Indigenous Peoples'/Canadian Thanksgiving Readathon!

[Elyse, Moderator]

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day (screw Columbus!) on Monday and also Thanksgiving Day in Canada so that means it's readathon time!

This readathon will go from Friday, Oct 9 - Monday, Oct 12!

What will you be reading this weekend? Will you be reading any spooooky books?

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Spooky and SF.
TBR [Subject to change without notice]:
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Elsewhere
The Rift: Hard Science Fiction
Mars Nation 1: Hard Science Fiction (1-3)
Earthlings

10/09: Dads vs. Zombies- from p. 205
The Twisted Ones
When the Clock Strikes on Halloween
The Haunting of Sunshine House

10/10: The Haunting of Sunshine House
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

10/11: The Hydrax Gamble
The Lictonwood


Titles Read:
Dads vs. Zombies
When the Clock Strikes on Halloween
The Haunting of Sunshine House
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
The Hydrax Gamble
The Lictonwood
The Portal

[Elyse, Moderator]

I have been in such a reading slump for the past month or so. All I want to do is watch TV. So I have been. Catching up on This Is Us and watching The Boys! :)
Anywho, I'm currently reading for Castle Macabre's Readalong, but I've hardly touched it, and listening to/reading along with . Basically I want to catch up on the schedule for The Woman in White and finish Dracula. Maybe make a dent in It.

[Charleen]

Right now I'm reading Skeleton Crew, but I'm thinking I might take a break because my next novel read is Thinner, and I think reading a King novel plus King stories on the side is probably too much King for my brain to keep straight. I also was planning on reading some Edgar Allan Poe this season, so maybe some of that this weekend as well.

And I have a hold on the audiobook of Station Eleven (I know, I'm crazy) and it should be coming in soon, so we'll see.

[Carol]

Yay! A read-a-thon! Unfortunately I am supposed to be camping so I don't think I will get a lot done. :( But I hope to get Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb finished. It is a good book so far.

[Lianne (The Towering Pile)]

I'm attempting the pre-read-a-thon challenge for Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, which requires a whopping 15 books read in the 3 weeks leading up to the event, so I'll be trying to make a dent in that pile!

If I don't finish Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? before the weekend, finishing that will be my first task. Then I might try to polish off a couple of the shorter books on my stack: The Hidden, The Other, and Ski Weekend are all pretty short. I'll also continue reading my current ebook, Stars In Her Eyes.

[Shelby]

I need this weekend to get plenty of work done because I’ve got a deadline coming up, so I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to join you all. I’d like to finish this weekend though, and ideally progress in and .

[Dawn]

Hello!
First time posting my reads!
Reading The Sirens of Titan from the GAR list, A Conspiracy of Paper and The Stand if it ever arrives, both for book club.

[writer...]

Elyse wrote: "It's Indigenous Peoples' Day (screw Columbus!) on Monday and also Thanksgiving Day in Canada so that means it's readathon time!

This readathon will go from Friday, Oct 9 - Monday, Oct 12.."

Reading Canadian 🍁📚
Thanks for thinking of us 💡 ! And for hosting 🌟

[Stacie]

I've got a bunch of non-reading things I've got to do over the weekend, and I'm watching my great-niece Monday (so all of my reading on that day will be toddler books- I picked up several new books for her so hopefully it won't be the same two books over and over, LOL). I did pick up Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise in honor of the holiday, though, and I'm looking forward to it.

[Shelby]

Just reached chapter 5 in Rosemary's Baby.

[Juli, Moderator]

Oh yes!!!!! I finally have a weekend off and I can participate.

My goals are to finish

Real Men Knit

and to make it through at least one of these ARCs that I am woefully behind on

Stoker's Wilde West
Misfits

[Juli, Moderator]

Elyse wrote: "I have been in such a reading slump for the past month or so. All I want to do is watch TV. So I have been. Catching up on This Is Us and watching The Boys! :)
Anywho, I'm currently reading [bookc..."

Elyse, I only read 5 books in September because I watched ALL THE TV.

[Shelby]

Sooo my copy of just got here, and I think the logical course of action is to start it.

[Charleen]

Shelby wrote: "Sooo my copy of just got here, and I think the logical course of action is to start it."

It's the only course of action.

I'm on the waitlist for this at my library, and I. CAN'T. WAIT!

[Charleen]

I read 3 stories out of Skeleton Crew today. I've read 12 out of the 22 in the collection, and I think that's where I'm going to stop for now. I'll come back to it after reading Thinner.

[writer...]

Finished WWII hist fic
Now on to Benni Harper myst series #10 Sunshine and Shadow
Both as 🎧 ..reading for Oct LitWits fb grp

[Elyse, Moderator]

I finally sunk my teeth into and got to page 80-ish today.

[Elyse, Moderator]

Juli wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I have been in such a reading slump for the past month or so. All I want to do is watch TV. So I have been. Catching up on This Is Us and watching The Boys! :)
Anywho, I'm currently ..."

haha sometimes it's just what you need!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Shelby wrote: "Sooo my copy of just got here, and I think the logical course of action is to start it."

Excellent! I wish Hoopla had her books!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Tomorrow is not a paid day off for me from work but I took it off and brought some work home so I will be doing that this morning while listening to . I have about 3 hours left so I'll either finish it by listening or switch to the e-book, depending on when I stop working. I have never read it before and really did not know anything about it other than preconceived notions. I didn't know it was epistolary. I didn't know there were more than 2 characters, Jonathan Harker and Count Dracula.

I hope to read some graphic novel ARCs today as well. I don't want to turn on the TV until 6pm today! #goals lol

[writer...]

Sunday Finished 🎧
Deciding on which audio might be next...

[Shelby]

Read a couple chapters of tonight. I need to stay in the right headspace the next few days to finish my current project in time, so I don’t want to get sucked into something right now.

[Stacie]

I finished up , and then fell down a YouTube rabbit hole watching more of her performances. I will definitely be reading more of her works.

[Charleen]

I'm 3 hours into Station Eleven and 257 pages into Thinner, both of which I started on Friday. I'd love to push to finish Thinner today, but it's just a typical Monday for us, which means my husband is working, and I'm balancing a clingy toddler and homeschooling a Kindergartner, so... probably not.

[Elyse, Moderator]

I did finish yesterday and also read . I made it to page 167 in . Today I am listening to while working again and then I've got to run some errands.

[Juli, Moderator]

Ugh, I think I jinxed it writing I can participate lol. In the middle of the night of Friday to Saturday, we had a work emergency that took me all night and all of Saturday to rectify. That threw my sleep schedule off so hard that I ended up feeling foggy all weekend and didn't get much reading done.

I was able to finish and this morning with coffee I started since I realized my library copy expires in 3 days. I don't have today off, but I'll try to read more tonight.

[Lianne (The Towering Pile)]

Haven't had the best weekend for reading, but I finally finished my first book! Since Friday I've read the last 130 pages of Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicholson #10) by Louise Rennison.

I still have some more reading time today, so I'm gonna at least start my next Animorphs book, The Hidden.

[Carol]

Well my long weekend plans changed and I could not attend the camping trip so I got a LOT of reading done. Here is what I was able to complete:

[Stacie]

I listened to about three hours of for myself and the rest of the day was spent reading a whole bunch of toddler books to the great-niece (Operation Introduce New Books So You Can Read Something Other Than Babysitting the Troll Tots was a success, folks! Hallelujah! is the current new favorite, in case anyone is wondering, and it is adorable. Which is good, because the second new favorite is... not).

[Charleen]

Final numbers:


369 pages (out of 423)
4:08 (out of 10:41)

Overall a very productive readathon. I was pleasantly surprised by the 100+ pages I read during the day! It was really tempting to push through the last 50 or so last night, but I had a meeting at the preschool, and when I got home I was just too tired.

Hope everyone else had a good weekend!

[Lianne (The Towering Pile)]

I did manage to finish another book last night, amazingly! So altogether I read:

Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (last 130 pages)
The Hidden (121 pages)

[Shelby]

I got very little reading done, which was to be expected this weekend. Well done everyone!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Stacie wrote: "I listened to about three hours of for myself and the rest of the day was spent reading a whole bunch of..."

I read the Tiny T-Rex book last weekend, it was adorable!!