Saturday, April 21, 2012

Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon begins!

Good morning! Or whatever greeting is appropriate in your time zone! Here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is 7:00, which is not a time I like, but it's ok because I went to bed early! Kind of!

For those of you who don't know what's going on here, I'm participating in Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, which means I'll be reading (with breaks only for blogging my updates) for the next 24 hours straight!

My goals for this read-a-thon are the following:
  • Don't fall asleep! (Last time I fell asleep, but only for about 15 minutes, so I'm almost there!)
  • Read 1200 pages (More than my goal last time, but less than I actually read, so doable!)
  • Squeeze a couple of mini challenges.
  • Do more commenting! Last time I just read other people's blogs and didn't comment enough.
  • Don't get a tummy ache from poor choices of snack foods.

My reading list, in no particular order:
  • Charmed Season 9 Volume 1 by Paul Ruditis (graphic novel) (150 pages)
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman (162 pages)
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl (225 pages)
  • The Twits by Roald Dahl (76 pages)
  • Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke (155 pages)
  • The Dark Victorian: Risen by Elizabeth Watasin (e-book) (97 pages)
  • Bandwidth by Angus Morrison (e-book) (232 pages)
  • Anything else on my shelves that I feel like reading!
My book pile is so wimpy this time!



In the last read-a-thon, I just updated one long post every two hours, because I was blogging on my genealogy blog and didn't want to annoy my readers with a whole bunch of off-topic posts. But this time, I have a book blog! So I'll be posting separate posts every hour, and flooding everyone's feed readers. :)

Without further ado, let the reading begin! I'll be starting off with The Twits by Roald Dahl, because it's early and Roald Dahl is delightful.

4 comments:

  1. Love your goals! We have tons of snacks but I'm not sure if they complement each other. Oh well :)

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    1. I've been doing well on them so far! I'm loving these short books I picked out. :)

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  2. Dahl is a great choice for a read-a-thon; I wonder how many of his books one could read in a day?!

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    1. Quite a few, I'm guessing! It took me under an hour to read The Twits. We'll see how long Henry Sugar takes me, since it's quite a bit longer.

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