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June 2014 Read-a-thon
Okay, this thread is open.I am in!
I should be able to contribute a few pages to this
I'm in too! Hopefully I'll do better than last time!
I am in :) Silly question though -- Friday 12:01 am is one minute past midnight, yes? so the read-a-thon is 3 days (Friday, Sat., and Sunday).
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I'm in!!! Going to try to do at least 1000 pages over the weekend!!!
I'm in as well.
Pages Read
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet--138 pages
Fifth Business--84 pages
Summer House with Swimming Pool--58 pages
My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories--45 pages
Total: 325 pages
Pages Read
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet--138 pages
Fifth Business--84 pages
Summer House with Swimming Pool--58 pages
My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories--45 pages
Total: 325 pages
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I jus "listened" to the last few pages of The Red Badge of Courage this morning coming to my office.
Hope to have some time at the swimming pool this afternoon
Oh just got in from work and remembered about this challenge so think I will get started. ....
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Hope tomorrow will go better
A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea chapter 3 andThey Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoirs of World War Two chapter 2 (9 pages)
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. 59 pages.
I'm in! Will post at the end of the weekend how much I read.
Finished the last 125 pages of The Art of Racing in the Rain and read the first 168 pages of The Replacement Wife, so 293 pages for the weekend.
179 is my total for Friday: 3 childrens' books on the Bluestem and Caudill nominee lists. My summer reading! More tomorrow!
Friday:The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry; READ 420-513 = 93 pgs.
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster; Read 284-295 = 12 pgs.
Total 105 pgs.
Friday's total - 132 pagesFinished We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever, started The Lovely Bones, and read about 25 pages of The Invisible Man.
June 27: 95 pages of The Book of Negroes. What a great start to a book. Sandy, O Pioneers! is my favorite of Willa Cather's books that I've read. I hope you enjoy it.
A Monk and Two Peas15 pages
This is the fascinating story of Gregor Mendel, the "father" of genetics.
Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent! 32 pages A humorous and entertaining reading discovery ( kindle freebie)
I read 25 pages of Nicholas Nickleby (on kindle but %converted from the top edition on goodreads)
Saturday:A Passage to India by E.M. Forster; Read 296-362 = 66 pgs.
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson; Read 43 pgs.
Total 109 pgs.
Saturdays are my day with my sister so not much read for me; 142 pages.
Rahat wrote: "Can I still join?"Hey yes, of course:)
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From Friday 27th June at 12.01am (in your local time zone) you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday 29th June at 11.59pm. In this thread here (June Read-a-thon), you will post your progress, telling everyone what you're reading and how many pages. Then all readers' totals will be tallied on the Monday to reach the goal of 10,000 pages. This is a relaxed read-a-thon; it doesn't matter if you read 20 pages or 100, it also doesn't matter if we reach our goal, it's just having fun doing what you would normally be doing anyway:)
Once the June Read-a-thon event is listed and this thread is posted, make sure you reply to the event or put your name on the thread if you would like to be included. If you simply stumble onto the thread, then please, join in!
*An easy way to keep track is using the Currently Reading feature on Goodreads, entering your page number at the end of each day.
**For those who read by eReader, take the page number which shows for paperback/hardcover here on Goodreads for your total. Calculate by percentage to work out your page number read.
***For audio listeners, check out how many pages the book has on Goodreads, then divide that number by how many CDs or hours it is to give you an idea of pages per time.
If you respond 'Yes” to the event invitation, please don't forget to list totals is June Read-a-thon thread.
Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full weekend tally on the thread.