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Today's progress: Plan B - 222 pages
Oh man, I thought it started today! I've been hanging out with family the last couple days so no reading, and I'm in London all day today. I'll try and squeeze some in!
I was a bit busy, but I managed to finish two books: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith (337 p.) and The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan (219 p.). I'm currently reading The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. Only have 60 pages to go!
Completed books:
12/25 452 pages
12/26 328 pages
12/26 46 pages Total pages read so far: 826
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I finished! War and Peace... at least 80 pagesRead Movement: A Short Story by Nancy Fulda. 18 pages
Started my first graphic novel The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman. It was under my Christmas tree :) I don't know page #s, but I've read the first 2 sections.
Saturday update, three books finished!Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
To the Lighthouse
An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
Page total us exactly 1,100. Couldn't have planned that! On to the next...
So far I've read:Pandora 184 pages. Finished.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle 80 pages. Finished.
Lord of the Flies 284 pages. Finished.
Page total so far: 548 pages.
I've only managed to read one book so far Tigers In Red Weather. I really enjoyed it but haven't read as much as I wanted to over the past few days. Still I now have a few with no family or distractions and can just curl up with my cats, my books and a blanket.
To date progress:370 pages in Grimms Fairy Tales - finished
160 pages in Coraline - finished
10 pages in Stardust - started
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War & Peace: 18 chapters
Outlander: 50 pages
Librivox Christmas stories: 2
Current update
Books completed:
Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene - Finished 12/27
Total pages read so far: 308
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The Iliad by Homer: 311 pages (needed to finish)
The Chimes by Charles Dickens: 100 pages
Total: 411 pages
To completing my challenge: 5 books to go
Update:Read four books already with a total of 1194 pages. I am currently reading another two books, of which I have already read 335 pages.
Total: 1529 pages! Loving this Readathon
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Glad you're enjoying it :)
Here's my updateFinished:
Boy's Life - 625 pages
Tell the Wolves I'm Home - 367 pages
Princess in Love - 260 pages
Total pages read till now - 1252 pages
Currently reading
Still Alice - have read about 75 pages in it today
The Blade Itself
The Name of the Rose
UpdateThe good girl pages 377
Holes pages 233
Started The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks pages 44
Total number of pages 654
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Woohoo! Go, us!!!
Favourite so far! Definitely in love with this author, and how she brought modern Nigeria to life.
After my REALLY late start, I've finally got my first 100 pages out the way!Raiders' Ransom: 177/383 (77 read before readathon)
Total: 100
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Mine for the month is 1,587 pages for my readathon books.
I've now finished my second book for the readathon Elephant Moon. Takes my reading total up to 628 pages.
Current update
Books completed:
Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene - Finished 12/27
Doctor Who: Silhouette – Finished 12/28
Total pages read so far: 564
12/28 Status:370 pages in Grimms Fairy Tales - finished
160 pages in Coraline - finished
210 pages in Stardust
Added A Christmas Carol and A Journal of the Plague Year to the "read" pile. Puts me at 1,493 pages. Hope to make some good progress tomorrow. Then Tuesday we close on the new house and Wednesday the movers deliver our stuff. So tomorrow will probably be my last reading day for a bit.
Started and finished The Year I Met You today - 328 pages.Total pages thus far - 686
This now marks my 100th book read this year. Yay!!! I met my goal!
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Awesome Job!
Update:12/25: Pandora 184 pages
12/26: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle 75 pages
12/27: Lord of the Flies 284 pages
12/28: Peter Pan 164 pages
12/29: Poirot Investigates 31 pages
Total: 738 pages.
So good so far.
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I got lots of reading done yesterday, since that's basically all I could stand to do.
95 pages of As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
160 pages of The Wide Window
24 pages of Perelandra
Which brings my total to... 559 pages.
Current update
Books completed:
Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene - Finished 12/27
Doctor Who: Silhouette – Finished 12/28
Doctor Who: The Blood Cell - Finished 12/29
Total pages read so far: 816
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Librivox Christmas stories: 14
War and Peace:
Book 1, 28 chapters
Book 2, 17 chapters
Paradise Lost: 40 pages
Outlander: 50 pages
The Red Tent: 12 pages
1Q84: p. 849-925
(76 pages) finished
Merry Christmas, Strega Nona! by Tommie DePaola (32 pages)
My to date update:370 pages in Grimms Fairy Tales - finished
160 pages in Coraline - finished
330 pages in Stardust - finished
Update:The good girl pg 377
Holes pg 233
The immortal life of Henrietta lacks pg 433
Total 1044 pages
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I just can't believe how long I put it off!
Depending on your time zone, there is a little less than 1.5 days left in the readathon. Everyone has been doing so well! How will you spend the remaining hours?
Today I finished
166 pages &
43 pages and then read 85 pages in
96 pages in
= 390 pgsTotal pages of all books: 1,216
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I FINALLY FINISHED 1Q84!!!!
Readathon: pages 849 - 925
Woot woot!!