7:00 a.m. Showered, shampooed, and ready to don my official T-shirt for this perfect Read-A-Thon weather:

As for snacks, there’s pumpkin pie left from Thanksgiving.

First three hours:
“Devotional” from

Listened to audiobook Lord Jim


This book just gets better as it goes along.
At the end of the third hour, I took a break and read the Sunday edition of The Houston Chronicle. Reading it from cover to cover on Sunday afternoons is a personal tradition.
I fixed a huge chef salad for lunch with fresh pineapple slices for dessert.
Back to Lord Jim, and glad I didn’t eat a heavy lunch, for the story went on and on. Sure Jim had a moral dilemma on his hands, but the author agonizes over it as much as Jim does. Finally put this aside for the day.
Around 1:00 or 1:30 I read and thought about Cleo Wade’s Heart Talk, short memes, quotes, and short prose pieces about “Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life.” I found myself writing down several quotes and copying them in my quote notebook.
I decided to try the audiobooks on the Cloud Library while I began to clear away Thanksgiving decorations and replace them with Christmas ones. I didn’t get a lot accomplished, but I did enjoy the book I had selected, purely on the basis of color–pink! Pink is the next color in my Celebration of Color Challenge, so I chose:

After nearly an hour had passed getting into this book, I took out my Kindle and read on the third book of the series about the Dali Lama’s Cat. I made a dent in what I had left to read. I find that I can read several books simultaneously if they are as diverse as the ones I encountered today.
By then it was time to fix turkey sandwiches for supper, and I got caught up in

season 2 of Virgin River, watching one and a half episodes before I got back to reading.
I read two chapters of Cowgirl Smarts

Next I reviewed my notes on Vesper Flights and wrote a draft of a review I will post soon on this blog

To end the Read-A-Thon, a twelve hour, not twenty-four-hour Read-A-Thon, I went back to Heart Talk to end the evening on an inspirational note.


Well, I didn’t make 24 hours, but 12 hours helped me make a dent in my TBR, logged in a black-covered book and started a pink-covered book for my Celebration of Color Challenge, and started the first book in The Classic Club challenge sponsored by Readerbuzz.
I’d call that a successful, most enjoyable day of reading.

Sounds good. I think I should have a 48 hour readathon
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Sounds ambitious!
I only made twelve hours before life got in the way.
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Wow, you had a very productive day!! I finished just 1 book and 2 chapters of another.
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You did well! I didn’t FINISH anything! LOL
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Yes, but you read quite a huge variety! I finished a book called ‘Wonder’ by R.J Palacio, it was more or less 300 pages, I think. Thank you for hosting this read-athon!
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LOVED that book, especially the teacher’s “precepts.”
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I love that you read from so many different sources throughout the day. I binge watched Virgin River 2 on Friday, loved it. Are you going to do these readathons regularly, Rae?
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Usually I do them when my stacks of books threaten to fall over and crush me.
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😁🤣📚📚
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I don’t think it’s that important to finish anything. I think it’s fun to spend some solid time reading. And look at all the great reading you did.
BTW, Cowgirl Smarts definitely looks like it was made for Powerful Women Readers.
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Oh my, yes Cowgirl Smarts is about some powerful women.
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