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Oct 20, 2018 06:45PM
Dinner sounds excellent. I am looking forward to seeing how you like The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.
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Morning everyone! I'm back up and running again. Hoping to make some progress in the last few hours.
Kate wrote: "Morning everyone! I'm back up and running again. Hoping to make some progress in the last few hours."Morning Kate! Good luck for the last few hours. I have to say, I made much better progress this morning than most of yesterday... hope it goes well for you too!
Closing Survey1. Which hour was most daunting for you? None, I paced myself reasonably well.
2. Tell us ALLLLL the books you read! Finished Batman: Death Mask and The Library of Unrequited Love continued Sharpe's Battle
3. Which books would you recommend to other Read-a-thoners? Short ones so you feel you've made progress!
4. What’s a really rad thing we could do during the next Read-a-thon that would make you happy? Its great as it is!
5. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? Would you be interested in volunteering to help organize and prep? I'll be here next time. :)
Kate wrote: "A bit of a slow start but we had a family literary meal this evening. I promised to let you know the menu so here it is:
Hors d'oeuvres - 39 vol au vents with different fillings. Each one represe..."
Wow, that sounds amazing and fun!
I'm back and already looking at TBR potentials. The last couple of Read-a-thons I've read 413 pages and 464 pages so my main goal this time will be to crack 500 pages.
Kate wrote: "I'm back and already looking at TBR potentials. The last couple of Read-a-thons I've read 413 pages and 464 pages so my main goal this time will be to crack 500 pages."An admirable goal. I think my goal will be more about time devoted to reading as that is where I struggle. I love all the online stuff and I let life distract me so I think I will go explore time spent on previous read-a-thons reading and set my goal! Thanks for the inspiration to have a "goal".
Kate wrote: "I'm back and already looking at TBR potentials. The last couple of Read-a-thons I've read 413 pages and 464 pages so my main goal this time will be to crack 500 pages."Welcome back! You can do it!
Waiting to plan my TBR pile once I've seen the Bingo board.In the meantime I'm looking forward to the pre-readathon challenge of reading for 24 hours over 7 days. I think I normally manage about 8 hours so I'll be aiming for 12.
Been shopping now and planned my food/drink/snacks:Breakfast: Grapefruit and/or croissants
Lunch: Jacket potato with cheese or coleslaw
Dinner: Pork & veg in the slow cooker then raspberries & chocolate mousse
Drinks: Coffee, hot chocolate, diet coke, lemonade
Snacks: Walnuts, marshmallows, chocolate digestive biscuits
The snacks aren't as healthy as they could be but I think there's enough fruit & veg on the list to balance it out!
Kate wrote: "Been shopping now and planned my food/drink/snacks:Breakfast: Grapefruit and/or croissants
Lunch: Jacket potato with cheese or coleslaw
Dinner: Pork & veg in the slow cooker then raspberries & ch..."
Mmm....sounds delicious!
BINGO ATTEMPT: I'm not going for a Blackout, I'll just see what I end up with!Chart courtesy of Carmen - thankyou!:
- B --I-- N --G--O
[✔️][❌][✔️][❌][✔️] 1
[✔️][✔️][✔️][❌][✔️] 2
[✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️] 3
[✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️] 4
[❌][✔️][❌][❌][✔️] 5
Row 1
Participate in hourly discussions Goodreads: Discussions 1,3,6,17 & 19
Listen to an audiobook:
Wear something bookish related: T-shirt of Ryuk from Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Reread a book:
Read a book with illustrations: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Row 2
Read for an hour straight: 2nd Sprint in hour 5
Take a break and do some stretches: Done
Read a book with 3 words or less in the title: Northanger Abbey
Participate in a mini challenge:
Read 200 pages: Read 682 pages
Row 3 BINGO!!!
Read a genre outside of your comfort zone: Magical Realism
Read a book with more than 300 pages: An Almond for a Parrot 413 pages
FREE SPACE
Eat a health snack: Carrot sticks
Read a book with a person on the cover:
Row 4
Read in your PJs: Done
Read a book with your Harry Potter house colours on the covers:
Finish a book: One Hundred Muddy Paws For Thought
Read for a total of 5 hours: Read 9 hours 26 mins
Cheer on other readers for 30 minutes: Hour 20
Row 5
Read a book with diversity:
Post a book review (on GR, blog, etc): An Almond for a Parrot
Post a picture on Twitter/Instagram @Readathon:
Read a new to you book:
Read in 2 separate locations: Sitting room and Bedroom
April 2019:Hour 1 (1-2PM): An Almond for a Parrot 42 pages
Hour 2 (2-3PM): An Almond for a Parrot 26 pages
Hour 3 (3-4PM): One Hundred Muddy Paws For Thought 91 pages FINISHED
Hour 4 (4-5PM): An Almond for a Parrot 22 pages
Hour 5 (5-6PM): An Almond for a Parrot 56 pages
Hour 6 (6-7PM): An Almond for a Parrot 7 pages FINISHED
Hour 7 (7-8PM): J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 86 pages
Hour 8 (8-9PM): The Iliad 14 pages (Book 14 FINISHED)
Hour 9 (9-10PM): Northanger Abbey 18 pages
Hour 10 (10-11PM): J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 87 pages FINISHED
Hour 11 (11-12Midnight): The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 38 pages
Hour 12 (12-1AM): Sleep
Hour 13 (1-2AM): Sleep
Hour 14 (2-3AM): Sleep
Hour 15 (3-4AM): Sleep
Hour 16 (4-5AM): Sleep
Hour 17 (5-6AM): The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 33 pages
Hour 18 (6-7AM): Sleep
Hour 19 (7-8AM): The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 28 pages
Hour 20 (8-9AM): Social Media
Hour 21 (9-10AM): Northanger Abbey 24 pages
Hour 22 (10-11AM): The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 32 pages
Hour 23 (11-12Noon): Pegasus and the Flame 40 pages
Hour 24 (12-1PM): The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 38 pages
Books finished:
Total Pages Read: (Target 500) 682
Total Time Read: 9 hours 26 minutes
Proposed TBR List:An Almond for a Parrot (currently reading)
Northanger Abbey
The Iliad (from book 14)
The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (fotonovel)
One Hundred Muddy Paws For Thought
Five Run Away Together
The Flame of Olympus
The Lexicon of Comicana
The Last Hero
The first 5 meet Bingo criteria but there's a mix of YA, kids, graphic novel, classic, myth etc so I can pick whatever takes my fancy. The priority will be to finish An Almond for a Parrot.
Kate wrote: "Proposed TBR List:An Almond for a Parrot (currently reading)
Northanger Abbey
The Iliad (from book 14)..."
Woohoo for a genre mix! Good luck!
Yay for Jane Austen, Gary Larson, and Enid Blyton! Good luck!
Here we go...1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today? I'm in the UK and the weather is currently overcast as usual!
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Starting Northanger Abbey
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Raspberries and chocolate digestives
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I have a very noisy budgie who will chirp his way through the next 24hours with me!
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? Participate in the reading sprints which I haven't done before.
I've never done the reading sprints either! Maybe I will too!
First update (hours 1-3) and its all going well so far.Reading Update:
I've read 68 pages of my current read An Almond for a Parrot and I've finished a small book One Hundred Muddy Paws For Thought
Refreshment Update:
I've had 1 coffee, 2 chocolate digestives and a hotcross bun!
Second update (hours 4-6)Reading Update:
Now finished my second book An Almond for a Parrot
Refreshment Update:
Diet coke, carrot sticks & crisps with dips
Nice. Two finished books. Well done!Kate wrote: "Second update (hours 4-6)
Reading Update:
Now finished my second book An Almond for a Parrot
Refreshment Update:
Diet coke, carrot sticks & crisps with dips"
Finished my book in progress. Read146 pages. Started my new one 46 pages in.
Great job! Always feels to finish a book before the halfway point, even if you didn't start it during the 'thon!
Third update (hours 7-9)Reading Update:
Started The Lord of the Rings Fotonovel and got halfway through it.
Read all of Book 14 from The Iliad
Started Northanger Abbey
Refreshment Update:
Small glass of wine with pork slow cooker meal followed by raspberries & chocolate mousse and then a coffee and marshmallows as the evening has gone on.
Hour 10 I finished the Fotonovel of Lord of the Rings. I also achieved Bingo in row 3.Its coming up for 11.30pm in the UK so I'm heading for bed with my Gary Larson book so I can tick of the read in PJs box on the Bingo!
Good Morning! Its 8am here.I woke at 5am and got 20 mins of reading in then went back to sleep. Going to spend this hour catching up with Goodreads posts and then join the next sprint at hour 21.
Final summary:Books read:
An Almond for a Parrot 153 pages FINISHED
One Hundred Muddy Paws For Thought 91 pages FINISHED
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 173 pages FINISHED
The Iliad 14 pages FINISHED BOOK 14
Northanger Abbey 42 pages
The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 169 pages
Pegasus and the Flame 40 pages
Total pages read: 682
Total hours read: 9 hours 26 minutes
Bingo: Completed 4 lines
Kate wrote: "Final summary:Books read:
An Almond for a Parrot 153 pages FINISHED
One Hundred Muddy Paws For Thought 91 pages FINISHED
[book:J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring..."
Great job, Kate! OMG The Far Side! My dad had a couple of those books when I was a kid. I did not "get" them when I read them. lol!
Reverse Readathon - Excited to be back for August. :)
My tentative TBR pile looks something like this:
(currently reading and about 75% through, there's 1011 pages!)
(currently reading at book 15)
Audio
They all meet criteria for various ongoing reading challenges, and the Iliad I've dragged out for every readathon I've done, and at the rate I'm reading it it'll be with me for quite a few more!
Kate wrote: "My tentative TBR pile looks something like this: (currently reading and about 75% through, there's 1011 pages!) ..."
Nice variety! Circe is good!
Thanks! I've been looking forward to reading it. Madeline Miller is a favourite author since I read her first novel. This readathon starts at 1am for me!!! I'm out first thing Saturday morning too so I'll be looking to join in for the second half more so than the first. Off to sort out snacks next...
Kate wrote: "Thanks! I've been looking forward to reading it. Madeline Miller is a favourite author since I read her first novel. This readathon starts at 1am for me!!! I'm out first thing Saturday morning to..."
I liked Achilles more than Circe. But only just! I gave them both 4 stars.
I love "Gone With the Wind". That's a great one to absorb you for several hours (although you probably read faster than I do)!
Reverse Readathon BingoOOXX
XOOX
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XOOX
A1: Read a hyped book or rated 4 stars on GR
A2: Read under the covers done
A3: Pick a TBR book blindfolded
A4: Read a book that was free (borrowed, gifted, library etc.)
B1: Wear something backwards
B2: Read out loud (to your pet, friend, or yourself)
B3: Take a break and watch a TV show book adaptation
B4: Read 250 pages
C1: Read a book with an animal on the cover
C2: Share a food or drink recipe (GR, twitter, IG)
C3: Read a book with your least favorite color on the cover
C4: A book with a person's name in the title
D1: Read 2 books
D2: Read a book with no illustrations
D3: Read when it's dark outside 4.30am
D4: Comment on a GR post Several in Blogless forum
August 2019Hour 1 (1-2AM): Sleep
Hour 2 (2-3AM): Sleep
Hour 3 (3-4AM): Sleep
Hour 4 (4-5AM): Gone with the Wind 9 pages
Hour 5 (5-6AM): Sleep
Hour 6 (6-7AM): Sleep
Hour 7 (7-8AM): Goodreads
Hour 8 (8-9AM): Audio The Power and the Glory 28 mins
Hour 9 (9-10AM): Out
Hour 10 (10-11AM): Out
Hour 11 (11-12noon): Out
Hour 12 (12-1PM): Audio The Power and the Glory 36 mins
Hour 13 (1-2PM): Gone with the Wind 10 pages
Hour 14 (2-3PM): Gone with the Wind 18 pages
Hour 15 (3-4PM): Station 16 56 pages FINISHED
Hour 16 (4-5PM): Gone with the Wind 19 pages
Hour 17 (5-6PM): A Street Cat Named Bob 32 pages
Hour 18 (6-7PM): A Street Cat Named Bob 10 pages
Hour 19 (7-8PM): A Street Cat Named Bob 14 pages
Hour 20 (8-9PM): Gone with the Wind 11 pages
Hour 21 (9-10PM): Gone with the Wind 16 pages
Hour 22 (10-11PM): A Street Cat Named Bob 46 pages
Hour 23 (11-12midnight): A Street Cat Named Bob 4 pages
Hour 24 (12-1AM): Sleep
Books Completed:
Pages Read: 245
Audio Time: 1 hour 4 mins
Time Reading: 5 hours 6 mins
Total Reading Time: 6 hours 10 mins
Coffees: 3
Good luck with the readathon :) So many great choices there. I've yet to read Gone with the Wind but am saving it for December... for no other reason than it feels like a December book.
Its just gone 7.30am here. I woke in the night and got about 20 minutes reading in at 4am! lolBut now I'm up and ready to start. Will just have a couple of hours interruption later as I'm out for some of this morning but then I'll be back and hoping to see it through to the end.
Opening Survey:1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today? And what time is it where you are? I'm in the Uk and we started at 1am, although I'm posting this at 8am
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Finishing Gone with the Wind
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Choc ice
4) Do you have a #reversereadathon plan of attack? I've been asleep or will be out for the first half so I'm planning to get stuck in for the second half.
5) Are you doing the readathon solo or with others? I've told everyone to leave me well alone! lol
LolI love your answer to number 5!
I'm back from being out and I've added an audio book to the TBR pile which I had on in the car so I didn't miss out on too much reading time!
Audiobooks are such a lifeline for me! I've been listening to one since I woke up this morning at 5am. And now it's 9:30am!
Finished my first book. It was a graphic novel. Only 56 pages
Quite a disturbing read if I'm honest!
Been cracking on with Gone with the Wind slowly but surely getting through it. I have to say A Street Cat Named Bob is a much easier read and I'm enjoying spells of that in between.
Well I'm getting too tired to carry on so I'll call it a day. I'll head to bed and "read under the covers" for the Bingo and update here sometime tomorrow.Have loved the community feel here on Goodreads - I just have to figure out how best to balance GR and reading in future!
Looks like a fun mix of reads! Enjoy the end of your Readathon! I’m trying to figure out that balance, too
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