Peace of Brain

Summary I had a great time doing Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon! I was able to stay up the entire 24 hours but I was surprised to find that...

I spent the remainder of the readathon reading Sharp . I'm a little over a third of the way through the book and I'm already hooked...

I managed to finish Crime and Punishment during hour 19. I started the day less than half-way through the book so I'm pretty happy to ...

For the last three hours I have been reading Crime and Punishment . I have only 36 pages left. I'm looking forward to finishing it in ...

During hour 13 I finished "The Gate of Flying Knives" in Sanctuary . I then switched to reading Crime and Punishment again and f...

I decided for a little bit of a change of pace and read some of Peter Gay's Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and...

For hours 7 through 9 I continued to read the same two books: Crime and Punishment and Sanctuary . In Crime and Punishment I've mana...

I spent hours four through six reading Crime and Punishment . I also took a little break to eat lunch and chat with my 12 year old son. Li...

So for hour three I decided to switch to something a little easier to read. I picked up Sanctuary edited by Robert Lynn Asprin from a book...

I continued to read Crime and Punishment . I only managed 26 pages, but I did reach the end of part III. Unfortunately, I'm already fe...

So, the first hour is done. I read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is a book that I was already reading. I only managed...

What fine part of the world are you reading from today? I am reading from just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. Wh...

I'm so excited to do the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon again after missing it for two years. I've been looking forward to it ever s...

I almost fell asleep during hour 23, but I made it! I spent about 17 of the last 24 hours reading. In that time I finished seven books: ...

I finished the last 11 pages of Kim Addonizio's Lucifer at the Starlite this hour before returning to K. E. Mills' Witches Incorpor...

I read 49 pages of poetry from Kim Addonizio's Lucifer at the Starlite . To stay awake I read while pacing around my kitchen. I will p...

In hour 22 I continued to struggle to stay awake. Even though I swear I must have read more, I managed only 18 pages of Witches Incorporate...

I read 26 pages from K. E. Mills Witches Incorporated during this hour, the twenty-first. I am struggling to stay awake. Walking around k...

I read the last 33 pages of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt . It was a short play that left me, well, in doubt about what really happened....

I finished Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers during this hour. It wasn't the poor ending that I thought was coming, but I wouldn't ...

58 more pages of The Leftovers . I should finish it in the next hour, hour 19. A very well written book, but I don't think I am going ...

47 more pages from The Leftovers in this hour. I am starting to get a little tired now. I've made it much farther than I thought I wo...

59 more pages of The Leftovers . It is still an intriguing read, but I am starting to wonder where the author is going with the story. Jes...

62 more pages of The Leftovers this hour. My eyes are starting to sting a little, but I'm not really sleepy yet. I hope this isn'...

This hour I read 65 more pages of The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. It is quite good.

This hour, hour 13, I started The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. I read the first 32 pages.

I didn't do any reading this hour. Instead I had a nice dinner with my wife, son, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law. Even so, I am fee...

During hour 11 I read the last 91 pages of the book Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara. A very strange tale of a woman's relations...

I finished my third book of the readathon during this tenth hour: Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt. It was pretty good, but not what I expect...

Another 39 pages in Swerve . I hope to finish the book in the next hour, I only have 21 pages to go. But, my family has returned from the ...

I read 39 pages from Swerve this hour. I am almost done with it, so I am going to continue reading Swerve in the next hour, hour nine. I...

During hour seven I finished Boris Pelevin's The Yellow Arrow and continued reading Stephen Greenblat's Swerve for a total of 62 p...

My family went out to attend the Scottish Games, so the house is quiet. I did better this hour, reading 35 pages of Swerve . I will go bac...

I only read three pages of Swerve this hour. My in-laws showed up so I did some socializing and ate my lunch. But, I'm ready to get b...

I finished my first book this hour, The Lover's Dictionary . It was a very clever and interesting novel that I thoroughly enjoyed. I t...

Took a small break early in the hour so I only read 36 pages of Swerve this hour. In hour 4 I will be back to reading The Lover's Dict...

During the second hour of the readathon I read 138 pages from David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary , a surprisingly interesting n...

Hour 1 is now "in the books." (Please forgive the bad pun.). I read 47 pages of Stephen Greenblatt's Swerve in this hour. ...

I am going to do Dewey's Readathon today. I have been going back and forth over whether to participate or not. A couple of weeks ago I...

I read a whopping 12 books in March. This put me back on track to read 100+ books this year. I wanted to read more poetry, which I did, re...

I finished eight books in February. One more than in January, but not enough if I want to reach my goal of 100 books read in 2012. My favo...

I finished seven books in January. This is below my target of nine or more books a month. Reading less than nine books a month will leave ...