Stack of books

This is the reading stack for my girls and I for tomorrow's Dewey's 24-Hour readathon! We are so excited! We have a couple of other things to do tomorrow ( a tap dance show for a senior center and a Halloween event) but other than that we will be reading! Some of these books are for us to read together and some are for separate reading. There will be snacks and dineer and lots of togetherness. We are looking forward to it a lot!

Book club

I went to my first gathering of the book club I joined today. It was fun and I enjoyed it a lot! We discussed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. It was a good book that I liked a lot but didn't love. Most people felt the same way. One woman did love it while another did not. Still our discussion was pretty good.

Our next choice is called The Other Girl by Erica Spindler. She is a pretty popular author from what I've read this afternoon but I've never heard of her. The book sounds really good, though. I'm looking forward to reading it. Here is the description from Good Reads:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife Erica Spindler comes The Other Girl, a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she’d put behind her.

"Explosive.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A fantastic thriller from one of the best in the genre!” —RT Reviews

A horrific crime. One witness—a fifteen year old girl from the wrong side of the tracks, one known for lying and her own brushes with the law.
Is it any surprise no one believed her?

Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis—but that wasn’t always so. Miranda comes from the town of Jasper, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. She’s worked hard to earn the respect of her coworkers and the community.

When Miranda and her partner are called to investigate the murder of one of the town’s most beloved college professors, they’re unprepared for the brutality of the scene. This murder is unlike any they’ve ever investigated, and just when Miranda thinks she’s seen the worst of it, she finds a piece of evidence that chills her to the core: a faded newspaper clipping about that terrible night fifteen years ago. The night she’d buried, along with her past and the girl she’d been back then. Until now that grave had stayed sealed…except for those times, in the deepest part of the night, when the nightmares came: of a crime no one believed happened and the screams of the girl they believed didn’t exist.

Then another man turns up dead, this one a retired cop. Not just any cop—the one who took her statement that night. Two murders, two very different men, two killings that on the surface had nothing in common—except Miranda.

Teaser Tuesday: The Most Dangerous Duke in London

Teaser Tuesday is newly hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. To play along, just do the following:

- Grab your current read 

- Open to a random page 

- Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page 

- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 

- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser. 

My teaser this week is from Nook page 199 of The Most Dangerous Duke in London by Madeline Hunter:

"It was all but abandoned after my father married. They made their country home at Kengrove Abbey, not here."

"They did not come here because of us, you mean."

"Yes."

She hated how that old argument had hung on for years, affecting not only the generation that started it but the next one as well.

Books to continue 24in48

We finished the books we were reading today. So m daughter and I went to the library and Barnes and Noble for more books. We have now started The Metropolitans. Later this evening I will start Need to Know. I'm not sure we're going to make the entire 24 hours but we'll see. It's great fun to read all of us together any which way you look at it and regardless of the amount of time.

24in48 readathon

 I will be participating (for the first time) in the 24in48 readathon this weekend. In fact, it begins at midnight so just a couple of hours now. This means that I will read for 24 hours of the 48 hour weekend. I just decided to do this tonight so technically I haven't prepared., However, I'm a lifelong bookworm so I have plenty of books to choose from to read. I have two on the go right now that I will finish this weekend I'm reading and will finish Diary of an Accidental Wallflower for myself and will finish reading The Magic Misfits to my kids. Both have been highly enjoyable books so far. 

After those two books are done I will of course choose others. Actually, I'll let my kids choose the  next book I read to them. I'm not sure exactly what I wil grab for myself either but will check in with updates over the course of the weekend. 

Have any of you ever participated in this particular readathon?