Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

How is your readathon tbr looking? Thin and uninspired? A wall of books you couldn't finish in a year? A stavk of books you've been staring at guiltily for months? Well, this reading game may be for you. You can play this one as a pre-readathon challenge or during the readathon, or both. You can start over with a fresh starting set on the day of the readathon if you wish, and of course you can adjust the number of categories to suit your needs.

Step one: Decide how many categories/teams you wish to use. For example, my relay this week has 5 catehories- audiobooks, paperbacks, hardbacks, tomes, and classics,
Step 2: Choose at least one book for each category/team.

How to play- The first book in each category/team is the one you are 'currently reading'. As you finish each book you replace it with another from the same category. You can either make up stack/lists for each category ahead of time or choose replacement books as you go.

Which category/team do you expect will win? This game can be done with others too. I find it a great way to shuffle my tbr and tackle books I've gad languishing on my shelves. Often the category that wins is not the one I would have guessed beforehand. What are your categories> Which books are leading each of your categories?

My relay teams for the week before the readathon:

Audiobooks: Othello, finished, replaced by Measure for Measure finished, replaced by King Lear, replaced by Macbeth, replaced by Antony and Cleopatra
Paperbacks: The Ivy Tree
Classics: The Twelve Caesars
Tomes: London
Hardbacks: War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War
Tamara's books: Marlfox
Alisia's books: Pleasure (Penguin Classics) by D'Annunzio, Gabriele (2014) Paperback (also need to add a cover image to this book's info.)
Marc's books: Trust Me
Patti's books: Three Doors to Death



Finished

I am not much of a planner for readathons, I am more of a spur-of-the-moment person. Nonetheless, I‘ll give it a try, although my follow-through tends to be bad… 😏

I‘ll start with my current reads and will see where it leads me:

- Comics/graphic novels: Fables, Band 14 - Das große Fables-Crossover — replaced by Dune: Die Graphic Novel, Buch 1
- Shorts/Novelettes/Novellas: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy — replaced by Falling Bodies
- Audio: Troy: The Siege of Troy Retold — replaced by A Closed and Common Orbit
- ebook / novels: The Kaiju Preservation Society: Shortlisted for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel — Legends & Lattes

I just put up my list of what to focus on this week and this weekend. I won't get all of them done, not even half I'm sure.

I finished my crochet projects for our county fair and they were judged and accepted for display today, so now I can focus on books and our readathon without also frantically trying to finish afghans on a deadline. :) I am hoping to finish a few more books from my other categories now, but I've been really enjoying listening to audiobooks of Shakespeare plays along with Harvard lectures about them.

Harvard lectures, Jaime? How do you access them? Are you listening to Professor Marjorie Garber? She is brilliant.

Cynda wrote: "Harvard lectures, Jaime? How do you access them? Are you listening to Professor Marjorie Garber? She is brilliant."

Yep. They are really good lectures, and I get a lot more out of the plays if I listen to them, watch her lectures, and then watch stage productions of them. Maybe I am just missing grad school, but it's been a fun way to combine crochet and 'reading' this summer. I spend a lot of time on youtube anyway, and have a list of courses on there I want to get to this year.

I thought so ;-) Everytime I reread or read Shakespeare play, I consult her Shakespeare After All. . . . . .Watching various productions over time is fun too. Maybe the best part.

I love this idea! Here are my categories, though it's likely that none of these will be finished and replaced.

Audiobooks: Nothing to Lose
Ebooks: A Promised Land
Bookclub Read: The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Library Book: The Violin Conspiracy
Physical Book That I Own: Liliane

Reverse Readathon Relay
LIBRARY AUDIO: completed completed replaced with: &
OWNED AUDIO: Not sure what I'll start with
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
ARCS: Not sure what I'll start with
PHYSICAL BOOKS: reading

Avid Reader and Geek Girl wrote: "Reverse Readathon Relay
LIBRARY AUDIO: completed replaced with: & [bookcover:The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and t..."


Excuse me, but is that Northanger Abbey, but gay and in Texas??? *squeal* *adds to TBR*

Jana wrote: "Excuse me, but is that Northanger Abbey, but gay and in Texas??? *squeal* *adds to TBR*..."

It isssss! It's delightful!

Elyse wrote: "Jana wrote: "Excuse me, but is that Northanger Abbey, but gay and in Texas??? *squeal* *adds to TBR*..."

It isssss! It's delightful!"

Omg gimme gimme gimme!