Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

We have about a week left til our October 2023 readathon. Let's ramp up our reading a bit over the next week with a long lap, aka long reading sprints.

Option 1: Set a time goal for the next week (24hrs, 48hrs, etc.) and keep track of your reading time over this week.
Option 2: Set a page goal for the next week, and track the number of pages you finish over this week.
Option 3: Set a # of Books goal and try to finish that many books during the next week.
Option 4: Create a TBR for the next week and see how many of the books on your TBR you can finish.

Post your goal(s) and progress on social media and/or in this Goodreads group.

I am doing a week of reading relays.

Set 1:
Pleasure (By: Gabriele D'Annunzio) published: December, 2013
The Buddha of Suburbia
Victim 2117
Behold the Dreamers
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Set 2
On God and Political Duty
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1993
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Mid-December 1989
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1988
The Mouse That Roared
A Selection of Poems

Set 3
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
The Simple Art of Murder
The Twelve Caesars
The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Vol. 3: The Book-Bag & Other Stories
An Essay on Liberation

Set 4
Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro
Barkskins
Dreamcatcher
London
The Years of Rice and Salt

I'll swap in new books in each set as I finish the ones listed.

I‘m confused—the readathon is on the 21st, right? That‘s in 8 days, a little over one week, not two?

Cathy wrote: "I‘m confused—the readathon is on the 21st, right? That‘s in 8 days, a little over one week, not two?"

correct. It's October 21, starting at 8:00 AM Eastern Time. She probably planned to post that sooner than she did and forgot to change it. That's my guess anyhow.

Kelley wrote: "Cathy wrote: "I‘m confused—the readathon is on the 21st, right? That‘s in 8 days, a little over one week, not two?"

correct. It's October 21, starting at 8:00 AM Eastern Time. She probably planned..."

Yep. Thanks for catching that.

I have way too many books in progress right now, and would love to shrink that list a little before the read-a-thon, but we'll see lol.

So I'll be focusing on these current reads this week:

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (audiobook)
L'héritage Maudit by Heather Graham (French ebook)
Haunted Canada 9: Scary True Stories by Joel A. Sutherland (almost done)
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant (ebook)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (ebook)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (ebook)
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Also, I have this overdue library book I want to read and return as soon as possible:

Saga, Volume 10 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

UPDATES:
16 October - finished Haunted Canada 9, read 10ish pages of Pierre and Jean, listened to a bit of The Cartographers, and read 6 pages of Under Heaven.
17 October - read 21 pages of Under Heaven.
18 October - read 7 pages of Under Heaven and listened to about 45 minutes of The Cartographers.
19 and 20 October - read a combined 9 pages of Under Heaven and listened to about an hour and 15 minutes of The Cartographers.

Not a very impressive week lol. Oh well! All current reads are set aside for the read-a-thon. Since I didn't get to Saga, it's been added to my read-a-thon pile.

i'm going with Option 2 - although i'm a bit late in signing up

Goal - 100min audiobook listening a day
Goal - 320pgs a day (inclusive of pgs listened to when i convert minutes listened to book pages)

16 Oct
17 Oct
18 Oct
19 Oct
20 Oct
21 Oct - READATHON!!

Goal - No set minutes. Read daily.
Do TBR and Food plans today

Oct 16
Oct 17
Oct 18
Oct 19
Oct 20
Oct 21 - Readathon Day

Just joining in: Goal for the next five days:

October 16: The Power of Habit: 47 pages
In Charms Way: FINISHED read 62 pages
Lessons in Chemistry STARTED read 51 pages
Total = 160 pages. Whoop whoop!

October 17: Read 80 pages of Lessons in Chemistry
Read 30 pages of 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

October 18:
October 19:
October 20:
October 21: Readathon Day