Disclosures: I bought this book for my personal library. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. Love the One You’re With Emily Giffin St. Martin’s Griffin (2009), Paperback (ISBN 0312348673 / 9780312348670) Fiction, 368 pages Opening Lines: “It happened exactly one hundred days after I married Andy, almost to the minute of our half-past-three-o’clock ceremony. I know this fact not so much because I was an overeager […]
Tag: 24-Hour Readathon
The (reading) challenge of (Shelf) Discovery, and the Readathon Event Survey
I’m starting to understand how book bloggers get pulled into these reading challenges, although I’ve held out against them pretty well. I’ve only signed up for two so far, and they’ve both been targeted at trying to thin the TBR herd. But here comes another that will not only add to the stacks – it’s going to add books that I’ve already read! Granted, I last read them over 25 years ago, but it will […]
Sunday Salon #4: Wrapping Up the Read-a-thon, and other Bookkeeping stuff
See below for my final Read-a-thon Update! BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Book reviews posted this week: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (this post includes a guest review from my sister) Next reviews scheduled: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman (ARC from the publisher) New to my LibraryThing “To Read” collection: for me, from the “biography and memoir” section: Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life, by Quinn Cummings Manhood […]
Readathon Update #3: The Games are ON!
Current local time: 6:30 PM PST Estimated total time spent reading since 5 AM: 9.5 hours. Total Pages read: 652 (2 books) I don’t usually track that, but it seems appropriate to the occasion. Books completed: Love the One You’re With, by Emily Giffin The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins What now? Return visits from cheerleaders and visit a few other Read-a-thon participants at their blogs Make notes for review of The Hunger Games Walk […]
Read-a-thon Update #2: One book finished!
Current local time: 11:15 AM PST Estimated time spent reading since 5 AM: 4 hours. I was away from reading for over an hour starting around 6:30 AM (showered. got dressed, walked the dog), and have taken shorter breaks (5-10 minutes at a time) throughout the morning, including checking in on Twitter. Pages read: 282 I don’t usually track that, but it seems appropriate to the occasion. Book completed: Love the One You’re With, by […]
And so it begins: Readathon Update #1
According to the clock on my computer, it’s 4:50 AM as I write this – T minus 10 minutes to Read-a-thon blast-off! I plan to start off a bit slowly – read for 60 to 90 minutes, then take a shower/dog-walking break. I’ll read through breakfast, of course (which may be accompanied by a little extra coffee). The first book I’ll be reading is one already in progress – I’m on page 60 of Love […]
We interrupt our regular schedule for a Read-a-thon Preview!
There’s a 24 Hour Read-a-thon going on tomorrow, starting at 5 AM Pacific time. (On Saturday?! Oh, what the heck, I get up at 4:30 most mornings anyway.) I have the day off from work today to get some chores and errands out of the way before the event gets started, and another vacation day on Monday for additional recovery time! I posted my prospective reading list in my Sunday Salon post earlier this week. […]