Dewey's 24 hour Readathon 2011: I'm in!

Having missed last year's Readathon due to travel, I almost missed this year's 'thon due to inattentiveness.

Surprise, right, since I'm having trouble keeping my head on straight.  But!  I have signed up just in time (holy cats, there are over 400 readers!) and, by some miracle, I don't have a bookstore shift in the middle.  Yay!  I will have to run out for food tomorrow (advance planning = fail) but I did round up a stack of books to work through (advance planning = win):

Yikes!  Quite a stack, right?  You are thinking I am crazy, no?

Well, I tend to count my Readathons in total number of pages read, not just books, and I often take the opportunity to knock off half-finished things.  Also, there are MG/YA books in this stack due to my woefully neglected Newbery Project - they read mucho rapido.  Thirdly, I have the attention span of a gnat right now and I may have to jump around from book to book depending on interest.  I don't want to waste time staring at the 1000s of books in my house, trying to make up my mind.

Projected titles, top-to-bottom (not reading order, this is just so the stack wouldn't fall over):

• All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (in progress)
• Best American Short Stories 2011 edited by Geraldine Brooks (Best American Project)
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (galley I picked up from work that Pam loves TONS)
• The Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan (yeah, yeah, I got behind on my Percy Jackson reading)
• Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (because I want my store to adopt a penguin)
• Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Newbery, but I have the cool HarperPerennial cover)
• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Newbery)
• Crispin by Avi (Newbery)
• The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsberg (Newbery)
• I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (Newbery)
• Vintage-looking "Natural History of Birds" journal that I write all my Newbery Vocab in (I will not be reading this, obviously)
• Second Reading by Jonathan Yardley (in progress)
• Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd (in progress)
• Needles and Pearls by Gil McNeil
• McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (because it has been hanging around the house too long)
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes (for the book, in progress)
• Das Niebelungenlied translated by Burton Raffel (for the book, in progress)
• The White Devil by Justin Evans (galley I requested ages ago - sorry)
• Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson (galley I requested ages ago - sorry)

Something I will be trying very hard NOT to read: my dratted manuscript (mostly through draft version #6 - it will perhaps be ready for eyes other than mine by draft #10...perhaps not)

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