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  So the readathon didn’t go at all like I had expected, mainly because I ended up sleeping most of Saturday and didn’t feel like doing much on Sunday. Multiple days of headaches at the end of the week will do that to a weekend, particularly ones with readathons on them as I’ve repeatedly discovered. I did do about four and a half hours of reading, most of that with an audiobook so I’m pleased with that and I did pick at a few other books. PAGE COUNT TITLE START CURRENT TOTAL Lose Your Mother 22 118 255 Notes on a Silencing 28 108 290 Grass (graphic novel) 0 75 479 The Color of Air 0hrs 0mins 2hrs 50mins 9hrs 21mins That’s 251 pages and almost 3 hours of audiobook which is the equivalent of another 97 pages (348 total), that’s not bad, much more than I would have done without the readathon, so I’m calling it a success.

I’m so thrilled this readathon is back (and this weekend!). I was a little worried it wouldn’t be so I have no complaints about the change in format or anything else. This is one of my favorite readathons, short and sweet but incredibly productive in terms of my TBR so it’s a definite win win for me. On the list for this round are quite a few books that have been lingering in progress since I blew through a bunch of books at the start of the year, including a couple that are due back during the readathon. The potential readathon TBR includes: PAGE COUNT TITLE START CURRENT TOTAL DATE DUE Lose Your Mother 22 255 Feb 5th Notes on a Silencing 28 290 Feb 6th We Keep the Dead Close 0 512 Feb 17th The Power Worshippers 200 260 A Problem from Hell 10 Japanese textbook of some sort ? Grass (graphic novel) 0 Mar 3rd Moomin, book 1 0 Mar 3rd The Arab of the future (1978-1984) 0 Mar 3rd As yet undetermined audiobook 0 ? The other potential reads for the readathon are my unstarted January TBR book...

TIME READ: 14 hours 09 minutes BOOKS FINISHED: Broken Harbor, Know My Name, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vol 1, A Tale for the Time Being, How We Fight for Our Lives I ended up not getting as much reading done as I thought I might on the second day, but I had some really nice conversations with family and friends so I can’t complain about that. I also finished more books than I thought I would. Usually I end up jumping around more, but I think the shorter reading time helped with that, although I did spend a good chunk of Monday reading 95% of ‘The Dry’ so maybe not. Surprisingly I didn’t end up needing another audiobook and I almost didn’t end up finishing the one that I had. Partly that was due the fact I didn’t spend any time working concurrently on other projects and partly because this is the best I’ve felt during a readathon so far so I wasn’t struggling to focus like I have in the past. TITLE TOTAL P. PREV. READ CURRENT REMAINING Broken Harbor - Tana Fre...

TIME READ: 8 hours 47 minutes BOOKS FINISHED: Broken Harbor, Know My Name I’d advise not poisoning yourself with dairy right before the readathon starts, it leads to a rocky start, but even with that I surpassed the six hours I had hoped to reach today. Most of that time I spent physically reading so I wasn’t able to tick any projects off my list but I’m really pleased to have finished two books. I’m hoping to finish three more tomorrow: the graphic novel, the audiobook, and one other. That’s not enough for another six hours of reading so we’ll see if I quit at some point after twelve total, my original tentative goal, or if I aim for more. TITLE TOTAL P. PREV. READ CURRENT REMAINING Broken Harbor - Tana French 474 287 474 0 Know My Name - Chanel Miller 310 119 310 0 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, vol.1 126 44 44 82 A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki 14.72 9.75 11.87 2.85 Policy Analysis of Multi-Actor Systems 170 ...

I’ve gone back and forth over how much I want to participate in the readathon this time around given the short notice and the length of my to do list, but because I’m a bit behind on my reading for the year I’d like to at least give it a go. Currently I’m planning on focusing on books I’ve started, but I may throw in either the start of ‘How We Fight For Our Lives’ or ‘It Would Be Night in Caracas’ depending on how things are going. If I do decide to go for the full twenty four hours I’m going to need another audiobook or two, but I haven’t given that any thought as of yet. I would like to finish ‘Zero K’ this year, and I could pick up ‘The Red Word’ again, despite having no real interest in finding out how it ends, since I only have a few hours left. Ultimately, my choice of audiobook is most likely going to come down to which project I’d like to work on. I have pinecones to crochet and a sweater to finish knitting, but I could pick up a more mindless project and sew some plushie...