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I had a fabulous reading week! Thank you for setting up another fun RAT. I definitely got more accomplished this week than usual and I needed it. Here's my progress for the week:
Woof 17% - finished
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill 9% - finished
Trouble in Mudbug start - finished
Swamp Sniper start - finished
Name Tags and Other Sixth-Grade Disasters 21% - 53%
The Beekeeper's Apprentice start - 24%
All the Broken People 20% - 26%
I had hoped to get a little further along in All the Broken People, but I hadn't planned to even start Swamp Sniper or The Beekeeper's Apprentice until next month, so that's definitely a win.
Sammy wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "what did you think to infinite jest?"Well, I'm not quite done yet, but LOVED the first quarter or so, then it started to drag a bit. In the end I had to step away and read some..."
i read it in paperback and was totally underwhelmed it had such hype but i didn't get it
Marie (UK) wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "what did you think to infinite jest?"Well, I'm not quite done yet, but LOVED the first quarter or so, then it started to drag a bit. In the end I had to step away..."
The further I get, the more it just seems like one big long cry for help. It's obvious the author was extremely preoccupied with the idea of suicide, so it didn't at all surprise me to hear that he ended up taking his own life in the end.
I'd have given up on it by now if I was willing to forego the wheelathon points, lol.
Updating my reads now. I read too many books... not that many pages... I ended up not being able to read yesterday, but I am happy with the outcome since I spent time with my niece.
Sammy wrote: "890 pages and 74 hours of audio over 8 books. not too shabby, but not entirely unexpected seeing as how I'm in "crazy challenge reading" mode :)"That’s a fair amount of listening and reading!
8 books, 1943 pages. Not as good as last time, but not bad either.
I've never tried to figure out my pages before, but I read about 1,321 pages this week. That has to be a record for me! :)
If I get bored later I may try and figure out what the page equivalent of my audios was, just for a laugh, lol.
I think I read a record number as well!I read
Everything We Keep all of it
The Dilemma all of it
Fractured 75%
Undone 65%
Kane and Abel 25%
For a total of 1365 pages
Laura wrote: "Was The Dilemma any good, Vicki? It's in my next batch of books coming on loan from the library."i enjoyedthis book gave it a 4 star rating
Great! thanks Marie! I'll see if I can bump it up the list when it arrives
Laura wrote: "Was The Dilemma any good, Vicki? It's in my next batch of books coming on loan from the library."I loved the book! I gave it 5 stars.
For me it was the best one she has written.
Sammy wrote: "If I get bored later I may try and figure out what the page equivalent of my audios was, just for a laugh, lol."audios average around 30 pages an hour I believe
Marie (UK) wrote: "Sammy wrote: "If I get bored later I may try and figure out what the page equivalent of my audios was, just for a laugh, lol."audios average around 30 pages an hour I believe"
Not the way I listen to them! lol. (2.25x speed)
I was going to just use the default page count. I didn't have any audio only ones, so it should work :)
Works out to roughly 2136 pages. Not bad, but not as good as it would have been without a house full of people making noise! lol.
Sammy wrote: "I was going to just use the default page count. I didn't have any audio only ones, so it should work :) "That's what I did too. And if I read a portion of the book, then I just added that percentage of the total pages. I figure my total is approximate, but close enough.
Nice job with 2136 pages. That's great!
Vicki Willis wrote: "Laura wrote: "Was The Dilemma any good, Vicki? It's in my next batch of books coming on loan from the library."I loved the book! I gave it 5 stars.
For me it was the best one sh..."
Ohh, good to hear
I read over 2, 334 pages and listened to over 34 hours of audio(Audios not in page count)
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So great when they all turn out to be good!
I've been really struggling to read print during lockdown, so my increase in audio isn't that surprising I can listen a lot of the time (just not when all three guitarists in the house decide it's practice time! that's usually about 2 hours out of every day out the window, lol).