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