Good morning everyone! In about 30 minutes, Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon begins. I LOVE the readathon but I am going to be sitting this one out. It’ll be the first one I’ve missed since 2009 (I think). We have guests in town. And, lets face it, Evan would make reading all day difficult (he’s so demanding!) anyway.
So good luck to everyone participating. I will probably pop on twitter now and then to cheer y’all on and vicariously join the fun.
So I went to bed at midnight. Just as I expected I would. I no longer try to stay up late. It takes too long to recover. And I’m not sure “I was up all night reading” is a valid excuse for not showing up at work tomorrow.
But, I managed to do pretty well in my 16-hour readathon. My best readathon ever actually. I finished 4 books and read 1,154 pages. I was surprised at how long it took me to read Triangles (I finished the first three books in the same amount of time) but I’m still happy with my end result. I’ve never read four books in one day before.
End-of-Event Meme
Thanks organizers for a terrific event once again!
12 hours down. Technically half-way but I know I’m not in it for much longer.  I am still working my way through Traingles which, although it is a novel in verse, is not going as quickly as I predicted. I imagine I’m out once I finish it.
No comments on my last post but I’ll keep posting anyway. I thought I would do the midpoint meme but I don’t actually see one up yet. So here are my stats again:
Hour: Beginning Hour 13
Current Book: Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
Mood: Tired. Hitting my final stretch here.
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 898 (keep in mind the pictures and the verse)
Reading speed: 74.8 pages/hour
How’s everyone else doing?
Eight hours down. (I like the number 4 so that’s how why I post here every four hours).  I’ve finished The Phantom Tollbooth; I Heart You, You Haunt Me; and Goodbye, Chunky Rice.  Here are my stats:
Hour: Beginning Hour 9
Current Book: Triangles by Ellen Hopkins (this one’s in verse but will take me a little while)
Mood: Happy. Finishing 3 books in 8 hours is a great feeling even if they were all sort of cheats.
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 668 (keep in mind the pictures and the verse)
Reading speed: 83.5 pages/hour
What’s been your favorite book so far?
Hour: Beginning Hour 5
Current Book: I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
Mood: Sleepy (yes, already)
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 256 (but there were pictures…)
Reading speed: 64 pages/hour
How’s everyone else doing?
Good morning all. Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-Thon is here and Ben and I are up early for cinnamon rolls and a day of reading. The universe is on my side this time – Michigan is on a bye week and I don’t have a race in the morning (previous Readathon obstacles).
Throughout the day, I will update you with this information:
Hour:
Current Book:
Mood:
Books Read:
Pages Read:
Reading speed:
Mini-Challenges Completed:
I am starting off the morning with The Phantom Tollbooth (for the very first time!). Happy reading, everyone.
Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon is tomorrow and I am so excited that I am breaking my blog silence to share my reading piles with you. There is still time to sign up if you’d like to participate. I promise you, it is more fun than you would expect.
This year I took a very short-and-easy approach when picking out my books because even a regular YA novel will take me 6 hours and that gets a little frustrating when everyone else is finishing book after book and I’m still reading my first one.
The first pile (the books I think I will definitely read):
The second pile (the backup in case I feel like something else aka the library YA pile):
my books. my life. 