Cathy‘s Readathon Log

[Cathy]

My current horror read for Spooktober and my Horrorathon: Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1. It‘s pretty good so far!

[Vavita]

I have been dying to read that one even though I am not so into cozy horror. How is it?

[Cathy]

Not so cozy, there have been intestines visible… 😝

[Vavita]

That is cozy for me!

[Cynda]

Oh my! I liked the pumpkin heads in the Small Spaces books that I took as a suggestion from you. That was easy cozy.

[Cathy]

And it‘s a great Spooktober read! 🎃

@Vavita, when does it stop being cozy? 😝

[Susy]

🤣

[Cathy]

Cathy wrote: "My current horror read for Spooktober and my Horrorathon: Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1. It‘s pretty good so far!"

Finished, 5 stars! Very nice artwork, good story. I‘m reading vol. 2 already….

[Cathy]

Pre-Readathon Challenge: Fall, Falling, Fell

To complete the challenge, choose four of the following idioms as reading pointers/hints/indicators.

1. Fall in Love. (like, attraction, admiration)
2. Fall into the Fire. (destruction, purification, social crisis) Alien Clay, all of the above.
3. Fall into the Flow of Things. (sequence or niche- ness) Visitor, definitely a sequence.
4. Fall to the Earth. (fruit and leaves indicate trees; memoirs about parachuting or skydiving, disillusionment and recovery)
5. Fall off the Radar. (missing persons/murder mysteries) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1

[Cathy]

[Cynda]

Good! You're making your October reads work for our bingo card. See you at Deweys!

[Cathy]

And just in case you were wondering, YES! I have plans for the weekend! 😂

Tomorrow some walking with a friend and her dog and a wine tasting in the evening and on Sunday I might meet a friend at a coffee shop for a chat and some cake. 🤷

Once I have finished working today, I will at least get my grocery shopping out of the way!

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Sounds like a fun weekend ahead of you!

[Cathy]

Yes, well, one of these days I will manage a Dewey‘s weekend without plans! I made a pact with myself many years ago that real people always come before fictitious ones… 😏

[Cathy]

My TBR:

currently reading:
- Children of Time, almost done with the audio. Will probably finish tonight! — finished Friday night!
- Witchblade, Volume 1: Witch Hunt, comic, read about 20 of 160 pages.
- Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 217, October 2024 | My review for the first three stories.
- The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg, 306p., 6h 43m, parallel universes, time travel, portal fantasy.
- Autonomous, 304p., Buddy Reads Group November, set in 2144, pharma pirate battles the man.

Planned:
- Nightborn: Coldfire Rising, 330p., 9h 52m
- Children of Ruin, re-read, 576p., 15h 25m
- The Dragonbone Chair, 912p., paper
- Fool's Errand (Tawny Man #1), 593p.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I've had Children of Time on my TBR pile forever, some day! Heard it's good

Enjoy the rest of your reading!

[Vavita]

Yey for rereading Tchaikovsky!

[Cathy]

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "I've had Children of Time on my TBR pile forever, some day! Heard it's good."

If you‘re arachnophobic, this is not for you. If you don‘t mind spiders, this is great stuff. The ants are creepier, actually.

Vavita wrote: "Yey for rereading Tchaikovsky!"

Just finished Children of Time! I had forgotten soooo much! Ok, it‘s been 7 years… Looking forward to Children of Ruin. But I‘ll listen to something else first.

[Susy]

Cathy wrote: "Yes, well, one of these days I will manage a Dewey‘s weekend without plans! I made a pact with myself many years ago that real people always come before fictitious ones… 😏"

That's why I always do this weekend with a real life friend lol
We'll go for a walk in nature tomorrow after the readathon!

[Susy]

Hope you have a fun weekend Cathy, with both reading and other activities!

[Cathy]

Started this morning:

Audio: The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg, 306p., 6h 43m, parallel universes, time travel, portal fantasy.

Ebook: Autonomous, 304p., set in 2144, pharma pirate battles the man.

[Cathy]

Susy wrote: "That's why I always do this weekend with a real life friend lol..."

I don‘t know anyone in RL who reads as much as I do. They just look at me oddly when I mention things like Deweys. 🤷

[Susy]

Cathy wrote: "Susy wrote: "That's why I always do this weekend with a real life friend lol..."

I don‘t know anyone in RL who reads as much as I do. They just look at me oddly when I mention things like Deweys. 🤷"

That's too bad. I only have the one as well. But I would definitely do it on my own as it's only 2-3 times a year.

[Cynda]

Today Cathy and we all, we are in good company among people who know and do not have to understand the Call to Read 🐝

[Cathy]

So, my timeline… (updated at 18:30 CET)

Hour 1, 14:00–16:00, nature walk with a friend and her dog.
Hour 4, 17:00, reading sprint, listening to The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg for the whole hour at 1.4x speed, eating some crackers and drinking Twinings Ceylon Orange Pekoe tea.
Hour 5, 18:00, quick Social Media check, read 10 pages of Autonomous, off to my wine tasting…
Hour 6, 19:00–22:00, wine tasting

[Susy]

Hope you're having a great wine tasting, Cathy!
Let me fill up my glass: cheers!

[Cathy]

Susy wrote: "Hope you're having a great wine tasting, Cathy!
Let me fill up my glass: cheers!"
It was a lot of fun, but I definitely had too much wine!

Hour 10, 23:00-24:00, back home! Far from sober…Listened to some more The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg…

[Cathy]

Hours 9 and 10: Favorite books Prompt…

Non-fiction:
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
Food in History by Reay Tannahill

Fiction:
You know that this is impossible to answer, right? So, here are some of my 5-stars for 2024…

Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Black Coast by Mike Brooks
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian
Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

[Susy]

Cathy wrote: "Susy wrote: "Hope you're having a great wine tasting, Cathy!
Let me fill up my glass: cheers!"
It was a lot of fun, but I definitely had too much wine!

Hour 10, 23:00-24:00, back home! Far from so..."

lol, sounds like you had a great time.
I’m gonna get some sleep. See you in the morning!

[Cathy]

Me, too. See you in the morning!

Hours 11 + 12: about 40 pages of Autonomous and catching up with posts in this group.

[Cathy]

I‘m awake! I rewrote my reading schedule, due to the time resetting from summer daylight saving to winter time and then read 28 pages of Autonomous during the Hour 20 reading sprint. Might actually get out of bed now to make some coffee.

[Lamilla]

Good morning, Cathy! I'm a tea girl myself. Have a nice finish of the readathon!

[Cathy]

I stayed in bed a little longer and relistened to my audiobook chapters from last night. I hadn‘t really taken any of it in and was confused when I started again this morning. And then I hung up my launrdy and I continues The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg. Going to make breakfast now.

Have fun as well with the remaining time! I will meet a friend for coffee (maybe tea), cake and a short walk an hour after the readathon finished. Afterwards I will continue with my books for the rest of the day.

[Susy]

Sounds like you had a great weekend, Cathy!
See you back here in April hopefully!

[Cathy]

I will definitely be back in April!

Finished shortly after the end of the official readathon:
- The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg 🪺🪺🪺½, 306p., 6h 43m, parallel universes, time travel, portal fantasy.

I‘m counting the rest of that audio into my total. There wasn‘t much left.

Pages and minutes in Dewey’s October 2024 Readathon:
📖 105 pages only…
🎧 6 hours 43 minutes (at 1.2 to 1.5 speed)
🟰 411 pages

Started the Graphic Audio version of All Systems Red. I‘ve been meaning to try those adaptations for a while now.

[Cathy]

Some challenges for the post-readathon lap:

- finish 1 book— Artificial Condition
- read for 30 minutes without interruptions— Artificial Condition
- finish an audiobook—All Systems Red
- read a book by a familiar author Rogue Protocol
- read a book from a series— Artificial Condition
- finish 3 books— Rogue Protocol
- read a book by a new to me author — Autonomous

Sunday, Oct 27th: reading All Systems Red & Autonomous
Monday, Oct 28th: All Systems Red finished, Artificial Condition started.
Tuesday, Oct 29th: Artificial Condition finished, Rogue Protocol started.
Wednesday, Oct 30th: Autonomous 59% + Rogue Protocol 80%
Thursday, Oct 31st: Rogue Protocol finished, Exit Strategy started.
Friday, Nov 1st: Exit Strategy finished, Fugitive Telemetry started.
Sayurday, Nov 2nd: Fugitive Telemetry and Autonomous finished.

Thanks for the prompts, Lamilla!

[Vavita]

Good luck with the post readathon!

[Cynda]

Glad you had good readathon! Hope to see you and others in post-readathon lap :)

[Cathy]

Cynda wrote: "Glad you had good readathon! Hope to see you and others in post-readathon lap :)"

I am just debating if I only use one prompt per book…

[Lamilla]

Good luck with your reading, Cathy!

[Cathy]

Update since Sunday:

- finish 1 book— Artificial Condition
- read for 30 minutes without interruptions— Artificial Condition
- finish an audiobook—All Systems Red
- read a book by a familiar author Rogue Protocol
- read a book from a series— Artificial Condition

Monday, Oct 28th: All Systems Red finished
Tuesday, Oct 29th: Artificial Condition finished,
Wednesday, Oct 30th: Autonomous 59% + Rogue Protocol 80%

[Lamilla]

Looks like checking all the prompts was a walk in the park for you!

[Cynda]

Good going,Cathy!

[Cathy]

Cynda wrote: "Good going,Cathy!"
Lamilla wrote: "Looks like checking all the prompts was a walk in the park for you!"

To be fair, those are the Muderbot novellas as audios, aka short and re-reads. A bit like comfort food.

Thursday, Oct 31st: Rogue Protocol finished, Exit Strategy started.

[Vicki Willis]

Great updates! What a great Thon you had.

Too bad about the time change in the middle of it. Time changes are hard enough without have to figure out what hour we are in! LOL

See you in the new year.

[Cathy]

Yes, I wish the EU could bring that discussion to a close. I am also keeping summertime.

Post-readathon lap:

- finish 1 book— Artificial Condition
- read for 30 minutes without interruptions— Artificial Condition
- finish an audiobook—All Systems Red
- read a book by a familiar author Rogue Protocol
- read a book from a series— Artificial Condition
- finish 3 books— Rogue Protocol
- read a book by a new to me author — Autonomous

Sunday, Oct 27th: reading All Systems Red & Autonomous
Monday, Oct 28th: All Systems Red finished, Artificial Condition started.
Tuesday, Oct 29th: Artificial Condition finished, Rogue Protocol started.
Wednesday, Oct 30th: Autonomous 59% + Rogue Protocol 80%
Thursday, Oct 31st: Rogue Protocol finished, Exit Strategy started.
Friday, Nov 1st: Exit Strategy finished, Fugitive Telemetry started.
Sayurday, Nov 2nd: Fugitive Telemetry and Autonomous finished.

Had to extend it for a day to finish all the prompts!

[Lamilla]

Good work with finishing all the prompts, Cathy!

[Cathy]

Currently reading and TBR for Dewey‘s in April 2025:

currently reading:
- Magic Slays (Kate Daniels #6), Graphic Audio, 1h44m of 10h36m (320p.)

Finished:
- Pushing Ice, Audible TBR, 530p., 19h 43m
- Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters #2), 490 of 560p.

Plans for April 2025:
- The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace, 81 of 224p.
- Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 222, March 2025, 65 of 202p.
- Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 223, April 2025

Next most-wanted in ongoing series:

PRINT
- The Golden Fool (Tawny Man #2), 641p., ebook owned
- All the Weyrs of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern #11), 478p., paper owned, reread
- Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake #5), 730p., paper owned, Everand or Storytel trial?
- Hidden (Alex Verus #5), 353p., ebook owned

AUDIO
- Magic Rises (Kate Daniels #6), 368p., in audio, not owned, reread, Everand or Storytel?
- Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles #5), 448p., Audible, owned, reread? I am not sure if I have ever read this.
- Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake #5), 730p., paper owned, Everand or Storytel trial?

[Susy]

Nice, Cathy!

[D.L.]

That's a nice lot of books there! Good luck on your marathon goals.