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Start: 00:01 Monday, November 13th
End: 23:59 Sunday, November 19th
(wherever you are)

GOALS:
1. Create your own reading challenge focus (ie. pick a challenge to focus on for this readathon - preferably a PAS one)
2. Team goal of 10,000 pages*

*I just pick this round random number off the air... it sounds good anyway & there's no pressure, just to see how we go as a team :)

Additional Notes:
a. You can start readathon from the middle of a book you're reading; just count the pages you read during the readathon's timeframe for the page count. If you didn't finish reading at the end of the week, same applies (count pages you read during the week)
b. Social Media? Let's tag it #PASreadathon17

206 pages - Laure
77 pages - Coralie
176 pages - Elvenn
320 pages - Karen
367 pages - Lusie
262 pages - Lagullande
105 pages - Sue
82 pages - Bea
141 pages - Angela
157 pages - LynnB
322 pages - Bea
109 pages - Wendy
211 pages - LynnB
259 pages - Karen
101 pages - Dee
161 pages - Bea
178 pages - Sara
535 pages - Angela
175 pages - Elvenn
292 pages - Tien
345 pages - Grace
256 pages - Lagullande
150 pages - Dee
132 pages - Sue
290 pages - LynnB
170 pages - Jayme
294 pages - Tien
164 pages - Coralie
272 pages - Susan
412 pages - Rosemary
352 pages - Lusie
83 pages - Dee
320 pages - Tien
368 pages - Angela
137 pages - Wendy
198 pages - Grace
112 pages - Sue
28 pages - Wendy
624 pages - Laure
203 pages - LynnB
83 pages - Lagullande
260 pages - Bea
326 pages - Angela
192 pages - Dee
293 pages - Bea

Running Total: 10,300 pages

See Next stage of goal in post #128

Great, Should we sign up here? Do we pick a focus as a team?

My focus will be on Bookopoly for which my latest (3rd) Jail book will be due on 15th so hopefully I'd have started earlier in the month but I doubt I'd have finished it so:

Bookopoly: to finish off the Peanuts edition
Come In Spinner (702 pages)
I've started reading 11/06 so will update progress before read-a-thon begins

MM17: 1 last book to finish this
An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey #1) by Nicola Upson (292 pages) -Read 11/15

Scattershelves:
The Blood of an Englishman (Agatha Raisin #25) by M.C. Beaton (294 pages) -Read 11/16
Killer Women: Crime Club Anthology #1 by various authors (210 pages)

Additional options if I finished either of above book before read-a-thon ends:

CiJ Round 1: 1 last book
Wayfarer (Passenger #2) by Alexandra Bracken (544 pages)

CiJ Round 2: I still need quite a number of books to finish off but for this read-a-thon, I'd read
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Praed (320 pages)

Social media handlers:
@babemuffin on insta (don't ask!)
@ktienh on twitter

Karin wrote: "Great, Should we sign up here? Do we pick a focus as a team?"

The focus is individual, Karin, as everyone will have different challenges in mind, I think. We only have the page numbers read as a team goal.

I will be working on bookopoly and probably scattergories.

This will be fun! During that week I'll be busy until Wednesday, so after that I'm sure I'll get some reading done.

I don't know yet on which goals I'm going to focus, because I'm now already working on finishing up some challenges. I hope to have the lost and moving hills challenge finished by the time of the read-a-thon. I think for the read-a-thon I'll read some 5 or 6 word titles or yellow covers for challenges for another group.

I'm not sure I'll be able to join, as I'm sort of in a reading slump (not a real slump, though, I'm just very very slow). But maybe things will change by that time! If that is the case, I will focus on LOST.

Marina wrote: "I'm not sure I'll be able to join, as I'm sort of in a reading slump (not a real slump, though, I'm just very very slow). But maybe things will change by that time! If that is the case, I will focu..."

See how you go, Marina, still a few weeks before we start.
I find Netflix binge during reading slump usually gets me back to reading ;p

Reading a book by an author I love or reading something light (like a fairy-tale retelling) usually get's me out of a reading slump. I hope you get out of yours soon, Marina!

I'll probably work on Bookopoly. Maybe Scattershelves, depending on how far I've gotten on my November list by then.

Is working on both at the same time an option, or do you prefer we choose just one?

I'm going to focus on finishing up LOST, and if I get through that (haha!), then work on Christmas in July (round 2).

Update Nov 10: Only 1 LOST left, so I'm going to work also on the December Scattershelves (KRNJB) and Christmas in July (KBNDCWP).

Nov. 13
Only Time Will Tell, Pages read: 157

I will focus on Lost and Bookopoly

Susan wrote: "I'll probably work on Bookopoly. Maybe Scattershelves, depending on how far I've gotten on my November list by then.

Is working on both at the same time an option, or do you prefer we choose just..."

I do prefer that we just choose one especially one that just needed that little last bit of push so that when readathon finishes, we'd finished that challenge & have that feeling of accomplishment :) However, I'm not going to forbid you from working with different challenges though. Just my thoughts...

I'll be focusing on Scattershelves. And I'll hopefully be settled into maternity leave by the time this kicks off. (Which either means a lot more reading time or a lot less!)

Ashley wrote: "I'll be focusing on Scattershelves. And I'll hopefully be settled into maternity leave by the time this kicks off. (Which either means a lot more reading time or a lot less!)"

Ooh!!! Congrats! When are you due?

Ooh!!..."

November 1st. :D

Tien wrote: "Karin wrote: "Great, Should we sign up here? Do we pick a focus as a team?"

The focus is individual, Karin, as everyone will have different challenges in mind, I think. We only have the page numbe..."

Great, this is perfect and what I initially thought!

here's hoping i'll get some time to read - i'll probably focus on moving mountains, since I def. fell off the scattagories bandwagon

I've added our Readathon into my calendar. I'm not sure that DH will understand so it may have to be a bit clandestine. Fortunately, he is busy a lot that week ;-)

I've only read 2 of my LOST 2017, so that better be my (secret!) focus.

Yikes, I've just checked - my remaining 8 LOST books have an average of 450 pages each!!

I'm in! I'm hoping to finish up the Christmas in July challenge I started.

I think I will try to finish up LOST.

Edit: I have requested the last two books from the library. So far no notice that they are in. I might have to change my plan.

For Scattershelves, I have 10 books from the library or owned available to me. That will not complete Scattershelves but will make progress on July, August, November and December and will complete September.

For Moving Mountains, I own 2 books of the 7 remaining.

For Christmas in July, I need 3 for part 1 and 3 for part 2. I am currently reading one of the three for part 2 and own two of the three for part 2.

Decisions, decisions.

I'm going to work on scattergories and Christmas in July since I try to read books that work for both.

I think I'll try to work on my 12 Days of Christmas list at least for Round 1.

Ashley wrote: "Ooh!!..."

November 1st. :D"

I think that means a lot less reading hahaha... it's really hard holding a book whilst breastfeeding and definitely can't hold a book whilst bottle feeding lol (I'd recommend an ereader of some sort if not audiobook) ;)

Exciting times ahead, Ashleigh :)

Lagullande wrote: "Yikes, I've just checked - my remaining 8 LOST books have an average of 450 pages each!! "

Oops! good luck, Lagullande, hopefully they're good reads so they don't feel like 450 pagers ;)

I'm in, I'll focus on the Moving Mountain challenge as it is currently feeling a bit neglected.

Tien wrote: "I do prefer that we just choose one especially one that just needed that little last bit of push so that when readathon finishes, we'd finished that challenge & have that feeling of accomplishment :) However, I'm not going to forbid you from working with different challenges though. Just my thoughts... "

In that case I'll go with Lost. I have only two books to read there, but one is long and one is old ... neither one is very appealing, but I need to get them read.

I'll decide what to focus on once the read-a-thon stars

Wow, this readathon is coming up sooner than I realized--only 9 more days!

I still don't know for sure, but I'll probably participate with some of the books from my 12 Days of Christmas list... or from my sequels-tbr pile.

Nov 8, 2017: I'll start adding books from the 12 Days of Christmas challenge below! For now:

* Los misterios de la gata Holmes by Jirō Akagawa (246 pages) [The mysteries of the Holmes cat] Only 72 pages read...
* To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia (176 pages) (13/11/2017) ��
* El Evangelio según Van Hutten by Abelardo Castillo (172 pages) [The Evangel According to Van Hutten] ~~~> (And for the challenge below!) (19/11/2017) ��
* The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels by William Golding (last 31 pages) (19/11/2017) ��
* Noches en Fitzrovia by Julian Maclaren-Ross (last 33 pages) [Nights in Fitzrovia] (19/11/2017) ��

Nov 14, 2017: I've realized that since 2016 I've only read 3 books written by authors from my country so- as a side challenge- I'll try to read at least one in the next days...

* Un cementerio perfecto by Federico Falco (175 pages) [A Perfect Cemetery] (15/11/2017) ��
* El Evangelio según Van Hutten (see above)

Main Focus: Moving Mountain
(Need to finish these 3 books to finish challenge)
�� 1. Beaton, M.C. | Death of a Gossip
�� 2. Levine, Gail Carson | Ever
�� 3. Hanff, Helene | 84, Charing Cross Road

Secondary: Scattershelves
(Also needing to read these books for challenges for other groups)
1. However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph | Aimee Molloy
November - F shelf - Feminism
2. Before the Fall | Noah Hawley
October - T shelf - Thriller
3. The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket
October - D shelf - Dark
4. The Forests of Silence | Emily Rodda
November - D shelf - Deltora
5. Mister Monday | Garth Nix
November - J shelf - Juvenile
6. Daughter of the Forest | Juliet Marillier
September - S shelf - Sevenwaters
7. Half Broke Horses | Jeannette Walls
December - R shelf - Ranches

Just what I needed, a readathon!
I will be focusing on reading the following books that have been languishing on my 'currently reading' list:
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Salambo by Gustave Flaubert
- I have not been in a mood for more 'meaty' books lately.

I will add if I can:
Rise of Empire by Michael J Sullivan
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevarra

Very unlikely I 'll finish all of those but I'll get my thumbs into it. :D

I will be working on Christmas in July as I still have 25 books to complete! I am yet to decide what books I will be reading.

I still have 5 books to finish for LOST, so I'll be attempting to hack away at that one.

I've created a ticker for our goal of 10,000 pages (see message 2) :)

So please update this thread as you finish your book with the page numbers during the read-a-thon week so I can accordingly update the ticker!! I'm getting very very excited, peeps!

Read A thousand Splendid suns, 372 pages!
I'll join in more soon! Yayy!

Chinmay wrote: "Read A thousand Splendid suns, 372 pages!
I'll join in more soon! Yayy!"

Chinmay, the readathon does not start until November 13, Monday.

Bea wrote: "Chinmay wrote: "Read A thousand Splendid suns, 372 pages!
I'll join in more soon! Yayy!"

Chinmay, the readathon does not start until November 13, Monday."

Ohh I'm so sorry! My bad :( What a fool am I!

It's staring to look like I'll be checking into the hospital to be induced on the first day of this read-a-thon. I probably won't be getting much reading done next week, but I'll post whatever I do manage.

Ashley wrote: "It's staring to look like I'll be checking into the hospital to be induced on the first day of this read-a-thon. I probably won't be getting much reading done next week, but I'll post whatever I do..."

Sending positive thoughts for a healthy baby :)

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Sending positive thoughts for a healthy baby :) "

Me, too, Ashley. Do you know if it will be a boy or girl or will it be a surprise?

Thanks for the positive thoughts! We're having a boy.

Ooh, best of luck, Ashley!!

They say, sometimes it takes ages for the drugs to work so you just may have some time to read ;)

Though I doubt you'd have time to update us afterwards, lol

But when you do have a spare minute, please let us know how you go! Best times ahead xx

What names have you decided on?

Ashley wrote: "It's staring to look like I'll be checking into the hospital to be induced on the first day of this read-a-thon. I probably won't be getting much reading done next week, but I'll post whatever I do..."

What, no reading whist in the midst of an induced labour ;)?

All the best!

Ashley, wishing you all the best!!

We'll be thinking of you, Ashley.

Well...since I haven't joined any challenges (figuring them out is challenge enough for me), I will be working on my 'Won Books' pile. I, too, am in a bit of a slump. Seems I am stuck on a book and can't get past it.

Wendy wrote: "Well...since I haven't joined any challenges (figuring them out is challenge enough for me), I will be working on my 'Won Books' pile. I, too, am in a bit of a slump. Seems I am stuck on a book and..."

Aw sorry to hear about your slump, Wendy. It's the pits when you just can't seem to enjoy your reads, isn't it? Which book are you in the middle of? Maybe it's time to set it aside for a while and get stuck to something you love either your usual fave reads or a re-read of old faves...