Readathon Update #5

Hour: 16

Time: 11:00pm EST

Read/listened to since last update: A few chapters of The Reader and almost all of Something Missing

Brief thoughts on what I’ve read: Something Missing is monopolizing my time because it has gotten extremely good. I will be recommending this one, so watch out!

Other Readathon-related activities: Minichallenges: Title Word Scramble (see below for answers!), Wordle (see below for my Wordle!)

Where I stand overall:

• The Phantom Tollbooth: 20 / 20 chapters read (DONE!)
• The Reader: 19 / 46 chapters read
• A Most Improper Magic: 0 / 21 chapters read
• The Report (10 chapters done before Readathon): 10 / 48 chapters read
• Something Missing: 13 / 17 chapters read
• Interpreter of Maladies: 0 / 9 stories read
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt: 0 / 14 essays read
• An Abundance of Katherines: 0 / 19 chapters read
• A Thousand Splendid Suns: 0 / 51 chapters read
• Al Capone Shines My Shoes (audiobook) (5 hrs 40 mins done before Readathon): 7 hrs 51 mins / 7 hrs 51 mins listened to (DONE!)
• Fahrenheit 451 (audiobook): 0 hrs 0 mins / 5 hrs 8 mins listened to

For a little about why I chose each book as well as the authors, please see my initial book selection post.
For an explanation of my update format, reading time, etc., please see my initial Saturday post.

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Title Word Scramble Minichallenge:

1. Firefly Lane
2. East of Eden
3. Water for Elephants
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. The Great Gatsby
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
7. The Art of Racing the Rain
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
11. A Wrinkle in Time
12. The Polar Express
13. Love Walked In
14. Where the Wild Things Are
15. The Shining
16. Goodnight Moon
17. Interview with a Vampire
18. The Secret Life of Bees
19. The Search
20. The Help

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Wordle Minichallenge:

Here’s my Wordle based on my post about Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader: