Bout of Books 13 Updates

It's Bout of Books time! I'll be updating this post each day with my daily progress. Here are the goals I'd like to accomplish (but wouldn't be too upset if I didn't accomplish):

- Read at least one hour a day
- Comment on at least 3 blogs a day
- Participate in 2 challenges

Ready, set, read!

Monday

Time spent reading: One hour and 16 minutes
Number of pages read: 68
Book I read from: On the Water by Nathaniel Stone
Blogs commented on: 3
Challenges completed: None

Tuesday

Time spent reading: One hour and 13 minutes
Total time spent reading: Two hours and 29 minutes
Number of pages read: 78
Total number of pages read: 146
Books completed: One (On the Water)
Books I read from: On the Water by Nathaniel Stone; Old School by Tobias Wolff
Blogs commented on: 4
Challenges completed: Still none

Wednesday

Time spent reading: One hour and 17 minutes
Total time spent reading: Three hours and 46 minutes
Number of pages read: 94
Total number of pages read: 240
Book I read from: Old School by Tobias Wolff
Blogs commented on: 6
Challenges completed: One (Book Haiku)

Rowing to nowhere
The end is the beginning
Discover yourself
based on On the Water: Discovering America in a Rowboat by Nathaniel Stone

Thursday

Time spent reading: One hour and 6 minutes
Total time spent reading: Four hours and 52 minutes
Number of pages read: 88
Total number of pages read: 328
Total books completed: Two (On the Water & Old School)
Book I read from: Old School by Tobias Wolff
Blogs commented on: 3
Challenges completed: None today

Friday

Time spent reading: One hour and 6 minutes
Total time spent reading: Five hours and 58 minutes
Number of pages read: 67
Total number of pages read: 395
Book I read from: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Blogs commented on: 4
Challenges completed: One (Cover Color)

This challenge was made a lot harder by the fact that I am currently cut off from the majority of my books (see this post for explanation). I had a very limited selection to choose from, so the color I'm going with is "whitish." That's the best I could do!
Red Rover by Roger Wiens
Ivy Days by Susan Allen Toth
On the Water by Nathaniel Stone
Walk the Lines by Mark Mason

Saturday

Time spent reading: One hour and 11 minutes
Time spent listening: Two hours and 5 minutes (Gotta do something while weeding the garden!)
Total time spent reading: Nine hours and 14 minutes
Number of pages read: 82
Total number of pages read: 477
Book I read from/listened to: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome & Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Blogs commented on: 5
Challenges completed: None today

Sunday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 47 minutes
Number of pages read: 184
Books completed: One (Three Men in a Boat)
Books I read from: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome & Walk the Lines by Mark Mason
Blogs commented on: 5

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Read-a-thon Totals

Time spent reading: Twelve hours and 1 minute
Time spent listening: Two hours and 5 minutes
Number of pages read: 661
Number of books completed: Three
Blogs commented on: 30
Challenges completed: Two (Book Haiku & Cover Color)

Hard to believe, but I actually met all of my goals. It's amazing how much reading you can squeeze in if you make it a priority. If only I had this excuse to read during every spare moment every week!