Moby Dick Read-A-Long Introductory Post

As you can see, I have entered in on another read-a-long of a yet another long book.  But fortunately the chapters, while there are a lot of them, are fairly short.  I know its nuts of me to read another long book while I am still reading something like War & Peace, but considering that it is on my Classic Club list, I thought I would give it a go.  And hey, its half the size of War & Peace.  Reading in Bed has more information on her blog and you can by going to Reading in Bed to sign up.

Here is the schedule:

• Start date and Introductory Post: Monday, May 20th, 2013. 
• Etymology + Chapters 1-15: May 27th
• Chapters 16-30: June 3
• Chapters 31-45: June 10
• Chapters 46-60: June 17
• Chapters 61-75: June 24
• Chapters 76-90: July 1
• Chapters 91-105: July 8
• Chapters 106-120: July 15
• Chapters 121-136 + Epilogue : July 22

I hope you can join me as I read this.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (May 20)

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a fun weekly meme that is hosted by Shelia at Book Journey, in which we share what we've read and reviewed and what we plan on reading in the coming week.

What I have reviewed this week:
I didn't review anything this past week, but I did complete two books.  I am hoping to have reviews available by next week.

Books I am planning on reading this week:
• The Help
• War & Peace
• Moby Dick
• Rebecca
• Order of the Phoenix
• Mary Coin

What's Up Next:
The Passing Bells

#boutofbooks 7.0 Wrap-up

What a week.  While I did get some of my goals completed, there were some that were left unfinished and that's fine.  I got what I wanted to get completed for Moby Dick, War & Peace, The House Girl and The Whole Truth, but not much else.

But I did manage to read around 570 pages over the course of the week.  Now off to write reviews of the two books that completed...

#boutofbooks 7.0 Update No.4

I don't know why, but I just couldn't get myself to do any sort of reading on Friday.  I think it was partly due to the fact that I had read a lot on Thursday and I was just tired.  But for whatever reason I was able to get a lot done today.  Managed to get the section for War & Peace completed that I wanted to get completed.

I honestly don't know how many pages I did get completed, as I don't know what page I started on in my paper copy of the book, but based on my last check in on Goodreads, I read about 71 pages today, which seems about accurate.  I don't know what I am going to read tomorrow, but I am probably am going to start Moby Dick.

#boutofbooks 7.0 Update No.3

Did not read on Wednesday, hence the reason for no post.  But my reading yesterday evening and for the first half hour of Friday was great, as I was able to read 179 pages of the book and complete The House Girl.   I hope to have a review up later this weekend, probably sometime tomorrow.

Today I will likely concentrate on reading War & Peace, at least until start watching some movie by Ben Affleck that came out last fall (sorry I can't recall the name of the movie at the moment and just want to get to bed!) and get the sixth part completed by Saturday evening.  Hopefully.

Have a great reading day and I will talk to you hopefully by the end of Friday.

#boutofbooks 7.0 Update No.2

Thought today would have been better, but with the things that I had to do today (include voting in the BC Provincial election), I thought that it would be a bit ambitious to get what I wanted to get done actually done.  But the most important thing I got away from today was that I got a bit of momentum going with The House Girl, despite only getting about 49 pages completed.  Here's hoping Wednesday is a bit better.

#boutofbooks 7.0 Update No.1

Wow!  Day 1 is over; only 6 more to go.

I read only one book, The House Girl by Tara Conklin, and read about 45 pages.  I had other things I need to do and watching Big Bang Theory and reading don't exactly go together.  I didn't read a lot due to the fact that I was feeling rather antsy.  I am hoping that by this time tomorrow (10 pm PT) that I have read a bit more, as I am planning on reading a bit more before I go to bed and will incorporate that into tomorrow's update.