Dewey's Read-a-Thon

Whew!  Do you still have a Read-a-Thon hangover? We might!

To wrap things up, I just want to fill you in on a few stinkin’ awesome stats:

• We had 494 people sign-up to participate this April.
• 242 of those participated in the Introduction Meme.
• 122 of those participated in the End of Event Meme.
• 588 books were entered into the Books Read Database (there’s still time to add yours)
• We had 31 cheerleaders sign-up.
• We had 21 Mini-Challenge hosts.
• We had readers participate via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, their blogs, and everywhere else imaginable!
• Over 1,100 Instagram photos were uploaded and tagged!
• We TRENDED on Twitter on and off for all 24 hours!
• We had at least 186 prizes donated to us… more if you count those wonderful Mini-Challenge hosts. Thanks to Vasilly for helping with this!
• We had 4 cohosts (Sheila, Deb, Courtney, Kate) in addition to our hosts/organizers (Heather and Andi, waving).

Publishers, authors, bloggers, and bookstore who donated prizes this time, thank you from the bottom of our hearts! I am sad to say that A Real Bookstore, such a generous donor to this Read-a-Thon, closed their doors for good on Thursday, April 25th. It’s such a sad thing for those of us in the Dallas area to lose such a wonderful part of the community.

Lastly, we really want to thank all 494 of you who signed-up to participate!  This was an especially spirited Read-a-Thon full of genuine excitement and community warmth.  Even if you only got to read for a few hours… or a few minutes, you were still a part of something AMAZING!

We’ll do it all over again in October, and we have a major goal in mind…

We want at least 500 readers! 

I think we can do it…don’t you?

Without further ado, go ahead and put it on your calendar. The Fall 2013 Read-a-Thon will take place on October 12th! Be there or be square! Put in for your days off and book that babysitter. It’s ON!

We’d also love it if you could indicate your volunteer interests for October in the form below. We’ll be in touch!!!

 

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This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and you have made it to the final hour (as well as the final post). Whether you have done 24 hours or just 1 hour, you have done amazing! I have had so much fun these last three hours chatting with you all and reading your posts and your tweets. You have all made this another great event and I eagerly look forward to the event in October.

Random Fact of the Hour:

The Library of Congress (Washington DC) contains 28 million books and has more than 500 miles of shelving. It would take you eight hours to pass every single book, if you were driving in a car at 70 mph. I’d hate to be the one in charge of dusting.

Mini Challenges

End of Event Meme – See Below

Still Ongoing

Nikki present Guess the Author Photo Challenge

Rachel Cabbit presents If It Were a Movie

Winners Announced -

 E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

I really wish that I could pick everyone but unfortunately I could only pick five winners. I used random.org to pick the winners. Thanks all for your participation!

Kathrin @ Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic
Isabel @ Books With Benefits
A. @ Literary Mafia
Angie @ Pinkindle
Sharlene @ Sharlene Says

Cheerleaders Winners Announced -

Tallulah (From Hour 22)

Ali (From Hour 23)

Jenn and the Cats (From this Hour)

Update our Books Read database HERE!

End of event meme–

A Readathon tradition! In your final Readathon post, answer these questions and then link to it with the Mr. Linky, below.

1. Which hour was most daunting for you?
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?
5. How many books did you read?
6. What were the names of the books you read?
7. Which book did you enjoy most?
8. Which did you enjoy least?
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?

It has been a pleasure reading and tweeting with you all. Good luck on this last hour and get plenty of rest today.

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GET UP AND DANCE ALONG!!!!

I am sure we have all seen this before, but sometimes it is nice to rewatch a good video! This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and I will be your co-host for the rest of the readathon! So did you get up and dance??? Did that give you more energy? Got any tips for staying awake that you want to share with the rest of the class? Only two hours to go and I am sure we could all use some good tips at this point!

To all the wonderful cheerleaders I am sure we could be using some of your magic energy helping comments. You all are awesome and I really want to thank you for all you have done!

If you are still reading, leave a comment in the comments section with what you are currently reading. Provided there are enough commentors who haven’t already won a prize, at least three people will be randomly picked from their for the final prize winners. 

Random Fact of the Hour:

Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue published 1,058 novels in the western, science fiction and thriller genres.

Mini Challenges

Nikki present Guess the Author Photo Challenge

Still Ongoing

Rachel Cabbit presents If It Were a Movie

Jessica and Mia present Read-a-Thon MadLibs

Winners Announced -

 E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

Kavyen@Reading Between Pages

J.F. Jenkins @ A Dragons Love

Cheerleader Winner

Ali @ Worducopia

Update our Books Read database HERE!

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This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and I will be your co-host for the rest of the readathon! Do you have any random Shakespeare facts? I have to confess I am not really a Shakespeare fan. But these are some pretty interesting random facts. In High School and college when I had to read him, I definitely checked out the “dummies” version with the modern English on the opposite page so I could understand what in the heck he was saying!

Random Fact of the Hour:

William Shakespeare’s average annual income as a playwright was under 32 dollars (USD), which works out to about 13 dollars per play. He made about twice as much from writing plays as Ben Jonson.

Mini Challenges

Rachel Cabbit presents If It Were a Movie

Still Ongoing

Jessica and Mia present Read-a-Thon MadLibs

Crazy Comma Momma presents the Haiku Challenge!

Winners Announced -

 E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

Kristen @ The Book Monsters

Sherry Ann

Cheerleader Winner

Tallulah

Update our Books Read database HERE!

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I hope you enjoyed the video. I know that it absolutely brought me to tears the first time I saw it. Anyway, this is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and I will be your cohost for the rest of the readathon! Are you excited??? I know I am! Let me introduce myself to you really quick. I am a rather odd mix of hobbies. I love German Soccer (specifically Bayern Munich) with a passion and will often force myself out of bed at 6:30 on a Saturday morning to watch their games. I am a cross stitching addict and currently have over 50 patterns started. I love tv and watch way too much of it (curse you Hulu). I have two part time jobs (math tutor and a subpoena records copier). I am also a cheese addict. I love cheese. Right now I am eating Brie and Danish Fontina. I also have Gouda and Babybel in the fridge calling to me (as well as the normal cheddar and string cheese and mozerella cheese). During readathons, I allow myself to splurge and buy some of the more expensive cheeses as a treat. Now that you know a little bit more about me, I would love to know a little more about you! So please leave a comment and tell me some of your quirks and what makes you unique.

A big shout out to our cheerleaders!!! You guys have been fantastic! Next time we should have cheerleaders for our cheerleaders! But in all seriousness, thanks so much for cheering all of us readers on and cohosts on. You give us the strength to push past the weariness and keep reading! Goodness knows how much a “new comment” notice brightens up a persons day.

Random Fact of the Hour:

Who’s the bestselling commercial fiction author of all time? Not Meyer. Not Rowling. Not even King. No, the bestselling author of all time is Agatha Christie. Since 1920 her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language, and another billion in more than 45 other languages. She is outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare.

Mini Challenges

Jessica and Mia present Read-a-Thon MadLibs

Still Ongoing

Crazy Comma Momma presents the Haiku Challenge!

Sami presents Picture Break

Winners Announced -

 E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

Teresa @ Shelf Love

alita.reads.

Cheerleader Winner

Nova Lee

Update our Books Read database HERE!

Now go pick up a book and remember to have fun. You can sleep when you’re dead, so have fun while you can!!!

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Andi again! Still! Yes! You’ll be rid of me soon. This is my last hour, in fact, but I thank you sooooo much for having me. From Heather and myself, we also thank you for taking the time out of your days to participate in the Read-a-Thon!!!! There is a crazy-ton of work that goes into it behind the scenes, but it is SO COOL to honor Dewey and to see so many bloggers have a blast together!

The ever-fabulous Kate will be taking over here soon, but I wanted to leave you with a serious case of the gigglesnorts. You’ll see what I mean…

I just… I don’t… What can one say??? Besides *gigglesnort*

What have you found most amusing today? Was it a challenge? A co-host post? Interactions with your fellow readers or cheerleaders?

What’s keeping you going? 

Mini Challenges

Crazy Comma Momma presents the Haiku Challenge!

Still Ongoing

Sami presents Picture Break

Stacy presents Cover Me

Winners Announced - E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

Kai from Fiction State of Mind!

Sandra @shedyourlove

Cheerleader Winner

Cass!

Update our Books Read database HERE!

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Hey guys! Andi again! I’m up! You up? I might have the help of a Mountain Dew Code Red, but I’m still here! And some popcorn and Spicy Nacho Doritos. You should be SO stinkin’ proud of yourselves for making it this far into the Read-a-Thon!!!! Many have started to bow out, so let’s step up our cheer game even more to keep this thing going through Hour 24!!!

Are you ready for some late-night cheesy humor? The kind that makes you giggle for minutes on end. Kinda delirious-like?

That would be “My Little Poe-ny.” HAAAAAA!!! And I shamelessly stole this from Jennifer at The Relentless Reader. Her Facebook page is great for fun images like this one.

One more? Ok, you twisted my arm…

I hope you have a delicious bowl of something awesome. And maybe an IV drip of caffeine. Cheers to another hour!

 What are you noshing on? 

Mini Challenges

Sami presents Picture Break

Still Ongoing

Stacy presents Cover Me

Andi presents Six Word Celebration!

Alexis presents Turn the Page

Winners Announced - E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

Sarah from Word Hits

Beth from Too Fond of Books

- Cheerleader Winner

Vasilly!

Update our Books Read database HERE!

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Andi from Estella’s Revenge again! And this time we’re going for pure, unadulterated funky fresh laughs. I picked a clean version of Macklemore’s ridiculous radio hit, “Thrift Shop!” This one just happens to be parodied by Baylor University, the first institution where I attended college.

How can that NOT make you wiggle???

Tell me, which song gets you out of your chair every time?

Mini Challenges

Cover Me

Still Ongoing

Andi presents Six Word Celebration!

Alexis presents Turn the Page

Nea’s Share a Quote 

Winners Announced - E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

Gary from BookNeedLove

Judith from Leeswammes’ Blog 

- Cheerleader Winner

Riki!

Update our Books Read database HERE!

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Helloooo, friends! Andi here, from Estella’s Revenge.  YOU GUYS!!! I can’t believe it’s already Hour 17! Give me a “Woot!” if you’re still awake!

Tell me the truth…are you getting a bad case of the crankies? Then check out this guy. He gets really touchy if anyone interrupts his reading time. All in good fun!

Good luck as we head further into the early (late?) hours! I’ll try my best to give you something to help stay awake. While you’re here, why not give us a general update on your reading!

How many books have you read so far? What’s your favorite? 

Mini Challenges

Six Word Celebration!

Still Ongoing

Alexis presents Turn the Page

Nea’s Share a Quote 

Alysia’s Casting Couch

Winners Announced - E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

 Chrisbookarama

Allie from A Literary Odyssey

- Cheerleader Winner

Kristi

Don’t forget to add your finished books to this year’s database!

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Well…it’s my last hour with you friends. I’ve noticed some readers starting to hit a bit of a wall on Twitter so in the interest of waking  and cheering a few of you up…I have pulled out something for my Janeites and Downton Abbey fans. That’s right I have brought out the big guns. I’m going out with a bang! I know at least one of my readathon readers out there is holding an Austen tome and I will be later in the readathon I am sure. So I hope the video above will give a chuckle and help you make it on to hour 17 when your lovely host Andi will be taking over. I’ve so enjoyed spending the last few hours with you and I wish you all happy reading and the very best readathon yet! Courtney from Stiletto Storytime signing off!

“We read to know we are not alone.” ~C.S. Lewis

Mini Challenges

 Alexis presents Turn the Page

Mini Challenges Still Ongoing

Nea’s Share a Quote 

Alysia’s Casting Couch

Winners Announced – E-mail deweyreadathon@gmail.com to claim a prize from the Prize Page!

1. Daisy at Between the Pages
2. Amber at Books of Amber

Cheerleader Winner

Three cheers for the amazing Nolatari!

And don’t forget to add the books you’ve read during this year’s Readathon to the database here!

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