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Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd March 2024
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Feb 29, 2024 01:34PM
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We have a visitor from Adelaide coming for lunch today and then heading off with hubby on a week's cycling trip. Once they've gone I'll have the whole weekend to read and I'm planning on getting stuck into Sanctuary by Garry Disher 😉
Started a freshie just for this challenge, and continuing with several more. Reading at work, too - doing all my jobs faster than ever before so I can get back to the reading haha
Running TotalFriday
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros - ★★★★ - Page 203-498 (finish) = 295 p
Saturday
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham (for the nth time) - ★★★★☆ = full book = 272 p
Saturday
The Secret - Lee Child 0 - 72 = 72p
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel (The Sean Duffy Series) - Adrian McKinty - 0- 60 = 60p
Earthly Remains - Donna Leon 0 - 30 = 30p
Total 729 pages - sorry a bit low, came down with covid and couldn't settle to read without falling asleep!
I've read 25 pages of Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain by Robin Ince and 44 pages of The Beauties by Lauren Chater so far. Good luck everyone!
Tracey - my fiance gave me the Bibliomaniac book for Christmas and I'm yet to read it! Are you enjoying it?
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I should finish Penric’s Mission momentarily and then I am in to Random in Death
I’ve never done one of these challenges before! I’ll join in and see what I can get finished 🙂
Friday so far started and finished Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales. YA book.pages 370. Needed to return it to library plan on finishing another library book next as it is also due soon... Belladonna by Adalyn Grace, starting page for readathon is 102.
Good Friday morning! I'm starting with Cannery Row by John Steinbeck :)
Finished reading The Shell House Detectives, 191 pages, which I had already started.I am now onto Drowning by T.J. Newman and next in line is Paradise by Patricia Wolf
Friday Reading -A Fire at the Exhibition by T.E. Kinsey - 68 pages
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson - 254 pages
Friday Total - 322 pages
Friday 1st March: 98 pages of Kill Your HusbandsSaturday 2nd March:
Sunday 3rd March:
Running total:
Books Read:
Friday Toll the Hounds - 18 pages (from 450-468)
The Writing Retreat - 15 pages (98-113)
Total = 33
Saturday
Toll the Hounds - 64 pages (468-532)
The Collected Regrets of Clover - 60 pages (84-144)
Finished: Your Immortal Reality: How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death - 65 pages (152-217)
Started: : Fourth Wing - 59 pages
Total = 248
Sunday
Toll the Hounds - 49 pages (532-581)
The Collected Regrets of Clover - 60 pages (144-184)
Fourth Wing - 221 pages (59-280)
Finished How They Blew It: The CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World's Most Catastrophic Business Failures - 101 pages (109-210)
Total = 431
Final total
712
Friday totalsMarrying the Nanny 38 pages
Body of Lies 44% of 480 pages 211 pages
Total 249 pages
I will continue on reading Body of Lies
Don't go to bed yet Tr1sha! We've got 1:48 mins left to read!
FridayThis is likely to be my biggest day, but will see how I go over the weekend.
The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety - 17 pages (continuing from Feb and plodding along)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - 114 pages (continuing from Feb)
Crimson Lake - 50 pages (just started and enjoying it very much so far!)
Artificial Condition - 158 pages (start to finish, only a short book)
Total for Friday: 339
Once Upon a Read-a-thonQuarterly Read-a-thon Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd March 2024
Friday 1/3/24
✅ Cannery Row (1945) - John Steinbeck
pp 0 - 224 / 224 = 224
1/3/24 5★
✅ Flowers for Algernon (1966) - Daniel Keyes
pp 0 - 324 / 324 = 324
1/3/24 5★
✅ Soul Mountain (1990) - Gao Xingjian
pp 111 - 510 / 510 = 399
1/3/24 3★
Cats Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Our Feline Friends (2005) - Lesley O'Mara
pp. 0 - 25 / 284
Muffins and Mourning Tea (2016) - H.Y. Hanna
pp. 27 - 110 / 344 = 83
224 + 324 + 399 + 25 + 83 = 1055
Friday Total : 1055
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Brenda wrote: "I bet the page count is wrong Carolyn! That's their "go to" number when they don't know it! Glad it's good - I'm looking forward to it!"You could be right Brenda - it seemed like a faster read than 400 pages. I'll go and check out the other additions.
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The Viper kindle edition says 384 and the paperback 320 so I'll put in 384 and wait for you to check it before I add up the final numbers. Thanks :)
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A bit late with the Friday check-in.Started the weekend by reading 30 pages of Just Stab Me Now.
Going to be a low total from me this challenge, I'm busy with friends and family all day today, then have to spend most of my Sunday cleaning the house.
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Second book down:A Dangerous Language by Sulari Gentill 5*
for 407 pages
This series gets better and better, and apart from being a very enjoyable crime series I'm learning a lot about Australian history and politics.
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A Dangerous Language by Sulari Gentill 5*
for 407 pages
This series gets better and better, and apart from being a very enjoyable crime series I..."
I agree Jane! It's a great series :)
Two books finished today, Saturday 2nd.Unforgiven by Sarah Barrie 496
Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah 384
Total = 880
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FridayThe Spiral by Iain Ryan - 91 pages
The School Run by Ali Lowe - 74 pages
Friday Total - 165 pages
Brenda wrote: "Doing well Lorraine!"Cheers! Hoping to get another 3 finished by end Sunday 😁
Saturday Reading -A Fire at the Exhibition by T.E. Kinsey - 87 pages
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson - 98 pages (completed)
Amari and the Great Game by B.B. Alston - 151 pages (completed)
Saturday Total - 336 pages
Running Total - 658 pages
Jane wrote: "Second book down:A Dangerous Language by Sulari Gentill 5*
for 407 pages
This series gets better and better, and apart from being a very enjoyable crime series I..."
I love them too! I just bought books 1-8 on ebay. I've read the prequel and book 1 (but these were parts of two bundles). I plan to tuck in to 2 sometime this week!
SaturdayThe Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety - 21 pages
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - 124 pages - Finished
Crimson Lake - 154 pages
Total for Saturday: 299
Friday: read the last 98 pages of Kill Your HusbandsSaturday: read all 179 pages of People Like Them and 24 pages of Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
Friday 1st March: 98 pages
Saturday 2nd March: 203 pages
Sunday 3rd March:
Running total:
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Penric’s Mission 139 pages
Random in Death 357 pages
Now reading What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan before going to hear her speak at the Dymock's lunch on Monday!!!
Body of Lies I read another 48% 230 pagesRunning total
Friday 249 pages
Saturday 230 pages
Total 479 pages
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