Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon - Hour One

It's readathon day! I’m schedule posting this so that I don’t make the fatal readathon mistake of getting on the internet right at the beginning. Assuming it is as sunny as it is while I write this I will be spending time reading in our garden. Ahhhhhh, sunshine you have returned.

As you might remember from previous readathons I am a slooow reader, but I get demotivated if I just read one book throughout readathon. My plan to combat this in 2011 was originally to read short, short books only, but then I looked at all the really short books in our house and most of them are very literary, very intense. So I’m going to keep a few stash book in my readathon pile:

'The World More Full of Weeping’ - Robert J Wiersema

‘Next World’ – Mattias Politycki

‘Journey into the Past’ – Stefan Zweig

and then see how I feel about reading them in the moment.

Mostly I just want to have a lot of fun reading this readathon (which means staying away from the computer and not stressing out about trying to reach that 24 hour goal). So it’s very possible that I’ll be reading a less intense book as my main readathon choice, maybe:

‘Demonglass’ – Rachel Hawkins

‘How to Ditch Your Fairy’ – Justine Larbalestier

‘Nemesis’ – Lyndsey Davis

‘Fury of the Phoneix’ – Cindy Pon: Yes, my pre-order arrived after a minor mix up with Amazon and I am so freaking excited. Dear publishing world I would be even more excited if the cover had not been so heinously messed with. Please do not read my purchase as a vindication of your incredibly off putting white washing re-covering tactics.

Finally I have a fantasy short story collection that I’d really like to start:

‘Dreaming Again’ – Edited by Jack Dann

In other reading news I just finished Y S Lee’s second ‘Agency’ novel, ‘The Body at the Tower’ which is full of spies, romance, blackmail, cross dressing and clock towers. It was AMAZING. I meant to save it for readathon, but I cracked and started it last week. I must now wait until August for ‘The Traitor in the Tunnel’, but I am very excited (imagine my excitement like a sparkly marshmallow cloud full of button nosed puppies) to hear that there may potentially be a fourth book in the series. I need more Mary and James than a trilogy can possibly provide.

Happy readathon to everyone taking part, especially those of you personally knew Dewey and remember her on this day and happy general weekendness to everyone else. See you during my cheerleading time in about 11 hours.

Readathon - Hour 12

I've just finished about an hour and a half of cheering and am just popping in for a quick update (like lightening quick):

So far I've finished 1 book ('The World More Full of Weeping')which was excellent and I got to read it in my garden in the sunshine - super cool. I'm about 100 pages away from the end of 'Demonglass' which is still snarky and fun, but quite a bit darker than the last book. I'm still not sure about the love triangle angle - we shall see. I also spent a bit of time cheerleading. Now I am feeling like it might be a good time for sleep, but we'll see, I might last one more hour.

Tomorrow the plan is to wake up earlyish and finish 'Hex Hall', then start 'Fury of the Phoenix'. I hope y'all are having a great readathon and I'll probably see you in the final hour tomorrow before everyone collapses :)