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Drop Everything and Read ( DEAR ) Day Challenge 2019
I'll also join! I have way too many books I'm currently reading... maybe I'll finish a couple.
It is 1:45am here and I have landed... and am going to sleep! I didn’t finish Ghosts of Gotham on the plane. Not sure if that’s what I will keep reading as 4/12 unfolds, or if I’ll switch to something else... I am literally going to sleep on it :)
I'm off to a good start 😊 I have three books lined up for today and am halfway through the first one Always on My Mind
Happy DEAR day everyone!I'll get everyone not linked up a little later this morning
not sure how much i'll actually get done today, but i've started Over Your Dead Body on audio, will read a little bit of Seven Blades in Black, and hopefully finish the last third of Alien: Echo.
I've started
I'm 10% in and suspect its going to be a 4 or 5 star read for me!
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Happy reading.
Yeah Alysa, glad to hear you arrived safely!
I will try to stay focused and read the book
today. I have started the audio. That way I can do things around the house with my wireless headphones and won’t waste a minute! LOLSounds like you are off to a great start, DeVann and Laura!
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Great start Nicole!
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today. I have started the audio. That way I can do things around the house with my wireless headphones and won’t waste a ..."Multitasking! Very nice Geri. Your book looks interesting. Let us know what you think.
I read the last 120 pages of The Dream Thieves this morning but since then it's been very slow-going - turns out I (once again) have a lot more to do than I expected...
I managed to finish all three books! Woohoo 💃🏼🎉 I started off with
which was like visiting old friends. It's book #8 in the Lucky Harbor series and it was a fun friends-to-lovers story. Then I went into
and that was another creepy read about how society makes us believe that being this perfect specimen is the only way to be. Was great to see the female MC break free from that kind of thought. And I just finished
and this one was unplanned. Just released today and all the book bloggers I follow were toting how great it was. So I decided an alpha male was just what I needed. I have started a 4th book and will see how far I get tonight.
I started reading the novel Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor, which I'll finish tonight because it's over 400 pages, but quick reading nonetheless.
And I am really enjoying reading the poetry collection Toward the Winter Solstice: New Poems by Timothy Steele. So much of it resonates. I am going to try to find his other work too.
I'm in too, hope it's not too late! I can't drop everything, cause, y'know, work, but it is Friday so I can stay up a bit.
Woo! I found two more books of poetry by Timothy Steele on Internet Archive so I added those to my reading list today. Hopefully I'll be able to finish them both:
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems
The Color Wheel
I was simply adding to my original tagged post. Is it preferred for me to do that or add onto this chain at the end?
Cheryl wrote: "I was simply adding to my original tagged post. Is it preferred for me to do that or add onto this chain at the end?"Whichever you prefer Cheryl!
Alanna wrote: "I'm in too, hope it's not too late! I can't drop everything, cause, y'know, work, but it is Friday so I can stay up a bit."Not at all; we'll get you linked up in a jiffy!
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which was like visiting old friends. It's book #8 in the Lucky Harbor series and it was a f..."Wow, Nicole you are doing awesome! Hope the books are good!
Kat wrote: "I started reading the novel Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor, which I'll finish tonight because it's over 400 pages, but quick reading nonetheless.[bookcover:Days of Blood..."
That was a great series by Laini Taylor! I think the first was my favorite though.
Nicole wrote: "I managed to finish all three books! Woohoo 💃🏼🎉 I started off with which was like visiting old friends. It's book #8 in the Lucky Harbor series and it was a f..."I need to get back to the Lucky Harbour series.
Warming up with a graphic novel. I just read
Just finished
Although to be fair, I was halfway done with it before I started today.
I'm making progress.... I'm up to 54% in my book and it's one of the best books I've read recently.
I need to log the audio book before I forget. Will fill in the morning soon/later. And I'm still going. 8am - 9:15, 10:45 - 11:05, 12:00 - 12:20: Read The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, pp. 43 - 82
1pm - 3:15pm: Listened to The Third Policeman, Discs 5 & 6. Finished book.
10pm - 10:45, 11:15 - 12m: The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, pp.82 - ?? (99 when I logged off, but my goal is 125 before I fall asleep; update in the morning).
Well, a bit over-ambitious. Not sure on the exact timing, but I woke with my phone stuffed into 104/105. Ok for a busy day.
I earned the coin.
finished Alien: Echo! although i only had about 100 pages left lol. very good, would definitely recommend it even to people like me who aren't super familiar with the alien universegonna see how far i can get in Seven Blades in Black now i think. it's so long though that i don't know if i'll be able to finish it tonight even though i've only got about 30% left
Spent about 60 minutes on The Master and Margarita, and dang what a 40 or so pages that was! Russian names are hard for my untrained ear, so I really had to slow down and really chew it over.
Alright, that's a second hour, with a bit more Master and Margarita, five pages here, five pages there, in different books. Super jealous of those of you who got to read more. I think I'm too tired to focus on a single book, so the two hour minimum and bedtime it is.
Finished Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor, which is heartbreakingly realistic in terms of the pervasiveness of choosing war over peace.
Also finished Toward the Winter Solstice: New Poems by Timothy Steele
and
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems also by Timothy Steele.
Nice reading everyone!I finished my earlier book and started Harlan Coben's Run Away!
Hi everybody! I haven’t been online since my last post in this thread but I have been reading! Got in a bit more of
and then set it aside to read a decent chunk of
. I love seeing what everybody else has been reading :D
Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Everyone is linked up to here! Welcome everyone!Happy reading.
Yeah Alysa, glad to hear you arrived safely!"
Thanks! I will turn around and do the whole thing in the reverse direction when I go home late Mon night. Hopefully without the flight delays though ;)
Geri wrote: "I will try to stay focused and read the book today. I have started the audio. That way I can do things around the house with my wireless headphones and won’t waste a ..."Ooh,
was really good! I read it not too long ago. What’s funny is that my mother saw me reading it and asked if she’d like it too, and I was like “Noooooo.” She usually reads super-mainstream pulpy bestsellers, not literary fiction. But she read it anyway, and liked it, and we had a nice book talk! This NEVER EVER happens!
Alysa wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Everyone is linked up to here! Welcome everyone!Happy reading.
Yeah Alysa, glad to hear you arrived safely!"
Thanks! I will turn around and do the whole thing in the..."
Flight delays are not nice ; hopefully you were able to pass that time by reading?
Laura wrote: "Flight delays are not nice ; hopefully you were able to pass that time by reading?"Some reading, thank goodness, but also waiting hand and foot on my exhausted 8 year old!
Alysa wrote: "Laura wrote: "Flight delays are not nice ; hopefully you were able to pass that time by reading?"Some reading, thank goodness, but also waiting hand and foot on my exhausted 8 year old!"
awww, hopefully the trip will make up for the exhaustion.
Laura wrote: "awww, hopefully the trip will make up for the exhaustion."So far so good. :) Now she is sleeping again. In fact I am the only one still awake! It’s 11pm here, so I will spend this last hour of DEAR day on some more reading. Goodnight!
It's after 12pm here for me; I'm falling asleep so I'm going to call it a wrap for me too. Those of you still reading---keep up the great work
Book 1: Reliquary 8:50-9:30 AM p.126-1538:25-11:00 PM p.153-234
Book 2: Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific 11:08 AM-2:15 PM p.102-186
3:43-7:30 PM p.186-End
I just spent 4 hours on All's Fair Complete Collection: Fair Game/Fair Play/Fair Chance by Josh Lanyon, but I'm nowhere near done because it's 876 pages long. I was hoping to spend more time on it, but it's not really holding my attention.
Well I did not manage to read for at least 2 hours before midnight. However, I did start Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship and I should finish it today or tomorrow time allowing. Also I learned that the American Civil War started April 12, 1861 (158 years ago) at 4:30 a.m. 😲 (I was not the best student so if I ever learned this I forgot, but it is a weird-cool coincidence to (re)learn it.)
Congratulations everyone on your reading. I hope you all had fun and see you next year at the 3rd annual DEAR day!Here is the Earth day challenge if you are interested in another RAT
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Reading Challenge: Drop Everything and Read ( DEAR ) Day Challenge 2019
Duration: April 12, 2019
Level: 2+ hours
7:15 to 8:25 - 11% read - Cold Summer
17:17 to 18:20 - another 11% read - Cold Summer
19:30 to 21:40 - 23% read - The Darkest Part of the Forest