Read-a-thon (Nov: 13-19)

[Laure]

KK, just missed it then. Soz. :)

[Tien]

np :)

[Bea]

No reading done yesterday...bummer. Hopefully I will end well with completion of two more books, one being Sense and Sensibility.

[Karen]

The Blood Gospel - 501 pages

"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today - 336 pages

[Elvenn]

Finished Reading

El Evangelio según Van Hutten by Abelardo Castillo [The Evangel According to Van Hutten] (172 pages)

[Sue]

Finished Reading

However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph | Aimee Molloy | 2017-11-19

For challenge: Scattershelves (November - Shelf:Feminism)
Read 167 pages of this previously started book from Nov-15 thru Nov-19.
(my personal cumulative count for Readathon to date: 349+167=516)

Page Count tally for post: 167 pages.

[Sue]

The above is not my final post for the Readathon. It's still morning of 19th November here where I live. I have some books that I've read parts of this week, but have not yet finished ( I usually have multiple books "going" at the same time.) So, I'll post one more time once I see what additional pages I get read today.

This has been a lot of fun so far! :)

[LynnB]

8:50 a.m. where I am, so I still have a lot of hours in which to read today! I'm hoping to finish one more book and get further into my last LOST book. It's non-fiction, so it's a bit slower read.

[Lisette]

I don't think I'll do a lot of reading today.

[Angela]

Completed

Como agua para chocolate
Pages: 256

[Susan]

finished reading :
60 pages of With a Little Help
263 pages of Broken Harbor

[Elvenn]

Finished Reading

The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels by William Golding (last 31 pages)

Noches en Fitzrovia by Julian Maclaren-Ross [Nights in Fitzrovia] (last 33 pages)

[Charity]

Well I didn't get much done, but I did make some progress and it's gotten me motivated again. I had some books I need to finish:

Running Totals:
Middlemarch = 315 pages read
Corelli's Mandolin = 187 pages read
The Charterhouse of Parma = 28 pages read

[LynnB]

Yesterday I finished , 373 pages (Christmas in July & Scattershelves)

Just finished , 271 pages (for another challenge group)

Still have a few hours to get some more pages in my LOST challenge.

[Tien]

Well, reading time is way over for me and I didn't get to finish that Bookopoly Jail book but I managed to make some headway into it:

440 pages for Come In Spinner (abt 220 pages to go, yay!)
Also, 112 pages for The Stone Diaries

[Tien]

16,500 pages!! Is anyone still reading... we're relying on you to get to 20K -no pressure or anything lol ;p

[LynnB]

Tien wrote: "16,500 pages!! Is anyone still reading... we're relying on you to get to 20K -no pressure or anything lol ;p
"

Haha! Still have about 7 hours to read here, but somehow I doubt I'll make that much of a dent in those remaining 3500 pages ;)

[Angela]

I’m still reading! It’s mid afternoon here. I have about 6 more hours before I’ll probably pass out for the night :)

[Tien]

Haha, it's okay if we don't... we've way surpassed our original goal of 10K! :D

[Sara]

I finished 527 pages :)

[Tien]

Sara wrote: "I'm not sure how you are counting the pages, but I read another 527 pages (instead of just 178) :)"

Did you finish the book, Sara? Or is that your last post for this readathon?

[Bea]

Finished

In Too Deep - 235 pages.

Tien, I will post my miscellaneous page count tomorrow. I will not be able to finish more books but hope to read more before falling asleep in Sense and Sensibility.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I got in 129 pages of "The Lavender Garden"

[Sue]

Final Post
Miscellaneous - books that I read from (made progress on) during the week, but did not finish:

* Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
For challenge: Scattershelves (October - Shelf: Thriller)
Read 58 pages of this previously started book on Nov-18 and Nov-19.

* The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
For challenge: Scattershelves (October - Shelf: Dark)
Read 74 pages of this book on Nov-18 and Nov-19.

* The Forests of Silence by Emily Rodda
For challenge: Scattershelves (November - Shelf: Deltora)
Read 40 pages of this book on Nov-19.

* Mister Monday by Garth Nix
For challenge: Scattershelves (November - Shelf: Juvenile)
Read 34 pages of this previously started book between Nov-15 and Nov-17.

(my personal cumulative count for the entire Readathon: 516+206=722)

Page Count tally for post: 206 pages.

[Elvenn]

Midnight here and I only managed to read 72 pages from Los misterios de la gata Holmes [The mysteries of the Holmes cat], so those would be my last pages for this challenge :)

[Bea]

Final Post

Tanakh: 15 pages
The Bedside Torah: (already started - 5) 10 pages
Sense and Sensibility: (already started - 101) 115 pages

Total miscellaneous pages: 140

[Amy]

Been really busy this week, so I haven't read as much as I'd have liked. Here's what I completed to add to our total:

The Late Show - 405 pages

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - listened to 3 disks - roughly a third of the book: 116 pages

Sleeping Giants - listening to the audio version - about 250 pages

The Wrath and the Dawn - 45 pages

The Speed of Light - 30 pages

Total pages: 846

[LynnB]

My final check-in for the read-a-thon:

Finished , 288 pages

And 54 pages more on my last LOST book,

[Angela]

Completed:

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - 224 pages

The Queen of Water (started) - 22 pages

The Blood of Flowers (started) - 167 pages

Spanish Short Stories For Beginners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way! (started) - 97 pages

Total - 510

That's it for me! This was fun :)

[Lisette]

Final post
258 pages in The November Man

[Rosemary]

Final post

To the end of Sunday I had completed 420 pages of The Sterkarm Handshake

and 210 pages of Moll Flanders.

So I've got well into both of my Lost books although not finished either one.

[Bea]

I did not finish any of my games (other than the last book rolled in Bookopoly), but I am very glad for having read so much of Sense and Sensibility. For that, I am grateful for this readathon!

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

@Bea, did you find it to make sense and was it sensible?

[Bea]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "@Bea, did you find it to make sense and was it sensible?"

Jayme, I have wanted to hit the women/girls over the head or give them a good slap more than once. :) I did notice that this book is on the satire list...which helps me feel a bit better about my response. And, to answer your question, it did neither for me...not sensible nor did it make much sense at times.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Hehe, I read it and it felt like reading stereo instructions in Japanese

[Bea]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Hehe, I read it and it felt like reading stereo instructions in Japanese"

RIGHT!

[Sara]

Tien wrote: "Sara wrote: "I'm not sure how you are counting the pages, but I read another 527 pages (instead of just 178) :)"

Did you finish the book, Sara? Or is that your last post for this readathon?"

Um sorry, no I meant it as an update post, so I read another 527 pages.

[Dee]

Bea wrote: "I did not finish any of my games (other than the last book rolled in Bookopoly), but I am very glad for having read so much of Sense and Sensibility. For that, I am grateful for this readathon!"

S&S is one of my least favorite Austen's

[LynnB]

Bea wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "@Bea, did you find it to make sense and was it sensible?"

Jayme, I have wanted to hit the women/girls over the head or give them a good slap more than once. :) I di..."

Jane Austen was known for social satire. I find reading her stories with an ear to that actually can make some of them pretty humorous.

[Bea]

LynnB wrote: "Jane Austen was known for social satire. I find reading her stories with an ear to that actually can make some of them pretty humorous."

I think if I had know that, before I started reading her at this stage of my life, I might have enjoyed her books better. She is not one of my favorite authors at all...but she is a writer of classics, which I am trying to read.

[[deleted user]]

My first and last post! (My phone doesn't let me post in discussions for some reason and I was in the hospital for nearly the entirety of this read-a-thon.)

Sleeping Giants - 230 pages
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - 272 pages
Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There - 41 pages
Queen of Shadows - 83 pages

And that's all I managed during four days of attempted induction, before we gave up and opted for a c-section and pretty much all reading ceased.

[Dee]

how's the baby Ashley? hope all is well

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Is it a boy or girl Ashley? We need details 😊

[Tien]

Don't know what y'all worried about, we totally SMASHED it!

[Tien]

And, congrats, Ashley



Those 4 days must be uncomfortable but at least you got to read ;)
If bub didn't want to come out, I'm guessing it's a boy? lol
Hope all's well with you & bub

[Lisette]

That's awesome about our goal. We really smashed it! Awesome job everyone!

Congrats Ashley!!
lol Tien. Yes, probably a boy ;)

[[deleted user]]

Yes, we had a boy. Baby Maslow finally joined us on Thursday November 16th at 4:23 pm, 15 days past his due date. He weighed in at 8lb 14oz. And we're all just completely in love with him.

[Bea]

Congratulations, Ashley!

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Congrats on your bundle of joy Ashley

[Sue]

Congratulations to you and your family, Ashley!