Winter 24 Hour Readathon Hour 4 Update

Pages Read:
16 in Sourcery by Terry Pratchett (you gotta start somewhere)
17 Running Total

Winter 24 Hour Readathon Hours 1-3 Update

Most of this time has been spent sleeping, but I'm now ready to read 'em all for the next 21 hours.

Pages Read:
1 in Sourcery by Terry Pratchett (you gotta start somewhere)
1 Running Total

Challenges: Opening Questionnaire:

1. What books are in your TBR pile for the Read-A-Thon?
It's a Terry Pratchett Fest!
Sourcery
Eric
Interesting Times
The Last Continent

2. What are you eating or drinking during the Read-A-Thon?
Them bottled starbucks frappuccinos, propel, and don't be surprised if hot chocolate sneaks in there as well.

3. How are you going to keep yourself awake during this challenge?
SHEER WILLPOWER (aided by caffeine)

4. What book are you looking forward to reading the most?
Interesting Times since I've started it 3 or 4 times and never finished.

5. How many books do you want to read?
Want to read? 29

6. Where in your house will you get comfortable to curl up and read?
Down here on the living room couch until my sweetie wakes up and then I'm moving back to bed.

7. Have you participated in a Read-A-Thon before?
Yes (check out that sidebar)

8.What will you be wearing so you are comfy and cozy to read?
Pyjamas and bathrobes - are there other clothes?

9. What are you looking forward to most about the Read-A-Thon?
Making progress on my "read all of the Discworld novels" goal for the year.


10. Where will you be updating what you read (twitter, goodreads, youtube or blog)?  Ici!  (I should probably go put this on goodreads...


Hour 2 Challenge: Film a video about your readathon TBR
I did that one!

Bout of Books 12 Day 6 Update

Pages Read:

101 in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
19 in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
9 in Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

129 Daily Total
1166 Running Total

Books Completed:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
What If? by Randall Munroe
Transcendence by Shay Savage
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

Bout of Books 12 Day 5 Update

Pages Read:

56 in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
104 in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

160 Daily Total
1037 Running Total

Books Completed:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
What If? by Randall Munroe
Transcendence by Shay Savage

Bout of Books 12 Day 4 Update

This was my day to finish Tess - that clearly did not go as planned, because Transcendence happened.  Holy bejeezuz, guys, that story.

Pages Read:

4 in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
26 in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
301 (aka: all of it) in Transcendence by Shay Savage

331 Daily Total
877 Running Total

Books Completed:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
What If? by Randall Munroe
Transcendence by Shay Savage

Bout of Books 12 Day 3 Update

Pages Read:

22 in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
124 in What If? by Randall Munroe
54 in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

200 on the nose! Daily Total
546 Running Total

Books Completed:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
What If? by Randall Munroe

Bout of Books 12 Day 2 Update

Pages Read:

51 in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
53 in What If? by Randall Munroe
80 in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

184 Daily Total
346 Running Total

Books Completed:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Challenge: Top 10 Recommendations on Trees of Reverie

And here are the titles and authors, slightly more legibly:

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Reader's Block by David Markson
Flat Land by Edwin A. Abbott
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bout of Books 12 Day 1 Update

Pages Read:

87 in The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
16 in The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
32 in What If? by Randall Munroe
27 in Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

162 Daily Total
162 Running Total

Books Completed:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Challenge: I am way to beat up to deal with challenges right now...

Winter Re-readathon Day 12 Update

Pages Read:

75 in The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

75 Daily Total
1234 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Under the Skin by Michel Faber

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 5/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 11 Update

Pages Read:

132 in Under the Skin by Michel Faber
17 in The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

149 Daily Total
1159 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Under the Skin by Michel Faber

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 5/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 10 Update

Pages Read:

105 in Under the Skin by Michel Faber
88 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

193 Daily Total
1010 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 4/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 9 Update

Pages Read:

23 in Under the Skin by Michel Faber
43 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

66 Daily Total
817 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 3/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 8 Update

Pages Read:

26 in Under the Skin by Michel Faber
56 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

82 Daily Total
751 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 3/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 7 Update

Yesterday, I didn't fit in any reading, but I did see the final Hobbit movie, so... that has something to do with books.

Pages Read:

25 in Under the Skin by Michel Faber
39 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

64 Daily Total
669 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 3/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 5 Update

Pages Read:

4 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (impressive, I know)
23 in Carmilla (equivalent of 3 audiobook chapters) by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

27 Daily Total
605 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 3/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 4 Update

Pages Read:

43 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
101 in Carmilla (equivalent of 13 audiobook chapters) by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

144 Daily Total
578 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 2/6

Winter Re-readathon Day 3 Update

Not a very impressive day since a lot of Christmas happened...

Pages Read:

19 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

19 Daily Total
434 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 2/6

Winter Re-readathon: Day 2 Update

Pages Read:

142 (the equivalent of 13 audiobook chapters) in Persuasion by Jane Austen

52 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

194 Daily Total
415 Running Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone (Persuasion)

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 2/6

Winter Re-readathon: Day 1 Update

Pages Read:

96 in Zoom (a bind-up of the Zoom Trilogy) by Tim Wynne-Jones

98 (the equivalent of 11 audiobook chapters) in Persuasion by Jane Austen

27 in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

221 in Total

Books Completed:

Zoom by Tim Wynne-Jones

Challenge Progress: 

Re-read the first book you remember reading (Zoom)

Read a stand-alone

Read a book by your favorite childhood author

Read 6 books: 1/6

Christmas Booktube-a-thon Wrap Up

I did it!