Hour 1 Reading Sprint

[Jamie]

The October 2025 Dewey's Readathon kicks off at 8am Eastern Time. Grab your first book, your beverage, your snacks and whatever else you need, and we'll dive into this readathon with our traditional Hour 1 sprint. (hour-long reading sprint = we all try to focus on reading for one hour.) What are you reading to start this readathon?

[Buffy]

Hooray! I’m starting on page 21 of

[Vavita]

Audio of Hungerstone!

[Chelsey]

Age of Vice I am starting about half way through this but want to finish it this morning.

[Angie]

Starting the readathon off with the reading sprint for Hour 1 has become somewhat of a tradition so here we go --- ready, steady, READ!

I’ll be reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[Pari]

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

And.....we're off! The October Read-a-thon has officially started.



Best of luck to you - wishing for good books, comfy clothes, delicious food, treat drinks, coziness with fall, amusing social media updates, and endurance mood for the day💜

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I started at 730 am, reading audiobook while checking out social media and waking up - PerrY Mason audio The Case of the Fiery Fingers

[Lamilla]

I'm in with

[Jen]

Starting off with Wrong Place Wrong Time

[Sonya]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

[christene_littlelibrary]

Starting at page 101

[Elyse]

Starting on pg 1 of

[Katherine]

25 pages into thisAfter the Party

[Elyse]

interrupting my sprint to leave and go to a local coffee shop because my husband took our son with him to the transfer station.

[Jamie]

I got to 17% in The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith.

[Kate]

I read 34 pages of Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal during that sprint. A great start to the readathon.

[Buffy]

got to page 59 in

[Vicki Willis]

I read 25 pages of
The Island by Michael Bray

[Ann A]

i read 57 pages of The Case of the Velvet Claws for the Perry Mason buddy read.

[Lolita]

Read 54 pages of A Day Off by Storm Jameson.

[Vanessa]

Starting off with a children's chapter book . THE 7th KNOT by Katherine Knot . Read 35 pages .

[Vanessa]

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "
And.....we're off! The October Read-a-thon has officially started.



Best of luck to you - wishing for good books, comfy clothes, delicious food, treat drinks, coziness with fall, amusing social ..."




A lovely wish . Thank You ! Same to you 📖♥️

[Lena]

I am really trying to focus on the Sprints this year. I always get distracted throughout the read-a-thon and end up doing household and family stuff and frittering away my reading time. So THIS year I am trying to literally "drop everything and read" for each sprint. And then I can wonder off and do other stuff as I see fit in between (or continue reading of course) in between. BUT the sprints are my way to focus back on the reading!

For the first sprint I read the entire hour and completed 38 Pages out of my first book

[Elyse]

My first sprint was pgs 8-53 of

[Jennifer]

I read 36 pages of