Update 4 (end of hour 8 numbers at end of 9)

EDIT: Ack! I just noticed, an hour later, that apparently I didn’t publish this post. The figures are all an hour old.

My, time is passing quickly! I had a lovely dinner (prepared by my husband) of coq a vin. With mashed potatoes, of course! Yum!

Currently reading: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Pages read since last update: 118
Running total of pages read since I started: 376

Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since I started: 295 minutes

Mini-challenge this hour: I completed Dewey’s Hour 9 challenge, of getting some fresh air, just now. It’s nice! We’ve had quite a bit of rain today (nice for reading!), so I carefully checked out the backyard flowers just now — hydrangeas, daylilies, roses, clematis, sweet pea vine — as well as the newly planted herbs.

Prize you’ve won: none yet
Books completed since I started: 1: Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Comments about this hour: I finally feel like I’m making a bit of progress on my reading. 🙂 I’m really enjoying this book, my first by Alexander McCall Smith. I’m loving the African setting! When I first picked it up, I was reading in my head in the cadence that it seems Africans have (the ones I met anyway, when I visited, although where I sojourned to was quite far from the book’s Botswana setting). A strong female lead!