I must say, yesterday was rather fruitful in my efforts to become acquainted with the cosy mysteries that I selected to read during this end-part of the Bout! :) So much so, that I completed my mini-goal of reading 20 pages per book! I was quite delighted when I noticed that I had achieved that! :) :) What overwhelming joy to settle into books I’ve dreamt of knowing what was underneath the covers, and here, I am knee-deep in a read-a-thon and getting myself all nestled and warm into stories that perplex and intrigue me all at the same time! Today, I knew would be quite unusual as far as when I could read and when I could log online to take a walkabout the Bout’er blogs! I am still delayed miserably due to fierce thunderstorms that are ravaging my area rather well in the mid-afternoon to early to late evening!! Hard to be online in a blog hop, if your worried that lightning could ground at any moment!! Sighs. I digress, today has been a good day!
I took my ‘sticky’ down for the Bout of Books for most of the day, as I wanted to draw any visitor I might have today to the attention of: The Reading Hour! I explained fully in the post I made what this involves, but in case, you haven’t had the proper chance to see it, this is a scheduled day of ‘reading’ hosted by the Australian libraries and the Loves2Read programme that sponsors The Reading Hour! They even have produced a song, to inspire young children to read! :) I am ever so thankful that I could participate twice! in one day, and spend my ‘two’ hours wrapped up in the life of Fern and Wilbur!! :) :) Instead of writing up a new post, I simply added to the one I had originally written as a way to archive the excitement of the day!
I am holding my head up rather proudly, because today, I am the reader who walks into view, tride and true!! I have recovered the joy of digging into books for the pure and sheer joy of it!! To wander through genres, be as you please, and snuggling into stories that shock you, jolt you, invigorate you, and illume your perspective and mind whilst you hungrily read the pages your consuming! Today, is a day to celebrate!
Saturday – Bemused if there are hours enough, to carve out the time to drink through at least one or two more in time!
Number of Pages Devoured | Out of: Death by Darjeeling: ? | ?; Murder on Monday: ? | ?; Thyme of Death: ? | ? Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness: ? | ? ; The Secret Papers of Madame Olivetti: ? | ? ; Lark Rise to Candleford: ? | ?
Tally of Pages Read Thus Far:
Books in Progress | continuing onward | happily consumed: ? | ? | 1!!
A six word summary of today’s reading:
Favourite Character:
Challenge Participation? [unofficial] Bookish Wishes and Acrostic Book Poem
Bout of Books blogs I visited: Sadly, not a one! :( I had a furious bout of food poisoning mixed with a severe migraine! :( I didn’t even get to read except for The Reading Hour challenge(s), due to the strength of how bad I actually felt and how hard it hit me!
Tick Tock, there goes the clock:
2:55a: [wake up! wake up!] The Reading Hours is nearly upon us! :)
3a-4a: [The Reading Hour] My selection for my two reading hours: “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
5a: [re-entering the dreamscapes!]
10a-1:30p: [writing workshoppe] On the merits of how to realistically insert real-life crime solving techniques and protocols into your mysteries and psychological suspense novels! I was quite happy with the lively lecturer who joyfully discussed his history with the police force and made an impression on detecting and investigating that brought to mind that I true do have a forensic scientist’s heart! I couldn’t help smiling and nodding to myself, realising that I am just like “Abby!” on NCIS, truly, as I was fascinated by all sorts of murmurings that would make most people turn green and ill! I simply focused on the science of it all, rather than on the gore or the horrific! It does help that I grew up in a field adjacent to this one! :)
3p-4p: [mad dash!] My library account was thoroughly in disrepair as I have been so focused and engaged with the Bout, that nearly half the books I had checked out were called back because I never had the proper chance to go in and renew!! I happily carted them back, placed holds on the few I wanted to see boomerang back to me, and rather sleepily went home to pick up Charlotte’s Web!
5p-6p: [reading!!] I might not have been reading my Bout books, but I was reading nonetheless! [The Reading Hour: Part II]
6:30p-?: [reading!] Shh!! I am all wrapped up in my Bout 8.0 Books of Choice!! If I cannot have the hours to be online to visit the lovely Bout’er blogs, I shall make my rounds starting on the morrow and shifting forward into the week AFTER the Bout! As truly, there are only a certain amount of hours one can have to accomplish everything we each hope to do! :) :) I shall get to them as soon as I can, but right now, Lois Meade, China Bayles, Lucy Dillon, Emily Carr, and Laura are calling to me!!
**The above paragraph was not meant to be! I fell quite ill soon after I posted that message of reading bliss — to the brink that I was up all night rather miserable and consumed with food poisoning and a severe migraine on top of it! Nothing was accomplished in other words except the sanity of riding through one of the worst nights that beseeched my ability to yield to the unwellness that afflicted me! This week had been blundered by woeful unwellness, I’ll tell you! :(
Review(s): soon coming!
Daily Bout Musings:
- Declaration of Participation
- Personal Goals and Motivations [archive post of Bout 8.0!]
- Oh, Monday, sweet Monday! [Day One]
- The Ghosts have Arrived! [Day Two]
- Flight of Freedom from the Reign of Terror [Day Three]
- Marching Forward with a Grin on my Face [Day Four]
- Murder Most Cosy [Day Five]
- In Walks the Reader, Tride & True! [Day Six]
All the posts interlinked to *Bout of Books, 8.0* are a work-in-progress post! Therefore, what you read on one visit, might alter/change or be added to by the time you swing back!!
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I’ve never read a cosy mystery, but it is definitely on my to-do list! Sorry to hear you were ill overnight though :-(