Read-A-Thon Progress and Discussion -- June

[Athira]

Talk to your heart's content!

Let us know how your reading experience is going.. What is distracting you? What is your family doing while you read?

And if you are not doing the read-a-thon, talk away anyways and drop us some cheer! :)

[Unapologetic_Bookaholic]

I'm planning on digging out those unfinished books and spending a limited amt of time doing anything else but reading until I go to work at 2 pm. I post before then.

[Roseann]

Off to bed with an alarm at 4:45am!!!! Got lots to read and ready to go!

[Debbie]

if I am not mistaking, it is almost time, isn't it?????

[Shay]

Yes, I got one minute until start.

[Debbie]

and GO ! :)

[Debbie]

be back later to check in!

[Athira]

Good luck, everyone!!

[Shay]

Start time was 5am where I am. So, I'm reading and drinking my first cup of coffee. Peaceful. All the children, including my husband, are sleeping.

[Andrea]

just joined this.. and am going to start with....

[Shay]

Baby is up. Going to cook breakfast. Got through about 160 pages this morning.

[Joanie]

Only about 60 pages in The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for the Value of His Handicapped Son's Life, it's a lovely read! Right now I'm getting temporarily distracted by the Italy/Slovakia game for the next hour. I'm so glad this wasn't held tomorrow, crazy day for the World Cup.

[Dee]

I did read some while waiting at the vet this am, but i'm not participating fully...

started Very Valentine and Sweet Surrender

[Shay]

Finished my first book of the day. (Started it yesterday.) Read pages 58-340 today. by Shirley Tallman.

[Jennifer C]

Awesome job Shay! I am so jealous, I wish I could be reading today instead of working. :)

Dee - I just finished Very Valentine. I enjoyed it. Hope you do too.

Keep up the reading, I am doing it with you in spirit.

[Kristin]

I'm getting a very late start since I got out of work late-but I'm excited to get started. I've got 2 books that just came out on Tuesday and I've been dying to start reading them !

[BJ Rose]

Finished at 335 pp. Now reading to finish Read-the-Month for June.

[Michelle]

Ahhhhh! I'm distracted by the release of a DS game! I've been waiting for this game to come out for ages and I finally got it last night. I can't stop playing it. I've only read 19 pages :[

[Susan]

I just got the message and forgot about it, but I'm going to sit and read some, I've got a magazine I need to read and than I have a book called The Woods by: Harlan Coben

[Shay]

Just finished , 266 pages. Started it today.

[Wendy]

I just finished Moloka'i of which I read 332 pages today. On to The Girl Who Chased the Moon.

[Shay]

@Wendy. Was Molokai any good? Never read it, although I'm originally from Hawaii. I noticed the author wasn't born there and sometimes when I read stuff written in that circumstance the dialogue seems awkward to me.

[Wendy]

I read both Honolulu and Moloka'i by the same author. They both dealt with historical Hawaii and the author seemed to do a good job of it. Of the two, I enjoyed Moloka'i much more.

[Lisa S]

Sorry I couldn't join this time. I had to work. but I'll be thinking of you all.

[Kristin]

I finished Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich (started it today). Now I'm off to read Broken by Karin Slaughter! I've been very excited about this one :)

[Roseann]

Well it's the half-way mark and already I am a bit behind. I got up on time, but after finishing my first book I thought I 'rest' for just a few minutes and...about three hours later...I woke up. Anyhow, so far my totals are:

Books read:2

by Rick Riordan


and

by Karin Winegar

Total pages: 579

Total reading time: 9 hours

[Athira]

Rest is good, Roseann! You'll probably read more now!

[Dee]

ohhh, let me know how broken is - I won an ARC of it, but haven't read it yet - using it for a TSRC challenge (two books with the same titles - that and Broken by Megan Hart)

Kristin wrote: "I finished Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich (started it today). Now I'm off to read Broken by Karin Slaughter! I've been very excited..."

[Shay]

Just finished my third book, . Started it yesterday, read pages 51-319 today.

Total Pages read today: 816 (from the books finished)

[Shay]

@Wendy. I requested Molokai from the library. Looks interesting. Thanks, great to hear about new books.

[Susan]

I've finished by: James Pattersonand right now I'm on page 131 of by: Harlan Coben

[Roseann]

One more done-

by Polly Shulman

So that's--

3 books
777 pages
almost 12 hours

[BJ Rose]

335 pp.:
315 pp (so far) in so I know I'll finish it tonight, but that might be all -

[Roseann]

I finished two more--

by J.M. Coetzee

and

by Philip Pullman

I also started by W. Somerset Maugham and got to page 76, but I am getting blurry-eyed and since I have to get up to go to work in the morning I think I will go to bed.

So, my final tally--

5 books read (+ one started)
1,270 pages
15 1/2 hours reading.

Good luck to everyone else and I will see you at the next read-a-thon!!!

[Kristin]

Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "ohhh, let me know how broken is - I won an ARC of it, but haven't read it yet - using it for a TSRC challenge (two books with the same titles - that and Broken by Megan Hart)


I just finished Broken by Karin Slaughter. It in an intense book (like most of Karin Slaughter's books). I loved the book-I hope you do too! I was hoping to keep reading, but I think my brain needs to process the book before I can pick up something else. I guess we'll see.
Good luck to everyone still reading!

[Wendy]

During the read-a-thon, I read 12 hours and 2 1/3 books:
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (338 pages of it)
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen (269 pages)
A Rogue of My Own by Johanna Lindsey (127 pages of it)

Total 734 pages

[Athira]

You guys did pretty well!! I wish I had taken part too, but I ended up having some unexpected stuff come up. Congrats to all who participated!

[Debbie]

Had to do the mom thing at 7, but this is basically what I ended up with
didn't quite make it the whole time, but I did get 21 hours in.....

(57 pgs.) - Projected Pleasure ★★★☆☆
(100 pgs.) - Summer Sanctuary ★★★★☆
(402 pgs.) - Whiplash ★★★★☆

(3:31 hrs.) - Undead and Unemployed ★★★☆☆

total pages 587 and 3 hrs 31 min audio

[Athira]

21 is good, Debbie! Also, nice presentation for your summary! I like the rating star effect.

[BJ Rose]

I didn't write down my breaks, which got longer as the eyes got tired
I'm guess-timating that I read for approximately 14 hours and completed 2 books:
335 pp.: 433 pp.:

My totals: 768 pp. read in 14 hours no audio for me this time

[Michelle]

Man, I probably shouldn't even bother posting what I read. I got distracted by the release of a new DS game, and when my boyfriend got home, he kept talking and asking me questions about this coming weekend.

I managed to read only 480 pages. Wintergirls (288) and Charlotte's Web (192). I'm not sure how many hours I read because this was my first readathon and I didn't think to pay attention :[

Not very good, but I'm happy because I've been meaning to read Charlotte's Web for a very long time. I'll definitely do better next time!

[Susan]

I got started late, but I did get a book and half read. I posted what I read earlier in the post and I made it to page 204 of 324 in The Woods by Harlan Coben

So total I read about 7 hours give or take an hour. I think I did pretty well with having 5 kids and wanting to pull my hair out. LOL.

[Debbie]

Aths wrote: "21 is good, Debbie! Also, nice presentation for your summary! I like the rating star effect."


I just had to make dinner, take a nap and drive my kids around, otherwise it was good - thanks, I was able to finish a couple of challenge books that I wasn't sure I would get to.... great excuse to read all day =)