Howling Frog Books

This is a master post for the readathon, so anybody who is interested can come by and check in, and anybody who is not doesn't have to keep getting inundated with boring daily updates.  Every day I'll just insert what I've done. Monday:  Today I surprised myself by reading quite a bit! I finished The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings (but I only had 50 pages to go) I read The Martian !  Boy is that an exciting book. I got about 10 pages into my next section of The Monk .  Beware the Italian banditti! Tuesday: Pretty good day. I started this really fun graphic novel called The Adventures of Babbage and Lovelace , or something very similar to that, and it's neat. Made a good amount of progress in The Monk --just 20 or so pages to go till the end of the weekly section.  It's been nothing but Don Raymond's story the whoooooole tiiiiiime, I'm bored now. Got a little further with this Georgian novel, By the Hand of the Grand Master . ...

I don't join readathons often--especially the ones that want you to stay up late!  I heard about the FrightFall Readathon a few weeks ago and have been waffling ever since, but hey, why not?  I've got a busy week coming up, but on the other hand I'm done with Banned Books Week (our best success yet, thankyouverymuch) and I'll just try to default to reading rather than putzing around, which is preferable anyway. FrightFall is hosted by the Seasons of Reading blog , which is a cooperative venture just for seasonal readalongs, run by several book bloggers including Michelle at True Book Addict .  It will last from tomorrow, October 5, to the 11th.  There are few rules, but you're supposed to read some sort of scary/horror/thriller book somewhere in there.  Signups are here , and the guidelines can be found here . I hope The Martian counts as a thriller, because that's all I've got at the moment.  (My husband and daughter say yes, because the guy spends...