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Kate's Readathon Tracker
April 2020Hour 1 (1-2PM): The Noose Hangs High 15 pages, 29 mins
Hour 2 (2-3PM): The Noose Hangs High 19 pages, 33 mins
Hour 3 (3-4PM): The Noose Hangs High 18 pages, 30 mins
Hour 4 (4-5PM): SPRINT The Crime Wave at Blandings 52 pages, 60 mins
Hour 5 (5-6PM): The Crime Wave at Blandings 29 pages, 32 mins
Hour 6 (6-7PM): The Noose Hangs High 12 pages, 23 mins
Hour 7 (7-8PM): -
Hour 8 (8-9PM): SPRINT Marley and Me 43 pages, 60 mins
Hour 9 (9-10PM): The Noose Hangs High 8 pages, 17 mins
Hour 10 (10-11PM): SPRINT The Noose Hangs High 30 pages, 60 mins
Hour 11 (11-12Midnight): The Noose Hangs High 9 pages, 19 mins
Hour 12 (12-1AM): Marley and Me 17 pages, 24 mins
Hour 13 (1-2AM):
Hour 14 (2-3AM):
Hour 15 (3-4AM):
Hour 16 (4-5AM):
Hour 17 (5-6AM):
Hour 18 (6-7AM):
Hour 19 (7-8AM): Marley and Me 17 pages, 23 mins
Hour 20 (8-9AM): Marley and Me 19 pages, 24 mins
Hour 21 (9-10AM): Marley and Me 24 pages, 31 min
Hour 22 (10-11AM): Marley and Me 30 pages, 36 mins
Hour 23 (11-12 Noon): Marley and Me 22 pages, 28 mins
Hour 24 (12-1PM): Marley and Me 40 pages, 55 mins
Total Pages Read: 404
Total Time Read: 9 hours 44 minutes
Coffees: 4
Books Finished:
BINGO Achievement:
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Switched to a short story and have now finished my first book: The Crime Wave at Blandings which was just the thing for a readathon, short at 81 pages and humorous.
Did the Sprint in hour 8 and started Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog which I'm really enjoying.
Just finished another sprint in hour 10. Its nearly 11.30pm here in the UK so I'm going to head for bed and read a bit there. See you bright and early to continue in the morning.
I’m from the UK too, I’m started to get tired so think I’m going to head to bed & pick it up again in the morning.
Good Morning! I finished my second book last night. First cup of coffee consumed this morning and I'm ready to crack on.
Final Summing Up:I finished two books:
The Crime Wave at Blandings
The Noose Hangs High
Total pages read: 404
Total time read: 9 hours 44 minutes (a PB! beating my last record by 18 minutes)
1 BINGO Line:
Post 3 books, Author Initial in Dewey, Happy Ending, featuring a holiday and read for 1 hour 3 times
But I did get 12/25 Bingo squares
I spent less time trying to keep up with the blogless threads and just dipping in instead. I did 4 x 1 hour sprints which really helped and I'd definitely participate in them again. I also kept up with the hourly posts on the main website. Although I've joined Twitter I didn't actually use it so that could be something I do next time.
Its been a really great way to spend lockdown and I really hope there is a Summer reverse readathon and even something perhaps on a smaller scale before then. Fingers crossed.
Thanks Everyone. See you all again next time. :)
Great job! Those sprints really work, don’t they?! Happy reading until the next time!
I forgot to do any sprints this time, but I usually love to do those. You had a great RAT. See you at the next one!
Vicki Willis wrote: "I forgot to do any sprints this time, but I usually love to do those..."Same here! I use to mark them in my calendar but because there weren’t any threads before the start of the readathon, I completely forgot....
I'm here for the Reverse Readathon and about to start looking at a potential TBR list.I'm going to have a couple of targets: I'd like to read over 500 pages and for 12+ hours.
That is a great goal! I should do something like that too since my husband will be home for half of it and he makes it hard to do. lol
Starting to make plans for snacks and getting a TBR list together although I don't want to commit too early until we see the Bingo board. I think I'll also take a sneaky peek at some other blogless threads - I'm after a new format to use as a summary post to update progress. Normally I stumble across someone's page towards the end and am envious of how they have catalogued their readathon!
Going grocery shopping on Friday but my meal plan is as follows:Breakfast
Chocolate chip muffins
Lunch
Crudités
Supper
Pulled pork & cole slaw
Drinks
Coffee
Water
Blood orange iced tea
Pepsi
DD iced mocha coffee (if I leave the house)
Snacks
Watermelon
Dried snap peas
Teddy Grahams
Skittles/Peanut M&Ms
Nice list Elyse, I'm getting hungry just reading it!
So I've got a TBR list together which should get me a couple of BINGO lines and fits in with my NEWTS and other challenges too:
Elyse wrote: "Going grocery shopping on Friday but my meal plan is as follows:Breakfast
Chocolate chip muffins
Lunch
Crudités
Supper
Pulled pork & cole slaw
Drinks
Coffee
Water
Blood orange iced tea
Pepsi
DD ic..."
Yum!
Kate wrote: "So I've got a TBR list together which should get me a couple of BINGO lines and fits in with my NEWTS and other challenges too:[bookcover:T..."Great stack! I love the Brother Cadfael series.
My menu is likely to look something like this:Breakfast - Grapefruit, yoghurt
Lunch - Cheese sandwich, crisps or Jacket potato
Dinner - Left over pizza? Or something from the freezer!
Snacks - Red pepper hummus with carrot sticks, cheese bites, marshmallows, smarties, chocolate hobnobs
Drinks - Coffee, lemonade, pineapple juice, elderflower cordial
I think I've made more effort with the snacks and drinks than any main meals!
August 2020 Reverse Readathon Tracking:Targets: 500 pages, 10 hours
Hour 1 (1-2AM): Sleep
Hour 2 (2-3AM): Sleep
Hour 3 (3-4AM): Sleep
Hour 4 (4-5AM): Sleep
Hour 5 (5-6AM): Sleep
Hour 6 (6-7AM): SPRINT - Ruins 37 pages, 60 mins
Hour 7 (7-8AM): Ruins 16 pages, 22 mins
Hour 8 (8-9AM): Social media
Hour 9 (9-10AM): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 28 pages, 41 mins
Hour 10 (10-11AM): Hair cut!
Hour 11 (11-12Noon): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 17 pages, 22 mins
Hour 12 (12-1PM): SPRINT - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 39 pages, 60 mins
Hour 13 (1-2PM): Calm: Thoughts and Quotations for Every Day 96 pages, 12 mins
Hour 14 (2-3PM): The Raven in the Foregate 23 pages, 35 mins
Hour 15 (3-4PM): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 21 pages, 29 mins
Hour 16 (4-5PM): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 18 pages, 29 mins
Hour 17 (5-6PM): Visitor
Hour 18 (6-7PM): The Raven in the Foregate 38 pages, 58 mins
Hour 19 (7-8PM): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 11 pages, 17 mins
Hour 20 (8-9PM): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 34 pages, 47 mins
Hour 21 (9-10PM): Up the Faraway Tree 95 pages, 21 mins
Hour 22 (10-11PM): The Raven in the Foregate 23 pages, 38 mins
Hour 23 (11-12 Midnight): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 11 pages, 16 mins
Hour 24 (12-1AM): Sleep
Total Pages Read: 507
Total Time Read: 507 minutes! (8 hours, 27 mins)
Coffees: only 1 it was too hot!
Books Finished:
AUGUST 2020 BINGORow 1 x x - x -
Row 2 - x - - -
Row 3 x x x x x
Row 4 x x - x x
Row 5 - x - - x
Row 1
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- Read 200 pages
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- Read a book outside comfort zone
Row 2
- TBR for over a year
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- Released within last year
- Exercise for 30 mins
- Diverse character or author
Row 3
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Row 4
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- Read a book in the first person
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Row 5
- Blue on the cover
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- Read a book with travelling
- Make your own challenge!
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Kate wrote: "My menu is likely to look something like this:Breakfast - Grapefruit, yoghurt
Lunch - Cheese sandwich, crisps or Jacket potato
Dinner - Left over pizza? Or something from the freezer!
Snacks - Re..."
Snacks are where it's at! lol.
Good morning! the readathon started at 1am here so I missed the first 5 hours. But I started with a Sprint at 6am so I've made a dent in one book already and ticked off some bingo squares too.Looking forward to a full day of reading and preparing with a coffee and some toast.
Had to nip out for a long awaited hair cut this morning but I've been back with the hour 12 sprint and made good progress with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Snacks consumed - hummus and cheesy bites and crisps.
Going to do a bit of social media catch up now and grab some lunch.
Finished my first book:
96 pages in 12 minutes! It's a lovely small quotation book. Very inspiring and good for breaking up the more substantial novels.
Had a busy afternoon and early evening reading. Making good progress with my books. Think I'm on track for my page target of over 500 but not sure I'll reach 10 hours of reading. Its 9.30pm here and we finish at 1am so I'll go as long as I can before I'm too tired.
Also managed to get 2 bingo lines now. :)
Awesome job considering how much other stuff you also crammed in!
Thanks Vicki.I've just calculated my reading figures from yesterday. It looks like I read 507 pages (my target was 500! Hooray!) and by sheer fluke for 507 minutes! What are the chances of that?!
Final Round Up for August 2020Total pages read: 507 (target was 500 - Target reached!)
Total time read: 507 minutes (target was 10 hours - read for 8 hours 27 mins)
Total books finished: 2
Books progressed with: 3
Bingo - 3 bingo lines completed, 15 boxes out of 25
Looking forward to October, see you all then. :)
Way to go! I love your Bingo summary chart -- very clever!
Kate wrote: "Final Round Up for August 2020Total pages read: 507 (target was 500 - Target reached!)
Total time read: 507 minutes (target was 10 hours - read for 8 hours 27 mins)
Total books finished: 2..."
That's so funny your pages and minutes are the same! Great job! See you in October!
I'm back! Just signed up for October 2020 and already mulling over some suitable Autumnal / Halloween inspired books for the TBR list...
Yay! It must be fall if it’s almost Dewey’s Readathon time
Yay is right! A day 'away' is just the thing right now.
Going to give the Pre-Readathon Mini Challenge a go: 4/15Realistically I'll probably manage about 5.
1 - Read a "long" book (over 500 pages)
2 - Read a "short" book (under 250 pages)
3 - Pick 5 of your favorite genres and enter them in a randomizer. Read a book in that genre
4 - Read a "spooky" book Vampirates: Tide of Terror
5 - Read a book that is 75% one colour on the cover.
6 - Read a book that was published in the last 18 months
7 - Read a book that was published more than 100 years ago
8 - Read a book set in the Fall or with a cover that looks like it is Fall
9 - Read a book set in the Spring or with a cover that looks like it is Spring (trees blooming, etc)
10 - Read at least 75% of a book when it's dark outside Elizabeth Is Missing
11 - Read at least 75% of a book outside (please social distance... a park or back patio will do fine)
12 - Read a book with an animal (real or made up) on the cover
13 - Read a book with a main character or author whose first name starts with the same letter as your first name.
14 - Take five books you really want to read and put them in a randomizer and read whichever one is chosen.
15 - Read a book that is set in a location you wish you could visit or live in. This location can be real or imaginary.
Pre-Readathon Mini Challenge - Read 24 hours over 7 days:Sat 10th Oct: Elizabeth Is Missing 20 mins Vampirates: Tide of Terror 1 hour 37 mins
Sun 11th Oct: Vampirates: Tide of Terror 1 hour 45 mins
Mon 12th Oct: Vampirates: Tide of Terror 4 hours 30 mins Quartet in Autumn 25 mins
Tues 13th Oct: Quartet in Autumn 52 mins
Wed 14th Oct: Quartet in Autumn 2 hours 1 min
Thur 15th Oct: Quartet in Autumn 56 mins
Fri 16th Oct: Quartet in Autumn 31 mins
Currently reading:
Books Finished:
Final total: 12 hours 57 mins
Pleased I reached 12 hours 57 minutes in the pre-readathon challenge. I was never going to get 24 hours but over half way is an achievement for me.
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