Spring Horror Read-a-Thon: Just the Weekend Left

I made a lot of reading progress today. We had a drive-tour-drive kind of day with uninterrupted time for reading as we drove from Ely, NV to Great Basin National Park and then from the Park to St. George, UT. The most significant accomplishment is that I finished reading Kiss at Your Own Risk by Stephanie Rowe. It wasn't my cup of tea, but I was determined to finish it! I'm pretty sure that I won't be reading any of the sequels.

I also finished reading Infernal Affairs by Jes Battis. I took the book to bed and read for about 30 minutes and then read a couple of chapters when I woke up this morning. I read the last page in the book just as we were crossing from Nevada into Utah early this afternoon. The next book in this series (Occult Special Investigators) will be released at the end of May and I'm sure I'm going to want to get my hands on it as soon as possible.

Having finished reading Infernal Affairs, I resumed reading Kiss at Your Own Risk and finished it at supper. I haven't started another book—yet—but I will be reading Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon as soon as I have posted this update to the blog. This is the fifth and final book in her Vatta's War series which I have been enjoying very much.

Read-a-Thon Stats

• Total Books Read: 4
• Total Books Completed: 4
• Total Pages Read: 1303
• Books Read since last update: 2
• Books Completed since last update: 2
• Pages Read since last update: 321
• What I'm currently reading: Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon

Spring Horror Read-a-Thon: After 4 days

It's the end of another day and time to tell everyone what I've been reading in the past 24 hours. When I headed to bed last night, I tucked myself in with Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon and a flashlight. The batteries went dead in the flashlight, so I moved from the bedroom to the parlor—thank goodness our hotel was one of those with only 2-room suites—and continued to read out on the couch while hubby slept undisturbed. I finished Command Decision around 2am and then returned to bed and quickly fell asleep.

At breakfast today, I resumed reading Kiss at Your Own Risk by Stephanie Rowe. After all, it's supposed to be the one required “scary” book for the Spring Horror Read-a-Thon. After we checked out of the hotel and headed eastward on US 50, I kept reading Kiss at Your Own Risk, until mid-afternoon. I'm still not enjoying this book very much, so I set it aside at page 223 and picked out another book to read.

What I selected was Infernal Affairs by Jes Battis, fourth in his Occult Special Investigators series. This was much more to my liking and I'm already 1/2 way through the book.

Since we spent the whole day on the highway, I sent several text messages to Twitter and even received some from Shaunesay and Michelle. Even with this, I was out of communication most of the day due to the sparsity of cell towers in remote Nevada. They don't call US 50 “The Loneliest Road in America” for nothing. The only thing that interfered with reading today was falling asleep with a book in my hand.

Well, it's time to pull on my jammies and crawl into bed. The flashlight has fresh batteries in it and I'm ready to read a couple of chapters of Infernal Affairs before I fall asleep. Good night, all

Read-a-Thon Stats

• Total Books Read: 4
• Total Books Completed: 2
• Total Pages Read: 982
• Books Read since last update: 3
• Books Completed since last update: 1
• Pages Read since last update: 353
• What I'm currently reading: Infernal Affairs by Jes Battis

SpringHorrorRAT: Day 3 Status

It's almost bedtime here in California, so that makes it time to report on my progress in the Spring Horror Read-a-Thon. This event officially began at midnight on Monday morning and my participation began when I awakened and picked up One Night at the Call Centre which I had started the day before. As I reported in my previous post, this became the first book finished during the Read-a-Thon.

I started reading Kiss at Your Own Risk by Stephanie Rowe and read it on Monday evening and most of the day on Tuesday, setting it aside on Tuesday afternoon at page 155. While I am enjoying it, I was just eager to read Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon even more. I took that book to bed with me, reading until I fell asleep with book & flashlight in my hands. Waking up on Wednesday morning, I read for about 45 minutes, and then took the book with me to breakfast. I resumed reading early in the afternoon while we were driving over to Carson City and kept reading through our dinner. I'm now at page 228, ready to start Chapter 16. I suspect that I'll finish this book by the time breakfast is over tomorrow morning.

Read-a-Thon Stats

• Total Books Read: 3
• Total Books Completed: 1
• Total Pages Read: 629
• Books Read since last update: 2
• Books Completed since last update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 333
• What I'm currently reading: Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon

SpringHorrorRAT: Starting Position

My friend Melissa (aka Shaunesay) talked me into signing up for Michelle's Spring Into Horror Read-a-Thon which started this morning. I don't read horror books, but Michelle says, “Now don't let the word 'horror' scare you away from this read-a-thon. You do have to read at least one scary book during the duration of the read-a-thon. That book can be horror, paranormal, thriller, mystery, etc. The rest of the read-a-thon, you can read whatever you want.” So, since I'm fond of paranormal fiction, I figure I can find something “scary” to qualify.

First up this morning was a book which I started reading last night, One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat. I finished it around 5:30 this afternoon and then picked up Kiss at Your Own Risk by Stephanie Rowe. Since one of the main characters in this book suffers from a Black Widow curse put on her by a Black Witch, I'm hoping it qualifies as “scary” enough. If that one won't count, then I've got a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury which should meet the criteria.

So, for this week-long read-a-thon, I'll be posting here at the blog and tweeting using the hash-tag of #SpringHorrorRAT, following others who are participating, and just having fun reading. After all, Michelle says, “my read-a-thon credo is 'a week of relaxed reading during which we can personally challenge ourselves and whittle away those ever looming TBR piles/shelves/libraries.'”