Hour 1 – Memories

Oh Buzz.

I looked it up last night. I still have the emails between Shesten (the previous host), Andi, and me. Andi and I have co-hosted the Readathon for 7.5 years. That’s around 17 readathons. It feels endlessly long and oh, so short. And I have so many memories.

There was the year the site crashed during the event and almost killed me. The year we had over 3,000 readers and we were still so new that it caused massive (needless) panic. The year we waited until the last minute to get going and Andi ran (almost all) of the shindig on her own. The year she stayed up the whole 24 hours. The year we found out a few authors read with us (I will never tell who, do not ask) and gave away books during the event. The first time we trended on Twitter.

There were endless weeks of prep. Staying up late drafting posts. Begging for prizes, begging for help with cohosting, begging for cheerleaders, making sure all the links worked, and more. Lots of coffee was consumed.

Then there is all the excitement leading up to the event. The plans shared, the many photos of potential reads, your precious reading buddies, menus, snacks, drinks, the times you’ve gotten together with friends and family in your homes and hotel rooms, and the list goes on. It all comes down to the love of reading and who doesn’t get a tear in their eye just thinking of it?

It was all done with love.

Opening Survey is still open.

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Hour 0 – Pre-Party with Heather

Good morning, good evening, good night to allllll my lovelies around the world! Welcome to the April 2020 Readathon!!

Heather here, waking up super early to take you through the first two hours of the readathon. So, get ready! It starts in one hour!!! If you need something to do besides go over that stack of books one more time or wonder if you need one more snack (yes, yes you do), here is the opening survey for you to answer! See you back here at start time!

Opening Survey!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?

Link below or leave a comment!

Enter your finished books into the DATABASE here!

Check out the mini-challenges ANY TIME YOU WANT! 

Cheer your fellow readers!

Join our Goodreads or Facebook groups!

Watch for posts and stories on our Instagram!

Tag your posts with #readathon on all your social channels

Hour 1 – Let Me Introduce You to My Friend Dewey

It occurred to me this past couple of weeks, that many, MANY of you did not have the pleasure of knowing Dewey, the wonderful lady who created this event and who we continue to celebrate twice a year.

“Dewey: I would give up sleep, food, and conversation with other humans before fiction. I would almost definitely choose being homeless before choosing to be fictionless. I’m thinking about water. That would give me only three remaining days for fiction, but could be worth it.”

As you can see from the quote above, she was one of our tribe. She helped create our tribe. If you are or have ever been a book blogger, you have felt her influence whether you knew it or not. She was an early adopter of blogging and she helped create book blogging as we know/knew it. She was a friend and mentor to so many in the book blogging world and Andi and I are so glad to help keep her memory alive. Here’s to Dewey!

Enter your finished books into the DATABASE here!

Check out the mini-challenges ANY TIME YOU WANT! 

Cheer your fellow readers!

Join our Goodreads or Facebook groups!

Watch for posts and stories on our Instagram!

Tag your posts with #readathon on all your social channels!

Reverse Readathon Hour 1 – EMOCLEW!! Er, Welcome!

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HI THERE READER FRIENDS!!!!!! SO GLAD TO SEE YOU!!!!!

I’m Heather, co-hostess of this here Readathon and I am SO EXCITED for this. We love the Readathon, but the Reverse is special because it’s so laid back and WE GET TO READ TOO. So very very happy about ALL OF THIS.

If you’re new to Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon, you may be wondering, just who is Dewey? Dewey was amazing. An early book blogger, she came up with the magically idea of having a 24 hour period, where we would all get together, world wide, and just drop everything and read.

Dewey, was clearly brilliant.

Unfortunately, Dewey passed away just a few years after she created this event (and many others) and several book bloggers got together to keep it going. Andi and I inherited it a few years ago, and here we are. Thank you, again, for this marvelous day Dewey. We love and miss you!

So opening survey, now (slightly) new and improved!

1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today? And what time is it where you are?

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?

4) Do you have a #reversereadathon plan of attack?

5) Are you doing the readathon solo or with others?

Link up below or answer in the comments!

Enter your finished books into the books read database here!

Cheer your fellow readers!

Join our Goodreads or Facebook groups!

Watch for posts and stories on our Instagram!

Tag your posts with #readathon on all your social channels!

Hour 1 – WELCOME!

Well good morning, good evening, or good night to allllll my lovely readathoners! Do you have a lovely pile of books, comics, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, WORDS ready to consume? How about snacks? And water, coffee, tea, or whatever your favorite bev is? I hope so, BECAUSE IT IS GO TIME!!!

Be sure to follow us on all our social medias. We have lovely people helping us out across the social universe. We’re on Instagram, Twitter, and Litsy. I will be hanging on Twitter at our official account, while also ducking into Instagram Stories. Come by and say hi! I’m Heather, the co-hostess with the semi-mostest. Andi’s the one with ALL the mostest.

Getting to Know You Survey

1)What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?

Link up below or answer in the comments!

Take a few minutes to check out our Mini-Challenges!

Share the books you’ve read in our Books Database!

Make yourself at home in our Goodreads or Facebook groups!

Join the hourly photo challenge on Instagram!

Hour 1 – An Ode to Readathon

I can’t remember how long Andi and I have been running the readathon…4? 5 years? It feels like forever and yesterday.

Some run like clockwork. Some are a struggle. This one was a struggle for me. It took me by surprise when October got here and then next thing I knew today was here and I hadn’t done a thing to help.

Andi did it all. All by herself. And I feel like a shit.

I met Andi online about 18 years ago, around the time I got married. We talk every day. We’ve met twice in real like. We practically share a brain. We know each other. And she didn’t say a thing, but shouldered all the work (which, thankfully, is getting easier every year). I feel guilty, yes, but I also know she’s cool. She knows I’ve been busy. She knows I’m still sore from a car accident I had a month ago. She knows that when her life turns upside down, I have her back.

And the book community brought her to me. And I hope the book community brings you such fantastic friends. Thank you, as always, dear Dewey, for starting this twice yearly party for us to celebrate books and each other. Thank you to Kelly for running our Instagram, Liberty for acing our Litsy, Kate for running both GoodReads and Facebook, and Gabby for helping out on GoodReads. Thank you to all our wonderful co-hosts and mini challenge hosts and readers.  Our big and small communities have saved my life this go round. We love you all and you make all this so worth it.

Enter your finished books into the DATABASE here!

Check out the mini-challenges ANY TIME YOU WANT! 

Cheer your fellow readers!

Join our Goodreads or Facebook groups!

Tag your posts with #readathon on all your social channels!

Reverse Readathon Hour 1: Your Time Starts NOW!

Well hello! I haven’t seen you website readers at a time other than late/early (1-3am my time) in AGES! This is Andi from Estella’s Revenge, one of your Dewey’s co-organizers here to say, quite simply, LET THE READING BEGIN!

Things to note:

• We have a MAJOR all-event challenge–CHEERS TO BOOKS!–and a rad giveaway going here.
• There will be posts here roughly every two hours since this is a pared down version of what we do in April and October.
• We have hosts on Twitter and Instagram, lots of activity in our Facebook and Goodreads groups.

In short, get comfy with your book, get chatty, and let’s do this thing.

Opening Survey

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
5) This is our VERY first Reverse Readathon! How does it feel in your time zone?

Enter your link here or answer in the comments! 

Enter your finished books into the DATABASE here!

Join the CHEERS TO BOOKS Challenge here.

Visit your fellow readers at this page!

Hour 1 – Welcome and Thank You!

Good morning and welcome to the April 2018 Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon!!! I am so happy you are here! Dewey, a dear, dear woman and book blogger who sadly passed away after creating this amazing event, would be so delighted you are here as well. Dewey was a great lover of books and our tiny (at the time!) community of book lovers. I’m so pleased I get to help keep this treasured event alive and also Dewey’s memory. Thank you Dewey!

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Now, don’t let me keep you. I know you’re all ready to get started. So, without further ado, make like Snoopy and read (and enjoy it!)!

Participate in our Mini-Challenges ANY TIME! They are located HERE, and they are all open for the entire 24 hours of the event! 

If you see your name announced as an hourly prize winner, visit the PRIZES page to claim.

Enter your finished books into the 1 MILLION PAGES DATABASE!

Hour 1 – Let’s Get This Party Started!

What are you waiting for???? GET READING!

Mini-Challenges

Opening Survey

10 Years, 10 Books

 

If you see your name announced as an hourly prize winner, visit the PRIZES page to claim.

Enter your finished books into the DATABASE!

Hour 1 – It’s Time!

Girl Reading by Mary Lundquist

Gooooood morning lovely readers!! Heather here, ready to get this epic book party started! How ya feeling? I’m feeling tired, but I have my coffee, I have my books, and I have you, you lovely lovely reader. I’m not going to hold you up any; I know what you want. START READING!!!!

But first:

Mini-Challenges

Opening Survey!

Give!

This season we’re putting an emphasis on spreading bookish good deeds! See our GIVE! page for more details about how you can get involved! 

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!