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Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 11th - Sunday 13th March 2022
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Amanda 464 pages
Angela 1323 pages
Brenda 1304 pages
Carolyn 1218 pages
Catsalive 1381 pages
Deborah 949 pages
Em_Jay 1445 pages
Genevieve 332 pages
Helen 759 pages
Jane 1004 pages
Janelle 503 pages
Jazzy 1056 pages
Jen Roe 518 pages
Jenny 1730 pages
Kerri M 637 pages
Kim (UK) 513 pages
Krystal 270 pages
Kylie 131 pages
Leonie 456 pages
Mari 1025 pages
Marianne 983 pages
Niamh 547 pages
PattyMacDotComma 307 pages
Phrynne 1212 pages
Renee V 1441 pages
Rosie 1862 pages
Sarah 994 pages
Sharon 1352 pages
Steve 965 pages
Suzanne 286 pages
Tracey Allen 314 pages
Trish 686 pages
Valerie 320 pages
Zoey 445 pages
My meagre total for the weekend:Managing Death = 136
Pyramids = 380
Echoes of the Runes = 80
Wild Hunger = 329
The Day The Lies Began = 24
Total = 949
My small offering:Dance of the Happy Shades = 24 pages
The Islands = 209 pages
The Remains of the Day = 74 pages
TOTAL = 307 pages
My total pages for the weekend is 286Made up of these three books:
Triptych
The Switch
Hideout
Friday 135
Saturday 39
Sunday 112
Hope everyone had fun!
FridayLast 188 pages of When She Was Good
144 pages of Fear: Trump in the White House
Total: 332 pages
Saturday
Last 304 pages of Fear: Trump in the White House
68 pages of Full Fathom Five
Total: 372 pages
Sunday
261 pages of Full Fathom Five
Grand Total: 965 pages
My total read pages is 131 pages Her time to shine - 98 pages
The lucky one - 33
Sorry my contribution was tiny this weekend.
Yesterday I read 110 page of Peace by Garry Disher.Totals for the weekend:
Friday – 89 pages
Saturday – 133 pages
Sunday – 110 pages
Overall total – 332 pages
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Sunday was a further 242 pages of The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks.Weekend total: 547 pages
Happy Monday Morning All. Here are my totals from the weekend.Friday reading Hunter by Jack Heath - 424 pages
Saturday reading Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna - 320 pages
Sunday reading The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay by Julie Brooks - 387 pages
More Sunday reading The Ghost Tattoo by Tony Bernard - started from page 115 and finished the book (307 pages) - read 192 pages
Weekend Total = 1,323 pages
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Friday 11 May The Man Who Loved Children (1940) - Christina Stead 🦘 finished 154 pp
Earthly Delights (2004) - Kerry Greenwood 🦘 129 pp
Friday Total 154 + 129 = 283 pp
Saturday 12 May
Earthly Delights (2004) - Kerry Greenwood 🦘finished 43 pp
Starting on page 85 of Cab 79 (1955) - Indriði Guðmundur Þorsteinsson finished 51 pp
Starting on page 75 of The Postmistress (2019) - Alison Stuart 🦘 150 pp
Saturday Total 43+51+150=244 pp
Two Day Total 527 pp
Sunday 12 March
Picking up from page 225 of The Postmistress (2019) - Alison Stuart 🦘 finished 170 pp
From page 59 of A Question of Upbringing (1951) - Anthony Powell finished 170 pp
From page 25 of The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) - Peter Handke finished 108 pp
Passing (1929) - Nella Larsen 81 pp
Sunday Total 170+170+108+81=529 pp
Three-Day Total - 1056
Reading stats Total pages = 637Friday
> Murder in a Mill Town - P.B. Ryan - pages 0 - 154
Saturday
✅ Murder in a Mill Town - P.B. Ryan - pages 154-272 ★★★★
> Singapore Sapphire - A.M. Stuart - pages 0 - 124
Sunday
✅ Singapore Sapphire - A.M. Stuart - pages 124-367 ★★★★
Didn’t read as much as usual, the weather was fine!Flemington 52p
Bleak House 98p
L'Assommoir 95p
The Way From Here 258p
Total 503p
My total for the weekend is 1,004 pages
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I finished My Brother-But-One at 10 to 12 last night - 416 pagestotal for the readathon: 802 + 416 = 1218 pages
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Final update for readathonSUNDAY
finished Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham 162 pages
continued Suddenly One Summer 151 pages
TOTAL 313
FRIDAY 117 pages
SATURDAY 256 pages
SUNDAY 313 pages
WEEKEND 686 pages
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Friday: It Happened One Summer = 381 pagesFinna = 96 pages
Saturday-Sunday: The Wind's Call = 488 pages
The Storm's Whisper = 475 pages
Total = 1441 pages
all Kobo ebooks
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Updated message 73 with my final total of 513 pages.Would have been a lot more but we went away for the weekend so had 3 hours of driving on both Friday and Sunday!!
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Deborah wrote: "Leonie wrote: "So far for me:38 pages of The Serpent Sea
145 pages of The Siren Depths
And 120 pages of proofreading - does that count? 😂"
lol, no it does not co..."
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Final total:
38 pages of The Serpent Sea
290 pages of The Siren Depths
85 pages of What Abigail Did That Summer
43 pages of Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
Total: 456
Sorry gang, went downhill pretty bad so been out of it all day and Sun was only 20 pages of MissingGrand total: 270 pages
Possibly my worst effort to date! Hope everyone else enjoyed their reading weekend. Thanks again mods :)
Sorry, I'm a late reporter - haven't been near the p.c. until now.Friday total: 342 pages (message 98)
Saturday total: 375 pages (message 129)
Sunday:
A Spoonful Of Murder: p.204 - p.400 = 196 pages
The Housemate: start - p.81 = 81 pages
Sunday total: 277 pages
WEEKEND TOTAL: 994 pages
So close to my goal of 1,000 pages!
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Grand total: 270 pages
Possibly my worst effort to date! Hope everyone else en..."
I'm actually surprised at how much you managed Krystal! I hope you're improving now - take it easy and rest up. Thanks for your contribution :)
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Amanda 464 pages
Angela 1323 pages
Brenda 1304 pages
Carolyn 1218 pages
Catsalive 1381 pages
Deborah 949 pages
Em_Jay 1445 pages
Genevieve 332 pages
Helen 759 pages
Jane 1004 pages
Janelle 503 pages
Jazzy 1056 pages
Jen Roe 518 pages
Jenny 1730 pages
Kerri M 637 pages
Kim (UK) 513 pages
Krystal 270 pages
Kylie 131 pages
Leonie 456 pages
Mari 1025 pages
Marianne 983 pages
Niamh 547 pages
PattyMacDotComma 307 pages
Phrynne 1212 pages
Renee V 1441 pages
Rosie 1862 pages
Sarah 994 pages
Sharon 1352 pages
Steve 965 pages
Suzanne 286 pages
Tracey Allen 314 pages
Trish 686 pages
Valerie 320 pages
Zoey 445 pages
Brilliant reading everyone!! Our goal was 25,000 pages to be read. We did 28,732 pages in our three day weekend!
Congratulations especially go to our top two readers - Rosie and Jenny. And pats on the back to each and every participant for a job well done :)
Woohoo congratulations everyone and thank you for organising Brenda I look forward to the next one and hope I can read even more
Great reading by everyone. Fantastic result.
That's great everyone. I never get much in, but I love how it's a combined effort. I might do what Sarah did and give myself a personal goal. Well done everyone!
Fantastic effort, everyone! Thanks Brenda for organising. ❤📚
Wonderful weekend of reading by all and great result. Thank you for organising Brenda...hopefully I will not miss the start next time 😉
And a big thank you to Brenda for organising this readathon.
A fantastic result!Thanks for organising this, Brenda.
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Excellent result and thanks for organising it all Brenda!
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38 pages of The Serpent Sea
145 pages of The Siren Depths
And 120 pages of proofreading - does that count? 😂"
lol, no it does not count. Neither does marking undergrad papers...