And so my four weeks of read-a-thons comes to an end with Bout of Books read-a-thon #11. And so does my vacation, and the reality of life sets in again.
I'm curious to see how many pages I read this week. I felt I read more than each of the first three weeks, but then again, the one week I thought that I completely bombed, I actually read almost as much as the week before, so who knows?
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
~~ Chapter 5-15, p. 53-end (158 pgs)
Defence Speeches by Cicero
Defence Speeches by Cicero
~~ p. 139-end (137 pgs)
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
~~ p. 77-end (193 pgs)
Russian Thinkgers by Isaiah Berlin
~~ p.1 - 7 (7 pgs)
Summer by Edith Wharton
Summer by Edith Wharton
~~ Complete (127 pgs)
Montaigne's Essays
On Sadness
On Sadness
~~ approx (10 pgs)
Planets in Peril by David C. Downing
~~ p. 31- 53 (23 pgs)
Books completed:
SummerDefence Speeches
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Total pages read: 655 pages
Total pages read: 2,673 pages
Total books finished: 13 books
Oooo, I like the "books finished" number, but I was really hoping to read more pages. Oh well, between swimming and kayaking and badminton and biking and hiking and socializing, I probably did reasonably well.
How did your reading go this summer? Do you feel that you've had more time to read? Less? Are you satisfied with your goals?
Ooh, I look forward to your review of The Man Who Was Thursday. The only Chesterton I've read was his biography of St. Francis of Assisi, and I enjoyed it immensely. I loved his style of humor.
ReplyDeleteThe Man Who Was Thursday was a riot, but I'm not sure I picked up half of what Chesterton was saying. Yes, my review should be interesting, since I'm not sure where to start. :-) Chesterton is a treasure; I'm not sure why he's not more widely read. Even if you don't want to search for the deeper meaning behind his narrative, his stories are excellent!
DeleteGood work, Cleo :)
ReplyDeleteI'm still working on my 20 books of summer (got just under a month left til the beginning of autumn, and I think I have 3 left. I've not kept up with reviews though - just written something on Sense and Sensibility, now have reviews to write for Moby-Dick (dreading it), Middlesex (it's a hard one to write about), and The House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky (and I'm worried too much time has lapsed!). So wish me luck! :)
Good luck, O! I have tons of backlogged reviews too ---- the perils of reading like a house on fire and not balancing the reviews. Sigh! I hope to see your Dostoyevsky review and Moby Dick, too. Since I saw that you gave the latter 3 stars, I'm curious as to your thoughts on it. It's still on my TBR pile!
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