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January Read-a-thon: Progress and Reporting
Thanks, Ann. I wasn't even counting the pages and surprised myself when I added them up!Dee, isn't that cookbook great? Not only are the recipes good, but the comments that go with them are so funny. I just have to laugh at how the author pretends the characters are real and has them giving you advice on how to adapt or change the recipe!!
Zakiya wrote: "★Meghan★ wrote: "Day FiveBooks Reading:
1Q84 (Audiobook-End of Part 4-?)
The Awakening (22-79)
Wednesday- Hours Listened: Pages Read: 20 Books Finished: 0
All W..."
YESSSSSSSS!!!!! *pumping fists* about time I kick your butt in something.
Day one (Saturday):Shopaholic Ties the Knot 242 pages
Day two (Sunday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 165 pages
Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt 224 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic 29 pages
Day three (Monday):
Shopaholic and Sister 70 pages
Murder at the Vicarage 91 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic 55 pages
Day four (Tuesday):
The Devil's Arithmetic 90 pages
Shopaholic and Sister 110 pages
Day five (Wednesday):
Shopaholic and Sister 182 pages
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte: Roman 42 pages
Josef Mengele. 36 pages
Overall progress (Books finished):
1. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
2. Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt
3. Murder at the Vicarage (only about 1/3 read within the marathon)
4. The Devil's Arithmetic
5. Shopaholic and Sister
Pages read: 1326
Wow Nadine! You're reading a book a day?
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Nancy wrote: "Thanks, Ann. I wasn't even counting the pages and surprised myself when I added them up!
Dee, isn't that cookbook great? Not only are the recipes good, but the comments that go with them are so ..."
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Finished During RAT
Cinder (started at pg 189) - 201 pages
Private Dicks (for a bingo challenge in another group) - started at 10% - 120 pages
P.S. I Love You - started at 10% - this book has been gathering dust (I originally bought it in 2009) - 461 pages
The Apprentice (audiobook - started at pt 2 of 8) - 336 pages
In Progress
Tatiana and Alexander (started at 37%)
The Name of the Star (starting at pg 127)
Hell's Angel
The Fairy Tales of Hermann HesseThe Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
Bumped
Leviathan
Swimming with the Dead
Progressive Dinner Deadly (started at 10%)
Hot Pursuit
The Future of Us (audiobook - started at 10%-ish)
I am a little behind but so far I have finishedThanksgiving by Janet Evanovich
High Moor by Graeme Reynolds
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
GRAND TOTAL as of Wednesday: 34 hours
2195 pages
6 books read
Tracy wrote: "Wow Nadine! You're reading a book a day?"Not quite, one of my books was merely finished within the readathon and the others were quite fast reads, so I almost managed one per day, but last night I started an 800 pages book which I won't even be finishing within the readathon. My average per book was a bit over 2 days last year. But during the readathon I devoted a bit more time to reading. :-) Oh and two of the books were aimed at an adolescent age (although both with the grave topic of holocaust and concentration camps).
Page wise I am far behind some others though!
Day 5 Report (Wed. 11:00 a.m. MST to Thu. 11:00 a.m.)In progress:
The Fellowship of the Ring - 7 pgs
Knots and Crosses - 35 pgs
Total for Day 4: 42 pages
Running total: 610 pages
Last night I went to a concert, and spent the rest of my free time watching The Australian Open. Will try to read more today.
Progress report: A Kiss at Midnight - 384 pages
Fool for Love - 384 pages
Much Ado About You - 400 pages
Kiss Me, Annabel - 400 pages
This is going to be boring for everyone else, but I am having a Eloisea James moment and I am reading everything that I can get my hands on of hers. Loving every minute of it too!
And I finished this bad boy up. Would have posted it earlier, but my goodreads was acting dumb.5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides
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Finished During RAT
Cinder (started at pg 189) - 201 pages
Private Dicks (for a bingo challenge in another group) - started at 10% - 120 pages
P.S. I Love You - started at 10% - this book has been gathering dust (I originally bought it in 2009) - 461 pages
The Apprentice (audiobook - started at pt 2 of 8) - 336 pages
Hell's Angel - 289 pages
Come Unto These Yellow Sands - 208 pages
In Progress
Tatiana and Alexander (started at 37%)
The Name of the Star (starting at pg 127)
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
Bumped
Leviathan
Swimming with the Dead
Progressive Dinner Deadly (started at 10%)
Hot Pursuit
The Future of Us (audiobook - started at 10%-ish)
Day one (Saturday):Shopaholic Ties the Knot 242 pages
Day two (Sunday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 165 pages
Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt 224 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic 29 pages
Day three (Monday):
Shopaholic and Sister 70 pages
Murder at the Vicarage 91 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic 55 pages
Day four (Tuesday):
The Devil's Arithmetic 90 pages
Shopaholic and Sister 110 pages
Day five (Wednesday):
Shopaholic and Sister 182 pages
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte: Roman 42 pages
Josef Mengele. 36 pages
Day five (Wednesday):
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte: Roman 136 pages
Overall progress (Books finished):
1. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
2. Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt
3. Murder at the Vicarage (only about 1/3 read within the marathon)
4. The Devil's Arithmetic
5. Shopaholic and Sister
Pages read: 1462
Only 136 pages today, not sure where the day went, my book is very catchy. One day left to go :-) My goal was 1500 pages which I am not far away from, so I am very positive that I will manage. :-)
GRAND TOTAL as of Thursday: 42 hours
2663 pages
7 books read
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Day SixBooks Reading:
1Q84 (Audiobook-End of Part 4-40 min)
The Unwritten Rule (1-53)
Thursday- Hours Listened: 40 min Pages Read: 53 Books Finished: 0
All Week:
Books Finished:
Pam of Babylon (243-330)
Call Me Mrs. Miracle (62-150)
Wish (99-256)
The Awakening (1-166)
Books Reading:
1Q84 (Audiobook-Middle of Part 4)
The Unwritten Rule (1-?)
Total- Time Listened: 5hr 24min Pages Read: 551 Books Finished: 4
Dee wrote: "Linette - did you like Changless? I was soo mad at the end of it, that I had to go out and get the 3rd one...lol!"Yes, Dee, I like these books - fun, fast reads - and I feel a strange urge to find a copy and read it immediately until things get back to how they should be! Surprised for sure :(
DAY 1 - Jan. 21I finished the last 99 pages of:
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie
DAY 2 - Jan. 22
READ:
The Countess: A Novel of Elizabeth Bathory by Rebecca Johns - 287 pages
54 pages of: Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel
102 pages of: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Total pages day 2 - 443
Total pages throughout read-a-thon: 542
Days 3, 4 and 5:
Read the last 103 pages of Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Read The Perfect Suspect by Margaret Coel - 304 pages
Read All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley - 336 pages
First 240 pages of The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
Total pages days 3,4, and 5 - 983
Total pages throughout read-a-thon: 1525
It has taken me some time, but I FINALLY finished my book for mini-challenge #3. It was called The Orphan Master's Son, and it does indeed shed light on what life is like in North Korea, which is a horrific place in which to exist. The absolute cruelty and horror of living under that dictatorship is almost impossible to imagine for us who live in freedom, but sadly it exists. It is hard to believe that humans can survive these conditions. It took me much longer than usual to read this book because of the subject matter, but I am glad that I took the challenge to read something that in many ways, was truly outside my comfort zone.
I hope to finish two more books before the end of the challenge tomorrow, but will see how much reading time I have the rest of the day.
Saturday/Sunday:259 pages of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
610 pages - Believing the Lie, Elizabeth George
Monday:
293 pages - Forgotten Country, Catherine Chung
Tuesday:
218 pages - One Small Sparrow, Jeff Leeland
Wednesday/Thursday:
736 pages - Rick Steves' Germany 2011 with map, Rick Steves
TOTAL through Thursday: 2106 pages
In Process: Elizabeth Street, 199 of 378 pages completed so far....and enjoying it!
Day 6 Report (Thu. 11:00 a.m. MST to Fri. 11:00 a.m.)Finished:
Knots and Crosses - 66 pgs
In progress:
The Fellowship of the Ring - 24 pgs
Half Life - 56 pgs
Total for Day 6: 146 pgs
Running total: 756 pages
One more day! Will try to read as much as possible!
Day one (Saturday):Shopaholic Ties the Knot 242 pages
Day two (Sunday):
Shopaholic Ties the Knot 165 pages
Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt 224 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic 29 pages
Day three (Monday):
Shopaholic and Sister 70 pages
Murder at the Vicarage 91 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic 55 pages
Day four (Tuesday):
The Devil's Arithmetic 90 pages
Shopaholic and Sister 110 pages
Day five (Wednesday):
Shopaholic and Sister 182 pages
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte: Roman 42 pages
Josef Mengele. 36 pages
Day six (Thursday):
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte: Roman 136 pages
Day seven (Friday):
Der Junge, der Träume schenkte: Roman 104 pages
Lies Beneath 16 pages
The Whipping Club 11 pages
Overall progress (Books finished):
1. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
2. Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt: Ein Mengele-Opfer erzählt
3. Murder at the Vicarage (only about 1/3 read within the marathon)
4. The Devil's Arithmetic
5. Shopaholic and Sister
Pages read: 1635
Whoohoo, I am done with my readathon and think I did pretty well, I think last time I was in the 1.400 region, so my 1.600 are pretty cool. I read some really good stuff this time and it was fun again with you guys. :-)
@ Zakiya: I remember loving the movie a lot, when I saw it, but I remembered it a bit differently from what happened in the book. (Probably my bad memory, I do remember missing the first 10 or 15 minutes, maybe that's why it all seemed a bit differently to me now, while reading.I enjoyed the book. It was direct and honest although it was directed at an adolescent audience. Didn't spare the really tough moments.
Ann A wrote: "Day 4 Report (Tue. 11:00 a.m. MST to Wed. 11:00 a.m.)In progress:
The Fellowship of the Ring - 30 pgs
Knots and Crosses - 106 pgs
Half Life - 30 pgs
Total..."
Sorry Ann A I did not see this post earlier on your question of 1Q84. I don't think I am a huge fan of his writing. It is definitely unique and has a twist on a lot of things. But I am not sure if I don't feel like things are really meshes that well together. It may be that I am not fond of the narrators. Their voices make it easy for me to drift off and think about other things. This is just my opinion though.
Dee wrote: "Pages read for finished books: 782Finished During RAT
Cinder (started at pg 189) - 201 pages
Private Dicks (for a bingo challenge in another group) - started at 10%..."
Hey Dee, how did you like Cinder? It seems like a book that I would love to read...
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it was cute...if you know the story of cinderella you know the basic premise - but its set in New Hong Kong, several hundred years from now and cinderella is a cyborg...I liked it and can't wait to see what she does with the next book in the series
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who is going to try and fit in one last all-nighter? I know I am, with work being busy this week and out sick on thursday, I didn't get as much reading done as I hoped - but I have 2 books I want to finish up before this is over...one is my historical fiction that is 600 something odd pages long - i'm at 70% on the kindle right now (Tatiana and Alexander) and the other is my YA/Mystery/Horror based on a modern telling of Jack the Ripper (The Name of the Star)
Me, too, Dee. I would like to finish at least two more. Unfortunately (or not - my mother-in-law's birthday and she is the best M-I-L EVER!), I have to go away for the day early tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to post my final totals until I get home tomorrow evening :( Off to read more....
I was planning on doing an all nighter but I have to work tomorrow so that won't work. My job requires brain power and I would be brain dead if I stayed up all night. POOH! :(
Got a couple books done...Very proud of myself :)Started before Readathon:
Clockwork Prince (65% - ?)
Great Expectations (page 78 - ?)
Read Completely During Readathon:
Black Moon (54 pages)
Amber Moon (101 pages)
The Vampire's Assistant (241 pages)
Silver Moon (78 pages)
Started During Readathon, but Didn't Finish:
Incarceron (page 1 - ?)
I wish I could pull an all-nighter, but I'm determined to at least make the last day/night my best one!
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My fourth book is Moonlit Mind by Dean Koontz.
Hopefully I'll be able to finish Clockwork Prince and read a bunch in Incarceron before 9AM....If not, well, oh well lol :) I feel like I've done some great reading this week!
★Meghan★ wrote: "Zakiya wrote: "★Meghan★ wrote: "Day FiveBooks Reading:
1Q84 (Audiobook-End of Part 4-?)
The Awakening (22-79)
Wednesday- Hours Listened: Pages Read: 20 Books Fini..."
LOL!!! You're not still thinking about Task Completion are you?? Girl, I'm not even trying to be in first; it just happened! :P
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noon PST = 2pm CST = 3PM EST
Dee wrote: "9am...where you at that you finish at 9am...noon PST = 2pm CST = 3PM EST"
Didn't we start at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time?
Started before Readathon: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie(135 pages)
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty (60 pages)
Nicholas Nickleby (30 pages)
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (40 pages)
Read completely during Readathon
V is for Vengeance (437 pages)
I didn't get as much read as I had hoped, but I did make progress on several books I've been working on for awhile.
I probably won't finish any more books by 10 am Saturday, so I'm posting what I've read for the read-a-thon. I read 4 books for this challenge. It's more than I thought I would, given that the Spring semester started this month.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)
4. Lothaire by Kresley Cole (468 pgs)
My 5th book for the RAT is Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich.I hope to finish Darkness and Light before the RAT ends. We'll see.
I managed to finish 2 books, plus about 170 pages of The Historian. It was a busy week for me so I didn't get much extra reading time, but what I read was enjoyable :)
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Finished During RAT
Cinder (started at pg 189) - 201 pages
Private Dicks (for a bingo challenge in another group) - started at 10% - 120 pages
P.S. I Love You - started at 10% - this book has been gathering dust (I originally bought it in 2009) - 461 pages
The Apprentice (audiobook - started at pt 2 of 8) - 336 pages
Hell's Angel - 289 pages
Come Unto These Yellow Sands - 208 pages
Tatiana and Alexander (started at 37%) - 424 pages
The Name of the Star (starting at pg 127) - 245 pages
Progressive Dinner Deadly (started at 10%) - 202 pages
In Progress
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
Bumped
Leviathan
Swimming with the Dead
Hot Pursuit
The Future of Us (audiobook - started at 10%-ish)
My sixth and final book for the RAT is Evil Star by Anthony Horowitz
Day 7 Report (Fri. 11:00 a.m. MST to Sat. 11:00 a.m.)Finished:
Half Life - 172 pgs
In progress:
The Fellowship of the Ring - 16 pgs
Hercule Poirot's Christmas - 77 pgs
The Earth is Enough - 20 pgs
Total for Day 7: 285 pgs
Final total: 1041 pages
Final summary on other thread.
Dee wrote: "9am...where you at that you finish at 9am...noon PST = 2pm CST = 3PM EST"
I realized like sometime last year that i'd been calculating the time zones all wrong, but I just do 9AM - 9AM anyway, because I'm still reading for one week. Just starting and ending 2 hours early.
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Tracy, I think you can keep track however you want. The goal is just to challenge yourself to read as much as you can during the RAT week. I just happen to find it motivating to keep track of pages.