Greetings one and all and welcome to my mostly dormant blog! This blog that existed back at the very beginning of Dewey's readathons - it's hard to imagine.
Now we are in a pandemic and it's been years since I've properly done a Deweython, so I'm going to Frankenstein the old blog for the day to post Readathon updates, but I'll also be hanging out over at my Litsy, so please do stop in and say hi if you need a break from all this arduous reading. ;-)
Here's the opening survey:
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
Sunny Danville, PA (wait....it's actually sunny?)
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
I didn't make a proper stack, so I don't have a good answer to this question, but when I was scrolling Libby for a potential audiobook for the day....I found Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone actually available for borrowing....instead of with 6 months' worth of holds on it. So that's kind of a Readathon miracle. I anticipate doing some audio walking and audio cooking to the soothing strains of Harry Potter.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
Not exactly a snack, but I did get myself an order of takeout wings to enjoy for lunch today. Guess I'll be doing some audio eating, too.
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
Hmmm....my name's Megan. I've been blogging and otherwise talking books on the internets since 2007. I live in a small town in Pennyslvania where I work in IT for a hospital system. I guess I'm an essential employee in the age of Covid-19 but in a work from home capacity....and not on the weekends.
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?
I haven't participated since 2015 when my ankle was broken, so I just want to have some fun and get some reading done to kill some more quarantine time. In 2015, I was killing broken ankle time. They're remarkably similar except for how I can at least walk now. Something different? I don't think I'd listened to a single audiobook the last time I readathonned, so audiobooks will be my Readathon something different!
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Updates
Hour 2 Update
Reading Now: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews - a book I had started pre-readathon
It's been __28__ pages and __45__ reading minutes
Total Time Spent Reading: 45
Cumulative Pages Read: 28
Books Completed: 0
Eating?: Very Berry Cheerios - breakfast of champions!
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Hour 6 Update
Reading Now: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
It's been __58__ pages/__51__ listening minutes and __137__ total reading minutes since my last update.
Total Time Spent Reading: 3 hours 2 minutes
Cumulative Pages Read/listening minutes: 86/51
Books Completed: 1 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Eating?: Wheat Thins for stack, then wings, a Bai and chocolate chip cookie for lunch
Etc: I wrapped up A Complicated Kindness which was good but kind of sad. Then I had some lunch and did some tidying up while listening to Harry Potter. Please note, I can't believe how dumb I've been all these years not incorporating audiobooks into my readathons. They're a lifesaver when you want to keep reading but can't use your hands!
Like, you definitely can't use your hands when eating these:
In other news, I tried to use the master list to visit some readers and was disappointed to find most of the ones I randomly picked were people that appeared not to be participating. Guess I'll try again later. My first readathon (*the* first readathon??) I was but a cheerleader, and my inner readathon cheerleader will never die even though the tradition appears to have. I know it's Readathon is huge now and times change and all, but still miss the "official" cheerleading deep in my heart of hearts.
Anybody participating and want a visit, drop me a line!
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Hour 14 Update
Reading Now: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, Full Throttle by Joe Hill
It's been __158__ pages/__92__ listening minutes and __266__ total reading minutes since my last update.
Total Time Spent Reading: 7 hours 28 minutes
Cumulative Pages Read/time listened: 244/2h22m
Books Completed: 2 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, Inside Out by Terry Trueman
Eating?: A salad, more wings, and more chocolate chip cookies. Hey, at least there's a salad in there. It's something. And the wings had celery with, too. ;-)
Etc: I've definitely been updating more often on Litsy, but that I haven't gotten back here for so many hours is a great indication that I've really been absorbed in my reading. In a time where it's been hard to focus on anything, this is amazing.
After lunch, I took Harry Potter for a nice audiowalk, and then spent the rest of the afternoon on the very short and very absorbing Inside Out by Terry Trueman, also known as an "easy readathon win." I tossed in a short story from Joe Hill's collection to round things out and listened to some more Harry over dinner. So far it's been a most excellent readathon.
I think I'm probably going to cheer around a bit and then finish out with however far I can get with My Dark Vanessa before heading off to dreamland.
