Aussie Readers discussion

It's time to mark your calendars for our next read-a-thon ! It will take place Friday May 23rd at 12.01am and continue until Sunday May 25th at 11.59pm in your local time zone.

Our goal will be a total of 10,000 pages read by all who participate. If we exceed that total, we will possibly increase it for June.

Please post your interest here in this thread up until we begin the challenge - when the weekend is over the page number read will be tallied:)

If possible, check in at least once a day, more often if you want. Our cut off time for you to add your final totals will be 9am Monday 26th AEST (in case you fall asleep Sunday night;))

Good luck and have fun!

I'm in :)

You're on the ball Sharon!

I do hope we reach our goal again :)

I'm sure we will Sharon:)

I'm going to the Hunter Valley that weekend so I should get a few pages of book read and a few glasses of wine drunk;)Count me in!

Really Phrynne! Near to me:) I'll raise a glass for you!

Whoo Hoo Phrynne - a girl after my own heart :)

Oh, and I'm in for the challenge!

Welcome (in advance) to our lovely part of the world, Phrynne :) And enjoy some of that lovely wine!

And although I'd love to be in for the challenge too, I have a book to finish writing instead. Perhaps after that's done I'll have a few weeks off writing to do more reading than an hour before I sleep every night.

Count me in please.

Count me in too :)

My reading skates will be on!

Yep, count me in again :)

Great to see we have lots of commitments again:)

I'm in too, although it's my birthday that weekend so I'll have to spend some time with my family, but maybe they'll let me do some uninterrupted reading as well.

Count me in!

I am in.

I'll give it a go again this month :-)

I will try to remember to note what pages I'm on with my books at both those times and do the subtractions to add to the total....

Marianne wrote: "I will try to remember to note what pages I'm on with my books at both those times and do the subtractions to add to the total...."

Last months Read-a-thon, I used the update status and added a comment of how many pages I read in a day. By the end of the 3 days I added them up. This is a handy tool to keep tabs of page numbers.

Example - see reading progress
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

That's a great idea Mish, thanks for sharing that!

Yes, I'm in.

Ooh lots! I'll do up a full list over the weekend so we can get some idea on how many we have at the moment!

Mish wrote: "Marianne wrote: "I will try to remember to note what pages I'm on with my books at both those times and do the subtractions to add to the total...."

Last months Read-a-thon, I used the update stat..."

Mish, I use it every day and it keeps a good track of my pages for me. Hope other ARs catch on!

Does it work with ebooks that are percentages?

With less than a week to go until we start this one, I thought I'd start our list of participants:

Sharon
Phrynne
Sally
Valerie
Mish
Michael (Power)
Brenda
Bette
Zoey
Carolyn
Melissa
Rosie
Jennie
Marianne
Veronica
Elaine
Michael (Literary)
Michelle
Rochelle
Deb

18 participants!

I might give it a go this time round Brenda. I have a few books I need to finish before the end of May so this might be incentive to do so. :)

Elaine wrote: "I might give it a go this time round Brenda. I have a few books I need to finish before the end of May so this might be incentive to do so. :)"

Yay! Added to the list:)

Brenda wrote: "Elaine wrote: "I might give it a go this time round Brenda. I have a few books I need to finish before the end of May so this might be incentive to do so. :)"

Yay! Added to the list:)"

Thank you. :)

I'll be joining too

Great! Added:)

I haven't read much at all this month, so I'm really looking forward to next weekend!

A good incentive for you then Melissa!

Definitely! :)

I have a pretty busy weekend coming up but I'll see if I can try and fit some good reading in somewhere along the way....

Add me to the list too Brenda. I read everyday, but I'm trying to make Sunday a read all day kind of day because I have so many books to read.

Added girls:)

Don't forget this is coming up quickly - only a couple of days until we can start adding our pages!

Still time for people to add their names if they want to join in:)

I'll have to warn you that I will quite possibly read less than usual this weekend because we're having book club on Sat arvo, so I'll be talking about books instead of reading them. But hubby's off on a bike rally, so I might get a bit more read on Sunday without him to distract me.......

Marianne wrote: "I'll have to warn you that I will quite possibly read less than usual this weekend because we're having book club on Sat arvo, so I'll be talking about books instead of reading them. But hubby's of..."

Maybe you might also get some pages read on Friday, Marianne ;) Hope you enjoy your book club on Saturday :)

It doesn't matter - there are 3 full days and I'm sure everyone will read something over those three days! Every little counts:)

Sharon wrote: "Marianne wrote: "I'll have to warn you that I will quite possibly read less than usual this weekend because we're having book club on Sat arvo, so I'll be talking about books instead of reading the..."

Oh wait, so it's from Midnight Thu/Fri to midnight Sun/Mon? I thought it was midnight Fri/Sat! OK, yeah, I'll certainly get some reading done Fri as hubby's leaving then. Glad I got that straight before the start! So tomorrow night when I go to bed I'll start my count.

Yep! 3 days, Friday-Sunday :)

Thanks Melissa:)

These read-a-thons will always be held over 3 days Marianne, the last weekend of each month:)

Not sure I will get much reading done this weekend as we have a few things on but I would like to add my pages to the total anyway... count me in. Thanks.

Great Deb:) Don't forget it starts at midnight tonight!

Has everyone remembered?

Good luck all!

Here's our full list of readers!

Sharon
Phrynne
Sally
Valerie
Mish
Michael (Power)
Brenda
Bette
Zoey
Carolyn
Melissa
Rosie
Jennie
Marianne
Veronica
Elaine
Michael (Literary)
Michelle
Rochelle
Deb

18 participants!

I managed to read 50 pages from Saving Grace before falling asleep just after 1am :)

Off to a good start with 51 pages read of The Shadow of the Wind. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak in a bit more around housework today!