24in48 Readathon - Readathon Check-in #3

HOURS SINCE READATHON START: 39 hours 23 minutes
HOURS READ: 16 hours 43 minutes
PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED: 55 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)

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING:
It took me forever to wake up this morning so that I’d stop feeling like I’d fall asleep listening to ‘The Lost Boy’, but I managed to finish up before I went down to make a late lunch. I’ve read quite a bit more of ‘Fantasies of Identification’ than I’d thought I would this afternoon, but I’ve hit a less dense section of the book so it’s going smoothly for now. I’m hoping to get another chunk read and to finish the chapter of ‘The Foundations of Buddhism’ I’m still working my way through before I get too tired and switch back to an audiobook which will probably be ‘The Red Word’ just because I have it checked out. I’m hoping also to start ‘An Echo in the Bone’ but I’m starting to get a bit antsy about wanting to get stuff done so I may end up with another audiobook just so I can be up and moving for a bit.

The Foundations of Buddhism Chapter 6: p. 15 / 29
Fantasies of Identification 43% (started at 36%)

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