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

Monday, April 13, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Panther" written by Nelson DeMille.   794 pages.  Two stars.


The fifty-fourth book of the year.  16,692 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"Far From The Madding Crowd" written by Thomas Hardy.  382 pages.  Three stars.


The fifty-third book of the year.  15,898 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.



-Richard


Friday, April 10, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Crazy Genie" written by Ines Cagnati.   152 pages.  Two stars.


The fifty-second book of the year.  15,516 pages at an average of 298 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Spellshop" written by Sarah Beth Durst.  374 pages.   Five stars.


The fifty-first book of the year.   15,364 pages at an average of 301 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"Motherfield" written by Julia Cimafiejeva.  128 pages.   Five stars.


The fiftieth book of the year.  14,990 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.




-Richard

Sunday, April 05, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Disappearing Act" written by Maria Stepanova.   119 pages.  Four stars.  


The forty-ninth book of the year.   14,862 pages at an average of 303 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, April 03, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Hunting By Stars" written by Cherie DiMaline.  392 pages.  Five Stars.


The forty-eighth book of the year.  14,743 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard


Wednesday, April 01, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Hurdy-Gurdy" written by Tim Seibles.  89 pages.   Four stars.


The forty-seventh book of the year.   14,351 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told by Alex Haley" written by Malcolm X.  466 pages. Five stars and " East of the West:  A Country in Stories" written by Miroslav Penkov.  223 pages.   Five stars.


The forty-fifth and forty-sixth books of the year.  14,262 pages at an average of 310 pages per book.





-Richard

Saturday, March 28, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Twelve Red Herrings" written by Jeffrey Archer.  366 pages.   Three stars. "Red Sparrow" written by Jason Matthews.   431 pages.  Three stars and "Line of Vision" written by David Ellis.   437 pages.  Two stars.


The forty-second, forty-third and forty-fourth books of the year.  13,573 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.





-Richard

Saturday, March 21, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Poems" written by Elizabeth Bishop.  337 pages.   Three stars.


The forty-first book of the year.  12,339 pages at an average of 301 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"The Magician" written by W. Somerset Maugham.   288 pages.  Two stars.


The fortieth book of the year 12,002 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.



-Richard

Thursday, March 19, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Children of the Ruins" written by Thomas Wiseman.  360 pages.   Two stars.


The thirty-ninth book of the year.  11,714 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.



-Richard

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Universal Baseball Association, INC.  J. Henry Waugh, PROP." written by Robert Coover.   243 pages.   Three stars.


The thirty-eighth book of the year.  11,354 pages at an average of 299 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, March 14, 2026

 I finished reading:


"A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking" written T Kingfisher.  306 pages.   Five stars.


The thirty-seventh book of the year.  11,111 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, March 13, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Deceit" written by Yuri Felsen.   230 pages.  Four stars.


The thirty-sixth book of the year.  10,805 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.




-Richard

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning" written by Jack Mezirow.   226 pages.   Three stars.


The thirty-fifth book of the year.   10,575 pages read at an average of 302 pages per book.



   -Richard

Monday, March 09, 2026

 I finished reading:


"I, Q Book Three: Kitty Hawk" written by Roland Smith.  229 pages.  Three stars.


The thirty-fourth book of the year.  10,349 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.




-Richard

Sunday, March 08, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Liar's Market" written by Taylor Smith.  378 pages.   Three stars.


The thirty-third book of the year.   10,120 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.



-Richard



Saturday, March 07, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Pillar of Fire:  America in the King Years 1963-65" written by Taylor Branch.  613 pages.  Five stars.


The thirty-second book of the year.   9,742 pages at an average of 304 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, March 01, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Fallen Angel" written by Daniel Silva.  442 pages.  Three stars.


The thirty-first book of the year.  9,129 pages at an average of 294 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, February 28, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Ways of Escape" written by Graham Greene.  278 pages.  Three stars.


The thirtieth book of the year.  8,687 pages at an average of 290 pages per book.



-Richard

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Weather in Normal" written by Carrie Etter.  66 pages.  Four stars.


The twenty-ninth book of the year.  8,409 pages at an average of 290 pages per book.



-Richard


Tuesday, February 24, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Lord" written by Soraya Antonius.   221 pages.  Four stars.


The twenty-eighth book of the year.   8,343 pages at an average of 298 pages per book.



-Richard


Sunday, February 22, 2026

 I finished reading;


"The Heart:  Frida Kahlo in Paris" written by Marc Petitjean.  195 pages.   Three stars.


The twenty-seventh book of the year.  8,122 pages at an average of 301 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, February 21, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke" written by Theodore Roethke.  266 pages.  Three stars.


The twenty-sixth book of the year.  7,927 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.



-Richard

 I finished reading:


"The Alienation Effect:  How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century" written by Owen Hatherley.   531 pages.  Three stars.


The twenty-fifth book of the year.  7,661 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Distant Echo" written by Val McDermid.  561 pages.   Four stars.


The twenty-fourth book of the year.  7,130 pages at an average of 297 pages per book.



-Richard

Sunday, February 15, 2026

 I finished reading:


"The Baton and the Cross:  Russia's Church From Pagans to Putin" written by Lucy Ash.   319 pages.   Five stars.


The twenty-third book of the year.   6,569 pages at an average of 286 pages per book.




-Richard



 I finished reading:


"The Marrow Thieves" written by Cherie Dimaline.  231 pages.  Five stars.


The twenty-second book of the year.  6,250 pages at an average of 284 pages per book.



-Richard

Friday, February 13, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Mr. Putin:  Operative in the Kremlin" written by Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy.    397 pages.   Five stars.


The twenty-first book of the year.  6,019 pages at an average of 287 pages per book.



-Richard

Saturday, February 07, 2026

 I finished reading:


"Dresden:  Tuesday, February 13, 1945" written by Frederick Taylor.  456 pages.   Fours stars.


The twentieth book of the year.  5,622 pages at an average of 281 pages per book.



-Richard

Tuesday, February 03, 2026

 I finished reading:

  

"Friday" written by Michel Tournier.   235 pages.   Three stars.


The nineteenth book of the year.   5166 pages at an average of 272 pages per book.



-Richard