All About Books discussion

From Friday August 29th at 12.01am (in your local time zone), you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday August 31st at 11.59pm. In this 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 10,000 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:)

Looking forward to it.

I will join although I should be revising that weekend!

I am joining in!

I am going it should be fun:)

I'd like to join!

I'll join, but I can't promise loads of pages as I have to work over the weekend to make up for how behind I am after my vacation. Ugh.

I'd love to join!

Looking forward to this. I'm off work the whole weekend so lots of reading time for me :)

I'm in!

Yes, I am 'in'.

I'm in!

I'm in as well.

Hello I'm new to the group and will be joining in.

Jill wrote: "Hello I'm new to the group and will be joining in."

Welcome :)

I'm in

I'll join in!

I'm in!

Just joined the group. I'm in.

Hi read-a-thoners. I'm in for this weekend too. Going to see if I can beat my June score.

Never done this before! Reading keeps me sane so count on some pages from me this weekend.

Finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: 216 pages
The Man from Beijing: 60 pages
The Cuckoo's Calling: 33 pages
Finished Rules of Murder: 86 pages
A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You: 12 pages
The Phantom Tollbooth: 9 pages

Total: 416 pages

I'm in!!!

I'm in!!!

Ready to start!

Looking forward to the Read-a-thon! :)

I'm in too!

Good morning all read-a-thoners. I'm currently alternating between Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story and The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel both of which I find quite intense and have to read in small bytes. So far have read

30 pages of The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel (now on page 96 )
And
40 pages of Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New
Zealand Story( now on page 126)

I'm in as well.

Couldn't sleep last night so got a head start on this readathon, I will post my results on Monday like I always do. Good luck everyone!

Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti

This is my book for the weekend (if I'm lucky I'll read two!). Have a bit of time before work so I just started it. Currently on page 10.

Still have my June records, wonder if I will beat them.

Hello, this is my first time participating in this sort of challenge. Sounds fun! I will start with Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
And I hope to finish it quickly and start a second one before the weekend is over, also.

I'm working on the following:
Bittersweet
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Murdering My Youth: a memoir
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
Big Little Lies
Invisible Snow

These three are finishing a Mystery/Crime Challenge for this month, so I'll be working on:

V is for Vengeance
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

Easy for me this month: only one book at a time!
Finished the missing 129 pages of Shades of Grey and read the first 145 of The Golem and the Jinni. I hope to finish it all before sunday night, we'll see.
Up to now then 274 pages

For today August 29, 2014 I am reading:


My Progress:
Anna Karenina: Dailylit, installment 41 of 364
Anna Karenina: Dailylit, installment 42 of 364
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Nook, page 102 of 291
City Of Bones: Nook, page 34 of 369
Wonder: Nook, page 43 of 330
The Night Circus: Regular book, page 64 of 512
The Scorpio Races: Regular book, page 8 of 407

Thanks to Tweedledum to opening the count for our August Read-a-thon. Good luck eveyone and wishing you happy reading.

@Laura Very clever of you to start The Golem and the Jinni; combining a read-along with a read-a-thon:)

I am about to start my first book. I'll update at the end of the readathon.

My progress:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Nook, page 119 of 291

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
170 pages in total.... Just finished it. Great read also counted it for my around the world challenge....

Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent!
16 pages. Bogged down in Hamburg at the moment in the rain. Sounds rather boring ...in fact Chris Lown seems to be contemplating giving up his mission (to camp in every German state ) but as there are rather a lot of pages still to go I'm guessing he's about to change his mind.

@Sandy, I like the look of Gender Failure. Let me know how you like it when you're done - maybe I'll read that one.

Here! I'm reading :)

So far read 82 pages in V is for Vengeance, 10 pages in The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, and 12 pages in Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.

Total 104 pages

Here It goes:
I have read: Friday 29 August
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan 4 pages
Murder By The Tale 30 pages
Chocolate Dipped Death 5 pages
The Goldfinch 79 pages
Total 118 pages

Wrap up for Friday:

this morning, read 20 more pages of Leaves of Grass: The Complete Deathbed Edition on the exercise bike

during commute, listened to 104 pages of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (yes traffic from hell)

tonight read 35 more pages of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov.

Friday total = 159 pages

Well done everybody, I hope you are all enjoying your reads this weekend.

Here's my running total:
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story 170 pages, book finished.
The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel 40 pages (page 106)
Tents and Tent Stability: A Month-Long Camping Adventure In Germany - In a Rather Dodgy Tent! ebook with no page numbers so 36 pages estimated...25% of book read. Probably around p.100
The Little Grey Men 63 pages read .. Now at page 218
A Monk and Two Peas I think the last time I read any of this was during the June read-a-thon! 11 pages read...(p.63)

Running total 320

Friday:

Fallenby Karen Slaughter. 37 (Completed)
So Far Gone, Girl: A Parody by Luke Young - 226 (Completed)
The Ice Princess by Camilla
Lackberg 115. (In Progress)

Total 378

Friday 73 pgs; wanted to read more, but never found the time,
Saturday 51 pgs, Sunday 110 pgs

Saturday 17 pgs

Total 251 pgs

Hey! :)
I completely forgot to post my progress for yesterday. I read 84 pages of Walking Disaster. I hope to read more today and tomorrow since I have the weekend off and have plenty of time.

Friday and Saturday: 80 pages of A Storm of Swords.