24-hour Read-a-thon: Hour 6
The Goose Girl: I want to hug Ani and listen to her as she tell stories.
Somewhere a little past the halfway mark of the book. Anyone actually following this is probably bored to tears already! I shouldn’t have told myself that I’d update every hour. Oops?
The comic mini-challenge sounds interesting! Though if I enter, it’ll be stick figures, haha.
I’m hungry. Hmm I wonder what we have in the kitchen.
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Updates:
Currently reading: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Pages read: pp 138 to 181
Total page count: 202
Books on hold:
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Shanra:
But it’s fun to have updates as you’re reading! It might not seem like a whole lot, but short comments like this do tend to show just what a reader thinks of a book because they’re short and so, so closely connected to the book being read. Uhm… I’m not explaining that right. What I mean is… Updating like this shows one a reader’s gut reactions to a book far more than sitting down to write a thoughtful review of it.
I do a fair amount of constructive criticism reading for my friends and one of the things we find really useful is showing the writer just where we have which emotion. You get some of that in a review (sometimes), but very often the initial feeling has already been lost by the time gap. I’m still not explaining that well, am I? Point in case, though, you’re not being boring! (At least I don’t think so, which might not say a whole lot, but all the same.)
Though having said all that: if updating every hour doesn’t make you happy, don’t do it. The Read-a-Thon is supposed to be fun, after all! I hope you’ll continue to like the book!
Yati:
Yes, I understand what you mean! When you ponder it too long, it loses the raw feel of it. Or something. (I also understand the part about being unable to explain this!)
I guess I’m not really worried about boring anyone — I just have this irrational worry of spamming people!