Dewey’s Readathon

We have our snacks, oh lord do we have snacks. There’s a reason we rarely go to Fresh Market — it sucks more money from us than a trip to Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods combined!

I have my books ready to go:

I’m surfing the blogs of my cheerleader teammates right now, Go #TeamWordsworth. (I’m also downloading Wordsworth poems to read tomorrow. Hah.) The cheering makes me almost as excited as the snacks and full day of reading. Seriously. If you’d like to visit my teammates, here are there blogs:

• Branching Out
• All the Pretty Books
• Bloggers Recommend
• Booked On a Feeling
• Sherry Ann’s Book Blog
• The Girl Who Loved to Read
• Latte Literature
• My Little World

I love Dewey’s Readathon more than just about anything. Those two days a year are some of my most favorite and I look forward to them like a kid looks forward to Christmas (or Halloween.)

This year, I volunteered to be a cheerleader.

It might cut into my own reading time a little bit but that’s OK! It’s the least I can do after all of the times folks have cheered me on. I’m very much looking forward to visiting other #readathoner’s blogs and sending them a happy thought or three.

It’s not too late for you to sign up to participate, as a reader or a cheerleader (or both!) And if you can’t swing it this month, you’ll have another chance in October. Oh, how I love #readathon!

I just finished A Short History of Myth – a very dry and dense 149 pages. I… am not sure how I felt about this one. Parts of it made sense, parts of it I don’t buy, parts of it — I’ll have to think more about, probably while I’m reading the other books in the Canongate Myths series, in the weeks ahead.

Which leads me to the final stretches … I’m tired. My eyes are really tired. So, I’m turning to my stack of children’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry from the Cybils shortlist. I’ve got 11 of them here and I plan to finish them all before I call my fall 2013 #readathon — done.

I think I’d better grab some chocolate and another cup of coffee to get me through the final stretch.

I just hit the 14 hour mark and I’ve finished a bunch of books now.

– Astronauts Wives Club (just the last 83 pages)
– The Daylight Gate (224 pages)
– Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (376 pages)
– Lake Genava: Life At the Water’s Edge (187 pages)
– Day Trips From Chicago (207 pages)
– An hour of Dexter’s Final Cut on audio.

I’m starting on The History of Myth now. Not a bad day, so far — considering I had an hour nap and got a late start!

Time for some chips and salsa, I think.

I stumbled across the book trailer for Janitors last week and I thought it was amusing. I think I’m going to read this one! Strangeeeeee janitors, lol.

Fun, right?

I’m coming up on my eight hour mark so I thought it might be time for an update, particularly since I won a door prize. How awesome is that? Totally awesome.

I did take a nap for just about an hour, I didn’t want to but the long work week and late night last night caught up with me. And, I had a snack. Some sort of cookie things that TW bought — Laura’s Wholesome Junk Food or something. Now I’m back in the game.

125 pages of “Lake Geneva: Life at the Water’s Edge” and working on the first story (by Patricia Highsmith, which means it’s awesome) of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives.

Total page count: 477 (and an hour of an audio book)

I started at 7:30am, so am right at the 5 hour mark.

I read 83 pages of Astronauts Wives Club.
An hour of listening to Dexter’s Final Cut, on audio.
Am 162 pages into The Daylight Gate (and it is excellent.)

I’ve eaten a pumpkin cream cheese muffin, 2 Parmesan crips and just warmed up a squash/apple/onion galette.

We drove the boy to his dad’s and stopped for Starbucks,too.

I might need a nap… I’m tired and it’s too early to be tired. Ugh.

I always think that I should choose books that will make good poetry for the Book Spine Mini Challenge but I never end up doing that.

So here’s what I’ve got this time and it’s not half bad:

The Endangered Species Road Trip,
The Daylight Gate.
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives,
A Short History of Myth.

I just finished “Astronaut Wives Club” so I am listening to Frank Sinatra — Fly Me To the Moon for the Book Tunes Mini Challenge.

Moving to Jeanette Winterson’s, “The Daily Gate” now.
Pages read update: 83
Snack update: Pumpkin Cheesecake muffin.