Seasons of Reading Readathons discussion

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Starting line: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

24-Hour Readathon: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Wrap-Up:
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Signed up!

Glad to have you both joining us again!

SIgned up, I am in!

I'm in, too!

Indy_Chick wrote: "I'm in, too!"

Noah wrote: "SIgned up, I am in!"

Welcome! Glad to have you both joining us!

I'm in, too!

Darlene wrote: "I'm in, too!"

Glad to have you joining us again!

Be sure to vote for the date of our 24-hour readathon. Details in the starting line post (linked at the top of this thread).

Happy Reading!

Winter's Respite:
1. AMONG THE LIVING, Tim Lebbon, Release Feb. 13. Climate change/SF/Horror
2. The House of Last Resort Libby Virtual. Sicily, Folk Horror
3. Ghost Station NG ARC. SF/Horror
4. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect Thriller/Mystery/Literary, Australia.
5. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children Series). Heartwrenching Fantasy.
6. The Tusks of Extinction SF/Speculative, EcoFiction
7. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead. Psychological Thriller, Unreliable Narrator.
8. Hunted Highways: Road Trip Horror
9. Widow Falls NA Psychological Thriller
10.Whalefall Speculative YA
11. The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie Historical Speculative
12. A Dragon's
Chains Fantasy
13. Awake in the Night Irish Horror.
14. Long Time Gone: Sneak Peek Horror.
15. Long Time Gone
16. The Resort
17. Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane Fluffy Romance Pacific Northwest
18. House of Dark Shadows YA SF/Horror/Time Travel, 1st in Series
19. The Devil and The Deep
20. My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix Pride. Historical Speculative.
21. Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise
22. Dragons Don't Eat Meat
23. Storm Dragons The Graphic Novel: Vol. 1
24. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power
25. In the Lives of Puppets
26. The Devil's Backbone: Appalachian Horror
27. The Familiar: Sneak Peek
28. Tavern of Terror Vol. 12: Short Horror Stories Anthology
29. Reader Beware: A Fear Street Appreciation Anthology
30. Empire of the Vampire Libby Virtual
31. The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Everything Edelweiss ARC Children's
32. The Gernsback Continuum online Virtual
33. Burning Chrome Mount TBR 2014
34. Uh-OH! My Dragon's Hungry Edelweiss ARC Children
35. Neuromancer
36. Osgood as She Gets: The
Spectral Inspector - Book III
37. Haunting of the Blackthorne House
38. Bonding Fire: A Clean YA Dragon Shifter Romantic Fantasy Adventure With A Unique Magic Spin Dragon Epic Fantasy. NG ARC
39. The Restless Ones: A Novel KU
+ to p. 39 Her Lost Soul KU

The 24-Hour Readathon date is set! Visit the blog via the link at the top of this thread for all the details.

Hi. Finally back to taking part in one of your challenges.

It's going to be interesting to start the 24 hour Readathon at 4pm. I'll be reading a lot on the 17th but maybe not so much in the part that's Sunday with me.

I'll update in here with my reading for the day.

Jane wrote: "Hi. Finally back to taking part in one of your challenges.

It's going to be interesting to start the 24 hour Readathon at 4pm. I'll be reading a lot on the 17th but maybe not so much in the part t..."

So glad to have you back with us! Hope you enjoy the 24-hr mini-RAT. I'm hoping I won't have to work, but that will depend on how many hours I can get in before Saturday. Happy Reading!

Joining the 24-hour readathon. I probably won't be able to do the full 24 hours as it's a busy weekend for me. But I will try to read as much as I can. For my first book, I'm reading Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney. Happy reading everyone!

Time to start the 24 hour RaT - it is 4pm here and I’m most likely keep reading till 2am or something like that.

I’ve actually been reading all morning to finish a book before the start. LOL

My first book will be Whispers at the Bluebell Inn by Hannah Ellis

Good morning (or afternoon) everyone! Time to get this party started. Glad to have you joining us, Jane and Lolita. No worries on reading the full 24 hours. Read as much, or as little, as you can/want. We're all laid back here.

I'm working on finishing and then jumping back into

Happy Reading! I'll check back in later. :)

Finished my first book and had dinner that my hubby cooked for me, now I’m moving on to the next - maybe a short christmas book

I'm continuing Dragons Don't Eat Meat from yesterday's reading--from p. 93. First in an intriguing Canadian Urban Fantasy series. Reading for February Dragons theme at Genreland. Next will read My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix and The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power both NG ARCs, for Black-Author Prompt at Unexpected Readathon February (17th-19th).

Reading Dragons Don't Eat Meat to p. 130; but also just read My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix . Excellent!
Also read Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise
And Dragons Don't Eat Meat
And Storm Dragons The Graphic Novel: Vol. 1
Plus into The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power 56%: this is just as fantastic and subtly, deeply, frightening, as Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror!!!✅

Time for bed.

I’ve finished
Whispers at the Bluebell Inn by Hannah Ellis
A Bit of Holly Jolly by Kelly Elliott
One Hundred Intentions by Kelly Collins

I started reading
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende after A bit of Holly Jolly but as it is a mass market paperback, I decided I have to read only 150 pages then have a break from the small writing. When I get up I’ll read the next part.

Jane wrote: "Time for bed.

I’ve finished
Whispers at the Bluebell Inn by Hannah Ellis
A Bit of Holly Jolly by Kelly Elliott
One Hundred Intentions by Kelly Coll..."

Well done. Hope you slept well.

Cobwebby Eldritch SpaceReader Reindeer wrote: "I'm continuing Dragons Don't Eat Meat from yesterday's reading--from p. 93. First in an intriguing Canadian Urban Fantasy series. Reading for February Dragons theme at Genreland. Ne..."

Both books sound intriguing!

Things have not gone as planned today. I think I took three short naps. lol Finally finished Where Angels Fear to Tread. Now I am finally diving back into Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror. With all the naps, I expect I'll be up pretty late. I'd like to finish this one and perhaps start another. We shall see.

Finished my first book, Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney and started my second book, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles.

Michelle wrote: "Well done. Hope you slept well ..."

Thank you, I did.

My goal for today is to first read another 150 pages of The Neverending Story.
Then continue Freaky Gifts by Amanda M. Lee which I read one chapter of when I got to bed.

I don’t think I’ll manage to finish them both in the next 6 hours but hopefully I’ll get quite far.

Finished my second book, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles and started my third book, Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

It’s 4pm my time and the 24hour RaT is over. I reached my goal and finished Freaky Gifts and as expected I only managed to finish the middle 150 pages of The Neverending Story.

I might finish the last 150 pages of the book later tonight or else tomorrow.

I’m very pleased with the books I’ve finished the last 24 hours and the all work great towards all the other many challenges I’m taking part in.


Thank you Michelle, I really like that you’ve added this to the month long Winter Respite. Also very pleased it was this weekend as I would not have been able to take part at all next weekend.

End of 24-hour readathon update:
I was able to read a total of 7 hours (my kindle gave up the last 2 hours of the readathon) and finished reading Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles and 11% of Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. And I had lots of fun. Thanks Michelle!

Jane wrote: "It’s 4pm my time and the 24hour RaT is over. I reached my goal and finished Freaky Gifts and as expected I only managed to finish the middle 150 pages of The Neverending Story.

I might finish the ..."

You're welcome, Jane! Glad you were able to get some good reading in. We will have a 24 Hour Readathon during each month long readathon from now on. Going forward, I will probably just designate a date, as they do with Dewey's. Participation was low, and trying to get everyone to vote by a certain time is difficult. I hope that will work for everyone. I know the date probably won't work for some.

Lolita wrote: "End of 24-hour readathon update:
I was able to read a total of 7 hours (my kindle gave up the last 2 hours of the readathon) and finished reading Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney, Oedipus..."

Great job! Glad you got some good reading in. I hope you will join us next time.

Wrap: Read 39 titles, plus 39 pp. of 40th. 💝🥳

Thanks for the Readathon! I only read 10 books, but that was probably a couple more than I would have for a February!

Cobwebby Eldritch SpaceReader Reindeer wrote: "Wrap: Read 39 titles, plus 39 pp. of 40th. 💝🥳"

Wowzers! I don't know how you do it. Thanks for joining us for another readathon!

Indy_Chick wrote: "Thanks for the Readathon! I only read 10 books, but that was probably a couple more than I would have for a February!"

ONLY ten books! I think that is a great total. You read a lot more than I did. Way to go! Thanks for joining us. Hope to see you for Spring into Horror in April. :)

Michelle wrote: "Indy_Chick wrote: "Thanks for the Readathon! I only read 10 books, but that was probably a couple more than I would have for a February!"

ONLY ten books! I think that is a great total. You read a ..."

Thank you! For me, it was a great number for a short month. Some of these ladies on here can read that much in a week!! I don't know how they do it.

Anyway, I'll have to join a future readathon. Horror is not my thing. I do like some SciFi movies, but I've never really read SciFi books. I might have to join you then and stretch myself a bit!

Indy_Chick wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Indy_Chick wrote: "Thanks for the Readathon! I only read 10 books, but that was probably a couple more than I would have for a February!"

ONLY ten books! I think that is a great t..."

Yeah, I don't know how they do it either. For the horror readathon, we allow thrillers, mysteries, etc. I know some people are not horror readers so if you like reading the other genres I mentioned, feel free to join us.

I don't read much science fiction (though I love movies and series) so that's part of the reason I created the event (with some encouragement from Cobwebby up there), to encourage myself to read more of the genre.

Hope to see you for one or both. :)

I love mysteries and like thrillers, too. I will definitely join you then!

Thanks!

Indy_Chick wrote: "I love mysteries and like thrillers, too. I will definitely join you then!

Thanks!"

Awesome!

Better late than never 🤣

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6 read, 4 listened.

Elyse wrote: "Better late than never 🤣

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Awesome! Like I said in the comment on SiH, great job for a new mom. :)