Dewey's Readathon, April 2014: Intro
Apr. 26th, 2014 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calissaThings have been a bit flat out lately, so it looks like I've actually neglected to mention that I'll be participating in Dewey's 24-hour readathon. This is an event held twice a year (in April and October) in memory of a book-blogger who went by the name of Dewey.
The readathon runs for 24 hours but it is not mandatory to participate for the whole time. Since it starts at today 10pm local time, I'll likely sleep through the first eight hours. After all, I'm doing this for fun (and in the hopes of reducing Mt TBR) so there is no point in torturing myself.
Once I wake up, I shall gather my pile of books to read and camp out on the couch for pretty much the entire day. I'll be updating on my progress here and on Twitter. As I did last year, I will likely bunch together several hours worth of check-ins here so as to avoid spamming you all.
I'm really looking forward to this readathon. I spent last October's reading submissions and missed last April's because I was at the Australian Science Fiction Convention. Finally, I can get back to Mt TBR! I shudder to think how monsterous the pile would grow if I didn't have Dewey's readathon to keep it in check twice a year. Just missing last year's has made it bad enough!
Speaking of which...
Here's my paper pile. It includes issues 48-51 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier, A World of My Own by Catriona Annis and The Care and Feeding of Your Lunatic Mage by Douglas van Belle.
On my Kindle (and therefore not shown in the photo) are issues 53-58 of ASIM, Emyr's Smile by Amy Rae Durreson, Nor Iron Bars A Cage by Kaje Harper, Freedom Spiced and Drunk, For the Love of Mortals and Stormfront by MCA Hogarth, Dawn of Avalon and Susanna and the Spy by Anna Elliot, Shadow Unit 1 by Emma Bull and a number of others I have probably forgotten about.
I don't expect to get through all of that. In fact, I'll likely only make it through about half a dozen of them at best. But I look forward to trying :D
The readathon runs for 24 hours but it is not mandatory to participate for the whole time. Since it starts at today 10pm local time, I'll likely sleep through the first eight hours. After all, I'm doing this for fun (and in the hopes of reducing Mt TBR) so there is no point in torturing myself.
Once I wake up, I shall gather my pile of books to read and camp out on the couch for pretty much the entire day. I'll be updating on my progress here and on Twitter. As I did last year, I will likely bunch together several hours worth of check-ins here so as to avoid spamming you all.
I'm really looking forward to this readathon. I spent last October's reading submissions and missed last April's because I was at the Australian Science Fiction Convention. Finally, I can get back to Mt TBR! I shudder to think how monsterous the pile would grow if I didn't have Dewey's readathon to keep it in check twice a year. Just missing last year's has made it bad enough!
Speaking of which...
Here's my paper pile. It includes issues 48-51 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier, A World of My Own by Catriona Annis and The Care and Feeding of Your Lunatic Mage by Douglas van Belle.
On my Kindle (and therefore not shown in the photo) are issues 53-58 of ASIM, Emyr's Smile by Amy Rae Durreson, Nor Iron Bars A Cage by Kaje Harper, Freedom Spiced and Drunk, For the Love of Mortals and Stormfront by MCA Hogarth, Dawn of Avalon and Susanna and the Spy by Anna Elliot, Shadow Unit 1 by Emma Bull and a number of others I have probably forgotten about.
I don't expect to get through all of that. In fact, I'll likely only make it through about half a dozen of them at best. But I look forward to trying :D
