Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

April 15-21

Wow I am reading slooow. My GR friends from other groups are reading some books that make me think consider think consider. . .

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet by William J. Bernstein
The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality by Martha Menchaca

And one fantasy book for fun:
Medusa by Jessie Burton

Wrap up for the week:
Pretender, audio, carry-over, finished on the 15th.
Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm (Fables, eComic, carry-over, finished on the 17th.
Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love, eComic, started right after, finished on the 21st.
Dogs of War, ebook, carry-over, still reading.
Swordheart, audio, ongoing.

534 pages
3 hours 57 minutes

I was traveling last week so I feel like I'm playing catch up now on my goals and commitments for the month. I'll be finishing my ARC of Five First Chances and hopefully starting my next ARC for The Devil's Glove.

I was far less into Doctor Who books last week than I thought I'd be. So, I didn't finish many of last week's stack. Oh well. This week I am leaning towards focusing on murder mysteries, I'll carry over my library books, and the books I've already started from last week, too.
Carry overs:
Eden Close
Doctor Who: Instruments of Darkness
The Waiter
Homegoing
White Oleander
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
The Game of Kings

Long Lap 3 TBR:
Payback (new library book)
A Horse Walks into a Bar (new library book)
Watchman
Nursing Homes Are Murder
For the Love of Parvati
Strongwood: A Crime Dossier
Evil in the 1st House
The Real Macaw
Thornyhold
Airs Above the Ground
The Final Curtain
Murder on Insel Poel
Holy Terror in the Hebrides
A Real Basket Case
The Rubber Band
The Red Box
Too Many Clients
Might as Well Be Dead
The Final Deduction



If by some chance I run out of books this week, I may start a few more of the books from the previous 2 weeks.

4/22 Update-
Finished:
Doctor Who: Instruments of Darkness
Eden Close
The Waiter
The Rubber Band
The Red Box

Week 3 of Trying to Read all of the Library Books that Came In at Once:

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Sex, Murder and a Double Latte
Lessons in Chemistry
The Messy Lives of Book People

I'm trying to get these all read and returned before the Readathon start time, but I'm struggling with a messy brain that won't let me focus on anything longer than a damned recipe right now, so that may not be realistic lol Wish me luck, y'all!

I am aiming to get at least one of these two finished this week!
The Woman in White
Madame Bovary

Here is my wrap up for Lap #3

Pre-Readathon Long Lap 3
Dates: April 15th to April 21st

Books in Progress:


Books Finished:

Total Pages Read: 1441 Pages

Total Time Read: 35 hrs & 20 mins

I ended up with 626 pages in Long Lap 3. Not close to my 1,000-page goal, but that's ok. ANY reading is good reading!

True, any reading is good. It shouldn‘t be about who read to the most pages, although all these challenges suggest otherwise. In this lap I read 534 pages and listened to 3 hours 57 minutes of audio. And that‘s fine, I had a good week. (Message 3 above for details)