Quarterly Read-a-thon - Friday June 5th-Sunday June 7th INCL

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

18,000 pages:)

[Ace]

Ooo, I hope you are in Brenda :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Definitely :) x

[Ace]

Ok, I will start at midnight my time tonight. I'll be done Sunday night my time. I'll try to post daily totals, unless you just want a final total posted Monday?
Sorry these questions have probably all been covered in the last 3 pages!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

A daily total will be good with a final total at the end :) Thanks! If you go back to the first post on page one you'll see all the details if you're unsure Ace:)

[Suz]

Good idea Rita! I'll do my best ;)))

[Ace]

Hehe, I don't think I have any of those... I might buy something I'm really eager to read, take one/1-click for the team···

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

RitaSkeeter wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "I go for the fun quick reads!"

Okay. I've taken a hit for the team and downloaded some trashy easy reads that I can hopefully zip through quickly for maximum page count ;) :D"

Lol, you go girl!! ;)

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

666.666 books, that's about half of the books on Marianne's top floor ;))

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Michael wrote: "Brenda wrote: "27 on our list at the moment - so our average is only 666.666 books per person;)

We can do it!!!"

Hmmmm only 666.666 books for me to read. Looks at my bookcases.

lol."

LOL!!! Oh Michael.....

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

☼♄Jülie wrote: "666.666 books, that's about half of the books on Marianne's top floor ;))"

I think you might be right there Jools;)


I won't live that particular mistake down, will I??

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Michael wrote: "Brenda wrote: "27 on our list at the moment - so our average is only 666.666 books per person;)

We can do it!!!"

Hmmmm only 666.666 books for me to read. Looks at my bookcases.

lol."

Too cute! :))

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

LOL! I'm sure someone will remind me Michael:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha!! No Michael!!!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No thank you very much;)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Are you all ready?? Just over two hours to begin:)

I'm going to start with A Dangerous Arrangement by Lee Christine I think:)

[Sally906]

I can commit to 2 books - I will need someone to help me with the remaining 664!

:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sally906 wrote: "I can commit to 2 books - I will need someone to help me with the remaining 664!

:)"

LOL!!!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I have picked out four different titles to read:) I'll see how I go!

[Sally906]

I will be finishing The Wide-Awake Princess by E.D. Baker and The Hunt is On by Natalie Herzer. I have Treasured Secrets by Kendall Talbot and No Ghouls Allowed by Victoria Laurie as follow-up books when I finish the first two.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Looking good Sally:) They should keep you busy:)

[Sally906]

Brenda wrote: "Looking good Sally:) They should keep you busy:)"

They will. A long weekend coming up - always aim high :)

[Veronica ⭐️]

Brenda wrote: "27 on our list at the moment - so our average is only 666.666 books per person;)

We can do it!!!"

Yes Brenda leave it there. It gave me a bit of a giggle. ;)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

It cracked me up as soon as Rita pointed it out to me Veronica!!!

[Veronica ⭐️]

I will be finishing The Lost Swimmer then I'll start The Girl on the Train and as I'll be heading to the city on Sunday I'll read Troll Mountain it's so tiny it will fit in my bag.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Excellent:)

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

I will finish reading A Spool of Blue Thread and then move onto my next challenge choice...haven't decided yet which one :)

Atm I am 35% into A Spool of Blue Thread so will start my count from there.
Next book will probably be This House of Grief by Helen Garner.

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

330 pages tonight... although a lot of that was a manga, so pretty light going :P

NEVERTEHLESS!

[B the BookAddict]

I'm in:)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

B the BookAddict wrote: "I'm in:)"

Good! We have been sending out calls for you. We are really going to need your help this time as our number of readers is lower than usual:)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I started at breakfast this morning with 60 pages of Tooth and Nail.
Well done Liam on your effort last night:)

[B the BookAddict]

Oh good, no pressure, lol:) I hope the pets will do my weekend chores of vacuuming and changing the bed linen!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

No, no pressure at all! I may have to forgo sleep as I am working today and socialising tomorrow.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Excellent Bette! I'll add you to the list when I'm on the laptop :)

I'm at 19% on my first..started at 6.30;)

Well done Liam! And great start Phrynne :)

[Melanie]

Started the morning off with 48 pages of Crossed by Ally Condie read.

Will return later on the computer to read and respond to comments.

[Odette]

Count me in.

I have been reading Life After Life.

I was up to page 208 last night and continuing from there this morning.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Great Odette :) I'll add you to the list when I am on the laptop :)

[Kathryn]

OK, count me in. I was not one of the die-hard readers staying up until midnight to start (congrats Liam, and anyone else who did), but I've listened to 36 pages of The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood at the gym this morning.

I don't think my counts will add a lot (unless I do a lot of listening to The Castlemaine Murders as I crochet), as the other 2 physical books I'm reading are slightly heavy going, so the reading is slower.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Kathryn :) If you need anything help with your counts, let me know.. And I'll add you to the list soon as well :)

[Anna]

meant to wake up early!!!!!

ah well. started at 9am instead - 8 pages down

[Carolyn]

I'm going to finish my current reads Life After Life and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and then start something new. 64 pages so far this morning.

We are going away tomorrow for the long weekend so don't know how much I'll manage but will take an audiobook for the car to help boost the total.

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Carolyn wrote: "I'm going to finish my current reads Life After Life and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and then start something new. 64 pages so far this morning.

We are go..."

Lucky you! Have a great weekend :D

I've read another 25% of my book but will add the total at the end of today.

[Ace]

I downloaded My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman last night then promptly fell asleep. But this morning I'm a few chapters in at 47 pages! It's wonderful..as promised and as expected...

At work now, so I'll try to read at lunchtime too.

Good luck everyone!

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Ace wrote: "I downloaded My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman last night then promptly fell asleep. But this morning I'm a few chapters in at 47 p..."

Oh that's good to hear Ace :)

[Liam || Books 'n Beards]

Kathryn wrote: "OK, count me in. I was not one of the die-hard readers staying up until midnight to start (congrats Liam, and anyone else who did)"

Downside being I only just woke up! :P

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Participants in this read-a-thon

Liam
RitaSkeeter
Julie
Phrynne
Michael
Sally906
Zoey
Valerie
Melissa
Sharon
Marianne
Veronica
Rosie
Carolyn
Jennifer
CatsAlive
Suzanne
Anna
Tracey Allen
Andrea
Melanie
Brenda
Stef
Ryley
Leonie
Regina
Jen
Ace
Bette
Odette
Kathryn

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Ace wrote: "I downloaded My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman last night then promptly fell asleep. But this morning I'm a few chapters in at 47 p..."

That's great! How are you finding the "voice"?

[Sally906]

Brenda wrote: "Participants in this read-a-thon..."

Oh great we are now down to 580.6 pages each to get to goal - much better.

***sigh*** after lunch 123 pages down - only 458 more to go!!!

[Carolyn]

That's 193.5333 pages per day so only 70.5333 more to go today Sally!

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I have finished Just This Once by Rosalind James which was a lovely summer romance novel set in New Zealand.