Reading the Chunksters discussion

Stephanie, I'm glad you like my little method, always happy to share! :)

Time: 7:30 - 8:15 pm
Book: Soft Focus
Pages: 174 - 210
Total Pages: 36
Comments: This is a book that I read at work. I usually only get to read about 20 pages a week so I was hoping that bringing home for readathon would get me into it more.

Readathon total: 221 pages

I finished the second voyage in Gulliver's Travels. I don't feel like reading more of that today, so I'll switch to The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome for a while.

I'm wondering how many people dozed off? Hahaha 235 pages to my original goal of 500.

Time: 8:15 - 9 pm
Book: The Name of this Book is Secret
Pages: 150 - 189
Total Pages: 39
Comments: Another book that I need to finish for my children's/YA book challenge. This is a cute book and would be liked by kids who are into the Lemony Snicket series.

Readathon total: 265 pages

Andrea wrote: "I'm wondering how many people dozed off? Hahaha 235 pages to my original goal of 500.

Time: 8:15 - 9 pm
Book: The Name of this Book is Secret
Pages: 150 - 189
Total Pages: 39
Comments: Anot..."

Not sleeping yet! Just, as I suspected, got pulled into A Storm of Swords and will probably be reading that for the rest of the Read-a-thon.

(Though I did doze for about a half hour earlier.)

Yay! Glad to see I'm not reading alone :)

Is it cheating if I go past midnight??? I could pretend I am in a different time zone. It's five o'clock somewhere right? I have had a lot of interruptions. My children and my boyfriend are being very needy, just joking. The typical I am thirsty, can I have a snack, I want to watch a certain show. Once the kids go to bed, I will be ready for a marathon, with a little help from Maxwell House.

I'm here, too. I'm working on some Richard Matheson short stories. I live this guy. After a few more stories. I'm going to start Legion by William Peter Blatty.

Aren't we doing this from 10 am 11/5 to 10 am 11/6? Not that I'll make it that long, but I'm on a roll finally after my late start.

Kathy, it is for 24 hours, so you have until 10 am tomorrow to finsh! Some of us have daylight savings today so we actually turn our clocks back an hour and that gives us 26 hours!

Kathy wrote: "Aren't we doing this from 10 am 11/5 to 10 am 11/6? Not that I'll make it that long, but I'm on a roll finally after my late start."

Yep. So Kristina can go well past midnight. :)

After 4 chapters of history, I need a break. I'm going to start reading The Immortal Prince. Since it is due at the library on Tuesday and I haven't even started it yet, I should probably devote the rest of my read-a-thon to reading it.

I've only read for 2.5-3 hours so far :-( I had fun shelving books today, but volunteering took up a lot of good reading time. My goal of 8 hours total is probably not doable, but I'll still try to read as much as I can before 10 am tomorrow.

Time: 9 - 10 pm
Book: Quack-A-Doodle-Baa
Pages: 1 - 15
Total Pages:15
Comments: A cute book for small children

Book: The Clever Detective
Pages: 1 - 42
Total Pages: 42
Comments: A really bad book that very weird! This was for my Children's/YA challenge. It was a free Nook book in the children's section bud had a reference to smoking week and bondage. Either kids books have really changed or this is in the wrong section...hahahah

Book: The Sunflower That Roared
Pages: 1-14
Total Pages: 14
Comments: A children's story about a little girl who is neglected because her mother is always on the phone. One day her mother gives her a sunflower seed and the little girl takes care of it until it grows. Then one day even the sunflower seed roars at the mother because she is going to get on the phone again. They move the seed down to the courtyard and the seed lives happy ever after. In my opinion, this is another bizarre children's book! It's never explained why the mom is on the phole all the time while her child is bored and causing trouble. The art in this book was very pretty regardless of the bad story. Nook free books are kind of cruddy most of the time.......

Readathon total: 336 pages

Also, I might not be reading too much longer, as instead of Maxwell House, I'm having a Mai Tai.

Awesome I am on it!!!!. One child sleeping, one to go.

Okay, I started Ulysses and The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, and for something light, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, which is inspiring to pick up my belovedMastering the Art of French Cooking to plan my Sunday menu while I watch the Husky football game. :)

Judy wrote: "Just had a rendevous with Carl Sandburg after coming back from East of Eden. Now I'm going to be looking for The Skystone."

The Skystone is excellent!

Loretta wrote: "Also, I might not be reading too much longer, as instead of Maxwell House, I'm having a Mai Tai."

Cheers!

I'm still reading...

Ohhh Mai Tai! I have not had one of those in years! I'm going to take a nice shower and pour a glass of diet coke and see If I can last a couple more chpters of Vanity Fair...lol

Yay, we have daylight savings.tume, too!

Time: 8:30 - 10:15pm
Book: Third From The Sun by Richard Matheson
Pages: 51 - 106
Total Pages: 56
Comments: I read the following short stories: Mad House, F---, Dear Diary

Total Readathon Total: 126 pages

Kathy wrote: "Yay, we have daylight savings.tume, too!

Time: 8:30 - 10:15pm
Book: Third From The Sun by RichRd.Matheson
Pages: 51 - 106
Total Pages: 56
Comments: I read the following short stories: Mad Ho..."

I won a copy of Steel: And Other Stories. I'll have to see if it includes any of those stories. I've liked the stuff I've read by him.

He's great! And even for stuff over 60 years old, It's so current!

@ Kristen: Wow, Ulysses?! That's another one of those books that frighten me a bit.

I'm actually most amazed by those folks who read it in one day once a year on Bloomsday. I don't know how they do it...

I started Finnegan's Wake on Tuesday. I gave up yesterday at 25 pages. Maybe at some point in my life I'll be in that headspace, but I'm certainly not now.

Time: 5.16-9.57p CDT
Read: Chpt. 3 of A Repair Kit for Grading; some children's books (bedtime): Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Pages: 58-88; various
Total pages: 30
Comments: I like these grading fixes and work many of them into my grading anyway...don't know how I feel about counting the pages of children's books.

Readathon total: 126 pages; (Children's books) 102 pages

See you all tomorrow! Still reading, but won't post until the morning! :D

Now onto Legion by William Peter Blatty.

Just realized that, oddly enough, everything I read today was in print form or audiobook, rather than ebook. I haven't used my Nook in like 6 weeks :-\ Must pick my next Nook book....

I'm the opposite, it's been so long since I read a "real" book. Today I've read from 2.....yay! It's about time!

Kathy, I was like that for a while earlier this year too, reading tons of ebooks... and I just stopped entirely this fall for some reason.

I've done a little bit of both, as far as reading from my Nook and real books :)

Time: 10 - 11:20
Book: Vanity Fair
Pages: 443 - 481
Total Pages: 38
Comments: This is the longest book ever!

Readathon total: 374 pages

LOL, Andrea, your VF posts are cracking me up.

Up to page 186 of A Storm of Swords, so that's 66 pages read.

Think I need to move around a bit, so back to Oliver Twist on audio.

I'm getting so tired. I'm not surprised since I didn't sleep so well last nite. Hoping I'll make it longer.

I stopped at about 9:50, but my progress with my second book was:

Time: 4:08 - 9:50 (with a few breaks)
Book: Tender is the Night
Pages: 1 - 115

Total Count: 249 + 115 = 364

Between eating, some socializing, and an eventual need for a nap to rest my eyes, I didn't get quite so far as I thought I would, but I still made a dent enough to satisfy me! I really enjoyed participating; it was nice to feel so accomplished for a day. :)

Kristen wrote: "Everyman, I didn't realize we're neighbors....sort of. I read your account of the beach visit and thought it sounded lovely. Then I looked and saw you live in Friday Harbor --> a beautiful place!..."

Yep, it was a great day. Although I say Friday Harbor, in fact we're on the West side of the Island, just a bit down the coast from Roche -- through Mosquito pass and before you get to Mitchell Bay.

I need to get some sleep, so I stopped 115 pages into Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Would have gotten a lot more done, but I've been distracted by my boyfriend and text messages over the last hour or so.

Totals:

Soulless: 115
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain: 52
Oliver Twist: 48
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq: 115

Total Pages: 330
Timespan: 10:00 a.m. to 11:58 p.m.

Well, back from the birthday party. Lots of good family time, good food, fun watching the grandkids ripping off ribbon and wrapping paper as the "helped" their dads unwrap their presents. Then there was a big box which, after the presents were opened, was the source of great merriment as the kids romped in it, jumped in and out of it, gradually destroyed it, of course, but it had fulfilled its purpose in life and so died a happy death bringing joy to a passel of grandchildren!

But we're an early to bed crowd up here, so I'll be turning off my computer soon, going out to drink my evening grapefruit juice and listen to a bit of Our Mutual Friend audiobook, and then into bed where we get an extra hour's sleep, hooray!!

Good luck to any readers still sticking with the RaT, and it's been fun sharing the reading day with all.

Andrea wrote: "Kathy, it is for 24 hours, so you have until 10 am tomorrow to finsh! Some of us have daylight savings today so we actually turn our clocks back an hour and that gives us 26 hours!"

Uh, is this the new math? I thought giving us an extra hour would give 25 hours. But I admit I still use the old math, so what to I know. [vbg]

Yep, I think I am also heading away from the computer, though I'll still be reading a bit. Final updates in the morning!

Andrea wrote: "Mikki, your apartment building sounds like a great place to live. Extended family is wonderful to find in such a big city."

Andrea, it really is. I'm very lucky to have found such a great space!

Hi Everyone:

Read 115 pages of [Book: Embers]
A few short stories in [Book: Binocular Vision]

pasta, salad, lemon-lime seltzer
uh oh...did I fall asleep?

Now on page 53 of [Book: Murder in Little Egypt]

It's almost 1:30 am and one of my favorite times of day?/night?/morning?

11.5.11
I knowing got to read one hour and 10 minutes for the entire day.

400 pages total between and

Well, I passed out last nite. I'm sorry. I didn't do so well. between starting off after having on of my bad nites of sleep, working till after 2pm and being a super slow reader. Oh well, I'd love to do this again sometime! But it's not over. Here is what I read before I passed out....and I'm gonna read more now. I have 2 more hours. :)

Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Book: Legion by William Peter Blatty
Pages: 1 - 27
Total Pages: 27

Total Readathon Pages: 153

Now onto 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Time: 9.57p-6.20a CDT read a little and slept; 6.20a-6.55a
Read: The Scarecrow of Oz 4-28,'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' 19, 'Rapunzel' 3
Total pages: 46
Comments: slept, but also read really enjoyed the short stories. i had never read the hemingway story before i know, i feel inadequate having never read the hemingway story and teaching english! i also enjoyed 'rapunzel' having never read the brother's grimm actual version, but knowing i was in for a doozy because i have read Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture and she talks about the real fairy tales there. The Scarecrow of Oz is cute, not sure I'd be reading it if it wasn't for the Gilmore Girls book challenge.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/hemi...
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-sto...

Readathon total: 172 pages; (Children's books) 102 pages

Time: 6.55-7.30a CST
Read: Home for the Holidays 23; Why We Crave Horror Movies 3; Getting Aggressive with the Passive 4
Total pages: 30
Comments: Ok, so seriously this blog Keys to Easy Writing Because Communication is Key is fantastic and the English teacher nerd in me enjoys this post so much that I'm sharing it with my colleagues and friends. I love Home for the Holidays movie and essay and should have reread Why We Crave Horror Movies during October! :D 'You got to keep the gators fed.'

Readathon total: 202 pages; (Children's books) 102 pages

Home for the Holidays: A Survivor's Frightening Account
Why We Crave Horror Movies
Getting Aggressive with the Passive

of note: i've broken 200, and, now totally understand why i can't finish a book in a timely manner...with the kiddo's books, blogs, and other articles, essays that interest me, my focus isn't really as narrow as it should be! unless, of course, it's night time.

Stephanie wrote: "Time: 6.55-7.30a CST
Read: Home for the Holidays 23; Why We Crave Horror Movies 3; Getting Aggressive with the Passive 4
Total pages: 30
Comments: Ok, so seriously this blog Keys to Easy Writing ..."

Stephanie, were you up all nite?

total so far
Club dead- audio 6 and 7 of 7 cds
The Magician's King 100 pages
The Night Circus 150 pages- this book is pretty cool
Dead to the world 3/9 cds
Middlemarch I went from 5-10 percent on my Kindle.

Kathy wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Time: 6.55-7.30a CST
Read: Home for the Holidays 23; Why We Crave Horror Movies 3; Getting Aggressive with the Passive 4
Total pages: 30
Comments: Ok, so seriously this blog Key..."

Oh goodness no, couldn't even do that in college, i love to sleep! :D i slept from 9.57p-6.20a than got up and started reading. i want/wanted to get 8 hrs. of reading in without disrupting my every day flow too much! :D

were you up all night, kathy?

Kristina wrote: "total so far
Club dead- audio 6 and 7 of 7 cds
The Magician's King 100 pages
The Night Circus 150 pages- this book is pretty cool
Dead to the world 3/9 cds
Middlemarch I went from 5-10 percent on ..."

How is Middlemarch so far? I've wanted to read that?

I definitely wasn't up all nite, Stephanie. It would've been cool to have read for a full 24 hrs, though! I fell asleep about midnight and woke up at 8:30 am, very excited for some more time!

So, far it is better than I expected. I was a little intimidated at first. You should check it out.