July 25th-27th Readathon

Is anyone up for a readathon this weekend?

The weather over here is supposed to be abysmal throughout the weekend (as if it hasn't been crap for weeks) so I thought I'd make the most out of the situation and read as much as possible.

Anyone want to join?



I checked out some older readathon thread to get some inspiration. Here is a template to use for those interested.

I've been reading:
Books finished:
Pages read:
Reading time:

Total books read:
Total books read from:
Total pages read:
Total time read:

And please make a post and let me know if you're interested in joining. I'll make a list of participants.

Participating:
PawsforThought
lkernagh

Come on! As it's Friday morning over here now, I'm starting as soon as I finish eating breakfast and showering.

I've been reading a lot of crap books lately so I needed a break and started on Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel even though I have tons of other books started. Christie's always a good, even when she'd bad she's better than a lot of others so it's nice to know I'll at least enjoy my book this time.

My goal for the weekend is to read at least 200 pages per day so 600 pages or more for the whole weekend. Don't want to set too high a goal as I do have other things to do as well.
I want to finish the Christie and make some headway in A Clash of Kings, because it's about time I finish that one. Anything more than that will be a bonus.

Hope you want to join me!

This is pretty much how my weekend is going to look:

Alright, first check in.

I've been reading: At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 65
Reading time: 2 h (ish)

Total books read: 0
Total books read from: 1
Total pages read: 65
Total time read: 2 h

Don't forget that you can join anytime and you don't have to take part the whole weekend. If you can only read for an hour on Sunday afternoon, that's fine too!

Count me in! We finally have rain - so happy about that! - so I am looking forward to settling in a good chair and making progress with my current reads. I tend to be terrible about reporting in as I am reading but I will try to remember. ;-)

First check in:

I've been reading: The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 87
Reading time: 2 hours

Total books read: 0
Total books read from: 1
Total pages read: 87
Total time read: 2 hours

Second check in:

I've been reading: The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 50
Reading time: 1 hour

Total books read: 0
Total books read from: 1
Total pages read: 137
Total time read: 3 hours

I have been reading this book off and on for the past 7 days and only now that I have reached the halfway mark am I starting to get really interested in the story, but it is time I went to sleep. Will be back tomorrow.

Welcome! We'll both be terrible at reading and reporting then!

I just woke up and to my great surprise the weather is lovely (the weather reports this summer have been some of the worst I've experienced, very little accuracy) but I don't care - I'm reading anyway!

Glad to see you also woke to sunshine this morning! I will probably flip between reading The Lantern and continuing with my audiobook read Main Street while I run errands and putter around the house.

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Third check in:

I've been reading: The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 56
Reading time: 1 hour

Total books read: 0
Total books read from: 1
Total pages read: 193
Total time read: 4 hours

Finally, the whole mystery part of the story is now happening. Still 100 pages to go. After all the slow build of the story I hope it doesn't fizzle out and flop in the ending.

Second check in:

I've been reading: At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 93
Reading time: 2 h

Total books read: 0
Total books read from: 1
Total pages read: 158
Total time read: 4 h

Fourth check in:

I've been reading listening to: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Books finished: 1 - Main Street
Pages read time listened: 5 hours, 40 minutes
Reading time: 5 hours, 40 minutes

Total books read completed: 1 - Main Street
Total books read from: 2
Total pages read: 193 + 5 hours, 40 minutes audio reading
Total time read: 9 hours, 40 minutes

Took advantage of some work I wanted to get done on the kitchen cupboards to listen to my current audiobook read at the same time. Kitchen cupboards and book completed!

Great work! I'm plananing on doing the same (combining housework and audiobooks) tomorrow, as I have two bathrooms and a kitchen that needs scouring.

Third check in:

I've been reading: At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie and Fables, vol 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
Books finished: 2
Pages read: 151
Reading time: 1,5 h

Total books read: 2
Total books read from: 2
Total pages read: 309
Total time read: 5,5 h

I love audiobooks and how I can read and get things done at the same time.

Good job on competing two books!

Yeah, it's great! I'd be bored out of my mind when cleaning the house or ironing if I couldn't listen to podcasts or audiobooks.

I*m really please. One's a GN so didn't take very long to read, but it's one of those books I should have read ages ago so I'm glad I did it. I'm hoping to finish Fables vol 3 and possibly one more books (I have started a ton of books but not finished them) but we'll see. A friend of mine is coming over for a movie night later so will have less time to read.

Fifth check in:

I've been reading: Henri, Le Chat Noir by William Braden
Books finished: 1 - Henri, Le Chat Noir
Pages read: 96
Reading time: 15 minutes

Total books read/listened to: 2 - Main Street and Henri, Le Chat Noir
Total books read from/listened to: 3
Total pages read: 289 + 5 hours, 40 minutes audio reading
Total time read: 9 hours, 55 minutes

You ladies are doing great, I'm sorry this wasn't a good weekend for me to join in on the Readathon. But I am home now and I am planning on picking up a book and reading the next few hours away!

Fourth (and final) check in:

I've been reading listening to: Smiley's People by John le Carré (audiobook
Books finished: 0
Pages read: -
Reading time: 1 h 35 min

Total books read: 2
Total books read from: 3
Total pages read: 309
Total time read: 6 h 5 min

And I'm out! It's late, late, late here now and I really need to get ready for bed - lots to do tomorrow. I didn't get as much reading done as I'd hoped but more than I would have if it hadn't been for the readathon so I'm pleased. I hope I can keep reading at this pace - I'm getting a lot of books done!

Thank you lkernagh for joining me, it's been great to have company!

>18 DeltaQueen50: - YAY! Always great to see another reader joining in!

>19 PawsforThought: - Oooohhh... Smiley's People. Love the movie, never read the book, or any Le Carre books for that matter.

As you said above, pop in when you can. I have been non-reading all day and just now getting ready to settle in to try to finish The Lantern so I can claim 3 books read this weekend.

Sixth (and final) check in:

I've been reading: The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
books finished: 1 - The Lantern
Pages read: 105
Reading time: 2 hours

Total books read/listened to: 3 - Main Street, Henri, Le Chat Noir and The Lantern
Total books read from/listened to: 3
Total pages read: 394 + 5 hours, 40 minutes audio reading
Total time read: 11 hours, 55 minutes

Thanks Paws for setting the readathon thread up! It was a good weekend for reading and the readathon helped encourage me to finish the reads I had started earlier in the week.