One Million Pages Per Lifetime discussion

Since June is the end of the first half of the year, we're making this readathon a little longer and adding another day-long!!!

Week-long Readathon: June 16th (12 am) thru June 24th (11:59 pm)
Day-long Readathons: June 16th (12 am - 11:59 pm), June 19th (12 am - 11:59 pm), and June 22nd (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 how long 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!

Not sure what my goals will be. I'm thinking 3 books, 700 pages, and 200 minutes. Might change this later on when I make my goals post, though.

Well, as I need to get most all of my reading for up through the 1st week in July done by June 24th, I am in desperate need of some serious reading time. I have seriously lacked in my reading for the past 3 weeks and I need to rectify that =)

So for the 9-day long readathon this month, I would like to reach an hour goal of 50 hours. We shall see how close to that I get, but it will be a good motivator to read for more than an hour a day!

Goals: 50 hours 3000 minutes

Final Minutes: 1630 / 3000 (27 hours 10 minutes)

Books Read/Reading:
Of Poseidon: pages 228-326 (Finished!) @ 70 minutes
The Awakening : pages 1-253 (Finished!) @ 155 minutes
Until I Die : pages 1-357 @ 275 minutes (Finished!)
A Game of Thrones : pages 1-48 @ 70 minutes
The Walking Dead, Book Three : pages 1-304 @ 120 minutes (Finished!)
I've Got Your Number : pages 1-433 @ 340 minutes (Finished!)
Sharp Objects : pages 1-254 @ 350 minutes (Finished!)
The Good Dream : pages 1-18 @ 15 minutes

Audiobook:
Princess in Love: @ 175 minutes (Finished!)
Princess in Waiting: @ 60 minutes

Pages Read: 1765 pages

You can do it Jennifer!!!!

I believe in you!

I think I want to hit 4-5 books that week with 1000 pages and 8 hours listened. We will see how we do.

Reading Plan:
Halfway to the Grave (audiobook) DONE
The Winds of War (audiobook)
Divergent
Leaving Paradise (1-
Glimmerglass (1-178) DONE
Vampire Academy

Day One:
Halfway to the Grave
Leaving Paradise (1-32)
Glimmerglass

Great goals, ladies!! This will be very exciting indeed :)

Duration: June 16-24
Goals: 5 books, 1000 pages, 300 minutes (5 hrs)

Finish:
~Bewitching (40 pages) DONE

Start & Finish:
~Hourglass (400 pages) DONE
~Blue Bloods (302 pages) DONE
~Total Blueprint for World Domination (77 pages) DONE

Start:
~The Shapeshifters (329 pages)
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Daylong #1 (16th)
Goal: 2 books, not reached

Finished , read the first 6% in

Daylong #2 (19th)
Goal: finish Blue Bloods, not reached

Read 132 pages in

Daylong #3 (22nd)
Goal: finish Total Blueprint, reached

Finished

Seeing as I have to work 7 of the 9 days scheduled for this read-a-thon, I'm going to be setting the bar pretty low for this read-a-thon! At one point I'll be working about 90 hours straight! (Ah, the life of a nanny) Soooo, I'm not anticipating getting a ton read, hoping to get 3 books read and I'll be happy.

I will be working 7 days through that time frame too! I am just lucky that I won't have a co-worker on vacation that week. That will definitely work for my benefit.

I believe the dates of the week-long readathon should read June 16 - June 24.

I really like this idea! I'm in this month. Last month was just too hectic. As a bonus, the readathon will dovetail nicely into the kickoff for the summer reading program at my local library.

My current stack of TBR includes:

Sanctus by Simon Toyne
Omega Theory by Mark Alpert
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (I think everyone else has read this already!)
The Wave by Susan Casey
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connolly
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

We'll see what kind of dent I manage to leave. Good luck to everyone!

Update 6/19/2012

I finished Sanctus before the readathon began. Here are my current reads:

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 232
The Wave by Susan Casey 66/326

Edit 6/20

Today I read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks! I would highly recommend the book, which is much more than a biography. There are elements of history, science and ethics which play a big part as well.

6/24

I finally finished The Wave today. It was a good book about giant waves and the climate changes which have made them possible. The book also describes the efforts of oceanographers, physicists and geologists to understand what is happening. On the other hand, surfers also have an intimate knowledge of many phenomena, and the book also chronicles changes in the sport which have come as the competitors seek to challenge themselves as much as possible.

Totals for the readathon:

Books: 3
Pages 893

Thanks, Shauna! I always manage to change the numbers and forget the words. And I haven't read Immortal Life yet so you're good :)

My library has a summer reading contest this summer, too, but I haven't checked into it yet. I'll have to do that soon.

★Meghan★ wrote: "You can do it Jennifer!!!!

I believe in you!

HAHA Thanks Meghan!!

There's a summer reading program also going on right now at my local library too!

I'm starting to think everyone's library does that lol :)

I'm heading to the beach for most of this readathon so I'll definitely be getting a lot of reading in. I'd really like to get through 5 books.

Reading plan:
The American Heiress
Garden Spells
The Blind Assassin
The Fellowship of the Ring
Paper Towns

I'm going to do something different for me this time and resist the temptation to preset a goal. I'm just going to see where the reading adventures take me for this readathon month (week long).
I'll update as I read along :)

Updated 6.23

Killer Crullers by Jessica Beck 276 pages; (6.16)
No Angelby Penny Vincenzi 626 pages; (6.17)
Gossamer by Lois Lowry 144 pages (6.19)
Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein 384 pages (6.21)
Berserk: My Voyage to the Antarctic in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat by David Mercy 256 pages (6.23)

Good luck to everyone!!! Midnight won't get here fast enough :)

Completely messed around during last month's read-a-thon (Forgot to summarize, which I'll do after this note).


Going to set my sights a bit lower, 3 books and/or 625 pages.

Good luck, Lori!

Since I'm feeling great (unlike last month) I'm going to do this month's to completion.

I will finish Kill Shot and try for 3 books and 1500 pages.

Midnight in the Central Time!

Midnite (really 12:06 am) in the Pacific Standard Time Zone.

:)

Good luck, Anne!

I finished my first book this morning, Bewitching. I'm actually behind because I should've been finishing Hourglass but oh well. Maybe I'll still finish it today.

first update on original message #15

Lindy-Lane wrote: "first update on original message #15"

Great start!

Read-a-thon: June 16-24th
Goal: 8 books, 3 audiobooks and 1,200 pages


Total: 1/8 books, 0/3 audio books, 281/1,200 pages, 0 minutes listened


Saturday June 16, 2012

1. Succubus Shadows by Richelle Mead: 281 pages

Good luck, Megan!

June 16-24, 2012
Goal: 1/7 books.

Jun 16, 2012
1.

Good luck with your reading, Tracy :)

Zakiya wrote: "Good luck with your reading, Tracy :)"

Thanks Zakiya. I'll post it in the other thread from now on.

Alrighty; I'll have to remember that :).

Didn't even get close to finishing yesterday, but I'm at 23% in it now. It's sooo good; wish I had money so I could get Timepiece after I finish.

Two books down! Looks like I'll make my low goal of three!

Finished I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella and The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman.

Going to try to tackle Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O'Roark Dowell next.

Great reading, Stacie !

Finished my 2nd book, ; seriously tired. Will try to start before I hit the hay.

My goal this month is to read 6 books, and listen to 2 audio books. Our library is doing the summer reading program also, so I want to get as much read as possible this week. Saturday started out slow because I was busy with other things all day, but things should settle down now.

Saturday, June 16, 2012


The Deadliest Bite, Rardin, pages 1-68
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, Pagels, pages 57 through 67
Pages Read: 78

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Rardin, pages 68 through 264
Pagels, pages 67 through 97
Pages Read: 226


Started listening to Shockaholic,Fisher, listened to first 11.57 minutes.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Finished The Deadliest Bite, Rardin, pages 264 through 309
Finshed Adam, Eve, and the SerpentPagels, pages 97-154.
Started How to Knit a Wild Bikini,Ridgway, pages 1 through 25
Continued with Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning,McLennan, pages 67 through 75.

Pages Read: 135

Good luck, Vera! You all keep reminding me to check about the reading program :).

On page 25 in , but it's pretty good so far. Hopefully I can finish it by tomorrow at the latest.

Finished book 3 this morning! Ten Miles Past Normal and about halfway through The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy and I hope to finish it today

Woohoo!!

About a third of the way through Blue Bloods, hoping to finish it by tomorrow if I don't today.

I finished Blue Bloods today while we were on the way back from Memphis. Started Total Blueprint for World Domination, pretty good so far. I love the fact that it's a motivational book. The title seems like it would be a scifi novel, but it's a good surprise. Definite intriguing :).

Another two finished!! I think that brings my total to five read, which is way more that I thought I'd get done! Finished The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy and One For The Money. I also started Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years Of Mysteries In The Making Includes Two Unpublished Poirot Stories at work today, but I don't know if I'll finish it by this weekend or not.

Tomorrow morning starts by 90 straight hours of work and I don't know how much reading I'll be able to get done. I have a few graphic novels out from the library and I'm tempted to take some of them with me to read after the kids go to bed each night. But then again, I may be so exhausted that nothing will get read!

I finished my 5th book today! Apparently I read really quickly, because I am only 1/3 of the way through my hour goal. But I am getting a lot of reading done, and that is what matters! **Updated message 3**

Stacie- I hope you don't get too exhausted! Being all the time isn't fun.

Jennifer- Great reading! :)

**Post 6** Changed the last few books in the goal.

finished Total Blueprint. Starting The Shapeshifters.

Finished one more yesterday! Read My Girlfriend's Boyfriend by Elodia Strain. Thinking of trying to read Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland tonight.

That makes 6 books, Stacie! You doubled your goal :D

Whoo just finished my 7th book! That is amazing! Sadly I do not think I will make it much past halfway to my goal, but I did read quite a bit (and a lot quicker than I thought I could lol) 22 hours left. We'll see if I can get another couple hours in. =)

Great reading this week, peeps!

You've definitely got some great reading yourself, Jennifer! At least now you know to aim lower if you do hours because you read so fast! :D

Zakiya wrote: "That makes 6 books, Stacie! You doubled your goal :D"

And I managed to finish another last night when I finally got home! Bringing my total to 7, which was way more than I thought I'd read!

Wow! You are seriously on top of your reading big time! I still can't believe you managed to do all that and work a really busy week. *shakes head in amazement*