It's Sunday and the last day for both Random House of Canada's Olympic Readathon and the Summer Wrap-up Read-a-Thon. (Not to worry, another read-a-thon is starting on Monday morning! Join me in Bout of Books 5.0 the 13th through 19th of August.)
I'm making very good progress toward my goal of 2500 pages during the 17 days of the #OlympicReadathon. When I turned in on Saturday night, I had read 2003 pages. This was a bit behind the pace I had set for myself, but I see no reason why I can't read 500 pages in one day! Today is being spent entirely in the car as we drive from Lancaster, CA, to Richfied, UT. So far, I've already read 196 pages and it's shortly after noon here in Nevada. I finished one book this morning and will definitely finish at least one more before day's end.
In the Summer Wrap-up Read-a-thon, I have now achieved my major goal of reading A Call to Arms by Alan Dean Foster which I finished around 10am. I then picked up Runner at page 118 where I had left off earlier this week. I love having so many books at my fingertips on my Kindle!
In addition to finishing my goal book, I also entered the Laughing Out Loud Challenge sponsored by Montana at The Book Belles. In this challenge, she asked readers to post funny quotes from books which they enjoyed. My response was:
One of the funniest series that I have read is the "Numbers" mysteries by Janet Evanovich starring Stephanie Plum. Finding quotes that are funny in their own right is difficult, though, since the situations and the evolution of the characters contribute so much to the occasional belly-laugh that bursts out when I'm reading. Here are a couple of funny quotes:
"Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
"In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing."
"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
Summary
Friday, 8/10
Number of pages I've read today: 111
Number of books completed today: 0
Saturday, 8/11
Number of pages I've read today: 66
Number of books completed today: 0
#SWUR Totals
Saturday, 8/11
Total number of pages I've read: 782
Total number of books completed: 2
#OlympicReadathon Totals
Saturday, 8/11
Total number of pages I've read: 2003
Total number of books completed: 7
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