I finished reading:

“Summertime” written by J.M. Coetzee.  266 pages.

The ninety fifth book of the year.  35,316 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Wilsonian Diplomacy:  Allied-American Rivalries in War and Peace” written by Edward B. Parsons.  208 pages.

The ninety fourth book of the year.  35,050 pages at an average of 373 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Blue Horizon” written by Wilbur Smith.  812 pages.

The ninety third book of the year.  34,842 pages at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Far Field” written by Madhuri Vijay.   432 pages.

The ninety second book of the year.  34,030 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Dow Story:  The History of The Dow Chemical Company” written by Don Whitehead.  282 pages.

The ninety first book of the year.  33,598 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“In Danger’s Path:  The Corps Book VIII” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  723 pages.

The ninetieth book of the year.  33,316 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Churchill & Orwell:  The Fight for Freedom” written by Thomas E. Ricks.  270 pages.

The eighty ninth book of the year.  32,593 pages at an average of 366 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Ministry of Fear” written by Graham Greene.  221 pages.

The eighty eighth book of the year.  32,323 pages at an average of 367 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Wild Justice” written by Wilbur Smith.  409 pages.

The eighty seventh book of the year.  32,102 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Safe Conduct” written by Boris Pasternak.  224 pages.

The eighty sixth book of the year.  31,693 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

 -Richard 

I finished reading:

“4 3 2 1” written by Paul Auster.  866 pages.

The eighty fifth book of the year.  31,469 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Man Comes Around:  The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash” written by Dave Urbanski.  192 pages.

The eighty fourth book of the year.  30,603 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Behind the Lines:  The Corps Book VII” written by W.E.B. Griffin.   559 pages.

The eighty third book of the year.  30,411 pages at an average of 366 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Close Combat:  The Corps Book VI” written by W.E.B Griffin.  406 pages.

And “Our Kind of Traitor” written by John Le Carre.  306 pages.

The eighty first and eighty second book of the year.  29,852 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Even” written by Andrew Grant.  363 pages.

The eightieth book of the year.  29,140 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Line of Fire:  The Corps V” written by W.E.B.  Griffin.  467 pages.

The seventy ninth book of the year.  28,777 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

 -Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo” written by Stieg Larson.   644 pages.

The seventy eighth book of the year.  28,310 pages at an average of 363 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Corps Book IV:  Battleground “ written by W.E.B.  Griffin.   487 pages.

The seventy seventh book of the year.  27,666 pages at an average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of Bout of Books Day 7 (May 19th) and final totals:

Pages read day 7: 150
Books finished day 7: 1

Total Pages Read: 1620
Total Books Finished: 6

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Science, order, and Creativity:  A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life” written by David Bohn and F. David Peat.  271 pages.

The seventy sixth book of the year.  27,179 pages at an average of 358 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of Bout of Books Day 6 (May 18th):

Pages read day 6:  122
Books finished day 6: 0

Total Pages Read:  1592
Total Books Finished: 5

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 5 (May17th):

Pages read day 5:  351
Books finished day 5: 1

Total Pages Read:  1470
Total Books Finished:  5

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Rules of Deception” written by Christopher Reich.   545 pages.

The seventy fifth book of the year.  26,908 pages at an average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of Bout of Books Days 4 (May 16th):

Pages read day 4:  233
Books finished day 4:

Total Pages Read:  1119
Total Books Finished: 4

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 3 (May 15th):

Pages read on day 3:  321
Books finished on day 3: 1

Total Pages Read:  886
Total Books Finished: 4

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Elmet” written by Fiona Mozley.  310 pages.

The seventy fourth book of the year.  26,363 pages at an average of 356 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 2 (May 14th):

Pages read day 2: 160
Books finished day 2: 1

Total Pages Read:  565
Total Books Finished:  3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Muddy Banks” written by Ruby C. Tolliver.  153 pages.

The seventy third book of the year.  26,053 pages at an average of 357 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 1 (May 14th):

Pages read on day 1:  405
Books finished on day 1: 2

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Zom-B Angels” written by Darren Shen.  182 pages.

The seventy second book of the year.  25,900 pages at an average of 360 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Counter Attack” written by W.E.B.  Griffin.   503 pages.

The seventy first book of the year.  25,718 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard

Next week Jenn and  I will be participating in our 14th Bout of Books:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, Twitter chats, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 25 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I finished reading:

“The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” written by Arundhati Roy.  444 pages.

The seventieth book of the year.  25,215 pages at an average of 360 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“ridiculous packaging or, my long, strange journey from athiest to Episcopalian in two acts” written by Karen Favreau.  142 pages.

The sixty ninth book of the year.  24,771 pages at an average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The House of the Spirits” written by Isabel Allende.  481 pages.

The sixty eighth book of the year.  24,629 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Nobel Lecture” written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  69 pages.

The sixty seventh book of the year.  24,048 pages at average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“East and West” written by Chris Patten.  328 pages.

The sixty sixty book of the year.  23,979 pages at an average of 363 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“A Plague of Secrets” written by John Lescroart.  485 pages.

The sixth fifth book of the year.  23,651 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Sun is Also a Star” written by Nicola Yoon.  344 pages.

The sixty fourth book of the year.  23,166 pages at an average of  362 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Case of Comrade Tulayev” written by Victor Serge.  362 pages.

The sixty third book of the year.  22,822 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Irregulars:  Roald Dahl and the Britsh Spy Ring in Wartime Washington” written by Jennet Conant.  348 pages.

The sixty second book of the year.  22,460 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Accidental Saints:  Finding God in All the Wrong People” written by Nadia Bolz-Weber.  193 pages.

The sixty first book of the year.  22,112 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Corps Book II:  Call to Arms” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  356 pages.

The sixtieth book of the year.  21,919 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Selected Poems of Osio Mandelstam” written by Osip Mandelstam.  153 pages.

The fifty ninth book of the year.  21,563 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

I finished reading:

“A Single Man” written by Christopher Isherwood.  186 pages.

The fifty eighth book of the year.  21,410 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Poems of Akhmatova” written by Anna Akhmatova.  155 pages.  

The fifty seventh book of the year.  21,224 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Secret Servant” written by Daniel Silva.  479 pages.

The fifty sixth book of the year.  21,069 pages at an average of 376 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Red Famine: Stalin’s War in Ukraine” written by Anne Applebaum.  360 pages.

The fifty fifth book of the year.  20,590 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Becoming” written by Michelle Obama.  421 pages.

The fifty fourth book of the year.  20,230 pages at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“We Crosses the Bridge and it Trembled:  Voices from Syria” written by Wendy Pearlman.  285 pages.

The fifty third book of the year.  19,809 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Bell Jar” written by Sylvia Plath.  216 pages.

The fifty second book of the year.  19,525 pages at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“World Order” written by Andrew Goliszek.  417 page.

The fifty first book of the year.  19,308 pages at an average of 379 pages per book.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon final stats and closing survey:

Total Time Read:  12 Hours 20 Minutes
Total Pages Read:  1166
Total Books Finished:  5

Closing Survey!

1. What hour was most daunting?  The last one for me (hour 19).   I just hit a wall
2. Tell us ALLLLL the books you read!  Reconstructing Christian Ethics; The World Crisis;  Zom-B City; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour; The Great Explosion; World Order
3. What was your favorite snack?  Jenn's homemade dip
4. What was your favorite facet of the day?  Being able to get away from home just to read.
5. Wanna volunteer for our next event?  I'll have to see what my schedule is like leading up to it.

-Richard

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

Time read these hours:  1 hour 52 minutes

Pages read these hours:  221 pages

Books finished this hour:  2

Total Time Read:  11 hours 40 minutes

Total Pages Read:  1123

Total Books Finished: 5

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Reconstructing Christian Ethics:  Selected Writings” by F.D. Maurice.  212 pages.

The fiftieth book of the year.  18,891 pages at an average of 378 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Great Explosion:  Gunpowder, the Great Wat, and a disaster on the Kent marshes” written by Brian Dillon.  268 pages.

The forty ninth book of the year.  18,679 pages at an average of 381 pages per book.

-Richard

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

Time read these hours:  1 hour 44 minutes

Pages read these hours:  166

Books finished these hours:  1

Total Time Read:  9 hours 47 minutes

Total Pages Read:  902

Total Books Finished: 3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Eleventh Month,  Eleventh Day,  Eleventh Hour:  Armistice Day, 1918 World Wat I and it’s Violent Climax” written by Joseph E. Perisco.  401 pages.

The forty eighth book of the year.   18,411 pages at an average of 384 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Time read these hours:  2 hours 38 mins

Pages read these hours:  223 pages

Books finished these hours:  0

Total Time Read:  8 hours 3 minutes

Total Pages Read:   736

Total  Books Finished: 2

-Richard

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

Time read these hours:  1 hour 34 mins

Pages read these hours:  188

Books finished these hours:  1

Total Time Read:  5 hours 20 minutes

Total Pages Read:  513

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Zom-B City” written by Darren Shan.  168 pages.

The forty seventh book of the year.  18,010 pages at an average of 383 pages per book.

-Richard

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

Time read these hours:  2 hours 12 mins

Pages read these hours:  204

Books finished this hour: 1

Total Time Read:  3 hours 46 mins

Total Pages Read:  325 

Total Books Finished:  1

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The World Crisis” written by Winston S. Churchill.  849 pages.

The forty sixth book of the year.  17,842 pages at an average of 388 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Read-a-Thon Hours 1-3:

Pages read these hours:  121
Time read these hours:  1 hour 34 mins
Books finished these hours: 0

-Richard

We are taking part in our 24th Dewey's Read-a-Thon.   This time I will be posting updates every three hours.

1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today?  Shenandoah, TX (30 miles north of Houston)
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?  The next Zom_B book.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?  Boiled Egg!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!  A  Monkey-Hanger 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?   We are staying at a hotel for a change of scenery.

-Richard