"She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in."
After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Read-a-thon Hour 10 Update
Reading Now: The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler alternating with Dear Bully Ed. by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones
It's been __91__ pages and __109__ reading minutes since my last update.
Total Time Spent Reading: 3 hours 50 minute
Cumulative Pages Read: 181
Books Completed: 1 - Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed
Eating?: Triscuits, a piece of blueberry custard pie, glass of water (gotta stay hydrated!)
Very happy with my decision to alternate The Future of Us with Dear Bully. Actually, I've been going much heavier on The Future of Us, though. At first, I thought the tiny print in the ARC was going to be an issue, but the story of two high schoolers in 1996 discovering the Facebook pages of their future selves grabbed me, and I stopped noticing the print so much.
All the early internet nostalgia is so funny. It's hard to believe how much things have changed technology-wise since we dialed-up and installed that free for so many hours AOL for the first time! I can just barely remember my mom telling me to get off the internet because people might be trying to call on the phone. I'm kind of filled with nostalgia and stuff except for, uh, that really slow dial-up internet and the really slow computer I had to go with it... Glad things are speedier now or Readathon cheerleading would be a huge drag!
Speaking of cheerleading, I'm off to do some.
Read on, my friends!
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BLUEBERRY CUSTARD PIIIIE? Oh yum...I want some!! Glad you're enjoying the readathon so far!!
WHY IS THERE NOT A PICTURE OF THIS PIE. I'm asking.
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