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Readathon: Victory Equals Us!
8:00 AM Update (Monica):Well, it's official, friends.After countless pages, waaaay too much caffeine, and many, many hours... I have become one of the undead, staggering around in a gross parody of real life. If y'all will excuse me, I'm going to lu...
Readathon: Update 19
7:05 AM Update (Monica):So tired.Not... not going to make it.Blog... wavering... before my eyes.Want to put down copy of Goose Girl by Shannon Hale but... it is so good... I must keep... keep reading.In non-comatose news, for those of you still up an...
Readathon: Update 18
6:00 AM Update (Monica): It was an obvious stroke of genius on my part that led me to check out the LARGE PRINT edition of The Lightning Thief, because it means that even now, with my eyes crossing and watering, and the world zooming in and out of f...
24 Hour Read-A-Thon Challenge!
Hello Read-a-thon challenge takers! How are you guys doing? Has your vision started to blur yet? Do you have your coffee by your side? Have the characters you're reading about started to converse with you in waking dreams? If not, there's still ...
Readathon: Mini Challenge Winner
It's the end of the hour, and as such, our Mini Challenge has come to an end! Aw. I know. Don't tear up too much, though, because then you won't be able to read clearly.You guys did such a great job! I laughed... I cried... It moved me, Bob.The w...
Readathon: Update 17 and Mini Challenge
1:30 AM (Monica): There's a drabble Mini Challenge being hosted at Libri Touches. Having just spent the past hour reading fanfic, I'm loving me this challenge. Behold! ******** My mother thinks that I have lost my mind. I can tell, because o...
Readathon: Update Many-ish
The readathon continues! I've taken a risk and am attempting to read in bed. So far, so good. I think I have a chance since our mini-challenge begins in a little over an hour and I'll have to be up and kinda-aware.And here are 5 of ...
Readathon: Update 16 and Mini Challenge
12:30 AM (Monica): Whoo! It's past midnight, I'm still awake, and I'm basking in the glory of my delicious cheese-drenched nachos.I hope my waistline appreciates the sacrifice I'm making on its behalf.Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile is hosting a...
Readathon: Update 15
11:30 PM (Monica): Well, Castaways is over, and I am sad. Aren't you always a little bummed when you finish a good book? Not a *fantastical* book, but one that's just solid and entertaining? I am. Thank goodness the lord of books invented rereadi...
Readathon: Update 14ish
So, there's been a necessary break in reading on my part. A certain someone in the household peed on the couch. I swear, it wasn't me.Perhaps I shouldn't have woken the cat this afternoon. Perhaps I also shouldn't have read aloud to it fr...
Readathon: Update 14
10:30 PM (Monica): It's official. I want ice cream.Come, friends! Someone come and bring me an ice cream sandwich!Ooh, one of the ones with chocolate, strawberry and vanilla all in the same thing.Yes please!Also, I am reading. Reading reading rea...
Readathon: Update 13
9:35 PM (Shel): Wow, these past two hours have ZOOOOOoooooooomed by. Except, typing the word like that made it seem long. It was more like zo-.I will admit, I have turned to chemical dependency to stay energized. My drug of ch...
Readathon: Halfway Update!
Update (Monica): And without further ado, we've got the official Readathon Halfway Point Meme Thingy!1. What are you reading right now?Castaways of the Flying Dutchman2. How many books have you read so far?Three and a half. Three and three quarters...
Readathon: Update 12
8:30 PM Update (Shel): Okay, so I'm a little over half-way through the readathon and I really want to read in bed. I love the thought of a pillow, and my silky comforter, my cushiony mattress...mmmm, comfortable. My friends, it's not even 9 PM. H...
Readathon: Update 11
7:30 PM Update (Shel): Guys, I wanna watch a movie!7:30 PM Update (Monica): I vote yes on the movie too! If we make it literary, does it count? I've got Pride and Prejudice!Shel: I has P&P toooooooooo! Both the Colin Firth and the newer one...
Readathon: Update 10
6:30 PM Update (Shel): Okay, I have limited my coffee intake and have eaten something. *Sigh* much calmer. *Glances around* But still no cat.The reading I'm doing is all annoyingly academic. I'm going back and forth among a number of chapters on ...
Readathon: Update 8
4:30 PM Update (Monica): That's it.It's official.After I'm done with Little Brother, I'm going to read Redwall or something. Something light. Something involving furry animals who *don't* have their backs broken (Mancheeeeee!), and something that d...
Readathon: Update 9
Update 5:30 PM (Shel): HeyGuys! GuessWhat? I'veHadCOFFEEEEEEEEEEEE! Lot's of it. The words seem to be jumping around on the page. That's normal, right? RIGHT! LALALA. Reading! Coffee! ...
Readathon: Mini Challenge
In answer to the Feed Me Seymour! Mini-Challenge over at Linus's Blanket, I'm posting a description of food (drink...) coming straight out of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.The Turkish coffee shop on 24th street fixed me up good with a go-cup of Tur...
Readathon: Update 7
3:30 PM Update (Monica): Patrick Ness, I am sorry to tell you this, but I loathe you. Loathing. Unadulterated loathing, as they say in the song.Because of you, I'm not only super sad and vaguely teary-eyed, I'm also filled with the need to read Th...
Readathon: Update 6
2:40 PM Update (Monica): Seriously? Seriously?!Guys, this is the most depressing book in the history of the world.Patrick Ness what is wrong with you!? How could you off Manchee!? "Todd?" Why are you doing this to me!?...Fifty more pages to go. ...
Readathon: Update 5
1:30 PM Update (Monica): Oh. My word.Shel! Why didn't you warn me sooner that Knife is a ridiculously depressing book!? You know how I am about novels that lack sufficiently happy endings!Of course, I'm not at the end yet. I suppose it still has...
Readathon: Update 4
12:52 PM Update (Shel): I have returned as well! And I have brought with me my old but improved (since it now has an autograph!!!!!) copy of Savvy home. Seeing Ingrid Law speak was great fun. She's very good with children and spoke encouragingly abo...
Readathon Fun!
Today we're participating in a 24-readathon. As part of the fun, we'll be running a mini-challenge from 2-5 AM. In the meantime, we'll be posting about the books we will be reading throughout the day.Feel free to comment if you'll be participating....
Readathon: Update 3
12:30 PM Update (Monica): Ooh, good choice on my part picking a book I could read in an hour. It filled me with a sense of accomplishment! It also filled me with a sense of relief, with the realization that no matter WHAT happens to me in life, at l...
Readathon: Update 2
11:30 AM Update (Monica): I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm here!!!::: bounces onto the blog :::I promise, I will never attempt do to a 24-hour Readathon after getting seven hours sleep total over the course of five days eeeever again, because apparently i...
