Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Dewey's Reverse Readathon August 2, 2019

This is the first time I'll be starting at 6:00 p.m. instead of 6:00 a.m. I suspect I'll get less reading done (and will have to sleep more), but we'll see! Here's the stack:


Already in progress:
   The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters (also on audio)
   Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
   1776 by David McCullough
   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
On the light side:
   Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
   Book Love by Debbie Tung
   The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit)
         by Gary Larsen
Tournament of Books selections:
   Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
   American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
   Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Saturday, July 20, 2019

24in48 Updates

Hours 1-12
   1 hr 47 min audio - Death of a Poison Pen by M.C. Beaton
   1 hr reading - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Hours 13-18
   2 hr 54 min reading - My Sister, the Serial Killer (finished)
                                      So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

Hours 19-24
   2 hr 55 min reading - So Lucky (finished)
                                      The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

Hours 25-36
   1 hr 58 min audio - Death of a Poison Pen
   52 min reading - The Death of Ivan Ilyich (finished)
                               1776 by David McCullough

Hours 37-42
   30 min audio - Death of a Poison Pen
   2 hr 30 min reading - 1776
                                      Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks

Hours 43-48
   48 min audio - Death of a Poison Pen (finished)
    1 hr 33 min reading - Musicophilia
                                       A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Final total:  16 hr 47 min (5 hr 3 min audio, 11 hr 44 min reading)
Pages: 944