Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 7th June - Sunday 9th June 2019

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I enjoyed that one Valerie :)

[Suz]

Hi Guys. On my phone today so apologies for no links.

Friday I read 11 pages from ‘Lovesome’ by Sally Seltman and 55 pages via audio of ‘Gone by midnight’ by Candace Fox.

Total for Friday is 66.

Keep warm everyone, and happy reading!

[Jen]

Friday 111 pages snowing in Bali and 15 pages the vine bleeds

Total 126

[Sally906]

Update for day 1
Started, and finished, Out of Luck by Kendall Talbot - 238 pages

Started Home Fires by Fiona Lowe - started on page 1 and now up to page 85

Started Claused by Harmony Raines - started on page 1 and now up to page 16

[Sharon]

Brenda wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Just finished: The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton 267 pages

I can’t believe I’ve read a whole book in one day and about to start another one 😊"

Good jo..."

Thanks Brenda 😊

[Jazzy]

Read-a-Thon Day One - Friday, 7 June 2019


The Arabian Nights - Unknown 255 - 292 (37pp)

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel - Isaac Babel 176 - 197 (21pp)

Road to Calvary - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 439 - 448 (9pp)

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh - Ann Thwaite 11 - 24 (13pp)

Day One Total 80pp

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Read-a-Thon Day Two - Saturday, 8 June 2019


The Arabian Nights - Unknown 292 - 302 (10pp)

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel - Isaac Babel 197 - 213 (16pp)

Road to Calvary - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 448 - 474 (26pp)

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh - Ann Thwaite 24 - 73 (49pp)

✅The Darling and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐0/144 (144pp)

Day Two Total 245pp

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Read-a-Thon Day Three - Sunday, 9 June 2019


The Arabian Nights - Unknown 302 - 316 (14pp)

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel - Isaac Babel 213 - 227 (14pp)

Road to Calvary - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 474 - 501 (27)

✅Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh - Ann Thwaite ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐73 - 320 (250pp)

Day Three Total 305pp

3 Day Total 630

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Finished A Scone to Die For by H.Y. Hanna for another 336 pages

[Deb]

finished The Gatekeepers Sons, for 274 pages (meh of a book)
started and finished Under The Cold Bright Lights by AA Garry Disher for 285 pages (quite liked it).

[Ace]

Friday
Laurus 90 pages.

Saturday
Laurus 13 pages
The Three-Body Problem 128 pages.

Readathon Total 241 pages

[Natty]

Saturday, I finally got to read today... The Orchardist's Daughter by Karen Viggers - 114 pages... Hoping to get some more in tomorrow

[Tracey Allen]

Krystal wrote: "32 pages of The Amateurs
38 pages of Scrublands

For a sad total of 70 pages for Friday."

It was still more than me Krystal :-)

[Niamh]

Had a busy Saturday, so my daily total is a lot lower. Finished off The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan for an additional 68 pages, which gives me a running total of 326 pages

[Tracey Allen]

I read another 83 pages of Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls by Justine Ford.

[Krystal]

Saturday:

28 pages of The Amateurs
104 pages of Scrublands

Friday: 70
Saturday: 132

Running total: 202

[Krystal]

Tracey Allen wrote: "Krystal wrote: "32 pages of The Amateurs
38 pages of Scrublands

For a sad total of 70 pages for Friday."

It was still more than me Krystal :-)"

Haha I just feel sad that I'm so busy this weekend! Last weekend I read two books in two days XD

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Finished The Ex last night for another 300 pages. Now reading Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Krystal wrote: "Haha I just feel sad that I'm so busy this weekend! Last weekend I read two books in two days XD"

Sometimes life just gets in the way Krystal:) There's always next time!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Finished How to Bake a Murder by K.J. Emrick late last night for another 194 pages and three quarters of the way through Cold Valley Nightmare by Anna Willett

[Carolyn]

I finished The Boy in the Photo by Nicole Trope (334 pages) yesterday and have started My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni

[Diana]

Slow start on Friday - finished Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow - 20 pages
Saturday Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson 336 pages

[Kylie]

Busy day yesterday, I only got through 70 pages of Devil's Lair for a total so far of 394 pages

[Sarah]

Saturday total - 182 pages

Finished After I Do - 172 pages

Listened to more Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 10 pages

Fri + Sat = 344 pages so far

[Deb]

ok; readathon so far
by Nick Pyenson = pg117 - 188
by Eva Pohler ; started and finished = 374
by Garry Disher ; started and finished = 285

Looking around for the next book right now.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Just finished Cold Valley Nightmare by Anna Willett (still trying to slow my heart beat down!) for another 247 pages

[L A i N E Y (will be back)]

Finished The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm (delightful middle age book!) - 208 pages.

And started audio version of A Very Large Expanse of Sea - 102 pages

310 + 158
Total: 468 pages

[Renee V]

So turns out I got a lot more reading in than I thought thanks to a few late nights and getting home much earlier then I thought.

Friday and Saturday

308 magic slays
327 magic rises

(Will link when on desktop and not mobile app)

Settled in with a blanket and pile of books for a day of reading woot woot.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Only a few hours left now - everyone is doing well :)

[Li'l Owl]

Day two
512 pages

Finished
In Safe Hands by J.P. Carter
200 pages

Started
The Warning by Kathryn Croft
240 pages 

Continue audiobook
The Wreckage by Michael Robotham
72 pages

Running Total 836

[Li'l Owl]

Day three

Finished
The Warning by Kathryn Croft
78 pages

Started
Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
38 pages

Grand Total 952 Pages

[Steve]

I'm sorry I've not been posting about progress as others have, it's been a crazy few days, but I am keeping track and will post my total tomorrow morning.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

One good thing about readathons - I see I am now three books ahead on my 2019 Reading Challenge.

[Sharon]

Friday: The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton 267 pages

Saturday: The Other Woman by Sandie Jones 304 pages

Sunday: The True Story of Maddie Bright by Mary-Rose MacColl 53 pages

Total so far: 624 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Steve wrote: "I'm sorry I've not been posting about progress as others have, it's been a crazy few days, but I am keeping track and will post my total tomorrow morning."

No problems Steve, not everyone does :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Phrynne wrote: "One good thing about readathons - I see I am now three books ahead on my 2019 Reading Challenge."

And it helps with challenges too :)

[Diana]

Sunday - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley 302 pages

Total so far - 658 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I will report my total in the morning as I'll be reading as long as I can before sleep :)

[Kylie]

Sunday-
I finished Devil's Lair by Sarah Barrie 26 pages
And started While You Were Reading by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus 302 pages

Sunday total 328 pages

Grand Total 722 pages

[Natty]

My total is 114 pages... Just no chance to read today..

[Sarah]

Sunday total: 135 pages of Fangirl.

Weekend total: 479

[Jane]

Checking in from Singapore - 12 hours of sightseeing today so not much reading happening, just exhaustion!
Total for the week-end:
The Clockmaker's Daughter - 331 pages
Fantasy in Death - 101 pages
Frozen Past - 239 pages

Total : 771 pages

[Niamh]

Read the entirety of The Son of Neptune, and started off The Mark of Athena for a Sunday total of 572 pages.

Weekend total: 898 pages

[Ace]

Thanks again for organising the readathon mods!

Friday
Laurus 90 pages.

Saturday
Laurus 13 pages
The Three-Body Problem 128 pages.

Sunday
Laurus 81 pages

Readathon Total 322 pages

[Tracey Allen]

I read another 68 pages of Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls by Justine Ford, bringing my readathon total to 348 pages. This is more than I read in the March 2019 and December 2018 readathon challenges, so I’m stoked with that number of pages.

[Marianne]

I read:
The last 37 pages of The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
43 pages of Her Sister's Baby
275 pages of Boxed
165 pages of The Land Before Avocado
Total= 520 pages

[Kerri]

I had a pretty good weekend of reading and I managed to crack the 1000 pages.

88 pages The Cruellest Month
387 pages The Cleaner
304 pages Your Perfect Life
288 pages But Seriously: An Autobiography
27 pages Promise Me Happy

1094 Total pages read

[Deb]

My total for the weekend is not that impressive though I am happy to have cracked the 1000 at least:

= 71 pages
= 374
= 285
= 287

For a total of = 1,017

[L A i N E Y (will be back)]

Closing this productive readathon with the rest of Going Too Far for 198 pages.

To a round total of 666 (!)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue 311
Little Boy Blue 377
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk 60
The Ex 300
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel 352
Chaos in Death 131

Total pages 1531

[Krystal]

Sunday:

34 pages of The Amateurs
200 pages of Scrublands

Friday: 70
Saturday: 132
Sunday: 234

Grand total: 436

Hopefully I'll be less busy when the next one comes around! Thanks Mods :)

[Sharon]

My total is 700 pages