I had a wonderful time doing the Bout of Books Read-A-Thon
back in May but passed up on the Once Upon A Read-A-Thon last week because it
covered a time that I was flat out busy and I would only have felt bad about my
non-reading! This week, however, although I know that I have
fairly busy week at work coming up as a big project that I've been working
on nears completion but I've also got some train journeys that
will hopefully provide some time where I can get some reading done. Also,
Boyfriend is going out this Friday and I've intentionally not made other plans
so that I can have some "quiet time" - it'll be nice to have
something to focus my attention on books instead of idly watching
back-to-back One Tree Hill high brow documentaries.
Pages
read today: (as of 10.39pm) 39 pages
Total
pages read so far: 39 pages
Total books read so far: None
Thoughts from Day One of the Read-A-Thon:
I haven't
actually been signed up for long enough to have many thoughts on it but so far
they've gone from reading some of Fahrenheit 451 while having
a coffee this morning to seeing the High Summer Read-A-Thon all over my
GoogleReader and falling prey to temptation and joining up! So a bit
bemused, really. And excited.
Tuesday 17 July
2012
Pages
read today: 50
pages
Total
pages read so far: 89 pages
Total books read so far: The first part of Fahrenheit 451
Thoughts from Day Two of the Read-A-Thon:
Tuesday wasn't a
great reading day - I got back from work pretty late so I squeezed in an hour
before I slumped over my book and fell asleep :-s
Wednesday 18 July
2012
Pages
read today: 58
pages
Total
pages read so far: 147 pages
Total books read so far: Two parts of Fahrenheit 451
Thoughts from Day Three of the Read-A-Thon:
In my head,
Wednesday was a much better reading day but, as it turns out, I read pretty
much the same amount of pages! That's possibly because I spent the
afternoon doing workshops at a local high school about "What it's like to
be a lawyer" and it was EXHAUSTING! Honestly, teenagers are hard
work. They were more interested in what lawyers earn than what they actually
do all day, so it wasn't great fun. So when I got home, I was frazzled
and went for a long run to clear my head before settling down with my book.
Still, Fahrenheit 451 is still amazing so it's more
quality than quantity this week, I think!
Thursday 19 July
2012
Pages
today: 64
pages (as at 8.50pm)
Total
pages read so far: 211 pages
Total books read so far: One (Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury)
Thoughts from Day Four of the Read-A-Thon:
So it seems that
my page count is growing daily, even if it's staying pretty small. Today
is turning out to be a good day and I'm planning on posting my mini-challenge
post and then head off to start The Ask and the Answer by
Patrick Ness. Incidentally, how is it already Thursday?! This week
has FLOWN! Other thoughts? I must read more Ray Bradbury and throw copies
of Fahrenheit 451 at lots of my friends and members of my
family. Onward Read-A-Thoners!!
Friday 20 July 2012
Pages today: 23
pages (as at 8.48pm)
Total pages read so far: 234 pages
Total books read so far: That would still be ONE (Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury)
Thoughts from Day Five of the Read-A-Thon:
WHY DO I HAVE TO WORK?! No, not really.
It just happened to be one of those days that made me want to curl up
away from a ringing phone and blippy email account and read a book in my
pyjamas. Which is actually what I'm about to go and do now. Happy
days indeed! :)
