Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

For the week leading into our readathon we'll be doing a series of 2 day 'sprints' For each one, pick your TBR and see how many books/pages/hours you can finish. These sprints would be a great way to revisit previous TBRs, or to focus on those stubbornly slow books you'd love to have finished by the readathon.

Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23
Relay Sprint 2 - April 24-25
Relay Sprint 3 - April 26-27
Relay Sprint 4 - April 28

April 29 is our Readathon, starting at 8am Eastern Time.

What are you reading for this week?

I have two books that are stubbornly slow.
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet by William J. Bernstein
and
The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality by Martha Menchaca

Both are dense and thought-provoking, leading to hours of writing in buddy read discussions. Both being worthwhile, I trudge on. I will have hours this weekend to devote to reading, thinking, writing.

I am far more easily reading Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson. The movie was a delight. The novel is more thoughtful about beauty--natural and artificial.

Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23

Currently reading:
Dogs of War, ebook — I want to finish this one this weekend.
Swordheart, audio — I want to finish this latest on the weekend of the readathon.
Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Fables, e-comic — fairly long, but good so far. Maybe I will try to finish this one this weekend as well. I want to read the whole series, before my current free KU runs out.

I have some books lingering on my shelf: a long epic fantasy and two non-fiction audios. I‘ll see if I try to make some headway with them this week.

I am not planning ahead, this year is all about mood reading.

I'm currently reading and hoping to finish The Devil's Glove. My goal for the week and readathon is to finish 2-3 ARCs but I haven't planned which ones yet. I will be tracking my sprints on my log.

Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23

Books In Progress:

Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23
Started today 60% through both and .

Starting pages:
pg 207
pg 194

This week I also want to read/listen to (I need to put these at the forefront so I don't forget about them! lol):

These will probably be read during the readathon but we'll see if I can fit in a couple throughout the week:

My TBR for this relay segment:
Her Fearful Symmetry
Hollow Kingdom
The Islanders
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
White Oleander
Homegoing



Update: I didn't finish any or these, but I made progress in 4 of them. I am trying to finish Hollow Kingdom in the 2nd relay segment, just to be done with it; I REALLY am still not into zombie stories, however much my sister loved this one.

Relay Sprint 1: ReadingNightcrawling Only got 14 pages in
Relay Sprint 2: Finished listening to The Psychology of Money; Started listening to Red Queen;Continued reading Nightcrawling pages 20-

Ok, here is my update for the Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23

Dogs of War, ebook
— I read 79 pages on Saturday and
— the last 18 pages early on Sunday.

Swordheart, audio
— listened for 1 hour 27 minutes on Saturday.
— listened for 2 hours 10 minutes on Sunday.

Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Fables, e-comic
— read 56 pages of this on Saturday.
— read 42 pages on Sunday.

Ocean Grave, ebook
— started and read 90 pages on Sunday.

Total:
285 pages & 3 hours 37 minutes

For this reading relay segment I am starting with 4 stacks of books, reading the top book in each stack and replacing them with another from the same stack as I finish them.
Stack 1:
The Nero Wolfe Primer
The Game of Kings
Hamlet, Revenge!
Besides the wench is dead
The Dragons of Archenfield



Stack 2:
The Good Soldier Švejk
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton
Hollow Kingdom
The Gone-Away World
The Islanders



Stack 3:
White Oleander
Homegoing
Payback: A Novel
A Horse Walks into a Bar
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon



Stack 4:
Doctor Who: Instruments of Darkness - DONE
Doctor Who: Earthworld
Doctor Who: The Burning
Doctor Who: Grave Matter
Doctor Who: Players

Update for Relay 1

Relay Sprint 1 - April 22-23
Started today 60% through both and .

Starting pages:
pg 207-346 (139 pgs) FINISHED
pg 194-323 (129 pgs) FINISHED
pg 1-56 (56 pgs) READ
pgs 1-100 (100 pgs) READ
pg 1-207 (207 pgs)

Time Listened: 5:15
Time Read: 5:05
Total Time: 10:20
Total Pages: 631

Relay #2
Just finished Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen. It was an ARC, and really kept me reading.

Relay Sprint 2 - April 24-25

pg 208-369 (161 pgs) FINISHED
pg 1-320 (320 pgs) READ
pg 1-85 (85 pgs)

Time Listened: 9:29
Time Read: 6:45
Total Time: 2:44
Total Pages: 566

This week (prior to the readathon) I also want to read/listen to (I need to put these at the forefront so I don't forget about them! lol):

These will probably be read during the readathon but we'll see if I can fit in a couple throughout the week:

Relay Sprint 2 - April 24-25

Swordheart, audio
— listened for 1 hour 36 minutes Monday
— listened for 1 hours 39 minutes Tuesday

Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Fables, e-comic, ongoing
Ocean Grave, ebook, DNF after another 50 pages
Chicks Kick Butt, paper, started + read 27 pages
— 69 pages on Monday
— 62 pages on Tuesday

Total:
131 pages & 3 hours 15 minutes

Not a lot of pages. Busy at work and tired in the evening!

Ugh. We finally got a real rain storm, with hail unfortunately, and the area of my ceiling where I wondered if there was a bit of a slow leak over winter DEFINITELY has a leak now post-hail. So I may be shifting my reading priorities to bigger books (physically big) that take more shelf space so I can make room to consolidate my shelves & clear the area where the leak is.

Relay Sprint 3 - April 26-27

pg 86-343 (257 pgs) FINISHED
pg 1-216 (216 pgs)

Time Listened: 10:09
Time Read: 0:00
Total Time: 10:09
Total Pages: 473

This week (prior to the readathon) I also want to read/listen to (I need to put these at the forefront so I don't forget about them! lol):

These will probably be read during the readathon but we'll see if I can fit in a couple throughout the week:

Relay Sprint 3 - April 26-27
I finished the audio of Swordheart last night.
I DNFd Chicks Kick Butt, wasn‘t in the mood for UF.
Started The Last Astronaut instead. Better!

April 26
80 pages
1 h 40 minutes

April 27
75 pages
2 h 44 minutes

Total — a little better than the previous relay!
155 pages
4 h 24 minutes