Readathon April 2-3, 5 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Joining in:
If you don't see your name LET ME KNOW!
sibyx - lucy - Vermont
phebj - Pat - Idaho
LizzieD - Peggy - North Carolina
CitizenJoyce - USA
Tanglewood - Michelle - New York
DragonFreak - Nathan - South Dakota
Carmenere - Lynda - Ohio
Kidzdoc - Darryl - Georgia
Cariola - Deborah - Pennsylvania
Crazy4reading - Monica - Pennsylvania
GennyT - Genny - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
elkiedee - Luci - London, UK
chinquapin - Laura - Texas
CatyM - Caty - Devon, UK
weejane - Brit - Pennsylvania
Donna828 - Donna - Missouri
MaddieBloom - Maddie - Connecticut
arubabookwoman - Deborah - Washington
heatherhoarder - Heather - Florida
Alleycatfish - Alley - Mississippi
KatieKrug - Katie - Dallas
AnneDC - Anne - Washington D.C.
Chatterbox - Suzanne - NYC
SqueakyChu - Madeline - Maryland
Portnova - Elena - Maryland
Majkia - Jean - Florida
Wisechild - Karen - Ontario, Canada
Nittnut - Jenn - Colorado
Megi53 - Margaret - Virginia
cbl_tn - Carrie - Tennessee
Rebeccany - Rebecca - NYC
Cait86 - Cait - Ontario, Canada
allthesedarnbooks - Marcia - New York
rubarbu - Barbara - Connecticut

If I have anything wrong, let me know!

I'll join for an hour or two here or there if that's allowed, Madame Moderator.

Mais naturellement, mon amie! Bienvenue!

It's worth joining in just for the picture. Great job, Lucy. I'll be in for most of the read-a-thon.

I can join in for a while at least. Last weekend I decided to reshelve my books by subject, so I have about 400 books still on the floor. Reading breaks can be my reward! - Michelle, New York

I'm game. It's not like I have anything better to do.

Nathan - South Dakota

Au contraire, Nathan, there is nothing you could do that would be better!!!

Welcome CJ and Michelle

>7 sibylline: I think that's what I was trying to say.

>8 DragonFreak: Ah! But, of course.

>9 sibylline: Yup. And I just learned that au contraire means Instead or On the Contrary in French.

Lucy, The very intelligent pooch in #1 is too adorable. How could I say no to that face?
So........Count me in for your readathon. I'll be bouncing in and out as time becomes available.

Lynda - Ohio

>10 DragonFreak: New vocab will be one of the memes (I'm trying to cook up some new ones) so how's that for getting a head start? Some of my french is via Clouseau, of course.

>11 Carmenere: Goody! I'll be running around a bit myself sat and sun to and from the show my dau. is involved in this weekend.....

I think it is the way the doggo wears those glasses, kind of the way I do, looking underneath them trying to read that leeetle print.

Count me in. (Darryl from Atlanta)

I can join you, although some of my reading will probably be student papers. I need to reread Twelfth Night and get ahead in The Impressionist for my classes.

Welcome Darryl and Deborah. I like using the readathons to bust up some New Yorkers -- no matter what you read, it's just fun to be in such good company!

I can join in for a little bit. I have a banquet Saturday night so I can try to read a little bit before the party and then I can join in for most of Sunday.

Monica from Pennsylvania!!

I love the picture!! I may have to add it to my collection of pictures.

Welcome Monica! You'll have to tell us the menu, of course.

I may join in for a bit. Have a busy weekend, with a wedding tomorrow and Mothering Sunday etc... but there will surely be a few hours for reading somewhere. Now just need to check what time 5pm is over here. Which time zone are you referring to?

I will join you as and when I can - Lucy, you're not on your own list! Am I right in thinking you're east coast (so 5 hours behind us in the UK)?

I will join also. I really had fun at the last one. I am still recovering from being sick, so I may fall asleep reading....

Laura

Welcome Genny, Luci and Laura - I looked on my computer at the time diff from EST and it said it's just a little after 12 midnight, so yes. 10 p.m. Is that a terrible time for you to start? What I can do is post the template and a meme or two earlier in the day, before 2 p.m. (when I am going to the spring musical at my daughter's high school for two hours), but then I'll be back to kick things off around my 5 p.m. your 10 p.m. or 22 or whatever. Ok now my head is spinning.

10 pm is fine! I'll be busy earlier in the day (and knowing me I'll still be procrastinating about writing my sermon by 10pm) so it may not be until Sunday that I'm able to join in. Sunday afternoons can be good reading time if I don't fall asleep!

I'll join in too - for the first couple of hours, and then Sunday afternoon.

Welcome Caty.

I'll join! I'll be in and out since my wife will just be returning from our of town Saturday night.

Brit from PA.

I'm in! I can read while my husband does his taxathon.

Donna from Missouri

I'd like to join in, too, for some part of the time.
I really like that idea of getting through a couple of New Yorkers;-)

I'll join in as I can.

I can join in. I've never done the readathon. evenings are best for me.
Heather--in Florida

I'll join in for a few hours at least. I have so many books I need to finish and even more I want to start now instead.

Alley - MS

I'll join for a bit. Have some work to do for RL, but hope to get a lot of that out of the way on Saturday and then have a party Sunday at 3pm, but other than that I should be good.

Katie from Dallas, TX

10 pm is fine for me, I may end up starting even later, as often I fall asleep with Conor and then get up and start reading etc later.

What time zone are we talking in terms of start and end times? I am in US Central, so just want to check! Hope I didn't miss this info somewhere...

Good point there, is this Eastern time zone?

Yep -- Eastern...... Central is one hour earlier, so you get to start at 4 p.m., Katie. Right and Nathan..... gosh... are you mountain time? That would be 3 p.m. But you know what? Who's going to know? 24 hours, more or less around the target time period is the idea.

Yes! Count me in (Anne from Washington DC)

I'll join in -- I was just feeling in the mood for a readathon, and the timing is perfect. Gives me a chance to go to a b-day party for my neighbor's 3 year old, go grocery shopping and then hunker down for 24 hours and read!

Suzanne, and I'll be reading from NY...

Welcome one and all -- I won't be around until tomorrow. I'm almost finished Cloud Atlas and I'm off to curl up with it.

I'll be in for part of the time, but I'll be taking time out Saturday night to see a Dutch movie. I should have more time to read on Sunday, though.

This is Madeline from Rockville, Maryland.

Me too. I should be free most of Saturday evening and possibly part of Sunday afternoon. Elena, Maryland.

Can't get enough of this picture!

I'm a bit confused as to when this starts (5pm where?) but I'll join as well.

Jean on the Emerald Coast of Florida

5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,
4 p.m. Central
3 p.m. Mountain
2 p.m. Pacific
and 10 p.m. in the UK
I'm going to post the template and a meme or two around 1 p.m. EST just in case I get held up at my daughter's play.
But you can open your blue booklets earlier as long as you've got five sharpened #2 pencils. Just kidding!

I'd like to join in for part as well. I do have dinner plans this evening but I'm planning on doing lots of reading tomorrow as I've got library books due back on Monday!
Karen from Toronto, Ontario

I can join in later this afternoon. Sounds fun! Does listening to a book on CD count too? I'll be in the car for a little while. I'll be jumping in around 3:30 pm Mountain. Jenn - Denver, CO.

Might as well -- I have to sit in front of espn.com starting around 6 pm this evening to "watch" the NCAA game between VCU and Butler (I love both teams ) and the updates move so slowly that I can read a couple of pages between each post. (Beats reading the conversations between fans upbraiding each other and the players!)

Margaret in Virginia, USA

I'll join in for a while this evening and tomorrow afternoon. Carrie - Knoxville, TN

I may be able to join in tomorrow morning, if I can convince myself not to clean out a closet! Rebecca, New York City

I'm in for at least part!

Cait, Port Dover, Ontario

I'm posting this useful stuff four hours early to make sure that it is here at 5 p.m. at the official starting time and so that the UKers can do a little reading before bedtime, if they'd like.

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The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

Is it too late to sign up ? I'd love to do it for a few hours at least.
-Marcia from upstate NY

I'd also like to join in, if it's not too late. Will have to break for a bit during the UCONN game but otherwise would love to participate.

Barbara from Connecticut

50, 51> It's never too late! I'm sure that Lucy will add you to the list when she checks back in.

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Did you have to look up any new words?

Not yet. Haven't started yet. I wanted to check in early just in case I don't have time to check in when you actually start. I don't often look up words, but now that you mention it, I might actually look for some new words as I read!

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:

None yet! I'll look for some as I read later, though.

What are your reading goals?

I'd like to dip into at least three books that are part of my current reads. More on those later...

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Total books read: none, but 22 scholarship applications
Total pages read: We'll say it's 35.
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The Menu. I had a BLT while I was reading (late lunch).
Vocabulary: None

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None yet, but one student did mention 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' . . . .

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
My first goal was to finish reading and ranking the scholarship applications: DONE!
My next goal is to read for an hour in The Impressionist, which I am teaching in a class. After that, I will take a break from books and move on to grading freshmen annotated bibliographies. That will likely get me through Hour 4.

I just finished the neglected reviews for books read last month, and I'm ready to start.
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Books Read Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers by John Elder Robison also listening to 776166::Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
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The Menu. diet Squirt
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The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! There's no way I'll keep track of all the books mentioned in 776166::Special Topics in Calamity Physics, every thought and sentence is footnoted

What are your reading goals? I'd like to finish Be Different

And we're off -- I chugged back here as fast as I could!



As far as I know this is Hour One unless I'm off my rocker, which is quite possible.

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The Menu: A freshly brewed mug of coffee (Peet's Ethiopian Fancy).
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

I like this idea!

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

I may not finish any books during this Read-a-Thon, since I'm reading two sizable books, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne (I'm on page 135 of 577 pages of text), and The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed, which is 308 pages in length. I'll also resume reading The Paris Review, issue 195, and read several poems in White Egrets by Derek Walcott.

I received my new HDTV this afternoon, and the Final Four games (Butler-VCU and Kentucky-UConn) will take place tonight. I'm sure that I'll watch a good portion of both games, so my reading output will probably be modest until late tonight.

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The Menu: Nothing. Maybe a glass of water.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Start time is 10pm here, and I'd like to get in two hours reading before bed. The plan is for one hour of Christianity in Roman Britain (which I don't think will quite be enough time to finish it, but I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow) and then an hour of something more frivolous - exact title yet to be decided.

If directions for coat rack assembly count, then I suppose I can count the 15 minutes I've just spent reading up on the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music on Wikipedia. (I'm listening to a Monteverdi CD and I'm easily distracted.)

>57 kidzdoc: uh oh Darryl, I can see that your new toy might cut into your reading time for sure!

>55 Citizenjoyce: Pessi is non-fiction? I think I was more thinking of mentions in novels.....

>54 Cariola: Let's hope you can get all that work out of the way tonight!

I'll be back in a flash with my own stuff. Then I have to walk the dog. It is actually NICE out here. One guess what kind of dog.

Nothing to report yet!

First Meme:
My reading goals:
3 New Yorkers: Dec 20/27, Jan 3. Jan 10
p 74 -127 (54p.) Baron Wormser The Road Washes Out in Spring
Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time SF get a solid start
Meg Wolitzer The Uncoupling ER book, get a solid start
Brian Aldiss Helliconia Summer SF keep it moving

Love the picture! :)

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The Menu. Just had some yummy wheat crackers with colby jack cheese.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?

The Special:

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
To make significant progress in Summers at Castle Auburn. Currently on page 278 of 612.

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The Menu: Just water, but the hubby and I will be going out for a nice dinner in a few hours.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
No reading done yet.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......
1. Start My Man Jeeves on the Kindle
2. Read at least one of the backlog of The Atlantic I have in a pile.
3. Start a "dead tree" book.

(I finished up a book earlier this afternoon, so have a fresh slate!)

This thread is going to the dogs! Lol.

I'm getting a bit of a late start, but all my important stuff is done for the day so I can relax and read. I'm only going to answer the last question because the others are N/A right now. I do like the idea of looking for books mentioned in our reading.

What are your reading goals?
I'm going to be concentrating on two main books. I'd like to complete Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure which I'm reading for the Missouri Readers group. It would be great if I could read a big chunk of Gods and Generals which is for a RL book group that is meeting this Thursday. It's a big book and I've barely begun.

Good luck all!

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The Menu: Nothing, but now that you mention it I am starving.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No, but since I am not reading yet...

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None yet.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

I can't decide whether I plan to carry on with books I'm in the middle of, or start in on some new ones. (So undisciplined!) I think I will likely finish The Reluctant Fundamentalist, so I will make that a goal. I just procured my own copy of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter so can get back to that, or Great Expectations which I shelved last month after becoming absorbed in Portrait of a Lady. But I have a huge stack of planned April reads distracting me, so we'll see.

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The Menu. Nothing yet. Will let you know what the menu is from my banquet
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Oh this will be fun.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? My first goal is to read for the next hour before going to my banquet. I will not post anything until after the banquet.

I'm checking in 50 minutes after the start (2:50 p.m. here in Seattle).

READING GOALS:

I'm going to start with August, 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I'm starting on p. 404--maybe, just maybe, I can finish all 714 pp during the readathon.

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Books read since last post: There are No Accidents by Robert H. Hopke
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The Menu:
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Did you have to look up any new words?
Nope.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

What are your reading goals?
Keep reading whatever I fancy!

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Books Read Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers by John Elder Robison
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The Menu. diet Squirt but I'm starving, may have to augment that
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? not yet

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! none

>59 sibylline: Lucy, Pessl is fiction but written in the dialect of strict academia, thus the footnote overload. Love the dog pix.

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The Menu: I finished my mug of coffee. I'll probably have a seven layer salad for dinner (I bought it at Publix this morning)
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.

The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books! No books yet.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

A Savage War of Peace is a dense book, with hundreds of characters and dozens of political, military and socioeconomic factions, which makes for a slow read. However, it's very well written and thoroughly enjoyable, and it's definitely one of my favorite books of the year so far.

The new HDTV (42 inch Sharp) promises to be a huge distraction, both today and for the future. The Butler-VCU Final Four game hasn't started yet, but I did watch a bit of the Detroit Tigers-Evil Empire (a.k.a. the @*#$!!! New York Yankees) baseball game on Fox.

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The Menu: A couple of baby bell peppers dipped in salad dressing, a handful of blackberries
Vocabulary: Not yet

The Special: The Koran

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Read as much as I can.

What am I reading: Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris

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The Menu Nothing.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
Richard of Bordeaux
The Man in the Queue
The Tempest
prayer book (I assume it's the Book of Common Prayer)

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......
Make good progress on Angel with Two Faces
Read one of the stories in The Innocence of Father Brown
Read a couple of chapters in Barchester Towers

I've decided not to track time spent reading or posting. I've got a lot of distractions. My father has a friend helping him take apart his old computer and hook up his new computer. This involves lots of trips back and forth throughout the house, and occasional summons for me to fetch and carry things.

I'm checking in at hour: 2
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The Menu: just a glass of water
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not so far.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None yet.

Hours 1-4: I'd like to finish the book I'm currently reading. I don't know how feasible that will be, as, like Darryl, I will be watching the Final Four and getting ready to go out at 9 with some friends.

Currently Reading: Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding

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I would be lost if it wasn't for the glossary in the back. Of course, a dictionary wouldn't help me become un-confused.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

To get at least halfway through the 800 pages book of The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. It's taking me a long time to get warmed up to it.

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The Menu: Water and a Haagen Daz chocolate ice cream bar which will probably ruin my appetite for dinner

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None yet.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
1. Finish Lizard Music--Done!
2. Start one of my April TIOLI books--still trying to decide what to start.
3. Read the Murakami fiction story in the March 28th New Yorker

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Sorry, I'm not into memes...

Reading One Was a Soldier, an ARC of the new mystery of Julia Spencer-Fleming. Not sure what I'll move onto when I finish it (which will be soon...) Think I'm going to have a short nap, and maybe an idea will jump out at me in my dreams!!

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The Menu:
Nothing yet, but will have dinner any minute now
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Yes, actually, although it's not book-related. My roommate is making a variation of larb and since I am not yet familiar with Thai cuisine, I looked it up.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......
I am reading A Game of Thrones, perhaps, I could make it a goal to tear myself away from this book to read the one I started in February?... I am just not strong enough.

edited: I don't know what I did, but the entire message was in bold, had to change it

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The Menu: Nothing
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The Special: I need to make a list of these somewhere, so I might as well do it here as I go. So, excluding the multiplicity of footnotes referencing a plethora of academic works that I didn't bother to look up because I shall have to come back to this chapter in more detail later anyway ...
Adamnán's Life of Columba (which I'll be reading within the next couple of weeks), Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (ditto but re-reading) and Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks (which I probably shan't be re-reading, but in which I shall almost certainly be looking up some references.)

Another page or so of this to take me to a logical stopping point, then over to something frivolous yet to be decided upon, details of which will be revealed tomorrow.

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Books read since last post: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
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Pages read since last post: 21
Total pages read: 35

The Menu:
Freshly pressed decaf coffee (Trader Joe's Breakfast Blend), banana

Did you have to look up any new words?
Again - Nope.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
"Jewish books", haggadah, Talmud

What are your reading goals?
Simply to have fun!

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The Menu. Lean Cuisine Market Creations Mushroom Tortelloni
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Yes: fatuous.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! ETA: Never mind; it was an opera rather than a book.

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack....... I want to finish *Cheese* by Willem Elsschot and finish *Baa Baa, Black Sheep*, a Penguin 60 containing two stories by Rudyard Kipling.

What a fascinating thread! Mention of a piece by Murakami in The New Yorker; kidzdoc's 42-inch Sharp HDTV -- y'all are giving me vicarious pleasure.

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The Menu: I ate half of my seven layer salad for dinner, and I'm sipping some Cabernet Sauvignon at the moment
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.

The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books! No books yet.

The Butler-VCU just went to halftime; Butler leads 34-28, after trailing most of the first half.

>77 SqueakyChu: i liked that book a lot.

As your host I am reading everyone's posts, but I won't be able to comment on every single one, but for that reason I won't be listing how much time I spend posting.

I'm checking in at hour: 2
Pages read: 13
Reading time: 15 min maybe

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 13
Total time read : 20 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. Earl Grey Tea
Vocabulary Did you have to look up any new words? This falls under the category of looking up a word you usually sort of skim over..... I was reading a New Yorker article about a virus researcher, Nathan Wolfe and decided I really had no idea what a retrovirus is. I didn't. I still don't really, but I have a better idea.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None so far.

I'm checking in at hour: 2
Pages read: 0
Reading time: 0
Posting time: 5 minutes (skimmed all other posts)

Overall stats: 0
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 0
Total time read: 0
Total time posting: 5

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu:
I'm finishing up the plate of chicken teriyaki I ordered for my kidd-o before he started to meltdown and turn dinner out into an unmitigated disaster.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Not yet.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......
I would like to finish Hoot by the end of the readathon. I'm pretty sure I'll be to do that. I would also like to catch up on my Sports Illustrated reading. I'm worried that I will be side-tracked by the new video I purchased for my 360 though.

I'm checking in at hour: 2 (7:00pm EDT)
Pages read: 60
Reading time: 45
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 60
Total time read: 45
Total time posting: 10 minutes

The Menu: cheddar cheese (failed in my search for crackers)
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Great Gatsby (also two movies: Grease and The Terminator)

Currently Reading: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

About to break for dinner.

I'm checking in at hour: 2
Pages read: 128
Reading time: About 1.5 hours
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 140
Total time read : 1.75 hours

The Menu. Just some water.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? None so far.

The Special: None so far.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
To make significant progress in Summers at Castle Auburn. Currently on page 406 of 612.

I'm checking in at hours: 1 & 2 (5pm to 7pm)
Pages read: 13
Books read since last post: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 13

The Menu:
Homemade Beef Vegetable Soup

Did you have to look up any new words?
Yes, inaccrochable (word coined by Gertrude Stein meaning an inaccrochable piece of writing is “like a picture that a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either.” )

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson
The Lodger by Belloc Lowndes
Sons and Lovers, The White Peacock and Women in Love all by D H Lawrence
The Making of America by Gertrude Stein
(I have only heard of the books by Lawrence)

What are your reading goals?
I would like to finish this book and Maus II. Anything else would be a big bonus.

I prefer to check in every two hours as one hour seems to go by so quickly.

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of hour 3
Pages read: 92
Reading time: 40 minutes
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 92
Total time read: 40 min
Total time posting: 5 min

The Menu - chicken taquitos
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
ofellae - marinated pork, Roman street food

The Special - Keep track of books mentioned in your books:

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Nothing particular, just reading Cleopatra's Daughter.

I'm checking in at hour: 3

Books read since last post: Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath. I read the short story called "Mamilion". It was great!

Total books read: 0
Pages read since last post: 18
Total pages read: 53

The Menu:
Two flour tortillas enclosing hot melted Mexican "four-cheeses"

Did you have to look up any new words?
Once again - Nope.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
none since last post

What are your reading goals?
To Enjoy a variety of books. I've been reading short excerpts from all of my current reads.

Comments: That's it for now. I'm off to the movies and not sure if I'll have any reading time tomorrow. Have fun, all!

I'm checking in at hours: Near the end of hour 3 - I came downstairs about 10.30 pm but didn't read much for the first hour
Pages read: 61
Books read from since start of Readathon: 5 - mostly Lyrics Alley, The Portrait of a Lady and Telling Tales.

Current reading pile: 8 books - I don't expect to finish any more or start any new ones as I finished The Water Room before the start of the Readathon and started Lyrics Alley since it began.

Louisa Young, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
K M Peyton, Flambards
Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Eliza Graham, Playing With the Moon

Lauren Liebenberg, The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club
Leila Abouleila, Lyrics Alley
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Nadine Gordimer, Telling Tales

Total books read: 5
Total pages read: 61

The Menu: Nothing yet, am about to have a snack now

Did you have to look up any new words?
I'm too lazy to keep track of words

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:

Some of the characters in my books don't do much reading - Soraya in Lyrics Alley (set in 1950s Sudan) loves to read but it's frowned on by people around her, and it's hard getting hold of books - a brother brings her some Arabic and English novels and reads Shakespeare which he is studying at school to her, no specific titles mentioned.

In Flambards the books mentioned so far are about hunting and horse riding.

What are your reading goals?
To enjoy myself and to write a book review

I'm checking in at hour: 3 (8 pm EST)
Pages read: 4 (pp 159-162 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 10 min
Posting time: 0 hr 5 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 28
Total time read: 0 hr 50 min
Total time posting: 0 hr 35 min

The Menu: Cabernet Sauvignon, pomegranate Greek yogurt
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books! No books yet.

I found an even bigger distraction to the Final Four on TV. MLB Extra Innings is having a free preview this weekend, and one of the games being shown is the Phillies' game against the Houston Astros; the Phils lead 2-1 in the bottom of the 4th. Let's see...Butler leads VCU 58-52, with just over 5 minutes left in the second half.

I'm checking in at hour: 3
Pages read: 41

stats:
Total books read: 0 (Working on Angel with Two Faces by Nicola Upson.)
Total pages read: 78

The Menu: Cookie dough twisted frosty from Wendys
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
Richard of Bordeaux
The Man in the Queue
The Tempest
prayer book (I assume it's the Book of Common Prayer)
New since last checkin: A Midsummer Night's Dream

My father's new computer is still creating some distraction. It was supposed to come with a manual, but there wasn't one in the box. That wouldn't be a huge problem except that none of us can find a power switch on the thing. We're not computer novices, either. My father has owned a personal computer since they first hit the stores in the 1970s, and he taught computer courses at the college level. This has us all stumped!

I'm checking in at hour: 3
Books Read Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers by John Elder Robison
Pages read: 100
Reading time: 90 min
Posting time: 15 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 160
Total time read: 2hr 20 min
Total time posting: 35 min

The Menu. peanutbutter and jelly on multigrain toast, french roast coffee with milk
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? not yet

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! none

I'm checking in at hour: 3
Pages read: 67
Reading time: 1 hour
Posting time: 2 min.

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 67
Total time read: 1 hour
Total time posting: 7 min.

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu:
Nothing new.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Nope.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......
Still have the same goal as before. I will need another book though, so I would like to start either The Imperfectionists for book club or H.M.S. Surprise for the Group Read.

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of 3rd hour
Time since last post: 2 hours
Pages read since last post: 63 (21 from Finding Nouf and 42 from Bud, Not Buddy)
Books read since last post: Reading Finding Nouf and Bud, Not Buddy

Total pages read: 81

The Menu:
Barbecued Meatballs with rice

Did you have to look up any new words? No

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
Tales of Brer Rabbit (Bud, Not Buddy)

What are your reading goals?
None really, just read when I can.

I'm checking in at hour: 3 1/2
Pages read: 29
Reading time: 45 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Finished w/the Dec 20&27 NYer! Yay!
Total pages read: 42
Total time reading : 1 hr 10 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. bacon, tomato quiche (warming in oven) spinach salad with shredded carrot and almond slices.....
Vocabularynot this time

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None so far.

> 84, 85 Absolutely fabulous words!!!!!!!! I love them both.

>88 kidzdoc: Love that menu. Go Phils!

I'm checking in at hour: 3 (although I'm a little late because of basketball game)
Pages read: approximately 65
Reading time: 2 hours (I'm using a stopwatch so I don't have to keep looking at the clock).

The Menu: Cheeseburger and Diet Root Beer. I'll have my Angel Food Cake when I resume reading.
Vocabulary: Nothing new so far; but I did check a few Civil War facts online.
The Special: I love this idea, although I don't think they had much time for reading anything except the Bible during the Civil War.

Currently reading: Gods and Generals

Comments: I plan to switch books and read for a few more hours. I'll come back and post a little about Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure before I sign off for the evening.

I'm checking in at hour: 4
Books Read Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers by John Elder Robison
Pages read: 35
Reading time: 30 min
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 195
Total time read: 2hr 50 min
Total time posting: 45 min

The Menu. nothing
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? not yet
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! none

I'm off to a Little League baseball game, it's only 6pm here in PDT. I'll read more when I get back.

Glad to see all the readathon participants making such great progress. Keep it up!!!

I'm checking in at hour: 4
Pages read: 38
Reading time: About .75 hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 178
Total time read : 2.5 hours

The Menu. Some apple slices, a raspberry yogurt, and a summer strawberry fruit leather.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Yes:
sally - A sudden charge out of a beseiged place against an enemy.
sennight - Old English for a week.

The Special: None so far.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
To make significant progress in Summers at Castle Auburn. Currently on page 444 of 612.

I probably won't get too much more in tonight as the UCONN game is about to start!

I'm checking in at hour: 4 (9 pm EST)
Pages read: 15 (pp 163-177 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 20 min
Posting time: 0 hr 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 28
Total time read: 1 hr 10 min
Total time posting: 0 hr 45 min

The Menu: I'm brewing more coffee at the moment.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

The Centurions by Jean Larteguy
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren

Butler beat VCU 70-62, to advance to the national championship game against the winner of Kentucjy-UConn, which is just getting started. The Phillies lead the Astros 7-3 in the bottom of the 7th; Cliff Lee of the Phillies has struck out 11 Astros so far.

Lucy, your dinner sounds great!

I'm checking in at hour: 4 (7:15 pm MDT)
Pages read: 6
Reading time: 20 minutes
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read/finished: 1
Total pages read: 36
Total time read: 40 minutes
Total time posting: 10 minutes

The Menu: Pasta with chicken and mushrooms in marinara sauce

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None yet.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
1. Finish Lizard Music--Done!
2. Start one of my April TIOLI books--still trying to decide what to start.
3. Read the Murakami fiction story in the March 28th New Yorker--Done! This was mostly a story about emptiness with the 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake as a backdrop. I liked it but didn't love it.

I'm checking in at hour: hour 1 for me, hour 3-4 for the readathon
Pages read: 68
Reading time: 45 mins
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 68
Total time read: 45 mins
Total time posting: 5 mins

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu: nothing
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? nope

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Ivanhoe

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? to finish Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare and continue The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

Checking in
I'm checking in at hour: End of Hour 4
Pages read: 75.
Reading time: 2 hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats
Total books read: 22 scholarship applications and The Impressionist
Total pages read: 110.
Total time read: 3 hours
Total time posting: 35 minutes

Memes for every time you check in
The Menu. I went to Starbuck's to read for awhile as it's so easy to get distracted at home. Had a venti Cocoa Cappucino while there.

Vocabulary: Since I'm teaching this book, I write any unfamiliar words at the bottom of the page and then make a study sheet for my students--which means I haven't looked these up yet but will when I'm done reading the assignment for Tuesday:
leptorrhine
mesosemic
orthognathic
goondah
swaraj
puggaree
gharry
chotapeg

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Indigenous Races of the Earth
The Aeneid
Corinthians
Marie Corelli novels (no titles given)
(Touchstones not cooperating.)

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals?
My first goal was to finish reading and ranking the scholarship applications: DONE!
I am going to keep reading in The Impressionist for awhile. When I get too tired to concentrate, I'll move on to grading freshmen annotated bibliographies.

I'm checking in at hour: 4
Pages read: 16 from The Innocence of Father Brown

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 94

The Menu: Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and honey; hot tea with milk.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
Richard of Bordeaux
The Man in the Queue
The Tempest
prayer book (I assume it's the Book of Common Prayer)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
New since last update:
Coincidentally, prayer books are also mentioned in the story I read from The Innocence of Father Brown

Latest update on my father's computer: He discovered that what looks like a decorative thin chrome strip across the front of the computer is actually the power button. He had to use a screwdriver to make it work. I think this one will be going back to the store and he'll be getting a different model.

I'm checking in at hour: 4 1/2
Pages read: 16
Reading time: 20 min maybe

Overall stats:
Total books read: Dec 20&27 NYer
Total pages read: 58
Total time read : 1 hr 40 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. a second helping of quiche, a small piece of persian baclava, water
Vocabulary Did you have to look up any new words? Nope
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
In Baron Wormser's The Road Washes Out in Spring, in only 16 pages he mentions the NYT, Dylan's poem 'The Tambourine Man', quotes from Lear, puts in a whole poem of Keats "When I have Fears", Dickinson and Helen and Scott Nearing Living the Good Life.

> 95 Hope the game is fun!
> UConn and Phils watchers enjoy!
>100 Alleycatfish: Which book had the Ivanhoe mention?
>101 Cariola: ! Only one looks even vaguely familiar, 'gharry'. I don't know what it means though!
>102 cbl_tn: Great enjoying the computer saga! And I think that is the second mention of a mention of the Book of Common Prayer in a book.....

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Checking in: 10:00 PM EDT
I'm checking in at hour: 5
Pages read: 26
Reading time: 2 hrs.
Posting time: 15 min.

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 46
Total time read: 3.25 hrs.
Total time posting: 18 min.

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu: YoCrunch blueberry parfait; Plantation Mint tea
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Yes: patent store and patent box, but didn't find out anything about them. I know several definitions of "patent", but none fit with the context in the book. I think I'm going to have to look up "Flemish" to make sure I know exactly what it means (I think Belgian).

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Nothing else.

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library I'd love to have an Eames chair and ottoman at the top of a lighthouse with a gorgeous Fresnel lens above. The books -- no more than a dozen at a time -- would be spread out artistically on a big mid-century freeform coffee table. (I'm not a fan of tall wall-to-wall shelves full of books. Thought I wanted this in my 20's and once I achieved it, I hated it!)

I'm checking in at hour: 5
Pages read: 10
Reading time: 20 min.
Posting time: 5 min.

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 77
Total time read: 1 hr. 20 min.
Total time posting: 13 min.

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu:

Water

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Nope

Comment: Just got back from picking the wife up at the airport. I'm headed to bed very shortly. It has been a long day! Hopefully, I will pick up more tomorrow. I would like to finish Hoot before I fall asleep, but I think that will be a stretch.

I'm checking in at hour: 5
Pages read: 20
Reading time: 40min
Posting time: 10min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 32
Total time read: 1h
Total time posting: 40min

The Menu: Larb, rice, green papaya salad, egg roll for dinner, water and oolong tea since then.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Nothing yet

Didn't get back to reading until after 9pm. Our roommate Jill made delicious Asian meal, we all (all three of us) had dinner and then took dogs for a walk for about an hour. Planning on spending next couple of hours reading. I hope everyone is having a good day!

Hi! Lots of great reading getting done! I will check back in around 10 pm. Got to put kids to bed so the real reading can start.

I'm checking in at the beginning of the 5th hour
Time since last post: 2 hours
Pages read since last post: 39 pages
Books read since last post: Reading Finding Nouf

Total pages read: 120

The Menu:
Just water.

Did you have to look up any new words? No. There are several unfamiliar Arabic words in Finding Nouf, but they have all been explained in the text.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
The Koran again, and the television show Colombo.

Comments: Some beautiful writing in Finding Nouf. The story is developing rather slowly, but I am enjoying the journey. Prescription drugs for a sinus infection are making it hard for me to concentrate for longer periods of time, so I am taking many short breaks.

I'm checking in at hours: 3 & 4 (7pm to 9pm)
Pages read: 14
Books read since last post: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 27

The Menu:
A glass of chocolate milk

Did you have to look up any new words?
No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
None

What are your reading goals?
I would like to finish this book and Maus II. Anything else would be a big bonus.

I'm posting my 2 hour update a little late because my hubsters was monopolizing the computer and then I dozed off.
I'll try to read til about midnight but probably won't post again tonight.
Good luck night owls!

Cariola--That's quite of list of new words! Let us know what they mean when you look them up :)

Hour 5

Book read August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Time read: 1 hour 20 minutes
Pages read: 48
New vocabulary: "uhlans": Polish light cavalry
No books mentioned

Quote: "We may feel pity for the novice soldier when, caught in the evil toils of war, he first faces bullets and shellfire; but the novice general, however dazed and nauseated he may have been by the fighting, we can neither pity nor excuse."

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of hour 5
Pages read: 67
Reading time: 45 minutes
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 161
Total time read: 2 hours 5 mins
Total time posting: 10 mins

Have finished One Was a Soldier and dipped into The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. I don't think I'll keep reading that continually until I'm done but probably dip into some other stuff as well. I just got an ARC of Erik Larson's new book, In the Garden of Beasts, and that is calling to me. (Sigh, yet again no touchstone!!) And I should try to start reading at least one of the NetGalley books I've been stockpiling in case of the book famine's striking imminently. Plus, The Killer of Little Shepherds is due back at the library on Monday...

I'm checking in at hour: close to hour 6 (only hour 2-3 for me)
Pages read: 89
Reading time: 58 mins
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 (finished Clockwork Angel and started The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Total pages read: 157
Total time read: 1:43
Total time posting: 10 mins

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu: 1 whole grain eggo waffle with a bit of butter and honey
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? nope

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Ivanhoe and A Tale of Two Cities were mentioned in Clockwork Angel. None have been mentioned so far in Spring Heeled Jack.

Done for tonight. Eyes are starting to get heavy. I'll join back in tomorrow. Hopefully I can find the time.

I totally forgot to post the 4th hour meme I promised, and I am also going to post the memes for hours 8 and 12......!

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?) I'd like a room all bookshelves with one of those ladders on a brass rail..... bay window with a big well-cushioned window-seat looking out over a pleasant, but not too dramatic landscape, and a beverage dispenser like in Star Trek. So all I have to say Earl Gray Hot! or Ginger cookie! et Voila!
Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings? I named my first dog Periwinkle from a pony in an Elizabeth Goudge novel The Little White Horse a book that obsessed me for a year or two or three in my pre-teen years.
Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... I'll answer this one tomorrow. I'm putting it in for the UKers!

And here's what I've been up to:

I'm checking in at hour: 6
Pages read: 20
Reading time: 30 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Dec 20&27 NYer
Total pages read: 78
Total time read : 2 hr 10 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. just water
Vocabulary Did you have to look up any new words? Nope
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
In Baron Wormser's The Road Washes Out in Spring Lots of thoughts about contemporary Polish poets: Milosz, Herbert, Szymboska, a mention of Dickens, and the Bible. (Wormser is a poet, former Maine State Poet).

Mmmmmmm chocolate milk, Deborah.

I'm off to bed now -- so as Lynda says, good reading all you night owls.

Oh and sweet dreams!

I've barely started - though not for trying. My dogs are demanding my attention and kept interrupting me.
I've given in and will take them out to run around for a while then I get to read.
So after 1 constantly interrupted hour - a measly 24 pages.

I'm checking in at hour: 1, sort of.
23
Pages read: 24
260
Reading time: 10- 11 pm
Not sure, a few hours.
Posting time: 11:15 pm
4:20 pm
Overall stats:
Total books read: NA
1 Book- The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
Total pages read: 24
260
Total time read: ??
Total time posting: 10 min
25 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. - Take out chicken fried rice
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
Tons of Books mention. Setting is a bookstore. Also, each of 21 chapters starts with a quote from a book or a short story.

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

Beginning Book 1 in the Haunted Bookshop series. I've wanted to check out the series for a while.

Back from the dog walk, pouring a little Pinot Grigio and determined to put a dent in my reading goals. It's now 12:30 am Connecticut time....I'll see how long I can stay awake!
Maddie

I'm checking in at hour: 6
Books Read: 0 completed; currently reading Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: True Story of a Great American Road Trip
Pages read: 85
Reading time: 2hrs., 2 min.
Posting time: 10 min.

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0 - but I'm almost finished with one of my books.
Total pages read: 150
Total time read: 4 hr., 2 min.
Total time posting: 25 min

The Menu: Water
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Yes! "Exegetical" means having to do with explanations, interpretation, or exposition.
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Not surprisingly in a book about Harry Truman, the books cited were:
A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter; The Challenge to Liberty by Herbert Hoover. I also learned that Harry Truman was the first ex-President to hold a book signing.

I'll be back with you guys after early church tomorrow. Carry on!

I'm checking in at hour: 6
Pages read: 25
Reading time: 90 minutes
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 (Woman on the Edge of Time)
Total naps taken: ? 2? 3?
Total pages read: 25
Total time read: 40?
Total time posting: 5 mins

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu: meatloaf sandwich, raw broccoli with ranch dressing, glass of milk
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? no, but I should have hunted up a Spanish dictionary to look up a number of them And I did have to look up "larb," Elena.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None so far. A couple of newspapers though, but I guess they don't count.

I'm giving it up.... Maybe I can do better tomorrow afternoon.

Just over 6 hours in, and I'm on my way to bed.

Have read another 56 pages, from the top 4 books in my pile - by Louisa Young, K M Peyton, Muriel Spark and Eliza Graham.

Total 117 pages so far

More importantly, have managed to write my review and will reread and submit it when I get up.

Menu: a bag of hula hoops (crisps), some chocolate caramel squares (small cakes) and several cups of tea

The only book mentioned was another horsey reference book - the tyrannical Russell wants his anti-horse son to read and memorise the contents of all these books on pain of beating. I'd forgotten so much of this book - I think my strongest memories are from The Edge of the Cloud (no 2 in series).

I'm checking in at the midway point of the 6th hour.
Time since last post: 1.5 hours
Pages read since last post: 40 pages
Books read since last post: Reading Bud, Not Buddy

Total pages read: 160

The Menu:
Just water.

Did you have to look up any new words? No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
No

Comments: I am getting tired, so I am going to bed now. I'll be back in the morning.

Since I wasn't able to check in before going to my party I am checking in now that I am home. So this is for my first 2 hours of reading. I only read for the second hour because I wound up with some unexpected company.

Checking in:
I'm checking in at hour: 2
Pages read: 19
Reading time: 45 min.
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 19
Total time read: 45 min.
Total time posting: 10 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. The menu for the party was roast beef, baked ziti, meat balls, wings, string beans, potatoes, mac and cheese, veggies and a variety of deserts. I even got to bring home some extra baked ziti so that I can have some during the read a thon tomorrow.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Not yet.

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Well since this is my 2nd hour post my goals are to just relax and read. Maybe read a few pages before going to bed.

It is almost midnight here and I am tired so I will be heading to bed soon. I just need to get the puppy back into her cage so she will go back to sleep. She was in there since I had left for the party and I feel so bad about it.

I will answer the other memes sometime tomorrow.

Happy Reading All!!!

Hour 7

Continuing to read August 1914
Time read: 2 hours
Pages read: 54

Total time read: 3 hours 20 minutes
Total pages read: 102

Vocabulary:

revanche: 1. the act of retaliating; 2. an unusually political policy

stook: a rounded arrangement of freshly cut grain

I'm checking in at hour: 7
Pages read: Still on the Kindle, so 12% more of current book
Reading time: 1 hour, 4 min
Posting time: 20 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: N/A (39% of book on Kindle)
Total time read: 2 hr, 12 min
Total time posting: 33 min

The Menu: had chicken and broccoli alfredo for dinner, and then a beer when I went out with friends (Ithaca Apricot Wheat), plus several glasses of water and some mini Reeses peanut butter cups.
Vocabulary: principate

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Still none.

Hours 5-8: (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library pretty much exactly like library in Beauty and the Beast

Currently Reading: still working on Methland

Should get a couple hours of reading in before I fall to sleep... Very happy UConn won. :)

I'm checking in at hour: 7 (12:00 midnight EDT)
Pages read: 25 p of Farmer Boy read aloud, 45 min audio Return of the Native
Reading time: 75
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 85 + 45 min audio
Total time read: 120
Total time posting: 15 minutes

The Menu: chicken katsu, rice, stir-fried snap peas, wine
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
(This will be a running tally to avoid retyping) The Great Gatsby

Currently Reading: Not much reading since last post because of dinner and family stuff. I'm about to hunker down until I can't keep my eyes open.

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library Floor to ceiling bookcases, maybe in an octagonal shaped room, a rug on the floor, with a comfy chair, a good light, and at least one window with a window seat and lovely view. Oh, and a lock on the door to keep out disturbers.

Never mind about the reading. My husband wanted to watch a movie. Hopefully I'll do better tomorrow.

I'm checking in at hour: 11:26 pm MDT
Pages read: 60
Reading time: 1 hour
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 152
Total time read: 100 minutes
Total time posting: 10 min

The Menu - H2O
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
no

The Special - Keep track of books mentioned in your books:

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Nothing particular, just reading Cleopatra's Daughter.
Describe your perfect library: Like the one in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Ladders, cozy chairs, floor to ceiling books...no Beasts.

I'm checking in at hour: 8, I think
Pages read: 168
Reading time: About 2 hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
Total pages read: 346
Total time read : 4.5 hours

The Menu. Just water.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Yes:
sally - A sudden charge out of a beseiged place against an enemy.
sennight - Old English for 'a week'.

The Special: None.

Hour 8

Reading time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Pages read: 60

Total reading time: 4 hour 50 minutes
Total pages read: 162 pp

I'm checking in at hour: 9 (2:00 am EDT)
Pages read: 83
Reading time: 100 min
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 168 + 45 min audio
Total time read: 220
Total time posting: 20 minutes

The Menu: nothing
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
(This will be a running tally to avoid retyping) The Great Gatsby, Pablo Neruda, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Currently Reading: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (finished), "An Evening Out" (short story by William Trevor), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Night all!

I'm checking in at hour: 12:24 am MDT
Pages read: 59
Reading time: 1 hour
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 Cleopatra's Daughter
Total pages read: 211
Total time read: 150 minutes
Total time posting: 12 min
1 hat 95% knit

The Menu - H2O
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
ofella - one definition (posted earlier) was a marinated pork dish. the definition in the glossary of the book was a type of pizza without tomatoes ??

The Special - The Odyssey as well as mention of Ovid, Virgil, Horace and other ancients.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Nothing particular, just reading Cleopatra's Daughter.
Describe your perfect library: Like the one in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Ladders, cozy chairs, floor to ceiling books...no Beasts.

Night!

Checking in
I'm checking in at hour: Hour 9
Pages read: 42.
Reading time: 50 minutes hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats
Total books read: 22 scholarship applications and The Impressionist
Total pages read: 152.
Total time read: 3 hours 50 minutes
Total time posting: 55 minutes

Memes for every time you check in
The Menu. Had a late dinner: haddock, baked potato, and mixed greens salad.

Vocabulary: Nothing new.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Indigenous Races of the Earth
The Aeneid
Corinthians
Marie Corelli novels (no titles given)
(Touchstones not cooperating.)
Nothing new for this stretch

Hours 5-8: Describe your perfect library.
Mine sounds a lot like Lucy's: large bay window with seat, but it's also built into a little closeted area with a small drop-top desk for writing. The view from the window is a private park, lots of green lawn and trees laid out very geometrically in the English garden style. Dark wood interiors, green library lamps, floor-to-ceiling shelves.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings?
My cat is named Rafe, which is often the name of a scampy boy character in Early Modern plays (The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Shoemakers' Holiday and others). I used to have various cats named Miranda (The Tempest, Emma (Jane Austen, of course), Mavis (from a Wharton novel, though I can't recall which one now), Carrie (for Dreiser's Sister Carrie), Emily (Bronte), and Flora (which we adapted from Fleur Forsyte).

I took some time out to answer emails, wash up the kitchen, and watch 'The Fighter' on DVD. Time for bed!

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of hour 10
Pages read: 142
Reading time: 2 1/2 hours
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 303
Total time read: 4 hours 35 mins
Total time posting: 15 mins

Still reading The 19th Wife. Stopped for a (late) supper of sashimi & rice, had a shower, worked for a little while, then got back to reading. Blame it on the nap, but I'm not sleepy and so will probably keep reading for a few more hours. I'm getting into the book, though I admit I also keep wondering if the Salt Lake City library system has it on their shelves!

Overall stats:I'm home from the Little League game, my grandson's team won, Yea!

Books Read:2 Woman on the Edge of Time and listened to Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Books Completed: 0
Pages read: 4 + 6/14 CD
Reading time: 40 min
Posting time: 30 min

Total books read: 3 Woman on the Edge of Time and listened to Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &
Total Books Completed:0
Total pages read: 199 + 6/14 of a CE

Total time read: 3 hr 30 min
Total time posting: 1 hr 15

The Menu. Yum, bruschetta, minestrone, shrimp primavera (alas no wine, I was driving) (double alas, I spilled the leftovers all over my garage floor. Sad for me, my dogs were ecstatic}
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? not yet
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! if I can remember - Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night, The History of Lynching in the Southern US, Journals, Hemingway. No touchstones, do you think she just makes up her footnotes? Hmm. Such a deceptive book, very Christopher McQuarrie

Hours 5-8: Describe your perfect library in a room with a glass wall facing the ocean

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? My little dachshund mix is Amelia after Amelia Broadway, the witch in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of hour 11
Pages read: 45
Reading time: 40 mins
Posting time: 20 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 348
Total time read: 5 hours 15 mins
Total time posting: 35 mins

Checking in hour 11
Overall stats:
Books Read:1 Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers

Books Completed: 1
Pages read: 64
Reading time: 1 hr
Posting time: 10 min

Total books read: 3 Woman on the Edge of Time and listened to Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers
Total Books Completed:1
Total pages read: 263 + 6/14 of a CD

Total time read: 4 hr 30 min
Total time posting: 1 hr 25

The Menu. Nothing
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? not yet
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! if I can remember - Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night, The History of Lynching in the Southern US, Journals, Hemingway. No touchstones, do you think she just makes up her footnotes? Hmm. Such a deceptive book, very Christopher McQuarrie
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM IV

Hours 5-8: Describe your perfect library in a room with a glass wall facing the ocean

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? My little dachshund mix is Amelia after Amelia Broadway, the witch in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Off to bed. I really enjoyed reading this book about Asperger's, it's an excellent guide for anyone who has or loves someone who has the condition.

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of hour 12
Pages read: 70
Reading time: 55 mins
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 418
Total time read: 6 hours 10 mins
Total time posting: 40 mins

Still reading The 19th Wife.

I'm checking in at hours: 5 thru 13 (9pm to 6am)
Pages read: 9
Books read since last post: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 36
The Menu:
A glass of water and Aleve
Did you have to look up any new words?
No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
None

What are your reading goals?
I would like to finish this book and Maus II. Anything else would be a big bonus.

I'm awake and checking in but going back upstairs to read abit.

I didn't get any reading done yesterday as I was madly shelving, but I thought I would stop in and cheer on everyone reading this morning!

I'm checking in at hour: 5-14 (7 am EST)
Pages read: 0 (still on page 178 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 0 min!
Posting time: 0 hr 20 min (plus a couple of hours spent drooling at my new HDTV)

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 28 (sheesh)
Total time read: 1 hr 10 min
Total time posting: 0 hr 45 min

The Menu: I woke up just before 7 am, so I'll make breakfast shortly.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow

Apologies in advance, especially to the snowbound New Englanders. It's 42 degrees at the moment, and it will be a sunny day with a high of 76 degrees. The dogwoods, cherry trees, etc. now have young leaves, as they were in full bloom a couple of weeks ago. The downside: the pollen count is still high.

I'm ready to jump back into A Savage War of Peace, after a lousy reading day yesterday followed by a very good night of sleep. Onward!

I'm checking in at hour: 15 (8 am EST)
Pages read: 10 (pp 178-187 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 15 min
Posting time: 0 hr 25 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 38
Total time read: 1 hr 25 min
Total time posting: 1 hr 10 min

The Menu: Einstein Bros. power bagel w/ peanut butter, coffee.Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren

A Savage War of Peace continues to be excellent. I'll probably continue to read this today, as I'd like to finish it by Tuesday.

Hello all, I've been busy up till now but finally have a chance to check in:

Checking in: at 13.08 UK time
I'm checking in at hour: 15
Pages read: 0 so far - just starting
Reading time: 0 so far
Posting time: 10 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 0
Total time read: 0
Total time posting: 10

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. Gin and tonic, waiting for lunch to heat up in the oven
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet, only just started.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None yet

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow Sun and April showers. Blossom on the trees, daffodils and even tulips now out in the garden. Posies of flowers given out at church to everyone for Mothering Sunday (not just to mothers, we try to be inclusive!). Spring Fair also, with - among other things - homemade cakes, and knitted egg cosies for sale - will try to post a photo later!

Planning to finish reading Pride and Prejudice this afternoon, in between eating lunch, and taking junior confirmation class later on.

I'm checking in at hour: 16 (9 am EST)
Pages read: 10 (pp 188-207 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 30 min
Posting time: 0 hr 15 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 58
Total time read: 1 hr 55 min
Total time posting: 1 hr 25 min

The Menu: Nothing new.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.

I'm checking in at hour: 9:16 AM EDT (hour 16)
Pages read: 0
Reading time: 0
Posting time: 0

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 0
Total time read: 0
Total time posting: 0

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. About to eat breakfast (cereal) and start reading with a cup of tea by my side.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

I'll offer a new meme every four hours.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

My goals are to spend about 2-3 hours reading this morning, probably a mix of the two books I'm reading: Gulag and Soul and Other Stories. I will probably concentrate on Gulag because I'd like to make a dent in it, and it's too big to be a subway read. This is my first ever readathon!

I'm checking in at hour: 16 and a bit (2pm BST)

The only reading I've done so far today is the Gospel lesson at church, so I'm really just catching up on last night.

I've been reading: Christianity in Roman Britain and The Brontes went to Woolworths.

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 46
Total time read: 108 minutes (most of the time I've either been asleep or at church)
Total time posting: 30 minutes

The Menu: breakfast was toast, apple juice and coffee; just finished roast chicken followed by chocolate mousse
Vocabulary: Nothing new so far

The Special: Books mentioned in your books:
Adamnán's Life of Columba
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks
Wuthering Heights
The Wind in the Willows
Jane Eyre
The Martian and Peter Ibbotson by George du Maurier
My Two Kings by Mrs Evan Nepean
A Warning to the Curious

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?) Lots of wood and leather like an old Gentleman's club. A big wooden desk, and a proper library ladder.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings? Nope. :)

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... Clouds. Lots of clouds in ninety-seven shades of grey. The occasional peek of blue sky, and no rain (yet). Occasional sunshine It's reasonably warm (14C/57F) and most of the trees around here are starting to put out leaf buds. There are a few daffodils and tulips, and lots of Magnolias in gardens.

I'm up -- at some point early this morning I woke up and thought.... maybe I should go lookit LT....zzzzz. Anyhow, bacon is cooked, pets are fed, I did my tai chi, so all is copacetic.

I snorted and sighed and laughed over various entries (>129 Chatterbox: for one, the addition of napping, Peggy! Good idea!) and I admit Genny I'm not so awake that I didn't have a double take when I saw the G&T - I thought, 'Well that's getting an early start' and then I looked to see who wrote it -- You, in a whole 'nother time zone!!!!!!

Everyone seems to have a similar idea of what a perfect library should look and feel like. I love the idea of the desk you can pull down when you need it and the LOCKED door!

I'm checking in at hour: 16 (already)
Pages read: 12 in 8 hours, not so good! (in Helliconia Summer)
Reading time: 20 min maybe before zzzzz

Overall stats:
Total books read: Dec 20&27 NYer,
Total pages read: 70
Total time read :2 hrs

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. strong tea w/milk
Vocabulary Did you have to look up any new words? loess (I sort of knew, just wanted to check....), coign
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Books from another planet! The Testament of RayniLayan, Seer's and Deuteroscopist's Calendrical Tables

Meme 4 What's going on outside? It's gorgeous out! Haven't checked the forecast but we're not too far behind you Darryl -- it was already 38 at 8:30! Maybe we'll get some serious thawing of that tiresome white stuff today.

I'm checking in at hour: 16 (9:00 am EDT)
Pages read: 31
Reading time: 75 min
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 199 + 45 min audio
Total time read: 295
Total time posting: 25 minutes

The Menu: coffee
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
(This will be a running tally to avoid retyping)
The Great Gatsby
Pablo Neruda
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
authors Somerset Maugham and Maupassant
Ten Thousand Literary Quotations Drawn From the Hundred Best Writers in the World (not a real book I suspect)

Currently Reading: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow
Spring sunshine and blue skies, blossoming trees and daffodils, birds. I can't tell whether it is cold today or not--it has been unusually cold this week despite the signs of spring.

I'm checking in at hour: 16
Pages read: 0
Reading time: 0 (I just got up and wanted to check-in)
Posting time: 10 minutes (had to catch up on everyone else!)

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0 (unless you count the 5 board books I've read to the kidd-o)
Total pages read: 77
Total time read: 1 hr. 20 min.
Total time posting: 33 minutes

The Menu: Just brewed a fresh pot of coffee! And having my first cup with farm fresh heavy cream!

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Nope.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None yet.

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?) The walls would be lined with floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves. There would be a sky light, and one wall with some really nice big windows. Carpeted. The wall with the windows would have all my baseball memoriabilia hung up. With big brown leather couches and reading chairs. There would be a corner of board books and cars for my kidd-o. And I like the idea of a coffee/tea station.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings? Our pets are not named after literary characters, but presidents and first wives. Our cats are named Abigail and Eleanor and our yellow lab is named Jefferson Quincy (we just call him Quincy).

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... It is a gorgeous sunny morning that appears to be a bit breezy. We're expecting a high in the 50's.

>140 rebeccanyc: Popping back to say, welcome Rebecca. They go by in a flash, is what I've noticed.
>141 Eat_Read_Knit: I loved The Brontes Went to Woolworths
>144 weejane: A great idea for pet names.

Also to add the good morning photo (usually takes me more than one try)



The 5th meme is:
Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?

I love that adorable pooch. When I saw his happy face just now the name Boswell came to mind. So for me he is Boswell.

I'm checking in at hours: 14 thru 16 (6am to 9am)
Pages read: 17
Books read since last post: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 53
The Menu:
Made breakfast for the masses which included juices, coffee, toast, blueberry pancakes, bacon and scrambled eggs.
Did you have to look up any new words?
No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
None

What are your reading goals?
I would like to finish this book and Maus II. Anything else would be a big bonus.

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... It is a chilly 35 degrees but a deceivingly sunny morning. Tulips and Hostas are popping through the soil. Some crocus are still hanging on. No leaves, no blossoms.

The 5th meme is:
Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? About two years before I joined LT, I had started journalizing my reads and taking notes.

I am just checking in with the memes. I haven't really gotten too much read last night or this morning. I hope to be able to get some reading done after I am finished posting this.

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?) My perfect library would have all the books grouped by author, then genre so that I could find all the books by one author together. Beautiful wood shelves and a nice ladder to be able to reach the ones on the highest shelves. I would also love to have a ceiling that was glass so that on a nice sunny day the library is bathed in the sunlight. And on the dreary days I would be able to close it with a nice decorative cover of some sorts. There would have to be a fire place so that on the winter days I could just curl up in front of the fire with my books. It would also be nice to have a nice bay window with a window seat.
Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings? I have never named my pets after a literary being. I once had a pet named Pebbles and it always made me think of the Flintstones baby girl.
Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... It is a beautiful spring day with a light breeze. Birds flying around. Dogs outside barking or just relaxing in the yards.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? No I never kept track of my reading before LT. I used to read books and hope that I would remember it. I usually never remembered reading the book until I started reading it again.

I'm checking in at hour: 17 (10 am EST)
Pages read: 14 (pp 208-221 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 20 min
Posting time: 0 hr 35 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 72
Total time read: 2 hr 15 min
Total time posting: 2 hr 0 min

The Menu: Nothing new.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Actually, I should have said that there are a number of French or Arabic words and phrases scattered throughout the book (e.g., fellagha, an Arab guerrilla). Many of the phrases in French are not defined in the book's glossary, and I haven't looked up anything in a dictionary.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?
Since 2000, the last year of my residency and the first year that I began to read a significant number of books for pleasure, I have kept track of the books I've read.

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Pages read: 0
Reading time: 0
Posting time: 0

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 79 Pages
Total time read: One Hour 1:00

Comment: Last night was really unforntunate. First, I decided to eat, so I ate, then it was almost church time, so I went there, then afterwards I read the new Reader's Digest, and then after that, I didn't have the ganas to read anymore. (Ganas means desire in Spanish, it's a class joke)

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?)

When I’m a multibillionaire, I’ll by millions of dollars worth of books, and I’m going to build a multimillion dollar house to put all my books in. It’ll be like Elenor in Inkheart only one thousand time better.

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow…

I’m not sure. I’m pretty oblivious to what’s outside.

Just catching up with everyone - I like to see what's on The Menu! I have done zero significat reading since my first post as I ended up being out much later than I expected last night and then crashed. This morning is taken up with house work and errands and then this afternoon I have to get some work done for work and go to a birthday party. So, in summary, this Read-a-thon was a bust for me :-( I hope next time I plan better...

Keep on truckin' everybody!

I'm checking in at hour: 18

Books read since last post:
There are No Accidents by Robert H. Hopke

Total books read: 0
Pages read since last post: 33
Total pages read: 86

The Menu:
French pressed coffee a colleague at work brought to me from Kenya!

Did you have to look up any new words?
I did not.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None since last post

What are your reading goals?
To continue my wildly eclectic reading throughout the day.

Describe your perfect library:
I have my perfect library in my house. Quite disorderly, with books in different rooms, and always having books coming from and going to various places.

What's going on outside in your neck of the woods?
Sunshiney day, blue sky, a daffodil is trying very hard to bloom...

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?
Oh, my! Before the internet as in its current incarnation, the Washington, DC, area had a computer network called CapAccess. Naturally, I joined a forum about books and reading. Someone then suggested the merits of doing a reading journal so I started mine on my own pc in 1997 (14 years ago!). I've also journaled books (actually reviews of books I've read) on Amazon and on Bookcrossing. Now I pretty much exclusively journal books (by reviewing them) on LT.

Comments:

(1) My "bookish" plans for today.... To take bags of book donations to The Book Thing of Baltimore and return with more books to give a way for free via BookCrossing at upcoming book festivals .

(2) The book I'm currently reading is about synchronicity. Wishlisted for quite a long time, this book showed up "accidentally" yesterday on my local library sale shelf ... just in time for our Readathon! Was that synchronicity at work or not? I'll let you decide! :D

I'm checking in at hour: 10:30 AM EDT (hour 17)
Pages read: 33
Reading time:55 min
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 33
Total time read: 55 min
Total time posting: 10 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. Tea
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

The Canal Named for Stalin by Maxim Gorky (propaganda)
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Include magazines, term papers, audio, directions for how to put up a coat rack.......

My goals are to spend about 2-3 hours reading this morning, probably a mix of the two books I'm reading: Gulag and Soul and Other Stories. I will probably concentrate on Gulag because I'd like to make a dent in it, and it's too big to be a subway read. This is my first ever readathon!

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... It's sunny and cold. The daffodils are out in the park outside my window.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? When I was in my teens and 20s I kept lists of the books I read, but I gave that up when life got busier. I didn't start tracking my reading on LT until I'd been on it for about a year or so.

>151 SqueakyChu: Madeleine - I just had to comment on your post... The Book Thing of Baltimore!! One of my absolute favorite places in the world. When I lived in DC, it was a top weekend destination for me. Lots of happy memories (and books in my library) associated with it :-)

Checking in
I'm checking in at hour: Hour 18
Pages read: 15 (I'm counting an audiobook that I forgot to add last night. I calculate 2 minutes = 1 page).
Reading time: 30 minutes hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats
Total books read: 22 scholarship applications, The Impressionist, and The Sisters Who Would Be Queen (audio).
Total pages read: 167.
Total time read: 4 hours 20 minutes
Total time posting: 1 hour 5 minutes

Memes for every time you check in
The Menu. Haven't had breakfast yet but it will be steamed asparagus on whole wheat toast. (It's a family thing: add butter, salt, and pepper.)

Vocabulary: Nothing new.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Indigenous Races of the Earth
The Aeneid
Corinthians
Marie Corelli novels (no titles given)
(Touchstones not cooperating.)
Nothing new for this stretch

What's going on in your neck of the woods?
The sun is finally out (we've had a string of cold, wet days), a few daffs are blooming, the weeds are taking over already.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?
I kept a handwritten journal for a few years before joinigin LT, but now I just list and review my books here.

I'm off to make breakfast and read a bit more of The Impressionist before I start grading papers.

Catching up with this thread should count for several pages of reading! We just got back from church. I'm going to have my Asiago Bagel with real butter and a cup of coffee; then it's back to my Harry Truman book.

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods.
It's a beautiful day here in southwest Missouri. My husband took the dog for a walk. It's warm enough (for him) to wear shorts for the first time. Our old crabapple tree burst into bloom overnight. It looks better than it has in years. I feel pretty good myself this morning.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? I have reading lists going back many years. My first reading journal began in a Colorado blizzard on 10/21/97. I wrote a paragraph about Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner and gave it an A+. That would translate to a 5-star book today.

I kept this written journal for several years; then switched to the computer until I discovered LT (in a Wall Street Journal article) in March of 2007...and here I am!

I'll check back in when I finish my book.

> 153 and others

For those wishing to know more about the Book Thing of Baltimore, here's some information.

I'm checking in at hour: 18 (11 am EST)
Pages read: 16 (pp 222-237 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 25 min
Posting time: 0 hr 30 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 88
Total time read: 2 hr 40 min
Total time posting: 2 hr 30 min

The Menu: Still nothing since breakfast.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Nothing in the past hour.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

Hmm, I spent quite a bit of time finding the books mentioned in A Savage War of Peace; I think I'll forego this for now.

I'm checking in at hour: 18 or so - 9 am MDT
Pages read: 65
Reading time: 1 hour
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 Cleopatra's Daughter
Total pages read: 276
Total time read: 210 minutes
Total time posting: 15 min
1 hat 95% knit

The Menu - omelettes
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
ofella - one definition (posted earlier) was a marinated pork dish. the definition in the glossary of the book was a type of pizza without tomatoes ??

The Special -
The Odyssey as well as mention of Ovid, Virgil, Horace and other ancients.
Lots of DH Lawrence, Joyce and Dostoevsky.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Nothing particular, just reading Cleopatra's Daughter. I finished Cleopatra's Daughter. Now I'm working on A Moveable Feast.
Hours 5-8: Describe your perfect library: Like the one in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Ladders, cozy chairs, floor to ceiling books...no Beasts.
Hours 9-12: I had a cat named Sir Richard the Lionheart (I know, I know) and a lamb named Lambchop.

It's a beautiful sunny morning, warm and lovely, with a promise of rain later.

I never kept track of my reading until I joined LT. Wish I had kept track always.

Well, I totally failed at this read-a-thon - life just got in the way. Looks like everyone is having fun though, so enjoy the rest of the day!

I'm checking in at hour: 18 (where does the time go?)
Pages read: 23 (in Helliconia Summer)
Reading time: 30 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Dec 20&27 NYer,
Total pages read: 93
Total time read :2 hrs 30 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. coffee with hot fluffed-up milk.
Vocabulary Did you have to look up any new words? No, but there are tons of made up words for plants and clothes and various things native to Helliconia.
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! nothing this time
Meme 4 What's going on outside? snow melting!!!!!!!!

>149 DragonFreak: Just glance out a window, dude!!! You still got snow???? When you're a multi-b maybe you can build a special guest-house and library for LTers.....

>150 katiekrug: Katie -- this has happened to me with one or two readathons.
>151 SqueakyChu: - Synchronicity awes me frankly.
>152 rebeccanyc: So you have some 'lost years' ....
>154 Cariola: I bet it's delicious.
>155 Donna828: I should be counting the time I am spending reading your posts! Being host is fun, trust me, but different.

As for the fifth meme: I started an index file for the books I read for a class in International Children's Lit back in 1977 (Ouch) and that sort of morphed into keeping a list in the back of my regular journal, which morphed into a proper reading journal in the early '80's, I logged and annotated everything I read while in an MFA program from 1985-88, then gradually went back to journal, then lists, with an occasional note-- and interestingly, I rated books with asterisks! And now LT, but I still can't stop noting the books in the back of my writing journal. It's a thirty-year habit! It sure was helpful when I found LT. I do know what I've read.

Me? Obsessive? It's mostly a strategy - I started it all because I tend to 'flood' when people ask me what I've been reading (actually, when they ask me just about anything that involves memory retrieval) eg. my mind would just go blank. If I kept lists and looked at them, I could overcome this tendency.

I'm checking in at hour: 19 (12 pm EST)
Pages read: 17 (pp 238-254 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 30 min
Posting time: 0 hr 20 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 105
Total time read: 3 hr 10 min
Total time posting: 2 hr 50 min

The Menu: Thinking about lunch...
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Nothing in the past hour.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

Nothing new to add here.

I'm checking in at hour: 18 (9:45 a.m. MST)
Pages read since last post: 50 (in A Moveable Feast)
Reading time: 40 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Finished Lizard Music
Total pages read: 86
Total time read : 1 hour 20 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. Herbal tea with green tea extract (as a sweetener)
Vocabulary. Did you have to look up any new words? No, but I should have. I was being lazy.
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! There are tons in A Moveable Feast including:
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
Sons and Lovers, The White Peacock, Women in Love all by D.H. Lawrence
A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
War and Peace and The Gambler and other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
There are also alot of writers mentioned:
Aldous Huxley, Ronald Firbank, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Marie Belloc Lowndes, James Joyce

What's going on outside? Bright, sunny, blue skies but cool. My daffidils and tulips are coming up!

Perfect library: I loved your description Lucy. The only thing I would add is that it face the ocean and be close enough to hear the surf pounding.

Book tracking before LT: I sporadically kept a book journal but the ability to track things online on LT has been key to keeping things up to date.

I'm checking in at hour: 19 (already?)
Pages read: 17% to finish the book I was reading on the Kindle; 92 pages of next book; plus a few articles in the local Sunday paper
Reading time: 1 hour, 34 min
Posting time: 50 min (ha posting/reading posts almost as much as reading books!)

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 (Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding)
Total pages read: 92 (plus 56% of a Kindle book that is 272 pages in print)
Total time read: 3 hr, 46 min
Total time posting: 1 hr, 23 min

The Menu: Cranberry and flaxseed oatmeal for breakast; coffee; water.
Vocabulary: none

The Special: None.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? My dog is named Cordelia, after the character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel: the Series, but if I want to sound more impressive, I always tell people it's after King Lear.

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow.... Beautiful day, if still a little on the cold side for April (41 degrees last I checked). Almost all of the snow is melted and the crocuses are starting to come up.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? Yes, I had a handwritten list for a few years, then switched to databases and spreadsheets.

Currently Reading: The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Checking in:
I'm checking in at hour: 19
Pages read: 40
Reading time: 1/2 hour - Just getting started!

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0, currently working on The Sentamentalist
Total pages read: 40
Total time read: 1/2 hour
Total time posting: 10 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu: Diet Pepsi
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?: Not yet

The Special: No books mentioned, but there's a heck of a lot of quoting from the movie Casablanca, since it's set in a town called Casablanca.

What's going on outside: Sunny! Well, sort of. But at least it's not snowing anymore.

Reading goals: I'm hoping to participate more in this read-a-thon this afternoon seeing as yesterday was a complete washout. I spent most of the afternoon in the park with my dog Binger (which has no literary connotations that I can think of) and then had a lovely night out with girlfriends. Sunday is my reading day, so I'll see what I can get done this afternoon.

I'm checking in at hour: 12:10 PM EDT (hour 19)
Pages read: 23
Reading time:45 min
Posting time: 10 min
Other: Washing hair and dishes 30 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Still reading Gulag by Anne Applebaum
Total pages read: 55
Total time read: 1 h 40 min
Total time posting: 20min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. Tea
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Yes, what the abbreviation ASSR stands for. Having a dictionary on my iPhone makes this much easier.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

The Canal Named for Stalin by Maxim Gorky (propaganda)
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
From Crime to Labour by I. L. Averbach (more propaganda)
The Gulag Handbook by rossijacques::Jacques Rossi

Nothing more to update.

Having very bad luck with touchstones!

I'm checking in at hour: 19
Pages read: 0
Reading time: 0 (Just checking in after Meeting for Worship and brunch)
Posting time: 10 minutes (had to catch up on everyone else!)

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 77
Total time read: 1 hr. 20 min.
Total time posting: 43 minutes

The Menu: Brunch - omelette, potatoes, and three-cheese veggie pasta bake.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Nope.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None yet.

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?) The walls would be lined with floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves. There would be a sky light, and one wall with some really nice big windows. Carpeted. The wall with the windows would have all my baseball memoriabilia hung up. With big brown leather couches and reading chairs. There would be a corner of board books and cars for my kidd-o. And I like the idea of a coffee/tea station.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings? Our pets are not named after literary characters, but presidents and first wives. Our cats are named Abigail and Eleanor and our yellow lab is named Jefferson Quincy (we just call him Quincy).

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... It is a gorgeous sunny morning that appears to be a bit breezy. We're expecting a high in the 50's.

12 pm EST Meme: Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? Yes, for the past couple of years I have a really long word document on my computer that includes my wish list and books read.

I'm checking in at hour: 19.5
Pages read: 97
Reading time: 1 hr., 16 min.
Posting time: 20 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 - Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure
Total pages read: 247
Total time read: 5 hrs., 18 min.
Total time posting: I've lost track!

The Menu. 3 bites of banana
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No
The Special: Bess Truman read The House of Moreys by Phyllis Bentley while under the hairdryer at their stop in Columbus. OH.
Truman's trilogy of memoirs:
Year of Decisions
Years of Trial and Hope
Mr. Citizen.

Comments: It's interesting how my reading rate differs depending on the type of book. I'm going back to Gods and Generals which is a much slower read for me, particularly because of my lack of memory for Civil War facts. I have to keep looking up people mentioned to jog my brain cells.

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Checking in at hour: 19 (12:55 PM EDT)
Pages read: 94
Reading time: 3.25 hours
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 (Cheese by Willem Elsschot)
Total pages read: 120
Total time read: 6.5 hours
Total time posting: 28 min

The Menu: Hash browns, orange juice, coffee
Vocabulary: A few British-isms such as "jodder", "wodge", and "scoff" (in relation to eating) that I guessed at from the context but still looked up to be sure. I also looked up Edam cheese to be sure I understood what it was like, especially since the main character declared it to be no more like Swiss cheese "than a butterfly is like a snake." (not true!)

The Special: None whatsoever

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Nope. They get named after their coloring.

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow.... Gorgeous. Dogwood in bloom.

12 PM EDT Meme

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? For 7 years, I've registered all my books on BookCrossing and made journal entries for them.

I'm checking in at hour: 20 (1 pm EST)
Pages read: 17 (pp 255-272 of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne)
Reading time: 0 hr 25 min
Posting time: 0 hr 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 122
Total time read: 3 hr 35 min
Total time posting: 3 hr 0 min

The Menu: Jerk turkey and asiago cheese with horseradish mustard on sourdough bread (spicy!), black cherry Greek yogurt, wasabi peas (sinuses are now wide open), and a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Nothing in the past hour.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

I just finished Part Two of A Savage War of Peace, and I'll take a break from it for now. I'll start Annabel by Kathleen Winter, one of the novels longlisted for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction.

Temptation lurks: MLB Extra Innings is continuing its free weekend preview of games, and the Phillies-Astros game starts in 25 minutes.

I'm checking in at hour: 1;07 PM EDT (hour 20)
Pages read: 23
Reading time:45 min
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Still reading Gulag by Anne Applebaum
Total pages read: 78
Total time read: 2 h 35 min
Total time posting: 30min

This is it for me: have to get back to real life! This was fun!

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. Tea but now on to lunch!
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Yes, what the abbreviation ASSR stands for. Having a dictionary on my iPhone makes this much easier.

The Special: (This one lasts the whole time and you answer it at the end!! The idea is courtesy of Charlotte/Fourpawz) Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

The Canal Named for Stalin by Maxim Gorky (propaganda)
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
From Crime to Labour by I. L. Averbach (more propaganda)
The Gulag Handbook by Jacques Rossi
The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Young Marx by Galina Serebryakova
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Secret File of Joseph Stalin by Roman Brackman

Nothing more to update.

Having very bad luck with touchstones!

I'm checking in at hours: 17 thru 19 (9am to 1pm)
Pages read: 16
Books read since last post: A new christianity for a new world by John Shelby Spong
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 69
The Menu:
left over mac n cheese.
Did you have to look up any new words?
No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
None

Comments: I did a little ironing so my son had clothes for school tomorrow and that took a chunk of reading time.

I'm checking in at hour: 20, I think
Pages read: 0
Reading time: 0 (just re-read the ending of Summers at Castle Auburn this morning as I stayed up late to finish it last night

Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
Total pages read: 346
Total time read : 4.5 hours

The Menu. Just water.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Yes:
sally - A sudden charge out of a beseiged place against an enemy.
sennight - Old English for 'a week'.

The Special: None. I don't expect many since I am reading fantasy.

Perfect Library: A sunny room, not too big, with bookshelves floor to ceiling on each wall, some nice sized windows, a few houseplants, and very comfy furniture. Oh, and my dog Tulip curled up in a pet bed nearby, and cat my Basil lounging on the windowsill :).

Pet names: My cat, Basil, was named after British actor Basil Rathbone, who played Sherlock Holmes, who was a literary character. A stretch, I know :). I also had a wonderful dog named Ellie who was my best friend for 14 1/2 years. Her name was really Elektra, we named her after a character in a graphic novel, but we almost always called her Ellie.

Outside: We just had snow on Friday but it's already melted. Not much growing yet, but the sun is out!

I had never kept track of my reading before LT.

Reading goal: Met my first goal, so my new one will be to make some progress on Elantris which I am listening to on audio.

I'm checking in at hour 20
Pages read since last post: 44 pages
Books read since last post: Finding Nouf

Total pages read: 204

The Menu: Ancient Grains cereal with milk for breakfast, with some blackberries. Just had some apple slices with Swiss cheese.

Did you have to look up any new words? No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
None

Comments: I woke up with a very bad sinus headache that just wouldn't go away, so I only started reading about an hour ago.

Meme: What's it like in your part of the world?
It's a warm, sunny Texas spring day. Birds are chirping and building their nests with the dog hair I brushed off one of ours yesterday. Everything has leafed out now, and weeds are everywhere. There is also a layer of greenish yellow pollen on everything.

Meme: How do you keep track of your reading?
Years ago, I kept a reading journal and actually reviewed and rated books, but I hadn't done that for a long time. I started keep track of my reading more with Library Thing about a year ago.

I've read essentially nothing since my last post, as I was taking daughter to the play she's involved in...... oh wait.... I did listen however!

I'm checking in at hour: 20 1/2 (1:30 est)
Pages read: 15 Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger
Reading time: 30 min of listening

Overall stats:
Total books: Dec 20&27 NYer,
Total pages: 108
Total time :3 hrs

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. blt, more coffee with more hot fluffed-up milk.
Vocabulary none
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! maybe, but I wasn't paying attention!
Meme 4 What's going on outside? snow melting!!!!!!!! When I take a break I am going to have a ten year old moment and go out to our pond with a big stick and maybe some rocks and smash ice up. Therapeutic! Should I vaccum first or after?

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining.....

I'm checking in at hour: 20
Pages read: 54
Reading time: 1 hour
Posting time: 5 minutes (had to catch up on everyone else!)

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 131
Total time read: 2 hrs. 20 min.
Total time posting: 48 minutes

The Menu: Coffee

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Nope.

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None yet.

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?) The walls would be lined with floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves. There would be a sky light, and one wall with some really nice big windows. Carpeted. The wall with the windows would have all my baseball memoriabilia hung up. With big brown leather couches and reading chairs. There would be a corner of board books and cars for my kidd-o. And I like the idea of a coffee/tea station.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings? Our pets are not named after literary characters, but presidents and first wives. Our cats are named Abigail and Eleanor and our yellow lab is named Jefferson Quincy (we just call him Quincy).

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow..... It is a gorgeous sunny morning that appears to be a bit breezy. We're expecting a high in the 50's.

12 pm EST Meme: Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? Yes, for the past couple of years I have a really long word document on my computer that includes my wish list and books read.

Comment: Well, I met my goal which was to finish Hoot. It was a cute book, although I thought the Epilogue was a bit long. I'm going to take some time off and see if the school library has either of the next two books I want to read. If not, then maybe I will go to the town library. We'll see.

Keep at it, all you readathoners.

I'm checking in at hour: 21 (2 pm EST)
Pages read: 0 (Still on page 1 of Annabel by Kathleen Winter)
Reading time: 0 hr 0 min
Posting time: 0 hr 30 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 122
Total time read: 3 hr 35 min
Total time posting: 3 hr 30 min

The Menu: Nothing since lunch.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Nothing in the past hour.
The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

The Phillies are off to a great start, leading 4-0 in the top of the second after a 3-run home run by Ryan Howard and a solo blast by Ben Francisco. I'll see what the locals (the Atlanta Braves) are doing, and then get started on Annabel.

I'm checking in at hour: 20 (1:00 pm EDT)
Pages read: 40 + 45 minutes listening
Reading time: 92 min
Posting time: 10 minutes

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 239 + 90 min audio
Total time read: 387
Total time posting: 35 minutes

The Menu: coffee, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No but I am trying to convince myself that I know what furze is

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
(This will be a running tally to avoid retyping)
The Great Gatsby
author Pablo Neruda
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
authors Somerset Maugham and Maupassant
Ten Thousand Literary Quotations Drawn From the Hundred Best Writers in the World (not a real book I suspect)

The Jungle Book

A bonanza from one short story:
Dubliners, Tender is the Night, Brighton Rock, Hangover Square, The Garden of Allah, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Authors Proust, Malcolm Lowry, Forster, Madox Ford, Mrs. Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Bowen
Additional references to Great Expectations, Jude the Obscure, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Daisy Miller, The Mill on the Floss, and others

Currently Reading: The Tiger's Wife, "Graillis's Legacy" (another Trevor short story), The Return of the Native on audio, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

The 5th meme is:
Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?
I used to keep track of my reading very informally by lining up recent reads on a shelf, the results of which vanished every time I reorganized. In late 2009 I found myself with more reading time than I used to have and I started making a list in a notebook, which I eventually transferred to an Excel spreadsheet which I maintained through the end of 2010.

I'm checking in at hour: 20? Or is it 21? I'm bad at math. Anyway, 2:15 PM EST or so.
Pages read: 133
Reading time: 1 hour, 9 min
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 (Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding)
Total pages read: 225 (plus 56% of a Kindle book that is 272 pages in print)
Total time read: 4 hr, 55 min
Total time posting: 1 hr, 33 min

The Menu: Roast beef and cheese sandwich plus a little bit of salad for lunch. 100 calorie fudge mint cookies for dessert.
Vocabulary: none

Currently reading: The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Template
Checking in:
I'm checking in at hour: 21-end
Pages read: 111 pg.
Reading time: One Hour and Twenty Minutes 1:20

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Total pages read: 192 pages
Total time read: Two Hours and Twenty Minutes 2:20

12 PM EDT Meme
Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how? (forgot this one)

I would occasionally alphabetize my books by author and then by publication date, so all the series would be in order, but that usually doesn’t last long and they end up getting mixed up, but strangely, it was easier to find them disorganized. So now I list them on LT, according to author and then publication date.

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining.....

In all reality, there wasn’t a high point. This book is extremely hard to get into. I’m having the same problem that I had with the LotR; would be a great fantasy movie guarantee, but the writing style is hard to follow. I have to go somewhere in a little bit, so this is all I have time for. Only got to page 200 of the 400 pages I wanted, so that's a dissapointment.

Checking in
I'm checking in at hour: Hour 18
Pages read: 21
Reading time: 40 minutes hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats
Total books read: 22 scholarship applications, The Impressionist, and The Sisters Who Would Be Queen (audio).
Total pages read: 189.
Total time read: 5 hours
Total time posting: 1 hour 15 minutes

Memes for every time you check in
The Menu. Stemed asparagus on whole wheat toast. (It's a family thing: add butter, salt, and pepper.) Coffee, piece of marble halvah.

Vocabulary:
satyagrahi
kala pani

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Indigenous Races of the Earth
The Aeneid
Corinthians
Marie Corelli novels (no titles given)
(Touchstones not cooperating.)
Rise of the Dutch Republic

I think I just spent at least an hour catching up with everyone's posts!

I'm checking in at hour: 21 (I think)
Pages read: 120 (both last night and this morning)
Reading time: about 3.5 hours
Posting time: 30 min (not counting reading posts)

Overall stats:
Total books read: None finished, read from one book (A Game of Thrones)
Total pages read: 152
Total time read: 4h 30min
Total time posting: 1h 10min

The Menu: Coffee and cottage cheese for breakfast, Thai leftovers for lunch

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Quite a few this time. Clearly I need to read more historical fiction!
craven – a coward
to scourge – strike with a whip
aurochs – the European bison
doublet – a close-fitting garment for men, was worn in Western Europe in 15th-17th centuries
portcullis – a grating of iron hung over a gateway of a fortress
melee - hand-to-hand combat

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
If fictional books count, then I got one - The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children, by Grand Maester Malleon

Hours 5-8 (to 1 a.m. EST) Describe your perfect library (busts of Socrates? Velvet curtains? Danish modern? Garden gazebo with no bugs?)
Solid dark wood bookshelves, large windows, comfy reading chair, large writing desk with multiple drawers, floor and desk lamps all over, soundproof walls.

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? Non pet-owners do you KNOW OF any pets named after literary beings?
No, all our animals are rescue, they have been named before they came to us.

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow.....
It's a beautiful spring day, sunny with a light breeze.

12 pm EST Meme: Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?
Nope, I tried once, but didn't stick to it.

Just checking in before diving into a NYer -- if I get a second one done, I'll be happy. Then I get to play around with ice.

>178 AnneDC: The instant I read 'furze' I knew EXACKLY what you were reading.

>180 DragonFreak: - 192 pages in a little over two hours is really good reading -- I've 'failed' my goals utterly too, but I'm OK with it. I'm always a little over-ambitious but that's good too.

>181 Cariola: I'm guessing you're happy you got those scholarships done.

>182 portnova: - I love the made-up books in fantasies!

I just got home from church, lunch, and a visit with a friend in a nursing home. I'll join in for the last couple of hours, unless I fall asleep!

I'm checking in at hour: 22
Pages read: Last night: 1 ½ chapters of Barchester Towers on my ereader; This morning: 35 pages of Angel with Two Faces

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 129

The Menu: Just got back from lunch, which was chicken & dumplings, turnip greens, fried okra, rolls, and diet Pepsi. Coffee is brewing.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not yet.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
Richard of Bordeaux
The Man in the Queue
The Tempest
prayer book (I assume it's the Book of Common Prayer) is mentioned in both Angel with Two Faces and The Innocence of Father Brown
A Midsummer Night's Dream
New since last update:
Dennis Wheatley's new book (as of May 1935) – possibly The Devil Rides Out

Describe your perfect library:
It would have plenty of shelves, a bay window, and a rocking chair.

What's going on outside in your neck of the woods?
It's a beautiful, sunny spring day. It's close to the peak of dogwood season, and the flowering trees and shrubs are gorgeous. Currently in bloom besides dogwood: redbud, tulip trees (our state tree), some sort of Japanese blossom tree, tulips, and my favorite, weeping cherry.

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? If so, how?
Not really. I do have a recommended reading list one of my high school English teachers gave us. I check off titles as I read them. I've still got a long way to go before I complete the list!

Update on the computer saga: It's going back to the store tomorrow.

>192 gennyt: pages in 140 minutes is really good time. That is 3/4 pages per minute, which if the text wasn't so small, the reading input would increase dramatically. But I kind of hoped to read longer, not more, which is why I'm disappointed.

I'm checking in at hour: 22 (3 pm EST)
Pages read: 33 (pp 1-33 of Annabel by Kathleen Winter)
Reading time: 0 hr 30 min
Posting time: 0 hr 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 155
Total time read: 4 hr 5 min
Total time posting: 3 hr 40 min

The Menu:
More coffee!

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
ouananiche: a small, landlocked salmon of SE Canada

The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

I love Annabel so far; in addition to making this year's Orange Prize longlist it was also longlisted for three major Canadian literary awards in 2010, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Award for Fiction. I'll probably read half of it today, and then go back to A Savage War of Peace.

The Phillies are still in command, leading 5-1 in the top of the sixth inning.

I'm checking in at hour: 22, I think
Pages read: 49 minutes of Elantris on audio book
Reading time: 49 minutes

Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
Total pages read: 346 + 49 min. audio
Total time read: About 5.5 hours

The Menu. V-8 juice

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Yes:
sally - A sudden charge out of a beseiged place against an enemy.
sennight - Old English for 'a week'.
Hoyden: A boisterous girl.

The Special: None.

High point for me: Finishing Summers at Castle Auburn which I thought would take me a bit longer due to other things in my schedule.

We are off to take Tulip to the park. I will be listening to more of Elantris in the car, but in case I don't make it back by 5 - this has been fun - thanks to all!

Checking in hour 22
Overall stats:
Books Read:Woman on the Edge of Time, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Books Completed: 0
Pages read: 33 +2/14 of a CD
Reading time: 1 hr
Posting time: 15 min

Total books read: 3 Woman on the Edge of Time and listened to Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers
Total Books Completed:1
Total pages read: 299 + 8/14 of a CD

Total time read: 5 hr 30 min
Total time posting: 1 hr 40

The Menu. Special K with strawberries and greek yogurt, mocha cappuccino
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? not yet
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! if I can remember - Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night, The History of Lynching in the Southern US, Journals, Hemingway. No touchstones, do you think she just makes up her footnotes? Hmm. Such a deceptive book, very Christopher McQuarrie
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM IV

Hours 5-8: Describe your perfect library in a room with a glass wall facing the ocean

Hours 9-12 (to 5 a.m.EST) Pet-owners... have you named any of your pets after literary beings? My little dachshund mix is Amelia after Amelia Broadway, the witch in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

What's going on outside the window Sunny warm 79 degrees with a lovely breeze. The fluffy purple and white geraniums I put out a couple of weeks ago are looking good, chrysanthemums are budding, unripe mill berries are being blown off the trees. Birds, birds, birds in and out of the birdbaths, the trees and the pomegranate bushes. A morning dove was puffed and chasing his lady on the right side of the yard while 2 great tailed grackles, heads pointed straight in the air, bodies stiff and puffed danced around each other for the attention of the brownish female in 1 birdbath. Alas nary a color other than brown, grey, white or black amongst them.

I never catalogued my reading before LT.

I really enjoyed reading this book about Asperger's, it's an excellent guide for anyone who has or loves someone who has the condition, and am in love with Woman on the Edge of Time about a poor, mentally ill Hispanic woman, time traveling, and abuse after abuse. Now I'm excited to say I'm off to see Jane Eyre

Good read-a-thon. Thanks Lucy, and thanks for the great dog pix.

>184 cbl_tn: Good idea to take that thing back where it came from!

>185 DragonFreak: -- I am so with you -- I didn't read enough either! I got a little distracted, ahem, by looking for appropriate dog pix, among other things.

>186 kidzdoc: Go Phils! I'm excited by how well they are starting out the season.

My eyes were starting to cross...took a break for some fresh air...very windy outside today! Also caught up on a few LT threads.

I'm checking in at hour: 22
Pages read since last post: 61
Reading time: 1 hr., 16 min.

Overall stats:
Total books read: One completed
Total pages read: 308
Total time read: 6 hr., 38 min.
Total time posting: ??? Most of my time has been spent reading these posts. Some good books being read. It's fun to see what everyone is eating to keep up their strength.

The Menu: Spinach & cheese quesadillas. I may have to make some more coffee to ward off the nap that is threatening. I'm back to the Civil War!

I'm checking in at hours: 20 thru 22 (1pm to 3pm)
Pages read: 22
Books read since last post: back to A Moveable Feast
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 91
The Menu:
some green grapes

Did you have to look up any new words?
yes, irascible: marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
None

Having only managed half an hour's reading before lunch, and then having fallen asleep after eating, I only returned to reading at 6pm.

Checking in: at 20.42 UK time
I'm checking in at hour: 22
Pages read: 101
Reading time: 180
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 - finished reading Pride and Prejudice
Total pages read: 101
Total time read: 180
Total time posting: 15

The Menu. A cup of tea at 6 pm which has gone cold after being half drunk.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No, but once or twice I had to re-read a whole sentence to make sure I had got the meaning of it.
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! None that I recall

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST) What's going on outside in your neck of the woods, flowers, blossoms, snow It's dark now, and cooling down after a warm sunny afternoon.

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining..... Having just finished Pride & P, I realised how long it is since I've read it, and what a delight the final chapters are, with all the various conversations and exchanges of letters in reaction to the news of various engagements and marriages.

It's interesting that my speed of reading is a lot slower than my average this time - usually around a page a minute. It may just be because I am very tired, but it may also be that Austen's prose takes a little more digesting that some more contemporary writers (though I would not have thought of her as someone I had any difficulty in comprehending).

Having now finished one book, I hope to read a bit more of something else, but it's time for a late supper first, so may not manage much more before the official end of the readathon.

Lucy, I'm sorry to have startled you with my G&T reference earlier on! As a breakfast option, that would indeed have been a little strange... It's actually a rare indulgence for me, usually as a pre-Sunday lunch treat after a busy morning, especially when the weather is warmer as it has been today.

I'm checking in at hour: 23 (2pm MST)
Pages read since last post: 44 (in Let's Take the Long Way Home)
Total books read: Finished 1
Total pages read: 130

The Menu: leftover pasta from last night for lunch

Did you have to look up any new words? No

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!: Let's Take the Long Way Home is Gail Caldwell's memoir about her friendship with the writer Caroline Knapp. Two of her books are mentioned: Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs (which seems appropriate for this Readathon).

Comment: I feel a nap coming on from the pasta I had for lunch and then I owe my dog a trip to the dog park so that's probably it for me. Thanks for doing an outstanding job hosting Lucy. I'll be back later to answer the final meme.

I'm checking in at hour: 23
Pages read: 20 - Jan 3 2011 Nyer
Reading time: 40 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: Dec 20&27 NYer, Jan 3 2011 NYer
Total pages read: 128
Total time read :3 hrs 40 min

Memes for every time you check in:
The Menu. nothing
Vocabulary Did you have to look up any new words? No
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! I don't think there were any
Meme 4 What's going on outside? windy but snow says "I'm meltingggggg'

I'm checking in at hour: 23 (4 pm EST)
Pages read: 22 (pp 34-55 of Annabel by Kathleen Winter)
Reading time: 0 hr 20 min
Posting time: 0 hr 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 177
Total time read: 4 hr 25 min
Total time posting: 3 hr 50 min

The Menu:
Nothing new.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
ouananiche: a small, landlocked salmon of SE Canada

The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

Annabel continues to be a great read, although the medical descriptions of the baby (born as a hemaphrodite in Canada in 1968), along with the diagnosis and treatment, don't seem to be accurate.

Barring a monumental collapse the Phillies will start 2011 with a three game sweep of the Houston Astros; it's now 7-2 in the bottom of the 8th inning.

I'm checking in at hour: beginning of hour 23
Pages read: 172
Reading time: about 3 hours?
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 590
Total time read: 9 hours 10 mins
Total time posting: 45 mins

Nearly finished with The 19th Wife. Not sure what I'll pick up next...

I'm checking in: About 30 mins before the end! As I don't think I will have much time left for reading before 5, I'm wrapping it up and calling it a day.
Pages read: 112
Reading time: 1 hour, 10 min
Posting time: 20 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 (Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding)
Total pages read: 337 (plus 56% of a Kindle book that is 272 pages in print)
Total time read: 6 hr, 5 min
Total time posting: 1 hr, 53 min

The Menu: May have snuck in a few peanut butter cookies...
Vocabulary: none
The Special: Still none. Will have to read books with more allusions next time.

Currently Reading: The Ask and the Answer, while amazing, was getting to be pretty depressing, so I had to take a break and switch over to Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich for something lighter.

Also, I am not the only one in the family who spent the day reading:


For those of you who are curious, Cordelia is reading Suppertime! by Charles M. Schulz, starring her idol, Snoopy.

I'm checking in at hour: 24
Pages read since last post: 52
Reading time: 1 hr., 22 min.

Overall stats:
Total books read: One; Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure for Missouri Readers group
Total pages read: 360
Total time read: 8 hours on the nose!
Total time posting: Too much - although I'm glad I took the time to read everyone's comments.

The Menu: Nothing.

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining.....

Sorry, nothing earth shattering for me. I reached my goals of finishing the Harry Truman book and making progress in Gods and Generals, both excellent books in their own ways. In my eight hours of reading, I've learned how weak I am in American history. This is a gap in my education that I'm eager to fill through the reading of some well-chosen books. I've already received some guidance from members of LT on Civil War books to read. Now to find the time to do it.

Readathons are a great way to get in some sustained reading time. Thank you so much, Lucy, for hosting. The Corgi pictures were a fun addition. Marcia, your Cordelia looks like she's really into that book. Lucky (my Lab) thanks her for the recommendation of Suppertime!, a book on his favorite subject.

I'm checking in at hour: 24 (5 pm EST)
Pages read: 46 (pp 56-101 of Annabel by Kathleen Winter)
Reading time: 0 hr 35 min
Posting time: 0 hr 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2
Total books completed: 0
Total pages read: 223
Total time read: 5 hr 0 min
Total time posting: 4 hr 0 min

The Menu:
Nothing new.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
ouananiche: a small, landlocked salmon of SE Canada

The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy: The best selling novel about the Battle of Algiers, which was later adapted into the movie Lost Command.
Beau Geste by P.C. Wren: Another best selling novel, about the French Foreign Legion before the Great War, which was adapted into several movies and a BBC mini-series with the same name.
Lieutenant en Algérie by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: An account of the author's conscription into the French Army during the Algerian War, which documented the brutal repression of Algerians by the army and the pieds noirs, the Europeans that lived in Algeria.
La Question by Henri Alleg: An account of the arrest and torture of a French Communist and journalist during the Battle of Algiers in 1956. It was published in France in 1957, and later became the first book banned by the French government in over two centuries.
Contre la Torture by Pierre-Henri Simon: An influential book by a left wing Roman Catholic French intellectual about the abuses of the French Army during the Algerian War.
La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate): André Malraux's Prix Goncourt winning novel about the failed Communist revolution in Shanghai in 1927.
Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir: Her famous novel about postwar France and its intellectuals (I'll read this and La Condition Humaine in the very near future).
L'Algérie Hors la Loi by Francis & Collete Jeanson: A book by a Marxist French intellectual couple which was fiercely critical of the French government's policy during the Algerian War.

I'll continue to read Annabel for the next few hours, and then go back to A Savage War of Peace. I haven't accomplished as much as I had hoped to so far, but I think I'll get there by tonight.

The Phillies won 7-3. They are off tomorrow, and then host the New York Mets starting on Monday.

Thanks for a great Read-a-Thon, Lucy!

I'm checking in at hour: 24
Pages read: 121
Reading time: 55 mins
Posting time: 5 mins

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2
Total pages read: 711
Total time read: 10 hours 5 mins
Total time posting: 50 mins

Finished One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer Fleming and The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff.
Read a little bit of The Quest for Anna Klein (no touchstone, yet again...) by Thomas Cook, but about 35 pages in was still underwhelmed, so turned to Black Fly Season by Giles Blunt, whose mysteries are among my fave discoveries of the year.

Oddly I didn't get to either of the books I wanted to -- the new Erik Larson book or The Killer of Little Shepherds, which has to go back to the library pronto... Oh well...

Thank you so much everyone for participating!



Happy Trails!

I got a little obsessed with freeing the path to my studio from ice and snow, finally. It's been snowshoes to work all winter. Terra firma will be very much appreciated.

I'll be back to read everyone's round-up but I have to go do some more carpooling...

Oh -- I did read two New Yorkers -- the second one had a fabulous article about the newly re-opened Vatican Library -- one of those articles that makes the mag worth it.
And I read a little of Helliconia Summer. The Vatican piece was my high point I think.

>Marcia -- thank you for your pic of your dog reading. I am so impressed!

I'm checking in at hour: 24

I've been reading: Christianity in Roman Britain and The Brontes went to Woolworths.

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2 partial, 0 completed
Total pages read: I lost track - oops - but probably about 80
Total time read: About 4 ½ hours
Total time posting: 45 minutes

The Menu: since the last post: a cheese sandwich, some cheese and onion crisps, peach, pineapple and a flapjack
Vocabulary: Nothing new

The Special: Books mentioned in your books:
Adamnán's Life of Columba
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks
Wuthering Heights
The Wind in the Willows
Jane Eyre
The Martian and Peter Ibbotson by George du Maurier
My Two Kings by Mrs Evan Nepean
A Warning to the Curious

Before LT did you keep track of your reading? Not in any systematic way

Checking in:
I'm checking in at hour: 24
Pages read since last post: 94
Reading time since last post: Approx 1 1/2 hours

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 - Finished The Sentimentalists
Total pages read: 134
Total time read: 2 hours
Total time posting: 20 min

Memes:
The Menu: My lunch was a delicious egg sandwich on rye with avocado, cheese and salsa. And now I'm off to make myself a cup o tea.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?:
Pithecoid - Resembling or relating to the apes, especially the anthropoid apes

The Special: Some more about Casablanca and a few poetic quotations, including something from e.e. cummings.

What's going on outside: No longer sunny. :(

This was my first time participating in a read-a-thon and I would definitely try again! I accomplished at least one goal of reading The Sentimentalists, which was not a long book but an enjoyable one. It won the Giller Prize this year and was about a women's relationship with her father and his experiences in the Vietnam War.
I also enjoyed seeing what everyone was reading. I hope to participate for longer next time.
Happy Sunday everyone!

I'm checking in at hour: 24
Pages read: 68 pages of Angel with Two Faces

Overall stats:
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 197, plus 1 ½ chapters of a book on my ereader.

The Menu: Coffee.

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No.

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
Richard of Bordeaux
The Man in the Queue
The Tempest
prayer book (I assume it's the Book of Common Prayer) is mentioned in both Angel with Two Faces and The Innocence of Father Brown
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dennis Wheatley's new book (as of May 1935) – possibly The Devil Rides Out
New since last update:
The Bible
an unspecified volume of Tennyson's poems

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining..... I didn't finish any books, but I didn't expect to. I had barely started two of my three current reads. I had more distractions than I expected (i.e., my father's computer), but that's life. If it hadn't been that, I'm sure it would have been something else!

I read parts of 3 books:
Angel with Two Faces by Nicola Upson
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Last check-in. Lucy, thank you for organizing, hosting, coming up with very interesting memes and finding uplifting visuals!

I'm checking in at hour: 24
Pages read: 50
Reading time: 1h 20min
Posting time: 10 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: None finished, read from one book (A Game of Thrones)
Total pages read: 202
Total time read: 5h 50min
Total time posting: 1h 20min

The Menu: water, an apple

Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words?
Not this time.

The Special:Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
None since last post.

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining.....
There were no extreme highs or lows, very even and enjoyable read-a-thon for me.

Checking in
I'm checking in at hour: Hour 24
Pages read: 12
Reading time: 20 minutes hours
Posting time: 10 minutes

Overall stats
Total books read: 22 scholarship applications, The Impressionist, and The Sisters Who Would Be Queen (audio).
Total pages read: 201.
Total time read: 5 hours 20 minutes
Total time posting: 1 hour 25 minutes

Memes for every time you check in
The Menu. Rosemary garlic bread with marinara dipping sauce and a glass of wine.

Vocabulary:
tawse

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!
The Indigenous Races of the Earth
The Aeneid
Corinthians
Marie Corelli novels (no titles given)
(Touchstones not cooperating.)
Rise of the Dutch Republic

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining.....
I got more paperwork than reading done. One insight was that I get a lot more reading done surrounded by chatting strangers at Starbuck's than at home, where I'm distracted by my cat, the phone ringing, email, snacks, etc. And here's a passage from The Impressionist that I found amusing:

"Cocooned in a leather armchair, Jonathan understands for the first time the English word cosy, the need their climate instills in them to pad their blue-veined bodies with layers of horsehair and mahogany, aspidistras and antimacassars, history, tradition, and share certificates. Being British, he decides, is primarily a matter of insulaton."

I had fun, even though I didn't get done all the reading I would have liked. Hope there's another read-a-thon next weekend!

I read for an hour past the official end time, until I began falling asleep over my book. So it's time to call it a day (night) and post final stats.

Checking in: at 23.08 UK time
I'm checking in at hour: 25!
Pages read: 90 - the beginning of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Reading time: 70
Posting time: 0

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 finished and another started
Total pages read: 191
Total time read: 250 mins (4 hours 10 mins)
Total time posting: 15

The Menu. Supper - Vegetarian chili followed by two hot-cross buns and a cup of coffee.
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? No.
The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books! Just one: The Mill on the Floss. Also mentioned: the pen with which George Eliot wrote that book.

Thank you, Lucy, for hosting this Readathon, and especially for the various dog pictures which have enhanced this thread.

I'm glad to hear things are melting in your neighbourhood!

I'm checking in at hours: 23 thru 24 (3pm to 5pm)
Pages read: 26
Books read since last post: back to A Moveable Feast
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 117

The Menu:
some more green grapes

Did you have to look up any new words?
No, Not this time

Keep track of books mentioned in your books!:
Ulysses by James Joyce
Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson
The Lodger by Belloc Lowndes
Sons and Lovers, The White Peacock and Women in Love all by D H Lawrence
The Making of America by Gertrude Stein

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining.....

Hemingway always carried a rabbits foot in his pants pocket for good luck.

A quote from Hemingway: "They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."

Thanks, Luci for setting up this weekends read-a-thon. I enjoyed all of the feedback and your pictures. Good job, I'll be sure to join in on your next read-a-thon.

I really have to say that I didn't get much reading done during this read a thon. I had a headache for most of the day and my friend took me out for my birthday. I am now going to just sit down and read my book for the rest of the night. I am also going to go back through all the posts to see what everyone has read and what was on the menu.

Luci thanks for setting up this weekend read-a-thon. I loved the pictures and the memes were very nice and short.

I'm checking in at hour: 24 1/2
Pages read: 87
Reading time: 2 hours
Posting time: 5 minutes

Overall stats:
Total books read: 1 and parts of three others
Total pages read: 363
Total time read: 330 minutes
Total time posting: 20 min
1 hat and 3 inches of a cardigan knit

The Menu -homemade (by my 12 year old) pizza
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Nothing new
ofella - one definition (posted earlier) was a marinated pork dish. the definition in the glossary of the book was a type of pizza without tomatoes ??

The Special -
The Odyssey as well as mention of Ovid, Virgil, Horace and other ancients.
Lots of DH Lawrence, Joyce and Dostoevsky.

Hours 1-4: What are your reading goals? Nothing particular, just reading Cleopatra's Daughter. I finished Cleopatra's Daughter.
Hours 5-8: Describe your perfect library: Like the one in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Ladders, cozy chairs, floor to ceiling books...no Beasts.
Hours 9-12: I had a cat named Sir Richard the Lionheart (I know, I know) and a lamb named Lambchop.

It's a beautiful sunny morning, warm and lovely, with a promise of rain later. Update - now we have 3 inches of snow. Never mind the rain, or that I got sunburned at my daughter's soccer game yesterday.

I never kept track of my reading until I joined LT. Wish I had kept track always.

I finished Cleopatra's Daughter and Crossing to Safety, got a good start on A Moveable Feast and read a bit more of Taking Charge of ADHD. Not bad considering we had our church conference this weekend.

Thanks Luci! It was fun.

My low point came today when I could not find my car key and had to borrow my husband's car for a trip out of town. My audio CD? Locked in my own car.

Oh, well... :(

I was previously reading a book about synchronicity. Is this reverse synchronicity or what?!

Thanks, Lucy, for hosting the Readathon.

Final check-in. Thanks Lucy for hosting this Readathon--I especially enjoyed the books-within-books question and paying attention to vocabulary words.

I'm checking in at hour: 24+
Pages read: 23 + 60 minutes listening
Reading time: 95 min
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read: 1 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Total pages read: 262 + 150 min audio
Total time read: 482 minutes
Total time posting: 40 minutes

The Menu: water
Vocabulary: Did you have to look up any new words? Not in this section (and it's hard to look up words in the car, anyway)

The Special: Keep track of books mentioned in your books!

The Great Gatsby
author Pablo Neruda
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
authors Somerset Maugham and Maupassant
Ten Thousand Literary Quotations Drawn From the Hundred Best Writers in the World (not a real book I suspect)
The Jungle Book
Dubliners
Tender is the Night
Brighton Rock
Hangover Square
The Garden of Allah
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Authors Proust, Malcolm Lowry, Forster, Madox Ford, Mrs. Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Bowen
Additional references to Great Expectations, Jude the Obscure, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Daisy Miller, The Mill on the Floss, and others

Read: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (completed), Selected Stories by William Trevor (2 stories), The Tiger's Wife, The Return of the Native on audio, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining..... I guess the startling denouement of The Reluctant Fundamentalist was a memorable point. I was glad to finish one book and dabble in a bunch of others, which is exactly what I'd hoped to do.

Lucy, re: furze. Yes, you know exactly what book I'm reading, er, listening to, and I believe I have you to thank! Having the audiobook induced me to spend a lot more time preparing tonight's dinner than I might otherwise have done.

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Checking in at hour: would be 24 (5 PM EDT) except that my daughter called at exactly 5 and talked for a very long time. Pages read: 47
Reading time: 1.75 hours
Posting time: 2 min

Overall stats:
Total books read: 2 (Cheese by Willem Elsschot and Baa Baa, Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling (Penguin 60 -- I'll count it as a book)
Total pages read: 167
Total time read: 8.25 hours
Total time posting: 30 min

The Menu: Asparagus with balsamic tomatoes, coffee

Vocabulary: hamal, surti, pully-wag, falchion, cellaret, hubshi, rissole (all of which I still have to look up!)

The Special: a "dirty brown" primer, Sharpe's Magazine, Frank Fairlegh, Gulliver's Travels, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cometh Up as a Flower.

The final meme: High point for you, discovering a great book, finishing something you've been dying to finish, a great quote, a great insight, or funny, or your low point if that is more entertaining..... I liked the way these two good books had similar references to music, motherhood, and the life of the sea (which also reminded me of my favorite March book, Seamen's Wives by Lennart Johnsson).

Thanks so much for this readathon -- absolutely loved all the dog photos!

I'm glad you all had fun and enjoyed the pix. I did try to think up memes that were short and fun.

Hosting is fun -- I knew I wouldn't get much reading done, but I felt like I was encouraging everyone else and 'listening' in a way I don't always on LT -- as always I have a mysterious interest in the menus, but I loved the vocabulary (it made me think twice, do I really know what that word means?) and good quotes.

> 212 That Alan Rickman, he's utterly unique, isn't he? The reddle-man and the furze. I feel like he just became each on each one of those people so completely and that his understanding of that era is thorough.

Hi all

Sorry not to have managed to post during the Readathon, we went out to the park this afternoon then the computer was playing up while the kids were in the bath, then I went up to settle Conor and the computer continued to play up when I came down, then I rebooted, then it started turning itself off.... grrrrr....

errr nice computer, pretty computer, there there, I didn't mean it when I said I hate you, honest!

By the way it was the other Lucy, with a y, sibyx, who set up the Readathon, and thank you.

I'm checking in several hours after the end of the Readathon
Pages read on Sunday before 10 pm: 108 from 4 books

During Readathon:
Total books read from: 8
Total pages read: 327

The Menu: yoghurt and croissants this morning
Vocabulary: I possibly should, one of my books has a lot of South African slang, but I never do

The Special: A Tale of Two Cities is the only book I remember being mentioned - a soldier has been in hospital for ages and is finally starting to read again

Hours 13-16 (9 a.m. EST)
This afternoon (2 pm here) the weather was bright but a lot chillier than yesterday, though we didn't venture out until about 3 pm. There were nasty black clouds gathering as we walked home around 6 pm.

Other book related activities: I found 8 books I don't have space for in a charity shop, including:
two children's books which I don't remember reading before by Catherine Storr (her books Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and Marianne Dreams were favourites at about 5 and 13 respectively)
non fiction books on Iraqi Women, civil rights activism in the northern US states after 1940, and the Congo
a copy of Granta magazine
2 novels, though one is a duplicate

I ended up having a hanging shelf emergency (I'd like to say I HATE hanging shelves) and so didn't get to participate in this read-a-thon. I'm pretty bummed as it looks like it was a lot of fun.

212, 214> Ah, Alan Rickman in my ears for hours! I listened to that one a few years ago.

>214 sibylline: I bet it is fun to host. I hope someday I can host one. Even though my schedule is loose and available time is higher than most people, it can get unpredictable.

>215 elkiedee: Finally! Somebody else who talks to inanimate objects! I talk to my laptop a lot. Also, I've named all of my books. For example: Gregor the Overlander is named Gregor. Eragon is named Eragon. Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great is named Sheila. All the Vladimir Tod Chronicle books are named Vlad the first through Vlad the fifth respectively. And the Harry Potter books...well as long as I've had them, I can't figure up a name, but it'll come to me. Those are just to name a few.