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*blink* when did it get to be six hours till the readathon starts? And, hey, current prize list.

*blink blink* how did it come to be that I have only one book-fandom icon? (Susan Pevensie doesn't count as the icon's from the movie.)

And my sister bought Tamora Pierce's shiny new book, so I'm starting with that. Don't expect any further updates until it's like midnight my time, though I may actually start using my Twitter account for things other than messaging ISBNs to LibraryThing. (Which I think I'll continue doing even though Amazon owns a big chunk of it, since it isn't actually going to hurt anything I can think of for me to continue using the LibraryThing account I already paid to make permanent, or for me to keep trying to get books out of LT's Early Reviewers and Member Giveaway.)

my past lotsa hours

Woke up at seven-thirty. Surprised parents at seven-forty-five by being conscious and downstairs and putting food in mouth. Dove right into Terrier by Tamora Pierce. Somebody asked if I wanted to come on the mall expedition. Brought book in car and kept reading till we got there about ten. Spent ten dollars at the book display in the mall corridor (cookbook, cookbook which will be Mother's Day present, McCaffrey hardcover for cheap because the paperback just came out) and another fifteen in the Waldenbooks (Scott Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas over Red Skies and five minutes later realized I'd forgot all about my Borders 30% off coupon and went back for Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart. Got back to the car about noonish and finished off Terrier and then got distracted by lunch and by sisters wanting help loading their shiny new MP3 players and by being hauled off to help clean the SUV and the garage. (Forgot how to deal with sunshine and temperatures above mid-seventies. Dehydration is not fun.) Somewhere in there I read synecdochic's "Dial Tones" because on the way from the mall I caught the words "take these broken wings" in a song and naturally that reminded me of her series of which "Dial Tones" is first chronologically. Absconded with sister's shiny new Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce and blasted right through that. Dinner. Back to synecdochic's Broken Wings. Wandered off to bake pound cake between Broken-Wings-novel-the-first (will someday actually remember what it's called) and A Howling in the Factory Yard. Got the March section open in another window right now, but now I'm online there's all sorts of emails and journal posts and such to glance over before I go back to that.

Erm. Fanfiction novels do count for the readathon, right?

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Mid-Event Survey:
1. What are you reading right now?
synecdochic's A Howling in the Factory Yard (link goes to part three)
2. How many books have you read so far?
Two books and one and a third fanfic novels. Lovely high word count on all of them.
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?
Red Seas over Red Skies, as I adored Lies of Locke Lamora first time through and I haven't read Red Seas yet.
4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day?
Yeah, like that woulda worked.
5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?
Not many, but long ones. And I went off and helped clean the car like a good girl.
6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?
*shrugs*
7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
*shrugs*
8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year?
*shrugs*
9. Are you getting tired yet?
Yeah, but then my pattern is to either crash at ten-thirty or almost crash at ten-thirty, and if it's 'almost' then I perk right up around midnight.
10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered?
*shrugs*