June 2014 Read-a-thon

[Katherine]

had to work today so only 64 pages on Saturday

[Book Ninja]

I am reading really slowly because of all the preparations for Ramadan. So I have read 62 pages only up till now. I'm reading Whistling Past the Graveyard.

[Paula]

I read Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout. My copy had 198 pages. And 45 pages of Bleak House.

[Rebecca]

3 books today-The Island 476 pages
Deadly Sight 282 pages
and Obsidian Prey 351 pages
Totals:
Friday- 340 pages for Hope in a Jar
Saturday-1109 pages

Read-a-thon Total-1449 pages

[Faye]

Saturday total - 148 pages

Mostly The Lovely Bones, but I also started The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within.

[Recha]

I hope this is the right place to post - I read 162 pages, from Gibbon, "Sunset song" and Viktor Frankl, "... und trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen".

[Tweedledum]

160 pages A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea ( total so far )

[Petra]

Petra wrote: "June 27: 95 pages of The Book of Negroes. What a great start to a book."

June 28: 55 pages of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.

[Helen]

62 pages Blood River; A journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher. ( got side tracked by the tennis ! :) )

[Alannah]

It is 7:35pm, going to read for just a little bit more then I'm stopping for the weekend. I didn't get as much reading done as I had hoped as I ended up being quite busy over Friday and Saturday but got loads done today.

[Paula]

Ok, update! Finished "The League of Frightened Men" by Rex Stout (204 pages) and read 65 more pages of "Bleak House".

[B the BookAddict]

My Sunday total: 336 pages.

The Camomile Lawn 21 pages
The World Without You 315 pages

My weekend total: 776 pages.

[Shirley]

My weekend total is 188 pages.

[Alannah]

My weekend total is: 1,581 pages

[Rebecca]

My total is 1797 pages for the weekend.

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

My weekend total = 442 pages:
Housekeeping 219 pages (entire novel)
The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back 137 pages
One Breath Away 67 pages
Someone Else's Love Story 19 pages

[Melissa]

Sunday:
Housekeeping Total of 38 pgs.

[Markie]

Miranda Warning, 283 pages
The Best of Me, 305 pages
A Hardboiled Murder, 270 pages
Portion of Shantaram for buddy read, 143 pages
Portion ofThe Silkworm for buddy read, 46 pages

Weekend total: 1047 pages

[Noel]

It's Sunday, 9:40PM (21:40) here on west coast US time - not quite midnight but I believe I'm done for the weekend. :) From Friday to now I've read a total of 203 pages from Breakfast of Champions.

[Katherine]

Busy Sunday for me. Only 16 pages read.
Read-a-thon weekend total 204 pages read.

[Katherine]

Congratulations Alannah!

[Faye]

Sunday total - 127 pages of The Lovely Bones.

This readathon has been great - there were times this weekend when I would have watched TV rather than read, but I forced myself to read to get my page count up, and that felt really good! :)

[Katherine]

Finished "Top Secret Twenty-One" by Janet Evanovich. Also read from "I kill the mockingbird" by Paul Acampora and "The dirty book murder" by Thomas Shawver

[Tweedledum]

P 269 of A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea I think that's 80 to add to the total for that book.
50 pages of The Husband's Secret

[Tweedledum]

]I make my total 426 pages. Not bad considering how little time I actually had available.
So to sum up....I read some of
They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoirs of World War Two
A Monk and Two Peas
A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
The Husband's Secret
Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!
And nearly finished
A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea

[[deleted user]]

90 pages of The Eyes of the Dragon

Weekend total: 115 pages

Ended up busier than expected, as per usual

[Susan]

Another 52 pages of Marking Time

Total for weekend: 276 pages

[LauraT]

total pages -included those counted through audiobook lenth - is 732, so divided:
Zuleika Dobson p. 130
Maigret and the Headless Corpse p. 20
Inferno p. 100
Camera d'albergo p. 102
The Wives of Henry VIII p. 200
La metà di niente p. 150
The Red Badge of Courage p. 30

As the weather has been fine I didn't spend much time on books - not as much as some other week ends of mine: went to the swimming pool, gone with my husband for a stroll and seen an exhibition of photographs by McCurry ...maybe next one ...

[Phyllicia]

46 pages of white teeth by zadie smith

[Alannah]

Well Done everyone. :)

[Paula]

My total was 512. This was fun :)

[Bonita]

624 pages total

[Diane S ☔]

My weekend total is 1158

[Leslie]

My total was 1140 pgs (a little bit estimated for the audiobooks). Here is my breakdown:

Finished up:
·The Orchid Affair audiobook, ~45 pgs
·The True Game: Kings Blood Four/Necromancer Nine/Wizard's Eleven, 71 pgs
Continued reading:
·On This Day in Tudor History, 5 pgs
·Seven O'Clock Stories, 16 pgs
·Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems, 60 pgs
·The Brothers Karamazov, 63 pgs
Started & finished:
·The Secret Vanguard, 160 pgs
·Entertaining Mr. Sloane, 86 pgs
·The Death of Achilles, 320 pgs
·For Your Eyes Only, 182 pgs
Started but not finished:
·Grave Mercy audiobook, ~111 pgs
·The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped, 21 pgs

[Kristi]

I read 256 pages of A Rogue by Any Other Name and 58 pages of The Painter. A total of 314 pages.

[Akylina]

My total for the weekend was 367 pages.

Congratulations to everyone who managed to read so many pages! I wish I could have read more too! But I really enjoyed this read-a-thon and I hope we can do another one soon :)

[Alannah]

Akylina wrote: "My total for the weekend was 367 pages.

Congratulations to everyone who managed to read so many pages! I wish I could have read more too! But I really enjoyed this read-a-thon and I hope we can d..."

Hopefully at the end of July.

[B the BookAddict]

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC RESULT!

Our weekend total for June is 17444

Congratulations everyone and thanks for your participation. It is lovely to see some people here that we don't normally see in the threads. Perhaps they would like to join the Groups other conversations and discussions.

We will hold another read-a-thon at the last weekend of July; look forward to seeing everyone there!

[Alannah]

Yay!! That is amazing. I already have next month's written down.

[Melissa]

Wow, that is amazing! Yes, count me in again. :)

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

Cool! I'm in for July. I'll try to participate more in other group things :) Busy summer :)

[Zorro]

121pages in The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett.

[Tawallah]

Oh great, if I can still add my count to the read-a-thon,
84 pages of To Kill A Mockingbird
53 pages of Wool Omnibus

Total is 137

[Colleen]

197 pages if it can still count - from

Summer Sisters
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

[B the BookAddict]

I have edited my post to reflect the three final members.

[LauraT]

Great results indeed!
Looking forwar to the next one.

[[deleted user]]

Great results although I didn't add much! Hopefully I'll be less busy at the end of July although it's the weekend before I move house so I doubt it!

[LauraT]

Heather wrote: "Great results although I didn't add much! Hopefully I'll be less busy at the end of July although it's the weekend before I move house so I doubt it!"

Moving is a curse I'd never cast even on my worst enemy!!!

[Leslie]

Heather wrote: "Great results although I didn't add much! Hopefully I'll be less busy at the end of July although it's the weekend before I move house so I doubt it!"

Audiobooks are great for while you are packing!

[[deleted user]]

Maybe time for another audiobook but I haven't enjoyed them so far