Aussie Readers discussion

It's time to mark your calendars for our next read-a-thon ! It will take place Friday June 27th at 12.01am and continue until Sunday June 29th at 11.59pm in your local time zone - 3 full days:)

Our goal will be a total of 10,000 pages read by all who participate. (We slightly exceeded this total for May, so will keep it the same this month) If we exceed that total, we will possibly increase it for July.

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 30th AEST (in case you fall asleep Sunday night;))

Good luck and have fun!

Gosh this comes around so quickly. Count me in :)

Me too

It sure does Sharon:)

I'll be in as well.

I'm in Brenda.

Got commitments 2 of those 3 days but count me in anyway I will hopefully contribute some page count

I'm in :)

Looking good so far:)

I'm in too

I'm in, although, again, I have book club.....hosting this time, but baking well before the weekend
maybe one weekend readathon, I will be completely free to read!

Why not? As you say Brenda I'll be reading anyway so count me in. I think Saturday may be a wipeout for me as I have work and then we're out for dinner but there's still all of Friday and Sunday.

I'm in! Hopefully I won't be too sick this time! Looking forward to July, I will be on bed rest after having surgery so will just spend the days only reading haha

Count me in too please :)

I'm in again :)

Fantastic! A good number already:)

Count me in. Have no plans for that weekend so hopefully I can find a corner to curl up in and just read.

count me in

Our list of participants:

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

Keep 'em coming;)

Hi Branda, you can count me in too :)

A definite Yes from me :D

Still time to add your names to the list!

Brenda wrote: "Still time to add your names to the list!"

Ok Brenda I'll give it a go :))

A good number so far:) Don't forget ALL DAY FRIDAY AS WELL AS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ;)

LOL. I'll remember this month. Mind you, won't get many pages from me on Friday other than what I read in my lunch break. May plan some late night reading to build it up a bit. Have 3 ARCs I need to read before the end of next week so will plan to get them done - or at least big inroads :)

I'm sure you'll get your ARCs done Sally:) You know you have to, as well as review them, so good luck!

Carolyn and I are going to buddy read again, for the second Anya Crichton book Without Consent by Kathryn Fox. I'm looking forward to reading that.

Another great one Julie!

Brenda wrote: "Another great one Julie!"

Yes, I think we're going to work our way through them all now we've started :)

Six and a half hours until we can all start people!!! Don't forget to record your pages read from midnight tonight;)

Have fun and read fast;P

I might have to putWives and Daughters to one side for the weekend. It is not a book I can read fast.

Oh you need books you can read fast Phrynne;) Good luck and enjoy your reading!

Agreed. The best books for this are modern ones with short chapters and gripping stories! Wives and Daughters has endlessly long paragraphs of dialogue :)

Well I'm sure you'll read up a storm, going on your past performances:)

Brenda wrote: "Well I'm sure you'll read up a storm, going on your past performances:)"

I'm working all day Friday but I will give it my best shot the rest of the time!

:)

At least I know now that it starts at midnight tonight!!! Enjoy your reading everyone. :)

:D You too Elaine!

Thanks Brenda. :)

Just updated my reads so can keep track. Won't be reading at midnight tonight but will make a start at lunch tomorrow :)

Phrynne wrote: "I might have to putWives and Daughters to one side for the weekend. It is not a book I can read fast."

I'm going to do the same with The Light Between Oceans as I haven't really started it yet and want to focus on it.

I think I'm going to fall asleep before I get any started tonight, so will be ready to start tomorrow. I'd really like to get my June crime book Life After Life read over this weekend. I'm not too far in, and it seems quite slow, but I am determined!

Also will be starting tomorrow. Disadvantage: daughter will be home from school .. Advantage (ironically) car is broken down so will have plenty of time at home on what was going to be a very busy weekend

I'm hoping to get Pride and Prejudice finished and maybe also Sand Omnibus

Enjoy everyone!

Good luck all!

Not long now. Read plenty and have fun everyone :) I'm hoping to start at midnight :)

I'm heading to bed shortly so will read until I no longer can;)

Enjoy Brenda :)

Hopefully I won't wake tonight at 3.30am to the windows rattling in the wind, as I have the last few nights, but if I do, I'll make a start on the readathon! (Which annoying autocorrects to read argon)

Not sure how I missed this thread but I'm in:) I mean, of course I'm in! I love a Readthon.

No reports yet - but the books I will be finishing off this weekend are:
Containment by Vanda Symon
Lily's Leap by Téa Cooper
The Hero by Robyn Carr

Then as I am more than half way through all of these, I have two more review books that I can start on when they are finished:

Skyfire by Skye Melki-Wegner
Breaking The Drought by Lisa Ireland

Except for Robyn Carr - they are all Aussie/NZ writers

Thanks to the barking dog next door that kept me awake to the early hours I managed to read 108 pages of North Star by Karly Lane