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April 2019 Readathons
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Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon - Apr 6-7, 2019
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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
BINGO - BLACKOUTRow 1
Participate in hourly discussions Goodreads: ✔
Listen to an audiobook: The X-Files: Cold Cases
Wear something bookish related: Quidditch slippers I got for Christmas and have worn everyday since!
Reread a book: X (read X last year, just read Wye, needed to re-read X!)
Read a book with illustrations: Adulthood Is a Myth
Row 2
Read for an hour straight: 10am-11am
Take a break and do some stretches: Took the dogs for a short walk while listening to an audiobook
Read a book with 3 words or less in the title: Wye
Participate in a mini challenge: ✔
Read 200 pages: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Row 3
Read a genre outside of your comfort zone: (poetry is not in my normal genre rolodex) The Princess Saves Herself in This One
Read a book with more than 300 pages: The Complete Persepolis
FREE SPACE
Eat a healthy snack: Red pepper hummus & cukes, celery, carrots
Read a book with a person on the cover:
Row 4
Read in your PJs: 8am-12pm!
Read a book with your Harry Potter house colors on the covers: Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince (close enough!)
Finish a book: Identity Thief
Read for a total of 5 hours: ✔
Cheer on other readers for 20 minutes: ✔
Row 5
Read a book with diversity: Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
Post a book review (on GR, blog, etc): Strong Ending
Post a picture on Twitter/Instagram @Readathon: Dewey's 24-Hour Readation - April 2019 Edition (Pinterest)
Read a new to you book: Cat vs Human Fairy Tails (my eye grabbed it on Hoopla just a few days ago. I'd never heard of it!)
Read in 2 separate locations: Library chair and living room chair
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.
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!
Mid-Event Survey1. What are you reading right now? The Queen: Aretha Franklin
2. How many books have you read so far? I've read 5 and in the middle of 2
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? Still want to read The Complete Persepolis!
4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? Checking up on Goodreads NOT during my check-ins. lol. But still turning on the audiobook when I do it!
5. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? How tired I am. I've been awake since 6:45am and it's 8:15pm. Ack.
End Totals Wrap-UpTotal time reading: 20 hours 41 minutes my best time!
Pages read: 1,250 my best page count! (not including audio)
Hours listened: 11 hours 35 minutes
Breaks/sleep: 3 hours 20 minutes of sleep
Books read: 9
Books listened: 5
Partial: 1
(76 pages read)Comments:
The audiobooks I read are only audio so I can't convert into pages read. Ah well. I didn't think I listened that much but they were short and turns out they added up! My best time and best pages read! Woot! I don't see myself beating this one. I can't get less than 3 hours of sleep. lol.
Closing Survey!
What hour was most daunting? Always the wee wee hours but I stayed up later than I ever have for Dewey's!
Tell us ALLLLL the books you read!
What was your favorite snack? Milk chocolate covered cappuccino beans! First time I've had them and they're way too good. lol
What was your favorite facet of the day? As much as I "complain" about spending too much time on Goodreads, it's so much fun to be a part of this day and community and feel so connected!
Wanna volunteer for our next event? I might do an hourly discussion again.
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Dewey's is back and I'm in for another readathon! I will track here.