The Book Turtle

After being so successful on the last readathon - yayyy, here comes the next one! :) For several years now, I have participated in Dewey's 24 hour readathon  and it has always been so much fun! This time will be a special one, first because it's the 10-year-anniversary of this readathon, and secondly because this will be my first readathon with a blog!!! :) Let's see how good I will be with posting updates this time around.. ;) So, hard facts first: the readathon will be  OCTOBER 21 starting at the same time all over the world and lasting 24 hours. you can check on the website when your starting time is. E.g., for me here in Germany, the readathon starts Saturday at 2pm. Even though there are still over three weeks to go, I have of course started to at least mentally prepare for the event.  Reading Schedule: Thing is, I have a seminar on that day, probably lasting until 5pm. So I will already miss the first 3 hours. And I will not even attempt to read all through t

Ah well. It almost worked out to post a final update right after the end of the reading quest... coughcough... The thing is, I loved the reading quest so much that I decided to let it go on, for myself at least :) My plan is to let it go on until Christmas, and try to finish both the knight and the mage. 130 experience points and 170 health points, so I finished on level 3. I completed the Bard Path and the side challenge "mini game". I've read some really beautiful books and some I liked just fine. I had a lot of fun following people's reading progress, both online and offline.  I really had wanted to finish the knight's path as well, and so far I am really going on it! :) I have finished "The Raven Boys" for the first book of a series and "Never let me go" for a book with a verb in the title. For a book with a red cover, "Persepolis" is already waiting for me on my shelf; and the book with the weapon on the cover may either be