Read-a-Thon - Goals for the Read-a-Thon

[Loretta]

Please post your goals (page number, books, time spent reading, etc.) here.

[Stephanie]

My goals:

1] The Scarecrow of Oz
2] 5 essays
"Why We Crave Horror Movies"
"Home for the Holidays: A Survivors Frightening
Account"
"Lost in the Kitchen"
hmmm...and 2 other to be named later
3] a couple of teacher books i need to finish
4] Mists of Avalon before Sunday, as I need to read a new section before posting...

that is all...for now...

I'll read as much as I can throughout the day...but I have a 2 year old :) and I like to hang out with her at times...definitely a work day of reading (say 8-10 hrs.)

[Anne]

I hope to get in about 8 hours of reading, but I'm not sure which books I'll read. I always have several going at once, and I'll choose based on my mood that day.

[Martha]

8-12 hours is my goal

Reading list:
Rebecca
Jar City
Villette
The Mists of Avalon
The Zookeeper's Wife audio book
I'd like to finish Rebecca and The Zookeeper's Wife and make significant progress on Villette and The Mists of Avalon. We'll see ...

I love this idea. Hope we do it again soon.

[Loretta]

My goal is similarly about 12 hours

I'd like to read/finish:



I'll be listening to:

(I'm a couple weeks behind, not too bad, should be about 3 hours of listening. I might work out and/or clean while I do that.)

Also, work got really intense, and I've completely ignored East of Eden, so I'm going to try to catch up.



Oh, and I'll be reading poems every now and then throughout the day.



Pretty ambitious. Hope it works out.

[Juliette]

I'm ashamed of the audio book that I have, but I got it from the library... (Tucker Max is the author)

I've started reading to my child from non-picture books, so I'd like to continue that with some Kipling (see, child time with the reading, I so sneaky).

I'll catch up on East of Eden.

If I'm not done with it I want to finish Shiver

And I want to start Soul Catcher which I read a long time ago (probably 20-25 years ago) and I remembered it being really good.

Beyond that I have a bunch of things on my kindle I'd like to get to.

My plan on how many hours? My goal is small, I'm going with three hours. Once I make it to three, I'll double it, so on and so forth. Baby steps.

PS Loretta, I LOVE Gwendolyn Brooks. I met her once in grade school when she came to speak at our school

[Martha]

Loretta, I love Buffy!! Are the books good? Looks like something I would enjoy.

Juliette, sneaky, but very smart. I love reading to my grandkids. Can't wait until they are old enough for non-picture books.

[Loretta]

@ Martha: Actually, sadly, the books are not that great, but I'm an addict, and couldn't stop myself from reading them. Now that "Season 8" is done, "Season 9" has started, and I've been hearing slightly better things about that arc, so we'll see how that goes.

@ Juliette: Isn't Gwendolyn Brooks wonderful? :)

[Carol]

My goals are to get some projects done around my house before my Thanksgiving guests arrive, while listening to audio books of course.
To finish the Sookie Stackhouse Companion.
Also to get caught up on East of Eden. I'm running a little behind.

Oh I hope I can still do this! It's starting to look like I might have to work:(

[Kristina]

My goal is 12 hours of reading

I am going to read

The Night Circus book
Middlemarch kindle
Club Dead audio
Dead to the World audio
The Magician King if I am not done with this book by friday.

[Martha]

I'm loving reading everyone's goals. And adding to my TBR list, mentally at least. We're at the campground. It's cold, but the furnace works. :-) have my books stacked up by my chair ready for saturday morning.

[Kristen]

So excited to tackle some serious reading on Saturday. Here's what I have going:
Finish Anton Chekhov's Short Stories and Long Day's Journey Into Night; read through Chapter 1 of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy; and make a dent in Ulysses and The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses.

The kids are going to join too for a little bit with The Storm - Dogs of the Drowned City and Spiders ---> :)

[Carol]

It looks like I won't be able to participate after all. I'm going to have to work:( I hope everyone has a great time and that we do this again soon!

[Martha]

So sorry, Carol. I, too, hope we do this again. It's a great idea.

[Kathy]

I'm hoping to get to 10 hrs reading. I'm working for a little while in the morning and my stamina hasn't been so great lately due to my health issues, but this is what I will be working on tomorrow:

The Three Musketeers - didn't keep up with the group read. :(
Third From The Sun by Richard Matheson - short stories
Legion by William Peter Blatty (already started)
The Dead of Night by James Marsden
A House Divided by Pearl S. Buck - audio

I guess thats where I'll start, if by some miracle I accomplish all this, I'll add to my goal. :)

[Everyman]

I'm not able to set too ambitious a goal, what with Saturday chores and a birthday party for my sons-in-law (twins) tomorrow evening. But what reading time I can devote to the Read-a-thon will include some more sections of Tennyson's Idylls, Lucretius de rerum natura (On the Nature of the Universe), Proust Swann's Way, and when my eyes get tired turning to audiobooks with Dorothy Sayers's Strong Poison and Dickens Our Mutual Friend. Plus probably dipping into and out of a few other things.

[Diana S]

My Goal:

11.5.11 (6 Hours of Reading)

Books:
To Finish up:
Twilight Remarkable Creatures
To get half-way:
Morrigan's Cross

[Jaime]

About 12 hours of reading:

Kill Them All, The Bride Collector, and I don't know after that. I may catch up on my biology text Biology, read The Best of Clean Eating: Over 200 Mouthwatering Recipes to Keep You Lean and Healthy, or start An American Tragedy.

[Izzy]

I'm going to try and read a crime novel from start to finish that a friend lent me and has been sitting on my to read shelf for ages.

[Anne]

I'll be reading The Cat's Table. Just started it so I might just read that one book. I have some short stories from Memory Wall as back-up.

[Anne]

I just noticed that I have not received notifications or emails for this thread for at least 24 to 48 hours. Anyone else having this problem?

[Mikki]

I will be starting with [Book: Embers] but have no idea where I'll be going from there...

[Andrea]

Everyone getting excited!!!! I'm going to eat some breakfast before we get started. Happy reading everyone!!!

[Kathy]

Happy Reading! :)

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Just saw this! I'm going to shoot for 8-10 hours. I'd like to say 12, but we're supposed to hang out with a friend tonight. Not sure what books yet.

[Andrea]

My goal is 12 hours as well. I have a few books that I'm going to read and the rest I'm going to just go on what I feel like :)