Yesterday I left off reading Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley and boy was it not going well.
The next book I read, which I started and finished while reading the aforementioned book was Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
Coraline is one of those books that I've been meaning to read forever. It was popular when I was still in secondary school and then when the movie version of it was released. I always like watching Coraline around Halloween and every time I question why I've never read the book. Now I can finally say I have. Right off the bat, I'm way too old for this book and not the intended audience. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed it. I feel like I would have loved Coraline had I discovered it around the same time that I was going through my intense Roald Dahl phase. I, of course, finished Coraline well before midnight and that added 162 pages to my page count.
Since I spent most of the day reading or avoiding Season of Storms I didn't get a chance to read anymore books before midnight came around.
Despite that setback I still manged to read a total of 415 pages for the day! Now it's time for the best part: looking back to see how many books I read and determining a final page total. In the span of a week, I managed to finish a total of 9 books and 2891 pages!!
I'm pretty sure this is my most successful Summer Read-a-thon challenge to date and you'll get to look forward to a rather lengthy July wrap-up post at the end of the month. I figure if the summer continues with this trend of awesome reading, my TBR pile will finally start to disappear. In case you're curious about some of the stuff I have in the works for future blog post during the month of August, I'm currently working on the last Jane Eyre Watch-a-thon post, which is honestly a long time coming. I've also started reading for a new blog series that I hope to release in the next couple of weeks, but I don't want to share what it is just yet. I want to keep some of the surprise alive. All I'm going to say is that it involves re-reading a lot of books. Something I never do. I hope you've enjoyed hearing about this reading challenge and you'll stick around to see what else I have in store!