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The Ultimate Reading Race
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Attention all readers! As a part of the revive BaB movement, I decided it was my job to create another BaB thread.
So, introducing the Ultimate CBer Reading Race! Here's how it will work:
Everyone who wants to participate, leave a comment on this thread. Everyone has to have entered by September 1st. I will possibly accept latecomers if you beg and plead enough.
Then, from September 2nd - September 20th, everyone has to read as many pages as possible! Real books only, please, not picture books or pages with gargantuan fonts. The person who has read the most pages by the end date is the winner! Then they set the next deadline, and we continue on in this fashion.
Remember, you are on the honor system here! No saying that you read 7,000 pages when you really read 100. I trust my fellow CBers to be honest. We can also use this thread to discuss what books we are reading and how long those books are.
I really hope this takes off. On an unrelated note, this is the first thread I've ever made on BaB.
Anyway, good luck, and happy racing!
submitted by Majestic Mary, age 1 eternity, Majestopia
(August 18, 2020 - 1:19 pm)
(August 18, 2020 - 1:19 pm)
I don't have a phone, so I have a hard time posting pictures. can we just say which books we read and how many pages?
(August 22, 2020 - 11:34 am)
It's almost September! What's everyone going to read? I just started Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. It's 406 pages.
(August 28, 2020 - 1:49 pm)
We're starting tomorrow! ilm going to read an assortment of books, basically whatever I can get my hands on.
(September 1, 2020 - 3:30 pm)
Happy September, everyone! The Ultimate CBer reading race begins in
3...
2...
1...
READ!
And they're off, wow I've never seen such diligent readers! Look at how those eyes move, how those pages turn! This is going to be a tight competition.
Ok everyone, as a reminder, we are reading as many pages as we can before sketched 20th. Good luck!! Buh-bye.
(September 2, 2020 - 2:10 pm)
So far this month, I have read Betty Before X, by Ilyasah Shabazz (245 pages) and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (288 pages). (533 pages in total.)
(September 5, 2020 - 2:53 pm)
Can I participate?
(September 6, 2020 - 8:31 am)
Of course!
Are you new? I don't remember seeing you around before. If so, welcome to the CB! We're glad to have you!
(September 6, 2020 - 5:43 pm)
No, I'm not new, I joined like a month or 2 ago and don't show up a whole lot. And I read The Madman of Piney Woods and Pictures of Hollis Woods, which total to 529 pages.
(September 7, 2020 - 8:26 am)
I read Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery. (278 pages.)
(September 7, 2020 - 6:25 pm)
I hope people haven't forgotten about this! (*ahem* I totally didn't) So far this month, I've (re)read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle (232 pages) and The Candymakers by Wendy Mass (453 pages), which totals to 685 pages!
(September 12, 2020 - 11:21 am)
I read Spy School Secret Service by Stuart Gibbs 339 pages.
(September 14, 2020 - 3:25 pm)
I read Radio Silence (496)
(September 16, 2020 - 12:27 am)
In addition to Spy School I have read,
The Diary of Chickabiddy Baby by Emma Kallok - 123p
A Lion to Guard us by Clyde Robert Bulla - 117p
The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of School by Ken Derby - 165p
Family Game Night and other Catastrophes by Mary E. Lambert - 245p
My big Sister is so Bossy she says You Can't Read this Book by Mary Hershey - 164p
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AVI - 210p
The Samurai's Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard - 234p
which has a total of 1363 pages plus the 339 from Spy School which gives me the grand total of
1597 PAGES
(September 20, 2020 - 2:37 pm)
Wow! It's the 20th already! Everyone post your page totals. I'll send mine in tomorrow when I'm not feeling so tired.
(September 20, 2020 - 8:11 pm)
I have read:
The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger, A Murder is Announced, They Do It With Mirrors, and A Pocket Full of Rye, all by Agatha Christie and amounting to 1365 pages together.
I also read Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey (I guess I really love British crime novels), which is 286 pages.
And Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics, Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race, and Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game, all by Chris Grabenstein, adding up to 864 pages.
I add that up with the books I already posted about, I have read a total of 3,326 pages.
(September 20, 2020 - 9:45 pm)