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June Read-a-thon!

Hey Readers! Somehow the month of June has completely blown by. Where has 2023 gone!? This means our quarterly challenges are ending and so to help you get those last minute books in, we are hosting an all you can read read-a-thon! This will start on June 28th (starting at your midnight time zone) and will end on June 30th (ending at your midnight time zone). This will also be a page goal challenge - yay!

The goal is 5,000 pages across the board. Any book that you finish between June 28th-30th is eligible to count towards the page goal including graphic novels, and comics. For audiobooks, please post either the % you've finished each day or the most rated page count when you finish.

Since it's Pride month, any book with an MPG of Queer of LGBTQ will get a multiplier of 1.5! Please indicate which books should receive this bonus.

What you need to do in order to participate:
Step 1 - Sign up on this thread!
Step 2 - Post your progress each day!
Step 3 - Have fun and read lots of good books!

Q: How do I post my progress for each day?
A: You can track your progress in any format. However, please post your progress in a single comment and use the edit function to update it. Here is an example:

Wednesday: (353) *Queer, Started (50%) *Queer

Thursday: Finished (775) *Queer

Friday: - finished (352) *LGBT, - finished (288) *LGBT

Total Pages: 1,768 * 1.5 multiplier = 2, 652 pages
Books Read: , , ,

Anyone is welcome to join!

Participants:
-Jamie
-Andy
-Lorelai
-Jenn
-Amylynn
-Joy
-Tesseract
-Cindee
-Shauna
-goose
-Shan ~A~
-Arianna
-Aneta
-Gwen
-Alyssa Joelle
-Michelle

I'm in

Added :)

I’m in! :)

Wednesday:
Good Girl, Bad Blood: 416 pages
As Good As Dead: 29 pages

Thursday:
As Good As Dead: 111 pages

Friday:
As Good As Dead: 58 pages

Total:
614

I'm in!

I'm in! Is there a list of books to choose from? Also, it starts tomorrow correct? I never did one of these but always wanted to! I'm excited please someone reply back to me! Thanks oh btw IM AMY ANYONE FEEL FREE TO REPLY! I'm ready to meet new friends who love books 📚 just as much as I do!

One More questions Andy! The page goal is that per day or just the couple days? I know it's a dumb question I just want to make sure I understand the rules! Thanks😀🫢💙👌

I‘m in

Amylynn wrote: "I'm in! Is there a list of books to choose from? Also, it starts tomorrow correct? I never did one of these but always wanted to! I'm excited please someone reply back to me! Thanks oh btw IM AMY A..."

No list to choose from. You can read anything you want! And yes starts tomorrow, but based on whatever time zone you are in unless you want to use the Goodreads time zone which is PDT :)

Amylynn wrote: "One More questions Andy! The page goal is that per day or just the couple days? I know it's a dumb question I just want to make sure I understand the rules! Thanks😀🫢💙👌"

It's the page goal for the whole challenge and I'll be adding up everyone's pages reported. So it's not just on you to read 5,000 pages yourself haha

i'm in


28: 313 307
29: 200 216
30:

Pages Read: 1036
Books Read: 2

I'm in

I'm in too

Well Met by Jen DeLuca ~ 06/30 ~ 242 pgs

Added everyone!

I’m in!

I'm in :)

28th: 110 pages of

29th: 126 pages of and 86 pages of

30th: 48 pages of and 84 pages of

I’m in

I’m in

Wednesday:

418 pages

278 pages

Thursday

368 pages

368 pages

320 pages

36 pages


Friday

257 pages

300 pages

120 pages


Total pages: 691 + (1,774 x 1.5) = 3, 352

I'm in.
Completed
=163
= 114pg
= 151 pg

Reading
= 48pg

Added everyone else. Feel free to add your progress as you go. You don't have to do it everyday, but as long as it's submitted by 8:00 AM CDT Saturday, it will be counted towards the goal!

today I read the final 117 pages.

- 15 pages

Wednesday:
Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows
59 pages (was too tired in the evening ;))

Total: A Court of Mist and Fury - 644 pages

6/29/23

- 234 pages

28th: - started before readathon at 50%, - finished (89 pages), *Queer, - finished (208 pages), *LGBT

29th: - started

30th: - finished (184), *Queer, - finished (295), *LGBT

Pages: 184 + 89 + 208 +295 = 776 * 1.5 (all books were MPG queer/lgbtq+) = 1,164

Books finished: , , ,

There's a couple hours of this left! Please make sure to log your pages by tomorrow morning!!

Maybe Someday - 182 pages
She Started It - 127 pages
Pineapple Street - 32 pages

Total: 341 pages

28: None
29: None
30:
I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne: 107-128 (22)
Then by Morris Gleitzman: 145-184 (39)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris: 0-34 (34)

Total Pages: 95

I don’t know if it still counts, but I read
Thursday: 22 pages of Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
Friday: 60 pages of Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
Makes in Total: 117 pages on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday together

Grand Total: 9,691 pages!!

Great job everyone! We surpassed the goal by 4,691 pages! See you next time for the next read-a-thon.