I finished reading:

“The Frog In The Throat” written by Markus Werner.  122 pages.  Three stars.

The fiftieth book of the year.  16,838 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Frozen River” written by Ariel Lawson.  427 pages.  Five stars.

The forty ninth book of the year.  16,716 pages at an average of 341 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Losing Control” written by Fiona Erskine.  361 pages. Four stars.

The forty eighth book of the year.  16,289 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“How To Watch The Olympics” written by David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton. 388 pages.  Three stars.

The forty seventh book of the year.  15,958 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Chemical Reaction” written by Fiona Earskine.  414 pages.

The forty sixth book of the year.  15,570 pages at an average of 338 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“With God in Russia” written by Walter J. Ciszek.  433 pages.  Four stars.

The forty fifth book of the year.  15,156 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“How the Steel was Tempered:  Part 2” written by Nikolai Ostrovsky.  383 pages.  Four stars.

The forty fourth book of the year.  14,723 pages at an average of 335 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“How The Steel Was Tempered:  Part One” written by Nikolai Ostrovsky.  181 pages.  Four stars.

The forty third book of the year.  14,340 pages at an average of 333 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Einstein:  His Life and Universe” written by Walter Isaacson.  551 pages.  Four stars.

The forty second book of the year.  14,159 pages at an average or 337 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Sun City” written by Tove Jansson.  214 pages.  Four stars.

The forty first book of the year.  13,608 pages at an average of 332 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Siberiak:  My Cold War Adventure on the River Ob” written by Jenny Jaeckel.  114 pages.  Four stars.

The fortieth book of the year.  13,394 pages at an average of 335 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Knock-Down” written by Dick Francis.  205 pages.  Three stars.

The thirty ninth book of the year.  13,280 pages at an average of 341 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Selected Poems” written by Mona van Duyn.  217 pages.  Four stars.

The thirty eight book of the year.  13,075 pages at an average of 344 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Home Fire” written by Kamila Shamsie.  274 pages.  Five stars.

The thirty seventh book of the year.  12,858 pages at an average of 348 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Bad Beat” written by Tod Goldberg.  276 pages.  Two stars.

The thirty sixth book of the year.  12,584 pages at an average of 350 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Endgame 1944:  How Stalin Won the War” written by Jonathan Dimbleby.  502 pages.  Five stars.

The thirty fifth book of the year.  12,308 pages at an average of 352 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Quichotte” written by Salman Rushdie.  390 pages.  Four stars.

The thirty fourth book of the year.  11,806 pages at an average of 347 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“10 lb. Penalty” written by Dick Francis.  306 pages.  Four stars.

The thirty third book of the year.  11,416 pages at an average of 346 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky.”  738 pages.  Four stars.

The thirty second book of the year.  11,110 pages at an average of 347 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Suicides” written by Antonio Di Benedetto.  165 pages.  Four stars.

The thirty first book of the year. 19,372 pages at an average of 335 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Alex + Ada Volume 3” written by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn.  136 pages.  Five stars.

The thirtieth book of the year.  10,207 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Alex + Ada Volume 2” written by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn.  128 pages.  Four stars.

The twenty ninth book of the year.  10,071 pages at an average of 347 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

 “The Reformed” written by Tod Goldberg.  276 pages.  Three stars.

The twenty eight book of the year.  9,943 pages at an average of 355 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Gavin Bryars” edited by David Wordsworth and Leslie East.  308 pages.

The twenty seventh book of the year.  9,667 pages at an average of 358 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Long Way Round” written by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman.  304 pages.   Three stars.

The twenty sixth book of the year. 9,359 pages at an average of 360 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Giveaway” written by Tod Goldberg.  275 pages.  Two stars.

The twenty fifth book of the year.  9,055 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Trinity Six” written by Charles Cumming.  354 pages.  Three stars.

The twenty fourth book of the year.   8,780 pages at an average of 366 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Intermezzo” written by Sally Rooney.  448 pages. Four stars.

The twenty third book of the year.  8,426 pages at an average of 366 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Chemical Detective” written by Fiona Erskine.  420 pages.

The twenty second book of the year.  7,978 pages at an average of 363 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Warlord:  A Life of Winston Churchill at War 1874-1945” written by Carlo D’Este.  553 pages.  Four stars.

The twenty first book of the year 7,558 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Rest is Silence” written by August Monterroso.  130 pages.  Three stars.

The twentieth book of the year.  7,005 pages at an average of 350 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The End Game” written by Tod Goldberg.  278 pages.  Three stars.

The nineteenth book of the year.  6,875 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Haven:  The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America” written by Ruth Gruber.  295 pages.  Five stars.

The eighteenth book of the year.   6,597 pages at an average of 366 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Nickel Boys” written by Colson Whitehead.  210 pages.  Five stars.

The seventeenth book of the year.  6,302 pages at an average of 371 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Last Exile” written by E.V. Seymour.  410 pages.  Four stars.

The sixteenth book of the year.  6,092 pages at an average of 381 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Patriot: A Memoir” written by Alexei Navalny.  479 pages.  Five stars.

The fifteenth book of the year.  5,682 pages at an average of 379 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Strongmen:  Mussolini to the Present” written by Ruth Ben-Ghat.  272 pages.  Four stars.

The fourteenth book of the year.  5,203 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Jump The Clock” written by Erica Hunt.  195 pages.  Four stars.

The thirteenth book of the year.  4,931 pages at an average of 379 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Whisperers:  Private Life in Stalin’s Russia” written by Orlando Figes.  665 pages.  Four stars.

The twelfth book of the year.  4,736 pages at an average of 395 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“God’s Politics: why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It” written by Jim Wallis.  374 pages.  Three stars.

The eleventh book of the year.  4,071 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day 15 and final stats:

Pages read on Jan 15th:  37

Books finished on Jan 15th: 0

Total pages read:  3009

Total books finished:  10

-Richard 

End of # newyearsathon day 14:

Pages read on Jan 14th:  20

Books finished on Jan 14th: 0

Total pages read:  2972

Total books finished:  10

-Richard 

End of # newyearsathon day 13:

Pages read on Jan 13th:  156

Books finished on Jan 13th: 0

Total pages read:  2952

Total books finished:  10

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day 12:

Pages read on Jan 12th:  329

Books finished on Jan 12th:  10

Total pages read:  2,796

Total books finished:  10

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“This Side of Paradise” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  338 pages.  Three stars.

The tenth book of the year.  3,697 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day11:

Pages read on Jan 11th:  275

Books finished on Jan 11th:  0

Total pages read:  2467

Total books finished:  9

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day 10:

Pages read on Jan 10th:  160

Books finished:  1

Total pages read:  2192

Total books finished: 9

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Beyond The Gender Binary” written by Alok Vaid-Menon.  63 pages.  Four stars.

The ninth book of the year.  3,359 pages at an average of 373 pages per book.

-Richard

End of # newyearsathon day 9:

Pages read on Jan 9th:  228

Books finished on Jan 9th:  1

Total pages read:  2032

Total books finished:  8

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Orbital” written by Samantha Harvey.  207 pages.  Five stars.

The eighth book of the year.  3,296 pages at an average of 412 pages per book.

-Richard 

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End of #newyearsathon day 8:

Pages read on Jan 8th: 139

Books finished on Jan 8th: 1

Total pages read:  1804

Total books finished:  7

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Fix” written by Tod Goldberg.  274 pages.  Two stars.

The seventh book of the year.  3,089 pages at an average of 441 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day 7:

Pages read on Jan 7th:  123

Books finished on Jan 7th: 1

Total pages read:  1665

Total books finished:  6

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Leningrad:  The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944” written by Anna Reid.  419 pages.  Four stars.

The sixth book of the year.  2,815 pages at an average of 469 pages per book.

-Richard

End of #newyearsathon day 6:

Pages read on January 6th:  149

Books finished on January 6th: 0

Total pages read:  1542

Total books finished:  5

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon Day 5:

Pages read on Jan 5th:  253

Books finished on Jan 5th:  0

Total pages read:  1,393

Total books finished:  5

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day 4:

Pages read on Jan 4th: 333

Books finished on Jan 4th: 1

Total pages read:  1104

Total books finished:  5

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Remote Control” written by Andy McNab.  311 pages.  Four stars.

The fifth book of the year.  2,396 pages at an average of 479 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon day 3:

Pages read on Jan 3:385

Books finished on Jan 3: 1

Total Pages Read:  807

Total Books Read:  4

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Tricky Twenty-Two” written by Janet Evanovich. 282 pages.  Three stars.

The fourth book of the year.  2,085 pages at an average of 521 pages per book.

-Richard

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End of #newyearsathon day 2:

Pages read on Jan 2:  212

Books finished on Jan 2:  2

Total Pages Read:  422

Total Books Finished: 3

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“A Spy By Nature” written by Charles Cumming.  512 pages.  Four stars.

The third book of the year.  1,803 pages at an average of 601 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power” written by Daniel Yergin.  788 pages.  Four stars.

The second book of the year.  1,291 pages at an average of 645 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of #newyearsathon Day 1:  

Pages read on Jan 1st:  210

Books finished on Jan 1st:  1

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Collected Poems in English” written by Joseph Brodsky.  503 pages.  Four stars.

The first book of 2025.

-Richard