Elyse's Readathoning! est. 2017 Showing 301-350 of 1,338

[Cynda]

Hi Elyse. Looks like you have materials and motivation. Best of Luck! I will come to check in, see how you doing.

[Elyse]

Cynda Cat wrote: "Hi Elyse. Looks like you have materials and motivation. Best of Luck! I will come to check in, see how you doing."

Thank you, Cynda!

[Jennifer]

Looks like you have a nice variety to keep your attention during the readathon. Good luck on whittling down the ARC pile.

[Elyse]

Jennifer wrote: "Looks like you have a nice variety to keep your attention during the readathon. Good luck on whittling down the ARC pile."

Thank you, Jennifer! I'm also behind in my GR Challenge so I really need Dewey's. lol.

[Jennifer]

I have no doubt you'll be close to caught up on both by the end of the readathon.

Happy Reading!

[Elyse]

Food & Drink
Not going crazy this time around. I just don't feel like it! We've got an EveryPlate box coming today and will have one meal left for Saturday's supper or we'll order out. Hitting the grocery store Friday after a long sleep in, took the day off! Basically just going to go with some Chex Mix, fresh veggies and fruit, cheese and crackers. We just got back from a winery tour in upstate New York so if I want to sleep, I have wine. lol. Wine makes me so tired but I might indulge in a glass or two.

[Vicki Willis]

Nice! It is all about enjoyment.
I am thinking about peanut butter toast with bananas.

[Ann A]

Looks like you're all ready to go! I will be having similar snacks. Sugar just puts me to sleep (after the initial sugar rush ;)

[Elyse]

Pre-Readathon Goals
So before the readathon starts I want to...read. lol. I have 2 books I would really love to finish before 8pm tomorrow night and with taking tomorrow off from work, I'm thinking I can achieve that.
Gods of Jade and Shadow 35% through
Unqualified : love and relationship advice from a celebrity who just wants to help 50% through (audio)

[Leni]

Elyse wrote: "Pre-Readathon Goals
So before the readathon starts I want to...read. lol. I have 2 books I would really love to finish before 8pm tomorrow night and with taking tomorrow off from work, I'm thinking..."

This is always a thing. I want to finish everything I have ongoing so I can start fresh for the readathon. During the 24in48 I didn't even get to my readathon TBR until the second day. This time I'm just going to put my current reads aside and get back to them on Sunday. I think. lol

[Elyse]

Leni wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Pre-Readathon Goals
So before the readathon starts I want to...read. lol. I have 2 books I would really love to finish before 8pm tomorrow night and with taking tomorrow off from work..."

For 24in48 I also just read whatever I was currently reading because I wasn't very far into them. I don't think I read anything else in addition! lol.

[Dannii]

SO many great books on your list! Best of luck, Elyse :)

[Elyse]

Dannii wrote: "SO many great books on your list! Best of luck, Elyse :)"

Thank you!

[Elyse]

Bingo

1-Read a hyped book or rated 4 stars on GR: Pax
2-Read under the covers: ✔ Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
3-Pick a TBR book blindfolded: Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
4-Read a book that was free (borrowed, gifted, library etc.): Cape May (free ARC)

1-Wear something backwards: ✔ shirt for a time. lol
2-Read out loud (to your pet, friend, or yourself): ✔ to Ezri and Mojo, my dogs
3-Take a break and watch a TV show book adaptation: While reading, we watched the first episode of Good Omens! Will definitely be finishing it this weekend!
4-Read 250 pages: ✔

1-Read a book with an animal on the cover: Pax
2-Share a food or drink recipe (GR, Twitter, IG): ✔ GR (mozz, tomato, basil, bread slices)
3-Read a book with your least favorite color on the cover: Widows' Revenge
4-A book with a person's name in the title: Star Wars: Lando's Luck

1-Read 2 books: Star Wars: Lando's Luck / Cape May
2-Read a book with no illustrations: Cape May
3-Read when it's dark outside: ✔ (I read this as 'read outside when it's dark' so I sat on the deck at 11pm and read for 20 minutes. lol)
4-Comment on a GR post: ✔

BLACKOUT!

[Leni]

There's Bingo!? w00t! I mean, yeet! (Showing my age here.)

[Elyse]

Leni wrote: "There's Bingo!? w00t! I mean, yeet! (Showing my age here.)"

I love that Bingo has become a tradition for all Dewey's events!

[Elyse]

Opening Survey
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? And what time is it where you are? New Hampshire, USA and it's 8:29pm
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Just fresh veggies and fruit!
4) Do you have a #reversereadathon plan of attack? Just going to try and get through the night! lol
5) Are you doing the readathon solo or with others? Solo

1. 168 pgs total and 168 pgs read

[Elyse]

2. 243 pgs total and 243 pgs read

[Juli]

You're making great progress!

[Cynda]

Just checking in. Hope your reading is going well. Good Luck!

[Susy]

Elyse wrote: "Opening Survey
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? And what time is it where you are? New Hampshire, USA and it's 8:29pm
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forw..."

Good luck Elyse!

[Elyse]

Helllooooo!! (in my best Mrs. Doubtfire voice which I do often at work)

So I've been purposely staying off of the laptop. I've only been posting the hourly photos on Instagram (@weezielemoo). I read hard from 8pm-2am. I read Star Wars: Lando's Luck and got halfway through Cape May. Then I slept in bed from 2am-5am, got up, and laid on the couch fluttering my eyelids from 5am-8:30am while listening to Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets. I'm now halfway through that and it has managed to hold my attention because it is bizarre and amusing! (sidenote: Definitely need to buy the Stephen Fry narrated Harry Potter audiobooks and apparently buy a CD system again...🤣).

I have 35 notifications on Goodreads and plan on continuing Victorian Secrets while checking in and then going back to Cape May. First cup of coffee of the day is being had and thoroughly enjoyed! I only drink coffee on the weekends.

[Elyse]

3. (audio) probably 250 pgs total, I'm guessing, and 250 pgs listened

[Elyse]

Juli wrote: "You're making great progress!"

Thank you Juli!

[Elyse]

Cynda wrote: "Just checking in. Hope your reading is going well. Good Luck!"

It is going well! I'm ready to read for the whole second half! Hope yours is going well too!

[Elyse]

Susy wrote: "Good luck Elyse!..."

Thank you Susy! You too!

[Susan]

Good morning! I slept for awhile too but am back to reading. I’ve got that Stephen Fry book from Audible and am glad to hear you are enjoying it. He’s such a great narrator! Love his version of Sherlock Holmes

[Elyse]

Susan wrote: "Good morning! I slept for awhile too but am back to reading. I’ve got that Stephen Fry book from Audible and am glad to hear you are enjoying it. He’s such a great narrator! Love his version of She..."

I own those Holmes audiobooks and want to start slowly listening to them! He's such a great narrator. Victorian Secrets is pretty ridiculous! lol

[Vicki Willis]

Welcome back! I took a 4 hour nap too and now I am on audible. Getting some breakfast going.

[Daisey]

Looks like you're making some good progress! I agree Stephen Fry is a great narrator. Best of luck as you continue today!

[Ann A]

Elyse wrote: "Helllooooo!! (in my best Mrs. Doubtfire voice which I do often at work)

So I've been purposely staying off of the laptop. I've only been posting the hourly photos on Instagram (@weezielemoo). I re..."

I can hear your Mrs. Doubtfire voice! I wish I could have lasted until 2:00 a.m. Alas, I only made it until 12:30. Good luck today!

[Elyse]

Vicki Willis wrote: "Welcome back! I took a 4 hour nap too and now I am on audible. Getting some breakfast going."

I can't believe there's only less than 7 hours left! It goes by so fast!

[Elyse]

Daisey wrote: "Looks like you're making some good progress! I agree Stephen Fry is a great narrator. Best of luck as you continue today!"

Thank you Daisey! To you as well!

[Elyse]

Ann A wrote: "I can hear your Mrs. Doubtfire voice! I wish I could have lasted until 2:00 a.m. Alas, I only made it until 12:30. Good luck today!..."

My husband got home at 1am and tried making me go to bed. I was like leave me alone!!! lol. And then I just didn't want to be awake anymore by 2am. Now he's trying to get me to take a nap. But I'm good, I can get through the rest of these daylight hours! It's the night that kills me. No matter what time I start. Darkness wins. lol.

[Elyse]

It's almost 1:30pm, I can't believe there's less than 7 hours left. It's so crazy how fast time flies! I just had another 35 GR notifications and now I'm just about finished listening to Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets and also just have a few pages left of Cape May.

[Elyse]

4. 275 pgs total
I'm hoping I can read it in 6ish hours. I can listen to audiobooks so much faster than I can read books...lol!
5. (audio) 304 pgs total
I want to at least start listening to this as well. It's 2 of my Bingo squares!

[Kate]

You're doing so well Elyse. Enjoy the last few hours. :)

[Susan]

Enjoy the rest of your Readathon! Looks like it’s going very well!

[Cynda]

Good idea for audio at end. I will have to plan that next year. Good Luck on Home Stretch.

[Jennifer]

What a great Readathon Elyse! You did great. I love having an audiobook on hand... It helps so much. Enjoy the last hour!

[Elyse]

End Totals Wrap-Up
Total time reading: 20 hours 53 minutes my best time!
Pages read: 843 (including audio)
Hours listened: 8 hours 33 minutes
Breaks/sleep: 3 hours of sleep, a couple minutes not reading or listening here and there
Books read completely: 2

Books listened completely: 1

Partial: 2
132 pages read
1 hour or about 50 pages
Comments:
I beat my April time which was my previous best time by 11 minutes. Woot! lol. But my page count is lower because no graphic novels. I'm pretty happy that I read 2 overdue ARCs and got halfway through a third. Will be writing up those reviews and submitting them tomorrow.

Closing Survey!
How would you assess your reading overall? I think I did pretty good. My best time to date but not my best page count.
Did you have a strategy, and if so, did you stick to it? I didn't really have one.
What was your favorite snack? I had some raspberries and they were very good.
Wanna volunteer for our next event? Possibly!

[Jennifer]

Woohoo! Great job Elyse!

[Elyse]

Kate wrote: "You're doing so well Elyse. Enjoy the last few hours. :)"

Thank you Kate! I'm beat! lol.

[Elyse]

Susan wrote: "Enjoy the rest of your Readathon! Looks like it’s going very well!"

Thank you Susan! It was fun!

[Elyse]

Jennifer wrote: "Woohoo! Great job Elyse!"

Thank you Jennifer!

[Abbey]

Awesome job, Elyse!! Congrats on beating your record! That 3 hours of sleep is what #readathongoals are made of, so impressive!!

[Elyse]

Abbey wrote: "Awesome job, Elyse!! Congrats on beating your record! That 3 hours of sleep is what #readathongoals are made of, so impressive!!"

Thank you Abbey! My eyes burn. lol. I will never make it the full 24 hours and I'm okay with that!

[Susan]

Wow! Nice job Elyse!

[Susy]

Wow, amazing! Congrats Elyse!

[Ann A]

Your totals are SO impressive. I ended up sleeping more than I planned to - well, there's always next time. Way to go!