Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion
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Nice!! This reminds me I need to get serious on charging more of my items tonight.
I hope you have a great read-a-thon!
Lamilla wrote: "I have an unplanned family visit which will eat some of my time. Still hope to read as much as possible, though."
Good luck, Lamilla!
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I started the readathon with Neverwhere. My copy is, apparently, author preferred edition. Enjoying it so far!
Moving the bingo board here for easier use:Covered several boxes already with Neverwhere
Bingo board from Leni, adapted a bit
B1 – Fave colour on cover (light blue)
✔ B2 – Make and eat a healthy snack
✔ B3 – 1 hour reading sprint!
B4 – Re-read a favourite
✔ B5 – Start a book
✔ I1 – 100 pages total reading
✔ I2 – Read 3 different genres
✔ I3 - Have an exercise or a walk
I4 – Finish a book
✔I5 – Listen to 30 min of an audiobook
N1 – Participate in a challenge
N2 – Random pick from TBR
✔ N3 – FREE
✔ N4 - Spooky or autumn cover/title
N5 – Discuss your book (no spoilers!)
✔G1 – Read a book that has been on TBR for a long time
✔ G2 - Do some chores
G3 – Read from a short stories collection
✔G4 – Read a book that was made into a movie/TV show
✔ G5 – Book from/set in your country
✔O1 – Book from/set in another country
O2 – Read a book from start to finish
✔O3 – Read in another language
✔ O4 – Fresh air! Read outside or run around the block
O5 – Watch something bookish
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Thanks! Made good progress on Neverwhere - the story keeps me interested . Going to sleep now to continue in the morning
Sleep well! I'm about to do the same. See you tomorrow !
Started my morning reading with 40 pages of Воспоминания великого князя Александра Михайловича. Interesting, that more than 100 years ago people were feeling exactly the same and called the time they were living in dreadful
I'm one challenge away from getting a line on my bingo board. I'll try to listen to 30 min of an audiobook - Fresh Water for Flowers
Erebos sounds interesting! So does The Last Migration, but maybe a bit too „literary fiction“ for my taste…
The Last migration reads like a memoir of an ornithologist to be honest! I doubt I'll get to it in the next three hours, since I really enjoy Fresh Water for Flowers and I'd like to know what happens next in NeverwhereI was fast asleep during the half point, so I'm filling the survey now )
Half-Point Progress Report
How many books have you been reading? Have you finished any?
3 so far, including Neverwhere I started in the evening and was really sad to put down to get some sleep!
Are you on track with respect to your readathon goals so far?
Much better than I expected, especially considering that Neverwhere and Fresh Water for Flowers both turned out to be very interesting
Have you eaten real food today? What was your favorite food or beverage so far?
Millet porridge and tea! Extremely easy to cook and delicious )
Have you been participating in any of the activities on our social media?
Missed the reading sprints, hope to participate in a closing one. Checking my bingo board (really close to having a line)
Are you growing sleepy? Do you plan to nap, or stop early, or are you extending the readathon hours to include sleep?
I had a full night sleep and walked my dog before that, so full of energy at the moment
Have you been outside yet today? Have you had much exercise (besides the heavy lifting required to hold your book)?
No excercise apart from walking my dog
How is your readathon going, overall?
Enjoying it very much
What a lucky dog! Does your dog stare at you when it is time for a walk? My dog insists on walking every morning and every night. She helps me get all my steps in for the day!
Vicki Willis wrote: "She helps me get all my steps in for the day!" Mine too! She is a spaniel so needs at least 2 hours a day
Closing survey1. Which hour was most daunting for you?
in the morning time flew really fast and I missed a reading sprint, which was a pity!
2. Tell us ALLLLL the books you read!
continued
started and made good progress on
started listening to
3. Which books would you recommend to other Read-a-thoners?
last two picks could be good for either Gaiman-lovers or someone fascinated by life and death
4. What’s a great thing we could do during the next Read-a-thon that would make you smile?
works already for me as it is
5. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again?
Would you be interested in volunteering to help organize and prep?
I'm a regular by now, enjoying this time very much
Overall I'm happy that I had a variety of books and formats to choose from and I enjoyed 3 books I read. I also had time for a walk outside, cooked and did some other chores, so it was a balanced weekend for me. Next time I would love to have more time for reading, but life does sometime get in the way )
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Lamilla wrote: "Overall I'm happy that I had a variety of books and formats to choose from and I enjoyed 3 books I read. I also had time for a walk outside, cooked and did some other chores, so it was a balanced w..."Sounds like a good readathon weekend, Lamilla! Indeed, sometimes life gets in the way. One can not foresee everything but I do tend to plan ahead my weekend, let certain people like my parents know only to call me in case of life or death emergency.
See you in April hopefully!
I really enjoyed the BBC dramatization of Neverwhere! I never read the book. Neverwhere: BBC Dramatisation
The comic was pretty good as well… Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Oh, yes, the TV adaptation of Good Omens is fantastic…
Thank you ladies!Cool down week:
23.10: I managed to finish the main part of
yesterday, now going through letters and journal entries. ETA: finished Воспоминания великого князя Александра Михайловича, solid 5 stars. Listened a bit of
and now back to
24.10: Finished Neverwhere. Maybe I'll try something from my readathon TBR next
25.10: I started
from my readathon TBR (still not a match for "Present" of my "Time" challenge! Works for "timeless" section, though). Also continuing with
26.10 Finished Нищета мозга. Continuing with
and listening to
27-29.10: Continuing with
. The book is as exciting as the game it depicts"Time" challenge
✔ Past - Воспоминания о России
✔ Present - Erebos
Future - The Last Migration (currently reading)
✔ In Time - Страницы моей жизни
✔ Out of Time - The Child in Time
Good job with your readathon! I like that you can do your cool down week afterward too.
See you in April!
I'm participating in the pre-readathon challenge.My list:
Level One: Space: Cardinal Directional
DONE East - Когда причиняют добро (author is from South Korea, which is part of the East Asia)
DONE West - На Западном фронте без перемен (West in the title)
DONE North - Здесь была Бритт-Мари (Sweden is in the Northern Europe)
South - Богоматерь Нильская (set in Rwanda, Africa)
Level Two: Perpendicular
DONE Up - Сато (deals with the officer of the space fleet trapped on Earth in a body of a small kid)
DONE Down - Что-то не так с Гэлвинами (the book studies schizophrenia, so talks a lot about our brain, which is deep inside us)
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I'm done with my pre-readathon challenge, hurray
My tentative TBR- modern fiction, which is forever on my TBR:
Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него
Альтист Данилов
Тобол. Много званых
Лисьи броды
Санькя
or to re-read the ones I own:
Дом, в котором...
Кысь
- other fiction:
Смертельная белизна
Northanger Abbey - finished before the readathon
Марш Радецкого
Макбет
Черный обелиск
Delivery Room
Fresh Water for Flowers - DNF before the readathon
- non-fiction:
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
My plan for this readathon is to have a big variety of books to choose from
Wow, you were quite busy already with that pre-readthon! And a big TBR list…
I'm having great time with reading so far this year, hope the readathon weekend will be just the same!
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I hope it will make me think about important things too, CyndaNo particular plan for snacks for the weekend. Now on the hunt of a new bingo board
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i don't think I would do any more challenges before the readathon itself. Just finished 200 pages a day - that was tough!
Lamilla wrote: "No particular plan for snacks for the weekend. Now on the hunt of a new bingo board"Hi Lamilla, did you find the bingo board? I know there's a version on the Facebook group if you're a member of that.
Hi Kate, not yet. I'm not a member of the facebook group, the site is banned here :)
There are also some bingo boards on Discord!
Thank you guys! Erin also shared a nice site, so here is my bingo board: https://bingobaker.com/#66156c522066093aAnd my generated card:
https://bingobaker.com/#66156c5a691770fe
Ladies, I would need your help with one of the challenges from my bingo board.Here are three books from my TBR:
Please comment your selection. I will read the book that gets most votes :)
The Radetzky March looks really interesting. I'd go for that one.
If I were picking for myself, would go with Delivery Room
This one sounds interesting: The Radetzky March
The Radetzky March is a leader at the moment! I'll wait till the start of the readathon, in case some more votes come and change the result
Hello! Happy Pre-Readathon Greeting! Almost there!
Almost there indeed!I'm opening the readathon with
, which I started some time before the eventNext I'll go to
which got the most votes. It would have been my choice as well!
The first reading sprint went well! I managed to stay focused for the whole hour - luckily, there were no distrations. I went through a couple of chapters in both books.Now I'll have a break with a cup of tea and a nice piece of cake. It's called "Fairytale", was a hit in my youth
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My TBR for the readathon:
plus I might read something else based on my mood
I've done as much as I could for my pre-readathon bingo, happy with the result