Hey Read-a-thoners!! Have your warmed up and settled in yet? Are you feeling the excitement?! We've come so far, but you might start feeling like a nap doesn't sound so bad. Never fear, we have a challenge just for these moments. So grab your coffee/tea, stretch those muscles, and grab your read. It's challenge time!!
For this challenge, you must turn to page 32 of the book you are currently reading (or the nearest page with text on it) and find the most entertaining phrase to complete the following sentence:
"I would rather read than ________ any day!"
For example, mine might say: "I would rather read than spend hours at that windows, staring at the garden any day!""
Post your sentence in the comments so everyone may enjoy! Don't forget to include the title of the book you are reading and your email so I can contact you. Let the laughs begin :) Push through we've got tons of reading fun ahead.
On winner will be chosen at the end of hour 20 and the winner may choose a book of their choice from the Book Depository (or Amazon) under $15. This challenge is open to all read-a-thoners who have a mailing address that the Book Depository ships to.
Happy Reading!!
I would rather read than spend the morning injecting colored water into rear ends any day!
ReplyDelete...unfortunately, I'm reading NON FICTION. Sorry to put that picture in your heads this late in the day...its from Charlatan by Pope Brock.
allison.dayle gmail.com
bahahaha NONFICTION FOR THE WIN! =)
DeleteBrilliant! =D
Delete"I would rather read than feel the anger coming off her any day!"
ReplyDeleteA Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
lisasworldofbooks@charter.net
I would rather read than dive for cover behind a nearby car as he fires anyday!
ReplyDelete--Zom-B City by Darren Shan
a.librarians.library(at)gmail(dot)com
Good challenge! =)
I would rather read than bake blindfolded any day!
ReplyDeletefrom Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
Which is totally awesome, by the way.
"I would rather read than embroil [my]self in a revolution any day!" :P
ReplyDeleteGeorgette Heyer's The Talisman Ring
And my mail is marenfuga [at] gmail [dot] com
Here is my answer. Fun challenge! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Reading!
"I would rather read than be an old man who has only one lung any day!"
ReplyDeleteIt's from Looking for Alaska by John Green -- there was a better sentence but it didn't fit in :(
br.amiranda1@gmail.com
That's the hard part.
DeleteI would rather read than reclaim our heritage any day!
ReplyDeleteFrom Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. Such an excellent book.
I'm reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer...
ReplyDeleteI would read than ease up from my crouch, my calves screaming in protest, but keep hunched at the waist, trying to be smaller than the bush any day.
LoL
Good one.
Delete"I would rather read than get in good with his daughter and her friends so I'm invited over any day!"
ReplyDeleteBook Title: Fox Forever
ptspiral@gmail.com
"I would rather read than ruin the work of a lifetime any day!" The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells
ReplyDeletereadersrespite@yahoo.com
I would rather read than raise the axe as Brian throws open the lid any day!
ReplyDeletefrom: the Walking Dead Rise of the Governor
I would rather read than slit my throat on her new carpet any day!
ReplyDeleteSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson. My sentence is a bit grim. o_o
visabellad(at)gmail.com
Love it. It's a good one despite its grim nature. Good job!
DeleteHere is the link to my book quote: http://jenceywrites.blogspot.com/2013/04/hour-16-challenge-book-quotes.html
ReplyDeleteI would rather read than see your mother in a bathing suit any day!
ReplyDeleteAww, the only one that fits for me is kind of mean. It's from City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (hardcover). ruthrking @ gmail dot com
It's funny though. I think you did a great job.
Delete"I would rather read than play pooh sticks any day!"
ReplyDelete"Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
rivercityreading(at)gmail(dot)com
Love it!
DeleteI would rather read than fan myself with the doily any day!
ReplyDeleteOne of the books I'm currently reading is The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin.
Thanks for the challenge!
nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com
"I would rather read than see him play off the airs and graces of their neighbors any day!" Sorry, it either that or "die in childbirth". Yay, historical fiction! :-)
ReplyDeleteFool for Love by Eloisa James
mrs(dot)soule(at)gmail(dot)com
LOL, but I kind of like "die in childbirth"!
DeleteI like the childbirth as well. Then your sentence would be quite true right?! Great job on both.
Delete"I would rather read than beg your hand to finish this set any day!" -- from The Birth of Blue Satan by Patricia Wynn. Not a lot of great choices on page 32 of this book, unfortunately! Love the challenge though. :)
ReplyDeletechristina(dot)behe(at)gmail(dot)com
I would rather read than dislodge the question that for one and a half years had been wedged in her voice box any day!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Maara (fabulous book!)
http://www.caribousmom.com
I like how that one worked out.
DeleteI would rather read than stand at the urinal stall and aim toward the zinc cake any day!
ReplyDeleteStay Awake by Dan Chaon
jessica.lee.ballard[at]gmail[dot]com
I would rather read than practice spells with my witch coven any day!
ReplyDeleteLife's a Witch - Brittany Geragotelis
novalovesbooks@hotmail.com
Oh yours worked quite well! Good job.
Delete'Dead Ever After' by Charlaine Harris, page 32:
ReplyDelete'I would rather read than having two babies at one time any day!'
kimberleyborsboom722(at)msn(dot)com
"I would rather read than _see an arrow impale her chest_ any day!"
ReplyDeleteReading The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson--I'm not quite to this point in the book yet, so I'll have to wonder about it until I get there!
figwiggin(at)gmail(dot)com
"I would rather read than, no sign of the spider."
ReplyDeleteMine comes from "This Book is Full of Spiders" page 32
must.read.faster AT gmail.com
I would rather read than "have my History of American Foreign Policy double lecture in the afternoon" any day.
ReplyDeleteFrom Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo p.32
AMEN TO THAT!
DeleteOh yours worked out!
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ReplyDelete"I would rather read than snatch a panicking bird any day!
Once Upon a Flock by Lauren Scheuer
I would rather read than go through the grave dangers of childbirth any day!
ReplyDeleteThe Birth House by Ami McKay
Kbklibrary at gmail dot com
Great pick!
DeleteI'm reading Splintered by A.G. Howard and my answer is I would rather read than sprout up like a giant mushroom any day.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.littlelovelybooks.com/2013/04/deweysreadathonapril2013.html
I would rather read than crash to ground in a naked tangle of arms, legs, and terry cloth.
ReplyDeleteFrom Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
abookishaffair(at)gmail(dot)com
I would rather read than "gain a new appreciation for the automobile" any day!
ReplyDeleteFrom page 32 of Freefall to Fly by Rebekah Lyons
Create With Joy
http://create-with-joy.com
Here is my post! I love this challenge and by the way....You rocked the 15th Hour Challenge.
ReplyDeletehttp://littlepocketbooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/deweys-read-thon-2013-hour-13-16.html
Ahhh... *Blushes* Thanks.
Delete"I would rather read than smell bacon frying"
ReplyDelete"Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls" by David Sedaris
gabriellereads(at)gmail(dot)com
Good find. Though... hmm.. I really like bacon.
DeleteI would rather read than be mistaken for a crazed scientist for college professor any day!
ReplyDeleteWorld War Z by Max Brooks
Kim.ukura at gmail dot com
Good pick!
DeleteI would rather read than be mistaken for a crazed scientist for college professor any day!
ReplyDeleteWorld War Z by Max Brooks
Kim.ukura at gmail dot com
Forgot to leave my e-mail address for Create With Joy:
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Good catch!
DeleteI would rather read than behave normally any day.
ReplyDeleteReading The Red Pyramid (Graphic Novel ) by Rick Riordan.
dragonzgoil at gmail dot com
I would rather read than be asked "to go meet him at the school for a basketball game."
ReplyDeleteFrom: School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins. 40%
Stephanie
ReadRinseRepeatBlog (at) gmail (dot) com
"I would rather read than __catch my breath__ any day!"
ReplyDeleteFrom Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
http://world4anna1.blogspot.com/
I would rather read than disappear into the books again, forever.
ReplyDeleteListening to mostly audiobooks, but that was from the graphic novel Drama by Raine Telgemeir.
I would rather read than walk into Fox today and sell a movie about a restaurant that serves baked monkey balls any day!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
I would rather read than search for phantom cats that will last weeks if not months any day.
ReplyDelete-- The Moonlit Mind by Dean Koontz
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ReplyDelete"I would rather read than go on a long voyage without forgetting something any day!" - From Swallows and Amazons.
ReplyDeleteI used The Ambassador's Mission by Trudi Canavan and created...... 'I would rather read than have a firm circle of snooty friends any day!'
ReplyDeleteMy email is beckyday6@btinternet.com
Loves it!
Delete"I would rather read than sit motionless observing the Madonna any day!"
ReplyDeleteThat's from page 33 of Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat. You can see it illustrated on my blog: http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/mini-challenge-turn-page.html
My email address: emerging DOT paradigm AT yahoo DOT com
I would rather read than ladle tortellini in brado into a bowl any day!
ReplyDelete- 7th Heaven by James Patterson
Margaret - dancingdog.blog.com
I would rather read than ladle tortellini in brado into a bowl any day!
ReplyDelete- 7th Heaven by James Patterson
I would rather read than know for a fact the taxes were due any day! (from 4% - my ebook doesn't have page numbers)
ReplyDeleteLadd Springs by Dianne Venetta
carolsnotebook at yahoo dot com
Understandable. thanks!
DeleteI would rather read than note the framed degrees rising vertically up her bone-colored wall.
ReplyDeleteVanity Fare - Megan Caldwell
books.etc.blogger AT gmail DOT com
Fun challenge!
I would rather read than lick the juice from the bottom of the pot any day!
ReplyDeleteReading Rapture by Phillip W. Simpson, page 32.
This is such a good mini challenge, they're hilarious!
I love reading these!
DeleteFun challenge (and doesn't take too much brain power...)
ReplyDeleteI would rather read than chew like a starved rhinoceros any day!
~~ 26a by Diana Evans
azukibc at gmail
Currently I am reading The Morganville Vampires: Carpe Corpus. There wasn't really anything I could use on that page so I went with what made more sense than the rest.
ReplyDelete"I would rather read than feeling fury erupt like a volcano any day!"
Thanks for hosting this challenge!!
Way to make it work!
Delete"I would rather read than spent the entire evening at a tea, a bloody faculty tea any day!"
ReplyDeleteThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
truebookaddictATgmailDOTcom
Thanks for the mini-challenge!
"I would rather read than "wear pointy shoes" any day!"
ReplyDeleteBlackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
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"I would rather read than speak the most basic restaurant French any day!"
ReplyDeleteMission to Paris by Alan Furst
"I would rather read than have someone "micromanage me for 7000 miles away" any day!"
ReplyDelete-Rescue My Heart by Jill Shavis
Good one!
DeleteI would rather read than wail because of anxiety they pick up from their mothers any day!
ReplyDelete-The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
somanybooks.solittletimeblog@gmail.com
I would rather read than sneak a look to see what he was fiddling around with on my chiffonier any day!
ReplyDelete…
Ok, I’m done. XD (Funny thing is that in the book, he was actually reading and making sure he was NOT looking up from his book. =’) “With a guy like Ackley, if you looked up from your book you were a goner. [..] He just wanted me to quit reading and enjoying myself.”)
Especially funny after my quote-challenge entry. =')
You are on a role!
DeleteThis uses a phrase from The White Forest by Adam McOmber.
ReplyDelete"I would rather read than become a primitive dressed in the guise of a nineteenth century girl any day!"
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15388529-elizabeth#comment_72988774
"I would rather read than perceive sensations such as bitterness more acutely any day!"
ReplyDeleteWine for Dummies by Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
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Alexis...I almost thought I was going to have a sentence that made no sense!!! But this came for me at the end of the page!
ReplyDeleteMy sentence would read: “I would rather read than sit on the bulwarks any day!
jadaloves[at]gmail[dot]com
Limiting everyone to the same page makes this one more challenging than it first appears.
DeleteI would rather read than burn holes into St. Clair's head any day!
ReplyDeleteAnna and the French Kiss
"I would rather read than be taken forcibly to the psycho ward and be subdued with Thorazine, Compazine, Stelazine, and whatever else anyone could think of.
ReplyDeleteFear of Flying by Erica Jong
agnesmack@agnesmack.com
Oh good one!
DeleteI would rather read than trip over and skin one's knee.
ReplyDelete(From Y by Marjorie Celona)
I would rather read than do almost anything else any day!
ReplyDeleteLamb:The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend, by Christopher Moore
hardcoversandheroines@gmail.com
I would rather read than recite poetry on firelight evenings any day!
ReplyDeletePossession by A.S. Byatt
leprechaun42[at]gmail[dot].com
"I would rather read than drink a lot of sherry to feel like getting into bed with an old man of sixty any day!"
ReplyDeleteFrom "Servants' Hall" by Margaret Powell
Laura, at pardontheinterruption78@gmail.com
" I would rather read than live a martian year !"
ReplyDeletefictionstateofmind@gmail.com
"I would rather read than screw our parents any day"
ReplyDelete-Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Jessie at pink_rose2057@yahoo.com
I would rather read than look at her husband, waiting for him to explain, any day!
ReplyDelete-- from "Murder at Astor Place" by Victoria Thompson
As you can see, page 32 is a lame piece of the story. And how can anyone top the answer of Allison from The Allure of Books? Hahaha! Great challenge!
Nolatari
phrenetic.mind@gmail.com
I'm going to have to changed the verb form for this to make any sense at all.
ReplyDeleteI would rather read than look at other fig candles, noting what other frangrances they used any day.
Family Pictures by Jane Green.
Donna Jo at djatwood@gmail.com
"I would rather read than flounce over in skinny jeans any day!" ~ "Mila 2.0" by Debra Driza
ReplyDeleteLove the challenge...great idea!
Courtney
Stiletto Storytime
stilettostorytime@gmail.com
I would rather read than "turn the piles of torn, creased, sweat-and rain-blotched maps we'd annotated and redrawn enroute into presentable topographic diagrams" any day! -James Lasdun, Give Me Everything You Have
ReplyDeleteLaura
hawthornescarlet at gmail dot com
How fun! I love this challenge. I just finished up Bomb by Steve Sheinkin:
ReplyDeleteI would rather read than "start a sudden dive toward the harbor, where most of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet was docked" any day.
Boy, wouldn't most of us :)
librariansbook(at)gmail
Thanks! You found a good one.
DeleteI would rather read than "extend the life of the scandal" any day.
ReplyDeleteBest I could come up with. From Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander
jessica_h706 at yahoo.com
I would rather read than "try to track down 24 missing caskets" any day.
ReplyDeleteTwo For The Dough - Janet Evanovich
Oh good one and I love that book.
DeleteI would rather read than "follow her like bees" any day!
ReplyDeletePg 32 - Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
kiltgirl1@yahoo.com
I would rather read than "understand the stealing of the vodka" any day!
ReplyDeleteFrom 'Care of Wooden Floors' by Will Wiles. I've always been more of a book girl than a booze one! ;)
emp501@hotmail.co.uk
I would rather read than serve that the human species may survive any day.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa
This challenge is a real interesting one. Mine is here
ReplyDeletehttp://readingbetweenpages.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/dewey-read-a-thon-mini-puzzles/
I would rather read than marry the girl next door an day!
ReplyDeleteFrom "The Fate of Mercy Alban" by Wendy Webb
Fun challenge. Thank you for hosting.
I would rather read than take over the government, since it would certainly see nothing but failure ahead.
ReplyDeleteFrom "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" by Rebecca West
I would rather read than.... find the means to isolate the problem in order to eliminate subtractive surgery entirely.
ReplyDelete...because well, that sounds awful. Haha. From "The Resurrectionist" by EB Hudspeth --- page 32 is the end of a chapter with only a paragraph from a personal letter.
ReplyDelete"I would rather read than struck a mighty blow at the establishment any day!"
-John Grisham, The Runaway Jury
"I would rather read than remove every single recollection of her failed first marriage any day!"
ReplyDeleteFrom "Something Rotten" by Jasper Fforde.
Thanks for the fun challenge :-)
sarahmay227(at)gmail(dot)com
I would rather read than dig in the cold forest loam for night-blooming phosphors any day.
ReplyDelete-- Tiffany Trent, The Unnaturalists
joehrlein (at) gmail
I'm reading Doctor Who: Devil in the Smoke by Justin Richards.
ReplyDeleteMy sentence: "I would rather read than disappear into the shadowy limits of the roof space any day!"
This was the only one that made a little bit of sense ;)
sandric.sk at gmail dot com
Wow, I am intrigued by some of these responses--great challenge!
ReplyDeleteFrom The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011:
I would rather read than savor rotten caribou and seal any day! LOL-so true!
http://subliminalintervention.blogspot.com/2013/04/read-thon-2013-hour-19.html
ginger dot mallard at gmail dot com
I am reading COURAGE Alan Littell. It is a sea novel.
ReplyDeleteI would rather read than search shipping columns any day.
literarymafia [at] gmail [dot] com
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