Readathon mini-challenge - mid event meme

Halfway already!!!

1. What are you reading right now? - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

2. How many books have you read so far? - Finished one; started another

3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? - Catching Fire, and The Wild Things :)

4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day? - No

5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? - Just the usual family stuff. Deal with them and carry on - lol

6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? - How fast it's going!

7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? - Nope - the organisers are awesome, like always

8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year? - Hmmm ... can't think of anything off the top of my head

9. Are you getting tired yet? - I had four hours sleep so ... yes - lol

10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered? - Just have fun. It's all about the reading <3>

Readathon update

I'm up, I'm up!!! Got some sleep, and I'm doing a spot of cheering before diving into Catching Fire, probably followed by The Wild Things, with the odd short story from King's Everything's Eventual collection.

These plans - as always - are Patrick -dependent - lol.

Readathon mini-challenge

This is what happens, when you get up to tweet/cheerlead for a bit. Bear in mind that before I moved, I had all four of those cats on my lap. And Piper (B&W) stole my seat!

Anyway. Bart at http://www.bartsbookshelf.co.uk/ is hosting this hour's mini-challenge, which challenges us to create a sentence out of book titles.
I went to my readathon pile and this was the best I could do (and it's only two books, so it's a slight challenge fail - lol):





So - because I also have a slightly faily camera (and my pic-taking skills aren't the best) - we have "Memories of my melancholy whores/Catching Fire" - and that is the kind of sentence you will get from me at 3.30am - lol.

Readathon mini-challenge 1 - late - oops!

Where are you reading from today? The couch, mostly. Probably bed later - lol.

3 facts about me … Uhm ... I'll be 39 in June. I've turned into a slow reader lately. I have a deep and abiding love for The Big Bang Theory.

How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? Optimistically, nine.

Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? Not really, no. Perhaps I should have ...

If you’re a veteran read-a-thoner, Any advice for people doing this for the first time? Have fun! :D

Vlogging!

Okay, that didn't take half as long to upload as I thought, and now I've done three blog posts today - oops!
As Mr Neil Gaiman would say, warning: contains me:

Readathon!

It's time! Well, it is for me, anyway, because otherwise I'd be starting at 1am my time - lol.

I've done a vlog; I'm just waiting for my husband to work his magic to upload it; so I'll post that in a few hours.

I'm cheering too for #teamshelley so I'll be along to see some of you awesome readers a bit later on.

Right. I have a date with Howl's Moving Castle.

Later, readers and cheerleaders!

Under the Dome review

Under the Dome is Mr Stephen King's latest offering.

The small Maine town of Chester Mills is going about its business on a normal October day.

However, the day takes an unexpectedly strange turn when the people of Chester Mills find out that they can't leave because a giant, invisible Dome has been lowered over the town.

Some see the Dome as a trap, while others see it as an opportunity.

Under the Dome isn't my absolute favourite Stephen King novel of all time; I thought it started a little slow, and, for me, didn't really hit its stride until about halfway through, but when it gets going it really gets going, and there are few authors who can match King for his sharp characterisations.

Once Under the Dome does hit its stride, it's a speedy, shocking ride to the end, and a somewhat unpredictable outcome.

Well done, Mr King.