My Reading Room: Oct 9, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Dewey's Read-A-Thon: Hour 13 Update

Hothouse Flower: and the Nine Plants of Desire (Vintage Contemporaries)

Book(s) reading previous two hours : Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway, Hot House Flower by Margot Berwin
Book(s) finished: Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Pages read (2 hours): 123
Blog time: 5 min
Blog visiting time: 0 min
Blogs visited: 0
Reading time: 80 min (35 minutes spent doing laundry and household chores)

Total Books read: 3
Total Pages read: 582
Total time read: 380 min
Total time blogging/reading blogs: 115 min
mini-challenges completed: 3

More laundry and some other household chores ate up 30 minutes of the past two hours. I really enjoyed Audrey, Wait! and can't wait to get back to Hot House Flower in the next 2 hours. See you then!

Book(s) reading previous two hours : Hot House Flower by Margot Berwin
Book(s) finished: none
Pages read (2 hours): 77
Blog time: 5 min
Blog visiting time: 0 min
Blogs visited: 0
Reading time: 80 min (35 minutes spent doing laundry and household chores)

Total Books read: 3
Total Pages read: 659
Total time read: 460 min
Total time blogging/reading blogs: 115 min
mini-challenges completed: 4

More laundry and some other household chores ate up 30 minutes of the past two hours. I' loving Hot House Flower, but hubby is home and I'm going to take an hour break and watch an episode of Pillars of the Earth with him - hey it's based on a book :)

Dewey's Read-A-Thon: Mid-event meme

Mid-Event Survey:

1. What are you reading right now?

Hot House Flower by Margot Berwin

2. How many books have you read so far?

3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?

Finishing Hot House Flower because it is so good so far.

4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day?

Kids are with my parents, hubby is at a hunt club workday, I only had to do laundry and just a few household things.

5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?

I've had a few, I don't let them bother me - I just get back to it when I can.

6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?

That I've only read 3 books (2 were partially finished), I thought I could read more, maybe there have been more interruptions than I thought.

7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?

Nope - I think everyone does a wonderful job!

8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year?

Make sure I don't have anything to do and again have the kids out of the house - that has been a big help and they are having a blast with their grandparents.

9. Are you getting tired yet?

Not yet, but I probably will give up around 11 or 12.

10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered?

Not really - my tip is to just roll with the day, don't get frustrated, just do what you can. If you start to lag in your reading, follow on twitter or visit blogs, it is sure to perk you up. Another thing is to switch books if you start getting sleepy. That really helped me.

Dewey's Read-A-Thon - Hour 11 Update

More laundry and some other household chores ate up 30 minutes of the past two hours. I really enjoyed Audrey, Wait! and can't wait to get back to Hot House Flower in the next 2 hours. See you then!

Dewey's Read-A-Thon - Hour 9 Update

Book(s) reading previous two hours : Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway, Hot House Flower by Margot Berwin
Book(s) finished: none
Pages read (2 hours): 112
Blog time: 25 min
Blog visiting time: 5 min
Blogs visited: 1
Reading time: 80 min (10 minutes spent doing laundry)

Total Books read: 2
Total Pages read:459
Total time read: 300 min
Total time blogging/reading blogs: 110 min
mini-challenges completed: 3

More laundry and working on a mini-challenge ate up 30 minutes of the past two hours. I am really enjoying both books I'm reading and hope to finish Audrey, Wait! in the next two hours. See you then!

Mini-challenge; Love to Hate

Bikosiner's Books is hosting this hour's mini-challenge and I feel like taking a reading break and joining this one. She simply asks for us to list our top 5 characters we love to hate.

Here are mine:

Neferet in the House of Night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast
Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ariana Osgood in the Private series by Kate Brian
Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris' novels
Blair in the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Zigesar

Dewey's Read-A-Thon: Hour 7 Update

Book(s) reading previous two hours : Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway, Hot House Flower by Margot Berwin
Book(s) finished: none
Pages read (2 hours): 114
Blog time: 5 min
Blog visiting time: 15 min
Blogs visited: 6
Reading time: 90 min (15 minutes spent performing lunch and laundry)

Total Books read: 2
Total Pages read: 347
Total time read: 220 min
Total time blogging/reading blogs: 80 min
mini-challenges completed: 2

Had to do a few things around the house and spent some time blog hopping while eating lunch, but this was a productive 2 hours. I am loving both Audrey, Wait! and Hot House Flower. Now I'm off to draw the winner of my mini-challenge! See you in 2 hours!

Dewey's Read-A-Thon: Hour 5 Update

Book(s) reading previous two hours : I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore, Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Book(s) finished: I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Pages read (2 hours): 101
Blog time: 15 min
Blog visiting time: 0 min
Blogs visited: 0
Reading time: 95 min (10 minutes spent performing lunch and laundry)

Total Books read: 2
Total Pages read: 233
Total time read: 230 min
Total time blogging/reading blogs: 60 min
mini-challenges completed: 2

Hour 4 and 5 were wonderful - I finished I Am Number 4 this hour. I haven't done any new challanges and really haven't blog hopped. However I'm preparing lunch now and plan to hop then.