Dewey's Readathon Wrapup/Closing Survey

 Closing Survey:

How would you assess your reading overall?

I started out really well and read pretty much from 7am to 3pm with little breaks for food and my puppies. At 3 I had to take my son in for his first Covid shot - and it was about a 40 minute drive so we stopped and picked up dinner on the way home. Started back up reading at about 5 and read until almost midnight. At midnight I thought I would take a two hour nap - which turned into a 4 hour nap. I got up and read for another 30 minutes and then sacked out for the rest of the night.

Did you have a strategy, and if so, did you stick to it?

I had no strategy - just thought I would take the day as it came.

What was your favorite snack?

Chocolate covered nutter butter cookies.

Wanna volunteer for our next event?

No. I appreciate what everyone does, but I just like to be able to devote the day to reading.

I ended up reading about 800 pages and listening to about 6 chapters between my two audio books. I finished 3 books - First Grave on the Right, Truly Madly Deadly and Such a Fun Age. Such a Fun Age was probably my favorite of the day.

I also started Convenience Store Woman and Creatures and read a little of both.

Dewey's Readathon - Halfway done/halfway to go!

 I probably had the best first half of a readathon to date.

Hour 1 - Hour 3

Finished First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones.  I was almost to the halfway point in this book - so read about 160 pages.  I ate two pieces of toast and had two large coffees!

Hour 4 - Hour 8

Started and finished Truly, Madly, Deadly by Hannah Jayne (262 pages) - I also
walked 3000 steps.  I ate a banana cream yogurt, had a snack of munchies mix from Frito Lay, and drank another coffee.

Hour 8 - Hour 11

I started Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.  I also took my son to get his first Covid shot - so this took up about 2 hours  I did listen to about 4 chapters of my audio book, Eat Pray
Love while in the car.  We got Culver's for dinner.

And we just finished Hour 12

I am about 1/3 of the way through Such a Fun Age, but think I am going to walk for awhile to get my blood moving.  Will probably listen to my other audio -
Beautiful Creatures while I am walking.  

Here's to the second half!

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Dewey's Readathon is tomorrow!

 This is the first year I believe I have had nothing going on the day of Dewey's Readathon.  No kid's soccer game. (none playing soccer anymore, which is kind of sad. . . )  No work. (Not working due to Covid. . . )  No homework for college. (Finished! Last August)  No concert and dinner planned by husband.   These are all things that have fallen during readathons in past years.  So I have my food ready, my family warned, and some books picked out!   Other than the ones I am currently reading - some of which I will finish tomorrow - 

First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Any Witch Way You Can by Amanda M. Lee

I have stacks of others to choose from.  Have you read any of these?  Which would you recommend?  

These are on my own TBR shelf.

These are some I would like to read yet this month.

And these are the rest I have checked out from the library.

So tell me what I should read first!

Oh - I also have some audiobooks qued up and ready to go!

Beautiful Creatures

Eat Pray Love