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Looks like a fun bingo card. Have a great read-a-thon! I don't blame you not starting at 3 am! Harry Potter is such a fun series.
Good to see you Lamilla! Hope you have a great readathon!
Tentative TBR:
by Alexei Ivanov
by Charles Baudelaire
by Edgar Allan Poe
by Cornelia Funke
by Terry Pratchett
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
What a varied TBR! Edgar Allan Poe is always good and Terry Pratchett can be fun
Oh yes, enjoy Terry Pratchett. Have you read any Discworld before?
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Looks like a fun bingo card. Have a great read-a-thon! I don't blame you not starting at 3 am! Harry Potter is such a fun series."And now I'm fully awake and can start.
My first book of the readathon is a poetry book I started earlier,
by Edgar Allan Poe. I read The Raven and its various translations, now time to get to the rest of the collection. It is published in XIX century and nicely fits some of the prompts in my bingo card
Susy wrote: "Good to see you Lamilla! Hope you have a great readathon!"Thank you, Susy! You too. I'm planning to visit other people threads during the break in reading
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "What a varied TBR! Edgar Allan Poe is always good and Terry Pratchett can be fun"Glad to hear that about Edgar Allan Poe! I'm a bit intimidated by him - I remember some of his weird stories from my childhood, like The Cask of Amontillado, when the person is immured!
Kate wrote: "Oh yes, enjoy Terry Pratchett. Have you read any Discworld before?"Great to hear that, Kate! I read most of Discworld, but I prefer his later books, like
and
Also, I would need the community help for one of my challenges: post 3 books and let someone choose.Here are the books, please vote which one I should try during the event!
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Человеческое животное by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
or
Штормовое предупреждение by 朱山坡
I agree Lamilla, the early Discworld novels aren't nearly as good as the later ones. My favourite is Pyramids but I also love Going Postal and Making Money.
The 3rd one Storm Warning sounds good. I'd go for that one.
Lamilla wrote: "Also, I would need the community help for one of my challenges: post 3 books and let someone choose.Here are the books, please vote which one I should try during the event!
[book:The Joy Luck Clu..."
Had to translate the blurb of the third one, but I’m going for that one as well!
Thank you Kate and Susy! I'll wait a couple of hours more in case other people would like to vote. My progress so far: I read two thirds of the poems from Nevermore. Despite its name, most of the size is due to biographical material, comments on poems and various additional stuff. I think I'll finish all the poems (about 15-20 pages) and consider myself done with it :)
I also read a bit from The Colour of Magic. I really like Pratchett's sense of humour, maybe it is time for a proper reread of the books I own
I participated in the reading sprint last hour, so overall I closed a number of challenges in my bingo card.
Hope everyone is doing great as well!
Sounds like you're doing well and holding up strong. I have only done 4 hours then slept, now just got up basically and checking social media with audio. I have read one Terry Pratchett books in Discworld series and agree he has a good sense of humor in his stories and writing.
I joined another reading sprint for hour 12, still with Pratchett book. I had a break for lunch and walked my dog, now back to reading!
Hi Lamilla, I hope you had a lot of fun with the readathon so far!
Cathy wrote: "Hi Lamilla, I hope you had a lot of fun with the readathon so far!"Indeed I am!
For the Hour 16 reading sprint I'll try Штормовое предупреждение which was selected by helpful people out of three choices. This is a new to me author, let's see how it goes
I'm going to bed, time to wrap up the readathon.Overall progress:
I read 3 books: finished a poetry collection I started before the event and started Pratchett and new to me author. I participated in 3 reading sprints and filled two lines on my bingo board. It was a pleasant experience, I enjoyed it very much.
Good luck to everyone who is still reading for the next hours!
Have a good night! It‘s only 9pm here, I might make it to the end of the readathon at 2am.
Lamilla wrote: "I'm going to bed, time to wrap up the readathon.Overall progress:
I read 3 books: finished a poetry collection I started before the event and started Pratchett and new to me author. I participate..."
Great results Lamilla! Hope you had a great time!
Cathy wrote: "Have a good night! It‘s only 9pm here, I might make it to the end of the readathon at 2am."I’m going to try and stay up too but this morning I woke at 3.30/4.00 instead of my planned 6am so we’ll see
70 pages left of my current book… I could make it.
Yes, you definitely can make that! It's only 425 pm here in the afternoon though, so it depends how long you've been awake and the time I'm sure
And if the book is good, of course.
How are you getting on with the book we voted for?
Kate wrote: "How are you getting on with the book we voted for?"I might continue with it! I like the language, and judged by the reviews it is a soft magical realism which went well for me in
I read recentlyCathy wrote: "70 pages left of my current book… I could make it."
you can do it, Cathy!
I always walk my dog too during the read a thon. I need to learn how to post a picture of her here!
See you in October
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I'll be using the same bingo board as before. My card for this round:
https://bingobaker.com/#687a110003b5b7ba
I'm almost done with Harry Potter 4. I hope to finish it today to close the pre-readathon challenge. The book is the slowest in the series, but it gets more intense toward the end, so fingers crossed...