Goodreads Catchup Readathon #4

The last 48 hours or so have been a bit of a bust.  I have read a little bit, but for the most part I haven't been reading.  A lot of it has to do with the fact that I have been basically in travel mode since about Monday evening, when I started to pack up my things from my vacation.  It hasn't been that I was near a book, its just that life got in the way and I am hoping that I can get a bunch of reading done during the weekend, despite somethings that have come up.

Considering that I have been basically either traveling or tired, I have read quite a bit, but I am hoping that the next few days are a bit more productive and hopefully I can get a book or two done.  Toodles.

Goodreads Catch-up Readathon #3

I totally forgot to update with this readathon the last two days.  On Sunday night/Monday morning I was completing Catherine the Great and for some reason on Sunday night I totally forgot, as I did last night.  Not a big deal.  Since I haven't posted, I have managed to finish Catherine the Great and The Great Gatsby and started to read Sarah's Key, of which I managed to get about 40% of the book done while sitting in a lounge chair near a pool yesterday. Its a good beach read and has me interested in the roundup in Paris that occurred in mid-July 1942.    I also started reading The Hound of the Baskervilles again and hope to get a large portion of the book completed before I get home in the next 36 hours.

I hope you all have a good reading day and I hope to update in the next 36 hours or as soon as I can.

Goodreads Catch-up Readathon #2

Well, didn't get much done today.  I maybe read about 30 pages and that was only from one book and I haven't even gotten to Macbeth or Hound of Baskervilles or Catherine the Great.  The main problem is that these three are on my ereader and its not great in the sun.  Now if I had an ereader that allowed me to read it in the sun, I would be working on the three of them.  Oh well, guess I will be staying up late tonight working on Catherine the Great and possibly the other two and that's not to mention that I should be starting Bleak House this week.  But with a plane trip on Wednesday, I will possibly get a good chuck of the freebies (Catherine the Great needs to be returned by then and I plan on getting it finished before its due and has to be returned) while I head home from my vacation or maybe I will just sleep.  I am thinking I am going to read Sarah's Key next weekend, as I would like to not rushing to finish the book before my bookclub on the 10th.

I hope everybody has had a good Saturday and I will talk to you in about 24 hours from now. Toodles.

Goodreads Catch-up Readathon - Update #1

I think I read quite a bit today.  While I didn't get a lot done during the daytime due to activities that prevented me from reading, I did manage to get in quite a bit of reading during the evening hours.  I finished the first chapter of an ARC that I totally forgot I had (and clearly need to read) and I got a bit more of Catherine the Great completed (thinking of reading a bit more before I go off to dream land; the book is making me sleep at times, despite that the topic is quite interesting!).   I am guessing I probably read somewhere around 50-75 pages today, which for me is pretty average, but I still was unable to get to a number of my books that I really do need to get completed by the end of the month.  I am thinking I am going to concentrate on The Hound of the Baskervilles and Catherine the Great and just kinda wait and see with the others at this point, even though I do know I need to get Bleak House started this week.

Goodreads Catch-Up Read-a-thon

Even though I am on schedule to make my goal for this coming year, I have books that I am behind on and when I saw this come through on another blog this past evening (Thursday), I knew that I had to do it. Stephanie at Once Upon a Chapter is hosting this one.  Here are the details from her blog:

*Will run from 2/24 (12:01 AM) to 3/1 (11:59 PM).

*If you are a blogger, please do a post announcing your participation. If you want to do all of your updating from one post, that is completely fine by me. (You can also grab the smaller button below.)

*I will be having mini-challenges throughout the week. Two for US residents and one for my international friends!

*I can’t stress this enough: HAVE FUN with the read-a-thon!

To sign up, visit her BLOG 



What will I be reading?
• Les Miserables.  I am horribly behind on this book and I need to get caught up on it.
• Anna Karenina.  Another one that I am horribly behind on.
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.  Even though I am not behind on it, I do have to get it done in the next few days or else I don't have access to it.
• The Hound of the Baskervilles.  Really thought I might have this one done by now, but I don't and I need to get it done for one of my reading challenges.
• The Great Gatsby.  Really did think I would have this one done, but other books got in the way and I just was unable to finish it.

Updates
I will be creating a new one each day, hopefully at the end of each day.