24in48 Readaton: July 2019 Update #1

HOURS SINCE READATHON START: 13 hours 57 minutes
HOURS READ: 5 hours 47 minutes

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING:
I’d been hoping to get more reading done this morning, but between the heat and my allergies I’ve already had to take a nap. That being said I’m half done with ‘Women Talking’ and almost done with the audiobook I picked up, ‘Among the Missing’. I’m enjoying ‘Women Talking’ a lot, although I’m not surprised, I do love Toew’s writing, but ‘Among the Missing’ isn’t exactly what I’d expected. It’s holding my attention but I can’t say I’d recommend it.

I realized the other day that I was definitely going to need more audiobooks for this weekend and that I probably wasn’t going to be able to get my hands on a copy of ‘The Echo Killing’ so for that moment when I would otherwise panic checkout the first book I saw, a list of other options: Muslim Girl by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh and Born Both by Hida Viloria, not to mention I do have a couple of other half started audiobooks languishing somewhere if I decide to dig those out.

TITLE	TOTAL P.	DONE	START PT	END PT	% READ	P. READ
Women Talking* (Miriam Toews)	216	N	0		51%
Among the Missing (Morag Joss)	255 / 10:11	N	0	8:14

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