Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon - October 2017

[Jane]

Like in April there are going to be pre-challenge challenges and I will try and take part in as many as I can.

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 1

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 2

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 3

[Jane]

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 1

Hi All! It is time for our very first pre-readathon reading challenge. No pressure to join. This is just for fun and to get us in the swing of things. This readathon runs from the time this is posted until Monday morning when I get into work Pacific Coast time, October 2nd. So you have just over a week.

Unfortunately, I am unable to give a gift card for this time around. However, the winner will be able to choose the challenge for Challenge #2 (which will be a weekend long challenge). The winner will be randomly selected from everyone who manages to complete the challenge.

So what is challenge number 1? You will need to read 1000 pages be the end of the time. Now, how you reach that number doesn't matter to me. Picture books, comic books, audiobooks, biographies, young adult, middle grade, historical fiction, fantasy, etc. All options are welcome. If you choose audiobooks, just use the number of pages listed on goodreads. If you've already started the book, find out what percent you're at (total time listened divided by total time of the audiobook) multiple that by number of pages, and subtract from number of pages. That will give you a rough idea of your starting page number. Do the same thing to figure out what your ending page number is. For example: I'm at 21:10 out of 45:33 on The Way of Kings I'm going to round that to 21.25 out of 45.5 which give me 46.7%. The mass market paperback edition has 1258 pages so if I multiple that by 46.7, I am roughly on page 588. I hope that made sense.

You can both sign up and post your progress here. You can post updates as you finish books or post all your updates in one thread. The one thing I will ask you to do is when you've completed the challenge, post a new comment saying you've completed the challenge. List the books with the pages. If you do read a lot of picture books, you can just put "assorted picture books - x number of pages". This is going to be honor code system. I'm not going to go and verify anyone's page count or participation. I will admit, I've been in a reading slump this whole summer and I'm really hoping that having a goal of 1000 pages in a week will help get me out of the slump.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out

[Jane]

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 1

My goal is to read more than 1000 pages.


Total Pages Read: 1915


Books Read
Monday:
The Trouble with St. John by Katie Bloomstrom 9/25-17 (219 pages)

Tuesday:
A Rather Unusual Romance by Stevie Turner (218 pages)

Thursday:
The Starlighter: A Christmas Adventure at the End of the World by Christoffer Petersen (205 pages)

Friday:
Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs (465 pages)

Saturday:
A Spy Like Me by Laura Pauling (336 pages)

Landon Calling by Amanda M. Lee (108 pages)

Sunday:
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (364 pages)

[Jane]

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 2

I had a lot of fun during the first Pre-readathon challenge. It definitely worked to get me out of my reading slump. I don't remember when the last time was that I read four books in a week (probably the last readathon). We had about 34 people finish the challenge. random.org choose the winner of the challenge and that was Sunsettowers. She created this second challenge for us.

So for our second reading challenge, you will need to start and finish ONE book that has been on your TBR for at least a year. Sunsettowers decided that there will be no limitations on what kind of book you choose so you are free to pick any kind of book in any format that you want. Audiobook, comic book, etc. It just needs to have been on your list for a year and you need to read it in its entirety during the course of the challenge.

This second challenge will run from this Friday (October 6th) through Monday (October 9th). Gabby has already picked the third challenge so the reward for this is the knowledge that you've cleared a book off that dreaded Mt. TBR :)

[Jane]

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 2

I have 3 books to chose between:

Haunted Spouse by Heather MacAllister (added to my TBR 2/1-15

One Tiny Miracle... by Carol Marinelli (added to my TBR 9/20-14

Walking on Sunshine by Krista Lakes (added to my TBR 9/24-15

I have finished two books for this:

One Tiny Miracle... by Carol Marinelli 10/8-17

Haunted Spouse by Heather MacAllister 10/9-17

[Jane]

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Pre-Readathon 3

Sorry that this is getting posted so late. For this final reading challenge, we are going to attempt to read for a total of 24 hours before the end of next week. This challenge will end Friday morning (Pacific Time Zone) . It starts immediate

Same rules as the other two challenges. Anything counts for reading time.

Let me know if you have any questions. :)

[Jane]

I'm in. I know I read a lot so this shouldn't be difficult for me but it is half term next week and I'm spending it with family so I'll try and get as much reading as possible this weekend. My problem will be to remember to time myself.
(I'm 9 hours ahead of Pacific Time Zone)

Thursday 10/12-17
No reading as this didn’t start before my bedtime.

Thursday 10/12-17
No reading as this didn’t start before my bedtime.

Friday 10/13-17
# of Hours Read today: 2.25
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 2.25
Books Finished Today:
Flames Over Norway by Robert Jackson
Total # of Books Read: 1

Saturday 10/14-17
# of Hours Read today: 5.05
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 7.30
Books Finished Today:
Sweetness and Light J.A. Whiting
Heart of Ice by K.M. Shea
Total # of Books Read: 3

Sunday 10/15-17
# of Hours Read today: 5
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 12.30
Books Finished Today:
Super Starrella by Aurora Springer
Carrie by Stephen King
Total # of Books Read: 5

Monday 10/16-17
# of Hours Read today: 3.45
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 16.15
Books Finished Today:
Keeping Secrets: A fun romantic comedy mystery series with paranormal forces at play by Zanna Mackenzie
Deathly Quiet by Elizabeth A Reeves
Total # of Books Read: 7

Tuesday 10/17-17
# of Hours Read today: 1.48
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 18.03
Books Finished Today:
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
Total # of Books Read: 8

Wednesday 10/18-17
# of Hours Read today: 1.20
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 19.23
Books Finished Today:
Playing With Vampires by Kendra Ashe
Total # of Books Read: 9

Thursday 10/19-17
# of Hours Read today: 4.55 min
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 24.18
Books Finished Today:
Her Long Walk Home by Linda Barrett
The Luck of Rainbow Gold by Eryn Scott
Total # of Books Read: 11

Friday 10/20-17
# of Hours Read today: 0.10
# of Hours Read in total for Challenge: 24.28
Books reading Today: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats
Total # of Books Read: 11