The Under-Hyped Readathon! discussion
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Best book was by far The Loving Spirit but it was the only "full length" novel I read. While I liked the other 3 books I read and I gave all 4 of the books I read 4/5 stars I gave them that on very different reasons. One of them challenged me (A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing), one of them was just beautiful prose (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things) and the fourth was a short story collection with a couple of gems (The Birds and Other Stories)!
My resounding feelings are I quite like this readathon lark. Just maybe next time I'll try and have all 4 of my lab reports complete before I decide to join in ;)

Readathons are the best!
I hope everyone else did as well as they could.


And I've read about 175 pages of William - An Englishman! I read a pretty big range of things, so I'm not sure which book was my favorite...I rated two of them 4/5 stars, and one 5/5. I'm sure William - An Englishman will be 5 stars. It's the one that has elicited the greatest emotional reactions from me!

I will be posting a wrap up on my channel at some stage. I should have filmed it today, but video inspiration was low... Still recovering from the sleep deprivation before the festivities I think!! :)
But I completed Beware the Gingerbread House, Soldier on the Hill and The Comet Box. And started Godfather Was A Girl: . . . And Blanche Dubois Was A Guy and South of Darkness.


The books I read was:
Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde
The Blue Fox by Sjón (Favorite read!)
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
The Art of Seeing Things by John Burroughs
23-salen by Ingvar Ambjørnsen


So, three books. Not bad. My aim was actually one book. But last week, I was off two days in a row, so I did a good amount of reading.

I read Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens in the first day, then Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare PhD and at last Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith. The manga I read was the fifth volume of Black Cat by Kentaro Yabuki.
Definitely recommend all reads but each have different themes, so make sure to see what suits you :) I tried to write a review on the first book I read if anyone's interested and want to check it out :D
Can't wait for the next readathon! :D
Books mentioned in this topic
My Father's Dragon (other topics)The Birds and Other Stories (other topics)
The Complete Short Fiction (other topics)
The Loving Spirit (other topics)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Oscar Wilde (other topics)Richard Yates (other topics)
John Burroughs (other topics)
Sjón (other topics)
Ingvar Ambjørnsen (other topics)
I managed to finish two from my TBR (though I did read one the day before the readathon started...)
How did everyone else get on?