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Mini-Readathon for National Readathon Day
Cool. I'm going to read The Ice Dragon for it as I got it from the library and will be my first ever George R. R. Martin book.
I'm pretty busy that Saturday, but I'd love to participate! :)
I'm in! Given my current sleep schedule, I'll probably be reading the day in. ;)
I'm so excited to see so many people already making plans to join in!Amber, best of luck with starting your first Martin book. Let us know how you get on!
Renee, reading the day in is such a lovely expression, I may have to borrow it.
I will try and join. I have mh son this weekend so might be hard.
I would love to try and join :) Saturdays are generally pretty busy for me, but I will make my best efforts.
Count me in! I'm participating in another Readathon anyway, so why not join both :D Guess I'm going to take on the chunkster I'm ignoring a bit at the moment (for the sake of another chunkster) and a lighter read for breaks :)
I'm in. Yay, now I have an excuse for staying in bed and reading.......:-)
What? Read all day? I'll try to force myself! :-)
Wow, you're such a hard group to convince to spend the day reading :) Love it!
I shall do my best to join in with this. Do we just list how many pages we read or something? I have a 2 year old, so how much I read often depends on his behaviour..
That sounds like a fun way to spend the day, Kara. Caitlin, I'm happy you're joining and getting your son in on the action!
Lucy, in the past we have used this thread to update each other on the progress. Each member decides how they want to track - some track pages read while others track books read. This is a shorter challenge so pages read might be more popular but it's really up to what works for you! The most important thing is to have fun with it and cheer each other on when we can. Looking forward to having you join us if you can.
Love to join as well! Just one question, the 23rd isn't on Saturday but Friday. But I'm guessing you mean this Saturday the 24th of January?I'll be continuing with the Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton :)
EEK! Thank you Odette - clearly I have my dates all confused. Yes, I mean the 24th. I'm going to correct that on the thread now. Thanks again!
Haha, no worries, mistakes happen ;) And you got me checking the date and the message a couple of times as well to make sure that I didn't read it incorrectly.
Tracking pages sounds perfect - thanks! I will be continuing with Rose Madder, by the legendary Stephen King! :) See you Saturday!
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I'm going to try to get through Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. It's been sitting on my shelf for ages, might as well read it now. :)
Odette wrote: "Love to join as well! Just one question, the 23rd isn't on Saturday but Friday. But I'm guessing you mean this Saturday the 24th of January?I'll be continuing with the Age of Innocence by Edith Wh..."
Let me know how you like it! I'll be reading another Wharton novel.
I'll be reading The House of Spirits and Unbroken.
I'm working a 10 hour shift! and training for a half marathon afterwards but I'll still manage to fit some reading in ;-)
Sarabi wrote: "Let me know how you like it! I'll be reading another Wharton novel."So far I really like it, which I'm especially happy about considering that a few months back I started with the House of Mirth and couldn't really get through it (partially because I was very busy). Have you read anything else by Wharton? And please let me know what you think of Ethan Frome, it's also on my TBR list!
It's about 2.5 hours away from midnight for me. I'm doing my best to try and stay up to make the most of the day but I may not make it!
Since I fell asleep early last night, I started off the readathon by reading the last 50 pages of A Tale of Two Cities this morning!
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Hopefully I'll be able to finish it this weekend.
I'm reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and while doing some housecleaning, will listen to the audiobook Life After Life. Gonna read all I can today :)Happy reading all!
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I just finished about 200 pages of The Time Traveler's Wife and now I'm going to try an audiobook as I clean the house. It's rainy outside, perfect for staying in!Everyone is doing so well with their reading today - it all sound like so much fun!
I just finished the 242 page Shanghai Escape. This book is part of a series of holocaust remembrance books for young readers. Before reading this book, I had no idea that European Jews had escaped to Shanghai only to be persecuted there after the Japanese invaded.
Becca, I had no idea that had happened either! I'm going to have to check out that book to brush up on my history.
I'll be reading The Ice Dragon in one sitting today for national readathon day today later. Then got to get back to Misery and my other reads.
Why is it that the day you want to read all day is the day you end up busy from the moment you wake up until dinner time!? I've only read about 60 pages so far, but I will be off soon to read plenty more! I hope to finish my book, I've got just under 100 pages left to do it :)
Wed im doing an all day read at the library. Mold removal in our apt.
Finished reading the last 32 pages of 'Assassin's Creed: Renaissance'.Going to start reading 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' next.
Total page count so far: 32
Kassandra wrote: "Becca, I had no idea that had happened either! I'm going to have to check out that book to brush up on my history."Since it's a young readers book, it's a very quick read. The author spoke at the school where my daughter works, and she purchased it for me. The author travels the country talking about the holocaust.
Thanks Becca. I may have to go to the bookstore later today to pick it up
Did you like Assassin's Creed, Stephanie? :)I read Scarlet by Marissa Meyer - with a bit of an early start, I guess, but I'm also stopping now (an hour before the day is over). I think I haven't read a book in such a short time for a very long time.
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This will be a casual, fun readathon starting at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, January 24th and ending that night at 11:59 p.m. Given that we have members in various time zones, please start and end this challenge according to your respective time zone.
This thread can be used to discuss anything about the readathon so feel free to post and update the group on your progress!
Happy National Readathon Day!