Richard B. Wright's Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard Phyllis Bruce - Harper Collins, 2010 I was so annoyed with myself as a reader for not properly appreciating Richard Wright's October; I knew it was very well-done and it was simply my preternatural attachment to his earlier novel, Clara Callan, that interfered with
Anita Silvey's 500 Great Books for Teens Houghton Mifflin, 2006 As the reading year stretches on, I can't help but start thinking about the reading-year-to-come. (I'm not proud of my wandering reader's eye. But I've accepted it because there are more serious flaws to eradicate first!) So this time of
I was planning to keep all our Read-A-Thon updates in a single refresh-able post, but even I got tired of scrolling down that far. And, okay, the fact that I accidentally deleted the whole thing in a single blurry-eyed moment? It required precious reading time be spent reconstructing. So the
As the Read-A-Thon day unfolds, we'll be including more than one update in a single refresh-able post. We're hoping to reduce the Reader Traffic for non-Read-A-Thon-ers. Update from BIP and Mister BIP, Hour Three: Title of book read: Pippi Longstocking (BIP read 114 pages of it) Amount of time spent reading:
8am: Started reading Pippi Longstocking, my first Read-A-Thon read. 8:15: Taking break (hoping this isn't indicative of day's attention span). This is my first Read-A-Thon. The wee BIPs are not home for the weekend (but I'm sure they'll want to participate in the next R-A-T). We'll be taking notes, mentally
