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

Dewey's Updates

 "Official" Hours 1-24

Let Me Tell You - 134 pgs

Sag Harbor - 92 pgs (audio)

A Girl Returned - 67 pgs

When You Trap a Tiger - 25 pgs

Hours:  6 hr 37 min (3 hr 35 min reading, 3 hr 2 min audio)

Pages:  318

I spent most of the day with my daughter (and my hubby), but did get some reading in early and late in the readathon (including the last 2 hours from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. 😶)

"Unofficial" Hours 25-48

Let Me Tell You - 39 pgs

Sag Harbor - 90 pgs (audio)

A Girl Returned - 103 pgs, finished

When You Trap a Tiger - 29 pgs 

Hours:  5 hr 48 min (2 hr 40 min reading, 3 hr 8 min audio)

Pages:  261

Total Hours: 12 hr 25 min (6 hr 15 min reading, 6 hr 10 min audio)

Total Pages:  579

Dewey's Readathon 10/22/22

Getting ready for the next Dewey's 24-hour readathon! I won't be able to participate 100% (turns out our daughter will be in town), but I'll certainly turn some pages. 😄 Here's my tentative stack:

Let Me Tell You : New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings - Shirley Jackson
Brida - Paulo Coelho
The Hours - Michael Cunningham

Fight Night - Miriam Toews, finished prior to RAT

A Girl Returned - Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead (also on audio)

Tinkers - Paul Harding

When You Trap a Tiger - Tae Keller

The Haunted Bridge - Carolyn Keene

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett

The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende (also on audio), added last minute

Bout of Books 35 Updates

Day 1

   Unnatural Causes - 13 pgs (audio)

   A Sacred Oath - 2 pgs

Pages read today: 15

Ok, I was packing and getting ready to travel. The rest of the week will be better!

Day 2

   Unnatural Causes - 13 pgs (audio)

   A Sacred Oath - 46 pgs

   Merci Suarez Changes Gears - 59 pgs

Pages read today: 118

Day 3

   Unnatural Causes - 14 pgs

   A Sacred Oath - 37 pgs

Pages read today:  51

Day 4

   Unnatural Causes - 56 pgs

   A Sacred Oath - 39 pgs

   Merci Suarez Changes Gears - 76 pgs

Pages read today:  171

Day 5

   Unnatural Causes - 31 pgs

   A Sacred Oath - 37 pgs

   Merci Suarez Changes Gears - 6 pgs

Pages read today:  74

Day 6

   Unnatural Causes - 56 pgs, finished

   A Sacred Oath - 43 pgs

   Merci Suarez Changes Gears - 159 pgs, finished

   Disappearing Earth (audio) - 19 pgs 

Pages read today:  217

Day 6

   A Sacred Oath - 54 pgs

   Disappearing Earth - 61 pgs

   The Pale Horse - 33 pgs

Pages read today: 148

Final total: 854 pages

I thought I would be able to reach my 1,000-page goal this time. Oh well - I still made some good progress with what I want to finish by the end of this month. Maybe I'll get to 1,000 in BoB 36! 

Bout of Books 35 TBR, etc.

I'm excited for Bout of Books next week. I have about 11 traveling hours Tuesday, so I'm hoping to get in lots of reading hours then. I don't really enjoy watching movies on those small plane screens, so that makes reading an easier choice. 📚😃As of Wednesday I am in semi-vacation mode, and what better way to spend leisure time than attacking the old TBR with gusto?! I will update with my BoB TBR tomorrow. It should be pretty easy to figure out, as I have several books in progress. I'll be mostly reading on my Kindle, with a few audiobooks. 

8/14 - The "Stack" (no photo because most of these are on Kindle):

In Progress:

   Unnatural Causes (audio) - P.D. James

   A Sacred Oath - Mark Esper

   Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende

   The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie

   Open Secrets - Alice Munro

   Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Newbery) - Meg Medina

Other possibilities:

   Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips

   Poirot's Early Cases - Agatha Christie

Bout of Book 35

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 15th and runs through Sunday, August 21st 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 35 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team