2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2 hours with Truly,Devious

Total:28 hours read
Goal met 😂

Read for 40 minutes. Still reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Total read is 5 hours

Last sprint, read 2h52 (gonna be sorry tomorrow, have to get up in 5 hours for work...):
finished Lightning (recommended book, liked it very much!) and continued The Subtle Knife, which I didn't finish, but read over half of it.

I was behind with my TBR and buddy reads but thanks to the readathon I caught up, yay!

Thanks Kristin for the cheering and keeping track!

Total Reading Time: 30h32/24

Reached and surpassed my goal, yay!

45 minutes read before bed to finish off and bring my total to a nice round 10 hours. Thrilled with that! I had such a busy weekend but I was so motivated to fit reading in where I could. The check ins were fab, thanks for all the encouragement!

Pretty Marys All in a Row - 10 minutes (Finished)

10 mins / 3 hours and 10 minutes

Books Finished:

I sort of got absorbed in my book which is why I didn't post this an hour ago but I finished The Fault In Our Stars which brought my overall time to 14 hours 56 minutes... 15hours 32 minutes if you count the bit after midnight ;)

I didn't quite hit my goal of 18 hours but I feel I got really close and next time I will put 15 hours as my goal as I was so close

Kristin wrote: "...The very last block. I'm a little sad it's coming to an end, but am so happy to have had everyone participate. Thank you all very, very much!..."

We thank you for your work and setting this read-a-thon up.

I was trying to finish To Win Her Heart before midnight but needed an hour longer :-(
I read the entire 3 hours
Total time read: 42.75 hours

Well, it feels like a small accomplishment next to those of you who read for 28/30/42(!) hours but I just read for another 1 hour 45 minutes to complete me goal of 18 hours with just about an hour to spare!

Great job everyone and thanks again to Kristin for an amazing job keeping track of everything during the madness!

I’m going to post my last reading time of 1.5 hours. I completed The Book Thief. A wonderful book and I cried at that heartbreaking moment. Despite being prepped many times. Still have all the feels.

Total time is 15.25 hours. Not bad for a goal of 16 hours.

Thank you Kristin for all your hard work. I was impressed with the check in times and you keeping track. Even without access to computer. 👏🏾🎉

2hrs read after work. Got about half way through Darkest Minds. Didn't make my 16hr goal, but i had lots of fun and this was super cool. Hope we do it again soon! 13.5hrs total

Completed .75 hours. Total: 16.25 hours

Woo! I made 16 hours plus some! This last 45 minutes was listening to Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things while cleaning my closet.

Thank you Kristin! This was challenging and fun.

The Eagle's Conquest by Simon Scarrow (0.5)

Total= 16.5 hours.

goal complete, I'm done!! good reding day!! :)

Thanks, Kristin! this was a great readathon!

Read 2.5 hours for a grand total of 18 hours.

Read another 2 hours.
Total reading time: 7.75 hours

Pushed through for another 2 hours to meet my goal yeah!

Completed 2 hours, total of 16.25 hours out of goal 16 hours :)

This has been fun, a big thank you to Kristin who keeps us going :)

This was such a fun challenge. I read for almost 8 hours this weekend. I had set my goal to be 12 hours but I doubted I would actually do it. But 8 hours isn't so bad and I'm actually happy I got some reading done.

Hope we do this again soon! Thanks Kristin :)

Rachelnyc wrote: "Well, it feels like a small accomplishment next to those of you who read for 28/30/42(!) hours but I just read for another 1 hour 45 minutes to complete me goal of 18 hours with just about an hour ..."

Sounds like no small accomplishment to me Rachel! And (I hope) you had fun, that's the main thing!

I read Princess in Pink for 2.5 hours which brings to my goal of 24 hours!

I read for 1.5 hours in this block which brings my final time to 12.5 hours. That's way short of my 24 hour goal, but I got started a day late, and I enjoyed the book I read, , so I feel it was a successful readathon for me. : )
Thanks for all your work, Kristin!

Closing out the readathon with another .75 hour on Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Total for the readathon is 10.25/12. I didn't make my goal because I forgot about the readathon until this morning. Oh well, still pretty good.

Jenn wrote: "Closing out the readathon with another .75 hour on Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Total for the readathon is 10.25/12. I ..."

You forgot about it until this morning? Wow, then you did an amazing job Jenn!

Read for 120 minutes for this block, for a final total of 765 minutes or 12.75 hours. Missed my goal of 17 hours but still got in quite a bit of book time and ended up finishing four books!

Before bed last night I got in 1 last hour of reading to make my goal of 12 hours!

Thank you so much for running this and I hope there is another one soon!

Read 45 minutes of The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall and 45 minutes of March Violets by Philip Kerr.

Completed 1.5 hour, a total of 15.25 hours.

70pgs
35pgs
(1,623pgs total)
1hr and 30min. (21hrs and 21min total)

Wayne wrote: "Last night's hockey game did go into double overtime (and the Jets lost . . . alas!) So I only got in 1 more hour of reading for a final total of 25.5,. I was hoping to finish [book:Cranford|653432..."

I'm sad that my Jets lost! But I will be at the whiteout party on tuesday! Go jets go!
Also congrats on all that reading :)

Thanks Susy and Kristin. I am definitely proud of hitting my 18 hour goal and it was a lot of fun.