The History Book Club discussion

2015 - Readathon One Date: February 7th, 2015 - 8PM - Midnight - Check-In

Please let us know who is reading during these this period of time.

Let us know the following:

Name of Book and Author:
Genre:
Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period.
Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.
How much time did you read:
Did you complete any books - name of book and author
What time zone and location are you in:

So for example:

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
by Paul Scott - Genre: Historical Fiction - pages start 1 - finish 80

If you finished a book - let us know that too and make sure to get it added to your readathon shelf so you can get credit for it. If it is added properly it will show up on your shelf. You have to make sure to have selected a readathon shelf and when you are done with the first book for your readathon - make sure to add the completed date and that the book is read versus currently reading.

It will show up on your shelf if you have done this properly.

Remember wherever you are you can participate in the readathon.

And if you only have one hour or four hours or plan to do this for the entire 24 hour period taking of course breaks for eating and sleeping - you can join for however long you want to read. We want to keep track of the books completed, the books started, the books in progress, the number of pages read by all, and the different genres. Great fun and this is only the first readathon - we will use the same readathon challenge for all of them so you can see your readathon shelves grow.

Additionally these books that you complete on the readathon can be added to other shelves for the Japan or India challenge or the 2015 50 Books Challenge or the goodreads yearly challenge - the sky is the limit. Any genre is welcome.

I think I understand this. I will give it a try.

Have you signed up Sherry and set up your shelf? (you basically use the same procedure as the Japan and India challenges for signing up)

How To Join In:
Click on the title at the top - The HBC Readathons. Please then join by simply signing in at the bottom and say how many books you plan to read for one or more of the readathon dates - there will be six readathon dates throughout the year; then create your own personal shelf to add the books which you would like to tackle during one readathon or more readathons. That is all there is to it and goodreads will keep track. Become your own marathoner in reading books on the readathon dates and we will keep track of your progress in terms of titles of books, number of books, number of pages, and different genres. Give it a whirl and see how much reading you can get done and take a stab at that big "to be read" pile of books that we all have.

Note: Don't forget to set up your shelf first and then add the name of that shelf here when setting up the challenge for your readathon.

Happy to have you with us Sherry.

I signed up, set up the shelf with Middlemarch by George Eliot, but I'm not sure I've figured out how to sign up for the Readathon yet. I started this book months ago. I hope this incentive will be what I need to finish it.

Chris I see you on the Readathon list - I will send you a note. So you signed up successfully. When you get done with the book during the Readathon then you will put in your completion date and make sure you add the completed book to the Readathon shelf and any other shelf you want it added to.

by George Eliot

The above is the citation format.

@Sherry - Sherry I do not see you on the Readathon Challenge listing - when you sign up you will be listed just like you are or were on other challenges like the India, Japan or Middle Eastern one. I will let you know when I see you on the lost.

Bentley wrote: "Chris I see you on the Readathon list - I will send you a note. So you signed up successfully. When you get done with the book during the Readathon then you will put in your completion date and m..."
I clicked the HBC marathons at the top and when I got to the page I could not see the place at "the bottom of the page to sign up. So I am still on "the lost." :)

It would be at the bottom of the Readathon write up.

Update: You figured it out Sherry - you are on the list.

Remember folks this is the check in for anybody reading during the hours of 8PM until MIDNIGHT on February 7th, 2015 (wherever in the world you are - use your time zone). If you want to get credit for any reading done during these four hours you must check in on this thread - Checkpoint 4. But for the check in to count - you must post between the hours of 8PM to MIDNIGHT on February 7th in the time zone that you are in. This is the Checkpoint for those hours on February 7th. To get credit for these hours this is the thread and CHECKPOINT you must post on. THIS IS CHECKPOINT FOUR.

REMEMBER AT LEAST ONE CHECK-IN MUST REFLECT THE FOLLOWING TO BE COUNTED IN THE READATHON AND OF COURSE YOU MUST CHECK-OUT AT THE END.

Make sure to answer the following:

Name of Book and Author or books and authors:

Genre or genres:

Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period.

Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.

How much time did you read during this block of time:

Did you complete any books during this time frame and what were they?

Also, your location in the world and timezone

by Hernán Cortés and Anthony Pagden

Genre: History
Time frame: 20:10 - 21:00 (again with breaks)
Pages read: p. xlviii to p. lx
Location: Zagreb, Croatia, Central European Time



by Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Contemporary romance
Time frame: 21:20 - 22:50
Pages read: p. 171 to p. 214 (COMPLETED)
Location: Zagreb, Croatia, Central European Time

Awesome job, Samanta! Are you going to keep at it for a while or are you winding down? It's starting to get late where you are, I believe!

Samanta wrote: " by Hernán Cortés and Anthony Pagden

Genre: History
T..."

Awesome job, Samanta! Are

Night of the Golden Butterfly by Tariq Ali

Read from 62% to 86% (kindle edition)
Time frame: 2100 to 2330
Gengre: historical novel
Location: Tenerife, Spain

No books completed

by Peter H. Wilson (no photo)

Genre: History
Timeframe:22:30-23:50 (with breaks)
Pages read: 36 (from 411 to 447)
Location: Porto, Portugal (Greenwich Mean Time)

No books were or will be completed.

Hello Bentley here on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA - Timezone is EST. Metro NYC (my location and timezone)

I am beginning The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott (name of book and author)

by Paul Scott (citation)

This book is Historical Fiction (genre)

Start Page - 50 through 75 (too busy running Readathon for this segment) (start page in end page in

Time spent actually reading - 35 minutes - Time spent on reading and time spent on actual readathon 3.5 hours additional

No books completed. (any books completed)

I am officially checked into the Readathon and have completed Checkpoint Four - Checkin

Checking in at 8:00pm for 4th shift & Checking out at


Book:
by M.L. Stedman

Genre: Fiction
Pages Read: 194 - 316 = 122 pages
Time Spent Reading: 8:00pm - 12:00 = 4 hrs.
Location: US EST (GMT -5)
Books Finished: 0

by Stuart D. Goldman (no photo)
Genre: History
Pages Read: 129 - 187 (58 pages)
Time: 20:00 - 23:30 (3 1/2 hours)
Location: US EST

1 book complete

I will be checking out at this point, I don't think I will be checking in before 6:00, but you never know.

Bentley, I am unable to finish this check in yet. I am at ER with my husband. He fell and hit and busted head. Waiting for CAT scan. Will update later.

Francie, hope everything is ok.

Checking in for 4th checkpoint; checking out at 2300.

by

Genre: Military History
Pages read: 133-160 (27)
Time spent reading: 2030-2300 (2 1/2 hrs)
Location: Virginia, USA (EST)
0 Books Complete

Check out for 4th time period of the readathon

by Laurie R. King

Genre: Historical Fiction

Number of Pages Read - 51 - 81 (30 pages)

Time: 8:00 pm CT to 9:15 pm CT (1 hour, 15 mins.)

Location: Belle Chasse, LA, USA - US Central Time Zone

1 book completed so far by Jane Blaffer Owen (no photo)

checking in Houston TX CST 8:12 pm

by Rob Thomas

Genre or genres: mystery

Start Page: 72

end page: 324

Time Spent: 3 hours 50 minutes

Books Finished: 1
by Rob Thomas

Hope all is ok. Best Wishes for a speedy recovery.

Francie wrote: "Bentley, I am unable to finish this check in yet. I am at ER with my husband. He fell and hit and busted head. Waiting for CAT scan. Will update later."

First check-on for checkpoint four


by Mitchell Zuckoff

Genre: WWII history
Pages read: 260 - 317 (total pages in book- 348)
Total reading time: 1 hour
Location: WV, USA, EST
Did not complete

Francie....hope your husband is on the mend. So sorry.

We're home from hospital, seven staples, but CT scan fine. Thanks for well wishes.

by Paul Scott

Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 41 - 75 (35 pages)
Time: 10:00 - 11:24 (1 hour, 24 min)

Reading in Georgia, USA, EST

No books completed this check in (1 book total)

Name of Book and Author or books and authors:

by Patricia Cornwell

Genre or genres: Non-fiction

Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period. Start page 1, finish page 47. Total of 47 pages.

How much time did you read during this block of time: 1 hour 20 mins

Also, your location in the world and timezone: Texas, central timezone

Did you complete any books during this time frame and what? Yes, one. See citation above for Chasing Jack the Ripper.

by Tony Spawforth (No Photo)

Genre or genres: History
Number of Pages Read - Pages 85-130
Total reading time during this block: 2.5 hours
No books completed in this block. 1 total completed.

Located in Upstate New York, Eastern Time Zone.

Checking in for Check Point Four
by

Genre: WWII history
Pages read 100-170
Total Reading Time 2.5 hours
Location: Columbia , SC. USA. EST
Did not complete book

by
Genre: Biographies
Pages read-100-130
Total Reading time .5 hours
Location: SC,EST
Did Not Complete book

Checked out, updated message 19

:)

by Keith Donohue
Genre: Fantasy
Pages read: 70 - 243 (173 total)
Time: 8:30 PM - 10:40 (2 hours 10 min)
MST (Idaho)

No book completed

So glad things are OK, Francie. I hope he is not planning on going through an airline scanner anytime soon!!!

Francie wrote: "Bentley, I am unable to finish this check in yet. I am at ER with my husband. He fell and hit and busted head. Waiting for CAT scan. Will update later."

Francie I see your book on the shelf - but more importantly I do hope your husband is OK - take the time you need to get caught up when you can - right now your husband needs your attention. Sorry that I did not see your note until now. I have been going in order through the checkpoints and I am behind because I am writing long notes. I would ask how this happened but you have enough to worry about. I am sure that this will be sorted soon even though your husband will need to mend.

By all means update later when you have a moment.

Checking in 8 pm PST
Using my nook to check in and I don't see how to add book covers with it. I will be at home later for check out use correct format (sorry).
Book--The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
starting on page 9.
Location: Norwalk, California., USA, PST

by Paul Scott
Historical fiction
Pages 145-167, about 45 minutes
Washington, D.C., EST
No book finished

I updated message 15, and I am checking out.

Francie, glad you and your husband are back home, hope the mending process won't be to arduous.

Updated message 14 and checking out to next thread.

Checkpoint 4 update:

by Dan Willis (Goodreads links to the sci-fi author, not the author of this book, fyi).

Personal Growth/Professional Training

Pages 85-103

Read from 11:00 pm to midnight

Ohio, EST time zone

No books finished

Second check-in for checkpoint four


by Mitchell Zuckoff

Genre: WWII history
Pages read: pg. 317 - 346 (total pages in book- 346)
Total reading time: 1.20 hour
Location: WV, USA, EST
Complete

Stormie from Apple Valley, CA - West Coast- Pacific Time


Name of Book and Author: by James Baldwin
Genre: Fiction, Classics, LGBT,Literature, African American
Number of Pages Read -started on page 218 - page 248
How much time did you read: 20 minutes
Did you complete any books: yes, I finished this book.

Name of Book and Author: by Joanna Rakoff
Genre: Memoir
Number of Pages Read -started on page 1 read to page 49; 49 pages total
How much time did you read: 35 minutes
Did you complete any books: I did not finish second book.

Check in - checkpoint 4
by H.G. Wells
Genre: Fiction
Start @ page 1
Start time: 10:30 MST
Total Reading Time: 1 hour
Book completed

Fourth Check in


by Ayn Rand

Genre: Russian Lit, Fiction, Philosophy

Pages read: 153 - 163 (10 pages)

Time spent reading: 30 minutes

Location: Chicago, IL - USA CST

Books completed: None

Completed/updated check in. See message 25

Read :
"Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting" from Illuminations

by Walter Benjamin
Nonfiction (Essays)
Number of Pages Read: 9 - p.59 to 67

and started reading Space And Place: The Perspective of Experience
by Yi-Fu Tuan
Nonfiction (Geography)
Number of Pages Read: 21 - p.3 to 23

also started reading The Churn: An Expanse Novella

by James S.A. Corey (no pic)
Science fiction
Number of Pages Read: 37 - p.4 to 40

. . . . .

Genres : Nonfiction (Essays; Geography); science fiction
Time : ~2h
Total pages read : 67
0 books completed during this time
Seattle (PST)

Updated message 39 & checking out.

checkpoint 4 update

Todd Wilkinson(no photo)

Genres: Environment and Politics

Pages 206-261
Read from 10:30 to midnight

Denver MST
not finished yet, a little over 80 pages left...

Checking out. Updating message 32.
Checking in 8 pm PST
The Last Days of the IncasThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
Genre: Nonfiction History
Start page: 9
End page: 85
Number of pages read:76
Read for 2 hours from 8 PM to 10 PM
Did not complete
Location: Norwalk, California, USA, PST

I forgot to check in, but I started at 8 pm.

Bryan could you follow the template and enter your information in the checkpoints that you were in. If it was only Checkpoint Four - that is OK - that is this thread.

Here are the basic information that I need: (for CHECKPOINTS 1 - 6)

Name of Book and Author: (do full citation) if it is more than one book - do all citations

Genre: Indicate genre or genres

Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period. (Self Explanatory)

Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.

How much time did you read: If you read for the full four hours - say that or whatever portion you read

Did you complete any books - name of book and author (post the citation and tell us if you finished any books - yes or no

What time zone and location are you in: (here you would put Virginia and put Eastern Standard Time or EST (Virginia - EST)

OK after you do the above on this thread and any other checkpoints that you read in - (they are four hour segments of the 24 hours - meaning that there were 6 of them you could have read in)

Then you have to check OUT - no matter if you read in one segment or all six. - THERE IS A DIFFERENT TEMPLATE FOR CHECKOUT - TALLIES - SEE BELOW

The CHECK OUT THREAD IS HERE:

Checkpoint Seven: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Here is the helpful note that I sent in terms of the template to be used for Checkout - Checkout are your full tallies

Here is a helpful note that I am sending to everyone (just changing the name): - this way folks have a template at their disposal when they do check outs in the future and if they have not done their Check Out for this readathon - this template is a good one to use now:

I have included the link in the note for the Check Out thread:

Thank you - have you done your tallies and checked out? All readathon participants must check out. Here is what Simon did for his checkout and I think this is a pretty compact way of doing your tallies if you have not already done them. This is the MANDATORY CHECK OUT THREAD.

This is the link for this thread:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I replicated his post here:

by John W. Dean

Final Tally - 105 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading 2.45 hours
Total Checkpoints Utilized - 2 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Genres: Non fiction and Politics
Total Number of Books Competed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: UK, GMT

Bryan you are on the wrong thread for checkout (and you have done the checkout template correctly) but make sure it is on Checkpoint Seven which you might have done:

Here is the thread for checkout:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

One other thing remember that the checkout template which are the final tallies (Checkout - Checkpoint 7) is not the template used for any of the Check In threads (Checkpoints 1-6). They had a different template.

This is my four-hour check in:

by Marc Brown

by Laura Hillenbrand

Genre: Children and History

Number of Pages Read - 1-32, 177-225 for total of 80

How much time did you read: 1 hour

Did you complete any books: Yes
by Marc Brown

Time zone/Location: Virginia-EST