One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

Week-long Readathon: May 19th (12 am) thru May 25th (11:59 pm)
Day-long Readathon: May 19th (12 am - 11:59 pm)

Rules:
~Just have fun!

Breaking It Down:
~You can read towards a goal of books, pages, hours, or any combination of the three. Aim for what will help you with challenges, or make a goal that IS a challenge!
~~You can keep track of what you read by writing the exact minutes down on paper, like I do, or you can just estimate from the time you start reading to the time you stop and write that down. Either way is up to you.
~This will be the topic where you can post your reading progress and discuss with others about what they're reading.
~At the end of the day-long readathon, I will have a Summary topic up and running so those of you that only do the Day-long can go ahead and post your summaries.

If you have any questions, ask below!

My goals will be 4 books and 1000 pages.

Want to Finish:
~~Hush Hush (pages 355 - 391) (36 pages) DONE

Want to Start & Finish:
~~Crescendo (427 pages)
~~Silence (438 pages)
~~Wintergirls (278 pages)
~~Blue Bloods (? pages)

How does this work exactly for the day-long readathlon as such? Do you just state how many books you want to read and pages in that time or ... I'm a little confused as to the dynamics of it.

The only difference between the day-long readathon and the week-long readathon is the length. For both, you set your goal to whatever you want. It could be a certain number of books or pages, or you could want to read a certain amount of hours. The overall goal of the readathons is to read more than you usually would during that time period.

May readathon goals:

As this one starts as my #boutofbooks readathon ends, I am going to try for a day long readathon on Saturday regardless of what day it is voted. I want to read 600 pages on Saturday, 400 pages on Sunday, and then 750 pages over rest of the week. Next week is SEC Baseball tournament, so I know I'll be busy watching some college baseball.

Goals = 1750 pages, 24 hours, 5 books

May 19th

Time Read: 60 minutes
Pages Read: 345-427 (82 pages)
Finished!


Time Read: 320 minutes
Pages Read: 1-386 (386 pages)

May 20th

Time Read: 120 minutes
Pages Read: 387-536 (150 pages)
FINISHED!


Time Listened: 111 minutes
Tracks Listened To: Disc 4, Track 8--End of Disc 5
FINISHED

May 21st

Time Read:
Pages Read:





Book List = The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ready Player One, White Horse, The Selection

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My Goal is 3 Books and 1000 Pages.

Duration: May 19 - 25, 2012

Jennifer Leigh wrote: "May readathon goals:

As this one starts as my #boutofbooks readathon ends, I am going to try for a day long readathon on Saturday regardless of what day it is voted. I want to read 600 pages on S..."

Yeah, I'm doing #boutofbooks as well :). I have a dress rehearsal Saturday, though, and recital's Sunday. So it won't be the best beginning/ending to readathons for me.

I think I am going to extend my readathong through the Memorial Day Weekend and shoot for finishing 4-5 books. Not quite sure yet how many pages/minutes yet. I do plan on 2 of those books being audiobooks though.

Book List:
Hard Love (114-224)
A Conflict of Interest (
Susannah's Garden
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Art of Racing in the Rain

My goal is to read 3 books:

I have a stack of 15 books that I'd like to finish before the end of may, so I'd like to finish at least half, if not more!

Woohoo! Great goals everyone! :)

Now that I'm out of school I think I can actually live up to my goal. I'd like to finish 3 books.
Book list:
The Night Circus
A Game of Thrones
and either
The Fellowship of the Ring
OR
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Jennifer Leigh wrote: "Lori wrote: "In my post above I couldn't figure out how to underline just the words:

Boils Down to:


Would someone please help me how to underline a single line vs. that line and everything belo..."

Really hoping to accomplish more this read-a-thon then previous ones.


Today began:
Along with these books (I'd like to read at least another 75 pages in another)

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis
...............143 pages
and
The Nanny Who Kissed Her Boss by Barbara McMahon
...............139 pages


In addition to the above, earlier this week, started listening to:
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Since this will be completed over the weekend, plan to start the audio version of Barbara Delinsky's .The Real Thing


Boils Down to:
2 books (277 + pages) and 2 audio books

In my post above I couldn't figure out how to underline just the words:

Boils Down to:


Would someone please help me how to underline a single line vs. that line and everything below.

Lori wrote: "In my post above I couldn't figure out how to underline just the words:

Boils Down to:


Would someone please help me how to underline a single line vs. that line and everything below."

use a u in your < symbols bracket at the beginning of what you want underlined, then a /u in the < symbol bracket at the end.

you make a diamond. If you click next to the add book/author where it says (some html is ok) it shows you the html codes for underlining and such.

Thanx Jennifer, After a few attempts I figured it out. Assume the same theory works for bolding a single line as well?

Lori wrote: "Thanx Jennifer, After a few attempts I figured it out. Assume the same theory works for bolding a single line as well?"

yup. just use a b instead of a u =)

Well, I finished my first book already-- Hush, Hush (but I'll only get 36 pages for it because that's all I had left). I automatically started Crescendo, and have 155 pages in it so far. Thinking about starting Silence afterwards, but might read Wintergirls first.

I finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finally this morning! I only had 82 pages left. I started City of Lost Souls this afternoon and I am planning to pretty much read until I finish it today! =)

Just finished Another Bad-Dog Book: Tales of Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior which has taken almost a year to read! I feel so accomplished! Gonna go start my next book A Demon Made Me Do It and Zakiya if you read Wintergirls let me know cause I loved it!

Just finished my first of the readathon! I read Truly, Madly for 305 pages and really enjoyed it! I'm now debating between How I Found the Perfect Dress or rereading Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile. Decisions, decisions!

So I've discovered that either a) GoodReads fixed itself or b) my laptop is mad at GRs for whatever reason.

Almost finished with Crescendo, which will be my second book for the RAT. Very impressed with myself, being that I had dress rehearsal today. Hopefully recital tmr won't get in the way too much!

I am not feeling well today, so I didn't get much reading done since 12:01am.

I started The Drop by *Michael Connelly and read off and on since the start time. It was about 5.5 hours. I read only 207 Pages today.

I decided to only do the week-long readathon, since I was feeling puny today. And I'm revising my goal: 3 or 4 books 1100 Pages.

I hope you get better soon, Anne!

Glad to hear you got some reading done. Have some chicken soup and "call me in the morning".

Your Southern CA Jewish Mother. LOL

@Zakiya
@Lori
LOL, Lori! Thank you both for the well wishes. I've caught the Flu bug from my handsome neighbor. Am reading some and eating some Pasta Fujole Soup. I'll be back later to post my reading update. :)

I only read for about 3 1/2 hours and my page count was 142. Most of the day was spent in bed with the flu. Am feeling better so I hope to read more tomorrow and finish The Drop and start .

Finished my second book, Crescendo. In the middle of Silence right now.

I finished and started The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean. It is not the book I wanted to read next, but it pretty good. LOL, Navarone was the closest book - on the table beside my bed. I moved my next book there, since the flu bug is still with me.

I read 210 Pages in 5 1/2 hours.

I read zero today. I kind of got really distrated by season 1 of Vampire Diaries. I'm going to try and read some tomorrow. =)

Started reading Wintergirls yesterday.

So far I've finished 4 books, 3 of which were very easy reads. Got three in progress, but not sure how many more I'll finish due to an upcoming surprise visit from my brother and his wife later this week. Lots of cleaning to be done!

Zakiya wrote: "Started reading Wintergirls yesterday."

Let me know how you like it Zakiya!

Finished last night. Gonna finish

Ha I haven't read much but I did finally finish 1 book today

I just finished 3 books today :)

Crazy haven't read much then finished 3 :)

Heather- Will do!!

Stacie- Woohoo!!

Meghan- That's definitely crazy. But awesome for sure :)

Still only got 2 books finished for this one, but I'm working on 3 & 4 right now. Have to wash dishes and make more kool-aid, then I can relax and read.

Just finished book 5!! Woohoo!

I read 199 pages in about 4.5 hours Tuesday. I'm feeling a little better - hope I can read more tomorrow.

Heather, I finished Wintergirls. It was good for the most part. 4-1/2 stars. I would've given it the other half a star, but it kind of made me depressed while I read it. However, for the purpose it was written, it was amazing.

I finished today (40 Pages)and reviewed it. I started Missing Mom (57 Pages) by Joyce Carol Oates and (45 Pages). I have completed 2 Books and have read 798 Pages so far in the challenge.

I am being a horrible reader. I have read a grand total of 12 pages in the past 3 days. Oops.

But I have watched 1.5 seasons of The Vampire Diaries. =)

Needless to say, I will probably not come anywhere CLOSE to reaching my goals.

LOL! It's okay Jennifer! We all have those readathons :D.

I'm about 100 pages from the ending of . Mom took me to the library yesterday and I got 5 new books. Wooh! :)

Can't believe the readathon is over already! Where did the time go???