Dewey's Reverse Readathon - Reading Plans/Updates

Frankly, I love the reverse readathon because it starts at night. I'm a night owl by nature. Definitely not a morning person. 

My reading plans...books in the image below. The writing group I'm a member of (Heart Breathings) is having an online writing retreat this weekend so I may join in on some sprints. 

Stealing an update template (idea) from Melissa at Must Read Faster, but I'm terrible at updating. We'll see how it goes.

All my progress below and here's the...

Closing Survey

1. How many books did you read during this readathon? Did you have any favorites?

Less than one 😒
2. How many books did you finish?

Big. Fat. Zero.
3. Did you accomplish your goals for this readathon?

Nope. This is a promising survey...
4. How did your snacks and meals work out? Are there things you would change about the food and beverages side of your readathon for next time?

I just ate what I usually do. I'm boring.
5. Did you enjoy this readathon? What was the most successful part of your readathon? What would you change for next time?

Even though my performance is usually less than stellar, I always enjoy the readathons. Of course, I would change not reading a lot. lol
6. Will you be continuing your readathon reading past the end of our official readathon?

I want to at least finish Dracul tonight, and then get started on the others. 

Block 1 8pm-10pm

Book:
Pages:
Notes: family crisis so no reading was done. 😟

Block 2 10pm-12am

Book: Dracul by Dacre Stoker
Pages: 30
Notes: I'm a slow reader.

Block 3 12am-2am

Book:

Pages:

Notes: Had to work

Block 4 2am-4am

Book: Dracul

Pages: 49

Notes: Probably going to go to bed during the next block. Will pick up again in the morning.

Block 5 4am-6am

Book: Dracul    

Pages: 14

Notes: I made it less than 30 minutes in. Had to go to bed.

Block 6 6am-8am

Book:

Pages:

Notes:

Block 7 8am-10am

Book:

Pages:

Notes:

Block 8 10am-12pm

Book: Dracul

Pages: 18

Notes: only read from 11-12

Block 9 12pm-2pm

Book: Dracul

Pages: 9

Notes: took a nap. My readathon game is weak. lol

Block 10 2pm-4pm

Book: Dracul

Pages: 36

Notes: another nap. I really wish I could stop falling asleep when I'm reading.

Block 11 4pm-6pm

Book: Dracul

Pages: 25

Notes: I only read between 5-6

Final Block 12 6pm-8pm

Book: Dracul

Pages: 32

Notes: like I said earlier, my readathon game is weak. lol

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Bout of Books 37

I have not participated in this readathon in a LONG time. Thought I would give it a shot again. Not making any promises. lol

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 8th and runs through Sunday, May 14th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 37 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I'm currently reading The Witch Elm by Tana French so I will be trying to finish that. I'm also reading The Last Duel by Eric Jager. We are currently reading An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco for my True Book Talk book group so I will also be reading a portion of it. 

Adding the BoB schedule here so I can keep up (I'll try...honestly)...

Daily Reading-in-Place Times

Reading-in-place times, or reading sprints, happen daily on Twitter*. If you don’t have Twitter, make note of these times and report your reading progress on your platform of choice.

All reading-in-place times last 30 minutes.

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📚 2 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Pacific
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Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page! For those who like to plan ahead, prompts are posted the Friday before the read-a-thon begins.

Discord Daily Qs

For those of you who use Discord, don't forget to check out the chat forum where daily bookish questions will be posted Tuesday-Sunday for you to answer.

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Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon - October 2022

My reading stack...

Closing Survey

How would you assess your reading overall? Not too bad. I actually read more than I have on previous readathons.
Did you have a strategy, and if so, did you stick to it?  Nope, and nope. 
What was your favorite snack?  Oatmeal cranberry white chocolate cookies and Lofthouse sugar cookies

Full update below. Scroll down.

Mid-Event Survey

What are you reading right now?  Once by James Herbert
How many books have you read so far? One
What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the readathon? 

Hoping I will get to Snow by Ronald Malfi, but just starting the book I was most looking forward to in the opening survey. lol
Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?  

Interruptions happen. I've grown to accept this. Plus, I'm famous for getting distracted and frittering time away so interruptions never surprise me.

Opening Survey

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?  Mt Pleasant, Michigan
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?  Once by James Herbert
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?  Cranberry white chocolate cookies
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!  Mom, Avid Reader, Writer, Cat Lover, Witch, FREETHINKER, Owner of a massive library  ☽〇☾

Updating here and on Instagram (@truebookaddict) and possibly Facebook.

Updates

Currently reading: 

In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt (finished before mid-event)

Reading a bit of this (one or two chapters) 

and then...

I had to concede defeat before 7:00 am. Dashing this off, and going to sleep...until the Lions game comes on at 1:00 pm. lol

I read In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt (218 pages)

Once by James Herbert (200 of 382 pages)

I'll take it! I plan to continue reading later today, while the game is on, and beyond. 

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Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon - Spring 2022

I'm a bit late to the party. What else is new? Hoping to get to three books today to finish out April with a bang. Oh, that could be possibly four if I finish my audiobook as well.

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

Mt Pleasant, Michigan

Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
Hoping to get to Ten by Gretchen McNeil

Which snack are you most looking forward to?

Deep fried Oreos (but not really deep fried) in the air fryer

Tell us a little something about yourself!

I'm a witch, a cat lover, champion procrastinator, a writer, and my home library numbers in the thousands (I'm talking around 5,000 or so).

If you participated in the last readathon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first readathon, what are you most looking forward to?

I always say read more, but I never seem to accomplish that. Maybe this will be the one!

What I'm reading/plan to read:

All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage

Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Huson

Ten by Gretchen McNeil

Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham (audio)

 

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24-Hour Readathon October 2021

UPDATES

Opening Event Survey

Yes, I'm doing this at 12:30 pm. I got up late today. Go figure!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Mt Pleasant, Michigan, USA
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? I'm really enjoying Mexican Gothic, but I would love to get to Tomb of Gods and Those Who Came Before.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? I have a Cadbury Caramello bar stashed for later. Right now, I'm drinking Dunkin' pumpkin spice coffee...yum!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I always bite off more than I can chew, but that's just my unending enthusiasm. I'm a baby witch. I LOVE cats. I have a home library with over 4000 books.
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? I never do anything differently for readathon. lol

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Here it is again...and I'm diving in. Don't know if I'll start at 8:00 am, and I do have to work a few hours, but still going to make an attempt. 

Reading plans

Finish Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Catch up on Blood Countess for the Something Wicked Fall read-along

Tomb of Gods by Brian Moreland

Those Who Came Before by J.H. Moncrief

(hoping to read both of the books above...yeah, overly ambitious)

Going to listen to Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian while I'm working (maybe) It's 14 hours long so I realize I won't finish it.

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Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) XVI and Something Wicked Fall

I rarely share the scary stuff on this blog. Everyone knows I have my horror blog, Castle Macabre. However, I make an exception during this time of year. Yes, autumn is the season for scary. I know it's not technically fall yet, but what's a few weeks. You should see all the Halloween stuff I've been buying. Step away from the online shopping, lady.

So, R.I.P is back...version XVI...and my scary events are back this year with Something Wicked Fall over at Castle Macabre in September and October, and in conjunction, the FrightFall Readathon over at Seasons of Reading in October (sign-ups for the readathon will be open soon). All the details about Something Wicked Fall can be found here.

My reading plans are in the graphic below. I know I won't get to everything, but going to try. Several are for sure, as I'm reading them for read-alongs, challenges, and my book group read in October. The Blood Countess, All Things Cease to Appear, Stoker's Wilde, and Mexican Gothic. Some of them are short story anthologies so I will be picking and choosing stories from them. Gothic horror in September and horror in October.

I completely forgot about this beauty I picked up a couple of months ago. A lot of great classic horror stories in this 864 page tome. Classic Tales of Horror 

Going to try to fill in this BINGO card for R.I.P. since I watched three horror movies last night...The Fear Street trilogy on Netflix. SO good! I'll also be listening to Bone White by Ronald Malfi on audio. It's a reread...one of my favorites.

I will be posting updates on this post. Hopefully, I'll keep up with it. There will a tab linking to it in the blog menu. Title = Fall Reading

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24 Hour Reverse Readathon - Opening survey

Opening Readathon Survey!

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

Mt Pleasant, Michigan

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Come With Me by Ronald Malfi

Will also be working on finishing The Count of Monte Cristo. Sigh.

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Nothing in particular. 

4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I'm an almost 53 year old recent empty nester (quite the struggle) who's just trying to claim back my own life, trying to write a book, and trying to read as much as I can.

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 expect it will be about the same. Get a little bit of reading in. Just try to be laid back about it. 

Will probably be updating mostly on Instagram and Facebook. 

Happy Reading!

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Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon - April 2021

This is the year! I have completely cleared my schedule this time. No work. No movie theater or going out to eat. Staying home and getting my read on! I have a nice batch of unhealthy snacks (yes, I'm indulging myself) and a fantastic reading stack. I just wish I wasn't such a slow reader. I know I have no hope of getting through them all, but one can dream. Right? Oh, and I'm also limiting time on social media big time. I'll be updating mostly on Instagram (or Facebook). May not even open my computer...just use my phone. 

So, here's my stack...

And here's my snacks...

Are you participating this year? If so, good luck to you. May the reading gods look on us favorably.

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Dewey's 24 Hour #Readathon - Fall 2020

I don't think I'm getting up at 8:00 am to start...but you never know. 

My reading has been less than stellar of late because of moving in August and STILL unpacking and shelving BOOKS. Don't get me wrong. I love my books, but this has been a lot. Incidentally, I'm never planning to move again. 

Here's what I'm planning to read...

...while trying to catch up on this...

If you're joining in as well, good luck...and happy reading!

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Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) XV #ripxv

Fall is upon us. Well, fall to me means September 1st, especially now that I'm living in the north (Michigan) where fall really shows up in all its splendor. 🍁🍂

Fall also means it's time for all the scary...and that means all the scary events, including R.I.P., back for another year. Version XV.

I'm also hosting my yearly FrightFall Readathon in September and October this year (due to the hiatus of my summer readathon, High Summer, in August because of my move). FrightFall also happens in conjunction with my annual fall event, now in it's third year, Something Wicked Fall at my horror site, Castle Macabre. We are doing a read-along of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White. Click the links above to find out all the details.

So, what will I be reading you ask? I have quite a bit of reading lined up, but not sure if I'll get to everything. I'm still unpacking and arranging the new house. Moving seriously takes a chunk out of reading time. 😠

• Finishing Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (I'm also watching the excellent series on HBO).
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• A couple of classic horror novels as of yet not decided for my True Book Talk reading group in October. Possible titles...Le Fanu's Carmilla, Lowndes' The Lodger, Benson's The Necromancers
• The Witch of Ravensworth by George Brewer
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Snow by Ronald Malfi
• Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Watching tons of horror movies, of course. We will be having two or three horror film watch-alongs during Something Wicked Fall as well.

Join us for ALL the scary!

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Bout of Books 28 #readathon

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 11th and runs through Sunday, May 17th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are daily challenges, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For Bout of Books 28 information and updates, visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

I usually fail miserably at this readathon...but you know what? I'm going to try again. I have lots of reading to finish this month. Plus, a huge book for my 1000 Books Project read-along (April - June) that I need to read the first section by May 15 (The Sagas of Icelanders).

My current reads:

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Dewey’s 24-Hour #Readathon - Tomorrow!

Get all the readathon details here

I have cleared my schedule this year for the readathon. Plus, with social distancing, I'll not be going anywhere so this just might be a success. That being said, I'm not getting overly ambitious with my reading goals. My main focus will be to finish this book...

If I finish that one, I'll start on this one...

I'll be updating on Instagram. Also, on Goodreads in my Seasons of Reading group. My Spring into Horror Readathon is going on right now through April 30th.

I'll post my wrap-up here on the blog...if I don't flake. You never know with me.

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Dewey's 24 Hour #Readathon

Once again, the 24 hour readathon is upon us. I'm not going to make any solid plans, as I know I won't be reading the entire 24 hours. We shall see how it goes. I'm going to see Countdown today. When I get back, reading time!

Here's my stack. I also have some eBooks and I might listen to some of an audio book I've been listening to...

Here's the opening survey, even though I won't be reading until later.

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? USA, Nashville, Tennessee
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? I'll be getting my snacks while I'm out today. I've been watching my eating (down 22 pounds in 5 weeks) so I won't be indulging too much. 
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I'm a mom of two boys 17 and 16 years old, cat lover, writer, virtual assistant, owner of a massive home library (3000+ books).
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? Not really sure. I can't remember what I did last time. lol

Happy Reading!

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