Mid Event Survey

 1) What are you reading right now? Four in progress: Project Hail Mary, Everything I Never Told You, Dear Evan Hansen, and New Kid

2) How many books have you read so far? Four partial

3) What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the readathon? Kitchen Confidential
4) Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? The only interruption was getting sleepy!
5) What surprises you most about the readathon, so far? I'm always surprised at how fast the time goes.

Hours 1-6

Project Hail Mary - 126 pgs

Everything I Never Told You - 36 pgs (audio)

Running total, pages: 162

Running total, hours: 3 hrs, 35 min (2 hr 25 min reading, 1 hr audio)

Will try to last a little longer before snoozing for a bit. 😑

Opening Survey

 1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? 

Utah

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

The play "Dear Evan Hansen"
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
Whatever I decide will be my sweet treat tomorrow!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
When I'm not reading, I can often be found watching sports.
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? 

Same as always - try to read more!

Dewey's Reverse Readathon 7/22/22

 I do believe I have my stack ready nine days early!

Bottom to top:

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings - Shirley Jackson

Dear Evan Hansen - Steven Levenson

The Best Women's Travel Writing Vol. 12 - Ed. by Lavinia Spalding

Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (also on audio)

Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng (also on audio)

The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie

New Kid - Jerry Craft (graphic - Newbery winner)

Merci Suarez Changes Gears - Meg Medina (Newbery winner)

The Whispering Statue - Carolyn Keene (it's tradition to have a Nancy Drew in my stack)

There it is! Lots of variety for different moods. Can't wait to get started at 6:00 p.m. on July 22nd! 😊

ETA 7/17 - I decided to save the Shirley Jackson for the October readathon. I replaced it with Open Secrets by Alice Munro (short stories)

Bout of Books 34 Updates

Day 1

   Music is History - 40 pgs

   White Nights - 38 pgs (audio)

Pages read today: 78

Day 2

   Music is History - 28 pgs

   White Nights - 43 pgs (audio)

   Subdivision - 13 pgs

Pages read today: 84

Day 3

   Music is History - 54 pgs

   White Nights - 35 pgs (audio)

   Subdivision - 39 pgs

Pages read today: 128

Day 4

   Music is History - 54 pgs

   White Nights - 64 pgs

   Subdivision - 14 pgs

Pages read today: 132

Day 5

   Music is History - 26 pgs

   White Nights - 38 pgs

   Subdivision - 50 pgs

Pages read today: 114

Day 6

   Music is History - 49 pgs, finished

   White Nights - 36 pgs

   Subdivision - 113 pgs, finished

Pages read today: 198

Day 7

   White Nights - 112 pgs

   The Last September - 80 pgs

Pages read today: 192

Final total: 926 pages

Aargh - so close to my 1,000-page goal. Oh well, I'll git 'er next time. 😊

Bout of Books 34 Stack

My stack consists of the seven books I want to finish by the end of this month. Here are the three hard copies, the other four are on Kindle:

Music is History by Questlove (in progress)

White Nights by Ann Cleves (also on audio)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

On Kindle:

     The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

     The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

     When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin

     Subdivision by Robert J. Lennon

I usually have a stack of ten, but I'm trying to be realistic about what I can actually finish in May. As always, the goal is 1,000 pages for BoB week. Let's roll (well, in 31 hours)!

Bout of Books 34

 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 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 34 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team