I finished reading:

“Grandmaster” written by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochrane.  431 pages.  Four stars.

The fiftieth book of the year.  17,740 pages at an average of 355 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Darkest Hour:  How Churchill Brought England Back From the Brink” written by Anthony McCarten. 265 pages.  Three stars.

The forty ninth book of the year.  17,309 pages at an average of 353 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Lives of Unforgetting: What We Lose in Translation When We Read the Bible” written by Stant Litore.  363 pages.  Four stars.

The forty eighth book of the year.  17,044 pages at an average of 355 pages per book.

-Richard 

 Read-a-thon final step and closing survey

Pages Read:  1021

Time Read:  11 hours 42 minutes

Books Finished: 5

Closing Survey

1. How would you assess your reading overall?   Patchy.... some hours read well,  others struggled
2. Did you have a strategy, and if so, did you stick to it?  Yes
3. What was your favorite snack?   Strawberry Dip w/Ginger Nuts
4. Wanna volunteer for our next event? Stay tuned for the recap post!

-Richard

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

Pages read these hours:  153

Time read these hours 1 hour 50 minutes

Books finished these hours:  1

Total Pages Read: 1004

Total Time Read:  11 hours 29 minutes

Total Books Finished:  5

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Four to Score” written by Janet Evanovich.   313 pages.  Three stars.

The forty seventh book of the year.  16,681 pages at an average of 356 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Pages read these hours:  140 pages

Time read these hours:  2 hours 6 minutes 

Books finished these hours:  0

Total Pages Read:  851

Total Time Read:  9 hours 29 minutes 

Total Books Finished:  4

-Richard 

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

Time read these hours:  1 hour 24 mins 

Pages read these hours:  171

Books read these hours:  1

Total Time Read:  7 hour 23 mins

Total Pages Read:  711

Total Books Finished:  4

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Saga Vol. 9” written by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan.  154 pages.  Three stars.

The forty sixth book of the year.  16,368 pages at an average of 356 pages per book.  

-Richard 

 End of read-a-thon hours 7-9:

Pages read these hours:  278

Time read these hours:  2 hours 8 minutes

Books finished these hours:  3

Total Pages Read: 541

Total Time Read:  5 hours 59 minutes

Total Books Finished: 3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Zom-B: Bride” written by Darren Shan.  234 pages.  Four stars.

The forty fifth book of the year.  16,214 pages at an average of 360 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Time read these hours:  2 hours 13 mins

Pages read these hours:  183

Books finished these hours:  2

Total Time Read:  3 hours 51 minutes

Total Pages Read:  163

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Beneath the Bleeding” written by Val McDermid.  484 pages.  Four stars.

The forty forty book of the year.  15,980 pages at an average of 363 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Girl Who Played With Fire” written by Stieg Larsson.  503 pages.  Three stars.

The forty third book of the year.   15,496 pages at an average of 360 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of read-a-thon hours 1-3:

A slow start!!

Time read these hours:  1 hour 38 minutes 

Pagers read these hours:  80

Books finished these hours:  0

-Richard 

 Today we are participating in another Dewey's Readathon.   I will post updates after every three hours.

Here is the opening summary:

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?  The Woodlands, Texas, USA (35 miles North of Houston).
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?  All of them!!
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?  My wife's strawberry dip
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!  Chemist, poet, English, husband - "lost 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?  This time we will be staying home so we can also take care of our rehabbing dog and "super" senior cat.

-Richard

I finished reading.

“The Confession” written by John Grisham.  515 pages.  Four stars.

The forty second book of the year.  14,993 pages at an average of 357 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” written by John Berendt.  388 pages.  Four stars.

The forty first book of the year.  14,478 pages at an average of 353 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“This Was A Man” written by Jeffrey Archer.  403 pages.  Four stars.

The fortieth book of the year.  14,090 pages at an average of 352 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“A Vision Unfulfilled:  Russia and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century” written by John M. Thompson.  561 pages.  Four stars.

The thirty ninth book of the year.  13,687 pages at an average of 351 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finish reading:

“Sisters in the Wilderness:  The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk” written by Delores S. Williams.  239 pages.  Three stars.

The thirty eighth book of the year.  13,126 pages at an average of 345 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Winter Queen” written by Boris Akunin.  242 pages.  Three stars.

The thirty seventh book of the year.  12,887 pages at an average of 348 pages per book.

-Richard