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!