Ending my #Readathon with audiobook + crochet in bed! I'll post a wrap-up tomorrow + can't wait to see other folks'. It was a great readathon, I read over 9 hours and had a lovely day! 🥰 #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Another book finished! I love that this volume had a story that we didn't get in the anime 😍 #hour18 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Finished my second book of the day with a bubble bar from Lush (courtesy of my husband - the theme of today is that he spoils me 🥰) #hour17 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

After a little nap and dinner with my husband, I'm back at it, reading one of my Independent Bookstore Day purchases! #Hour15 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Halfway through the readathon, here's how it's going! I've almost hit 7 hours of reading, plus I've finished 1 fantastic book, plus hit bingo on my board! 🎉
#hour12 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

#AudioWalk by the Bay! 🌁 I continue to adore Miss Trotwood and Mr. Dick.
#hour11 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Took a reading break to visit 2 bookstores for Independent Bookstore Day with my husband! He spoiled me with three books. 😁 I started the tagged with lunch + coffee but mostly chatted about books with my husband. 🥰 #hour10 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon #IBD #IndependentBookstoreDay The husband: @CounterfeitNickel

Wow ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ this one stole the show so far!
#hour7 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

"the poem is sorry for ever glamorizing the struggle. enough of work. enough of struggle. the poem refuses to be a good worker. the poem vows to never
be productive. huevón y flojo y qué? the only work the poem is interested in is working on a tan.
the only struggle the poem will glamorize is the struggle of cracking open a coconut without spilling any milk."

#hour7 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

#Audiobook and cross stitch for hour 5 and probably some of hour 6 of the readathon! #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

In hour 4 of the readathon, I continued reading Dracula. The stakes are high and it's hard to put it down, but I'm going to take a little break to listen to an audiobook soon! #hour4 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Time for a short story break from Dracula! #hour3 #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Hour 2 of the readathon - checking off "book + tea" on my personal bingo card for the day! I'm enjoying the part of this book where the group's all teamed up and ready to take on Dracula, let's gooo ? #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Who else is joining in Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon today? I'm joining from the SF Bay Area in California, U.S. and starting the readathon with Dracula, which I've been chipping away at since October. I'm most excited for reading Babel and eating blueberry scones 😋 and hopefully finishing up some of the many books I'm currently reading! #openingsurvey #readathon #deweysreadathon @DeweysReadathon

Birthday reading in my new favorite socks 🥰 I love Talia Hibbert and am excited to dive into her first YA! Thankful for skip-the-line loans being introduced on Libby 🍀 #bookandsocks #BlackHistoryMonth #ownvoices

I wanted to love this book, but I had to bail on it. Proulx echoes many ecofascist talking points in these 2 pages (and in other pages I read before DNFing). E.g. suggesting that overpopulation (particularly in Asia) is to blame for pandemics like COVID-19, insinuating that humans are the virus, etc. On ecofascism:
https://today.uconn.edu/2022/09/a-darker-shade-of-green/
https://earth.org/what-is-ecofascism/

Photo taken in a naive moment, not long before this book had me sobbing 😭

Cozy way to recover from being soaked through with cold rain in the city today while doing ministry! 💕
#bathandbook #bookspinbingo

I was so close to bailing on this pulp fiction/noir novel, but I'm kinda glad I didn't. I found Maite dull, and Elvis slightly less dull, but what really held my attention was learning more about 1970s Mexico - the Hawks, student protests, corruption; the Mexican Dirty War. The atmosphere of the book is powerful. ⭐⭐⭐/5 from me! November #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville #AudioCommute

Let's go! So excited for this bingo card. And my #BookSpin (tagged) is my #AuthorAMonth pick, which I didn't even realize was the December author until after my brother-in-law loaned me his copy last week! Really excited to read that one. 😊 #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #AAM @Soubhiville

Today's #BARTandbook - I didn't finish it in time for #AuthorAMonth, but I'll finish it in a few more #AudioCommute sessions! I'm not loving it, and if I were reading it in print I might've DNF'd, but it makes for fun commute listening. #Audiobook #BookSpinBingo

I have been reading less and reading off-list in November. For December I'm hoping to read more and finish more books, so this list is entirely books I've started! Now to look for more reading challenges that'll help me stick to this list and finish up some books 👀
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks #NaturaLitsy #AuthorAMonth

Charming old bookstore, full of fun finds 🥰

@ImperfectCJ for the memories 😊

Coffee shop reading with my love 🥰☕ My mom-in-law bought me this cool edition from Bell's Books the day before Thanksgiving! I love that my husband's family is just as into books as my family. ❤️📚 I'm totally off-list with my reading right now, but I'm having fun! #coffeeandbook #currentlyreading

I spent the day organizing, tidying, cleaning, and doing some of the last bit of unpacking, and I got some good listening in with The Beautiful Ones. I'm enjoying it! #AuthorAMonth In the evening I cherished curling up with Anna Karenina, for my third read of it. 😊 #Tomevember #BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin

#WeeklyForecast of books I hope to make progress on this week. 3 Kindle, 5 Print, and 1 Audio. A few for #NonfictionNovember and a few for #Tomevember. I'll listen to the tagged one for #AuthorAMonth while working around the apartment today! 🧹 #BookSpinBingo

Here's my simple #BookSpinBingo list for November, which I didn't manage to post yesterday due to my health. A nonfiction book that I own is my #BookSpin, and Anna Karenina is my #DoubleSpin! I'm excited for the new month of reading, where I'll be doing some #NonfictionNovember reading. I'll also be doing what I've decided to call #Tomevember - reading some tomes in November! 😊 @TheAromaofBooks

Yesterday 20 hours was looking more like 2 minutes for the #20in4 #Readathon - I'm sleep restricting right now for a six week CBT-I program (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Insomnia) and that's making it hard to concentrate well enough to read. I'm back from work today and ready to get some more reading in though! 😊 @Andrew65 #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious

Aiming for as close to 20 hours as I can get in these 4 days, and I'm going to focus on these 9 books! I'm hoping to finish as many as I can, both for #Scarathlon and so I can dive into what I'm calling Tome-vember come Tuesday (I want to focus on tomes in November). 😊 #20in4 #Readathon @Andrew65 #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo #Pointsathon #AuthorAMonth #BooklyReadathon

I somewhat enjoyed this tale of a vampire who feeds on artistic inspiration and thoughts rather than blood. Some fun melodramatic, gothic, and bisexual vibes, but unfortunately also some racism and sexism. Published in 1907, and if I'd read the author's wiki before reading the book, I wouldn't have read it, since Viereck later became a Nazi propagandist. 🤮

#Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #SerialReader @SerialReader

#BookandBathbomb with a fancy one my husband bought me from Lush 🥰 My book is so good! Loving this meandering Mennonite and Uzbekistani history + travel memoir 😊

#Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo (September) #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #BooklyReadathon

Time for a cozy, happy #bookandtea reread 🥰🍄

#DeweyOct #Readathon #DeweysReadathon @DeweysReadathon #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65

Finished! I'll post a review once the book (#3 in the series) is added to the database. This one was pretty intense - I'd recommend checking content warnings. Gonna read something less intense now! 😰

#DeweyOct #Readathon #DeweysReadathon #HalfwayThere #ReadathonHourlyPhoto @DeweysReadathon #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65

Coffee and reading date with my husband 🥰🥰🥰 My Classics undergrad + complicated relationship with academia self is adoring this book 📖

#DeweyOct #Readathon #DeweysReadathon #Outdoors #ReadathonHourlyPhoto @DeweysReadathon #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65 #BookandCoffee

I started my #readathon day with a story in this book, which has been a fun way to get in extensive Spanish reading! (Extensive = lots of exposure to the language, without sweating over 100% comprehension; intensive = close study of smaller samples of the language, focusing on grammar and full comprehension) 📚

#DeweyOct #DeweysReadathon @DeweysReadathon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

A really powerful short story, wow. I'll be thinking about this one for a while, and Butler's afterword on the story behind it.

#DeweyOct #Readathon #DeweysReadathon #Inside #ReadathonHourlyPhoto @DeweysReadathon #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65

1) Berkeley, California, U.S., where it's 9 am ⛅
2) Hard to say - I am excited to reread the tagged! 🌳
3) TJ's Dark Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans 😍
4) I'll be reading some with my husband of 2 months, who's also a reader 🥰
5) This is my first Dewey's readathon where I have no undergrad or grad school reading to include, so I'm looking forward to not having pressure to read for school! 😊
#DeweyOct #Readathon @DeweysReadathon #DeweysReadathon

Here's my #DeweyOct #Readathon #TBR! And my ideas for accompanying it with activities 😊 #deweysreadathon #readathonhourlyphoto @DeweysReadathon

#Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #BookSpinBingo #AuthorAMonth #Pointsathon #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65 @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @Soubhiville @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

My current #houseworkandaudiobook - seems fitting, as the main characters are housewives! An entertaining vibe for doing chores. 🫧🧛 And I'm finally making progress on #AuthorAMonth! 😊 #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #Pointsathon #BookSpinBingo #OutstandingOctober #Readathon @Soubhiville @StayCurious @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @Andrew65

I found The Haunted House disappointing, but I'd check out some of the collaborators' stories another time (which weren't included in Three Ghost Stories). The Trial for Murder was fine, but didn't hook me. The Signal-Man, which I've read before, was enjoyable - there's a reason it's the most famous of the three 😂 Read on #SerialReader @SerialReader

#Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #Pointsathon #BookSpinBingo #OutstandingOctober #Scarathlon

It was a good week of #Scarathlon reading! I had fun with the word game too. I'm close to some more squares in my #BookSpinBingo being filled in, especially with the extra inspiration from the #OutstandingOctober #Readathon. The tagged was my favorite book of the week! This week I need to get on my #AuthorAMonth read. 📚 #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #Pointsathon @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Very short and mildly interesting for literary history reasons. I enjoyed some of it, but the ending was dull and abrupt. Overall, it was nice to read this once, especially in a month where I'm reading a lot of vampire fiction, but I'd not read it again. #Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #Pointsathon #BookSpinBingo #SerialReader @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @SerialReader

Thanks for hosting, @Andrew65 ! Perfect extra motivation for the #Scarathlon. My goals are to finish and post reviews of 3 or 5 books. If I reach 3 with time to spare, I'll challenge myself to reach 5! 😊📚 #OutstandingOctober #Readathon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious

Last night's book + bath bomb 💕 My husband's been bringing home bath bombs for me when he does grocery shopping, and he picks well 😊 This is my new bedtime read - a Christian historical romance novel, which is not my typical genre, but I'm enjoying this series!

#Scarathlon #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash #Pointsathon #BookSpinBingo @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #BookandBathbomb

For 7 days, I read this book in the dark of night, when sleep is challenging due to chronic pain, and I miss it now that it's over. I didn't expect to enjoy this so much, but the lush imagery and the wrestling with grief that reflects Anne Rice's own (loss of a daughter Claudia's age) drew me in. I'm glad I read this #BuddyRead for #TeamMonsterMash #Scarathlon2022! @StayCurious #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #Pointsathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Great Week 1 of the #Scarathlon! 2,752 points for #TeamMonsterMash, and I'm having a lot of fun. 😊 @StayCurious

Progress on my #Scarathlon October #BucketList! My husband and I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas ❤️; we had a Barnes & Noble date where I tried a pumpkin spice latte (yum) and got Babel (which I started via library audiobook and am loving); we went for a hike at the Albany Bulb; we went on a date to Moe's Books and I wore fall colors; I played Graveyard Keeper, and I stayed up late reading the tagged book (not pictured). 😊 #TeamMonsterMash

Current BART #audiobook, and this month's #BookSpin. I loved Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice and have enjoyed other works by Brené Brown, and this read feels well-timed to a new season of my life. #BARTandbook #audiocommute #BookSpinBingo #Pointsathon #Scarathlon #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Our team #BuddyRead is sucking me in a lot more than I expected! This isn't my usual kind of book, but it's hard to put down. For obvious reasons, a good fit for #Night #ScarathlonDailyPrompts! #Scarathlon #TeamMonsterMash #BookSpinBingo #Pointsathon @StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #BookandBathbomb

Pleasantly surprised by how topical these 2 stories were for #TeamMonsterMash #Scarathlon! This collection is a range of speculative fiction, and these 2 are cozy Halloweeny vibes - a human runs a nighttime barber shop where vampires, zombies, werewolves, and more all hang out! Fun reading for a day where I'm feeling unwell. And I might finish the collection today! #Pointsathon #BookSpinBingo @StayCurious @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @TheAromaofBooks