12:00AM Hey folks It's been a while! I've been meaning to post here but this year has been getting ahead of me (I'm sure some of you feel the same), and so I've just stuck to my Instagram. But I think I'd like to get back here, and I really enjoy using this platform for the Readathon! I'm also going to be posting a full lookbook of my Inktober here at the end of the month so stay tuned for that!
But anyway, the Readathon is upon us! I'm honestly so excited and was even more excited when I found out that I don't have to work tomorrow, and so I will be able to stay close to home and really enjoy the day reading. I do have some things I might be doing tomorrow, popping in and out of the house, and so my plan for this month is to focus on audiobooks, which will give me that flexibility. I think I'll start with an audiobook, so I can get my bedroom cleaned, as it's quite messy and I'll be spending the evening reading there, so I'm going to be reading The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea. I got it on audiobook forever ago from Audiosync. A website that does a bunch of free audiobooks in the summer. I'm excited to see what it's about!
5:00AM I'm about halfway through The Devil's Highway and it's really been enthralling. The book tells the story of a group of 26 people who attempted to cross the desert stretch as they trekked from Mexico to Arizona. The book is gruesomely detailed as it tells the accounts of the terrible conditions these people went through in an effort to make it to a better life on the other side of the desert. As I've been listening I finished my Inktober project for tomorrow, and I've been doing laundry. I guess the upside to being awake at 3AM is that you get to start your laundry with no interruption! 😂
6:45AM I'm going to take a break and go to bed for a little while. The day has caught up to me and I'm just a little too tired right now. I've got about 2 hours left in The Devil's Highway, and when I get up my plan is to finish that off and then switch back to Daring Greatly by Berne Brown.
12:00PM
So I fell asleep around 7:30 and woke up at 11:30. I'm going to jump back into the Devil's Highway and see if I can finish it before I have to run some errands.
2:00PM
Just finished The Devil's Highway. It was a really fascinating story and brought up a lot of great questions and discussion topics about immigration, boarder control, and the idea of "The American Dream". I decided to move to something a little lighter so my next book is the Witch's Vacuum Cleaner by Terry Pratchett. I've never read a Terry Pratchett book before even though I grew up with friends obsessed with the Discworld series. I thought that a standalone would be a nice introduction to his work.
Sunday 2:13AM
The day got away from me with some things I had to get done, but I really enjoyed the time I got to spend reading. I might plan another personal readathon on another weekend later this year when I have a bit more time to devote to it.
Thanks for coming along for the journey!
