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Readathon wrap up.

Which hour was most daunting for you? The hours I was at work, because I was covert-reading - had to get some pages in!

Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? I read 'How To Tell If Your Cat Is Trying To Kill You,' which was excellent, a book with pictures after the two novels I tackled.

Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? A bit more warning of the date so I can organise a day off, lots of people work weekends.

What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon? Due to needing to work and sleep, I couldn't participate in any online mini-challenges, although I think it would have been very fun!

How many books did you read? 3!

What were the names of the books you read? In Plain Sight by C.J. Box, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan & How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You by Matthew Inman.

Which book did you enjoy most? In Plain Sight by C.J. Box

Which did you enjoy least? The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, but I still loved it!

If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders? Nape.

How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time? Why yes... I can't believe I finished two novels and a comic book in a day.

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Three weeks til this chaos!

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Someone wanted this rebloggable and I didn’t see til just now. Sorry bout that, love.

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Hitler ‘stache is the way to go.

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Look what I found while cleaning… #nostalgia #2009 #miserysignals #taa #amity #fowlers #adelaide

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Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

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tony abbott and mitt romney’s shipping name is tit robot pass it on

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"Whats the matter? Never taken a shortcut before?" (The cornetto trilogy)

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I'm gonna have to teach in a public school

once upon a time, i was in an honors english class as a sophomore in high school, and we covered the great gatsby

and once a day, every day, one young man would say, in the exact same inquisitive tone of wonder,

"wait a minute! is nick gay for gatsby?"

until finally, one day, our teacher shouted, “YES NICK IS GAY FOR GATSBY BUT I CAN’T TEACH YOU THAT BECAUSE THIS IS A CATHOLIC SCHOOL.” 

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You obviously have the most awesome friends.

you know what’s amazing? my ex walked into my friend’s work a while ago and he asked how I was

and she was at the end of a graveyard shift, and you know, you say a lot of shit when you’re tired, so she was just like “oh she’s great, she’s so much happier now”

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Brad Colbert

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‎’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is attacking women for their right to say no.

And “bitch” is attacking women for their right to call you on it (via tierdropp)

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I replaced all the “fucks” in Akon’s “I wanna fuck you” with the “Fuck” From Ceremony’s “Living Hell”

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(In a conference on the GWOT, 9/11 and "Islamic ideology", I was in the speaking panel)

Young British man in the crowd asks me: Are you apologetic about 9/11?

Me: No. I don't apologize for 9/11. Why should I? I had nothing to do with it. I'm only sorry about the lives lost - regardless of who they were. But I am NOT a spokesperson for Al-Qaeda. No sensible Muslim is. Do I ask British people to apologize to me for colonizing my country back then, taking the rights of the masses away, ending freedom of speech, creating problematic borders that led to bloodshed, sexually assaulting the women of my land, westernizing the entire pedagogues in the subcontinent, turning my culture and my identity into a mystical subject for orientalist authors to go capitalize on? Have I asked you to say sorry to me?

Him: (remains silent)