Saturday, April 27, 2013

Read-a-Thon 2013: I'm Doin' It!

Well, it's been a while (three years in fact--holy cow!!) since I've participated in a Read-a-Thon, but I've been seeing the tweets coming in; I'm awake; I'm in the middle of a book that I'm loving; I've got nine e-books checked out from the library; about as many samples of potential purchases on my Kindle, awaiting further perusal; plenty of unread books sitting on my shelves; and I suspect my hubby's going to be busy with one of his hobbies this weekend (weather permitting), so, what the heck? I'm going to go ahead and participate in Dewey's 24-hour Read-a-Thon. Now, I know full well that I'm not going to make it the full 24 hours (at start time I will have already been up for 12 hours...I'd prefer if you didn't do the math on that one), but I'm going to do what I can.

My starting read? Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch. I can't help but love a book that opens with: "'You can't hurry cheese. It happens in its own time and if that bothers you, you can just feck off.'" and follows up a bit later on with: "'If you can see the magic in cheese, you can see the magic in everything.'"

OK, so wish me luck, and happy reading to all the other participants!

6 comments:

Chris said...

Hi DreamyBee

Great that you are read-a-thoning again after so long.

Have good one.

Chris (Team Lion Cheerleaders)

Ali said...

OK, I can totally see the magic in cheese (especially when it gets all melty) so I guess I'm all set! So glad you're participating in the readathon--have fun!

Unknown said...

Happy readathon from your friendly neighborhood Team Lion cheerleader!
Hope you're having a great day so far! Keep it up!

Chris said...

Hi again DreamyBee

Hour fifteen. Not a problem. Get some air and get back in the game!

Have fun.

Chris (Team Lion)

Lisa said...

Welcome back to readathon! Hope you're having fun and reading some great books!

Dreamybee said...

Thanks to everyone for stopping by during the read-a-thon! It was nice to take a break and find new comments waiting. I hope you all enjoyed your time; I did!