Readathon Chatroom

[Jamie]

Hello to all our lovely readers around the world! Welcome to our second Dewey's Readathon for 2024. We'll be officially starting at 8pm Eastern Time (EDT, aka the time zone for New York). Unofficially many of our readers start when it works best for them, and continue reading all weekend or however suits their schedule. Officially we will be hosting the readathon for 24 hours, so we'll sign off at 8pm Eastern Time. This chatroom will remain open all weekend though, and probably until I start setting up for the October readathon.
Happy reading everyone! I hope you find some new favorite books, meet a few new reading friends in our community, and have fun immersed in the pleasures of being a reader this weekend..

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I hope all have a blast, get some good reading in, get time to relax and for some self-care, and enjoy the social media aspect of the read-a-thon .With good drinks and snacks, of course :0)

[Cynda]

🪻Hello from Texas where we sometimes give garden space to bluebonnets. Wishing everyone a comfortable place to find some reading joy this weekend. Blankets, pillows, recliners, and more

[Katie Cat Books]

greetings from Finland, where the readathon starts at 3am

[Cathy]

And greetings from Germany, where the RAT starts in 3 minutes at 2am…

[Nona]

I didn't start prepping for or even thinking about this readathon until a couple days ago, but now I'm really excited that it's about to start. I love an excuse to clear my weekend for reading!!

[Vanessa]

Cynda wrote: "🪻Hello from Texas where we sometimes give garden space to bluebonnets. Wishing everyone a comfortable place to find some reading joy this weekend. Blankets, pillows, recliners, and more"

Thank you Cynda . I bought a new bed in
May and this will be the first time I had a Readathon on it .
So far so good .
Kudos from Albuquerque

[Christy]

Nona wrote: "I didn't start prepping for or even thinking about this readathon until a couple days ago, but now I'm really excited that it's about to start. I love an excuse to clear my weekend for reading!!"

Yes! This is my favourite bit as well. It can be hard to hold the time for reading but this is the perfect excuse to dedicate a whole weekend too it!

[Vanessa]

Jamie wrote: "Hello to all our lovely readers around the world! Welcome to our second Dewey's Readathon for 2024. We'll be officially starting at 8pm Eastern Time (EDT, aka the time zone for New York). Unofficia..."

Bring back the bingo board in the fall . It was a cool challenge .

[Cynda]

Vanessa, thank you for the suggestion. I welcome suggestions. . . . If you or someone else wants to write up a bingo card and then pm me with that bingo card, I will be glad to post it. We can have one or two challenges posted. So if others have other suggestions, offer them up. We can do a bit of this and a bit of that as we continue on on our Dewey's journey together ⭐

[Lamilla]

I am planning to use the bingo card I created for the previous round, here it is, if there is an interest
https://bingobaker.com/#66156c522066093a

the squares are quite broad, easy to fulfill

[Cynda]

Thanks Lamilla. There is an option to change bingo cards there, so not just one card for me to post to pre-readathon challenge thread.. Instead participants can choose to post their bingo card selection on their personal readathon logs here or elsewhere.