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message 1: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
From Friday 28th December at 12.01am (in your local time zone) you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Monday 31st December at 11.59pm. In the November 2018 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 Tuesday to reach the goal of 10,000 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 December Read-a-thon thread is posted, make sure to put your name on the thread if you would like to be included. If you simply stumble onto the thread, then please, join in!

*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. Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full weekend tally on the thread.


message 2: by Alannah (last edited Dec 21, 2018 01:33PM) (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
I'm starting this early to give people time to sign up. Since the last Monday is New Year's Eve, I thought it would be a good idea to make it a four day readathon.


message 3: by Alannah (last edited Jan 06, 2019 09:49AM) (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
List of participants:

4. Jude 0
5. Jason 282
6. Alannah 3320
7. Hannah 417
8. Pam 253
9. Kathy McC 1110
10. Cleo 339
11. June 937
12. Nichole 115
13. Jessie 328
14. Madge 487
15. Kat 677
16. Richard 0
17. Patty 1109
18. Veronica 490
19. Kathleen 553
20. Davyne 216
21. Katherine 459
22. LauraT 763
24. Elise 509
25. Lauri 565
26. Josen 180
27. Kelly 560
28. Jacqueline 0
30. Pam 113
31. Kate 0
32. Kathy 0
34. Diane 819
35. Beth 214
36. Nanci 460
37. Stephen 213
38. Elliot A 0
39.Karol 582
40. Kristi 450
41. Matthew 0
43. Tammy 144
44. John 256
45. Karin 339
46. Jennifer 179
47. Divya 1562
48. Petra 211
49. Bobbi 1038
50. Tweedledum 1249
51. Jess 83
52. Mary 0
53. Lillia 36
54. Cindy 1062


Jude: The Epic Reader (imnotjude) | 17 comments Im in
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Monday:


message 5: by Jason (last edited Dec 31, 2018 10:58PM) (new)

Jason Cook (rytr_1) | 8 comments I'm in!

Goal: 300 pages

Fri. 12/28: 86 pages
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - Stephen King (p. 405-490)
Sat. 12/29: 68 pages
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (p. 491-558)
Sun. 12/30: 106 pages
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (p. 559-664)
Mon. 12/31: 22 pages
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (p. 665-686)

Total pages: 282

Almost made my goal. That's okay.


message 6: by Alannah (last edited Jan 01, 2019 05:22AM) (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
I'm in

Friday:
BLL: 307 pages
ADOW: 132 pages
PWM: 290 pages
Friday Total: 729 pages

Saturday:
S:TDFTM: 231 pages
Hs 288 pages
L:APWSTS: 253 pages
HE: 137 pages
Saturday Total: 909
Total So Far: 1,638 pages

Sunday:
S:TDFTM: 41 pages
AGAT: 328 pages
TQP: 336 pages
Sunday Total: 705 pages
Total So Far: 2,343 pages

Monday:
TCPATW: 268 pages
TOIW: 319 pages
FBAWTFT: 304 pages
HE: 86 pages
Monday Total: 977 pages


Total: 3,320 pages


message 7: by Hannah (last edited Jan 01, 2019 05:33AM) (new)

Hannah (hannahgsteele) | 331 comments I'm in!

Friday: 25 pages in Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Saturday: 27 pages in Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Sunday: 348 pages in Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Monday: 17 pages in Broken Harbor by Tana French

Total: 417 pages


message 8: by Pam (last edited Jan 01, 2019 05:21PM) (new)

Pam (bluegrasspam) I’m in!

Fri: 75 pp Doc by Mary Doria Russell

Sat:
35 pp Finished: Doc
55 pp The Night Tiger (ARC) by Yangsze Choo
Sat Total: 90 pp

Sun: 55 pp The Night Tiger
Mon: 33 pp

Total: 253 pp


message 9: by Kathy McC (last edited Jan 01, 2019 05:18AM) (new)

Kathy McC | 145 comments Count me in!

Friday: This Is How It Always Is, 254 pgs.
Night of Miracles, 288 pgs.

Saturday: Becoming, 54 pgs.
A Snicker of Magic, 22 pgs.
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, 18 pgs.

Sunday: Same three books, 88 pgs.

Monday: Finished Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, 123 pgs.
Finished A Snicker of Magic, 263 pgs.


TOTAL: 1110 pgs


message 10: by Cleo (last edited Jan 01, 2019 09:16AM) (new)

Cleo (cleopatra18) | 109 comments I'm going to do my best!

Friday: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm 71 pages
Saturday: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm 82 pages (completed)
Sunday: An Apology for Idlers 16 pages (completed)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 30 pages (in-progress)
Monday: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 140 pages (completed)

TOTAL: 339 pages


message 11: by Tawallah (last edited Jan 03, 2019 04:54PM) (new)

Tawallah | 189 comments I’m in.

Friday
The Black Cat- completed - 132 pages
A Beautiful Poison- 125 pages
Saturday
A Beautiful Poison- 61
The Kept Woman- 251

Sunday
A Beautiful Poison- completed- 164 pages

Monday

The Kept Woman completed -210 pages
Total 937


message 12: by Nichole (last edited Dec 31, 2018 10:01PM) (new)

Nichole | 557 comments I'm in!

Book: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Friday: 13 pages
Saturday: 23 pages
Sunday: 27 pages
Monday: 52 pages

Total: 115 pages

Happy New Year!


message 13: by Jessie (last edited Dec 29, 2018 10:16PM) (new)

Jessie Shull I’m in

Friday 100 Never Never
Saturday 228 Never Never
Sunday
Monday


message 14: by Briar (last edited Dec 31, 2018 11:52PM) (new)

Briar (bookishbatty) | 27 comments I'm in!

Friday: 156pg
A Christmas Carol-- 144pg (finished)
The Bear and the Nightingale-- 12pg

Saturday: 22pg
The Bear and the Nightingale-- 22pg

Sunday: 56pg
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone-- 56pg

Monday: 253pg
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone-- 253pg

Total: 487pg


message 16: by Richard (new)

Richard Buro (rwburo1outlookcom) | 21 comments I'm attempting with reservations . . .

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Monday:


message 17: by PattyMacDotComma (last edited Jan 01, 2019 01:46AM) (new)

PattyMacDotComma I'm in - I'm bound to read something! :)

The Murder Stone aka A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny (large print edition) 581 pages

The Yellow House by Emily O'Grady 324 pages

With Love from Miss Lily: A Christmas Story by Jackie French 100 pages

started A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin 104 pages

TOTAL 1109 pages


message 18: by Veronica ⭐️ (last edited Jan 03, 2019 12:12AM) (new)

Veronica ⭐️ | 121 comments I’m in

Friday : 189 pages
Saturday: 251 pages Lenny's Book of Everything
Sunday: nil
Monday: 50 pages The Wrong Callahan

Total: 490 pages


message 19: by Kathleen (last edited Jan 01, 2019 07:12AM) (new)

Kathleen | 402 comments Great timing! I have so many books to finish. :-)

Friday:
The Member of the Wedding - 114 pgs
Total: 114

Saturday:
Claudine at School - 93 pgs
Moon Tiger - 15 pgs
Total: 108

Sunday:
Claudine at School - 141 pgs
Moon Tiger - 72 pgs
Total: 213

Monday:
Laments for the Living, Collected Stories - 63
Moon Tiger - 55
Total: 118

Finished them all!!

Weekend Total: 553


message 20: by Davyne (last edited Dec 31, 2018 10:10AM) (new)

Davyne DeSye | 73 comments I'll be there! How much I'll read... that's another question altogether...

Friday: 31 pages
Saturday: 15 pages
Sunday: 77 pages
Monday: 93 pages

Total: 216 pages


message 21: by Katherine (last edited Jan 01, 2019 09:26AM) (new)

Katherine | 152 comments I’m in!

Fri: 78
Sat:109
Sun:97
Mon:175

Total:459

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens What Were the Roaring Twenties? by Michele Mortlock The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Verity by Colleen Hoover The Noel Stranger (The Noel Collection, #2) by Richard Paul Evans The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams Tell Me You're Mine by Elisabeth Norebäck


message 22: by LauraT (last edited Dec 31, 2018 02:41AM) (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14469 comments Mod
I'm in!!!!
I hope to be able of reading anything; still I'll count up what I manage!

I read 763 pages! Not bad ...


message 23: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
I will send another message out closer to the time to remind everyone.


message 24: by Elise (last edited Jan 08, 2019 05:49PM) (new)

Elise (usernamie) | 4 comments I'm in!!

Fri: 58
Sat, Sun & Mon: 451

Total: 509p
Books completed: Dry
Books started: Dry & The graveyard book


message 25: by Lauri (last edited Jan 01, 2019 07:46PM) (new)

Lauri (otwlauri) | 142 comments Lauri's Spot!
Target: 500 pages

Friday: 50 pages

Saturday: 267 pages

Sunday: 165 pages

Monday: 83 pages

Total pages read: 565 pages

Books used:
Not a Creature Was Purring (Paws & Claws Mystery #5) by Krista Davis The Diva Cooks a Goose (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #4) by Krista Davis The Christmas Cookie Killer (A Fresh-Baked Mystery, #3) by Livia J. Washburn Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (Agatha Raisin, #21) by M.C. Beaton The Diva Wraps It Up (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #8) by Krista Davis Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

Books completed:

Not a Creature Was Purring (Paws & Claws Mystery #5) by Krista Davis


message 26: by Josen (last edited Dec 31, 2018 07:58AM) (new)

Josen (josens) | 113 comments Please add me in :)

Friday: The Camel Club 46 pages

Saturday: Horns 64 pages

Sunday: Horns 70 pages

Total: 180 pages


message 27: by Kelly (last edited Dec 31, 2018 06:59PM) (new)

Kelly (marquis784) | 406 comments Yes! I’ve been waiting for this! Great motivation to finish up some books and maybe meet my Challenge goal!

Friday: 12/28 An Improbable Pairing by Gary Dickson 100 pages
The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond 40 pages
Saturday: 12/29 The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond 40 pages
The Winter Sister by Megan Collins 60 pages
Sunday: 12/30 The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond 40 pages
The Winter Sister by Megan Collins 100 pages
Monday: 12/31 30 The Murder Book by Lissa Marie Redmond 40 pages
The Winter Sister by Megan Collins 140 pages

Total: 560 pages

Happy New Year!


message 28: by Jackie (new)

Jackie I’m in! Retiring on Friday, the 28th Perfect!


message 29: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
Jacqueline wrote: "I’m in! Retiring on Friday, the 28th Perfect!"

Congratulations.


message 30: by Pam (last edited Jan 02, 2019 02:49PM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 1555 comments Not sure how much I will manage but I'll try. Also might have to be 'Pam 2' as there is already another Pam in the readathon.

Friday: 30
Saturday: 42
Sunday: 29
Monday: 12

TOTAL: 113


message 31: by Kate (new)

Kate Smith | 8 comments I’m in please.

Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday


message 32: by Kathy (new)

Kathy Hale (kahale) | 153 comments I’m in
Friday
Saturday
Sunday


message 33: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 15116 comments Mod
Pam wrote: "Not sure how much I will manage but I'll try. Also might have to be 'Pam 2' as there is already another Pam in the readathon.

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Monday:

TOTAL:"


That's ok Pam, I go by what number your post is.


message 34: by Diane-OP (last edited Jan 01, 2019 09:09AM) (new)

Diane-OP | 128 comments I’m in!

Friday: 58 pages
Saturday: 238 pages
Sunday: 222 pages
Monday: 301 pages

Total: 819


The Weird Sisters; The Last Runaway; The World of Downton Abbey; Village Christmas And Other Notes on the English Year


message 35: by Beth (last edited Jan 01, 2019 12:35PM) (new)

Beth | 410 comments I’m in!

Friday: 112-175 The Fall of Gondolin = 63
Saturday: The Time Machine 118 pages The Fall of Gondolin to 209 = 118+ 33 = 151
Sunday:
Monday:

Total: 214


message 36: by Nanci (last edited Jan 01, 2019 07:36AM) (new)

Nanci | 16 comments Please add me!

Friday: 184 pages
Book: That Night
Saturday: 98 pages from the book: Child of My Heart
Sunday: 144 pages: Completed book: Child of My Heart
Monday: 34 pages: The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations

Total: 460 pages


message 37: by Stephen (last edited Jan 01, 2019 05:16AM) (new)

Stephen | 3 comments I've never done this before but will give it a go.

Friday: The Overstory. (p.286-327). 41 pages
Saturday: (328-363). 35 pages
Sunday: (364-423). 59 pages
Monday: (424-502). 78 pages

Total. 213 pages


message 38: by Elliot A (new)

Elliot A I'm in, too!!

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Monday:


message 39: by Karol (last edited Dec 31, 2018 09:30AM) (new)

Karol Count me in! Hoping to exceed 100 pages a day.

Friday: 135 pages Ghost Towns of Michigan by Larry Wakefield and A Hope Undaunted, by Julie Lessman
Saturday: 132 pages, Ghost Towns of Michigan (finished) and A Hope Undaunted.
Sunday: 162 pages Nourished: A Search for Health, Happiness, and a Full Night’s Sleep (finished), and A Hope Undaunted
Monday: 153 pages, A Hope Undaunted (finished)


message 40: by Kristi (last edited Jan 02, 2019 07:02AM) (new)

Kristi (kristilarson) | 391 comments I need to finish 3 more books to reach my goal this year!

Friday: 185
Saturday: 226
Sunday: 0
Monday: 39

Total: 450

Fell 1 book short of my goal. I'll make up for it next year!


message 41: by Matthew (new)

Matthew Im in


message 42: by Pam (new)

Pam Baddeley | 1555 comments Alannah wrote: "Pam wrote: "Not sure how much I will manage but I'll try. Also might have to be 'Pam 2' as there is already another Pam in the readathon.

.....

That's ok Pam, I go by what number your post is"


Thanks Alannah.


message 43: by Tammy (new)

Tammy Regis | 2 comments I’m in. This is going to be my cleaning weekend from the holidays but I’m gonna try to squeeze some reading in there!

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Monday:


message 44: by John of Canada (last edited Dec 31, 2018 01:04PM) (new)

John of Canada (johnofcanada) | 318 comments I'm in.
Unflinching by Jody Mitic 256 pp


message 45: by Karin (last edited Jan 01, 2019 09:53AM) (new)

Karin I'm in!!!

Friday: 36 pages

Saturday: 58 pages

Sunday: 71 pages

Monday: 174 pages

Total: 339 pages


message 46: by Jennifer (last edited Jan 01, 2019 08:29AM) (new)

Jennifer (goodreadscomjenniferediting) | 42 comments Count me in!

Friday: The Left Hand of Darkness 23 pages
Saturday: The Left Hand of Darkness 48 pages
Sunday: The Left Hand of Darkness 50 pages
Monday: The Left Hand of Darkness 58 pages

Total: 179 pages


message 47: by Divya (last edited Dec 31, 2018 06:54AM) (new)

Divya Mohan | 3 comments Count me in!

Friday: 292 pages(Still Alice)
Saturday: 391 pages(100 - The Kill Order, 291 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
Sunday: 427 pages(227 - The Kill Order, 200 - Daughter of the Pirate King)
Monday: 452 pages(111 - Daughter of the Pirate King, 341 - Daughter of the Siren Queen)

Total: 1562 pages


message 48: by Petra (last edited Jan 01, 2019 08:20AM) (new)

Petra | 3330 comments I'm in, too!

Friday: 76 pages
The Girls in the Picture (finished it; audio; 28 pages)
Out (48 pages)

Saturday: 49 pages
Out (49 pages.....this is such a good book!)

Sunday: 39 pages
Out (39 pages......really good story!)

Monday: 47 pages
Out (47 pages.....still enjoying the story a lot)

Total: 211 pages


message 49: by Bobbi (last edited Jan 01, 2019 01:33AM) (new)

Bobbi Jo (scaredofspiders) I'll try to remember to post my numbers this time. I've been bad about that in the past. I've been averaging a book or two a day during break, so hopefully I can bolster the numbers, some.

Friday: 192 (A Game of You) 122 (She is the Darkness) TOTAL: 314
Saturday: 164 (She is the Darkness) TOTAL: 164
Sunday: 184 (She is the Darkness) TOTAL: 184
Monday: 263 (Fables & Reflections) 113 (Fortunately, the Milk) TOTAL: 376
GRAND TOTAL: 1038


message 50: by Tweedledum (last edited Dec 31, 2018 05:30PM) (new)

Tweedledum  (tweedledum) | 2176 comments Hi everyone I'm in. Merry Christmas !

Friday
The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon 62 pages
The Diary of a Booksellerby Shaun Bythell 44 pages
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 40 pages
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 60 pages

206 pages


Saturday
The Dublin King: The True Story of Edward Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower' by John Ashdown-Hill 25 pages ( finished book)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 175 pages ( finished book)
The Z Murders 40 pages
The Diary of a Bookseller 20 pages
Miracle on the Hudson: The Extraordinary Real-Life Story Behind Flight 1549, by the Survivors 17 pages
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 15 pages

292 pages



Sunday
The Z Murders 27 pages
Miracle on the Hudson: The Extraordinary Real-Life Story Behind Flight 1549, by the Survivors 138 pages
The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance 32 pages
Becoming by Michelle Obama 12 pages
Improbable Destinies: How Predictable Is Evolution? by Jonathan B. Losos 16 pages
Five at the Office Christmas Party by Bruno Vincent 42 pages
The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names by John Wright 130 pages

397 pages

Monday
I object 32 pages
The Z Murders finished book. 105 pages
The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names finished book 30 pages
Five at the Office Christmas Party 15 pages
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 120 pages
Miracle on the Hudson: The Extraordinary Real-Life Story Behind Flight 1549, by the Survivors 84 pages (finished book)

Monday total 354 pages

Total 1249 pages


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