Dinner break #readathon
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If the cover fits
My entry for the mini-challenge, If the cover fits in the “Moving” category.
And maybe this doesn’t make sense to you, but it does to me.
When I look at my old Nancy Drew books I remember the weekends when I’d hole up in my room and devour Nancy Drew books… coming out only to beg one of my parents to take me to the story to buy another – and another – and another. And if I couldn’t con them into that, then I’d head back in and just re-read them all over again.
I read a lot but never make the time to hole up with books for an entire day, like I used to when I was a kid. There’s always too much work to be done for anything like that.
It’s fitting that today, Readathon Day, I’m incorporating Nancy Drews into my reading.
(pst, it might take a minute for the image to load, it’s being pulled from my other blog.)
The Secret of Red Gate Farm
Another Nancy Drew challenge book finished. The Secret of Red Gate Farm was always one of my favorites. My copy is well worn and a wee bit smudgy in places. I wonder what snacks I ate as I read this as a child…
(178 pages)
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#readathon update
I started exactly Nine hours ago.
I’ve read 817 pages
Finished the YA novel I started last week.
Read a book of poetry.
Read a children’s graphic novel.
Read a non-fiction book.
Am 100 pages into the first Nancy Drew.
Am starting another non-fiction.
Food consumed:
½ a pot of coffee
1 carrot ginger muffin (no wonder I didn’t taste anything orange-y!)
Braided mozzarella with crackers
Chocolate covered edamame
Dried cranberries & pomegranate seeds
The Stonkeeper: Amulet (Book 1)
Well now I know the backstory to the graphic novel I read last month. Still enjoying the Stonekeeper series and am glad I went back and got Amulet. But, now I need book three to see what happens next. Is the Elf King’s son good or bad? Does the mother recover?
(187 pages)
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Everyday is a Good Day
Just finished my first book on the iPad, Everyday is a Good Day (by Wilma Mankiller.) I’m so glad I read it and just wish I’d read it before Mankiller passed away. Interesting essays and observations from Mankiller and other women from various tribes. Highly recommend this one.
(Pages – 256)
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7 Poets 4 Days 1 Book
I picked up 7 poets 4 Days 1 Book at the library because the cover was cool. When I read the first couple of pages, it was even cooler. Seven poets from all of the world came to Iowa to spend four days writing poetry. Not collaboratively but not singularly, either. They’d write, they would read aloud (some had to translate to English, on the spot, because they write in other languages – which I cannot even imagine doing) and then they would edit, write some more, and talk about their poems.
It’s interesting to see themes, common and not, that obviously came from the direct sharing of works in progress. Mis-hearing or misunderstanding another poets words turned into something else completely in someone else’s work. Or pushed them toward something that sounded similar but was different.
Very interesting reading. And, a good choice for both the Dewey Readathon and National Poetry Month.
(And just to help me keep track – 122 pages.)
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Books on iPad
I’ve started my first iPad book and so far I’m loving it – the book and the iPad reading experience.
Three and a half hours into Dewey’s Readathon 230 pages.
Sent from my iPad