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Third Read-a-Thon - Progress Post

My goal this week is to finish the 3 books I have left for the 2015 challenge (House of Leaves, Ravage and The Importance of Being Earnest). I'm sure I'm going to be able to finish the two later books, but House of Leaves takes me so much time to read! Hopefully I'll soon come across a part of the book where nothing much is printed on the pages haha


Meran, you can post your pages for the day and any other progress updates you have right here! You're in the right place! :)
Sophie, I'm sorry to hear you're under the weather but glad you're going to get some quality book time in today!
Woohoo! Way to go Erica on finishing your first book!
Digging the enthusiasm, Mabomanji! Keep up the good work!
Sophie, I'm sorry to hear you're under the weather but glad you're going to get some quality book time in today!
Woohoo! Way to go Erica on finishing your first book!
Digging the enthusiasm, Mabomanji! Keep up the good work!

] I am reading it for the Winter Reading With Style group which starts tomorrow. We are allowed to start one book before the challenge starts as long as we don't go beyond 50%. So, I'm at page 220 and can only read to p. 264.
So far I'm ambivalent about the work... not awful... not compelling. It's on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list which is my first place to go for books to meet my challenge requirements.



The Confabulist is also on my list for this week. My library book club is reading it for December. I enjoyed his book [book:The Cellist of Sarajevo|2475251, so I have high hopes for this one.
Happy Reading everyone

I didn't finish any yet, but i'm really loving To Kill a Mockingbird <3
Also I read the story of Gerty Cori in Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries and she was awesome <3 This is a book i'm really loving and finding truly inspiring. I already read the story of Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and Emmy Noether and now Gerty Cori.
I'm continuing the books I already started, hoping to finish them this week, if I can find time to read x__x
They are: Warm Bodies (re-read), The Fifth Season, Elven Star (re-read), The Providence of Fire, La sorcière de la rue Mouffetard (children re-read).
They are: Warm Bodies (re-read), The Fifth Season, Elven Star (re-read), The Providence of Fire, La sorcière de la rue Mouffetard (children re-read).
I'm still trying to finish out my challenge. I started My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories last night for my Christmas book. I'm also in the middle of The Delta Anomaly and a bit of the way into A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy. I'm hoping to finish all of these this week plus one more!

How many pages:
How many books: 19
Reading now:

Finished Reading:



















Favorite character, scene:
From Lumiére: Fav Charater- Urlick, he is like my dream guy.. why the hell are you fictional?
From Otomen: Fave scene- Ryo's dad trying to learn about "girly things" for her birthday.

Reading now:

I've read about 100 pages today.

I absolutely LOVE Saga, I wish I had a next volume to read right now!

Read 100 pages of House of Leaves and listened to 2 hours of Red Dragon. It's a good start!
I'm working tomorrow, but I have a long trip to get to work, during which I switch between listening to an audiobook when I drive and walk and reading on the train.
It is a very good start, Sophie! Everyone's doing well! I'm sorry you're sick, Marina, hope you feel better soon! Glad you got some reading in! Good job, Goldberry on finishing Saga. I have yet to read them but I hear good things. I did very much enjoy Water for Elephants though! Congrats on finishing Canterbury Tales, Anastasia. What is up next for you?







30 pages of Buddhism without Beliefs : A Contemporary Guide to Awakening - this is something I am reading off and on
20 pages of Embers - for the challenge
53 pages of Pippi Longstocking - when I got tired

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories pages 203-253 (50 pages)
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium pages 0-45 (45 pages)
Total for Day 1: 95 pages
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium pages 45-153 (108 pages)
Total for Day 2: 108 pages
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium pages 153-203 (50 pages)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories pages 253-275 (22 pages)
A Clockwork Orange pgs. 0-51 (51 pages)
Total for Day 3: 123 pages
A Clockwork Orange pgs. 51-168 (117 pages)
Total for Day 4: 117 pages
A Clockwork Orange pgs. 169-192 (23 pages)
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia pgs. 295-340 (45 pages)
Total for Day 5: 68 pages
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia pgs. 340-372 (32 pages)
The Haunting of Hill House pgs. 0-113 (113 pages)
Total for Day 6: 143 pages
The Haunting of Hill House pgs. 114-133
Total for Day 7: 19 pages
Complete Total For Readathon: 673 pages, 4 books finished
Books Finished:





I got to 195 pages yesterday, spread out over 6 (?!) books. I finished Casino Royale, read a bit more of a couple I have on the go, and started three new ones.
I had a busy work day yesterday so I was only to read a little bit before bed
Midnight by Dean Koontz - 35 pages
It's getting really good so hopefully I can read a ton tonight!
Midnight by Dean Koontz - 35 pages
It's getting really good so hopefully I can read a ton tonight!
I also had to work yesterday (last night, actually, I'm just getting home from work now) and had to squeeze my reading in where/when I could. I managed to get 90 pages of My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories read. I am working tonight also so I'll squeeze in what I can today too! :)





Just began to read Mouseheart (50 pages in) and I'm already in love with the characters! So happy to be reading something light and easy. Lately I've been struggling to get through books, so this is a nice change of pace.


I am also hoping to finish The Shadow of the Wind this week since I only have about 3 hours left in that audiobook.

I've just started The Animal Farm, one book i was supposed to read earlier this year for the challenge and hopefully a quick read.
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