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Angie will be able to confirm, as she read this recently, but I think that SDW would definitely fit for the henchmen task. I'm trying to remember specifically who the bad guys were, but it can probably fit. And I believe the wealthy unpleasant person will also fit. Just to give it some more options for you.

I'm worried about messing up our summary page, by adding more room for more Villains, so I'm gonna leave it to Angie to do. She's outta town right now, so it may be a few days before she can get to it. Won't affect choosing or marking books read at all.

No, sorry, subtitles aren't allowed. It wasn't specifically said because of the formatting but if subtitles were allowed it'd say "Title / subtitle".

Well, I didn't quite make it the full 24 hours, that's cuz I took some time off on Sunday to watch baseball ~ Go Nats! Otherwise, I would have hit the 24 hours. I also DNF a book, so that was 30 minutes wasted since I didn't finish it up. Still, I got some reading in, and more importantly I read stuff I enjoyed. A win all around!

I have 3 more read-a-thons upcoming I'm doing ~ the Reverse Dewey's next weekend, the "Make Me Read It" and Bout of Books, both in August. Hope to see some of you join in.

Vote on a book for me to read for the "Make Me Read It" Read-a-Thon! Vote Here Please!


24 in 48 Read-a-Thon Stats

I completed 7 books, DNF 1 other
I read 1,621 pages
I read 3 books on my Kindle
I listened to 4 books as audiobooks
I read 4 Novels, 1 Novellas and 2 short stories
I read for approximately 21 hours 15 minutes (15h 40m Audio / 5h 35m Kindle)



Completed Books:

24 in 48 Read-a-Thon ~ Day 2


Sunday
Audio listening time/pages: 9 hours 10 minutes / 645 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: 20 minutes / 35 pages (DNF)
Number of books I've read today: 3
Total number of books I've read: 7
Current Book:
Pages Read Today: 680
Total Pages Read: 1,621 pages
Time Read Today: 9 hours 30 minutes
Total Time Read: 21 hours 15 minutes
Today's Completed Books:

Saturday
Audio listening time/pages: 6 hours 30 minutes / 372 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: 5 hours 15 minutes / 569 pages
Number of books I've read today: 4
Total number of books I've read: 4
Current Book: All These Worlds
Pages Read Today: 941 pages
Total Pages Read: 941 pages
Time Read Today: 11 hours 45 min
Total Time Read: 11 hours 45 min
Today's Completed Books:

24 in 48 Read-a-Thon

A last minute signup, but signing up for this weekends 24 in 48 Read-a-Thon. I've been woefully behind on my reading lately as I've been gaming more. I hope to get some stuff read this weekend, I need to!

Completion Post


Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a Main Character who is a Sorcerer
Title: The Adventurers Guild
Author: Zack Loran Clark
Page Count: 320
Start: 6/29/18
Finish: 6/30/18
How it Fits: Zed is a Sorcerer ~ "The young sorcerer? His name is Zed."



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a Character who is a Vizier
Title: The Land: Founding
Author: Aleron Kong
Page Count: 252
Start: 6/18/18
Finish: 6/21/18
How it Fits: A Vizer is in parts of the book: "The VIZIER was his closest ally, and one of the few Exiles that was older than the Prince."



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a Main Character who is a Thief
Title: The Spirit Thief
Author: Rachel Aaron
Page Count: 368
Start: 6/22/18
Finish: 6/26/18
How it Fits: MC Eli is a thief ~ " 'Any thief worth the name can steal,' Eli snorted. 'I, however, am not just any thief.' "



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a very large Snake in the story
Title: Amazonia
Author: James Rollins
Page Count: 544
Start: 7/2/18
Finish: 7/5/18
How it Fits: Anaconda in story ~ "The ANACONDA, one of the largest he had ever seen, at least forty feet in length, lay half in the water and half stretched out on the muddy beach."



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in Return of Jafar - N
Title: Neverworld Wake
Author: Marisha Pessl
Page Count: 336
Start: 7/1/18
Finish: 7/1/18
How it Fits: N Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in Return of Jafar - J
Title: Jar of Hearts
Author: Jennifer Hillier
Page Count: 230
Start: 6/20/18
Finish: 6/23/18
How it Fits: J Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in Return of Jafar - R
Title: Rescuing Harley
Author: Susan Stoker
Page Count: 320
Start: 7/22/18
Finish: 7/22/18
How it Fits: R Title

Nice! Enjoy!! :D

Getting started on my R book, so we'll be able to move on soon! Wooo!

Found an R book I know I'll like, gonna start it now.

Searched briefly for our new task, didn't see anything right away. I haven't done a re-read for this month yet (that I've used towards anything) so I'd be glad to re-read Just One Damned Thing After Another for it, if no one has anything or wants to read another book. :)

Sounds good to me. Angie is out of town, but I'm sure she'd be fine with it. As soon as I wake up a bit I'll give us a new one. :)

Nope, none here. I was gonna ask you all if you wanted to trade that one in and get a new one? There's stuff out there, but nothing that looks any good, to me at least.

I'd say no on that, since it's just partially. Sorry!

Sorry for dropping the ball on the R book too. I've only read about 10% of it. If any of you have read one, feel free to take it, if not, I'll see about finding a new one tomorrow, for as much as Red Rising gets attention that's the 2nd time I tried to read it and I find it boring. :/ Have any of y'all read it? I'm not sure why, but I just can't get into it at all.

Planning ~ books needing to get to / read


Bookish
🔴 Read a Book that is the FIRST Book of a Series
(Romania setting - RtH, published Jan 2013)
🔴 Read a Book with all the letters of January in the Title
🔴 Read a Book Published in January of any Year
🔴 Read a Book First Published this month, January of 2019

Sorry it was such a busy month for you. That stinks! I hope things have slowed down for you!

I ended up getting to one book by each of you.

~ this book was good, not great, for me. Not the best MG I've read, but not the worse. It was a slow start for me, once it got going though, it ended up being better. I haven't decided if I will read more, probably only if it fits something. 3 stars


~ always good to be back with Gin, though I think I'm getting a little tired of her. There's not much variety, she kills people we get it. But it's easy reading and enjoyable. I did like hearing Sophie's story. 4 stars

Thanks Plethora, and thanks for mentioning the Tapestry book. I hadn't come across that one before, so it's gonna have to go on my TBR! :D

Ashley for you:


~ because I LOVED this book. It was the first book in which the friendships reminded me of HP. Great story and characters I thought.

~ this is on my TBR and I started it once, but it was too much going on for me for audio. Wanna know if I should give it a try.

Cool. We'll accept it then!

Mmmm. Hard one. It seems more crow to me, than raven. But not 100% sure. I tried to search it, but they didn't have it on Google Books and Amazon's preview was only so much.

I'll say yes, unless you get into it and there's a bunch of references to crows. If it talks about crows any, and not ravens, then I'd say it doesn't work. If it doesn't talk about either bird (it's just the cover for a random reason) or talks about ravens than yes we'll accept it.

June


🔵 Read a Book that is the SIXTH Book of a Series
Book: Hunted
Author: Kevin Hearne
Pages: 325
Started: 6/11/18
Finished: 6/13/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 6th book in the Iron Druid Chronicles series



🔵 Read a Book Published in June of any Year
Book: The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Book Bites Used)
Author: Peter Watts
Pages: 192 (Book Bites Used)
Started: 6/19/18
Finished: 6/19/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: Published Jun 12, 2018



🔵 Read a Book with a SIX Word Title
Book: Alfie Bloom and the Talisman Thief
Author: Gabrielle Kent
Pages: 272
Started: 6/1/18
Finished: 6/3/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 6 word Title



🔵 Read a Book First Published this month, June of 2018
Book: Jar of Hearts
Author: Jennifer Hillier
Pages: 320
Started: 6/20/18
Finished: 6/23/18
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits: Published June 12, 2018

Klank: I'd like to trade 12 PP for a Book Bite, please. :)

101 available points - 12 PP = 89 PP remaining

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