Well, finally! I don’t know why it happened, but it was certainly exceedingly ill-timed. At least the domain is back up now, after being down nearly six hours.
Hour 21:
Title of book(s) read this hour: Good Luck to the Rider - Joan Phipson
Number of books read since you started: 6 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft, Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman, Lad, a Dog - Albert Payson Terhune)
Pages read: 93
Running total of pages read since you started: 1276
Amount of time spent reading: 45 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 9 hrs 58 mins
Hour 20:
Title of book(s) read this hour: Lad, a Dog - Albert Payson Terhune, Good Luck to the Rider - Joan Phipson
Number of books read since you started: 6 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft, Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman, Lad, a Dog - Albert Payson Terhune)
Pages read: 106
Running total of pages read since you started: 1183
Amount of time spent reading: 52 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 9 hrs 13 mins
Hour 19:
Title of book(s) read this hour: Lad, a Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
Number of books read since you started: 5 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft, Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman)
Pages read: 100
Running total of pages read since you started: 1077
Amount of time spent reading: 56 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 8 hrs 21 mins
Hour 18:
Title of book(s) read this hour: Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman
Number of books read since you started: 5 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft, Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman)
Pages read: 108
Running total of pages read since you started: 977
Amount of time spent reading: 42 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 7 hrs 25 mins
Hour 17:
Title of book(s) read this hour: Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman
Number of books read since you started: 4 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft)
Pages read: 127
Running total of pages read since you started: 869
Amount of time spent reading: 50 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 6 hrs 43 mins
Hour 16:
Title of book(s) read this hour: Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman
Number of books read since you started: 4 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft)
Pages read: 71
Running total of pages read since you started: 742
Amount of time spent reading: 26 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 5 hrs 53 mins
Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Love
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Title of book(s) read this hour: Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft
Number of books read since you started: 4 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, Teena går til filmen - Ria Tofft)
Pages read: 107
Running total of pages read since you started: 671
Amount of time spent reading: 48 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 5 hrs 27 mins
Other participants visited: Mrs. B, Chris, Word Lily and Eva.
I’ve read Teena går til filmen before, but it was a long time ago. It’s quite a funny book. It’s written in the late 50’s/early 60’s sometime, so it’s quite dated, but very cute.
One thing that interests me, however, is that it takes place Stockholm, Sweden. I suspect that in the original (it was written in Danish orginially, and I read it in Swedish), it’s set in Copenhagen and everyone is Danish, but the translation has changed everyone to Swedes (including changing names, I don’t doubt) and all the place names mentioned are Swedish. Do they still do that in translations? If not, when did they stop and how common was it?
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Title of book(s) read this hour: Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar, A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
Number of books read since you started: 3 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar)
Pages read: 144
Running total of pages read since you started: 564
Amount of time spent reading: 47 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 4 hrs 39 mins
And I’m properly back in the game with that. Speaking of games, A Game of Thrones is quite good, though at first I was a little annoyed by the way it keeps swapping perspectives (there are six or so main characters, and so far there hasn’t been two chapters in a row with the same character’s perspective). Actually, I still am, but now that I’m 600+ pages in, I’ve got to know them all, so it doesn’t bother me quite as much.
Interestingly enough, the main family, the Starks, has the direwolf as their sign. I thought direwolves were completely made up, but then I went to the Natural History Museum in London, and they had a dire wolf on display. Apparently they actually existed, thousands of years ago, though much smaller than George R R Martin has made them in the book.
Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Love
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Title of book(s) read this hour: Drömponnyn - Pia Hagmar
Number of books read since you started: 2 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Pages read: 32
Running total of pages read since you started: 420
Amount of time spent reading: 8 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 3 hrs 52 mins
Cups of tea/coffee:1 cup of Gevalia Daim Cappuccino
I overslept a little, I’m sorry to say. I meant to get up by six am, but when my alarm rang, I stayed in bed for an extra half an hour. Still, considering I didn’t get to sleep until 2 am, it’s not too bad.
Once I was out of bed, I went to make myself a cup of coffee to wake me up further. I used my last sachet of instant Irish Cream cappucino and then noticed that it was clumping more than it usually does. No wonder — the kettle wasn’t plugged in and the water hadn’t actually been boiled. ::facepalm:: I had to resort to the Daim Cappucino instead, which I hate, but is slightly less vile if you remove the excessive foam on top.
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Title of book(s) read this hour: The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray, A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
Number of books read since you started: 2 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster, The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Pages read: 49
Running total of pages read since you started: 388
Amount of time spent reading: 32 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 3 hrs 44 mins
Cups of tea/coffee: 1 cup of tea
I love Thackeray to tiny little pieces. He’s so clever and funny and his illustrations crack me up. The Rose and the Ring has nothing on Vanity Fair, of course, but it’s still an entertaining book. I must admit to a smallish crush on Giglio, to be honest. Again, he has nothing on Dobbin, but then there are degrees of awesome.
It’s getting late here (it’s past midnight now), so I’m going to take a break—to sleep and to watch the latest episode of Doctor Who (I am hopelessly addicted to new Who, and that’s a fact!). I’ll be back in six hours or so. I wish I could stay up all night reading, but I start work again on Monday and I need to be wellrested then, which is not going to happen unless I go to bed now. I’d risk it, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s the Euro 2008 final tomorrow night and I wouldn’t miss that for the world, so…
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Love
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Title of book(s) read this hour: The Rose and the Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray
Number of books read since you started: 1 (Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster)
Pages read: 149
Running total of pages read since you started: 339
Amount of time spent reading: 51 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 3 hrs 12 mins
Other participants visited: none
Mini-challenges participated in: none
Cups of tea/coffee: two cups of tea
I’ve switched to Swedish now and consequently my reading speed has picked up considerably. I quite like that, but I wish I could read this quickly in English as well. It is a fact well known to those who know it well1 that you can’t have everything you want, however.
1. I keep using that, I know, but no one’s guessed where it’s from yet and I want to give out cookies, damn it! Even if they’d be virtual cookies and nothing more. I feel like I’m the only person on the whole planet who likes this author, but I know I’m not (I used to run the fanlisting for this person, before I got lazy and my domain died and all that).
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Love
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I confused myself with the titles of the posts, so I’m going back in a sec and changing the ones on the other entries, and titling this after the hours that just were, not the hour that’s coming up.
Title of book(s) read this hour: Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
Number of books read since you started: 1
Pages read: 108
Running total of pages read since you started: 190
Amount of time spent reading: 1 hr 10 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 2 hrs 21 mins
Other participants visited: none
Mini-challenges participated in: none
Cups of tea/coffee: 3 cups of tea (strawberry-flavoured black tea. Not as nice as the other one, but tolerable enough. Let’s not mention the bathroom breaks. Tea is lovely, but it does pass through you quick as all that. ;D And that was TMI. My apologies.)
So, I finished my first book and I quite liked it. I’m not sure what I was expecting from it, but it was a little creepy towards the end. I’ll have to read more by Auster, though, as this gave me a taste for more. Maybe the New York trilogy next?
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Love
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Title of book(s) read this hour: Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
Number of books read since you started: none finished yet
Pages read: 22
Running total of pages read since you started: 82
Amount of time spent reading: 15 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 1 hr 11 mins
Other participants visited: Chris, Care & Nymeth.
Mini-challenges participated in: Nymeth’s webcomics challenge
Cups of tea/coffee: 1 cup of the same tea as the last one
I didn’t get much reading done this hour at all, so now I plan to pick up that book again (it’s good. I’ve heard so many positive things about Auster, but I’ve never read anything written by him before) and read until I feel like a break, whenever that might be. It’s quite possible, then, that I won’t post again until hour 4 or 5. We shall see.
Happy reading, all fellow participants!
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Love
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Nymeth’s mini-challenge for hour two is one where you take a break from reading books, to spend ten minutes on a webcomic (the link explains all, so click it!).
Since I’ve been away for a while, I have some catching up to do on the blogs and webcomics I read daily, and decided to use this challenge as motivation to catch up on Cyanide and Happiness, which is my favourite webcomic ever. It’s completely insane and hilarious, and pokes fun at things you’re normally told you shouldn’t joke about. Sometimes bad taste is the thing to make you laugh.
I’m posting two of the comics from this most recent week, so you’ll get a sample of what it’s like. There are many more strips to be found in the archives (some 1,300—I spent a fair few days earlier this year reading all the older ones). Apologies if this messes up the layout (which is already messed up in IE, from what I hear).
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Love
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I’m a little uncertain if I should title the posts after the hour that has just gone by, or the hour that has just begun. I’m going with the second option for now, though. ETA: I’ve changed my mind, because I got confused. All stats posts are now titled after the hour that was, rather than the hour that is.
So, the first hour, I spent most of the time reading. I didn’t get stuck in the moment the clock hands turned to read-a-thon time, though, as I was a little late in prepping my snacks. Better late than never, though, and my snacks are awesome. ;D
Stats: Hour 1
Title of book(s) read this hour: A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
Number of books read since you started: none finished yet
Pages read: 60
Running total of pages read since you started: 60
Amount of time spent reading: 56 mins
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 56 mins
Other participants visited: Dewey, Word Lily and Eva
Mini-challenges participated in: Darcie’s introductory meme
Cups of tea/coffee: 1 cup of tea (black saffron & chili, very nice!)
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Love
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