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May Read-a-thon: Progress and Reporting
Wow I just realized that that is today and I've been sitting on the couch reading since 8 am. Guess I need to start tallying now that it's 10.Currently reading:
I am starting with 
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I'm going to focus on clearing my over-full Currently Reading shelf, as I've fallen into a pattern of stalling out on various group reads that all piled up the same month.
I have a lot of books I'd like to work on in the next week. Here is a partial list:
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I know I won't be able to finish them all, but I'd like to at least make some progress on most. Except for Nicolas Nickleby and On the Origin of Species, they are library books that are due in the next 1.5 weeks.
It's "official" start time! Good luck, everyone.Ready, set, READ!!
My goal is to finish 4 books this week. We will see how it goes.Book list:
A Conflict of Interest (2 hr 25 min left)
Hard Love (114-?)
Susannah's Garden (30-?)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Emily and Einstein by Linda Francis Lee
Murder Takes Time by Giacomo Giammatteo
Iron House by John Hart
This time I don't have goals or plans... just get some reading done, day 1 has been pretty good so far.
Here's the begining to my list. I'm currently reading:
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Other items on my list for this week that I hope to finish are:
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This is probably the worst first R-A-T day I have ever had, because my daughter decided she is going to move into her new apartment this week. I spent more than 12 hours doing apartment-related shopping, installing, and organizing, so my reading time was really limited. Fortunately my husband did the driving, so I read a bit in the car. Will be back later with the page totals since I left two of my books in the car and am too tired to go outside to the car to get them to see how far I read!!
I am not feeling well today, so I didn't get much reading done since 12:01am.I started The Drop by *Michael Connelly and read off and on since the start time. It was about 5.5 hours. I read only 207 Pages today.
I decided to only do the week-long readathon, since I was feeling puny today. And I'm revising my goal: 3 or 4 books 1100 Pages.
Books I've finished:
Books I'm reading/listening to:
I've decided on the day for my 24-hour reaading spree. From 4pm Friday to 4pm Saturday =) Can't wait
Day 1: (Saturday)Book 1: Nicolas Barreau - Das Lächeln der Frauen (finished, 80 pages had been left)
Book 2: Nicolas Barreau - Die Frau meines Lebens (144 pages)
Book 3: Anna Gavalda - Ein geschenkter Tag (142 pages)
Book 4: Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (32 pages)
398 pages
Books read:
Das Lächeln der Frauen (80 pages had been left)
Die Frau meines Lebens
Ein geschenkter Tag
Freizeichen
I had a good first day with pretty good books that kept me hooked.
Books finished so far:The Last Boyfriend
Books in progress:
American Gods
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Hoping I get more reading time in today :)
Books finished so far:The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (read last 160 pages)
I hope I have more time to read today than I did yesterday.
Day 1 Report (11:00 a.m. MST Sat. to 11:00 Sun.)Books already in progress:
The Two Towers - 44 pgs
Shanghai Girls - 59 pgs
Total for Day 1: 103 pgs
Day 1 (Saturday)Book 1: The Client (no progress)
Book 2: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (13 pgs)
Book 3: The Alchemist (no progress)
Book 4: Pick Your Poison ( didn't start)
Pages: 13
What a wonderful start! LOL.
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Iron House #pages 432
Emily and Einstein # pages 368
Murder Takes Time # pages 421
Beginning these books:
Midwives
An Unexpected Guest
Got called into work Saturday so my reading time went up in smoke...Saturday:
Book 1: Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution (no progress)
Book 2: City of Bones (no progress)
Book 3: Life of Pi (no progress)
Book 4: Tattooed (no progress)
Book 5: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (no progress)
Book 6: Source for Voice Disorders Adolescent and Adult (3 pages ugg)
Book 7: The Secret of the Golden Pavilion (started, 5 pages lol)
total: 8 pages
I ran a 5K and went wedding dress shopping yesterday so reading was out the door. I need to get going today though :/Mehhhhhhh. This was not a good week for this. I've been overbooked on work this week, but I'm absolutely not busy next week -.- lol
Book List:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (finished)
Odd Thomas (not started)
Eldest (not started)
Fifty Shades Darker (about half way done)
Rebecca (about 1/4 done)
Timing was perfect - finished a book Friday night so I could start fresh with a new book Saturday. 200+ pages read so far of Mission Flats - not as good as Defending Jacob but keeping my interest.Hoping to get 2 full books read this week (that's a lot for me).
Progress for Saturday, 5/19/12: (and very little, it was, too!)Summer House p.12-80 = 68 pages
Rory - p. 145-177 = 32 pages
Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree - p.17-42 = 25 pages
Immortal in Death - p.1-28 = 28 pages
Total pages for 5/19 = 153 - my official WORST first RAT day ever!
I am currently reading 7 books, but obviously didn't make much progress on any of them yesterday. The night is still young, though, so I hope to get more pages in tonight. I will report back later on my progress. I was hoping to finish at least 7 books this week - at this rate, I will be lucky to finish one!!
Well, I've had an underwhelming first two days. But I didn't expect to get too much reading done this weekend, anyhow. Hopefully, I'll make up for it throughout the week! Day 1 (Saturday, May 19)
The Old Man and the Sea - p. 1-40 = 40 pages
Day 2 (Sunday, May 20)
The Old Man and the Sea - p. 40-128 = 88 pages (finished)
RAT total = 128 pages
I only read for about 3 1/2 hours and my page count was 142. Most of the day was spent in bed with the flu. Am feeling better so I hope to read more tomorrow and finish The Drop and start
.Totals:
Saturday: 5.5 Hours, Read 207 Pages
Sunday: 3.5 Hours, Read 142 Pages
Anne (Booklady) wrote: "I only read for about 3 1/2 hours and my page count was 142. Most of the day was spent in bed with the flu. Am feeling better so I hope to read more tomorrow and finish The Drop and start [bookcove..."Hope you get better soon, Anne. I know a whole bunch of people- including everyone in the family but the baby girl- who got this horrible summer flu. We've all been sick for at least a week as it has caused a number of secondary infections- sinus infections, bronchitis, ear infections, etc. Just horrible.
Day 1: (Saturday)Nicolas Barreau - Das Lächeln der Frauen (finished, 80 pages had been left)
Nicolas Barreau - Die Frau meines Lebens (144 pages)
Anna Gavalda - Ein geschenkter Tag (142 pages)
Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (32 pages)
(398 pages)
Day 2( Sunday)
Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (45 pages)
Shelena Shorts - The Pace (201 pages)
(246 pages)
Books finished:
Das Lächeln der Frauen (80 pages had been left)
Die Frau meines Lebens
Ein geschenkter Tag
Day 2 wasn't so great although I felt like reading a lot. The books I read yesterday were not so great. I read 3 books so far by Ildikó von Kürthy and though I enjoyed the first one (mostly because of the combination of story and little images, like an old phone when it is about a phone call or a odd looking dog when the story is about some dog at the moment) the others were just the same story with different names and settings. So this one is really annoying me big time.
I started "The Pace" to read something that doesn't annoy me, but somehow I feel like having read the same story before. (Twilight etc... etc... are they all copying Twilight or was Twilight already a copy of something?) The actual reason for the "mysterious but so cute and strangely being into the heroine guy" to be "special" is new and kind of interesting.
Are those authors just sitting down though... thinking... I want to write something like Twilight, but the vampire hype is over plus people are getting tired of it, so we now use... a werewolf, an angel, a greek god as the male hero? This time is it something less obvious though and I enjoy that fact.
Day 2 (Sunday)Book 1: The Client(88 pgs)
Book 2: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(no progress)
Book 3: The Alchemist(no progress)
Book 4: Pick Your Poison (not started)
Pages today: 88
Pages Total: 101
I sure didn't get in a lot of reading yesterday (Sunday) as it seemed to be a day of errands and visiting cousins! Fun day, but not much progress. Probably worked to my advantage. After finishing Between Shades of Gray, I almost needed a break anyway.My goals are still to finish
on eBook and
on audiobook by the end.
I'm not getting any reading done at all as I'm moving my house. In between breaks, I read 1) 20 pages of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
2) 26 pages of Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chambers.
Total of 46 pages.
I hope I can read more during the week. *Looks at massive pile of things lying around new house*. Nope doesn't look like it. :(
Sunday's reading progress wasn't much better for me than Saturday's, but at least I finished one book on my stack.Finished: Rory - p.178-266 = 88p.
Progress: Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree - p.26-77 = 51p.
Started: Trail of the Spellmans - 62p.
Total pages for Sunday: 201p.
Saturday- 153p.
Total RAT pages so far: 354p.
Day 2 Report (11:00 a.m. MST Sun. to 11:00 a.m. Mon.)Finished Shanghai Girls - last 84 pgs
The Two Towers - 32 pgs
The Art of Fielding - 58 pgs
Total for Day 2: 174 pgs
Running total: 277 pages
Total read by end of day 2:Finished:
The Last Boyfriend (last 200 pages)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (last 75 pages)
In progress:
American Gods (207 page)
Total pages read: 482
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Finished:Melody
The Fiddler
Fatal Mistake
The Road to Grace
Finished:1.The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (160 pages)
2.Zombie Parents: and Other Hopes for a More Perfect World (127 pages)
3.The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (skimmed, read about 50 pages of it)
In Progress:
1.Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (30 pages)
2.Nicholas Nickleby (25 pages)
3.Mark Twain on Travel (36 pages)
Total pages: 428
Day 3 (Monday)Book 1: The Client FINISHED (110 pages)
Book 2: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (no progress)
Book 3: The Alchemist(32 pages)
Book 4: Pick Your Poison (not started)
BOOKS FINISHED:
The Client
Pages Read Today: 142
TOTAL PAGES: 243
I finished 
and started The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean. It is not the book I wanted to read next, but it pretty good. LOL, Navarone was the closest book - on the table beside my bed. I moved my next book there, since the flu bug is still with me.
I read 210 Pages in 5 1/2 hours.
Totals thru Day 3:
Books Finished: 1
Pages Read: 559
Hours Read: 13 1/2
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An Unexpected Guest #pages 289
Day 1: (Saturday)Nicolas Barreau - Das Lächeln der Frauen (finished, 80 pages had been left)
Nicolas Barreau - Die Frau meines Lebens (144 pages, finished)
Anna Gavalda - Ein geschenkter Tag (142 pages, finished)
Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (32 pages)
(398 pages)
Day 2: (Sunday)
Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (45 pages)
Shelena Shorts - The Pace (201 pages)
(246 pages)
Day 3: (Monday)
Shelena Shorts - The Pace (111 pages, finished)
Shelena Shorts - The Broken Lake (45 pages)
(156 pages)
Books finished:
Das Lächeln der Frauen (80 pages had been left)
Die Frau meines Lebens
Ein geschenkter Tag
The Pace
Still sick, yet making slow progress...Day 3 (Monday, May 21)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - p. 1-52 = 52 pages
Desolation Road - p. 1-33 = 33 pages
Monday total = 85 pages
RAT total = 213 pages
I finished Mission Flats (384 pages)last night :) One down and one to go to reach my goal of two books this week. Starting Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter today.
Definitely not my finest showing! It's all psychological but I just can't force myself to read when it's required seems too much like school. lol
Day 1: Saturday 5/19
Time Read: 2 hours 15 minutes
Time Listened:
Pages Read: 247
Books Finished: 0
Books in Progress: 1
Kiss of Fate - 247 pages - 2 hours 15 minutes
Day 2: Sunday 5/20
Time Read: 5 hours 15 minutes
Time Listened:
Pages Read: 344
Books Finished: 1
Kiss of Fate - 105 pages - 2 hours Finished!
Books in Progress: 1
Zombies Sold Separately - 239 pages - 3 hours 15 minutes
Day 3: Monday 5/21
Time Read: 2 hours 30 minutes
Time Listened: 2 hours
Pages Read: 259
Books Finished: 1
Zombies Sold Separately - 208 pages - 1 hour 30 minutes Finished!
Books in Progress: 2
Ghostland - 51 pages - 1 hour
Deeper Than the Dead (audio) - 80 pages - 2 hours
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GRAND TOTALS for Read-A-Thon:
12 hours
850 pages
2 books read
Day 3: Somewhat better progress today.Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin: 72 pages
Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace: 59 pages
Total for Day 3: 131 pages
Total for RAT: 177 pages
Still not close to finishing anything I'm currently reading.
I guess I don't have a goal for this read-a-thon. I will just see what I can get done! Finished one book so far, working on two right now...
Day 3 ReportThe Two Towers - 54 pgs
The Art of Fielding - 58 pgs
Total for Day 3: 112 pgs
Running total: 389 pages
Looks like some great books are being read this week! Several of you are reading books that I have read or want to read. Anne and Candiss, hope you are feeling better.
Mod
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash # pages 325
Monday + progress to date:Finished: Rory - 120p. (to finish)
Trail of the Spellmans - 63-373 - 310p.on Monday; 373p. during RAT
Total pages for Monday: 310p.
Sunday: 201p.
Saturday- 153p.
Total RAT pages so far: 664p.
Day 1: (Saturday)Nicolas Barreau - Das Lächeln der Frauen (finished, 80 pages had been left)
Nicolas Barreau - Die Frau meines Lebens (144 pages, finished)
Anna Gavalda - Ein geschenkter Tag (142 pages, finished)
Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (32 pages)
(398 pages)
Day 2: (Sunday)
Ildikó von Kürthy - Freizeichen (45 pages)
Shelena Shorts - The Pace (201 pages)
(246 pages)
Day 3: (Monday)
Shelena Shorts - The Pace (111 pages, finished)
Shelena Shorts - The Broken Lake (45 pages)
(156 pages)
Day 4: (Tuesday)
Shelena Shorts - The Broken Lake (50 pages)
Nicolas Barreau - Du findest mich am Ende der Welt (175 Seiten)
(225 pages)
Books finished:
Das Lächeln der Frauen (80 pages had been left)
Die Frau meines Lebens
Ein geschenkter Tag
The Pace
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