As promised, here’s a wrap up of the Read-a-Thon…
It started on Saturday morning at 5am. I was still asleep. (I was also asleep when it ended at 5am Sunday morning. I don’t do all-nighters well.) I read – with breaks and interruptions – over about a 14-hour period in the middle there. I’d been planning to take a book to bed with me and read even more, but I got distracted online, and didn’t.
*books read* 2
- Sorcery and Cecelia: or, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede ad Caroline Stevermer
- The World of Pooh (includes both Winnie The Pooh and The House At Pooh Corner) by A.A. Milne
*hours read* 14 (with interruptions, as mentioned)
*mini-challenges participated in* none, really, though I did play around on the freerice site everyone seemed to be talking about. Only for a little while, though.
*other Readers’ blogs visited* I don’t know the exact count, but several. It was fun cheering other people on as well as reading myself.
All in all, it was great fun. I would definitely consider doing this again, though I would also want to plan for it a little more. Get things like chores done early so I didn’t have to do them while reading. Tell people what I’m doing so they don’t expect me to pay attention to them. That kind of thing.
What about you? What did you read over the weekend? Fiction, non-fiction, or the back of the cereal box?
Filed under: * On My Bookshelf *, Book Pimping, It's My Life
Hey, good for you for participating with such short notice! I kept an eye on the blog and it looks like something that would be fun to do next time, with more prep. On Saturday, I read a mystery, 3 out of 4 short stories in a paranormal romance collection, and 1.5 of the Anna Strong Chronicles.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Well, I didn’t know about this read-a-thon, because I didn’t see your blog until Monday. And even if I had, I couldn’t have read much because I was out of town visiting with my brother and his family.
I did read the newspaper while I was there (“Skyline High buries Issaquah”)…
But now that you mention Winnie-the-Pooh, I will have to reread that very soon.
“Three cheers for Pooh!”
(“For who?”)
“For Pooh!”
(“Why? What did he do”)
“I thought you knew … he saved his friend from a wetting.”
Mostly online stuff. I spent most of the weekend riding
[...] only found out about Saturday’s Readathon on Friday, from Nicole, so I didn’t participate this time. But there’s another one coming up in April. [...]
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Nicole- Sounds like alot of fun- but I can’t pull the all-nighter anymore.
Um, I read an Alexandra Raife book, and the newspaper.