Readathon mini-challenge

Hour three mini-challenge

Linkage: http://estellasrevenge.blogspot.com/2010/10/mini-challenge-six-word-celebration.html

"Dewey's readathon. Bringing us all together."

it's 3am. I'm for bed ...

Readathon mini-challenge

Hour two mini-challenge

Linkage: http://www.misswisabus.com/2010/10/09/deweys-read-a-thon-back-in-the-day-childrens-book-mini-challenge/

What were some of your favorite children’s books when you were younger?

- The Hobbit; The Dark is Rising Sequence; A Little Princess

Do you have any new favorites now that you’re an adult?

- Harry Potter; The Graveyard Book

Have you included any children’s or YA titles in your Read-A-Thon stack this year?

- Not this year; no :-)

Readathon mini-challenge

Mini-meme!

Linkage: http://24hourreadathon.com/2010/10/09/welcome-and-hour-1/

3 facts about me … Uhm ... I'm a Gemini, although I'm not into astrology, I wear green cats-eye glasses and my favourite movie ever is All About Eve

How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? Just two: The Passage, and Everything's Eventual

Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? Not really. I have to work tomorrow, so I'm just going to fit in as much reading/cheerleading as I can around that :-)

If you’re a veteran read-a-thoner, any advice for people doing this for the first time? Have fun! Readathon is about fun, and coming together to celebrate books. However you do it; enjoy what you're doing!

Readathon

For real this time - lol. And because I keep forgetting it, here's a link to the site: http://24hourreadathon.com/

There are over 420 readers this year, which is awesome and would have made Dewey very happy to see!

As for myself - I started in my time zone (New Zealand) about 5pm-ish. I'm a little way into The Passage by Justin Cronin, and I've read one short story from Everything's Eventual, by Stephen King.

I'm about to go and do a spot of cheerleading, then I'm off to bed for a while with my book.

Have a great readathon everyone!!!

Readathon!

And we're off! Or at least, I'm starting now. It's 5pm on Saturday, we're finally home after seeing my mother and running some errands, and Patrick is down for a power nap. Top left in that pic is The Passage, which won the vlog post vote by .5 of a point. So The Passage shall be my readathon read, interspersed with the odd short story from Everything's Eventual.

I'm going to take the chance now to make myself a cup of tea, grab a biscuit, snuggle under a blanket (it's cold and rainy today; perfect readathon weather) and get started.

I'm not going to finish The Passage. Nowhere near it probably, but I'm going to take a good smack at reading as much of it as I can.

Drop by; say hi! Check out my vlog here: http://justaddbooks.blogspot.com/2010/10/readathon-vlog.html (there's food porn in there, too) and let's get this party started, yes?

:DDDDDDDDDD *\o/*

Readathon vlog

I had been planning to start at 11am tomorrow, my time, but that's not going to happen. I'm aiming for about 3-4pm. I'll put up my first post then.

Meanwhile, come and help me decide what to read ...

NB: I've decided to take Everything's Eventual out of the possibles post, because I'll probably dip into it anyway. But of the others, let me know what you think I should hunker down with. :-)

Readathon v reality

As some of you know, my mother had heart surgery some weeks ago. She's been back in hospital the past few days, with fluid on her lungs and a chest infection.

She's doing better now, and is coming home tomorrow, but needs someone to help her prepare her meals at the weekends, and this weekend that someone is me. :-)

So I'm still going to be doing readathon, because I really want to, but I have to scale back my usual grand plans - lol. I'm also working Sunday, which I don't usually, but I'm going to try and ninja-cheerlead a bit from there ;)

Anyway, this post ... really has no point - lol. I'm going to do a vlog tomorrow, because that's sort of my own personal readathon tradition, and what I'm going to do, readers, followers, lurkers ... is let you decide my readathon read for me.

I'm going to stick to one book, but I don't know which one yet. So the vlog will be my list of possibles and I'll choose the one that gets more than one vote.

A streamlined readathon, if you will. :)