Read-a-thon Update -3:00 pm

What everyone's doing: Absolute silence for 60 minutes. Two of us are reading, one is beading.

Reading: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld. 

Pages read this hour: 50 pages 

First sentence of second paragraph on this page: Was  he amused? Perturbed? Bewildered? It was impossible to know. "Indeed," he replied.

What I’ve been eating: Two York patties. 

Reading position/location: At the table, sitting upright on a wooden chair.