I finished reading:

“In Darkest England and the Way Out” written by William Booth. 376 pages.

The forty sixth book of the year.  15,311 pages at an average of  333 pages per book.

-Richard

Read-a-thon closing survey:

Closing Survey!

1. Which hour was most daunting for you?  Always the last one:
2. Tell us ALLLLL the books you read!:  Plum Island, Zom-B, The Captains, Robert E. Lee
3. Which books would you recommend to other Read-a-thoners?   Any thrilled
4. What’s a really rad thing we could do during the next Read-a-thon that would make you smile? It always makes me smile :)
5. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? Would you be interested in volunteering to help organize and prep?  Definitely

-Richard

End of Read-a-thon hour 21:

Pages read this hour: 92

Time read this hour:  44 minutes

Books finished this hour: 1

Total Pages Read:  1,175

Total Time Read: 11 hours 7 minutes

Total Books Finished: 4

I think that’s it.  This is the longest I’ve managed to go and considering we lost a lot of time due a soccer game I think it was pretty successful.

See y’all in October 

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Robert E. Lee and the Rise of the South” written by Cathy East Dubinski.  128 pages.

The forty fifth book of the year.  14,935 pages at an average of 332 pages per book.

- Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 20:

Pages read this hour:  68

Time read this hour:  39 minutes

Books finished this hour:  1

Total Pages Read:  1,084

Total Time Read:  10 hours 23 minutes

Total Books Finished: 3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Captains: Brotherhood of War Book II” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  406 pages.

The forty fourth book of the year.  14,807 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Read-a-thon hour 19:

Pages read this hour:  85

Time read this hour:  44 minutes

Books finished this hour:  0

Total Pages Read:  1,016

Total Time Read:  9 hours 44 minutes

Total Books Finished:  2

-Richard 

End of Read-a-thon hour 18:

Pages read this hour:  63

Time read this hour:  41 minutes

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read:  931

Total Time Read: 8 hours 55 minutes

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 17:

Pages read this hour:  90

Time read this hour: 55 minutes

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read:  868

Total Time Read:  8 hours 14 minutes

Total Books Finished 

-Richard

End of Read-a-thon hour 16:

Pages read this hour:  46

Time read this hour:  35 minutes

Books finished this hour:  0

Total Pages Read:  778

Total Time Read:  7 hours 19 minutes

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard

The end of read-a-thon hour 15:

Pages read this hour:  77

Time read this hour:  47 minutes

Books finished this hour:0

Total Pages Read:  732

Total Time Read:  6 hours 41 minute

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard

The end of Read-a-thon hour 14:

Pages read this hour:  61

Time read this hour: 28 minutes

Books finished this hour:1

Total Pages Read:  655

Total Time Read:  5 hours 54 minutes.

Total Books Finished: 2

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Zom-B” written by Darren Shan.  174 pages.

The forty third book of the year.  14,401 pages at an average of 335 pages per book.

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 13:

Pages read this hour: 76

Time read this hour:  28 minutes

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read:  594

Total Time Read:  5 hours 26 minutes

Total Books Read:  1

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 12:

Pages read this hour:  87

Time read this hour:  35 minutes

Books finished this hour: 1

Total Pages Read:  518

Total Time Finished:  4 hours 58 minutes

Total Books Finished: 1

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Plum Island” written by Nelson DeMille.  574 pages.

The forty second book of the year.  14,227 pages at an average of 339 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Read-a-thin hours 8-11

Attended a soccer game..

Pages read:  24

Time read: 21 minutes.

Total Pages Read: 431

Total Time Read:   4 hours 33 minutes

Total Books Finished:  0

-Richard

End of read-a-thin hour 7:

Pages read this hour:  114

Time read this hour:  52 minutes

Books finished this hour:  0

Total Pages Read: 407

Total Time Read:  4 Hours 12 Minutes

Total Books Finished:  0

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hours 5 and 6:

Pages read these hours:  74

Time read these hours:  30 minutes.

Books finished these hours: 0

Total Pages Read:  293

Total Time Read:  3 hours 20 minutes

Total Books Finished: 0

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 4:

Pages read this hour:  87

Time read this hour:  52 minutes

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read:  219

Total Time Read:  2 hours 50 minutes

Total Books Finished:  0

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 3:

Pages read this hour:  41

Time read this hour:  30 mins

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read:  132

Total Time Read:  1 hour 58 minutes

Total Books Finished:  0

-Richard

End of read-a-thin hour 2:

Pages read this hour: 48

Time read this hour:  47 minutes

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read:  91

Total Time Read:  1 hour 28 minutes

Total Books Finished: 0

-Richard

End of read-a-thon hour 1:

Pages read this hour:  43

Time read this hour: 41 minutes

Books finished this hour: 0

Total Pages Read: 43

Total Time Read:  41 minutes

Total Books Finished: 0

-Richard

I am taking part in my twenty-first Dewey's read-a-thon today.  Here is my opening meme:

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?  The Woodlands, TX (just north of Houston)
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?  Looking forward to all equally.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?  Anything my beautiful wife has made :)
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!  Ex-pat Englishman, living 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?  I've done it basically the same every time and always thoroughly enjoy it.  The big difference this time is we went to a concert last night so are lagging a wee bit this morning.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge” written by Helen Rappaport.  334 pages.

The forty first book of the year.  13,653 pages at an average of 333 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The New Organon” written by Francis Bacon.  292 pages.

The fortieth book of the year.  13,319 at an average of  333 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Alexander Hamilton” written by Ron Chernow.  731 pages.  

The thirty ninth book of the year.   13,027 pages at an average of 334 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Spencerville” written by Nelson DeMille.  560 pages.

The thirty eighth book of the year.  12,296 pages at an average of 324 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Hour Game” written by David Baldacci.  590 pagesz

The thirty seventh book of the year.  11,736 pages at an average of 318 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“By the Rivers of Babylon” written by Nelson DeMille.  422 pages.

The thirty sixth book of the year.  11,146 pages at an average of 310 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Airship Nine” written by Thomas H. Block.  294 pages.

The thirty fifth book of the year.  10,724 at an average of 306 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“In the Days of McKinley” written by Margaret Leech.  605 pages.

The thirty fourth book of the year.  10,430 pages at an average of 307 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Dog Beneath the Skin” 112 pages and “The Ascent of F6” 73 pages both written by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood.

The thirty second and thirty third books of the year.  9,825 pages at an average of 298 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“State of the Union” written by David Callahan.  412 pages.

The thirty-first book of the year.   9,640 pages at an average of  311 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Two Lives” written by Vikram Seth.  503 pages.  

The thirtieth book of the year.  9,228 pages at an average of  308 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Morality of Captilism” edited by Mark W. Hendrickson.  150 pages. 

The twenty ninth book of the year.   8,725 pages at an average of 301 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Simple Genius” written by David Baldacci.  539 pages.

The twenty eighth book of the year.  8,575 pages at an average of 306 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“A Wrinkle in Time” written by Madeleine L’Engle.  236 pages.  

The twenty seventh book of the year.   8,036 pages at an average of 298 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Memoirs” written by Andrei Sakharov.  706 pages.

The twenty sixth book of the year.  7,800 pages at an average of 300 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“F.D. Maurice and the Conflicts of Modern Theolgy:  The Maurice Lectures, 1948” written by Arthur Michael Ramsey.  144 pages.

The twenty fifth book of the year.   7,094 pages at an average of 284 pages per book!!

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Finding God in the Waves:  How I Lost My Faith and Found it Again Through Science” written by Mike McHargue. 247 pages.

The twenty fourth book of the year.  6,950 pages at an average of  290 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Worldly Philosophers:  The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers” written by Robert L. Heilbroner.  292 pages.

The twenty third book of the year.   6,703 pages at an average of 291 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Texas Hold ‘E-mail” written by Kinky Friedman.  218 pages.

The twenty second book of the year.  6,411 pages at an average of  291 pages.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Yuri Andropov:  A Secret Passage into the Kremlin” written by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova.  287 pages.

The twenty first book of the year.  6,193 pages at an average of 295 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Normandy Revisited” written by A.J. Liebling.  243 pages.

The twentieth book of the year.  5,906 pages at an average of 295 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Bookseller of Kabul” written by Asne Seierstad.  288 pages.

The nineteenth book of the year.  5,663 pages at an average of 298 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Executing Grace:  How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why it’s Killing Us” written by Shane Claiborne.  287 pages.

The eighteenth book of the year.   5,375 pages at an average of 299 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Dead Right” written by David Frum.  205 pages

The seventeenth book of the year.   5,088 pages at an average of  299 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Children is the Arbat” written by Anatoli Rubakov.  685 pages.

The sixteenth book of the year.  4,883 pages at an average of  305 pages per book.

-Richard

I read:

“Stonehenge” written by Bernard Cornwall.  482 pages.

The fifteenth book of the year.  4,198 pages at an average of 280 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear” written by The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.  135 pages.

The fourteenth book of the year.  3,716 pages at an average of 265 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading;

“Hillbilly Elegy” written by J.D. Vance.  257 pages.

The thirteenth book of the year.  3,581 pages at an average of  275 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Cornhuskers” written by Carl Sandburg.  71 pages.

The twelfth book of the year.  3,324 pages at an average of  277 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Rembrandt’s Gold” written by Paul Christopher. 347 pages.

The eleventh book of the year.  3,253 pages at average of 296 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America” written by Nancy Isenberg.  321 pages.

The tenth book of the year.  2,906 pages at an average of 291 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books:

Pages read on Day 7:  176
Books finished on Day 7: 1

Total Pages Read:  1624
Total Books Finished:  5

A fun week, especially combined with a week off work.    Hopefully will be back at it in May!!

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Warning to the West” written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  146 pages.

The ninth book of the year.  2,585 pages at an average of 287 pages per book.

- Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 6 (January 13th)

Pages read on Day 6:  233
Books finished on Day 6: 1

Total Pages Read:  1448
Total Books Finished:  4

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Furies” written by Bill Napier.  492 pages.

The eighth book of the year.  2,439 pages at an average of 305 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 5 (January 12th):

Pages read on Day 5: 233
Books finished on Day 5: 0

Total pages read:  1199
Total books finished: 3

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 4 (January 11th):

Pages read on Day 4: 360
Books finished on Day 4: 3

Total pages read: 955
Total books finished: 3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“March:  Book Three” written by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.  246 pages.

A series everyone should read!!

The seventh book of the year.  1,947 pages at an average of  278 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Brotherhood of War Book I: The Lieutenants” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  401 pages.

The sixth book of the year.  1701 pages at an average of  284 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 3 (January 10th):

Pages read on Day 3: 185
Books finished on Day 3: 0

Total pages read:  595
Total books finished: 1

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 2 (January 9th):

Pages read on Day 2: 235
Books finished on Day 2: 1

Total Pages Read:  410
Total Books Finished: 1

I finished The Canterbury Tales and started The Lieutenants by W.E.B. Griffin.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Canterbury Tales” written by Geoffrey Chaucer.  508 pages.

The fifth book of the year.  1,300 pages at an average of 260 pages per book.

 

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 1 (January 8th):

Pages read on Day 1: 175
Books finished on Day 1: 0

Total pages read: 175
Total books finished: 0

I am currently reading The Canterbury Tale by Chaucer.  I finished the day on page 390.

-Richard

Next week it's time for the next Bout of Books.   It will be the tenth time Jenn and I have taken part in it.  I am off work on a weeks vacation so I hope to be able to have some good, solid time relaxing and reading. 

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 8th and runs through Sunday, January 14th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 21 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I finished reading:

“Sermon on the Mound: Finding God at the Heart of the Game” written by Michael O’Connor.  177 pages.

The fourth book of the year.  792 pages at an average of 198 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“March: Book Two” written by John Lewis,  Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.  187 pages.

The third book of the year.  615 pages at an average of 205 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Nausea” written by Jean-Paul Sartre.  178 pages.

The second book of the year.   428 pages at an average of  214 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Bloody Confused:  A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer” written by Chuck Culpepper.  250 pages.

The first book of 2018.

-Richard

Here are a few reading stats from 2017:

Books finished:  138.   A new record (previous 133)
Pages read: 48,051.  A new record (previous 41,805)
Average # of pages per book: 348

I read authors born in 20 different countries:  1. USA: 81, 2. England: 26, 3. Russia: 4, 4: Canada, Scotland, Australia and France: 3

I read authors both in 30 different USA States:  1. New York: 13, 2: Mississippi, Massachusetts, California: 5, 5: Pennsylvania, Michigan, 4.

I read books with titles starting with 22 different letters of the alphabet.  I did not read books starting with I, X, Y and Z.

I read authors with last names starting with 20 different letters.  I did not read E, I, V, X, Y and Z. 

Since I've started tracking the number of books (2005) I have read 1063 which means an average of 82 per year.   Since I've started tracking the # of pages (2008) I have  read 317,362 pages at an average or 317,462 a year and 348 per book.

This years goal is 100 books.

Happy New Year.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“March: Book One” written by John Lewis, Andre Aydin and Nate Powell.  121 pages.

The one hundred and thirty eighth book of the year.  48,051 pages at an average of  348 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Price” written by Arthur Miller.  118 pages.

The one hundred and thirty seventh book of the year.  47,930 pages at an average of  350 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Revelation” written by Bill Napier.  471 pages.

The one hundred and thirty sixth book of the year.  47,812 pages at an average of 352 per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The War of The Revolution:  Volune 2”  written by Christopher Ward.  419 pages.

The one hundred and thirty fifth book of the year.  47,341 pages at an average of 351 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Soviet Novel:  History as Ritual” written by Katerina Clark.  272 pages.

The one hundred and thirty fourth book of the year.  46,922 pages at an average of 350 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Blasphemy” written by Douglas Preston.  505 pages.

The one hundred and thirty third book of the year.  46,650 pages at an average of  351 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The War of The Revolution:  Volume One” written by  Christopher Ward.  431 pages.

The one hundred and thirty second book of the year.  46.145 pages at an average of 350 pages per book.

-Richard