Read-a-thon - Just signed up!

Just signed up for the read-a-thon, thanks to sweet_sparrow! The idea is that you sign up and spend twenty-four hours reading (and blogging about what you're reading).

I don't know if I'm going to manage twenty-four hours, but I'm going to give it a good try! My housemates have been appraised of the situation, and are going to spend the time making sure I'm being fed and watered. Other support is most, most welcome. I think I'll probably update every hour or whenever I finish a book, and I'll probably update on Twitter (should probably find out whether there's a hashtag already). I'll probably have a few posts for it -- not one for each hour, but probably three or four altogether.

I'm putting together a list of what I might look at reading first, though I'm not trying to set anything in stone. The first three books are more set in stone than the rest, though. I expect I'll probably skip around between books.

-Shakespeare, Richard III. (Lecture on it on Monday!)
-Nennius, History of the Britons. (Nice and short, relevant to my course.)
-Jo Walton, Half a Crown.
-Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun.
-Alison Goodman, Singing the Dogstar Blues.
-Anna Elliott, Twilight of Avalon.
-Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat.

Of course, I may end up picking up something else entirely.

My plan is to go to bed relatively early and sleep until I can sleep no more, in preparation. I'll have to get up so I can quickly go shopping for some snacks to fortify me! Then through the day I'll be online and chatting to people while I'm reading, albeit probably focusing on reading more than I usually do. Every hour or so I'll stop and do a sun salutation or two, because yoga seems like an awesome way to stretch out and take a break.

If it gets to the middle of the night and I'm dying of exhaustion, I'll probably stop and nap. Buuut, I used to be pretty good at all-nighters...