Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Start: 00:01 Monday, November 11th
End: 23:59 Sunday, November 24th
(wherever you are)

GOALS:
1. Create your own reading challenge focus (ie. pick a challenge to focus on for this readathon - preferably a PAS one)
2. Team goal of 50,000 pages*

*We did about 20K a couple of years ago in 7 days so figured we double it up & ramped it up a bit ;)

Additional Notes:
a. You can start readathon from the middle of a book you're reading; just count the pages you read during the readathon's timeframe for the page count. If you didn't finish reading at the end of the week, same applies (count pages you read during the week)
b. Social Media? Let's tag it #PASreadathon19

Amy
Bea
Elvenn
Jayme(the ghost reader)
Karin
Lagullande
Lusie
LynnB
Susan
Tien

As mentioned in the MM19 thread, I wanted help/support in finishing off my MM19 challenge before the new edition of Bookopoly starts (1 Dec) so that's my main focus area with 9 books. So, really, it's doable, right?!

Resonance -Read 100 pages on last day
🗸 344p - Beneath a Marble Sky -Read 11/22
🗸 389p - Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant #2) -Read 11/23
Behind the Sun (Convict Girls #1)
The Hidden
Falling Angels
🗸 350p - Sunset Shadows (Goodabri #3) -Read 11/21
Southern Ruby OR Lyrebird
Quicksand

Books I am currently mid-reading & won't finish by midnight so I'll continue in spurts during this readathon:
🗸 260p - Silver (Martin Scarsden #2) -Read 11/18
Lost But Found
🗸 320p - The Various Haunts of Men (Simon Serrailler #1) (on audio) -Read 11/13
🗸 256p - The Fireflies of Autumn, and other tales of San Ginese -Read 11/11
🗸 330p - The Fall (Anna Kronberg Thriller #3) -Read 11/13
Preservation
yes, sometimes I really overdo this multi-reading thing

Other books I randomly picked up:
🗸 320p - Down a Dark Road (Kate Burkholder #9) -Read 11/12
🗸 304p - The Monster (Troubletwisters #2) -Read 11/14
🗸 306p - The Wind And The Monkey (Les Norton #14) -Read 11/15
🗸 320p - The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler #2) -Read 11/18
🗸 240p - It's Raining in Mango -Read 11/20
🗸 67p - The Magic Finger -Read 11/20

Progress: 3,906 p as at 11/24/19

Social media:
Instagram: @tiensblurb
Twitter: @ktienh

I'm in! I have two books left for LOST 2019 and a bunch of books from the library all due during that time span. Plenty to keep me busy reading! It's still only the 9th here, so I have to wait a day+ to start counting pages.

Read-a-thon
Start: 00:01 Monday, November 11th
End: 23:59 Sunday, November 24th

For LOST 2019:
✔Apprentice (Rav Hisda's Daughter #1),
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

Due back to the library soon and needed for various misc. challenges :
✔Women Talking
✔Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers
✔Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire #14)
✔Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
✔The Dutch House
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
✔Rules for Visiting

Pages read:
11/11 - 247pp. -- 217 pp. Apprentice; 30 pp. Eat Joy
11/12 - 127 pp. -- 127 pp. Apprentice
11/13 - 108 pp. -- 108 pp. Apprentice
11/14 - 198 pp. -- 178 pp. Eat Joy; 20 pp. Depth of Winter
11/15 - 284 pp. -- 284 pp. Depth of Winter
11/16 - 370 pp. -- 281 pp. Cloche and Dagger; 89 pp. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
11/17 - 302 pp. -- 288 pp. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy; 14 pp. Born on Third Base
11/18 - 216 pp. -- 216 pp. Women Talking;
11/19 - 379 pp. -- 352 pp. The Dutch House; 27 pp. Born on Third Base
11/20 - 187 pp. -- 187 pp. Born on Third Base
11/21 - 121 pp. -- 34 pp. Born on Third Base; 87 pp. Rules for Visiting
11/22 - 203 pp. -- 203 pp. Rules for Visiting
11/23 - 367 pp. -- 320 pp. Twisted Twenty-Six; 47 pp. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
11/24 - 240 pp. Costalegre

Completed:


TOTAL # of pages to date: 3,349 pp.

Read-a-thon (Nov: 11-24)

I'm in! I've got 1 book left for lost and found and 4 for moving mountains. The books I have to read are all by authors I like, so this should be fun!

Progress: 2342p at 24-nov



For Lost and Found Part 3
☑ 265p Fool's Quest (still reading)

For Moving Mountains
☑ 706p Fool's Assassin [22-nov-19] ★★★★
☑ 372p My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry [17-nov-19] ★★★
☑ 524p Shroud of Eternity [13-nov-19] ★★★
☑ 368p A Noise Downstairs [19-nov-19] ★★★

Series in progress (not for a challenge)
☑ 107p The Pearl Sister [11-nov-19] ★★★★

Tien, you can do it! 9 books is doable!

LynnB, you are doing great with the PAS challenges. Only 2 books!

I only have 5 books to finish the PAS challenges. I think reading those books will be enough to finish pick n mix as well.

Read-a-thon
Start: November 11th
End: November 24th

Currently reading:
√Under a Painted Sky Read 11/11/19 - 110 pages
√Jazz Read 11/16/19 - 161 pages
√Death's Darkest Face Read 11/12/19 - 112 pages
√Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice Read 11/22/19 - 112 pages
*Last Train to Istanbul - ebook, 95% to go = 375 pages (395 pages total in book)
√Stars of Fortune - Read 11/19/19 - 294 pages (+audiobook)
√Long Time Gone Read 11/12/19 - 204 pages

On hand, not yet started library books:
√The Huntress Read 11/17/19 - 531 pages
Oh, Play That Thing
*Death of a Red Heroine
√Neverwhere Read 11/17/19 - 337 pages
√The Crossing Read 11/24/19 - 388 pages
√Queen of Scots Read 11/20/19 - 208 pages
√Rubyfruit Jungle Read 11/20/19 - 193 pages
√My Lost Family Read 11/21/19 - 67 pages (++audiobook)

Possibles - owned:
As a Driven Leaf
The First Man in Rome
Blind Descent

PAGES READ
11: 39 + 21 + 110 + 52 + 34 + 54 = 310
(Finished Under a Painted Sky)
12: 39 + 98 + 48 = 185
(Finished Death's Darkest Face and Long Time Gone)
13: 28 + 103 + 62 + 12 = 205
14: 111 + 40 = 151
15: 21 + 105 + 31 + 70 = 227
16: 34 + 60 + 70 = 164
(Finished Jazz)
17: 152 + 64 + 46 = 262
(Finished: The Huntress and Neverwhere)

I read 1504 pages in a week! I am impressed. Didn't know I could do that. I am sure the weather (rainy and cold) had a lot to do with it.

18: 51 + 38 + 34 = 123
19: 294 + 44 + 43 + 54 + 10 = 445
(Finished: Stars of Fortune - audiobook)
20: 5 +18 +16 + 57 + 72 + 28 + 4 = 200
(Finished: Queen of Scots and Rubyfruit Jungle)
21: 15 + 17 + 67 + 4 + 47 = 150
(Finished: My Lost Family)
22: 16 + 15 + 37 +56 + 19 = 143
(Finished: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice)
23: 8 + 107 + 26 = 141
24: 113 + 25 + 21 = 159
(Finished: The Crossing)

Total this week = 1361
Total last week = 1504
Grand Total Pages Read = 2865

+Audiobook pages calculated from MPE (304).
++ Audiobook pages calculated from 30 pages per hour.

Life (or, more accurately, deaths) has got in the way of my reading this year, so this A-Thon will hopefully help me to catch up a bit. I'm looking forward to it.

Start: 00:01 Monday, November 11th
End: 23:59 Sunday, November 24th
(UK time)


GOALS:

1. LOST 2019
This one of the few goals that I set at the beginning of the year that I might actually finish. I have one book left:

Independent People 482 pages


2. GR Reading Challenge 2019
I am currently 3 books behind schedule. Let's see if I can improve on that by the end of the A-thon.


READ:

13/11/19 The Maltese Falcon 81pp (started before Read-a-thon)
14/11/19 Humphrey Repton's Memoirs 90pp (started before Read-a-thon)
in progress - to 24/11/19 Parrot and Olivier in America 213pp
in progress - to 24/11/19 Independent People 230pp
in progress - to 24/11/19 Transfer Window 25pp

TOTAL: 81+90+213+230+25 = 639

Lagullande wrote: "I am currently 3 books behind schedule. Let's see if I can improve on that by the end of the A-thon."

Lagullande, the funny thing is that I'm 3 books ahead of schedule.
You can borrow mine ;)

Readathon
Start: 00:01 Monday, November 11th
End: 23:59 Sunday, November 24th

for LOST 2019:
✔City at the End of Time, 476 pages - declared DNF 11/16 after 159 pages

for Pick 'n Mix:
To Play the Fool (Kate Martinelli #2), 286 pages
✔Landing, by Nicola Griffith, 336 pages - fin 11/22
You Know Me Well, by David Levithan anbd Nina LaCour, 248 pages
Between Mom and Jo, by Julie Anne Peters, 232 pages
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time - begun, counting only from 11/10, pages 48-68

for Seriously Serial:
Clariel - begun, counting only from 11/10 (chapter 9 starts on page 97 of 329)

pages read as of 11/19
City at the End of Time, 159 pages
Clariel, 42 pages
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, 60 pages
Landing, 167 pages
Total pages read as of 11/19: 428

pages read as of 11/23
City at the End of Time, 159 pages
Clariel, 166 pages
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, 66 pages
Landing, 336 pages
Total pages read as of 11/23: 727

pages read as of mid-day 11/24
City at the End of Time, 159 pages
Clariel, 174 pages
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, 80 pages
Landing, 336 pages
Altered Carbon, 17 pages
Total pages read as of mid-day 11/24: 766
[I won't have a chance to post my late-night 11/24 reading for a couple days.]

Lusie wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "I am currently 3 books behind schedule. Let's see if I can improve on that by the end of the A-thon."

Lagullande, the funny thing is that I'm 3 books ahead of schedule.
You can..."

Aw, bless you, Lusie!

Readathon
November 11-24
Pages Read: 482
Books Read:
Winter Gardenby Kristin Hannah

The Secret Bride for Pick N Mix Started from page 25 on 11/23/19
Cross for Pick N Mix
Completed
Winter Garden

I am going to see how many pages I can get through
11/11-43 pages
11/12-47 pages
11/13-20 pages
11/14-24 pages
11/15-30 pages
11/16-38 pages
11/17-25 pages
11/18-40 pages
11/19-55 pages
11/20-35 pages
11/21-34 pages
11/22-11 pages
11/23-30 pages
11/24-50 pages

I'll join! My humble goals:

For Bookopoly:

- Interview with the Vampire (83 pages read)

For Pick-a-Shelf Monthly:

- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (347 pages left) (347 pages read) ✔

A book set in a country I haven't read about this year:

- India mon amour (India My Love) (213 pages read) ✔

A book so lost I've even forgotten to add it to my goodreads shelves:

- The Etruscan Language: An Introduction (21 pages read)

Elvenn wrote: "A book so lost I've even forgotten to add it to my goodreads shelves"

That's a good one!! I know sometimes one seems to pop up now and again lol

I'm in too. I have a lot of books left for Pick 'n Mix, so I'll see how many I can complete:

Stage 1:
64 pages - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (in progress) - resuming at page 23

Stage 3:
311 pages - Jar of Hearts - Completed 11/14/19
480 pages - The Song of the Jade Lily - Completed 11/18/19
417 pages - If You Leave Me - Completed 11/16/19
448 pages - Swing - Completed 11/13/19
300 pages - Sweet Little Lies

Stage 7:
384 pages - The Other Wife - Completed 11/24/19

Stage 9:
228 pages - A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World - Completed 11/18/19
337 pages - Pretend She's Here - Completed 11/12/19

Stage 10:
329 pages - Heretics Anonymous - Completed 11/24/19

Stage 14:
383 pages - The 18th Abduction - Completed 11/17/19
405 pages - How the Light Gets In - Completed 11/20/19

Stage 15:
150 pages - Track of the Cat (audio in progress) - Completed 11/11/19
340 pages - The Girl Who Was Taken - Completed 11/22/19
287 pages - Homer's Odyssey - Completed 11/23/19

Total read: 4,863 pages

So, I found that I have an Overdue library book, *gasp*
With all the craziness of kid's birthday & new dog, I forgot to renew over the weekend :/ So I picked up the book & read it in a single sitting last night; am very tired now but I really did enjoy it... I didn't mean to finish at 1am but I was sooo close, you know ha ha ha

320 pages of Down a Dark Road (Kate Burkholder #9) -am returning it this afternoon & going to borrow #10 if I can :D

Sure, count me in! I just saw this. I am not sure what goal to set, but I am still working on my second time through seriously serial so my goal is to get through that before the end of the year. I plan to count all the pages I read though.
11/11 - 38 pages

11/12 - 10 pages

11/13 - 16 pages

11/14 - 68 pages

11/15 - 51 pages

11/16 - 51 pages

11/17 - 61 pages

11/18 - 79 pages

11/19 - 17 pages

11/20 and 11/21 89 pages

11/22 26 pages

11/23 81 pages

11/24 61 pages

648 pages
I am not likely to set any personal records, though, since it's November.

yay, Karin!

No personal record required... it's group goal ;)

Tien, that sounds busy! I hope the book was not much overdue

I finished the book I was reading.
107p The Pearl Sister [11-nov-19] ★★★★

i have 23000ish pages left to finish up my remaining 4 stages pick'n'mix - so i'm going to set a goal of 476pgs a day or 7200pgs for the read-a-thon (no idea what books yet though)

is that ok tien?

That's fine, Dee. You don't really have to post your plan only if you want to as most usually would like to do ;p

@LynnB, let me know when you start the Austen bio! I'll read it with you :)

Tien wrote: "@LynnB, let me know when you start the Austen bio! I'll read it with you :)"

Ok! I'll probably get to it early next week. I'll post it in Buddy Reads when I'm ready, too.

I finished my first book (see post 8), but I don't seem to be on the list of participants in post 2.

Lagullande wrote: "I finished my first book (see post 8), but I don't seem to be on the list of participants in post 2."

Sorry, Lagullande, I typed the html incorrectly so it wasn't showing. It's fixed now.

Tien wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "I finished my first book (see post 8), but I don't seem to be on the list of participants in post 2."

Sorry, Lagullande, I typed the html incorrectly so it wasn't showing. It's ..."

No worries, Tien, thanks for fixing it - I need the encouragement to read at the moment!

My reading is slowing down at the moment, even though I like the book I'm reading. I'm now reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry.

What is everyone else reading?

Lagullande, you can do it!

I have several books going.

Jazz for Found and Monthly as well as RwS and SRC old games
The Huntress for Found and SRC
Neverwhere for Found and RwS
Last Train to Istanbul for SRC
Stars of Fortune because I like Nora Roberts

I've finished a couple of short audiobooks though neither for MM19 (which is the whole point of this for me!)... :/

I did start Beneath a Marble Sky for MM19 - only 10% and so far, I'm a bit ambivalent about it... early days yet.

5 days later and I find that I'm finishing other books BUT my MM19 ones! I'm "currently reading" 3 of my MM19 books but it's not going anywhere fast ha ha ha

lol Tien. There is still time! Good that you are now reading 3 of your MM19 books! Are you reading any other books at the moment?

I'm doing good with MM19. I have read 3 out of 4 MM19 books and will start reading the last book today or tomorrow.

argh, at least you're doing well, Lusie...

To be fair, I've been mostly 'finishing' audiobooks so 'multi-tasking' there lol

Although I am happy to be participating in this read-a-thon, the start took me by surprise and I was not prepared with a list of books for my challenges. As a result, my goal of finishing a bunch of the PnM challenges, just has not worked out. Instead I have been reading the library books I had on my desk and others that have come in.

So far, I have finished 7 books and have 4 more that I know for sure will be completed. Given that my reading fell off the last 2 weeks of October, I am pleased.

All of you are doing better than I am. I declared my last LOST book DNF after 159 pages that were pure torture, so technically I'm done with that. But since the widget doesn' show it that way, I'll probably choose to read the next one on the list before I declare myself done. Now reading a second book for this month's shelf, and enjoying it. But for some reason, I'm reading very slowly these couple weeks. Sorry not to be accomplishing much for the group goal.

lol Tien. Multi-tasking is good.

At least you are finishing lots of books, Bea.

Susan, sorry your last lost book was torture. You was able to hang on for a long time, and I don't blame you for not finishing it. If i don't like it i usually give it 80-100 pages before I give up. I haven't read any books for the shelf of the month and don't think I have time for it.

My last lost book is the third in a series, so I have to read the other books first.

I have finished 2 more books. One was for the PAS Monthly Shelf for November. And, happy days, I am making headway on the Zen book, which will finish Wheel 3.

@ Susan: I don't use the widgit for that very reason. Once I read a book or DNF it, I remove it from my shelf. Any pages read helps...even the ones you read before DNF'g the book.

@ Lusie: Some series can be read out of order. Too bad this one doesn't feel that way to you.

Bea wrote: "@ Susan: I don't use the widgit for that very reason. Once I read a book or DNF it, I remove it from my shelf.."

This is my last year using the widget, too. It just makes me frustrated as it looks like my reading list was not finished when the truth is I chose to DNF a book.

Bea, I don't mind at all. I need the first book to finish of MM19.

Yay, I finished 1 MM19 book ;) 8 to go

Yay Tien!
I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish that last MM19 book before the end of our read a thon, since it has got about 700 pages. But I'll do my best! I really like it so far.

Question regarding audiobooks: I finished one already that had printed editions. I was able to use the most popular edition for my page count calculation. (I had started that audiobook before the read-a-thon start date.) However, now I am listening to a short audiobook (2+ hours) that has no printed edition. How do I do page count for that?

i use roughly 30pgs per audio for audiobook (based on many years of listening)

Dee wrote: "i use roughly 30pgs per audio for audiobook (based on many years of listening)"

30 pages per hour?

yeah that...sorry typed pre coffee

Well done everyone! Look at all those pages ;-)

Dee wrote: "yeah that...sorry typed pre coffee"

LOL. Thanks. Unless Tien disagrees, I will go with that. Thus my 2h 13m audiobook will be 67 pages.

that's fine with me :)

Three days to go, and I am beginning to weary. I will finish one more book - the Zen one.

That will leave me with 3 books in progress. I am sure I will get some pages read, but I will not be pushing to complete them.

Tomorrow I have a local history class to attend, mulch to put around the bushes, and I just HAVE to get the car vacuumed of all the dog hair. (I anticipate that will take an hour or so.) Saturday I have a Thanksgiving dinner to attend with one of my groups and a dish to make to take.

So...I will not be able to spend a lot of time on this read-a-thon. As of right now, I am close to 2400 pages read and 10 books completed.

Finished my 2nd MM19 book & have started my 3rd.

Looks like I'm just getting my wind, Bea, though I have something on tonight and tomorrow night too so may not have that much time to read either this weekend but I can try ;)

Bea, you've done fantastic! I am super jealous of the Thanksgiving dinner ;-) Love me a bit of turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce!