Book Four - Heir To Sevenwaters

I slept in embarrassingly late today after quite a long party, and so I wasn't able to start reading until about 5:30 this evening. Regardless, I have finished book 4. Yay!

Title: Heir To Sevenwaters
Author: Juliet Marillier

Overall: Well, she is my favorite author, and the Sevenwaters books are one of my favorite series of hers, right after the Wolfskin books. So I didn't expect it to disappoint. I had been waiting for a good changeling story from her, and I finally got one!

I don't know if this book really truly qualifies as YA, but the protagonist is somewhere between 16 and 18, I think, and I figured it was fine. Plus, I'd really been waiting to read this book, so the hell with it. :)

Next up - um, not sure! I'm tired of reading on the computer, so probably one of my real paper books.

Reading Time Update

So, with the picking up Mom from the airport and the party and all that, I'm definitely not getting as much reading in for this weekend as I wanted to. It's too bad, but I did calculate that if I read on through to my ending time tonight, I will have 20 hours exactly. I didn't think I'd hit it, but I managed to read a lot last night after most of the party guests left.

I believe 20 hours is the minimum to be entered into the drawing for prizes and things, so yay!

I'm not going to stop at midnight, however - I have to for the contest, since I started at midnight on Saturday, but I'm going to go as long as I can and see how much I can read in a weekend. And I definitely need to do this again shortly on a weekend where so much isn't going on. Super annoying, but couldn't really help it - plans were already made!

Anyways. Back to House of Many Ways.

Book Five - House of Many Ways

Such a fun book! I sped right through it!

Title: House of Many Ways
Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Overall: It's the first proper sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, and if you've only seen the Ghibli film and never read Howl's, you must. The book is far better and Howl is a far more entertaining character. This sequel focused on a different protagonist, but Howl and Sophie do show up in the book. It was a nice, fun read after the serious seriousness that is any Juliet Marillier book.

It's looking like my final total might only be six books, which isn't what I was hoping for, but they weren't really small books exactly that I was reading. And, again, busy weekend. I'm definitely going to finish what I didn't get to very soon.

48 Hour Book Challenge - The Finish Line

Well, I'm partway through The Alchemyst, by Michael Scott, but I just hit 20 hours and I'm in need of food, so we'll call it done.

To sum up: five and a half books read in 20 hours. I'll give my thoughts on the experience and the books I read later, but I can say that I feel really thrilled for having read what I did, and I'm not sorry that I only got through a few books.

Time to report my finishing!

twitter post of the day

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