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Rumpelteazer · 08-31-2020, 06:03 AM

I had an okay month this August. I had hoped to be able to finish my current book before the end of the month, but that isn't happening.

I did finish my goal of reading 52 books, I'm hoping to read at least 75 by the end of the year now. The average length of the books I read is 364, which is only a couple of pages under my average, so that isn't too bad either. I was able to read 2522 pages and seven books. Mostly because I was house sitting and I didn't take any other hobbies with me. On the other hand we had an eighteen day heatwave, sitting still and reading was one of the few things that was tolerable to do, but the reading was slow because it was hard to concentrate.

My favourite read was David Hewson's The House of Dolls, first book in the Pieter Vos series. I put off starting this series for a long while, since I'm Dutch and regularly go to Amsterdam and often non Dutch authors writing about the Netherlands often doesn't ring true to me. But I really liked this book and it felt it portrayed Amsterdam is a realistic way.

In the next week or so I should be able to finish listening to Stephen King's It, I count the pages of the paperback towards my reading goal. That's over 1100 pages, so that's nice for my page count in September.

08-31-2020, 06:03 AM	#158
Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,359 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	I had an okay month this August. I had hoped to be able to finish my current book before the end of the month, but that isn't happening. I did finish my goal of reading 52 books, I'm hoping to read at least 75 by the end of the year now. The average length of the books I read is 364, which is only a couple of pages under my average, so that isn't too bad either. I was able to read 2522 pages and seven books. Mostly because I was house sitting and I didn't take any other hobbies with me. On the other hand we had an eighteen day heatwave, sitting still and reading was one of the few things that was tolerable to do, but the reading was slow because it was hard to concentrate. My favourite read was David Hewson's The House of Dolls, first book in the Pieter Vos series. I put off starting this series for a long while, since I'm Dutch and regularly go to Amsterdam and often non Dutch authors writing about the Netherlands often doesn't ring true to me. But I really liked this book and it felt it portrayed Amsterdam is a realistic way. In the next week or so I should be able to finish listening to Stephen King's It, I count the pages of the paperback towards my reading goal. That's over 1100 pages, so that's nice for my page count in September.