It is now 1:00 p.m. on October 25, 2009, exactly 12 hours since my last Read-a-Thon update. You will recall that I was tired despite my four cups of coffee at 8:30. Alas, within a half-hour of writing that post, I was in bed. Has my body acclimated to caffeine that much?
And so, having begun an hour late at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 24, 2009 and finished around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 25, 2009, and having read on and off for a total of 16 hours, I achieved the following:
84 pages of Alex de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
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115 pages of Thomas Nash (The Terrors of the Night and half of The Unfortunate Traveller)
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42 pages of Sylvia Plath
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69 pages of Thomas Mann ("The Blood of the Walsungs" and "Tristan")
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10 pages of T.S. Eliot (approximately)
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320 pages total
And here are all of my posts:
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Update #1 (Plath and Nashe)
Update #2 (Tocqueville)
Update #3 (Tocqueville)
Mini-Challenge: Collection Obsession
Update #4 (Mann)
Update #5 (Mann)
Mid-Event Survey
Musical Mini-Challenge
Update #6 (Nashe)
I know 320 pages doesn't sound like much, but Thomas Nashe is hard. But I still got a lot done for my very first Read-a-Thon, and hopefully next time I'll do better.
I would like to thank EVERYONE who commented and cheered me on. I didn't realize how much support was out there! I would especially like to recognize Softdrink and Rhapsodyinbooks for their constant efforts to encourage me and help me move along.
In other news, I will be getting posts out this week on both Kristin Lavransdatter and The Woman in Black. Also, the Musical Mini-Challenge got me thinking: I need to post a vampire playlist! The perfect soundtrack to all your favorite vampire books!
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9 comments:
E.L. Fay, I think 320 pages is a lot for one day regardless of how many hours you read for. Props to you for not padding your statistics!
You did awesome. I picked light weight books...you showed a lot of courage reading the books you did! I would never have managed even 320 pages!! I'm looking forward to your post on Kristin Lavransdatter.
Patting you on the back for reading such difficult books during the readathon! I only got to read for a total of over 6 hours, but my choices were a lot easier.
I think fun was had by all & I think that was the point! I was glad to see someone other than me writing reviews. I was starting to think I was breaking the rules or something! Then I remembered that there weren't any hard & fast rules. *grins*
Great job! I am curious to see everyone's comments about The Wreath. Happy reading!
Thanks for the shout-out! You did great, especially given your choice of books. And I'm looking forward to the vampire play list...that'll be fun.
Thanks so much everyone! I chose Nashe and Tocqueville not because they were difficult, but because they'd been sitting on my bookshelves forever and I hadn't read them yet. I'm pleased to say I made great progress, especially with Nashe, and definitely look forward to April's Read-a-Thon.
Awesome job! I wanted to drop in on peoples' blogs during the readathon, but we were hosting my partner's folks this weekend (in from out of town), so I didn't get a chance. Well done, though, belated congrats!
320 is plenty. I'm still amazed at your ability to sleep with four cups of coffee pumping through your veins!
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