This weekend is Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon. This is my third time participating in the event, but my first time participating in October. The previous Read-a-thons I participated in were a celebration of the end of a school semester. This time around, I find myself in vastly different circumstances. I have a full time job and I’m living alone in a foreign country where English books aren’t so freely accessible. I’m making good use of my home library’s ebook collection! Although I don’t have a such a large collection of books to choose from (as I usually do between my personal library and my city library), I’ve managed to snag a number of high-profile ebooks. Here are my options for next weekend:
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Library ebook. Heard nothing but great things about this one from fellow bloggers.
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- Library ebook. Another popular one in the blogsophere.
- Embassytown by China Mieville
- Library ebook. It’s been awhile since I read any Mieville.
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- Library ebook. Sounds like a charming story.
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Library ebook. Thankfully I had this on hold long before she won the Nobel Peace Prize! Hot topic.
- The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter
- Library ebook. I can’t remember what this one’s about, but I remember trying to snag an ARC so it must be good 😉
- Undivided by Neal Shusterman
- Purchaed ebook. This comes out on Tuesday, the final book in a series I love. I will so want to read it before the Readathon but probably won’t have time ;-;
- Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
- Physical book, ahhh! Borrowed from the international centre’s library. I have a huge list of Japan-related books that I want to explore. I’ve been here two months and haven’t read any…time to get started.
- The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture edited by Roger J. Davies and Osamu Ikeno
- Physical book. See above.
- I’m also first in line for The Girl From the Well, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and I’ll Give You the Sun. Fingers crossed one or more of these books becomes available before the 19th! I never know what I’ll be in the mood to read, so I like to have options.
Snacking is a bit harder. I’ve still not got the hang of Japanese snacks; most of them aren’t to my taste. I don’t really snack. I bought a bag of Oreos and I’m thinking I may break out my monthly bag of popcorn. Perhaps I will splurge on an apple ($2-3 a piece!). I’ll also pop down to the vending machine and buy a bottle of Coke. If I’m lucky, my Cheerios will arrive on Friday (oh, Cheeeeeeerios, I miss you so). And I have homemade bagels – so I think I will be well enough off. My menu plan features oatmeal for breakfast, frozen leftovers for lunch, and take out for dinner.
The Read-a-thon takes place for me from 9PM Saturday to 9PM Sunday. I volunteered to cheer for a few hours for the first time. I plan to read or cheer for the first two hours, then sleep. I just can’t give up my sleep. I plan to wake up by 9AM and participate for the rest of the day (though I may have to take a couple hours to menu plan and grocery shop, if I don’t squeeze it on Saturday). I may spend some time at the local library, which I sadly haven’t visited since my second day here when I signed up for a library. My goal is to cut back on Twitter and read for 9 hours (in April I read for 7). As usual, I will be participating on these platforms:
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