Dewey's 24 Hour #Readathon - Things didn't go as planned

1. Which hour was most daunting for you?

Hour 22 when I promptly fell asleep...and didn't wake up until after 12pm. 🙀
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a reader engaged for next year?

Graveminder by Melissa Marr was engaging. Guess I was just too tired. lol
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next season?

No
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?

I think it all works well every year. No complaints.
5. How many books did you read?

Didn't finish a one. Final stats were 4 hours, 25 minutes of reading. A total of 95 pages. Sad.

The Historian - 19 pages

Graveminder - 76 pages
6. What were the names of the books you read?

See above
7. Which book did you enjoy most?

Both equally
8. Which did you enjoy least?

N/A
9. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?

I will participate. Never say die. I always believe I will do better each time. It's bound to happen eventually. 😺 I will particpate as a reader.

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *

Dewey's 24 Hour #Readathon - Picture Perfect Mini-Challenge

Stacy at Stacy's Books is doing this cool Book-to-Movie mini-challenge and we get to make our own list of favorites! Here's mine (in no particular order):

1. Practical Magic
2. Harry Potter series
3. Lord of the Rings trilogy
4. Sense and Sensibility (I love the Colin Firth P & P version too, but this is my favorite)
5. Wuthering Heights (particularly the Ralph Fiennes/Juliet Binoche version)
6. Little Women (1994 version)
7. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
8. Bridget Jones' Diary
9. The Silence of the Lambs
10. Fight Club
11. Gone with the Wind
12. The Color Purple
13. Rebecca
14. Misery
15. A Christmas Carol (I love all versions, but I'm particular to the Patrick Stewart version)

Thanks for the fun, Stacy!

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *

Dewey's 24 Hour #Readathon

Addendum: Opening survey at end of post

It's here again! I never do well, but I always participate because...well, you all know why. It's just what we do. This is the last two days of my Spring into Horror Readathon so I will be focusing on horror this time around. It is the genre that keeps me the most alert. I love the chills and thrills. 😨
I am going to try to participate longer than I have previously, but I will be going out to lunch and to a movie with Mom today (we're seeing The Circle). That's why I'm starting at the official start time...7:00am my time. I had planned to go to bed earlier last night, but...oh well.

Okay, so what I'm reading...not much of a stack, but I still have a lot of The Historian to read to finish it by Sunday night, but I probably won't focus on just it during this readathon. I'm a pretty slow reader anyway so I'm being pretty optimistic with these.

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Graveminder, Melissa Marr

Exorcist Falls, Jonathan Janz

We Are Always Watching, Hunter Shea

I really went all out on the snacks this time. I wanted to cover all of the bases. I forgot to put my hot and spicy peanuts in the picture. As far as drinks go, I'll have coffee in the morning and then drink Crystal Light most of the time (lemonade). I may have a glass of wine too.

 Well, I wish everyone luck. I created the button up top. Feel free to use it/share it. Also, if you're looking for some fun, check out my Cat Thursday post, The Stages of a 24 Hour Readathon.

Not sure if I'll post updates here, on Twitter (@truebookaddict), or on Facebook in the Seasons of Reading group. I'll just make that up as I go along. 😁

Happy Reading!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?

Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? 

All 😉
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? 

Hershey's with Almonds...my favorite!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! 

I've been book blogging for...it will be eight years in August. I'm mom to two teen boys and two cat daughters. I work from home. I write. I'm very active in the book blogging community. I host six readathons yearly via my blog Seasons of Reading. I host a plethora of reading challenges via my site, Gather Together and Read, and I run two Goodreads book clubs, TuesBookTalk and Lit Collective.
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? 

I want to read more this time! So, I will try to be less distracted and try to read faster.

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *

#CatThursday - The stages of a 24 Hour #Readathon #cats

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! (share your post in the Mr. Linky below)

In honor of Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon going on this Saturday, and my Spring into Horror Readathon that continues through Sunday, I present...

The stages of a 24 Hour Readathon, cat style! (Note: I created these memes in PicMonkey)

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Easy-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *

#CatThursday - The #cats are #reading again!

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! (share your post in the Mr. Linky below)

In honor of the Spring into Horror Readathon I'm hosting for the next two weeks over at Seasons of Reading, I have for you....cats enjoying their own readathons. 😸

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Easy-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *

#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (61) Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! (share your post in the Mr. Linky below)

The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author with their cat(s), or pictured with a cat(s).

In honor of her birthday on April 17, Karen Blixen is our author this month. She is most famously known for her book, Out of Africa, though she wrote many others.

Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc. (April 17, 1885 - September 07, 1962)

A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.

Baroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a well-to-do patrician family. She was the daughter of Ingeborg Westenholz Dinesen, and the writer and army officer Wilhelm Dinesen, whose adventuresome spirit and storytelling talents influenced deeply Blixen's imagination. She spent her childhood on the family estate in Rungsted. Throughout her life Blixen's outlook and manner were unabashedly aristocratic. (from Goodreads)

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Easy-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *

#CatThursday - Do #cats drink coffee?

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! (share your post in the Mr. Linky below)

The internet memes would point to yes. 😄

Mister Linky's Magical Widgets -- Easy-Linky widget will appear right here!
This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
If this widget does not appear, click here to display it.

Never miss a post!

* indicates required

Email Address *