All About Books discussion

From Friday May 26th at 12.01am (in your local time zone), you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday May 28th at 11.59pm. In the May 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 to 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! As for the last read-a-thon, better to keep track of all numbers, we change the first post we write in the discussion, so each of us has only one and not 2000 as before!!!! *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 April Read-a-thon thread in Bookchat. Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full week end tally on the thread.

List of participants:

3. Shirley 132
4. Shikha
5. Myst 818
6. Alannah 1065
7. Petra 298
8. Terri 810
9. Karin 375
10. Tweedledum 609
11. Klela 864
12. Phrynne 785
13. June 542
14. Vicki 291
15. Corinne
17. Kathy McC 469
18. LauraT 583
19. Amanda 234
20. Rhonda 1176
21. Beth 117
22. Jen
23. Guy 236
Total so far...9404 pages

I'm in!

Total: 132 pages

Friday:
The Turn of the Screw pg 1-130
Strangers in Death pg 100-166
196

Saturday:
Strangers in Death pg 166-356
Carpe Corpus pg 1-149
Betrayed pg 1-91
430

Sunday:
Carpe Corpus pg 149-241
Beyond Reach pg 1-100
192

Total:
818

I'm in!

Paintbrush: 283 pages (finished book)
13 reasons why: 288 pages (finished book)
1Q84: 426 pages
Caraval: 68 pages

Total: 1,065 pages

I'm in!

Friday: 64 pages (started Wenjack)

Saturday: 148 pages (finished Wenjack); continued with The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time #3; started A Town Like Alice)

Sunday: 86 pages (continued with The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time #3 and A Town Like Alice)

Total pages: 298 pages

Count me in!


Friday:
Men Without Women: Stories--151 pages
All the Rivers--76 pages
The Dinner Party and Other Stories--50 pages

Saturday:
All the Rivers--187 pages
The Dinner Party and Other Stories--51 pages

Sunday:
The Dinner Party and Other Stories--153 pages
There Your Heart Lies--58 pages
Pastoralia--84 pages

Total pages: 810

I'm in as well :) !

Friday:Friday total 60 pages
Gilead 35 pages, and now finished
The Book of Proverbs, Chapters 1-15 10 pages
also 15 more pages


Saturday: - total of 149 pages
The Pickwick Papers 84 pages
also 65 more pages

Sunday: 131 pages
The Pickwick Papers 104 pages
also 27 more pages
Total: 375 pages

I'm in

Friday
Service of All the Dead By Colin Dexter 20 pages ( finished book)
Daisy in Chains 20 pages


Saturday
Daisy in Chains 180 pages (p.356) ... A total page turner.


Sunday
Daisy in Chains by Sharon Bolton Finished book . 100 pages
Marianne North: A Very Intrepid Painter. Second Edition. finished book . 56 pages ( Victorian artist whose amazing collection of paintings are displayed in the gallery she designed at Kew Gardens.)
Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age by Sarah Hendrickx20 pages (p67)
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Under-Rated Organ 17 pages (p.37)
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches 44 pages (p.108)
Mendeleyev's Dream by David Bodanis 40 pages (p.144)
The Book Of Eels by Tom Fort 32 pages (p.72)
The Pedant's Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong by Andrea Barham 40 pages (p.66)
How to Speak Dragonese 18 pages
Silently Seizing: Common, Unrecognized and Frequently Missed Seizures and Their Potentially Damaging Impact on Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders 10 pages

Sunday total : 389 pages

Overall total : 609 pages

Let's try! I'm in!

Friday: Total: 216
216 pages Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Saturday: Total: 345 pages
112 pages Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
108 pages Silk by Alessandro Baricco
125 pages My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Sunday: Total: 303
303 pages My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Total: 864 pages

(I read every book in italian)

I'm in.

Friday: Mistake Creek 112 pages
7 Days 61 pages

Saturday: 7 Days 292 pages

Sunday: Testimony 320 pages

Total pages: 785

I'm in

Friday
Akitada's First Case- 48 pages
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories 127 pages
Saturday
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories -106 pages
Mansfield Park - 38 pages
River of Gods 14 pages
Sunday
Mansfield Park 83 pages
River of Gods 126 pages

Total :542

I'm in!

Friday total 177 pages
Loving Frank 12 pages (completed)
A Spell of Trouble 148 pages
Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom 17 pages

Saturday total 34 pages
A Spell of Trouble

Sunday total 80 pages
Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

Total 291 pages

I'm in! I wish Monday was included since it's a holiday from work and I have to work Friday. Nevertheless I'm taking a vacation up north and will be reading. :)

Friday of course I forgot I was doing this but will estimate at 300 pages total for The Round House and Dark Matter.

Saturday
Sunday

Up north is Crosslake, MN

Colleen wrote: "I'm in! I wish Monday was included since it's a holiday from work and I have to work Friday. Nevertheless I'm taking a vacation up north and will be reading. :)

Friday
Saturday
Sunday"
Where up north?

I can't wait!!

Friday: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk 73 pgs.
Saturday: Lillian Boxfish 102 pgs.
Sunday: Lillian Boxfish 68 pgs.
The Book Bunch 73 pgs.
Creating Literacy-Based Programs 153 pgs.

TOTAL PAGES: 469

I'm in!
A too beautiful spring week end to spend too much time on books!!!!

The Mill on the Floss pag. 73
Country Girl pag 150
The Grand Sophy pag 110
Alice Adams pag 160
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories pag 90
Tot 583

Books:



Friday:

0

Saturday:

Five Go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton 160 pages Finished

Sunday:

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 74 pages

Total: 234 pages

Finished:

I am in. 5/26-5/28

Friday: Laughed Until He Died - 282 pages
Septimus Heap: Magyk - 150 pages

Saturday: Septimus Heap: Magyk - 314 pages

Sunday: Hard Truth - 105 pages
Leonardo and the Last Supper -225 pages

Total: 1,176

I'm in!

Friday: 508-528 of The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (20 pages)
Saturday: 528-625 of The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War finished!!! (not counting index ect.) Tough but totally worth it. (97 pages)
Sunday:

total: 117

I'm in this time!

Friday-Sunday: 177-292 Doctor Zhivago; 120p The Day of the Jackal

Total = 235p

Updated message 10. 609 pages. Thanks Shirley for organising at the last minute.

You may as well add me in since I am reading while traveling for work. Have not had time to log in, but found some Tim to read.

Friday 36
Saturday 44
Sunday 49

I've updated my weekend totals.

Sorry to be a bit late. I have updated my totals:)

Updated my totals

Updated Message 9, final Total: 375 pages
It was a busy weekend, so not as much reading time, but I did finish The Pickwick Paper, so this was helpful :).

I forgot to add that I finished Notes from Underground on Friday. So add 107 pages to my total Friday.

Working off app and can't update my post.

Updated my post.

Updated.

Updated as well :)

Me too!

I updated my total.

Hi, I have just had a quick total up and came to 9404 pages. I will check again on Wednesday and give the final total. Well done everyone!!

Updated - sorry for the delay

That's a pretty impressive total for just 21 taking part. @Alannah and @Rhonda very well done!

Colleen wrote: "I'm in! I wish Monday was included since it's a holiday from work and I have to work Friday. Nevertheless I'm taking a vacation up north and will be reading. :)

Friday of course I forgot I was doi..."

I live Up North in Michigan.

Tweedledum wrote: "That's a pretty impressive total for just 21 taking part. @Alannah and @Rhonda very well done!"

It is indeed!

Tweedledum wrote: "That's a pretty impressive total for just 21 taking part. @Alannah and @Rhonda very well done!"

Thank you. :)

Is there another Readathon scheduled for later in the summer? I may be interested in joining in.

rytr_1 wrote: "Is there another Readathon scheduled for later in the summer? I may be interested in joining in."

Yes, if you have time, etc, to organize one, I'd be interested.

Hey, sorry we have missed the June readathon, we''ll try for the end of July!!

Shirley wrote: "Hey, sorry we have missed the June readathon, we''ll try for the end of July!!"


Sounds great :).