April 2020 Readathon

[Rift]

oops! A day late, but I'm here! Thanks for hosting Alannah!

24th Friday == 36pages
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017
I LOVE this series, and it's been a while since I've read one. Today's articles were about trying to preserve plastic museum pieces and Neurogastronomy! ha!

25th Saturday == 26pages
Navigating canoes using waves.
Detecting gravitational waves! wow, this was a fun one to read, very exciting to find the theoretical work by Einstein was correct!!

26th Sunday == 34pages
Leave Rats Alone...

27th Monday == 33pages
Climate change in Alaska. and in Greenland. and the Santa Ana winds.

28th Tues == 28pages
Scotobiology. Parks & Climate Change. Factory Farms & antibiotic use... ugh, go vegan and try to avoid multi-drug resistant pathogens!!

29th Wed == 46pgs
A significant methane leak in Southern CA. lordy. Land management in the West. lordy. Physics. hm.

30th Thur == 26pgs
DIY Scientist, about a rare genetic mutation... wow, this story is so awesome!

TOTAL == 232 pages

[swatreads]

I'm in

Fri Apr 24 : 15 pages The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
16 pages The Guest List

Sat Apr 25 : 5 pages Killing Commendatore
17 pages Strange Weather in Tokyo

Sun Apr 26 : 37 pages Strange Weather in Tokyo FINISHED
10 pages The Guest List

Mon Apr 27 : 50 pages The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Tue Apr 28 : 58 pages The Diving Pool: Three Novellas FINISHED

Wed Apr 29: 10 pages The Guest List

Thurs Apr 30 : 40 pages The Guest List

TOTAL: 258 PAGES

[Ann]

Sat 4/25: 346 pages (Doctor Sleep; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (audio); Odd and the Frost Giants)

[Sofie]

I'm in. 24 April - 30 April 2020

105
384
55
117
36
20
pages

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (finished)
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera (finished)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (audiobook, finished)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (audiobook)
The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimäki
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman

Total: 717

[Jess]

Joining a little late

TBR


Complete



Friday: 24 pages of Fates and Furies
9 pages of The Rosary Girls

Saturday: 27 pages of Some Hope
17 pages of The Rosary Girls

Sunday: 26 pages of The Rosary Girls

Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:

[Leslie]

Just added in my totals for yesterday...

[Karin]

I got way behind right away in posting pages, so am posting books finished and will give a total of those--that will constitute most of my reading during that time since I am reading one to two books a day and the ones I am reading slowly I'll just have to skip.

[Leslie]

Yeah, it can be hard to remember to keep track on these extended readathons! But it is the total that really matters so your method should work too Karin.

[Erica]

Kinda wish I'd picked different books to read this week - I didn't read as much as I'd hoped as the books were both just kinda 'meh'. Wasn't compelled to pick them up very often.

[Pam]

Have now updated post 42 with my numbers

[PattyMacDotComma]

I have updated message 39 with my total.

[Karin]

Leslie wrote: "Yeah, it can be hard to remember to keep track on these extended readathons! But it is the total that really matters so your method should work too Karin."

Great. Also I may add up the pages in an audiobook I started the other day; I won't worry about any other partial reads as that will even out because I started one book the night before we started.

[Jim]

Friday, April 24: pages 107-151 of Baseball Is A Funny Game (1960) by Joe Garagiola (1926-2016)

[Jim]

Finished book 44 pages. Read pages 1-36 of Beethoven Letters 1790-1826 Volume 1 (letters compiled 1866) by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Total for Friday 4/24/2020 was 80.

Saturday 4/25/2020: Read pages 36-172 of 172 of Beethoven Letters 1790-1826 Volume 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) and finished the book. Read pages 1-2 of 1,007 of 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List by Tom Moon. Total for Saturday 4/25/2020 was 138. Two-Day total was 218.

Sunday 4/26/2020: Read pages 2-34 of 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List by Tom Moon. Total for Sunday 4/26/2020 was 32. Three-Day total was 250.

Monday 4/27/2020: Read pages 34-59 of 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List by Tom Moon. Total for Monday 4/27/2020 was 25. Four-day total was 275.

Tuesday 4/28/2020: Read pages 59-80 of 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List by Tom Moon and pages 1-71 of 320 of The Beach Boys FAQ by Jon Stebbins. Total for Tuesday 4/28/2020 was 92. Five-day total was 367.

Wednesday 4/29/2020: Read pages 80-113 of 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List by Tom Moon. Total for Wednesday 4/29/2020 was 33. Six-day total was 400.

Thursday 4/30/2020: Read pages 113-222 of 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List by Tom Moon. Total for Thursday 4/30/2020 was 109. Seven-day and April, 2020 Readathon total was 509.

509.
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[Sofie]

As for me, it's quite difficult to keep track of pages, since I prefer audiobooks and ebooks. But this readathon is an interesting experience I should say. It turns out that I read more books at the same time than I thought.

[Patty]

Sat., 4/25 =Siege & Storm by Leigh Bardugo/ 86 pages
Sun ., 4/26=27 pages
Mon., 4/27=17 pages
Tue., 4/28=147 pages
Wed., 4/29=77 pagesSiege & Storm Fin
started Ruin & Rising=26 pages
Thur., 4/30=12 pages the Other 3:16s by Malinda Fugate
TOTAL: 392

[Petra]

Sophie wrote: "As for me, it's quite difficult to keep track of pages, since I prefer audiobooks and ebooks. But this readathon is an interesting experience I should say. It turns out that I read more books at th..."

Sophie, when I listen to audio books or read ebooks for this challenge I figure out the pages with ratio math. Would that work for you?
For example, if an audio book is 10 hours long and the print book is 250 pages long and I listen to the audio for 1 hour at regular speed, then 250 pages/10 hours = X pages/1 hour, which becomes 250/10 or 25 pages that I listened to.

Hmmm....putting this in writing makes it look more difficult than it is. Sorry about that.

[Tari]

Updated msg. 20 for readathon totals.

[Alannah]

Thank you all for taking part. I’m having issues with the internet so haven’t been able to update page totals yet.

[Karin]

Alannah wrote: "Thank you all for taking part. I’m having issues with the internet so haven’t been able to update page totals yet."

I got my numbers in just now.

[Tweedledum]

Petra wrote: "Sophie wrote: "As for me, it's quite difficult to keep track of pages, since I prefer audiobooks and ebooks. But this readathon is an interesting experience I should say. It turns out that I read m..."

I divide the total pages by the number of chapters listened to. They may vary in length but it gives a good idea.

[Alannah]

Updated my page totals and have added a few people's to my spreadsheet. As usual, I will keep checking in and keep adding when I see them.

[Alannah]

The May readathon will be taking place from the 29th to the 31st. I will update you all before hand if lockdown measures are still in place and you would like the readathon extended again.

[LauraT]

Updated my post n. 32 with the total of 1917 pages

[Alannah]

Thank you Laura, I'm adding it to my spreadsheet now and will have another check through everyone else page totals.

[Leslie]

Argh - I have lost my notes on Thursday's reading but my total for the other days is 2364 pgs. Sorry for the delay Alannah!

[Beth]

almost updated page totals -- still need to estimate my audio reading

[Cleo]

Updated message 24!

[Alannah]

Thank you everyone, will give the final total tonight.

[Alannah]

Our final number is 50,034

This is amazing work, well done everyone!!

[Karin]

Wow, that's impressive!

[Alannah]

As I have said before, the next readathon will be taking place from the 29th - 31st May. I'm not sure if I will extend it just yet but happy to do so if people would like me to as I'm under the impression that lot of members need to self-isolate until June.