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Bout of Books 20 Updates

8/22/2017

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Bout of Books
It's Bout of Books time! I'm setting no goals this time around - just seeing how much reading I can fit in my regular life. Just like last time, I have a feeling that audiobooks will be the winner here. It always surprises me how much reading I can get in that way.

Monday

Time spent reading/listening: Two hours and 51 minutes
Number of pages read: 111
Books I read from: The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan; One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Book I listened to: The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Number of books finished: One (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan - I was almost done)
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​Tuesday

Time spent reading/listening: Three hours and 4 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Five hours and 55 minutes
Number of pages read: 103
Total number of pages read: 214

Book I read from: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Book I listened to: The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Number of books finished: Two (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir & The Mighty Miss Malone)
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​Wednesday

Time spent reading/listening: One hour and 47 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Seven hours and 42 minutes
Number of pages read: 95
Total number of pages read: 309

Book I read from: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Book I listened to: Word of Mouse by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein
Number of books finished: Two (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir & The Mighty Miss Malone)
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​Thursday

Time spent reading/listening: Two hours and 54 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Ten hours and 36 minutes
Number of pages read: 172
Total number of pages read: 481

Books I read from: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde; On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
Book I listened to: Word of Mouse by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein
Number of books finished: Three (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Mighty Miss Malone & One of Our Thursdays Is Missing)
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Friday

Time spent reading/listening: Two hours and 3 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Twelve hours and 3 minutes
Number of pages read: 118
Total number of pages read: 599

Book I read from: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
Book I listened to: Word of Mouse by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein
Number of books finished: Three (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Mighty Miss Malone & One of Our Thursdays Is Missing)
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​Saturday

Time spent reading/listening: One hour and 35 minutes
Total time spent reading/listening: Thirteen hours and 38 minutes
Number of pages read: 70
Total number of pages read: 669

Book I read from: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
Book I listened to: Word of Mouse by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein
Number of books finished: Three (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Mighty Miss Malone & One of Our Thursdays Is Missing)

​Sunday

Time spent reading/listening: Two hours and 39 minutes
Number of pages read: 112
Books I read from: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson; Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell
Book I listened to: Word of Mouse by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein
Number of books finished: Four (The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Mighty Miss Malone, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing & On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness)

Readathon Totals

Total time spent reading/listening: Sixteen hours and 17 minutes
Total number of pages read:​ 781
Number of books finished:​ Four
10 Comments
Dana @ Little Lovely Books link
8/22/2017 04:09:54 pm

I like the idea of not setting a reading goal. I set a rather ambitious one this time and completely failed my first day reading. Good luck with the rest of the readathon. I hope you are able to read lots!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/24/2017 10:02:01 am

I've set pretty lofty goals in the past for this readathon and discovered that just doesn't work for me. I hope the rest of your readathon goes well! Enjoy your reading!

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Martha G link
8/22/2017 06:16:25 pm

I like your relaxed approach. Did you enjoy The Chilbury Ladies' Choir? I liked it a lot.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/24/2017 10:07:55 am

I did really like The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. It's my book club book for the month, so I'm really looking forward to discussing it. Glad you enjoyed it, too!

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Lark link
8/22/2017 08:19:44 pm

I've heard really good things about The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. Did you like it?

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/24/2017 10:08:45 am

I really enjoyed The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. It was really good!

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Lindsey link
8/26/2017 04:41:01 pm

I've never done Bout of Books, but I don't know why. It looks like you all have fun and get a lot of reading in!

My son really enjoyed Word of Mouse, as well as the House of Robots series by the same authors.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/27/2017 10:28:43 am

You should try Bout of Books one of these times, Lindsey! It is a lot of fun and very low-pressure.

I haven't read the House of Robots series, but I have read a couple of the I Funny series by Patterson & Grabenstein. They make a good team, and I can see why kids enjoy their books so much!

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Danica @ Shelves of Spines link
8/27/2017 10:48:52 am

I found that audiobooks really helped me with getting through books for this readathon. It's also nice that you can multitask while they're on :) I hope you enjoy what you read today.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/27/2017 04:15:19 pm

Audiobooks make things like washing dishes practically tolerable, don't they? :) Happy rest of your readathon!

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