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Bout of Books 19 Updates

5/8/2017

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Bout of Books
It's time for another round of Bout of Books! I'm going into this with no demands of myself - I'm just going to read however much I read. I did download an audiobook (or three), so that should help boost my numbers as well. Time to read!

​Monday

Time spent reading/listening: Four hours and 51 minutes (the wonders of audiobooks!)
Number of pages read: 127
Book I read from: The Governess of Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky
Books I listened to: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli;​ A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Number of books finished: One (The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli - it was short)
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​Tuesday

Time spent reading/listening: Three hours and 18 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Eight hours and 9 minutes
Number of pages read: 65
Total number of pages read: 192
Book I read from: The Governess of Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky
Book I listened to: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Number of books finished: Two (The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli and The Governess of Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky)
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​Wednesday

Time spent reading/listening: Two hours and 42 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Ten hours and 51 minutes
Number of pages read: 87
Total number of pages read: 279
Book I read from: Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier
Book I listened to: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Number of books finished: Two
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Thursday​

Time spent reading/listening: Five hours and 25 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Sixteen hours and 16 minutes
Number of pages read: 133
Total number of pages read: 412
Book I read from: Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier
Book I listened to: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
Number of books finished: Three (I blazed through the second half of A Fatal Grace today!)
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Friday​

Time spent reading/listening: Five hours and 32 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Twenty-one hours and 48 minutes
Number of pages read: 279
Total number of pages read: 691
Book I read from: Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier; Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Book I listened to: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Number of books finished: Four (I treated myself to reading outside during my little guy's afternoon naptime, instead of frantically trying to do all the things, so I was able to finish Sophie Quire today.)
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​Saturday

Time spent reading/listening: Three hours and 6 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Twenty-four hours and 54 minutes
Number of pages read: 85
Total number of pages read: 776
Book I read from: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Book I listened to: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Number of books finished: Four
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​Sunday

Time spent reading/listening: One hour and 7 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Twenty-six hours and 1 minute
Number of pages read: 74
Total number of pages read: 850
Book I read from: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Book I listened to: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Number of books finished: Four

Final Totals
Total time spent reading/listening: 26 hours and 1 minute
Total number of pages: 850
Books finished: Four

8 Comments
Christine @Buckling Bookshelves link
5/9/2017 07:54:17 am

I remember reading A Door in the Wall in grade school - definitely one I want to re-read as an adult. Sounds like a great first day! Audiobooks really can work wonders :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
5/11/2017 09:33:14 pm

A Door in the Wall is one I think I would have loved as a kid, but I'm glad I discovered it now, at least! I can't believe how much time "reading" I can get in when I'm listening to an audiobook. I'll have to take advantage of that more often!

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J Lenni Dorner link
5/10/2017 03:26:23 am

Best of luck with your reading goals!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
5/11/2017 09:33:41 pm

Thanks!

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Monica
5/10/2017 08:57:44 pm

I really liked The Governess of Highland Hall.
How in the world can you still participate in Bout of Books with a little one! :)
I enjoy your posts but can't always comment due to some block that my work computer has on the comment section... only on this blog. not sure what the deal is but I read you regularly. :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
5/11/2017 09:37:28 pm

I really enjoyed The Governess of Highland Hall, too. I'll have to track down the others in the series. I'm not getting much physical book reading done with my little guy keeping me busy, but I'm making good use of naptimes with an audiobook and weeding the flower beds! :)

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Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness link
5/11/2017 07:53:28 pm

It looks like you are having a good week so far. I didn't sign up to participate, which is good, because I've gotten almost no reading done this week... yikes!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
5/11/2017 09:35:43 pm

If it weren't for audiobooks, I would have hardly any reading in either! :)

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