Bout of Books 33 Updates

This post will serve as my update post for Bout of Books 33. I will post my daily reading for Monday through Saturday. Sunday's reading will be included in my final wrap up post next Monday. I don't track pages read because with audiobooks that's just silly. I do track my total time spent reading.

Monday Reading: 

I had a total of 2 hours and 40 minutes of reading today.

I listened to audiobooks for 38 minutes. I finished listening to My Name is Markham by Jodi Taylor, narrated by Piers Wehner. it’s a short story from Taylor’s Chronicles of St. Mary’s time travel adventure series. It was a lot of fun (just like the rest of the series. I started listening to The Joy and Light Bus Company by Alexander McCall Smith narrated by Bianca Amato. This is the 22nd book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.  I have listened to the whole series except the last book. I adored Lisette Lecat’s narration of the books but they changed narrators with book 21. The reviews clearly indicated that the new narrator was not good so I read the print edition of that book. With this new one there is once again a new narrator but the reviews are much more positive this time around. I only listened to a little bit of the book but so far I’m enjoying listening to Bianca Amato.

In print, I read for 2 hour and 2 minutes. I finished reading The Housewife Assassin’s Killer App by Josie Brown. This series is completely ridiculous but a lot of fun. I also read some of In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren. I started it before Christmas but didn’t get very far before getting sidetracked with holiday stuff. 

Tuesday Reading:

Today’s reading was all print reading with no audiobook time. I read for a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes. All of that time was reading In a Holidaze.  It’s been a.fun book and I’m looking forward to seeing how it ends tomorrow.

Wednesday Reading:

Today I got 4 hours and 19 minutes of reading in. Yay. 2 hours and 30 minutes of that was print reading. I finished reading In a Holidaze. It was a fun, cute holiday Rom Com. I started reading Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. We started watching the Masterpiece TV adaptation starring David Tennant. and I realized that I'd never read the book. Luckily the ebook was available from the library. 

I listened to my audiobook for and hour and 48 minutes. I started a new jigsaw puzzle and that always means good audiobook time. 

Thursday Reading:

Today my to do list interfered with my reading time but I still managed to get a total of 2 hours and 48 minutes of reading.  

48 minutes of that was listening to my audiobook. I’m enjoying listening to Bianca Amato narrate The Joy and Light Bus Company.

The remaining 2 hours was reading Around the World in 80 Days. I’m glad I’m finally reading this one. 

Friday Reading:

I managed 3 hours and 25 minutes of reading today.

2 hours and 43 minutes of that was listening to my audiobook while running errands and working in a jigsaw puzzle.

42 minutes was reading Around the World in 80 Days. 

Saturday Reading:

Today I got 3 hours and 27 minutes of reading in. 

I listened to my audiobook for 2 hours and 8 minutes while working on my jigsaw puzzle. 

I read Around the World in 80 Days for an hour and19 minutes. 

I'm Joining Bout of Books 33

 

Bout of Books 33 starts Monday, January 3rd.. I’ve participated three times a year since August 2013 and I’m not planning to break that tradition. 

Bout of Books 32 Wrap Up

I had a decent week of reading. I got a little busier than expected with stuff that interfered with my reading but I still managed nearly 2 hours of reading every day. Considering how much I've struggled with reading since the pandemic, I'm calling that a win. 

This week I read for a total of 13 hours and 47 minutes.

I finished the two books I was already reading and finished another one. I also started fourth book. 

Books I finished:

1. Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
2. What Could Possibly Go Wrong by Jodi Taylor, narrated by Zara Ramm
3. The Housewife Assassin's Vacation to Die for by Josie Brown

Book I started but haven't finished:

1. Manners & Mutiny by Gail Carriger 

I hope you had a great Bout of Books. 

Here's to doing this again starting January 3rd.

Bout of Books 32 Updates

This post will serve as my update post for Bout of Books 32. I will post my daily reading for Monday through Saturday. Sunday's reading will be included in my final wrap up post next Monday. I don't track pages read because with audiobooks that's just silly. I do track my total time spent reading.

Monday Reading:

I had a total of 3 hours and 13 minutes of reading today

I listened to 1 hour and 21 minutes of my audiobook. I'm listening to What Could Possibly Go Wrong by Jodi Taylor. It's part of her Chronicles of St. Mary's series that is fun time traveling adventure. 

In print, I read for 1 hour and 52 minutes. All of that was in Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd. It's a chunkster that I'm close to winding up. I read it for the first time many years ago and have been wanting to reread is for a long time. 

Tuesday Reading:

Today's reading total was 2 hours and 47 minutes

I listened to What Could Possibly Go Wrong for an hour and 16 minutes.

I read Sarum for an hour and 31 minutes. 

I finished Sarum tonight

Wednesday Reading:

Today’s reading total was 2 hours and 20 minutes.

35 minutes of that was listening to What Could Possibly Go Wrong. 

I started a new print book today. It’s The Housewife Assassin’s Vacation to Die For by Josie Brown. This is a silly fun series. I read this for 1 hour and 45 minutes. 

Thursday Reading:

Today's reading total was 2 hours and 56 minutes.

1 hour and 2 minutes of that was listening to What Could Possibly Go Wrong.

1 hour and 54 minutes was reading The Housewife Assassin's Vacation to Die For

Friday Reading:

Today’s reading total was 2 hours and 12 minutes

1 hour and 9 minutes of that was listening to my audiobook. I finished What Could Go Wrong by Jodi Taylor. Another fun book in the series. I probably won’t start my next audiobook until Monday so that will probably be it for audio for this Bout of Books. 

1 hour and 3 minutes was print reading. I finished The Housewife Assassin’s Vacation to Die For by Josie Brown.

Saturday Reading:

Today was a big bust readingwise.  Just too busy doing other things. I did manage to carve out 1 hour and 6 minutes of reading time. I started a new book. Manners & Mutiny by Gail Carriger is the fourth book in her Finishing School series.  

I'm Joining Bout of Books 32

 

Bout of Books 32 starts Monday, August 16th. I’ve participated three times a year since August 2013 and I’m not planning to break that tradition. 

Bout of Books 31 Wrap Up

 

I spent almost every day this week thinking to myself that I "only read" for whatever time I was posting to my Bout of Books updates. Then on Saturday I realized that I was thinking that I'd only read for a short amount of time because I was mentally comparing it to my reading time for pre 2020 Bout of Books challenges. In actuality the time I spent reading every day this past week was above average compared to my daily reading since the beginning of the pandemic. 

2020 truly broke the reading part of my brain. Between the pandemic, the election, and everything else that happened over the past fourteen months I became nearly incapable of concentrating on reading for more than a few minutes at a time. I'm hoping that this past week of Bout of Books might be the beginning of the return of my normal reading habits. 

This week I read for a total of 14 hours and 52 minutes. Honestly to read for an average of over two hours a day for seven days is drastically different than what I've done for the past fourteen months. 

I finished the two books I was reading when Bout of Books started, read a novella and read another novel. I finished more books this past week than I read for the entire month of April (and several other months in the past year or so. 

So, while my reading time is less than many previous Bout of Books events, it's definitely more than I've been reading for a long time. I'm calling that a huge success and hoping the trend continues. 

Books I finished:

1. The Housewife Assassin's Guide to Gracious Killing by Josie Brown
2. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
3. A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier narrated by Marisa Calin
4. Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

I hope you had a great Bout of Books. 

Here's to doing this again starting August 16th.

Bout of Books 31 Updates

This post will serve as my update post for Bout of Books 31. I will post my daily reading for Monday through Saturday. Sunday's reading will be included in my final wrap up post next Monday. I don't track pages read because with audiobooks that's just silly. I do track my total time spent reading. 

Monday Reading:

Today's reading was all in print. Part paper and part ereader.

I read for a total of 2 hours and 41 minutes. 

I finished The Housewife Assassin's Guide to Gracious Killing by Josie Brown. I had been a little over halfway through it before Bout of Books started. 

I started the latest Murderbot novella, Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells. 

Tuesday Reading:

I had a total of 2 hours and 31 minutes of reading today. 

30 minutes of that was audio. I'm listening to A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier narrated by Marisa Calin. It's been delightful so far.

In print read for 2 hours and 1 minute. 

I finished Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

I started Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Wednesday Reading:

Today wasn't a stellar reading day. Too much other stuff going on. I managed a total of 1 hour and 38 minutes. All of that was reading Curtsies & Conspiracies.

Thursday Reading:

Another day of being busy with stuff that kept interfering with my reading. 

I managed a total of 2 hours and 2 minutes of reading.

42 minutes of that was listening to A Castle in the Clouds. I'm at the climactic part and hope to be able to finish this tomorrow. 

In print I read Curtsies & Conspiracies for an hour and 20 minutes.

Friday Reading:

A total of 2 hours and 2 minutes of reading. 

1 hour and 2 minutes was audiobook time. I finished listening to A Castle in the Clouds. I enjoyed this one. I probably won't start another audiobook until Monday.

In print I read Curtsies & Conspiracies for an hour. 

Saturday Reading:

A total of 2 hours of reading today. 

All of that was in Curtsies & Conspiracies. I'm hoping to finish this one up tomorrow.