What I Read During the 24 Hour Readathon by Zoe!

Yesterday was the Readathon By Zoe hosted by Zoe Herdt! I participated in it and, like last time, tried to read for 24 hours! Well, I allowed time for sleeping, but the majority of the day was spent reading. The readathon went from midnight to midnight in your own timezone on Saturday 14 October.

READATHON BY ZOË: HALLOWEEN EDITION IS HAPPENING SATURDAY OCTOBER 14TH! I'm reading all spooky books, so feel free to join me in that 👻

— Zoë will Herdt you (@zoeherdt) September 12, 2017

This readathon was Halloween themed. I do not really celebrate Halloween because it is very boring in Australia. I went trick or treating a few times when I was a kid, and usually people would be really surprised when we knocked on their door. I think I only went because at the time I had an American friend and she thought it was mandatory to go. The house I used to live in got about 5 trick-or-treaters per Halloween, but no one ever comes to the house I’m currently living in, and it’s basically in the same neighbourhood! In conclusion, no one really gets very excited about Halloween in Australia, and it’s Christmas that everyone goes nuts over.

Readathon TBR

In the 24 hours I planned on reading four books! It is quite a lot, but I had already started reading three of them!

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green: Before I started the readathon I was already 168 pages through the book.

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon: I had already read 156 pages of this book and hoped I would get these two finished by the end of the day.

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena: I only have two and a half hours left on this audiobook, and will listen to it if I ever get tired of reading!

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn: Finally, I will read this book if I have the opportunity to.

 

Timeline of Day

I updated my progress on Instagram, so I’ve also added some photos from my Instagram stories!

9:20am-10am

I started reading Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. Before I started the readathon I was 168 pages into it already.

10am-11am

I went to the gym and listened to the audiobook version of The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. I listened to it for about 45 minutes.

11am-1pm

I continued reading, had a short break for food, and finished Turtles All the Way Down by 1pm! I really liked it and rated it 4 stars. I also wrote a mini review on goodreads. So from this book I able to read 135 pages!

1:30pm-2:30pm

I decided to pick up When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. As I was already 156 pages into the book, I continued reading it from there. I was a little distracted by other things, so I only got to 180 pages.

2:30pm-6pm

I took a break from reading because I really needed to work on some university essays! I also cooked dinner and did some other things.

6pm-9pm

I continued to read When Dimple Met Rishi. It was a book I was not enjoying, so it was difficult to not get distracted while reading it. At 9pm I finished it, so overall I read 222 pages! I rated it 2 stars. Here’s a mini review of it.

Books Finished: 2

Pages I Read: 357

Hours Spent Reading: 6 and a half hours

The books I read were Turtles All the Way Down by John Green and When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon! My favourite was definitely Turtles All the Way Down. I still have to finish The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena (I low-key hate audiobooks) and I didn’t even touch Dark Places by Gillian Flynn! I didn’t read anything Halloween-related, oops!

I usually only read for about one hour a day, so reading for over six hours was a pretty big challenge! I think it really helped that I was already halfway through the two books that I read because it was less stressful than having to read a full-length novel.

How I went with my last readathon.

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• Did you do the readathon? If so, how’d you go?