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Are we ready to read the crap out of the last four hours of this readathon? YES WE ARE. If you fancy a reading break, you can catch up with my previous update posts for <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-0-4.html" target="_blank">Hours 0-4</a></span></strong>, <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-5-8.html" target="_blank">Hours 5-8</a></span></strong>, <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-9-12.html" target="_blank">Hours 9-16</a></span></strong> and <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-17-20.html" target="_blank">Hours 17-20</a></span></strong>, all of which are full of photographs (of books, food AND cats), challenge entries, videos and reading updates. Hope you're all raring to go for this last push towards the end of the day! :)</div>
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Wasn't that fun?" Classic end-of-readathon incoherent immediate-needs-related thoughts, in other words. Maybe if I go fetch the coffee and the food and carry on I'll feel better about the whole thing. Yeah, let's go with that.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lorelai is every readathonner at this point, I think...</td></tr>
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<strong>1. Which hour was most daunting for you?</strong></div>
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Weirdly, it was the sort of 6-8pm block of the readathon, only a few hours in for me. I suddenly got really frickin' tired and my eyes were burning and I felt so ridiculous, it wasn't even my regular bedtime yet and I was already struggling! Maybe because I don't normally focus on my book for that long at a time each hour without stopping to do other things in between chapters?</div>
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<strong>2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?</strong></div>
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I think everyone has their own strategy when it comes to what they get through most happily during a readathon. I would just say, go through your TBR shelves and pick out stuff you're really, genuinely excited to read. Amass some shorter books and books with decent sized print and snappy chapters to keep your momentum up. And when you finish a book, make your next choice whatever grabs you in that moment, not what you THOUGHT you'd read or what you think you SHOULD read. It's only 24 hours, go with the flow and pick what appeals most!</div>
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<strong>3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the read-a-thon next year?</strong></div>
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Not really. I found the challenges a bit more confusing and less fast 'n' fun this year - sometimes an 'ongoing' challenge appeared that I hadn't spotted in the 'this hour's challenge' section on previous posts, so I wasn't sure where it had come from, and some of the challenges on Facebook and Goodreads weren't even accessible to a non-user, let alone available for participation. A couple of them seemed to overlap a bit too - two road trip challenges, two quote challenges, etc. I probably ended up doing half the number I usually take part in. On the other hand, less challenges probably meant more reading, so it didn't really matter!<br />
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<strong>4. What do you think worked really well in this year's read-a-thon?</strong></div>
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I liked the list of non-Twitter participants so we could cheer each other on. I barely got any visitors to my blog this time around (and no cheerleaders, obviously) but at least by wandering off to a few other people's updates I felt less like I was reading in a vacuum! The Instagram community was nice too, very active and lots of liking and pithy commenting going on throughout the day.</div>
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<strong>5. How many books did you read?</strong></div>
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I read two novellas in their entirety, and about two thirds of a humorous memoir at the end.</div>
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<strong>6. What were the names of the books you read?</strong></div>
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<em>The Suicide Shop</em> by Jean <span style="font-family: inherit;">Teul<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">é, <span style="color: black;"><em>Kindred Spirits</em> by Rainbow Rowell and <em>A Play on Words </em>by Deric Longden.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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<strong>7. Which book did you enjoy most?</strong></div>
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Probably <em>Kindred Spirits. </em>It was fast, fun, pithy and very quick to read, which made it perfect readathon fodder - especially given how tired I got yesterday evening!</div>
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<em>The Suicide Shop</em>. I did enjoy it, it was strangely charming and blackly humorous, but there were a couple of bits that got in a tangle in my brain (like they didn't QUITE make sense), and it didn't have as much impact as I hoped.</div>
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<strong>9. How likely are you to participate in the read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?</strong></div>
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Ummmm. I probably will?! I feel like I properly struggled with enjoyment and motivation this time around, for the first time ever, and I'm not sure why. The fact that hardly anyone dropped by all day so it didn't feel as social and uplifting as it normally does? My overall tiredness and the fact that my two doses of medication nearly floored me last night and again this morning? The way I struggled to think of things to say during hourly blog updates when previously I've really had fun with them? My family's thinly veiled impatience at my reading all day when in the past they've been broadly tolerant of my readathonning habits? The fact that I have a fairly rigid sleep schedule these days and it was weirdly hard to disrupt it, even voluntarily? I don't know! If I do take part again it'll probably be more casually - more sleep, more flexibility, maybe no blogging but more social/general participation through IG instead... I think that'll be the way to get my read-a-thon mojo back!<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><u>~ Charity donation ~</u></span></strong><br />
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Since I read one of Deric Longden's cat books for the readathon, and given that both of our cats came from a <a href="http://www.cats.org.uk/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Cats Protection</span></strong></a> adoption shelter when they were tiny kittens, I decided that's where my donation would go. I don't have enough to <a href="http://www.cats.org.uk/sponsor" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">sponsor a cat pen</span></strong></a> for a year, which was my original plan, but I've organised a one-off donation of £25 instead. Every little helps, right?<br />
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<strong>CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE! WE DID IT! </strong></div>
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<strong>I hope you all had a wonderful time, and that if you've been around over the last 24 hours you've enjoyed the various challenge entries, photos, ramblings and GIFs I've thrown your way as the day's gone on. Now... go relax somewhere, you deserve it!</strong><br />
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Must be the lack of sleep. I feel all floppy and like I could juuuust close my eyes for a minute - BUT NO! I SHALL READ ON! Fortified by fruit and coffee and sweet cakey goodness, and another gentle helping of Deric Longden and his cats and his sweetly bumbling home life. This is basically the perfect Sunday morning, readathon or no readathon! 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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was a latecomer to scary books, but now I really enjoy freaking myself out every now and again! Two of the scariest books I've ever read - and loved BECAUSE they scared me so much - are <em><span style="color: black;">Bird Box</span></em> by Josh Malerman and <em><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-shining-book-and-movie.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The Shining</span></strong></a></em> by Stephen King. I liked <em>The Shining</em> because it started so gently and slowly worked its way up to pure horror, by which point there was no way I could stop reading; the Overlook Hotel had ME in its thrall as much as the Torrance family! <em>Bird Box</em> was straight-up horrific from start to finish, and so creepy and skin-crawling to read, I still think about it frequently a year later.</span></div>
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Welcome back! I've had three and a half hours' sleep and now I'm back in business, diving straight back into my book and wondering if it's too early to go make coffee. In case you've missed them, previous posts have already covered <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-0-4.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Hours 0-4</span></strong></a>, <span style="color: blue;"><strong><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-5-8.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Hours 5-8</span></a> </strong><span style="color: black;">and</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-9-12.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Hours 9-16</strong></span></a><span style="color: black;">, with photos, GIFs, videos and challenge entries as well as hourly reading updates!</span></span></div>
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style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Thoughts: </strong>Ooooh, my medication's hit hard again this morning. Must be the lack of sleep. I feel all floppy and like I could juuuust close my eyes for a minute - BUT NO! I SHALL READ ON! Fortified by fruit and coffee and sweet cakey goodness, and another gentle helping of Deric Longden and his cats and his sweetly bumbling home life. This is basically the perfect Sunday morning, readathon or no readathon! 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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was a latecomer to scary books, but now I really enjoy freaking myself out every now and again! Two of the scariest books I've ever read - and loved BECAUSE they scared me so much - are <em><span style="color: black;">Bird Box</span></em> by Josh Malerman and <em><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-shining-book-and-movie.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The Shining</span></strong></a></em> by Stephen King. I liked <em>The Shining</em> because it started so gently and slowly worked its way up to pure horror, by which point there was no way I could stop reading; the Overlook Hotel had ME in its thrall as much as the Torrance family! <em>Bird Box</em> was straight-up horrific from start to finish, and so creepy and skin-crawling to read, I still think about it frequently a year later.</span></div>
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style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Thoughts: </strong>Ooooh, my medication's hit hard again this morning. Must be the lack of sleep. I feel all floppy and like I could juuuust close my eyes for a minute - BUT NO! I SHALL READ ON! Fortified by fruit and coffee and sweet cakey goodness, and another gentle helping of Deric Longden and his cats and his sweetly bumbling home life. This is basically the perfect Sunday morning, readathon or no readathon! 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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was a latecomer to scary books, but now I really enjoy freaking myself out every now and again! Two of the scariest books I've ever read - and loved BECAUSE they scared me so much - are <em><span style="color: black;">Bird Box</span></em> by Josh Malerman and <em><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-shining-book-and-movie.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The Shining</span></strong></a></em> by Stephen King. I liked <em>The Shining</em> because it started so gently and slowly worked its way up to pure horror, by which point there was no way I could stop reading; the Overlook Hotel had ME in its thrall as much as the Torrance family! <em>Bird Box</em> was straight-up horrific from start to finish, and so creepy and skin-crawling to read, I still think about it frequently a year later.</span></div>
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<strong>Just four hours left to read, then it's all over until October! *waves pompoms with all the sleep-deprived mania at her disposal* </strong><strong>COME ON FOLKS, WE CAN DO IT!</strong></div>
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Hello again, lovely readers! I hope you're all having a wonderful time so far, reading and eating and doing challenges! I've already completed my <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-0-4.html" target="_blank">Hours 0-4</a></span></strong> and <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-5-8.html" target="_blank">Hours 5-8</a></span></strong> posts, so we're into the third stretch of readathonning here on the blog. I have to admit, the way my eyes (and sort of body in general) are feeling already, I'm not sure I'll be reading much beyond midnight before I go to sleep this time around. Still a couple of hours before we hit that point though, so let's read on!</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">~ Hour 9 (10pm) ~</span></u></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">I've been reading:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>A Play on Words </em>by Deric Longden</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read since my last update:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 14</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read altogether:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 246</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed:</strong> 5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> A handful of raspberries, a few sips of a new mug of decaff coffee</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Reading Deric Longden... like coming home!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Thoughts:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> I picked a new book! I decided to go with a warm and familiar read, and pick up one of Deric Longden's autobiographical 'cat books'. I haven't read this particular one before, despite having owned it for TEN YEARS, but these joyful little reads have been some of my favourites since I was a child and they always make me laugh. Perfect for the into-the-night portion of the readathon!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">MINI CHALLENGE: Character Road Trip</span></strong><br />
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<strong>For this challenge, we have to pick a character we'd go on a road trip with, plus three destinations we'd hit up along the way!</strong><br />
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I think I'd head to the U.S. with <strong>Dorian Gray</strong> for a road trip fuelled by a steady descent into pleasure and naughtiness. Doesn't that sound amazing?! We'd start classy, doing some shopping (including book shopping!) and enjoying some yummy food in <strong>New York</strong>. Then we'd head to <strong>New Orleans</strong> to get a little down and dirty in the bars and jazz clubs of the French Quarter. After that we'd be nicely prepped to head to <strong>Las Vegas</strong> to drink and throw away disgusting amounts of money in the casinos. Then we could spend a week poolside recovering before returning to England!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed: </strong>5</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> Decaff coffee, a big bowl of frosted flakes, vanilla rooibos tea</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>In six words: </strong>Medication! *Riiiiide into the Danger Zone...* <span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/24px "apple color emoji" , "segoe ui emoji" , "notocoloremoji" , "segoe ui symbol" , "android emoji" , "emojisymbols"; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">🎶</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Thoughts:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> This hour has mostly been for doing little chores, checking Instagram, saying goodnight to the rest of the household, and eating cereal. It has ALSO been the hour in which I've finally taken my evening dose of medication, which means I could be getting reaaaaaal sleepy up in here sometime in the next half hour or so. Man, remember when I used to be able to do 24-hour readathons on LibraryThing every weekend without flinching? Those were the days... *yawns expansively*</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed:</strong> 6</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> The last of my vanilla rooibos tea</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> My eyes huuurt! *stares around blearily*</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Thoughts:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Yeaaaah, I'm totes not getting much further tonight. I might last another hour or so but my eyes are burning and my head's all fuzzy and despite the loveliness that is Deric Longden's writing, I'm just not going to get through the night. My medication's kicked in nicely and my pillow's looking more delicious by the minute (in an 'I want to rest on it' way, not an 'I want to eat it' way - I'm not THAT tired), so... time to start winding down a bit, I think. Better to sleep now and read more tomorrow than keep pushing it and crash by breakfast time!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like to match my readathon buddy to my book for that extra-immersive experience.</td></tr>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">1. What are you reading right now?</span></strong><br />
Deric Longden's <em>A Play on Words. </em>It's his fourth 'cat autobiography', I think, about life in Huddersfield with his motley crew of feline buddies and his blind wife, the writer Aileen Armitage. I've loved this series since I was a child but for some reason have never made it beyond rereading the first three over and over, so now seems like a good time to break out of that little cycle and carry on! The gift tag tucked inside the front cover says it was bought for me as a Christmas gift TEN YEARS AGO. *hides face in shame*<br />
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<strong>2. How many books have you read so far?</strong><br />
Two down so far! I've already finished <em>The Suicide Shop </em>by <span style="font-family: inherit;">Jean T<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.56px; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">eul<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">é, a translated novella, and <em>Kindred Spirits </em>by Rainbow Rowell, a 'quick read' for young adults published for World Book Day here in the UK.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.56px; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span></span></span></span><strong>3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the read-a-thon?</strong><br />
This Deric Longden book! I've had my eye on it ever since I started making my TBR pile. :)<br />
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<strong>4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?</strong><br />
My mum interrupted a few times early on, to deliberately throw me off and to raid my snack pile. She's been painting the spare room all day so maybe the emulsion fumes got to her or something, haha. Other than that it's all been interruptions of my own making - a bout of burning eyes here, a YouTube break there, a little wander downstairs to do some chores... you get the idea.<br />
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<strong>5. What surprises you most about the read-a-thon so far?</strong><br />
How exhausted I've been since about 7pm. I used to do 24-hour readathons literally every week on my days off from the bookshop, and regularly got through the night with little more than a cat-nap or three, but now? I COULDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO MY REGULAR BEDTIME. I mean, I haven't actually slept yet, but I'm absolutely knackered. I think I'll fade out for the night in the next hour or so!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>In six words: </strong>I went to sleep, okay? #bliss</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Welcome to the second post of the April Dewey readathon! This one will take me through until 9pm here in England; if you want to catch up on all my challenges, updates and photos so far, you can check out my post for Hours 0-4 by clicking <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/deweys-24-hour-readathon-hours-0-4.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></strong></a>. Onwards!</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">~ Hour 5 (6pm) ~</span></u></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">I've been reading:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>The Suicide Shop</em> by Jean <span style="font-family: inherit;">Teul<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">é</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>Pages read since my last update: </strong>33</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read altogether:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 158</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed:</strong> 3</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>T</strong></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>he menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> The pizza's a-cookin'!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> I've finished my first book already!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Thoughts:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Man, I feel so tired already! It's not even frickin' bedtime yet, but my eyes are so sleepy, I could drop off right now... On the plus side, I kept reading for a few extra minutes past the hour before I stopped to do this update, and managed to finish my first book! <em>The Suicide Shop </em>was weird and charming and intriguing, a little detached and offbeat at times, and it ended on a note so unexpected that it'd have floored me if I hadn't accidentally caught a glimpse of the last line as soon as I turned the page (don't you hate it when that happens?). Glad I finally picked it up - and it was the PERFECT way to feel like I'd had a productive start to the readathon, especially as it looks like I might not be awake for quite as much of it as I'd originally anticipated! ;)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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"Life is the way it is. It's worth what it's worth! It does its best, within its limitations. We mustn't ask too much of life, either. Nor should we want to suppress it!" <br />
- <em>The Suicide Shop </em>by Jean <span style="font-family: inherit;">Teul<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">é</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">~ Hour 6 (7pm) ~</span></u></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">I've been reading:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>Kindred Spirits</em> by Rainbow Rowell</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read since my last update:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 8</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read altogether:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 166</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed: </strong>3</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> A couple of slices of Goodfellas pepperoni pizza; coffee</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> An hour for doing other things.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Thoughts:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> This hour's mostly been about finishing cooking the pizza, EATING some of the pizza, and catching up on Instagram, to be honest. Plus I'd already spilled over into this hour to finish my book from the LAST hour. Aaaaanyway, a couple of pieces of pizza have been consumed, my mum had a nibble as well because "it smells so gooooood", then Domino (feline readathon buddy) decided SHE needed to investigate, and THEN I managed to get them all to sod off and picked up my next book - <em>Kindred Spirits, </em>the World Book Day mini novella quick read thingy by Rainbow Rowell, about a girl waiting in line for the new <em>Star Wars</em> movie. It's another of my shortest book choices (oops) but I'm feeling lazy and also like I want something nice to read post-<em>Suicide Shop</em>!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">~ Hour 7 (8pm) ~</span></u></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">I've been reading:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>Kindred Spirits</em> by Rainbow Rowell<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read since my last update:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 25</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Pages read altogether:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> 191</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed: </strong> 3</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> The last dregs of my coffee from before</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Ugh, is it bedtime yet? #FAIL</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Thoughts: </strong>I'm really, genuinely knackered, ugh. I don't know if it's my new medication, hormonal shittiness (ah, the joys of womanhood), the fact that I've been staring at my books and/or laptop for seven hours solid... WHO KNOWS? I've read a bit more of <em>Kindred Spirits</em> anyway - very fun, very easy to read, very Rainbow-y - so I'll carry on with that for a bit now and see what happens. Most of the challenges so far either aren't appealing or aren't actually available for me full stop (like this hour's Facebook one) which is at least freeing up a few extra minutes each hour for other things! ONWARDS!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mini challenges completed:</strong> 4</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The menu:</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> Nothing this hour, that pizza was quite enough!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> Another book done! I'M ON FIIIIIRE!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Thoughts:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> I finished <em>Kindred Spirits! </em>And the little teaser extract of a different book in the back, which only served to highlight how good Rainbow Rowell is compared to other YA novelists, haha. It was really cute anyway, all about <em>Star Wars</em> and fandom and these three people sitting in a non-existent line for the new movie for several days, just for the experience and thrill (or not) of being there. I loved it, and it's so tiny and quick to read that I'll definitely be keeping hold of it to reread next time I need a little pick-me-up! Now, I'm off to do a few chores and generally surface for air, so I'll leave you with Victoria Wood, who sadly died this week, and her wonderful <em>Ballad of Barry and Freda (Let's Do It), </em>possibly the most hilarious musical skit of all time ever. Sometimes mid-readathon you just need a good giggle...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I have never been able to understand why people who come over as all weak and watery are said to be weeds. Those posh plants with their double-barrelled names and a family tree as long as your arm, with roots that go way back, they don't know they're born.<br /><em>'My dear, I simply can't cope with this soil - far too acid for my liking. And look, there's a horrid little stone in the way. It's just too much.'</em>"</span><br />
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<strong>And so we come to the end of Hour 8, and this post. There'll be a new post up for Hours 9-12; by the end of that one it'll be 1am here, when things start getting trippy...</strong></div>
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Good afternoon readers, read-a-thonners, and anyone else who might have dropped by accidentally! It's that time again - <a href="http://24hourreadathon.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-Thon</span></strong></a> starts at 1pm today (that's London time) and runs through until 1pm tomorrow (clue's in the name), and I'm going to be here and updating (hopefully) for as many of those hours as I can stay awake. All the info on signing up and start times for different time zones is on the website, along with the infectiously enthusiastic Dewey blog, so just click the link to find out more! As always, I've spent the last couple of days amassing a pile of potential reads - reasonably short books, with snappy chapters, an interesting premise and, most importantly for those 3am looking-through-a-fog moments, <em>decent sized print</em> - and a delicious heap of potential snacks. I AM READY.</div>
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I'm setting myself a tentative goal of <strong>500 pages</strong> for the day, which seems to be roughly my limit in these 24-hour readathons. I'm also planning to 'read for charity' again, and match the donation to what I've read. Sooo, for the readathon in which I read <em><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/review-wesley-story-of-remarkable-owl-4.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Wesley</span></strong></a>, </em>about a woman raising and living with an injured baby barn owl, I adopted a barn owl from <a href="http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The Barn Owl Trust</span></strong></a> at the end. This time around, if I read a Deric Longden book, I could pick a cat charity; if I read <em>The Virgin Suicides, </em>I could donate to MIND... you get the idea. I'm not working so I don't have a lot to give, but I've not spent too much this month and I really like the idea of making the readathon count, so I'M DOING IT ANYWAY.<br />
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Over the day I'll be updating here on the blog, starting a new post every four hours just to keep things tidy (maybe less if I fall asleep or something - but I'm hoping to cram plenty of updates, photos and challenges into each post!), and also over on Instagram. If you don't follow me already, my handle's <a href="https://www.instagram.com/derbyshirelass87/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">@derbyshirelass87</span></strong></a>, and the readathon hashtag is... <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23readathon&src=typd" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">#readathon</span></strong></a>. Nice and easy to remember! If you're blog hopping, do feel free to leave your update links in the comments so I can return the visit at some point and cheer you on right back. :)</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Good morning, afternoon, night, or whatever time it is where you are! It's 1pm here in England, I've just finished devouring a pile of toast and a cup of tea... so let's get cracking!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?</span></strong></span></div>
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A sporadically sunny Derbyshire, smack bang in the middle of England. More specifically, in my bedroom, where I'll probably be alternating between my bed (comfy, lots of natural light) and my reading nook (because there should be less likelihood of me falling asleep for six hours there).</div>
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Ummmmm. Well, I've picked out quite a hefty stack to choose from, because I know that if I finish a book at 3am it's important to have ALL THE CHOICES so I don't stall, but... maybe the Deric Longden book, <em>A Play on Words</em>? It's been ages since I read one of his, and just the first page made me snort when I flipped through it, which always bodes well!<br />
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I'm cooking a Goodfella's deep pan pepperoni 'n' pepper pizza later, which is always delicious. And I bought peanut M'n'Ms. And sometime tonight I'll probably have a giant bowl of Frosties and a YouTube break, because ALL THE SUGARY GOODNESS. Oooh, oooh, and I bought Rocky Road bites! All the snacks, basically. ALL OF THEM. </div>
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I never know what to say for this bit. No wonder I'm so good at job interviews. Ummmm. My favourite ice cream is proper toffee fudge, with those little bits of soft toffee in it. I'm a total cat lady and will probably be joined by one or all of ours at some point today. One of my favourite movies is <em>Psycho</em> and it worries my mum that I frequently describe Norman Bates as 'sweet'. I love having houseplants and flowers in my room and have gotten quite good at not killing them. IS THAT ENOUGH THINGS? </div>
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I didn't participate in the last readathon, I don't think, just because October's a bit of a squiffy time for me to be messing up my sleep (potential for SAD, existential despair, uncontrollable weeping etc). It's definitely not my first rodeo though, so I'm just going with my usual set-up - setting my phone alarm to go off every hour, switching to juice and water and lighter snacks overnight so I don't mess up my stomach too badly, taking part in a few challenges, stalking around Instagram, MAYBE EVEN READING A BIT OMG. Hopefully it'll go okay!</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: medium;">~ Hour 1 (2pm) ~</span></u></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">I've been reading:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>The Suicide Shop</em> by Jean <span style="font-family: inherit;">Teul<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">é</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>Pages read this hour:</strong> 27</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> A lively and oddly charming start.</span></span></div>
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<strong>For this challenge we have to share five books (and the experiences of reading them) from childhood!</strong></div>
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1. The moment I first learned to read silently, sitting on our big old green sofa with a copy of <em>The Wishing Chair </em>by Enid Blyton.</div>
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3. First reading That Moment in <em>Anne of Green Gables</em> and sobbing my socks off for the first time over a beloved character dying.</div>
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4. Cutting and pasting coloured circles in class to make our own versions of <em>The Very Hungry Caterpillar.</em></div>
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5. Reading <em>Matilda </em>for the first time and desperately wishing I could go to Miss Honey's cottage for tea and bread and jam too!</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In six words:</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> MY MUM KEEPS INTERRUPTING ME. GLEEFULLY.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjByCYkGSntlKThQuvlRStoZB8QmQo9yuyL_YWXQ2W3QnUvhGaPvs0qBvE3tc0uN18Z1nvyr_c1rN-ZkjTcZQiyyCo_RilW3rxRGn_O_rw0XHPqFezwV0o6GqeQTfqxGJ9nbJ-dwQ1rihxT/s1600/American+Psycho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjByCYkGSntlKThQuvlRStoZB8QmQo9yuyL_YWXQ2W3QnUvhGaPvs0qBvE3tc0uN18Z1nvyr_c1rN-ZkjTcZQiyyCo_RilW3rxRGn_O_rw0XHPqFezwV0o6GqeQTfqxGJ9nbJ-dwQ1rihxT/s200/American+Psycho.jpg" width="131" /></a><strong>American Psycho <span style="color: #cc0000;">by Bret Easton Ellis (4*)</span></strong> - FINALLY, I HAVE CONQUERED THE BEAST. Yes, fifteen years after my teenage self combed through this book for 'good bits' and nearly lost her lunch, my adult self read it in its entirety and to her surprise, rather enjoyed herself! This book is not going to be for everyone, or even for most people. The eponymous Patrick Bateman's relentlessly monotonous cycle of brand names, outfit descriptions, expensive restaurants, pill-popping and bed-hopping will put many off before they even GET to the torture, murder, sadism and frenzied cannibalism - but actually, I ended up finding the repetitive detail quite soothing, and found that not only did this shallow everyday rhythm counter the (incredibly) graphic scenes beautifully, but it also allowed Bateman's black humour and moments of sudden wisdom and humanity to shine through with unexpected brightness. I got quite fond of him by the end - like somehow as reader and character we had been through the wringer together, each inside the other's psyche - and I still can't quite work out how much of his narrative was 'real' or whether some interactions and moments were purely the product of his increasingly desperate mind. Now I'm going to allow myself to revisit the (much tamer and more obviously funny) movie, and my mastery of this novel will finally be complete!</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC65edbTmYVqyQLvlo9CdgQDmwcbolbNV2KgP43GHtY82CaEAoFZH9wbBoPt90fegwncL1OkHJ6kr3GNamoPcnSCzxRTuoutFUumwFr-RTc1NG2kMVRJI9XpXoROcvQO92r1HFhKQVnKUf/s1600/Little+House+in+the+Big+Woods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC65edbTmYVqyQLvlo9CdgQDmwcbolbNV2KgP43GHtY82CaEAoFZH9wbBoPt90fegwncL1OkHJ6kr3GNamoPcnSCzxRTuoutFUumwFr-RTc1NG2kMVRJI9XpXoROcvQO92r1HFhKQVnKUf/s200/Little+House+in+the+Big+Woods.jpg" width="128" /></a><strong>Little House in the Big Woods (Little House 1) <span style="color: #cc0000;">by Laura Ingalls Wilder (4.5*)</span></strong> - I'm waaaay behind on <a href="http://www.anarmchairbythesea.blogspot.co.uk/p/little-house-read-along.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Bex's 2016 Little House readalong</strong></span></a>, so this month I finally picked up the first book to get started - and it was wonderful. Set in the early 1870s in Wisconsin, it's an autobiographical year in the life of four year-old Laura's pioneer family - Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie - and their log cabin in the woods. What really struck me was how connected the family is to its surroundings: how the shifting seasons are enjoyed; how the natural world is respected and seen as something to coexist with, not conquer; and how each meal, each foodstuff, each item for the house is carefully planned and created from scratch, often with help from Laura's wider family. It's a wonderful antidote to modern living, with charming illustrations to add to the reading experience, and I loved every minute. It's a rose-tinted tale to be sure, and it lost half a star for a couple of slightly muddled descriptions of the objects and processes Laura observed - but they were minor gripes. Roll on book 2!</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_sKubpMzmFy9Th-E7R7TE2t-x8KO9jlpXHDrIhnvyF3tdRb3tEkbjP0BrCI3Wi4iWZaXyyoJAGDNm1KT7OATGk4wmnb-NlJmzDmuD4ZjIGVifoIwxvue1Ww3bucN60f5K8FOTZdfBCLP/s1600/Brooklyn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_sKubpMzmFy9Th-E7R7TE2t-x8KO9jlpXHDrIhnvyF3tdRb3tEkbjP0BrCI3Wi4iWZaXyyoJAGDNm1KT7OATGk4wmnb-NlJmzDmuD4ZjIGVifoIwxvue1Ww3bucN60f5K8FOTZdfBCLP/s200/Brooklyn.jpg" width="130" /></a><strong>Brooklyn <span style="color: #cc0000;">by Colm<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Tóibín</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"> </span>(4*)</span></strong> - I'm not a massive reader of historical fiction, but when the film buzz first arose (with a bunch of my favourite actors attached to the project) it really whet my appetite for this one. It's the story of a young Irish girl, Eilis, who travels from Enniscorthy to Brooklyn in the 1950s to start a new life full of expanded opportunities and interesting people. The novel explores her growth from a timid girl to a poised young woman, and the way she is torn between her Irish roots and American lifestyle. It's written in a slightly detached tone, and the ending was a bit too abrupt for me (albeit realistic), but I loved Eilis's journey and the many little details that brought her experiences to life, whether it was the rough crossing to New York, working in a department store, Christmas at the local parish hall, or spending the day at the beach with friends. A compelling, subtle little novel that didn't rock my world, but made me very glad I picked it up and gave it a chance. Just one word of warning - don't (re)watch the movie trailer if you plan to read it; it spoils (and therefore ruins) one of the most important plot points of the whole novel!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcm24uCQABedDLMlnKom2Uh5HE6w-9LBoKutO1vVN0Bu6etKEMUl200NjeGwVEqarCWtji8HWLZ6q-WDNxzxIffbltNUz6RlnjcinVpEL9mgmnGYHCPGBXv2OQdDtpg6wneV6diTtuUyQf/s1600/It%2527s+Kind+of+a+Funny+Story.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcm24uCQABedDLMlnKom2Uh5HE6w-9LBoKutO1vVN0Bu6etKEMUl200NjeGwVEqarCWtji8HWLZ6q-WDNxzxIffbltNUz6RlnjcinVpEL9mgmnGYHCPGBXv2OQdDtpg6wneV6diTtuUyQf/s200/It%2527s+Kind+of+a+Funny+Story.jpg" width="136" /></a><strong>It's Kind of a Funny Story <span style="color: #cc0000;">by Ned Vizzini (5*)</span></strong> - This book's been on my radar for the longest time (you know how much I love a good mental health novel) and HOORAY, it was so worth the wait! First of all, let me say that it's quite refreshing to read one of these stories from the perspective of an average guy; not a painfully innocent or shy boy, or a kooky girl, but a regular, testosterone-driven, vaguely worldly fifteen year-old who likes video games, pot and jerking off. Craig's description of his five days in a mental hospital, which he checks himself into after a long battle with depression and a night of suicidal crisis - is not only pithy, warm and very realistic (it is drawn from Vizzini's own experiences), it is also, as the title suggest, really <em>kind of</em> <em>funny. </em>It's filled with wonderful characters and it's possibly the most relatable mental health novel I've read yet; I've scrawled so many notes and hearts and stars in the margin to mark passages to go back to next time I need to feel that I'm not alone and that other people have had the same weird thoughts as I'm having. I also watched the movie adaptation, which is quite faithful to the book and put a big smile on my face by the time the credits rolled. Highly recommended!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRk0xZhMz3FzogS4SwuS4hV1UFZA-ptbwWRRukTGDKVOFmYGV_MBEl7c0_2OqVWOEKgEtwmpbd_mm72_Xof1jaMXbvUJD3kvinydiTPLkjioora3zeFLN3hWpvVyzuMWViPaO3qY7jCqdv/s1600/Gold.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRk0xZhMz3FzogS4SwuS4hV1UFZA-ptbwWRRukTGDKVOFmYGV_MBEl7c0_2OqVWOEKgEtwmpbd_mm72_Xof1jaMXbvUJD3kvinydiTPLkjioora3zeFLN3hWpvVyzuMWViPaO3qY7jCqdv/s200/Gold.jpg" width="131" /></a><strong>Gold <span style="color: #cc0000;">by Dan Rhodes (4*)</span></strong> - This is an odd little book. Nothing much happens, and yet it completely won my heart back in 2009 with its mixture of small-town characters, gentle charm and earthy British flavour. It opens with three friends - short Mr Hughes, tall Mr Hughes and Mr Puw - chatting idly in their local pub. Septic Barry is sitting across the room with his band, and Mr Edwards is pulling pints behind the bar. All is as it should be. And then a Japanese-looking girl walks in, orders a pint and sits down in the corner. "Welcome back," everyone says. But who is she? Every year she arrives in this little Welsh coastal town and stays for a fortnight, alone, walking and drinking and reading. Why is she here? The book meanders through each day of her stay, adding little by little to the quirky tapestry of the town and the people in it as their stories unfold, and reaching deeper into Miyuki's life back home. It's funny and delightful and strangely beautiful, and I loved reconnecting with it - and its sweetheart of a protagonist - all over again!</div>
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This post was originally conceived as a wander through a few choice books from the span of my reading career, linking each one to tangible objects that have been spun up with them over the years to form the web that is my literary life. A kind of bookish show-and-tell, if you like. When I started thinking about it, however, I realised that most of my favourite and most memorable reads have been tied to places and experiences, not things - and certainly not things I still have around me now.</div>
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Reading<strong><span style="color: blue;"> <em><a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/on-island-by-tracey-garvis-graves.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">On the Island</span></a></em></span></strong> by Tracey Gravis Graves, for example, immediately conjures up memories of reading it on a sunlounger in Fuerteventura during my first holiday in years, when my agoraphobia had been beaten into submission juuuuust far enough for me to get on a plane and go sit by the pool in a pretty resort for a week, alternating between reading my books and staring happily at the ocean. Which is a wonderful memory, but hard to actually show you now, four years and many miles away!<br />
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How about the books from my schooldays? For some reason everything we read at secondary school was quite clearly going to make everyone cry (frickin' sadists) so I got <em>really </em>good at sneaking my class copies into my rucksack at the end of the lesson, rather than depositing them back in the box as it went round. I'd take them home and devour them right to the end, so that when the next English lesson rolled around I'd know exactly the right points to drift off and think happy thoughts so I didn't end up sobbing into my shirt like the rest of the students. :)</div>
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Then there's my old favourite <em>Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs </em>by Jeremy Mercer<em>, </em>which is tied up with so many events in my life that I wrote <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/books-baguettes-and-bedbugs-left-bank.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">an entire blog post</span></strong></a> about it. I bought and read it at university, so its bohemian vibe is inextricably linked with the bookish good cheer of student life in York. After I read it I discovered pictures, videos and documentaries to draw me further into the world of Shakespeare and Company. Then came books about its history, films in which it makes an appearance, volumes written by literary greats who became linked to the bookstore over the years... It helped shape my bookshop and my own approach as a bookseller, and <em>that </em>led to appearances in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/jenvcampbell/videos" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Jen</span></strong></a>'s books - which also featured Shakespeare and Company, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUebwmBzoPs" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">invited her to speak there and stay at the bookshop herself</span></strong></a>. FULL CIRCLE, BABY. One big sparkly cloud of inspiration and books and wine and generosity and everything good.</div>
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Finally, I thought about <em>The Secret Garden </em>by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a lifelong favourite of mine. I had already read and loved it as a very little girl, so one Christmas my parents bought me the audiobook version on tape. It was read by a single narrator, but it had little musical interludes and she did all the voices, from the strict Mrs Medlock to the broad Yorkshire accent of young Martha and Dickon. <br />
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I will always link that listening experience to my 'Nature Club', a youthful endeavour to raise money for <a href="http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital</span></strong></a> down in Aylesbury. I watched their children's TV show, read their books and subscribed to their newsletters, and being a keen little nature lover and wildlife watcher I wanted to raise money to help the animals there. <br />
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To do that I started a Nature Club for my primary school friends (I was only about 9 or 10 at the time), making little things to sell and producing a club magazine every few months. I'd carefully write and draw each page, with puzzles, letters, pictures, wildlife information, recipes and all sorts of other things, then Mum would sneak the pages into work and photocopy them all for me. <br />
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All these years later my family still supports Tiggywinkles, and a couple of years ago we even surprised my grandmother with a trip there for her 80th birthday. When I was little there was nothing but a small shop open to the public; now there's a beautiful landscaped area to walk round, lots of gardens and animal enclosures for the residents that can never be released back into the wild, a museum, nursery, Red Kite centre, plus refreshments and the gift shop - it's a really lovely place to go for an hour or two and enjoy the sunshine and the wildlife. My grandmother literally didn't twig what was going on until we turned into their driveway, and she was so happy that she burst into tears as soon as we walked through the door. The staff all wished her a happy birthday and treated her like visiting royalty; it was just the loveliest day.<br />
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<strong>Soooo, there we have it. A few books from my reading life and the memories and feelings that sit quietly on the bookshelf right alongside them - as opposed to the physical objects and souvenirs that have long since dropped away. There's a life lesson in there somewhere...</strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's time for a mega mini-review catch-up! I think that I'm now up to date with everything I've read up to the end of February, so... shall we get started?</span><br />
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It's the last day of Bout of Books 15 - and as usual, it both feels like it's lasted forever, and like it's flown by in about twelve seconds. Unlike usual, on this final Sunday I'm up early because NOISY CAT and HEADACHE and also JUST PLAIN AWAKE, so I might actually get a decent reading day in again, woohoo! Let's get started, shall we? *reaches for painkillers and coffee determinedly*<br />
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<strong>5:30am: </strong>Yup, definitely an early start over here. And on a Sunday too. Ugh. Aaaanyway, the sky is already starting to shift from navy black to that lovely pre-sunrise blue, and I have coffee, and Domino has ARRIVED, so I'm going to start reading Chapter 2 of <em>The Pickwick Papers </em>and have some headache tablets, and we'll go from here. More sleep afterwards? Breakfast? More reading? WHO KNOWS?! When you're up at 5:30am, the options are endless. Lovely. :)<br />
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So, I'm carrying on with <em>Zoo</em>, and it's getting very interesting as Oz and his fellow scientists try to work out what's going on with the world's mammals. It skipped forward in time by five years a bit back, just as I was starting to wonder how the story could sustain itself as it was, and now it's getting scientific and political and weird and shocking, and I THINK my earlier theory about what could be happening just turned out to be correct. Don't you love it when that happens?!<br />
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<strong>4pm:</strong> Weeeeeell, look at me! Despite a sore hip from yesterday's walk, I was determined to go out again, because it's a lovely day today, AND because tomorrow it's given rain all day so I probably won't go then. Anyway, I found a mini route with slightly less steep inclines up and down and walked that. The views across town were surprisingly good, the clouds were beautiful, the air was crisp... it was nice.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">We've come to the end of another readathon - so how did I do? Well, pretty darn well, actually, now you mention it... I read a total of <strong>846 pages</strong>, including the second half of <em><strong>Peter Pan</strong> </em>by J.M. Barrie, all of <em><strong>Knots and Crosses,</strong> </em>the first Rebus novel by Ian Rankin, most of <em><strong>Zoo </strong></em>by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, a big chunk of <em><strong>21st Century Dodos</strong> </em>by Steve Stack and two chapters of <em><strong>The Pickwick Papers</strong>.</em> Not bad considering that my 'daily page average' goal in previous years has been to read about 50 pages a day - this week I've averaged a whopping 121 pages a day. Hooray! I love getting a new year's reading off to a flying start.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Aside from the reading, I've <strong>posted every day</strong>, with pictures, stats, challenge entries and reading updates. I <strong>took part in three challenges</strong>, the fun 'Would You Rather' challenge (<a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bout-of-books-15-tuesday.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Tuesday</span></strong></a>), the now practically traditional Rainbow challenge (<a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bout-of-books-wednesday.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Wednesday</span></strong></a>) and the cosy Comfy Reading Spot challenge (<a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bout-of-books-saturday.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Saturday</span></strong></a>). I also managed to squeeze in a couple of episodes of <em>Being Human, </em>watching Disney's <em>Peter Pan </em>for the first time since I was a child, going on a couple of nice little walks to start boosting me out of my agoraphobic backslide, a trip to the dentist and a potter round Tesco, amongst other things. Not too shabby really!</span></span></div>
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Ugh. Another night where I just couldn't get comfy enough to drift off to sleep... I ended up having a lie-in until about 10am this morning, despite my alarm being set for 7am so I could get up and do something useful, but... <em>c'est la vie</em>. It's more important that I get <em>enough</em> sleep at this time of year, potential for seasonal depression and all, so I'm never too worried about what <em>time </em>that sleep happens as long as it <em>does. </em>Aaaaaanyway, I'm up now, so ON WITH THE READATHON!<br />
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<strong>Today #insixwords: </strong>'Ellie and Charles Dickens: The Reunion'<br />
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<strong>10:30am: </strong>We begin the day, <em>naturellement</em>, WITHOUT the call of the laptop but WITH the readathon breakfast of champions: blueberry muffin, fruity goodness, and a small bucket of coffee. I'm diving straight back into <em>Zoo </em>this morning, because I'm intrigued and worried and puzzled and I'm not quiiiiite sure what's happening. The sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach (as well as the hefty remaining page count) is telling me that the animal-human conflict is probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Always a good draw to keep turning those pages!<br />
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<strong>1:30pm:</strong> Oooooh, things are getting really scary in <em>Zoo</em>! I'm still reading, over a lunch of buttered toast with orange and ginger marmalade (my favourite), an apple and more coffee. Our protagonist Oz, a young biologist, and his new friend Chloe have just returned from their scary trip to Botswana and are now up against government red tape, disbelieving officials and the awful possibility that the change in animal behaviour may have made it to the US. Properly, not just the odd isolated incident. What I like about this book so far is that it combines the best of all elements of a biothriller - intelligent theories, interesting characters, overarching menace and just enough shocking moments to remind the reader that the situation isn't just bad, it's outright terrifying.<br />
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<strong>4:30pm:</strong> STOP THE PRESSES. I HAVE BEEN FOR A WALK. Yes, this IS news, in my world anyway. Regular readers of this blog and people I've known from days of yore may remember that I left university due to crippling levels of agoraphobia which left me completely housebound. Obviously things are not at that point any more - I don't have a panic attack every time I go outside - but I've noticed that over recent months I've been deteriorating again to the point where I only really leave the house to hop in the car and visit my sister, or go to Tesco or to the doctor's surgery for my prescriptions. Even then it's not always voluntary. It's not good. My world has narrowed to my room again, and if I'm not careful it will stay that way. And obviously, this has health implications for everything else too, including my weight, my cholesterol, my bad hip, my sleep patterns, my IBS, my potential for depression... EVERYTHING.<br />
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So, I decided to go for a walk. Just one, little, fifteen-minute, round-the-block walk. Even then I had to psych myself up for a few minutes first, and I thought about putting it off 'until another day' because it was raining a bit. BUT I WENT. Without my phone, but with my camera, because some of my favourite photos that I've ever taken have been a result of happening to have my camera in my pocket at the right moment. Gently, at a relaxed pace, just enjoying the breeze on my face and the scent of damp trees and earth, for the first time in MONTHS. I have a bit of a headache now (cold wind whistling in my ears, it's been getting me like this since I was a kid), and I think my dicky hip will feel the sudden switch from 'sitting still' to 'striding purposefully up and down hills', but... I went. One step at a time, right?<br />
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<strong>8:45pm:</strong> Another readathon day draws to a close... I've kind of faltered a bit with <em>Zoo</em> as the day's worn on (I'm wondering if the title should actually be <em>ZOO</em>, as it's a government acronym in the book now, but whatever), but I HAVE spent a few sweet minutes diving back into the first chapter of <em>The Pickwick Papers. </em>Back in 2014 there was a readalong of this book going on, which I was really enjoying. Unfortunately everyone else, including the host (*eyes <a href="http://anarmchairbythesea.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Bex</span></strong></a> sternly*) was bored stiff, and the whole thing fell apart. After several months of it just sitting there on my bookshelf, I pulled the bookmark on it, and I've decided to start again from the beginning. This time I'll read one or two chapters a week instead of cramming a ton of them in there (all the better to appreciate the humour and the many stories-within-the-story), PLUS I won't have a blog feed full of weekly doses of hatred for it this time around. So hopefully it'll be a more positive reading experience all round!<br />
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Aaaanyway, I read the first little chapter - reintroducing myself to the key four Pickwickians: honourable Mr Pickwick, romantic Mr Tupman, sporting Mr Winkle and poetic Mr Snodgrass - and now I'm going to turn the laptop off (as per the rules of a digital sundown, which I'm trying in an attempt to counter my ongoing inability to get to sleep at night), read a bit, maybe do some colouring in the fancy <em>Secret Garden</em> artist edition thingy my sister bought me for Christmas? One more day left, fellow readers! UNTIL TOMORROW!<br />
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I have two comfy reading spots, kinda. The most obvious one is, of course, my library corner. It's got a bright light and books and lots of cushions - including my two new ones, based on <em>Psycho </em>and <em>Beauty and the Beast </em>(the Gemini in me is strong - Disney and death, that's the best way). HOWEVER, the Ikea chair is not as comfy as it appeared in the store - it tips me backwards so my head's at the wrong angle to read, and it pulls on my bad hip - so I don't sit there often at the moment. I might have to admit defeat and buy a new chair sometime soon. Maybe a Poang one from Ikea?<br />
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OH HAI LOVELY READERS! Another day, another frenzy of reading... hopefully, anyway. I had a better night's sleep last night than I've had in WEEKS (more comfortable, the heating didn't come on and fry me in the night, the cat left me alone), and I've got a fast-paced thriller to return to, so... what are we waiting for?!<br />
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<strong>1pm: </strong>Another laptop-free morning in which I read over breakfast, kept going for a while, then had a nice hot shower before heading downstairs to make lunch. Now I've got a couple of hot buttered toasted teacakes, an apple and a big mug of coffee, and I think I'm going to play a little game of 'see how many pages I can read in an hour'. The font in this novel is quite big, and the pace quite quick, so I wonder if I'll improve on my average 28-35 pages an hour (which I know from a fair few Dewey's readathon stat updates, haha)?<br />
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<strong>2:30pm:</strong> Well, whaddya know, I managed to sail in at around 55 pages read in that hour! And that includes occasional pauses because I was eating teacakes at the same time. The book is nearly 500 pages long so it's unlikely that I'll finish it today even with the best of intentions, but I enjoyed that little sprint - and it's heartening to know that I <em>can </em>read at a decent clip, with the right book and the right conditions!<br />
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Things are getting a bit exciting in <em>Zoo, </em>it's all quite intriguing. Our hero, a young biologist called Oz, has flown out to Botswana to document aberrant behaviour in the local lion population as part of his theory that some environmental shift is occurring that is pitting animals and humans against each other in increasingly brutal ways. Naturally, when he gets there, the shit royally hits the fan as he and his guide reach a safari camp to find the place all but deserted and reports of bizarre lion behaviour in the immediate vicinity. Ooooooooh...<br />
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The last couple of days have had their fair share of distractions and I haven't read THAT much - though still way better than recent weeks, obviously - so today I'm going to make a concerted effort to really <em>read</em>. Laptop off, book open, the way I like it. :)<br />
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<strong>Books finished today: </strong><em>Knots and Crosses (Rebus 1)</em> by Ian Rankin</div>
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<strong>Today #insixwords:</strong> Reading thrillers is a GREAT strategy!<br />
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<strong>12 noon: </strong>I've had another great start to the day, reading over breakfast, ploughing on through the morning, alternating between <em>Knots and Crosses </em>and <em>21st Century Dodos </em>every time I needed a change of style. Things are all kicking off in <em>Knots and Crosses - </em>there's been a sudden colossal break in the murder case which has sent the pace rocketing - and I'm on the 'newsagent' section of <em>21st Century Dodos, </em>which is bringing back lots of memories of old sweets and magazines that I used to get as a kid. And NOW I'm going to carry on reading with half a cheese and bacon quiche and a heap of peas and sweetcorn, and see if I can finish this book today!<br />
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<strong>5pm:</strong> YEEEES, I FINISHED IT! It certainly kept me turning the pages towards the end, even though it wasn't the most gripping or earth-shattering finale I've ever read. One more review to write when this week's over, hooray! So.... what next? I was contemplating starting <em>We Were Liars</em>, but I was flicking through the pages and not feeling it so instead I've moved onto <em>Zoo</em> by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. It's about a global animal uprising against humanity, it's already been made into a TV series, it's got big font, it's super-easy reading... it screams 'readathon', in other words. If I can sail through it by the end of tomorrow there'll still be two days left to cram in another book! I'm going to make some hot buttered toasted teacakes and get stuck in.<br />
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<strong>9:30pm:</strong> Blech. The lingering headachy feeling I had this morning has grown and to be honest I'm not feeling amazing - hopefully I'm not succumbing to whatever my family's had, which we've established is probably a bug but mercifully sans vomiting, to my overwhelming relief. Anyway, I'm still weirdly hungry despite feeling icky, so I'm going to fetch some cereals and tea and watch an episode of <em>Being Human</em> for a bit. Each one's only an hour long, so I might still have time to read before bed, and hopefully the distraction and something in my stomach will leave me feeling better by the time it ends. Also, Aidan Turner ALWAYS helps. Obviously. :P<br />
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<strong>Quote of the day: </strong><em>"Sometimes it was hard to hold onto reality when that reality was overpowering. The shield came to protect you. The shield of the breakdown, of forgetting. Laughter and forgetting." </em>- <br />
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Hello, hello, hello. Well, I'd hoped to read some more last night, all de-internetted and snuggled up, then ended up just zonking out and going to sleep instead, oops. The perils of a late-night reading plan, I guess. Today we have just one errand to run - to Tesco's - plus I have a load of laundry to do, and then I SHOULD be able to spend more time with my nose in a book again. Isn't it nice when your little appointments and things are done for the week when you're readathonning?!<br />
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<strong>Books finished today: </strong>None</div>
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<strong>10am: </strong>Helloooo lovely readers. As has become my habit this week, I've been reading over breakfast today instead of turning my laptop on - and once again it's worked beautifully to get some early pages under my belt before the internetty distractions kick in. I should definitely keep this in mind once Bout of Books is over, it's been so satisfying. I don't think I could have managed <em>Knots and Crosses </em>so early, but <em>21st Century Dodos </em>is PERFECT for not-quite-alert-yet reading! Domino's been reading with me, which makes it even NICER.<br />
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<strong>12 noon:</strong> I'd hoped to do some reading in the car outside Tesco, since I usually shop so fast that I'm done 20 minutes before my mum and stepdad, but alas, I was thwarted at the final hurdle. I got onto a till just fine, but the old couple in front of me produced about 12 vouchers at the last minute, several of which WOULD. NOT. SCAN. So I was in the car all of three minutes on my own. Dammit.<br />
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I did, however, buy two things in there. I was looking for <em>You</em> by Caroline Kepnes and couldn't see it anywhere, BUT it turns out that <em>So You've Been Publicly Shamed </em>by Jon Ronson has just come out in paperback, so I bought that instead for a bargainous £3.85. I also bought Disney's <em>Peter Pan </em>on DVD, to celebrate having finally read the book, which proved a bit confusing when the checkout girl was deciding whether or not to ID me for my alcoholic purchases. Responsible grocery shopping, sensible book, the general demeanour of an 80 year-old woman - yet with the complexion of a 14 year-old and the movie habits of a small child. :)<br />
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<strong>3pm:</strong> Uh oh. After my sister had a queasy 24 hours a few days ago, my mum's now got an upset stomach and keeps feeling faint and dizzy - a sure-fire sign that she's picked up a bug of some kind - and now I'm feeling a bit... off... too. Kind of tender and headachy. Nooooooo! I hope fervently that it's just the leftover pizza I had for lunch sitting funny on my stomach or something. See, not only am I an IBS sufferer, which means that recovery from a tummy bug lasts about four times longer than for most people, but I'm also emetophobic. My nightmare at this time of year is neatly encapsulated by the word 'norovirus'. I've managed to avoid it since a run-in with it when I was about 17, but once it's in the household there's only so much you can do... *crosses everything and hopes to high heaven that it's ANYTHING BUT THAT* <br />
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<strong>4:20pm: </strong>I have been captivated by <a href="https://www.periscope.tv/w/1YpKkrVPNVyxj" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">#DrummondPuddleWatch</span></strong></a>. What even is my life, Jesus Christ. Someone set up a Periscope webcam on a big puddle across a path in Newcastle, and 19,392 people are literally sitting watching people try to cross it. Walking across it. Jumping across it. Tiptoeing across it. One guy brought a lilo. Someone added a 'slippery when wet' sign which a thief just ran past and nicked. Oh, and it's back. The comments on the side are ranging from 'fall in, FALL IN' to '#prayforthepuddle' to 'This is a great day out in England'. I CAN'T LOOK AWAY. It's even made it into <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12085091/drummondpuddle-why-has-a-puddle-in-newcastle-become-an-internet-sensation.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">the news</span></strong></a>. Oh Britain, never change...<br />
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<strong>9:15pm:</strong> Weeeell. I ended up reading a titchy bit more this afternoon, then made myself a bowl of buttery mashed potato and baked beans, cracked open the Terry's chocolate minis, and watched <em>Peter Pan. </em>It was every bit as charming and funny as I remembered, the music is wonderful, and the flying sequences are still a joy, so much more exuberant (and obviously less CGI-y) than the live-action version. <br />
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<strong>Quote of the day: </strong><em>"These tourists spent so much time photographing things that they never actually </em>saw <em>anything, unlike the young people milling around, who were too busy enjoying life to be bothered capturing false impressions of it." </em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u>CHALLENGE: RAINBOWS!</u></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Hosted by </strong></span><a href="https://bookybecksa.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/bobchallengerainbows/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Ranty Runt of a Reader</strong></span></a><strong> </strong>(Best. Name. Ever.)<br />
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I'm going to do both of these challenges - the cover colours rainbow (picture) and the author names rainbow (via an acrostic-type situation). ALL THE RAINBOWS!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>R </strong></span><span style="color: black;">owell, Rainbow - I've read and loved <em>Attachments</em> so far.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><strong>O </strong></span><span style="color: black;">rwell, George - I've read <em>Animal Farm </em>and <em>Down and Out.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><strong>Y </strong></span><span style="color: black;">ancey, Rick - I've read <em>The Fifth Wave </em>- soon to be a movie!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><strong>V </strong></span><span style="color: black;">izzini, Ned - I have <em>It's Kind of a Funny Story</em> on my TBR.</span><br />
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*flits into the blogosphere merrily* Afternoon all! <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bout-of-books-15-sign-up-and-monday.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Yesterday</span></strong></a> was a really good day for me readathon-wise; I finished my first book of the year, and read more than I have in months. Today has a couple of distractions mixed into it, but should be another relatively open day for reading, so we'll see how far I get with my next novel by bedtime!<br />
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<strong>Today #insixwords: </strong>A busier day - but reading happened!<br />
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<strong>11:30am: </strong>HALLELUJAAAAAAH! I had a dentist's appointment this morning, which always gives me serious anxiety despite the fact that the dentist and his nurse are just lovely, and I WAS OKAAAAAAY. One very painful but satisfying scale and polish later, and I was set free for another year or so, yaaay! Anyway, before this appointment I countered my anxiety somewhat by reading over breakfast, and then when I came OUT of my appointment I made the most of the peace in the waiting room to read a bit more while Mum had her checkup. So far, so productive!<br />
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<strong>1:45pm:</strong> PIZZAAAAAAA! Yes, I realise I'm doing a lot of excited shouting in this post, but ssssssh. I'm definitely enjoying this Rebus novel so far, though the fact that this seasoned policeman doesn't think to so much as tentatively link a massive abduction/murder case in the city with the cryptic letters he's started receiving is kiiiiind of irritating. I'm only 40 pages in though, so I'm sure he'll catch on soon enough!<br />
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<strong>5pm:</strong> My reading detoured off a cliff a bit this afternoon, because I was on the radio, wheeee! Every day on BBC Radio 2 they do a 'non-stop oldies' half hour (during Steve Wright in the Afternoon) where a listener picks the music, and today it was me! I actually submitted my list a few months ago, so my little bio was a bit out of date, but I still got major household brownie points for mentioning 'my lovely mum'. </div>
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They managed to squeeze eight songs into my half hour - you submit about twenty-five for them to choose from - including two I used to sing in the car with my mum (<em>Circle in the Sand</em> by Belinda Carlisle and <em>I Just Can't Stop Loving You </em>by Michael Jackson), one from car trips with my dad (<em>Keep the Customer Satisfied </em>by Simon and Garfunkel), one my mum detests (<em>Jumping Jack Flash </em>by The Rolling Stones), plus four more that have made it onto my favourite songs playlist over the years! They kicked off with this one, which I first heard in an episode of <em>Dexter</em>. Season 1, when Dexter, Rita, Rudy and Deb clear his dad's house and he brings some of the records home? LOVED IT. Now I can head off for a shower and go back to my book!</div>
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<strong>8pm:</strong> Weeell, I think that's my internetting done for tonight. I've done a bit more reading, eaten bran flakes and watched an episode of <em>Being Human, </em>so I think it might be time to switch off and go back to my book before bed. Happy reading all!</div>
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<strong>Quote of the day: </strong><em>"It was everywhere, crime. It was the life-force and the blood and the balls of life: to cheat, to edge; to take that body-swerve at authority, to kill."</em><br />
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<strong>Lend books to someone who dog-ears pages or to someone who reads with cheesy Cheetos fingers?</strong><br />
Dog-ear pages, definitely. The book might look a mess at the end, but at least it wouldn't be dirty!<br />
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<strong>Be able to meet one character of your choice or meet one author of your choice?</strong><br />
One character, I think. It'd open the possibilities up to all the wise and magical characters out there, people who've had incredible adventures or have intriguing world views. Obviously, this all comes from the author to begin with, but... what about the things that don't make it onto the page, the things the character could tell you that even the author doesn't know about? I may be overthinking this.<br />
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<strong>Never be allowed in a bookstore again or never be allowed in a library again?</strong><br />
Bookstore, sad though that would be. A library is ever-shifting, convenient, free, has great facilities, can order books in, is fantastic for the most expensive books and fleeting interests as well as more mundane stock... why would I ever want to be without that option?!<br />
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Oh, break up, definitely. Life goes on, more fish in the sea, etc etc. Unless... UNLESS... the character I was killing off was already on that road anyway. Maybe someone in a terrible situation, or very ill, or 105 years old. Then maybe, MAYBE, I would think about saving love over life.<br />
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<strong>Be required to read <em>Twilight</em> once a year for the rest of your life or <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> once a year for the rest of your life?</strong><br />
I haven't read <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> yet, so I'm going to have to say <em>Twilight</em>. I really liked it when I read it all those years ago, and it's a quick read, so it wouldn't take up a massive chunk of my reading life even if my feelings about it shifted upon rereading.<span style="color: black;"><br />
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<strong>Books finished today: </strong><em>Peter Pan </em>by J.M. Barrie</div>
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<strong>Today #insixwords: </strong>My best reading day in MONTHS!<br />
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<strong>11:30am: </strong> Well. I nearly started reading at about 12:30am this morning because I COULD NOT SLEEP - but turns out, I couldn't read either (because SLEEPY) so that idea quickly went out the window. I've kicked off my readathon at a PROPER TIME with a chunk of <em>21st Century Dodos </em>by Steve Stack, breakfast, and now more dodos with a cup of tea in my new FAB mug, because nostalgia breeds more nostalgia. Topics covered so far today have included blackboards in schools, 'answers on a postcard', half-day closing and fish and chips wrapped in actual newspaper. Oh, and you know when you used to buy a CD in Woollies or something, and you had to take the empty case to the desk and they disappeared into a labyrinth of drawers to find the disc in its little cardboard case? Yeah, that.<br />
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<strong>3:50pm:</strong> Okay, so I got distracted eating lasagne and watching YouTube videos. I turned my laptop off until then though, and read a couple of chapters of <em>Peter Pan. </em>I'm really loving it now I've settled into the style and the sudden surreal moments, though it's still frustrating me that Wendy basically does nothing but darn socks and talk about babies. No "I'M RED-HANDED JILL!" in this original incarnation, nope - because who needs piracy when there's laundry to be done? NOBODY, THAT'S WHO, NOW BE A DOLL AND GET THE DINNER ON.</div>
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<strong>8pm:</strong> I decided to turn my laptop off again and not turn it back on OR have tea until I'd finished Peter Pan - so that's what I did. That's my first completed book of the year as well as my first of the readathon; I had about 100 pages left this morning, or a little over half the novel. So NOW I can read something new, and also treat myself to Disney's <em>Peter Pan</em> on DVD when I go to Tesco tomorrow, if their Disney collection is still there post-Christmas. </div>
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I definitely have mostly positive feelings about the novel, although it kept veering off into knowledgeable diatribes about the nature of girls, and into strangely affectionate racist discourse on the hunting abilities of the redskins, and at one point into a seriously Oedipal moment that directly placed Peter as husband and son to Wendy and made it sound like she was doing naughty things to him to calm him down when he had nightmares. (I scrawled the page number in my review notes with 'WTF?!' next to it.) Still, it feels really good to have finally read it; it's such an iconic story, it was a big part of my childhood in its various movie forms, <em>and </em>it's one of the books that's been on my TBR shelves the very longest, since I was only a tweenager or so I would think. Hooray! (Or should I say, 'Oh, the cleverness of me!'?)</div>
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I might sign off here for the night actually, and go make some supper (I'm having toasted muffins and honey and a mug of tea, yummy), then sit and read a new novel for a while before bed. I have to go to the dentist tomorrow morning, something I hate hate HATE, so the more I can distract myself this evening the better chance I have of actually sleeping tonight. I'll come back tomorrow to finish off my stats and all the jazz, and get a post up for Tuesday's reading!</div>
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<strong>Quote of the day: </strong><em>"Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy."</em><br />
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How the hell is it December already? Not that it feels like it, because despite the Channel 5 movie marathons and Christmas readalongs and Instagrammed decorations, there's still a whole lot of real life left between now and the 25th. Give it another week, and POSSIBLY I'll be ready to watch or read something borderline seasonal, we'll see.<br />
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This was my first Toni Morrison, and it managed to be both everything I expected and nothing like I expected... It's the story of Sethe, a runaway slave living in Ohio, who many years ago killed her small daughter to prevent her being taken away by a posse of men from her former plantation. It's about how her actions have reverberated down the years, and about how slavery penetrated every part of society. There is a pervasive feeling of fear and oppression that seeps under the skin of the reader and refuses to leave. This is also, however, a ghost story, a feat of magical realism slightly akin to Eowyn Ivey's <em>The Snow Child</em> - and that I WASN'T expecting. I'm still not entirely sure what was going on with Beloved and Sethe, and I'm not entirely sure I liked it as a plot device (especially the stream-of-consciousness weirdness near the end)... but there we go. As a whole the book was beautifully written, brutal and evocative, and I think that even when the content, the storyline itself, has left my memory, the FEELING of reading it will linger. An interesting reading experience - 3.5 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Carrie Ryan</span></strong><br />
Another novel that wasn't quite what I expected! (That seems to be becoming a running theme of late...) I really didn't like the first book (<em>The Forest of Hands and Teeth) </em>when I read it <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/august-mini-reviews-and-what-im-reading.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">back in August</span></strong></a>, but I took a gamble on this one because my main problem was with the unbearably selfish protagonist and I knew the viewpoint for this novel shifted to a new character. From her name - Gabry - I thought it would be a kind of prequel from the perspective of the girl-turned-Breaker in the first book, but it's actually not. Instead we've jumped <em>forward</em> a generation - and Gabry's story is SO MUCH more enjoyable to read than Mary's. There's another love triangle (bleurgh), and the pervading bleakness remains, but the overall plot is more interesting and I actually found I preferred the way Ryan concentrates on looking forward instead of returning to answer questions from the first book. After all, the characters can't get answers from the past because the past is literally dead - so why should <em>we </em>dwell on it too much as readers? I think I'll see this series through now, find out what happens to these characters and their battle against the Mudo in the end! 3 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Lucy Knisley</span></strong><br />
A super-fun graphic memoir that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment. I'd heard of Lucy Knisley, but had never visited her <a href="https://www.lucyknisley.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">website</span></strong></a> or anything like that. I will probably drop by more often now, because this book was so cute. It's pretty much a series of comics about different elements of growing up as a food-loving individual in a household devoted to it (her mother is/was a caterer and her father a keen appreciator of good cuisine). There are vignettes on craving garlic mushrooms and discovering the world' most amazing croissants in Venice. She talks about following in her mother's footsteps as a student, and about the comforting power of cookies. It's all done in a simple, charming and amusing style, interspersed with recipes that sound amazing. Loved it - I'll definitely be reading more of her books! 4 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Mark Forsyth</span></strong><br />
This tiny pamphlet is this year's Independent Booksellers Week essay. I missed last year's by Ann Patchett, and had to go looking for this one on AbeBooks because there was nowhere else for me to get it locally, but it's so good! It's all about the idea that bookshops can lead you to books you never even knew you wanted to read, and that such serendipitous discoveries are actually quite important - not to mention FUN. I've never read Mark Forsyth before, but his style is clever and amusing, with plenty of pop culture references and some interesting thoughts on book buying culture. It's under 25 pages, £1.99 in-store and only takes a few minutes to read - so if you see one still sitting around on a bookshop counter, do pick it up! 4.5 stars, it's such a lovely little thing for a reader to be able to return to every so often.<br />
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At this moment I'm ACTIVELY reading three different books: <strong><em>The Pickwick Papers </em></strong>by Charles Dickens, <strong><em>Harry, A History</em></strong> by Melissa Anelli (a history of the Harry Potter fandom) and <strong><em>Project X</em></strong> by Jim Shepard (a novella about a pair of would-be school shooters). I've also got two collections that I'm still dipping in and out of: poetry in the form of Charles Bukowski's <strong><em>The Pleasures of Damned</em></strong>, and columns in the form of Charlie Brooker's <strong><em>Dawn of the Dumb</em></strong>.</div>
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<strong>Aaaaand that was my November!</strong></div>
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Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07246472269477492583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809037602256300893.post-46464133210577706922014-11-22T16:31:00.000-08:002016-07-30T08:51:31.915-07:00A Mini Readathon, in 50 Steps1) Locate snacks, make cappuccino.<span style="color: blue;"><strong> </strong><span style="color: black;">Instagram</span></span> them.<br />
2) Go on <span style="color: black;">Twitter</span>.<br />
3) Consider reading.<br />
4) Text <a href="http://bookinginheels.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Hanna</span></strong></a>.<br />
5) Go back on Twitter.<br />
6) Pick books - completely different from planned reading or current reads, because fuck it. <br />
7) Instagram them. Peek at what other Instagramming minithonners are doing.<br />
8) Text Hanna again.<br />
9) Read first line of Charlie Brooker book.<br />
10) Stare at wall.<br />
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11) Baaaack to Twitter. Pin hot Spencer Reid photo on profile so I can look at it and smile like a smitten teenager later.<br />
12) Eat first snacks: mini rocky road bite, cappuccino (now cold).<br />
13) Go get on bed, away from laptop, determined to read something.<br />
14) READ SEVEN PAGES. Success!<br />
15) Twiddle thumbs.<br />
16) Reply to Instagram comments.<br />
17) Use up new Candy Crush lives.<br />
18) Cat climbs into arms for a cuddle. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/vtfwaIoq9c/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Instagram it.</span></strong></a><br />
19) Pop downstairs to make food. End up watching telly with mum and stepdad.<br />
20) Show mum and stepdad cute Instagram of kitty cuddles.<br />
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21) Make tea. Instagram tea.<br />
22) Look at book. Watch <em>Criminal Minds</em> instead.<br />
23) Use up new Candy Crush lives while tea 'settles'.<br />
24) Pick up novella. Carefully read back cover. <br />
25) Equally carefully read the 'critical acclaim' pages and author bio.<br />
26) Congratulate self on getting back to quality reading.<br />
27) Tweet about it so everyone knows quality reading is happening.<br />
28) Use up new Candy Crush lives to celebrate.<br />
29) Read 10 pages of novella like a FUCKING PRO.<br />
30) Go downstairs to fetch copious amounts of coffee and popcorn. Pat self on back for deserving such a treat.<br />
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31) Instagram coffee and popcorn.<br />
32) Look to see what snacks other people are Instagramming.<br />
33) Read another handful of pages while shoving popcorn into face.<br />
34) Decide to make bed for later.<br />
35) Get distracted using up new Candy Crush lives.<br />
36) Actually make bed for later.<br />
37) Fuck it, put on pyjamas as well. LIVING THE THUG LIFE.<br />
38) Devour entire bowl of popcorn while reading actual pages, for the first time since the minithon began six and a half hours ago.<br />
39) Just one little game of Candy Crush.<br />
40) Cat arrives for more purry snuggling time. Commence kitty smushing.<br />
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41) Send Snapchat of cat to sister.<br />
42) Instagram cat for good measure.<br />
43) Read more actual pages.<br />
44) Instagram picture of bookmark in book to prove that pages have been read.<br />
45) Use up new Candy Crush lives.<br />
46) Imbibe huge mug of coffee.<br />
47) Pause to consider that 11:30pm is probably not the best time to be imbibing huge mug of coffee.<br />
48) Baaaack to the book.<br />
49) Okay, one more game of Candy Crush. Sneak it in there before midnight.<br />
50) Just a couple more pages and - THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER! IT IS NOW...<br />
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Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07246472269477492583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809037602256300893.post-35559394003249128092014-11-03T15:52:00.000-08:002016-07-29T12:33:11.133-07:00October: What I Read, What I Watched, What I'm Reading<div style="text-align: center;">
Another month comes to an end, ALREADY. I mean, Jesus, where the hell is 2014 going? Summer's dead (R.I.P. Summer), the clocks have gone back, my winter coat has been brought out of retirement for another cold season, and wintery drinks like chai tea and hot chocolate have suddenly started to feel very appealing. Even more scarily, the first 2015 reading challenges have appeared on <a href="http://novelchallenge.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">A Novel Challenge</span></strong></a>. IT HAS BEGUN.<br />
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So, let's get to the books and movies I consumed in October, shall we? It's actually been a fairly slow reading month (it hasn't felt like it), but I DID watch quite a few movies, which is something I love but tend to let slide when I'm in a reading fever. I think it balanced out okay in the end!<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by William Golding</span></strong><br />
This was the second of the two books (the other being <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/double-review-to-kill-mockingbird-by.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: blue;"><strong>To Kill a Mockingbird</strong></span></em></a>) that I was determined I would definitely read this year - so hooray! I've had it on my bookshelves since I was a young teen, so it was about time really. Unfortunately for such a highly anticipated read, I wasn't as blown away by it as I'd hoped. I wanted a kind of <em>Coral Island</em>-esque adventure that gradually descended into savagery and violence; what I GOT was a disappointingly jerky, uneven allegory that glossed over the survival element almost entirely, skipped forward in time in unspecified bounds, and grew quite repetitive at times. As a result, some of the most important and moving scenes didn't have that much impact at all, and the hunters' savagery was less "diminishing sense of civilisation" and more "well, that escalated quickly". It took me a surprisingly long time to read such a short novel - well over two weeks - and sadly the cover remains my favourite thing about it! 2 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Shannon Hale</span></strong><br />
This book's been drifting on and off my reading radar for a while, when it first hit bookshop shelves and then again when the movie came out, but I finally picked up a copy from The Works this month and devoured it pretty much whole. It was a nice break from the relentless misery of <em>LotF, </em>and FAR better than I expected. It's about a Darcy-obsessed woman who travels to England to visit a holiday estate which promises a complete Austen experience - manners, men, a grand ball, and a happily ever after. Jane hopes to use it to purge herself of her life-squashing romantic fantasies - only to find that maybe she's not quite done with love and the Austen magic after all. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to the sequel - same premise, new character - which I bought at the same time. A cheery 4 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by June Mottershead</span></strong><br />
I was midway through the TV series when I found out this existed, and I bought it on the spot. I actually read JUST this for the whole of the most recent Dewey's readathon (not something I normally do during a 24-hourer) because it was such an easy read, so charming and interesting and generally lovely to immerse myself in. It's different to the BBC drama - that portion of the story is done within a couple of chapters, and the book moves on to the development of Chester Zoo from a tiny idyll to the world-famous force it is today - but the tone is just right, enthusiastic and entertaining, sharing stories from a magical childhood yet not shying away from the inevitable sadness that comes with working with animals, wild or otherwise. June's voice is so warm and it's rather nice that now, in her eighties, her family's dream and decades of hard work are finally being recognised by a wider audience. 3.5 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by F. Scott Fitzgerald</span></strong><br />
This was a buddy read with Bex from<strong><span style="color: blue;"> </span></strong><a href="http://anarmchairbythesea.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">An Armchair By The Sea</span></strong></a> (who is also hosting a <a href="http://anarmchairbythesea.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/dickensindecemberthe-decision.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">readalong of <em>The Pickwick Papers</em></span></strong></a> before Christmas, if anyone's interested), and it provided an excellent excuse to FINALLY read it! It's so many people's favourite book, it's a classic I missed out on at school... it just had to happen, sooner or later. Most people probably know the basics - the yearning love of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby for his old flame Daisy, set against a backdrop of moneyed twenties life in all its bittersweet glory. It didn't have as high an impact as I'd hoped, admittedly - the end was spoilered for me, for a start - but it had all the alcohol, parties, wit and style I could possibly have wanted from my first Fitzgerald. 3.5 stars, and you can read my full review <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">here</span></strong></a>.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Nora Ephron</span></strong><br />
Just sneaked this one in under the wire before midnight on Hallowe'en, whew. And oh Nora. How I love you. In much the same vein as<em> I Feel Bad About My Neck</em>, which I read <span style="color: black;">last year</span>, this is a loosely-linked collection of wryly humorous sketches and vignettes, of various lengths, about family and getting older and life in New York. It's not hysterically funny, it's not deeply profound, it's not life-changingly memorable - but it is warm and real and lovely to read. Considering that I read a large portion of it alongside the decidedly<em> less</em>-than-lovely <em>Beloved, </em>that was exactly what the doctor ordered. 3 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Stand-up comedy, by Seann Walsh</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">Not much to be said about this one really. Seann Walsh is a young comedian who appeared on things like <em>Stand Up for the Week</em> and <em>Live at the Apollo </em>for a while, made me laugh hysterically every time, and that was that. He sort-of reminds me of a bewildered lion, like he should be in Oz when he's not on stage. His stand-up is of the 'everyman' observational comedy type, particularly aimed at 20-somethings and students I'd say, and I love him. Yaaaay! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwh5iWPiYI" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch a clip</span></strong></a>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Guys. GUYS. This movie is amazing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Bazpierce" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Barry</span></strong></a> recommended it in a film video aaaages ago (possibly even before I started watching him - I binge watch BookTubers when I first find them to see if I like their stuff) and I spotted that it was on Netflix, so I gave it a go and IT WAS SO GOOD. It's about a boy obsessed with death (mostly to try to get his ridiculous mother's attention) and an almost-eighty year-old woman overflowing with life, and their unlikely friendship-turned-romance. It sounds so icky, but it's not, it's bittersweet and hilarious and I laughed and cried and the characters are wonderful and the soundtrack is by Cat Stevens and YES. I want my own copy now, I adored it. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mz3TkxJhPc" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Jemima Rooper and Elliot Cowan, written by Guy Andrews</span></strong><br />
I was really fancying a little Jane Austen time in the middle of the month, but was already reading other things - so I went on a mini Austen TV and movie binge instead. Rather than watching straight-up adaptations I first went back to this TV series, in which feisty Londoner (and die-hard <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> fan) Amanda Price finds a magical door into Longbourn in her bathroom and switches places with Elizabeth. It's actually better (and funnier) than I remembered, watching Amanda completely screwing over the original plot and desperately trying to get everybody's storylines back on track - and Elliot Cowan's Darcy is seriously fine, WET SHIRT OR OTHERWISE. So much fun! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaBlYKtEnXk" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Keri Russell and JJ Feild, directed by Jerusha Hess</span></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.bookinginheels.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Hanna</span></strong></a> mentioned really liking this when I met up with her in September, hence buying the books and the DVD soon afterwards. I watched it as soon as I was done with the novel, and I LOVED IT. It's smart and cheesy and ridiculous and romantic, and JJ Feild is basically what would arrive on Earth if Tom Hiddleston and Alan Cumming had a love child, so... Yes. GREAT fun for Austen fans who aren't too precious about modern twists on the original stories, which I'm not. Interesting fact: Jennifer Coolidge was actually on Shannon Hale's fantasy cast list before the movie was made, so it's nice that what's on screen at least partially matches up to what the author had in mind on the page! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHr8YyjSlg" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, directed by Jim Jarmusch</span></strong><br />
FINALLY! It feels like I've been waiting for this movie forever - buzz started early, festival fever fanned the flames (ALLITERATION), the rest of the world saw it, we finally got a limited release (which meant nowhere round here bothered), and then forever and a day later the DVD arrived... It was worth the wait. I think. The immortal and slightly weary characters are beautifully portrayed (Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Tilda Swinton and John Hurt, come on), the cinematography is dark and interesting, and the soundtrack is one of my favourites of recent movies. It's definitely a slow-burner - not much really happens - but it's gorgeous and intimate and I had a deep feeling of satisfaction when the end credits rolled, which is always a good sign for me. Definitely one for a rewatch sometime soon. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOKvWrwYFo" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Lee Ingleby and Liz White, written by Matt Charman</span></strong><br />
This is actually a TV series rather than a movie, but since I'm planning on acquiring the box set at some point I thought I'd include it here like I would any other series I own on DVD. It's basically the story of the creation of Chester Zoo - a dramatized and enhanced version of the earliest part of June Mottershead's story (see above). George Mottershead, a shell-shocked WWI veteran, and his young family move to a large house in Upton with the intention of opening a zoological gardens, a 'zoo without bars', where animals can live comfortably and safely while also providing an educational opportunity for visitors. Unfortunately, the conservative residents of Upton have other ideas... It's a beautiful BBC period piece, with superb acting across the board, a great cast, adorable moments and some really nail-biting ones, even though obviously you know it all came good in the end! Lovely cosy cold-weather viewing. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GumbvZepgNU" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, directed by Francis Lawrence</span></strong><br />
Do I really have to explain this one? No, probably not, but here we go. I rewatched the movie at the end of the month, because I want to finally read <em>Mockingjay </em>in November before the first instalment hits the big screen. Unlike last year, I <em>don't </em>want to reread the first two books - not yet - so I watched the film instead. It was as brilliant as I remember, from the thrilling moments of rebellion to the ingenious arena to that incredible Mockingjay dress. I've heard bad things about the last book, but my love for the first two and their corresponding films goes undiminished! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAzGXqJSDJ8" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Brad Pitt and Mireille Enos, directed by Marc Forster</span></strong><br />
First up, can I just say that this movie was NOWHERE NEAR as awful as I expected it to be from the dreadful reviews and tirades of abuse I've seen around the internet. It was never going to be a straight-up adaptation of the book (which I read <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/september-book-and-movie-mini-reviews.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">in September</span></strong></a>), because an oral history-style novel by its definition has no cohesive narrative or prominent character to root for - but I thought the compromises made to bring the overall story to the screen were excellent. The tone remained quite faithful: the emphasis was on military intervention, and the zombie apocalypse as a contagion, rather than on gore and cheap thrills. It did manage to cram in plenty of horror-movie staples - terror on a plane, terror in a military facility, terror in an apartment building - but although they were noticeable, I didn't mind. It just added to the feeling of zombie saturation and the fact that literally nowhere was safe. It's not going to be my favourite movie of the year, but I'm really glad I gave it a try and formed my OWN opinion. Definitely one I'll be returning to next time I fancy an easy-to-watch sci-fi action movie of an evening. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)</div>
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This has actually changed a tiny bit since I started writing this post (and took the photo for it), but let's go with it... I've finally remembered that I'm working way my way through <em><strong>The Pleasures of the Damned</strong>, </em>the collection of Bukowski's poems, so I've read a few more of those recently. I picked up <strong><em>Relish: My Life in the Kitchen</em></strong> by Lucy Knisley, a cute graphic memoir that I'd originally planned to read during the <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Dewey%27s%2024-Hour%20Read-a-Thon" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Dewey Readathon</span></strong></a> but set aside in favour of <em>Our Zoo</em>, so I'm a couple of 'chapters' into that as well. It's very cheerful and chirpy, providing the perfect happy-break from my final current read, <strong><em>Beloved</em></strong> by Toni Morrison. I've actually finished it this evening and Jesus, it's brutal. Beautiful, but brutal. More on that in next month's wrap-up... I haven't picked my next novel yet, but it'll probably be something from that groaning library pile that never seems to go down, haha. Or <em>Mockingjay</em>! Must read <em>Mockingjay</em>... *wanders off to have a look*<br />
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<em>The Great Gatsby</em> is one of those classics that almost every eclectic reader is bound to read sooner or later, whether for school or for fun or just to find out what all the fuss is about. It's also, however, a classic that no one really seems to know that much about until they read it (the Baz Lurhmann movie may have changed all that now, I don't know). All <em>I</em> really knew was that there was a narrator called Nick Carraway, lots of decadent alcohol-soaked parties, and that a long-standing romance between the enigmatic Jay Gatsby and a girl called Daisy was important.</div>
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This was a beautifully written novel with a cast of flawed and interesting characters and a strong dose of extremely pointed social commentary - so why couldn't I rate it higher than I did? Perhaps in some ways the fundamental nature of the characters, their shady backgrounds and compulsive lies and airy aloofness, served to distance me from their story rather than drawing me in. Every time I thought I'd got a handle on a character they got flipped around again. It's skilfully done by Fitzgerald, but it didn't allow me to really invest in anything that happened.</div>
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To be honest, I think one of the most irritating things for me was that just before I started reading the novel, some idiot on the internet spoiled the ending for me. Obviously I'm not going to say too much, but I really think the climax would have knocked me for six and added a lot to my lasting impression of the book had I not known what was coming.<br />
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As the novel progressed the contextual themes and philosophical musings occasionally got a bit heavy-handed, but I did enjoy the insight into the shifts and changes happening in Twenties society. Fitzgerald's careful skewering of rampant materialism and consumerism, of the corruption of wealth, and the poignant emptiness of the façade created by 'new money', is very well done. Jay Gatsby is the embodiment of an ambitious self-made man holding on to an impossible dream, Daisy is a shallow butterfly, and her husband Tom is the epitome of arrogant privilege and entitled cruelty. Of course, we only ever see what the gentle (though clearly biased) Nick Carraway wants to show us, but we can read between the lines.<br />
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I liked this novel. I really did. I think I'll get more from it on a second reading, and I'm definitely looking forward to watching a couple of different adaptations to see how they take this dazzling story into a new medium. I quite liked Jay Gatsby in the end, which I think helped cement my enjoyment of the book as a whole, and I very much liked Fitzgerald's smooth writing style. I'll definitely be reading more of his work - probably starting with <em>Tender is the Night</em> - and immersing myself further in the world of flappers and frippery to which he so frequently returns.<br />
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<strong>A note on my edition:</strong> This is the foiled art deco-style Penguin hardback, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. It has a bookmark integrated into the back flap of the dustjacket (which OBVIOUSLY I didn't use), a small section of notes in the back, and also an extensive introduction by Tony Tanner, which I recommend reading AFTER you've finished the novel (as I did) as it does contain fairly major spoilers. This introduction may be ideal for students, and definitely contains some interesting perspectives and insights, but it's a bit dry and of the 'Look how many big words I know' ilk if you prefer your intros more informal and personal. It also lost points for this completely straight-faced sentence about how far Nick believes Gatsby's fabrications about his life: -<br />
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- followed by repeat use of the word 'hankey-pankey', which I'm not going to lie, gave me the 'Uncle Geoffrey from <em>Bridget Jones'</em> creeps. So... yes. Beautiful edition, though!<br />
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Du du DUH DUH DUH... another month bites the dust... sing it with me! Yes, you will have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. YOU'RE WELCOME. :)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn</span></strong><br />
I've wanted to read this for a while, because I wanted to watch the movie and you know I always prefer to read FIRST - but sadly I didn't like it any more than <em>Dash and Lily's Book of Dares. </em>It was a quick read, quite fun, quite amusing - but also 100% forgettable. Like <em>Dash and Lily, </em>there were some brilliant little moments and some profound lines in there, but it wasn't enough to redeem the book as a whole and I've already forgotten all but the bare basics. I'm glad I borrowed it from the library instead of shelling out for a copy of my own! 3 stars.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Thomas Harris</span></strong><br />
My first book of the Halloween season - and what a pleasant surprise it was! Hannibal himself is only in it for about 3 seconds, so what you're really left with is a well-written crime novel that focuses almost entirely on two characters: the murderer, Francis Dollarhyde, and the fascinating Will Graham, brought in by the FBI to use his empathic and imaginative talents to get inside the mind of the 'Red Dragon', who has already slaughtered two completely unlinked families in their homes. I found the psychology of both these individuals to be the book's strongest element, with Dollarhyde's terrifying delusions and Graham's intuitive understanding dancing around each other as the FBI gets closer and closer to the truth. I can't wait to read more from this series - an unexpected 4.5 stars!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7A474k9I3HQwlfhKY7gnXfskkRXVtSEzaq3fLn0fUun_LgGwx4WG1JwYakeGAOXv80rfz3xK24PRIAL5bVCrYPj2pp-NJGwcEqRzQ_xu_3rGKhJfTwzzE1fhmaugYhowCyOrJ8rQ6Kqgt/s1600/And+the+Hippos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7A474k9I3HQwlfhKY7gnXfskkRXVtSEzaq3fLn0fUun_LgGwx4WG1JwYakeGAOXv80rfz3xK24PRIAL5bVCrYPj2pp-NJGwcEqRzQ_xu_3rGKhJfTwzzE1fhmaugYhowCyOrJ8rQ6Kqgt/s1600/And+the+Hippos.jpg" width="130" /></a><strong>And the Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs</span></strong><br />
Finally, my first Beat novel! It's been a long time coming, though I'd always assumed <em>On the Road</em> would be my first... but whatever. I got this one from the library right after I bought <em>Kill Your Darlings </em>on DVD and realised that the book was essentially a thinly-veiled novelisation of the real events depicted in the film. Labelled a 'crime noir', I actually didn't think it felt that way at all; the murder is a fleeting thing right near the end of the book. It's incredibly easy to read, filled with tiny mundane details that build up a picture of a bohemian alcohol-fuelled lifestyle largely consisting of bar hopping and drifting in and out of each other's homes to eat, sleep, love, talk and dream. I also liked the insight into how boys would 'ship out' to work at sea, and how that process worked. An odd one, this, in that I didn't rank it THAT highly, yet I'd really like to reread it and have my own copy at some point in the near future. 3.5 stars.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCu8xxiIZB06R_xH-YoJ4GojRLy1zqoK57Fs3uqOknzJteU49S7-6Mf7htPYvZefhBswcTzP-9_0O3UIqlGLpVboyfILECNcinjVcaqmQ8PWeU9SZeTabLGnx72EGX5wk0wKJoBbOCCjTz/s1600/Ketchup+Clouds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCu8xxiIZB06R_xH-YoJ4GojRLy1zqoK57Fs3uqOknzJteU49S7-6Mf7htPYvZefhBswcTzP-9_0O3UIqlGLpVboyfILECNcinjVcaqmQ8PWeU9SZeTabLGnx72EGX5wk0wKJoBbOCCjTz/s1600/Ketchup+Clouds.jpg" width="128" /></a><strong>Ketchup Clouds</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Annabel Pitcher</span></strong><br />
This was another book that ended up being a little different from what I expected. From the 'teenage girl writing to a serial killer' premise, I'd expected a thriller more akin to Belinda Bauer's <em><span style="color: black;">Blacklands</span></em>. What I GOT was something that was more like a fusion of Laurie Halse Anderson and Malorie Blackman: a pitch-perfect, wry and beautifully told story of a young woman spilling her darkest secrets to someone she hopes might understand. It's gripping, yes, and provocative, but in a heartstring-tugging and realistic way rather than a chilling one. 4 stars - I might read her other novel at some point too. Has anyone read it already? Do you recommend it?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW_cmaOzk7NU3wbeFWMg7mzxzsNMlYyJqroEJYt5ysq3ESSBXd1OcfQcv-VI-ZFLs5gNKWT_ia5J46UuWEQKVgga3O-UplqPEVIbzyc5MWZJbe4ZCDvA1J0l3YpkLgfc9eycE_WftVPCpH/s1600/Woolgathering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW_cmaOzk7NU3wbeFWMg7mzxzsNMlYyJqroEJYt5ysq3ESSBXd1OcfQcv-VI-ZFLs5gNKWT_ia5J46UuWEQKVgga3O-UplqPEVIbzyc5MWZJbe4ZCDvA1J0l3YpkLgfc9eycE_WftVPCpH/s1600/Woolgathering.jpg" width="136" /></a><strong>Woolgathering</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Patti Smith</span></strong><br />
This is an odd one. In well under 100 pages, Smith manages to cram in photographs, vignettes from her life and a dose of poetry. I picked it up at the library after I saw it reviewed on BookTube, and I'm glad I did, even though I've forgotten most of it already. It's undeniably well written and has its profoundly beautiful moments - I particularly liked the vignette entitled 'Nineteen Fifty-Seven', which manages to combine fire, grief, family and a dog into a heartbreaking few pages - but the poetry and more random 'artistic' moments didn't do much for me, I'm afraid. It came across as a bit pretentious where I think it was just meant to be honest. If <em>Just Kids</em> sticks with Smith's talent for writing and nixes the odd tangents, I think we'll get on just fine. A tentative 3 stars, maybe?<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Max Brooks</span></strong><br />
My last complete read for the month! Despite having owned it for years, pretty much all I knew about this one was that everyone seems to love it, and it does what it says on the cover - it's an oral history-style zombie novel. I thought it was fantastic! It's so convincing that occasionally, when I was reading a segment more focussed on something not directly zombie contact-related (military tactics, say), I forgot I was reading fiction. In these more technical areas I genuinely have no idea how much detail is real, and how much was entirely fabricated by Brooks. The oral history format also made it extremely addictive, because each person's perspective only lasts a few pages at most, so it's too easy to read 'just one more'. This isn't light reading, exactly, but if I've managed to make it sound even remotely intriguing then I highly recommend giving it a try! 4.5 stars.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, directed by Peter Sollett</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Meeeeeeeh. So, I read the book because I wanted to watch the film, yes? And the trailer looked quite amusing, and MOST of all I wanted to watch it because I have a tremendous crush on Kat Dennings. I have to say, she made a great Norah, and her and her perpetually-intoxicated friend pretty much made the movie for me. Whoever cast Michael Cera as Nick should be shot, but that's another matter entirely. Once again, the ingredients for a good romcom were there - funny bits, kooky characters, great one-liners - but somehow it just didn't come together for me. I watched it on Netflix, and it's definitely not one I'll be buying to rewatch or anything. Oh well. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNzzCN4dVFA" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring William Petersen and Tom Noonan, directed by Michael Mann</span></strong><br />
This one, on the other hand, completely outshone its trailer, and even managed to make the awful synth soundtrack feel faintly ironic instead of just cheesy. I was urged to watch this adaptation of <em>Red Dragon </em>instead of the remake with Anthony Hopkins - and I have to say, it was a good call. Will Graham is portrayed really well (not Hugh Dancy-well, but SSSSH) and Brian Cox's miniscule role as Dr Lecter is the perfect mix of charm and cunning. It also alters the odd double ending of the book, which was possibly an improvement. I'd definitely recommend reading it first - there were so many character details that made more sense that way - but if you're going to watch an adaptation this is WAY better than I expected! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbpk0pv60DE" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSruhxWUnExKC1vOs9WOoMwoFT4YIm3dTVGsXF8orQKTApyu6YdJeDTX9eTFXQnENp9vN3TM-wITgVZMzF1mHkyku7vh358iAdoEfLxNcxhG_j4NxRV_GsRIL_bEVz1Qx6SMltfKwbq81/s1600/Kill+Your+Darlings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSruhxWUnExKC1vOs9WOoMwoFT4YIm3dTVGsXF8orQKTApyu6YdJeDTX9eTFXQnENp9vN3TM-wITgVZMzF1mHkyku7vh358iAdoEfLxNcxhG_j4NxRV_GsRIL_bEVz1Qx6SMltfKwbq81/s1600/Kill+Your+Darlings.jpg" width="140" /></a><strong>Kill Your Darlings (2013)</strong><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, directed by John Krokidas</strong></span><br />
This was another one that surpassed my expectations - though I had pretty high ones anyway, so it's aaaaaaall good. I absolutely loved it. I'd never even heard of it until I saw it in Tesco, but I bought it on the spot because it's baaaasically another version of the true story behind <em>And The Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks</em>. It's from the perspective of Allen Ginsberg, and is about him meeting Lucien Carr, being introduced to William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and ultimately witnessing the fallout from the murder of David Kammerer, who had been obsessed with Carr for years. As with the novel, however, the film is more about the build-up - the music, the alcohol, the poetry and flirtation and shabby decadence and the development of ideas that would shape the Beats for years to come. It's funny and intoxicating but has its sudden dark, heartbreaking moments, the soundtrack is wonderful, and both Daniel Radcliffe (Ginsberg) and Dane DeHaan (Carr) are amazing. Ben Foster is particularly impressive as Burroughs too. I'm sure Beat experts can find plenty wrong with it - as always happens when real events are translated onto the screen - but it's one of my favourite movies of the year so far. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxGgkEHmHHg" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)</div>
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Aside from a brief return to Charles Bukowski's <em><strong>The Pleasures of the Damned</strong></em>, which I dip in and out of whenever I remember I'm reading it, I've been concentrating on <em><strong>Lord of the Flies</strong>. </em>I'm not gonna lie, it's taking me a while - though I'm not sure why. It's easy enough to read, and the dark undertones are building nicely - it's maybe just getting a bit... repetitive? I'm not getting enough of life on the island and how the mindsets of the boys are shifting - it's all a bit "and then we traipsed around the beach a bit again and OH BY THE WAY SOME OF US MAY BE GOING MAD". No real insight into why, or how - it just <em>is. </em>I mean, I understand, I just think it would have been more effective to have explored that descent a little more deeply instead of just having another scene of small children eating fruit or playing in the water. <br />
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Hopefully I'll finish it early this week, I've got so many I want to read this month! Upcoming books may or may not include <em>Pride and Prejudice, Austenland, The Great Gatsby </em>and hopefully some of the non-fiction I've got checked out of the library at the moment. Stay tuned!</div>
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Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07246472269477492583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809037602256300893.post-77334379648492111832014-09-08T11:50:00.000-07:002016-07-29T07:18:33.349-07:00August: What I Read, What I Watched, What I'm Reading<div style="text-align: center;">
Flying in late YET again with my August reviews and wrap-up, oooops. Hello! How was your late-summer reading? I feel like mine finally picked up a bit last month; I finished <em>Lamb </em>at last and leapt head-first into some long-awaited novellas from the library. The impending 'final deadline' really boosted me to drive hard at my reading towards the end of August, because I desperately wanted to read these books and I'd had them for so long I couldn't renew them any more! It's amazing how much time you find to read when you have the threat of library fines at your back. :)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzcq01tEimAwah7oln8hCPZyE_ltaeUkYCbci6An7H7vcOdzjPVr-_g-6vUVkcmq7Kmhu_6aKsoewRL6Gye63cwpJ3JngPOhgm6NAQAA4p47o6xbQZYfrqmbbkaYsGqKxkfa1c1GomBQi/s1600/Lamb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzcq01tEimAwah7oln8hCPZyE_ltaeUkYCbci6An7H7vcOdzjPVr-_g-6vUVkcmq7Kmhu_6aKsoewRL6Gye63cwpJ3JngPOhgm6NAQAA4p47o6xbQZYfrqmbbkaYsGqKxkfa1c1GomBQi/s1600/Lamb.jpg" width="126" /></a><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>by Christopher Moore</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">My first priority in August was to FINALLY finish <em>Lamb</em>, which I'd been reading since I went on holiday at the end of June. I'd put it aside for some frothy summer reading and to finish a non-fiction book I'd been struggling to get through, so it was about time! Happily, it lived up to all the rave reviews and Moore-hype I've seen everywhere over the past few years. The basic premise is that Christ's oldest friend Biff has been resurrected by an angel and locked in a hotel room to write his own gospel - the real story of Joshua's life, filling in the massive gap between 'born in stable' and 'thirty and preaching the Word'. Christopher Moore being a clever and hilarious dude, this manages to incorporate everything from Buddhist philosophy and the wisdom of the Kings of Orient to kung-fu and a Yeti, as Joshua sets about learning how to be the Messiah. It's such an absorbing read, very intelligent, very funny, yet surprisingly wise and poignant sometimes too. Definitely a keeper - I gave it 4.5 stars - and I see many more Christopher Moore novels in my future!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Carrie Ryan</span></strong><br />
I'd heard a lot of good things about this book, and had been looking for it at the library for AGES, so when I finally spotted it on the reshelving trolley I grabbed it! A zombie novel whose synopsis reminded me a bit of <em>The Village </em>- human enclave, very insular and ordered, evil things trying to breach the fences - this sadly turned out to be a tad disappointing. The actual zombie mythology of Ryan's world is interesting, and the book definitely kept me hooked, but I had some problems with it too. I felt like it set up more questions than it answered, paving the way for future books in the series in a way that was more frustrating than enticing, and I really wasn't keen on the main character, Mary. She is extremely self-absorbed and self-obsessed, playing with people's hearts and constantly putting herself and others in danger through her reckless need to follow her whims instantly instead of thinking them through. Of course everyone around her pays the price, and yet she never seems to learn! I've picked up the next book, <em>The Dead-Tossed Waves</em>, mostly because it has a complete character shift so... no more Mary and her stupidity! Hopefully I'll like this one better, and it'll fill in some of those unanswered questions that bugged me in the first book... 3 stars.<br />
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I loved the movie version of <em>Ghost World </em>as a teenager, so when Ellie (the <a href="http://www.curiositykilledthebookworm.net/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Curiosity Killed the Bookworm</span></strong></a> branch of the Ellie Army) offered to send on her copy of the graphic novel, I eagerly accepted. And I'm so glad I did! To start with I wasn't sure I was going to like the style, either in terms of the art work OR the dialogue, but the further I delved, the more I appreciated it. It's actually made up of several short and largely self-contained vignettes that fall along a linear timeline, rather than following one big story arc, which probably helped, because I could dip into it for light relief in between chapters of the Carrie Ryan novel. It had its kooky moments, and its poignant ones, and it was a good excuse to watch the movie again for the first time in years. I think I like the adaptation more, but it was still a lot of fun! 4 stars.<br />
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Finally, I read my first Shirley Jackson! Jean over at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/BookishThoughts/videos" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Bookish Thoughts</span></strong></a> talks about her a fair bit, so I thought it was about time I gave her a go. My local bookshops failed epically, but the library fared better and I picked <em>We Have Always Lived in the Castle </em>to start me off. This book is more about atmosphere and character than plot, concentrating on an insular household comprising eighteen year-old oddball Merricat, her older sister Constance, her cat Jonas, and their eccentric uncle. The rest of their family was killed in bizarre circumstances and the townspeople hate, ridicule and fear them in equal measure - all they have is their house, each other and their unchanging domestic routine. Until a money-grabbing cousin unexpectedly arrives and brings their world tumbling down around them, that is... The description and prose in this novella is <em>beautiful, </em>and the inside of Merricat's strange mind is quite fascinating. It's fairly sedately paced, with the exception of one genuinely heartbreaking scene of chaos and misery that made me feel sick to the stomach, but it flows well and I never felt like it was dragging at all. A hard one to describe all round, really... My best advice is just to read it for yourself! 4 stars - I'll definitely be reading more Shirley Jackson soon!<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Christopher Isherwood</span></strong><br />
Another beautiful little novella that's far more focussed on character, thought and ambience than it is on plot - and is thus difficult to describe or review in any meaningful way. This was my first Isherwood - and again, most definitely not my last - and is pretty much a 'day in the life' of George, a British college professor living in Los Angeles. He is still mourning the (fairly) recent loss of his partner Jim, and finds himself irreparably estranged from the world: from his neighbours and colleagues, because of his sexuality, and from his students, because of his age. He spends his time perfecting his outer façade, searching for understanding, reflecting on life, and fielding the neuroses of his larger-than-life friend Charlotte. It's gorgeously written and quietly devastating, and I plan to buy the film soon because if it's even NEARLY as good as this, it's going to be something special. Another solid 4 stars.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Richard Ayoade</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">This film was the reason I finally read my first Dostoyevsky novella <a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/april-what-i-read-what-im-reading.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">back in April</span></strong></a> (jeez, was it that long ago?!). The DVD was released in August and I bought it the same week, thanks to the winning (for me) combination of classic source material, 'what is real' mind-fuckery, and the combined talents of Jesse Eisenberg (who is rapidly becoming one of my favourite actors, he's amazing), the lovely Mia Wasikowska and the genius that is Richard Ayoade. It was... slow, not in a bad way... extremely dark, blackly funny, strange and unsettling, picking up pace and getting simultaneously more coherent yet more warped as the movie went on. The numerous cameos from Ayoade's fellow comedians (Tim Key), <em>IT Crowd</em> friends (Chris O'Dowd, Chris Morris) and cast members from his previous film <em>Submarine</em> (Sally Hawkins, Craig Roberts AND Paddy Considine) were fun to spot, but felt a bit out of place in such a pitch-black film. I definitely preferred it to the book and will be watching it again at some point to see how much more I get from it the second time around. Cautiously recommended. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG8qATRtNuU" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi, directed by Terry Zwigoff</span></strong><br />
I finished the graphic novel during the last Bout of Books readathon, so it made sense to round off my BoB week by watching the movie, for the first time in YEARS! It had so many little moments and snippets of dialogue that translated straight from the page to the screen (as you might expect, given that the screenplay was written by Daniel Clowes), but also gave the characters one film-friendly overarching plot which helped ease the transition between media. The double act in the film is actually Enid and Seymour (a new character drawn together from several in the book) rather than Enid and Rebecca (who still has an important role, just... less so), but I didn't mind because the dynamic between these two soulmates-yet-polar-opposites was so much fun. Seymour's a sweetheart and offsets Enid's confident feistiness a bit... it works. The dialogue is still superb and the whole thing felt as warm and hilarious and full of heart as I remembered. I also LOVE the music - lots of old blues and country rock, it's great. Recommended! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6AOc0ATnU" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the trailer</span></strong></a>)<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Starring Hugh Laurie and Omar Epps</span></strong><br />
I actually watched most of this season aaaaages ago, then recently decided to rewatch it from the start so that I could finally finish it off and move on. It's pretty much more of the same magic House formula as the first season - brilliant deduction, bucketloads of sarcasm, some nasty moments and lots of medical intrigue. This season involves everything from a prisoner on death row to a famous doctor with possible TB, a woman with Munchausen Syndrome to an immuno-compromised heart transplant patient, all with a side dose of team bickering, hospital politics and House's ever-present leg pain. Funny, brilliant, fascinating and moving by turn. If, like me, you're a latecomer to this series and haven't started it yet, get on it - it more than lives up to the hype! (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlOaNTGFWk0" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">watch the ridiculously overdramatic US trailer</span></strong></a>)</div>
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I finished my first book of September - <strong>Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist</strong> - on the first of the month, and moved straight on to my <strong>Red Dragon</strong> by Thomas Harris. It's my first foray into the world of Hannibal Lecter, so me being me I decided I might as well dive straight in the deep end and not only READ ALL THE HANNIBAL, but also watch the movies and both series as well. I figured I might as well stick with Hannibal's storyline instead of veering off into the worlds of Norman Bates or Dexter Morgan again just yet. Each serial killer in his own sweet time! So far I've been very impressed by the book AND the new series; the book, in particular, is far more accomplished than I expected, and the series is every bit as addictive as the hype suggested. Bring on the rest!<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">July 25th: Book that is your guilty pleasure</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">July 26th: The novel you wish you'd written</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It's got to be <strong>the <em>Harry Potter</em> series</strong>, hasn't it? It made reading cool, got kids immersed in books, changed people's lives, spawned massively popular tourist attractions, moved onto the big screen... Just about everybody in the entire world knows the name of the Boy Who Lived, and it all started with one woman having an idea on a train, writing in cafes and a dingy Edinburgh flat, with no money and a baby daughter sleeping beside her, bringing this epic magical story into the world. Amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Ooooh, this is a difficult one! I think the 'best parent' award has to go to the iconic <strong>Atticus Finch</strong> from <em>To Kill a Mockingbird </em>(<a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/double-review-to-kill-mockingbird-by.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">my double review</span></strong></a>). He's a hero in every sense, and perfectly treads the fine line between helping Scout and Jem find their way in the world and allowing them to work things out for themselves. The 'worst parent' award is trickier, but in the end I went for <strong>Eva Khatchadourian</strong> from <em>We Need to Talk About Kevin. </em>Not only did she play a significant part in turning her son into a monster by quite blatantly detesting him from birth, she THEN had a second golden child and fawned all over her, rubbing her lack of affection in Kevin's face every day for years. Ugh. Special mentions go to Margaret White from <em>Carrie</em> (<a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/carrie-by-stephen-king.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">my review</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: blue;">)</span></strong> for being a crazy child-beater, and Mr and Mrs Wormwood from <em>Matilda</em>, who quite frankly just shouldn't have been allowed to reproduce.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">July 28th: Favourite animal character</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">I'm going properly old-school with this one: I absolutely adore little <strong>Plop</strong>, from <em>The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark </em>by Jill Tomlinson. He's a baby owl who gets frightened when his parents go off hunting every evening, so he goes on an adventure to find out all the cool things about night-time. He meets all kinds of people and creatures, and by the end he isn't scared any more! Our teacher read us this book in Year 2, and when it came into the shop nearly twenty years later it was so lovely reading it again and looking at all the beautiful illustrations. :)</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">July 29th: Favourite likeable villain</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">Shiiiiiit. Another prompt where I just can't settle on an answer! Okay... I'm going to have to go with <strong>Dexter Morgan</strong>, from the <em>Dexter</em> series by Jeff Lindsay (<a href="http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/darkly-dreaming-dexter-by-jeff-lindsay.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">my review of the first book</span></strong></a>), because 'serial killer who channels his instincts into destroying bad guys and has a wonderfully playful dark sense of humour' is about as likeable-villain as they come. Outside of Tom Hiddleston's Loki anyway, and he doesn't count because FILM.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">July 30th: LUCKY DIP - A book you've been inspired to read by #bookadayUK</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">For the first time, I actually don't have a single thing to contribute to this one! To be honest, I haven't been keeping up with the Twitter feed that diligently, apart from occasional days when I've checked out other people's responses for inspiration. It's been more fun being <em>reminded</em> of characters and books I already love, and books I definitely want to read sometime, rather than discovering new ones.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">July 31st: The book that reminds you of someone special</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;">I'm going to mega-cheat on this one, because I have three that immediately spring to mind. <strong><em>The Life of Birds</em></strong> by David Attenborough was a Christmas present when I was a little girl because I was always mad-keen on birds and loved the TV series; my mum is a life-long Attenborough fan, so every time I see this on my shelf I think of her. <strong><em>Dolphins</em></strong> by Jacques-Yves Cousteau was actually her book when she was younger and is now mine, and really speaks to my love of the ocean and sea creatures; I actually seriously considered pursuing marine biology at one time! And finally, <strong><em>The Forsyte Saga</em></strong> by John Galsworthy, which my dad bought for me on a birthday trip to Scarthin Books years ago, where he let me loose for several hours and bought me a pile of books at the end as my birthday present. I loved this TV series (with Damian Lewis and Rupert Graves), sailed through the novel, and the Wordsworth edition of the book is about the only one that keeps all three volumes of the saga together so I still have the same copy on my shelves all these years later. Every time I see it, it reminds me of that birthday!</span></div>
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<strong>If you've enjoyed all this, the good news is that </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bookadayuk?f=realtime&src=hash" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>#BookadayUK</strong></span></a><strong> has been taken up for another month, this time by the Siobhan Dowd Trust. Check out their </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/sdowdtrust" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Twitter feed</span></strong></a><strong> or follow the project hashtag to join in for August! The first prompt is "most arresting opening line"...</strong><br />
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<strong>Aaaand that's it! I hope you've enjoyed my #BookadayUK posts this month!</strong><br />
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