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It's time to mark our calendars for our next quarterly read-a-thon for 2023. It will take place Friday 2nd June at 12.01am and continue until Sunday 4th June at 11.59pm in your local time zone - 3 full days :)

We read 28,253 pages last quarterly read-a-thon, so for our June/Winter readathon we'll aim for 28,500 pages.

Don't forget our Challenge Guidelines here

Please post your interest here in this thread up until we begin the challenge - when the weekend is over the page numbers read will be tallied :)

If possible, check in at least once a day, more often if you want. Our cut off time for you to add your final totals with a NEW POST will be Monday 5th June AEST :)

Participants


Angela
Anita
Brenda
Carolyn
Catsalive (Kylie)
Em_Jay
Genevieve
Helen
Jane
Jazzy
Jenny
Kerri_M
Kim
Krystal
Leonie
Mari
Marianne
Mel
Niamh
PattyMacDotComma
Phrynne
Renee V
Sarah
Sharon
Steve
Suz
Tracey Allen
Trish
Trisha
Valerie
Veronica

Count me in!

I may be dead from jetlag, but I'm looking forward to it!

I'm in:)

yes i will have a go

I’m in 🙋‍♀��

I am in!

Great to see you all here again - another fun weekend ahead! You're all on the list :)

Definitely in 👍

Me!

Yep, I'll be reading.

I'll read along but can't read as much as I did last time around!

Saving this spot for my books...!



Friday
🍋 1 Murder in the Basement (1932) - Anthony Berkeley
170-272 of 272pp = 102

🍋 2 Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe (2014) - William Jay Risch
0-244 of 244pp = 244

🍋 3 Fell Murder (1944) - E.C.R. Lorac
0-256 of 256pp = 256

🍋 4 Up the Down Staircase (1964) - Bel Kaufman
56-368 of 368pp = 312

5 Niki: The Story of a Dog (1956) - Tibor Déry
38-50 of 144pp = 12



Friday total = 926pp

Saturday
1 Niki: The Story of a Dog (1956) - Tibor Déry
50-78 of 144pp = 28

🍋 2 Vertigo (1954) - Boileau-Narcejac
38-? of 192pp = 154

🍋 3 The Lodger (1913) - Marie Belloc Lowndes
0-306 of 306pp = 306

4 To Sir, With Love (1959) - E.R. Braithwaite
0-49 of 232pp = 49



Saturday Total = 537
Two-day total = 1463pp

Sunday
🍋 1 Niki: The Story of a Dog (1956) - Tibor Déry
78-144 of 144pp = 66

🍋 2 To Sir, With Love (1959) - E.R. Braithwaite
49-232 of 232pp = 183

🍋 3 Checkmate to Murder: A Second World War Mystery (1944) - E.C.R. Lorac
0-224 of 224pp = 224

🍋 4 Pink (2009) - Lili Wilkinson
0-325 of 325pp = 325

🍋 5 Deceit (1930) - Yuri Felsen
0-248 of 248pp = 248

🍋 6 Murder by Matchlight (1945) - E.C.R. Lorac
0-288 of 288pp = 288

🍋 7 Bats in the Belfry (1937) - E.C.R. Lorac
0-253 of 253pp = 253

🍋 8 Never to Surrender (2022) - Mary-Anne O'Connor
0-432 of 432pp = 432

9 Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey (2008) - Simon Louvish
0-26 of 432pp = 26

Running total = 2080

10 The Poisoned Chocolates Case
0-94 of 267pp = 94



Two-day total = 1463pp
Sunday Total = 2174pp
Three-day total = 3637pp

Count me in :)

I'm in please Brenda! I'll be cooking all day on the Friday, so might get an audiobook organised in advance...

Count me in please! Perfect way to start the winter challenge

Welcome all - you're on the list :)

Yes please! I broke my wrist last week so reading is currently my main activity!

That is not good Carolyn enjoy that reading time and I hope it heals quickly

Carolyn wrote: "Yes please! I broke my wrist last week so reading is currently my main activity!"

Oh dear, I hope you are coping okay 🙁

Carolyn wrote: "Yes please! I broke my wrist last week so reading is currently my main activity!"

Oh no Carolyn! Just before your holiday :( How did you manage that?

You're on the list :)

Thanks everyone, not great timing but the holiday is all rebooked for September and hopefully the wrist will heal well. It's my left wrist and I'm right handed so managing most things fine - except opening tins of cat food (for the cat) and most of the housework 😉

Carolyn wrote: "Thanks everyone, not great timing but the holiday is all rebooked for September and hopefully the wrist will heal well. It's my left wrist and I'm right handed so managing most things fine - except..."

I hope you heal quickly. Don’t worry about the housework, just practise opening the tins of cat food - the obvious priority!

I’d like to join the readathon, please.

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Friday
🌼The Girl from the Tea Garden, Janet MacLeod Trotter, 264 pages

Saturday
🌼Joe Country, Mick Herron, 278 pages

Sunday
🌼Joe Country, Mick Herron, 83 pages
🌼Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, 278 pages

Final total: 903 pages

Trisha wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "Thanks everyone, not great timing but the holiday is all rebooked for September and hopefully the wrist will heal well. It's my left wrist and I'm right handed so managing most thin..."

Thanks Trisha - the cat agrees with you!

Good luck with the cat food tins, Carolyn - get well!

I'll be here, too!
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Best laid plans and all that. I read other things I can't count, but I did manage to start the 2022 Booker Prize winner:
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
112 pages

Carolyn wrote: "Thanks everyone, not great timing but the holiday is all rebooked for September and hopefully the wrist will heal well. It's my left wrist and I'm right handed so managing most things fine - except..."

A good excuse to get another member of the family to do the housework for you ;) And open the cat food!! Take care - so glad it's not you're writing hand!

Trisha and Patty, you're on the list!

Carolyn wrote: "Thanks everyone, not great timing but the holiday is all rebooked for September and hopefully the wrist will heal well. It's my left wrist and I'm right handed so managing most things fine - except..."

Oh dear, Carolyn! Hopefully it'll put itself back together nicely for you, and the cat will also survive!

I'm in!

You're on the list Em :)

Leonie wrote: "Oh dear, Carolyn! Hopefully it'll put itself back together nicely for you, and the cat will also survive! "

Thanks Leonie. Fortunately for the cat, we now have sachets of food that I can cut open, so she won't starve!

Please count me in! :) With a humble goal of 500 pages this time around.

You're on the list Krystal :)

Count me in please

You're on the list Kerri :)

Add me to the list please!

And you're there Jane :)

I'm in! That is the start of my holidays so perfect timing.

Me too please:)

Renee (great timing indeed!) and Valerie, you're on the list :)

Thanks for the reminder, Brenda. I'm in.

Excellent! You're on the list Kylie :)

Carolyn wrote: "Yes please! I broke my wrist last week so reading is currently my main activity!"

Sorry to hear that Carolyn, hope it heals well and quickly..when the time comes, best advice from me,,,11years ago..do all the physio.

In for the challenge, it seems to have come around so quickly!

Welcome Trish, you're on the list. And I agree!!

I’d love to join in too, and hope the wrist heals well Carolyn!

Great Tracey, you're on the list!

I'd be keen to join! :)

Great Mel, you're on the list :)