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Sunday, 25 October 2009
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Readathon EoE Meme
1. Which hour was most daunting for you?Well... 18th, apparently, since that's the one where I fell asleep and didn't wake up.
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?I literally couldn't put Beowulf down. While that kept me engaged I'm not sure if it would keep anyone engaged...
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?Y'all did a wonderful job. If I had to come up with something, maybe I'd put a big-ol readathon status widget on the homepage, like "xx xx xx time left, ongoing mini-challenges" etc right in the header, since I think that'd be useful.
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?Everything! I didn't detect any hiccups or anything. The timing of everything was really well planned out; mini-challenges were fun, etc.
5. How many books did you read?3 and parts of 2 others.
6. What were the names of the books you read?eXistenZ, Jaws, Beowulf, Gravity's Rainbow, Tropic of Cancer
7. Which book did you enjoy most?Beowulf
8. Which did you enjoy least?While I DID enjoy it... eXistenZ
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?I wasn't!
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?I'm 100% likely to be a Reader! I might be a cheerleader if I can't commit to 24 hours. -
Readathon Summaryyyyyy
I started 2 hours late and quit 4 hours early, but worse things have happened. Should have drunk one more energy drink I guess.
Finished eXistenZ, Jaws, and Beowulf, got 42 pages into Gravity's Rainbow and 53 into Tropic of Cancer before I quit.
Drank 3 BAWLS, a starbucks cappuccino, a Red Bull Cola, and a morning call cafe au lait throughout the day. And three bundles of cha soba. Probably had too much caffeine early and not enough late.
Also maybe I should have put on more metal and hardcore music and less post-rock and ambient. At least as it got late.
I'm trying to remember if I did any other mini-challenge besides the food one. Not sure...
Oh well, anyway it was great great fun fun and I can't can't wait wait until the next one! -
Readathon Post #5
Finished Beowulf. Kind of cheating since half of the pages were the original old english and the other half were the translation and I only read the translation, but hey. I'm a sucker for epic poetry--wasn't disapointed.
Books finished: eXistenZ (278 pp); Jaws (278pp, 70 not in thon); Beowulf (213pp)
Books in progress: 42 of Gravity's rainbow
Pages read: 741
Been reading for 16:40
44.46 pages per hour
0.18 books finished per hour
Can't decide if I should finish an incomplete laying around or if I should pick up Tropic of Cancer.
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Saturday, 24 October 2009
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Readathon Vlog #3: Beowulf
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