August 2014 Read-A-Thon

[Alannah]

Well Done everyone

[Tweedledum]

I've really enjoyed dipping into this thread all over the weekend. Well done to everyone and jaw drops to Ellen, Laura T and Alannah. Glad it's not a competition though!

@Greg I found The Penelopiad a fascinating book which led me to reflect in new ways about the Odyssey. I hope you enjoyed it.

@Laura T "all good things must come to an end" but that gives us space to appreciate the next good thing I find. I go back to work on Wednesday and am looking forward to reconnecting with my lovely work colleagues.

[KristiCats]

This has been fun!
Sweater Quest 220 pp
11/22/63 256 pp
My total for the weekend is 456 pp.

[Albert]

Read 100 pages over the weekend of The Lay of the Land.

Total for weekend read: 100 pages

[KristiCats]

Bette BookAddict wrote: "Total pages read for group Read-a-thon September is 8907 Congratulations to everyone and thank you for participating.

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

I only just now submitted mine. I thought we could read to midnight in our time zone and then post the totals Monday morning?

[Melissa]

Final count in Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is 43 pages for Sunday.

[[deleted user]]

Here are my totals for the weekend:

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers--284 pages (finished book)
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty--307 pages (finished book)
Pale Fire--75 pages
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure--85 pages

Total pages read:751

[Leslie]

Wow Terri, great numbers :)

Here are my totals:
On This Day in Tudor History: 8 pgs
Vintage Detective Stories: 58 pgs
Pale Fire: 38 pgs (finished book)
Close Quarters: 282 pgs (finished book)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: ~103 pgs (audiobook, # based on %s)
Zurich Conspiracy, The: 94 pgs

Total pages read: 583

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

My weekend totals: 616 pages


Different, Not Less: Ultimate Success Stories from People with Autism and Asperger's, 42 pages
The Cabinet of Curiosities, 128 pages
The Good Girl, 246 pages
The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back, 14 pages
Fives and Twenty-Fives, 132 pages
Brimstone, 54 pages

[Alannah]

Well Done everyone

[Trudy]

I am also in the Pacific time zone. I didn't get nearly as much reading accomplished as I had anticipated, but had a great weekend nonetheless. My totals:

Finished Provinces of Night - 85 pages
Started Arcadia - 38 pages
For my non-fiction read, I also started An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - 122 pages

Totalling only 235 pages

[Kim]

My Saturday total was 141 pages and Sunday was 157 so a total of 298 pages!

[Noel]

Oh, woops, forgot to include which books I read in my comment last night (deleted it). I read:

137 pages from Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
118 pages from Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
74 pages from I Am America by Stephen Colbert

Total 329 pages :)

[B the BookAddict]

Forgot to add the words 'so far' to my last sub-total post.

Total pages read for group Read-a-thon August is 15779 so far....

Congratulations everyone and thanks for joining in!

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

[LauraT]

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

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

Like breathing?

[Alannah]

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

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

Like breathing?"

Haha, didn't sleep very well over the weekend so read to see if it would help.

[Alannah]

Bette BookAddict wrote: "Forgot to add the words 'so far' to my last sub-total post.

Total pages read for group Read-a-thon August is 15779 so far....

Congratulations everyone and thanks for joining in!

Our next Read-a-..."

Putting it in my diary already.

[Tweedledum]

Wow that sounds like an enormous number of pages to me! Thanks for setting things up!

[Susannah]

My weekend total was 231 pages.

Never Change: 158 pages
Outlander: 73 pages

Apologies for the delay to my post!

[Vicki]

My total was 152. :)

[Rebecca]

I read 2,315 pages over the weekend.

[Alannah]

Well Done Rebecca.

[B the BookAddict]

Total pages read for group Read-a-thon August is, wait for it..... 18477... What a massive effort!

Congratulations everyone and thanks for joining in!

Our next Read-a-thon will start on September 27th and an invite and a thread will be posted. We might increase our expected total next month from 10,000 to 15,000 pages.

[Alannah]

Wow, that is amazing!

[Vicki]

Lets go for 20,000. We can do it!!

[B the BookAddict]

The target for September will be 15,000. The thing in setting a target in a thread such as this, is not to make the target unachievable.

[LauraT]

I do agree Bette!

[Leslie]

Rebecca wrote: "I read 2,315 pages over the weekend."

Wow, congratulations on the impressive total :)

[Greg]

Sounds good Sandy! Thanks!