Stikkord: readathon

In addtion to the 30 Days of Readathon photo challenge (which is happening on Instagram daily, though I will post here as well in round-up posts), there are going to be a few more challenges, run in the Goodreads readathon group. Challenge 1 is to read 1000 pages between the evening of Sunday 24th September and the morning of Monday 2nd October (Pacific Coast time). I noted that I was on page 285 of Desolation Island in my sign-up comment, but I had already read quite a bit since the start of the challenge by that point. Still, I’ll see if I need to consider those 100ish pages or not at the end of the week.

So, here are the stats so far:

Desolation Island 285-325 = 40 pages

The Fortune of War 7-222 = 215 pages

Rammeplan for barnehagen (hey, it’s reading) 7-57 = 50 pages

Lunch-blad (comics):
2015/7 49 pages
2016/7 48 pages

So that’s 402, with three-and-a-half-ish days left. I need to step it up a little.

Yesterday was unintentionally busy, so I was one day late with my Instagram picture, but I’m all caught up now. Here’s 28-23 in the countdown.

28: Red: A stack of books, all good, happening to have a red spine. #30daysofreadathon #readathon #bookstagram

A post shared by Ragnhild Lervik (@lattermild) on Sep 23, 2017 at 1:23am PDT

27: Snack: Stephen and Jack are perpetually eating toasted cheese. I am snacking on #applewoodcheese and rye crackers. #30DaysofReadathon #readathon #aubreymaturin

A post shared by Ragnhild Lervik (@lattermild) on Sep 24, 2017 at 12:29pm PDT

26: Short stories. I don’t do short stories. Kjell Askildsen is the exception to prove the rule. We ended up talking to him at a reading just after Et stort øde landskap was published (25 years ago or so) and challenged him on his claim that he doesn’t use metaphors, citing Spikeren i kirsebærtreet (The nail in the cherry tree) wondering what the significance of the nail were if it were not a metaphor. «It’s just a hook,» he said, «to make you keep reading.» #30DaysofReadathon #bookstagram #readathon

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25: Comics craze: Our dedicated comics shelf is overflowing (surprise! Not really). It’s a special edition Billy from IKEA from a few years ago, we thought it fitting. #30DaysofReadathon #readathon #shelfie #pondus #rexrudi #bamsevärldensstarkastebjörn #kollektivet

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24: Drinks: Perhaps not quite what the challenge writer was thinking of, but these are some of the drink-related books in my tbr pile. Might get to some in the #readathon. Posting 24 a day late… #30DaysofReadathon

A post shared by Ragnhild Lervik (@lattermild) on Sep 28, 2017 at 9:50am PDT

23: Space: Going with the earthly interpretation of the prompt, my current reading space. The chair is a recent flea market find, one of a pair, and soooooo comfy. #readathon #30DaysOfReadathon #readingspace

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I vår hadde jeg tenkt å delta på Dewey’s 24 Hours Readathon, men så endret planene for den helga seg og det ble særdeles smått med lesetid. Men 21. oktober er det ny readathon, og da har jeg tenkt å gjøre et nytt forsøk. Siden det er 10-årsjubileum for Dewey’s arrangerer de denne gangen også en 30-dagers utfordring som opptakt.

Den dukket ikke opp i Facebook-feeden min før i dag, så jeg starter en dag sent, men her er de to første bidragene (jeg kjører med Instagram-bilder):

#30daysofreadathon 30. Favourite book: Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Chronicles of Robin Hood. Certainly the book I’ve read the most times, and the reason I have about a meter of Robin Hood books. #readathon #favouritebook

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#30daysofreadathon 29. Short book: Patrick O’Brian Blue at the Mizzen. Not actually that short, but at 260 pages significantly shorter than most of the other books in the series (here exemplified by the one I’m currently rereading). And since it’s the last book he finished before he died it’s always far too short, as I always want more. #readathon

A post shared by Ragnhild Lervik (@lattermild) on Sep 22, 2017 at 12:16am PDT