New Year's Weekend Readathon

Hi everyone, and welcome to the New Year's weekend readathon! I offered to host and get a thread started - it's going to be pretty informal, so feel free to drop in as much or as little as you'd like. The readathon starts Friday, December 30 at 9am EST and ends Monday, January 2 at 5pm EST. (But feel free to tweak the times so they fit your schedule and time zone, these are the times I'll be around.)

Leave a comment if you'd like to join and I'll add your name to the master list. And here's a basic template for anyone who wants to use it (borrowed from an earlier readathon thread!):

I've been reading: (Name of book or books you're read in the last hour)
Books finished: (in the last hour)
Pages read: (number of pages)
Reading time: (in minutes)
Posting time: (time spent writing updates and visiting threads, in minutes)

Total books read:
Total pages read:
Total time read: (in hours and minutes)
Total time posting: (in hours and minutes)

Who's Reading Along:
LibraryLover23, reading in Lancaster, PA
fuzzi, Lor reading in NC
elkiedee, Luci reading in London, England
cbl_tn, Carrie reading in Knoxville, TN
streamsong, Janet reading in MT
jjmcgaffey, Jennifer reading in CA
avatiakh, Kerry reading in Auckland, New Zealand
Chatterbox, Suzanne reading in Providence, RI
cushlareads, Cushla reading in Wellington, New Zealand
susanna.fraser, Susanna reading in Seattle
Ameise1, Barbara reading in Zürich, Switzerland
carlym, reading in Houston, Texas
crazy4reading, Monica reading in Upper Chichester, PA
Cariola, Deborah reading in Chambersburg, PA
Fourpawz2, Charlotte reading in New Bedford, MA
FAMeulstee, Anita reading in Rheezerveen, Netherlands
ursula, reading in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
arubabookwoman, Deborah reading in Seattle
torontoc, Cyrel reading in Toronto
harrygbutler, Harry reading in eastern PA
Kristelh, reading in Minnesota
sywnn, Steve reading in MO

I'm in!

(Lor, from NC)

I will try to join in.

Luci, London, England

Count me in! Carrie in Knoxville, TN.

I'm in, too! Janet in MT

I'd like to fit in some reading then - I'll try to drop by. Jennifer in CA.

I'm in as well. That 9am Fri ET start time is a 3am Sat morn wakeup call for me! So I'll be starting a day earlier than others to fit more into my time zone.

Kerry, Auckland, New Zealand

I'll join in!

Suzanne, reading in Providence, RI.

I'm going to join in too and I'll be working with Kerry's New Zealand hours.

Cushla, Wellington, New Zealand.

I'm in on US West Coast time.

Susanna in Seattle.

I'm in, too.
Barbara, Zürich, Switzerland

Welcome everyone!

I'm in! This was my plan for the weekend anyway :)

In Houston, Texas

I'm in!!

Monica from Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania, USA

Happy to join you.

Cariola (Deborah) reading in Chambersburg, PA

I'll do my best to participate Friday through Sunday with some time devoted to watching the New England Patriots slap the Dolphins around. (But I'll be reading during the commercials!)

Charlotte in New Bedford, MA

I will be reading most of the time anyway.
I will try to report more than once, but the wifi at the holiday park isn't very stable...

Anita, staying a week in Rheezerveen, the Netherlands

I've been reading: Old & Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern - borrowed this book from the library after running across info about Stern and how she uncovered the name Louisa May Alcott used when writing her Blood and Thunder stories early on her writing career. This book makes me want to discover a rare book on almost any subject just for the thrill of discovery.

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 20
Reading time: 60 min.
Posting time: 5 min.

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 20
Total time read: 60 min.
Total time posting: 5 min.

Got to go do something about the laundry now as there is - as always - a great pile of it lurking in the cellar. Back in a bit.

I'll get started right after lunch. For the past few days, I've been reading kindle book samples, trying to decide what to exchange for a couple of books I was given for Christmas that just aren't my cuppa. Today I will get back to Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin. It's an ARC from Book Browse, and the review is long overdue. I'm about 1/3 through, but it's a fast read.

I've been reading: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 27
Reading time: 30 minutes

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 27
Total time read: 30 minutes

I started this book awhile ago but had to set it aside to finish some library books. I'm enjoying it, it's the story of a German boy and a French girl and their lives during World War II, the chapters alternate back and forth between their perspectives. I'm finding Werner's storyline to be the more compelling of the two, but I'm liking it overall.

I've been reading: Amberwell (thanks @SylviaC!)
Books finished: 0
Total books read: 0

I'll do better once I get home. :)

I've been reading: The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 106
Reading time: 150min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 106
Total time read: 2h 30min
Total time posting: 5min

I started this book earlier this week and currently I'm in the middle of it.

I figure I might as well add my reading here! I'm in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.

I've been reading: Waiting
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 33
Reading time: 20 min
Posting time: 4 min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 33
Total time read: 20 min
Total time posting: 4 min

This is a book that I remember vaguely hearing something about years ago when I was working in a bookstore. (I have lots of those.) It takes place in China during the Cultural Revolution.

I'm still reading: Old & Rare and I've added Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 52 (O&R - 10 pages, RC - 42 pages)
Reading time: 97 min.
Posting time: 5 min.
Total books read: 2 (this one always confuses me - I never have known whether it's meant to be total books I've finished or total books I've read from
Total pages read: 72 pages
Total time read: 2 hrs. 37
Total time posting: 10 min.

I've been reading: Oorlog en vrede 1/2 (= War and peace 1/2) by Leo Tolstoj
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 136
Reading time: 135min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 136
Total time read: 2h 15min
Total time posting: 5min

I started this book today.

>24 Fourpawz2: I really enjoyed Remarkable Creatures--hope you do, too!

I've been reading: Her Holiday Man by Shannon Stacey
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 127
Reading time: 85 minutes
Posting time: 5 minutes

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 127
Total time read: 1 hr 15 min
Total time posting: 5 min

I listened to about 30 minutes of Homegoing. I've been running errands and working around the house today, and now Tennessee's bowl game is on. This evening I hope to finish the last 50 pages of Anything But Civil and maybe catch up on a few reviews. I'd also like to finish Murder at Teatime tonight.

Probably won't be reading seriously until later tonight as I'm battling a migraine. I, too, have Homegoing on my TBR stack, along with several mindless mysteries and The Sellout; I'm going to try to finish my last Europa book of the year, too, The Thursday Night Men.

I've been reading Medicus by Ruth Downie.
Books finished: 0
Pages read:30
Reading time: 30 minutes

It's 10.30 on the 31st here already so I'll be out in the garden attacking the weeds for the next couple of hours.

>20 LibraryLover23: I loved All the Light You Cannot See!

I've been reading: The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 45
Reading time: 70min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 151
Total time read: 3h 10min
Total time posting: 10min

I started this book earlier this week and currently I'm in the middle of it.

It's 10.30pm here and I call good night.

I'm Deborah, reading from the Seattle area.

I'll start with The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, which I hope to finish today.

>26 Cariola: - I'm liking it a lot, Deborah. Chevalier is one of my favorites.

I'm still reading: Old & Rare and Remarkable Creatures
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 52 (O&R - 19 pages, RC - 30 pages)
Reading time: 2 hrs. and 41 min. - I'm slower reading O&R because I keep looking up stuff that I find I want to know more about. Proof that I have a mind that's pretty much like the mind of a flea.
Posting time: 5 or so min.
Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 121 pages
Total time read: 5 hrs. 18 min.
Total time posting: 15 or so min.

I've been reading Justice and Utu by David Hair
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 62pgs
Reading time: 60mins

I got quite distracted yesterday from my reading plans so hope to settle for some more concentrated reading today in the lead up to New Years Eve.

It's 11am, Sat

Oh, I am bad! Got caught up in other things and haven't started reading yet. I'm about to give the kitties their dinner and then will settle down for a few hours of reading.

>29 Chatterbox: sorry to hear about your migraine: my mother, two sisters, and my daughter all have suffered with migraines. :(

I'll do some reading this weekend -I have some baking to do but could work in a book!
Cyrel reading in Toronto

I don't think I'll have too much time, but I will be doing some reading this weekend, both before and after the New Year, here in eastern Pennsylvania.

--Harry

I've been reading: Amberwell (thanks @SylviaC!)
Books finished: 1
Total books read: 1

List of books read/completed:
Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson

Onward!!

I've been reading: Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 150
Reading time: 60 min

Total books completed: 1
Total pages read: 277
Total time read: 2 hr 15 min

I've been reading off and on today and finished about 70 pages in Cursed Child with about 100 pages to go before completion. I hope to finish it and the audio of The Tiger's Wife in the old year. In the new year I'm switching over to Evicted which I only have from the library for about ten days due to the long que of requestors.

I'll be setting up my 2017 thread today & tomorrow, too.

I would like to join in but I probably will read only a little, I hope to spend time also putting more substance to my planning for 2017 and my summing up of 2016. Just started, 12/30/16, 8:27 pm

I've been reading: ninety-nine stories of GOD GY Joy Williams.
Books finished: (in the last hour) 0
Pages read: (number of pages) no pages in my book but read 7 vignettes
Reading time: (in minutes) 30 min
Posting time: (time spent writing updates and visiting threads, in minutes), 120 min

Total books read:
Total pages read:
Total time read: (in hours and minutes)
Total time posting: (in hours and minutes)

>37 torontoc: Glad to see you here, Cyrel, for whatever amount of time you have free.

Hurray, I finally got some reading done!

I've been reading: Victoria: a novel of the young queen by Daisy Goodwin. Looking forward to the series, which start on PBS 1/6/17.
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 40
Reading time: 60 min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 40
Total time read: 60 minutes

I don't track posting time; never could see the pointif the goal is reading books.

I'm going back to read some more and will post again before I go to bed.

Question: How do those of you who are reading kindle books count pages?

I've been reading: "On Tranquillity of Mind," by Plutarch, in Moralia, Volume VI
Books finished: 0
Reading time: 70 minutes

Finished my second book of the day! I'm deliberately choosing shorter works in an effort to get to 150 books on the year. This one was #149.

I've been reading: Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 157
Reading time: 60 min

Total books completed: 1
Total pages read: 434
Total time read: 3 hr 15 min

Oh gosh, I'm behind. I was getting trolled on twitter and determined to stay ahead and come out with a little dignity. What was embarrassing was my first tweet was to our Prime Minister, so he was getting trolled along with me & a couple of others. I suggested they do some reading so was being trolled for an LT list of 280 books on the Middle East, and was accused of bias.

eta: settling down with my book again.

Waiting in vain for UPS to deliver a book from Amazon as promised -- but now they told me that they lied and won't deliver it until Jan 3rd, when I won't be here. ARGH. So I did do some reading, just to keep myself sane. At least I can now go get something to eat and go to bed.

I've been reading: The Bull of Mithros by Anne Zouroudi
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 150

Total books read:1
Total pages read: 150

I don't track reading time or posting time; sorry. Assume that I'm reading when not sleeping, eating, etc. And while I'll have to set up my new thread at some point, I won't be posting that much.

I've got a bunch of mindless mysteries that I'll probably turn to next. I've just read about 38 pages of Rise the Dark, by Michael Koryta, an ARC that I got earlier this year because it's the sequel of a book I read previously that was quite good. I've got the new John Grisham book on my Kindle, and even a deep discount copy of a James Patterson book, if my head gets bad. On my audiobook, I'm listening to The Sherlockian by Graham Moore.

For "serious stuff", when I feel up to it, I'll starting reading Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. I've also got The Sellout by Paul Beatty, but that may wait. I have two short memoirs that I might look at, one for a book group meeting next week, A Tour of Bones by Denise Inge, and the other Bleaker House, by Nell Stevens, an ARC of a yet-to-be published book.

No idea what will get read and what won't. Depends on my head and my energy level. I don't have much else on my plate, having finished work and (most) grocery shopping today.

I've Been Reading: The Leopard by Jo Nesbo
Books Finished: 0
Time Reading 2 1/2 hours
Pages Read: 119 pages

Watching a movie now. Will probably read some more after the movie before I go to sleep, but probably won't post again tonight.

I finally finished Anything But Civil and I'm off to bed now. Hopefully I'll have a little more time for reading tomorrow than I did today!

I've been reading: Aiding the Enemy by Julie Rowe
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 108
Reading time: 75 min

Total books completed: 3
Total pages read: 542
Total time read: 4 hr 30 min

I've only just discovered this thread, but have spent most of the evening reading so will join in

(Steve in MO)

I've been reading: How We Learn by Benedict Carey
also: Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
and: History of the Civil War: 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 240
Reading time: 240ish
Posting time: 15 min

Total books read: 1
Total pages read:
Total time read: 4 hours
Total time posting: 15 min

I've been reading Justice and Utu by David Hair and finished just on midnight. So it's 2017 here in New Zealand.
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 172pgs
Reading time: over the evening
Total pages read: 238

6:51 am, 12/31/16, checking in
I've been reading: ninety-nine stories of GOD by Joy Williams
Books finished: 0
Pages read: I have completed 75 of the 99 stories
Reading time: 60
Posting time: Just started back on-line after sleeping

>44 Cariola: I believe it is possible to see page numbers on the Kindle, but it might depend on what model you have. Maybe try Googling your model and see what it says? Otherwise, I would just count what percentage you read...

I've been reading:
Books finished: 1 ninety-nine stories of GOD by Joy Williams
Pages read: 168 pages
Reading time: 30
Posting time: 9:41 am, 12/31/16, update

I've been reading: Oorlog en vrede 1/2 (= War and peace 1/2) by Leo Tolstoj
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 169
Reading time: 195min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 305
Total time read: 5h 30min
Total time posting: 10min

>48 Chatterbox: What is the book you're waiting for? I just got The Sellout from the library. I know it won the Booker, but I don't know anyone who has read it that was crazy about it.

55> Thanks. I can count pages on my kindle, but I'm not sure that coordinates with actual book pages. Will have to look that up. I increase the font size for easier reading, so if a page = a screen, it would be way off. For now I'm going by a percentage.

I've been reading: Victoria: a novel of the young queen by Daisy Goodwin and Taking Liberties by Diana Norman
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 56
Reading time: 90 min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 96
Total time read: 1 hour 30 minutes

I have been reading The Captive Press in the Third Reich by Oron J. Hale.

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 44
Reading time: 60ish

Total books finished: 0
Total pages read: 44
Total reading time: 60ish

I've been reading: Waiting, The Country of Ice Cream Star
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 24
Reading time: 20 min
Posting time: 5 min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 57
Total time read: 40 min
Total time posting: 24 min

>44 Cariola: I think it depends more on how the book is formatted than the device whether or not you can see page numbers, or at least it does for me on my ancient kindle. In this case, I just googled for the book and did the math for the percentage read out of the total number of pages I turned up.

I left out some reading I did yesterday because part of it was half an hour's worth of listening to an audio book (Wave) and I had seriously no idea of an easy way to put that into pages, so I didn't bother.

Snow is coming down here. Took the dog for a walk a few minutes ago and it's anywhere between 5 and 12 inches deep on the sidewalks.

Kristelh, Minnesota

I've been reading: A God In Ruins Kate Atkinson and starting Homegoing by Gyasi
Books finished: 1, since starting
Pages read: 168 since starting
Reading time: 0
Posting time: off and on, I would say 1 hour or more

Now I'm reading Remarkable Creatures, Invisible Man (for my RL Book Club) and I've finished Old & Rare
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 74 (O&R - 31 pages, RC - 21 pages, IM - 22 pages)
Reading time: 4 hrs. and 8 min.
Posting time: 5 or so min.
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 195 pages
Total time read: 9 hrs. 26 min.
Total time posting: 20 or so min.

Plan to begin Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis now. I won't return to Invisible Man until tomorrow; The book club meeting is the 3rd week in January and I don't want to finish this book weeks beforehand. Want to keep it fresh in my mind.

>62 Fourpawz2:, Remarkable Creatures is one of my favorites. Invisible Man is good too.

>58 Cariola: Was waiting for Erewhon by Samuel Butler. It is not here... Oh well.

I did some more reading last night, in the middle of the night, and this morning. Had a very interrupted night's sleep.

I've been reading: A Tour of Bones by Denise Inge -- 130 pages; Rise the Dark by Michael Koryta -- 46 pages; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi -- 36 pages; The Murder House by James Patterson -- 52 pages.
I also ended up listening to a big chunk of Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann when I couldn't sleep, which I LOVED -- he is the narrator, and it's simply wonderful. I've listened to about a quarter of it (the title novella), or about 65 pages' worth.

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 329

Total books completed:1 (The Bull of Mithros by Anne Zouroudi)
Total pages read: 479

I'll probably finish the memoir in the next hour or so, and move on to read one of the mysteries.

I finished the final 29 pages of The Leopard before I went to sleep last night, and now I've started The Reef by Edith Wharton which is short enough (162 pp) that I should be able to finish it by midnight, and start 2017 with a new book.

I've been reading: The Reef
Pages Read 20
Time Reading 1 hour
Books Finished 1--The Leopard
Total pages read 168
Total Time Read 3 1/2 hours

I've been reading: The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 163
Reading time: 240min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 314
Total time read: 7h 10min
Total time posting: 15min

It's 10pm, we are going slowly to the new year.

Happy New Year to everyone.

I've been reading: ( last night -1421 The Year China Discovered The World - about 30 pages and today The Singapore Grip about 35 pages so far. I am looking to read some books that I had started and put down for various reasons.
Books finished:0
Pages read:65
Reading time: last night and this afternoon-inbetween cooking and some baking

Books finished: 2
Total books read: 2

List of books read/completed:
Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
Hook Em, Snotty! by Gary Paulsen

Re page numbers on Kindle - some books have page numbers, some don't - I wish my purchases from Amazon all had page numbers. Netgalley books don't, as they are document files rather than published ebooks, and sometimes have very erratic formatting too. I also have some ebooks bought from a publisher that can be read on any device, ie they are not published as books in the Kindle format but as documents.

You could guess how many pages you might have read from percentage read multiplied by page number shown on Amazon (which are usually not quite right but it's an estimate). Or if you've just read a few "pages" or turns usually one page of a book is about 2 "pages" on a Kindle at the font size I read at (normally the 4th option but some books need a slightly different size to be read comfortably). Or just put percentage read!

9 am EST would be 2 pm in London - we are on GMT in winter.

I was out from late morning until after 8 pm so didn't start reading probably until well after that. Have had a bit more reading time today, but still distractions.

Time period From 2 pm 30.01 to 10 pm 31.01 (no reading in the last 2 hours or so!) - 32 hours

I've been reading:
Val McDermid, Out of Bounds
Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
Jo Walton, Half a Crown
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Jonathan Coe, Number 11
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off
Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 241 pages
Reading time: not measured
Posting time: not measured

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 241
Total time read: not measured
Total time posting: not measured

I'm quite surprised that I've read so many pages! Mostly from 3 books so far.

Total books read: 3

List of books read/completed:
Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
Hook Em, Snotty! by Gary Paulsen
The Dark Canoe by Scott O'Dell

I've been reading: Michigan in Four Centuries
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 42
Reading time: 35 min
Posting time: 15 min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 99
Total time read: 1 hr 15 min
Total time posting: 40 min

I checked this out of the library to get an overview of the state history I have of course missed by not being from around here. I didn't figure it would make that much difference that it was written in the 60s since what I'm most interested in is the earlier stuff anyway. However, I just keep saying "yikes" about the descriptions of the native people. "The Indians were savages, but they did have some inventions that the white man found useful" is only one example. That and reading about those aggressive, war-crazy Iroquois has made me put it down. *sigh*

I've been reading: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 66
Reading time: 1 hour and 10 minutes

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 93
Total time read: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Still enjoying my book, will try to get more read later tonight. Happy New Year everyone!

I've been reading: White Rage by Carol Anderson
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 46
Reading time: 45 min

Total books completed: 3
Total pages read: 588
Total time read: 5 hr 15 min

I finished the last five stories in Murder at Teatime: Mysteries in the Classic Cozy Tradition. I've been dipping into this book off and on for several months, and wanted to wrap it up before the end of the year. I just made it! Next up is The Hare with Amber Eyes.

I have been reading The Captive Press in the Third Reich by Oron J. Hale.

Books finished: 1
Pages read: 96
Reading time: 90

Total books finished: 1
Total pages read: 140
Total reading time: 150

Total books read: 4

List of books read/completed:
Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
Hook Em, Snotty! by Gary Paulsen
The Dark Canoe by Scott O'Dell
Body, Soul, and Spirit by Peter S. Ruckman

>77 fuzzi: Wow, fuzzi, you are really killing it! *Applauds loudly*

I finished Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. I'm glad I persisted. The second half really picked up. 3.8 stars

I spent about thirty minutes listening to The Tiger's Wife as I was driving to get groceries. I have a print copy, too, and it looks like I have about 120 pages left.

And I took a sneak peak of about twenty pages in Evicted which I didn't plan to start until tomorrow.

I'm settling in to read.

Books finished: 1
Pages read: 151 pages + 30 min audio
Reading time: ?
Posting time:spent about an hour setting up my 2017 thread
Total books read: 0

Who is staying up until midnight to see the New Year in?

Kristelh, Minnesota, 12/31/16, 8:45 pm

I've been reading: A God In Ruins Kate Atkinson and starting Homegoing by Gyasi
Books finished: 1, since starting
Pages read: 168 + 27 = 195 and about 54% done with the audio of A God in Ruins.
Reading time: maybe 60 min
Posting time: I've just spent the last 2 to 3 hours going through my past year's books and making my own best of lists. Now I need to get back to reading.

I have been reading off and on the past few days. I haven't finished a book yet but going to try and read some more before the new year. I had to go pick my daughter and SIL up at the airport so I got a good 30 minutes of reading in while waiting for them to land and get through customs.

I've been reading: A Tour of Bones by Denise Inge -- 112 pages and The Murder House by James Patterson -- 24 pages.

Books finished: 1
Pages read: 136

Total books completed: 2 (The Bull of Mithros by Anne Zouroudi and A Tour of Bones)
Total pages read: 615

I think I may switch back to Rise the Dark and finish that and perhaps the Colum McCann book tonight. We'll see.

>78 streamsong: I'm still up...I was trying to finish one more book for 2016, but I didn't have enough time. I'll finish it later today, January 1st.

I've been reading: Notorious RBG
-- and: Two Serpents Rise
Books finished: 2
Pages read: 340
Reading time: 360 min.
Posting time: 60 min

Total books read: 3
Total pages read: 580
Total time read: 10 hrs
Total time posting: 75 min

Finished all my TIOLI goals for December, though it took me down to the wire. Tomorrow's goal will be just to get my 2017 thread set up. Well, and maybe read some. You know.

I'm still reading but as usual real life has overtaken. I am making good progress in Medicus though and should finish it by the end of tomorrow. And fuzzi, I bought Amberwell for my Kindle - thanks!

I didn't really get around to reading much yesterday, but I did get some time this morning:

I've been reading: Why Shoot a Butler?, by Georgette Heyer
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 56
Reading time: 55 minutes

>83 swynn: Swynn, how is Notorious RBG?

>86 carlym: I liked it. It's a bit gushy, like a juvenile biography about some sports- or pop music star, but that's the intent, so complaining about it is just missing the point. (There's even an appendix about how to be like RBG.) I was already convinced of Ginsburg's awesomeness, so I didn't mind. If you're looking for nuance you'll be disappointed. For what it's trying to do it's quite good.

Since I was last here...

I've been reading Remarkable Creatures and Founding Brothers
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 49 (RC - 21 pages, FB - 28 pages)
Reading time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Posting time: Who the heck knows anymore - not me!
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 244 pages
Total time read: 11 hrs. 1 min.
Total time posting: Guess I'm dropping this particular stat...

I've been reading: Oorlog en vrede 1/2 (= War and peace 1/2) by Leo Tolstoj
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 451
Reading time: 7h 30 min

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 756
Total time read: 13h 0 min

Next book Oorlog en vrede 2/2 (=War and peace 2/2 by Leo Tolstoj

I've been reading: still reading The Singapore Grip ( it is about 500 pages )
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 91
Reading time: last night and this morning
total pages read so far this weekend 156

I've been reading: The Exeter Book Riddles, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 55
Reading time: 45 minutes

I've now read a third of the riddles and am taking a break from them.

Kristelh, Minnesota, 1/1/2017, 2:28 pm

I've been reading: A God In Ruins Kate Atkinson and starting Homegoing by Gyasi
Books finished: 1, since starting
Pages read: 168 + 82 = 250 pages and about 64% done with the audio of A God in Ruins.
Reading time: 45 min
Posting time: maybe 30 min

Last report, off to bed after this

I've been reading: Oorlog en vrede 2/2 (= War and peace 2/2) by Leo Tolstoj
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 58
Reading time: 1h 0 min

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 814
Total time read: 14h 0 min

It was fun to participate!

Not much reading done, today. We went to our art museum for the Alberto Giacometti exhibition which was gorgeous.

I've been reading: The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 76
Reading time: 95min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 390
Total time read: 8h 35min
Total time posting: 20min

I still have 46 pages to read until finishing the book. I hope I'll do it tomorrow.

Reading The Green Hills of Earth, and am enjoying it. I started this old SciFi last night, but ran out of time.

>87 swynn: Swynn, that sounds entertaining! I got an RBG pencil case for Christmas from a friend, so I'm already a fan :)

I have been reading Eamon de Valera: The Man Who Was Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan.

Books finished: 1
Pages read: 48
Reading time: 65

Total books finished: 1
Total pages read: 188
Total reading time: 215

I've been reading: Die Again by Tess Gerritsen
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 332 pg
Reading time: 2 hours
Posting time: 15 min

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 332
Total time read: 2 hrs. 30 min.
Total time posting: 30 min

Not sure what the next book will be. I do have my book club book I need to read so I may decide to pick that one up next.

I did more napping than reading this afternoon. So far today I've read the first 3 chapters of Genesis for the year-long Bible as literature group read, the first 3 chapters of Deerbrook for another group read, and most of the title story in Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. I'll finish that one and then switch to The Hare with Amber Eyes.

I've been reading: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 65
Reading time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 158
Total time read: 2 hours and 55 minutes

Still trundling along, I'm really liking this book and nearing the end, if I can devote enough time to it I may be able to finish it tomorrow.

I finished The Reef by Edith Wharton just before midnight last night for my last book of the year. Today I've been reading Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai, and so far I'm on page 50.

Reading now: Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
Pages Read: 50
Books Completed 2
Total Pages Read: 360 pp

I've been reading: White Rage by Carol Anderson
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 120
Reading time: didn't track

Total books completed: 4
Total pages read: 708
Total time read: ??

I've been reading: still reading The Singapore Grip ( it is about 500 pages )
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 32
Reading time: this morning and a little bit this evening so far-went to a party in the afternoon
total pages read so far this weekend 188

Haven't gotten a lot of reading done today. I didn't sleep well the last two nights, so I keep falling asleep in my chair. A warm kitty on a warm throw on my lap only adds to it.;

I've been reading: Victoria: a novel of the young queen by Daisy Goodwin and Taking Liberties by Diana Norman
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 71 pages
Reading time: 2 hours 30 min

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 167
Total time read: 4 hours

I've been reading: still reading The Singapore Grip ( it is about 500 pages )
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 42
Reading time: this evening
total pages read so far this weekend 230 and am a little over half way through the novel

I've been doing everything but reading, so by the end of 2016 I finished one more book, Justice and Utu rather than the three i'd been planning to. So far in 2017 I've only read about 10% more of my e-book, Spice and the Devil's Cave, a children's book about Ferdinand Magellan.

It's just gone 5pm Monday 2 Jan here in Auckland, NZ.

I've finished finaly my first book.

I've been reading: The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 46
Reading time: 50min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 1 The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Total pages read: 426
Total time read: 9h 21min
Total time posting: 20min

Next one The Underground Railroad

Weekend totals:

I was reading The Captive Press in the Third Reich (finished), Eamon de Valera: The Man Who Was Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan, and So Me by Graham Norton.

Total books finished: 1
Total pages read: 286
Total reading time: 315

I got some more time this morning and finished one book.

I've been reading: Why Shoot a Butler?, by Georgette Heyer
Books finished: 1
Pages read: about 135
Reading time: about 150 minutes

I've been reading: Time stamp 1/2/2017, 12:17 PM
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Books finished: none in the last hour
Pages read:
56 pages of Homegoing
14% of A God in Ruins
Reading time: 3 hours
Posting time: 30 min

Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 168 + 138 = 306 pages and about 79% done with the audio of A God in Ruins.
Total time read:
Total time posting:

I haven't read any more since I last posted, as I've not been very well, but hope to read a bit more tonight (it's 5 hours ahead of EST here so will be 10 pm).

I've been reading: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Books finished:
Pages read: 135
Reading time: 150min
Posting time: 5min

Total books read: 1 The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
Total pages read: 561
Total time read: 11h 51min
Total time posting: 25min

Thanks so much for this readathon. I did lots of reading.

As usual, I got sidetracked by other diversions and did not get as much reading done as I had hoped. The readathon is over, but I plan to spend the evening reading anyway, hoping to complete Victoria.

I've been reading: Victoria: a novel of the young queen by Daisy Goodwin and Taking Liberties by Diana Norman
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 61 pages
Reading time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Total books read: 0
Total pages read: 167
Total time read: 5 hours 30 minutes

I read another 113 pp in Baumgartner's Bombay since I last reported.

Books Read From Baumgartner's Bombay
Pages Read 113

Books Finished 1 The Leopard
Total pages read 473

I finished my book, All The Light We Cannot See, just in time for the end of the readathon. So I accomplished my goal and got my reading year off to a good start. Win, win. Thanks everyone for participating!

I've been reading: Time stamp 1/2/2017, 6:20 CST, posting for the last time
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Books finished: 1- A God in Ruins
Pages read: 21% of the remaining audio
56 pages of Homegoing
14% of A God in Ruins
Reading time: 1 hour
Posting time:

Total books read: 2
Total pages read: 306 and 21% of the audio book.

Given the circumstances and because I tend to read more later at night, I allowed myself an extra hour, and read another 60 pages before 11 pm, but with no books finished.

I wasn't feeling well yesterday and today, but managed to finish one more book.

Total books read: 5

List of books read/completed:
Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
Hook Em, Snotty! by Gary Paulsen
The Dark Canoe by Scott O'Dell
Body, Soul, and Spirit by Peter S. Ruckman
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein

>118 fuzzi:, great job finishing 5 books!

>118 fuzzi: Well done!