April 27th | Weekly Wrap Up #17

This was definitely a good week. It felt ridiculously long, but I'm really pleased with what I got done. There was some rereading and an awesome read-a-thon. And, considering that, we're just going to go straight into the books because that's all that happened and it'd be a long post if I rambled (more then I am).

Reading: (finished this week and actively currently-reading)
IT by Stephen King (5/5)
A reread. (For the... 20+ time? I don't think I'm exaggerating, if I am it's not by much). God, I love this book. As I love all of King's work that I've read so far, which is less then I'd of liked because I keep going back and rereading what I've already read.

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (5/5)
So cute, oh my god. I've got a minor problem with some of the things this MC thinks in the beginning, but he's a teenager. Also - it's fluffy fun, alright?

Predator: Fire and Stone by Joshua Williamson, Christopher Mooneyham (3/5)
Eh. This whole event is really strange and really interesting, but they're a little throwaway? Still enjoying them, but also I'm not too fond of the guy that's the MC in this one, bit of a dick.

Birthright, Volume 1: Homecoming by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan (4/5)
I was getting this in single issues, but for some reason wasn't reading it. I don't even quite remember why, it just looked really interesting, and I was not disappointed. I adored this, seriously, completely adored.

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (5/5)
I really, really enjoyed this. I wasn't sure what to expect, going into it, I just knew some stuff. And I was really pleasantly surprised, and I also think this is a great place to start with this author (having only read two of her books, this being the first, I'd take that with a grain of salt), but it seems to have less magical realism then some of her others - more on that in a few books.

Sex Criminals, Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (5/5)
I already knew I was going to read anything Fraction put out ever - ha, put out - but I'm thinking that officially includes Zdarsky as well. God, this series is good, and I get the feeling it is just getting started and is going to be really fucking good. I'm seriously excited and it's so good. If you don't like dick jokes, you won't enjoy this, but it's also way more then that - it's much deeper, stop laughing, and surprised me at a few points. It's definitely a step up from volume one, and I adored volume 1.

Ms. Marvel, Volume 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt (5/5)
Superheroes and commentaries on the world - and not just that. An MC POC badass female superhero who is smart, sure of herself, and unapologetically a teenager of the 21st century. I love her, I really do, and I love the other characters, too, even though I wish we'd gotten a little more. Also - don't have much experience with Wolverine, but them together was kind of fucking awesome. This whole thing was kind of awesome. Seriously - read Ms Marvel (and Sex Criminals) and be a happier person.

Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King (5/5)
I read two of her books in, well, less then 12 hours actually, I think. I couldn't say which I enjoyed more, but I really enjoyed that the magical realism was more in this book. More present and there and really interesting.

The Angel by Tiffany Reisz (5/5)
Some accidental rereading occurred here. (Seriously, though, I highly recommend this series, but definitely not for the faint of heart).

I'm just going to add this because it's a fun fact - well, a book nerd fun fact - considering all the things I read (IT being so long, Dewey's) I thought I'd see how much I'd read the whole week. So I read 3,263 pages this week! Insane, right? Whew.

Stuff:
Letter to a Young Reader - maybe some things some of you need to hear. It never hurts to hear some things.

Eisner Award Nominations! I've never really payed any attention to this, and will probably only give it a curious look when the winners are announced, but still cool. (Comic awards)

On the blog:

April 20th | Weekly Wrap Up #16

The Beginning (&stack) | Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon
8am - 12pm
12pm - 4pm
4pm - 8pm
8pm - 12pm
Dewey's Read-A-Thon Update | Wrap Up

Dewey's Read-A-Thon Update | Wrap Up

And that is another Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon out, I guess. I'm technically typing this up before it ends, but I think my brain had shut off from reading for a little while (I'm planning on reading later, using the time I missed then, I'm in a reading mood after this).

I always read a lot during read-a-thons. So, on one hand, I'm not that surprised, because I normally just push myself towards some impossible/ridiculous goal and, while I don't always make that goal (which is why it's impossible/ridiculous) I still get a lot done in the middle.

Also - I'm just glad to have read a whole book without feeling annoyed at how long it was taking or whatever else, because this recent reading.... drought or whatever has been killing me. So I'm so pleased to be out of it. And I know part of it is all in my head - I mean, technically it's probably all in my head, as it's reading, but whatever - and I've just got to do it, but sometimes that's hard. I find my best reading is when I don't give myself time to think about my next read - I have to just pick it up and read it (great for read-a-thons).

I'm thinking of, in a few days, doing this again. Not as intense - and I'm not waking up at 7:30am - but taking the whole day to read because I can sounds pretty nice to me.

Books:

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (started and finished - 303 pages)
Predator: Fire and Stone by Joshua Williamson, Christopher Mooneyham (started and finished - 126 pages)
Birthright, Volume 1: Homecoming by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan (started and finished - 128 pages)
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (started and finished - 293 pages)
Sex Criminals, Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky (started and finished - 128 pages)
Ms. Marvel, Volume 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt (started and finished - 136 pages)
Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King (started and finished - 279)
(Also started Sex and Violence but didn't get very far)

  

Total # Pages Read: 1,476   

  

Total # Books Read: 8

  

Total Time Spent Reading: 10 hours, 45 minutes

On the whole, that really doesn't feel like A lot of time. I was up for a full twelve hours, but I guess it would of been literally physically impossible to read for that long. Still - it feels like I could of read for more time, since I normally try to stay awake and read for the 24 hours.

I'm kind of glad my alarm didn't wake me up from my nap, though, because I've got to tell you I tried to read upon waking and it almost happened, but I have read a lot in such a short amount of time, I need a small break.

Anyway - either way, I'm really pleased with how it went, the reading. I'm pleased with how much I read and also with what I read, it was all mostly really good.

I hope your read-a-thon / Saturday went well, I hope you got some reading done or just had some fun. Read anything good recently?

The Beginning (&stack) | Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon
8am - 12pm
12pm - 4pm
4pm - 8pm
8pm - 12pm

Dewey's Read-A-Thon Update | 8pm - 12am

I mostly just read, got a bit distracted at points. But am now starting to drag, am definitely feeling it more. It's like - story fatigue? I mean I've also been up for over... however many hours. And while I'd really, really like to try and beat my record (which is from April 2014 and was 1,636 pages), I just don't think it's going to happen this time. Mostly because of the giant slump I've been in until this moment.

I'm going to try and nap and, hopefully, come back refreshed and be able to at least read something more. I'm too competitive (against myself) to just let myself go to sleep. Time to read! Stuff to be done.

Definitely let me know what YOU are up to - currently reading, last snacked on, don't forget to stretch.

Books:

Everybody Sees The Ants by A.S. King (finished - 234 pages)

  

# of Pages Read: 234

 

  

# of Books Read: 1

 

  

Time Spent Reading: 2 hours, 20 minutes

 

  

Total # Pages Read: 1,476

 

  

Total # Books Read: 8  

 

  

Total Time Spent Reading: 10 hours, 45 minutes

Dewey's Read-A-Thon Update | 4pm - 8pm

I took a longer break this time around - I really do take this day just four hours at a time, it makes everything slightly less terrifying - and had a real meal, watched a YT video, wrote 1k. And then got back into reading before 8 was upon me.

Books:

Sex Criminals, Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop by Fraction, Zdarsky (started and finished - 128 pages)

Ms. Marvel, Volume 2 by G. Willow Wilson (started and finished - 136 pages)

Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King (started - 47 pages)

# of Pages Read: 311

# of Books Read: 2

Time Spent Reading: 1 hours, 55 minutes

Total # Pages Read: 1,242  

Total # Books Read: 7

Total Time Spent Reading: 8 hours, 25 minutes

I've been saving Sex Criminals and Ms. Marvel and I have no regrets on saving them, or in reading them in such a small amount of time. They were both fucking incredible, I highly recommend both of these series - Sex Criminals if the humor is your thing (dick jokes, mostly) and then Ms. Marvel if you like kick-ass super heroes who is a teenager in in 2014/2015.

Dewey's Read-A-Thon Update | 12pm - 4pm

I'm not sure how to count single issues, but since I've technically only read one (the others I'm counting as their trades because I read all of them, anyway, easier), I'm just going to count it as one. And we will go from there. So it was a good four hours.

Books:
Prometheus: Fire and Flood OMEGA by Kelly Sue DeConnick (started and finished - 44 pages)
Birthright, Vol 1: Homecoming by Joshua Williamson (started and finished - 128 pages)
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (finished - 253 pages)
Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian (started - 37 pages)

# of Pages Read: 462

# of Books Read: 3

Time Spent Reading: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Total # Pages Read: 931

Total # Books Read: 5

Time Spent Reading: 3 hours, 30 minutes

This read-a-thon is going shockingly good so far, considering how much reading wasn't happening for me. Although, I did also finish my reread of IT in four days, so I guess I was pre-gaming for this a little. Really loved Ask the Passengers, and I'm intrigued by Sex and Violence but not too far into it. I don't really know what to expect, I might pick up something else, we shall see in a few hours when I update here again.

Hope your read-a-thon (or just day) is going great. Reading anything good? (I hope so)

Dewey's Read-A-Thon Update | 8am - 12pm

I started reading at just about 8am and set my stopwatch on my phone and started reading. And didn't stop until I finished the first book and didn't feel like I had to push myself through it, which was a relief considering how my reading has been going lately.

Books:
Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (started and finished - 303 pages)
Predator: Fire and Stone by Joshua Williamson (started and finished - 126 pages)
Ask the Passangers by A.S. King (started - 40 pages)

# of Pages Read: 469

# of Books Read: 2

Time Spent Reading: 3 hours


I really enjoyed Simon and the Homo Sapiens Agenda - I had some minor problems with it at the beginning, but it was also just so painfully adorable at points I didn't know what to do. Ask the Passangers is definitely a more serious YA contemporary, but I guess it's a LGBTQA+ reading time or something? (I actually just picked it up without a thought, and then went... ooh yeah. Well, cool, I guess. So we are just going with it).

And then Predator: Fire and Stone - eh, but almost done with this event thing. I'm enjoying it over all, but it's not amazing or anything.

How are YOU doing? What are you currently-reading?

The Beginning (&stack) | Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon

And so it begins, another read-a-thon. Dewey's is a fantastic one and I hope you're all ready for it! I've got coffee, snacks, I think I am prepared. Oh, right, and a giant stack of books to pick from.

This is scheduled to go up, so I hope I'm actually awake (and curled up with a book and tea, let's do this!) I said before that I didn't have any real goals, and I don't, but that doesn't mean I also am not hoping towards some goals. I'm a goals kind of person and competitive, I've learned almost especially against myself.

So I have a huge stack of books that are possibilities for this read-a-thon. Novels, graphic novels, some ebooks.

I have so many comics/graphic novels/such in my possession that are unread that it's honestly becoming a problem. However, at the top for this read-a-thon are these:

• Sex Criminals, Vol 2 by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
• Ms. Marvel, Vol 2 by G. Willow Wilson
• And then more single issues stuff - I have the end of the Alien Fire and Stone event, still haven't read that, and also issues #1-3 of Bitch Planet.
• The Runaways: The Complete Collection, Vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

And then on the physical book side, I'm going much more young adult just because I read YA faster. And it's getting warmer now - finally - and I've started to kind of crave YA contemporary. So I've got that, some more fantasy YA, some completely off of that. It's a big stack of stuff that I might read because I've just found this is the best way to do it. And, really, my real stack is just the hundreds of unread books in the house plus ebooks plus what I could get on Scribd/Oyster. I'm a mood reader, and with a read-a-thon - just go with the flow. However, some possibilities:

• Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Bucky Albertalli
• Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
• Salt and Stone by Victoria Scott
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
• Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
• The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
• Ask the Passangers by A.S. King
• Early to Death, Early to Rise and Something Deadly This Way Comes by Kim Harrison
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman OR Trigger Warnings - short story collection to dig in and out of. 

Who knows what of that will be read, what won't, what I'll end up reading. But here we are - hour zero, I guess. What are you picking up first? / currently reading?