I finished reading:

“Sonnets” written by William Shakespeare.  107 pages.  Four stars.

The eightieth book of the year.  22,415 pages at an average of 280 pages per book.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 19 (final hour) and final stats:

Pages read this hour:  61

Time read this hour:  40 minutes

Books finished this hour: 1

Total Pages Read - 1164

Total Time Read - 13 hours 25 minutes

Total Books Finished - 5

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Elusive:  How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass” written by Frank Close.  248 pages.  Five stars.

The seventy ninth book of the year.  22,308 pages at an average of 282 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Pages read these hours: 180

Time read these hours:  2 hours 27 mins 

Books finished these hours: 0

Total Pages Read:  1103

Total Time Read:  12 hours 45 minutes 

Total Books Finished: 4

-Richard

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

Pages read these hours:  230

Time read these hours:  2 hours 16 minutes

Books finished these hours: 1

Total Pages Read:  908

Total Time Read:  10 hours 18 minutes

Total Books Finished: 4

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Gutshot Straight” written by Lou Berney.   291 pages.  Three stars.

The seventy eighth book of the year.  22,060 pages at an average of 283 pages per book.

-Richard

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

Pages read these hours:  198

Time read these hours:  2 hours 2 minutes

Books finished these hours: 1

Total Pages Read:  678

Total Time Read:  8 hours 2 minutes 

Total Books Finished:  3

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Plum Lucky” written by Janet Evanovich.  166 pages.  Three stars.

The seventy seventh book of the year.  21,769 pages at an average of 283 pages per book.

-Richard

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

Pages read these hours:  226

Time read these hours:  2 hours 30 minutes 

Books finished these hours: 1

Total Pages Read:  460

Total Time Read:  6 hours 10 minutes

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Bones of Betrayal” written by Jefferson Bass.  316 pages.  Four stars.

The seventy sixth book of the year.  21,603 pages at an average of 284 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Pages read these hours:  162

Time read these hours:  2 hours 6 mins

Books finished these hours:1

Total Pages Read: 234

Total Time Read:  3 hours 40 mins

Total Books Finished: 1

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Big Sort:  Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart” written by Bill Bishop.  310 pages.  Four stars.

The seventy fifth book of the year.  21,287 pages at an average of 284 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Time read these hours:  1 hour 24 minutes

Pages read these hours: 72

Books finished: 0

-Richard 

 Tomorrow we will be participating in another Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon.   I will post updates every three hours.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Hitter’s Ambivalent Attaché:  Lt. Gen. Friedrich Von Boetticher In America, 1933-1941” written by Alfred M. Beck.  232 pages.  Three stars.

The seventy fourth book of the year.  20,977 pages at an average of 283 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Last Witness” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  344 pages.  Two stars.

The seventy third book of the year.  20,745 pages at an average of 284 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Heimat: A German Family Album” written by Nora Krug.  288 pages.  Five stars.

The seventy second book of the year.  20,401 pages at an average of 283 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming” written by Henri J.M. Nouwen.  139 pages.  Four stars.

The seventy first book of the year.  20,113 pages at an average of 283 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Sound Within Sound:  Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century” written Kate Molleson.  303 pages.  Five stars.

The seventieth book of the year.  19,974 pages at an average of 285 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Selected Poems” written by Carl Sandburg.  270 pages.  Four stars.

The sixty ninth book of the year.  19,671 pages at an average of 285 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat The Nazis” written by Leah Garrett.  280 pages.

The sixty eighth book of the year.  19,400 pages at an average of 285 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Possessed:  Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them” written by Elif Batuman.  290 pages.  Five stars.

The sixty seventh book of the year.  19,120 pages at an average of 285 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Sabre” written by James Follett.  Two stars.  348 pages.

The sixty sixth book of the year.  18,830 pages at an average of 285 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“A Man Called Intrepid:  The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History” written by William Stevenson.  472 pages.  Four stars.

The sixty fifth book of the year.  18,482 pages at an average of 284 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“When the Emperor Was Devine” written by Julie Otsuka.  144 pages.  Four stars.

The sixth fourth book of the year.  18,010 pages at an average of 281 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Rehearsals” written by Vladimir Sharov.  359 pages.  Five stars.

The sixty third book of the year.  17,866 pages at an average of 284 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Vigilantes” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  450 pages.  Two star.

The sixty second book of the year.  17,507 pages at an average of 282 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Selected Poems, Essays, And Letters” written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.  603 pages.  Three stars.

The sixty first book of the year.  17,057 pages at an average of 280 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Fawn” written by Magda Szabo.  285 pages.  Four stars.

The sixtieth book of the year.  16,454 pages at an average of 274 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Campaign in Russia:  The Waffen SS On the Eastern Front” written by Leon Degrelle.  346 pages .  Three stars.

The fifty ninth book of the year.  16,169 pages at an average of 274 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Jesus Heist:  Recovering the Gospel from The Church” written by C. Andrew Doyle.  162 pages.  Four stars.

The fifty eighth book of the year.  15,823 pages at an average of 273 pages per book.

-Richard