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

[[deleted user]]

read 200 pages today between Death on Demand and Aisuru

[Marianne]

With an extra day we could have made our total easily, but I guess that would be cheating? ;D

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Yes it would;) We would have had to add more pages to the aim;) lol

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Brenda wrote: "Marianne wrote: "see, cos I never work Mondays, it takes a while to filter through my brain that it's a long weekend. Mostly, for me it just means inconvenience: can't make appointment with solicit..."

It's a good thing we have Monday free. I will be able to catch up on all the things I am not doing because I am reading. Plus I can read late tonight because I don't have to go to work tomorrow:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Totally agree Phrynne! Plus a couple of reviews :)

[[deleted user]]

Phrynne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Marianne wrote: "see, cos I never work Mondays, it takes a while to filter through my brain that it's a long weekend. Mostly, for me it just means inconvenience: can't make appointme..."

Hooray for mondays off :)

[Sally906]

Poor WA doesn't have a long weekend this weekend. And I am sure I heard somewhere that from next year QLD won't either - well not this weekend.

[Kathryn]

I've been out all day so only read about 50 pages so far, but that should change soon!

And...change of plan - much as I want to keep reading Fractured by Dawn Barker, once I found out that the ABC book club is doing Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton and that it was available at a library that was open today and which I was driving right past...I decided to do this one ASAP ready for watching the Book Club sometime tomorrow! And I figure I should be able to fly through its 184 pages quite easily, so a great choice for the read-a-thon!

So Fractured might have to wait until tomorrow!

[Kathryn]

Sally906 wrote: "Poor WA doesn't have a long weekend this weekend. And I am sure I heard somewhere that from next year QLD won't either - well not this weekend."

You might be getting confused, Sally - there was talk about moving the Queen's Birthday weekend to October last year (or was it the year before?), but in the end they moved Labor Day to the first Monday in October. I haven't heard anything about any change to the Queen's Birthday weekend since...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I'm reading Escape from Witchwood Hollow for my last book of the read-a-thon:)

[Stef]

is anyone keeping score of where we are all up to? Ok ok a few more hours to read (dives back into book)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

You post your final total at the end of tonight Stef, then I will add them all and do a final list tomorrow when all the totals are in:)

[Anna]

so far so good for sunday

Believe In Yourself & Do What You Love: 10 pages

Millie auf Mallorca: 136 pages

What Have I Done?: 49 pages (so far)

sunday total (so far): 195

[Sharon]

Finished The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. My total so far is: 316 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Did you enjoy it Sharon?

[Melanie]

I'm off to bed now, read 173 pages of Reached today.

My final total for the weekend is 540 pages.

[Sharon]

Brenda wrote: "Did you enjoy it Sharon?"

Yes I did Brenda. A real page turner that's for sure :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Thanks Melanie:) Congratulations!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sharon wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Did you enjoy it Sharon?"

Yes I did Brenda. A real page turner that's for sure :)"

Excellent! I'll look forward to your review when you do it:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Participants in this read-a-thon

Liam 606 pages

RitaSkeeter 1405 pages

Julie 412 pages

Phrynne 1229 pages

Michael

Sally906 970 pages

Zoey 304 pages

Valerie 156 pages

Melissa

Sharon 400 pages

Marianne 376 pages

Veronica

Rosie 1048 pages

Carolyn 886 pages

Jennifer 1169 pages

CatsAlive

Suzanne 243 pages

Anna 402 pages

Tracey Allen 187 pages

Andrea 335 pages

Melanie 540 pages

Brenda 1195 pages

Stef 621 pages

Ryley

Leonie

Regina 304 pages

Jen 1293 pages

Ace 136 pages

Bette 1388 pages

Odette

Kathryn 694 pages

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I'm heading to bed now to get in my last couple of reading hours;) I'll add all the totals to the list above in the morning - I'd imagine a few will come in overnight too:)

[[deleted user]]

Well I'm off to bed, would love to keep reading but my eyes are feeling grainy from so much reading lol will post my totals in the morning.

[Stef]

Would it make easier for the tallying people if I delete previous totals and just post my final total? To avoid doubling up!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

No need to delete Stef, just state it's your final total :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Congratulations Rita, brilliant effort! (Sundays total needs a 1 added;) )

[Anna]

final total:

friday: 66 pages

saturday: 126 pages

anddddd sunday: 210 pages

Believe In Yourself & Do What You Love: 10 pages

Millie auf Mallorca: 136 pages

What Have I Done?: 64 pages


TOTAL: 402 pages (i used to read so much more...but it is a start)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

RitaSkeeter wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Congratulations Rita, brilliant effort! (Sundays total needs a 1 added;) )"

Whoops, all fixed :)
I'm glad it's a long weekend - I'm going to need tomorrow to recover!"

Don't think there will be much reading done tomorrow ;)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Well done Anna:)

[Kathryn]

I'd love to keep going, but I'm struggling!

Today I read a little of Fractured - 71 pages - and I started and finished Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton - 184 pages.

So my total for the day was 255 pages.

And my grand total for the 3 days was 694 pages.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Excellent Kathryn!

[Suz]

I'm done, too tired for more reading:

Fri 153
Sat 22
Sun 68

Total = 243

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

It's been a long and busy day, wish I could have done more reading but I'm too tired to try any more. Here's my weekend total:

Friday = 85
Sat. = 220
Sun. = 107

Weekend Total = 412

[Stef]

Today's reading was a lot less than I had hoped (hangover took up half the day and slowed down the rest)

Sage Handbook of Play and Learning in Early Childhood 11 pages

Insurgent 309

so Friday 257
Saturday 44
Sunday 320

equals 621 which while under target is better than I had hoped

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Excellent totals everyone! All will be added to the list in the morning :)


I just finished my final book at 178 pages and I will tally them tomorrow as well :)

[Ace]

Brenda, my readathon total is 136 pages.
Thanks for organising it was great fun.

[Tracey Allen]

Sunday night I read the first 80 pages of A Time to Run, bringing my read-a-thon total to 187 pages. Not much read this weekend as I was busy with new nephew, but already hoping to do better next time. I love these read-a-thons!

[Marianne]

I read:
255 pages of Flood of Fire
74 pages of The Brass Bed
29 pages of my pharmacy journal and
18 pages of Good Weekend magazine
total for the weekend: 376 pages

[B the BookAddict]

My totals

Friday 427
Saturday 527
Sunday 434

Total 1388

[[deleted user]]

My total is 1293

[Sharon]

My total is : 400

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

My total for the three days is 1195 pages read...

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Grand total so far 9282 pages (from 14 people) with 17 people still to report in:)

We should do it!!

[Carolyn]

Managed to read 164 pages of Funny Girl and listened to 111 pages of audiobook Sugar so 275 pages yesterday.

So all up that's 886 pages for the weekend.

[Odette]

Life After Life - 336 pages read
The Nightingale - 158 pages read, and
The House of Mirth - 72 pages read.

Making a total for the weekend of 556 pages

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

My final total is 1229 pages

[Valerie]

Just 156 for me, more than normal and a good start to my book. Thanks Brenda.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

12,109 pages running total!!

[Stef]

Marianne wrote: "I read:
255 pages of Flood of Fire
74 pages of The Brass Bed
29 pages of my pharmacy journal and
18 pages of Good Weekend magazine
total for the weekend: 376 pages"

Oh Marianne that clears ups something for me. I was wondering if journals counted. Seems I could have done more of my thesis reading as readathon...good to know for next time :)

[Andrea]

On Sunday I read 110 pages of Letters from Skye, bringing my weekend total to 335.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

12,444 pages