Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

From the bottom my feet, I can feel just a little excitement building under ny feet 😀 Don't you?

Here's our question:
Are there particular genres or formats or something else that you particularly read during Dewey's offcial hours? Provide us with a list of three so that we can have options for one of our books for the pre-readathon challenge.

During the official hours Dewey Readathon hours, I particularly enjoy reading
* Pre-Teen and Young Adult books. Example: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
* Short Stories. Example: Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
* Novellas. Example: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

I normally read what is easy for me to consume, which is: horror and thrillers!

I suggest:
- great short stories like You Like It Darker by Stephen King.
- novellas like Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones.
- action-packed books like The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker.

During readathons I have:

- Re-read a series so that I'm ready for the new book that comes out
- Read a really long book (I don't recommend this one because it's discouraging when you don't even make it through one book!)
- Read a bunch of shortish non-fiction that I'm partway through so that I can finish a lot of books!

I try to break things up:
-have different genres on hand
-graphic novels, especially ones of a series, so you get a lot in a short time!
-epistolary formatted books, because even if it's a long one, the format can make it go quick!

I really like having some short, easy books on my Kindle for readathons, especially if the prompts are hard to fit something too, you need a break, or just for that sense of achievement. Some of my favourites are:

Blossom's Secret Garden
2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be
Flume

I also really like to read a short thriller, because even though I'm not a thriller girlie, I just can't put those down. I get so invested so quickly. My favourite thriller is Killer Potential
Freida McFadden also has some great short thrillers, like The Housemaid

1. Answer Pre-Readathon Question: Are there particular genres or formats or something else that you read particularly during Dewey's official hours? Give up to three examples.

Huh. I just totaled the amount of books I would "like to"/plan to read throughout the remainder of September the month of October...

Take a wild guess?

20

Can you believe that I own and would love to read another 20 books within that 6-week period?!? Yep! That's me all right! YIKES!! 😯😦😁

With that information, I will simply plan to read as many as I can of those 20 titles...

I don't always participate directly in this group for readathons, but I do usually participate in the readathon during that time period and decided I should expand my horizons and participate here as well this time!

I typically select some shorter books to read during the readathon and if I was going to do so this time, these titles would be on my list:
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow (a play)
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? by Anna Montague
The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sōsuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai - translator
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Morisaki Bookshop #1) by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Morisaki Bookshop #2) by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa

In addition, I typically select at least 1 mystery in the many series I have begun reading and have yet to finish:
Cat in the Stacks by Miranda James
The Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Isabel Dalhousie series by Alexander McCall Smith

And then I also love to mix in a children's book:
The Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler
The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley
The Shiloh series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer series by John Grisham

Stopping there! On to some of those 20 books!! 😃👍

Yes I agree with many here that shorter books make the readathon feel successful--or maybe a book I start that day before, read during the readathon and finish the day after.

Stacking up books read in 24 hours so satifies!

During the official hours Dewey Readathon hours, I particularly enjoy reading...

* something that I have already started
* my favourite authors, for example Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
* a re-read, for example Persuasion by Jane Austen

I prefer:
Something already in progress
Series that are hooks for me and easy to keep reading
Nothing heavy or too long/intimidating

I also like themes and such when it's Deweys with the season, particularly with October/Halloween. To me too many different books ending, I need too many breaks before starting the next, so I tend to stay away from Anthologies for read-a-thons for this reason.

Right now I'm reading a cozy mystery series
Catering to Nobody - Goldy series by Diane Mott Davidson
The Killer's Daughter - I read the first two last week, they are on KU and not bad thrillers, easy reads that are well written
Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman are excellent mysteries during read-a-thons - his stories keep me hooked, love the characters, love his writing style

I often choose a graphic novel for Dewey.
Also mostly a mystery / thriller.

Lupe wrote: "I try to break things up:
-have different genres on hand
-graphic novels, especially ones of a series, so you get a lot in a short time!
-epistolary formatted books, because even if it's a long one..."

I've just discovered that a lot of literary classics have been made into graphic novels and I'm liking this idea a lot . Just read TREASURE ISLAND and STAR WARS : The Rise of Skywalker . They were very enjoyable .
Will probably read a few more .

Good suggestions for seasonal reading--mysteries and thrillers--and fun readsthon readinh--the cozy and graphic 🎃🐈

I prefer series and favorite genres - for Dewey's I do like to add some darker and horror in for October one as tis the season.

I don't do short stories during Read-a-thons as to me it exhausts my brain if the books are too short if they are not part of a series as I like a mini mental break in between, and don't like to read short stories in a row.

I don't want to pick chunksters either as I feel like I get less done if the book is too long/large with that long of reading, so I try to balance it out personally.

Erin, good point. It is as good to know what works as well as what doesn't work.