Obligatory Mystery Readathon Wrap-Up

Well, the Mystery Readathon ended, um, Sunday.  I read for about eight hours and finished one book, Some Girls Bite (which I was actually already halfway through when the readathon started).  So... yikes!  Not much reading done. 

To be honest, I was feeling insanely tired of reading by Sunday.  I have obviously not been reading very much lately, no?  But on the plus side, once I started Josh Lanyon's Adrien English Mysteries, I felt myself getting a second wind.  Maybe I was just feeling a lag because I had finished Some Girls Bite and that's a pretty good book (stay tuned for a review on it and Friday Night Bites by me and Colette from A Buckeyegirl Reads).

I obviously need to go into some sort of reading training.  How am I going to go back to grad school and survive if I can't read for days on end?

The readathon itself was pretty quiet.  It seems like every time they have it, it gets more and more low-key.  Not much activity on twitter or blogging-wise.  This definitely gives one more opportunities to read, but isn't as much fun as the big Dewey's Readathon.  Oh, and someone realllllly needs to come up with a Mystery Readathon button (I suppose that will be me, since I'm the only one bothered by it ^_^).


So, that was my weekend.  Did you get any reading done in the last few days?

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Mystery Readathon--Sunday Update

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Well, I finally finished Some Girls Bite--at about 8 hours, it took a loooooong time.  The last fifty pages especially seemed to take forever.

I think it's pretty clear that whatever reading muscles I had have seriously atrophied in the last few months.  I'm not sure I can go on. *headdeskrepeat*

Anyway, enough whining from me.  Now that I've finished Some Girls Bite, it's time to move on to another book.  I'm thinking the Adrien English books (even though, to be entirely honest, I am not in the mood for m/m romance right now).  Or maybe I'll just get my phone fixed on Verizon.  Stay tuned to find out which....

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Mystery Readathon Meme

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A few questions for the Mystery Readathon before I get started:

Give us 5 fun facts about you.

Um, I like to read?  Oh, wait, you already knew that.

1. The first book I ever read was Bunnicula.
2. My favorite holiday is Valentine's Day.
3. When I was 19 I shaved my head.
4. I hate painted fingernails but love painted toenails.
5. Dusting is my least-favorite chore, as evidenced by the amount of dust around here.

Did you participate in the Mystery Readathon in the past?

Yes.

Can you give the new participants any tips on what to do and what not to do?

Tell people you're busy.  Don't make plans.  Convince someone to cook for you or order in pizza.  Get up every two hours and stretch.  And pick short-ish books so you don't feel like you're spending all your time on one book.

What is in your TBR stack for the next two days?

A lot of m/m romance/mysteries.  Plus I need to finish Some Girls Bite before I move on to anything else (UF can pass for mystery, right?).  I blogged about my goals in more detail in the introductory post I wrote last night.

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Mystery Readathon!

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I'm pretty excited for this weekend's Mystery Readathon, which lasts from Saturday through Sunday.  Why?  Well, for once, I have the entire weekend off!  Hooray!  That means I can spend the entire weekend reading if I want.

What do I plan to read?  Seeing as how it's still M/M Month and I've yet only posted one m/m book review, I think I'm going to focus on that.  I bought the first two Adrien English mysteries by Josh Lanyon, and two books by Tere Michaels (they're about cops, so I figure they have to have some sort of mystery going on in them, right?).  If I get through those, there's always Silent in the Grave or a Laurie R. King mystery.

My goal is to read at least 12 hours, although 24 hours total would be awesome.

Want to join in?  Go to the Mystery Readathon website to sign up!

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