Satsuma's Journal

It’s Dewey’s 24 hr readathon today! I’ve already missed the first quarter because I woke up late, and I’m not particularly planning on pulling an all nighter, but I figured I’d take the excuse to spend all day reading anyway :D

First up is FMA 13-15, of which I’ve just finished the first (Ed gets vored! Roy makes bad choices! Riza continues to be wonderful!) but 15 is apparently The Backstory one so I’m looking forward to that

Will probably edit this post with updates if/when I finish more stuff

Edit @ 3:30: finished FMA 14&15, the backstory was indeed a Thing! Wish that there could have been a bit more focus on what Riza was up to since it was nominally from her (and Scars) POV but she’s also really not the type to talk about herself so I guess it makes sense

Took a break after I finished to acquire food & tea and am now trying to decide between Educated & the Odyssey for my next read (Educated is for class which, ehh but Odyssey will take all day soooooo)

Edit @ 11:20: read until five, which was up till book nine or so, then stopped to make dinner (sushi rice and stir fried vegetables!) and help my sister write a paper. Read again from eight until just about now, when I finished. It was good! Emiliy Wilson’s translation really is lovely

Not sure if/what I’ll read next, my tbr list is long enough that the possibilities are endless

Edit @ 12:45: well, I ended up drinking champagne and doing floor exercises with my roomates and their friends for an hour instead, but I’ve got Elizabeth Hopkinsson’s Asexual Fairy Tales and another cup of tea, so I’m back to reading! Not sure if this’ll be my last book at the day or not, five is a respectable number and I have things to do tomorrow but also *stares at my tbr shelves*

Edit @ 2:00 Finished Asexual Fairy Tales! I’m thinking I’ll wrap up for the night here

Final stats:
Read 8/12 hours
Finished 5 books (FMA 12-15, the Odyssey, and Asexual Fairy Tales)
Read 1250 pages
Posted twice (here & a short thread on mastodon about FMA)
Commented on 2 other peoples posts (I’ll probablydo more tomorrow after the readathons ended, when I’m on my laptop and can command-f on the participants spreadsheet for Dreamwidth — most of the posters are on sites I dont have access to like Instagram and twitter and goodreads)

Rebecca Solnit's book Hope in the Dark was first published in 2004 & the edition I purchased shortly after Trumps inauguration was published in 2016, so the book doesn't pack quite the punch a version that acknowledged our current political reality would but it nonetheless has some interesting things to say about politics, hope, and resistance.

Since I'm a nerd who makes somewhat questionable decisions, I'm participating in a 24 hour readathon on the 28th - I'll def be posting about it on mastodon but hopefully also here as well, if only so I can find some new reading buddies ^_^

Currently best guess for my reading list is:

• The Storm Before The Storm, by Mike Duncan
• Hope in the Dark, by Rebecca Solnit
• Opus 100, by Isaac Asimov
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein (a nostalgia reread)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
• A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way, translated by Ursula K Le Guin (who’s writing I adore)

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and A Book About the Way are the most likely to be cut, the former because I’ve read it before and the latter because I’ve misplaced my copy somehow between when I decided it should be my next read a week ago and today when I collected my readathon pile.

Best of luck to anyone else participating!