Hour 16 Sprint Oct2022

[Jamie]

Are you joining in on the sprint for this hour? What are you reading? (I may do a pair of 30 minute sprints running into hour 17 myself since I had a bit of foster kitten business pop up at just the wrong time tonight.)

[Jamie]

I was listening to Attack Surface, by Doctorow, when this hour began, but I am switching to Anacaona, by Edwidge Danticat, for the remainder of this hour.

[Elyse]

I did start at 11pm on page 368 of

[Elyse]

Just finished at page 468! Will not be trying to squeeze in a few pages of anything before Oct 23 starts. lol

[Cynda]

I want to finish Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman during this readathon. So I will read for an hour or so.

[Vicki Willis]

I read The Maze for this sprint.

[Beth]

I'm in. reading On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poemas frente al mar by Pablo Neruda

[Cynda]

Beth my go-to hispanic man of letters Ilan Stavans has written book after book about Neruda. . . . .Are you familiar with Stavans? . . . . Which Neruda collection is most accessible? My appreciation of Stavans drives this question.

[Vanessa]

Trying to finish the shortest book in my stack .
It is also my Halloween read : PIANO LESSONS CAN BE MURDER
The sprint helped me add 30 more pages to my page count and increased angst as I get closer and closer to the end .
Thanks

[Beth]

Cynda wrote: "Beth my go-to hispanic man of letters Ilan Stavans has written book after book about Neruda. . . . .Are you familiar with Stavans? . . . . Which Neruda collection is most accessible?..."

Stavans edited I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems which is the first Neruda collection I read. It's a selection of poems with different translators, which I thought was interesting.

The book I'm reading now is much shorter, a collection of poems about the sea.

Update: read 25 pages of my book, plus Galatea which was 20 pages

45 pages read

[Cynda]

Thanks Beth. I am adding to my possibilities for next hispanic month.

[Lamilla]

missed this spint (too early in the morning), will catch up in the next one!