Readathon!
Oct. 21st, 2017 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
balsamandashI will update this through the day rather than making separate posts, unless I actually have something to say about the books. But I've been reading not-nonstop-but-plenty since 8:05 AM, it's 1:45 now, and I am pleased with myself.
Book List
1. Jeffrey, Paul Rudnick
--I had read the script before, but not since I bought it about six years ago, and it was the only non-poetry book under 100 pages in my stack. There are some really interesting things that got deviated for the movie -- a couple whole scenes, some lines, some notes -- and it's interesting to read now that I've seen the film like... ten times more than the first time I read it.
(1.5. I read the first essay in Harry Potter and Philosophy, planning to go back and forth to it. I did not do that.)
2. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Broch
--I can't believe this took me this long. I did not cry. I very nearly did.
3. Holes, Louis Sachar
--My interest in this book continues to be entirely about the Kate Barlow story colliding and twining with the Elya Yelnats/Madame Zeroni story. Stanley is almost incidental to it, honest, and that's really interesting to me.
(At this point, I started book #4 around 3, laid down to stretch and rest my eyes at 3:30, slept, made dinner, slept again, and did not return to reading until around 11:30. Whoops.)
4. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
--I am so sad that it took me years to get to this book, because I loved it. It's such pretty words and so interesting and I adored it and I kind of need to read it again to get it to all sink in, but I did, I loved it a lot. (I also ended up digging out the link to the Storynexus game based on it, which I'd played ages ago; I'm curious to try poking it again after reading. XD)
5. Becoming the Villaness, Jeannine Hall Gailey
-- So it took me longer than I planned and more breaks than I planned and by the time I finished Night Circus it was around 7am, so I wanted to try to find something short. A lot of the poems in this are way more intense than I remembered, but I still really love Gailey's way with words. I still have a poetry book of hers I haven't read, and just discovered the Robot Scientist's Daughter poems got a collection; I am real excited about that second one.
In the end, I read for something like 13-14 hours total, and got through 5 books and 1159 pages. I had wanted to do five books, and I am super pleased that I actually managed it. I also still have so, so many books pulled that I'd wanted to read and didn't, and I think I'm going to try to keep the momentum going and read a little more over the rest of year.
In the end, not a bad total for my first time, and hey, I knocked one of the biggest to-reads off my list by getting through Night Circus, so I feel pretty accomplished.
Book List
1. Jeffrey, Paul Rudnick
--I had read the script before, but not since I bought it about six years ago, and it was the only non-poetry book under 100 pages in my stack. There are some really interesting things that got deviated for the movie -- a couple whole scenes, some lines, some notes -- and it's interesting to read now that I've seen the film like... ten times more than the first time I read it.
(1.5. I read the first essay in Harry Potter and Philosophy, planning to go back and forth to it. I did not do that.)
2. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Broch
--I can't believe this took me this long. I did not cry. I very nearly did.
3. Holes, Louis Sachar
--My interest in this book continues to be entirely about the Kate Barlow story colliding and twining with the Elya Yelnats/Madame Zeroni story. Stanley is almost incidental to it, honest, and that's really interesting to me.
(At this point, I started book #4 around 3, laid down to stretch and rest my eyes at 3:30, slept, made dinner, slept again, and did not return to reading until around 11:30. Whoops.)
4. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
--I am so sad that it took me years to get to this book, because I loved it. It's such pretty words and so interesting and I adored it and I kind of need to read it again to get it to all sink in, but I did, I loved it a lot. (I also ended up digging out the link to the Storynexus game based on it, which I'd played ages ago; I'm curious to try poking it again after reading. XD)
5. Becoming the Villaness, Jeannine Hall Gailey
-- So it took me longer than I planned and more breaks than I planned and by the time I finished Night Circus it was around 7am, so I wanted to try to find something short. A lot of the poems in this are way more intense than I remembered, but I still really love Gailey's way with words. I still have a poetry book of hers I haven't read, and just discovered the Robot Scientist's Daughter poems got a collection; I am real excited about that second one.
In the end, I read for something like 13-14 hours total, and got through 5 books and 1159 pages. I had wanted to do five books, and I am super pleased that I actually managed it. I also still have so, so many books pulled that I'd wanted to read and didn't, and I think I'm going to try to keep the momentum going and read a little more over the rest of year.
In the end, not a bad total for my first time, and hey, I knocked one of the biggest to-reads off my list by getting through Night Circus, so I feel pretty accomplished.
