Read-A-Thon (Week #2) - Chat Room

[Jonel]

Feel free to use this thread to chat about what you're reading during the read-a-thon and how it's going for you!

[[deleted user]]

Just start not too long ago and so far so good. Hopefully can finished the book Carrie by tomorrow, but with homework and everything not sure that will happen.

[Trinity]

I am about to start Allegiant soon. And I am 20% in on The Epilogue by Kassandra Kush.

[Jonel]

Good morning everyone and happy first day of our week long read-a-thon.

I'm about half way through SkyFall and then we'll see what I pick up next!

[Jo-Anne]

My Kindle does not show the page numbers so I don't know how to tell how many I have read. Any suggestions?

[Jonel]

Jo-Anne wrote: "My Kindle does not show the page numbers so I don't know how to tell how many I have read. Any suggestions?"

If you look up the book on Goodreads it should give you a page count for the book, & your kindle gives you the percentage. So for example, if the book is 100 pages and you've read 65%, you've read 65 pages. Does that make sense?

[Jonel]

For total number of pages in the book? I use the total from the kindle edition on Goodreads.

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Finished reading Carrie. I thought it was a good book. I liked how Stephen King would build up the suspense without going into a lot of details, especially with the gory parts. Carrie is a character that you can almost fell sorry for and her actions, although probably not the best, are justified.

[Jonel]

Janessa wrote: "Finished reading Carrie. I thought it was a good book. I liked how Stephen King would build up the suspense without going into a lot of details, especially with the gory parts. Carrie is a characte..."

Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I keep debating reading more by Stephen King but am a big chicken....

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Jonel wrote: "Janessa wrote: "Finished reading Carrie. I thought it was a good book. I liked how Stephen King would build up the suspense without going into a lot of details, especially with the gory parts. Carr..."

From what I understand he also writes some non-horror books as well you could maybe try theses ones.

[Jonel]

Has anyone else read anything fantastic this week? I've a few that I have to add to my reading list once I get a moment. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow.

I just finished Sweet on You by Laura Drake. It was fantastic. A clash of the worlds between PBR & the Army.

[Kevin]

Janessa wrote: "Finished reading Carrie. I thought it was a good book. I liked how Stephen King would build up the suspense without going into a lot of details, especially with the gory parts. Carrie is a characte..."

I say this all the time but people don't believe me. Carrie will be one of those books that in the future will be considered an American classic, up there with Tom Sawyer and Catcher in the Rye. There will be leather-bound editions that people will spend too much for and never touch. I'm telling you, it's going to happen :-D

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Kevin wrote: "Janessa wrote: "Finished reading Carrie. I thought it was a good book. I liked how Stephen King would build up the suspense without going into a lot of details, especially with the gory parts. Carr..."
If I were a high school English/literature teacher I would have my students reading Carrie I think it would resonate with a lot of students theses day what with the problem with bullying and what not. Plus it what be fun to have the students compare and contract the different characters in books like Carrie, Tom Sawyer, and The Catcher In The Rye.

[Kevin]

Janessa wrote: "Kevin wrote: "Janessa wrote: "Finished reading Carrie. I thought it was a good book. I liked how Stephen King would build up the suspense without going into a lot of details, especially with the go..."

Carrie, Tom and Holden are purely American. They couldn't exist in other countries' literatures. And because each is the star of a good story, they stick in your mind forever.

[Jonel]

Hey all! I"ll be updating everyone's totals tomorrow so be sure to update your reading list!

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This was a lot of fun and I did manage to get some books read in process, even with having to write papers for classes this week:)

[Jonel]

Does anyone else find that without fail something comes up during a read-a-thon that limits your reading time? Be it an extra assignment at school, a crazy puppy, overtime at work, family stuff, etc? But at the same time the read-a-thon is still fun!

[Trinity]

Finished

[Jessica]

I was actually able to read a good amount this week. It has been so hot that I don't really feel like doing much of anything else.

[Trinity]

Great job, Jessica! ☺

[Jonel]

Hey all, now that I'm done playing with a glitter text maker, the sign ups for the next week long read-a-thon (Oct 5-12) are up here.