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STARTING POINT
- The Fourth Protocol - on pag. 162
- Rendezvous with Rama - at 35%
CURRENTLY READING:
- Hag-Seed
- Los Ídolos de Ceniza
- Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
READING TRACKER:
- September 07: 309 pages
- September 08: 86 pages
- September 09: 178 pages
- September 10: 71 pages
- September 11: 123 pages
- September 12: 201 pages
- September 13: 129 pages
- September 14: 69 pages
- September 15: 117 pages
TOTAL PAGE COUNT: 1283 pages
TOTAL BOOK COUNT: 4
BOOKS FINISHED:
- Rendezvous with Rama
- The Fourth Protocol
- Matilda
- Rising Storm





How many pages have you read?
9/7 - 607
9/8 - 104
9/9 - 126
9/10 - 468
9/11 - 225
9/12 - 77
9/13 - 83
9/14 - 332
9/15 - 123
Total: 2,145 pages
How many books have you read? 9 Finished
What are you reading now?


What have you finished reading?










Sat 9/7 - 55
Sun 9/8 - 113
Mon 9/9 - 97
Tue 9/10 -
Wed 9/11 -
Th 9/12 -
Fri 9/13 -
Sat 9/14 -
Sun 9/15 -
Total: 265 pages
How many books have you read? 2 finished
What are you reading now?
The Dragon in the Sea
Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
What have you finished reading?
Middlesex
Dandelion Wine

How many books have you read? 8
What are you reading now?


What have you finished reading?









9/7 -
9/8 -
9/9 -
9/10 -
9/11 -
9/12 -
9/13 -
9/14 -
9/15 -
Total: 0 pages
How many books have you read? 0 Finished
What are you reading now?
The God of Small Things
What have you finished reading?

How many pages have you read?
Saturday: 291
Sunday: 183
Monday: 197 + 106
Tuesday: 318
Wednesday: 244
Thursday: 224
Friday: 300
Total: 1836
How many books have you read?
7
What are you reading now?
Grimms Samlede Eventyr by Jacob Grimm
What have you finished reading?








How many pages have you read?
(Personal Goal: 75 pages per day / 675 total)
9/7 - 76 (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: 76)
9/8 - 106 (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: 49, Antigone: 57)
9/9 - 64 (Midnight's Children: 22, City of Thieves: 42)
9/10 -75 (Midnight's Children: 19, Daisy Jones & The Six: 19, City of Thieves: 37)
9/11 - 33 (Midnight's Children: 20, Daisy Jones & The Six: 13)
9/12 - 88 (Midnight's Children: 19, Daisy Jones & The Six: 30, City of Thieves: 39)
9/13 - 38 (City of Thieves: 27,Daisy Jones & The Six: 11)
9/14 - 0
9/15 - 42 (City of Thieves: 42)
TOTAL: 522
How many books have you read?
1 and the last part of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
What are you reading now?
I'll try to finish:


Ongoing:



What have you finished reading?



9/7 - 265
9/8 - 705
9/9 - 250
9/10 -
9/11 -
9/12 -
9/13 -
9/14 -
9/15 -
Total: 1,220 pages
How many books have you read? 3 Finished
What are you reading now?
Return to the Dark House
and
Little Green Men at the Mercury Inn
What have you finished reading?




How many pages have you read?
How many books have you read?
What are you reading now?
Den blå portal by Linette Harpsøe
Ud og stjæle heste by Per Petterson (Audio. Converting hours to pages)
What have you finished reading?
The cover collage



How many books have you read?
What are you reading now?
Pinnsvinets eleganse
Historia om det tapte barnet
What have you finished reading?

CURRENTLY READING

PAGE TRACKER
9/7 - 393
9/8 - 552
9/9 - 190
9/10 - 397
9/11 -
9/12 -
9/13 -
9/14 -
9/15 -
TOTAL: 1,235
COMPLETED BOOKS






Starcrasher
How many pages have you read?
9/7 -
9/8 -
9/9 -
9/10 -
9/11 -
9/12 -
9/13 -
9/14 -
9/15 -
TOTAL -
How many books have you read? #
What have you finished reading?

How many pages have you read?
Sat 9/7= 156pgs
Sun 9/8= 265pgs
Mon 9/10=224pgs
Tue 9/11= 304 pgs
Wed 9/12= 255pgs
Thur 9/13=
Fri 9/14=
Sat 9/15=
Total Pages= 1204
How many books have you read?
5
What have you finished reading?






Starting point:
How many pages have you read?
7 September: 50
8 September: 174
9 September:
10 September:
11 September
12 September:
13 September:
14 September:
15 September:
Total: 224
How many books have you read?
One
What are you reading now?
What have you finished reading?
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton

How many pages have you read?
7 September: 100 pages of Spinning Silver + 84 pages of Quiver
8 September: 205 pages to finish Quiver
9 September: 131 pages of Darius the Great Is Not Okay
10 September: 185 pages to finish Darius the Great Is Not Okay
11 September: 120 pages of Textrovert
12 September: 115 pages to finish Textrovert + 51 pages of A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (or 71, if you include the 20 pages of preface that don't seem to be included in the Goodreads page count)
13 September: 112 pages of A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
14 September: 141 pages to finish off A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy and 55 pages of That's Not What Happened
15 September: 274 pages to finish That's Not What Happened + 46 pages of The Truth About Happily Ever After
Total: 1619 (or 1639, including the preface of A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy)
How many pages have you read?:1619 (or 1639, including the preface of A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy)
How many books have you read?: 6 (one started before the read-a-thon)
What are you reading now?:The Truth About Happily Ever After
What have you finished reading?: Spinning Silver (started before the read-a-thon, but last 100 pages read on Day 1), Quiver, Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Textrovert, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, That's Not What Happened

Darkdawn, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Testaments
How many pages have you read?
Total: 317 + 9 hours audio
07/09: 87 + 30 min audio
08/09: 86
09/09: 94 + 2 hours audio
10/09: 3.5 hours audio
11/09: 50 + 3 hours audio
12/09:
13/09:
14/09:
15/09:
How many books have you read? 1
What have you finished reading?

Finished off After Atlas and Tiger but both under 125 pages left at start of readathon.

Great, thanks! I thought that made the most sense, but wanted to be sure.
Laura, can a book started before the read-a-thon count toward the Individual Quest? I didn't see anything in the rules to exclude it.

9/7 - 85
9/8 - 261
9/9 - 478
9/10 - 288
9/11 - 288
9/12 - 436
9/13 - 322
9/14 - 269
9/15 - 232
Total: 2669
How many books have you read?
11
What are you reading now?
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
What have you finished reading?
Broken Bone China - Laura Childs
Comet in Moominland - Tove Jansson
The Library at the Edge of the World - Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Wobble - Rae Armantrout
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir - Ruth Reichl
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
The White Cottage Mystery
What We Lose
Invitation to the Waltz











I think we should stick to the same rule as the team challenges, especially since there’s a competition component this time around. So 125 pages remaining. Unless it’s a short story for the rat prompt.

STARTING POINT
The Thorn Birds p. 338
CURRENTLY READING
Atonement
PAGE TRACKER
9/7: The Thorn Birds - 49 Pages
9/8: The Thorn Birds - 40 pages
9/9:
9/10:
9/11:
9/12:
9/13:
9/14: The Thorn Birds - 265 pages
9/15: The Prince and the Dressmaker - 277 pages Atonement - 106 pages
TOTAL: Pages 737
COMPLETED BOOKS
The Thorn Birds
The Prince and the Dressmaker
TO READ NEXT
Atonement
Where the Crawdads Sing
I really didn't track by day very well this week.
STARTING POINT
- The Kappillan of Malta, pg. 193 (of 464pg)
- The Raven Tower, pg. 205 (of 485pg)
CURRENTLY READING:
- Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
9/7: The Kappillan of Malta - 19
9/8: The Kappillan of Malta - 56
9/9: The Kappillan of Malta - 196 (finished), Warcross 190 = 386
9/10: Warcross - 163 (finished), Station X - 19, Academic Curveball - 79 = 261
9/11: Academic Curveball - 192 (finished), A Twist in the Tail - 226 (finished)
9/12: The Raven Tower - 280 (finished)
9/13: A Whisker in Time - 223, A Whisker in the Dark - 216, Station X - 50
9/14: Station X - 120
9/15: 0
TOTAL Pages - 2,029
FINISHED:
- The Kappillan of Malta, 271pg during the readathon
- Warcross, 383pg
- Academic Curveball, 271pg
- A Twist in the Tail, 226pg
- The Raven Tower, 280pg during readathon
- A Whisker in Time, 223pg
- A Whisker In The Dark, 216pg
- The Kappillan of Malta, pg. 193 (of 464pg)
- The Raven Tower, pg. 205 (of 485pg)
CURRENTLY READING:
- Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
9/7: The Kappillan of Malta - 19
9/8: The Kappillan of Malta - 56
9/9: The Kappillan of Malta - 196 (finished), Warcross 190 = 386
9/10: Warcross - 163 (finished), Station X - 19, Academic Curveball - 79 = 261
9/11: Academic Curveball - 192 (finished), A Twist in the Tail - 226 (finished)
9/12: The Raven Tower - 280 (finished)
9/13: A Whisker in Time - 223, A Whisker in the Dark - 216, Station X - 50
9/14: Station X - 120
9/15: 0
TOTAL Pages - 2,029
FINISHED:
- The Kappillan of Malta, 271pg during the readathon
- Warcross, 383pg
- Academic Curveball, 271pg
- A Twist in the Tail, 226pg
- The Raven Tower, 280pg during readathon
- A Whisker in Time, 223pg
- A Whisker In The Dark, 216pg
Books mentioned in this topic
A Whisker in Time (other topics)A Whisker in the Dark (other topics)
The Truth About Happily Ever After (other topics)
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (other topics)
The Prince and the Dressmaker (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
M.C. Beaton (other topics)Helen Hoang (other topics)
Linette Harpsøe (other topics)
Per Petterson (other topics)
Jacob Grimm (other topics)
As always, this is your official progress post. Use it to share your progress with the group and offer encouragement to your fellow read-a-thonners.
Tell us...
How many pages have you read?
How many books have you read?
What are you reading now?
What have you finished reading?
As with all our read-a-thons, we want to remind participants that the idea is to read, read, read. Read as much as you can and have as much fun as you can doing it. Don't make reading a job or a chore. Don't let the progress of others intimidate or discourage you. Everyone reads at their own pace and we're here to have fun. Go on! Get started! Read and enjoy!