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From Friday Oct 24th at 12.01am (in your local time zone), you start keeping track of how many pages you read until Sunday Oct 26th at 11.59pm. In October Read-a-thon thread you will post your progress, telling everyone what you're reading and how many pages. Then all readers' totals will be tallied on the Monday to reach the goal of 15,000 pages. This is a relaxed read-a-thon; it doesn't matter if you read 20 pages or 100, it also doesn't matter if we reach our goal, it's just having fun doing what you would normally be doing anyway:)

Once the thread is posted in Book Chat, make sure reply to the event or put your name on the thread if you would like to be included. If you simply stumble onto the thread, then please, join in!

*An easy way to keep track is using the Currently Reading feature on Goodreads, entering your page number at the end of each day.

**For those who read by eReader, take the page number which shows for paperback/hardcover here on Goodreads for your total. Calculate by percentage to work out your page number read.

***For audio listeners, check out how many pages the book has on Goodreads, then divide that number by how many CDs or hours it is to give you an idea of pages per time.

If you respond 'Yes” to the event invitation, please don't forget to list totals in Octber Read-a-thon thread in Bookchat. Don't forget to post your totals of daily or full weekend tally on the thread.

We'll see how it is better to state the number of pages read: I did a lot of confusion last month summing up.
Probably the best thig is to edit each of us our message, so we are present in this discussion only once, with all the pages ...
I don't know if I've been clear!

For istance: here I say "I'm in".
When the Read-a-thon starts, I come to this very message and editing it I write:

Page Count: (ready for editing)

Martin Suter, Allmen e le libellule 107
Fannie Flagg,  Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! 410
Anthony Trollope,  Kept in the Dark 275
Tennesse Wiliams The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof 45
Javier Marías, Gli innamoramenti 65
tot 902

I'm in!

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Friday: 286 (The Goldfinch)
Saturday: 130 (The Goldfinch)
Sunday: 276 (The Goldfinch)
( too bad we have our gaming group on Saturday... With cleaning and visiting, etc, will only get my midnight oil reading done :( )
Overall total: 492

I'm in!

Page Count: (ready for editing)

Friday: 1,203 pages
Saturday: 0 pages
Sunday: 50 pages

Overall Total: 1,253 pages

Great idea to organise it this way, Laura!

I'm in!

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Friday: 22
Saturday: 89
Sunday: 0

Overall Total:

I'm in.

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Friday: 10 pages of We were liars and 6 pages of an Arabic book.
Saturday: -
Sunday: 177

Overall total: 193 pages

I'm in.

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Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

Overall total:

I'm in, too!


Page count:

Friday: 72 pages
Saturday: 46 pages
Sunday: 15 pages (don't ask; it's been a crazy day)

Overall total: 133

Books:
Friday: The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72 (finished)
Saturday: Dombey and Son (30 pages) and The Haunting of Hill House (16 pages)
Sunday: The Haunting of Hill House (15 pages)

I'm in! And in the spirit of monkey see, monkey do, I also copy the format...

Page count: (ready for editing)
Friday: 140
Saturday: 679
Sunday: 601

Overall total:   1420

I'm in!

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Friday: 230 in Death in the Air, and 381 in A Brother's Honor total-611 pages
Saturday: 323 in Scrapped, 185 in Hearts Are Wild, 259 in Heart of a Widow, 336 in The End of Your Life Book Club, 441 in Duck the Halls, 132 in The Problem With Love,226 in Snobbery With Violence, and got 92 pages into The Woman in White Saturday total-total 2004 pages
Sunday:The Woman in White 134 more pages, 210 in Love in Her Life, 282 in Mischief and Marriage, 397 in A Catered Valentine's Day, and 483 in The Collector Sunday total-1406

Overall total: 4021 pages

I'm totally in!

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Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

I'm in!

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Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

I'm in!
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Friday: Gardner's Art Through The Ages-pages 333-362, Ah, Wilderness!-page 47
Saturday: Finished read City Of Bones- 369 pages, finished Ah, Wilderness! - 159 pages
Sunday: The Green Mile- page 262, Naked Lunch-page 30, Canterbury Cathedral-page 25

Overall Total: 1,587 pages

I'm in also

I'm in.

Page Count: (ready for editing)

Friday:
A Wrinkle in Time: 100 pages

Saturday:
A Wrinkle in Time: 103 pages
Skipping Christmas: 30 pages

Sunday:
Skipping Christmas: 145 pages

Overall Total: 378

I'll be here afterall so...

I'm in.

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Friday: 203 The Miniaturist
Saturday: 216 The Miniaturist
Sunday: 190 Birds Without Wings

Overall Total:

I'm in!

Page count:

Friday: 82 pages of Gilead
Saturday: 62 pages of Gilead, 28 pages of Jag heter inte Miriam, 30 pages of Things Fall Apart: A Novel Paperback
Sunday: 285 pages of Things Fall Apart, 30 pages of Jag heter inte Miriam

Overall total: 517

Laura, the tally 'post' idea is great!

I'm in.

Page count:

Friday:
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition 90 pages

Saturday:
The Gathering 60 pages
The Color Purple 80 pages

Sunday:
The Gathering 40 pages
Dim 20 pages

Overall total: 290 pages

I'm in!

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Friday: 78 pages total (after a good start it went a little downhill!)
Dracula 34 pages
The Princes of Ireland 44 pages

Saturday: 120 pages total
Dracula 20 pages
The Princes of Ireland 25 pages
Pride and Prejudice 75 pages

Sunday: 160 pages total
Dracula 22 pages
The Princes of Ireland 38 pages
Pride and Prejudice 100 pages

Overall total: 358 pages.... I'm happy with that!

I'm in!

Total count: 124

Bette BookAddict wrote: "Laura, the tally 'post' idea is great!"

Thanks!

I'm in!

Page count: 80 pages

Friday:
Orfeo (audio) 52 pp
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite 28 pp
Saturday:
Sunday:

Overall total: 80 pp

Heather L

I'm in

Page count

Friday: 0
Saturday: 53 pages of The Sea, The Sea
Sunday: 35 pages of The Sea, The Sea
288 pages of Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Total page count: 376

I'm in

I'm in!

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Friday: 460 pages

Saturday: 360 pages
Sunday: 358 pages

Total 1178 pages

I'm in!

Page count:

Friday:70 pages,The scarlet pimpernel Baroness Orczy
Saturday:30 pages,Mockingjay Suzanne Collins
Sunday:40 pages
Total page count:140

There are two Heathers, Laura. One at message 21 and myself at 25.

I don't mind being Heather L for these purposes

Probably better. Thanks Heather L.!!!

Thanks Laura!

Total page count: 485

Friday: 352
Saturday: 133
Sunday:

I'm in. :-)

Page count: (ready for editing)

Friday:
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 23.
The Sign of Four 15. Finished!
Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems 12.
Subtotal: 50.

Saturday:
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 17.
El pantano de las mariposas 65.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Started today, the third one! 20.
Subtotal: 102.

Sunday:
El pantano de las mariposas 62.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 39.
Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems 26.
Subtotal: 127.

Overall total: 279.

I'm in.

Total page count : 448 pages

Friday: The Great Gatsby COMPLTETED 122 pages
Pride and Prejudice 33 pages
Saturday :Pride and Prejudice 75 pages
Secrets 47 pages
Sunday:Pride and Prejudice COMPLETED 171 pages

Hi is it too late to join?

Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:

Total count:

I'm in as well!


Friday:
A Streetcar Named Desire--107 pages

Saturday:
10: 04--244 pages
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War--100 pages

Sunday:
The Dog--241 pages
Hopper--51 pages

Overall Total: 743 pages

I'm in!
Page Count (ready for editing)
Friday:
Winter of the World by Ken Follett: 200 pages

Saturday:
Finished Winter of the World: 199 pages
Mr. Mercedes audiobook 2,5 hours equals roughly 75 pages

Saturday total: 274 pages

Sunday:
Mr. Mercedes audio 1 hour = 30 pages
The Hobbit: 122pages

Sunday total: 152 pages

Overall total: 626 pages

I'm in!

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Friday: 189
Saturday: 177
Sunday: 174

Overall Total: 540

I'm in!

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Friday: 80
Saturday: 114
Sunday: 95

Overall Total: 289

I'm In :)

Page count: 377 + 22 + 22
Friday:Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice
Saturday: Divine Fall
Sunday: Divine Fall

Overall total:= 421

I'm in!

Page count:

Friday: 6 (computer died!)

'A Game of Thrones'

Saturday: 146

'Deception on His Mind' 124
'A Game of Thrones' 22

Sunday: 105

'Deception on His Mind' 58
'A Game of Thrones' 47

Overall Total: 257

I'm in too

Page count:
Friday:202
Saturday:
Sunday:

Overall Total:

It's 1.30am & I'm about to start this challenge! Bring on the books!!!

Heather wrote: "It's 1.30am & I'm about to start this challenge! Bring on the books!!!"
Funny! So why aren't you and I fast asleep?

I'm definitely in! Working all day Friday and NC State Fair/Trace Adkins concert Saturday, but will make time for reading this weekend!

Page Count: 289

Friday: 147 total
The Crypt Thief 59pgs
Library Lion 48pgs
Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree 40pgs
Saturday: 0(unfortunately) Was at the NC State Fair.
Sunday:
The Paris Mysteries 142pgs

Gill, the joy of working strange hours means I get to sneak in & catch a couple of quiet hours reading before I head to bed... Bliss

I'm in!

Page count: 60

Friday: At the Mountains of Madness
Saturday: Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home & At the Mountains of Madness
Sunday: Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home &At the Mountains of Madness

Here is the last list - I think!
LauraT
Meran
Alannah
Shirley
Farah
Maggie
Petra
Leslie
Rebecca
Sandy
Mjkluio789
Helen
Janessa
Bethy
Kirstin
Bette BookAddict
Maria
Gail
Heather
Diane
Miss Gp
Heather L.
Diane S.
Mariana
Kalena
Paula
June
Jisoo
Terri
Nadine
Becky
Piret
Emily-Ann
aPriL loves HalLowEen 
Simon
Katherine
Colleen
Melissa

Have you started? I just listened to a couple of chapter of Trollope and, waiting for a visit this morning, some pages of Suter... I'll write down the total later in the day or tomorrow!

Started! I continued with Winter of the World by Ken Follett and have read about 100 pages since this morning...

I'm in!

Page Count: (ready for editing)

Friday: 68 pages The Storyteller
Saturday: 100 pages The Storyteller
Sunday: 64 pages The Storyteller 48 pages Submerged

Overall Total: 280 pages

Added Melissa on the list.
All remember to put the pages read in the Counting message you've preared, notto get ME confused!!!

I'm in!

Page Count: (ready for editing)

Friday: 94 To Marry an Irish Rogue

Saturday: 12 To Marry an Irish Rogue
27 Jane Carver of Waar

Sunday: 29 Jane Carver of Waar
10 To Marry an Irish Rogue

Overall Total: 172