Day One Hundred and Twenty
Waugh Abroad Page: 1063 Finished
Northanger Abbey Page: 130
I finished Waugh and intended to work on finishing Genji which has been languishing. But Northanger Abbey came in the mail today and reminded me that our new book club is supposed to be starting Thursday and I needed to read for it. Fortunately Austen’s novel is only about 200 pages long so I’ll easily be done with it but for a moment I panicked.
Today was my sister Quinn’s birthday and we threw a party for her this evening at Veritas. Supposedly it had a grand theme; she’s single so it was supposed to be an “Old Maid” party. She got lots of gag gifts and we ate pints of Ben & Jerry’s but other than that it was just a typical party…lots of people gabbing. As usual I ended up just watching the boys upstairs and didn’t get to visit much. Alex gets hyper pretty easily with the noise and sugar flying around but EmBee and Cole were there so we did have one nice long visit. Alex took a header off a chair too ending the night with a nice long screaming fit. Poor kid. He and Luc are both sleeping peacefully now so I’m off to sleep too.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Mandi,
I am still concerned about you! I so want to see you accomplish this goal. How are you keeping track of what you have read, what is left to read, and how your page count is going? Is there someway for all of us cheering you on to be able to see that?
I think this project is so worthy and yet it is hard because of your responsibilities. And then there is just living life…like parties and such. But I worry that as more time goes on, and we never know what will happen tomorrow or next week or next month, oh, I just don’t want to see you fall behind. I would feel so much better if you were 500 pages ahead, you know, build a cushion! Just want you to know I am cheering you on!
April 30th, 2008 at 7:09 am
GASP! It’s not starting THIS Thursday is it? I haven’t even purchased my copy yet … sigh.
And the party theme was the best. Ever.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Cathy, I keep track of my page count, daily average and completed books over on “The List” page. It’s third button from the left up there ^ I update it daily. I’m behind right now. My daily average is about 195pages but it should be 217. I’ve finished 61 books but should be done with about 66 by now. In total I’m 2,618 pages behind
That’s not irrecoverable though…if I go into hiding for a couple of days I could catch up…
And thanks for the encouragement…don’t give up on me!
April 30th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I will not give up on you! After I read about this project in the Statesman, I called you because I was so impressed. I just want to see you get somewhere above your daily page count. I know it is hard but see what you can do to make up where you are behind! I want you to do this so much!