Daily Reading (25 April 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[nanila]

I read several books to the toddler, and an article on continuous flow catalysis in a recent issue of Nature. Skimmed the World news section of the Guardian on my mobile, and caught up with my Twitter feed.

[weaverbird]

Let's see... lots of Twitter and Tumblr, part of a Marvel fic (got sidetracked; want to finish it before bedtime, dangit), a few emails, checked LJ and DW (both very quiet).

[nanila]

Did you finish your Marvel fic?

[weaverbird]

I did indeed, and it was delightful. On Wednesdays, We Wear Pink (and Do Lunch)

[thamesynne]

I'd say the Guardian, but honestly, I'm going to have to say that every day :) so in future I'll only mention really interesting Guardian articles. Other than that, some descriptions of tablets (both the kind you swallow, and the kind you prod at with increasing ferocity until either they finally deign to do something or you bounce them off the bed in frustration, whichever comes first... not that I'm ridiculously impatient or anything *whistles innocently*), the odd other article, and I skimmed Greg Bear's "Blood Music" to see if I'd read it before (I had). Also, the lyrics to a couple of songs.

Oh, and I looked up the symptoms/severity of nicotine poisoning, because it turns out that if you get e-liquid all over your hands when ineptly trying to fill up a clearomiser, that's actually a worry. (I had the symptoms of an anxiety attack for two hours, then fell asleep. Of course, it might actually have *been* an anxiety attack!)

Hmm. Listing everything one reads during the day could actually prove inadvertently revealing about one's personal life...

[thamesynne]

link to "Blood Music", if anyone wants it

[nanila]

Listing everything one reads during the day could actually prove inadvertently revealing about one's personal life...

I was thinking about doing round-up posts on a weekly or bimonthly basis, where I collated people's reading so they could get a sense of what they'd done over time. Your remark here makes me think that I should access-lock those posts!

[alexseanchai]

Commenting on the day I did the reading: Two sections, or about 15%, of Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer. This took about an hour and a half.

I was theoretically doing the 24-Hour Readathon.

[nanila]

Oh, excellent! What is the structure of the readathon, or is it Does What It Says on the Tin? I could definitely participate in an hour and a half readathon, but 24 hours...no, not with small children.

[alexseanchai]

Belatedly: Technically what it says on the tin. But there's no obligation to read for 24h straight.