The History Book Club discussion

2016 - Readathon Seven Date: April 23rd, 2016 - 4PM - 8PM - THIS IS CHECK IN THREE

Please let us know who is reading during these this period of time.

Let us know the following:

Name of Book and Author:
Genre:
Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period.
Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.
How much time did you read:
Did you complete any books:
What time zone are you in and where are you located.

So for example:

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
by Paul Scott - Genre: Historical Fiction - pages start 1 - finish 80

If you finished a book - let us know that too and make sure to get it added to your readathon shelf so you can get credit for it. If it is added properly it will show up on your shelf. You have to make sure to have selected a readathon shelf and when you are done with the first book for your readathon - make sure to add the completed date and that the book is read versus currently reading.

It will show up on your shelf if you have done this properly.

Remember wherever you are you can participate in the readathon.

And if you only have one hour or four hours or plan to do this for the entire 24 hour period taking of course breaks for eating and sleeping - you can join for however long you want to read. We want to keep track of the books completed, the books started, the books in progress, the number of pages read by all, and the different genres. Great fun and this is only the fifth readathon - we will use the same readathon challenge for all of them so you can see your readathon shelves grow.

Additionally these books that you complete on the readathon can be added to other shelfs for the Japan or India challenge or the 2016 50 Books Challenge or the goodreads yearly challenge - the sky is the limit. Any genre is welcome.

Remember folks this is the check in for anybody reading during the hours of 4PM until 8PM on April 23rd, 2016 (wherever in the world you are - use your time zone). If you want to get credit for any reading done during these four hours you must check in on this thread - Checkpoint 3. But for the check in to count - you must post between the hours of 4PM to 8PM on April 23rd in the time zone that you are in. This is the Checkpoint for those hours on April 23rd. To get credit for these hours this is the thread and CHECKPOINT you must post on. THIS IS CHECKPOINT 3

REMEMBER AT LEAST ONE CHECK-IN MUST REFLECT THE FOLLOWING TO BE COUNTED IN THE READATHON AND OF COURSE YOU MUST CHECK-OUT AT THE END.

Make sure to answer the following:

Name of Book and Author or books and authors:

Genre or genres:

Number of Pages Read - Start Page and Finish Page for this four hour period.

Don't forget the proper citation - just do the best you can and we will assist you.

How much time did you read during this block of time:

Did you complete any books during this time frame and what were they?

Also, your location in the world and timezone

Folks everytime we do this we always find folks who want to participate but fail to join and set up their shelves properly so that they can get full credit:

You must join!

Very important:

How To Join In: - Go here first: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Click on the title at the top - The HBC Readathons. Please then join by simply signing in at the bottom and say how many books you plan to read for one or more of the readathon dates - there will be six readathon dates throughout each year; then create your own personal shelf to add the books which you would like to tackle during one readathon or more readathons. That is all there is to it and goodreads will keep track. Become your own marathoner in reading books on the readathon dates and we will keep track of your progress in terms of titles of books, number of books, number of pages, and different genres. Give it a whirl and see how much reading you can get done and take a stab at that big "to be read" pile of books that we all have.

Note: Don't forget to set up your shelf first and then add the name of that shelf here when setting up the challenge for your readathon.

And here are some links to the Readathon folder which will be updated:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Continuing with:

by Gilbert King

Genre or genres: History
Start Page: 230
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 276
Total Pages Read: 46
How much time did you read during this block of time: 1 hour 30 min
Location: Zagreb, Croatia, CEST
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

Continuing with:

by Ivo Goldstein
Title in English:History of the City of Zagreb: 20th and 21st century
Genre or genres: History
Start Page: 57
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 85
Total Pages Read: 28
How much time did you read during this block of time: 1 hours 10 minutes
Location: Zagreb, Croatia, CEST
Books Complete: 0 so far
What were they? None so far

Time for something different:

, by Michael Knox Beran (no author photo)
Genre: History (European)
Start page: 291
Finish page: 378
Total pages: 87
Time spent: 115 minutes
Location & TZ: Kuşadası, Turkey, EEST
Completed book(s) Y/N: Y
Name(s) of completed book(s): The Beauty and the Sorrow; Forge of Empires

Checking in with:

by Laurentino Gomes

Genre: History of Brazil
Start page: 125
Finish Page: 250
Total pages read: 125
How much time did you read: 3h10
What time zone you are in and where are you located: Brazil (GMT -3)

by Dave Eggers
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia
Start Page: 194
Finish Page: 240
Total of pages : 46
Time spent: 1.25 hrs.
Book completion: N
Location and timezone: Georgia, USA, EST.
Checking out.

Bentley here and checking in on Checkpoint Three

I am working on two books:

Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics - (being the moderator I read the book twice - one go through and then a reread with the group)

by Michael Wolraich

The following is a reread:

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

by Rick Atkinson

Genre: History (WWI) and Political History
Start page: for UM - 61 - for AAatD - 150
Finish page: TBA and the other is still TBA
Total pages: TBA
Time spent: 4 hours
Location & TZ: Metro NYC, EST
Completed book(s) Y/N: TBA

Name of Book and Author or books and authors: by Gilbert King
Genre or genres: Historical Non Fiction
Start Page: 26
Finish Page: 54
Total Pages: 28
Time Spent: 53 minutes
Completed Books: N/A
Location: Pennyslvania, USA EST

Checking in for checkpoint 3,
Continuing to read:
by Hamid Ismailov (no photo)

Genre: Fiction
Start page: 12
End page: 81
checkpoint time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Total pages read for this checkpoint : 69
Total hours read for this checkpoint : 1.5
Total Books Read:1
Location: Southeastern PA, EST

Book read:
by Nevil Shute

Total pages read: 393
Total hours read: 7.0

Checking out

Checking in.

by Viola Shipman

Genre: Non-fiction / history
Start Page: 261
Finish Page: 298
Total of pages: 37

by Michael Wolraich

Genre: Fiction
Start Page: 53
Finish Page: 56
Total of pages: 3

Total of all pages: 40
Time spent: 1.5 hours
Books completed: 1
Location and timezone: Texas, Central Time

Completed:
by Viola Shipman

Check Point 3
by Robert Galbraith
Genre: British mystery
Start Pages: 445
End pages: 499
Total read 54 pages total
Total time 1.30 hours
Location: EST, SC
Books Completed: 1

by Gilbert King

Genre Historical non-fiction
Start page 190
End page. 205
Total read 15pages
Time read 30 min
Location. EST, SC
Book completed No

Had a Seder to help prepare and attend.
A Passover Haggadah by Central Conference of American Rabbis (no photo)
Genre: Jewish, religious
Read total 123 pages
Total time 2 hours
Book completed: yes

Had to go out for a while, but I'm back. Checking in:

The Forgotten by David Baldacci

by David Baldacci
Genre or genres: Mystery
Start Page: 230
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 305
Total Pages Read: 75
How much time did you read during this block of time: 2.5 hours
Location: Warner Robins, GA, EST
Books Complete: 1
What were they? by Kate Kingsbury

Getting something to eat - be back in a few minutes. Be in kitchen (smile)

Checking in:
by Adrienne Mayor
Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Ancient/Classical, Military
Start Page: 63
Finish Page: 145
Total Pages Read: 82
How much time spent reading: 1 hr.
Location: Southern California, Pacific Time Zone
Books Completed : 1

Completed:
by Jean Manco (no photo)
Genre: Non-Fiction, history, ancient, archeology

by Anton Chekhov

Genre: Fiction - Stories
Start Page: 57
Finish Page: 102
Total of Pages: 46
Time Spent: 1.25 hours
Books Completed: 0
Location and Time Zone: Washington State, Pacific Daylight Time

Checking out, please see message 10

Checked out, see msg 13.

Didn't realize the readathon was taking place today. I did read some this afternoon:

by Christopher McDougall
Genre: Non-Fiction
Start Page: 88
Finish Page: 121
Total Pages Read: 34
How much time did you read: 45 minutes
Books completed: 0
Time Zone: EST; Location: Florida

That is OK Glynn - I had the dates up for awhile but I think people did not notice for some reason - I will send out an event notification in advance next time so there is a reminder on your profile. That is OK - you can check in now and start and make sure to check out tomorrow.

Checked out - msg 11.

OK Teri - you should be moving on to Checkpoint Four

I messed up my first check in. I started at 4:40 p.m., but put that in check-in two. Now I've finished my first book. Here are the details:

by Jeffrey E. Garten

Genre or genres: History/Biography
Start Page: 311
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 361
Total Pages Read: 50
How much time did you read during this block of time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Location: Southern CA, PST
Books Complete: 1 so far
What were they?: by Jeffrey E. Garten

Tapping out! See message 15

by Priscilla Royal

Historical fiction
Start page 228
End page 252
pages read 24

by Leatrice Eiseman

Art History
Starting page 92
End page 97
pages read 5

Total time read 1 hour
Finished Tyrant of the Mind by Priscilla Royal

Vancouver BC Pacific Daylight Time

Checking out of this time period. See you all in period four!

Currently reading: by Richard Rubin(no photo)
Genre or genres: History
Start Page: 401
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 420
Total Pages Read: 69
How much time did you read during this block of time: 3 hours
Location: Southern CA, PST
Books Complete: 1 so far
What were they?: by Jeffrey E. Garten

Checked out - message 16

Not that much time reading, my son and family came for dinner, but I did manage to finish my book.

by Stephanie Barron
Genre: Historical mystery
Pages read: 258-329
Number of pages: 61
Reading time: 1 hr
Location: California, PDT
Books completed: 1

Had a bad internet connection during this checkpoint, so checking in late.
I started by Henry Hazlitt

Genre: Economics
Start Page: 1
Finish Page for this checkpoint: 62
Total Pages Read: 62
How much time did you read during this block of time: 2.75 hours
Location: Atlanta, GA, EST
Books Complete: 1
What were they?
by Sigrid Undset

No time to check in yesterday, but when I got home at four I began reading.

by Kerry Greenwood
Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery
Start page: 40
Finish page: 118
Total pages read: 78
Total time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Location: Pennsylvania, EST
Books completed: 0

Great progress guys and I will respond to each and every one of you and Donna - better late than never is what I always say.

YOU MUST CHECK OUT AT THE END WHEN YOU ARE DONE - CHECKPOINT SEVEN - READATHON ENDS 8AM ON APRIL 24TH, 2016

Everybody remember - no matter if you checked in on only one checkin - 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 - it doesn't matter - if you even had only one checking in - checkpoint or 6 checkpoints or somewhere in between - EVERYBODY MUST CHECK OUT.

You must Check out on Checkpoint Seven - THE ONLY CHECK OUT THREAD - HOPEFULLY BY NOON TODAY YOUR TIME.
(Although we try to be understanding - if you fell asleep - smile)

Here is the link to the MANDATORY CHECK OUT THREAD. It has its own template:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This is a sample CHECKOUT TEMPLATE: MODIFY IT FOR YOURSELF AND USE IT FOR CHECKOUT

by John W. Dean

Final Tally - 105 pages (all books)
Total Time Reading 2.45 hours
Genres: Non fiction and Politics - 1
Total Checkpoints Utilised - 2 Checkpoints and One Checkout
Total Number of Books Competed - 0
Total Number of Books in Progress - 1
Location/Timezone: UK, GMT