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

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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. 😑)