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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Frightfall Read-a-thon - 9/30/13-10/6/13



I took September off from 'A-thon-ing' to give myself a little break, but now it's time to get revved back up! There are 4 read-a-thons I'd like to do in October and the first is Frightfall hosted by Michelle over on Seasons of Reading.

Goals:


The Vision
by Heather Graham

Pretty When She Dies
by Rhiannon Frater

Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Audiobook


I'm pretty sure I have scary covered!  This is a pretty lofty goal for me, it will require about 100 pages a day of reading and a little over 2 hours a day of listening, but when you're listening to Tim Curry and Alan Cumming I bet 2 hours is a breeze! ;)

Updates:

Monday - Day 1 : I decided to go ahead and finish up listening to The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien today since I only had about 3 hours left.  Then I started in on Dracula and got about an hour in.  I think 4 hours of listening is a pretty respectable start!

Thursday - Day 4 : Work has not been cooperating with my reading, but I finally got to read at lunch today!  So far: 7:13 hours into Dracula, not quite halfway, 158 pages into The Vision, about a third done, and tonight I will start Pretty When She Dies since Fraterfest started today!

Wrap Up : I ended with about 2 hours left of Dracula, 100 pages of The Vision and at about 6% on Pretty When She Dies.  So I didn't finish anything, but I touched and almost finished all 3, plus finished up The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm going to count it a success, just because it kept me reading!

Thanks again to Michelle at Seasons of Reading for hosting!

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:40 PM

    Thanks for the reminder. I'll go through my prioritized TBR list to see what "scary" books I have on hand. I may read-a-thon without a scary book and just not be eligible for a prize. I'll be checking on you.

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  2. Anonymous10:46 AM

    Tim Curry and Alan Cumming could read the phone book for two hours a day and it would be entertaining. And probably scary too. (I just realized that phone books are becoming scarce. We need a 21st century version of this phrase.)

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  3. Alan Cumming and Tim Curry? Wow! I may have to get that and listen to it. I wouldn't mind a reread of Dracula anyway.

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