FOUR - 2015 - Readathon Four Date: August 22, 2015 - 8PM - Midnight - Check-In - CHECKPOINT FOUR - FOURTH CHECK IN

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

2015 - Readathon Four Date: August 22, 2015 - 8PM - Midnight - Check-In - THIS IS CHECK IN FOUR

Please let us know who is reading during these this period of time.

Let us know the following:

Name of Book and Author:
Genre:
Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period.
Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.
How much time did you read:
Did you complete any books - name of book and author
What time zone and location are you in:

So for example:

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
by Paul Scott - Genre: Historical Fiction - pages start 1 - finish 80

If you finished a book - let us know that too and make sure to get it added to your readathon shelf so you can get credit for it. If it is added properly it will show up on your shelf. You have to make sure to have selected a readathon shelf and when you are done with the first book for your readathon - make sure to add the completed date and that the book is read versus currently reading.

It will show up on your shelf if you have done this properly.

Remember wherever you are you can participate in the readathon.

And if you only have one hour or four hours or plan to do this for the entire 24 hour period taking of course breaks for eating and sleeping - you can join for however long you want to read. We want to keep track of the books completed, the books started, the books in progress, the number of pages read by all, and the different genres. Great fun and this is only the second readathon - we will use the same readathon challenge for all of them so you can see your readathon shelves grow.

Additionally these books that you complete on the readathon can be added to other shelves for the Japan or India challenge or the 2015 50 Books Challenge or the goodreads yearly challenge - the sky is the limit. Any genre is welcome.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Remember folks this is the check in for anybody reading during the hours of 8PM until Midnight on August 22, 2015 (wherever in the world you are - use your time zone). If you want to get credit for any reading done during these four hours you must check in on this thread - Checkpoint 4. But for the check in to count - you must post between the hours of 8PM until Midnight on August 22nd in the time zone that you are in. This is the Checkpoint for those hours on August 22nd. To get credit for these hours this is the thread and CHECKPOINT you must post on. THIS IS CHECKPOINT 4

REMEMBER AT LEAST ONE CHECK-IN MUST REFLECT THE FOLLOWING TO BE COUNTED IN THE READATHON AND OF COURSE YOU MUST CHECK-OUT AT THE END.

Make sure to answer the following:

Name of Book and Author or books and authors:

Genre or genres:

Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period.

Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.

How much time did you read during this block of time:

Did you complete any books during this time frame and what were they?

Also, your location in the world and timezone

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Folks everytime we do this we always find folks who want to participate but fail to join and set up their shelves properly so that they can get full credit:

You must join!

Very important:

How To Join In: - Go here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Click on the title at the top - The HBC Readathons. Please then join by simply signing in at the bottom and say how many books you plan to read for one or more of the readathon dates - there will be six readathon dates throughout the year; then create your own personal shelf to add the books which you would like to tackle during one readathon or more readathons. That is all there is to it and goodreads will keep track. Become your own marathoner in reading books on the readathon dates and we will keep track of your progress in terms of titles of books, number of books, number of pages, and different genres. Give it a whirl and see how much reading you can get done and take a stab at that big "to be read" pile of books that we all have.

Note: Don't forget to set up your shelf first and then add the name of that shelf here when setting up the challenge for your readathon.

And here are some links to the Readathon folder which will be updated:

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

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

[Samanta]

Continuing with:

by M.M. Kaye

Genre or genres: Historical fiction
Start Page: 447
Finish Page for this checkpoint: no progress
Total Pages Read: 0
How much time did you read during this block of time: 0 min
Location: Zagreb, Croatia, CEST
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Whoa Samanta from Croatia is on the move!

[Doris]

Resuming For the Thrill of It, about the Leopold and Loeb kidnapping and murder, by Simon Baatz
, by Simon Baatz (no photo)

Genre: True Crime
Pages read: 54 - 197
Reading time: 2 hours
Location: Kuşadası, Turkey, EEST (UTC +3:00)
Books completed: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
, by Eric Metaxas

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Doris terrific you are doing great. Try to look though at a print version of your book and try to figure out pages if you can based upon chapters etc. Guesstimate is fine - Look at the print version's table of contents and you can figure out start and finish pages that way. You have to add the citation for Amazing Grace - not sure which book it is.

Here is my template for Checkpoint One but I did not finish any books:

My Template - FINAL - Bentley

The Republic by Plato

by Plato

Genre or genres: Philosophy
Start Page: 1 - Book One - Prelude, etc
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 36
Total Pages Read: (Still going) - Audio but will translate to pages - 36
How much time did you read during this block of time: administrating and listening and typing all at the same time - so hard to say - but elapsed time 4 hours
Location: Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

[Jarrad]

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott

by Karen Abbott

Genre or genres: History
Start Page: 119
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 210
Total Pages Read: 81
Time spent reading in this time block: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Location: Hamburg, Germany (UTC + 01:00)
Books Complete: no
What were they? none

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Remember the framework for the template Jarrad - you can always fill in the blanks later. - you need the other elements

Genre is missing
Total Pages read for this checkpoint is missing
Your timezone is missing.
Books Complete so far? Missing - Yes or None
What were they? If you had any then list them here and their citations
If not say None

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Samanta you should be finalizing your template above and moving to Checkpoint Five if you are continuing to read - if not you must check out and that is the Mandatory check out - Check point Seven which is always the checkout thread. It is 12:56 AM in Croatia so you should already be there on Five.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Jarrad you should be finalizing your template above and moving to Checkpoint Five if you are continuing to read - if not you must check out and that is the Mandatory check out - Check point Seven which is always the checkout thread. It is 12:56 AM in Hamburg, Germany so you should already be there on Five.

Jarrad you and Samanta are in the same position - either move on to Five or take a break and do Six but if you not are doing more reading or wanting to get more credit for the additional checkpoints then you should move on to Check Out which is Seven (different template for checkout)

[Samanta]

Bentley wrote: "Samanta you should be finalizing your template above and moving to Checkpoint Five if you are continuing to read - if not you must check out and that is the Mandatory check out - Check point Seven ..."

Just got home. I'm continuing with check poin five in a few minutes.

[Francie]

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

by Geraldine Brooks
Genre or Genres: Cultural Nonfiction
Start Page: 33
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 114
Total pages read: 82
How much time did you read during this block of time: 2.5 hours
Location: Warner Robins, GA - EST
Books completed: 2 so far
What were they: by Paul Scott and
by Jean Edward Smith

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Francie you have checked in and plugged in your framework - good

[Kathy]

Checking in:

by Anne Tyler
Genre: Literary Fiction
Number of Pages Read: Pg. 237-315. Total pages: 78.
Time Read: 3 hours
Location: Toccoa, GA, USA. EST.
Books Completed: 0
Checking out for the night. Good reading, all. Thanks for an enjoyable day, Bentley!

[Teri]

by Jerry L. Thompson
Genre: Non-fiction
Start page: 13
End page: 49

by Margaret Dilloway
Genre: Historical Fiction
Start page: 1
End page: 44

Total pages read: 80
Total time read: 3.5 hours
Books Completed: 1
by Margaret Dilloway
Location: San Antonio, Texas, CDT

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Kathy and Teri - good show. You have placed your frameworks in play.

Teri I think you are a bit early to this thread - it is 7:15PM in Texas.

Kathy you are fine in Georgia. It is 8:16PM

[Karen]

Checking In for Checkpoint 4

by Francis Tapon

Genre: Non-fiction/travel
Start Page: 289
End Page:315
checkpoint time: 20:00 - Midnight
Total pages read: 26
Total hours read:30 minutes
Total Books Read for Readathon:2
Location: Southeastern PA, EST

Checking out

[Helga]

Checking in. Checkpoint 4
by Ron Rash

Genre. Literary Fiction
Pages read 354-435
Time read 2 hours
Location Columbia,SC EST
Books completed: 1

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Helga and Karen - you are ready to go for this timeframe

[Teri]

You're right! I wondered why I only got 2 hours in last check point. Well, I'll up date this one again at the top of the hour for check in.

Bentley wrote: "Kathy and Teri - good show. You have placed your frameworks in play.

Teri I think you are a bit early to this thread - it is 7:15PM in Texas.

Kathy you are fine in Georgia. It is 8:16PM"

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Teri you need an energy drink (lol)

[Rosalinda]

Checking in:

Citation: by Richard Harvell

Name of Book: The Bells
Author: Richard Harvell

Genre: Fiction

Start Page - 211
Finish Page - 323

Location - Charleston, SC
Time Zone - EST

How much time did you read? 3 hrs. 20 min.

I'm checking out from Checkpoint Four.

[Teri]

Heading for dinner now.

Bentley wrote: "Teri you need an energy drink (lol)"

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

That is a very good idea - break time!!!!!!

[Leslie]

by Molly Caldwell Crosby

Genre: History, 20th Century Medical
Starting: Page 8
Ending: Page 14
Pages read:7
Time spent reading: 20 minutes
Location: NC, EST
No books completed during this session.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Final

The Republic by Plato

by Plato

Genre or genres: Philosophy
Start Page: 45 - Book One - Prelude, etc
Finish Page for this checkpoint: Same
Total Pages Read: (Still going) - Audio but will translate to pages - Same
How much time did you read during this block of time: Too busy moderating
Location: Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

[Maureen]

Good evening folks. Settling in for an evening of reading. Hope you all are doing well.

Let us know the following:

by James A. Michener
Genre: Historical Fiction
Start Page: 168
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 208
Number of Pages Read - 40

How much time did you read: 3 hours
Did you complete any books - 0
What time zone and location are you in: EST -- Atlanta, GA, USA

[Chris]

Check in #4 from Kansas
by DanielSilva

Genre: Fiction/Thriller/Espionage
Start Page: 371
End Page: 401
Start Time: 8:00 PM (CDT)
End Time: 8:38
Total Pages: 346
Total Time: 9:28
Books Completed: 1

[Gyoza]

Checking in. I will continue with:

by Winston S. Churchill

Genre: History, Politics, War
Start Page: 190
End Page: 298
Start Time: 8:00 PM (EST)
End Time: 10:00 PM (EST)
Total Pages: 108
Total Time: 2 hours
Books Completed: 0
Location: Atlanta, Georgia (EST)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Maureen welcome - this is your first check in and that is fine - we are happy to have you with us. Could you tell us the state that you are from?

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

OK Chris good job with framework for template - you are set to go on this checkpoint. It is 8:23PM in Kansas and you have 3.5 hours to go here on this thread.

[Chris]

Completed. See post 29.

Thank you, Bentley. It was nice of you to host this.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

We do our best and it is our pleasure. Great. You have until Midnight in this Checkpoint.

[Michael]

by Evan Thomas

Genre or genres: Non-Fiction, WWII
Start Page: 235
Finish Page for this checkpoint:268
Total Pages Read:33
How much time did you read during this block of time: 3hrs
Location: Alberta, Canada Mountain Time Zone
Books Completed:0
What were they?

[Jill]

Check #4

by Ian Rankin

Genre: British police procedural
Number of pages read: 132 (83-215)
Time read: 10:15 - 11:30 (1 hr. 15 min.)
Location: WV, EDT
Books completed: 1

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Michael and Jill - your framework is in place.

[Karen]

Checking out for the night, see message 18. I'm just kind of grazing through different books. It's time to take a long break. I'll Check In in the morning.

[Rosalinda]

Checking in:

by H.K. Savage

Genre: Fiction/Fantasy
Start page: 1
Ending page: 72
Number of pages read: 72
Time read: 45 minutes
Location: AZ,MST
Books completed: None this checkpoint-1 total
by(no photo)Leslie Leigh

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

OK Karen - if you do not Five or Six then make sure to check out on SEVEN tomorrow. Good job

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Rosa your framework is in place.

[Glynn]

Continuing with:
by Gordon S. Wood

Genre or Genres: History
Start Page: 54
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 74
Total pages read: 20
How much time did you read during this block of time: 45 minutes
Location: Melbourne, Florida
Books completed: 1 so far
What were they: by Anthony Doerr

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

OK Glynn your framework is in place - you have another hour here.

[Francie]

Checked out, see msg 13

[Ebb]

by E.R. Eddison

Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy 

Page Start - 101
Page End - 122

Number of Pages Read - 21

Time Read - 60 mins (8:12 pm - 9:12 pm)

Completion of Book during this Check In: no

Name of Book Completed -none

Location: New Jersey - Eastern Standard Time 

[M]

by Malala Yousafzai
Genre: non-fiction/biography
Start Page: 134 (finished book 2)
Finish page for this checkpoint: 240 (book 3)
Total Pages read:360
Time read during this block of time: 3 hours
Location: British Columbia, Pacific Time Zone
Books Complete: 2
What were they? by C.S. Friedman
by Barry Hughart

[Fiona]

Checking in/out for the night

by Donna Russo Morin
Genre or Genres: Quasi-Historical fiction
Start Page: 140
Finish Page 202
Total pages read: 62
Time spent: 80 mins
Location: Ottawa, Ont. EST
Books completed: 0

[Glynn]

Bentley wrote: "OK Glynn your framework is in place - you have another hour here."

Thank you Bentley. Updated my post (message 43) and am checking out for the night. Too tired and I don't retain a lot trying to read when I'm sleepy!

[Kristen]

Continued with:

by David I. Kertzer(no photo)

Genre: Religion/History
Pages read: page 91 to 102
Time read: 1 hour
Pages read: 11
Book completed? N/A
Location: Camano Island, WA - Pacific Daylight Time

[Maureen]

Checking out for the night... falling asleep. Edited my post with appropriate stats. Happy reading all...