Oct 232009
 

readathon book stackLast Sunday I talked about getting ready for the 24 Hour Readathon this Saturday. I decided to do things a little differently than the last 24HRAT, mostly because updating my blog every three hours was a) driving me insane and b) driving everyone else insane (probably). So instead I’m just going to be updating one post throughout the day, probably once each time I finish a book. I may also do special individual posts if I can remember to check out the activities. I’ll also do a wrap-up post on Sunday.

If this 24HRAT is anything like the last 24HRAT, I’m probably going to be haunting Twitter and updating loads there. You can follow me if you want: I’m @anniebody.

And I know I said I wasn’t going to have a specific set of books, but then I remembered that last time I was running around trying to find books I wanted to read and I don’t want to do that again. So, here’s what I’ve got stacked up:
Readathon stack
From the bottom up, they are: Little Lord Fauntleroy, Poison, Twenties Girl, Dawn Wind, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, The Boggart, Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials, The Purple Emperor, The Picts & the Martyrs, The Big Six (actually, I’ve read that one already. Whoops.), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, The Ghost and Mrs McClure, One For the Money, The Chocolate Cat Caper, and Dragonfly.

(I apologize for the crappy Photobooth photo, but I’ve misplaced my fancy digital camera. Time to clean my room, I think– but after the readathon.)

I may add some other small murder mysteries (I’ve got some Val McDermid books I need to read), and possibly my fancy new Pictures for Sad Children book that came in the mail yesterday, but this is pretty much it. Oh, wait, maybe I’ll add in the Last Apprentice book number 4 (I think I have it, at least). But then that’s really it.

Do you have a plan for the 24HRAT?

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Oct 232009
 

LeviathanLeviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Publication: Simon Pulse (October 6, 2009), Hardcover, 448pp / ISBN 1416971734
Genre: Sci-Fi, Steampunk, YA
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Challenges: Countdown 2010 (2009 #4)
Read: October 2009
Source: Library

I’ve been excited for Leviathan since about…July? I even wrote down the publication date on my calendar so I’d know to get it from the library.

So it was with a lot of anticipation and expectation for awesomeness that I started reading Leviathan, and I’m so happy that it was awesome because I don’t think I could rebound from a disappointment like expecting superb and getting subpar. But Leviathan is not subpar. It is superb, and now I’m wondering if I’m not putting more into it than it actually gave me. Because I was expecting awesome, and I got awesome, did I inadvertently influence my own reaction?

Possibly I’ve been in college too long. Those anthropology/sociology classes will really get you if you don’t watch out.
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