Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 8th - Sunday 10th September 2017

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Li'l Owl wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Brenda wrote: How do you do that??? I am having trouble keeping my eyes open now!!!


I fall asleep and drop the book (or kindle). I find it the next morning usually..."

Laughed out loud here Owl!! lol

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Loren wrote: "Oh how I wish I could have spent more time immersed in my books this weekend! The trouble is, weekends I'm out and about, it's during the week that I have more reading time :P anyway, I'm finished...."

Always Loren :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Some wonderful totals coming in guys! Thank you all for participating in the weekend's fun :) Totals will show up gradually through the day...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Here we have it at the moment...

Baz - 608 pages

Sally906 - 697 pages

Brenda - 2008 pages

Carolyn - 736 pages

Michael - 205 pages

Odette - 435 pages

Zoey - 367 pages

Sharon - 610 pages

Kylie - 418 pages

Leonie

Phrynne - 1300 pages

Ace

Rosie - 1386 pages

Jenny - 1582 pages

Li'l Owl

Krystal - 650 pages

MaryG2E - 574 pages

Valerie - 232 pages

Renee V - 1170 pages

Noelene - 317 pages

Elias - 127 pages

Kerri - 772 pages

Jo

Marianne - 414 pages

Veronica - 351 pages

Suzanne

Diana - 444 pages

Jen - 535 pages

Nikk

MichelleG - 3,083 pages

Loren - 420 pages

Lyn - 445 pages

Helen - 338 pages

Susan - 1244 pages

PattyMacDotComma - 463 pages

Row
Kerri_M

Jane - 1490 pages

Sue - 344 pages

Samantha - 220 pages

Tracey Allen - 218 pages

Nicole

Kira - 505 pages

Dree
MinyHannah

Rosie (rosy_posy77) - 143 pages

Helen Simic

Karen - 321 pages

Melissa

Amanda - 736 pages

BenWolf23 - 180 pages

Niamh - 754 pages

Bron - 535 pages

Chloe Hollis
Ellen
Katherine
Chloe
Steph

Nat - 271 pages

Deborah - 436 pages

[Odette]

Completed reading Ghost River by Tony Birch- 294 pages
Reading The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe - 141 pages

Total for weekend: 435 pages

[Susan]

Books I completed over the weekend
The Hedge Knight 184 pages
The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves 132 pages
Tower of Dawn 672 pages
Matilda 256 pages

Total: 1,244 Pages

[Deb]

Consider Phlebas 242 pages
Lord Edgware Dies192 pages

For a total of 436pages

Pretty sad, but there you go.

[Sharon]

I managed another 240 pages yesterday

Grand total = 610 pages

[Zoey]

367 pages for me

[BenWolf23]

updated total -
180 pages from two different books

Wink Murder

On the Other Side

[Rosie]

My total for the weekend was 1386.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks guys!

[Sally906]

OK - you know you have a good book when you start to read it yesterday - reluctantly put it down to go to bed (print book can't read in dark) and then get up at 5 am to finish it!!!

Finished:
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris: 432 - 274 =158

A Knight to Remember by Cynthia Luhrs: 233 - 41 = 192

Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead by Christiana Miller: 368 - 21 = 347

Grand Total: 697

[MaryG2E]

I had such a hectic weekend that I had little time for reading. However I did manage to:
- finish Too Close to Home 5★s 286 pages
- read Wreck 4★s 288 pages
Total read: 574 pages

[PattyMacDotComma]

Finished Where the Trees Were 166pp
Partly read Me, Myself and Them 100pp
Began The Music Shop 197pp

total: 463 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Looking good everyone!

[MichelleG]

Hi all,
Apologies I crashed about 9.30/10pm so I didn't quite finish my final book - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, but it was a good attempt.

Many thanks to Brenda and all our fantastic mod's for another great read-a-thon, I always enjoy them :D

Friday
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout - 209 pages
Firelight by Kristen Callihan - 387 pages
Coraline by Neil Gaiman - 224 pages
Daily total: 820 pages



Saturday
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard - 286 pages
You by Caroline Kepnes - 422 pages
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - Read approx 400 pages (of 1235 pages)
Daily total: 1,108 pages



Sunday
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 835 pages (of 1235 pages)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 320 pages (of 576 pages)
Daily total: 1,155 pages



Read-a-thon total: 3,083 pages

[Carolyn]

294 pages read on Sunday from Small Favour by Jim Butcher, making that a total of:
736 pages for the weekend.

[Amanda]

Excelled myself this time! 720 pages! Read one whole book Hostage To Murder by Val McDermid 435 pages. Finished A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain 163 pages & Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler 25 pages. Started 2 more: Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming 76 pages & All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda 21 pages.
Too much information?
Total 720 pages

[Bron]

Well I am happy with my total for this weekend as it is my best effort in a read-a-thon to date.

The Secrets She Keeps: The life she wanted wasn't hers . . . by Michael Robotham - 436 pages
Grasping God's Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible by J. Scott Duvall - 39 pages
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham - 60 pages

So that brings my total for the weekend to 535 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

MichelleG wrote: "Hi all,
Apologies I crashed about 9.30/10pm so I didn't quite finish my final book - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, but it was a good attempt.

Many thanks to Brenda ..."

You're apologising Michelle???!!! OMG! What a total - your best yet I think? Congratulations!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Carolyn wrote: "294 pages read on Sunday from Small Favour by Jim Butcher, making that a total of:
736 pages for the weekend."

Fabulous Carolyn - not as much gardening as you thought?

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Amanda and Bron - great effort!

Everyone should be very proud of themselves!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sue wrote: "Here's another interim update for me, not yet my final. It's still only Sunday morning for me here in Iowa ( USA central daylight time )

My pages read since my prior post (message 185) are:
From [..."

It's great to have US (and overseas) participants Sue and lovely to have you enjoying and joining in!

[Renee V]

Didn't get to read as much as I had hoped but thankfully the Innkeeper series was a quick read.
Friday - Clean Sweep = 235
- Sweep in Peace = 237
Saturday - One Fell Sweep = 257
- Blood Eye = 48
Sunday - Before They Are Hanged = 393

Total = 1,170

[MichelleG]

Brenda wrote: "MichelleG wrote: "Hi all,
Apologies I crashed about 9.30/10pm so I didn't quite finish my final book - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, but it was a good attempt.

Many..."
LOL - I do love the read-a-thon's :D. Such a great excuse to do nothing for an entire weekend ;)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

MichelleG wrote: "LOL - I do love the read-a-thon's :D. Such a great excuse to do nothing for an entire weekend ;) .."

I know you do - but keeping your eyes open? I can't manage that when I'm tired! And my eyes go blurry - it must be an age thing ;) You're SO much younger than me!! lol

[Carolyn]

Brenda wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "294 pages read on Sunday from Small Favour by Jim Butcher, making that a total of:
736 pages for the weekend."

Fabulous Carolyn - not as much gardeni..."

We got most of the fence clearing done on Saturday, filling our and our neighbours' green bins with jasmine, plumbago, potato vine and banksia rose. Just needed a couple of hours on Sunday to finish up, followed by a trip to the garden centre to buy some veggies and herbs to put in the garden, and then a couple of hours free to read on Sunday afternoon. All up a fairly productive weekend :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sounds like it! Good on you - and perfect weather for it too :) Though we need rain - and your garden will too :)

[Diana]

My total for the weekend was 444
I was pretty happy with that for a first effort and a busy Saturday.

[Krystal]

Elias I LOVED The Illustrated Man!! Such a fantastic book!

[Krystal]

Michelle I'm so impressed! What a fantastic weekend you must have had!!

Had a lot of fun feeling such purpose behind my reading! Can't wait for the next one!

[MichelleG]

Thanks Krystal, I always feel the same <3

[Jenny]

Well done everyone who participated in this challenge.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Totals posted to here :) Still a few to come in and plenty of time to do it!

[Rosie]

I didn't get as much time as I would've liked this weekend.

Only manage 143 pages of The Handmaid's Tale

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Every little bit helps Rosie :) Thanks!

[Sue]

Final Post

My pages read since my prior post (message 244) are:
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton - 32 pages
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny - 37 pages

Total for this post: 69 pages
My final total for the weekend: 344 pages

I do appreciate that you allow those of us from outside of Australia to participate in the group.
I first joined because I am a moderator for 1001 Five Star Books; in that group the moderators help choose monthly Group Reads - and being part of your group helps make me aware of good books by Aussie authors -so that my suggestions for the 1001 group can be less USA-centric. And Australia is a place I'd love to visit if I ever had an opportunity.
So, after joining the group for those reasons, I had visibility to your challenges. I participate in challenges for a few other groups, but I find that your monthly challenges with the options for Easy, Medium, Hard levels helps me find the "just-right" pace for a challenge for a given month. And it encourages me to read those Aussie Authors books :)
So, again, thank you!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thank you Sue :) Lovely words and certainly excellent reasons to join our group. Love that you have found your niche with the challenges too :) And thanks for your total and participating in this one! Sweet dreams now ;)

[Baz]

Diana wrote: "My total for the weekend was 444
I was pretty happy with that for a first effort and a busy Saturday."
That's a very solid effort!
If I have my timing right, I'll be jetlagged for the next read-a-thon so will be lucky to get anywhere near that :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha! You gotta plan better Baz ;)

[Natty]

total for me was 271 pages.. not as much as I wanted

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Nat :)

[Chloe]

Hello everyone!

Here is what I read over the weekend:

Silent Child: 413 pages
Words in Deep Blue: 45 pages

GRAND TOTAL: 458 pages

[Ace]

I finished The Good Daughter 338p and read Moonborn 168p over Saturday and Sunday.


Thanks for another fun readathon guys, sorry for posting late, its only Monday morning here.


My final total is 506p

[PattyMacDotComma]

Stop press! Brenda, I forgot to add my re-read of Shtum by Jem Lester which was 366 pages. I KNEW I'd read something else!

That changes my total from 463 pages to 829 pages

OOPS - sorry!

[Diana]

Baz wrote: "Diana wrote: "My total for the weekend was 444
I was pretty happy with that for a first effort and a busy Saturday."
That's a very solid effort!
If I have my timing right, I'll be jetlagged for th..."

Thanks Baz.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Here we have it at the moment...

Baz - 608 pages

Sally906 - 697 pages

Brenda - 2008 pages

Carolyn - 736 pages

Michael - 205 pages

Odette - 435 pages

Zoey - 367 pages

Sharon - 610 pages

Kylie - 418 pages

Leonie - 275 pages

Phrynne - 1300 pages

Ace - 506 pages

Rosie - 1386 pages

Jenny - 1582 pages

Li'l Owl - 903 pages

Krystal - 650 pages

MaryG2E - 574 pages

Valerie - 232 pages

Renee V - 1170 pages

Noelene - 317 pages

Elias - 127 pages

Kerri - 772 pages

Jo

Marianne - 414 pages

Veronica - 351 pages

Suzanne - 386 pages

Diana - 444 pages

Jen - 535 pages

Nikk

MichelleG - 3,083 pages

Loren - 420 pages

Lyn - 445 pages

Helen - 338 pages

Susan - 1244 pages

PattyMacDotComma - 829 pages

Row

Kerri_M - 296 pages

Jane - 1490 pages

Sue - 344 pages

Samantha - 220 pages

Tracey Allen - 218 pages

Nicole

Kira - 505 pages

Dree
MinyHannah

Rosie (rosy_posy77) - 143 pages

Helen Simic

Karen - 321 pages

Melissa

Amanda - 736 pages

BenWolf23 - 180 pages

Niamh - 754 pages

Bron - 535 pages

Chloe Hollis
Ellen
Katherine

Chloe - 458 pages

Steph

Nat - 271 pages

Deborah - 436 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Chloe, Ace and Patty!

[Ace]

You're welcome Brenda. I think we will make it based on the numbers so far the average per person seems to be over 600p. As you can see I have little to do in my retirement and am running stats haha!