Hour 15 – Let’s Talk About Food, Baby

Hour 15!!!!!!!!! This is Andi from Estella’s Revenge making a quick appearance before I come back on the scene in Hours 19 and 20!

Today has been a great day for mini-challenges, #fakefacts, Twitter, and Instagram is on fire! At my house it’s also been a great day for food!

My husband threw a salisbury steak recipe into the slow cooker today, so it was ready to go right around dinner time. We also whipped up this amazing pumpkin pecan cobbler and topped it with some vanilla ice cream. Super easy recipes if you decide to partake.

What was your favorite food you indulged in today (so far)? 

 

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Mini-Challenges

Accio, Cinnamon Rolls!

Still Going

• Snapshot Challenge
• Recommendation Train

Prize Winners

• Bogunivers
• Just One More Thing
• Rachael Turns Pages
• Tina Black
• Haileydays

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Hour 14 – Thank you, and you, and you. Oh and you!

Hi there! Heather here again, pitch hitting for a fallen co-host! Send her wishes to feel better!

I just want to send a few thank yous. To those who helped us get the Readathon off the ground this season:

To the co-hosts:

The cheerleaders!

All our wonderful prize donors:

And most of all; all TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT READERS:

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Mini-Challenges

Snapshot Challenge

Still Going

• Recommendation Train
• Mid-Event Survey

Prize Winners

• Pipaluk Books
• Colormeread
• Olduvai Reads
• Francesca Guiducci

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Hour 13 – Livin’ on a Prayer

Kerry again from Entomology of a Bookworm, back for a second hour… and Hour 13 no less! WHICH MEANS: you made it to the halfway point!

How’s everyone feeling? How are the books? The snacks? The naps (don’t worry, I won’t tell on you if you napped… I napped. Just not while I was co-hosting.) Tell me everything.

Awesome! Now give yourself a self-five and get back to the reading, but not before stopping by some of the challenges still running, including one hosted by your truly… check out the links below!

I’ll be lingering on the @Readathon twitter for the next hour and reading a bit where I can before handing over the co-hosting reins to Courtney for the next bit of co-hosting.

Go go go, readers!

(Oh, and don’t forget to thank our AWESOME hosts for the Readathon, Andi of Estella’s Revenge and Heather of Capricious Reader. They put so much into this event and it absolutely shows, so let’s show them some appreciation!)

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Mini-Challenges

Recommendation Train

Still Going

• Mid-Event Survey
• Pumpkin Spice or Naw?

Prize Winners

• A Writer in a Wheelchair
• Zara
• Mia in Narnia
• Katrina’s Reads

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Hour 12 – I’m Really Proud of You

Hey-o, friends! Kerry here from Entomology of a Bookworm, and I’m so excited to be co-hosting for the next two hours.

SO: Hour 12. We approach the halfway point. Some of us have napped, most of us have snacked, all of us have read. Take a minute to get up and stretch your legs and move around a bit. Have a bite to eat (it’s dinnertime in my time zone, after all!).

You do you, folks. No judgement here.

Take the mid-event survey (below) and enter a few of the current mini-challenges.

And then, back to the books!

I will not apologize for an abundance of Parks & Rec gifs.

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Mini-Challenges

Mid-Event Survey

Mid-Event Survey:

1. What are you reading right now?
2. How many books have you read so far?
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?
4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?
5. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?

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Still Going

• Pumpkin Spice or Naw?
• Classics and Comics

Prize Winners

• Karen B.
• The Reading Wench
• Wish Fulfillment
• Just Jaime’s Reviews

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Now you can celebrate the Readathon year-round with Dewey’s swag! We use the earnings to cover charges associated with prize shipping, customs charges, and domain costs. 

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Enter the READING RAINBOW mini-challenge all day long!

 

Hour 11 – You’re ALMOST Half-Way There!

Welcome to Hour 11 everyone!

In honor of the hour, I thought I’d share a couple of my favorite songs with you to give you a moment to refresh as we approach the half-way point of the readathon.

What songs are you listening to this hour? Or are you listening to an audio book?

This is my last hour co-hosting. Thanks for being such wonderful readathoners for the past few hours!  I’ll be hanging out on Twitter for the rest of the night (well, as long as I can make it, anyway), so tweet me a hello!

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Mini-Challenges

Pumpkin Spice or Naw?

Still Going

• Classics and Comics
• Book Scavenger Hunt

Prize Winners

• Jrtmaria 
• Maggie Rohde
• Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity
• Rachel Noel

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Enter your finished books into the DATABASE!

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Hour 10 – 10 Totally Untrue Facts About the Readathon

Cass here again, and guess what? You’ve made it to hour 10! You get a gold star!

 

In honor of hour ten, here are 10 facts about the readathon that are completely untrue because I made them up:

1. Did you know… the 2013 film The Heat was a slightly-fictionalized retelling of the true exploits of our fantastic hosts (and BFFs), Andi and Heather?  
2. One in 250 readathon participants has shared a cup of tea with Nearly Headless Nick?

   

   He can’t drink it, of course, but he enjoys it all the same.

3. The number of incidents of “super paper-cuts” among participants has decreased ten-fold since the advent of steal readers’ hand-protecting gloves.
4. Trish challenged me to a cheer-off, but I’m too chicken to show up.

   

   I don’t mess with Texan cheerleaders. I may be a Yankee, but I’m not DUMB.

5. The most popular readathon snack is raspberry-banana flavored cheese sticks. Don’t ask me why. I haven’t made that part up yet. (1/2)
6. In the weeks before Dewey’s 24 hour readathon, grocery stores and markets across the world stock up on sweets, coffee, tea, and of course raspberry-banana flavored cheese sticks, in anticipation of the big event.
7. We are all one degree of separation from Levar Burton, actor, director, producer, author, and beloved host of Reading Rainbow.

   

   Wait…that one’s true.

8. The two most popular colors among Super Fans of the readathon are red and blue. (**The highly scientific twitter survey I conducted received two responses. Thank you!)
9. On the day of the readathon, if you hold a book to your ear, you can hear the sound of a keyboard clicking as an author grumbles.
10. In a rare unanimous decision, 100% of readathon participants have agreed that this photograph is a classic and have agreed it should be inducted into the Readathon Photograph Hall of Fame. As soon as we create one.

    

    Yeah!

What’s your favorite totally made up fact about the readathon? Let me know on Twitter with hashtag #fakereadathonfacts!
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Mini-Challenges

Classics and Comics

Still Going

• Book Scavenger Hunt
• Armchair Traveling

Prize Winners

• Stacked ‘n’ Painted
• IowaLibraryChick
• Henningsen Happenings
• The Book Corner

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Hour 9 – Just Leave All the Books With Me

Hello everyone and welcome to hour nine of Dewey’s Readathon! My name is Cass and I am thrilled to be your co-host for next few hours. Nothing makes me happier than a fall ‘thon…well, other than a spring ‘thon.

Nice to see you!

There are so many enjoyable aspects of a readathon: the books, the snacks, the people, the snacks, the pictures of dogs, the pictures of kids, the pictures of cats, the snacks. What are you enjoying most about today so far? What are you looking forward to? Let me know in the comments or on twitter!

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Mini-Challenges

Book Scavenger Hunt

Still Going

• Armchair Traveling

Prize Winners

• NYX Book Reviews
• GirlwithaRedCamera
• Rocket Reads
• Daisya Spencer
• PerksofBeingLesley

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Hour 8 – Move it, Move it

Amanda ,again, and it is my last hour of co-hosting. Sad face.

My favorite co-hosting duty is to pick an utterly ridiculous exercise video and encourage folks to get up and move. This one may even be better than prancercise.

Turn on some T. Swift and shake it off. Crank up some Snoop Dogg (erm.. Snoop Lion) and drop it like its hot. Stretch. Drink some water. Rest your eyes. You’ll feel like hell tomorrow if you don’t.

If you don’t want to stop your reading groove then maybe try an audio book or do some stretches while you watch your favorite movie adaptation.

Bottom line: change things up a little or you may give you at the midway point!

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Mini-Challenges

Armchair Traveling

Still Going

• Halloween Preparation
• Power of Love
• Top 10

Prize Winners

• BookswithaCuppa
• Books and Wine
• Erika Rae
• Molls

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Enter your finished books into the DATABASE!

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Hour 7 – Wrapped Up in Books

Amanda here from Fig and Thistle!

My favorite aspect of read-a-thon is being all wrapped up in books. Not just the reading, but the entire literary love fest. I love planning out my stack, buying snacks, writing the entire day off for bookish pursuits and making new friends who get my readerly ways.

Let me know what you’re wrapped up in today? Is there a particular novel you cannot put down? An audio book or graphic novel that is leaving you riveted? Or maybe you’re excited that so many people are participating and you’re wrapped up in a social media channel chatting away and, most likely, finding new titles to add to you’re TBR list?

Seriously, let me know in the comments. Let’s chat!

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Mini-Challenges

Halloween Preparation

Still Going

• Power of Love
• Top 10
• The Ugly Cover Pitch
• Goodreads Road Trip Challenge (if you don’t have Goodreads)

Prize Winners

• Laura Elgie
• Karen from Goodreads
• Bethany
• Bisskit

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Enter your finished books into the DATABASE!

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Hour 6 – Reading with Kids

My Reading Adventure

Hi! Amanda here from Fig and Thistle! I’ll be your co-host for the next few hours.

I can relate to how that little fellow feels. I cry a bit when I’m trying to read on my lunch-break and I’m constantly interrupted. I just wanna read! Waaahhhh!

That’s my favorite part of read-a-thon, reading for hours on end! I have to remind myself to be kind to my brain, eyes, and body and move around and do other things. Luckily, my kids help me with that! I may stay squirreled away and reading for hours (thanks, husband!) but when I emerge for a break I like to involve my kids in read-a-thon. Okay, I don’t force my teenager, she is doing her thing, but my two little ones Atticus (nearly 5) and Persy Jane (2 1/2) are eager to read, visit the library, watch an episode of Reading Rainbow (streaming on Netflix and Amazon!) and even play read-a-thon.

Here is Atticus prepping his tent for read-a-thon. Stacks of books are ready in the tent and Dr. Doom, Spider-man, and Naked Cabbage Patch Baby are ready to read.

When you feel the need to take a break from reading, think about spending that time prepping the next generation of read-a-thoners! This isn’t just for parents; read to a neighborhood kid, niece, nephew, etc…. Or you could donate some time, books, or money to a literacy group or library.

Remember, read-a-thon is about fostering a community of readers and our little book lovers count!

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Mini-Challenges

• Power of Love
• Top 10

Still Going

• The Ugly Cover Pitch
• Goodreads Road Trip Challenge (if you don’t have Goodreads)
• Readathon Kids Challenge

Prize Winners

• My Reading Adventure
• Sherry Ann’s Book Blog
• Coral Russell
• Cori Reed

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Now you can celebrate the Readathon year-round with Dewey’s swag! We use the earnings to cover charges associated with prize shipping, customs charges, and domain costs. 

Enter your finished books into the DATABASE!

Enter the READING RAINBOW mini-challenge all day long!