Sunday, July 19, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Regional Office is Under Attack!" written by Manuel Gonzales.  399 pages.  Three stars.


The one hundred and fourth book of the year.  32,098 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard


 I finished reading:


"Jubilee" written by Margaret Walker.   502 pages.   Five stars.


The one hundred and third book of the year.   31,699 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, July 18, 2026

 I finished reading:


"from South Creek" written by Simon J. Ortiz.   95 page.  Three stars.


The one hundred and second book of the year.   31,197 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.



-Richard

Monday, July 13, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Church Camp:  Bad Skits, Cry Night and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation" written by Cara Meredith.   203 pages.  Three stars.


The one hundred and first book of the year.  31,102 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine:   Going Rogue" written by Janet Evanovich.   324 pages.  Three stars.


The one hundredth book of the year.  30,899 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, July 12, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Beautiful Game:  Sixteen Girls and the Soccer Season the Changed Everything" written by Jonathan Littman.  286 pages.   Four stars.


The ninety-ninth book of the year.  30,575 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, July 11, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Elements Beyond Uranium" written by Glenn T. Seaborg and Walter D. Loveland.   327 pages.   Four stars.

The ninety-eighth book of the year.  30,289 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, July 10, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Light While There Is Light:  An American History" written by Keith Waldrop.   201 pages.   Two stars.


The ninety-seventh book of the year.   29,962 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, July 07, 2026

I finished reading:


"Gray Mountain" written by John Grisham.   368 pages.  Three stars.


The ninety-sixth book of the year.   29,761 pages at an average of 310 pages per book.



-Richard


 I finished reading:


"Amari and the Night Brothers" written by B.B. Alston.   408 pages.  Five stars.


The ninety-fifth book of the year.  29,393 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.




-Richard

Monday, July 06, 2026

 I finished reading:

"The Harmonic Leader:  Leading with Clarity, Integrity, and Impact" written by J.R. Bennett.  325 pages.  Three stars.


The ninety-fourth book of the year.  28,985 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, July 04, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Last Tsar:  The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs" written by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.   437 pages.  Four stars.


The ninety-third book of the year.   28,660 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, July 03, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Written in the Dark:  Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad" edited by Polina Barskova.   159 pages.  Five stars.


The ninety-second book of the year.   28,223 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard


Sunday, June 28, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Sharpe's Eagle" written by Bernard Cornwell.  270 pages.   Three stars.


The ninety-first book of the year.   28,064 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.


-Richard

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

I finished reading:


"The Apothecary's Demise" written by Anne Sloan.  190 pages.   Three stars.


The ninetieth book of the year.   27,794 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

Monday, June 22, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Michael Tippett:  The Biography" written by Oliver Soden.   615 pages.   Five stars.


The eighty-ninth book of the year.  27,604 pages at an average of 310 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, June 20, 2026

 I finished reading:  


"Murder on the Boulevard" written by Anne Sloan.  173 pages.  Three starts.


The eighty-eighth book of the year.  26,989 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, June 13, 2026

 I finished reading:

"All That Is" written by James Salter.  290 pages.  1 star.


The eighty-seventh book of the year.  26,816 at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, June 12, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The English" written by David Frost and Antony Jay.  255 pages.   Three stars.


The eighty-sixth book of the year.   26,526 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

Monday, June 08, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Don't Tell The Nazis" written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.   232 pages.   Five Stars.


The eighty-fifth book of the year.  26,271 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, June 07, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Cool, Calm & Collected:  Poems 1960-2000" written by Carolyn Kizer.   489 pages.  Three stars.


The eighty-fourth book of the year.   26,039 pages at an average of 310 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"Flashlight" written by Susan Choi.   447 pages.   Four stars.


The eighty-third book of the year.   25,550 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, June 06, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Unabashed Faith:  Resisting Anti-Spiritual Influences in the Modern World" written by C. Andrew Doyle.  173 pages.   Four stars.


The eighty-second book of the year.   25,103 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

I finished reading:


"Brideshead Revisited" written by Evelyn Waugh.   402 pages.  Three stars.


The eighty-first book of the year.   24,930 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"Pravda Ha Ha Ha:  True Travels to the End of Europe" written by Rory MaClean.   343 pages.  Four stars.


The eightieth book of the year.   24,528 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, May 29, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Long Knives Are Crying" written by Joseph M. Marshall III.  441 pages.  Four stars.


The seventy-ninth book of the year.   24,185 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.



-Richard

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Six Armies in Normandy" written by John Keegan.   333 pages.   Four stars.


The seventy-eighth book of the year.   23,744 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, May 24, 2026

 I finished reading:  


"Lives of the Saints" written by Nancy Lemann.   189 pages.   Four stars.


The seventy-seventh book of the year.  23,411 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, May 23, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Enchanted Greenhouse" written by Sarah Beth Durst.  372 pages.   Five stars.


The seventy-sixth book of the year.  23,222 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, May 22, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Making It Happen:  Reflections on Leadership" written by John Harvey-Jones.   332 pages.  Four stars.


The seventy-fifth book of the year.   22,850 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.



-Richard


Tuesday, May 19, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Volga Blues:  A Journey Into The Heart of Russia" written by Marzio G. Mian.   260 pages.   Five stars.


The seventy-fouth book of the year.   22,518 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, May 17, 2026

 I finished reading:


"An Indigenous People's History Of The United States" written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.   236 pages.  Five stars and "High Spirits" written by Camille Gomera-Tavarez.   199 pages.   Three stars.


The seventy-second and seventy-third books of the year.   22,258 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.






-Richard

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

 I finished reading:


"That Was Then, This Is Now" written by S.E. Hinton.  159 pages.   Four stars.


The Seventy-First book of the year.  21,823 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard

Monday, May 11, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Death's Jest-Book" written by Reginald Hill.   545 pages.  Two stars and "Garden of Beasts" written by Jeffrey Deaver.   539 pages.  Two stars.


The sixty-ninth and seventieth books of the year.   21,664 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.






-Richard

Saturday, May 02, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Moura:  The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg" written by Nona Berberova.  300 pages.   Four stars.


The sixty-eighth book of the year.  20,580 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, May 01, 2026

 I finished reading:


"How to End Christian Nationalism" written by Amana Tyler.  211 pages.  Five stars.


The sixty-seventh book of the year.  20,280 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

 I finished reading:


"You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Rains"  The World on One Cartoon a Day" written by Mo Willems.   396 pages.  Five stars.


The sixty-sixth book of the year.  20,069 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.



-Richard

Monday, April 27, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Private Revolutions:  Four Women Face China's New Social Order" written by Yuan Yang.  271 pages.   Five stars.


The sixty-fifth book of the year.   19,673 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, April 25, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Icebreaker" written by John Gardner.  243 pages.  Two stars.


The sixty-fourth book of the year.   19,402 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, April 24, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Enemy at the Gates" written by Kyle Mills.  375 pages.  Three stars.


The sixty-third book of the year.   19,159 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

 I finished reading:


"How to be an Antiracist" written by Ibram X. Kendi.  238 pages.  Five stars.


The sixty-second book of the year.   18,784 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, April 19, 2026

 End of read-a-thon hours 16-18 and final Stats:


Pages read these hours: 151

Time these hours:  2 hours 3 mins

Books finished these hours:  1


Total pages read:  1037

Total time read:   11 hours 50 minutes

Total books finished:  4


-Richard

Saturday, April 18, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Mansfield Park" written by Jane Austen.   381 pages.   Four stars.


The sixty-first book of the year.   18,546 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.




-Richard

 End of read-a-thon hours 13-15:


Pages read these hours:  201

Time read these hours:  2 hours 21 minutes

Books finished these hours:  0


Total pages read:  890

Total time read:  9 hours 47 minutes

Total books finished:  3


-Richard

 End of read-a-thon hours 10-12:


Pages read these hours:  123

Time read these hours:  1 hour 52 minutes

Books finished these hours:  1


Total pages read:  689

Total time read:  7 hours 26 minutes

Total books finished:  3


-Richard

 I finished reading:


"The Talnikov Family" written by Avdotya Panaeva.   159 pages.   Four stars.


The sixtieth book of the year.   18,165 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

 End of read-a-thon hours 7-9;


Pages read these hours:  152

Time read these hours:  1 hour 46 minutes

Books finished these hours:  0


Total pages read:  566

Total time read:  5 hours 34 minutes

Total books finished:  2


-Richard

 End of read-a-thon hours 4-6:


Pages read these hours:  239

Time read these hours:  1 hour 48 minutes

Books finished these hours:  1


Total pages read:  414

Total time read:  3 hours 48 min

Total books finished:  2


-Richard

 I finished reading:


"Game On:  Tempting Twenty-Eight" written by Janet Evanovich.   286 pages.  Three stars.


The fifty-ninth book of the year.   18,006 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.



-Richard

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


Pages read these hours:  175

Time read these hours:  1 hour 58 minutes

Books finished these hours: 1 


-Richard

 I finished reading:


"The Painted Bird" written by Jerzy Kosinski.   234 pages.  One star.


The fifty-eighth book of the year.  17,720 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, April 17, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Waging Heavy Peace" written by Neil Young.  497 pages.  Three stars.


The fifty-seventh book of the year.   17,486 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard

 This weekend marks another Dewey's readathon we'll be participating in.   We first participated in June 2008.  


As I have a busy morning all ready planned my goal is to read 1000 pages, but more importantly just have the opportunity to switch off and relax after a crazy few weeks.


I will post updates every three hours on progress...


-Richard

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Classics For The Masses:   Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin And Stalin" written by Pauline Fairclough.   227 pages.  Five stars.


The fifty-sixth book of the year.  16,989 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Coal: Poems" written by Audre Lorde.  70 pages.  Five stars.

The fifty-fifth book of the year.   16,762 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.



-Richard