Hours 19 - 24

The Clue in the Jewel Box - 25 pgs

The Stand - 34 pgs

Horse - 35 pgs

Freewater - 50 pgs

Final total, pages: 642

Final total, hours: 13 hr 40 min (9 hr 50 min reading, 3 hr 50 min audio)

Summary:

The hours-read total might be a record for me! I probably should have had just half of that 20-oz Diet Coke at 11:00 p.m. because I didn't sleep at all (although I tried to for about an hour)! I slept a few hours after the RAT was over, though, so I'm ok. I read one full book, and started all nine others in my stack. I had two already in-progress that I had put aside until after the readathon, so that makes a total of 11 books I'm currently-reading - also a record, I think! 😄 I'm especially enjoying Horse, The Great Believers, and The Stand. Can't wait for the next excuse to unplug from the world and hang out with my books! 📚

Hours 13 - 18

Freewater - 10 pgs (audio)

Brida - 65 pgs

The Great Believers - 36 pgs

The Bandit Queens - 43 pgs

Running total, pages: 498

Running total, hours: 7 hr 30 min reading, 2 hr 54 min audio

Just had a Diet Coke and hope to get at least a few more hours in. I'm enjoying all my books!

Hours 7 - 12

Whereabouts - 54 pgs, finished (audio)

Every Day in Tuscany - 45 pgs

The Stand - 47 pgs

Running total, pages: 344

Running total, hours: 4 hr 20 min reading, 3 hr 21 min audio

I'm enjoying all the books so far! I'll probably continue jumping around during the second half of the RAT. Luckily, my books are all different enough I can get away with that.

Hours 1 - 6

Circe - 51 pgs

Horse - 44 pgs

Whereabouts - 103 pgs (audio)

Running total, pages: 198

Running total, hours: 2 hr reading, 1 hr 45 min audio

I've decided on 6-hour updates this time. I got a slow start, as I read for an hour then slept for an hour (I think I did the same thing last readathon). I'm going to get dressed (it's noon) and go for an "audiowalk" to finish up Whereabouts. 

(I'm posting this late, so ignore the time stamp.)

Dewey's Readathon October 21, 2023

 Here's the stack!

Bottom to top:

Circe by Madeline Miller

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri (also on audio)

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Brida by Paulo Coelho (also on audio)

Every Day in Tuscany by Frances Mayes

Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (also on audio) - 2023 Newbery winner

The Clue in the Jewel Box by Carolyn Keene - Nancy is my wee-hours companion 

The Stand by Stephen King (original, uncut version)

Looking forward to the start in 5 days, 16 hours, and 13 minutes! 😀

Bout of Books 38 Updates

Day 1

   The Crime at Black Dudley - 25 pgs

   LaRose - 42 pgs (audio)

Today's total: 67 pgs

Day 2

   The Crime at Black Dudley - 24 pgs

   LaRose - 67 pgs

Today's total: 91 pgs

Day 3

   The Crime at Black Dudley - 35 pgs

   LaRose - 81 pgs

Today's total: 116 pgs

Day 4

   The Crime at Black Dudley - 35 pgs

   LaRose - 50 pgs

   The Secret Pilgrim - 13 pgs

Today's total: 98 pgs

Day 5

   The Crime at Black Dudley - 41 pgs

   La Rose - 90 pgs (audio)

   The Secret Pilgrim - 3 pgs

Today's total: 134 pgs

Day 6

   The Crime at Black Dudley - 76 pgs, finished

   La Rose - 42 pgs (audio), finished

   The Book of Strange New Things - 61 pgs (audio)

   The Diary of a Nobody - 21 pgs

Today's total: 200 pgs

Day 7

   The Book of Strange New Things - 109 pgs (audio)

   The Diary of a Nobody - 82 pgs

Today's total: 191 pgs

Final total:  897 pages 

I'll keep trying to hit that elusive 1,000-page goal. Already looking forward to BoB 39!😊

Bout of Books 38

I'm planning to join Bout of Books once again. I can't believe this is number 38! I'll have to count how many times I've participated. I have an international flight on Day 4, so have high hopes for racking up a lot of pages that day. 

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 21st and runs through Sunday, August 27th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, daily Discord questions, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 38 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

TBR:

The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham (in progress)

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (in progress - year-long read in a GR group)

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith

This is just a tentative plan. It will be mostly Kindle reading this time, and I have a LOT of books on there so I may start something else.

Bout of Books 37 Updates

 Day 1

   Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman - 34 pgs (audio)

   The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li - 59 pgs

   The Green Mile by Stephen King - 15 pgs

Today's total:  108 pgs

Day 2

   Thank You for Being Late - 37 pgs (audio)

   The Book of Goose - 68 pgs

   In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin - 40 pgs (audio)

Today's total:  145 

Day 3

   Thank You for Being Late - 47 pgs (audio)

   The Book of Goose - 77 pgs, finished

   In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - 41 pgs (part audio), finished

   The Green Mile - 10 pgs

Today's total:  175

Day 4

   Thank You for Being Late - 47 pgs (audio)

   The Lady in the Lake - 52 pgs

Today's total:  99

Day 5

   Thank You for Being Late - 32 pgs (audio)

   The Lady in the Lake - 81 pgs, finished

   The Green Mile - 20 pgs

Today's total:  133

Day 6

   Thank You for Being Late - 48 pgs (audio)

   The Green Mile - 21 pgs

   Collected Plays Vol. 2 - 31 pgs

Today's total:  100

Day 7

   Thank You for Being Late - 60 pgs

   The Green Mile - 109 pgs

   Clarissa by Samuel Richardson - 2

Today's total:  171

Final total:   931 pages

I'll keep trying to get to 1,000 pages during BoB. I think I've done it once or twice. 😏

Bout of Books 37

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 8th and runs through Sunday, May 14th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 37 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.  - From the Bout of Books team

Having just participated in my umpteenth Dewey's Readathon, of course I have to sign up for my nearly-umpteenth Bout of Books. Must keep up the reading mojo! Plus, I'm in the middle of 8 (EIGHT!) books. 😁

ETA: Here are the books I'm hoping to finish by the end of May (with the exception of Clarissa, which is a year-long read in a GR group). Let's see how many I can cross off this week!

The Book of Goose by Yiyum Li (in progress)

The Collected Plays Vol 2. by Neil Simon (in progress)

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (in progress)

Nature, Love, Medicine by various authors (in progress)

Thank You For Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman (in progress - also on audio)

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (in progress - also on audio)

The Green Mile by Stephen King (in progress)

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht 

The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Case of the Missing Map by Carolyn Keene

Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (in progress)

Summary

The Easy Life in Kamusari - 189 pages, finished. I really enjoyed this, plus I learned a lot about forestry.

The Book of Goose - 81 pages. Won the Tournmant of Books this year, but I'm not enamored so far. 

The Last Cuentista - 132 pages. This Dystopian thriller won the 2022 Newbery, and I can't wait to get back to the audiobook!

The Green Mile - 47 pages. Stephen King - 'nuff said. Another I can't wait to get back to. 

Total, pages: 449

Total, hours: 9 hr 14 min (6 hr 30 min reading, 2 hr 44 min audio)

I'm pleased with my results, given I took the evening "off".

Hours 13 - 18

 Since last update:

The Green Mile - 47 pgs

I ended up hanging out with family most of the evening. I'll likely turn in soon, but am hoping to be back for the last hour. Final update tomorrow. 

Hours 7 - 12

 Since last update:

The Easy Life in Kamusari - Last 131 pgs. I really enjoyed this one.

The Last Cuentista - 56 pgs (audio). This is a a Newbery winner and very good. I took a nice walk while listening and just wanted to keep going!

My daughter will be arriving soon, so I'll be taking an hour or two off then getting back to it!

Hours 1 - 6

Aaack! The time is going by too fast! I had an exhausting week and didn't get enough sleep last night, so I'm taking a more relaxed approach this time. I read the first hour, then napped the second. I'll probably do 6-hour updates here with pages read, then add hours at the end.

The Book of Goose - 81 pgs

The Last Cuentista - 17 pgs (audio)

The Easy Life in Kamusari - 58 pgs

Dewey's Readathon 4/29/23

 I'm late prepping for this readathon, but here's the stack I'll be choosing from:

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol. 2 (already in progress)

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (Newbery winner), also on audio

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura

Nature Love Medicine - essays by various authors

The Case of the Missing Map by Carolyn Keene (Nancy makes an appearance at most readathons in honor of my childhood. 😉)

Every Day in Tuscany - Frances Mayes

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin, also on audio

The Green Mile by Stephen King

It's 10:00 p.m. now and I start bright and early at 6:00 a.m, so it's off to bed soon (and hoping I can sleep - something I'm not great at. 😑)

Bout of Books 36 Updates

Day 1

   Spider's Web by Charles Osborne/Agatha Christie (audiobook) - 55 pgs

Day 2

   Spider's Web - 53 pgs

   The Collected Plays, Vol. 1 by Neil Simon - 50 pgs

Read today:  103 pgs

Day 3

   Spider's Web - 42 pgs

Day 4

   Spider's Web, finished - 81 pgs

   The Collected Plays, Vol 1 (finished "Come Blow Your Horn") - 52 pgs

Read today:  133 pgs

Day 5

   Collected Plays, Vol. 1 - 30 pgs

   The Light We Carry (audiobook) by Michelle Obama - 52 pgs

   Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang - 26 pgs

Read today:  108 pgs

Day 6

   Collected Plays, Vol. 1 - 82 pgs (finished "Barefoot in the Park") - 82 pgs

   The Light We Carry - 52 pgs

   Babel - 9 pgs

Read today:  143 pgs

Day 7

   Collected Plays, Vol. 1 - 30 pgs

   The Light We Carry - 51 pgs

   Babel - 10 pgs

Read today:  91 pgs

Final total: 675 pages

Maybe I can get to 1,000 pages in Bout of Books 37! I'll keep trying. 😊

Bout of Books 36

 I'm late to the party, but can't resist participating in Bout of Books again. Here's the blurb from the blog:

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 2nd and runs through Sunday, January 8th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 36 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team