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Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th April 2020
Okay I spent so much time reading yesterday so don't know why my number isn't higher? I think because HoEaB is so dense - big pages with smaller writing. It's good, though!Saturday:
House of Earth and Blood - 273 pages
'Salem's Lot - 64 pages
Saturday total: 337 pages
Running total: 217 + 337 = 554
Not as many for Saturday, will have to try harder today :)Friday Total = 142
Saturday Total = 91
Weekend Total = 233 (so far)
Friday ....At the wolf’s table = 302Saturday ...a long season in hell = 241
543 pages so far
Mod
Finished Death by Tradition: Fiji Islands Mysteries 2 by B.M. Allsopp 330 pages
The Fatality at the Funeral by [author:Grace York|1836835..."
Wow Kylie great work!
Mod
Friday 738 pages
Saturday 615 pages
Total so far 1353 pages
Now reading Having a Great Crime - Wish You Were Here
Finished reading The Family Tree - 127 pagesStarted reading In Silence - 64 pages
Total for Friday: 216 pages
Total for Saturday: 191 pages
My total isn't that great so far. Couldn't seem to focus on one thing.Friday: 21 pages of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Saturday: Another 50 pages of Six of Crows
Weekend total (so far): 71 pages
On Saturday I read another 8 pages of The Glass Woman, then started Recipes for Love and Murder for 69 pages. Saturday total 77 pages.It’s so cold today, I think it will probably be my best reading day, snuggled under a blanket with the kitties.
I've been meaning to update this when I finished my book, which was supposed to be last night, but I fell asleep. Counting from Friday morning, I have read 309 pages of Inversions.
Weekend Total: 922 PagesDay One
The Secret Admirer by Carol Wyer 413 Pages
Day Two
Without Mercy by Jefferson Bass 300 pages
Running Total 713 pages
Day Three Not a very productive reading day as I have a migraine but I managed some.
Finished Without Mercy 67 pages
Read part of Esme's Wish by Elizabeth Foster 88 pages
Currently listening to audiobook
Without Trace by Simon Booker 54 Pages
Saturday...Continued Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel...32pages and
The Nowhere Child by Christian White...71pages
Read The Beacon by Susan Hill...162pages
Total 265pages
Friday - A Dog Called Harry 319 pagesSaturday - In Five Years 272 pages
Total so far 591 pages
Now reading Truths I Never Told You
Finished Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (149 pages), and also Rogue Protocol(150 pages), also by Martha Wells.And listened to the end of False Value (3 hours is approximately 100 pages worth). Love Kobna Holdsworth's narration!
finished The Murder On The Links, started and finished Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (absolutely brilliant book, been too long since I read it), now looking around for my next read, but I feel like I'm burning out a bit...
Finished Die for You by Lisa Unger for 480 pages Total so far - 1,207 pages
And now that I'm working from home you won't have to wait until Monday night for me to post my final total for the week-end!
So far this weekend Friday: Pathfinder's Way = 533
Saturday: Mist's Edge = 508
Wayfarer's Keep = 591
So far Sunday: the last 49% of Crush the King = 224
About to start Rules of Redemption but don't think I'll get much read as have to be up at 5:30 to drive hubby to work, even though I'm now going to be working from home we are going to try to stick to the usual schedule of early Sunday nights.
123 pages: Chris Bohjalian: The Flight Attendant. 336 pages: When the Lights go Out : Mary Kubica
Planning on reading right up til midnight so hopefully I'll have a nice round number total tomorrow! :)
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Just finished my third book Truths I Never Told You 352 pages Now starting Coffin RoadWill report final total tomorrow
Can’t believe I’ve read 3 books in 3 days 😱😀
Mod
That was my plan for this weekend, I swear. Between work on Friday and a headache for most of today -- you know what they say, no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
Calling it a night, I've got to be up at 5Sunday-
Finished The Moor by L.J. Ross 278 pages
Grand Total 1311 pages
Sunday TotalsTandia - 56 pages
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - 46 pages
Murder at Blackburn Hall - 48 pages
Free Fire - 157 pages
Sunday Total - 307 pages
Readathon Total - 1,072 pages
Great weekend of reading.
Sunday Total - 227 pagesThe Deceptions by Suzanne Leal - 195 pages
Lab Partners by OminouslyAnonymous - 32 pages
Saturday Total - 299 pages
The Otto Digmore Decision by Brent Hartinger - 225 pages
The Deceptions by Suzanne Leal - 74 pages
Friday Total - 258 pages
Copper Creek by Cate Ashwood - 230 pages
The Otto Digmore Decision by Brent Hartinger - 28 pages
Weekend Total - 784 pages
Friday total = 302 At the wolf’s table by Rosella Postorino
Saturday total = 241
A long season in hell by Gail Graham
Sunday total= 124
The tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Total for weekend 667 pages
Didn't read as much as I was planning to, but every page counts, right?Friday: 21 pages of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Saturday: 50 pages of Six of Crows
Sunday: 140 pages of Six of Crows
Weekend Total: 211 pages
Total read this weekendTruganini - 336 pages
House on Endless Waters - 45 pages
Total pages : 381 pages
The Locksmith's Daughter 352pagesA Passage to India 162 pages
Total 514pages
Final Total: 1121 pagesAnother great kickstart to the month's reading - thanks Brenda!
Friday:
Finished Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo - 113 pages
Started The Yield by Tara June Winch - 20 pages (then decided I need to take more time over it - not a readathon book!)
Started Flesh House by Stuart Macbride - 264 pages
Sub-total: 397 pages
Saturday:
Read The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths - 327 pages
Finished Flesh House by Stuart Macbride - 216
Sub-total: 543 pages
Sunday: slowed down a bit...
Started The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza - 181 pages
Sub-total: 181 pages
Just about to go to bed so my final tally for this challenge is:Friday
Caged Lightning 206 Pages
Lionhearted 186 pages
Saturday:
Breaking Creed 117 pages
Lone Star Defender 298 pages
Sunday:
Up on Horseshoe Hill 410 pages
Total pages: 1217 pages
I read another 70 pages of Gulliver's Wife by Lauren Chater bringing my total number of pages read for the readathon to 250 pages.
My totals:Truths I Never Told You p56-134 = 78p
Star-crossed p201-365 = 165p
Just After Midnight 1% - 45% = 148p
Amethyst Pledge 100% = 266p
(not so) Grand Total 657 pages
My totals for the weekend:220 p Everything Here Is Beautiful
324 p The Housekeeper
285 p Alice to Nowhere
70 p The Tsar of Love and Techno
5 p Autumn Manor
904 p total
Mod
Death in Delft 229p
A Spell for Trouble 336p
A Very English Murder 309p
False Value 150p
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant 100p
Total 1124 pages
Final tally for me. Not as great as I would have liked, because I've become addicted to Netflix while enduring life in Coronavirus seclusion.Finished: Yarra: A Diverting History Of Melbourne's Murky River by Kristin Otto 240 pages
Finished: If Wishes Were Horses by Karly Lane 338 pages
Part way through the monumental: 11/22/63 by Stephen King 345 pages
Part way through the equally monumental: The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop by Ian McFarlane 52 pages
Total pages = 875
Friday Total = 142Saturday Total = 91
Sunday Total = 137
Weekend Total = 370
Sunday's totals:Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly for 35 pages and
Broken Ground by Val McDermid for 251 pages
Grand week-end total : 1,493 pages
On Sunday I read another 127 pages of Recipes for Love and Murder, bringing my weekend total to 248 pages.
Here's my weekend:Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I 20 pages
The Thirteenth Tale 237 pages
Weekend total 257 pages
I spent most of yesterday swallowed up by HoEaB, which I finished just in the nick of time at 11:45pm :DSunday:
'Salem's Lot - 48 pages
House of Earth and Blood - 530 pages
Total: 578
Friday: 217
Saturday: 337
Sunday: 578
Weekend grand total: 1132
Happy to have met my 1000-page goal! :D Thanks for another fun one, mods! Made me feel like I was working hard instead of just being lazy XD
Friday - A Dog Called Harry 319 pagesSaturday - In Five Years 272 pages
Sunday - Truths I Never Told You 352 pages
Coffin Road 120 pages
Weekend Total: 1063 pages
Friday total = 64Saturday total = 188 (finished Secret Prey by John Sandford)
Sunday total = 119 (started Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly)
Weekend Total = 371
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Tandia - 55 pages
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - 33 pages
Murder at Blackburn Hall - 50 pages
The Resistance Man - 242 pages (completed)
Saturday Total- 380 pages
Running Total - 765 pages
Happy Sunday reading everyone.