Glenda’s Comments (group member since Mar 04, 2019)

Glenda’s comments from the Unexpected Readathon Time / Books Out of the Blue group.

I almost missed out on this one! Didn't get any reading done today but I did visit the library and brought home eight books so I plan on making up for lost time over the next two days :)

Saturday 2/17 zero pgs

Sunday 2/18 The Teacher 156 pgs

Monday 2/19 The Teacher 222 pgs, finished
Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland 26 pgs

Totals 404 pgs, one book completed
See you all next month!

Potential TBR --- start Genocide of One (book I meant to read in 2023 prompt),

Thurs 1/25 The Wildest Sun 130 pgs

Fri 1/26 The Color of Pain 93 pgs, finished

Sat 1/27 The Wildest Sun 189 pgs, finished

Sun 1/28 Genocide of One 45 pgs
She Rides Shotgun 256 pgs, finished

Mon 1/29 Genocide of One 62 pgs

Tues 1/30 The Butcher Boy 78 pgs

Wed 1/31

Totals

I'm in! Need to finish two books to reach my goodreads reading goal for the year

Friday 12/29 Black Tide 52 pgs
The Honor of Your Presence 90 pgs, finished
Winter Recipes from the Collective 42 pgs, finished

Sat 12/30 Black Tide 100 pgs, finished
Everything the Darkness Eats 61 pgs

Sun 12/31 Everything the Darkness Eats 63 pgs

Totals 3 books finished, 408 total pages

Happy New Year!!

Fri 11/24 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing 50 pgs

Sat 11/25 A Grandmother Begins the Story 138 pgs, finished

Sun 11/26 0 pgs

Mon 11/27 The Ferryman 44 pgs

Tues 11/28 The Ferryman 102 pgs
Small Game 90 pgs

Wed 11/29 Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing 149 pgs, finished

Thurs 11/30

Totals

TBR --- hope to finish Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery and The Night Stockers

Friday Oct 13 Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery 72 pgs
The Night Stockers 62 pgs

Sat Oct 14 Fairview Hills Cemetery: North County Paranormal Unit #3 140 pgs, finished

Sun Oct 15 Sundial 62 pgs

Mon Oct 16 Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery 140 pgs, finished

Spooky movies --- Last Shift
The Nun

Totals 476 pgs, finished two books
See you all next month :)

No set TBR yet but I'm always reading something spooky :)

Mon 9/18 The Human Son 201 pgs
Such Sharp Teeth 76 pgs

Tues 9/19 The Human Son 83 pgs

Wed 9/20 The Human Son 116 pgs, finished
America's Scariest Places Magazine 2023 97 pgs, finished

Thurs 9/21 Such Sharp Teeth 73 pgs

Fri 9/22 A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers 108 pgs
Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless 35 pgs

Sat 9/23 A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers 54 pgs
Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless 47 pgs

Sun 9/24

Totals

I need to make progress on my current reads, Instructions for a Heatwave and The Elephant of Surprise, otherwise not sure what to read, but I'm in!

Friday Aug 25 The Elephant of Surprise 91 pgs, finished
Cleveland Noir 120 pgs

Saturday Aug 26 Cleveland Noir 111 pgs
Instructions for a Heatwave 43 pgs

Sunday Aug 27 Cleveland Noir 50 pgs, finished
Instructions for a Heatwave 40 pgs
The Painted Drum 45 pgs

Totals--2 books finished, total pages 500
See you in September! :)

Sun 7/9 The Devil's Woods 31 pgs
Daughter of Song: A Cambodian Refugee Family, Their Daughter, Crime and Injustice 90 pgs

Mon 7/10 W is for Wasted 63 pgs

Tues 7/11 W is for Wasted 78 pgs

Wed 7/12 Daughter of Song: A Cambodian Refugee Family, Their Daughter, Crime and Injustice 190 pgs, finished

Thurs 7/13 Kyoto gardens: masterworks of the Japanese gardener's art 141 pgs, finished

Fri 7/14 W is for Wasted 115 pgs

Sat 7/15

Totals

Fri 6/16 The Roanoke Girls 209 pgs, finished
Shooting Star 43 pgs, finished

Sat 6/17 The Boatman's Daughter 67 pgs

Sun 6/18 High Fidelity 188 pgs, finished

Totals 507 pages, three books finished

Reading goals for this time: finish two of my current reads, namely Fatal Fudge Swirl and The Sun Down Motel. I'll have to see what I have with animals on the cover...and it's supposed to rain most of the week so probably no outdoor reading :)

Sun 5/7 The Sun Down Motel 41 pgs

Mon 5/8 The Sun Down Motel 100 pgs
Fatal Fudge Swirl 68 pgs

Tues 5/9 Lonely Planet Epic Hikes of Australia & New Zealand 1 127 pgs

Wed 5/10 Fatal Fudge Swirl 141 pgs, finished
The Salt Grows Heavy 70 pgs

Thurs 5/11 0

Fri 5/12 The Salt Grows Heavy 35 pgs, finished
The Sun Down Motel 183 pgs, finished
Whalefall 81 pgs

Sat 5/13 Whalefall 61 pgs
Whimsical Leprosy 22 pgs

Totals 929 pgs, three finished books
See you all next time!

TBR (Prompt: blue or grey on cover)
(Prompt: cozy)

Fri 4/14 Austin Noir 72 pgs, finished
The Cloud Atlas 65 pgs
The Ruin Season 190 pgs

Sat 4/15 The Ruin Season 114 pgs, finished
The Two-Bear Mambo 25 pgs

Sun 4/16

Totals

Still deciding on my tbr...

Sun 3/19 End of Watch 36 pgs
The Sorrows 55 pgs

Mon 3/20 0 pages :(

Tues 3/21 End of Watch 187 pgs

Wed 3/22 End of Watch 107 pgs, finished
The Sorrows 70 pgs
Tell Me I’m Worthless 101 pgs

Thurs 3/23
Fri 3/24
Sat 3/25

Totals

No TBR planned, I'm just going to see where my reading mood takes me.

Sat Feb 18 Three-Smile Mile 159 pgs, finished
Full Immersion 56 pgs

Sun Feb 19 Full Immersion 56 pgs

Mon Feb 20 Full Immersion 137 pgs, finished
Festival 84 pgs, finished
Tales of Sley House 2022 31 pgs

Totals 523 pages
Finished 3 books

See you all next time :)

My reading goals-- Finish one of my current reads (Don't Fear the Reaper, The End of Drum-Time)
Start/finish one of my library check-outs (Daphne, Red Hands)
Start/finish one of my 2023 TBR (White Horse
Road Seven)

Sun 1/15 Daphne 185 pgs, finished

Mon 1/16 The End of Drum-Time 51 pgs
Northwest Angle 115 pgs

Tues 1/17 Northwest Angle 138 pgs

Wed 1/18 Northwest Angle 102 pgs, finished

Thurs 1/19 The End of Drum-Time 49 pgs
Road Seven 24 pgs

Fri 1/20 0 pgs

Sat 1/21 The End of Drum-Time 99 pgs, finished

Totals 763 pgs, 3 books finished
See you all next time!

12/16 Songs of Willow Frost 117 pgs

12/17 Songs of Willow Frost 119 pgs, finished

12/18 Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story 103 pgs, finished
Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession 48 pgs

?12/19?

Totals 2 books finished, 387 pgs read

Enjoy the holidays, and all the best for the new year!

I missed the October one so I'm definitely ready for this one. TBR is to finish current reads and . After that, not sure yet.

Mon 11/21 A Stain on the Silence 218 pgs, finished

Tues 11/22 Dust Child 34 pgs
Human Tenderloin 81 pgs

Wed 11/23 Human Tenderloin 141 pgs, finished

Thurs 11/24 Dust Child 38 pgs
Vinyl Resting Place 42 pgs

Fri 11/25 Dust Child 30 pgs

Sat 11/26 Vinyl Resting Place 22 pgs
Since We Fell 60 pgs

Sun 11/27

Totals

TBR Prompt
I also have a couple of library books I need to get to

Sunday 9/18 The Devil Takes You Home 82 pgs

9/19 Anybody Home? 176 pgs, finished

9/20 Dead Leaves 145 pgs

9/21 Dead Leaves 77 pgs, finished

9/22 The Devil Takes You Home 189 pgs

9/23 Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror 162 pgs, finished
Dead Space 52 pgs

9/24

Totals

I have two books I need to finish by the 31st, Crow Lake and On the Hoof: A 3,800-Mile Adventure: Pacific to Atlantic so this readathon is great motivation to get out of my current slump :)

Monday July 25 Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant 198 pgs, finished
On the Hoof: A 3,800-Mile Adventure: Pacific to Atlantic 89 pgs

Tuesday July 26 Crow Lake 92 pgs

Wednesday July 27 Crow Lake 198 pgs, finished
On the Hoof: A 3,800-Mile Adventure: Pacific to Atlantic 27 pgs

Thursday July 28 Ouch 165 pgs, finished
The Train Derails in Boston 41 pgs

Friday July 29 On the Hoof: A 3,800-Mile Adventure: Pacific to Atlantic 47 pgs
Creatures of Passage 52 pgs

Saturday July 30 Creatures of Passage 81 pgs

Sunday July 31 Creatures of Passage 122 pgs, finished
The Memory Police 73 pgs

Totals 1185 pages, 4 books finished

See you all next time!

I don't know my full TBR but I picked up some great titles at the library, including Bunny, Into the Drowning Deep and Unfollow Me.

Sunday 6/19 The Devil In The Red Dirt 137 pgs, finished
Betty 100 pgs

Monday 6/20 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 59 pgs

Tuesday 6/21 Betty 190 pgs

Wednesday 6/22 Betty 174 pgs, finished
Bunny 83 pgs
Handbook for the Criminally Insane 33 pgs

Thursday 6/23 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 49 pgs

Friday 6/24 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 89 pgs
Handbook for the Criminally Insane 31 pgs

Saturday 6/25 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 76 pgs, finished
Handbook for the Criminally Insane 71 pgs
Bunny 47 pgs
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 68 pgs

Totals finished 3 books, total pages 1207
My mind was pretty scattered this week, it shows in all my random reading, haha! See everyone next time!

I should have plenty of reading time this weekend (fingers crossed!). For the prompt I have Hao: Stories by Ye Chun that I picked up at the library the other day. Other than that, I'll just see where my reading mood takes me.

Friday Planting Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life 115 pgs, finished
Hao: Stories 112 pgs
The Way of the Rabbit 36 pgs

Saturday Hao: Stories 75 pgs, finished
The Way of the Rabbit 53 pgs
Wisteria Cottage 57 pgs

Sunday The Way of the Rabbit 81 pgs, finished
The Savage Instinct 198 pgs

Totals 3 books finished
727 total pages

See you all next time! :)