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Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 10th - Sunday 12th December 2021
I hope everyone is enjoying their reading!Friday Reading:
Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies
Friday Total = 544 pages
Saturday Reading:
The Champagne War by Fiona McIntosh - 413 pages
Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven by John Doyle - 295 pages
Saturday Total = 708 pages
Total Page Tally so far = 1,252 pages
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Total to now: 849 pages
Starting Romancing the Inventor
Home now and just about to start reading Darry Fraser's The Prodigal Sister
Unfortunately due to health reasons I have been unable to read this weekend and will unlikely be able to ready any before the challenge is over.
We're all falling like flies!I also had a dreadful weekend being sick. I feel so much better but reading has been virtually non-existent this weekend.
I got about a quarter of the way into The Women of Pearl Island before setting it aside.
My final total: 88 pages
C'est la vie!
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Hope you feel better soon Chihiro!
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I also had a dreadful weekend being sick. I feel so much better but reading has been virtually non-existent this weekend.
I got about a quarter of the way into [book..."
Bad luck Em! Hope you feel better soon and thanks for your pages :)
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Just finished two more books :Hell's Corner by David Baldacci for 616 pages and
Osprey Reef by Annie Seaton for 468 pages
Total so far 1,259 pages but won't be able to post my final tally until tomorrow evening.
I had a very successful readathon, finishing three books and making a good dent in my December challengeSunday Reading:
Murder on a Bad Hair Day - 71 pages (completed)
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel - 40 pages
The Punishment She Deserves - 222 pages
Sunday Totals - 333 pages
Readathon Total - 1033 pages
Hope everyone had a good reading weekend. Thanks Brenda for organising.
I will add my totals tomorrow everybody :)
Hi all, a slow reading weekend for me. I was reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich and At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson, and read a total of 275 pages for the readathon..
The last 348 pages of Echoes of WarThe last 43% of The Night Gate (The Enzo Files, #7). = 160 pages
The last 6% of Outlander = 52 pages
An Unusual Boy 299 pages
The first 50 pages of Get With the Program: An AI Autobiography
The first 10% of All That We Have Lost = 38 pages
The first 4% of A Testament of Character = 13 pages
Total 960 pages
Hygge Christmas by Charlotte Camden 29Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood 59
Act of Grace by Anna Krien 177
Anna Karénine by Leo Tolstoy 12
Total 277 pages
Between being busy, then had a migraine yesterday, I only managed to read 182 pages of The Dazzling Truth
Here are my final totalsSunday
Her Doctor Prince Fiona McArthur
38 pages
The Prodigal Sister Darry Fraser
34 pages
Sunday total 72
Saturday total 395
Friday total 180
All up 647
It was lots of fun again thank you to the moderators for the work you have put in :)
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A Brutal Season by Judi Daykin 341 pages
The Drowning Girls by Lisa Regan 391 pages
Boy Underground by Catherine Ryan Hyde 334 pages
A Cornish Christmas at Pear Tree Farm by Angela Britnell 234 pages
Pippa by Annie Seaton 168 pages
78% of Renewed for Murder by Victoria Gilbert 275 pages
Total for the readathon: 1743 pages
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Amanda 182 pages
Angela 1588 pages
Anna
Brenda 1743 pages
Carolyn 1201 pages
Catsalive 1007 pages
Deborah 451 pages
Em_Jay 88 pages
Genevieve 234 pages
Helen 647 pages
Jane 1417 pages
Janelle 855 pages
Jenny
Kerri_M 1168 pages
Kim 764 pages
Krystal 975 pages
Lainey 483 pages
Leonie 530 pages
Mari 1033 pages
Marianne 960 pages
Niamh 517 pages
Patty 470 pages
Phrynne 1050 pages
Renee V 1165 pages
Rosie
Sarah 1074 pages
Sharon 704 pages
Steve 710 pages
Suzanne 225 pages
Tracey Allen 275 pages
Trish 745 pages
Valerie 277 pages
Zoey 255 pages
My weekend readingDaughter of the River Country by Dianne O’Brien. 75 pages
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 193 pages True Blue by Sasha Wasley. 384 pages
Deception Creek by Fleur McDonald 52 pages
Grand Total - 704 pages
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My reading for the weekendThe History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie - 77 pages
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington - 133 pages
Normal People by Sally Rooney - 24 pages
Total - 234 pages
Finished State of Fear by Tim Ayliffe 288 pagesNenek Tata and the Mangrove Menace by Judith Vun Price 52 pages
Started The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida 130 pages
TOTAL = 470 pages
Not as many pages as I hoped, the weekend ended up busier than expected. I read:
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone - 170 pages &
Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates - 85 pages
TOTAL = 255 pages
My weekend reading:Friday
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 7p
The Great Fire of London 169p
Listening to Bob Dylan 45p
Total 221p
Saturday
Listening to Bob Dylan 104p
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 11p
Piranesi 245p
The Fossil Hunter 75p
Total 435p
Sunday
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 12p
The Fossil Hunter 187p
Total 199p
Weekend Total 855p
FridayLast 190 pages of The Absent One
29 pages of Daintree
Friday Total: 219 pages
Saturday
Last 244 pages of Daintree
Saturday Total: 244 pages
Sunday
247 pages of An Unkindness of Magicians
Sunday Total: 247 pages
Grand Total: 710 pages
Final Tally - 1168 pages - I don't keep track, but I think this might be the first time > 1,000. Obviously need to stockpile cozies for read-a-thon weekends!Friday
> The Innocent Ones - Neil White - pages 95 to finish = 193 pages
> Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd - Alan Bradley - pages 0 to 180 = 180 pages
Saturday
> Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd - Alan Bradley - pages 180 to 307 = 183 pages
> The Grave's a Fine and Private Place - Alan Bradley - pages 0-111 = 111 pages
Sunday
> The Grave's a Fine and Private Place - Alan Bradley - pages 111 to finish =254 pages
> Dead Lions - Mick Herron - pages 0-247 = 247 pages
I had visitors in the afternoon and evening on Sunday so only read 234 pages of Zero Day by David Baldacci Total for the readathon = 418 + 546 + 237 = 1201 pages
Not the largest total for me!Friday
Leave the World Behind 13 pages
Gathering Dark 46 pages
Saturday
Leave the World Behind 36 pages
Gathering Dark 36 pages
Sunday
Leave the World Behind 47 pages
Gathering Dark 47 pages
Some of these look like typos, just a coincidence ;)
Grand total 225
Here are my totals for the weekend.Friday Reading:
Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies
Friday Total = 544 pages
Saturday Reading:
The Champagne War by Fiona McIntosh - 413 pages
Blessed: The Breakout Year of Rampaging Roy Slaven by John Doyle - 295 pages
Saturday Total = 708 pages
Sunday Reading:
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
Sunday Total = 336 pages
Total Page Tally = 1,588 pages
Friday total: 280 pages (see message 86) Saturday:
The Missing Girl p.68-end = 256 pages
Zambezi 28% - 34% = 35 pages
The Happiest Refugee start - p.63 = 63 pages
Saturday total: 354 pages
Sunday:
Tank Water = 271 pages
The Happiest Refugee p.63 - end = 169
Sunday total: 440 pages
Weekend total: 1074 pages
Thanks Brenda! This challenge has helped me complete a couple of annual challenges and get my books back to the library on time!
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Saturday:
Sunday:"
Have you got more coming Sarah?
Weekend SummaryFriday
Everyone We've Been - 84 pages
Saturday
Everyone We've Been - 276 pages
Aurora's End - 5 pages
Sunday
Aurora's End - 152 pages
Weekend Total: 517 pages
Brenda wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Friday total: 280 pages (see message 86)Saturday:
Sunday:"
Have you got more coming Sarah?"
Sorry Brenda - I started my message, skipped to an earlier page to check my Friday total and promptly lost the first message (lost in the refresh, I think!). Now rectified and re-posted at message 136.
Updated message #42 with my final total of 764 pages.
A question for the Mods for future reference....In most challenges there is a minimum page length for books to be included. Does that apply to read-a-thons as well, or can novella / short story compilations be included?
Not that I am planning the next read-a-thon reading list already or anything :)
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In most challenges there is a minimum page length for books to be included. Does that apply to read-a-thons as well, or can novella / short story c..."
Yes Kerri, minimum of 125 pages - novellas and short stories are fine as long as they are 125 pp or more :)
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Saturday:
Sunday:"
Have you got more coming Sarah?"
Sorry Brenda - I started my message, skipped to an earlier page to chec..."
Thanks Sarah, I thought something must have happened!! lol
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Sunday:Mark of Fire: 199 pages
Midnight in the Snow: 221 pages (Finished)
Kill Your Brother: 116 pages
Friday: 143 pages
Saturday: 296 pages
Sunday: 536 pages
Weekend total: 975 pages
My contribution:The Mason List by S.D. Hendrickson - 448 pages
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe on audio - 35 pages
Total - 483 pages
Not as bad as I expected :D
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Oops, sorry to be late with my final update!Sunday Total 269 pages
Finished Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music 126 pages
Continued Pippa 31 pages
Started Half Moon Lake 112 pages
Friday 296 pages
Saturday 180 pages
Sunday 269 pages
WEEKEND 745 pages
Thank you Brenda for again organising and motivating us to wonderful reading 🤗. Well done everyone, some amazing numbers!! 👏👏
Finally tally - also finished The Engagement Gift by Lauren Blakely for 158 pages Gives me a grand week-end total of 1,417 pages
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Continued... Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music 132 pages
In Between the Sheets 22 pages
Started Pippa 26 pages
TOTAL 180pages