Day 5: Friday, May 14th

 10:00 am

Todays blog is going to be pretty boring, as my goal by the end of Tuesday next week is to read through "The Water Dancer". So, I will be spending the next few days reading. I am still going to check in every hour to give how many pages I've read and such. My goal for today (which might be a long shot) is to finish the first section of the novel, which is divided up into three parts. We'll see!

11:00 am

I decided that I'm going to read in increments and every time I finish a nightly reading, I will go into my Google Document and write down discussion topics for that class after the reading. I just finished the first section so I am going to brainstorm now. 

12:00 pm

I am still reading, nothing really exciting to report. I'm really liking the book, it's definitely not what I expected but is definitely keeping me interested. I might not finish as much as I wanted to today, but I still have a few hours left so who knows.

1:00 pm

Today hasn't been a super productive day for me. I've been really tired and am having trouble staying motivated. So far I have only read three nights worth of reading in three hours, but maybe I'm just being hard on myself. I might try to put in an extra hour today to make up for my lack if productivity, but I am not sure yet. At least the book is good!

3:00 pm

I had lost track of time reading and forgot to check in at 2:00 pm, but I am going to call it a day. Today wasn't very exciting, but I made progress in the book. I put in 5 hours today, and that brings my total time up to 22 hours so far. Tomorrow I will reading some more, but probably not for as long. See you then!


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