ONE - START HERE - 2016 - Readathon Seven Date: April 23rd, 2016 - 8AM to Noon - Check-In - CHECKPOINT ONE - FIRST CHECK IN

[Chris]

Checking in from Arizona.

by Jay Crownover
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Start Pages: 0
End pages: 91
Total read: 91
Total time 1:15
Time Zone:PST
Books Completed: None

Pardon the genre :-) - needed for another book club.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Karen wrote: "Checking out, please see message 10"

Thank you Karen for the update

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Francie wrote: "Checked out, see msg 11."

Francie thank you for the update.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Mountain Time Zone - it is 11:15 AM - you have another 45 minutes in this checkin - Checkpoint before you have to do your final updates here, fill in the blanks and do tallies and move to Checkpoint Two

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Pacific Time Zone - it is 10:16 AM - you have another almost two hours of reading in this Checkpoint before you have to fill in the blanks, do tallies and moving on to Checkpoint Two.

If you have posted in here - you are where you should be right now until Noon your time.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Central Time Zone - it is 12:19PM - you should have updated everything here on this thread if you posted here from 8AM until Noon but now you should be checking in to Checkpoint Two - the Noon to 4PM timeslot.

Go to Checkpoint Two and check in.

[Vince]

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Genre: History/Biography
Start pages; 342
End pages: 371
Total read: 29
Total time: 20
Time Zone: Central (San Antonio)
Books Completed: None
Posting for earlier reading time this AM at coffee shop!

[Vicki, Assisting Moderator - Ancient Roman History]

Checking out, see message 27.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you Vicki - are you on another checkin

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Vince wrote: "Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Genre: History/Biography
Start pages; 342
End pages: 371
Total read: 29
Total time: 20
Time Zone: Central (San Anton..."

Ok Vince.

Here is how the citation should look:

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Everything else is A-OK

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hawaii - it is 10:27AM - you should be in the middle of the Check In for Checkpoint One - you have another hour and a half of reading for this Check In (use your local time) but make sure you checked in here now.

You are in the Aleutian Time Zone

[Vince]

Thanks! I realized I left out the author after hitting "send".
Vince

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Check out the Help Desk folder - the alphabetical section of the site and the Mechanics of the Board thread - that will help you with citations. You are doing well for starters - but keep improving.

Bookcover, author's photo and author's link

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hawaii you are last and only 10 minutes to go before you go to Checkpoint Two.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hawaii is done with Checkpoint One and should be already posting in Checkpoint Two

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Chris just noticed that you had checked in from Arizona. I won't tell if you don't (smile)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Checkpoint One - One of the Six Checkins

1. Bentley - from Metro NYC
2. Samanta - from Croatia
3. Doris - from Turkey
4. Cynthia - from Brussels, Belgium
5. Harold - from Georgia
6. Kathy - from Georgia
7. Karen - from Pennsylvania
8. Elizabeth - from Pennsylvania
9. Gyoza - from Georgia
10. Teri - from Texas
11. Vicki - from California
12. Helga - from Columbia, South Carolina
13. Chris - from Arizona
14. Vince - from San Antonio, Texas

If I missed anybody - it was not intentional - just let me know where you posted on this thread (Checkpoint One)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

YOU MUST CHECK OUT AT THE END WHEN YOU ARE DONE - CHECKPOINT SEVEN - READATHON ENDS 8AM ON APRIL 24TH, 2016

Everybody remember - no matter if you checked in on only one checkin - 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 - it doesn't matter - if you even had only one checking in - checkpoint or 6 checkpoints or somewhere in between - EVERYBODY MUST CHECK OUT.

You must Check out on Checkpoint Seven - THE ONLY CHECK OUT THREAD - HOPEFULLY BY NOON TODAY YOUR TIME.
(Although we try to be understanding - if you fell asleep - smile)

Here is the link to the MANDATORY CHECK OUT THREAD. It has its own template:

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

This is a sample CHECKOUT TEMPLATE: MODIFY IT FOR YOURSELF AND USE IT FOR CHECKOUT

by John W. Dean

Final Tally - 105 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading 2.45 hours
Genres: Non fiction and Politics - 1
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 2 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location/Timezone: UK, GMT

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You can read in your own language - there is no rule against that.

It is just that I do not know how to converse with you in Arabic.

But the books can be books on goodreads that you are reading in your native language.