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Elyse's Readathoning! est. 2017
Sign-up post for April 2023 Readathon! What will I reading? Umm...books. That's as far as I've gotten. 🤣 But I'm glad to be back!
Reading Lap 1: Weeklong ReadathonApril 1-7
Starting off the month freshy fresh!
Reading
(this is a monthlong readalong with the author on Instagram so I will only be reading a third of it for this!) 
(I have to finish this by the 9th for an Instagram group chat)
My goals for the -month- are digital books (Lower the Library Challenge on Instagram) and horror books (Seasons of Reading's Spring Into Horror Challenge)
Apr 1:
Pages read: 81
Pages listened: 166
Time read: 1:35
Time listened: 2:30
Total pages (per day): 247
Total time (per day): 4:05
Apr 2:
Pages read: 178
Pages listened: 238
Time read: 2:21
Time listened: 3:00
Total pages (per day): 416
Total time (per day): 5:21
Apr 3:
Pages read: 128
Pages listened: 206
Time read: 2:20
Time listened: 4:35
Total pages (per day): 334
Total time (per day): 6:55
Apr 4:
Pages read: 38
Pages listened: 178
Time read: 0:34
Time listened: 3:56
Total pages (per day): 216
Total time (per day): 4:30
Apr 5:
Pages read: 151
Pages listened: 146
Time read: 2:52
Time listened: 1:55
Total pages (per day): 297
Total time (per day): 4:47
Apr 6:
Pages read: 10
Pages listened: 192
Time read: 0:20
Time listened: 3:55
Total pages (per day): 202
Total time (per day): 4:15
Apr 7:
Pages read: 75
Pages listened: 192
Time read: 1:41
Time listened: 4:54
Total pages (per day): 267
Total time (per day): 6:35
Totals -
Pages read: 661
Pages listened: 1,318
Time read: 11:43
Time listened: 24:55
Total pages: 1,979
Total time: 37:38
Books read:
Read
Started
Susy wrote: "Good to see you back, Elyse!"Thanks Susy!
I was hoping for something different each week for pre-readathon challenges and it's not so I won't be participating in the rest. But I'm resurrecting the board game from April 2021 and seeing if I can complete it in the next 3 weeks!
Mod
Cynda wrote: "Elyse hi. I opened Long Lap 2 thread. Please post there if you would like.I got thrown in, so I do not always know where to look to help. I know you participate here more than I do, know more thing..."Thanks Cynda. I just thought each week would be a different pre-readathon challenge, like read 1000 pages throughout the week, read for 24 hours throughout the week, etc, not just read as much as you can for 3 weeks.
Board GameRolls
4-Read your favorite genre: Fantasy
6-Read a short story:
6-Read for 2 hours ✔
1-Read a classic & jump ahead:
Listen to an audiobook:
1-Oh no! Go back
Read for 2 hours ✔
5-Book title begins with "D":
Oh gosh, you tempt me with the board game! I love that game lol but with all the big books I have on the go right now it's not the ideal time for me to play it again. Good luck finishing in 3 weeks!
Oh nice, the board game is so much fun! I have my reading planned out for the month though, as I have a longlist to get through. So a simple "read as much as possible" works for me this time around.
I agree with you but I don't normally plan out my reads as II'm a huge mood reader. However i promised a friend we'd read The Conference of Birds by Ransom Riggs plus i have an ARC of Savage Bond by J.N. Colon to read plus I listen to an audiobook with my husband every night before bed. I hope you make it through your stack! Good luck!!!
Lianne (The Towering Pile) wrote: "Oh gosh, you tempt me with the board game! I love that game lol but with all the big books I have on the go right now it's not the ideal time for me to play it again. Good luck finishing in 3 weeks!"I'm halfway through the board game with week left! I did all my rolls to plan it out and I nailed the various 'go back's a few times!
Jeannie wrote: "I agree with you but I don't normally plan out my reads as II'm a huge mood reader. However i promised a friend we'd read The Conference of Birds by Ransom Riggs plus i have an ARC of Savage Bond b..."I love the Miss Peregrine series! Have fun!
Holy cannoli, the readathon is a week away! I've decided to go super hard on charcuterie and crudités. lol. I have a minor surgical procedure on Monday so I will not be shooting for 24 hours as I have to take it easy for a couple weeks. Staying up 24 hours will not be conducive to that. lol. I'm also participating in 1,000,000 steps in 100 days (averages to 10,000 steps/day) on Instagram and I'm behind already so I really have to hit my 10k goal on Saturday! Usually readathons are low movability! lol. So far the weather is supposed to be 58F and cloudy so not the greatest but good enough for lots of walking!
I still have no idea what I'm reading though! Definitely something on audio at least! Sometimes I try to avoid audio and sometimes I go audio-hard. It's hard to do the calculations for audio if it's a partial listen and for time because I listen at 1.5x usually so hours listened in audiobook does not equal hours listened in real life. lol
Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23Started today 60% through both
and
.Starting pages:
pg 207-346 (139 pgs) FINISHED
pg 194-323 (129 pgs) FINISHED
pg 1-56 (56 pgs) READ
pgs 1-100 (100 pgs) READ
pg 1-207 (207 pgs)Time Listened: 5:15
Time Read: 5:05
Total Time: 10:20
Total Pages: 631
This week (prior to the readathon) I also want to read/listen to (I need to put these at the forefront so I don't forget about them! lol):
These will probably be read during the readathon but we'll see if I can fit in a couple throughout the week:
Really interesting books you list, Elyse! I'm not familiar with many of them, but am intrigued . Good luck this week!
Elyse!! So glad you are joining again, I know we always drop by each other's threads. sounds like you have a lot going on. Good luck with the upcoming surgery. I can't do a full twenty four either as it's too hard on me and I'm not a nap person in general, but hope to make it till at least 2 am. We'll see!
I totally agree about the audio thing. I never know how to calculate that. I usually just try to figure out the number of pages whatever portion I listened to is, no matter the length of listening time. I have the crackhead dog that MUST walk 2x a day for miles to get any peace, so listening to something is a must.
Have a good procedure and get the rest you need to heal!
Good luck on your procedure. I want to hear what you think about The Beekeeper of Aleppo if you get to it.
Relay Sprint 2 - April 24-25
pg 208-369 (161 pgs) FINISHED
pg 1-320 (320 pgs) READ
pg 1-85 (85 pgs)Time Listened: 9:29
Time Read: 6:45
Total Time: 2:44
Total Pages: 566
This week (prior to the readathon) I also want to read/listen to (I need to put these at the forefront so I don't forget about them! lol):
These will probably be read during the readathon but we'll see if I can fit in a couple throughout the week:
Elyse wrote: "Relay Sprint 2 - April 24-25 pg 208-369 (161 pgs) FINISHED pg 1-320 (320 pgs) READ[bookcover:Deep into the Dark|5313..."
Wow! Enjoy your relay reading! See you at the Readathon!
Ann A wrote: "Really interesting books you list, Elyse! I'm not familiar with many of them, but am intrigued . Good luck this week!"Thanks Ann! A handful of them are ARCs and the Chew graphic novels are an older series.
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Elyse!! So glad you are joining again, I know we always drop by each other's threads. sounds like you have a lot going on. Good luck with the upcoming surgery. I can't do a full twenty four either ..."Thanks Erin! The procedure went well and I've just been keeping a low profile this week. Definitely fully prepared to sleep a full night! lol
Vicki Willis wrote: "I totally agree about the audio thing. I never know how to calculate that. I usually just try to figure out the number of pages whatever portion I listened to is, no matter the length of listening ..."Thanks Vicki! lol my dog is the laziest dog. She lounges on the couch all day. Since I've been working from home this year, she's getting a lot more walkies! We're both enjoying it!
Lynnette wrote: "Good luck on your procedure. I want to hear what you think about The Beekeeper of Aleppo if you get to it."Thanks Lynette! I'm starting it tomorrow! So I'll probably be carrying it into the readathon!
Relay Sprint 3 - April 26-27
pg 86-343 (257 pgs) FINISHED
pg 1-216 (216 pgs)Time Listened: 10:09
Time Read: 0:00
Total Time: 10:09
Total Pages: 473
This week (prior to the readathon) I also want to read/listen to (I need to put these at the forefront so I don't forget about them! lol):
These will probably be read during the readathon but we'll see if I can fit in a couple throughout the week:
You can find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winesaboutb...Weather tomorrow is supposed to be low 50's and rainy from 11am on. Blech. But good snuggle and read weather! I had thoughts of venturing to my local indie for Independent Bookstore Day but with that weather...I don't see it happening. lol.
Food & Drink
Bevvies
Tea, Pepsi, water, orange Gatorade, chai latte K-cup, hot apple cider K-cup
Breakfast
Krusteaz chocolate chip muffins (maybe)
Everything bagel with cream cheese (maybe)
Lunch/Snacks
Crudités (red/orange/yellow peppers, cucumber, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes with Marzetti dill dip)
Charcuterie board (soft & hard cheeses, pepperoni, summer sausage, mini spicy gherkins, mini dill, Casteltrevano olives, peanuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, red grapes, strawberries, watermelon)
Crackers (Wheat Thins, Triscuits, Bruschetta toasts, Pretzel Thins, mini pretzel rods)
Tortilla chips & Mitchell's fresh salsa (a local company)
Hummus and pita chips
Peanut M&M's (tradition!)
Black licorice bites
Hershey Kisses
Caramello squares
Ghirardelli dark chocolate sea salt caramel squares
Pretzel Flipz white fudge
M&M's ice cream sandwiches
Supper
Pizza (if the hubs ventures out)
Poblano Chili from Half-Baked Harvest's Super Simple cookbook (possibly)
TBR
Physical
Physical/Audio
Physical/E-Book
E-Book
Ate an early supper because I hadn't eaten at all today (oops!) and now I'm prepping my crudités and charcuterie! I have 2 serving containers (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07... price has almost doubled since I bought them in 2019!!) that I'm filling. Wish I had a third for the fruit. lol. Definitely have too many snacks but the fun of Dewey's is carrying all the snacks into the following week!
See y'all tomorrow!
Glad to hear your procedure went well, Elyse. You have made stellar plans for tomorrow! Your snack list is making me hungry, and it's 10:30 p.m. Haha. Must get to bed...
Good luck tomorrow!
We're almost there! Best of luck and reading to you today!
Your meal plans look fantastic, especially the charcuterie board and crudités! Enjoy your reading!
Glad to hear your procedure went well Elyse! Happy reading today. Looks like quite a food plan :), reading it made me hungry.
Opening Event Survey1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
New Hampshire, USA
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
You Shouldn't Have Come Here
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
Caramello miniatures
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
I tried to quit my job and now I still work there but with a raise and now I work from home part-time. lol
5) What are your goals for this readathon?
Read! But also, take it easy. Relax. I already know I won't be striving for the 24 hours so I'm just going to enjoy myself. Which is why it took so long for me to update on Goodreads!
First check-in of the day and it's almost 6 hours in! lol. I took is easy this morning and I won't be doing my normal quarterly check-ins. Obviously.Woke up at 7am, showered, got Ezri (doggo reading buddy) all set, had some coffee.
8am, made some tea, I began with
which I'd read 39 pages of last night. I finished it just after the first hour sprint which I participated in. I then started
and people, it's so ODD. I don't know if I like it. I'm 50-ish pages in.Around 11am, I ate some crudités and then some Pretzel Flipz with more tea and some water.
Started participated in the fourth hour sprint but decided since the rain had stopped, to take Ezri for a walk. I started my audiobook
. It was a brisk, windy, sprinkly walk for about 20 minutes. And here we are! Still listening to the audiobook, about 50 pages in, and I think I'm going to continue with the physical instead of picking The Curator back up, for now. Going to dig into the charcuterie! I've also been mostly keeping up with the hourly photos on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/winesaboutbooks! I don't know how to include them here. I should ask Erin...lol
Sounds like you and Ezri are having a great day! I'm also doing fewer updates this time.
Sounds like a great start! I also went for the slow start. What about The Curator is odd? I haven't heard of it before, but I recently read a book that I also would have described as very odd and if it wasn't a short 100 page novel I would have DNF'd it.
Sounds like you have done quite a bit! On instagram saving here I don't actually know! I can save the image location from Twitter updates and post here but sadly Instagram seems to have that locked down for their bandwidth
Going to check out your photos now :D
Wait! There are caramello miniatures?!? How did I not know about these?!? I’m off to hunt some down. Thanks Elyse, you made my readathon 😊
Abbey wrote: "Sounds like a great start! I also went for the slow start. What about The Curator is odd? I haven't heard of it before, but I recently read a book that I also would have described as very odd and i..."IDK, it's just so unfamiliar that it's hard to get into. It's a fantasy world but set in like Dickensian times so it's old-fashioned. He's throwing a LOT at the reader in the first 50 pages.
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Sounds like you have done quite a bit! On instagram saving here I don't actually know! I can save the image location from Twitter updates and post here but sadly Instagram seems to have that lock..."
haha ok thanks anyway, Erin! I don't use Twitter.
Jennifer wrote: "Wait! There are caramello miniatures?!? How did I not know about these?!? I’m off to hunt some down. Thanks Elyse, you made my readathon 😊"YES, Jennifer!! I've only seen them this year so I think they're pretty new. They're so good because they're bigger than the squares on the Caramello bar and just one will satisfy any chocolate craving! I buy them at the grocery store but here they are on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cadbury-Carame...
Elyse wrote: "Abbey wrote: "Sounds like a great start! I also went for the slow start. What about The Curator is odd? I haven't heard of it before, but I recently read a book that I also would have described as ..."Ooof that's always a tough intro when so much is going on. I actually thought of you at my local bookstore, because that book was a featured display book. After not hearing of it before today, it's now following me lol. Hope your next chunk of reading has been going well!
Elyse, I hope that your reading & snacks are continuing to satisfy! It sounds like it started off well with your reading partner. Enjoy!
Elyse wrote: "Abbey wrote: "Sounds like a great start! I also went for the slow start. What about The Curator is odd? I haven't heard of it before, but I recently read a book that I also would have described as ..."Does sound interesting…
Hope you had a wonderful readathon Elyse!
Wrap-Up Total Time: 14:03
Total Breaks/Sleep: 9:57
Total Time Read: 10:14
Total Time Listened: 3:49
Total Pages: 883
Books Finished: 1
Books Read Completely: 3
Books Started: 2
Comments:
2 hourly sprints
1 hourly discussion
10 photo challenges (http://www.instagram.com/winesaboutbooks)
I think the only things I didn't eat were cashews, almonds, peanuts, Ghirardelli, hummus & pita chips, tortilla chips & salsa, M&M's ice cream sandwiches. And the main dishes of Krusteaz chocolate chip muffins, Everything bagel with cream cheese,
pizza (hubs did not venture out), Poblano chili. Hubs ate leftover cauliflower tacos from Friday supper. Poblano chili will be made today! Another cold and rainy day.
I went to bed at 12:30am and slept till 9:15am. I didn't have any desire to wake up and finish out the readathon, which I usually do. And that's okay! I listened to my body. I'm going to get some leftover snackies and curl up in the library and read!
Closing Survey
1. How many books did you read during this readathon? Did you have any favorites?
6. Yes, You Shouldn't Have Come Here
2. How many books did you finish?
4
3. Did you accomplish your goals for this readathon?
I didn't make any goals this time. The only goal was to read and I did!
4. How did your snacks and meals work out? Are there things you would change about the food and beverages side of your readathon for next time?
I had a lovely spread and did not eat a single actual meal. lol. Crudités and charcuterie and fruits all day and night.
5. Did you enjoy this readathon? What was the most successful part of your readathon? What would you change for next time?
I did enjoy it but I did spend too much awake time not reading or listening. I was distracted easily this time and I'm not sure why. So hopefully the focus will be better next time.
6. What Dewey's social media sites did you visit during this readathon? What activities did you participate in? Do you plan to complete those activities over the remainder of the weekend?
I was on Goodreads a little and Instagram a lot. I did a couple of sprints, one hourly discussion, and about half of the IG photo challenges.
Sounds like a nice laidback Readathon with lots of time for Ezri ;) which I’m sure he/she appreciated! Hope you enjoyed all your reading!
Even though you were distracted it looks like a successful readathon! Have a nice relaxing day. See you at the next Dewey's.
Great stats! You have this down pat! See you at the next read!
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