The first day of Bout of Books readathon was a great success, even though I did not finish anything - but I enjoyed it greatly - checking out how others are doing, participating in the Spine Poetry challenge, chatting on Twitter.
The books I read on Monday: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Total pages read today: 96
Total books finished: 0
What do my cats think about the books at hand: Nothing. It is a softcover with a VERY soft cover, which makes it a bad "rub-my-face-against-while-looking-stupid" book.
Flavour of the day: absolutely delicious dinner made by my lovely (and understanding, thehe) boyfriend.
In other news, I received a pack of books - the Lonely Planet Prague travel guide (yess! - not sure it would count as a reading material, though...), The Eyre Affair, City of Dark Magic and Outlander. And I want to read them all. right. now. I am soooo doomed...
"rub-my-face-against-while-looking-stupid" LOL Gabby does this to EVERYTHING. She did it to a bag of chips last night.
ReplyDeleteYAY for a great first day!!! And yayyyyy for getting so many good books in the mail :-) You know, you could start one of those this week if you didn't want to wait... ;-)
Yeah anything goes - books, furniture, human legs, FOOD (can get messy...)
DeleteAs to good books in the mail - don't tempt me, as Gandalf would say :D I might just not be able to resist The Eyre Affair...
You are definitely doomed! The Eyre Affair is rather good...
ReplyDeleteCheers all round for excellent first days :)
Grrr, knowing you think The Eyre Affair is rather good certainly isn't good right now :D I have to just be strong and move on to Bradbury after I finish the book at hand.
DeleteHaha, I know that doomed feeling well! Good luck :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Christine, I'll try to be strong! At least this week :)
Delete96 pages is great!! I've read Outlander, & City of Dark Magic...the latter one was kind of a slow start. I'd read The Eyre Affair first. :) Outlander flies by once you get to Jamie.
ReplyDeleteI second that bit about Jamie...
DeleteThanks! It's great so many people have enjoyed Outlander, I am kind of missing to get into a big series of chunksters since finishing the latest George R.R. Martin novel :) I mainly got City of Dark Magic because Christine really liked it and also it's set in PRAGUE, the city which I am obsessed with and will be travelling to really soon this summer. So I will try to get through the slow start, but thanks for the warning :)
DeleteI haven't read any Kinsolver novels but I'd really like to. Good luck with your goals, I hear Outlander is good as well! Enjoy your reading. Here are my Bout of Books Read-a-thon Goals and updates if you'd like to stop by.
ReplyDeleteI was intimidated by Kingsolver at first, but now discovered that her text is quite accessible. Thank you, good luck to you too and I'll be checking out your Readathon progress :)
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