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I'm your host, Danica Ellis. This is episode number 510.5. And today I am talking about the best and worst books to read in one sitting or a readathon.

So I am talking about that today because as of the time of recording, I'm a few days away from the April edition of the Dewey's 24-hour readathon.

And this is a readathon I've been doing twice a year, every year, for more than 10 years now.

And I love it.

I don't participate in a lot of readathons because usually they are longer and I find it difficult to stick with them for this long.

But when it's just one day, I can clear my schedule and really get as much reading as I can done.

And part of what I love about it is that now two of my friends come over most of the time

and we do it together. The three of us snack and read all day, stay up late, and it's just a great

time to hang out and to read and celebrate books. We all met working at a bookstore together,

so it's very appropriate, and it's something that I look forward to all year. As I've been doing

the readathon for, you know, more than a decade, I have definitely learned some things. So actually a lot of the things I've learned

have been about snacks. There's an important balance to snacking during the readathon. It is just

as important as the books, I would say. And you've got to make sure that you have some caffeine,

but not too much caffeine. You've got fun stacks, but also that you actually

eat at least one meal. Those are very important parts. But I also have learned about the kinds of

books that benefit from being read during a read-a-thon and the kinds of books that are better

to not read in one sitting. But before we get

into the best and worst books for read-a-thons, let's talk about TBR or tailored book recommendations.

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