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November 2014 Read-a-thon
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n. Name tot pages
3 LauraT
4 Markie
5 Alannah
6 Rebecca
7 Maggie
8 Piret
9 Melissa
10 Teri-k
11 Heather
12 Rick
13 Katie
14 MSJ (Sarah)
15 Terri
16 Kim
17 Meera
18 Gavin
19 Tweedledum
20 Kalena
21 Beth
22 June
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Total Page Count: 875
No distinction between days: I simply added all the pages from friday morning. It looks as if the week end when we have a read-a-thon I always have something else to do!!!
Total Page Count: 193Friday: 88 pages
Saturday: 85 pages
Sunday: 20 pages
Total: 193 pages
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Friday: 485 pages
Saturday 2,624 pages
Sunday 1,750 pages
Overall Total = 4,859 pages this weekend.
Total Page Count: (ready for editing)Friday 723 pages
Saturday 1184 pages
Sunday 1504 pages
Weekend Total- 3411 pages
Total Page Count: (Ready for editing)Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
(PS I will try my very best to update -I forgot last time!)
I forgot to update - my total is 400 pages!
Total Page Count: 61Friday: 14
Saturday : 34
Sunday : 13
Total Page Count: (ready for editing)Friday- Gone Girl, 55 pages
Saturday- 40
Sunday- 50
Total pages: 145
Total Page Count: 1750Friday - 832
Saturday - 571
Sunday - 347
I'm in!
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Sunday: 138 pages
Total Page Count: 210 pagesReading The Luminaries
Friday - 61 pages
Saturday - 61 pages (a coincidence!)
Sunday - 88 pages
I'm in!
Total Page Count: 856 pages
Friday:
All My Puny Sorrows--267 pages
The Girl Next Door--75 pages
Saturday
The Girl Next Door--196 pages
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks--41 pages
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler--41 pages
Sunday
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks--211 pages
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler--25 pages
Total Page Count: 856 pages
Friday:
All My Puny Sorrows--267 pages
The Girl Next Door--75 pages
Saturday
The Girl Next Door--196 pages
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks--41 pages
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler--41 pages
Sunday
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks--211 pages
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler--25 pages
Joining!Total page count: 855 pages
- friday: 132 pages, only a chapter away from finishing "Snow like Ashes!
- saturday: 286 pages
- sunday: 437 pages
I'm in!Total page count:741
Friday:
The Husband's Secret - 210 pages
The Girl with All the Gifts 353 pages
Saturday:
High Heat -64 pages
Deep Down - 44 pages
Sunday:
How Reading Changed My Life - 70 pages
Let's do this!Total page count:
Friday: 122 pages Finished Murder on the Orient Express Starting Wuthering Heights today (Saturday)
Saturday: 37 pages.
Sunday: 170
Total: 329 pages
Here's my spot:My weekend is going to be very busy so reading time strictly limited. Still "nothing ventured..... " as they say.
Total Page Count: (ready for editing)
Friday
Have been having a Giordano Bruno fest in November. Having discovered Heresy and Prophecy courtesy of One Click Audiobooks I have been listening to the third in the series while driving between appointments today and now really don't want to stop listening.
Sacrilege by S.J. Parris 75 pages
Into the Blue by Robert Goddard 64 pages
Finished the book, an easy and engrossing read. Have read quite a few Robert Goddard over the years and always enjoy them immensely. This is quite an early one in the canon.
Friday's total : 139 pages
Saturday
Returning to Arctic and Antarctic Exploration (as our boiler has completely packed up this seems appropriate to instil a spirit of fortitude and to remind me that however cold it gets things could be a LOT worse)
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth Ranulph Fiennes p.86-106 : 20 pages
From real life adventurers to fictional ones...... Enter Rook Barkwater.
A few years ago I discovered the wonderful Edge Chronicles written and illustrated by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Vox has sat on a bookcase for at least 3 years unopened. So today I am returning to The Edge..... But what is this ? Sanctaphrax is in a very bad way..... In fact it is being held up ....held up ..... by a forest of wooden scaffolding..... And something is very wrong with the weather....
Vox by Paul Stewart p.11-63: 52 pages
The Mad Hatter: The Role of Mercury in the Life of Lewis Carroll
So it seems that most if not all of those Victorian eccentrics were regularly taking mercury (in the form of Calomel or through the blue pill or both, mercury ointments were also commonly used) on the advice of their physicians. Finished the book today. Lots of information ponder on and excellent references.
31 pages.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 48 pages
The Courtiers Lucy Worsley 60 pages
The Wobbit A Parody (Of Tolkien's The Hobbit): or, There Goes My Back Again (The Wobbit: A Parody Series) 48 pages
Saturday total : 259 pages
Sunday
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth Ranulph Fiennes p.106-132 : 26 pages
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 28 pages
The Wobbit A Parody (Of Tolkien's The Hobbit): or, There Goes My Back Again (The Wobbit: A Parody Series) 22 pages
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution p.80-90 10 pages.
Have just got to Fortey's musings on the significance of the emergence of eyes in evolutionary terms..... Seems appropriate to be reading about that during a Readathon!
Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King 54 pages
Vox 14 pages
Sacrilege by S.J. Parris 10 pages
Sunday totals 164
Overall total 552 pages
Total page count: 186 pagesFriday: 20 pages (A White Wind Blew)
Saturday: 62 pages (Submerged)
Sunday: 104 pages (finished Leaving Time)
Kalena
I'm in too!Total page count: 225
Friday: The Way Life Should Be 50 pgs.
Saturday: finished The Way Life Should Be 100 pgs.
Sunday: The Lemon Orchard 75 pgs.
Total page count: 399Friday: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas103 pages
Saturday: Finished The Boy in the Striped Pajamas115 pages
Shift 60 pages
Sunday:Shift 121 pages
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Reading 1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiTotal Page Count: 224
Friday: 57 pages
Saturday: 117 pages
Sunday: 50 pages
Starting a little late...at page 146 of The Litigators by John Grisham
Total Page Count: 1270Friday: 585
Saturday:200
Sunday: 485
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Total Page Count: 143 pages
Friday: 40 pages
Saturday: 48 pages
Sunday: 55 pages
Details:
Friday - 40 pages of Capital of Pain by Paul Éluard
Saturday - 48 pages of The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Sunday - 20 pages of Faber, 35 pages of Éluard
Probably won't get all that much read. Too much left to do that didn't get done due to holiday'ing.Total Page Count: 295
Friday: 114-145 of
= 31 total.Saturday: 146-203 of Naked in Death = 57 total
Sunday: 204-313 of Naked in Death = 109 total
16-57 of
= 41 total57 pages of
I'm in! I didn't do well with the last two readathons, so this one is the one to beat! Friday: The White Princess35 pages
Saturday:The White Princess and A Sudden Light 87 pages
Sunday: A Sudden Light 64 pages
TOTAL:186 pages
Me too!
Friday: 0 pages :-( Had a lot to do - hope it gets better!
Saturday: 66 pages
Sunday: 137 pages
Total: 203 pages
Even if I didn't do very well in this read-a-thon, I actually read the last pages of 2 books I started earlier and finishing these I completed my challenge for 2014, yay!
I finished
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset-Maugham
and
The Magician's Nephew (Narnia) by C.S. Lewis.
And I read a bit more of
The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
I didn't have that much time to read, but I enjoyed what I read quite a lot!
Friday: 0 pages :-( Had a lot to do - hope it gets better!
Saturday: 66 pages
Sunday: 137 pages
Total: 203 pages
Even if I didn't do very well in this read-a-thon, I actually read the last pages of 2 books I started earlier and finishing these I completed my challenge for 2014, yay!
I finished
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset-Maugham
and
The Magician's Nephew (Narnia) by C.S. Lewis.
And I read a bit more of
The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR) by J.R.R. Tolkien.
I didn't have that much time to read, but I enjoyed what I read quite a lot!
It didn't even take my previous post! (it showed up finally. I deleted it.)(Friday was busy. Had to take apart my china cabinet in order to put away the holiday dishes. Latch refused to unlock...)Oh, and my name got missed, though I responded to the previous invitation thread. Please add me?
Friday: 88 pages - Sleeping Late on Judgement Day by Tad Williams
Saturday: 31 pages, same book
Sunday: 47 pages, same book
Total: 166 pages
This was prob one of the worst weekends for reading, guests, getting work done while hubs is home, I think I might have the flu? Lots of sleeping. Mmm.
Oh, somehow I missed this, but I can still join - I have an app where I record how many pages I read, so I can check how many I read yesterday (not very many yesterday though - I was rather tired, and pretty much went straight to bed after work. I'd have read more if I'd known there was a read-a-thon!).Total page count:
Friday: 32
Saturday:
Sunday:
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HiFriday: 27 pages
Saturday: 25
Reading Ironweed. This read a thon came at a good time to help me get through this.
Here's my book count.I didn't have time to read much because it's getting busier in University with tonnes of assignments and tests.
I have read from 28th to 30th Malaysia local time:
The Storyteller 80 Pages
Friday - 64 total1.One Breath Away 64 pgs
Saturday - 180 total
1.The Woman I Wanted to Be 145pgs
2.The Cinderella Murder 35pgs
Sunday - 124 total
1.The Job 52pgs
2.The Cinderella Murder 72pgs
Total for Weekend - 368pgs
For some reason my contribution didn't take so hear are my numbers.A Very Good Hater - part - 114 pages - Friday
Ill Wind - part - 223 pages - Saturday
Not the Killing Type 304 pages - Sunday
Murder on Theatre Row 12 pages - Sunday
Total so Far: is 663 pages
Friday: 273Saturday: 71
Sunday: 419
Total: 763
I'm in - didn't have comp access while away this weekend so I'm a tad late.Sun 34 pages
I've been working on this. I had planned to read a lot more, but losing the car keys put a real damper on the weekend.Friday: 63
Saturday:137
Sunday: 285
Sunday: 20 pagesFinished Ironweed.
Total for the weekend. 72 pages
Sunday: 20 pagesFinished Ironweed.
Total for the weekend. 72 pages
Friday and Saturday: 106 pages in All Families are PsychoticSunday: 76 pages in Flowers for Algernon
Total: 182
Both books are excellent!
I didn't manage to sign up in time, but I have read a total of 165 pages this weekend.
Looks like many of us didn't have as much time to read as we'd have liked!
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3 LauraT 875
4 Markie 193
5 Alannah 4859
6 Rebecca 723
7 Maggie 0
8 Piret 48
9 Melissa 55
10 Teri-k 1750
11 Heather 0
12 Rick 72
13 Katie 0
14 MSJ (Sarah) 122
15 Terri 856
16 Kim 855
17 Meera 741
18 Gavin 329
19 Tweedledum 552
20 Kalena 186
21 Beth 225
22 June 399
24 Kristicats 224
25 Satya 400
26 binsie 128
27 Ellen 1270
28 Greg 143
29 Myst 197
30 Alyssa 122
31 Nadine 203
32 Meran 166
33 Gail 32
34 Sandy 350
36 Rick 52
37 Siewiye 80
38 Katherine 79
39 Rhonda 663
40 Kirsty 763
41 Vicki 34
42 Chuck 485
46 Shannon Noel 182
47 Shirley 165
TOT: 18,578
A little less than we expected, but some of us has not yet finished to count.
Check please the number of pages next to your name if I wrote all well ...
Laura, I didn't manage to get any reading done. I spent all Saturday applying for the next stage of my training and then yesterday was out all day. Sorry but well done everybody else!
I cant edit posts on my phone but read 138 pages overall. Didn't get much reading done fri or sat.
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Late but we finally made it!!!!
From Friday November 28th at 12.01am (in your local time zone), you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday November 30th at 11.59pm. In November 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!
*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 November Read-a-thon thread in Bookchat. Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full week end tally on the thread.
As you've seen, in respect to the invitation I just sent I decided to raise the stakes to 20.000 pages. Will we be able to get there? The more we are the easier it will be! And being so late, it could be difficoult. But I like difficoult tasks.
As last time I'd like to use the method of editingt each of us our message, so we are present in this discussion only once, with all the pages ...
So now you sign up, and in that comment you update your reads ...