January Read-a-thon: Progress and Reporting

[Dee]

Welcome to the first readathon of the year! This is a week-long readathon starting on January 21st (Saturday) 10 AM to going until January 28th (Saturday) 10 AM

* All times are in US Pacific time, but you can start earlier or later based on your preference.

[Dee]

let's get ready to rumble...

It's Cover to Cover we shout
Great books we will read, there's no doubt
so dust off your Nook or your paperback book
and read till your eyeballs fall out!

[LynnB]

LOL! Love the poetry! :)

[Dee]

i'll admit to not being that creative, one of my friends who is a script-writer helped me with it

[Tracy]

Two more hours for me.

[Ann A]

Dee wrote: "let's get ready to rumble...

It's Cover to Cover we shout
Great books we will read, there's no doubt
so dust off your Nook or your paperback book
and read till your eyeballs fall out!"

Hah! Hah! Love it!

[Wicked ♥ (Wickedly Bookish Reviews) aka Bat-Jess]

love the poem! I'm going to start now as I have some free time here at work. I'm hoping to finish up today.

[Dee]

i have several books in progress that i'm hoping to finish up this week:

Tatiana and Alexander (started at 37%)
Cinder (started at pg 189)
The Name of the Star (starting at pg 127)

after that, who knows

[Ann A]

It's the "official" start time! (Which works great for me since I'm in the MST time zone.)

Ready, set, READ!!! Good luck, everybody!

[Nancy H]

Love the poem!!

I have started The French Gardener which is wonderful, as well as The Kid Who Climbed Everest, which is an exciting true adventure. They are both so good I wish I could literally read them both at the same time!

[★Meghan★]

I love the poem as well :)

I started a little early at work. I got too bored rolling labels for boxes....so boring!!!! So I started reading while giving myself paper cuts.

I am almost done with a book too! :)

Day One:

Books Finished:
Pam of Babylon (243-330)

Books Reading:
Call Me Mrs. Miracle (62-117)
1Q84

Saturday- Time Listened: 1hr 7min Pages Read: 142

[Margie (Bookzombie)]

Finished:

Dweller - Started yesterday, so only 192 pages read as of Read-a-thon start time.

Next up:
I am Number Four

[Tanya]

Finished Swallow and now onto Beautiful Disaster.

[Samantha McNulty]

I love readathons. Currently reading Mr. Darcy's Diary.

[Dee]

i ended up taking a nap...time to start now though...lol!

[Shay]

Currently Reading:

Completed Books:
John Dies at the End by David Wong (started today: page 310), 66 pages read
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn, 470 pages read
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (started today on page 613), 312 pages read

Total Pages Read: 848 pages

[Nancy H]

I read all afternoon and finished The French Gardener, which is a fabulous book. I read quite a lot of good books, but I can truly say this is one of the best ones I have read in a while. It is a love story but much more than that. A great way to start the Read-a-thon!

Read-a-thon books completed:
1. The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore (1/21/12)

[Nadine]

Day 1 just ended for me here in Europe. I wanted to read more, but I kept being distracted. I hope to find some more reading time tomorrow. I am enjoying my book, it is the third of the Shopaholic series, but it feels like the same joke is being told over and over again. Quite redundant.
Day one (Saturday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 242 pages

[Stephanie]

Working on Slide, but have to go to work so progress will be hindered a bit. Good thing that so far its pretty good. I think I will be able to catch up on the lost time =)

[Dee]

i picked up P.S. I Love You to work on, one of my goals this year is to read lots of the books on my kindle that have been there for ages. Case in point, I bought PS I love you in 2009 right after I got my first kindle and still haven't read it (plus, then it gives me the excuse to watch Gerald Butler in the movie ;) )

[Desperado]

This is my first time participating in a GR read-a-thon. I'm going to edit this post as I go, then repost at the end.

Finished:
1. Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield (started on pg 183 of 375)
2. Nobody's Angel by Kallypso Masters (ebook)
3. Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes (ebook)

[Julie]

(1/21)I finished the last 99 pages of:

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

[Dee]

Julie - how was Catherine the Great? i have it on the pile and have heard good and bad

[Zakiya]

Dee wrote: "let's get ready to rumble...

It's Cover to Cover we shout
Great books we will read, there's no doubt
so dust off your Nook or your paperback book
and read till your eyeballs fall out!"

Ahmazing!

[Zakiya]

I was going to aim for books, pages, and hours, but I forgot to track when I started reading...So I'll just do books. And maybe pages.

Started before Readathon:
Clockwork Prince (65% - ?)

Read Completely During Readathon:
Black Moon (54 pages)
Amber Moon

Started During Readathon, but Didn't Finish:
.....

[Julie]

Dee wrote: "Julie - how was Catherine the Great? i have it on the pile and have heard good and bad"

Dee: Actually, it's really good. It's narrative biography, so it doesn't read as "dry" as a straight biography. I always take notes on books like this (helps me keep some of the events/people straight), but Massie did a wonderful job - I feel like a mini-expert on Catherine the Great right now. It is NOT a quick read, however. There's a lot of information that, as someone who wasn't very familiar with this time period as far as Russia figures into it, I read slowly in order to fully absorb it. I think it is meticulously researched, with the few examples of speculation (for instance, DID Catherine marry Potemkin? No one knows for certain, but there are excerpts included from Catherine's own letters that seem to indicate that she may have) clearly pointed out. I feel that it may have sort of petered off at the end (but I read an ARC, and it may not be the same as the final copy), where instead of a chronological progression, it sort of teeters back and forth between events - I would have liked to see a more straightforward chronology.

I really am glad I read it, though. If you pick it up, let me know what you think of it.

[April]

Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Now on to Wicked.

[Anne]

I started V is for Vengeance today, and I'm now on page 125. It is due at the library on Monday, so I'd better get a lot of reading done tomorrow. During the read-a-thon I hope to get caught up with a few group reads I'm working on plus get at least 3 other library books finished.

[Wicked ♥ (Wickedly Bookish Reviews) aka Bat-Jess]

Jess' January Read-a-Thon progress


Day 1
Hold Me If You Can page 124 - 310

186 pages

Hopefully I get farther tomorrow!

[Zakiya]

April wrote: "Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Now on to Wicked."

Loved that book! I just saw the movie, too!!! How'd you like it?

[Zakiya]

Woohoo! Finished my first book on the first day! :D This makes me super happy. About to work on my English now and watch Syfy....

Started before Readathon:
Clockwork Prince (65% - ?)
Great Expectations (78 - ?)

Read Completely During Readathon:
Black Moon (54 pages)
Amber Moon

Started During Readathon, but Didn't Finish:
.....

[★Meghan★]

Day Two:

Books Reading:
Call Me Mrs. Miracle (117-150)
1Q84 (Audiobook-Middle of Part 4-1hr 6min)
Wish (99-140)
The Awakening (1-12)


Sunday- Hours Listened: 1hr 6min Pages Read: 86 Books Finished: 1

All Week:
Books Finished:
Pam of Babylon (243-330)
Call Me Mrs. Miracle (62-150)

Books Reading:
1Q84 (Audiobook-Middle of Part 4)
Wish (99-?)

Total- Time Listened: 2hr 13min Pages Read: 228 Books Finished: 2

[Dee]

finished up 2 books so far:

Private Dicks (for a bingo challenge in another group) - started at 10%
P.S. I Love You - started at 10% - this book has been gathering dust (I originally bought it in 2009)

[Nadine]

Just finished Shopaholic Ties the Knot. God it was really quite shallow and so predictable. Yet quite entertaining (also quite annoying at times). So one book finished for me.

[Tracy]

I started 4 or 5 books yesterday and I couldn't get into any of them. Did finishThanksgiving. Didn't like it as much as her Stephanie Plum novels.

[Julie]

LethalLovely~The Good, The Bad & The Pinky Toe-y wrote: "This is my first time participating in a GR read-a-thon. I'm going to edit this post as I go, then repost at the end.

Finished:
1. Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield (..."

Updating as I go and doing a wrap-up post is what I do too :) (This is when I wish Goodreads had threaded discussions)

[Wicked ♥ (Wickedly Bookish Reviews) aka Bat-Jess]

Jess' January Read-a-Thon progress


Day 1
Hold Me If You Can page 124 - 310

186 pages

Day 2
Hold Me If You Can page 310 - 370
John Dies at the End page 176 -
Voyager page 87- 111

84 pages

Finished
Hold Me If You Can 246 pgs

Ready to kick some butt today!

[LynnB]

Yesterday I finished up The Pillars of the Earth (a chunkster) and today I'm reading Believing the Lie which is 600+ pages, so I'm not getting a lot of books read, but I am reading a lot of pages :)

[Julie]

LynnB wrote: "Yesterday I finished up The Pillars of the Earth (a chunkster) and today I'm reading Believing the Lie which is 600+ pages, so I'm not getting a lot of books read, but I..."

Pillars of the Earth was a great read .. worth reading every single page

[Linette]

Read The Serpent's Tale yesterday, started Sheepfarmer's Daughter today.

[Nancy H]

I stayed up really, really late but finished my second one! It was really good - a bio from Bear Grylls who climbed Everest at age 23, after recovering from breaking his back in a parachuting accident a few years earlier.

Read-a-thon books completed:
1. The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore (1/21/12)
2. The Kid Who Climbed Everest by Bear Grylls (1/21/12)

[Ann A]

Day 1 Report

Oh, dear. Busy, busy. I hope I can do better the rest of the week. I may not be able to do the 24-hour spree this time.

The Night Circus - 64 pgs
The Fellowship of the Ring - 32 pgs
Anne of Green Gables - 13 pgs

Total pages so far: 109 (pathetic)

[Ann A]

Anne wrote: "I started V is for Vengeance today...

I love the Grafton books - have read them all (except for 'V'). I thought 'U is for Undertow' was one of her best.

[Nadine]

Day one (Saturday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 242 pages
Day two (Sunday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 165 pages (Finished)
Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt 224 pages (Finished)
The Devil's Arithmetic 29 pages

Overall progress (Books finished):
1. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
2. Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt

Pages read: 660

[Stephanie]

Stayed up all night and finished Slide. Plan to finish up Matched next seeing as I am actually very close to the end =)

[Nancy H]

I agree. I love the Grafton books also, and have "V" sitting here on my pile. I'd like to get to it this week!

I have now started I Am Half-Sick of Shadows and Swamplandia.

Will report back later with total pages for today!

[Tanya]

Just finished Beautiful Disaster and now starting So Much Closer.
Pages read so far...450.

[Zakiya]

Nadine wrote: "Day one (Saturday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 242 pages
Day two (Sunday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 165 pages (Finished)
[book:Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Op..."

I loved both the movie and the book for The Devil's Arithmetic!! :D

[Ann A]

Stephanie wrote: "Stayed up all night and finished Slide. Plan to finish up Matched next seeing as I am actually very close to the end =)"

I used to be able to stay up all night reading...in my younger days. Can't do it any more. Darn!

Nancy, I'll be curious to see how you like Swamplandia. That's one of those books I'm just not sure I want to read. I felt the same way about The Night Circus, but am 2/3 through and really enjoying it.

[Dee]

ohhh, DC has a delayed start for ice tomorrow...really hoping my work does as well...so I can stay in bed...even better would be a day off