Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon Mid-Event Survey 2017

Mid-Event Survey:

1. What are you reading right now?

Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman


2. How many books have you read so far?

Four


3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?

Hamster Princess: Ratpunzel by Ursula Vernon

4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?

Off and on mostly mother related.  She's very disabled and used to me caring for her whenever I'm not at work.  My niece has mostly taken over for the day but I still get pulled in.  It's still much, much better than last year or even last readathon.  Anyway I just do what needs doing and then get back to enjoying the day.

5. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?

None really.  Everything is going pretty well.

Hour 6

So far today I've completed

Five Little Kittens by Nancy Jewell

                                         Being Thankful by Mercer Mayer

Charlie and the Christmas Kitty by Ree Drummond

All children's books but enjoyable and they made me laugh.

In addition I've been listening to 

The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke

I'm about 3/4ths of the way done.  It is a descent mystery but I think a nap might be next on the list as I only had about 5 hours sleep last night.

Opening Survey - Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?

Williamsport, Pennsylvania USA

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

Hamster Princess: Ratpunzel by Ursula Vernon 

I started reading Ursula Venon's books after seeing someone else talk about one on an earlier readathon and have enjoyed them ever since.  They are fun easy reads that make me laugh.

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?                                                                                                    

Chocolate chip cookies which I plan to make  while listening to an audio book.

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!

This is my 9th readathon which once again I can enjoy because of the support of my family.  I keep joking that this is one of my two favorite holidays of the year.  The other, of course, being the readathon in October.  For all true holidays I'm the one that organizes the family celebrations but readathons are my two almost responsibility free days to celebrate reading, my favorite activity.   This is made especially fun as I've become my mother's caregiver which means due to time constraints, except for audiobooks, reading just doesn't happen anymore.  Today my niece is taking care of my mother so books, ebooks and audiobooks are all on the table for the next 24 hours. 

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today?

Nothing really different.  I plan to read and nap and generally enjoy my day off from responsibility.