The History Book Club discussion

2015 - Readathon Five Date: October 24, 2015 - FINISH TIME 8AM ON OCTOBER 25TH WHEREVER YOU ARE GLOBALLY) - THIS IS THE CHECKOUT THREAD

We hope you had a good time at the Readathon. CHECK-OUT IS HERE.

a) Please list the books completed if any and genres and how many pages in the book that you read during the readathon. Only pages read during the readathon itself count towards the readathon page total but the book when completed (if during the readathon) can count towards books completed. This is the tally thread for all of the checkpoint segments. Tally and list books and authors where you have read any pages.

b) Let us know the books you read or are reading - start and finish pages and genre.
You can read 10 books if you like - if you want to read them each a little bit at a time that is also allowed but you must let us know your start and end pages and all of the book details. Also tally them up here on the checkout thread.

c) How much time did you read total during the 24 hour readathon? This is the tally thread for all of your checkpoints in the readathon.

d) List all of the books completed over the total readathon - citations please - title and author.

e) Tally all of your pages read and how much total time did you read and how many pages

f) Let us know your timezone and location.

So here is an example:

a) Completed one book: The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott - Genre - Historical Fiction - read all 482 pages for readathon. Total time spend reading during the readathon was 7 hours or all 24 hours or 1 hour.

by Paul Scott

Genre was historical fiction.

Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time

or

b) Completed one book: The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott - Genre - Historical Fiction - read all 482 pages for readathon.

by Paul Scott

Metro NYC - Eastern Standard Time

and started the next book

b) The Day of the Scorpion - Genre - Historical Fiction - read from 1 - page 200 - have not completed book yet.

by Paul Scott

or

b) The Day of the Scorpion - Genre - Historical Fiction - read from 1 - page 200 - have not completed book yet.

by Paul Scott

Note: In all of these instances - there are totals and stats being counted.

First we will make a list of books completed during the readathon even if the book had already been started before the readathon - if you finished the book finally during the readathon they count to that total, then second, we count the total number of pages read during the readathon, and then we count and list all of the different books started during the readathon, and finally the different genres read during the readathon and what these genres were with a count. And then your location and timezone.

We will also list all of the proud participants in each History Book Club Readathon.

Congrats.

FOLKS FROM THE PREVIOUS READATHON WE HAVE COME UP WITH THE SIMON TEMPLATE CREATED BY ONE OF OUR ADMINS - IT MAKES THINGS EASIER - JUST DO IT LIKE HE DID - HERE IS THE SAMPLE:

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.

I replicated his post here:

by John W. Dean

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

We will give you until Noon on OCTOBER 25TH to complete your check-out but all reading needs to be completed (that will count in the OCTOBER 24TH readathon 24 hour period) no later than OCTOBER 25TH, 2015 (at your 8AM) wherever you are in the world.

For example, in some parts of the world folks would be starting the readathon on our OCTOBER 23RD which could be 24 hours before our start time on October 24th but if they want to participate they must also complete their 24 hour period when we start on our October 24th start time at 8AM which probably in Asia is their nighttime.

This would be due to the international date line in the case of New Zealand or nighttime in the case of other parts of the world like India. We have included the time line thread for all. If you have any questions - just ask - we are here to help you.

In Europe for example if you are in the UK - you could start at your 8AM on October 24th which is 5 hours ahead of us but then you have to end at your 8AM on October 25th even though we in the US on the East Coast have 5 hours more to go.

On the West Coast you do not have to get up at 5AM to start with us at 8AM on the East Coast. Just use your 8AM as the start time on October 24th and end at your 8AM on October 25th

And finally - the next Readathon after the completion of the October 24th one is - 2015 - Readathon Six Date: December 5th 2015
- so mark your calendars.

Folks everytime we do this we always find folks who want to participate but fail to join and set up their shelves properly so that they can get full credit:

You must join!

Very important:

How To Join In: - Go here first: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

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 each 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.

And here are some links to the Readathon folder which will be updated:

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

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

This is the check out thread for the fifth readathon - October 24th, 2015 at 8AM (start-time) until October 25th, 2015 (finish-time)

THIS IS CHECKOUT. - MANDATORY

CHECK-OUT - CHECKPOINT SEVEN

We hope you had a good time at the Readathon. CHECK-OUT IS HERE.

a) Please list the books completed if any and genres and how many pages in the book that you read during the readathon. Only pages read during the readathon itself count towards the readathon page total but the book when completed (if during the readathon) can count towards books completed. This is the tally thread for all of the checkpoint segments. Tally and list books and authors where you have read any pages.

b) Let us know the books you read or are reading - start and finish pages and genre.

You can read 10 books if you like - if you want to read them each a little bit at a time that is also allowed but you must let us know your start and end pages and all of the book details. Also tally them up here on the checkout thread.

c) How much time did you read total during the 24 hour readathon? This is the tally thread for all of your checkpoints in the readathon.

d) List all of the books completed over the total readathon - citations please - title and author.

e) Let us know your timezone and location

Remember folks that everybody who has checked in for one checkpoint to six Check In Checkpoints must check out here on Checkpoint Seven - this is the only Checkout. And it uses a different template - see the bottom of message one - the Simon template

by Sharon Rowse (Completed)

by V. Jaydon (no photo) (In progress)

Final Tally: 54 pages
Total Time Reading: 2 h 8 mins
Genres: Historical Mystery, Non-fiction History
Total Checkpoints Utilised: 4
Total Number of Books Completed: 1
Total Number of Books in Progress: 1
Location: Malaysia, EST +12

Marietta - good job and delighted to have Malaysia joining in.

Checking out:

by Hernán Cortés

Anna Katharine Green

by Anthony Doerr

Final Tally - 224 pages + 21 chapters (all books)
Total Time Reading 11 hours and 40 min
Genres: Non fiction and History - 1
Historica mystery - 1
Historical fiction - 1
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 5 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 1
Total Number of Books in Progress - 2
Location: Zagreb, Croatia, CEST

by Dan Simmons

Final Tally: 86 pages
Total Time Reading: 3 hours (with a few 'rests')
Genres: Historical Fiction
Total Checkpoints: One Checkpoint and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Completed: 0
Total Number of Books in Progress: 1
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - EST

Samanta and Rose - good progress.

Marietta (Malaysia) - Samanta (Croatia) and Rose (Toronto, Canada) thank you for participating and you did stellar jobs.

Remember everybody else - at some point in time tomorrow - everybody in the United States needs to do mandatory check out and it is this thread

My check-out. I didn't read as much as I wanted but I did finish a book, so I am a happy camper!

by Paul Spicer(no photo)
Final Tally - 232 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading - 3.55 hours
Genres - British biography
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 2 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 1
Total Number of Books in Progress - 0
Location: WV, USA, EDT

Checking out.
Books read:
by David Quammen
Genre: Medical History, Epidemiology
by David McCullough
Genre: Biography
Total Pages: 427
Total Time: 7 hours
Total Checkpoints: 5 plus one checkout
Location & TZ: Kuşadası, Turkey, EEST
Book(s) Completed: 1 (Mornings on Horseback)
Book(s) in Progress: 1 (Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic)

Final Tally: 491 pages
Total Time Reading: 15.5 hours
Genres: Southern Fiction, How-To, Microhistory
Total Checkpoints: 5
Total Number of Books Completed: 3
Total Number of Books in Progress:
Location: Helotes, TX, USA, CDT
by Ashton Lee (no photo)
by Howland Blackiston (no photo)
by Marjorie Shaffer (no photo)

Thanks for organizing these events Bentley! Next time I will be sure to get a full night's sleep prior to the readathon so that I can the full 24 hours.

Final Tally: 436 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading: approx. 18 hours
Genres: Biography, History, Economics, Religion/Christianity, Biblical Criticism (5)
Total Checkpoints Utilized: 5 Checkpoints and 1 Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed: 3
Books Completed: by G.J. Meyer; by Don H. Doyle(no photo); by Thomas Piketty
Total Number of Books in Progress: 1
Books in Progress: by N.T. Wright
Location: Southern California, PCT

Checking out.
by Rachel Carson
Final Tally. 278 pages
Total time. 9 hours
Genre Non fiction, environmental
Total Checkpoints Utilised 3 and 1 checkout
Location EST
Completed books 1

Check out final

Final tally:
Pages read 379
Genres: History and Philosophy
Total Hours Read: 7.5
Total Checkpoints utilized: 5 checkpoints and 1 checkout
Location: Southeastern PA, EST
Completed 1 book: by Sarah Vowell
partially complete: by Frederick Charles Copleston

Thanks Bentley for coordinating everything.

Another great day reading. Thanks for putting this together!

Completed:
The Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, by Tom Holland
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Works in progress:
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
by Edwin G. Burrows[No Photo] and Mike Wallace

Final Tally: 267 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading: 10:05 hours
Genres: Roman and American History
Total Checkpoints Utilized - 4 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed: 1
Total Number of Books in Progress: 1
Location: Upstate New York (Eastern Daylight Time)

Final check-out - another great readathon.

by David I. Kertzer (no photo)

Final Tally - 232 pages
Total Time Reading 7 hours
Genres: History - 1
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 4 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Completed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: Summerville, SC USA; ET

Thanks Bentley for another great readathon. Helped me read on a busy day when I normally wouldn't have read anything. Checking out:

byDavid I. Kertzer(no photo)

Final Tally - 65 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading 2 hours, 15 minutes.
Genres: History - 1
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 2 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: Melbourne, Florida, USA

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Final Tally - 40 (all books)
Total Time Reading 1 hour 5 mins
Genres: Short Stories, Horror
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 3 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: New Jersey EST

by Anonymousno photo
by Howard E. Wasdin

Final Tally - 73 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading 4.25 hours
Genres: Non fiction (history) and Bible - 2
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 6 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Completed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 2
Location:Alberta, Canada. Mountain Time Zone

by Geraldine Brooks

by Anthony Doerr

Final Tally: 429 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading: 14 hours and 15 minutes
Genres: Nonfiction/Islamic Women and Historical Fiction - 2
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 5 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 1
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: Warner Robins, Georgia, EST

Once again Bentley we owe our thanks to you for moderating the readathon. It is a blast seeing what others are reading for the day and knowing that we are doing something together that reaches across many nations. This is a great idea.

by Francine Prose

Genre: Fiction/Literary
Start Page: 140
Finish page: 320
Total pages: 179
Time spent: 4 hours
Location & TZ: Seattle, WA, USA PDT
Total checkpoints utilised: 3 and final checkout.
Completed book(s) Y/N: N

Thanks again Bentley! I had a wonderful time and, like Michael, enjoyed the companionable solitude of reading alone with like-minded strangers. And now I have a great list of "to reads" from other readathoners.

byDavid Kertzer no photo, in progress

by Alan Ryan, in progress

by Mazo de la Roche, completed

Final tally: 176 pages
Total time reading: 6 hours
Genres: Politics and Autobiography
Checkpoints used: 1-4 and checkout
Number of books completed: 1
Number of books in progress: 2
Location: Vancouver, BC PDT

Thank you Bentley for organizing this and introducing me to some books I wouldn't have read otherwise.

Final Tally:

by Charles Dickens
Genre: Historical fiction/classics
Pages read: 24
Time read: 1 hour, 15 mins

* by Albert J. Bernstein
Genre: Business/psychology
Pages read: 37
Time read: 1 hour

by Hanya Yanagihara
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Pages read: 50
Time read: 3 hours

Total pages read: 111
Total time read: 5 hours, 15 mins
Book(s) completed: 1*
Location: Camano Island, WA - Pacific Daylight Time

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
by Patrick deWitt

Final Tally - 317 pages
Total Time Reading - 4 hrs 40 min
Genres: Fiction - 1
Total Checkpoints Utilized - Checkpoints 1-4 and Checkout
Total Number of Books Completed - 1
Total Number of Books in Progress - 0
Location: Berkeley, California, PDT

I'm really happy to have completely read a book during a Readathon. Planning to do the same for the next one.

Final Tally: 345 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading: 3.75 hours
Genres: Non fiction, History, WWII, Archeology, American Southwest, Fairy Tales, Mythology
Total Checkpoints Utilized - 3 Checkpoints and 1 Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 2
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: Southern California, Pacific Time Zone

In process book:
by Sara Maitland

Completed books:

by David Roberts


by David I. Kertzer (no photo)

Thanks for another great read-a-thon, Bentley. Gave me a chance to finish the two books that I had been reading.

Guys keep these check outs coming - they are a requirement - I will go through what everybody has done and put comments here.

I have some updates to do myself.

by Victor Davis Hanson

Final Tally - 121 pages
Total Time Reading 3.5 hours
Genres: Essays, history, war
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 1 Checkpoint and 1 Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location: Atlanta, GA EST

Thanks again for organizing another fun readathon! It gave me motivation to start a book that was on my to read shelf for a long time.

You are welcome Gyoza - did you see my other note - on the check in?

Completed: by Peter D. Kiernan (no photo)

In progress: by Rachel Joyce

Final tally: 164 pages
Total time read: 4 hours
Genres: nonfiction/economics, fiction
Total checkpoints: 3 checkpoints; 1 checkout
Total number books completed: 1
Total number books in progress: 1
Location: Latrobe,Pennsylvania, USA - EST

Thank you Donna