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D.E.A.R Day Reading Sprint - April 12th, 2021
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I'll be participating! :) (My time zone starts Sun, April 11th @ 8pm.)Mini Challenge:
✔ Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder start - 85%
8am-12n & 1p-4p & 5p-8p
(368 out of 433 pages)
Update: Finished the book at 8:50pm, April 12th.
Yay!!! I’m in! Thanks Mods! 😄And with that official start time, for me it’s 8pm Sunday night! Totally staying up late reading and taking Monday off work, haha!
Mini-Challenges Completed:
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
Done twice, among other more intermittent reading
12:30AM - 3:30AM UTC, 5:15PM - 8:30PM UTC
(8:30PM - 11:30PM EST, 1:15PM - 4:30PM EST)
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
Read A Stranger in Olondria, published 12 April 2013
Drop Everything & Read (DEAR) Day Challenge 2021Duration: April 12, 2021
Goal: 3 consecutive hours 🌟
Title: Witchmark by C.L. Polk
Read: 0% ➜ 19%
Time: 00:00 UTC ➜ 02:30 UTC
Duration: 2.5 hours
Title: Witchmark by C.L. Polk
Read: 19% ➜ 41%
Time: 17:30 UTC ➜ 20:30 UTC
Duration: 3 hours 🌟
Title: Daomu: The Complete Saga
Read: 0% ➜ 42%
Time: 22:00 UTC ➜ 24:00 UTC
Duration: 2 hours
Total time: 7.5 hours
You know I can't resist these! lol. I'm in!* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours - So Lucky - Listened to all 5 hours in one go. All things considered, I'd rather have been walking over burning coals...
Hope my next book is better!
D.E.A.R Day Reading Sprint - April 12th, 2021Mini Challenge(s):
* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
* Spell out "DEAR" (standard spell-it-out rules apply, you would have to read 4 books, each at least 100 pages long)
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
I am in! Three hours and/or 750 p. In 24 hours
I will participate as well :)Start : 12th of April at 2AM CET
Goal: Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
Reading
The Girl in the TowerPages read: 116
I'm in. Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours. ☺️
I’m inMini Challenges:
* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours
* Participate in a buddy read during the sprint
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
* Spell out "DEAR"
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
Drop Everything & Read (DEAR) Day Challenge 2021Duration: April 12, 2021
Mini Challenges:
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
Read
- 1h 33 mins 10 secs =72 pgs
- 1 h 7 mins 35 sec= 59 pgs
I'm in! ^_^D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything & Read) Day Reading Sprint 2021
Duration: April 11, 8:00 p.m. - April 12, 8:00 p.m. (EST)
Goal: 3 consecutive hours and/or spell out DEAR
☑︎ Consecutive Hours Read: 3+ (11:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. EST)
☑︎D - Who Was Dr. Seuss? - MC Dr. Seuss
☑︎E - Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? MC Edgar Allen Poe
☑︎A - Who Was Marie Antoinette? MC Marie Antoinette
☐R - Who Was Rosa Parks? (finished 12 minutes past deadline)
I'm in! Challenge starts at 3am (GMT +3), April 12thMini challenge: read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
I am going to participate! This starts for me on Sunday night and I am off work on Monday (but have to go into a meeting in the morning so plan to read when I get done)! I am just posting the mini challenges not sure if I will complete any of them.Mini Challenges: these are optional! You may read as little as 10 pages to participate :)
Books Read:
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Finished 4/12
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours (Read 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM)
I'm in! The challenge will start on 12th at 9AM.Hopefully work wouldn't be too busy!
And I failed! I think I only had time (or energy) to read like 50 pages.
Maybe some other time when I actually have a day off.
I'm in!start:
EDT (UTC -4): Sun, Apr 11, 2021,8:00 pm
Mini Challenges:
* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours
* Participate in a buddy read during the sprint
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
* Spell out "DEAR"
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
I'll be participating! :) (My time zone starts Sun, April 11th @ 5 pm.)Mini Challenges:
* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours
* Participate in a buddy read during the sprint
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
* Spell out "DEAR"
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
I succeeded at reading for three consecutive hours, the book "Institute" by Stephen King.
I'm in!* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours (going to try my best!)
* Read 3 consecutive hours (should be able to do this one)
**Edit: I read for 3 consecutive hours exactly, and then another 1 hour and 20 minutes. So, check for that one! (Didn't come close to 750 pages though)
Drop Everything & Read (DEAR) Challenge 2021Duration: My time starts from April 11, 7pm
Mini Challenges:
* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours
* Participate in a buddy read during the sprint
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours : 8:00 - 11:40 am = 3 hr 40 min - Finished Wyrd Sisters 64 pg and You, Me, and the Sea 368 pgs
Started again on 1:10 - 4 pm = 3 hr 10 min Read Sweetest Scoundrel 271 pg
Total pages read 703
* Spell out "DEAR"
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
Roughly 6 hours to go! What's everyone starting with?
Now that I have finished other books and have a clean slate, I am planning to start with A Stranger in Olondria !It’s been on my TBR for a long time, and it was published on 12 April 2013 😀
I have some idea of what to read after that, but am trying not to get ahead of myself, heheh.
Alysa wrote: "Now that I have finished other books and have a clean slate, I am planning to start with A Stranger in Olondria !It’s been on my TBR for a long time, and it was published on 12 Ap..."
Sounds interesting! Hope you like it!
I’m going to read Whisper by Tal Bauer. It’s over 700 pages long and I want to read it slowly, so nothing else on the agenda for me 😄
Pooja wrote: "meghna nd me we both r doing buddy read ."That’s great! What are you both reading?
I've stalled a bit on my current read - A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, Civil War Hero, but I'm over 100 pages in and like it well enough, so I don't want to DNF. I will use this opportunity to try to power through it!
I really, really want to join in on this... it's been so long since I read a lot in a single day... but I have assignments to catch up on so I don't think I'll manage much, if anything at all :(Anyway... tentative TBR:
A Curious Beginning - 53% to finish
First Comes Like
Alyana wrote: "I'm in. Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours. ☺️"So this will be my first time to participate in a 24hr readathon, how do I get started? Just start reading/ listening? This might be a dumb question, with the 3 consecutive hours, does that mean I have to listen to a book for 3 straight hours?
Alyana wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I'm in. Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours. ☺️"So this will be my first time to participate in a 24hr readathon, how do I get started? Just start reading/ listening? This mi..."
Hi Alyana! You can read at anytime during that 24 hour window, starting at 12 AM UTC on April 12. The mini challenges are to make the sprint more interesting. However, you don’t have to take part in a mini-challenge to participate in the sprint. If you choose to tackle 3 consecutive hours of reading, go ahead and mark off your start and finish times, starting at whatever time is convenient for you.
And yea, you’d have to listen to/ read your book for 3 straight hours 😊
Judy wrote: "I really, really want to join in on this... it's been so long since I read a lot in a single day... but I have assignments to catch up on so I don't think I'll manage much, if anything at all :(A..."
I’ve been meaning to read a curious beginning. How are you liking it so far?
Aiswrya wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I'm in. Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours. ☺️"So this will be my first time to participate in a 24hr readathon, how do I get started? Just start reading/ lis..."
Oh okay! Yeah I don't think I can do the 3 straight hours. Lol. I'll still participate in the readathon but I'll just listen to what I can :)
Aiswrya wrote: "I’m going to read Whisper by Tal Bauer. It’s over 700 pages long..."A 700+ page military MM ? I hope it's good!
If it is, I might add it to my TBR too.
Alysa wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "I’m going to read Whisper by Tal Bauer. It’s over 700 pages long..."A 700+ page military MM ? I hope it's good!
If it is, I might add it to my TBR too."
Yeah, I have high hopes for it! Sounds very intense too! I’ll keep you posted :)
Aiswrya wrote: "I’ve been meaning to read a curious beginning. How are you liking it so far?"it's fun! I've been meaning to read this for ages and it does live up to the hype. it's definitely suffering from me reading it in one to two chapter chunks but maybe this readathon is going to change that :)
Almost time! I'm starting with A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. It is due back to the library tomorrow night and I have the electronic copy, which means they will snatch it away whether I finish or not so I have some good motivation to really focus on it once I start. Otherwise, I'll be waiting weeks to get it back and finish it.
Those pesky e-library loands... the only reason I finished a book earlier today was cause the audio was due back to the library today!
Judy wrote: "Those pesky e-library loands... the only reason I finished a book earlier today was cause the audio was due back to the library today!"Been there! I've stayed awake finishing audiobooks in bed before that were set to expire in the middle of the night. Good times, lol.
Judy wrote: "Those pesky e-library loands... the only reason I finished a book earlier today was cause the audio was due back to the library today!"Exactly!
Laurie wrote: "Judy wrote: "Those pesky e-library loands... the only reason I finished a book earlier today was cause the audio was due back to the library today!"Been there! I've stayed awake finishing audiobooks in bed before that were set to expire in the middle of the night. Good times, lol."
I've been there too. That will probably be me trying to get far enough into the book tonight, then putting everything else off tomorrow. My loan will expire just a couple of hours after DEAR ends.
Here we go! I'm going to try for 3+ hours right now, so I should be checking in again basically before I pass out in a few hours...
Alysa wrote: "Here we go! I'm going to try for 3+ hours right now, so I should be checking in again basically before I pass out in a few hours..."
Oooh I’ll join you! Will check in around 11:15 PM my time :D
Judy wrote: "I'm rooting for you, Kristie!"Thanks, Judy!
Alysa wrote: "Here we go! I'm going to try for 3+ hours right now, so I should be checking in again basically before I pass out in a few hours..."
How are you doing? Loving my book so far! Trying very hard not to fall asleep though!
anyone else on and reading?
I listened to quite a bit of First Comes Like earlier while making dinner and then had a bath with a few chapters of A Curious Beginning (and a glass of wine)! Hoping to get another few chapters of A Curious Beginning in before sleep...I still don't know which mini challenge I'm going to try for – I feel like I simply have too much to do for 3 consecutive hours of reading and somehow the 750 pages seem more achievable 😅
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Just to give us all another excuse to get together and read, we'll have a 24 hour reading sprint on April 12th, starting at 12:00 AM UTC (convert to your time here)
Mini Challenges: these are optional! You may read as little as 10 pages to participate :)
* Read at least 750 pages in 24 hours
* Participate in a buddy read during the sprint (create your thread here, you don't have to wait for a mod to create it for you)
* Read for a minimum of 3 consecutive hours
* Spell out "DEAR" (standard spell-it-out rules apply, you would have to read 4 books, each at least 100 pages long)
* Read a book published on April 12th of any year
Spell-it-Out Rules
Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audio book narrator's first or last name.
If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word
Reserve your spot below! We'll see you on April 12th!