Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

I'm heading out to see Mockingjay, so here is your thread!

Feel free to stop by and tell is what you are reading/listening to and most importantly - HAVE FUN!!

I'm starting out with several books in progress:
Dreams of Perfection (at 12%)
Crazy Little Thing (at 6%)
Mortal Heart (start of CD 3)

I have too many books in progress, and I'm behind on a lot of my challenges. Hopefully I can fix some of that during the readathon.

I'm about 75% of the way through The Future of Us. I want to finish that off first then I'm going to try Checkpoint on my husband's recommendation. After that I'm going to try and read some Christmas books.

I'm on page 87 of Middlesex. Hope to at least finish that this week.

I am starting with Amy and Roger's Epic Adventure. I'm on page 208. After that I don't know. It's going to be a tough week to read a lot due to lots of work travel (driving) this week :(

I have family visiting for the holiday weekend, so I probably won't have much free time for reading until the first of the week. I'll be back when things return to normal at my house, but we are having lots of fun!

I should have my first book done by morning. Is this where we post our progress?

Yep Roseann

Day 1
Finished Dreams of Perfection - 218pgs

Day 1:
Finished: As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir - 222p.
Down for the Count - 128p.

In progress: Candy Apple Red - 104p.

Total pages for Day 1: 454p.

Day 1 Summary:

Already in progress:
1.The Passage- 119 pages (listened 6 hours)
2.Where'd You Go, Bernadette- 168 pages

Begun during readathon:
1.

Finished:
1.

Total Pages: 287

Day 2 - mid-day
finished up Crazy Little Thing - 320pgs complete

total so far - 538

Day 1 Report:

Middlesex - 54 pgs

I am reading When You Were Older

was a bum yesterday, also read:
Tamed - 256pgs
The Trouble with Cowboys - 320pgs

listened to CD 3 of Mortal Heart - 75min or 35ish pgs

total so far - 1189

Day 2 Report:

Middlesex - 43 pgs

Running total: 97 pages

Day 1 & 2 Report:

Finished The Future of Us which was so fun.

Started Checkpoint and am 53 pages in. Hoping to make some good headway and finish it today or tomorrow.

Total so far : 128 pages

Day 2 Summary:

Already in progress:
1.The Passage- 194 pages (listened 9.5 hours)
2.Where'd You Go, Bernadette- last 217 pages, complete
3.Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen Zusammenfassung
4.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Begun during readathon:
1.BEDLAM- 42 pages
2.I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax-39 pages

Finished:
1.Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Total Pages: 492

Day 3

read Fever Dream - 232pgs
listened CD 4/ 5 of Mortal Heart - 70pgs
listened 3hrs of Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night - 108pgs

Daily Total: 410
Total Pages: 1599

Day 3 Report

Middlesex - 31 pgs

Running total: 128 pages

Really burning up the pages here!

My Day 2 and Day 3 sort of got smoshed together because I was reading in the middle of the night (Imagine that!), so here are my stats for those days:

In Progress:
Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond - 65p.
Candy Apple Red - 122p.
Playing Dirty - 48p.

Finished:
Small Town Christmas102p.

Total pages Days 2, 3 - 337p.
Total pages RAT - 791p.

Day 4 Report

Middlesex - 64 pgs

Running total: 192 pages

Day 4:
Finished:
Playing Dirty - 138p.
Candy Apple Red - 112p.

In Progress:
Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond - 35p.
Diva Las Vegas - 21p.
Millie's Fling - 40p.

Day 4 pages: 346p.

Total RAT pages: 1,137p.

Day 3 & 4 Report:


Read a little of my e-book The Dead Years - ORIGINS - Book Zero.

Finished Checkpoint, started and read a few pages in some Christmas books and set them aside. Finally started After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse.

Finished So Far:
The Future of Us
Checkpoint


Total so far: 238 pages

day 4

Mostly listening yesterday
Mortal Heart - cd 6/7 - 70pgs
Poison Fruit - 50pgs

day 5
Mortal Heart - cd 7/8 - 70pgs
Poison Fruit - 48pgs
Cowboy Justice - 140pgs

Day 5 Report

Middlesex - 66 pgs

Running total: 258 pages

I totally over-estimated the amount of reading time I'd have this week. Too bad the RAT isn't NEXT week, as I'll have 13 hours on a plane!

I haven't had as much time to read as I would like.

Day 5 Summary:

Already in progress:
1.The Passage- 221 pages (listened 11 hours)
2.Where'd You Go, Bernadette- last 217 pages, complete
3.Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen Zusammenfassung
4.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Begun during readathon:
1.BEDLAM- 115 pages
2.I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax-56 pages

Finished:
1.Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Total Pages: 609

Completed:
When You Were Older 416 pages
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life With the Tree-planting Tribe 272 pages
Staying True 240 pages
Leaving Time 416 pages

Total Pages: 1,344

Already in progress:
1.The Passage- 300 pages (listened 15 hours)
2.Where'd You Go, Bernadette- last 217 pages, complete

Begun during readathon:
1.BEDLAM- 216 pages, complete
2.I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax-56 pages
3.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-20 pages

Finished:
1.Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2.BEDLAM

Total Pages: 809

Wow, this was a fast week! Amazing reading for the week after Thanksgiving. : )

Days 6 and 7:

Middlesex - 184 pgs, Finished - VERY good book
Madame Bovary - 13 pgs

Final total: 455 pages

I got my one book finished, so I'm pretty happy considering how busy the week was.

My final summary:

I finished reading Amy and Roger's Epic Detour (135 Pages)
Read History of Nebraska (353 pages)
The Future of Us (356 pages)
Started reading Summer of my German Soldier (24 pages).

Total pages finished: 868.

My Final Summary

I finished
The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker
After Dead by Charlaine Harris

I also read from two Xmas books, The Dead Years - ORIGINS - Book Zero by Jeff Olah and The Next Always by Nora Roberts

Total pages read: 428 pages

I had to go out of town so I am just now posting my final results:

Finished:
As I Lay Frying
Down for the Count
Candy Apple Red
Playing Dirty
Small Town Christmas
Millie's Fling
The Blood of an Englishman

Made progress in:
Younger Next Year
Nickel and Dimed
Cold Dawn

Total pages for RAT: 1,989

(My goal was 2,000 and I almost made it! Had I known I was so close I would have pushed on, but I didn't add up my pages until the RAT was over!)

Thanks to everyone who made this possible. I love the RATs and look forward to participating in 2015!

I didn't see this in time to participate. And, well, I have my house on the market (it just went there) and we are helping friends and neighbors with their post-Florence clean-ups. We got lucky with her and our house itself took no damage, we just lost our fence and some trees. But those on both sides of us and across the street. Two are total gut jobs and the small one on one side just had to have the garage and kitchen re-done. On, and roofs. There are 23 houses on my street--10 of us had either brand new (i.e. redone with-in the last year) or houses that had been redone in the last 2 years (post Matthew.) The rest of the houses still had their original 17 year old roofs. And, of those 13--8 are in the "total gut job" and the other 5 are in the "if we act right now we can head the mold off and only have to redo portions of the house." But all of the are going to have to replace their roofs asap. The projections for Michael are waffling a bit, but we are sure to get at least tropical storm winds and rain. Ah, the joys of living on the Coast during hurricane season. But I love it, and am not looking forward to moving back to NoVa. But my brother-in-law has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Small Cell Lung Cancer, and since he has the family farm, hubby feels we need to move back and help out as much as we can. The farm has been in the family for 9 generations, and we are trying to keep it in for a few years longer--at least until "we" (meaning the baby-boomer generation that I belong to with hubby and his family) are unable to do the work any more. Then it will be handed to the "kids" (who are 35 to 43, so they aren't really kids, are they?) to decide what they want to do with it.

Sigh, I'm making myself depressed now.

Still, I've continued to use this group to record my books read list each year. I actually LOST the entire list one year, and wasn't happy about it, so I started "backing up" the list to here for safe-keeping.

Maybe I'll be able to take part in the next RAT. But if not, I'll cheer for everyone who is.

Ann aka Iftcan wrote: "I didn't see this in time to participate. And, well, I have my house on the market (it just went there) and we are helping friends and neighbors with their post-Florence clean-ups. We got lucky wit..."


I was born and raised in PR. So, I understand the hurricane season nightmare! My thoughts are with you as this hurricane season hopefully nears the end.