Mystery Read-a-Thon Wrap-Up

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The Mystery Read-A-Thon is concluded!  I read for about 11 hours and got through 400-ish pages.  Not very much, but that's the way it rolls.  The two books I read during the readathon were The Firemaker by Peter May (review to be written post-haste) and Oracles of Delphi Keep by Victoria Laurie.  So far Oracles of Delphi is better than The Firemaker, although I'm just at the beginning of the former.

While I didn't accomplish everything I wanted to during the readathon, I did really enjoy spending the weekend devoting a huge chunk of my time to reading.  I wish every weekend was a readathon!  I also learned how little time I actually spend reading these days, in between everything going on at home, the internets, etc.  No wonder I've been depressed lately!  I really do think I need to resolve to read more, because even though The Firemaker was not the greatest book in the world (to say the least), I still enjoyed just sitting and reading it and being transported to another place.  So I'm definitely going to make an effort to read without interruptions from now on.

There isn't much I would change about this readathon, except maybe make it easier for each of the marathoners to keep tabs on one another.  I definitely hope I get a chance to participate in it next time.
 

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TSS-The Junk Drawer

The corner of my room where I keep my books looks like it has explodeded.

Since I'm participating in The Mystery Read-a-thon, I decided I would pull out all mystery books I have so they're all together.  Naturally they were spread out all over my bookshelf (if you had some idea that I organize my books in any way, shape, or form... no), so now the books on my bookshelf are collapsing on top of themselves, and I have piles of mystery books all over the floor in addition to all my other piles of books all over the place.

How did I become such a book glutton?  I'm seriously not acquiring any more books until my shelf is down to a manageable size.  Seriously!  Will you stop laughing, please?

Anyway, yes, the Mystery Read-a-thon.  Yesterday I read less than six hours (-ish; I lost track of time for a bit) and I'm not even half-way through my first book, which is kind of disheartening.  I am enjoying just taking time to read and not do anything else, though.  I'll do more updates when the Read-a-thon concludes.

I got back from vacation on Monday night.  If you recall, I listed a few books I was planning to take with me.  Well, here's what I actually brought:

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  
• Don't Tempt Me by Loretta Chase (DNF)
  
• Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy (I think that's her name)
  
• Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein
  
• The Warrior Hier by Cinda Williams Chima
  
• Emma (Vols. 1-7) by Kaoru Mori
  
• What Happens in London by Julia Quinn
  
• Landsman by Peter Melman
  
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  
• The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
  
• Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
  
• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
• Kathryn by Anya Seton
  
• Need by Carrie Jones (DNF)
  
• The Ruthless Italian's Inexperience Wife by Christina Hollis (DNF)
  

Aaaack!  It grew!

Predictably, I did not read all of these books.  Also predictably, I bought more books.  Well, the Portland Art Museum was having this super-killer sale on their exhibition catalogs--$2-5 for every one, and they usually cost between $40-60--so I really HAD to buy more books in that case.  And then we went to Powell's....



I also joined several challenges when I came back.  The first was The Harry Potter Reading Challenge.  Well, I was already reading The Chamber of Secrets, so why not?!  Then there's the Japanese Literature Challenge; I was going to use Emma for that, but then I decided I would read Battle Royale for it, instead.  And I of course had to join Amy's L. J. Smith Reading Challenge.  I might have joined another challenge, too... hmm, can't remember.  Not a good sign.  I need a secretary or something.

But it's good to be home and foolishly joining new challenges again.  Plus, I actually got a job!  I haven't started it yet, but I'm happy because obviously my little problem with the books needs some sort of funding.

Now back to the readathon.

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Mystery Read-A-Thon!

So I'm about to start this weekend's Mystery Read-A-Thon. It's reading books and mysteries for twelve hours this Saturday and Sunday. I have a huge pile of mysteries built up on my TBR shelf, so hopefully this will let me get through... um, one of them. At the very least.

Now, I know what you're thinking: Tasha, isn't every day a read-a-thon for you? Umm, nooooo. And especially not a mystery one. I love mysteries, but they usually get passed over for the romances. Poor little mysteries.

Here are all mysteries I have to choose from for the Read-a-thon:



If you've read any of these and have an opinion on them, let me know! I'm going to start out with Firemaker by Peter May because that's also on my list for the Take-A-Chance Challenge, so I'll be able to kill two birds with one stone by reading it. I'll have to see what sort of mood I'm in after that before I decide on the next book.

So the plan is to start around 2 pm today and read as much as I can until bedtime, then make up the rest of the hours on Sunday afternoon. I'll be checking in here and on twitter occassionally to update my progress.

Want to participate in the Mystery Read-a-Thon? I'm pretty sure you can still sign up through the end of Saturday. Just go to their website. Caribousmom is also giving away prizes for the read-a-thon here!

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