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

I finished reading:

“Pushkin’s Children:  Writings in Russia and Russians” written by Tatyana Tolstaya.  242 pages.

The forty fifth book of the year.  16,993 pages at an average of 378 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Corps Book I:  Semper Fi” written by W.E.B. Griffin.   334 pages.

The forty fourth book of the year.  16,751 pages at an average of 381 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Arterial Worlds” written by Tatyana Tostaya.   238 pages.

The forty third book of the year.  16,407 pages at an average of 382 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“King, Kaiser, Tsar:  Three Cousins Who Led the World to War” written by Catrine Clay.  359 pages.

The forty second book of the year.  16,169 pages at an average of 385 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Dread Nature” written by Justina Ireland.  451 pages.

The forty first book of the year.  15,810 pages at an average of 386 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Special Ops” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  772 pages.

The fortieth book of the year.  15,359 pages at an average of 384 pages per book.

I finished reading:

“Chernobyl Prayer” written by Svetlana Alexievich.  294 pages.

The thirty ninth book of the year.  14,587 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“More Than a Game:  The Story of Cricket’s Early Years” written by John Major.   412 pages.

The thirty eighth book of the year.  14,293 pages at an average of 376 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Aviators” written by W.E.B.  Griffin.  455 pages.

The thirty seventh book of the year.  13,881 pages at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“From Trust to Terror:  The Onset of the Cold War 1945-1950” written by Herbert Feis.  412 pages.

The thirty sixth book of the year.  13,426 pages at an average of 373 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The New Breed” written by W.E.B. Griffin.  379 pages and “The Rose and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Miltary Conflict From 1500 to 2000” written by Paul Kennedy.  698 pages.

The thirty fourth and thirty fifth books of the year.  13,014 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“A White Preacher’s Message on Race and Reconciliation:  Based on His Experienced Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott” written by Robert S. Graetz, Jr.  272 pages.

The thirty third book of the year.  11,937 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Collected Stories of Isaac Balshevis Singer” written by Isaac Balshavis Singer.  610 pages.

The thirty second book of the year.   11,665 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Magical Chorus:  A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn” written by Solomon Volkov.   298 pages.

The thirty first book of the year.  11,055 pages at an average of 357 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Red Star Over Cuba:  The Russian Assault on the Western Hemisphere” written by Nathaniel Weyl.  242 pages.

The thietieth book of the year.  10,757 pages at an average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Medusa’s Child” written by John J. Nance.  451 pages.

The twenty ninth book of the year.  10,515 pages at an average of 363 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in World War II” written by David M. Golz. 226 pages.

The twenty eigth ook of the year.   10,064 pages at an average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Pavlovsk:  The Life of a Russian Palace” written by Suzanne Massie.  352 pages.

The twenty seventh book of the year.   9,838 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Shame-Less:  A Sexual Reformation” written by Nadia Booz-Weber.  199 pages.

The twenty sixth book of the year.  9,486 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Bomber” written by Len Deighton.  444 pages.

The twenty fifth book of the year.  9,287 pages at an average of 371 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Voyage of the Forgotten Men (Tsushima)” written by Frank Thiess.  396 pages.

The twenty fourth book of the year.  8,843 pages at an average of 368 pages per book.

-Richard

I finishes reading:

“Farewell to Matyora” written by Valentin Rasputin.  227 pages.

The twenty third book of the year.  8,447 pages at an average of 367 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Oracle Year” written by Charles Soule.  399 pages. 

The twenty second book of the year.   8,220 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Visibility” written by Boris Starling.  369 pages.

The twenty first book of the year.  7,821 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Exciting Ecperiences in the Japanese - Russian War” written by Marshall Everett.  542 pages.

The twentieth book of the year.  7,452 pages at an average of 373 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Speaking My Mind” written by Tony Campolo.

The nineteenth book of the year.  6,910 pages at an average of 364 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Political Animal” written by Jeremy Paxton.  290 pages.

The eighteenth book of the year.  6,671 pages at an average of 371 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Bormann Testament” written by Jack Higgins.  292 pages.

The seventeenth book of year.  6,381 at an average of 375 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Satanic Verses” written by Salman Rushdie.  547 pages.

The sixteenth book of the year.  6,089 pages at an average of 381 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Secondhand Time:  The Last of the Soviets” written by Svetlana Alexievich.  470 pages.

The fifteenth book of the year.  5,542 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Leading Out Loud:  Inspiring Change Through Authentic Communication” written by Terry Pearce.  169 pages.

The fourteenth book of the year.  5,072 pages at an average of 362 pages per book.

-Richard 

Final 24 in 48 hour readathon stats:

Time Read: 12 hours 36 minutes
Pages Read: 966
Books Finished: 2

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Howards End” written by E.M. Foster.  271 pages.

The thirteenth book of the year.  4,903 pages at an average of 377 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Last Juror” written by John Grisham.  486 pages.

The twelfth book of the year. 4,632 pages at an average of 386 pages per book.

-Richard

For the first time we will be having a crack at the 24 in 48 read-a-thon.   Perfect for a cold January weekend!!

-Richard

I finished reading:

“A Field Guide to Getting Lost” written by Rebecca Solnit.  206 pages.

The eleventh book of the year.  4,146 pages at an average of 377 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Israel L. Gaither:  Man With A Mission” written by Henry Gariepy.  283 pages.

The tenth book of the year.   3,940 pages at an average of 394 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Walking With the Wind:  A Memoir of the Movement” written by John Lewis with Michael D’Orso.  503 pages.

The ninth book of the year.  3,657 pages at an average of 406 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Petersburg” written by Andrew Bely.  293 pages.

The eighty book of the year.  3,154 pages at an average of 394 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma” written by Jim C. Burt.  139 pages.

The seventh book of the year.  2,861 pages at an average of 409 pages per book.

 -Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 7 (January 13th) and Final Stats:

Pages read on Day 7:  439
Books finished on Day 7: 1

Total Pages Read:  1,623
Total Books Finished: 3

-Richard

I finished reading:

“First Family” written by David Baldacci.  609 pages.

The sixth book of the year.  2,722 pages at an average of 454 pages per books

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 6 (January 12th):

Pages read on Day 6: 378
Books finished on Day 6: 2

Total Pages Read: 1,184
Total Books Finished:  2

-Richard