Aliverse

In a week and a half (give or take) I will be participating in Dewey’s Read-a-Thon.

http://24hourreadathon.com/

If luck is with me, I’ll have a full day of uninterrupted reading.  If luck is not with me, the reading will be punctuated by cries, laughter, and requests for snacks from my children.  Either way, I’m ready.  I have stacks of books to read and I am already doing a reading challenge I found on some other site (I’d link to it, but I don’t remember where I saw it or when.)   The challenge there is to read 50 books in a year.

When I decided to make that a personal challenge of my own, I figured it would be a piece of  cake.  After all, I read constantly and I can go through as many as 10 books in a week, depending on what I’m reading and how much time I have.

It never occurred to me that 50 books in a year would be difficult.  Yet here I am, already past the midpoint, still only 22 books into the challenge.  I have until the end of July.

The read-a-thon seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to get caught up.  It’s also a great chance for me to make my move here in doing book reviews.  It’s something I have been wanting to do but wasn’t sure how to segue into it.

So check back here on April 10th, as I review book after book in a 24-hour reading frenzy.   I’ll either have some really great stuff to bring to the conversation, or I’ll be wondering why I thought a read-a-thon would be a fun thing to do.