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- I'm terrible at tracking my time reading (too distracting) so I'll just be keeping track of my page numbers instead. I'm aiming to read 750 pages, which will finish out this book I have in progress, as well as my next book for ATY.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
- I want to finish A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum and read all of Brida by Paulo Coelho. After that, I'll probably continue on with ATY reads.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
- I'm one book behind, which is a bummer, but I've already finished my book club book this month so I know I'll catch up pretty easily.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
- This is such a tough one. My biggest surprise was The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton... I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting to.
I needed this last weekend...it was a long weekend for us and I got a lot of reading in! Not sure how I'll go this weekend but I'll play. Although it's Friday 9am here already and I read on the train but can't work out how many pages as I didn't keep track.1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?
If you would prefer to provide your updates in pages then please do so. The idea is to read as much as possible so we wouldn't want the format to distract from the reading :)
Ummm, I actually have no idea so I'm going to go for 300 pages - 100 per day.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
I'm about 40% through The Secret River so I want to finish that.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
According to the tracking thingy I'm 1 book ahead of schedule! I currently have 2 on the go - 1 kindle and 1 audio, so hopefully I can stay ahead. I tend to get distracted with ARCs.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
So I went to my 2019 ATY folder and sorted by rating. I actually had 4 x 5 star review books. The Scorpio Races - week 11 book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals,
It Ends with Us - week 13 - New Your Public library staff picks list, The Rebellious Sister - week 51 - published in 2019, The Loyal Friend - week 42 - book with a monster or 'monstrous' character (it had warewolves)
I had no idea this was happening this weekend, but I wish it included Monday as well since I have that day off work! 1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?
I'll aim for 12, I guess. I don't really keep track of my reading by time, but I also have no idea how many pages I want to read either. I'll estimate around 500. But to be fair, it's not the ideal weekend since I have quite a bit of work to do over the weekend that will eat up at least one day.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
Ideally, I'd love to finish City of Lost Souls, which I'm starting tonight, and get at least a start on City of Heavenly Fire
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I've read 30 books, but my challenge has a total of 55 instead of 52 because I add my wild card as an extra prompt, and there was one prompt that I'd split into three books.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
Surprisingly, the best books that I've read this year so far mostly have not been for ATY! I think if I had to pick one book, I'd pick The Rosie Result. I almost missed out on this one since I somehow didn't find out that it even existed until well after my plans were finished. As soon as I found out about it, I knew I had to rearrange things to fit it in, and it was definitely worth it. It shows Don and Rosie as parents of a young teenager, and had the same kind of humour as the rest of the series.
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1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?
I'll aim for 1..."
Wow, I had no idea a third book had been published! I really need to get it together and read book 2 still.
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1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?I'd like to read 900 pages but I don't know how that will actually happen! I have a funeral to prep for on Monday and we have to work all day on Sunday.....maybe 9 pages is a better goal!
2. Which books are you planning to read?
During the day I am pecking away at Becoming. At night I am reading The Trouble With Magic. After that I have 20th Century Ghost: A Story from the Collection 20th Century Ghosts and Murder on the Orient Express lined up.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I am done with AtY! I gave myself a 55 book rejects challenge (huge!) that I am 20 books from completing. We will see how that goes I guess!
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year
Hm, I have read a lot of 5 star books this year, but I think I am most excited about Old Man's War, I am a few books into the series now and I can not wait to dive back into the next one!
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?I'm going for 750 pages.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
I'm listening to Madame Bovary and reading The Things We Used to Say and The Second Worst Restaurant in France.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I've finished! I'm working on the Autumn Challenge and I have one book left on my Rejects Challenge. I'm also reading for a Classics group I'm in.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
I loved The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau, published in 1964 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It had great characters and atmosphere.
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?I'll try for 12 hours
2. Which books are you planning to read?
Still Me
Iron Gold
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule? I'm 4 behind
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year. I feel like I've read a lot of good ones this year.
Grist Mill Road - A surprising suspense mystery that isn't all that popular.
Educated- Shocking autobiography
What Alice Forgot - A fun read that I felt like I got a lesson out of
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?12? Hoping to make some progress with the FTC since earlier this week I was feeling a little unsure of my goal to try and finish all the prompts.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
Finish The Invisible Mountain
Then I have some options: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Zero K, Difficult Women, Emma, Vol. 01
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I think ahead.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
I have a few short story collections I've really liked. I'm going to go with The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. Most were sci fi, but there was some historical fiction/alternate fiction. I remember feeling absolutely destroyed by one of them and empty inside it was so good (can't tell you which one though, because I don't remember!).
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?I'll try to read 300 pages. I think that will be around 6 hrs for me.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
I try to finish my current book, The Broken Eye. The last book of the series comes out end of the month.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books
I'm behind. I read too many big books but I enjoyed most of them.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
I read a lot of books I really liked but Where'd You Go, Bernadette still stands out for me.
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?12 hours seem doable
2. Which books are you planning to read?
Rastløshedens bog (about 100 pages in)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
and a couple more in the picture book/ comic book area.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I´m on schedule! Much to my surprise. I´ve really been lacking in the tracking department this year. But this week I just managed to match books I´ve read to prompts.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
Krigens monstre (Monsters of Men)
Don´t remember if I ended up using it for "black cover" or "monstrous character" since it fits both beautifully.
It looks like it's going to be miserable weather this weekend so I might as well fill it with reading!1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend? 10
2. Which books are you planning to read?
I need to finish War Girls for a bookstagram tour so that will be my main objective and then something for ATY (maybe The Moomins and the Great Flood or Homegoing).
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
Nearly finished, only 3 books left.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
My 5 star ATY books are:
Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver for sense of place
Animal Farm by George Orwell for for 1001 Books to Read before You Die
Sadie by Courtney Summers for GR Choice Awards
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers for weird/intriguing title
Sleeping Giants for black cover
After Atlas by Emma Newman for a book by an author with more than two books on my TBR
Heartstream by Tom Pollock for psychological thriller
It's going to be a busy weekend for me. We have a wedding at noon on Saturday, my Mother's birthday is also Sat, and I have to pack for vacation. We leave next Sat on a 5:15 am flight. Soo...not much down time. This is my first weekend reading challenge.
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?
I'm setting my goal at 10 hours. My daughter is working Friday and Saturday evening, which may give me the time to read.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
The book I'm currently reading right now is An Anonymous Girl. I started it last night.
I'm picking up my library holds tomorrow and will pick the next one than.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I'm finished the ATY challenge
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
My favorite books were:
Rebecca
Where the Crawdads Sing
Happy Reading!!
I'm coming in a bit late but will add in the amount I've already read today.1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?
I'd like to read 12 hours this weekend.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
The Friend
Little Women
Ninth House
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I'm ahead, barely. I've finished 43 almost 44 books.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
A Discovery of Witches
The Hunger Games
The Kiss Quotient
All were books I never would have read before this challenge but LOVED.
. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?If you would prefer to provide your updates in pages then please do so. The idea is to read as much as possible so we wouldn't want the format to distract from the reading :)
I’m going to try for 24 chapters of books so I can keep with the 24 theme
2. Which books are you planning to read?
I finished the audiobook I was listening to and the paperback I was reading yesterday. Just got home from work so I’m about to sit down and figure out what next now.
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
A bit ahead.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
I finally read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for the STEM category and I loved it.
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If you would prefer to provide your updates in pages then please do so. The idea is to read as much as possible so we wouldn't want th..."
Love this goal! Might have to set the same one for myself :)
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1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?Appoximately 12 but I haven't really been keeping track.
2. Which books are you planning to read?
Things you save in a Fire
The Curious incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Bright's Passage
Circe
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
I have 51 books read out of 52.
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.
The best book I've read for the challenge would have to be Born a Crime by Trevor Noah! I loved it!
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend? Enough to finish at least one of the books I have in progress.. and perhaps two.2. Which books are you planning to read? Indiana (time to finish this), Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers, Let's Pretend This Never Happened
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule? I have one more book to go on the ATY challenge (and have been waiting and waiting for that book from my library). When I finish the "Bertie" book, I will have 4 books to go in the Fall ATY challenge,
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year. Hands down, Where the Crawdads Sing.
Not posting the questions here because the girls and I have been in crisis and yesterday was a horrible day. However, I have been trying to read some and knock off some prompts for the challenge. I cant believe this will be the first year since I've joined that I wont be able to finish. If I do it will be a miracle. I did read Where the Red Fern Grows on friday.... all of it. Tear jerker. Such a good book, it's another one that I hope my girls will enjoy soon.So that ticked off a prompt!!! And I'm 40 pages into
New Boy for the Shakespeare prompt.
I don't have specific goals, just to use this to try and encourage me to read again.
Not sure what would be the best book I've read so far this year. I did really enjoy The Knife of Never Letting Go, On the Come Up, and Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened ( I think in that order lol)
Tracy wrote: "Not posting the questions here because the girls and I have been in crisis and yesterday was a horrible day. However, I have been trying to read some and knock off some prompts for the challenge. I..."Glad to have you back Tracy. Hope you find your reading mojo again, and hopefully major crises are soon a thing of the past for you.
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It’s okay Traci, I’m a mod and I haven’t finished the challenge (on time) since 2015 🤣
Around the Year in 52 Books
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These are a bit like a read-a-thon, the idea is to read as much as you can from Friday night until Sunday night. The name is inspired by the idea of reading for 24 hours over the weekend, but of course you’re welcome to set your own smaller goal. Whether you’re aiming for 2 hours, 12 hours or 24 hours everyone is welcome to join in.
To get started please share your goals in this thread and then head over to the event progress thread and grab a post to keep track of your reading.
Be on the look out for some additional, small games throughout the weekend!
Happy reading!
Intro Questions
1. How many hours are you aiming to spend reading this weekend?
If you would prefer to provide your updates in pages then please do so. The idea is to read as much as possible so we wouldn't want the format to distract from the reading :)
2. Which books are you planning to read?
3. How are you doing with the Around the Year in 52 books challenge? Ahead, behind, right on schedule?
4. Tell us about the best book you’ve read for the Around the Year challenge this year.