I started at midnight on Saturday, and read The Magician by Raymond E Feist for an hour. At this point, I had planned to go to bed; I changed my mind about this once some foxes appeared in my garden and started making quite a lot of noise.
At 2am, I watched Death From Above on Hyper RPG and I'm so glad I did. I'm pretty sure it is my favourite episode, and I've watched them all. I even tweeted about it, and some of the DFA cast liked it. There may or may not have been fangirling.
Once DFA was finished, I slept. After that, the reading began again.
It took me a while, but I finally finished The Magician. According to Goodreads, I started it a month ago, so I'm really glad I was able to finish it. I love Pug and his friendship with Tomas. Honestly, almost all of the characters are fleshed out. It did not pass the Bechdel test, but the women for the most part did show character development and were not just the love interest.
As much as I wanted to continue with the series, I switched over to the Shadowrun novels. I've had these on my Kobo for a while, so I thought why not?
Never Deal with a Dragon by Robert Charrette was incredible. I did post about this, but it was just wonderful. I love being thrown in the middle of a story, straight into a world with no hand holding. This book grabbed me in and wouldn't let go. I thoroughly enjoyed being launched head first into the Shadowrun setting.
I then moved on to Choose Your Enemies Carefully by the same author. This is the second in the Shadowrun series. Like the first book, I loved it. I did have a break to listen to the Welcome to Night Vale audiobook, just to give my eyes a break, and after that I went to sleep.
On Sunday, I finished Choose Your Enemies Carefully and quickly moved on to the next book, Find Your Own Truth, the third in the series. I devoured it, I just could not get enough of this setting. All of the characters are just so interesting, and the setting with magic and technology colliding in a world that feels like it is teetering on the edge of an apocalypse... I would hate to live in the setting, but I thoroughly enjoy reading about it.
After that, I moved on to Never Trust an Elf, the sixth book in the series. I had a choice between hunting down the books I was missing, or just reading. If I had been reading just for me, I would have hunted down the missing books; since it was for #24in48 I just carried on. I'll definitely be rereading these books, with the gaps filled in, at some point.
If you are keeping count, at this point I had indeed finished five books. I still had many hours to go.
After Never Trust an Elf, I carried on with the series and read Night's Pawn which was my fifth finished book. My sixth was after a short D&D session, and I made my way through Striper Assassin. Again, another Shadowrun novel, but this was incredibly dark. It was written in present tense unlike the previous books, and it had such a sinister air about it. I loved it, and was very creeped out by it.
Once I finished Striper Assassin I had just fifteen minutes left. I decided to read a book from the Loeb Classical Library, since I'm trying to make my way through those for university.
With plenty of time to spare, at 10.27pm Sunday evening, I finished #24in48 at 24 hours and one minute read.
I did it! I was exhausted, excited, and in desperate need of tea.
If you did the readathon, how did you do?
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