Dewey's 24 hour Read A Thon Book List

I am getting excited about this.  Starts in less than 24 hours.  My husband on the otherhand is not so excited.  We had some unexpected work come up for the weekend.  This happens when you live on a farm....  So I have added some audio books from Audible.com to my list, so I can listen to books while working on the Morton Building.    I have decided to read for 8 hours.  Maybe next time, I can get the weekend off work, send my husband out of town (or better yet, maybe I will go out of town ☻) and commit to a longer period of time...


My Reading List

The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown  (Audible.com)
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Plus I will throw in a few Medical Journals that I need to catch up on, and the Oh So Exciting! Hospice and Palliative Meicine Approach to Life-Limiting Illness, that I am currently studying for my upcoming board certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 

I have to work on Saturday, so that means several hours of clinic, and with the H1N1 flu rapidly spreading through our community, I anticipate being busy.  I plan to bring The Indian in the cuboard for some light reading between patients (fingers crossed).  

I really have never been interested in reading the Twilight series, but I hear so much of it, and they happened to have it at the library, so I thought I would give it a try.  I havn't known anyone that didn't get absorbed in the book, so this may be a good time for me to check it off my list. 

What are you reading for right now?  Any suggestions on what I could add to my list?

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Deweys 24 Hour Read-a-Thon

 

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I am really excited about this.  I could possibly devote a whole 24 hours to reading?  Thank You, I would love to.  Unfortunalty my work does not agree with me.  I will be reading at every oportuntity available, and you should to!

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On My Bedside Table: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

That may be a little misleading.  I am listening to this and an Audible Book.  In my car.  When I am driving anyways.

"Reading" a book this way is an acquired taste.  I spent many years with little free time except when I was in the car.  I yearned to read more, and it was killing me to waste my time driving.  I was even known to pull out a book and try to get a few pages in during traffic jams.  Then I discovered the loca library had free books on audio tape and CD.

Score

I went through several in the next few months, never looking back at the sad NPR war stories, and what is our world coming to breaking news.  I could pretend I didn't live in that world any more, and instead live in whatever fictional world I had checked out at the library this week.    I had drifted away from these auidobooks as I have more time for actual reading these days, however will still enjoy one now and then.

I wasn't one of these people that had a strong opinion about this book before it came out.  I didn't eagerly anticipate it as advertised.  I found out about it from a friend, who happens to be a freemason, and was reading it.  I enjoyed  The Da Vinci Code  a lot.  I despised Angels & Demons: A Novel (Robert Langdon).  So this book could be hit or miss.

Did I like it?  Yes
Was it plausable?  No



That is really OK with me.  I don't read books solely for fact, I read them for enjoyability.  I did enjoy this book.  In fact, I found myself looking for places to drive, so I could listen a little longer.  The story was brought me in, and made me think.   Both things I enjoy in a book.  I would recommend it to friends, but I would not put it at the top of my favorite book list.

And darn it, I didn't learn any secrets about my Freemason friends that I didn't already have a good idea about.

Want to know more?  Interested in what others thought?

Discovering The Lost Symbol: The Blog
Secrets of The Lost Symbol
Read Street

Want to snag your own copy?

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On My Bedside Table

So here is what I'm reading at the moment.  I have about 20 pages left, but I enjoyed this book enough that I thought I would share it with you today. 

The last time I braved a book about the end of the world, I just couldn't stomach it.  The darkness, bleakness, and creepiness factor just sat in my stomach the wrong way.  So with that freshly in my mind,  I was trepidatious about starting Earth Abides.  I shouldn't have been.  It is a reissued book that was originally published in 1949.  It is the story of a plaque that kills off the majority of the worlds poplulation.  The main survivor is "Ish", while he is initially shocked, and wandering aimlessly, once he recovers he settles down and starts his own Tribe.  What follows is a story of how the earth transforms without mankinds intervention.  It made me think about what is important enough in my life that I would want it to be carried on in future generations.  I certianly did not agree with the path the tribe went down.  I would hope that my reality would have been different in this situation.  This book made me think, and I like that.  The reading was fast, and kept my interest.  I liked it enought to reccomend it.

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