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Monday, January 30, 2012

A Winter's Respite Read-a-Thon Wrap Up

A Winter's Respite Read-a-Thon 2012 was hosted by Michelle at The True Book Addict.

Currently reading:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

on page 102

on page 59
15 pages read

Completed:

336 pages	304 pages	last 154 pages
438 pages	352 pages	272 pages

Total pages read during read-a-thon: 1,807 (the page totals of the books don't represent pages read, as some were started prior to the read-a-thon)
Total books read during read-a-thon: 5 1/4 (15% of Bleak House, 85% of Call Me Princess, and 1/4 of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet)

Although I didn't participate in the mini-challenges (just a LOT going on at my house this week!), I DID read a lot more than I usually would have! So, yay, I had fun!

1 comments:

Michelle @ The True Book AddictJanuary 30, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Great job, as usual, Julie. =O) I'm impressed that you read so many when you were also busy. I hope you enjoyed it and I know I can probably count on you to join me for the Spring one at Castle Macabre. I hope so.

I emailed you the addresses for the winners of the books you donated. Thanks again for being so generous!
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