Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

Starting now, and running through the end of 2023, here is our between-readathons reading challenge. For this one I selected items from the many great reading challenges posted on social media already.

1. Takes place in one day. (www.theuncorkedlibrarian.com)
2. Set in a capital city. (The Blue Bookmark Bookclub))
3. To help you achieve something. (Janishpastry)
4. About gardens or gardening. (buildyourlibrary,com)
5. A book with lawyers. (Shelf Reflection)
6. A book about divorce. (PopSugar Challenge)
7. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover. (Read Harder Challenge)
8. With a one word title. (cometreadings.com)
9. A book with a car, truck or bus on the cover. (Pick Your Poison challenge, gregoryroad.blogspot.com)
10. Bridge. (Monthly Key Word reading challenge, girlxoxo.com)
11. Written by a comedian. (The 52 Book Club)
12. A book title that starts with the word "The". (The Nerdy Bookworm challenge, emilythebooknerd.com)
13. Mentioned in another book. (spineandleafbooks.com)
14. This school ain't what it seems. (Beat the Backlist, austinedecker.com)

Bonus:
A: A book from the World Reading Challenge - https://taleaway.com/world-reading-ch...

B; A book from the Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.

C: A book recommended by a celebrity book club.

D; A book recommended by another Dewey's reader.

E. The longest and the shortest unread books you own.

If you run out of prompts before you run out of year, up your game by browsing some or all of the challenges referenced in this challenge and selecting one or more to finish. Or, pick one more prompt from each challenge. All of the challenges I referenced showed up on Pinterest today with a keyword search for '2023 Reading Challenge' except maybe the Read Harder challenge from Book Riot.

Do you have favorite reading challenges you are working on that I have not mentioned yet here?

That is a fun list! I am working my way through two A-to-Z reading challenges over on StoryGraph.

I am also keeping track of
- the countries I am visiting in my books and
- the countries my authors come from.

5. A book with lawyers — Lords of Uncreation
8. With a one word title — Deliverer
12. A book title that starts with the word "The" — The Marigold

D: A book recommended by another Dewey's reader. — Planetfall

I don't know if I will tackle all the prompts, but I'm tracking over in my thread.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The last couple of years I've only done the Goodreads Reading Challenge and then focused on trying to read down my TBR, which had gotten a bit out of hand.

My reading has slowed considerably now that kitten season has set in. I've rescued more kittens in just this month than I usually raise in a year. But, I've been listening to Michael Moorcock novels as audiobooks, and some of them fit the prompts in our challenge. :)

#2 Set in a capital city. - Many of Moorcock's books are at least partially set in a parallel universe version of London.

#12 A book title that starts with the word 'the'. - I am currently listening to The Runestaff, by Moorcock.

#13 Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville. I reread this year. I first read in 2017 because this book was mentioned in a book I very much enjoyed: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick.

I got into a Shakespeare kick while finishing crochet projects for our county fair this week, so I've finished #3 "To help you achieve something'. I'm trying to read all of Shakespeare's plays, so I'm closer to completing that goal now.
Macbeth, Othello, Measure for Measure, King Lear.
I found a great Harvard course on youtube covering Shakespeare's later plays, so I listen to each audiobook, and then the lecture for it, and if I can find them I watch one or more videos of productions of the play before I move on the the next. I know I've read some of these before (so far Macbeth, King Lear) and I have sort of read Othello, but this approach is a lot more thorough than just rereading the plays. I'm on Anthony and Cleopatra now, and will get to Pericles, Cymbeline, Coriolanus, A Winter's Tale, and The Tempest as well. I've seen The last 2 in theatres, and watched the production of Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus while it was on youtube, but the lectures still add a lot.

That sounds like a fun reading project. Do you mind sharing the name of the Harvard series on YouTube?

Fiona wrote: "That sounds like a fun reading project. Do you mind sharing the name of the Harvard series on YouTube?"

It is Harvard ENGL E-129 and the playlist is called Harvard: Shakepeare After All: The Later Plays - CosmoLearning.com

Thank you!

I will try this with the books I pick out as of today ( first trying to finish a lot of books before the readathon starts)

#1 Medea by Euripides. I read thisbook with my classics group on Goodreads. To help me deepen my understanding, I also read comic book Jason: Quest for the Golden Fleece and essay collection Medea

A fairytale romamce that ends in tragedy 💔 + 👀

#12 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien. Read with my classics group on Goodreads. To deepen my understanding of the book, I used the comic book version The Hobbit so I could see how the story goes and this book to understand the journey of transformation of Bilbo Baggins Hobbit Lessons: A Map for Life's Unexpected Journeys.

Epic

Just finished the prompts! On to my Reverse Readathon TRB shortly.

I tracked the inter-readathon challenge here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...