Hour 4

Current Book: 1st to Die by James Patterson

Number of books read since you started: 1

Pages read since last update: 92

Running total of pages read since you started: 295

Amount of time spent reading since last update: 43 minutes

Running total of time spent reading since you started: 132 minutes

Mini-challenges completed: Best Sentence

Hour 3

Current Book: 1st to Die by James Patterson

Number of books read since you started: 1

Pages read since last update: 83

Running total of pages read since you started: 203

Amount of time spent reading since last update: 38 minutes

Running total of time spent reading since you started: 89 minutes

Mini-challenges completed: Intro, Trending on Twitter, Where in the World, Readers of the Hour

Participants Visited: Good Books & Wine, True Harbour, Aphazia, Karen

Readathon Trending

For the Trending on Twitter Challenge

Hour 2

Current Book: 1st to Die by James Patterson

Title of book(s) read since last update: Anita Blake, The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton (graphic novel)

Number of books read since you started: 1

Pages read since last update: 120

Running total of pages read since you started: 120

Amount of time spent reading since last update: 51 minutes

Running total of time spent reading since you started: 51 minutes

Hour 1

I learned my lesson with the April Read-a-Thon and I'm starting easy with a graphic novel, Anita Blake, The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Where are you reading from today? Home, on the couch

3 facts about me … I'm crocheting an afghan for the UU church auction. I've lost 50 pounds. I just started watching Glee and I love it.

How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? 36 books from the library

Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? I'd like to read at least 14 hours and beat my pages from the April Read-a-thon (1,736).

If you’re a veteran read-a-thoner, Any advice for people doing this for the first time? Start with an easy read. Get a good night's rest the night before.

Final Pile

Here are the last books picked up from the library.

The list is at the bottom of the previous post.

Reading List

I read just eight books for the last read-a-thon in April; however, I need to be totally prepared for any mood. Don't I? So I have 2 paranormal romance, 3 mysteries, 1 thriller, 1 urban fantasy, 1 travel, 2 historical fiction, 6 general fiction, 1 essays, 2 memoir, 2 children's, 1 science fiction and 2 graphic novels.

There are more books coming from the library, but I wanted to get my book stack picture up today.

First stack:
Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald
Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris
1st to Die by James Patterson
One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher

Second stack:
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Kidnapped by Robert Lois Stevenson

Third stack:
Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
The Honk & Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Anita Blake: Laughing Corpse, Animator by Laurell K. Hamilton
Anita Blake: First Death by Laurell K. Hamilton

Still to be picked up at library:
God is an Iron and Other Stories by Spider Robinson
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Off the Wall at Callahan's by Spider Robinson
Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson
Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare