Mini-Readathon Challenge- June 2018

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Time to spice up the reading for this year;-) We are proposing a new readathon challenge where we team up, choose our own books and read at our pace ;-)

Rules:

Participants have to be in pairs.
Duration: one month (tentatively June 2018)

There will be a list of books from which both should read and compete. The one with higher page count at the end of month is winner.

Booklist: Each one can nominate 10 books (count can be mutually increased after discussion with your partner. Max limit for nominating books is 25. )

Apart from this, Each member should suggest 2 challenge books that must be compulsorily read by his/her partner.

So there will be totally 24 books minimum in the list which can be counted towards this challenge. This must be chosen and fixed before commencing the challenge.

You can leave some wildcard slots to populate later during the month but the number of books to be suggested by each partner is FIXED.

The number of wildcard slots is limited to 5. Not more than 5 can be left as wildcard slots

Only completed books will be considered for this challenge. If you have 10 pages unfinished in a tome, the tome is not considered.

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Some clarifications:

--> You can sign up in pairs. If the pairing needs to be done by the mods, you can sign up individually and Mod's can do the needful

--> All the 24 books need not be read to complete the challenge, only the 2 books suggested by your partner are must-reads. Partners can be considerate while choosing challenge books.

--> The idea is to read at our own pace. So we need not be intimidated by the number of books.

--> The competition is between you and your partner. This is not a Inter-team challenge


Teams as of now:
1. Iniya - HP
2. Manju - Srividya
3. Kru - Syl
4. Sharadha - Akanksha
5. Kavitha - Sathish
6. Rebecca - Aparna
7. Smriti - Kan
8. Neha - Gitanshi

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Books read:9/34
Pages read: 3599(224+201+372+624+367+382+336+512+390+191)

Compulsory book recos for HP
1. The Death of Ivan Ilych
2. A Monster Calls

My list:
1. Turn Coat - 420 pages
2. Magic Shifts - 342 pages
3. The Metamorphosis - 201 pages - read
4. This is How It Always Is - 336 pages
5. The Dragon Reborn - 624 pages - read
6. The Hired Girl - 400 pages
7. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor - 304 pages
8. Truth or Beard - 382 pages - read
9. The Shadow Rising - 1007 pages - currently reading
10. Spotless - 334 pages
11. Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata - 372 pages - read
12. The Body in the Library - 191 pages
13. The Secret Life of Bees - 336 pages read
14. Love, Rosie- 512 pages read
15. An Offer From a Gentleman - 390 pages

Hp's Recos for me:
1. Fight Club - 224 pages Read June 3
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns - 367 pages Read

HP's list:
1. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. Room
4. A Suitable Boy
5. And the Mountains Echoed
6. I, Robot
7. The Bourne Supremacy
8. Before They Are Hanged
9. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
10. A Wizard of Earthsea
11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

My Partner : Srividya

Must read for her :
1) Fifth Business
2) I, Claudius

Must read for me:
1) Ghachar Ghochar
2) The Scarlet Pimpernel

Total Pages:
320+128+341+661+624+331+528+1007+435
---------------
4375

My List

1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - 320
2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 341
3) Fool's Errand - 661
4) The Dragon Reborn - 624
5) My Brilliant Friend - 331
6) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 435
7) The Shadow Rising - 1007
8) Lover Mine - 528

[Kru]

Good one Ini.
Reserving my space here.

My partner will be Syl

My list of books -

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God (219)
2. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (290)
3. The Housekeeper and the Professor (180)
4. Orlando (228)
5. Weedflower (260)
6. On Chesil Beach (166)
7. The Stepford Wives (144)
8. Lady Susan (180)
9. Lincoln in the Bardo (343)
10. Eugene Onegin (240)
11. Pale Fire (246)
12. Corridors of Time (270)
13. My Husband and Other Animals (in Tamil) (296)
14. Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within(267)
15. The Soldier Prince (284)
16. Any one from Jack Reacher series
17. Madras On Rainy Days(309)
18. Wild card - to be added later

Must Reads - Partner's choice
1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (425)
2. Jasoda (265)

Total Pages - 4493
My choices for partner
1. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
2. The Door

Current Read #2
Completed
Books - 8
Pages - 2822

[Srividya]

IR Mini Readathon Challenge
Duration: 1/6/18 - 30/6/18
Books read: --/--
Pages read: --/5096

Partner: Manju

Books Planned

1. The Museum of Innocence (734 pages)
2. The Idiot (924 pages)
3. Norwegian Wood (401 pages)
4. The Noise of Time (225 pages)
5. Arch of Triumph (545 pages)
6. The Heart's Invisible Furies (575 pages)
7. Invisible Cities (182 pages)
8. Notes from an Exhibition (384 pages)
9. No Country for Old Men (322 pages)
10. Imperial Woman (432 pages)
11. Istanbul: Memories and the City (372 pages)
12. Wild Card
13. Wild Card
14. Wild Card
15. Wild Card

Compulsory Reads for me chosen by Manju

1.
2.

Compulsory reads for Manju chosen by me

1. The Scarlet Pimpernel
2. Ghachar Ghochar

Note on Page Numbers: Page numbers are based on the edition that I will be reading and marking as read in my shelf. These may or may not match the ones listed for books linked here as I have chosen the popular edition in some cases.

[Ahtims]

PARTNER : KRU
MY SUGGESTIONS.
1. The Wife - psychol thriller
2.From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
3.Precious and Grace
4.Cold Mountain
5. The Gospel of Yudas
6.Good Harbour
7.The Book of Chocolate Saints
8. The Bastard of Istanbul
9. 31 Miles: Can we ever win against ourselves?
10. My Husband and Other Animals
11.The Painted Veil
12. The Chemist
13. Turtles All the Way Down
14. Wild card Magpie Murders
15. Wild card My Brilliant Friend
16. Wild card
17. Wild card
18. Wild card
COMPULSORY for KRU
1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies- compulsory
2.Jasoda-compulsory
Caution: MAY CHANGE BOOKS TILL THE CONTEST OPENS

Kru List
My list of books -

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
3. The Housekeeper and the Professor
4. Orlando
5. Weedflower
6. On Chesil Beach
7. The Stepford Wives
8. Lady Susan
9. Wild card - to be added later
10. Wild card - to be added later
Must Reads - Partner's choice
1. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
2. Jasoda
choices for partner
1. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
2. The Door 

[Kru]

Will our partners be assigned?
or
are we supposed to sign up with a partner?

[Rebecca]

Signing up...

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Added clarification kru... My initial thought was that people can join here as a team, But we can ask the mods to pair up if we have individual signups..

[Sharadha]

Duration: 1/6/18 - 30/6/18
Books read: 4/12
Pages read: 1071/3086

Self-nominated Reads:

1. Sula by Toni Morrison (105 pp.)
2. Nineteen Seventy-four by David Peace (unspecified ~295 pp.) REPLACED WITH The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (400 pp.)
3. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (124 pp.)
4. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (184 pp.)
5. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (774 pp.)
6. The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner (215 pp.)
7. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (146 pp.)
8. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (320 pp.)
9. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (146 pp.)
10. WILD CARD SLOT

Partner-nominated/Compulsory Reads:
1. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (304 pp.)
2. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (368 pp.)

Total number of pages: 3,086

I'm not using the wild card slot, but I do have a back up book which I may replace with either of the nominations subject to time restrictions and that is My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk.

All updates noted on this space.

EDIT: I'm going to read Burial Rites by Hannah Kent for the Bingo challenge so withdrawing that nomination from here. Will keep it as a WILD CARD SLOT instead.

08/06/18:
Finished compulsory read #1 - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - 4 stars.

Now onto The Case of the Velvet Claws.

11/06/18:
Finished The Case of the Velvet Claws - 4 stars. Now onto A Pale View of Hills and Nineteen Seventy Four.

Also, borrowed Sri's main header of books read, pages, finished, etc. Good format there, Sri :)

14/06/18:
Finished A Pale View of Hills - 3.5 stars. Continuing with Nineteen Seventy Four and starting compulsory read #2 The Graveyard Book.

15/06/18:
Discontinuing Nineteen Seventy Four. Replacing it with the soon to-be-released mystery thriller The Death of Mrs. Westaway (400 pp.)

Updated number of pages - 3,086.

30/06/18:
Sealing the readathon with my second compulsory recommendation The Graveyard Book. Total number of pages read 1071 and number of books 4.

[Ahtims]

Uni... I too thoguhr thst a single tread for both partners ..
One folder..multiple threads.. one thread per partner

[Akanksha]

Sharadha and Akanksha's List

Sharadha's Compulsory Recommendations for Akanksha

1. Invisible
2. The Sweet Gum Tree

Akanksha's Compulsory Recommendations for Sharadha

3. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
4. The Graveyard Book

Other Books
5. Gerrard: My Autobiography
6. Names on a Map
7. Goodbye to Berlin
8. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
9. Harvard Square
10. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
11. Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
12. Luka and the Fire of Life
13. হলদে গোলাপ
14. Wildcard slot
15.Sula
16.Nineteen Seventy Four
17.The Uncommon Reader
18.A Pale View of Hills
19.The Case of the Velvet Claws
20.Mrs. Dalloway
21.We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
22.The Sorrows of Young Werther
23.The Forgotten Garden
24. Wildcard Slot

[Akanksha]

Reserved

[Kavitha]

Am in!

Total Pages = 5,044
Compulsory books for me
1. உறுபசி Urupasi (136 pp) 4* June 28.
2. Kafka on the Shore (480 pp) 4* June 17.

Other 15 chosen by me
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (277 pp) 5* June 13.
2. Promise of Blood
3. Train to Pakistan
4. The Sense of an Ending
5. The Notebook
6. Dollar desam
7. The Bear and the Nightingale (323 pages) 4* June 7th
8. The Sun Also Rises
9. Childhood
10. Bhima Lone Warrior (373 pp) 3* June 25
11. Inga (316 pp) 5* June 18
12. White Hot (389 pages) 5* June 3rd.
13. Wildfire (391 pages) 5* June 7th.
14. Wild Card The Book of Life (564 pages) 5* June 5th.
15. Wild card A Suitable Boy (1474 pp) 5* June 30

Compulsory books for Sathish
1. A Wizard of Earthsea
2. The Vengeance of Indra

Other 15 chosen by him
1. Wolf Totem
2. Nilamellam ratham
3. Keepers of the Kalachakra
4. Invisible Cities
5. Munkoorapatta Saavin Sarithiram
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. kadhavilasam
8. நிழல் முற்றம் Nizhal Mutram
9. தண்ணீர் Thanneer
10. ஒரு புளியமரத்தின் கதை
11. Wild card In the Time of the Butterflies (336 pp) 4* June 9.
12. Wild card
13. Wild card
14. Wild card
15. Wild card

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Kavitha wrote: "Am in!"

@Kavitha, We will give a few days and see whether we get more sign ups, or else, as discussed you can become part of one of the pairs, so that we can have a 3 member team.

[Kavitha]

Iniya, I have a partner, Sathish.

[Ahtims]

Great to know ... Kavitha

[Kavitha]

He is my nephew, I just browbeat him ;)

[Ahtims]

he he he... Good.
My niece is too young to be browbeaten . Otherwise would have dragged her into my bookish projects

[Kavitha]

My nephew has his own kid :) He is interested in reading and reads a lot....Just browbeat him to join me in this challenge :)

I have another nephew who is a teenager, but he reads 25-50 books a month and we, family members, are guessing he would have read at least 10,000 books. He is totally not interested in recording the books read in goodreads.

[Ahtims]

Oh wow...
he should stleast note down the titles. I really repent nor doing so as I was a voracious reader as a child and feel thst I have read much more then , than I am doing now.
My niece is only 6... waiting for her to grow up thofurh she has started siaxussinf her books with me whenever we meet

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Kavitha wrote: "My nephew has his own kid :) He is interested in reading and reads a lot....Just browbeat him to join me in this challenge :)

I have another nephew who is a teenager, but he reads 25-50 books a mo..."

Did you say teenager and 25-50 books a month in the same sentence? O.O

[Kavitha]

yes...:) He has books all over the place, even in bathrooms. If we send him to get something from another room, and he didn't come back after 10 minutes, we knew that he opened a book and forgot all about us.

[Kavitha]

Syl wrote: "Oh wow...
he should stleast note down the titles. I really repent nor doing so as I was a voracious reader as a child and feel thst I have read much more then , than I am doing now.
My niece is o..."

Same here....I would have read more than 1000 books, however, I don't remember the titles, only authors....

wow! you were reading more before!! Your parents were ok spending that kind of money on books when you were kid?

[Ahtims]

My parents used to get me books whenever I asked. But the wide choice wasn't available and neither the hefty discount. I had membeship in a couple of libraries ..hence I survived.

[Kavitha]

Awesome! Not so lucky...limited quotas...but my high school and college had libraries and lending libraries started becoming famous during that time...after coming here to US, no issues of book supplies at all. Now only time not there :) good problem to have!

[Aparna]

I am in :)

[Smriti]

I’m in... Pls suggest a partner for me :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Smriti wrote: "I’m in... Pls suggest a partner for me :)"

if you don't get a partner by May end, you can join any of existing team. :)

[Hajarath Prasad]

My books for the race :

Compulsory Reads for Iniya :
1. Fight Club
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns

My List :
1. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - 412 pages
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 465 pages
3. Room - 337 pages
4. A Suitable Boy - 1474 pages
5. And the Mountains Echoed - 404 pages
6. I, Robot - 224 pages
7. The Bourne Supremacy - 688 pages
8. Before They Are Hanged - 441 pages
9. The Bridge Over the River Kwai - 224 pages
10. A Wizard of Earthsea - 183 pages
11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - 322 pages
12. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - 320 pages
13. Wild Card Slot
14. Wild Card Slot
15. Wild Card Slot

[Kan]

I'm in with Smriti!

[Ahtims]

Yes ... you and Smriti can pair up.

[Neha]

I wanna do this :D
will wait for someone to come along :)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Neha wrote: "I wanna do this :D
will wait for someone to come along :)"

Sure Neha :-) Let's wait for someone to pair up with..

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Neha wrote: "I wanna do this :D
will wait for someone to come along :)"

If you have someone who is interested in this you can bring him/her in.

[Neha]

Manju wrote: "Neha wrote: "I wanna do this :D
will wait for someone to come along :)"

If you have someone who is interested in this you can bring him/her in."

Hi,

One of my friends is interested in doing this. But do they need to be part of goodreads and this group ?
I can post her updates, and everything if that's not mandatory at all.

Thanks..

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Neha wrote: "Manju wrote: "Neha wrote: "I wanna do this :D
will wait for someone to come along :)"

If you have someone who is interested in this you can bring him/her in."

Hi,

One of my friends is intereste..."

It would be fun if we have her here.. But if she's not in GR, I am not sure whether we should force her presence.. Let's wait for the mod's approval :-)

[Neha]

Iniya wrote: "Neha wrote: "Manju wrote: "Neha wrote: "I wanna do this :D
will wait for someone to come along :)"

If you have someone who is interested in this you can bring him/her in."

Hi,

One of my friends..."


Ohh... oki.. I thought u were one of them, so you made this thread..
Sorry to bother you, will wait for Moderators to reply :)

[Ahtims]

please let your friend join Indian readers ..Neha..
he /she will thank you forever 🤣😎

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

@Neha: can't your friend join GR? Would be great if we get to see her/his progress, not that we don't trust you. But actual participating will be more fun. 😊

[Neha]

Actually she is in goodreads, but don't use it much... active twice a month or so...
Let me ask her once, else will wait up for someone else to join in :)

[Rebecca]

I am putting up my list. Me and Aparna are doing this.

My compulsory reads for Aparna
The Bridges of Madison County
The Lake House

My List
Serious Men
The Twentieth Wife
Norse Mythology
Remarkable Creatures
Cold Mountain
The God of Small Things
The Glass Palace
An Unnecessary Woman

Two left for wildcard slots.

[Neha]

My partner will be Gitanshi.

We will be posting our list soon.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

all the best Neha and Gitanshi. :D

[Neha]

Here is our list (Gitanshi - Neha)

Mandatory Reads for Gitanshi
Norweigan Wood
Carve the Mark

Other Reads
PRALAY: The Great Deluge
The Color Purple
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Earth to Centauri: The First Journey
AngelKidnapped
One DayUs
He's After Me
The God of Small Things



Mandatory reads for Neha
The Night Circus
The Nine-Chambered Heart

Other Reads
Release
Legends over Generations 3.5/5★ - 4th June
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Darlings
The Help
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Days & Dastan
8 Pick any review copy
9 Pick any short story
10

3 kept for Wild card books

[Smriti]

Kan wrote: "I'm in with Smriti!"

our books list -

1) search-inside-yourself 288
2) what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures 444
3) the-one-thing 240
4) In_Xanadu 319
5) bulls-bears-and-other-beasts 298
6) the-devotion-of-suspect-x 298
7) your-best-year-ever 272
8) selfienomics 452
9)soulful-simplicity 256
10) beartown 408
11) Anne_of_Green_Gables 320
12) the-illicit-happiness-of-other-people 352
13) big-little-lies 460
14) Made_to_Stick 291
15) algorithms-to-live-by 368
16) Paris_to_the_Moon 368
17) the-radium-girls 480
18) before-we-were-yours 342
19) little-fires-everywhere 338
20) turn-right-at-machu-picchu 333
21) the-collected-short-stories - Satyajit ray 570
22) you-deserve-a-drink 288
23) a-long-way-home 288
24) Man's_Search_for_Meaning 184

Hope we are on with the challenge!! :)

[Ahtims]

excited
..
a
few more days

[Neha]

So tomorrow this starts ?
We will be having a separate thread for this ? or we gonna comment our updates here ?

Also once question to Mod's, we can start with any book right ? I mean if its not Mandatory, I can start with that and later I can come with Mandatory book...

**Yeeyyy Excited**

[Ahtims]

Readathon starting in a few hours .
Good luck folk