So, I don’t expect to read for twenty-four hours straight, nor do I expect to finish (or even start) all of these books. But this is what I have in my stack for Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon on Saturday:
Time-sensitive reads on which I’m excited to make progress:
Into the Go-Slow by Bridgett M. Davis
SPQR by Mary Beard
Palate-cleanser reads:
A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Books to read (or listen to) with my kids:
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
The Histories by Herodotus
Wouldn’t it be awesome if I could read all of these by Sunday morning? Well, awesome except that I’d feel miserable from sitting still for so long, and I wouldn’t retain anything I read. Or maybe I’d retain things but I’d mix up everything so I’d go into next week thinking that Beverly Cleary grew up on the outskirts of ancient Rome and once had to defend herself against a death sentence in front of a Greek jury before moving with her family to a railroad camp in South Dakota. Actually, that would be kind of awesome.
Imperfect Happiness 