Vicki's Readathon Record

[Susan]

Enjoy your reading!!

[Vicki Willis]

Beginning Survey

1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
San Diego,CA USA

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
The Blame Game

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
Peanut M&Ms

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
My fav place to read is floating in the pool.

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today?
Just enjoy and not worry about staying up all night.

[Ann A]

Great to see you back, Vicki! It looks like you have some interesting books.

[Lena]

Vicki Willis wrote: "Possible TBR

Fiction:
The Blame Game

[book:Shades of Gray: A Novel o..."

Loving your TBR! Happy Reading!!

[Susy]

Vicki Willis wrote: "Beginning Survey

1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
San Diego,CA USA

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
[boo..."


Floating in the pool! Now that sounds great!!

[Vicki Willis]

End of RaT survey

How would you assess your reading overall?
It went great for the time I had available.

Did you have a strategy, and if so, did you stick to it?
No strategy this time. Just reading for pleasure which was nice.

What was your favorite snack?
apple with peanut butter and popcorn

Wanna volunteer for our next event?
I might moderate an hour if the weekend falls on one I am available.

[Vicki Willis]

FINAL STATS July 2022

Total Pages: 442
Audible pages: 61
Audible time: 2 hrs

Progressed:


Finished:

[Susan]

Looks like another successful readathon, Vicki. See you in October!

[Susan]

Looks like another successful readathon, Vicki. See you in October!

[Ann A]

Your stats are impressive for not being able to participate the whole time, Vicki! Hope you get to float in your pool and continue reading on Sunday :)

[Susan]

Here’s to reading for pleasure! Cheers for another successful Readathon, Vicki!

[Cynda]

Glad you got to participate this time. Been a while. . . . Hope to see you again in October.

[Susy]

Vicki Willis wrote: "End of RaT survey

How would you assess your reading overall?
It went great for the time I had available.

Did you have a strategy, and if so, did you stick to it?
No strategy this time. Just re..."

Reading for pleasure sounds awesome!

Apple with peanut butter and popcorn? All together? Need to try that!

See you in October hopefully!

[Vicki Willis]

Lol
No not all together. Though..... Hmmmm....
Apple with peanut butter
And
Popcorn

[Cynda]

Hmmm I'm liking that pretty good. . . .Maybe a bit altered with apples and walnuts and popcorn might please me more. . . .Good suggestion.

[Vicki Willis]

Dewey's RaT October '22

Reading from San Diego
Start time 5am

Let the reading begin!

[Vicki Willis]

Plans... Plans... Plans...

Possible TBR

Books
The Maze
The Prisoner (kindle)
The Law of Innocence (kindle)

Audible
The Final Girl Support Group
The House on the Water (audible)

Novellas/shorts
Summer of '79: A Summer of '69 Story (libby)
Snatched (cloud library)

Childrens/Middle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

And anything I have already going at that time.


Possible Snacks
Apples with chunky peanut butter
Popcorn
Peanut M&Ms
Diet Coke

[Susy]

Need to start planning too! Have a great readathon, Vicki!

[Cynda]

Glad to see you here Vickie! You've reminded me it's time to firm up some of my reading plans :-)

[Vicki Willis]

Sprints

Hour 1
Pages: 43
The Sixth Wedding

Hour 4
Pages: 52


Hour 8
Pages: 42


Hour 12
Pages: 38


Hour 16
Pages:


Hour 24
Pages:

[Lamilla]

Enjoy the readathon, Vicki! Nice snacks

[Vicki Willis]

Check Ins

Hours 1-6 (5am - 11am)
Pages: 173
Audio: 45 Minutes

Progress:


Finished:


total pages 173

Hour 7-12 (11 am - 5 pm)
Pages: 122
Audio: 45 min

Progress:

Finished:


total pages: 295



Hour 13 - 18 ( 5pm -11pm)
Pages: 55
Audio:

Progress:


Finished:

total pages 350



Hour 19 - 24 (11pm - 5 am)
Pages: 27
Audio:

Progress:

Finished:

total pages 437

[Elyse]

Welcome back, Vicki! I'm leaving for if if if I manage to finish my whole TBR. If I decide not to continue with House of Leaves this weekend. lol. We'll see! Otherwise, I think I'm going to start it tomorrow. Happy readathon!

[Vicki Willis]

I am using all new/unread books for today. Easier for page counts!
Enjoy!
Have fun!

I have been awake since 4am! My thon starts at.5am - terrible way to start bc I am already tired!!!

[Lamilla]

5am is a challenging start time for sure. Stay strong!

[Elyse]

Vicki Willis wrote: "I am using all new/unread books for today. Easier for page counts!
Enjoy!
Have fun!

I have been awake since 4am! My thon starts at.5am - terrible way to start bc I am already tired!!!"

Oof I don't think I could do that! But I did wake up at 6:30am so maybe I could. lol. 4am is not a pleasant time but it is quiet.

[Cynda]

Good morning Vickie! Already meeting goals, I see. Well done! Wishing you continued success today.

[Cynda]

Good morning Vickie! Hope all is off to a great start.

[Susy]

Vicki Willis wrote: "I am using all new/unread books for today. Easier for page counts!
Enjoy!
Have fun!

I have been awake since 4am! My thon starts at.5am - terrible way to start bc I am already tired!!!"


Oof, yes that is early. That's why I don't like the reverse readathon very much, it starts at 2am and even though I plan to start later, like 6 or 7 am, I don't really sleep, like the readathon-adrenaline is already flowing lol

[Vicki Willis]

Well the finals are in!

Total pages: 437
Audio time: 1 hour 30 minutes (60 pages included in total)

Books completed:


Books progressed:


I had a great 'Thon even though it wasn't how I planned. The hubby had change of plans and was home and I went to bed and slept a regular schedule .
See everyone in April!

[Lamilla]

Congrats on a successful event!

[Susy]

Vicki Willis wrote: "Well the finals are in!

Total pages: 437
Audio time: 1 hour 30 minutes (60 pages included in total)

I had a great 'Thon even though it wasn't how I planned. The hubby had change of plans and was home and I went to bed and slept a regular schedule .
See everyone in April!..."

Good to hear you had a great readathon, Vicki! See you in April!

[Elyse]

Vicki Willis wrote: "Well the finals are in!

Total pages: 437
Audio time: 1 hour 30 minutes (60 pages included in total)

Books completed:


Books pr..."

It's never a bad thing to get a normal amount of sleep! 😉 You still read from a lot of books! See you in April!

[Ann A]

Glad to hear you had a great 'thon, Vicki. See you in April!

[Cynda]

Glad to hear you enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :-)

[Cynda]

Just to catch up from previous conversations, I did find a novel by Stephen King I liked: Dolores Clairborne. She went kinda crazy didn't see. Better than the movie I have liked for many years.

Hope to see you back in April.

[Vicki Willis]

Post Read a Thon Lap ( thanks for sharing the idea Lamilla!)

October 23rd - finished audiobook, The House on the Water
October 24th
October 25th - read 30 minutes straight The Family Game
October 26th
October 27th
October 28th - finish 1 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
October 29th

- finish 1 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- read 50 pages straight
- read 100 pages from one book in one sitting
- finish an audiobook The House on the Water
- read a book by a familiar author
- read a book from a series
- finish 3 books
- read for 30 minutes without interruptions The Family Game
- read for 90 minutes without interruptions

[Lamilla]

Glad it was useful for you, Vicky!
Hope to mark something as finished as well very soon!

[Vicki Willis]

Just found out that the dates work for me to do the Spring Read a Thon!
Yay! Very excited.

Update: Wah wah wah... Found out I need to do a modified thon this time. I have to take my mom to a dinner AND I had the opportunity for a spa day and hotel stay on Friday. Sooo... Let's modify!

SPRING 2023 RaT

Reading from San Diego.

[Cynda]

Yeah good to hear! See you then.

[Vanessa]

Awesome . I'll be there too . Turning pages from Albuquerque , NM
Welcome !

[Elyse]

Yay Vicki welcome back!

[Ann A]

That's great, Vicki! I've started my 30-day countdown to...readoff (?) Ha ha.

[Cynda]

Hi Vickie! I see you have listed a murder mystery by James Patterson. Usually I like cozy mysteries. This year for a classocs bingo card, I need a mystery or thriller published pre-2000. Any suggestions? I have asked Lynnette too, but I am better with a list to choose from. Can't do very thrilling, just some thrilling.

[Vicki Willis]

Cynda,

Maybe Michael Connelly would be good for you..
His Harry Bosch series started in the 1990's
The first one is The Black Echo.

Or maybe Harlan Coben
He has a Myron Bolitar series and stand alones.
Both have published in the 90's.

Good luck!

[Susy]

Vicki Willis wrote: "Just found out that the dates work for me to do the Spring Read a Thon!
Yay! Very excited.

SPRING 2023 RaT

Reading from San Diego. Starting at 5am."


Yay! See you then!

[Vicki Willis]

UPDATE on my plan...

Am doing a modified RaT this time.

I will be coming home from a spa day on Saturday morning, so planning to start for hour 1, then break while I drive home with my friend.
Then I have to take my mother to a dinner that night so leaving again around hour 12 and we will see when I get back.

Any reading time is good reading time, so just planning on taking it easy. Not about the numbers this time.

[Cynda]

Excellent plans with friend, spa, mom, food. . . .I see your co-mod request which I think only Jaime can address as I tried to edit and could not. . . .I will check out your co-mod hour threads definitely.

[Elyse]

Vicki Willis wrote: "UPDATE on my plan...

Am doing a modified RaT this time.

I will be coming home from a spa day on Saturday morning, so planning to start for hour 1, then break while I drive home with my friend.
..."

Oooh spa day, how nice!!

[Susan]

I totally agree — any reading time is good time. Enjoy your spa day, too!