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Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 10th - Sunday 12th March 2023
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You're on the list Anita - and don't worry, every little bit helps. Just enjoy your reading :)
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I'm thrilled to see you're all keen - let's see how we go by Sunday night/Monday morning! Enjoy everyone :)
Have yet to read any books for the March challenge so that is my priority.Friday Starting Pages:
Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb - page 92
The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams - page 182
Here’s to lots of great reading.
I will be starting today withWe'll Meet Again Cheryl Adnams
At page 93
Reunited with the Children's Doc Susan Carlisle
At 44% of 256 pages
Have Fun
I am starting with:this book Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith. I'm on page 83 of 356.
and this audio book The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz. I'm on minute 225 of 511. I'll do the page maths later.
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You're on the list Genevieve :)
Kerri_M wrote: "Krystal wrote: "Kerri_M wrote: "Just had a conversation with my workmates, they asked what I was doing tomorrow. Told them a readathon - they thought it was for charity or something, but said no, i..."Carolyn wrote: "Krystal wrote: "Haha I told my bf I had readathon this weekend and he was like, 'what do you have to do for that?' and my response was something like, 'mostly just ignore you for three days straigh..."
To be fair, he will be working most of the weekend, and we're due to go out Sat night. But even if he were home he would more likely be watching history videos on YouTube! We're different kind of nerds haha
I've started the morning with a bit of everything as usual lolStarted
early this morning, continuing on with
on my commute and breaks, and working my way through
at work (but don't tell the boss lol)
Friday Reads 332 pagesDoctored Evidence - Donna Leon - from page 141 to end pg 245 = 104 pages
Murder at Greysbridge - Andrea Carter - Page 0 to 145 = 145 pgs
The Chestnut Man - Søren Sveistrup page 0 to 83 = 83
Saturday Reads 436 pages
The Chestnut Man - Søren Sveistrup page 83 to 519 = 436
Sunday Reads 527 pages
Murder at Greysbridge - Andrea Carter - Page 145 to 336= 191 pgs
Silent Valley - Malla Nunn - Page 0 to 336 = 336 pgs
Total can't believe it, I think it is my highest ever 1295 pages. And all at least 4 star reads, so pretty happy with my weekend really...
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I stayed up most of the night (err, early hours of the am) to finish off Daughters of Eve which I've been trying to finish all week! Now I'm starting Just Murdered. The forecast for Brisbane this weekend is rain, rain and more rain. Perfect read-a-thon weekend.
My Friday reads:Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan: From p.160 - 272 (112 pages)
The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson: From p.127
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston: From p.194
At the very least, I'd like to finish all three of these over the weekend.
Friday Pages:Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb - 212 pages
The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams - 82 pages
Friday Total - 294 pages
Friday total: 254 pages Fromage by Sally Scott - 171 pages
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith - 35 pages
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz - 48 pages
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Friday
Arson at the Art Gallery by Catherine Lee (pg 64-109): 46
Friday Total: 46
Saturday
Arson at the Art Gallery by Catherine Lee (pg 110-138): 29
Saturday Total: 29
Sunday
N/A
Sunday Total: 0
TOTAL: 75
Friday totalsFinsihed We'll Meet Again
245 pagesRead 7% of Reunited with the Children's Doc
18 pages
Friday total 263 pages
I hope to get a lot more reading done today :)
Friday: I finished a book that I started earlier in the week.In the Dark, Loreth Anne White, 268 pages
Friday total 268 pages
Friday read was Anne Bishop's latest The Queens Price 544 pages, preorder showed up on ereader earlier in the week but held off reading it until yesterday as knew once I started I wouldn't stop until it was done.
Friday totals 354The Long Weekend by Judy Nunn 304 pages
Broad River Station by Fleur McDonald 50 pages
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Now reading A Stranger in Featherwood Falls
Friday's total - 755 pages
Read-a-thon 10-12 March 2023
Friday
✅ 1. The 39 Steps (1915) - John Buchan
0-149pp
2. The Idiot (1869) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
0-46
3. The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions (2021) - Kerry Greenwood
72-166=94
Friday Total = 289
Saturday
✅ 1. The Idiot (1869) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
46-732 = 686
✅ 2. The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions (2021) - Kerry Greenwood
166-272 = 106
✅ 3. The Weary Blues (1925) - Langston Hughes
0-128
4. The Yearling (1938) - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
0-202
5. Brighty Of The Grand Canyon (1953) - Marguerite Henry
25-105 = 80
Saturday Total = 1202
Two-day total=1491
Sunday
✅ 1. The Yearling (1938) - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
202-513=311
✅ 2. Brighty Of The Grand Canyon (1953) - Marguerite Henry
105-224=119
✅ 3. The Man on the Street (2019) - Trevor Wood
352-432=80
✅ 4. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 (1915) - Sir Edward Marsh (Editor)
0-248
✅ 5. Mary, a Fiction and the Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1788) - Mary Wollstonecraft
0-298
✅ 6. Capricornia (1937) - Xavier Herbert
421-594=173
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Patricia Highsmith
0-30
Saturday total = 1259
Read-a-thon 3-day Total = 2750
So far I've finished reading The Sins of our Fathers by Åsa Larsson (70% of 600 pages) 420 pages
Starting Promises in Death by J.D. Robb
FridayLast 131 pages of The Ashes of Tomorrow by James Swallow
91 pages of A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Friday total: 222 pages
Gunning for 1000 pages this weekend!!FRIDAY
: 192 pages
: 138 pages
: 162 pagesFriday total: 492 pages
FridayYou Talk, We Die: the battle for Victoria’s first safe injecting facility finished this one. Finished 19 pages.
Daisy Jones & The Six 101 pages.
Total pages Friday 120
Saturday
I just finished Daisy Jones & The Six 115 pages.
Continuing on with The Revels and Paper Cup
Hope everyone is enjoying their reading :)
Saturday reading:Running total: 112 pages (a slow start!)
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan: From p.272 -307 (35 pages)
The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson: From p.127 - 329 (202 pages)
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston: From p.194
Finished Reunited with the Children's Doc 125 pagesJust starting The Wakes Dianne Yarwood
The Farmer's Ballerina Ann B. Harrison
FRIDAYAll of Nell by Annie Seaton 166 pages
Continued The Long Call by Ann Cleeves 77 pages
Continued Twenty-Six Letters by Charlotte Nash 53pages
Total 296 pages
Friday ReadsFinished The Distance: A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols by Eddie Muller - 203 pages
Continued Run Away by Harlan Coben - 70 pages
Total - 273 pages
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FRIDAY
: 192 pages: 138 pages: 162 pagesFriday total: 492..."
Go Krystal!!!
Finished Smashing Serendipity: The Story of One Moorditj Yorga for a running total of 223 pages so far
Saturday Pages:Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb - 96 pages (completed)
The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams - 40 pages(completed)
Unforgiven by Sarah Barrie - 114 pages (new)
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie - 18 pages (new)
Saturday Total - 268 pages
Running Total - 562 pages
Saturday total: 390 pages Fromage by Sally Scott - 51 pages (finished)
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz - 159 pages (finished)
Walking by Kim Kelly 180 pages
Got home from work yesterday and wasn't feeling amazing, so didn't get any reading done for Friday, unfortunately. Managed to get some pages in today between my weekend chores and a friend's birthday party. 119 pages of Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
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