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Mar 26, 2019 02:49PM
Nice to see Fables Vol 1 in your list. I thoroughly enjoyed that series. Especially the early volumes.
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Kate wrote: "Nice to see Fables Vol 1 in your list. I thoroughly enjoyed that series. Especially the early volumes."It was recommended to me by the owner of a local comic book shop so I was glad KU had it!
Looks like a good plan! Getting close now. Excited to look at the Bingo board.
Vicki Willis wrote: "Looks like a good plan! Getting close now. Excited to look at the Bingo board."Me too!! I hope my choices fit into the challenges. lol. I have quite a variety but we'll see. Hopefully Gabby releases the board by Sunday.
I had no idea that Hoopla did comics and I'm super excited now. I can't see any audio books or regular books on my list though. Is it just by library system?
Shelley wrote: "I had no idea that Hoopla did comics and I'm super excited now. I can't see any audio books or regular books on my list though. Is it just by library system?"It could be because of your library. My friend Shelby explained it recently in my GR group, "With programs like Hoopla, libraries pay per any time anyone checks something out. With Overdrive, some they pay per copy and then it's theirs and/or some they pay for the right to a certain number of checkouts before deciding if they want to pay for it again (but I believe it's a high number of checkouts)."
I think my final food list will be as follows:Hummus w/ veggies
Homemade guacamole w/ tortilla chips
These puppies! Baker's White Chocolate Truffle Kit
1 cup of coffee in the morning, tea, soda, water, Bubly
Breakfast is mostly non-existent, maybe a bowl of cereal, and lunch basically the sausage dip, guac, and hummus. And for supper will be leftover chicken shawarma which I will be making for supper Friday night. Leftovers are more delicious when all the flavors have a chance to marinate!
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Hummus w/ veggies
Homemade guacamole w/ tortilla chips
Candiebarr's (see message 31 in Snacks and Recipes thread) sausage dip w/ tortilla chips and ve..."
I looked up that sausage dip recipe and now it's on my food list as well, along with the "caramel" dip Beth posted on the snacks thread. I may go do my shopping tonight since I work Wed and thurs night and I'll want Fri evening to prep my books, kindles, and my stuff for my photo shoot. I have to get my eyebrows threaded and paint my toe nails between now and Saturday as well. LOL
Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I think my final food list will be as follows:Hummus w/ veggies
Homemade guacamole w/ tortilla chips
Candiebarr's (see message 31 in Snacks and Recipes thread) sausage dip w/ tortill..."
You're going to be busy this week! I shopped yesterday and then I will again on Thursday. Friday I'm taking a half day and catching up on my DVR a bit. lol.
Decided I've already gone overboard on snacks and am nixing the sausage dip. lol. Already have hummus and guacamole, do I really need another dip? The answer is no. ;)
I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about 7 hours left. The other is almost 10 hours.Anywhooo, I decided to go with the Audible Originals that Audible gives its members every month (since September). I haven't listened to any since they started this benefit and they're less than 5 hours each. I will just list all of the 2018 ones so I can use them for the Mount TBR Challenge too and I don't know what I'll feel like listening to.
The X-Files: Cold Cases
Emma: An Audible Original Drama
Lullaby
The Queen: Aretha Franklin
Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
Strong Ending A Journey from Combat to Comedy
Zero G
The Diary of a Hounslow Girl
Elyse wrote: "Decided I've already gone overboard on snacks and am nixing the sausage dip. lol. Already have hummus and guacamole, do I really need another dip? The answer is no. ;)"I would normally go for three different types of hummus, but I'm sure you'll be fine. lol
Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about 7 hours left. The other is a..."Emma: Audible Original, Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets, and Zero G are all on my TBR list, too. I listened to Lullaby last fall around Hallowe’en, and it fell flat for me, but I’m not really one for scary stories anyway. I love Stephen Fry as a narrator, the description of Zero G hooked me as did listening to the first bit of Emma. Hope you enjoy them!
Leni wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Decided I've already gone overboard on snacks and am nixing the sausage dip. lol. Already have hummus and guacamole, do I really need another dip? The answer is no. ;)"I would norma..."
lol! Everything everyone posts just sounds so damn good! But I'm also trying to keep costs down as we're going on vacation soon and taxes are due right before vacation so less money spent is better. lol
Susan wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about 7 hours left. ..."Woot! I've heard Victorian Secrets isn't that great but it IS Stephen Fry so I will "suffer" through it. lol. I just realized that some of them will count for a Readathon I'm doing, Spring Into Horror!
Elyse wrote: "Susan wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about ..."Nothing like two for one ;)
Susan wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Susan wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning a..."Yup! I like to read as few books as possible to cover as many challenges as possible. So I have room for all the randos I read! lol.
Wow Elyse, I'm excited to see that X-Files audio. I haven't really got into audios but I loved David Tennant reading the Dr Who ones and this one you've picked has the X-Files cast narrating. Must get my mitts on it somehow!
Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about 7 hours left. The other is a..."I have an audible account but don't know what this is. Am going to check it out.
Kate wrote: "Wow Elyse, I'm excited to see that X-Files audio. I haven't really got into audios but I loved David Tennant reading the Dr Who ones and this one you've picked has the X-Files cast narrating. Must ..."Audible only! It's not free anymore but I think it's only a couple bucks, probably less than $5.
Vicki Willis wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about 7 hours left. ..."You should've been getting emails from Audible the first week of every month! They release 6 Audible Originals the first Friday of every month and you can choose 2 for free! You have the whole month to pick them. They've been doing it since September.
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Looks like a good TBR!
Avid Reader and Geek Girl wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I've picked out my audiobooks for Saturday. I have 2 audiobooks to listen to before Saturday and I will hopefully finish both! I started one this morning and have about 7 hours left. ..."Thank you! I went a little overboard. lol.
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LOL I bought all the ingredients for that dip on Tuesday. :-) That may end up being my dinner too. It's got protein in it. :-)
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It could be because o..."
Overdrive apparently is more expensive for libraries, hence why my library switched to using only hoopla and axis 360. Can't stand Axis as it ALWAYS crashes on my phone, I can never get it to pause or bookmark when I want it to, and it doesn't do kindle format. I do love hoopla for audio books though, even if it restricts how many you can borrow in a month since I always go through more than they allow me to check out.
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I have the first and second books in the new audible exclusive x-files series. I got the first one for free as one of my two free audible originals every month. I think I bought the second one tho it was pretty inexpensive. They are pretty good. A little cheesy, but then the tv show got pretty cheesy sometimes too. The whole original cast is back for the audio series, except I think cigarette smoking man since I believe I read somewhere he passed away? I love x-files though (we won't talk about that revival they tried though. ugh. so disappointing after so many years).
Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Shelley wrote: "I had no idea that Hoopla did comics and I'm super excited now. I can't see any audio books or regular books on my list though. Is it just by library system?"It coul..."
I've never heard of Axis 360. My local libraries use Overdrive over Hoopla. I think it all depends on the needs/wants of the patrons whether one is more expensive than the other for the library itself.
Kelley wrote: "I have the first and second books in the new audible exclusive x-files series. I got the first one for free as one of my two free audible originals every month. I think I bought the second one tho it was pretty inexpensive. They are pretty good. A little cheesy, but then the tv show got pretty cheesy sometimes too. The whole original cast is back for the audio series, except I think cigarette smoking man since I believe I read somewhere he passed away? I love x-files though (we won't talk about that revival they tried though. ugh. so disappointing after so many years)..."I love that's it's an original cast audio! I liked the new series but it definitely wasn't as good as the original. THAT gave me nightmares! My parents watched it and I saw a few episodes as a kid. Yikes. lol
Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pretty sure I won't stray from this stack. lol. *Unless* I have one more Bingo square left that these books don't fill.E-Books
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Kindle Unlimited)
30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 (Kindle Unlimited)
The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Kindle Unlimited)
Black Sheep (Kindle Unlimited)
The Third Man (Kindle Unlimited)
Adulthood Is a Myth (Hoopla)
Cat vs Human Fairy Tails (Hoopla)
Lumberjanes, Vol. 6: Sink or Swim (Hoopla)
Lumberjanes, Vol. 7: A Bird's-Eye View (Hoopla)
Dead Light March (Kindle Own)
Lost Souls (NetGalley ARC that's not "advanced" anymore. HA!)
Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Vol. 1 (Comixology)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1 (Comixology)
Physical
The Complete Maus
The Complete Persepolis
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
V for Vendetta
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
Legacies Reborn
Last Defense
Hunt for the Garde
Audiobooks
Emma: An Audible Original Drama
The Queen: Aretha Franklin
Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
Zero G
Check-In #1 - Hours 1-4 (8am-12pm): Check In Time: 12:02pm
Breaks: 0
Food/Drink: 2 coffees, water, cereal, handful of milk chocolate covered cappuccino beans (dang these are good! Gotta pace myself! lol)
Pages Read Total: 90
Time Listened Total: 2 hours 45 minutes
Books Progressed In: 2
Books Finished: 0
Comments:
I started the morning with a headache so blah! But I took Tylenol, drank coffee, and now it's gone. We got SNOW last night, lamezore, but it's gone now and will be 60 degrees and sunny! Oh New England, you so silly. I started reading a physical book and started listening to an audiobook. My hourly discussion is done and I can stay away from the laptop until each check-in. Or try to. Ha! I think this next block I will read some shorties from my KU collection. I only have about an hour left of X-Files: Cold Cases so I will finish that first since I want to shower.
Check-In #2 - Hours 5-8 (12pm-4pm):
Check In Time: 3:51pm
Breaks: 0
Food/Drink: water, Dr. Pepper, guacamole & tortilla chips, handful of milk chocolate covered cappuccino beans
Pages Read Total: 65
Time Listened Total: (1:19 X-Files, 0:37 Lullaby, 1:16 Strong Ending) 3 hours 12 minutes
Books Progressed In: 1
Books Finished: 3
Comments:
Made guacamole, ate said guacamole. Yumm!! Not much to be said. Took the dogs for a short walk. Had a good run of audiobooks. Really loved Strong Ending. I'd like to take this next block to only read, no audio. Here I go!
Check-In #3 - Hours 9-12 (4pm-8pm):
Check In Time: 8:04pm
Breaks: 0
Food/Drink: Lipton Green Tea Orange Passionfruit Jasmine, Pepsi and leftover chicken shawarma, handful of milk chocolate covered cappuccino beans
Pages Read Total: (105 Wye, 28 X, 60 Girl Who) 193
Time Listened Total: 0
Books Progressed In: 1
Books Finished: 2
Comments:
Halfway mark. This is where I start to lose it. It's full dark now. The night is where I struggled the most! I'm thinking of making myself less comfortable? Don't go pee as much, don't get back into my PJs? Eh, that's just silly, why do that to myself?! That's not fun! lol. Supper was delicious! Still plan on snacking on hummus and veggies later. And keep snacking on my cappuccino beans! This next time block I want to finish The Girl Who... and get started on some graphic novels! Maybe half an audiobook.
Check-In #4 - Hours 13-16 (8pm-12am):
Check In Time: 12:06am
Breaks: 0
Food/Drink: Hummus & veggies
Pages Read Total: 106
Time Listened Total: 2 hours 45 minutes
Books Progressed In: 1
Books Finished: 1
Comments:
I did a couple of mini challenges and hourly discussions. I'm not having fun anymore. I'm cooked, fading fast. I will probably finish the last hour of The Queen and then get some sleep. See you on the other side!
Check-In #5/6 - Hours 17-24 (12am-8am):
Check In Time: 8:26am
Breaks: 3 hours 20 minutes of sweet, sweet sleep
Food/Drink: Snickers bar for breakfast? Hells yes. Anything goes on Dewey's. I had water too!
Pages Read Total: (112 Adulthood, 128 Cats vs Humans, 210 Princess, 31 Identity, 128 Rat Queens, 112 Steel, 75 Persepolis) 796
Time Listened Total: (1:03 Queen, 1:36 Diary) 2 hours 39 minutes
Books Progressed In: 1
Books Finished: 8
Comments:
I actually felt better once I got up from my library and checked in at midnight and ended up staying up till 2:40am, plowing through books! Woke up at 6am to finish out the 'thon an decided to dedicate those last 2 hours to solely reading. Combined my last 2 check-ins. I have so many threads to update now for various challenges. But I'm going to take a nap and then do said updates while watching TV. Ending Survey and final tallies to come!
Elyse wrote: "Options are necessary! I don't want to have to scrounge around looking for ..I'm trying to list my current reading challenges and choosing my Deweys TBR from those I need to read...
I intend using up as many ku reads as i can ! 😉
writer... wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Options are necessary! I don't want to have to scrounge around looking for ..I'm trying to list my current reading challenges and choosing my Deweys TBR from those I need to read....."
Good thinking!
Your organization is impressive! I also think it works well to update every 4 hours or so. Good luck!
Ann A wrote: "Your organization is impressive! I also think it works well to update every 4 hours or so. Good luck!"Thank you! It's all from experience! :) I was spending too much time socializing on Goodreads in previous readathons and this way has worked well for me.
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Thank you! It's all from experience! :) I was spending too much time socializin..."
i try to do a photo every hour of something to post on instagram but I have pretty much done updates every 4 hours since I started doing the dewey. For me my big goal is read as much as i can and stay awake as long as i can. so the updates every 4 hours ensured most of my time was spent reading.
Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Ann A wrote: "Your organization is impressive! I also think it works well to update every 4 hours or so. Good luck!"Thank you! It's all from experience! :) I was spending too much t..."
It's good thinking! I was coming in every hour and doing every mini challenge and every hourly discussion, it was too much. I mean, I *was* listening to audiobooks while doing it all but I wanted more me/reading time than online/listening time.
Elyse wrote: "Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pretty sure I won't stray from this stack. lo..."Your comment on your NetGalley ARC that is more of an RC than an ARC, is painfully accurate for my life lol. Somehow the release dates just slip away from me :)
Elyse wrote: "Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pretty sure I won't stray from this stack. lo..."I hope you pick up Wye this readathon! I'm curious to see what you think of it compared to X.
Shelby wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pretty sure I won't stray from ..."I definitely will be reading it today! I think my first focus will be my KU books so I can return and get more, obv. lol
Abbey wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pretty sure I won't stray from ..."Oh my lordy, story of my LIFE. lol. I have so many NetGalley ARCs that aren't ARCs anymore! One of my goals this year is to get through a lot of them, read the ones that still are "advanced" and slow down on requests! Easier said than done. Who wants to pass up free books?! Not this crazy lady!
Waking up to take Tylenol first thing on Dewey's = not my idea of fun! I didn't sleep the greatest so I already know I won't be hitting the 24 hours. I picked up some milk chocolate covered cappuccino beans and hubs some dark chocolate covered espresso beans so I'm going to much on a couple an hour and see where that takes me! lol. I'm not a caffeine junky.
Opening Survey1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? New Hampshire
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? I'm, kind of excited about a lot of them! But I really want to read The Complete Persepolis
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Homemade guac and tortilla chips. I make a darn good guac if I do say so myself. ;)
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I love my diggity dogs!
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? More reading, less listening.
I woke up a little over an hour before start time and still didn't have time to do this before the 'thon started. lol. So I'm doing it an hour in while listening to The X-Files: Cold Cases.
Vicki Willis wrote: "Good luck Elyse!Enjoy!"
Thank you, Vicki! You as well!
Elyse wrote: "Abbey wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pretty sure I won..."It's too hard to pass up a free book, especially when it is a good one! I'm also guilty of just forgetting to even look what books I have on my Kindle, which means I forget how many NetGalley books I have and then request more. I started using NetGalley to focus on more Middle Grade/older Children's so I can stay up with what the kids I volunteer with at Summer Camp are reading - and those are quicker to read...yet I still ended up with a huge list of unread NetGalley books. So that plan backfired lol. I need to make a plan to get them done too!
Abbey wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Abbey wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Here's my final roll-out of TBR. It's a lot, I know. But it's such a wide variety of lengths, subjects, illustrations, listening, physical, e-book. I'm pre..."Oh yeah I know them feels. lol
Check-In #1 - Hours 1-4 (8am-12pm): Check In Time: 12:02pm
Breaks: 0
Food/Drink: 2 coffees, water, cereal, handful of milk chocolate covered cappuccino beans (dang these are good! Gotta pace myself! lol)
Pages Read Total: 90
Time Listened Total: 2 hours 45 minutes
Books Progressed In: 2
Books Finished: 0
Comments:
I started the morning with a headache so blah! But I took Tylenol, drank coffee, and now it's gone. We got SNOW last night, lamezore, but it's gone now and will be 60 degrees and sunny! Oh New England, you so silly. I started reading a physical book and started listening to an audiobook. My hourly discussion is done and I can stay away from the laptop until each check-in. Or try to. Ha! I think this next block I will read some shorties from my KU collection. I only have about an hour left of X-Files: Cold Cases so I will finish that first since I want to shower.
Elyse, I hope you are enjoying reading & snacks today!
Susan wrote: "Elyse, I hope you are enjoying reading & snacks today!"Thank you, you too!
Thank goodness your headache is gone! That's an awful way to start RAT day :( Hope you're blazing through the pages now.
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