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My final time for the 24in48 readathon: 24 hours 2 minutes and almost 2 seconds. I made it! WHAT I READ: I finished the next two books in the Fjallbacka series (The Drowning and The Lost Boy) and started a few more (there’s a full list at the end of the post), plus I finished up some more academic reading which actually made that a bit more fun which surprised me (maybe because I was just reading and not taking notes?). Most of what I consumed was audiobooks, partly because it let me do other things, like design BuJo spreads and spend some time in Photoshop, but also because I was too exhausted for most of Sunday to do much physical reading. THOUGHTS (WHAT WAS EASY? HARD? WHAT WAS DIFFERENT THAN ANTICIPATED): I didn’t realize how much I was looking forward to reading ‘It All Falls Down’ until I couldn’t get a copy in time. That wasn’t much of an issue on Saturday when everything was new and I was working on creative projects, but on Sunday when reading was a bit harder and I

HOURS SINCE READATHON START : 18 hours 29 minutes HOURS READ : 19 hours 44 minutes PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED : 146 pages / 26 hours 29 minutes listened (973 pages) FINISHED BOOKS/READINGS : The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg, The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg, The Mortal Animal Chapter 13 (16 pages), Principle 4 in Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer (4 pages), How Pleasure Works, Chapter 1 (24 pages), The Foundations of Buddhism Chapter 6 (29 pages) WHAT I’VE BEEN READING : I read a chunk of ‘An Echo in the Bone’ but I’ve realized I have no reliable way of calculating how many pages I’ve read in what is a 6,000+ page omnibus ebook edition. I’m still stubbornly at 85% so there’s no way for me to tell if I’ve read 10 pages or 100. I’ve also picked up the audiobook of ‘The Red Word’ and I’m finding it easier to get through now than I did a week ago so there’s some hope I’ll finish it or be close to finishing it by the time I hit the 24 hour mark around 11. Fantasies of Identifi

HOURS SINCE READATHON START : 39 hours 23 minutes HOURS READ : 16 hours 43 minutes PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED : 55 pages / 26 hours 29 minutes listened (973 pages) FINISHED BOOKS/READINGS : The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg, The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg, The Mortal Animal Chapter 13 (16 pages), Principle 4 in Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer (4 pages) WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: It took me forever to wake up this morning so that I’d stop feeling like I’d fall asleep listening to ‘The Lost Boy’, but I managed to finish up before I went down to make a late lunch. I’ve read quite a bit more of ‘Fantasies of Identification’ than I’d thought I would this afternoon, but I’ve hit a less dense section of the book so it’s going smoothly for now. I’m hoping to get another chunk read and to finish the chapter of ‘The Foundations of Buddhism’ I’m still working my way through before I get too tired and switch back to an audiobook which will probably be ‘The Red Word’ just because I have it ch

HOURS SINCE READATHON START: 20 hours 17 minutes HOURS READ: 9 hours 9 minutes PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED: 41 pages / 13 hours 33 minutes listened (480 pages) FINISHED BOOKS/READINGS: The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg, The Mortal Animal Chapter 13 WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: I spent a couple of hours on the phone, so I’m behind where I’d planned to be but I’m still hoping to make the time up tonight. I finished ‘The Drowning’. I enjoyed it a lot more than the last book in the series, but was a bit disappointed when I guessed the ending 75% of the way through. I’m planning on potentially picking up the next book in the series since I’m sleepy enough I’m not sure I’ll be able to follow the audio of ‘The Red Word’ The Foundations of Buddhism Chapter 6: p. 15 / 29 Fantasies of Identification 39%  The Lost Boy (Fjallbacka #7) 32 minutes / 12 hours 56 minutes 

HOURS SINCE READATHON START: 15 hours 4 minutes HOURS READ: 6 hours 33 minutes PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED: 12 pages / 6 hours 3 minutes listened FINISHED BOOKS: None yet WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: I hadn’t expected to start the readathon with an audiobook and to keep with it for this long, but I’m really enjoying ‘The Drowning’. I’ve mostly worked on creative projects but I did read a section of ‘The Foundations of Buddhism’. It’s a denser section of the book so that’s going to go slowly but I’m hoping to have finished the chapter by the end of the day. The Foundations of Buddhism Chapter 6: p. 12 / 29 The Drowning: 12 hours and 5 minutes / 13 hours 33 minutes

HOURS SINCE READATHON START : 0 hours HOURS READ : 0 hours PAGES READ/HOURS LISTENED : 0 pages / 0 hours listened FINISHED BOOKS : None yet WHAT I’VE BEEN READING :  I haven’t read anything yet but I would like to make note of where I am in each of the books I’ve started so I’m not stuck trying to remember. I realize Goodreads is probably a better place to do this but that just feels like one more hassle right now. Ways of Dying: p. 50 / 212 Pigs in Heaven: p. 206 / 343 The Red Word: 3hr 5 mins / 11 hours 47 mins Ms Marvel vol 9 (136 unnumbered pages) An Echo in the Bone (omnibus volume starts at 85%) The Drowning (13 hours 33 minutes) Fantasies of Identification (some number of the 273 pages) It All Falls Down: currently not available Books With Miscellaneous Page Counts: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Prologue & Chapter 1) The Foundations of Buddhism Chapter 6 Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite Chapters, 1-3 & Chapter 8 The Mortal Animal Chapter

Don't worry this is some sort of secret soft reboot, although I would like to try and start using this space again this year, this was just the best place I could think of to talk about the readathon. This last week has been a bit rough energy and to do list wise, so instead of the readathon being a break from the go go go, it needs to be at least a little productive (aka relevant to other goals of mine). Well, that and I forgot to unsuspend my library holds so I'm not sure how much of my original TBR I'll have access to. Originally my options were: 'The Red Word', 'The Drowning', 'Ms. Marvel vol. 9', 'Paper Girls vol. 5', 'It All Falls Down', 'Fantasies of Identification', and 'An Echo in the Bone'. I'm probably not going to be able to get a copy of 'Paper Girls' since I accidentally used my last library credit for this month and I'm second on the holds list for a physical copy. Whether or not I end u