Hour Twenty-Three (Eva)

Pages Read This Hour: 109
Books Read This Hour: The Likeness by Tana French
Total Pages Read: 1,887
Books Completed: 6 (The Likeness by Tana French, I Am a Pencil by Sam Swope, Death and Judgement by Donna Leon, Twenty Something Manifesto by Christine Hessler, Witch Child by Celia Rees, Shakespeare Wrote For Money by Nick Hornby)
Mini-Challenges Participated In: 16
Time Spent Reading: 40
Time Spent Blogging: 20

Whew! The Likeness definitely got a lot better in its last hundred pages. :D Though I expected a different ending.

On to the mini-challenge this hour, which is another survey:
1. Which hour was most daunting for you? 17-19, which was 11 PM-1 AM my time.
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? Let’s see…I think the Hornby was a great choice! And I Am a Pencil and Witch Child. The Likeness was a little too slow starting for late in the read-a-thon, but I think it’d work earlier.
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? Maybe add a cheerleader feed as well as a reader’s feed; some of the cheerleaders were blogging, and I didn’t realise it!
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon? Everything! It ran so smoothly; I couldn’t be more impressed. :D
5. How many books did you read? I’ve finished 6, and I *might* finish another one in this last hour
6. What were the names of the books you read?The Likeness by Tana French, I Am a Pencil by Sam Swope, Death and Judgement by Donna Leon, Twenty Something Manifesto by Christine Hessler, Witch Child by Celia Rees, Shakespeare Wrote For Money by Nick Hornby
7. Which book did you enjoy most? the Hornby (duh!)
8. Which did you enjoy least? 20 Something Manifesto
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders? Be careful about getting overwhelmed. I was caught off guard by just how many readers there were, and it took me awhile to accept that I wasn’t going to be able to visit them all often like I did in the earlier read-a-thons.
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time? Very likely! The past two times I’ve participated, I’ve been a reader, a cheerleader, and a mini-challenge host, and that works for me!

Thanks again to the wonderful Nymeth, Hannah, and Trish for sacrificing their own ability to be readers in order to put the event on.

Picture this time is of the books I read! (and the photography book, which I’ll have read at least half of)

And now, if you don’t mind, I need to go read 113 more pages. :p

P.S.: my mom fell asleep a couple of hours ago, but she just briefly woke up and wants me to update that she read 50 pages of Heyer’s The Reluctant Widow and enjoyed it!

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