2013

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.

Gah, late start! I’ve never gotten up so late on a #readathon day before so I’m not ready to actually start reading. This is not a good way to start the day. Poop. Oh well, I’m gonna rush through work and hopefully be ready to start by 7:30am CT… fingers crossed.

And here’s the first meme of the day. The intro survey, (same questions as always and I’ll be honest and say I started to pre-write this post last night but didn’t because I figured the way things were gong they’d change the survey and I’d be scrambling to start over, lol.)

1) I’m still stuck in Chicagoland and will be reading, primarily, from my bed — with TW and three puppies.
2) Tough question for me this year, which is not a good indicator of how things are going to go today… I think, maybe Jeanette Winterson’s “The Daily Gate”
3) Even harder question since none of our snacks are really calling to me (yet) — I guess the mango lime pear salsa.
4) I’m really tired. Last week was rough and I didn’t get nearly enough sleep last night. Darn it.
5) I have participated many times before and the one thing I’d LIKE to do over again is that whole taking the day (or half day) before #readathon off of work. It didn’t happen again this year. IT MUST HAPPEN IN APRIL when we do it again!

Now, on to work so that I can get on to reading … and pumpkin cream cheese muffins for breakfast.

Oh boy, what a day (week?). Totally not ready for Dewey’s Readathon tomorrow but also very ready for the #readathon because I really enjoy it so darn much.

We have snacks, even though we aren’t super excited about any of them.

We have books, though I don’t seem to have any YA or any graphic novels. And, I don’t have anything downloaded to Kindle that I plan on reading tomorrow, either. Oops.

I do have a lot of children’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry and some travel guides, so that will save me when I’m starting to get tired. I’ve also got a lot of adult non-fiction and that might be a problem unless they’re really interesting. We shall see.

First up, in the morning — finishing the last 100 pages of The Astronaut Wives’ Club. (We also have to drive the boy across town so we’ll get an hour of listening to Dexter’s Final Cut, so that will be a nice morning break from print.