Readathons!

[gusty swan]

i actually read that earlier this year and adored it!!!

[vernal plover]

oh! pat on mhy shoulder for giving a fitting rec ahahaha

shame youve already read it though

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55878999-the-sunbearer-trials?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=PVIBHem4BZ&rank=1

im going to be reading this one because of Pride month

im expecting it to be a fast paced adventure!

[gusty swan]

yes exactly hahaha great rec 😂 i got the anniversary edition too and it's just such a gorgeous whimsical book that pairs so well with the studio ghibli movie!

[gusty swan]

yayyyyy to pride readssss (that's 2/7 of mine as well and i plan to read even more queer books in june)

[gusty swan]

oooo interesting! let me know how you find it! i think im shy to start a series and may try to keep the readathon all standalones

[vernal plover]

smart!

theres too many series in my life

the fact this is a duology is what convinced me to try it ahhah

[gusty swan]

yes duologies are def more containable! i finished one recently and it was the perfect readathon vibe for immersion (the book itself, not great, but the pacing and length - noted as on par with my appetite). although i also am craving to get lost in a trilogy at some point this summer....fonda lee green bone saga i see you....

[vernal plover]

ah a gooood triology

i understand that craving

in the romance genre i read a lot of a good triology is so scares

its either a standalone, or a series where every book focusses on a different couple in the same universe, or 11 books long

[gusty swan]

have you read it? feel free to tell me more in the genre chat, it's been so on my mindddd

[gusty swan]

so real

[vernal plover]

no i havent!

more the general vibe of a good triology i was excited about

[dusky kraken]

Yay... This is so awesome!

[In Progress] Milestone 01: read a fast-paced book - "The Upside of Falling" by "Alex Light" - I had already started this before readathon and am 11% in

[runic coyote]

OMG READATHON LET'S GO

ROAD TRIP

SO FUN

[cursive stratus]

I did ittt, I finished the knight and the moth, IT WAS SO GOOD

[north nymph]

Nice! I'll take the scenic route since I'm going through a tough spell mentally and I don't even know if ill get to finish one book.

[stray maple]

Doing an hour long reading sprint in a few min if anyone is interested 👀

[stray maple]

Reading sprint over and now I'm finally 40% done with The Three-Body Problem for book club this Sunday 😮‍💨

[void cedar]

we’re goin the scenic route

[high merlin]

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows

Route 2: Scenic
TBD

[solar geyser]

My Roadtrip Readathon plan is:

•1• fast-paced book = When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory

•2• weather/climate = Margaret Atwood poetry book

•3• funny/lighthearted = Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze

•4• day/date/time = From Day To Day by Odd Nansen

•5• character complains = Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron

•6 and 7• haven’t decided for sure yet

My total reading time for Day 1.

What I accomplished:

Turns out my choice for book 1 (which is literally about a road trip so I thought that would be fun) is not as fast-paced as I was thinking it would be! It does have a character who complains constantly though, so it would work for #5.

I was already partway through the poetry book for book 2, and I finished it! Yay!

Book 3. I started Big Dumb Eyes and since I’ve seen a lot of his shows I can imagine his voice and it does make me laugh.

Book 4 From Day to Day is a memoir written by a survivor of Auschwitz. I’ve only read the introduction, and I’m already having pretty heavy feelings of how many amazing people like this man did not make it. I will take this one slowly.

Book 5 is pretty fast paced, and also has a roommate that’s a complainer. This one and book 1 should probably trade places due to the pacing of the book. This one feels like it’s gonna go fast.

[light token]

I am going to do scenic route being mood reader and all 🤷🏻‍♀️

[high merlin]

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 1: In the Shadow of the Fall
Milestone 2: Private Rites
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows
Milestone 6: The Blind Assassin

Route 2: Scenic
Seventeen

[stray maple]

Managed to cross over 50% mark in 2 of my current reads today! The Three-Body Problem and You didn't hear this from me

time for bed

[gusty swan]

hit my first milestone!

🔷 Oscar Wilde - Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast [fast-paced book on May 29th]

up next:

• milestone 2 --> *the cloudspotter's guide * by gavin pretor-pinney (weather/climate mentioned)
• milestone 3 --> *notes of a crocodile * by qiu miaojin (comforting...it is for me ok lol)
• milestone 4 --> master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov (iconic warm may mention in intro, too perfect)
• milestone 5 --> metal from heaven by august clarke (character complains...an understatement but accurate here nonetheless lol)
• milestone 6 - maybe an apprenticeship or the book of pleasures for dinner break but might change
• milestone 7 --> the autobiography of malcolm x (favourite genre, nonfiction/memoir/politics!)

andddd with a small overlap with the pride bingo hehe

[sharp cedar]

Manuscripts don't burn! 🔥

[solar geyser]

@gusty swan Today I learned that crocodiles can be comforting to some people 🐊😂 🤗

[gusty swan]

maybe i am also a crocodile so it's nice to be in community lollll 🐊 🐊

[solar geyser]

I also just learned that crocodiles can type! 😄

https://tenor.com/view/cuca-crocodile-newspaper-gif-8969671

Found this video clip of @gusty swan reading

[gusty swan]

quick write that down ✍️

chapter four starts with, "when the crocodile got home at night, it liked to turn on the TV to see if there was anything about crocodiles on the evening news." me rn watching drag race all stars

[solar geyser]

That is an amazing quote.

[gusty swan]

shout out to qiu miaojin as translated by bonnie huie

[solar geyser]

Forgot to put my Day 2 accomplishments here.

I’m pretty sure all the books I read today weren’t even on my Roadtrip list. Haha. So we’ll call this The Detour.
I forgot that I was trying to do the Dracula Daily thing, so I read a few days’ worth of that, read a chapter or two each of a few random books, and then a hold came in for the first Warrior Cats book (from the first series, so I can join the event for the second series) so I read the first few chapters of that.
And here’s my running total for both days so far:

[north nymph]

I finished my first book . Now comes the beat part, choosing what to read next😌

[elfin barn]

this is really good going! maybe you've veered off course onto the scenic route

[solar geyser]

Thanks! And yeah, it seems I’m doing some sightseeing between destinations so far!

[void cedar]

I will be finishing #1474734964514750495 this weekend then probably #1494172275576930384

I’m hoping to make some progress in my ARCs next week too

I get some of my best reading done in bed at night but during babynix’s naps… I usually fall asleep

[solar geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/retriever-puppy-dogs-reading-nap-gif-13629088

[gusty swan]

just finished another short book, maggie nelson's bluets heheh it may take milestone 2 but i also want to finish cloudspotter's guide for that spot....so i guess it will be a double milestone. both have been such a good read - especially with clear blue skies lately that makes me appreciate both books deeper. plus, bluets mentioned being written in may so i love the coincidence that i am also reading it in may!

anyway, readathon is going strong. despite my joy of planning, the scenic road also calls me lol (this is a virgo with adhd experience). kinda want to start a short stay in hell....

[stray maple]

I read some more of The Three-Body Problem this morning and then I went to a bookbinding event + a bookstore. So tempted to buy a book but I persevered

[wicked crane]

I'm a few days late but I'm joining the roadathon now!! Had a busy week

Can't wait to get some books in
I'll be starting with Arsenic and Adobo

[high merlin]

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 1: In the Shadow of the Fall
Milestone 2: Private Rites
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows
Milestone 6: The Blind Assassin
Open

Route 2: Scenic
Seventeen
The Ballad of Perilous Graves

[void cedar]

I haven’t read MY book yet today but I did read the tale of Peter Rabbit for babynix like 10 times

[solar geyser]

Aww I had that book when I was little.

[solar geyser]

Day 3 of the Readathon:

• kinda getting sucked into another Margaret Atwood book which might end up being my final destination book for #7
• also got sucked into a book about Boris Pasternak and what was really happening around him when he wrote Dr Zhivago (and then I’m going to actually read Dr. Zhivago) and neither of these were in my original roadtrip plan so that was a bit of a meandering scenic drive
• I think Warrior Cats will be my Book 6 - something you were looking forward to reading, or something like that - because I’ve never read a series like that so it’s trying something new which I’m always wiling to do, and I’m looking forward to reading the first series so that I can join the event for the next series, so I think that counts
• then back to my book that was originally Book 1 but isn’t as fast-paced as I thought so I moved it to Book 5
•then a comedy break with Book 3

I’ve been very careful to stop and start my ongoing stopwatch so it’s only running when I’m actually reading. I’m a little surprised that I passed 24 hours within the first 3 days. 👀 Doctor-ordered bedrest + severe insomnia = a lot of time to read 🫠

[cursive stratus]

Finished everdying, my 2nd book this readathon. It started so bad, but it got better

[void cedar]

Wow cow you’re slaying this already

[gusty swan]

me reading another book not on the proposed milestone list while also doubling up on a milestone sounds about on part w my adhd

[gusty swan]

omg so much reading, but im sorry to hear about the circumstances

[solar geyser]

Thanks, yeah I’d really like to have a normal life right now, but at least I do love to read. That’s about all I’ve got going for me right now. I’m at 31 1/2 hours now. 🫠

[gusty swan]

i feel that hard but yes at least you have that silver lining! are you enjoying the books you're reading for the readathon so far?

31.5 hours wow impressive, i thought about starting a clock but my rebellious brain might start lashing out lollll

[solar geyser]

Thanks 🥹 yeah I’m enjoying them a lot! It’s a good thing I like to read lots of different genres or else I’d run out of books!
It’s like almost embarrassing how much time I’ve spent reading though.

[gusty swan]

naurrr it's not embarrasing at all

yes to different genres though! love a fellow eclectic reader hehe

[light token]

Taking Scenic Route
Milestone #1: Ghost Town by Tom Parretto

Next Up:
Milestone #2: Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
Milestone #3: Before I Let Go by Kenney Ryan
Milestone #4: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (probably won't get to it but one can wish)

[gusty swan]

milestone two hit - and with two books w weather/climate mentioned

🔷 1: Oscar Wilde - Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast [fast-paced book on May 29th]
🔷 2a: Maggie Nelson - Bluets [weather/climate book on May 30]
🔷 2b: Gavin Pretor-Pinney - The Cloudspotter's Guide [weather/climate book on May 31]

up next:

milestone 3 --> notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin
milestone 4 --> master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov ...i mean i also finished a short stay in hell by steven peck yesterday which is also time oriented but.....
milestone 5 --> metal from heaven by august clarke
milestone 6 --> spicing it up with Taiwan Travelogue ahhh
milestone 7 --> and also swapped with the other BR, Small Beauty!!

this road trip is taking a pride detour with now 5/7 queer milestones and im far from mad about it

[sharp cedar]

Manuscripts don't burn! 🔥

[high merlin]

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 1: In the Shadow of the Fall
Milestone 2: Private Rites
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows
Milestone 6: The Blind Assassin
Open

Route 2: Scenic
Seventeen
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Mummy
The Passion of Cleopatra*
The Reign of Osiris
The Haunted Mask
The Haunted Mask II
My Hairiest Adventure

[elfin barn]

you're smashing this

[high merlin]

Thanks! I'm trying to crush some reading before I go on vacation with the family and know I won't be as invested.

[cursive stratus]

3rd book I'm readjng is Atmoshphere

[solar geyser]

Day 4 Readathon summary:

I did more random sightseeing while traveling between different destinations again.

• Remembered that I had joined the buddy read for We by an author whose name I do not currently remember, so I read a bit of that. 🤔
• Took another detour to read another chapter in The Dispossesed by Ursula K le Guin - getting really close to finishing it!
• Read a big chunk of Book 1 Remember Me Tomorrow and very much lost track of time and would have finished the book but I made myself stop to save some for later
• a little bit of Book 4 From Day To Day 😥 what an amazing man but dang this is rough - still taking this one very slowly
• remembered I was nearly halfway through a hardback book that I won from StoryGraph so I read a chapter of that
• read another chapter in the Margaret Atwood book Lady Oracle and yeah, I’m just gonna go ahead say this is my choice for book 7 - supposed to be favorite genre but I have so many that I love so I gently modified the prompt to make Margaret Atwood my favorite genre 😁

I read for quite a while without my stopwatch running but here’s my four day total that I did count:

[stray maple]

I started a new book today - Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton. It was the only book on my TBR that was immediately available as an audiobook on Libby 😅

I also don't remember if I said I finished The Three Body Problem on Saturday night

[solar geyser]

I was there for it! 😅 🎉

[stray maple]

Oh I meant if I said it in the Readathon chat but yes, you were there to witness!!! 😂

my slow demise that night 😂

[quiet cipher]

Can anyone tell me the dates for this readathon

Oh May 28 to June 7, never mind!

I have finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1494173726625759302 and https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1492388561918496939 and started https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1416902858166501437 so far

I may be able to map these onto the pitstops as well!

[light token]

Taking Scenic Route
Milestone #1: Ghost Town by Tom Parretto
Milestone #2: Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly

Next Up:
Milestone #3: Before I Let Go by Kenney Ryan
Milestone #4: Real Life by Brandon Taylor (probably won't get to it but one can wish)

[solar geyser]

Day 5? I think? Readathon Summary:

it was a craptastic day. The medical situation got kinda scary for a bit overnight/this morning, then I FINALLY fell asleep for the first time since Friday, for about 3ish hours, and woke up with a horrid migraine. 😑
Thankfully the migraine meds worked, and then I was able to read some later in the day.

• a few chapters from book 7 Lady Oracle

• several chapters from book 5 When We Were Real

(I read something else too, but I literally can not remember what it was. I’m gonna blame that on the migraine. And the lack of sleep.)

Running total for five days:

[cursive stratus]

Tried reading before bed but I lowkey fell asleep

[prime orchid]

Oh you reminded me, I wanted to run a timer and try and hit x hours and I totally forgot

[solar geyser]

We still have several days left so you can still do it!

[prime orchid]

Yeah better late than never 😄

[gusty swan]

NOT going in order at all but jumped from milestone #2 to now finishing milestone #5 with metal from heaven last night!!! it was better than i anticipated and love a very political scifi/fi fantasy evil lesbian bachlorette plot to start off pride month hehe

now thinking about finishing notes of a crocodile next so we'll detour back to milestone 3...a reasonable person would go to 4 -6 - 7 after but a part of me also wants to read a bunch of queer asian authors together so maybe will read taiwan travelogue at 6 and small beauty at 7 before going back to 4.....yep adhd planning/roadtrip at it's finest

[stray maple]

I decided to start a new book this week 😂. Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton

[quiet cipher]

Finished https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1416902858166501437

[north nymph]

I finished A Witch's Guide To Inkeeping and I'm planing on starting The Peemonition by Banana Yoshimoto.

[high merlin]

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 1: In the Shadow of the Fall
Milestone 2: Private Rites
Milestone 3: Warbreaker
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows
Milestone 6: The Lions of Al-Rassan
Milestone 7: Open

Route 2: Scenic
Seventeen
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Mummy
The Passion of Cleopatra
The Reign of Osiris
The Haunted Mask
The Haunted Mask II
My Hairiest Adventure
A Deadly Education
The Possession of Alba Diaz
Jawbone

[stray maple]

I am always amazed at how much you can read in such a short time

[gusty swan]

AMAZING

so curious what you think of what the river knows ?

[high merlin]

I still have the weekend. 😅

I've also recently started in a new department where I travel more, so I'm curious how that impacts my reading. (Definitely more audiobooks!)

[high merlin]

I thought it was okay, but fun. I felt like it read very YA and you can definitely tell the inspo is from The Mummy. I gave it 3⭐

I think one of my biggest issues was that I just found the FMC frustrating at times and very stubborn about things. I'm also not sure how I feel about the ending/setup for the next book.

[gusty swan]

100% agreed. The concept was intriguing and fun at times but it also swerve too much into such YA/Tiktok territory for me. The amount of times we had to read about Whit leaning with boots laced up to his calf like pls it was so specific and was giving the mummy fixation fanfic hard lol. there were so many often repeated lines it was driving me a bit crazy

the FMC gets WORSE in book two. i haven't been as livid about a character in a really long time lol I read it unfortunately because i needed to know how it ended and i happened to have both physical copies given to me for free but my lord....it was bad.....

[high merlin]

Yeah, definitely agree that it was super repetitive at times. I also wasn't surprised ||that her parents were alive. Just made sense that it would work out like that.||

I was on the fence about reading book two, but you've solved that for me. I'll skip it and be okay. ||It sounded like there was going to be more sneakiness and distrust in it anyway.||

[gusty swan]

it became the most ||scooby doo telenovela in book two, like down to the mustache twirling mask reveal and the FMC absolutely infuriating and dumb the ENTIRE time, and that's not something i say lightly about women||. if ur ever curious, googling the summary might suffice and save you time but it was the worst book i've read in a really long time 😂

[high merlin]

Thanks for the quick overview. Definitely skipping it. that sounds like an annoying and frustrating read.

[solar geyser]

I’ve been sick and haven’t gotten around to posting my update from yesterday so I might do both yesterday’s and today’s in the morning. I’m still going, just not as much as the first few days. Being sick sucks.

[stray maple]

Got in another chapter of You Didn't Hear This From Me, got about 2 chapter left but time for bed

[solar geyser]

Update time

Day 6 update:

Sick as heck. Thank you to the people who said nice things to me. It really helped more than you could know.

• Started the day with Book 4 From Day To Day which is the sad one. I knew it was not the best choice while I was already feeling bad, and read it anyway. Not my best choice of the day. (It IS a great book, just not light reading At All.)

• switched over to my adventurous make-believe world of Georgie Summers & The Scribes of Scatterplot. (This is the book that I won from StoryGraph.)

• Then moved to some sciencey - space à la Ursula k Le Guin.

Here’s my time report for that day:

Day 7 which just ended less than an hour ago for me:

Another sick day. Not as much reading as I like, but that’s okay.

• read a little bit more in We written by an author whose name I have accepted I will never be able to remember. It’s … interesting… which reminds me I need to go put my thoughts about it in the channel for that book. Channel, thread, whatever it’s called.

• Then, while still sick, I decided it would be a great idea to read a chapter of Everything Is Tuberculosis. I am making some poor decisions these days. 🫠 Note to friends: if you are sick, wait until you are no longer sick before reading this book. Unless you don’t have anxiety. If you don’t, then go ahead and read it.

• decided to end the day with something creepy, so I read a bit in Dracula.

Here’s my reading time thus far:

[void cedar]

I have finished 2 books

[wicked crane]

__ readathon update __
Finished Arsenic and Adobo
CR #1494173726625759302

[rain fern]

I finished There is hope by Claudia Befu :D it was interesting - scifi about climate change, I'll write a review about it
(and I also made a bit of progress in my Priory reread)

[cursive stratus]

Finished Atmosphere yesterday, book 3 of the readathon

[high merlin]

I have this checked out? How did you like it?

[cursive stratus]

It was so good and I think I've felt litterally every emotion ever. Gave it 4.75 stars

[high merlin]

Thank you! Going to shift that one up, then.

[gusty swan]

I really loved this book too!! ||the ending is SO good and the scene of Vanessa and Frances at the movie theatre is sooo cute ||

[cursive stratus]

Frrrrrrr ||I was SO stressed out at the ending, and my mom had already read it and found my reactions hilarious. I truly thought Vanessa was dead, but then I remembered that the storygraph stats said it was emotional but also hopeful, and them killing her off wouldn't be very hopeful 😭 ||

||I was absolutely giggling when Joan realized she liked girls in the club||

[gusty swan]

||When Vanessa pointed at the stars she learned from Joan and she realized she was in trouble? Oh yeah that is peakkk lesbian panic.

The structure of the book flipping between time was also just done soooo well like those few last chapters were so good. And yes to a hopeful ending!!! At last my sapphics don’t end in tragedy!||

[cursive stratus]

||I absolutely stormed through the last half because I just NEEDED to know what happened/would happen to Lydia. I found it quite sad, everybody hated her for being "selfish" and constantly made fun of her. But still she was willing to give her life to save them. I also loved the way that the book flipped through time, because you knew the characters were dead, and then you got to know them and just feel this dread||

||And the switches between what Vanessa was thinking and what Joan was thinking in the last chapter, it was so sad but beautiful to see||

[gusty swan]

||Lydia really grew on me too, we all know that one autism coded STEM girlie who has a more difficult time with relational/emotional things but YES that she saved them all and agreed, the book was sooo well structured to flip through time and give enough context for the characters to grow on you. TJR is, if anything, a very good technical writer.|| I love Vanessa and Joan so much, I was thinking of them during the Artemis II launch and they would just love Christina Koch

[cursive stratus]

||Lydia ugghhhh I love her so much.|| I absolutely love everything space rn due to both project hail mary and artemis ||

They would indeed love her

||And the way Vanessa was so scared of how she would be around children, but she was perfect for Frances, I wish we got to see them as a happy family 🥲 ||

[gusty swan]

i read PHM too and absolutely craved more deeper emotional relational angles so Atmosphere was sooo perfect for that, and the lesbian love story is just the cherry on top! ||Vanessa being told by both Frances that she's a hero after they watched that movie together and Joan echoing that sentiment in the end of the book literally brought me to tears, it was so so touching, i love her sm ||

[cursive stratus]

||Ughhh I love theem so much, I only wish that Joan would've lashed out more to Barbara and told her everything about how it truly felt to be in love with someone and then never speak to hre again. I wish she wouldn't have held in so much 🥲 ||

[stray maple]

goal is to finish at least one of my current reads before readathon ends 🙏

[gusty swan]

crocodile mentioned in taiwan travelogue, milestone worlds collide 🐊

[solar geyser]

Day 8 Readathon update:

I read some random stuff that I didn’t write down so I forget what it was, but for my actual reading journey:

• I read a butt ton of Book 5 When We Were Real because I realized the library due date is very soon!

• Lady Oracle which is my Book 7

And here is my running total of time spent reading so far:

[light token]

Scenic Route
**Finished:
Milestone #1: **Ghost Town by Tom Parretto
Milestone #2: Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
Milestone #3: Before I Let Go by Kenney Ryan

Next hopefuls: (mood reader and can't commit to any books) 😩
Milestone #4: Cannon by Lee Lai
Milestone #5: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Milestone #6: Real Life by Brandon Taylor

[high merlin]

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 1: In the Shadow of the Fall
Milestone 2: Private Rites
Milestone 3: Warbreaker
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows
Milestone 6: The Lions of Al-Rassan
Milestone 7: Open

Route 2: Scenic
Seventeen
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Mummy
The Passion of Cleopatra
The Reign of Osiris
The Haunted Mask
The Haunted Mask II
My Hairiest Adventure
A Deadly Education
The Possession of Alba Diaz
Jawbone
The London Seance Society
Confessions of the Fox

Completed route 1!

[stray maple]

Sakura you're on a cross country tour at this rate 😂

[gusty swan]

sakura roadtrips in a ferrari

[faint gust]

i had waaaayy too busy of a week due to the Eid holiday, but i managed to finish 1 book

[high merlin]

I own a Miata, so that's close!

[solar geyser]

Day 9 Readathon results:

• started out with a little bit of Lady Oracle (book 7)

• read up to about 60% of A Sea Of Unspoken Things which was not on my road trip list

• read all of the book for my book club because i forgot it was due back to the library soon, also not on my roadtrip list

• finished When We Were Real (book 5)

Yay 2 books completed today!

Running total:

[wicked crane]

SIX SEVEN

[stray maple]

Last night, finally finished one of my books, so time to start another today

My scenic road trip so far is just a local one a few hours away at this point 😂

[solar geyser]

Time for Day 10 Readathon review (I’m sad that there’s only one day left!)

• read several chapters of a physical book that has become a regular part of my scenic route

• dove deep into Book 4 which is the really difficult one - it’s so maddening what people have gone through, but seeing the capacity for empathy and endurance and humanity despite all of it is so amazing

• just about finished with a speculative-fiction and would have finished it today but got interrupted (right in the middle of a reading sprint too!)

Total time for 10 days:

[elfin barn]

last day everyone

[void cedar]

This is amazing, omg so much reading time!!!!

[light token]

Scenic Route
Finished:
Milestone #1: Ghost Town by Tom Parretto
**Milestone #2: **Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
Milestone #3: Before I Let Go by Kenney Ryan
Milestone #4: Cannon by Lee Lai

probably last one unless I finish my current read today

[high merlin]

🌸 **Final Update! ** 🌸
(Still have about 2.5 hours, but not sure if I’ll start another or not.)

Route 1: Planned
Milestone 1: In the Shadow of the Fall
Milestone 2: Private Rites
Milestone 3: Warbreaker
Milestone 4: The Twenty Days of Turin
Milestone 5: What the River Knows
Milestone 6: The Lions of Al-Rassan
Milestone 7: Open

Route 2: Scenic
Seventeen
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
The Mummy
The Passion of Cleopatra
The Reign of Osiris
The Haunted Mask
The Haunted Mask II
My Hairiest Adventure
A Deadly Education
The Possession of Alba Diaz
Jawbone
The London Seance Society
Confessions of the Fox
This Town Sleeps
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
To Clutch a Razor
The Revenant
The Tatami Galaxy
The Tatami Time Machine Blues

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so far, I think I've finished about 4 books during this readathon 🥳. Got lots more to read in the next couple months

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Scenic Route
5 books finished:
**Milestone #1: **Ghost Town by Tom Parretto
Milestone #2: Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
Milestone #3: Before I Let Go by Kenney Ryan
Milestone #4: Cannon by Lee Lai
Milestone #5: She Who Remains by Rene Karabash