Due to all of the reading challenges I’ve got on right now (along with the task of having to read through a newly arrived review novel), I have been deliberately ignoring Dewey’s upcoming 24 Hour Read-a-Thon this weekend (starting 18th October). Then I got to thinking “Hey! Doing this Read-a-Thon could actually benefit me here. I could bust through a number of the shorter novels in my 50 Novel reading challenge and catch up a bit (although it was worth it, my Steinbeck Special put me behind schedule a little)”. So the upshot is I’ve relented, and decided I’m going to jump on board Saturday’s event after all.
Having never joined this reading challenge, or indeed having never read for so long continuously (well unless you count university reading), I’m not sure if ‘cramming’ is going to be of benefit to me or not but I guess there’s no harm in trying. I already know three of the titles I’m going to hopefully get through:
- Invitation to a Beheading by Vladamir Nabokov
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Walden; or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Waiting ‘in the wings’ should I get these first three ticked off (yeah right!), or if I tire of any of them, are:
- Three to See the King by Magnus Mills
- The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
So that’s the choices. I’ve followed the simple tip of choosing only reasonably short titles to read. I’m sure 3 titles, let alone 5, is being really over-ambitious but even ticking off 1-2 of these in a 24-hour stretch can be considered a victory. Can’t it? Whatever the outcome though, I’m sure that this is going to be one heck of a reading journey.
Good luck to everyone taking part, at whatever level, and many thanks to Dewey for all of the hard organising work.
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