BOUT OF BOOKS 32

DAY 2 RECAP

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The Bout of Books readathon is organized
by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple.
It’s a weeklong readathon that begins Monday, August 16th
and runs through Sunday, August 22nd in YOUR time zone.
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Here is what I read on DAY 2:

1. Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz = 72 pages = FINISHED
2. Un trou dans la toile, by Luc Chomarat = 113 pages = FINISHED
3.  Audiobook: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, by Agatha Christie =1H58 minutes  =  72 pages = FINISHED
4. Audiobook: The Under Dog and Other Stories, by Agatha Christie =2H minutes  =  72 pages

Total for Day 2:  329 pages
TOTAL so far:  474/840

No teaching today, so did a lot of work around the house, hence lots of audio time!
Weird that I read the exact same number of pages in three different books, but that’s really it. And this is probably my biggest number of pages in a day, as far as I can remember.

📚 I did the Instagram challenge

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Here is what I read on DAY 1:

1. Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz = 80 pages
2. Un trou dans la toile, by Luc Chomarat = 18 pages
3.  Audiobook: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, by Agatha Christie =1H18 minutes  =  47 pages

Total for Day 1:  145 pages
TOTAL so far:  145/840

Very happy with this first day
📚 I did the Instagram challenge

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Based on my results for Bout of Books 31, I’m raising the bar to much higher than usual, setting my goal at 840 pages, that is, 120 pages per day. 

Here are the books I plan to read from. Some I am currently reading

1. Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz = FINISHED
2. The Village of Eight Graves, by Seishi Yokomizo
   (reading it in its French translation actually, with one of my students)
3. Bomber’s Moon (Joe Gunther #30), by Archer Mayor
4. Un trou dans la toile, by Luc Chomarat = FINISHED
5. Tension extrême, by Sylvain Forge
6.  Audiobook: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, by Agatha Christie = FINISHED
7. Audiobook: The Under Dog and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot #29), by Agatha Christie

I’m planning on doing some Instagram daily challenges.
No reading-in-place, which disrupts my reading. Nor Twitter chats: I have done it many times, and it’s mostly the same questions.

SCHEDULE

For Bout of Books 32, no daily challenges will be hosted on the official blog. Instead, we’ll have reading-in-place times!
Reading-in-place times, or reading sprints, happen daily on Twitter*. If you don’t have Twitter, make note of these times and report your reading progress on your platform of choice.
All reading-in-place times last 30 minutes.

Daily Reading-in-Place Times

📚 10 a.m. Eastern | 7 a.m. Pacific
📚 2 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Pacific
📚 6 p.m. Eastern | 3 p.m. Pacific

Twitter Chats

(chats last approximately one hour)
TZC = Time Zone Conversion

Monday: 9 p.m. Eastern | 6 p.m. Pacific
Saturday: 11 a.m. Eastern | 8 a.m. Pacific

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