Readathons!

[potent obsidian]

omggg orbital!

[hoary flower]

im going to read that tomorow!

[faint gust]

i finished legendborn!

already exceed my own expectations tbh, my goal was to make a dent in it because its quite long

[faint gust]

i finished second volume of jjk!

i still have 14 hours to add more book, so im gonna reread my favorite book

[hoary flower]

i read and finished Blood Orange today by Karina Halle 🩸 🍊

[quiet cipher]

I finished Orbital by Samantha Harvey tonight!

will head to the gym and see about starting my next read later, or tomorrow

[high merlin]

Fully read one book and got a chunk read for the beefy one. Hope to finish it tomorrow.

Off to bed shortly and we will see what else can get read tomorrow.

Readathon TBR
🤺 The Count of Monte Cristo (BR) {40% complete}
👗 Mansfield Park (BR)
🦋 Natural Beauty ✅
👩‍🦯 Seeing (BR)
🏝️ Wild Dark Shore ✅
🪜 I Who Have Never Known Men ✅

[small bloom]

Readathon TBR

Throne in the Dark
Atmosphere
Fable for the End of the World
The Amalfi Curse
When the Wolf Comes Home
The Ever King
Silver Elite

[void cedar]

I wanna get some #delicious-in-dungeon and #sailor-moon tackled tomorrow

[hexed basin]

I just read she who became the sun

It was fascinating I must admit

[faint gust]

I finished my reread!

it is a beloved book from 10 years ago, so its pretty butchered. the corner pages are folded up, there are pen marks because i brought them to school, and it kinda shaped my junior high school persona too. reading it again feels sooo comfy and evokes so many good memories

[void cedar]

what’s the book? if you’re comfortable sharing

[quartz rover]

Done with #1372199578308317256 and almost through #1387859781716414717!! This readathon was such a success for me to get back on track (by a little, I still need to get through 3 more books before the end of the month )

[faint gust]

its an indonesian book from a local author, the title is Omen. which is a YA thriller

[fathom drum]

I did it

[faint glen]

i keep adding this to my 'next up' pile and then keep putting it off, i should've read it before committing to something so large as A Song of Ice and Fire 😭

[steady delta]

Ooh I did this without thinking

I read tons this weekend because I was at work

[small bloom]

Readathon Update

Throne in the Dark
Atmosphere
Fable for the End of the World
The Amalfi Curse
When the Wolf Comes Home
The Ever King
Silver Elite
These Violent Delights

[high merlin]

Final readathon update

Readathon TBR
🤺 The Count of Monte Cristo (BR) ✅
👗 Mansfield Park (BR) ❌
🦋 Natural Beauty ✅
👩‍🦯 Seeing (BR) {10%}
🏝️ Wild Dark Shore ✅
🪜 I Who Have Never Known Men ✅

[potent obsidian]

noo im so sad this readathon is over

[faint glen]

my only conquest this readathon was finishing A Clash of Kings, my brain was a bit too fried for continuing#1372844095554453505

[potent obsidian]

show & tell
the show & tell readathon will go on from the 1__st to 8th of august in your own timezone__s.
there are no checklists or prompts to be earned during this readathon, but if you want to earn the <@&1399390413324025896> role, all you need to do is this:

send in your thoughts and opinions about ONE book that you started and finished during the readathon duration—like a show & tell! you can do this with however many books, make cute graphics/collages about the book(s), or do it in whatever way you want! all you need for the role is to do it with ONE book.

◟ to still follow obc rules, please make sure the book that you're showing and telling is not an adult book and keep your show and tell session safe for work!

lo-fi reading sessions
i will also do some lo-fi reading sessions in lounge vc! they'll probably run for an hour each and we'll do some reading and maybe some chatting in the chatbox (mic-off sessions, sorry!). let me know if you want to be pinged for them and i'll ping you an hour before the session. i will most likely hold them around these times <t:1754143200:t> - <t:1754071200:t> if enough people express interest.

hope you all have fun & i can't wait to be showed and told! lol

i showed and told!
◟ aka if you've done what's needed for the role!

➶ hryhorivna
➶ dimarcom
➶ pauliney
➶ mypilot
➶ itsmilamon
➶ ctrlaltmerdel

[small bloom]

[potent obsidian]

[hexed basin]

Ping me please

Such a cute idea

[potent obsidian]

YAY ily
not sure if the lofi activity will work but i'll stream some youtube or something if it can't

[potent obsidian]

thank you!!! i noticed that people liked free reading in the weekend-a-thon so i wanted to cater to that but still have a fun role to get or activity to do

[hexed basin]

https://tenor.com/view/bear-huggin-gif-10475786569868073207

[dreamy swift]

omg this is perfect motivation to get out of my slump and im interested in the reading sessions too!

[potent obsidian]

YIPEEEE

if people like this i can definitely do more show and tell readathons in the future

[dreamy swift]

[hexed basin]

I have some cute ideas already

I also know which book

[potent obsidian]

me too! i'll probably do https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1397120968048119870

[vernal plover]

yes im here for it!!!

[potent obsidian]

[hexed basin]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672875.Le_Morte_d_Arthur ,my idea

[hexed basin]

Is it sfw?

[potent obsidian]

erm it should be fine, but ideally it's something that you know for a fact is sfw because you've read it, does this make sense?

im not in a position to check it out right now aaa

[hexed basin]

I will check when I am home

[potent obsidian]

sounds great!! i'll check it out in a bit too

[hexed basin]

I do not think it is time to find another book about mythology

[hexed basin]

You do not need to.Internet says it is nsfw. I will find something else.

But thank you for offering

[potent obsidian]

awww sorry! hope you find a sfw book soonsies

[hexed basin]

If it is a br it us sfw right?

[potent obsidian]

it depends

like is it an adult buddy read or a regular buddy read

[hexed basin]

Regular

[high merlin]

I'm interested in the reading sessions as well! Please ping me.

[potent obsidian]

regular should be sfw!!

[ivory swan]

Alright for real July has been tough on me in terms of reading and I wanna get back into it!!!
On my list to finally finish:

• #1376827696776216640
• Know My Name - Chanel Miller (I’m sooo close!!)
• either finish Hyperion or Neuromancer

Excited for a fresh start in August!

[hoary flower]

SFW books you say… I shall have to comb my TBR carefully lol

[potent obsidian]

yes ma'am

my tbr is

• the second sex by simone de beauvoir
• thea stilton and the dragon's code

the duality of woman

[raven nacelle]

ohhhhh I could show you all my presentation of the Animorphs series.... :D

[potent obsidian]

hell yeah

[hollow acorn]

this is perfect!!!!

i would like to be pinged about the lofi sessions please even tho i might join them a bit later because i might be at work still

[potent obsidian]

its okay! dont worry!

[floral pine]

can i be pinged too please jana

[potent obsidian]

yes of course!!

[viscid iris]

Please ping me too Jana in lofi-reading sessions

[potent obsidian]

okay!!

[lunar gale]

I would like to be pinged!! So we would have to read young adult books for this challenge? Or we just can’t have books with explicit content?

[void cedar]

Ping me pls too jana

[potent obsidian]

no, you're not limited to just young adult reads—as long as the book you're reading is sfw you're grand

and okay! noted

[faint gust]

OHHH ping me for the lofi session too! i'm interested

[clever cobalt]

Id like a ping ^u^

[blissful spade]

I would appreciate being pinged about the lofi sessions.

[elder kelp]

Slayyyy, I have a Library book I think can work for this

[potent obsidian]

first day of the readathon for me! might host a reading session tonight

lofi ping list
iris, naya, sakura, rin, zander, stef, tayjah, jnix, scarlettsens, pilot, lorelai_lune

[unreal sundial]

First time to readathon! What do we do here?

[elfin barn]

it's non-themed so just talk about what we want to read, what we are reading, and what we have read during the readathon period

[potent obsidian]

#1317460623767900291 message

[faint gust]

my 1-week readathon tbr
♡ sailor moon vol. 3
♡ sailor moon vol. 4
♥︎ bury my bones in the midnight soil
♥︎ delicious in dungeon vol. 4
♥︎ great big beautiful life
♡ my brilliant friend
♥︎ atmosphere

i have read 16 chapters of great big beautiful life today, so im gonna make matcha for tonight readathon

[potent obsidian]

omg yum

[raven nacelle]

I think I will continue rereading "Case Closed" mangas because my brain doesnt have the capacity for anything new or anything without pictures. Math exam on Tuesday

But I really like the series, especially the first 30ish books, so that might make for a good collage :D

[unreal sundial]

My readathon tbr of this month

1. Butter by asako yuzuki
2. Sweet bean paste by Durian sukegawa
3. Empire of storms by Sarah J Maas
4. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

[high merlin]

Current TBR for the readathon. Subject to change.

• [ ] There There
• [ ] Mansfield Park
• [ ] Pet Sematary
• [ ] 11/22/63
• [ ] Foundryside
• [ ] Empire of Pain
• [ ] Fantasticland
• [ ] 47 Ronin
• [ ] A Witch's Guide to Burning
• [ ] The Crucible

[potent obsidian]

@hexed basin @dreamy swift @high merlin @hollow acorn @floral pine @viscid iris @lunar gale @void cedar @faint gust @clever cobalt @blissful spade

hey everyone! reading sesh at <t:1754060400:f>?
will go on for an hour, i'll set up the lofi activity and ping the ones who are available when i'm done setting it up!

[elfin barn]

omg I'm just about to go food shopping but if you're doing another today then I'll join!

[potent obsidian]

maybe tomorrow (2 august)!!

https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/811077227839225886 come join me! @high merlin @hexed basin @void cedar @viscid iris @faint gust

and if anyone else wants to join that didn't get pinged feel free to join as well

[floral pine]

[faint gust]

finished my first book of the readathon

[hexed basin]

same!

[hoary flower]

I did too! I read Orbital by Samantha Harvey!

[potent obsidian]

finished my first book of the readathon last night #1397120968048119870 and will probably do my show & tell on it

[faint gust]

finished my second book while reading ginger milk! delicious in dungeons vol. 4

[potent obsidian]

ginger milk

[potent obsidian]

@hexed basin @dreamy swift @high merlin @hollow acorn @floral pine @viscid iris @lunar gale @void cedar @faint gust @clever cobalt @blissful spade

hello! reading sesh at <t:1754148600:f>? i'll be in call for about an hour-ish, same as yesterday—i'll set up the lofi activity and ping the ones who are joining for this session when i'm done setting it up

[high merlin]

I'm in! Will probably be wrapping up something else, so that would be nice.

[floral pine]

im down!!

[potent obsidian]

okay pls react with this emoji so i dont ping the wrong people ahaha

[sharp cedar]

sweet dreams!

[elfin barn]

let me rush back home for this

[quartz rover]

I’m joining in too!
Will be reading #1382265992801161306

[hexed basin]

Im in the middle of the cucible

[potent obsidian]

transporting you to... the sandy beaches of honolulu
the summer thunderstorm rages on as you read your books..

just an fyi that if you change the scenery for yourself, it changes it for everyone too, so please don't do that lol

@high merlin @hexed basin @viscid iris @faint gust @quartz rover @floral pine @elfin barn

just pinged the people who reacted to my message and gave me verbal confirmation LOL sorry if you didn't want to be pinged

[dreamy valve]

Am I able to join in too?

[potent obsidian]

yes of course! come join in

also, let me know what sceneries you guys want to try out next

i might just do these everyday if my schedule allows for it lol i love reading with lofi

[potent obsidian]

okay, i'm here with my show and tell. i'm kind of burning out with designing stuff so enjoy this really simple design lol.
my show & tell today will be on...

the thirteen ghosts by creepella von cacklefur
growing up i loved anything that had the stilton name slapped onto the cover, and sometimes when i felt less like a scaredy cat, child jana would reach for creepella von cacklefur books. i really liked this one—the gothic, spooky vibes were there (most of the books i‘ve been reading lately are romance and i have been craving a darker atmosphere without really being scared)—and this was overall just such a fun, short spooky read, and the illustrations had SO much detail too? like everything was ghostly, or had a mummy design, the world immersion was just there.

i have to hold myself back now from spending more money on creepella books until next month, that's going to be torture lol. but yeah this is it from me!

[quartz rover]

I do not have many thoughts for the book I just read to do a show & tell but we have a couple days on this Readathon and I'm hoping another book can inspire something more out of me?

Finished #1382265992801161306 and will be starting #1380454737186656368 next!

[faint gust]

i finished atmosphere!!

[high merlin]

I've read 3 so far! Will probably include an overview later today for the first 3 days. 😊

For the show & tell:

The Crucible
I had never read this one before and the buddy read game me the kick I needed to do so.
I found it to be an interesting read that really took you into the events of witch trials in the late 1600s. While I have read a few books that hit on this topic in various ways, this is the only one that has really had me quite frustrated and angry. I know there is absolutely nothing to be done about the events, but it was a harder read than I had anticipated because of it.

[elfin barn]

okay lemme update my GR so I can post what I've read so far for the readathon

[potent obsidian]

i know theres a crafting session tonight, let me know if anyone is still interested in a lofi reading sesh

[high merlin]

I'm down for a reading sesh.

[potent obsidian]

i just got mcdonalds LOL so i'll see when i'm free but i definitely have time tonight

[hoary flower]

i finished another not SFW book... i really gotta find one that will qualify for this readathon lol

[quartz rover]

I'd be down for one too! I'm enjoying this weekend soooo much like it feels like the first time in MONTHS where I've had some time to just exist and read and not get roped into some plans

[potent obsidian]

oh babe im so happy for you!! i'll ping soon

[faint gust]

oh no reading the mcd brand this late makes me crave mcspicy

[trail skiff]

oh no reading the
mcd brand this late makes
me crave mcspicy

- against the scarlett

[potent obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/doja-cat-star-wars-gif-25078126

okay @high merlin @viscid iris @quartz rover i'll be in the book talk vc at <t:1754238000:f> probably

do we have a scenery that we wanna try today? or any vibes that we're specifically looking for?

[high merlin]

Something outdoors is always nice.

[faint gust]

im gonna start the gay vampire book now

[raven nacelle]

I read around 10 volumes of Case Closed (Detective Conan) in the last few days. Show and Tell following soon:D

[potent obsidian]

can't wait omg

come join me in https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/812564106166796358 we are going to be sitting and reading at a park in kyoto today!

@high merlin @viscid iris @quartz rover

anyone else can join if you want to!

[quartz rover]

I forgot, why didn’t discord notify me
Joining now

[quartz rover]

I spoke too soon apparently because the rest of my evening was not uninterrupted BUT I'm super glad I got to spend some time and read with you all! Thanks for hosting these sessions jana

[high merlin]

Weekend reading update:
5 fully complete. 5 others in progress.

• ✅ There There
• ✅ 47 Ronin
• ✅ The Crucible
• ✅ A Clockwork Orange
• ✅ The Moth Keeper
• [67%] Fantasticland
• [58%] Pet Sematary
• [53%] Empire of Pain
• [25%] Mansfield Park
• [11%] Pretty Girls
• [ ] A Witch's Guide to Burning
• [ ] 11/22/63
• [ ] Foundryside

[potent obsidian]

no worries my love! im having a lot of chill reading time through this :]

[void cedar]

I finished the birth house off my physical tbr

[vernal plover]

Haha samee, I have to adjust my tbr

[wicked crane]

I'm joining the readathon! I have no TBR because I'm still kinda slumpy so I'm just gonna mood read whatever seems good

[small bloom]

Readathon Update

When the Wolf Comes Home
The Ever King
Silver Elite
Glow of the Everflame
Love & Other Disasters

[hexed basin]

Would anyone be interested if I add a history lesson to my show and tell of the crucible?

[vernal plover]

Yes

[potent obsidian]

yes!!

[elfin barn]

I got through some on my exercise bike yesterday it makes the time go by so much faster

[potent obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/dua-lipa-fearythings-yum-delicious-mmm-gif-12818310030743407391

stunning reads

as always

[hexed basin]

@potent obsidian Can I send mine as a pdf? Since the history part is quite gruesome.

[potent obsidian]

er how gruesome is it? we still need to keep the show and tell sfw

[hexed basin]

I could do it seperately

[potent obsidian]

no, everything that you send in must be sfw

[hexed basin]

I will check

[potent obsidian]

we still need to follow obc rules, and the readathons thread is not an age-locked thread

if you're doubtful please send in a @idle mesa so we can check it out

[hexed basin]

I can do that?

I learn something new everyday.

[potent obsidian]

yep Modmail is to contact the staff team

[raven nacelle]

Welcome to my Show and Tell of Case Closed/Detective Conan!

It is a Shonen manga series that started in 1994 and is still going strong.
Our main character, Shinichi Kudo, is a 17-year old highschooler living in Tokyo. He is a detective, very smart, and a crime-solving nerd.
One day, after a trip to an amusement park with his friend/sweetheart Ran Mori, he notices two nefarious guys committing a crime. Too bad he gets noticed, too - they overwhelm him and poison him.
This poison was meant to kill him, but there is a rare side effect to this poison: Some people who take it get turned into children. And this is what happens to our hero.
So now, he is in the body of a six-year-old (please dont ask what happened to the rest of his body mass, we are not here for a physics lesson!).
He moves in with Ran and her no-good father/professional detective Kogoro Mori, and tries to uncover the identity of the two men who poisoned him. He uses a new name - Conan Edogawa - and has to go to primary school again.
At least this is the main story, pretty soon we get a lot of episodic cases which revolve around Conan solving cases, but he can not show his true identity to anyone, our of fear of endangering the people around him.
The series still has not uncovered the main mystery in 30 years, and being a fan of this can be a little hard at times because it is such a longburn. SO long. Both for the main mystery and for the various love stories that unfold during the course of the series.
This has also been turned into a successful anime, with a lot of movies and even more filler episodes than the manga already has.
Still - I hold it dear to my heart, and I remember finding these books in the library as a child. It felt a little forbidden because there was some comic violence in them, the cases Conan solves often revolve around a murder.

If you want to try it out, and only want to read one case, I would recommend #18, the "Moonlight Sonata Case". This is regarded as one of the best there is, and it gets pretty emotional.

Overall: I have been bingereading this again during the last few days, I am sure there is a lot of nostalgia speaking out of me, the series has its problems (especially in the portrayal of its female characters in the beginning...), but I will probably still read on again.
And maybe I will see the end of the series in my life time. Here's to hope!

[potent obsidian]

STOP I LOVE IT

[potent obsidian]

hello! reading sesh at <t:1754406000:f>? @hexed basin @dreamy swift @high merlin @hollow acorn @floral pine @viscid iris @lunar gale @void cedar @faint gust @clever cobalt @blissful spade

[high merlin]

Wish I could join in but I'm at a conference for work. 😭

[potent obsidian]

AWWW nooo i'll miss you

[floral pine]

yess that works for me! didnt get much readin done yesterday so i hope to get more done today

[dreamy swift]

omg first one i cam join

i just finished work early cos tuesdays quiet and i should be home by then

[potent obsidian]

YAYY okay!! see you guys in an hour

[dreamy swift]

[potent obsidian]

YALL SOMETHING CAME UP I'LL BE A FEW MINUTES LATE

[dreamy swift]

-# /jk

[floral pine]

more time for me to write before joinin tyt jana hope everythings ok!!

[potent obsidian]

okay I am here! sorry for the delay you guys

come join me in https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/812564106166796358 we are reading while looking out at the northern lights today

@floral pine @dreamy swift @hexed basin @faint gust @blissful spade (pinging those who reacted to my message and said they could join! sorry if you didn't want to be pinged! /gen)

also, please remember that if you change the scenery for yourself it also changes for everyone else /info

[hexed basin]

Bacon also wants to get added next time.

[clever cobalt]

Pilot show and tell time!!!

sorry its long but also no Im not

Betty

-# a novel by Tiffany McDaniel

You give me a wall,
And I'll give you a hole.
You give me a window,
And I'll give you a break.
You give me water,
And I'll give you blood.
—Betty

Betty was born on February 12, 1954 in Ozark, Arkansas to a Cherokee father and a white mother. Betty is written by her own daughter, Tiffany McDaniel, and is a semi-fictional novel woven from stories Betty would tell her daughter growing up. McDaniel's writing is both emotionally raw and lyrical, and it tells us a story of a young girl born too dark for small towns and with an ear for catching stories that would have otherwise been forgotten. McDaniel tells us: "This is the story my mother never got to tell."

“Don’t let it happen to you, Betty. Don’t ever be afraid to be yourself. You don’t wanna live so long only to realize, you ain’t lived at all.”

Set primarily in Ohio in the 1960s, Betty's life is a product of its time. Subject to racism, sexism, and generational poverty, Betty's childhood was scratched out of the earth by her father's own hands.

Women in this age were expected to be housewives, to stay behind the scenes, and to marry young. Contrary to this, Cherokee society was largely matrilineal. Women held significant power, and although Betty's father Landon was not immediately connected to his tribe during the story, we still see its influence in the way he raised his children—his daughters—to hold that same power for themselves. Men hunted, but it was women who grew from the earth.

“The first woman was given antlers on her head to branch her power out into the world,” he said, digging the rake in deeper. "[...] all spineless creatures are frightened of a woman’s power.”

While this is Betty's story, it also casts a sharp eye on the way women are treated in this era. How their experiences shape them, and how it can be easy to succumb to silence. Similarly, how speaking up can require great strength, especially when it's time to speak up for another.

This is by no means an easy read. This family, its women, experience hardship after hardship. But the strength and willingness to persevere, stubborn and determined to push out a life for oneself, is what defines not just Betty but those around her.

“I could either abandon the doubts I beheld and be free, or else dwell in the eye of the prejudiced, to be chained there. There are too many enemies in life to be one of yourself.”

For me, I found this to be a five-star rating. It took me several days longer than expected to finish, simply because it was a heavy read. There is great grief in being an indian, a feeling which is shared throughout many tribes. My family's story is similarly full of loss and hurt, and for that reason alone this was a challenge to conquer. However, there is comfort in community and that is what makes a story like Betty worth reading. Not just for natives, but for anyone whose life has been shaped by society's unkindness towards the feminine.

Cherokee fun facts:

• They had seven clans: Long Hair, Blue, Wolf, Wild Potato, Deer, Bird, and Paint. Clans were like an immediate family; it was forbidden to marry within the clan. Each clan had different strengths and things they were known for, and some even had subdivisions within the clan.
• The Cherokee had a written newspaper thanks to a scholar named Sequoyah who created the Cherokee written language. The language uses a syllabary wherein each of the 85 symbols represented a syllable. This led to a rapid growth of literacy among the Cherokee people. The syllabary is still used today!
• As mentioned above, Cherokee society is matrilineal. Clan status was determined by the mother, and for awhile you could not be considered Cherokee without a Cherokee mother.

Links:

• Dedicated to Betty: Tiffany McDaniel's own page with more information and photos of the family.
• Cherokee Nation website: If you'd like to know more about the tribe that defined Betty's childhood.
• Betty: A spotify playlist of my own making.

[potent obsidian]

omg pilot this is so well done and gorgeous

[clever cobalt]

[high merlin]

3/4 way reading update:
5 -> 9 fully complete. 5 -> 4 others in progress.

• ✅ There There
• ✅ 47 Ronin
• ✅ The Crucible
• ✅ A Clockwork Orange
• ✅ The Moth Keeper
• ✅ Fantasticland
• ✅ Pet Sematary
• ✅ Empire of Pain
• ✅ A Witch's Guide to Burning
• [50%] Mansfield Park
• [ 39%] Horns
• [ 29%] Foundryside
• [11%] Pretty Girls
• [ ] 11/22/63

[void cedar]

I finished my book starting #1094201326277251072

[potent obsidian]

oh i've been doing a bad job at updating

[potent obsidian]

i think this was my last update? i finished the lightning thief and meet me in horrorwood after

starting #1398847840272253038

[raven nacelle]

I read 30 volumes of "Detective Conan". And finished my audiobook ("The last white man" which had such a promising idea but the execution was.. eh?)
But I am so into Detective Conan right now, nostalgia is strong. I stopped logging them all because it got annoying. Might be a while for me to read a book without pictures again:D

[faint gust]

i finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1385898965052031027

[wicked crane]

I finished a book today

[faint gust]

i finished another book https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398847840272253038

[potent obsidian]

last day of the readathon for me! i just want to finish up the book of tbilisi

[potent obsidian]

okay it's over for me blergh

[pale sphinx]

im here w my show & tell

everything i know about love by dolly alderton

is an anthology style memoir that i really enjoyed ! based on the title and cover i thought it'd be about romantic love but she actually starts with "everything i know about love, i have learned in my long term friendships with women" and that's really the best way to sum up this book

i listened to this as an audiobook (im a sucker for author-read audiobooks) so i kinda went into this without much expectations but it was actually so enjoyable i devoured it in two sittings

many people don't like this book bcz she spends a lot of it sharing stories from her uni days partying recklessly, (and also ig, she's difficult to root for, which i found really refreshing that she portrayed herself as so) but i really enjoyed it bcz:

ive never seen a memoir in this kind of messy style like some chapters are stories some are recipes some are like satirical pieces of writing (eg "things people say that annoy you", "everything i knew about love at 25") and that was really enjoyable and refreshing
i dont know if it was the structure or the book or her humour or her wording but she was really fun to listen to, i really enjoyed listening to this book
the content !! yes there is a lot of uni partying in it but her female friendships are always in the background of it all, how they guide her, inspire her, help her, support her, how they love her, how she loves them and some things she says, about female friendships and growing up really hit home for me

i listen to a lot of memoirs but this one really stuck out to me because of how raw it felt, and how even though me and her had absolutely nothing in common, i really related to the things she said about growing up

[clever cobalt]

Being hit with love as friendships with women would make me weep, I love platonic love 🩷

[high merlin]

Final update:
13 complete. 2 incomplete.
Considering a few co.oleted ones weren't on the initial plan, I'll take it.

• ✅ There There
• ✅ 47 Ronin
• ✅ The Crucible
• ✅ A Clockwork Orange
• ✅ The Moth Keeper
• ✅ Fantasticland
• ✅ Pet Sematary
• ✅ Empire of Pain
• ✅ A Witch's Guide to Burning
• ✅ Mansfield Park
• ✅ Horns
• ✅ Foundryside
• ✅ Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code
• [11%] Pretty Girls
• [0%] 11/22/63

[faint gust]

PRETTY GIRLSS

[high merlin]

What did you think of it? I feel like it's starting off really slow, so I took a break to read other things.

[molten vigil]

It’s still the 8th in my time zone so-

[faint gust]

i liked it MUAHAHAHH but generally i like gruesome stories written by women about women so...

i think it picked up the pace around the 30% ish?

hang in there! i hope you'd like it as much as i did

[high merlin]

I like these kinds of stories too. I think I was just impatient after other stories grabbing my attention more quickly. Definitely going to give it a solid try!

[molten vigil]

Thea Stilton and the Dragon’s Code. While I defo read more Geronimo Stilton (and one of his books had a lesson about fire hazards that I remember to this day), I didn’t realize that I remembered so much of this one until I picked it up for the BR. The little “Did you know?” segments are great for little fun facts, and the clue-marks seem like a great way to introduce kids to the idea that “you can solve the mystery before The Big Reveal”. Also, the changing things to rat/mouse and the font-choice-for-inflection is just . While i did have some criticism of one character seeming more stereotyped than the others, it’s held up for the most part.

Also when I was reading this and told my sister (who is also now Jana’s sister because she asked) that I was late because I was reading this, she said “I get it. Thea Sisters lives in my heart.”

[potent obsidian]

i love when i host a readathon and end up with a new sister

[quartz rover]

This was a fun readathon but I couldn’t do any show and tells because none of my books inspired me enough to do them. I did however break out of a rut I’d been in and have been enjoying reading a lot more in a relaxed calm way. Loved the lo-fi sessions

Thanks for hosting jana! Can’t wait for whatever you have next💜

[hoary flower]

all of my books read were adult themed besides murderbot and i only finished that yesterday. but as always, i love participating in these!

[faint gust]

thank you for hosting jana!

i also didnt know what to do for my show and tell, but i managed to finish the chonk of gay vampire so its still a win for me

[potent obsidian]

it should already end for everyone i think

giving out the role now!!

<@&1399390413324025896> will expire same time & day next week!

[potent obsidian]

oo the purple is so pretty

[clever cobalt]

oooh we purble

[potent obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-licking-pixel-cat-black-cat-purple-and-black-gif-10756995320858353175

[raven nacelle]

awww I love that role!

[potent obsidian]

[quartz rover]

Aww it’s so prettyyyyyyy

[high merlin]

Love the purple!

[potent obsidian]

is it too light? i can change it if it is :D

[high merlin]

I will always take purple in any shade.

[potent obsidian]

yayyy i am becoming more of a purple girly too

[high merlin]

Purple has been my favorite color since I was a kid. I even have purple hair. 😅

[potent obsidian]

WHAAAT THATS SO COOL

new sakura lore drop

[potent obsidian]

last readathon of august
29.08 to 31.08, all-day in your own timezones!

read to your heart's desire

dunno what a readathon is? check out #bookish-events message

[hollow acorn]

omg i'm even free this time around

[potent obsidian]

sleigh

I am probably just going to be finishing up #1403087594102718595

[runic coyote]

YIPEEE

[potent obsidian]

[runic coyote]

Gonna finish Jane Eyre

[cursive stratus]

I'm hopefully going to finish katabasis (if I haven't already) and then a game of thrones, since I've only got 1 day of work and that's only 4 hours

[distant dew]

OMG YAY this comes in perfect timing, i’m in such a mood to lock myself home and read 24/7

by the time this starts i’m probably going to start another fairytale, it’s twisted tale pair and then hopefully the epic of gilgamesh

[viscid creek]

i actually dont know what ill read😭

[distant dew]

the fairytale i’m probably going to start after the one i’m in is The Little Mermaid and then it’s twisted tale pair which is Part of Your World!! so hopefully 3 reads on this readathon ^^

[potent obsidian]

have carl choose!

[faint glen]

am going to try and finish Zola's La Curée; i totally stuffed up this month's TBR by not listing the Sealey challenge after deciding to do it at the last minute and it's been making reading a chore

[viscid creek]

how

[distant dew]

go to spam box and put “!pick item x, item y, …”

[potent obsidian]

i've pinged you in #spam-box

[high merlin]

Not sure what I'm going to read yet, but looking forward to this!

[distant dew]

you don’t need to plan ahead sakura, you always slay with your reads

[high merlin]

Thank you! I'll be winging it for sure this time.

[runic coyote]

Omigosh yes I need to read the little mermaid

[distant dew]

join me!!

[runic coyote]

I WILL

[faint glen]

oh wait, do they have to be books started and finished in the time period to count?

[potent obsidian]

no no! it's just a chill readathon so it's pretty whatever

nothing to earn & no prompts to finish!

[faint glen]

ah cool!

[soft fog]

Going to read Katabasis most likely

[astral willow]

Very excited to wrap up a few books I’ve been working on so they can count toward my month wrap up. I have the house to myself this weekend, too! Kismet!

[faint gust]

wahooooo

[north nymph]

First time joining a readathon, I'm excited! I will probably be reading "ten birds that changed the world". It would be nice to finish it and tackle something else in my TBR.

[potent obsidian]

yay!!

[clever cobalt]

Birds

[vernal plover]

I'm afraid I won't be able to lock in a single book this weekend

once again I have to socialize

* Cries in 'just wants to be left alone to read' *

[quartz rover]

honestly same

I keep hoping to be left alone for once but weekends end up being the busiest. I'm trying to cancel every plan this Sunday though so I can get like at least half a day of some cosy reading time

[fathom drum]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-animal-dog-sleepy-blanket-gif-5139684

[obsidian crater]

I’m excited for this

[faint gust]

my readathon tbr would be:
☆ https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398800156895346951
☆ https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1144585029863882752

[hoary flower]

my tbr is https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1400533993203695817 and Julie Chan is Dead by L. Zhang!

[high merlin]

I'm going to see what I get through today and make some loose choices for the readathon weekend.

[hexed basin]

Hunger games 2-5, The count of monte christo, percy jackson.

[quiet cipher]

Readathon TBR!

• finish https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1386744991354716271
• start James by Percival Everett or https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1408064680206799001

[fathom drum]

I want to finish:
#1378072322120093870
#1089684463685992639

[astral willow]

Readathon TBR: house to myself edition

• [finish] 8114; joshua hull.

• [read] black flame; gretchen felker-martin
• [start] anna karenina; leo tolstoy

[distant dew]

i think I’m going to change my plans and add another book or so

i’m going to be purely reading and disconnecting my brain for 3 entire days

much needed

i’m putting off everything i can move to just chill ^^

[astral willow]

https://tenor.com/view/parks-and-rec-donna-treat-yo-self-gif-14492363

[wicked crane]

YAYYY I CAN START
I'm just going to read #1408064680206799001

[distant dew]

i wanted to start this so bad but i'm so tired!! so i'll wait till morning, have fun spicy!!

[astral willow]

Sleep well, Lu!

[cursive stratus]

First awkward family gathering, then reading!!

[vernal plover]

I have a family gathering too!

Worse, its the inlaw family

I am anticipating 100 times: so when are you two marrying and starting a family?

[cursive stratus]

Noooooo 😭

I'm expecting "how's your boyfriend?" (I've been single for 5 years) and "when are you going yo get your drivers liscense"

[vernal plover]

people need to mind their own business and just start asking fun questions

[trail skiff]

people need to mind
their own business and just start
asking fun questions

- 𝙗𝗿𝝰𝛈𝟃𝛄

[vernal plover]

"what is your favorite dinosaur"?

"If blue can't be your favorite color, why is it green?"

"do you have a favorite bananabread recipe?"

[fathom drum]

I always tell people that unfortunately my mother in law can't have kids

[faint gust]

aww not much reading done because im unfortunately very sick with fever and migraine but im 60% into The Crucible

[vernal plover]

Hope you feel better soon Scarlett!

[fathom drum]

Finished the first one!

[potent obsidian]

get well soon!

[distant dew]

oh scarlett I hope you get well soon, love!!

i am starting this!!!

i’m going to listen to the audiobook of https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1183699829977784320 while i clean my room!!

i love listening to audiobooks while doing chores ^^

[potent obsidian]

slay

I slept all day and kept my eyes on the news even though I really wanted to look away so hopefully I can do some reading for the night after I walk my dogs and exercise 🏋‍♀️

would anyone be interested in a lofi sesh?

(ping me if yes!)

[distant dew]

ofc!!

[distant dew]

hopefully you can, love!

[potent obsidian]

I love u

[distant dew]

same girl <3<3 did you think about a specific time??

is just to keep an eye on the hour, i'm known for getting distracted lmao

and i wouldn't want to leave you hanging!!

[high merlin]

I'm interested if it works out with my morning! (I have an appointment in an hour, but will go in/out if needed depending on when/how long)

Books I want to finish this readathon that I've already started:

• Stalking Jack the Ripper
• It Came from the Closet
• We Sold Our Souls

Books I want to start (and maybe finish):

• The Red Pyramid
• Blood Like Mine
• The Twilight Garden

[potent obsidian]

I think I can get settled in for the night some time after this <t:1756481400:t> what do you guys think? we can read for like an hour or so @high merlin @distant dew

I also need to start sorting out the read off teams teehee

[quartz rover]

I’ll join too! I’ll almost be off work by then

[potent obsidian]

okay!

ping list: hanzy, sakura, lu, rin, iris

[hollow acorn]

i‘ll join 2

[distant dew]

it works for me!!

[quartz rover]

Okay, I’ll be reading #1320445046604169329 for the readathon which is basically setting myself up for failure for I sure as hell cannot be finishing it over the weekend but here’s to attempting anyway

[hexed basin]

Me too!

[potent obsidian]

yay! I'm still folding laundry LOL be there in a bit

[distant dew]

don't worry!!

btw where are we doing the lofi sesh, like what channel?

[potent obsidian]

we usually do it in the book talk vc channel!

[distant dew]

thanks!!

i'll wait there ^^

[potent obsidian]

I'll be there in a second!

more laundry than I thought

@quartz rover @high merlin @hollow acorn live in https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/812564106166796358

[cursive stratus]

I've been doing so bad omg, I haven't read yet today and it's already 8pm, but, trust, I will reorganize my bookshelfs (I've been getting so many new books I don't have a system anymore) and then I'll read non-stop

[potent obsidian]

cheering you on! I have not read a single page either but we got this

[hollow acorn]

i still have yet to choose a read for the readathon

[potent obsidian]

there is always @sharp cedar

[fathom drum]

I've only read 30 pages of #1089684463685992639 so far and I wanted to make a real dent today oh well

[potent obsidian]

there is always tomorrow

[fathom drum]

Yeah there is 😊

[cursive stratus]

How did I manage to create less space..... I used to have 2 free shelves/planks, and now I have 0.....

i've kept open some spaces tho, because I'm still building lego hogwarts which I want to put next to my harry potter books, and I don't have the full game of thrones set yet so I need some space for that

But other than that I think I can leave like 1 or 2 books depending on the size..... Or I'd have to lay books on top of my books or double layer them

[viscid creek]

finished sophie's world !!

[potent obsidian]

making moves with #1403087594102718595

[quiet cipher]

sitting down to keep working on https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1386744991354716271

really keen to get to a place in this book where I understand wtf is going on

[quartz rover]

16% in #1320445046604169329 !
Since my original plan may have been a far reach considering my very full weekend, I’m hoping to get at least halfway through it

[distant dew]

i just finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1183699829977784320 !! ^^

i think i’m going to start https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398847840272253038 because i decided last minute i wanted to jump on the botm

it just sounded so interesting and it’s short so reading it before the deadline is manageable

and i have the audiobook too! niceeee

[soft fog]

I've read a chapter for #1408064680206799001. Hopefully I can get more reading done this weekend, just been so out of it the past few days cause of the flu

[distant dew]

ohh i’m so sorry :((

hope you get better tho!!!

[astral willow]

i hope you feel better soon!
i hate hate hate getting the flu

[silent latch]

My readathon tbr:
Finish The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Sunrise on the Reaping
Maybe finish Babel?
Or start Children of Memory, I haven’t decided yet

[north nymph]

I finished only one chapter in my book today. But I'm now half way through it so I'm satisfied

[faint glen]

only 3 more poetry books and i'm done with the Sealey challenge!

[void cedar]

I’ve been reading #1401251655055441921 !!!

[high merlin]

Completed! (8/29)

• It Came from the Closet
• Stalking Jack the Ripper
• The Whisper Man

[distant dew]

starting this https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398847840272253038 before i go to bed

i'm going to listen to the audiobook while reading it on the ebook, idk why lately this has been my go to modus operandi for reading, it makes me capable of reading while anxious!! there's something about the double stimuli ig hahaha

idk how much i'm gonna read tho, cause i'm a little bit tired and it's late over here

[quiet cipher]

Laid down to read and fell asleep for so long

Okay, let's try again

[distant dew]

i’m 14% into https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398847840272253038 i’ll keep reading tomorrow!! i’m really liking this book so far, it’s heart warming <3<3

[soft fog]

Ooh whisper man was one of my very first mystery reads ever How was it?

[high merlin]

I enjoyed it! I did listen to it and think I missed a few things, so may reread it at some point.

[molten vigil]

Intended:
•The Wee Free Men (WIP)
•Circe (WIP)
•The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (WIP)

Finished:
• https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1402858822090887178

[faint gust]

me tooo! i feel like having both helps my wandering attention

[faint glen]

finished Run by Tim Sinclair - a supposed thriller YA verse novel about parkour

[potent obsidian]

readathons!

[pale sphinx]

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary by Anonymous
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Umami by Laia Jufresa

[distant dew]

yeah!! i’ve always had attention problems but never when it got to reading and now idk why it also happens with reading!!! must be that i have my head somewhere else all the time lmao

[faint glen]

finished 100 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu, it was so fecking funny and savage

[viscid creek]

currently reading metamorphosis by franz kafka

[vernal plover]

My playdate got canceled so i might actually read this weekend!

[vernal plover]

I finished reading a manwha (nsfw/18+) and it was horror romance and that was a new genre for me but so intriguing

[potent obsidian]

horror romance sounds interesting

[hoary flower]

Check out Don’t Let the Forest In! That gets close imo

[cursive stratus]

I LOVE THAT BOOK

[hoary flower]

Right???? Def in my top 5 for the year so far

[void cedar]

settlin down to read some junji Ito

[vernal plover]

I have it on my tbr!!

[distant dew]

does someone want to do a reading sesh on the book talk vc like the other day? my plan is very chill

[elfin barn]

I need to focus on #1380795367301447731 so yes but I'm so tired atm

I will power through

[distant dew]

really? you don’t have to if you don’t feel like it love!!

but if you want to i’ll be there in a minute

i’m just going to make myself a coffee

[elfin barn]

no I've had a nap and I'm still trying to wake up but I do want to get some reading in

[potent obsidian]

ah i hope you guys have fun!

[distant dew]

literally me!! thats why i was asking hahaha

so on the same boat here

[distant dew]

thanks babes!!

[quartz rover]

You can do it abi!! (also, I can wait a bit after the br ends if you’ve started already so don’t push yourself if it’s too much )

I’m currently traveling to another city and won’t get to read much later too but I did get to about 47% in on #1320445046604169329 today !! Patting myself on the back cuz the book’s HUGE

[distant dew]

@elfin barn i'm already there!! ^^

no rush btw

just letting u know

[high merlin]

No official "books" read yet today, but did crush the reading of the 10 originals in the #tales-as-old-as-time

[distant dew]

let's go sakura!!

[distant dew]

i'm 35% into https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398847840272253038 i'm going to make myself some dinner and then i'll keep reading ^^

[north nymph]

Not only did I not read anything in the book I intended to read this weekend, I also started a new audio book for some reason.

[distant dew]

i finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1398847840272253038 ^^

i liked it a lot!!

second book on the readathon yay!!! tomorrow i’ll focus on the last book of the month to start fresh for the read off!!

[molten vigil]

I finished The Wee Free Men earlier so I’m halfway through my ‘intended’ list!

[high merlin]

Read The Second Generation today!
Will continue another book, but won't be finishing anything else before bed.

[hoary flower]

made it through 35% of Julie Chan is Dead tonight!

[potent obsidian]

you're all slaying wtf

i am going to finish #1403087594102718595 TODAY

[north nymph]

I love this book! I've read it multiple times just because its so good!

[trail skiff]

I love this book! I've
read it multiple times just
because its so good!

- afroditi32

[potent obsidian]

@quartz rover @high merlin @hollow acorn @distant dew hello, i'll be having a lofi reading sesh because i really need to finish up my book

anyone else, feel free to join if you'd like!

[distant dew]

i can’t rn sorry!!

[potent obsidian]

thats okay!

[quartz rover]

I’d love to join but will be having a meeting at the place I volunteer in a couple minutes that’d last for about an hour (or two at most). When about do you plan on starting?

[viscid creek]

finished metamorphosis!!

[pale sphinx]

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary by Anonymous
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Umami by Laia Jufresa

going out for the day hope i can squeeze enough reading moments to finish this book today 🙏🏽

[potent obsidian]

oo i already did it then left for lunch! i can do another one soon-ish.

[quartz rover]

Awh no worries! I just realised I saw your message late

[fathom drum]

I don't really know what a lofi reading session entails tbh

[quartz rover]

Kinda like body doubling without cameras but some lo-fi in the bg to get through reading or whatever tasks you have?

[fathom drum]

Ah I see! Thank you 😊

[potent obsidian]

yes! exactly that

i'll launch the lofi activity and then set a scenery + background noise effects (depends on the scenery you can have snow or rain etc) and then some lofi music and we just sit and read or do anything

[hollow acorn]

I‘ll finally start a book for this readathon and will start over an old audiobook I‘ve been meaning to get through

[vernal plover]

I started and finished a book last night!

[cursive stratus]

Haven't had a lot of time to read, but I've read 200 pages in katabasis since this readathon

[distant dew]

if you do another lofi sesh today i’ll join for sure!!

[soft fog]

started this readathon with chapter 10 of #1408064680206799001, rn im on ch 17

[faint glen]

finished Gravidity and Parity by Eleanor Jackson, and thus finished the Sealey challenge which i'm never doing again - i say this as someone whose home genre is poetry

[distant dew]

i'm reading https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1402060563479265333 today ^^

i'm also trying to finish it today

[faint gust]

not much reading done today either but im GETTING REAL WELL

so not much marathon but im gonna catch up on the phantom of opera before my hold runs out

[cursive stratus]

I'm trying to read but my cat isn't allowing me

[potent obsidian]

i'm glad you're feeling better!

[distant dew]

does someone want to chill and read on the book talk vc?

[potent obsidian]

me me! i'll set it up

@distant dew @quartz rover @high merlin @hollow acorn impromptu lofi sesh in book talk vc again!

[hollow acorn]

yay!! time to procrastinate my real life tasks some more

[quartz rover]

I’ll join in a bit!

[potent obsidian]

slay!!

[potent obsidian]

also same i've procrastinated washing my bedsheets for 2 days now so we are in the same boat only i hope mine is sinking hahah

[distant dew]

hey!! i’ll join now

sorry was making myself coffee

and got distracted

as always

HAHAHAHAHA

[hexed basin]

tag me next time please, can you tag the role?

[potent obsidian]

the lofi role is only for read offs and not readathons

& my bad! will remember to next time

[quiet cipher]

I finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1386744991354716271!

[potent obsidian]

yayyyyy!!!

i finished #1403087594102718595 too and that's it from me for this readathon

[distant dew]

yayy

[quartz rover]

I’m 74% in with #1320445046604169329
I cannot believe I might actually do this!??

[distant dew]

slay!!

[hexed basin]

I finished percy jackon 1. My period made things difficult

[trail skiff]

I finished percy
jackon 1. My period
made things difficult

- Iris´d coffee

[hexed basin]

Nooooo

2nd haiku today

[fathom drum]

Such a memorable one

[distant dew]

hope it gets better!

i’m soft dnfing my cr cause the pacing it’s so slow i’m not really enjoying it

i’ll concentrate on other reads and maybe try again some other time!!

[fathom drum]

I'm onto the last 3 chapters of #1089684463685992639

Will be glad when I'm done

[cursive stratus]

Finished my first book from this readathon (and probabky thr last), katabasissss

Will be starting a new one but probably won't finish

[distant dew]

i’m finished on the book part!! i might read some fairytales tonight but that’s it till the sep read off starts!! this readathon was so much fun!!

[runic coyote]

finished jane eyree

halfway through little mermaid and i read 4 chapters of the pickwick papers

[cursive stratus]

I think I'll go continue a game of thrones now

I was reading it, but then katabasis came and I ofc had to read katabasis first

School starts at 2pm tommorow, so I can sleep in, so it doesn't matter that I'll read until late >:)

[distant dew]

impressive!!

[distant dew]

the best feeling

[high merlin]

Last book of the readathon - The Great War: Walk in Hell

Have a few hours before the read off begins, so will do a few things and find a new book.

[pale sphinx]

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary by Anonymous
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Umami by Laia Jufresa

[wicked crane]

The readathon already finished for me, but I was able to complete Katabasis ✅
Happy September and good luck to everyone still in August!

[astral willow]

It's not quite the 1st here yet but I'm mostly done reading for the night since I have to prepare for classes to start. But I'm really proud of how much reading I got done (even though I neglected my household chores ). Congrats to everyone for an awesome reading weekend!!

What I managed:
Finished 'Medical Apartheid' by Harriet A. Washington.
Finished 8114 by Joshua Hull.
Finished One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford,
Started Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

[potent obsidian]

yayy!!

[molten vigil]

I managed to finished The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson at 11:40 pm, bringing me to 3/4 finished. I’m okay with not getting all four since I ended up absolutely binging some Webtoons instead

[elfin barn]

books read this weekend

friday:

• bro and the beast 5 by l.c. davis

saturday:

• the quarry girls by jess lourey
• black witness by amy mcquire

sunday:

• automatic noodle by annalee newitz
• white king by juan gómez-jurado
• the secret crush book club by karmen lee
• amelia, if only by becky albertalli
• the passengers on the hankyu line by hiro arikawa
• cat's people by tanya guerrero

can you tell which days I was out and which days I was at home?

[potent obsidian]

HAHAHA were you home on friday? /j

[elfin barn]

how did you know?

[quartz rover]

I finished #1320445046604169329 last night! So glad I chose to go with that cuz bingeing it instead of stretching out through weeks made for a lot more enjoyable experience and I got a chonker down and feel good about it

[runic coyote]

thank you for hosting janaaa

that was much fun

[quartz rover]

Yess! Thanks for hosting

[potent obsidian]

no worries! thanks for joining

[hoary flower]

i got in Julie Chan is Dead!

[potent obsidian]

teehee

the readathon will go on from 12.09 to 21.09, all-day, in your own timezones

yes, you will have an extra weekend to read!
have fun reading everyone

[distant dew]

fun!! thanks, Jana! <3

[potent obsidian]

just a casual one this time!

[faint gust]

wahooo readathon

[runic coyote]

Yipeee

[hoary flower]

Sweeeet

[vernal plover]

I have two weekend without plans

[potent obsidian]

YIPEE

[blissful spade]

[potent obsidian]

[stray maple]

do i have to do anything to join? 👀 I am in a desperate need to finish some books lol

[quiet cipher]

nope you just read during the readathon dates and update the thread occasionally with your progress

[potent obsidian]

I hope you enjoy ulysses!

[ivory swan]

My next two weekends are super hectic but I’m hoping to finish reading these two bad boys -
#1361996133567828129
Pale Fire - Nabokov

[faint gust]

my readathon tbr would be Babel and JJK Vol. 3

[hoary flower]

also gotta finish babel, and maybe a soul to keep

[noble mural]

I think I might try and finish a few things over the weekend:

Sailor Moon Volumes 10-12 - Naoko Takeuchi

World War Z, An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks

Maybe even continue:
Tusk Love - Thea Guanzon
Ahriman the Omnibus - John French

[pale sphinx]

readathon goalz
The Burning God by R F Kuang
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Babel by R F Kuang

[vernal plover]

I want to finish my current reads

But I'll probably start 7 other books instead because I have ✨️ reading adhd ✨️

[potent obsidian]

i am slumping so i will take it slow with the school of good and evil

[high merlin]

I haven't even looked at what I want to read for this.

[vernal plover]

Also how are all these books part of these long ass series

What happened to stand alones smh

[blissful spade]

I am hoping to maybe finish these:
🐭 Thea Stilton and the Mountain of Fire
🌾 The Grapes of Wrath
🧙‍♀️ Equal Rites (sic)

I will be spending most of the readathon time period with family, so I will either have lots of time to read or zero. It's up to them. 😄

[molten vigil]

My goal is to finish my last 6 summer reading challenge books, Kaiju Preservation Society, and at least make headway on Crime and Punishment

[sharp cedar]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

[potent obsidian]

it’s starting in 2 hours for me and I aim to finish one chapter of my cr :D

[quiet cipher]

hmmm I don't want to start anything before the readathon so I think I will read a couple of short stories today

will leave https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1408064680206799001 until the readathon starts

[faint gust]

ITS ALREADY ALMOST FRIDAY?

today felt sooo longg waaa

[potent obsidian]

it's readathon time for me hip hip

[distant dew]

i feel you

i’m slumping so hard on my reading

i barely have time and when i do i’m exhausted so i look to the ceiling and be like

[potent obsidian]

urgh I'm so sorry lu

I'm gonna restart my book so it can count for bonus readathon points. just reading the school of good and evil for now

[distant dew]

but my plans for this long (thanks for making it longer jana ) readathon are Babel and The Red Pyramid

i’m not going for much cause i want to be realistic here

even then i might not finish them both

[distant dew]

nice!

i’m not restarting babel but i’m waiting till tomorrow to start the other new book

and then count that one ^^

[potent obsidian]

teehee with the no theme thing I thought having it go on for longer might be good as there is more flexibility

[distant dew]

you are a genius

no doubt there

[potent obsidian]

[distant dew]

totally reading Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Sea of Monsters too

[hollow acorn]

i'm gonna be reading a romance series this readathon :)

starting with Game Changer by Rachel Reid tomorrow

[potent obsidian]

okay I got through 13 pages and it took me an hour but I finished my one readathon goal lmao so now I feel a bit ambitious yes

r__eadathon tb__r
the school of good and evil
the canterville ghost
the moomins and the great flood
the tell-tale heart
the wild robot
stay out of the basement

and maybe start alias grace

[distant dew]

you go girl!!

[potent obsidian]

haha and then I flop and not read anything haha

but I appreciate this readathon actually it came at a good time and I love having a light book to read

why am I acting like I'm not the one deciding the dates lmao

[distant dew]

it's okay, at the end of the day reading should be fun, not stressful, but i get you it happens, it's valid, you read what you feel you can, and that alone will be perfect <3

[potent obsidian]

real real

[distant dew]

HAHAHAHAH

[potent obsidian]

I also want to smash the other read-off teams

[distant dew]

slay

[potent obsidian]

[distant dew]

don't put too much pressure on you tho<3<3

[potent obsidian]

totally!

[faint glen]

am probably just going to keep trying to get through A Storm of Swords and finish vol 1 of #1372844095554453505 (am so close!). maybe start another book in #1329215324184121435 or, if i actually want to finish a book during a readathon, maybe start Herland?

i'm terrible at finishing books during readathons, i just tend to make progress on ones i'm already reading it seems

[blissful spade]

I haven't done many readathons, and I may not understand the rules, but I think making progress on books is exactly the point.

[faint glen]

i think i just feel like folks tend to get through loads of books during these and i (incorrectly) judge my progress as snail-like 😅

[blissful spade]

Hehe, I understand. I read at a snail-like pace, so I tell myself it is a little like slowly eating dessert.

[potent obsidian]

I have started the Moomintrolls and the great flood

really cute so far

[small bloom]

Readathon TBR
The Well of Ascension - 237/792
The Secret History - 76/577
Katabasis
The Spear Cuts Through Water
The Amalfi Curse
The Convenience Store by the Sea
City of Lost Souls
Cursed Crowns

4 currently reading hoping to finish this at the end of the readathon

[potent obsidian]

first book of the readathon done, finished up #1415335325214965931

[faint glen]

i finished Vol 1 of The Second Sex! but now my brain doesn't know how to wind down

[viscid iris]

Readathon TBR
☑ Love, theoritically
☐ Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
☐ Trapped
☐ The Jakarta Method
☑ ~~Menuai Badai ~~
☐ The Convenience Store by the Sea

[vernal plover]

Finished my first book this morning!
SOS hotel; no rest for the wicked #5 done ✅

i was >< this close to not reading something new hahah

[potent obsidian]

read something fun!! :D

[potent obsidian]

slayndy

[faint glen]

i've got A Storm of Swords as my designated fun reading, and only wanted to finish vol 1 this week so i'm free now

[hexed basin]

Tbr for this weekend: Eon, Eona, Eragon, Sonea 1, The Rebel (1 part of a series), finish the count of monte christo.

[vernal plover]

ERAGON

i want to reread that too

[elfin barn]

I will fight myself if I don't read these:
☐ #1377189652431241337
☐ #1385898965052031027
☐ #delicious-in-dungeon Vol.1
☐ #1320445046604169329

Hopeful reads:
☐ A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic
☐ #1409186470975115315
☐ #1400397662607511592

[cursive stratus]

I'm planning on reading:
A clash of kings
A storm of swords (hopefully)
An overdose of death
The struggle

[hexed basin]

I am currently reading in my bed with my dog using me as a pillow

[potent obsidian]

the dream omg

I should be reading #1415336720223830066 but I‘m playing a game instead

[small bloom]

Oh yeah still need to check my BR books deadlines!

[quartz rover]

My plan’s to finish up #1351293685098086400 and then get through #sailor-moon

Oh wait! I forgot this one spans a week!!

In that case, I’m going to include #1415966828714266716, #1403087594102718595 , #1409186470975115315 , #1398800156895346951 and #1091020715379130499

Oh and #1400397662607511592 and finish up #1401250612762640416

[potent obsidian]

spans a week + an extra weekend

[hexed basin]

I finished Eon

[hexed basin]

Next plan comes monday

[hexed basin]

I am in a flow rn, currently reading book 2.

[hexed basin]

I am almost done! That went over so quick

*with eona

I love book flow

[hexed basin]

I have 50 pages left

My ebook reader is functioning again and I thought I finished but there are some pages left

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸

☐ Alias Grace
☐ The Complete Persepolis
☐ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☐ The Telltale Heart
☐ Stories of Your Life
☐ The Magic Fish
☐ The Essential Rumi
☐ White Teeth
☐ An Age of License
☐ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ Station Eleven
☐ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☐ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

[high merlin]

How do you get these awesome boxes? I love this!

[elfin barn]

I copied them from Stef above me

[high merlin]

How did you add those boxes? I love them and know I'll want to use them in future as well.

[viscid iris]

I just copied from kamoji box check list. Sure, if you want I can send the copy or just copied mine above it's okay

[high merlin]

Got it! Thank you!

[viscid iris]

☐ -> empty kaomoji box
☑ -> with checklist

[high merlin]

Thank you so much!

[hexed basin]

I truly finished Eona now

[silent latch]

Starting my readathon with #1400397817234853980 and then I want to finish #1408064680206799001

[quiet cipher]

gonna finish up Herland and then finally start on https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1408064680206799001 today

[quiet cipher]

first I have to do some policy research though

[potent obsidian]

finished my second book, #1415336720223830066 yay

[hoary flower]

i need work to be over lol

[viscid iris]

Finished two books from my readathon tbr ~

[potent obsidian]

slayyy omg

the books i've finished are so short but tbh with my slump I'm taking anything

[viscid iris]

It's your win no matter the books 're short or long. Hoping you get out from slump and enjoy your reading 🫶

[potent obsidian]

aww thanks stef!

[vernal plover]

whoops I went drawing all afternoon

[faint gust]

I AM FINALLY FREEE missed a whole day without reading but im gonna do it now

[astral willow]

𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑛

𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇
Wrech by Eric LaRocca (must post ARC review)
The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling
Paddington, at Large by Michael Bond

𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Goodbye. Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Hyo the Hellmaker by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano
Murmuration by Blake Auden
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐎𝐍
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

[pale sphinx]

readathon goalz
The Burning God by R F Kuang
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
Babel by R F Kuang

[stray maple]

🙏 I'm really hoping to finish https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1411655470258847884 this weekend. If I have the space, hopefully I can crank out a couple chapters of https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1400397662607511592 as well. I have 10 days left until book club for A Thousand Splendid Suns and my leadership training at work for The Advantage. The upside is that I'm listening to the audiobook for https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1409093849456050225 and it's a very interesting to listen to on the way to and from work. Listened to about 20 minutes of that book today

[hoary flower]

okay. imma finish gam gam tonight. and start a soul to keep. hopefully i will finish that and babel this weekend! then next week i will start atlas six and bury our bones!

[hoary flower]

i finished a necromancer called gam gam!

[small bloom]

Finished The Spear Cuts Through Water 4⭐️ and started Cursed Crowns

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸

☐ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☐ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☐ The Telltale Heart
☐ {42%} Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☐ The Essential Rumi
☐ White Teeth
☐ An Age of License
☐ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ Station Eleven
☐ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☐ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {5%}!The Great War: Breakthroughs

[silent latch]

Second day of the readathon and I finished my first book, although I started Katabasis a long time ago so it doesn’t technically count but I’m counting it lol

[vernal plover]

I finished murderbot! - All systems red

Such a fun read

That concludes my second read

I also started a new book instead of finishing current ones whoooops

[quartz rover]

may I use the same format?

[high merlin]

For sure!

[quartz rover]

Hanzy's TBR for the readathon

☑ #1351293685098086400
☑ #1401250612762640416
☐ #1091020715379130499
☐ #1403087594102718595
☐ #sailor-moon
☐ #1415966828714266716
☐ #1398800156895346951
☐ #1400397662607511592
☐ #1409186470975115315
☐ #ancient-classics (The Odyssey)
☐ #1400533993203695817

[high merlin]

I love that all of yours are buddy reads on top of it! I didn't even think of linking those to mine. Maybe with the next update.

[quartz rover]

It’s just how much obc has taken over my life atm I rarely have any personal reads like usually 1-2 max/month

[dreamy swift]

i finished #1385965135822065685 so i can get on to #1385898229920432129 which will be my first book of the readathon

[high merlin]

I totally get this! I have a lot of OBC buddy reads at any given time too. I have a hard time saying no. 🫠

[dreamy swift]

sakura may i have $100000 please

[high merlin]

Sadly, I do have to say no to your request, Naya. I just don't have that kind of money. 😭

[vernal plover]

What did you think of the raven scholar???

[faint gust]

yesterday was a full day of reading and im up to ch 12 of babel

[hexed basin]

I am gonna start Eragon now

[void cedar]

finished a volume for #sailor-moon

[molten vigil]

🟩 A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
🟩 Circe by Madeleine Miller (pre-readathon start)
✅ JJKA Vol 3
✅ Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (pre-readathon start)
🟩 Rhythm of War by Branderson (pre-readathon start)
🟩 Vassa In the Night by Sarah Porter
🟩 Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
🟩 Nemesis by Agatha Christie
🟩 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

🟩 OPTIONAL- Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

[sharp cedar]

gesundheit

[molten vigil]

There’s so much Christie because my grandma got me a Miss Marple box set last year lol

[soft fog]

would love to hear ur thoughts on it! I've read some of the Poirot books but never Miss Marple

[silent latch]

I finished The Fae Cafe, cute and cozy

[dreamy swift]

i really enjoyed it!! i couldn’t put it down, was thinking abt it at work and everything. the world building and characters are so gooddd!! i gave it 4.5 stars.

this is a mild spoiler for the ending that can find out on goodreads that made me upset ||the sequel is not yet out so the story isnt complete which makes me mad that i have to wait ages for this cliff hanger ||

[molten vigil]

If Poirot is obsessed with the “who did it?”, then Miss Marple is obsessed with the “why did they do it?” Sometimes things feel a little too convenient, but all mystery series feel like that at times. The worst Miss Marple book is better than the worst Poirot, but the best Miss Marple isn’t as good as the best Poirot if that makes sense?

Oh and if you read The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side, HIGHLY recommend seeing the stage adaptation of it afterward

[hexed basin]

I finished eragon at 2.20 am

I read almost uninterrupted for the past 4 hours

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Nightly update
Completed: 2 --> 6
In progress: 1

☐ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☐ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☐ The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☐ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ Station Eleven
☐ Dracula
☐ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☐ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {15%} The Great War: Breakthroughs

[astral willow]

𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑛

𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇
Wrech by Eric LaRocca (must post ARC review)
The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling
Paddington, at Large by Michael Bond

𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Goodbye. Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Hyo the Hellmaker by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano
Murmuration by Blake Auden
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐎𝐍
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

[vernal plover]

Ooooh but this is good information for me, its worth it to wait

Love to hear that this dark academia book was worth it! They quickly get so overhyped

[small bloom]

Readathon update
The Well of Ascension - 237/792
The Secret History - 76/577
Katabasis
The Spear Cuts Through Water
The Amalfi Curse
The Convenience Store by the Sea
City of Lost Souls
Cursed Crowns
#1385965135822065685
The Honey Witch

[hexed basin]

I decided to squeeze in a discworld novel (The Midnight dress)

[fathom drum]

I've been so terrible with reading all week

[dreamy swift]

yeah for sure, i agree, like the release date isnt even announced yet so i reckon wait lol

[potent obsidian]

same, it's okay dees!

[cursive stratus]

I've read like 100 pages this week in a clash of kings 🥲 but I'm going to lock in rn

Also doesn't help that I'm a mood reader and almost spend more time deciding which book I want to read or if I should continue my current book

[quartz rover]

Hanzy's TBR for the readathon

☑ #1351293685098086400
☑ #1401250612762640416
☑ #1091020715379130499
☐ #1385965135822065685
☐ #1403087594102718595
☐ #sailor-moon
☐ #1415966828714266716
☐ #1398800156895346951
☐ #1400397662607511592
☐ #1409186470975115315
☐ #ancient-classics (The Odyssey)
☐ #1400533993203695817
☐ #1399327634747424824

[potent obsidian]

slay

[potent obsidian]

maris, do you mind if i use the font thingy that you do for my br announcements?

[hoary flower]

i think i will be able to finish book no 2 today!

[potent obsidian]

slay!!

[cursive stratus]

I'm going to reread the hunger games now, because yeah

[astral willow]

Oh yeah of course! It’s just from messletters.com!

[potent obsidian]

thank you!!

[vernal mulch]

I just finished Junji Ito's Tombs a little earlier! So that's my first book down!

[high merlin]

I just did a library haul.😅
Not sure if I should add these to the list in advance or just if I start/finish them. There's no way I'm getting through everything.

[small bloom]

Started #1385965135822065685

[quiet cipher]

I have read a third of https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1408064680206799001 so far this readathon, will have it finished by Wednesday I think

[noble mural]

I have finished Sailor Moon volumes 10-11. Need to get 12 done here soon, but I'll get there.

[viscid iris]

Readathon TBR(update)
☑ Love, theoritically
☐ Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
☑ Trapped
☐ The Jakarta Method
☑ Menuai Badai
☐ The Convenience Store by the Sea
☑ King's Maker, Vol. 1
☐ Platina Data

[clever cobalt]

Finished: The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
Starting: https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1392554767292694588

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Nightly update
Completed: 6 --> 8
In progress: 1 --> 3

☐ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☐ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☐ {20%} The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☐ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ Station Eleven
☐ Dracula
☐ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {20%} The Great War: Breakthroughs
☐ {31%} The Stonewall Reader
☑ Annihilation

[stray maple]

I finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1411655470258847884! I also read a couple chapters of https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1400397662607511592

[vernal plover]

I got a lot of reading done in my book last night!

Its about cowboys and it made me realise i know absolutely nothing of cowboys or rodeo lol

apparently a bucking horse used for bareback rodeo is called a bronc

[fathom drum]

I think I may finally finish The secret of secrets today

[hoary flower]

I finished book 2! A Soul to Keep by Opal Rayne. That was... a new one for me

[vernal mulch]

Book two down with A House With Good Bones!

[hoary flower]

how was that? i like T Kingfisher. would you consider that one horror?

[vernal mulch]

It definitely had a lot of horror elements in my opinion. I think it was a good exploration of trauma though, and I enjoyed it a lot. If you're squimish with bugs though, I'd say be cautious going in

It lived up to the Southern Gothic I was expecting going in /positive

[quiet cipher]

50% through Katabasis now!

[cursive stratus]

Reading "the let them theory" because my mom said it'll help, and will also read "the long walk" because the new movie just came out and it lowkey sounds interesting and I'm hopeless at watching movies

[silent latch]

Finished Reflections for the fairy tale event

[small bloom]

Finished The Honey Witch!

[pale sphinx]

readathon goalz
The Burning God by R F Kuang
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1102621254516740157
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1393145403276267530
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1411255375272874078
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1411655470258847884
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1410535558450774096

[small bloom]

Readathon update
The Well of Ascension - 237/792 - started before readathon
The Secret History - 76/577 - started before readathon
Katabasis
The Spear Cuts Through Water
The Amalfi Curse
The Convenience Store by the Sea
City of Lost Souls
Cursed Crowns
#1385965135822065685
The Honey Witch
Her Soul to Take
We Could Be So Good

[astral willow]

𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑛

𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇
Wrech by Eric LaRocca (must post ARC review)
The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling
Paddington, at Large by Michael Bond

𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Goodbye. Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Hyo the Hellmaker by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano
Murmuration by Blake Auden
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐎𝐍
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

[clever cobalt]

Finished: https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1392554767292694588
Starting: https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1410535558450774096

[astral willow]

I loved the Lamb so much. I think it was my first 5 star of the year.

[trail skiff]

I loved the Lamb so
much. I think it was my first
5 star of the year.

- maris has a lap cat

[fathom drum]

A full day later
Blame Tiny Bookshop

[cursive stratus]

Have been doing pretty well today, am almost at 50% in the long walk, I'm so tired tho, so I'm taking a little break before I fall asleep and lose my page

[regal cairn]

I've been trying to get through all the manga BRs for this readathon and it's actually going really well so far! 😄
Finished two Sailor moons so far and 1 Delicious in dungeon! 🎉

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Nightly update
Completed: 8 --> 12
In progress: 3 --> 4

☐ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☑ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☐ {20%} The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☑ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ {6%} Station Eleven
☐ Dracula
☑ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {20%} The Great War: Breakthroughs
☑ The Stonewall Reader
☑ Annihilation
☐ {66%} The Lost Village

[silent latch]

Finished As Old as Time for the fairy tale event and it was pretty good. I’ve been pleasantly surprised so far

[cursive stratus]

Wasn't able to read much throughout today, since I had college, but I did read in the train, and I will read some more this evening in the long walk and I'm hoping to finish it

[hollow acorn]

i finished two audiobooks so far within the readathon
i delayed starting the romance series i was talking about but i will read The Entanglement of Rival Wizards for the readathon this week

[cursive stratus]

I finished it

[silent latch]

So This Is Love was a bit of a disappointment, but it is finished

[quartz rover]

So I may have been a bit too ambitious with this one seeing how it took me like 3 days to get through #1385965135822065685

LMAO, tagged the wrong update

Hanzy's TBR for the readathon (updated)

☑ #1351293685098086400
☑ #1401250612762640416
☑ #1091020715379130499
☑ #1385965135822065685
☑ #1403087594102718595
☐ #sailor-moon
☐ #1415966828714266716
☐ #1398800156895346951
☐ #1400397662607511592
☐ #1409186470975115315
☐ #ancient-classics (The Odyssey)
☐ #1400533993203695817
☐ #1399327634747424824

[elfin barn]

I read that one last week

[hollow acorn]

did you like it

[elfin barn]

yes! it is pretty dark/triggering at moments though but the romance was my kinda thing

[vernal plover]

I finished Fake Out! By Edin Finley

It was a cute journey of self discovery but the whole story fell a little flat for me in the end

[high merlin]

I'm debating on continuing a read or starting a new one. (I already have a handful in progress. 😅)

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Nightly update
Completed: 12 --> 13
In progress: 4--> 5

☐ {49%} Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☑ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☐ {34%} The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☑ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ {18%} Station Eleven
☐ Dracula
☑ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {20%} The Great War: Breakthroughs
☑ The Stonewall Reader
☑ Annihilation
☐ {85%} The Lost Village
☑ Stay out of the Basement

[molten vigil]

INTENDED:
✅ A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
🟩 Circe by Madeleine Miller (pre-readathon start, currently 60%
✅ JJKA Vol 3
✅ Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (pre-readathon start)
✅ The Full Moon Cafe by ??? (pre-readathon start, forgot to add this to the first list)
✅ Rhythm of War by Branderson (pre-readathon start)
🟩 Vassa In the Night by Sarah Porter
🟩 Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
🟩 Nemesis by Agatha Christie
🟩 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

UNINTENDED FINISHES-
Mammoth At the Gates by Nghi Vo

[distant dew]

at this point if i finish one ONE book for the marathon i would be happy

lmao

[regal cairn]

I finished 2 more Sailor Moons and the Percy Jackson #2 BR!

Trying my best to finish another sailor moon today and maybe even Kaiju Preservation Society!

[vernal plover]

yes I finished my 3d book! Once Upon a Haunted Moor was such a vibey spooky mystery

i wanted to cling unto the summer feeling for a bit longer but the incessant rains have made that impossible, so I'm full on into the haunted season now

[faint gust]

finished 2 bookss! babel and no exit. i felt like i was struggling with babel so i quickly switch to no exit, and managed to finish both today

[hoary flower]

I finished Automatic Noodle last night! Still hoping to get Babel done this weekend!

[quiet cipher]

I finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1408064680206799001!

gonna cram in a personal read with The Candy House

[regal cairn]

Finished The Kaiju Preservation Society! 😄

[fathom drum]

Het Ultieme Geheim - Dan Brown
#1398933510374293594
#1413678137652416552

[regal cairn]

Finished two more Sailor Moon volumes today and hoping I can do another one today hehe!

[silent latch]

Finished The Long Walk, Almost There, and The Once and Future Witches

[elfin barn]

I have finished zero books from this list the mood reader in me has jumped out for this readathon

[quartz rover]

Hanzy's TBR for the readathon (updated)

☑ #1351293685098086400
☑ #1401250612762640416
☑ #1091020715379130499
☑ #1385965135822065685
☑ #1403087594102718595
☐ #sailor-moon
☑ #1415966828714266716
☐ #1398800156895346951
☐ #1400397662607511592
☐ #1409186470975115315
☐ #ancient-classics (The Odyssey)
☐ #1400533993203695817
☑ #1399327634747424824

[quiet cipher]

I read a quarter of The Candy House by Jennifer Egan last night, should be able to get it done before the end of the readathon!

[hoary flower]

i finished babel last night

[silent latch]

Finished Part of Your World. Think I’m going to take a break from fairy tales next week

[stray maple]

I finished "A Thousand Splendid Suns"! And now I'm just going to cry

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Completed: 13 --> 15
In progress: 5 --> 4

☑ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☑ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☐ {34%} The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☑ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ {18%} Station Eleven
☐ Dracula
☑ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {20%} The Great War: Breakthroughs
☑ The Stonewall Reader
☑ Annihilation
☑ The Lost Village
☑ Stay out of the Basement
☐ {27%} The Forty Rules of Love

[small bloom]

Readathon update
The Well of Ascension - 237/792 - started before readathon
The Secret History - 76/577 - started before readathon
Katabasis
The Spear Cuts Through Water
The Amalfi Curse
The Convenience Store by the Sea
City of Lost Souls
Cursed Crowns
#1385965135822065685
The Honey Witch
Her Soul to Take
We Could Be So Good

[potent obsidian]

i‘m very happy to see everyone slaying this readathon

[faint glen]

finished L'Argent for #1329215324184121435 !

[hoary flower]

ive made it 2/3 the way through Zomromcom so far!

[dreamy swift]

i’m gonna try to finish #1412708587658154004 and #1411655470258847884 before readathon ends

[cursive stratus]

Going to start all systems red rn

[quartz rover]

Hanzy's TBR for the readathon (updated)

☑ #1351293685098086400
☑ #1401250612762640416
☑ #1091020715379130499
☑ #1385965135822065685
☑ #1403087594102718595
☐ #sailor-moon
☑ #1415966828714266716
☑ #1415335726647869501
☐ #1400397662607511592
☐ #1409186470975115315
☐ #ancient-classics (The Odyssey)
☑ #1400533993203695817
☑ #1399327634747424824

pretty sure I won’t be finishing them all by tomorrow but I’m aiming to get through #sailor-moon

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Completed: 15 --> 17
In progress: 4

☑ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☑ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☑ The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☑ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☐ {18%} Station Eleven
☐ Dracula
☑ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☐ {20%} The Great War: Breakthroughs
☑ The Stonewall Reader
☑ Annihilation
☑ The Lost Village
☑ Stay out of the Basement
☐ {27%} The Forty Rules of Love
☑ Good Girl, Bad Blood
☐ {40%} Pachinko

[potent obsidian]

last day of the readathon for me NOOO

I can extend it

[cursive stratus]

I know I should be reading right now, but the sims is calling my name

[trail skiff]

I know I should be
reading right now, but the sims
is calling my name

- lisaelizabeth

[dreamy swift]

me w silksong lol

[dreamy swift]

i finished #1412708587658154004 and made progress with #1410535558450774096 and #1385898229920432129 which is it for me for this readathon, i wish i finished #1411655470258847884 but im happy

[hoary flower]

i finished Zomromcom last night!

[molten vigil]

INTENDED:
✅ A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
✅ Circe by Madeleine Miller (pre-readathon start)
✅ JJKA Vol 3
✅ Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (pre-readathon start)
✅ The Full Moon Cafe by Mai Mochizuki (pre-readathon start)
✅ Rhythm of War by Branderson (pre-readathon start)
✅ Vassa In the Night by Sarah Porter
🟩 Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
🟩 Nemesis by Agatha Christie
✅ 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

UNINTENDED FINISHES-
Mammoth At the Gates by Nghi Vo
Dragon’s Bait by Vivian Vande Velde

[vernal plover]

Woah thats so much! Very impressed with everyones reads

[fathom drum]

Het Ultieme Geheim - Dan Brown
#1398933510374293594
#1413678137652416552

[stray maple]

time flew by so fast 😭 i only finished 2 books (hoping to finish a 3rd today)

[distant dew]

i flopped so hard on this readathon

[potent obsidian]

me too it‘s okay

[cursive stratus]

Finished all systems red, time to figure out what my next read will be, which will take more time than actually reading

[potent obsidian]

real omg

[hollow acorn]

i'm finishing my audiobook in the last hours of the readathon

[trail skiff]

i'm finishing my
audiobook in the last hours
of the readathon

- oxytorin

[hollow acorn]

i do wanna write a review before counting it towards the readoff HEH

[cursive stratus]

I think I'm going to reread the poppy war, I've also gotten the illustrated edition so it gives me an excuse to look at the drawings

[clever cobalt]

Finished: https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1410535558450774096

My final read for the readathon!

[high merlin]

🌸 Readathon TBR 🌸
Final update
Completed: 17 --> 20
In progress: 4 --> 1
Not started: 1

☑ Alias Grace
☑ The Complete Persepolis
☑ A Study in Scarlet (reread)
☑ The Telltale Heart
☑ Stories of Your Life
☑ The Magic Fish
☑ The Essential Rumi
☑ White Teeth
☑ An Age of License
☑ The Kingdom of Fantasy
☑ Station Eleven
☑ In the Mouth of the Wolf
☑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
☑ The Stonewall Reader
☑ Annihilation
☑ The Lost Village
☑ Stay out of the Basement
☑ The Forty Rules of Love
☑ Good Girl, Bad Blood
☑ Pachinko
☐ {20%} The Great War: Breakthroughs
☐ Dracula

[stray maple]

a little late but i finally finished my third book - The Advantage. It was for work since I have a leadership training on monday to attend that uses this book. so now i must sleep. the book was meh but whatever

[hollow acorn]

i finished it in time btw but immediately passed out afterwards
it was so good 10/10

[potent obsidian]

you’ve all slayed

[quartz rover]

Final update for this readathon!

I was hoping to get through #sailor-moon yesterday but caught a flu and was in bed listening to books as I couldn’t read read

Thanks for hosting yet another amazing readathon jana!

[potent obsidian]

always happy to!!

[faint glen]

nearly forgot to post i finished #1397121139184242728 in time

[potent obsidian]

w__eekend-sort-of-because-you-also-have-monday-readatho__n
*wow that was a mouthful *

from 26.09 to 29.09, all-day in your own timezones, as always

use this time as a chance to wrap up your september reads;
and, maybe, share your favourite september reads with your fellow readathoners?

[high merlin]

I have to work these days. 😭
But I'm sure I'll be able to wrap up a few. Looking forward to it!

[potent obsidian]

ah i hope you can still have time to read sakura!

[high merlin]

I should! Just no full day binges. 😅

[rigid mica]

only read 1 book this september, but about to complete 2

completed:

• powerless (lauren roberts)

reading:

• the fault in our stars (john green)
• the wild robot (peter brown)

so i might finish those two and get a start on a tree grows in brooklyn!

[clever cobalt]

cute graphic!

[potent obsidian]

waa thank you!

[distant dew]

your visuals always amaze me i swear

[potent obsidian]

I just plop text on a gif hehe

[distant dew]

idc it's chef kiss

i plan on using this as a way of getting rid of the reading slump the internship is giving me AHHH

[potent obsidian]

I hope it helps my love

I‘ll post a tbr closer to the start time slay

[distant dew]

my plans for the readathon ^^

finish:

• Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

start + finish:

• The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida
• Thea Stilton and the Mountain of Fire by Elisabetta Dami

[ivory swan]

My plan -
#1408064680206799001

I think das it lol

[stray maple]

oooh yes another readathon! i'm determined to be more productive this time.
planned reads:
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1419061276243525683
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413678137652416552
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1400397662607511592

And hopefully if I can get a copy soon - Piranesi!

probably can't do all 4 but I should be able to knock out half

[molten vigil]

I’m gonna put out “Any three of my remaining September books: https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1415336504011784255, Rules for Fake Girlfriends, Wakenhyrst, Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, or A Hundred Autumn Leaves”

[void cedar]

we have family arriving in town on the 26th HOWEVER I will read as much as I can I wanna read the botm in that timeframe!

[quiet cipher]

I will finish The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and then hammer out The Book of Merlyn, the last book in the Once and Future King series by T. H. White

and if I get all that done, I will start https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413229089459802165

[faint glen]

hoping to finish A Storm of Swords and maybe start Grief Lessons

[modest lake]

Plan plan :

• finish panchinko in priority

• finish the botm

• if the mood is there, progress in Milk and Honey from Rupi Kaur

[potent obsidian]

oo need your thoughts on milk and honey

i think i will hopefully finish up my cr before the readathon starts, so my only readathon tbr is to finish t__he once and future witche__s by alix e. harrow

[elfin pagoda]

Readathon plans -

Finish Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie even though I don't want it to end 😭
Possibly start The Devils by Joe Abercrombie unless I leave it as a treat later in the year haha!
Otherwise I will start The Luminaries by Eleanor Caton ✨

[viscid creek]

ive been reading alot less since school started so i needed this!

finish:
• prisoner of azkaban

continue/finish?😭:
• crime and punishment

start:
• death note 2
• dead poets society

[sharp cedar]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

[cursive stratus]

I'm going to try and finish alchemised, got a LOT of pages to go help

[potent obsidian]

SLAYYY

[small bloom]

Readathon TBR
Katabasis
The Wedding People
Spinning Silver
Better Than Movies
Carrie
Not Quiet Dead Yet
Zomromcom

Starting with Zomromcom!

[clever cobalt]

ᴛʙʀ

-# Readathon

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓅫

Arcana Academy by Elise Kova
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413888951457943634
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413678137652416552
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1415966828714266716
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

[hoary flower]

I finished Heat of the Everflame

[dreamy swift]

omg it starts today

ill aim to start and finish #1413678137652416552 and #1411655470258847884

[cursive stratus]

Why did my work decide to schedule me in for 9.5 hours exactly when I have motivation to read and the readoff is almost over, I NEED TO READDDD

[potent obsidian]

NOOOOOO

[faint gust]

my readathon tbr
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1399327634747424824

[potent obsidian]

slay everyone

[potent obsidian]

oh, i‘ll be in book talk vc for a lofi session! feel free to join

[hollow acorn]

my readathon plans
#1408064680206799001
#1400397662607511592

might change tho

[potent obsidian]

finished my cr so i‘m gonna get to work on this now

[quartz rover]

I’m hoping to get through #1409186470975115315 and #sailor-moon this readathon! I hope I can though because this toothache is killing me and I can’t see the dentist until Monday

[high merlin]

If I can get through #1201859253430919191 and #1413228801281888298 with my limited reading time, I'll be happy.

[potent obsidian]

finally starting the once and future witches!

[modest lake]

40 min train ride to start the readathon. Will I be able to finish 3 chapters of the botm ?

[potent obsidian]

yes. i have faith in you

[modest lake]

Hehe, let's see

[modest lake]

I read one chapter only.

[potent obsidian]

its the effort that counts me thinks

[modest lake]

Yeah, that's definitely the spirit !!
However, I did not expect such an overestimation

[karmic cypress]

Okay let me joined the readathon from 26.09 to 29.09

Want to Read / CR:
☆ The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park - Michiko Aoyama
☆ Rose in Chains - Julie Soto
☆ Hot Dutch Daydream - Kristy Boyce
☆ What Happened to Millenials - Charlie Wells
☆ Ingatan Ikan-ikan - Sasti Gotama
☆ Careless People - Sarah Wynn-williams
☆ The Decagon House Murders 1 - Yukito Ayatsuji
☆ The Secrets of Secret - Dan Brown

I hope i can finish two of them but yeah let's do my best 🤣🤣✨️

[potent obsidian]

i believe in you!!

[viscid iris]

Readathon Tbr
☐ A View From the Stars
☐ The Butterfly
☐ Eat my Belly
☐ Rock, Paper, Scissors
☐ Isn't it Bromantic?
☐ A Very Merry Bromance
☐ Kapan Nanti

[whole cloud]

I'm hoping to finish automatic noodle by tomorrow! I've got an audiobook of girlfriend on mars that I'm really enjoying but I'm not sure life will cooperate with my hopes of going for long walks to listen

[modest lake]

I envy the names of the books you read

And I'm very curious as to what eat my belly talks about

[viscid iris]

It's more talking about bunch of food, body positivity, closed-door romance and the horror part Big Family drama

[modest lake]

I finish my day with 55% of the botm ! Will I finish it tomorrow ? Who knows...

[viscid iris]

Readathon tbr (update)
☑ A View From the Stars
☑ The Butterfly
☐ Eat my Belly
☐ Rock, Paper, Scissors
☐ Isn't it Bromantic?
☐ A Very Merry Bromance
☐ Kapan Nanti

[ivory swan]

did i just skip a social event so i could catch up on reading? why yes i did

so ready for this readathon hehe

[quiet cipher]

I finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes! next up is The Book of Merlyn

[stray maple]

Read a couple chapters of https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1400397662607511592! Planning on finishing that by EOD

[karmic cypress]

Readathon TBR Update 😍😍

☆ The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park - Michiko Aoyama
☆ Rose in Chains - Julie Soto
☆ Hot Dutch Daydream - Kristy Boyce
☆ What Happened to Millenials - Charlie Wells
☆ Ingatan Ikan-ikan - Sasti Gotama
☆ Careless People - Sarah Wynn-williams
☆ The Decagon House Murders 1 - Yukito Ayatsuji
☆ The Secrets of Secret - Dan Brown

[viscid creek]

ive been reading alot less since school started so i needed this!

finish:
• prisoner of azkaban✅️

continue/finish?😭:
• crime and punishment

start:
• death note 2
• dead poets society

[sharp cedar]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

[elfin pagoda]

Had the longest lie in ever haha - now have to lock in to get some reading done!

[small bloom]

Done with Not Quite Dead Yet!!! Lezzzgo Katabasis!!

[potent obsidian]

hell yeaaa christene!!!

smashing it

[karmic cypress]

Done two more books yay! What happened to Millenials and The Healing Hippo 🥺

[cursive stratus]

I wanted to finish alchemised today, but that won't happen I think 😭 I get home from work 10pm and I've got 600 pages to go

[potent obsidian]

i‘m cheering you on!

i finished 3 books i think

[quiet cipher]

I started Book of Merlyn last night and it was so cozy, I ended falling asleep reading and waking up with the book plastered to my face 😅

[stray maple]

finished this book!

[potent obsidian]

slayyyyy ulysses

[stray maple]

writing up my thoughts for the br then i have to skedaddle to return it to the library LOL

[potent obsidian]

skedaddle away! (and safely)

[modest lake]

I read some panchinko but the events are hard so I had to take a break

I think I will rush through the triggery parts

[potent obsidian]

oh for sure do that. dont force urself thru it

[fathom drum]

Im finally reading a bit

[quiet cipher]

I am about 80% through The Book of Merlyn, gonna hop on the treadmill and then head to a friend's in a bit but hopefully I will finish it tonight or tomorrow

[fathom drum]

Finished one

[rigid mica]

i just watched the new beetlejuice yesterday and apparently they show crime and punishment in a scene... lol?

[sharp cedar]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time!

[wicked crane]

I'm joining late
I'm going to finish up #1410535558450774096 today and then cram #1381608749340430348

[molten vigil]

I ended up finishing https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1415336504011784255 before the readathon started, but I just finished Rules for Fake Girlfriends and I’m like half through the Miss Marple stories

[stray maple]

made some progress on A Psalm for the Wild Built! Started at 33% and now i'm at 85%

[blissful spade]

Well, I said that visiting family would either mean lots of time to read or zero time to read. It meant zero. It was nice to see them, though! 💕

Books (not) read:
🐭 Thea Stilton and the Mountain of Fire - finishing soon
🌾 The Grapes of Wrath - read just enough to decide to DNF -_-
🧙‍♀️ Equal Rites (sic) - on hold for another time

[modest lake]

I also had family time to priorise so I have not reached my goal but that's fine !
I really progressed in the botm though so I'm satisfied

[potent obsidian]

always love family time! hope you had a good time

[clever cobalt]

Finished: Arcana Academy
Starting: https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413678137652416552

It's a short read so maybe I can finish in time

[rigid mica]

forgot to update this but

read:

• the fault in our stars
• the wild robot

those are all the books i'm reading this time around

reading tree grows in brooklyn but definitely finishing that in october

!!!

[molten vigil]

I didn’t finish my “At least 3” BUT I did finish one before the readathon, finished Rules for Fake Girlfriends during, and got 65% through both Wakenhyrst and Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

[small bloom]

Readathon Wrap up
Katabasis -- 89%
Not Quiet Dead Yet
Zomromcom

[void cedar]

I managed to finish the botm I finished it yesterday but forgor to update here LOLL

[hoary flower]

i finished Fool Moon!

[potent obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/sappy-seals-sappy-seals-cute-adorable-gif-18022265013407638283

[potent obsidian]

Hello. I am here
to bring you our first spooky readathon of Spook-tober!
(Are you sick of me using the word spooky yet? /j)

Frightening Fables
; 3rd - 12th of October, all-day and in your own timezones!

Share your spooky tbr with your fellow Readathon-ers
(if you aren‘t into spooky books, don‘t worry—this readathon is for everyone!)
... and have a wonderfully dreadful time turning those pages!

p.s. If you are participating in the read-off, all books that you s__tart and finis__h during the readathon period can be logged for +10 bonus pages!

[distant dew]

yay!!! fun ^^

[potent obsidian]

Spooky!

[vernal plover]

I'll never be tired of you saying 'spooky'jana!

[potent obsidian]

You better bcs I will be saying that everyday for October /lh

[edgy geyser]

Excited to participate in my first readathon

My tbr so far looks like this:
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1397660005448155299
https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413229089459802165
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Zofloya, or the Moor by Charlotte Dacre

[potent obsidian]

My tbr for this readathon is whatever buddy reads I will need to complete and spooky books

I hope to finish Alchemised before it starts so I can start fresh!

[high merlin]

I will take a look at this later today to see what I want to put first for the readathon. I have a few that I definitely need to knock out.

[next gyro]

gonna use this to get a move on the october bingo!

readathon tbr

• midnight feast by lucy foley
• we are all the same in the dark by julia heaberlin
• gone to see the river man by kristopher triana

maybes

• #1422839668256411719
• the wolf tree by laura mccluskey

[vernal plover]

I can't wait to have time to choose my next reads 😌

[potent obsidian]

I can‘t wait to see what you choose for your next reads!

[molten vigil]

I’m not going to pick an intended list and let the spirits guide me lol

[potent obsidian]

Same and slay

https://tenor.com/view/ultra-spiritual-glyn-thomas-spirit-guides-my-guides-told-me-to-do-it-spiritual-bypass-gif-15023767

[viscid creek]

tbr!!
• dracula - bram stoker
• frankenstein - mary shelley

[regal cairn]

I'm going to let the ghostly vibes lead me as I go, I have some ideas of things I'm hoping to get done but you never know 😭
At least aiming for 5 books!

[blissful spade]

Hoping for The Canterville Ghost 👻 or The Tell-Tale Heart ❤️‍🔥 (whichever the library currently has available), as they are the spookiest from #tiny-readers. Embarrassingly, I have them both in giant tomes ("complete works of"), but they are kind of huge/awkward to read.

[faint gust]

wahooooo

[light token]

I have couple of books I would like to finish but let's see how much I get it done.

1. The Story of a New Name
2. Our Wives Under the Sea
3. Frienkenstein {BOTM}(https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1421571557280579745)

[hoary flower]

Woohoo!

[modest lake]

Should I try to finish some books on this readathon or only read frankenstein to collect bonus pages ?

[potent obsidian]

Wahoo

[potent obsidian]

Whatever you feel like, please do not let the read-off dictate what you read sweetheart /gen

[modest lake]

Very valid point...and I do feel like Pachinko deserves more attention ! Thanks Jana

[potent obsidian]

Of course my love!

[hollow acorn]

i‘ll probably read #1421016035083026546 for this readathon 🫶

not planning for more because it‘s unlikely i‘ll get to more

will be a happy surprise if i get to it

[vernal plover]

Omg thats a great idea

I have the Bury Our Bones in Midnight soil br breathing down my neck too

[quiet cipher]

I will finish up https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413229089459802165, read https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1415335726647869501 and then get started on https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1323362128408871025 for the readathon

[astral willow]

this did not feel as long as it was! i swear i ate it up and was done in two days (as a certified slow reader )

[vernal plover]

Oh thats perfect!!

[runic coyote]

readathon TBR

• finish The Silmarillion
• start Frankenstein, idk if I will be able to finish it

[cerulean pewter]

My Oct TBR includes: Tender is the Flesh, Never Lie, The Road to Jonestown, and Incidents Around the House

[lusty moon]

I’m going to try our my first read a thon

I’m going to aim for

Do Not Disturb by Frieda McFadden
Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St Clair
And Touch of Malice by Scarlett St Clair

[rain fern]

It'll also be my first readathon :D
My plan is to finish:

• The Ending Fire by Saara El-Arifi ✔️
• A conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab ✔️

and to start (maybe finish) The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
(and maybe #1415966828714266716 )

[vernal plover]

Okay I will finish:

• https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1385898229920432129 (No Read Off Points)

I will start and finish:

• https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1385898965052031027
• Criminal Intentions #7: Cult of Personality by Cole McCode
• SOS Hotel: Luxury to Die For by Adam Vex

Nice and spooky

[potent obsidian]

Damn you guys have such cool TBRs! Very happy to see old and new faces

[edgy geyser]

Less than 2 hours before this starts for me maybe I'll read something short to pass the time

[cursive stratus]

Still planning on trying to finish alchemised 🥲 400 pages to go, after that I think I'll just go see where my moodreading leads me

[potent obsidian]

How are you finding it so far?

[cursive stratus]

I find it very easy to read, suprisingly enough, it just bothers me that the|| flashback is 500 pages long||, like cmon I want to know how it is NOW, so far it's a 4 star for me

It's very addicting

But also, I don't want the ||flashback|| to end

Just wish I had more free time so that I could read more in 1 go, so that I would remember some more, I can now read max 20 pages at once due to only being able to read in the train to college

[potent obsidian]

Can you cover up ||mentions of the flashback|| with spoiler bars pleasee and thank you

[potent obsidian]

I finished my first book #1419061276243525683 but it won‘t count for read-off points

Dunno what to read next, too many options

[ivory swan]

I actually didn’t make any progress on katabasis for the last readathon so I know what my goal is for this one 🤣

[noble mural]

"Read for my event!" I scream as they put me in the OBC Marshmallow room

[potent obsidian]

OBC Marshmallow room sounds sick

[noble mural]

It's a padded cell

Lmao

[karmic cypress]

Okay I will finish:

• Alchemised - SenLinYu
• The Cousins - Karen M McManus
• I Can't talk so smoothly - Naoya Shiino
• Arsenic and Adobo - Mia P Manansala
• Dan Brown - Secret of Secrets
• Rose in Chains - Julie Soto

I will start and finish:

• Korpus Uterus - Sasti Gotama
• Malam Seribu Jahanam - Intan Paramaditha
• How High We Go In The Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Marina - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Hunger We Pass Down - Jen Sookfong Lee

So excited! ✨️✨️😍😍

[stray maple]

a whole week!! good thing i took tomorrow off so i can get a headstart >:)

[potent obsidian]

Finished 2 books for the readathon bonus pages so far #1422839668256411719 and #1415336956900151336

[high merlin]

That feeling when you're counting down until midnight so you can start another book and put it toward the readathon bonus points. 😂

[distant dew]

my readathon tbr (hopefully) 🎃

finish:

• Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• Thea Stilton: The Ghost from the Shipwreck by Elisabetta Dami

start:

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

[potent obsidian]

Finished #1422839811160412221 !

[regal cairn]

A tentative list after all! Would be amazing if I managed to finish these but I hope to get at least 10 done!
🏁 = finished
🏎️ = In progress

🏁 #"呪術廻戦 4 [Jujutsu Kaisen 4] - Gege Akutami, 芥見下々"
🏁 #"Artificial Condition - Martha Wells"
🏁 #"The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury, Joseph Mugnaini (Illustrator)"
🏁 Delicious in Dungeon volume 10
🏁 Delicious in Dungeon volume 11
🏁 Delicious in Dungeon volume 12
🏎️ #1385898229920432129
🏁 #"The Deep - Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson"

• #1365238273395654658
  🏁 #1415618729752002590
• #1400533993203695817
• #1418906664731676682
• Gardens of the moon (Malazan #1)
  🏁 Beauty and the Beast to finish up #tales-as-old-as-time

Reading but wasn't originally on my TBR
🏁 #"Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker"
🏁 #"The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson"
🏁 #1421571557280579745

[faint glen]

finished The Dream#1329215324184121435

[karmic cypress]

💜 Finished Rose in Chains - Julie soto 3,3/5🌟🌟🌟

[modest lake]

I finished a book before doing my tbr

Spooky readathon

■ Finish https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1397660005448155299
□ Finish https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1413229089459802165
□ Continue Milk and Honey
□ Start https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1421571557280579745

[vernal plover]

Update

---

**Okay I will finish: **

• https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1385898229920432129 (No Read Off Points)

I will start and finish:

• https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1385898965052031027
  ~~ - Criminal Intentions #7: Cult of Personality by Cole McCade ~~
• SOS Hotel: Luxury to Die For by Adam Vex

**Finished: **

• Criminal Intentions #7: Cult of Personality by Cole McCade

[dreamy swift]

lol we have the same first two books on the tbr

i wanna do the same

[vernal plover]

those br deadlines are spooky all in itself 😂

just said i started the devils before the read-off, now i cant even get points for that chonker

[dreamy swift]

ikr and its such a slow read too

[potent obsidian]

Finished #1422840371540525066

[silent latch]

My readathon tbr:
Hell Followed with Us
Cherish Farrah
The Moonins and the Great Flood
A Whole New World
Done and Dusted
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

• A River Enchanted
  Slewfoot
  Wool
  All Systems Red
  Artificial Condition
  A Monster Calls
  Once Upon a Dream
  Bat Eater
  The Fisherman