[Bugs Bunny] "He don’t know me very well, do he? [/BB] 
I’m currently on page 316 of The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, so slightly past the midpoint. I’m deeply engrossed in the story, but life has really interfered with my reading time lately. (Jeez, I’m bleeding adverbs today).
I read for pleasure, so have little compunction about finishing what I start. If I’m not grooving on something, it’s ditched. I quit Heart of Darkness just a few pages from the end. I’m a rebel, you can’t change me!
I usually have 3-4 books going at a time, and I read over 100 a year, so you can’t draw a conclusion from my page number. For example, my current books are
This book doesn’t seem to have reliable page numbers, but I am at the part where the pages begin to ripple and bulge.
Nah, just joshin’. I just started a murder mystery involving Edgar Allan Poe called On Night’s Shore. I am on page 8.
I’m on page 415 (of 576) of The Lincoln Highway. It’s for my book club, and I’m going to finish this bastard if it kills me. Towles’ book A Gentleman in Moscow is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I wanted to love this one, but it is a boring, pointless, wordy slog.
I’m on page 7 of the 3rd short story of Dorothy Parker’s Here, Lies. Can’t figure out how to get this ebook to display a page count for the book as a whole, but I’ll guess it’s about page 37 or so.
Heh. All these years I’ve just been occasionally, accidentally, tapping that corner I guess.
I am on page 12 of “Grant”, by Ron Chernow.
The book has 1104 pages.
1092 to go.
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It took me many, many years and I finally happened to notice the Kindle thing.
Since “likelihood of finishing the book” was mentioned, I’ll report here that just a few minutes ago, I finished my aforementioned 152/231 book.
The box was labeled “WW2 books.” Which, in a manner of speaking, isn’t completely wrong. Perhaps the collection was meant to be there all along.
I’m on Disk 3 of 15.
I know, The Four Winds is a bit long. Hope I can get through it…
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Notes:
I need to work out more. That’s where I get most of my listening done.
I might have to take a break and listen to A Carnival of Snackery (Diaries, 2003–2020) by David Sedaris. If my hold at the library comes up sooner than I’d expected. It’s read by Tracy Ullmann!
Oh, and I will definitely take a day off to finish Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche. It’s delightful, as is the Enola film.
Just following up my original post to report that I have now in fact read Orange Is The New Black to the finish.
I’m thinking now of resuming Ulysses or The Count of Monte Cristo. I had read a bit over 200 pages of the former in 1989, and 500 of the latter in 2005. War and Peace is probably a more realistic possibility. Since it has exactly 365 chapters, it lends itself perfectly to a chapter-a-day plan. It’s true I only ever kept to it through January 18, but I guess I can manage two a day for a couple of weeks.
Page 212 of Edmund Bryant’s book on the Yoga Sutras (Patanjali and other sages’ commentary). Sutra 2:16- “Suffering that has yet to come can be avoided.” This is the chapter on Practice. A lot of statements about action/karma, if you want to be really general about it. Yoga philosophy! It’s fascinating (and sometimes way over my head.) This is a tough book to dive into and stick with. : ) I have to read a couple of pages and literally walk away so I don’t get too caught up or dull.
Also on page 64 of Rise & Run.(Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky). It’s basically a coffee table cookbook made by 2 runners, one pro and the other a nutritionist mom. It’s geared to runners but I love the recipes and their ideas about healthy eating habits and noting what works for you. I’ve never been excited about cookbooks so this is the one, I guess that speaks to me.