December 5, 2009

Read. Read. Read-a-thon Updates, Final

So, I started the Read-a-thon early, to allow for maximum reading time. Here's my progress:

Books Finished:
1/2 of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
1/4 of The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
Chicken and Plums by Marjane Satrapi
The Strictest School in the World: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken by Howard Whitehouse
Death: The Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Friday, 5:00 PM

Listened to 15 minutes of Gone with the Wind on tape. Read 19 pages of Little Brother in 20 minutes.

Friday, 6:00 PM

Listened to 5 minutes of Gone with the Wind. Read 39 pages of Little Brother in 40 minutes.

Friday 7:00 PM

Read 66 pages of Little Brother in 40 minutes, completing the book.

Friday 8:00 PM

Read 82 pages of The Adoration of Jenna Fox in 55 minutes.

Friday 9:00 PM

Read 73 pages of The Adoration of Jenna Fox in 55 minutes. Really getting good.

Friday 10:00 PM

Read 68 pages of The Adoration of Jenna Fox in 45 minutes. Starting to get sleepy (though the original plan was to stay up until 2).

Friday 11:00 PM

Read the last 44 pages of The Adoration of Jenna Fox in 30 minutes. Calling it a night!

Friday Totals

305 minutes
391 pages

Saturday 9:00 AM

Up and at 'em and time to start again! I decided that I wouldn't tax my early-morning brain (if 9 AM is really early) with a new book and will start by finishing The Unlikely Disciple that I started before Thanksgiving. I read 36 pages in 50 minutes.

Saturday 10:00 AM

Finished reading The Unlikely Disciple and just barely started Travels in the Scriptorium. Read 50 pages in 50 minutes.

Saturday 11:00 AM

Abandoned Travels in the Scriptorium. Just too much after The Adoration of Jenna Fox to have another character not know who they are. Started The Strictest School in the World: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken by Howard Whitehouse. (Yes, that's the whole title.) Read 58 pages in 60 minutes.

Saturday 12:00 PM

Read 38 pages of The Strictest School in the World in 45 minutes.

Saturday 1:00 PM

Read 52 pages in 55 minutes, reading a bit of The Strictest School in the World and some of Chicken and Plums. Started getting sleepy, which is why I switched to a graphic novel.

Saturday 2:00 PM

Finished Chicken and Plums and got back into The Strictest School in the World. Read 92 pages in 55 minutes.

Saturday 3:00 PM

Read 44 pages of The Strictest School in the World in 40 minutes.

Saturday 4:00 PM

Finished up The Strictest School in the World. A good kids' book, but not as good as The Mysterious Benedict Society which is obviously hard to live up to. Read 62 pages in 40 minutes.

Saturday 5:00 PM

Read 65 pages of Death: the Cost of Living in 40 minutes.

Saturday 6:00 PM

Finished Death: the Cost of Living and started Gathering Blue. It's a companion novel to The Giver, so should be interesting. Read 63 pages in 55 minutes.

Saturday 7:00 PM

Read 31 pages of Gathering Blue in 30 minutes after eating dinner.

Saturday 8:00 PM

Read 73 pages of Gathering Blue in 55 minutes. So different from The Giver though I see the similiarities. Actually reminds me more of Hunger Games.

Saturday 9:00 PM

Finished Gathering Blue. So glad I read it! Read 83 pages in 45 minutes.

Saturday 10:00 PM

Read 14 pages of Burning for Revenge the 5th book in the Tomorrow series. Read for 15 minutes.

Saturday 11:00 PM

Read another 16 pages of Burning for Revenge in 20 minutes. It's not that I'm not enjoying this, it's just that I'm sleepy. If I didn't have to get up early, I'd push through, but tomorrow's a big day. Sunday's are always my big people day, so it's best not to push it with exhaustion!

Totals for the weekend:

960 minutes read (16 hours of reading time!)
1130 pages

5 books read, and 2 others completed




11 comments:

  1. Great start and reading pace. Keep it up!

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  2. Great start and have fun!! It looks like you picked some GREAT books!

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  3. You're doing great! I had hoped to start early but the day got away from me. Happy reading!

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  4. Long titles are my kryptonite. I may have to read that thing.

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  5. Wow you're a fast reader! Awesome job.

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  6. Ash: It's also inflated by the fact that these are YA books or graphic novels!

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  7. Good work. You're getting a lot of reading done. I'm impressed.

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  8. Wow, good job! I am doing the opposite and reading late... I did take a sizable break in the middle though. Oh well... I am back off to my reading! Good job on yours!

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  9. Congrats on finishing the read-a-thon! You got a lot read, and it looks like you had fun too. Great job!

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  10. Good. I feal jealous. I also planned to finish 30 books in this year. Still stuck with 23rd :(

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