Readathon: Post Uno

READATHON IS HEEEERE. Ok, I have pictures. And yes, I was supposed to start at 7, but I passed out last night WITH MY CONTACTS IN, so when I awoke at 7:45, a good deal of time was spent showering and making myself un-disgusting.

Now, first hour survey that I missed two hours ago:

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

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. It is gorgeously sunny and I expect to see people wandering around in shock like you would if you were a fire poker employed at the Beast's castle and it's right after Belle kisses him.

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

Weirdly enough, I think it's The Drood Murder Case.

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?

I've been looking forward to the item pictured below for DAYS and I am glad it isn't in fact gross.

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!

I sing opera. I ship a lot of couples. If I could be a cryptozoologist-opera singer, I'd consider my life made.

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've baaarely participated before because of Circumstances, so I'm really just looking forward to sitting down and getting a lot of my partially-read books done so the poor library can have them back.

All right, book pile.

Said books are:

The Drood Murder Case
The Invisible Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Sapphire Blue
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Lamb
Half-Blood Prince
Passions Between Women

I expect to read 50 pages of one book today.

Nah, I started and read some of Half-Blood Prince, for I am super-behind in the Harry Potter Readalong, which is kind of bad since I'm, y'know, hosting it. I've actually started pretty much all the above books but I have such a terrible problem with finishing things, so here goes an attempt at that. You will also note that almost all of them are library books. Yes. I own two of the above, and one of them I've read before. This is Not a Great Thing, but there it is.

FOOD THINGS. Right. Well. I'm being rather lame, and my food today will consist of juicing cucumbers, carrots, apples and spinach; and also some hummus and this marvelous, Peptobismol-y looking thing:

THAT is almond milk, banana and straight-up cranberry juice. None of that cranberry juice cocktail shit. And it is delicious.

READATHON ONWARD.

Comments

Harry Potter 2013 Readalong Signup Post of Amazingness and Jollity

Okay, people. Here it is. Where you sign up to read the entire Harry Potter series (or to reminisce fondly), starting January 2013, assuming we all survive the Mayan apocalypse. I don't think I'm even going to get to Tina and Bette's reunion on The L Word until after Christmas, so here's hopin'. You guys know how this works. Sign up if you want to. If you're new to the blog, know that we are mostly not going to take this seriously. And when we do take it seriously, it's going to be all Monty Python quotes when we disagree on something like the other person's opinion on Draco Malfoy. So be prepared for your parents being likened to hamsters. If you want to write lengthy, heartfelt essays, that is SWELL. But this is maybe not the readalong for you. It's gonna be more posts with this sort of thing: We're starting Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone January 4th. Posts will be on Fridays. The first post will be some sort of hilar

Minithon: The Mini Readathon, January 11th, 2020

The minithon is upon us once more! Minithons are for the lazy. Minithons are for the uncommitted. Minithons are for us. The minithon lasts 6 hours (10 AM to 4 PM CST), therefore making it a mini readathon, as opposed to the lovely Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and 24in48, both of which you should participate in, but both of which are a longer commitment than this, the Busy Watching Netflix person's readathon. By 'read for six hours' what's really meant in the minithon is "read a little bit and eat a lot of snacks and post pictures of your books and your snacks, but mostly your snacks." We like to keep it a mini theme here, which mainly means justifying your books and your snacks to fit that theme. Does your book have children in it? Mini people! Does it have a dog! Mini wolf! Does it have pencils? Mini versions of graphite mines! or however you get graphite, I don't really know. I just picture toiling miners. The point is, justify it or don't

How to Build a Girl Introductory Post, which is full of wonderful things you probably want to read

Acclaimed (in England mostly) lady Caitlin Moran has a novel coming out. A NOVEL. Where before she has primarily stuck to essays. Curious as we obviously were about this, I and a group of bloggers are having a READALONG of said novel, probably rife with spoilers (maybe they don't really matter for this book, though, so you should totally still read my posts). This is all hosted/cared for/lovingly nursed to health by Emily at As the Crowe Flies (and Reads) because she has a lovely fancy job at an actual bookshop ( Odyssey Books , where you can in fact pre-order this book and then feel delightful about yourself for helping an independent store). Emily and I have negotiated the wonders of Sri Lankan cuisine and wandered the Javits Center together. Would that I could drink with her more often than I have. I feel like we could get to this point, Emily INTRODUCTION-wise (I might've tipped back a little something this evening, thus the constant asides), I am Alice. I enjoy

Reading Rambo

Search This Blog