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message 1: by Leslie (last edited Aug 22, 2016 05:15PM) (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments From Friday August 26th at 12.01am (in your local time zone), you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday August 28th at 11.59pm. In this August Read-a-thon thread you will post your progress, telling everyone what you're reading and how many pages. Then all readers' totals will be tallied on the Monday to reach the goal of 20,000 pages. This is a relaxed read-a-thon; it doesn't matter if you read 20 pages or 100, it also doesn't matter if we reach our goal, it's just having fun doing what you would normally be doing anyway:)

Once the thread is posted in book Chat, make sure reply to the event or put your name on the thread if you would like to be included. If you simply stumble onto the thread, then please, join in!
As we have done previously, the better to keep track of all numbers, we encourage you to edit your first post in the discussion, so each of us has only one message and not 2000 as before!!!!

*An easy way to keep track is using the Currently Reading feature on Goodreads, entering your page number at the end of each day.

**For those who read by eReader, take the page number which shows for paperback/hardcover here on Goodreads for your total.Calculate by percentage to work out your page number read.

***For audio listeners, check out how many pages the book has on Goodreads, then divide that number by how many CDs or hours it is to give you an idea of pages per time.

If you respond 'Yes” to the event invitation , please don't forget to list totals in August Read-a-thon thread in here. Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full week end tally on the thread.


message 2: by Leslie (last edited Aug 30, 2016 09:42AM) (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Here is where I will keep track of everyone's message # and totals...

Leslie (me): message #3 -- 1061
Alannah: message #4 -- 418
Brianna: message #5 --
Mimi: message #6 -- 411
Constanze: message #7 -- 226
Adrienne: message #8 --
Markie: message #9 -- 883
Myst: message #10 -- 508
Joanne: message #11 -- 474
Lucia: message #12 -- 188
Terri: message #13 -- 79
Nefeli: message #14 -- 265
Petra: message #15 --
Davyne: message #16 -- 245
B the BookAddict: message #17 -- 757
Kathy: message #18 --
Lisa: message #19 -- 62
Brooklyn: message #20 -- 611
Katherine: message #21 -- 304
Josen: message #22 -- 172
Oylum: message #23 --
Nadine: message #24 -- 259
Kathleen: message #25 -- 219
Diane-OP: message #26 -- 340
Cindy: message #27 -- 185
Jennifer: message #28 -- 291
Amanda: message #29 -- 431
Veronica: message #30 -- 256
Anne: message #31 -- 213
Ellen: message #32 --
Rosie: message #33 -- 379
Benjamin: message #34 -- 134
Terri: message #35 -- 685
Kim: message #36 -- 334
Rhonda: message #37 -- 921
Portia: message #38 -- 379
PattyDotComma: message #39 -- 186
Janessa: message #40 -- 739
Ellen: message #41 -- 1192
Maggie: message #42 -- 991
Piret: message #43 -- 128
Patrick: message #44 -- 162
Shikha: message #45 -- 97
Beth: message #46 -- 215
Hannah: message #47 --
KristiCats: message #48 -- 55
Guy: message #49 -- 520
Ashlie: message #50 -- 404
Kathie McC: message #51 -- 352
Jen: message #52 -- 12
Dilek: message #53 -- 232
Tweedledum: message #54 -- 345
Melissa: message #55 -- 156
Isabelle: message #56 -- 281
Lale: message #57 -- 177
June: message #58 -- 477
Karen: message #59 -- 48
Kim: message #60 -- 415
Billy "D": message #61 -- 171
Kat: message #62 -- 384
Susannah: message #68 -- 130


message 3: by Leslie (last edited Aug 29, 2016 09:22AM) (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments I am in!

Friday: 459 pages (audiobook estimation based upon time)
books read - Murder on Capitol Hill, The Shrimp and the Anemone and The Secret of Chimneys

Saturday: 225 pages
books read - The Secret of Chimneys, The Shrimp and the Anemone, The Miracle at Speedy Motors and The African Queen

Sunday: 377 pages
books read - The Miracle at Speedy Motors, The African Queen and She

Total # of pages: 1061


message 4: by Alannah (last edited Aug 28, 2016 03:19PM) (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 14697 comments Mod
I'm in

Friday: 123 pages
Saturday 0 pages
Sunday 295 pages

Total number of pages: 418 pages


message 5: by Brianna (last edited Aug 22, 2016 09:14AM) (new)

Brianna Andreda | 39 comments I'm in.

August Read-A-Then
8.26.2016 to 8.28.2016

Friday
Books read:
Total pages:

Saturday
Books read:
Total pages:

Sunday
Books read:
Total pages:

Total August read-a-thon pages:


message 6: by Mimi (last edited Aug 28, 2016 01:07PM) (new)

Mimi (heymimi) | 32 comments I'm in.

not sure how much I'll get done, I'll be working the whole weekend, but will be able to add at least a couple of pages to the total ;)

Friday: The Three Musketeers 15 pages
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 51 pages
66 pages total
Saturday: The Three Musketeers 32 pages
Sunday: 286 pages Suske en Wiske
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 27 pages

Total # of pages: 411


message 7: by Adrienne (new)

Adrienne (bookworm3xy1xx) | 2 comments I'm in!

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

Total # of pages:


message 8: by Markie (last edited Aug 28, 2016 08:12PM) (new)

Markie | 44 comments I'm in!!!

Friday: 258 pages
Deadly, Calm, and Cold, 184 paged
H is for Homicide, 74 pages

Saturday: 190 pages
Deadly, Calm, and Cold, 87 pages
H is for Homicide, 55 pages
The Heiress of Linn Hagh, 48 pages

Sunday: 435 pages
H is for Homicide, 153 pages
The Heiress of Linn Hagh, 222 pages
The Lake House, 60 pages

Total number of pages: 883


message 9: by Myst (last edited Aug 29, 2016 06:23AM) (new)

Myst | 494 comments Friday
A Game of Thrones pg 700-762
The Odyssey loc 406-431 (4721 loc, 13.4/page) Approx 2 pages.
Total pages: 64 pages
(I was asked to emergency watch some kids and I had evening plans so I got nothing read all day...I'd planned to finish GoT and work on another book...

Saturday
A Game of Thrones pg 762-802
By a Thread pg 16-190
Total pages: 214
My reading plan is going to hell in a handbasket this weekend. Migraines, friends cats going missing, neighbors having a loud headache inducing party...what will today (sunday) bring besides I need to clean and cook...

Sunday
By a Thread pg 190-384
Cujo Pg 1-36
Total pages: 230
And today had an emergency too where I had to go shopping to get ingredients to make a meal for someone tomorrow after they forgot about it and planned to go deliver something. My reading ability has been next to nothing with all these emergencies!

Total: 508


message 10: by Joanne (last edited Aug 28, 2016 08:49PM) (new)

Joanne I'm in!

Friday: H.P. and the Cursed Child- 150 pages

Saturday: (finished) Paper Princess- 80 pages
(finished) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child- 100 pages

Sunday: Glory Over Everything- 144 pages

Total number of pages: 474


message 11: by Terri (last edited Aug 29, 2016 08:50AM) (new)

Terri I'm in!
Friday: 25 pages of The
Little Paris Bookshop
Saturday: 15 pages of The Little Paris Bookshop
Sunday: 39 pages of The Paris Bookshop

Total number of pages: 79


message 12: by Nefeli (last edited Aug 29, 2016 12:02PM) (new)

Nefeli (galacticon) | 53 comments I'm in.

books: Το Σύμπαν and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Friday: 20 pages
Saturday: 48 pages
Sunday: 197 pages

Total: 265 pages


message 13: by Petra (new)

Petra | 3324 comments I am in!

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

Total # of pages:


message 14: by Davyne (last edited Aug 28, 2016 09:00AM) (new)

Davyne DeSye | 73 comments I'll be there!

Friday: 49 pages
Saturday: 100 pages
Sunday: 96 pages

Total: 245 pages


message 15: by B the BookAddict (last edited Aug 28, 2016 11:39AM) (new)

B the BookAddict (bthebookaddict) | 8315 comments I'm in.


Friday: 296 pages NW
Saturday: 184 pages The Passion of Artemisia
Sunday: 277 pages The Rain Before it Falls

Total pages read: 757 pages


message 16: by Kathy (new)

Kathy Eiferle (rockinhotmama) I'm in!


message 17: by L (last edited Aug 29, 2016 02:06PM) (new)

L | 9 comments I'm in!

Updated 29 Aug:
Oh dear well this is embarrassing. I thought I would get to read loads this weekend but we ended up going away for the bank holiday at the last minute so I got hardly any reading time at all (booooo).

Total # of pages: 62 (all from A Place of Greater Safety)


message 18: by Brooklyn (last edited Aug 28, 2016 11:23AM) (new)

Brooklyn Tayla (bookishbrooklyn) | 1082 comments I'm in !

Friday: 26 pages of Richard III and The Princes In The Tower and 40 pages of Forever
Saturday: 233 pages of Thrill & 44 pages of Katherine Mansfield Short Stories
Sunday: 76 pages of The Fiery Cross 196 pages of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Total: 611 pages


message 19: by Katherine (last edited Aug 29, 2016 06:55AM) (new)

Katherine | 149 comments I'm in!

Friday: 163pgs
Bullseye (Michael Bennett, #9) by James Patterson Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen

Saturday: 61pgs
Nine Women, One Dress
Swag Bags and Swindlers by Dorothy Howell

Sunday:80
Marilyn Monroe Platinum Fox by Cindy De La Hoz Humans of New York Stories by Brandon Stanton


Total # of pages:304pgs


message 20: by Josen (last edited Aug 29, 2016 09:38AM) (new)

Josen (josens) | 110 comments Count me in! I had a total fail last month so I'm hoping I'll get some done this time around.

Friday: (fail :( .....was out all day)

Saturday: Saga, Volume 1 160 pages and Ready Player One 12 pages

Sunday: Ready Player One 99 pages

Total: 271 pages


message 21: by Oylum (last edited Aug 30, 2016 10:32AM) (new)

Oylum | 2 comments Sadly, it isn't really how I expected, busy weekend but I tried to do my best.

Friday: 0

Saturday: 74 pages

Sunday: 0

Total: 74 pages


message 22: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 28, 2016 12:37PM) (new)

I'm in!

Friday: Skin Game 117 p.

Saturday: Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 17 p. (sorry, too much to do today...)

Sunday:Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 106 p.
Roma 19 p.

Total # of pages: 259 p.


message 23: by Kathleen (last edited Aug 29, 2016 05:02AM) (new)

Kathleen | 401 comments This is looking like a good weekend, so I'm in!

Friday
Books read: Mary & The Wrongs of Woman - 21 pgs
Dreaming in Cuban - 49 pgs
Total pages: 70

Saturday
Books read: Mary&Wrongs - 25
Dreaming - 27
In a German Pension: 13 Stories - 21
Total pages: 73

Sunday
Books read: Mary and Wrongs: 35
Dreaming in Cuban: 11
In a German Pension: 30
Total pages: 76

Total # of pages: 219

Not the read-a-thon weekend I hoped for because reading had to be put aside for other things needing to be done. Don't you hate it when that happens? :-)


message 24: by Diane-OP (last edited Aug 28, 2016 06:43PM) (new)

Diane-OP | 126 comments I'm in!

Friday:
Saturday
Sunday:

It was a busy, lesser reading weekend - I read the whole book, (and only this book) so it seemed silly to split it up into the different days.

Grand total: 340 pages

Books read: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1) by Rachel Joyce


message 25: by Cindy (last edited Aug 29, 2016 10:54AM) (new)

Cindy Newton | 81 comments I'm in! Will hopefully have lots of reading time this weekend.

Friday: Little Dorrit -- 30 pages
Saturday: The Pearl -- 90 pages
Sunday: It -- 65 pages

Grand total: 185 pages

Ended up lesson planning more than anything else! :(


message 26: by Jennifer (last edited Aug 29, 2016 07:26AM) (new)

Jennifer (goodreadscomjenniferediting) | 42 comments I love the monthly read-a-thons... I'm so in!

Friday: Thinking, Fast and Slow 27 pgs
Between Shades of Gray 167 pgs

Saturday: Thinking, Fast and Slow 10 pgs
Between Shades of Gray 65 pgs

Sunday: Thinking, Fast and Slow 16 pgs
The Pecan Man 6 pgs

Total number of pages: 291 pages


message 27: by Amanda (last edited Aug 29, 2016 03:22AM) (new)

Amanda R (fairyteapot) I'm in

August Read-a-thon
Friday 26 - Sunday 28 August



Friday:

Shopaholic to the Rescue by Sophie Kinsella 80 pages

Danny The Champion Of The World by Roald Dahl 24 pages

104 pages

Saturday:

Shopaholic to the Rescue 73 pages Finished

Danny The Champion Of The World 150 pages

223 pages

Sunday:

Danny The Champion Of The World 40 pages Finished

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 64 pages Finished

104 pages

Total pages: 431 pages


message 28: by Veronica ⭐️ (last edited Aug 28, 2016 02:39PM) (new)

Veronica ⭐️ | 121 comments I'm in

Friday: 116 pages When the Music Changes...So Does the Dance

Saturday: 0 pages :(

Sunday: 140 pages Devour

Total: 256 pages


message 29: by Anne (last edited Aug 29, 2016 06:03AM) (new)

Anne I'm in!

Friday: 23 pages The Remains of the Day
Saturday: 34 pages
Sunday: 156 pages

Total # of pages: 213


message 30: by Ellen (new)

Ellen B I'm in too.
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Total pages:


message 31: by Rosie (last edited Aug 29, 2016 12:30AM) (new)

Rosie (rosy_posy77) | 23 comments I'm in!

Friday: 87 pages of Watching Edie
30 pages of Brotherhood in Death
Total: 117 pages

Saturday: 47 pages of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
38 pages of Brotherhood in Death
41 pages of The Girl with All the Gifts
Total: 126 pages

Sunday: 34 pages of Brotherhood in Death
102 pages of Under the Harrow
total: 136 pages

Total: 379 pages


message 32: by Benjamin (last edited Aug 29, 2016 06:27AM) (new)


message 33: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 28, 2016 05:08PM) (new)

I'm in!


Friday:
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos--290 pages

Saturday:
The Language of Dying--130 pages

Sunday:
Seveneves--265 pages

Total pages: 685


message 34: by Kim (last edited Aug 28, 2016 07:20PM) (new)

Kim Haar Wieczorek I'm in
(Book: Crazy Rich Asians; Kevin Kwan finished
Started What The Dead Know by Laura Lippmann)
Friday 27 pages
Saturday 68 pages
Sunday 239 pages

Total pages read 334


message 35: by Rhonda (last edited Aug 29, 2016 11:14PM) (new)

Rhonda Lee Wunder | 351 comments I am in August 26 -28

Friday: Elegy for Eddie - 227 pages

Saturday: The Enchantress Returns(Land of Stories) - 250 pages

Sunday: The Enchantress Returns (Land of Stories) - 267 pages
The Movie Book - 143 pages
The Zero Trap - 34 pages

Total Pages: 921


message 36: by Portia (last edited Aug 28, 2016 09:12PM) (new)

Portia I'm in for my first.

Friday: 77 I read a whopping 77 pages of Heat & Light, Jennifer Haigh's follow on to Baker Towers. Time to get back to this!
Saturday: 134 Finished it!
Sunday: 168 The Other Side of Midnight

Total: 379


message 38: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 29, 2016 08:05PM) (new)

I'm in

Friday: The War of Art Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield -page 75, Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway -page 44, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater -page 230
Saturday: The War of Art Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield -page 108, Imaginative Writing by Janet Burroway -page 46, The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater -page 236
Sunday: The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater -page 240

Total: 979


message 40: by Maggie (last edited Aug 30, 2016 09:10AM) (new)

Maggie | 537 comments I'm in:

Friday: ) Darkside by Belinda Bauer 365 pages
Saturday ) My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry 534 pages
Sunday: ) The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurdardottir 92 pages

Total Pages Read: 991 pages


message 41: by Piret (last edited Aug 28, 2016 10:33PM) (new)

Piret | 92 comments I'm in!

Friday: 86 pages (finished The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and started The Blade Itself)
Saturday: 15 pages
Sunday: 27 pages

Total: 128 pages

Wanted to read more but as these were my last days of summer, there was too much going on.


message 43: by Beth (last edited Aug 29, 2016 10:11AM) (new)

Beth | 410 comments I'm in!

Couldn't do this last month but I'm joining this time.

Friday: page 475 - 560 of Seveneves (started this last week) and chapters 10-12 of the audiobook To Say Nothing of the Dog (I don't know the page number)

Saturday: chapters 13-14 of To Say Nothing of the Dog

Sunday: chapters 15-16 of To Say Nothing of the Dog

according to Amazon Search Inside this is page 158-288 of To Say Nothing of the Dog

Total: 215 pages


message 44: by Hannah (new)

Hannah (hannahgsteele) | 331 comments I'm in!

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

Total:


message 46: by Guy (last edited Aug 28, 2016 07:52PM) (new)

Guy Austin | 267 comments Okay I'm in -

Fri - 146
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Finished last 42 pages.
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash 104 pages
Sat - 184
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash finished last 118 pages.
The Screwtape Letters 36 pages
The Dragonfly Pool 30 pages
Sun - 190
The Screwtape Letters 173 pages
Crenshaw 17 Pages

Total pages read: 520


message 47: by Ashlie (last edited Aug 29, 2016 08:03AM) (new)

Ashlie (bricklebears) | 8 comments I'm in.

Friday: 109

Saturday: 174

Sunday: 110

Total pages read: 404


message 48: by Kathy McC (last edited Aug 29, 2016 02:20AM) (new)

Kathy McC | 140 comments I'm in.

Friday: Americanah 63 pgs
Vinegar Girl 49 pgs.
Saturday: Vinegar Girl 188 pgs.
Sunday: Imagine Life with a Well-Behaved Dog: A 3-Step Positive Dog-Training Program 52 pgs.

Total # of pages: 352 pgs.


message 49: by Jen (last edited Aug 29, 2016 05:33AM) (new)

Jen Count me in! (Edit: Epic reading fail! I forgot we had a big family event...)

Friday: 0
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 12 pages Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Total: 12p (ha!)


message 50: by Dilek (last edited Aug 29, 2016 03:05PM) (new)

Dilek | 63 comments I'm in! Hoping to do better than last month :)

Fri: 84 pgs - Bioshock: Rapture Şehri
Sat: 50 pgs Emma
Sun: 74 pgs Maisie Dobbs
24 pgs - Miss Garnet's Angel

Total: 232 pgs


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