My stats:

Hours spent reading, listening to audiobook, writing up books finished, and Challenge interactions: 32 hours, 15 minutes. (Rounded, and oddly, same as last year.)

Books read: 7 (I of those I'd started before the Challenge), and a few hours of an audiobook listened to.

Money donated to Reading is Fundamental: $75

Books still to write up: 1 ( ( Read more... )

I'm SO not putting the cover here, as it's vile. Actually, I'm not going to say all that much about this book anyway, as it's book 3 of a trilogy, and it's all spoilers for book 1. So the few random thoughts that are all I'm capable of, for the trilogy.

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I'll come back to book 4 (Greg Van Eekhout's The Boy at the End of the World) soon, honestly - was just too tired last night when I finished to sit at the computer and say anything sensible. It was a keeper though!


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Nice start!  Am wasting valuable reading time trying to figure out size adjustment and image deletion and various other stupid things I've forgotten, so the cover can be seen (I like it), without taking up everyone's friends' pages.
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Looks in confusion at wooly cardigan and socks.

But it is June, and it is Mother Reader's  annual 48 Hour Book Challenge !

I'm trying to eat, and reply to comments, and gather my books all at once, which is going about as well as can be imagined.  I'll be donating $2 per hour read to Reading is Fundamental.

Will also be tweeting this, and trying to ( Read more... )

Have been to Massachusetts east and west, and met internet friends older and newer, and it was fantastic.  Did not manage to read LJ/DW at all while away, and probably won't catch up now, so any ignoring of newses is completely unintentional.

This is definitely the fast and dirty way to do this, but I will attempt to clean up later: I need to know ( Read more... )

It's been a frantic few days, and haven't managed to keep up with friends' posts at all, but it's for a good reason, for once: I'm on my way to the States! (Yes, as I write, but only on the coach to Dublin Airport for now.) haven't been back since 2004 and haven't crossed the Atlantic by myself since before I was married. Will be seeing friends I ( Read more... )