24in48 Readathon - Readathon Check-in #4

HOURS SINCE READATHON START: 18 hours 29 minutes

HOURS READ: 19 hours 44 minutes

PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED: 146 pages / 26 hours 29 minutes listened (973 pages)

FINISHED BOOKS/READINGS: The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg, The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg, The Mortal Animal Chapter 13 (16 pages), Principle 4 in Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer (4 pages), How Pleasure Works, Chapter 1 (24 pages), The Foundations of Buddhism Chapter 6 (29 pages)

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING:

I read a chunk of ‘An Echo in the Bone’ but I’ve realized I have no reliable way of calculating how many pages I’ve read in what is a 6,000+ page omnibus ebook edition. I’m still stubbornly at 85% so there’s no way for me to tell if I’ve read 10 pages or 100. I’ve also picked up the audiobook of ‘The Red Word’ and I’m finding it easier to get through now than I did a week ago so there’s some hope I’ll finish it or be close to finishing it by the time I hit the 24 hour mark around 11.

Fantasies of Identification 52% (started at 36%)

The Red Word: 4 hours and 51 minutes / 11 hours 47 mins

An Echo in the Bone (omnibus volume starts at 85%)

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