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I think I must get some m&ms tomorrow (it’s 9pm here, the readathon starts at 2am here) while listening to my audiobook. I have no chocolate at ALL, a first!

Anyway, I have been prepping for today's October readathon, I just haven't been posting.
Since I'm in Turkey and it really doesn't work for me to wait until 4 PM to start and then read through to mid-afternoon on Sunday, I'll be starting at 9 AM here, and I'll be at hour 8 by the time most of the rest of you are getting started. (I really *love* reverse readathons for this very reason.) Sorry to be out of sync, but it maximizes my reading time!
Food prep:
I have mushroom and goat cheese mini frittatas to be served with steamed swiss chard for breakfasts; pomegranate lentil soup all ready for lunch; and leftover moussaka for dinner. For snacks, I have a fresh pan of brownies, a bag of peanut M&Ms, and apples. For drinks, I mostly stick with green tea and water (yeah, I'm boring that way).
TBR:
I have a couple of library books due within the week on which I'm hoping to make progress:


And, in case I want to mix things up (cause those two are pretty serious), the library thankfully came through for me yesterday with

(I mean, it has supervillains, unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson: what more could a girl want for readathon reading?)
And I have others that I'll likely dabble in, but I'll just see how my mood takes me.

Hour 1 & 2 Saturday 9-11 am (Hours 1 & 2 in Dewey Pre-Readathon Time)
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Location: Walking along the waterfront
Books read: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Pgs/% read: 57 pages
Time read: 90 minutes
Hour 3 Saturday 11-12 noon (Hour 3 in DPT)
Drinks: Water
Snacks: Banana, doughnut holes
Location: Living Room
Books read: Starter Villain
Pgs/% read: 38 pages
Time read: 45 minutes
Hour 4 Saturday 12-1 pm (Hour 4 in DPT)
Drinks: Green tea, water
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Location: Living room
Books read: Starter Villain
Pgs/% read: 40 pages
Time read: 40 minutes
Hours 5 Saturday 1-2 pm (Hour 5 in DPT)
Drinks: Water
Snacks: Bacon cheeseburger, sliced tomatoes
Location: Living room
Books read: Starter Villain
Pgs/% read: 42 pages
Time read: 40 minutes
Hour 6 Saturday 2-3 pm (Hour 6 in DPT)
Drinks: Water
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Location: Living room
Books read: Starter Villain
Pgs/% read: 42 pages
Time read: 38 minutes
Hour 7 Saturday 3-4 pm (Hour 7 in DPT)
Drinks: Water
Snacks: Peanut M&Ms
Location: Living room
Books read: Starter Villain
Pgs/% read: 70 pages
Time read: 50 minutes
Hour 8 Saturday 4-5 pm (Hour 1 in Dewey Readathon Time)
Drinks: Water
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Location: Living room
Books read: Starter Villain (finished!)
Pgs/% read: 29 pages
Time read: 25 minutes
Hour 9 Saturday 5-6 pm (Hour 2 in DRT)
Drinks: Water
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Location: Living room
Books read: Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule (finished!)
Pgs/% read: 100 pages
Time read: 45 minutes
Hour 10 Saturday 6-7 pm (Hour 3 in DRT)
Drinks:
Snacks: Beef salad
Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of The Female Body
Pgs/% read: 45 pages
Time read: 55 minutes
Hour 11 Saturday 7-8 pm (Hour 4 in DRT)
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Snacks: Brownie a la mode
Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of the Female Body
Pgs/% read: 24 pages
Time read: 35 minutes
Hour 12 Saturday 8-9 pm (Hour 5 in DRT)
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Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of the Female Body
Pgs/% read: 20 pages
Time read: 25 minutes
Hour 13 Saturday 9-10 pm (Hour 6 in DRT)
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Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of the Female Body
Pgs/% read: 34 pages
Time read: 45 minutes
Hour 14 Saturday 10-11 pm (Hour 7 in DRT)
Drinks: Water
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Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of the Female Body
Pgs/% read: 10 pages
Time read: 15 minutes
Hours 15 - 22 Saturday 11 - Sunday 7 am (Hours 8 - 15 in DRT)
Location: Bed
Hour 23 Sunday 7-8 am (Hour 16 in DRT)
Drinks: Kefir, green tea
Snacks: Banana
Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of the Female Body
Pgs/% read: 18 pages
Time read: 20 minutes
Hour 24 Sunday 8-9 am (Hour 17 in DRT)
Drinks: Green tea
Snacks:
Location: Living room
Books read: Eve: 200 Million Years of the Female Body
Pgs/% read: 12 pages
Time read: 15 minutes
Total books read: 4
Total books finished: 2
Total pages read: 547 pages
Total time read: 9 hours 45 minutes

Since I'm in Turkey and it really doesn't work for me to wait until 3 PM to start and then read through to mid-afternoon on Sunday, I'll be starting at 9 AM here, and I'll be at hour 7 by the time most of the rest of you are getting started. (I really *love* reverse readathons for this very reason.) Sorry to be out of sync, but it maximizes my reading time!
Food prep:
I made a batch of Puttanesca Chickpea and Tomato Salad for lunch, and I have leftover Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie for dinner.
For snacks, I have some Dark & Stormy Bars, a bag of peanut M&Ms, and some Pesto Mozzarella potato chips.
For drinks, I mostly stick with green tea and water (yeah, I'm boring that way).
TBR:
I have some library books due within the week on which I'm hoping to make progress:


My audio book (to accompany my exercise) is


Hour 1-3 Saturday 9 - 12 noon (Hours 1-3 in Dewey Pre-Readthon Time)
Location: Waterfront walk
Eating/drinking: Kefir, doughnut holes
Books read: The Silmarillion
Pgs/% read: 14%
Time read: 2 hours
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Hour 6 Saturday 2-3 pm (Hour 6 in DPT)
Location: Living room
Eating/drinking: Pesto Mozzarella chips
Books read: A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Pgs/% read: 50 pages
Time read: 45 min
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Hour 12 Saturday 8-9 pm (Hour 6 in DRT)
Location: Living room
Eating/drinking: Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie, artichoke, peach-rose kombucha
Books read: Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
Pgs/% read: 34 pages
Time read: 45 minutes
Hour 13 Saturday 9-10 pm (Hour 7 in DRT)
Location: Living room
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Books read: Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
Pgs/% read: 34 pages
Time read: 35 minutes
Hour 14 Saturday 10-11 pm (Hour 8 in DRT)
Location: Living room
Eating/drinking: Peanut M&Ms, ginger-mint tea
Books read:Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
Pgs/% read: 57 pages
Time read: 1 hour
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Hour 18 Sunday 2-3 am (Hour 12 in DRT)
Hour 19 Sunday 3-4 am (Hour 13 in DRT)
Hour 20 Sunday 4-5 am (Hour 14 in DRT)
Hour 21 Sunday 5-6 am (Hour 15 in DRT)
Hour 22 Sunday 6-7 am (Hour 16 in DRT)
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Hour 24 Sunday 8-9 am (Hour 18 in DRT)
Location: Living room
Eating/drinking: Banana, Dark & Stormy bar, kefir
Books read: Minor Detail
Pgs/% read: 54 pages
Time read: 50 minutes
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But a cozy day at home with my books sounds ideal, so I'll play along as best I can.
My TBR list is mainly made up of books I've borrowed from the library, so I expect to be working on
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
I may also dabble a little in Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat
For meal prep, I have a pot of lentil soup, some frozen pizza, a batch of sweet and sour red cabbage, and, in place of my traditional peanut M&Ms, I have salted caramel M&Ms.
And, as usual (for me, anyway), since I'm in Turkey and it really doesn't work for me to wait until 3 PM to start and then read through to mid-afternoon on Sunday, I'll be starting at 9 AM here, and I'll be at hour 7 by the time most of the rest of you are getting started. (I really *love* reverse readathons for this very reason.) Sorry to be out of sync, but it maximizes my reading time!

Hour 1 Saturday 9-10 am
Drinks: Green tea
Snacks: Scrambled eggs with tomato, cheddar, and avocado
Location: Salon
Books read: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
Pgs/% read: 20 pgs
Time read: 40 min
Hour 2 Saturday 10-11 am
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Location: Salon
Books read: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Pgs/% read: 19 pages
Time read: 30 min
Hour 3 Saturday 11-12 noon
Drinks:
Snacks: Salted Caramel M&Ms
Location: Salon
Books read: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Pgs/% read: 26 pages
Time read: 40 min
Hour 4 Saturday 12-1 pm
Drinks: Ginger-mint tea
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Location: Salon
Books read: We'll Prescribe You a Cat
Pgs/% read: 44 pages
Time read: 30 min
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Hour 7 Saturday 3-4 pm
Drinks: Water
Snacks: Smoked turkey and hummus sandwich
Location: Salon
Books read: Dreadful
Pgs/% read: 47 pages
Time read: 30 min
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Hour 12 Saturday 8-9 pm
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Snacks: Lentil soup
Location: Salon
Books read: Dreadful
Pgs/% read: 101 pages
Time read: 50 min
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Hour 14 Saturday 10-11 pm
Drinks: Vanilla Rooiboos Tea
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Location: Salon
Books read: On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Pgs/% read: 26 pages
Time read: 30 min
Hour 15 Sunday 11-12 midnight
Drinks: Water
Snacks: Lindt truffles
Location: Salon
Books read: On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Pgs/% read: 17 pages
Time read: 20 minutes
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Hour 24 Sunday 8-9 am
Drinks: Green tea
Snacks: Scrambled eggs with cheddar, tomato, and avocado
Location: Kitchen
Books read: On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Pgs/% read: 17 pages
Time read: 20 minutes
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Hope you have a great reading weekend.

H..."
Thanks, Ann A. You have a great reading weekend, too!

I’m in the Netherlands so a similar time zone, but I actually enjoy the regular Dewey’s more than the reverse. I plan a whole weekend without distractions and it’s easier to keep focused with a good nights rest halfway the readathon lol

As is usual (for me, anyway), since I'm in Turkey and it really doesn't work for me to wait until 3 PM to start and then read through to mid-afternoon on Sunday, I'll be starting at 9 AM here, and I'll be at hour 7 by the time most of the rest of you are getting started. (I really *love* reverse readathons for this very reason.) Sorry to be out of sync, but it maximizes my reading time!
I do have a few books going already on which I hope to make progress:
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country,
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, and
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
And I have laid in my mandatory stash of peanut M&Ms.

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Pope Francis's funeral
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Hour 11 Saturday 7-8 pm (Hour 5 in DRT)
Location: Walking along the waterfront
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Books read: The Song of Bernadette
Pgs/% read: 8.3%
Time read: 1 hr 20 minutes
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Sounds like you have arranged it to participate when you can despite a busy schedule and lots to do. Hope you get good reading time in and of course enjoy those M&Ms!

I haven't really laid in much by way of snacks: since I'm preparing to leave, I'm more focused on emptying the fridge. That said, I do have some lahmacun, hummus, and cig kofte to nibble on, and there's ice cream and root beer if I want to treat myself to a root beer float. Instead of my readathon traditional peanut M&Ms, I have a stash of salted caramel M&Ms.
On my reading list, I have:





Fortunately, since this is the reverse readathon, I'll be more in sync with everyone!

Hour 1 Saturday 3 - 4 am
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Hour 4 Saturday 6 - 7 am
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Location: Dining room
Eating/drinking: Grilled turkey and cheese sandwich, nectarine, green tea
Books read: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Pgs/% read: 14 pages
Time read: 30 min
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Hours 9 & 10 Saturday 11 am - 1 pm
Location: Waterfront walk
Eating/drinking: Water
Books read: The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
Pgs/% read: 33%
Time read: 75 min
Hour 11 Saturday 1 - 2 pm
Location: Salon
Eating/drinking: Jasmine kombucha
Books read: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Pgs/% read: 33 pages
Time read: 30 min
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Hour 13 Saturday 3 - 4 pm
Location: Dining room
Eating/drinking: Lahmacun
Books read: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Pgs/% read: 16 pages
Time read: 15 min
Hour 14 Saturday 4 - 5 pm
Location: Dining room
Eating/drinking: Root beer float
Books read: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Pgs/% read: 24 pages
Time read: 20 min
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Location: Salon
Eating/drinking: Chocolate chia pudding with raspberries
Books read: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Pgs/% read: 75 pages
Time read: 65 min
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Pgs/% read: 42 pages
Time read: 35 min
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Total books finished: The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned (other topics)Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (other topics)
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned (other topics)
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (other topics)
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Rashid Khalidi (other topics)Anthony Fauci (other topics)
Caitlin Rozakis (other topics)
Syou Ishida (other topics)
Georgette Heyer (other topics)
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I have a few books in progress, so those will be my priority:
How Not to Diet
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
Babel: An Arcane History
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
I also have a new audio book to accompany me when I go out to take a walk or need to putter around the house:
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
TBE (to be eaten) for July reverse readathon:
I have:
Peanut M&Ms (a *must* for readathons)
Root beer and ice cream for a root beer float
Cherries and nectarines
Puttanesca chickpea and tomato salad
I have, alas, a dinner engagement, but at least I don't need to worry about feeding myself for that one meal!