Book: False Value
Page: 432
Which is: The end!
Lead/Lag: –136
Time Spent (today): 1hour 42mins
Time Spent: 11hours 40mins
Pages Remaining: 1652 (27% complete)
Favourite Character: Peter
Apologies for not uploading this sooner. Day 8 is correct in terms of the stats and when I did the reading but we’re nearly a week later when I’m actually writing this. I could hunt for a cool moment and quote but honestly none are fresh in my mind so I’m leaving them.
In the end this turned out to be an OK-not-great book. There was a big confrontation and resolution at the end but it wasn’t as exciting or satisfying as I’d hoped. We got another bit of on-going story that felt shoe-horned in. But we also got a bit of universe-expanding lore that’s interesting.
Meta: So I finished this book and after the disappointment of not reading for a day I was cautiously happy and so I decided to swap out my next book (Thud!) for something I knew I had no reservations about (a re-read of The Bishop’s Jaegers). Which I promptly read one chapter of and haven’t picked up since.
So I’m calling it: this project is officially over. I either failed and only read two books, or I succeeded but redefined the goal half-way through. I don’t think it really gave me the feeling I was looking for which I nostalgically imagined when I re-read those HP posts. But who knows when I look back in a few more years maybe I’ll get it then.
I do hope to not leave it so long until my next blog update, but I won’t be trying to do every day again for a while. And I will keep reading, sporadically.