I AM BACK! Sort of. My plan was to start building up a log of posts to schedule this week but so far, I have zero posts. I’ve been so caught up with work, this is the first time in over two weeks that I’m typing a blog post. I must say, I missed blogging. At least stepping back allowed me to get some reading done.
Sadly, for a read-a-thon, I didn’t get to read as much as I had hoped. But I did read a lot more than I might have if I hadn’t been determined to use all my spare time to read. Plus, picking out two audiobooks helped me finish more books than I could have otherwise. In any case, here’s how my progress went over the two weeks from September 29 to October 12.
Read-a-thon Wrap-Up
Finished Books
Incomplete Book
Reading Statistics
Number of books started: 6
Number of books finished: 6
Number of books incomplete: 1
Total number of pages read: 1,096
Total time listened: 21h 40mins
Reading Progress
Day 1: Monday, September 29
Finished: The Geography of You and Me
Started: Isla and the Happily Ever After
Pages read: 226
Day 2: Tuesday, September 30
Read: Isla and the Happily Ever After
Pages read: 124
Day 3: Wednesday, October 1
Finished: Isla and the Happily Ever After
Pages read: 116
Day 4: Thursday, October 2
Read: Breakfast Served Anytime
Pages read: 18
Day 5: Friday, October 3
Read: Breakfast Served Anytime
Pages read: 26
Day 6: Saturday, October 4
Read: Breakfast Served Anytime
Pages read: 30
Day 7: Sunday, October 5
Read: Breakfast Served Anytime
Pages read: 30
Day 8: Monday, October 6
Started: The Glass Kitchen
Listening time: 1h 45mins
Day 9: Tuesday, October 7
Listened: The Glass Kitchen
Listening time: 4h 5mins
Day 10: Wednesday, October 8
Finished: The Glass Kitchen
Listening time: 5h 9mins
Day 11: Thursday, October 9
Read: Breakfast Served Anytime
Started: Pentagram Marks
Finished: Pentagram Marks
Pages read: 422
Day 12: Friday, October 10
Started: Symbol
Finished: Symbol
Pages read: 330
Day 13: Saturday, October 11
Started: A World Away
Listening time: 4h 53mins
Day 14: Sunday, October 12
Finished: A World Away
Listening time: 5h 48mins
Six books in two weeks sounds like good progress. Yay for completing it!
I’ve never listened to an audiobook. I did try listening to the prologue and chapter sampler of Maggie Stiefvater’s Blue Lily, Lily Blue and it felt weird. I guess I can be into it if I read the book alongside listening to it.
Three books per week has pretty much been my average progress this year. Haha. But you’re right, it’s still good progress :)
Lol. Why weird? Alongside, as in alternating or simultaneously? I know listening and reading simultaneously would drive me crazy because reading is way faster than listening, so then the audiobook is more of a hindrance. But alternating works well for me. I read when I have time, then switch to audio when I need to do things that don’t require me to be intensely focused.
WOOHOOO! Congrats on the readathon!! :D
I totally think audio books are acceptable read-a-thon material because you’d still have to concentrate (sometimes even harder) to allow yourself to process all the information! It’s such a shame that I have a personal aversion to audiobooks (I can’t find a good narrator D;) I’m actually listening to one right now and am seriously considering DNF which is a shame because I never do so…
Thank you, Jess! :D
I’ve not come across anyone who logged audiobooks as part of their read-a-thon, so it occurred to me fairly late that audiobooks are an option too. Heh. Ooh! Try The Night Circus if you haven’t already read it! The narrator was perfect!
I don’t use audio books but I don’t see why they wouldn’t count-they’re still books, just a different format :)
True that :) It’s just a format that needs to gain a wider audience.