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August 2017 Read-a-thon
Yes, I'm in!Friday: 426
The Body Electric - 350 pages (I'll add any other pages I read after I get off GR tomorrow).
+76
Saturday: 226
Broken Harbour 182 pages (will be back to add whatever I read after I sign off tonight).
+ 44
Sunday: 353
Missing 316
+37
Total: 895
Yes, I'm in!Friday: 450 pages
Finished up several books: The Glimpses of the Moon, The Faithful Spy (audiobook) & Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (audiobook)
continued with Burning Bright (audiobook) & Fragments of My Time
started Free Fall in Crimson
Saturday: 335 pages
Finished Burning Bright, Free Fall in Crimson & 3 Truths and a Lie (audiobook short story)
continued with Fragments of My Time
started The Friendly Air & One for Sorrow
Sunday: 442 pages
Finished The Friendly Air & Professional Integrity (audiobook short story)
continued with Fragments of My Time & One for Sorrow
Total: 1,227 pages
HERE!FRIDAY:
Finished The Islamic Republic of Australia by Sami Shah 252 pages
Started Sourdough by Robin Sloan and finished on SATURDAY272 pages
Started and finished on SUNDay Kakadu Sunset by Annie Seaton 336 pages
Also Sisters by Lily Tuck 176 pages
And started The Liars' Asylum by Jacob M. Appel 87 pages
TOTAL 252+272+336+176+87 = 1123 pages
I'm in, and school hasn't started yet, so no papers to grade! I have high hopes for this one.Friday: 0
Saturday: Silas Marner -- 67 pages
Sunday: Our Mutual Friend -- 57 pages
Total: 124 pages
Not nearly what I had hoped for, but the situation was a little different than I had anticipated. We're having a little weather problem here in Houston, so I was rather caught up in that!
I'm in!Friday: 36 pages (We Are Water)
Saturday: 72 pages (Vanity Fair)
Sunday: 109 pages (finished Vanity Fair; continued on The Captive)
Total: 217 pages
I'm in!!!Friday: Devotion 256 pages
Saturday: nil
Sunday: The Stars Are Fire 256 pages
Total: 512 pages
I missed the last one, but have high hopes for racking up some reading this weekend!Friday:
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
pg 266-358 = 92 pages
Fri: 92 pgs
Saturday:
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
pg 359-372 = 13 pages
Living My Life, Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman
pg 402-503 = 101 pages
Sat: 114 pgs
Sunday:
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
pg 1-103 = 102 pgs
Sun: 102 pgs
Total: 308 pages
I'll be combining this with my second Bout of Books readathon (boutofbooks.blogspot.com) which started Monday and ends Sunday at midnight.Friday:
Beren and Lúthien 142-288 pages - 146 pages - finished!
Julius Caesar 160-219 - 59 pages -finished!
total for Friday: 205 pages
Saturday:
The Harvard Classics - Plutarch's Lives 46-54 - 8 pages
Babel-17 219 pages - complete
Warm Worlds and Otherwise 68 pages
total for Saturday: 296
Sunday:
Warm Worlds and Otherwise 68-220 - 152 pages -
complete
The Harvard Classics - Plutarch's Lives 54-78 - 24 pages
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 26 pages
total for Sunday: 202
Total: 703
I'm in. Friday:
completed Rebecca - 73 pages
Becoming Human- 70 pages
The One You Love- 73 pages
Saturday:
completed Becoming Human- 93 pages
completed Doubt- 249 pages
Unhidden- 38 pages
Sunday:
Song of Redemption- 102 pages
Total pages: 698
I'm giving it a shot, but I might not get much reading time this weekend.Friday: 72 pages
Saturday: 203 pages
Sunday: 122
Total: 397
Count me in!Friday: 0 pages :(
Saturday: You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself 5 pages
Those Damned Rebels 36 pages
Rising from the Plains 17 pages
Sunday: The Brothers Karamazov 25 pages
Those Damned Rebels 26 pages
Rising from the Plains 7 pages
Total: 116 pages
Hi everyone, going to be helping my daughter pack up her flat this weekend prior to a move to Ely but hopefully will find some leisure for a little reading. So, yes, I'm in.Friday
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths finished book (180 pages )
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swedes 30 pages
Rumpole of the Bailey10 pages
Saturday
Call for the Dead by [author:John le Carré 60 pages
The Pedant's Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong 20 pages (p.128)
Drawing Autism 36 pages (p. 94)
Sunday
Call for the Dead by John le Carré 109 pages ( finished book)
The Fellowship of the Ring 50 pages
A Murder of Quality 25 pages
Grand Total: 627 pages
I'm in! :)Friday:
by Narine Abgaryan - 144 pagesSaturday: 136 pages
Sunday: The Brothers Karamazov - 46 pages
Total: 326 pages
Definitely count me in! Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
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I'm in!Friday: 50 pages
The Hate U Give - 50 pages
Saturday: 312 pages
The Hate U Give - 312 pages
Sunday: 128 pages
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - 79 pages
The Cuckoo's Calling - 49 pages
Total: 490 pages
Hi, I am in. August 25 - August 27Friday: Addressed to Kill -236 pages
Saturday: Addressed to Kill - 57 pages
Septimus Heap - Darke - 260 pages
Sunday: Darke - 381 pages
The Outcast Dead - 288 pages
Total pages: 1,222
I'm in!Friday: Good Wives 129 pages
Saturday: Good Wives 133 pages (finished)
Machine man 28 pages
Sunday: Machine man 91 pages
Total: 381 pages
Mod
Saturday: 387 pages
Sunday: 143 pages
Total: 886 pages
Count me in!Friday: Total: 314
314 pages Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (finished)
Saturday: Total 457 pages
411 pages The Bells by Richard Harvell (finished)
46 pages The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Sunday: Total 315
315 pages The Living Wood: Saint Helena and the Emperor Constantine by Louis De Wohl
Total: 1086 pages
I'm in!Friday: 68 pages A Tale of Two Cities
Saturday: 44 pages A Tale of Two Cities
Sunday: 134 pages A Tale of Two Cities
Total: 246 pages
I'm in. My classroom is ready to go, so I will have time.Friday: The Lake Effect 20 pgs.
The Graveyard Book 70 pgs.
Saturday: The Graveyard Book 50 pgs.
The Lake Effect 32 pgs.
Sunday: The Lake Effect 38 pgs.
The Graveyard Book 83 pgs.
Total: 293 pgs.
I'm inTotal pages read. 652
On a Small Island by Grant Nicol. 252 pages
Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton. 400 pages
I'm in! Making my book list :)A Spy in the Archives
The Fifth Season
Friday: 69 pgs
Saturday: 14 pgs - (I blame Jessica Jones season 1 for this..)
Sunday: 136 pgs
Total: 219 pages
I'm in! Friday: Come Sundown by Nora Roberts. 61 pages
Any Dream Will Do by Debbie Macomber. 7 pages
Saturday: Come Sundown by Nora Roberts. 58 pages
Sunday: Come Sundown by Nora Roberts. 33 pages
Total: 159 pages
I'll be there!Friday: 233 pages
Saturday: 66 pages
Sunday: 65 pages
Total: 364 pages
Hopefully this will encourage me to read more this weekend and keep away from the TV :-D. Friday: Three Men in a Boat - 95 pages
Saturday: The Well of Loneliness - 26 pages (book finished)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 23 pages
Sunday: Three Men in a Boat 50 pages
Total: 194 pages
I'm in!
Friday:
The Unit--55 pages
I Am the Brother of XX--28 pages
The Confusion of Languages--99 pages
Saturday:
The Unit--147 pages
The Confusion of Languages--148 pages
Sunday:
The Confusion of Languages--75 pages
Unraveling Oliver--139 pages
Total pages: 690
Friday:
The Unit--55 pages
I Am the Brother of XX--28 pages
The Confusion of Languages--99 pages
Saturday:
The Unit--147 pages
The Confusion of Languages--148 pages
Sunday:
The Confusion of Languages--75 pages
Unraveling Oliver--139 pages
Total pages: 690
I'm in!Friday: 99pgs
Saturday: 56pgs
Sunday: 57pgs
Total: 212pgs
Books Read:
I'm in!Finished -
Started/Continued -
Friday:
(Audio) The Fairy Godmother 42 pages - finished
(Audio) The Secret Garden 46 pages
Saturday:
(Arc) Scandalous Ever After 10 pages
(E-book) Juliet Takes a Breath 19 pages
(Audio)The Secret Garden 66 pages
Sunday:
(Arc) Scandalous Ever After 40 pages
(Audio) The Secret Garden 219 pages finished
Total: 442 pages
Weekend Read-a-Thon All About Books
Saturday 25 - Sunday 27 August
Books:
Friday:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker 90 pages Finished
Saturday:
The Baby Trail by Sinéad Moriarty 18 pages
Sunday:
The Baby Trail 27 pages
Total: 135 pages
Finished:
I'll do it!Trying for
Fri. 8/25: 78 pages
Nine Inches: Stories - Tom Perrotta (p. 213-246) - 34 pages - finished
The Ugly Little Boy - Isaac Asimov/Robert Silverberg (p. 1-44) - 44 pages
Sat. 8/26: 92 pages
The Ugly Little Boy (p. 45-137) - 92 pages
Sun. 8/27: 105 pages
The Ugly Little Boy (p. 137-236) - 100 pages
Space Helmet for a Cow: The Mad, True Story of Doctor Who - Paul Kirkley (p. 107-112) - 5 pages
Page goal: 250
Total pages read: 275
Total books finished: 1
I'm in !Friday :
Saturday :
Sunday :
Total :
Fri:Oceans of Fire pg 112-250
138
Sat:
Oceans of Fire pg 250-356
The Vampire's Game pg 330-347
Y is for Yesterday pg 1-72
195
Sun:
Y is for Yesterday pg 72-264
192
Total:
525
I'm in!Friday: 164 pages of The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
Saturday: 20 pages of June: A Novel
Sunday: 50 pages of June: A Novel
Total: 234 pages
I'm new on Goodreads and had just joined this group, so this will be my first participation!Friday:
The Alice Network: 60 pages
A Game of Thrones: 35 pages
Saturday:
Paul in the North (graphic novel): 32 pages (finished)
A Game of Thrones: 76 pages
Sunday:
A Game of Thrones: 30 pages
V for Vendetta: 72 pages
Total: 305 pages
I'm in!!Friday: 46 pages "Stalking Jack the Ripper"
237 pages "Donald Duck: Phantomias #1"
Saturday: 120 pages "Stalking Jack the Ripper"
Sunday: 72 pages "Stalking Jack the Ripper"
Total: 475 pages
I'm in as well!Friday: 26 pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude and 80 pages of Norwegian Wood = 106 pages
Saturday: 125 pages of Norwegian Wood = 125 Pages
Sunday: 60 pages of Norwegian Wood + 15 pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude + 12 pages of Maru = 87 pages
Total: 318 pages
I'm about to start a new book (I do hope books in French count :) ) so I'm in !Friday :
Saturday :
Sunday :
Total :
yes i'm in !Friday : The Bostonians 22 pages
Saturday : 60 pages
Sunday : 83 pages
Total : 165 pages
I'm in.Friday: The Vets at Hope Green by Sheila Norton p.197-32
The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda by Christianna Brand
p.21-p.100
I Found You by Lisa Jewell p.1-p.57
Saturday: 0
Sunday: I Found You by Lisa Jewell p.58-p.215
Total: 424
I'm in! Friday: 36 pages — The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (lol I was soooo tired I barely even read)
Saturday: 98 pages — The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Sunday:
Total:
I am in! :)Friday: 24 pages - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
38 pages - The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Saturday: 60 pages - A Tale of Two Cities
28 pages - A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
Sunday: 20 pages - A Tale of Two Cities
Total: 170 pages
I'm in! But it seems I am one day late. Anyway I stumbled on this thread and I asked myself why not? Saturday: 110 pages
Sunday:100 pages
Total: 210 pages
I'm in! Friday: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. 42 pages
Saturday: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. 91 pages.
Sunday: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 5 pages
total: 138
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From Friday August 25th at 12:01am (in your local time zone), you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday August 27th at 11:59pm. In the August Read-a-thon thread 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 or Tuesday to reach the goal of 20,000 pages. This is a relaxed read-a-thon; it doesn't matter if we reach our goal, it's just having fun doing what you would normally be doing!
Now that the thread is posted in Book Chat, make sure to post your name on the thread if you would like to be included. If you simply stumble onto the thread, then please, join in!
As with previous read-a-thons, to better keep track of all numbers, we ask that you edit the first post you write in the discussion to mark your progress, so that the number of posts doesn't become overwhelming!
*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 in August Read-a-thon thread in Bookchat. Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full week end tally on the thread.