footnotes, so that is helpful. It wasn't paragraphs that were in French; they left various idioms and song lyrics in French. Sometimes they were even left as the response to a situation, and were left with no explanation. It wasn't possible to guess the intent from the context, so it was very frustrating. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Dee]

it could have been that when it was translated that there weren't good enough english equivalents

[Nancy H]

Day 3 - Finished "Girl" 109p. and 83 more pages of "Flat-out." Not as much as I wanted to do but better than Day 2.

Total RAT pages = 561p.

[Anne]

I have continued my habit of skipping around from book to book, and I see no signs of that changing anytime soon. I plan to start Guilt next.

In progress before readathon:
1.Les Misérables- 40 pages
2.David Copperfield- listened 4.75 hours, 116 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- 144 pages

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

Total pages: 669

[Gwennie]

Read a quick short, 47 pages.

Brings my total page count to 741.

[Joy]

Day 4-

Matters of the Heart- 213 pages

Daily total: 213 pages
RAT total: 514 pages

[Ann A]

Day 4 Report:

An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media - 25 pgs, Finished
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - 54 pgs, Finished
The Bookseller of Kabul - 94 pgs, Finished
Angels Flight - 18 pgs

Day 4 total: 191 pgs
Running total: 547 pages

Finished 3 books I've had going for awhile. Yay!

[Nancy H]

Day 4 Report:
Finished Bride of New France - 240p.

Also did 34 more pages of It's All Greek to Me and 86 pages of Full Tilt, which I started and have let languish for months (I am determined to pick it up and finish it this week.)

Total RAT pages: 926p.

[Dee]

wow, everyone has some good totals going and we still have 2.5 days to go

[Janeka]

Day #5
Finished
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - 278 pages
The Mephisto Club - 320 pages

Currently reading:
Fathers and Sons @ page 65
The First Christmas Without You @ 42%

TBR until the end of RAT
Mariana
All Quiet on the Western Front

[Joy]

Day 5-
Matters of the Heart -149 pages

Daily total: 149
RAT total: 665

[Nancy H]

Day 5:

Finished Flat-Out Sexy- 133p.

Read Full Tilt - 213p.
Still Life - 12 p.
Pages from Day 5: 358

Total RAT pages - 1384

[Ann A]

Day 5 Report:

Angels Flight - 103 pgs
Caddie Woodlawn - 59 pgs
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - 10 pgs

Day 5 total: 172 pgs
Running total: 719 pages

[Dee]

Day 5 updates

Currently Reading
Show No Fear (since its been on Mt TBR since 2009)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Finished Books
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - (started at 4%) - 360 pages
Spokes (started at pg 27) - 211pgs
Once Upon a Tower - 404 pgs
Hunted - 368 pgs

Total - 1343pgs

[Janeka]

Day #6
Finished during RAT
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - 278 pages
The Mephisto Club - 320 pages
The First Christmas Without You - 108 pages

Currently reading:
Fathers and Sons @ page 152
All Quiet on the Western Front @ page 29

TBR until the end of RAT
Mariana

[Dee]

a little over 24 hours to go...we're into the final stretch!

[Charleen]

I have been bombarded at work. Couldn't even get online. So this is way less than I'd hope it would be. Here is my update!

Started and finished during Read-a-thon
1. Enders
2. Red Sonja Volume 1: Queen Of Plagues
3. The Rise of Nine
4. The Fall of Five

Currently:
5. Loud Awake and Lost
6. Kissing Under The Mistletoe

[Ann A]

Day 6 Report:

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States - 118 pgs, Finished
Angels Flight - 45 pgs
Caddie Woodlawn - 69 pgs

Day 6 total: 232 pgs
Running total: 951 pages

Any time I can get over 1000 pages, it's a great Read-a-thon for me. Looks like it's going to happen! Hope everyone gets a lot of reading done this last day :)

[Nancy H]

Day 6 Progress:

Finished Full Tilt - 42p.

In progress:
The Devil wears Prada - 24p.
It's All Greek To Me - 39p.
Body Check - 85p.

Not nearly as much as I wanted to get done on this day, but better than nothing. Now I need to pour on the reading power to get more done by the end!

Day 6 pages: 190p.

Total RAT pages: 1574

[Joy]

Day 6

Not a single page read! :(

[Karin]

I managed to read a total of 425 pages during this RAT. That's really good for me.

[Ava Catherine]

Joy wrote: "Day 6

Not a single page read! :("

Joy, I understand. I have days like that, too. : )

I love browsing all the books everyone is reading, and I have added so many to my TBR stack this week!

[Charleen]

Day 7, final tally.

Started and finished during Read-a-thon
1. Enders
2. Red Sonja Volume 1: Queen Of Plagues
3. The Rise of Nine
4. The Fall of Five
5. Loud Awake and Lost
6. Snapshot

Started but not finished:

7. Kissing Under The Mistletoe 45% read
8. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines - 30% in

[Anne Hawn]

I had pretty much success. I had books on my list that I wasn't sure I'd get to, but wanted to have enough variety to be able to read whatever I felt like reading. Unfortunately, I also had to read:

Miss Marple: The complete Short Stories (296 pages)and
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 321 pages

in order to use them for my granddaughter in homeschool. (deductive reasoning and vocabulary) So...I read a pretty fair amount. I am disgusted that I haven't managed to finish Mockingjay. That book has been on my iPod for about a year. I'll try to finish it today.


Mockingjay (I will finish this by tomorrow!!)
Longbourn
More Than a Skeleton
Deadline
The Mysterious Howling 267 pages
The Hidden Gallery 313 pages
The Unseen Guest 340 pages
The Interrupted Tale 320 pages
The Hyde Park Headsman
The 9th Girl 190 pages

Total 2047 RAT pages !

[Janeka]

Day #7
Finished during RAT
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - 278 pages
The Mephisto Club - 320 pages
The First Christmas Without You - 108 pages

On Progress
Fathers and Sons - 281 pages
All Quiet on the Western Front @ page 54

Total: 1041 pages

[Anne]

I didn't get as much read as I wanted to, but I did do quite a bit of reading. If I would have focused a bit more, I could have finished one or two more books.

In progress before readathon:
1.Les Misérables- 40 pages
2.David Copperfield- listened 4.75 hours, 116 pages
3.The Stepsister Scheme- 263 pages, completed

Begun during readathon:
1.The Once and Future King- 44 pages
2.Guilt- 260 pages
3.Snowdrop, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty- 62 pages, completed
4. The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece- 144 pages

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

Total pages: 929

[Ann A]

Day 7 Report:

Caddie Woodlawn - 120 pgs, Finished
Angels Flight - 204 pgs

Day 7 total: 324 pgs

Grand total: 1275 pages

This was a great Read-a-thon for me. I enjoyed neglecting other things in order to read! (That's why I can't do a Read-a-thon EVERY week...)

As always, it was fun to read everyone's updates. Looking forward to the next one.

Books started earlier and finished during RAT:
Anna Karenina
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
The Bookseller of Kabul
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Caddie Woodlawn

Started during RAT, still in progress:
Angels Flight

[Dee]

Final totals

Finished Books
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - (started at 4%) - 360 pages
Spokes (started at pg 27) - 211pgs
Once Upon a Tower - 404 pgs
Hunted - 368 pgs
Show No Fear - 292 pgs
The Lady Most Willing...: A Novel in Three Parts - 384 pgs

Total - 2019 pgs

[Gwennie]

Finished .

Page count 590 pages.

That makes 4 books and 1331 pages done.

[Nancy H]

Final Day:
Finished Body Check - 250p.
Finished It's All Greek to Me - 226p.

I was hoping to read more on the final day but had to stop in order to travel to attend a Saturday birthday celebration for my wonderful mother-in-law who turned 85. She is a fabulous lady so it was worth sacrificing some reading time for her.

Day 7: 476p.

Total RAT pages 2,050

[Maria]

I will get in this one. I am reading Insurgent and am 80% done with it. So far i like it. But what do we do for this Read a Thon? It's my first

[Dee]

Maria - this ended last week - our next read-a-thin will be in March