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Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon 2014 - Opening Post

7/14/2014

Button/Logo from My Shelf Confessions blog.

Progress: 0/330 pages (0%)

Starts: Monday, July 14th at 12:0oam EST
Ends: Thursday, July 24th at 11:59 PM EST

Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
    Finish Chapter 1: Pg 12-21 (p. 10)
    Read Chapter 2: Pg 22-41 (p. 20)

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
    Read Part 2 - Chapter 11: Pg 329-351 (p. 23)
    Read Part 2 - Chapter 12: Pg 352-375 (p. 24)

The Romance of Tristan by Beroul
    Read Introduction: Pg. 9-35 (p. 27)
    Read Chapter 1: Pg. 39-46 (p. 8)
    Read Chapters 2-5: Pg. 47-76 (p. 30)

I really seem to need some sort of push these past few months to get some reading accomplished. So after my dismal performance during the Book Monsters Read-A-Thon last month I am hoping to set mini-goals to help find some balance this during this period.

So, look out here I come Wicked Wilfire Read-a-Thon 2014, hosted by My Shelf Confessions. Doesn't the button just want to make you join?

My mini goals, nothing earth shattering here I hope. I really tried to limit the goal to average around 30 pages a day. Listed in no specific order, but hoping that with these small baby steps I can find other baby steps along the way to pass these up and get back on track with my year goals.

This includes just a small portion of the books I am working on right now, but I have to start tackling this mountain somewhere, even if it is in the middle.

The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
    Start Book 1 - Chapters 1-5: Pg 3-14 (p. 12)
    Continue Book 1 - Chapters 6-21: Pg 15-37 (p. 23)
    Continue Book 1 - Chapters 22-38: Pg. 38-68 (p. 31)

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
    Read Chapter 2: Pg 21-33 (p. 13)
    Read Chapter 3: Pg 34-52 (p. 19)

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Start Book 1 - Chapters 1-4: Pg. 11-30 (p. 20)
    Continue Book 1 - Chapters 5-7: Pg. 31-45 (p. 15)
    Continue Book 1 - Chapters 8-14: Pg 46-72 (p. 27)

Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien
    Read Chapters 1-3 : Pg. 17-44 (p. 28)

Twitter Users - Don’t forget to use the hashtag #WWReadathon throughout the event.
Host tags: @shelfconfession and @katlb82

[Notice: Original posting 2014-07-14 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]

Tag: Read-A-Thon

2 Comments

Ruth @ Great Book Study link

7/13/2014 11:54:38 pm

That is a lot of reading in ten days! But 30 pages a day seems doable. Good luck.

Plethora

7/20/2014 02:18:04 pm

Sorry it took me so long to comment. I wrote a reply after you posted that was eaten in cyber land, didn't get back to retry.

I found it helpful in the past to have little mini-goals, it helps to still see progress, even if they are seemingly unambitious. These past few months have skewed all my reading goals, so I needed to break things into small chunks and keep pressing forward.