Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

The 2023 Reverse Readathon is only weeks away, so it is time to start flexing our reading muscles. Our first 'long lap' reading sprint starts now and runs from July 5th through noon on Sunday July 9th. At noon on July 9th we'll shift into a week long reading sprint, which runs through noon on July 16th. Watch this thread and our facebook, twitter, tumblr, and discord for additional shorter reading sprints as we get ourselves back into readathon mode.

I’ll probably start this Saturday. Making long days at work, too tired to read in the evenings.

Today I am a bit busier with house hold tasks. Just made my first lentil salad. Pretty good. May like better for fall. . . .Tomorrow I settle in for long reading hours. So in!

I'm going to do a little differently:
July 7-13: Read for 24 hours
July 14-20: Read 1000 pages

I'm in! So excited to start gearing up for the readathon. So much work and life stress lately; I'm hoping I can really prioritize and enjoy reading these next couple of weeks.

I am never quite sure what to do for these sprints. I read every evening after work anyway. Ok, I also watch some TV, so I guess I could try to cut back on that… with the pretty weather and my new ebike I will be outside as well though. Audiobooks to the rescue!

I was on the road or busy all yesterday, so I'm only now working out my tbr for this week. I may just stack up all the books I have already started (a growing stack at the moment) and actually finish a few this week.

As I was off from work this Monday, it felt like it was Sunday so I completely messed up my tracking lol
Did finish a physical book (Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie) and an audiobook (Troy by Stephen Fry).

I finished a few books this past sprint, including some that were actually on my tbr-
Pebble in the Sky
Lucifer's Hammer
Citizen of the Galaxy
Kiss Me, Deadly
The Twisted Thing

I also made progress in a few books from my 1st sprint tbr.
Roadside Picnic
The Eyre Affair
Tales of the Peculiar

I came across an audio version of Roadside Picnic, so I am listening to it as I make up my new tbr for this week's sprint.

Sprint/lap plan between 7/11 and 7/20

Rotate through 6 books that are currently incomplete

7/11 The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
7/12 The Violin Conspiracy
7/13 The Catcher in the Rye
7/14 Nightcrawling
7/15 Madam President
7/16 A Promised Land
7/17 The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
7/18 The Violin Conspiracy
7/19 The Catcher in the Rye
7/20 Nightcrawling

Read for 24 hours
July 7 - Time: 05:46
July 8 - Time: 04:19
July 9 - Time: 07:35
July 10 - Time: 04:34
July 11 - Time: 01:20 (headaches and nausea all day. I watched 6 movies, 5 being Disney animation)
July 12 - Time: 03:10 24 hours achieved!
July 13 - Time: 04:26

Elyse wrote: "Read for 24 hours
July 7 - Time: 05:46
July 8 - [bookcover:Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes..."

I always loved logging my reading like this where you can see your progress as the covers change. :) I don't do it as much since we got away from the strict 24 hour readathon approach, but I may have to try a log like this again this coming readathon.

I am trying a reading sprint game today, one described to me by someone I met at a grocery store this past week. 🙂 You start each hour with a posted key word from a short list of possible key words, and pick your book for that hour based on the key word posted for that hour. So, if the key word is 'CAT', I could pick The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, or a book with a cat on its cover, or one I happen to know has a cat in it, like some of the Elric novels that have talking panthers, or I could go with Cat as short for Catherine, or some other interpretation (Cat-ion, .and thus a book on chemistry, etc.)

My list of keywords is : Rice, Cook, Hot, Strand, Proud, Wet, Island, Peace, Hide, Play, Sleep, Bone, Planet, Loyal, Fur, Alone

I'll use a randomizer to select the word for the top of the next hour (5pm here). I have some ideas for each word, but there are LOTS of ways to interpret these words, and Even just in my tbr shelves I could make a whole stack for each word easily. This could be fun. I'll try to post the selected word 5 minutes before each hour starts.

The randomizer wheel chose PEACE for the first hour of this game. (I used https://pickerwheel.com/ for this game, btw.)

Our word for this hour is HIDE.

My book for this hour is still American Pastoral, because the main characters include a family that makes their fortune manufacturing leather goods (hides).

Well, not able to read much for this hour, but I did do some of Salem's Lot, which certainly fits Hide for me lol

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Well, not able to read much for this hour, but I did do some of Salem's Lot, which certainly fits Hide for me lol"

That definitely works. :)

This next hour's word is 'STRAND'.
My book for this one will be Red Thread, by Rex Stout

Our word for the next hour (8pm Mountain time) is FUR

My book for this one will be Marlfox

The next hour's word will be WET.

Sorry I was not able to participate much. Between a headache, working late, two evening power outtages, having to do dinner late, making mini cakes late, I did random audio while shuffling around at times, then bed crash.

Fun idea though, Jamie

I'm starting over with the same words as yesterday, but this time I'll post the current hour's word and the next hour's word, so that without spending too long deciding what to read we get a little longer to pick the next book.

My list of keywords is : Rice, Cook, Hot, Strand, Proud, Wet, Island, Peace, Hide, Play, Sleep, Bone, Planet, Loyal, Fur, Alone

Sprint 1: (1pm MountainTime) - HIDE
Sprint 2: (2pm MountainTime) - HOT
Sprint 3: (3pm MT) - PROUD
Sprint 4: (4pm MT) - BONE
Sprint 5: (5pm MT) - STRAND
Sprint 6: (6pm MT) - PLAY
Sprint 7: (7pm MT) - ISLAND
Sprint 8 (8pm MT) - FUR
Sprint 9 (9pm MT) - SLEEP

The remaining 7 words will be the ones that make up the possible keywords for our 7 official schedules sprints during the readathon.

My book for HIDE is American Pastoral, which still has a lot of trivia mixed in about tanning hides and leatherwork..

My book for HOT is Pleasure (By: Gabriele D'Annunzio) published: December, 2013 , which may be hot and steamy, though I have my doubts.

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Sorry I was not able to participate much. Between a headache, working late, two evening power outtages, having to do dinner late, making mini cakes late, I did random audio while shuffling around a..."

Life happened . And you were forced to put the books down . Don't worry about . Hope to hear from you this Saturday evening .

Sprint 3's word will be PROUD. This hour (sprint 2) is HOT.

OOOH! I need to make some progress in William Makepeace Thackaray's VANITY FAIR . The half finished e-book has been taking up space in my reader for years . This is a good opportunity to move a bit closer the ending . Most of the characters in the story are so irritatingly proud . I had to take a breather .
Thanks for the reminder Jamie .

This hour is PROUD, next hour is BONE.

I'm going back to a book I started in January for Proud, The Twelve Caesars.

Vanessa wrote: "OOOH! I need to make some progress in William Makepeace Thackaray's VANITY FAIR . The half finished e-book has been taking up space in my reader for years . This is a good opportunity to move a bit..."

Yeah, the Caesars are pretty overwhelmingly proud too, so I took a break after the first one and never got back to it, months ago. I did make a bit of progress though today, and may get further by the end of the readathon now that I've resumed reading it finally.

Our word for this hour is BONE, and my book for this one has been on tbrs of mine for years, quite literally - The White Bone. I think it is about elephants.

Our word for the next one will be STRAND.

Our current word is STRAND, for which I am still reading Red Threads: A Novel.

Our next word will be PLAY.

I'll do a couple more hours tonight, and the remaining 7 words will be the ones I'll choose by the same randomizer starting tomorrow for our readathon scheduled sprints.

I have spent most of the month inside the apartment building. When not visiting with neighbors, I have read and visited with my Goodreads friends.

Since July 5th I have.started and completed
* How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
* Jason: Quest for the Golden Fleece retelling by Jeff Limke
* The Hobbit retelling by Chuck Dixon
* Medea by Euripides
* Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
* The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins nynDr. Seuss
* Hobbit Lessons: A Map for Life's Unexpected Journeys by Devin Brown
* Mary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. Travers
* The King's Stilts by Dr. Seuss
* Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam by Gerald F. Goodwin
* The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
* Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris

Read 1000 pages
July 14 - Pages: 213
July 15 - Pages: 145
July 16 - Pages: 435
July 17 - Pages: 461 // 1000 pages achieved!
July 18 - Pages: 376
July 19 - Pages: 361
July 20 - Pages: 421

You guys have all been reading a lot this month!

I just realized that I am not prepped like that, forgot still have to make my planned dinner tonight, but at least it's an easy casserole to throw together. My new living room lamp did not come in yet, probably will be tomorrow or Sunday, but think since my son is going to work that a lot of my evening reading will be on the living room couch with ambience vids, a bath possibly, and maybe some porch if it rains and mugginess calms down.

We will see!