I started out taking a walk in Hour 8. I walked around the block and enjoyed the perfect 75 degree day here in the mountains. When I got home, I had a little lunch, then jumped right back into my reading. I finished my first book – Testimony, by Anita Shreve – during hour 9 [...]
Posts on ‘October 18th, 2008’
Read-A-Thon: Hour 7
I am feeling a little zombie-like here in Hour 7. I am planning to take a short walk in Hour 8 just to wake up and get back my concentration. During this hour Dewey asked us to visit some readers of the hour: • Tammy of Tammy’s Book Nook • J.C. Montgomery of The Biblio [...]
Read-A-Thon: Hour 6
Hour six’s mini challenge is from Meryl at My Bit of Earth. We are to choose a quote from the book we are reading. Mine comes from Testimony by Anita Shreve: And it was then that the word containment entered his mind. And with that word, moral, ethical, and political choices were made, though Mike [...]
Read-A-Thon: Hour 5
Dewey has named two new readers of the hour: Valentina of Valentina’s Room Chris of Stuff As Dreams Are Made Of I stopped by and left them both a comment. Then I took a break from the madness to get something to eat and take a shower. My sister called long distance and I talked [...]
Read-A-Thon: Hour 4
It is the end of hour 4 and I’m getting hungry, so I’ll be taking a break soon to eat some breakfast and maybe take a shower. This hour Dewey asked us to visit and thank some people who have helped make this event possible: Veena went around reminding people who signed up that the [...]
Read-A-Thon: Hour 3
It is time for an Hour 3 update. I’m skipping the mini-challenge this hour which is over at Sarah‘s blog (There’s Something About Translation) because I cannot read in a foreign language. Kudos to those readers who have that ability! Update since my last post (or see it in a Google spreadsheet) Book I’m reading: [...]
Read-A-Thon: Hour 2
We’re into hour two and were asked to visit the following blogs for the readers of the hour: Jessi at Casual Dread Angela at Yummy Turtle Iliana at Bookgirl’s Nightstand The mini-challenge for this hour was: to play the vocab game at freerice.com for as long as you like. I played long enough to earn [...]
Read-A-Thon: Hour 1
Let the madness begin! My alarm went off at 4:45AM and my husband muttered, “You’re not really getting up to read are you?” Ha! He has no idea the obsessive-compulsive workings of a reading challenge addict, does he? Here’s the first challenge of the Read-A-Thon – Answer the following questions: Where are you reading from [...]
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