Saturday, October 18, 2008

24-Hour Read-a-Thon: Hour Three

Title of book(s) read since last update: still on Pretties, Scott Westerfeld
Number of books read since you started: part of 1
Pages read since last update: 73
Running total of pages read since you started: 245
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 30 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 115 minutes
Mini-challenges completed: Freerice.com mini-challenge and I'm about to start on Sarah's foreign language mini-challenge
Other participants you’ve visited: Angela, Iliana, Trish, Callista, Wordlily, Alessandra, Wendy, chainreader, Becky, shelburns
Prize you’ve won: none (yet!), but I was a Reader of the Hour, which was pretty sweet

Before I start reading my foreign language book for Sarah's challenge, I wanted to share a quote from Pretties that I absolutely adored (WARNING: may be spoilery if you haven't read the series):
"Why am I unhappy?" Tally repeated softly. "Because the city makes you the way they want to you be, Peris. And I want to be myself. That's why."
He squeezed her shoulder and gave her a sad look. "But people are better now than they used to be. Maybe they have good reasons for changing us, Tally."
"Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice, Peris. And they don't give anyone a choice."
Hooray for sticking it to the man!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow! You're doing great! Good to see it's going well for you so far!