August 2014 Read-A-Thon

[Alannah]

Janessa wrote: "My progress:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Nook, page 119 of 291"

Really enjoyed that book.

[Alannah]

Just counted up my page numbers and I've already beaten my June total.

[[deleted user]]

Alannah wrote: "Janessa wrote: "My progress:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Nook, page 119 of 291"

Really enjoyed that book."
Not one of my favorites to tell you the truth:(

[Greg]

Thanks Sandy!

[Helen]

Just finished Sister, Rosamund Lupton 168 pages for Friday & Saturday
Started on Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver 22 pages so far......

[Tawallah]

I just completed Bleak House. My pages so far 264

[Colleen]

Finished The Bell Jar p197-216 =19 pages
Started Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood p. 1-133

Total 152

[[deleted user]]

I'll be working on

Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
Pale Fire

[Allen]

Saturday Dark Eden 16 pages
Precious Thing 20 pages

[Tawallah]

My count so far

Finished Bleak House 264 pages
Reading Delirium 138 pages

Total : 402 pages

[Melissa]

V is for Vengeance Total 160 pages read for Saturday.

[Tweedledum]

Early morning update
Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!
Now on page 145 ( +45)
The Little Grey Men finished .
(+30)

Running total 395

[Rhonda]

Saturday, August 30
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - 18
Murder by the Tail -33
Chocolate Dipped Death - 5
The Goldfinch 155

Total: 211

[Tweedledum]

Just checked my June read-a-thon entries and see that 3 of the books I dipped into then are still not much further on.....
Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
A Monk and Two Peas and
Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!

Cracking on with the last, perhaps I can make some serious progress with the other 2 before the end of today.

[Greg]

I'm highly distractible. After seeing another W S Merwyn poem posted in another group, I dug up The Carrier of Ladders and took it out to my balcony. Before I knew it, I'd slowly read and pondered the first 60 pages for hours and used up all my reading time.

Saturday Total: 60 pages

[Helen]

Greg wrote: "I'm highly distractible. After seeing another W S Merwyn poem posted in another group, I dug up The Carrier of Ladders and took it out to my balcony. Before I knew it, I'd slowly read..."

My whole life goes like that, I like to think of it as a charming character trait rather than a bad habit!

[KristiCats]

Colleen wrote: "Finished The Bell Jar p197-216 =19 pages
Started Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood"

How are you enjoying the Bell Jar? That has always been one of my favorite books.

[Melissa]

Just finished V is for Vengeance 65 pages for Sunday.

[Greg]

@Helen, I like your way of looking at it :)

[Katie]

Read 101 pages of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness today.

[Laurie]

Here is my totals
Never Let Me Go (pp 157-263) finished 106pages
The Blind Assassin (1-67)

[Melissa]

Sandy wrote: "The weekend has not gone as I had expected (hoped?). My total for Friday and Saturday is 85 pages. A bit disappointing, but an unexpected visitor really foiled my plans! (A "charming" unexpected vi..."

Whose the charming visiter? May we ask?

[Melissa]

Sandy wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Sandy wrote: "The weekend has not gone as I had expected (hoped?). My total for Friday and Saturday is 85 pages. A bit disappointing, but an unexpected visitor really foiled my plan..."

Four legs? Cooper?

[LauraT]

Reading and doing almost nothing else I managed to finish The Golem and the Jinni between yesterday and today. Plus the 130 pages of Shades of Grey read on friday is a total of 946. I don't think I'l read anything more for today!

[Melissa]

Sandy wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Sandy wrote: "The weekend has not gone as I had expected (hoped?). My total for Friday and Saturday is 85 pages. A bit disappointing, but an unexpected..."

LOL! I should of guessed. I do not have children of 25 years yet, so none fit into the charming bit. :) I thought of the dog, since we've been talking puppies. :)

Hope your weekend is enjoyable. Do you have any plans?

[LauraT]

My last week end of holiday!!!
Next one I'll go back to Perugia doing washing ups crying all my tears!!!

[Tweedledum]

A Monk and Two Peas now on page 82 so that's + 19Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians 23 pages read now on page 84.
Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!.page 160 +15

[Alannah]

Laurie wrote: "Here is my totals
Never Let Me Go (pp 157-263) finished 106pages
The Blind Assassin (1-67)"

What did you think of the Blind Assassin?

[[deleted user]]

Ok that's me; 296 pages of Gillespie and I by Jane Harris. Am enjoying the book but falling asleep. Goodnight.

[Alannah]

My overall total for the weekend is 3,666 pages.

[Helen]

Another 71 pages of Pigs in Heaven - so overall total = 257 pages

[Tweedledum]

Alannah wrote: "My overall total for the weekend is 3,666 pages."

Wow Alannah... Did you do anything else this weekend?

[Tweedledum]

My total 452. Not bad considering once again had little time to read much. Beat my June score so pleased about that! Pleased to have got back to the book on Gregor Mendel.

[Diane S ☔]

So far for Friday and Saturday

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. 30 p.
The Drop. 37 p.
The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit 38 p.
The Bone Clocks. 66 p.
The End of Innocence. 38 p.
Broken Monsters. 65 p.

Total = 266 p.

[B the BookAddict]

Total pages read for group Read-a-thon September is 8907 so far....

I think we all have to take our hats of to Alannah for her massive page count of 3666!

Our next read-a-thon will start on September 27th and an invite and a thread will be posted.

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

I thought we had until later to add our pages? I haven't added mine yet! Sorry!

[Beth]

I just finished Americanah which I read half of over the course of the weekend so 239 pages for me.

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

Also I'm still reading - it's 18:15 on Sunday where I'm at :)

[Greg]

Haven't submitted my Sunday count yet either - it's 8 PM in California Sunday night :) Just got back from a friend's Birthday party, and I'm curled up with a book.

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

Greg wrote: "Haven't submitted my Sunday count yet either - it's 8 PM in California Sunday night :) Just got back from a friend's Birthday party, and I'm curled up with a book."

Oh! Very good - same time zone :)

[Tawallah]

My total for the weekend is 521 pages. More than I expected.
Congrats to Alannah.

[Ellen]

My total for the August Read-a-Thon was 2074 pages.

[Shirley]

My total for the weekend was 149 pages.

[Rhonda]

Here it is 11:25 P.M. and you don't have my Sunday count. I thought we had until midnight. My Sunday total was 233.

[Markie]

Read part of the following:
Bittersweet, 154 pages
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, 66 pages
Murdering My Youth: a memoir, 26 pages
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage, 46 pages

My weekend total is 292 pages!!!

[Markie]

I thought we had until midnight Sunday to read and could post our totals early Monday morning!!!

[Greg]

Sunday count:

Finished last 53 pages of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Read another 31 pages of The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
Total Sunday: 84 pages

Overall:
Friday 159 + Saturday 60 + Sunday 84 =
303 pages total

[Sabine]

i read 171 pages :)

[[deleted user]]

I read
293 pages of The Golem and The Djinni
22 pages of Band Aid for a Broken Leg
5 pages of The Warden (guesstimate as it's on kindle in a book of total works)

Total for the weekend is 320!

Very pleased with that

[Recha]

I read 142 pages (from "The Samurai's Garden" and "Der Tod des Teemeisters") - not that much, but it was a busy weekend...