Bookquarium

After completing my first 24in48 weekend, I am here to tell you – I super duper enjoyed it, folks.  I hosted this time, and managed to get my house clean-ish (as opposed to “wtf happened in here?” which it normally is – Elley was very nice about it being messy.) It being the two of us for the most part, and since it was well below zero, we decided to skip swimming at the YMCA and instead just do more reading. I read a TON. More than I did at last Dewey’s Readathon, I think. I liked this format a lot better two. Two days to read, but it’s more spread out and therefore more relaxed. (I don’t feel guilty if I take a few hours to go out to eat, or you know, sleep.) Plus they had challenges for Instagram and Twitter every couple of hours, which I enjoyed participating in. But I know, I know, get to them book reviews, girl. What did I read? No Country for Old Gnomes by Delilah S Dawson and Kevin Hearne Book two in the “Tales of Pell” series, this featured different charac...

The time is nearly upon us! The time for the 24in48 readathon challenge, that is! This week has been rather crazy (hell, this MONTH has been rather crazy) so I haven't had time to do the appropriate planning, or gathering my excitement, or any of that.  Instead, the beautiful Elley is going to show up at my house tonight, and we're going to do ALL the cooking. We've got our time scheduled out for reading, sleeping, going to do water aerobics at the Y (you bet your ass I bought a cute new bathing suit for the occasion), and eating all those delicious meals she's gonna teach me how to cook. I have a few books picked out for this weekend. No idea if I'll be able to finish them all, or if I'll, like last time, veer off into a totally different direction and steal Elley's books. The contenders are:                          I know, one measly romance on there. In truth, I will probably read more romances than an...