Today's Mini Readathon is brought to you by Tika at Reading the Bricks. It's her fourth semi-annual readathon, and the theme here is...MINI. Tiny. Keepin' it small, including our snacks, our level of effort, and our reading time. The only thing outsized about this is our devotion. And possibly our laziness.
In other words, this is my kind of readathon and these are my people.
I usually spend some time shopping for the all-important snacks, but by the time I knew about this 'thon, I had just gotten back from a mini-vacation (heh, it's like I was psychically anticipating it) and was hard at work. I had no time to shop and will thus forage for my mini snacks. Looks like I can create a peanut butter theme to my mini snacks, courtesy of the gluten-free pb cookies my friend Liz made for me yesterday, some pb & banana frozen yogurt, and some peanut buttery Butterfinger minis. Not too bad for a few minutes' worth of scrounging in the pantry. And hey -- peanut butter = protein!
For my reading, however, I intend to tackle the forthcoming collection of short stories from Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You To Do. Short stories are obviously mini novels.
If I need something else to mix it up, I may dip into the last of the Pippi books that I had left over from the last mini readathon (a-ha! Continuity!). It's a book for children, aka mini readers, and I haven't read it since I was myself a mini-reader. Obviously this is not the edition I read as a child, but the mini-reader in me still snorts, because fährt/fart jokes will never grow old.
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How 'bout you? How will you be honoring the mini in your reading today?
You are already rocking this minithon. Mini EVERYTHING.
ReplyDeleteHappy reading/snacking!
MOAR MINI.
DeleteHappy r/s back atcha!
Mini-vacationing is EXCELLENT preparation for the minithon. Bravo. And way to fit in the fact that you can only take part in a mini part of the readathon part of the mini theme. I think our ability to make excuses for things being mini is the best part of the thon
ReplyDeleteWe are the queens of excuses and justifications. I'm pretty sure that if it were an employable skill, we'd all be in the Fortune 500.
DeleteYou minithon overachiever, you.
ReplyDeleteFor SOME reason I thought you were 'thoning from Anguilla, and now I'm a little disappointed for you. But only a mini amount.
I love y'all but I don't know that I love y'all enough to 'thon from Anguilla. That might be a true test of my devotion.
DeleteAre you reading Pippi in German?? Also your improv'd snacks are awesome. I would be jealous of everyone with Butterfinger stuff today, but I just found a mini one from Halloween at the bottom of my purse, so, jealousy RESOLVED.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha. Am I reading Pippi in German, she asks? You are one funny lady.
DeleteGood work on jealousy resolvement, though.
YAY I'm so glad you're able to come play for a bit! And yes, that is some EXCELLENT pantry-scrounging. HUZZAH the Minithon!
ReplyDeleteAll the HUZZAHS for you. Long live the Minithon! (even though it might seem counter to its own values)
DeleteGreat snacks! I loved Pippi as a kid, can't wait to read her to mine once they're a little bigger :-) Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI think you win this one thanks to the sheer number of times you managed to get the word 'mini' into a single blog post. Job well done, old bean! Also those cookies look yummy. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteNice Post!
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