I finished reading:

“A Plague of Secrets” written by John Lescroart.  485 pages.

The sixth fifth book of the year.  23,651 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Sun is Also a Star” written by Nicola Yoon.  344 pages.

The sixty fourth book of the year.  23,166 pages at an average of  362 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Case of Comrade Tulayev” written by Victor Serge.  362 pages.

The sixty third book of the year.  22,822 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Irregulars:  Roald Dahl and the Britsh Spy Ring in Wartime Washington” written by Jennet Conant.  348 pages.

The sixty second book of the year.  22,460 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Accidental Saints:  Finding God in All the Wrong People” written by Nadia Bolz-Weber.  193 pages.

The sixty first book of the year.  22,112 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Corps Book II:  Call to Arms” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  356 pages.

The sixtieth book of the year.  21,919 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Selected Poems of Osio Mandelstam” written by Osip Mandelstam.  153 pages.

The fifty ninth book of the year.  21,563 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

I finished reading:

“A Single Man” written by Christopher Isherwood.  186 pages.

The fifty eighth book of the year.  21,410 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Poems of Akhmatova” written by Anna Akhmatova.  155 pages.  

The fifty seventh book of the year.  21,224 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Secret Servant” written by Daniel Silva.  479 pages.

The fifty sixth book of the year.  21,069 pages at an average of 376 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Red Famine: Stalin’s War in Ukraine” written by Anne Applebaum.  360 pages.

The fifty fifth book of the year.  20,590 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Becoming” written by Michelle Obama.  421 pages.

The fifty fourth book of the year.  20,230 pages at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“We Crosses the Bridge and it Trembled:  Voices from Syria” written by Wendy Pearlman.  285 pages.

The fifty third book of the year.  19,809 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Bell Jar” written by Sylvia Plath.  216 pages.

The fifty second book of the year.  19,525 pages at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“World Order” written by Andrew Goliszek.  417 page.

The fifty first book of the year.  19,308 pages at an average of 379 pages per book.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon final stats and closing survey:

Total Time Read:  12 Hours 20 Minutes
Total Pages Read:  1166
Total Books Finished:  5

Closing Survey!

1. What hour was most daunting?  The last one for me (hour 19).   I just hit a wall
2. Tell us ALLLLL the books you read!  Reconstructing Christian Ethics; The World Crisis;  Zom-B City; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour; The Great Explosion; World Order
3. What was your favorite snack?  Jenn's homemade dip
4. What was your favorite facet of the day?  Being able to get away from home just to read.
5. Wanna volunteer for our next event?  I'll have to see what my schedule is like leading up to it.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hours 16-18:

Time read these hours:  1 hour 52 minutes

Pages read these hours:  221 pages

Books finished this hour:  2

Total Time Read:  11 hours 40 minutes

Total Pages Read:  1123

Total Books Finished: 5

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Reconstructing Christian Ethics:  Selected Writings” by F.D. Maurice.  212 pages.

The fiftieth book of the year.  18,891 pages at an average of 378 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Great Explosion:  Gunpowder, the Great Wat, and a disaster on the Kent marshes” written by Brian Dillon.  268 pages.

The forty ninth book of the year.  18,679 pages at an average of 381 pages per book.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hours 13-15:

Time read these hours:  1 hour 44 minutes

Pages read these hours:  166

Books finished these hours:  1

Total Time Read:  9 hours 47 minutes

Total Pages Read:  902

Total Books Finished: 3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Eleventh Month,  Eleventh Day,  Eleventh Hour:  Armistice Day, 1918 World Wat I and it’s Violent Climax” written by Joseph E. Perisco.  401 pages.

The forty eighth book of the year.   18,411 pages at an average of 384 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of read-a-thon hours 10-12:

Time read these hours:  2 hours 38 mins

Pages read these hours:  223 pages

Books finished these hours:  0

Total Time Read:  8 hours 3 minutes

Total Pages Read:   736

Total  Books Finished: 2

-Richard

End of read-a-thin hours 7-9:

Time read these hours:  1 hour 34 mins

Pages read these hours:  188

Books finished these hours:  1

Total Time Read:  5 hours 20 minutes

Total Pages Read:  513

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Zom-B City” written by Darren Shan.  168 pages.

The forty seventh book of the year.  18,010 pages at an average of 383 pages per book.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hours 4-6:

Time read these hours:  2 hours 12 mins

Pages read these hours:  204

Books finished this hour: 1

Total Time Read:  3 hours 46 mins

Total Pages Read:  325 

Total Books Finished:  1

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The World Crisis” written by Winston S. Churchill.  849 pages.

The forty sixth book of the year.  17,842 pages at an average of 388 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Read-a-Thon Hours 1-3:

Pages read these hours:  121
Time read these hours:  1 hour 34 mins
Books finished these hours: 0

-Richard

We are taking part in our 24th Dewey's Read-a-Thon.   This time I will be posting updates every three hours.

1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today?  Shenandoah, TX (30 miles north of Houston)
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?  The next Zom_B book.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?  Boiled Egg!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!  A  Monkey-Hanger in Texas!!
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?   We are staying at a hotel for a change of scenery.

-Richard