I finished reading:

“The Big Rich:  The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes” written by Bryan Burroughs.  438 pages.

The sixty eighth book of the year.  23,206 pages at an average of 341 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Map of Bones” written by James Rollins.  521 pages.

The sixty seventh book of the year.  22,768 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“1939:  Countdown to War” written by Richard Overy.  124 pages.

The sixty sixth book of the year.  22,247 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Little Women” written by Louisa May Alcott.  459 pages.

The sixth fifth book of the year.  22,123 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

Read-A-Thon final survey and stats:

1. How would you assess your reading overall?  Better than I thought it would be.   Started with a long slow read, but, it was a very good and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
2. Did you have a stategy, and if so, did you stick to it?  Yes!!
3. What was your favorite snack?  Lemon Ice Box Pie
4. Wanna volunteer for our next event? Stay tuned for the recap post!

Total Pages Read: 1,021

Total Time Read:  12 Hours 52 Minutes

Books Finished:  3

-Richard

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

Pages read these hours:  189

Time read these hours:  2 hours 17 minutes

Books finished these hours:  0

Total Pages Read:  1,015

Total Time Read:  12 Hours 45 Minutes

Total Books Finished:  3

That’s about it.  I am really tired so about to go to bed.  I may read for a few more minutes to wrap up the day.

- Richard 

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

Pages read these hours:  324

Time read these hours:  2 hours 22 mins

Books finished these hours:  2

Total Pages Read:  826

Total Time Read:  10 Hours 28 mins

Total Books Finished:  3

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Saga Volume IV” written by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.  152 pages.

The sixth fourth book of the year.  21,654 pages at an average of 338 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Zom-B Clans” written by Darren Shan.  171 pages.

The sixty third book of the year.  21,502 pages at an average of 341 pages per book.

-Richard 

End of read-a-thon  hours 10-12;

Pages read these hours:  171

Time read these hours:  2 hours 24 mins

Books finished these hours:  1

Total Pages Read:  502

Total Time Read:  8 hours 5 minutes

Total Books Finished:  1

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Allies:  Pearl Harbor to D-Day” written by John S.D. Eisenhower.  469 pages.

The sixty second book of the year.  21,331 pages at an average of 344 pages per book.

-Richard 

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

Pages read these hours:  96

Time read these hours:  1 hour 27 mins.

Books finished:  0

Total Pages Read:  331

Total Time Read:  5 hours 52 mins

Books Finished:  0

-Richard 

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

Pages read these hours:  152

Time read these hours:  2 hours 15 mins

Books finished:  0

Total Pages Read:  235

Total Time Read:  4 hours 15 mins

Books Finished:  0

-Richard 

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

Pages read these hours:  83

Time read these hours:  1 hour 50 mins

Books finished:  0

-Richard

Today Jenn and I are taking part in our twenty sixth Dewey's Read-a-thon.   With everything going on in the world this one feels differently.  In some ways I think more could be read as after a few months of insanity at work and in the world it is great escape.   On the other hand I've been becoming less and less motivated to do anything.   I guess time will tell!!   It's also the first time we've been doing it just the two of us for a long time as our reading buddy can't come over due to COVID!!!   Anyway I hope everyone is well and as a good day.  I will post updates after every three hours.

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?   The  Woodlands, Texas
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?  Little Woman
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?  Cheese!!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!   English Ex-Pat living in Texas with the love of my life and out little family of a dog and six cats!
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?  This one is different as we'll be at home rather than stay in a hotel.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Sand Storm” written by James Rollins.  569 pages.

The sixty first book of the year.  20,862 pages at an average of 342 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Red Letter Revolution:  What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?  written by Shane Claiborne and Tony Campolo.  258 pages.

The sixtieth book of the year.  29,293 pages at an average of 338 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Young Radicals:  In the War for American Ideals” written by Jeremy McCarter.   324 pages.

The fifty ninth book of the year.  20,035 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Victorian Revolution:  Government and Society in Victoria’s Britain” edited by Peter Stansky.  353 pages.

The fifty eighth book of the year.  19,711 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Those in Peril” written by Wilbur Smith.   461 pages.

The fifty seventh book of the year.  19,358 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Stalin & The Bomb” written by David Holloway.  371 pages.

The fifty sixth book of the year.  18,897 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Silent Patient” written by Alex Michaelides.  323 pages.

The fifty fifth book of the year.  18,526 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Cost of Discipleship” written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  304 pages.

The fifty fourth book of the year.  18,203 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The New York Draft Riots:  Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War” the fifty third book of the year.  17,899 pages at an average of 338 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Second Horseman” written by Kyle Mills.  339 pages.

The fifty second book of the year.  17,613 pages at an average of 339 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Speed of Trust” written by Stephen M.R. Covey.  322 pages.

The fifty first book of the year.  17,274 pages at an average of 339 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Empire of the Summer Moon:  Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History” written by S.C. Gwynn.  319 pages.

The fiftieth book of the year.  16,952 pages at an average of 339 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Hand on the Wall” written by Maureen Johnson.  368 pages.

The forty ninth book of the year.  16,633 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Chasing the Molecule” written by John Buckingham.  223 pages.

The forty eighth book of the year.  16,295 pages at an average of 339 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Nocturne For The General” written by John Trenhaile.  301 pages.  The forty seventh book of the year.  16,072 pages at an average of 342 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee:  Native America From 1890 to the Present” written by David Treuer.  455 pages.

The forty sixth book of the year.  15,771 pages at an average of 343 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Nemesis” written by Bill Napier.  453 pages.

The forty fifth book of the year.  15,316 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Pastrix:  The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint” written by Nadia Bolz-Webber.  205 pages.

The forty fourth book of the year.  14,863 pages at an average of 338 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Monday Mourning” written by Kathy Reichs.  383 pages.

The forty third book of the year.  14,658 pages at an average of 341 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Grave Tattoo” written by Val McDermid.  432 pages.

The forty second book of the year.  14,275 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Atomic:  The First War of Physics and the Secret History of  the Atom Bomb:  1939-1949” written by Jim Baggott.  492 pages.

The forty first book of the year.  13,843 pages at an average of 338 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“WWIII: Behind the Lines Target Texas” written by James B. Adair and Gordon Rottman.  294 pages.

The fortieth book of the year.  13,351 pages at an average of 334 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Climate Justice:  Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future” written by Mary Robinson.  144 pages.

The thirty ninth book of the year.  13,057 pages at an average of 335 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Avoid Boring People (Lessons from a Life in Science)” written by James D. Watson.  327 pages.

The thirty eighth book of the year.  12,913 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“San Andreas” written by Alistair MaClean.  346 pages.

The thirty seventh book of the year.  12,586 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Who Lost Russia:  How the World Entered a New Cold War” written by Peter Conradi.   342 pages.

The thirty sixth book of the year.  12,240 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger” written by Ronald J. Sider.  272 pages.

The thirty fifth book of the year.  11,898 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Nelson’s Trafalgar:  The Battle that Changed the World” written by Roy Adkins.  350 pages.

The thirty fourth book of the year.  11,626 pages at an average of 342 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Lion’s Run” written by Craig Thomas.  560 pages.

The thirty third book of the year.  11,276 pages at an average of 342 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“This Fight is Our Fight:  The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class” written by Elizabeth Warren.  270 pages.

The thirty second book of the year.  10,716 pages at an average of 335 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Soviet Marxism:  A Critical Analysis” written by Herbert Marcuse.  252 pages.

The thirty first book of the year.   10,446 pages at an average of 337 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Krysalis” written by John Trenhaile.  527 pages.

The thirtieth book of the year.  10,194 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Hope in the Dark:  Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities” written by Rebecca Solnit.  142 pages.

The twenty ninth book of the year.  9,667 pages at an average of 333 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity” written by David Little.  112 pages.

The twenty eighth book of the year.  9,525 pages at an average of 340 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Extreme Denial” written by David Morrell.  466 pages.

The twenty seventy book of the year.  9,413 pages at an average of 349 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Lincoln in the Bardo” written by George Saunders.  343 pages.

The twenty sixty book of the year.  8,947 pages at an average of 344 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Emma” written by Jane Austen.  396 pages.

The twenty fifth book of the year.  8,604 pages at an average of 344 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“The Diamond Hunters” written by Wilbur Smith.  332 pages.

The twenty fourth book of the year.  8,208 pages at an average of 342 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Sleepwalkers in a Fog:  Stories” written by Tatyana Tolstaya.   192 pages.

The twenty third book of the year.  7,876 pages at an average of 342 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Player Piano” written by Kurt Vonnegut.  341 pages.

The twenty second book of the year.  7,684 pages at an average of 349 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Helps to Holiness” written by Samuel Logan Brengle.  134 pages.

The twenty first book of the year.  7,343 pages at an average of 350 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

“Hell is Always Today” written by Jack Higgins.  273 pages.

The twentieth book of the year.  7,209 pages at an average of 360 pages per book.

-Richard 

I finished reading:

“Illuminate:  The Illuminae Files_01” written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff.  599 pages.

The nineteenth book of the year.  6,936 pages at an average of 365 pages per book.

-Richard