Hour six and one book down.

Well it's hour six and despite numerous interruptions (you can tell friends and family about the readathon and they will let you be but it is impossible to keep total strangers from knocking on your door it seems) and I've finished my first book.  It was Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon.

This was a truly charming children's book about the wicked (not evil) witch that comes to be the mistress of Castle Hangnail.  Castle Hangnail needs a new mistress or it will be decommissioned as a magic castle.  Molly, the wicked witch in question, is mostly looking to get away form her overly good twin sister Sarah.

My favorite quote from the book is from the end but contains no real spoilers

“Hecate’s ghost!” said Majordomo. “She is the good twin, isn’t she?”

“That’s Sarah,” said Molly.

Sarah was exactly the same height as Molly and had exactly the same slightly frizzy hair, but she wore it in a ponytail with a pink scrunchie. Her shirt had a comical kitten on it and her shoes were covered in sequins. Her expression was one of saintly good temper, and Majordomo wondered how anyone lived with her for more than five minutes without going barking mad.

This book is well written and witty a perfect book for a later elementary school child or the child in all of us.

Now for a nap and then the hunt for another book.