Saturday, October 18, 2008

24-Hour Read-a-Thon: Hour Fourteen

Title of book(s) read since last update: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Number of books read since you started: 2, parts of 2; 2 short stories
Titles of books read since you started: Pretties, Scott Westerfeld; Harry Potter y la camara secreta, J.K. Rowling; Bella at Midnight, Diane Stanley; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "A Horseman in the Sky," Ambrose Bierce
Pages read since last update: n/a
Running total of pages read since you started: 581
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 45 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 429 minutes
Mini-challenges completed: Freerice.com mini-challenge, Sarah's foreign language mini-challenge, Meryl's book quote mini-challenge, Freerice.com 2, Icedream's book cover mini-challenge, Kim's "walkin' and snappin'" mini-challenge, Mid-Event Survey, Hour 14 question, Sharon's Very Min-Library Cat Challenge
Other participants you’ve visited: 0 this hour
Prizes you’ve won: none (yet!)

I just finished watching Neil Gaiman read chapter one of The Graveyard Book. I adore listening to him read - especially the voices he gives his characters. I just hope I'll be able to get through all eight chapters tonight...

Sharon's Very Mini-Library Cat Challenge asks:

1. Go to this website. Find on the map a library cat that lives/lived closest to you (there are library cats in Canada). What is the cats name? What library is/was it located in? The closest library to me (on the map, at least), the Twin Lakes Public Library in Milledgeville, which has two cats: Ashes and Creed.

2. Which library does Dewey live in? Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa

3. What is the name of the library cat documentary film that Dewey was in? Puss in Books

4. What is Dewey's full name? Dewey Readmore Books

Now, back to Gaiman...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

now thats a CUTE mini challenge... i didn't know every library has a CAT! purrrrrr! :D

581 pages is decent ... i mean AWESOME!

read read read ... shhhh! read! YAY!

Anonymous said...

thankssssssssss!!!!

but u knw.. u GUYS are just AWESOME!

now shhhhh! go n read LOL!

have FUN! and i have awesome fn here!! i will be back nxt hour ok till then...lets see u roar like a tiger thru the rest of the pages!!

read on read on read on for???? read-a thon! YAY