2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I would like to participate in this I would like to try for 18 hours!!

I'll go for 15 hours

I’m going to try and read for 24 hours.

Planned hours:
If I'm not celebrating Kingsday: 8 hours daily with an hour of yoga-break.
If I will be celebrating Kingsday: 4 hours on Friday and 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday.

Planned books:
- E-books:
* finish Mansfield Park
* finish Lightning

- Physical books:
* finish The Golden Compass
* read The Subtle Knife
* read Cross Fire
* start The Amber Spyglass

- Books for work:
* finish Praktijkboek EMDR: Casusconceptualisatie en specifieke patiëntengroepen
* start Handboek EMDR bij kinderen en jongeren

I can definitely commit to 12 hours. Will see how I get on throughout the readathon whether I increase my goal :)

Plan
Friday: 30-45 mins at lunch time, 1hr30 ish in the evening
Saturday/Sunday: minimum 5 hours per day

Actual Reading Time
Friday: 0.75 hours
Saturday: 5.75 hours
Sunday: 5.75 hours
TOTAL = 12.25 HOURS

I'm in for 24 hours though I hope to read more :-)

Day 1: 614 pages / 14.75 hours
Mord ist auch eine Lösung=Deadly Lampshades 4 chapters = 28 pages
Mein Leben als Pinguin lit. transl.: My Life as Pinguin - entire audiobook = 170 pages
Einladung zum Mord=Reunion in Death 12 chapters = 304 pages
Tote Maus für Papas Leben=Against the Odds entire audiobook = 112 pages

Day 2: 549 pages / 13.75 hours
Einladung zum Mord=Reunion in Death 10 chapters = 242 pages
Der Joker=I Am the Messenger entire audiobook = 253 pages
Der Report der Magd=The Handmaid's Tale 6 chpaters = 54 pages

Day 3: 464 pages / 14.25 hours
Mein Leben als Leser=The Polysyllabic Spree entire audiobook = 82 pages
The Gift of a Good Start entire novella = 68 pages
To Win Her Heart chapters 1 - 38 = 314 pages

Totals: 42.75 hours & 1,627 pages

I'm in for 24 hours to begin with

I will join for 16 hours!

I'll try for 24 hours.

i'll try for 24 hours :)

I'll go for 10 15 hours.

I have never done this before so I will start with 10 hours. Luckily for the Dutch people here April 27 is Kings day, so most of us have a day off. :)

Friday: 1 hour
Saturday: 4 hours
Sunday: 5 hours

Planned reads:
- finish: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- finish: Out of the Easy
- start anything that has been on my e-reader forever.

Maybe start May reads:
Middlesex
Empire of Storms
The Girl in the Tower

Actual reading time
Friday 9PM-11.59PM: 30 min Out of the Easy
Saturday 3PM-5.59PM: 1h Out of the Easy
Saturday 9PM-11.59PM: 1h 30 min Finished Out of the Easy
Sunday 3PM-5.59PM 30 min Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

3.5/10 hours

I’ll go for 16 hours for the three days.

Friday time: read for 4.25 hours
Saturday: read for 4 hours so far
Sunday:

Books read:

I am going to start with a conservative number - 8 hours - and will increase it if I can!

Ilona wrote: "I have never done this before so I will start with 10 hours. Luckily for the Dutch people here April 27 is Kings day, so most of us have a day off. :)"

I plan on going and selling some of my old, not liked, books :) (depending on the weather lol)

i am going to try for 12 I did 11 once so I will try for 12

I am going to try and join this! :) hopefully i won't forget! I am in for 16 hours? but will try for longer if i can.

I would like to join for 24 hours please

10 for me! Not sure what my weekend will look like, but I'll start with that and see how it goes.

It's to soon for me to tell you what I will be doing in 6 weeks! I can never figure out what I'm doing tomorrow, lol, but I will be reading for this.

i actually hope to do more than 24 kinda

I will aim for 16 hours.

Hi I’d like to join with a goal of 16 hours :)

I'll try for 12 hours.

I participated in my first one in January: the 24 in 48 readathon. I think I read for 10 hours. I even won a book.

I won a hardcover of The Woman in the Window, which I already had on my library wish list. I only read Kindle ebooks, but I think I might read the version I won, sometime this year.

I even added both versions of Rear Window to my Netflix queue, since the book is supposed to be similar.

This is my second one but, I am excited I have time to plan.

I know Stephen King is on the list just don't know what else.

I participated twice in the yearly two week Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon (has it's own group), several of the monthly 6 to 7 days RaTs (Crazy Challenge Connection & Badass Reading Challenges groups) though I never joined a 24-hour-RaT before.

It's too early for me know which of my many books will be still open in one month or stumble onto my TBR by than :-) Most of my books are for one of my many challenges or depending on my mood *grins*

Kristin wrote: "Updated through Message 33. Welcome!

Who here has participated in a readathon before and for whom will this be your first time? Any readathon plans yet (TBR pile, game plan, etc)?"

I participated in the last 24in48 readathon. I plan on reading some for work (not looking forward to it) and some for fun. After each 3-4 hours of reading for work I get to read for fun (probably His Dark Materials since I haven't been able to pick up those books from my library before my holiday, so will read all of them after I get back).

Dlyn wrote: "Possible titles I am *considering* for the read-a-thon ...

[book..."

Looks like it's going to be a great readathon for you Dlyn!

So unfortunately this is the same weekend as my mother celebrates her 60 year birthday. We are probably going to have visits and I have to bake two cakes, but I want to try for three hours, one hour a day. Wish I could read more, we will see how this goes.

Winter wrote: "So unfortunately this is the same weekend as my mother celebrates her 60 year birthday. We are probably going to have visits and I have to bake two cakes, but I want to try for three hours, one hou..."

Thank you! You just reminded me that this is a weekend I am traveling to visit an out of state cousin! I'm probably only going to be able to read for 3 or 4 hours too.

I'm in for 12 hours hopefully! I've never done a readathon before although I have wanted to. No clue yet what I will read.

There's a good chance I will read more than 12 hours with audiobook time but I leave it at that for now.
My attempted reading list, subject to change on a whim:

I will finish listening to

Intend to read from the following:

I'll be in Hawaii that weekend, so I'll have to pass on this Readathon :D

Kimberly wrote: "I'll be in Hawaii that weekend, so I'll have to pass on this Readathon :D"

Hawaii, awesome! Have fun Kimberly!

Kristin wrote: "Updated through Message 33. Welcome!

Who here has participated in a readathon before and for whom will this be your first time? Any readathon plans yet (TBR pile, game plan, etc)?"

Never done a readathon before but most weekends, I'm reading all day Saturday/Sunday. My plan is to finish a book from my TBR pile that I can include in as many group challenges as possible.

I'm going to try for 10 hours, I will have a friend in town for part of the weekend but we'll see how much I am able to read.

What a fun idea to choose a number of hours rather than pages/books. The Friday and Saturday are a bit busy for me (Friday is my birthday, Saturday is international tabletop day - I will be in a bookstore until 3am, just playing boardgames instead of reading!)

I'll sign up for a conservative 6 hours.

i would love to participate 10 hours

I would like to participate for 24 hours.

Will try for 20 hours

I’ll try for 15 hours.

I’m in for 12 hours.

This is my first time, I'm excited about this so I'm gonna give a try of 5 hours. I want to go in!!!

Please sign me up for 24 hours. Thanks!

Read for 12.5 hours
2 digital newspapers (world & national news sections)
1 novel - Happiness

I’ll try for 12 hours

As I don’t know what I’ll be doing on this weekend I’d want to set my goal to 6 hours of reading, two for each day. This is also my first readathon so I’m very excited!

Kristin,

I’ll be visiting the Big Island! My grandparents live there so I’ll be staying with them. This is my second time visiting that island but I’ve also done Oahu before. My mom grew up on Oahu :)

16 hours. We'll see how far I get. So dividing that logically would be five hours and 20 min every day. Seems doable as my break starts then so I can do my school work later that break.

That's the weekend of my anniversary so I think I will be asking for work off. I will go for sixteen hours. I think I can do a lot of reading that Friday.