Avid Reader and Geek Girl’s Comments (group member since Oct 22, 2015)

Avid Reader and Geek Girl’s comments from the Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon group.

Bingo Boards Pre-RAT
Pre-Readathon BINGO Board


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✔✔✔OO

B
- Set up your favorite reading spot and share on social media
- Plan a buddy-read with someone
- Make a bookmark for the first book you are going to read
✔-Post pre-reading activities on your preferred social media site
✔ - Set your book reading goal- finish at least 3 books

I
✔- Shop for snacks and beverages
✔- Set up your journal
✔ Set up an app for tracking reading time
✔- Start reading a book that you have wanted to read and finish during the readathon- Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of/ Rich People Problems/ House of Hollow
✔- Share a picture of your four-legged reading buddy

N
✔- Wash your comfy, readathon clothes
✔- Get books to read from the library
✔ FREE
✔- Set your hourly reading goal - at least 30mins of reading each hour I'm awake
✔- Invite someone new to join

G
- Meal prep for you (and your family)
✔- Plan to read a new genre
✔- Share a picture of your household reading buddy
✔- Read about organization and preparation
- Watch the weather forecast and plan different reading locations

O
✔- Read 1st book in a series so you can read the next one during the readathon
✔- Set any alarms needed
✔- Practice reading sprints
- Put your books in the order you want to read them
- Review past readathon posts, plan to read a highly recommended book


Self-Care BINGO Board



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B
✔- Schedule your reading time
- Meal prep
- During the readathon, stretch for 10 minutes at three different times
- Re-read a childhood favorite
- Read a book about self-care

I
✔- Make your favorite snack
- Buddy read
- Make cookies for you and share some with a neighbor
✔- Read aloud to someone (or a pet!)
✔- Practice and share one self-care practice (outside of reading!)

N
✔- Have lots of your favorite beverage
✔- Family reading time for 1 hr
✔ FREE
- Share your favorite recipe
- Exercise for 30 minutes

G
- Plan regular short walks
- Re-read a book that has fond memories
✔- Invite a friend to join
- Play relaxing music while you read
✔- Wash comfy, readathon clothes

O
✔- Listen to an audiobook in a relaxing location without distractions
✔- Make a new friend - reach out to someone on social media who is participating
✔- Practice reading sprints
- Recommend a book about self-care
- Read a book about a subject you are looking for advice in (job, relationship, etc.)

Food-Themed Bingo Board



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B
- Read a recipe book
- Try a new snack based on the location of your book
- Make a seasonal snack
- Plan a readathon buddy snack break (get on Zoom, Facetime, FB messenger, etc. and chat)
- Read a book with a food in the title

I
- Make a recipe inspired by a food in a book
✔- Try a new beverage- Hint energy water
- Read a memoir of a chef or someone who cooks
- Read a book with a drink in the title
- Read a non-fiction book about food

N
✔- Plan your snacks
- Listen to an audiobook while cooking or meal prepping
✔ FREE
- Share a recipe from one of your readings
- Make a food-themed bookmark to use during the readathon

G
✔- Plan your beverages
- Read a book with a beverage on the cover
✔- Prep and eat a healthy snack
✔- Drink at least three bottles of water during the readathon
- Read a book about food in another country

O
- Read a book with food on the cover
✔- Eat one meal with your family during the readathon
- Read for at least 30 minutes in a food or beverage location (coffee shop, ice cream shop, bakery, etc.)
✔- Read for 1 hr without a caffeinated beverage
✔- Share your snacks on social media

G- Battle of the Bands Lauren Gibaldi

T- That Weekend by Kara Thomas

That Weekend- New York and Vermont

A wrote: "The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers - Florida, Utah, California, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Kansas"

I need to find my copy so I can finish it! What did you think of it?

K- Never Saw Me Coming- Vera Kurian

Never Saw Me Coming- New York

R- Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic by James Renner

Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic- Ohio and Wisconsin (briefly)

1st Lap Finished:
1. China Rich Girlfriend
2. Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
3. Never Saw Me Coming
4. That Weekend
5. Battle of the Bands
6. Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
7. The Heart Principle

2nd Lap Finished:
1. The Hawthorne Legacy
2. Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven
3. The Wife Upstairs
Beach Read DNF'd

3rd Lap Finished
1. Portrait of a Scotsman
2. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
3. Mary, Will I Die?
4. City of Ghosts
5. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
6. The Night She Disappeared
7. All These Bodies
8. This Is Why We Lie
DNF- Flowers in the Attic

Lap 4
1. Such a Quiet Place
2. White Smoke
3. Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
4. His & Hers


Currently reading:
1. Rich People Problems
2. Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
3. House of Hollow

To Read:
Isn't It Bromantic?
Empire of the Vampire
Kingdom of the Cursed

China Rich Girlfriend- France, China, and Singapore

K- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

Vanessa wrote: "I use my collection of reading slogan bookmarks that I've gotten free from the public library over the years to hold my place when I have to momentarily stop .
My favorites are
DON'T BUG ME I'M RE..."

Those sound awesome!

Newly wrote: "Another great RaT in the books! (pun absolutely intended) Thanks for your work and efforts. I get that it was going to be cancelled but you guys pulled it off again. I cant imagine how much goes in..."

Thank you! I mostly just help with the GR group, but I'm soo glad this wasn't cancelled!

Susy wrote: "Hope you had a wonderful readathon!
See you in October!"

I did thanks! See you then!

Susy wrote: "Selfmade lemonade
Chocolate (didn’t have any other snacks this time!)
Shadow of the Fox
Bed"

yumm!

So we're getting close to the end, just 2 hrs left.

What have been your favorites so far?

Drink? Snack? Book? Reading spot?

Mine are:
Caramel Chocolate iced coffee
turtle chex mix
The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures
bed

Susy wrote: "I have an enormous pillow which I use just for reading (on my bed), my blanket (though it’s not cold so it just lies here beside me lol) and of course Seven (see profile picture). She’s not an item..."

She's very pretty!

Do you eat while reading? Yes
What are your favorite snacks? Snack mixes I've Chex mix & cookies
What formats do you read in? All of them e-books, physical books, & audiobooks- graphic novels, short stories, and novels

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