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Oct 27, 2024 09:14PM
Sounds like you had a good readathon even with the time change! See you next time/year!
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Summary of October 20241pm-2pm A Secret History of Witches
2pm-3pm A Secret History of Witches
3pm-4pm A Secret History of Witches FINISHED
4pm-5pm Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
5pm-6pm The Vampire Lestat
6pm-7pm Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
7pm-8pm
8pm-9pm The Vampire Lestat
9pm-10pm Gobbolino the Witch's Cat FINISHED
10pm-11pm Eric
11pm-12 Eric
12-1am
hour change
12-1am
1am-2am
2am-3am
3am-4am
4am-5am
5am-6am
6am-7am Eric
7am-8am Eric
8am-9am Eric
9am-10am Eric
10am-11am Eric FINISHED
11am-12 The Vampire Lestat
Final Stats:
Number of pages read: 431
Time read: 8 hours 47 minutes
Books finished: 3
Bingo board:
Squares completed: 17
Bingo lines: 3
I read Gobolino when I was 8 years old! I love him!
Looks like some great books and reading!See you in the new year.
Hello! I've come in to dust things off and start organising things for the April readathon.I already have a TBR but it'll probably change a bit as I'll be working my way through the books up to the readathon. But here it is:
Max the Miracle Dog: The Heart-warming Tale of a Life-saving Friendship - Autobiography, currently reading so likely will have finished before the readathon
Stone Blind - Greek Myths
The Whale Road - Historical Fiction Torvill and Dean - Biography
Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House - A reasonably short book that looks like a quick read
La Grande Therese : The Greatest Scandal of the Century - Only 134 pages so should be a quick one to finish early for a sense of achievement!
I expect I'll add a couple more as we get nearer but its good to have a starting TBR.
Looks great as a starting point. It's hard not to pre-plan even though we still have weeks.
Way to go Kate! I really should start planning too!
So I got all excited today and bought all my snacks!I'm planning on doing some housework over the next couple of evenings after work so I can relax and not feel guilty about reading all weekend.
I'm heading to the library on Saturday morning (readathon starts at 1pm for me) so I can grab a couple of graphic novels or short novellas to give me some more variety and then I'll list my final TBR for the readathon.
I've also prepped a couple of topics for my Co-Moderation hours. I'll be doing hour 3 and hour 22 so please swing by the hourly threads and join in if you get a chance.
Sounds like a good plan, Kate!
Looking forward to the hourly threads! I‘ll be doing my grocery and snacks shopping on Saturday morning… starting at 2pm here.
Mod
Your TBR looks great and very diverse! Hope you have a great readathon.
Thank you Erin. I'm getting quite excited now!Cathy, I really like a lunchtime start. I always need to sleep so it helps that its night half way through!
No problem Cynda, I enjoyed co-mod duties when I did it last year. Happy to help where I can. I imagine its a massive job for you Mods!
Thanks Ann A. I try to have a variety so I can change things up.
Have a great readathon everyone. 🤗
Hi Kate!!
Hope you have a great RaT!
I decided to turn it into a 4 day event--lol only because I'm home and had a pretty open weekend with no disturbances! Why not spend it reading!
I started at Friday 4/25/12:01 am and I will end it at 11:59 pm Monday!
I waited to join at the last minute so I'm winging a lot of things. I usually do better when I don't do a lot of planning. I'm a mood reader so I have to have lots of choices!
Have fun and hope you get lots of reading done!
I agree about the lunchtime start and sleep!Enjoy your reads!
Thank you everyone! Hope you all enjoy your readathons too. :)I've been out shopping and to the library this morning so I now have all my snacks and books at the ready.
Snacks:
dips/hummus with crisps, cheese straws, cucumber, carrot, pepper & baby tomatoes
Chocolate Easter egg
Chocolate chip cookies
Hot cross buns
Breakfast
grapefruit/hot cross bun
Lunch
Dips as above + soup & crusty bread
Tea/dinner
Pizza & coleslaw
Drinks:
Lemonade (no added sugar)
Water
Coffee
Gin & Tonic (maybe but I don't concentrate well on reading if I drink!)
My revised TBR now looks like this:To finish:
The Whale Road
Torvill and Dean
Stone Blind
Smaller books to start & maybe finish:
Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
La Grande Therese : The Greatest Scandal of the Century
Graphic Novels from the library:
The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Vol.6: Sins of the Father
I am also planning to attempt the Bingo Board which was on the Facebook group:MERCY -
BRAVE -
It can be interpreted in any way but I'm going to try and find each word in the text of the books I read during the readathon. I'll cross them through as I find them.
All prepared with some great snacks and books. I used to do the bingo board too but the last couple of times I havent. Ill be focusing on reading lol
I haven't done the opening survey for a while so thought I'd include it this time:Opening Survey April 2025
1) What part of the world are you reading from today? I’m in Hampshire, UK. The readathon starts at 1pm for me.
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House by Mary MacKie
3) Which snacks are you most looking forward to? I have a large Easter Egg to make my way through!
4) Is this your first Dewey's Readathon? Nope I’ve done most of them since I found Dewey’s in April 2018.
5) What are your goals for this readathon? I would like to read over 10 hours and at least 500 pages
6) Which book are you starting with for this readathon? I need to finish The Whale Road by Robert Low
7) Tell us a little something about yourself! I enjoy doing calligraphy.
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Love the Bingo you're doing! I'll try that next time
Happy Start of the Read-a-thon
First update: We are currently in hour 5.I've managed to finish my first book The Whale Road and will probably give it 3 stars.
I have to divide my time for the next couple of hours as Villa have just kicked off against Crystal Palace in the Semi-final of the FA cup so I need to keep an eye on the match and cheer on Villa! Fingers crossed...
Happy readathon, Kate! Congrats on finishing your first book.I like your bingo board, it is open for interpretations!
Kate wrote: "First update: We are currently in hour 5.I've managed to finish my first book The Whale Road and will probably give it 3 stars...."
Nice going!
Second update: We are now in hour 10I have managed to finish a second book Torvill and Dean and started the Dr Who graphic novel as its getting late here now. I'll probably read for another hour then I'll need to sleep.
Villa lost the football so I'm glad I didn't waste my time watching the match!
Mod
We do not do that.formally in US. Private foundations and other organizations do operate houses like I have described.
We do have National Historical Markers where.something significant happened. See then an organization may become interested in restoring and having a shop/cafe.
What do you mean when you say "Easter Egg"?I am assuming it is a candy treat type of egg?
In my family, an Easter egg is a hard boiled, dyed egg. lol
Cynda is preoccupied with RL wrote: "Your National Trust Houses sound like they might living museums? Or maybe preserved houses with a tea shop?We do not do that.formally in US. Private foundations and other organizations do operate..."
Hi Cynda, Our National Trust houses are mostly stately homes with landscaped gardens/park land which have significant historical value (maybe visited by royalty or owned by a prestigious family whose history goes back centuries). The National Trust now own them and open them up to the public to look round. They often have a gift shop, tea shop and second hand book shop!
Vicki Willis wrote: "What do you mean when you say "Easter Egg"?I am assuming it is a candy treat type of egg?
In my family, an Easter egg is a hard boiled, dyed egg. lol"
Ha ha. In this case I mean a huge Chocolate Easter Egg so a candy treat. I haven't even touched it yet!
Good morning! Its almost 7.30 am here and I started reading again at 6am.
I now have a coffee and am settling down to finish another book.
Hope everyone is enjoying their readathons.
Me too, Kate! Although my beverage of choice is tea.
I'll do a proper round up later but in summary:I finished 4 books
I read 498 pages
I read for 11 hours and 54 minutes.
If I had read for another 6 minutes I would have got over 500 pages. Typical. I really should keep a running total instead of adding up at the end!
But, I should say this is the best I have ever done in all the Dewey's I've taken part in so I am very happy that I appear to have hit on a winning formula.
Excellent job!Those are amazing numbers!
See you at the next one!
Kate wrote: "I'll do a proper round up later but in summary:I finished 4 books
I read 498 pages
I read for 11 hours and 54 minutes.
If I had read for another 6 minutes I would have got over 500 pages. Typica..."
Excellent!
Kate wrote: "I'll do a proper round up later but in summary:I finished 4 books
I read 498 pages
I read for 11 hours and 54 minutes.
If I had read for another 6 minutes I would have got over 500 pages. Typica..."
Great job Kate! Sounds like you had an amazing readathon!
See you back here in July or October!
Summary of April 20251pm-2pm The Whale Road
2pm-3pm The Whale Road
3pm-4pm Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
4pm-5pm The Whale Road FINISHED
5pm-6pm Torvill and Dean
6pm-7pm Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
7pm-8pm Torvill and Dean
8pm-9pm Torvill and Dean
9pm-10pm Torvill and Dean FINISHED Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Vol.6: Sins of the Father
10pm-11pm Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
11pm-12 Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Vol.6: Sins of the Father
12-1am
1am-2am
2am-3am
3am-4am
4am-5am
5am-6am
6am-7am Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
7am-8am Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Vol.6: Sins of the Father FINISHED
8am-9am Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
9am-10am Stone Blind
10am-11am Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
11am-12 Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House
12-1pm Cobwebs and Cream Teas: A Year in the Life of a National Trust House FINISHED Stone Blind
Final Stats:
Number of pages read: 498
Time read: 11 hours 54 minutes
Books finished: 4
Bingo board:
Squares completed: 21
Bingo lines: 4
Wow July has come round a bit quick!I suddenly realised that its readathon weekend and for me its 1am Saturday to 1am Sunday. I'm not so fond of this one but we'll see how I get on.
I grabbed some snacks today and am sticking to my firm favourites:
Hummus and cucumber, pepper, cheese straws, crisps etc
Popcorn
TBR to follow in the next couple of days.
Off to check out what everyone else is reading now.
Hummus, cucumber, and bell peppers are definitely good summer food. There's a Turkish/Kurdish supermarket down the road from me. I might go there to stock up on hummus, fruit and veg for the readathon. They make fresh flat bread too. I'm glad the heatwave has receded. I was too limp and drowsy to read much this past weekend.
Oh yes, I'm glad the heat has died down too. We've had some rain now so hopefully that clears the air. I'd like to read in the garden on Saturday.
Mod
Enjoy your readathon Kate!
Kate wrote: "Wow July has come round a bit quick!I suddenly realised that its readathon weekend and for me its 1am Saturday to 1am Sunday. I'm not so fond of this one but we'll see how I get on.
I grabbed som..."
The reverse readathon always is the one im least prepared for as I'm on holiday. 1am to 1 am for me too, I'm gonna start at 6am though.
Happy readathon!
Ok, I have a small selection for my TBR:Currently reading:
Expect Me Tomorrow
The Summons
The One and Only Ivan
Poetry (including poetry as it was a tip I picked up last time)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Other options to start:
Queenie
Moving Pictures
The Medusa Chronicles
My priority will be finishing the 3 I'm currently reading.
Have a great readathon, Kate!
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