Reading the Chunksters discussion

I will, thanks. Maybe whrn I finally finish The Three Muaketeers. :)

Haven't kept up well with posting, but have been reading some. Had Special Olympics practice yesterday afternoon and then dozed off & on all evening so not counting that time. Read during the night as I had trouble sleeping (all that dozing earlier!).
So far I've read 6 hrs since the RaT started.
Finished Rebecca
Listened to The Zookeeper's Wife & started Wizard's First Rule.
Now to get ready for church so I won't be reading anymore during the actual time, but enjoyed this very much. If I count the 3 hrs I did on Friday night ... that's 9 hrs in a little over 24. Didn't seem all that unusual for me so I must read quite a bit all the time! LOL

Time's up! Post your final tally/thoughts below!

Time: 7.30-9a CST
Read: finished A Repair Kit for Grading p88-155
Total pages: 67
Comments:there are things i believed going into this book that o'connor affirmed, things i didn't buy into that once i read how he put them i began to agree with and will implement in some way in my classroom, and there are like 3 things that i read, took notes on, looked up for clarification and still don't get...and, hope i won't have to implement as i think they're, for lack of a better word, naive and dumb.

Readathon total: 269 pages; (Children's books) 102 pages http://smhasty.blogspot.com/2011/11/r...

of note: this was loads of fun and although i didn't complete my goal i did complete what my goal morphed into! :D

Time: 8:00 - 10:00 am
Book: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
Pages: 1 - 48
Rotal Pages: 48 pages

Total Readathon Pages: 201 pages

Thanks for coming up with this great idea! I had so much fun! I can't wait to do it again! :)

My total:

Oliver Twist - 84 pages

A Storm of Swords - 66 pages

The Walking Dead, Book Seven - 150 pages

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Retreat - 168 pages

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Twilight - 160 pages

Total: 150 standard pages, 478 graphic novel pages

I did poorly. I have a nasty cold and only made it 6 hours. Colds hit me strangely. Aside from the normal nasal phlegm, I also get build up in my ears which then gives me a vertigo effect and makes reading very difficult.
I'm quite bummed, but loved what was going on here. I know we have a section for what's distracting you from you chunkster, but this was such a fun way to get to know new books, I know I added at least four books to my to read list.
I finished Shiver, got halfway through last weeks East of Eden section, and halfway through my audio book. I did not get to Kipling (so sad), but had you been there, you would have been entertained by my rendition of Fox in Socks and Green Eggs and Ham told with a cold.

Can I hope that this will be a yearly thing? Bi-annual? Quarterly? Once a month? (I know I'm pushing it now).

Everyman, what Lucretius are you reading? It sounds good and I want to add it to my to read list, but I can't find what post you signify what it is exactly you're reading and a search brings up lots of choices.

Juliette wrote: "I did poorly. I have a nasty cold and only made it 6 hours. Colds hit me strangely. Aside from the normal nasal phlegm, I also get build up in my ears which then gives me a vertigo effect and ma..."

I think we'd all like to do it again, though of course, the holidays should probably pass before our next attempt.

It actually put me in such a reading mood that I'll probably spend most of today reading too.

I wonder if next time maybe a designated chat room might not work better...

I'm gonna keep going today, too. Plus it made me realize that I haven't really allowed myself a day or afternoon off to read in ages! Between my son, family issues and health issues, I just put it off. It really made me feel good and I think it can only be good for me! :)

Time: 11 pm - 10 am
Book: Before you Know Kindness
Pages: 394 - 422
Total Pages: 28
Comments: Yay! I finally finished this book after months of reading a few pages here and there. The end is surprisingly different then what I initially expected. In my book that always makes me rate the book higher.

Book: There are Things I want you to Know about Steig Larsson and me
Pages: 94 - 181
Total Pages: 87
Comments: This is a very insightful book about the well publicized issues that Steig Larsson's long time domestic partner endure after his death. The book chronicles their 32 years together including the many reasons why they didn't marry and their plans to marry someday. The book also sheds light on many of the real life people they know and characters that appear in the trilogy.

Readathon total: 489 pages! I missed my goal of 500 pages by only 11. Next time.........

I would love to do this agin, after the holidays would work great for me but I can also try to do anytime the group comes up with. I was also thinking that maybe Sat pm to Sunday Pm might work better for some people who have to work on Sat.

Good idea on Sat pm to Sunday pm, Andrea!

Tally:
Oliver Twist- 30 pages (30 mins)
Gulliver's Travels- 45 pages (1 hour)
History of the Ancient World- 20 pages (1 hour)
The Immortal Prince- 104 pages (3 hours)
my newspaper (30 mins)

Total time: approximately 6 hours. I'm wondering why I picked so many slow reads. Normally I read about 60 pages an hour, but the only one I read that quickly was Oliver Twist (the only paperback).


I probably will get more read today than I did yesterday. I usually do a lot of reading on Sundays anyway. I do need to read the last 400 pages of The Immortal Prince by Tuesday no matter what, so I'd better get started on that.

Tally:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - 75 pages (12%)
Third from the Sun by Richard Matheson - 56 pages
Legion by William Peter Blatty - 27 pages
11/22/63 by Stephen King - 48 pages

Total Readathon Pages - 201

Wow, a lot of impressive reading was done by our group!

This was my total : 400 pages between and

Kathy wrote: "Good idea on Sat pm to Sunday pm, Andrea!"

I set the time frame I did because, when I work weekends, it's usually on Sunday. But if more people want a Sunday timeframe, that's doable.

I normally don't work Saturdays, but I needed to make up time. :(

Another option might be to do so many hours (up to 24) from Friday evening until Sunday evening ... this could accommodate varying schedules/activities for the weekend. Just a thought.

I wonder if there is any way to make this a fundraising event? It seems like that's what most things of this sort ared.

Looks like this event was a lot of fun. Wish I could have participated. Hope the group decides to do this again sometime!

Denae wrote: "I wonder if there is any way to make this a fundraising event? It seems like that's what most things of this sort ared."

That would be great! I would love it if we could find a way to do that!

Martha wrote: "Another option might be to do so many hours (up to 24) from Friday evening until Sunday evening ... this could accommodate varying schedules/activities for the weekend. Just a thought."

I like this idea!

I know there were a lot of people reading for charities in the Dewey's read-a-thon.
Here's a couple of examples...
http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2011...

http://candysraves.com/2011/10/readat...

Next Dewey's is April 12, 2012

Martha, I love your idea of just making it 24 hours during a weekend. Also, the charity benefit would be great!

Loretta wrote: "Time's up! Post your final tally/thoughts below!"

I wish I had had more time not devoted to family needs, but enjoyed feeling that reading was my "task" when I had any time I could spend on it. Took advantage of the extra hour of sleep to read longer than usual in bed; Dorothy Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon, a book I love and read every few years (my wife thinks it's a bad bedtime book because I get so engrossed in it; she prefers my reading books that get me in a more sleepy mood).

Enjoyed reading others' comments and hearing their reading plans and accomplishments.

Best thing for me was finally starting Lucretius. My thinking on it definitely switched from a duty book to great enjoyment book. Also fascinating how modern his thinking is (I didn't yet post that he also put forward the theory that the universe was made of atoms which merged with each other in various ways to form matter. How modern can you get?)

All in all, a very worthwhile experiment, even if I didn't accomplish all the reading I wish I could have.

And the English Parliament is still standing!

It might be fun to repeat this ever year on the end-of-Daylight-Savings-Time weekend.)

Juliette wrote: "Everyman, what Lucretius are you reading? It sounds good and I want to add it to my to read list, but I can't find what post you signify what it is exactly you're reading and a search brings up lo..."

In the Latin, de rerum natura. Translated usually as "On the Nature of Things" but the Penguin translation (which I like) is translated "The Nature of the Universe" and in the Great Books of the Western World series it's translated as "The Way Things Are."

Although for ancient works in verse, like Homer and Virgil, I usually go for verse translations, but on Lucretius I looked at two verse translations (one on line) but since this was more philosophical than literary, the precision of the translation was more important to me, and verse translations inevitably have to sacrifice some precision for the sake of fitting into the verse format, so I went with the Penguin Classics translation by Ronald Latham. (It's an older edition, copyright 1951, so I don't know whether Penguin is still using this translation.)

"It might be fun to repeat this ever year on the end-of-Daylight-Savings-Time weekend." definitely.

Stephanie wrote: ""It might be fun to repeat this ever year on the end-of-Daylight-Savings-Time weekend." definitely."

I agree. I definitely can't see this as more than annual or bi-annual, and definitely during the colder months. But choosing this this weekend was serendipitous.

It might be fun to repeat this ever year on the end-of-Daylight-Savings-Time weekend.

AGREE!!!

I'm in! I would definitely love to do it again! I would be game for bi- annually! :)

What about the end and beginning of daylight savings time...bi-annualy...once in the sprin and once in the fall?

Kristi wrote: "What about the end and beginning of daylight savings time...bi-annualy...once in the sprin and once in the fall?"

I guess the issue is that we'd only get 23 hours in the spring... which probably doesn't matter, as I don't know that anyone reads the full 24 hours anyway.

I could never make 24 hrs. I wish I could! :)

Loretta wrote: "Kristi wrote: "What about the end and beginning of daylight savings time...bi-annualy...once in the sprin and once in the fall?"

I guess the issue is that we'd only get 23 hours in the spring... w..."

he he he...we could make it from 10:00 the first day to 11:00 the second. Just to be sneaky and all...

It's not a chunkster, but I had been dragging through , Chocolate Chip Cookie Murderbut during the readathon I was finally able to finish it

I read one of those books, Key Lime Pie Murder, and was bored silly. Loved the recipes though.

Martha wrote: "I read one of those books, Key Lime Pie Murder, and was bored silly. Loved the recipes though."

Yes, it was packed full of great recipes.