I’ve just surfaced from Savvy for a few minutes to brew a new cup of tea and figured it might be time to write another post.

The second challenge of the readathon is hosted by Miss Remmer, who asks:

…Write a post on your blogs about your kick off strategy. What have you surrounded yourself with for these early hours of the challenge besides your books? Is there a coffee thermos, lucky book mark, snacks, pillow…. We want to know how you have prepared so you do not have to leave your cozy reading space (by the way – we’d like to know what is too…. (are you still in bed, a chair, the couch…..)

Although I began the day reading in my rocking chair in front of my happy light, once my English muffin was done, I retreated to our red couch, where I can read lying down. I have all five bulbs in the lamp lit next to me and am curled up under a purple plaid wool blanket. Of course, the laundry hasn’t been put away, so I’m wedged between clean clothes and the giant fairy pillow Karen gave me so many years ago. But it is definitely a cozy reading spot.

For a while Posey joined me, curled up in my lap, but after a while she wasn’t there any more, so she must have realized she no longer had my attention and left. My tankard of tea grew cold and I pulled myself out of Kansaska-Nebransas long enough to finish the last couple mouthfuls of cold brew before hopping back on a pink bus.

My iTunes is up and playing on shuffle, but for the most part I don’t hear the music. If it were to stop, though, I’d hear the absence of music and it would yank me from my story. Luckily, though, I have so much music on my computer that it would outlast a weeklong readathon and still have a few tunes to play. And that’s just what’s ripped to the computer. Rudi and I must have at least as many cds as books jammed into our tiny apartment.

Challenge 3 is from Bobbie, who asks us for nominees:

Favorite Female Character in a book: Jo in Little Women
Favorite Male Character in a book: Harry Potter from the eponymous series probably
Favorite Side Kick in a book: Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter series
Favorite Couple in a Book: Anne and Gilbert in the Anne of Green Gables books
Favorite Book Series: Harry Potter (but only because some of the Anne books get a bit treacly)
Favorite Author: Barbara Kingsolver (although there are several others I love, sot that answer would vary depending on the moment)
Favorite Book Cover: Hmmm, while I like my books to have judgeworthy covers, I’m not sure I pay sufficient attention to them…. The Eyre Affair maybe
Favorite Book of 2009: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Is it bad that we’re just coming up on the end of Hour 3 and I’m already starting to ramble?

No? Well, good. I’m going to head back to the couch with my cup of tea and see if Mibs and her friends and brothers get to Salina or not…