Dewey's Read-a-Thon

This hour we would like to take a moment to remember Dewey, the much-missed founder of the read-a-thon, who passed away last November. Please visit Eva at A Striped Armchair for a mini-challenge in Dewey’s honour. Even if you never had the chance to meet her, we encourage you to take a moment to read about the lovely person who inspired us all to be here today.

We’ll randomly draw a winner, who’ll get a grab bag of 3 new surprise 2010 ARCs.

Still happening:
Trisha’s Mini-Challenge (last hour)
Soleil’s Mini-Challenge
Jill’s Mini-Challenge

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Gratuitous cat picture time!

Mini-challenges:
We have two mini-challenges for you this hour: Energize Yourself! A Yoga Mini-Challenge hosted by Soleil, and Music to Read By, hosted by Jill.

Soleil’s winner will get a book of their choice up to $20 and a Jennifer Gordon Bookmark. Jill’s gets a $15 gift card to Powell’s or Amazon.

We also have 5 readers of the hour for you to visit:

Schatzi (the stacks my destination)

Suey (It’s All About Books)

Diane (Bibliophile by the Sea)

Icedream (Reading in Appalachia)

Mari (Mari Reads)

Go say hi!

Winners:

The winners of Nicole‘s mini-challenge are:

Icedream @ Reading in Appalachia ($15 Gift certificate to Barnes & Noble)

Velvet @ vvb32 Reads (The Magicians by Lev Grossman)

And the winner of my mini-challenge from hour 10 is Andi.

Congratulations! Don’t forget to e-mail deweyreadathon at gmail to clain your prizes.

Due to an earlier misunderstanding, Wendy had to draw another winner for her mini-challenge, and the winner is: Chris! Congratulations!

Still happening:
Mid-event meme (last hour)
Tara’s Mini-Challenge (last hour)
Trisha’s Mini-Challenge

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Hello everyone! Nymeth here – I’ll be doing the hourly updates for the next 6 hours. We’re now halfway through the read-a-thon, which means it’s time for the Mid-Event Meme.  We invite you to answer the following questions and then enter your link in the Mr Linky below:

Mid-Event Survey:
1. What are you reading right now?

2. How many books have you read so far?

3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?

4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day?

5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?

6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?

7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?

8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year?

9. Are you getting tired yet?

10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered?

We’ll select two winners: one of them will get an attaché full of books and a chocolate monkey, and the other a Hachette bundle of books.

Winners:
The winner of Erika’s mini-challenge is:  Emily! Congratulations! Please email deweyreadathon at gmail to claim your loot.

And for visiting the Readers of the Hour during Hour 11, Robin and Molly get a choice of two books from the prize list. Please e-mail the address above with your contact info and your picks!

Still happening:
Joy Renee’s Mini-Challenge (last hour)
Tara’s Mini-Challenge
Trisha’s Mini-Challenge

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As Hour 12 starts, we’re almost half way through! Hooray! Maybe time to stand up and stretch? This is my last hour! Nymeth will be taking over posting responsibilities for the next 6 hours.

Visual Representation of a Reading List, via margolove on Flickr

• New mini-challenges!

  Tara‘s Books that Bite mini-challenge

  and

  Trisha Ping at The Book Case‘s Re-Reading the Classics mini-challenge

• Surprise drawing of two cheerleader winners:
  • Jen at Multi-Genre Fan
  • Margot at Joyfully Retired

  Congratulations! They each win a book of their choice from the Prizes page and one of the following (given on a first-come, first-served basis):
  * Laura’s bookmark set
  * 2 sets from Katrina (winner gets one of these, but we have 2 to give away)
  * Kim’s bookmark
  * a set of literary stamps
  * Read-a-thon mug
  Winners, make your selections and email your choices, along with your address info, to deweyreadathon(at)gmail.

• Winners of mini-challenges:

  Winners of Trisha of Eclectic/Eccentric‘s mini-challenge: Dave, Amanda of The Zen Leaf, and Eden

  The winner of Nise‘s mini-challenge is A Buckeye Girl Reads.

  The winner of Bart‘s mini-challenge is Kristi from Books and Needlepoint

  The winner of Wendy‘s mini-challenge is Finding Biblical Truths in Christian Fiction

Congratulations, all around!

• Still happening:
  • Joy Renee’s Reading is Fundamental mini-challenge

  • Nymeth‘s Time for Comics mini-challenge

  • Nicole‘s Feed Me Seymour mini-challenge

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Jen Reads, via JenWaller on Flickr

Joy Renee‘s Reading is Fundamental mini-challenge starts this hour. I think she’s going to have multiple winners, too!

We also have Readers of the Hour! At each blog, we’ll randomly select one commenter who will win two books of their choice from the Prizes page. Here are your readers to visit:
• Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic
• The Book Cellar
• Finding Biblical Truths In Christian Fiction
• KiwiRia
• Moored at Sea

The winner of Beth Fish Read’s Eat to Read mini-challenge is I Heart Monster! Congratulations!

Still happening:
• Erika at Reading with Momma‘s re-reading mini-challenge

• Nymeth‘s Time for Comics mini-challenge

• Nicole’s Feed Me Seymour mini-challenge

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• New Mini-challenges this hour:

  Erika at Reading with Momma‘s mini-challenge focuses on re-reading.

  Nymeth‘s mini-challenge is Time for Comics.

  Great prizes are in store for winners of both challenges!

• Winners randomly chosen from comments on Hour 6′s Readers of the Hour:
  • Amanda from The Zen Leaf
  • Memory at Stella Matutina
  • Sheila deChantal at One Person’s Journey through a world of Books
  • Jill (softdrink) from Fizzy Thoughts
  • Miss Wisabus

  Winners from readers of the hour, please email your book choices (you get to pick TWO books!) and address info to deweyreadathon(at)gmail. You can find your book choices on the Prizes page.

• Vote for the winner in Bart’s mini-challenge here, or here
• Winners have been chosen for Shawnee’s mini-challenge, for Kara at Opi’s Rambling’s mini-challenge, and for Drea’s mini-challenge.
  • Congrats to Petunia on the Mix Up the Titles win!
  • Congrats to Kathrin of Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic on the Perspectives win!
  • Congrats to Senfaye at A Maze of Books on the Book Cover win!
• Still Happening:
  • Wendy’s Collection Obsession mini-challenge,
  • Nise’s Who Keeps You Company mini-challenge, and
  • Nicole’s Feed Me Seymour mini-challenge

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• This hour’s new mini-challenge: Nicole is hosting this hour’s mini-challenge, Feed Me Seymour. Food-related, mmm. She’s giving away a copy of The Magicians by Lev Grossman, and a gift card (two winners)!
• Surprise drawing of 2 reader winners:
  • MariReads
  • Book Splurge

  Congratulations! They each win 2 books of their choice; make your selections from the Prizes page and email your choices, along with your address info, to deweyreadathon(at)gmail.

• Still happening:
  • Wendy’s Collection Obsession mini-challenge,
  • Nise’s Who Keeps You Company mini-challenge,
  • Beth Fish Reads’s Eat to Read mini-challenge, and
  • Shawnee’s Mix Up the Titles mini-challenge,

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• We’ve got two new mini-challenges starting for you this hour! Looks like both of these will give you an opportunity to include photos in your post!

  • Collection Obsession hosted by Wendy

  • Who Keeps You Company? hosted by Nise

  Head on over for your chance at more awesome prizes!

• This hour we also have some readers of the hour for you to visit. At each blog, we’ll randomly select one commenter who will win two books of their choice from the Prizes page. Here are your readers to visit:
  • Christy (Southern Sassy Things)
  • NTE
  • Sally @ The Friendly Book Nook
  • Ti (Book Chatter and Other Stuff)
  • Swapna (S. Krishna’s Books)
• Still happening:
  • Beth Fish Reads‘s Eat to Read mini-challenge,
  • Shawnee‘s Mix Up the Titles mini-challenge,
  • Drea‘s Guess the Book Cover mini-challenge, and
  • Kara‘s Perspectives mini-challenge

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Hey there! Hannah here, signing on for my posting shift. Hope you all are doing well so far; you’ve made it one quarter of the way!

Two new mini-challenges for this hour:
Beth Fish Reads‘s Eat to Read challenge. She’s giving a handmade lace bookmark to the winner!

and

Shawnee‘s Mix Up the Titles challenge. The prize for this one is an Amazon gift card!

Winner: Eva forfeited her prize for multiple-time participants, so we drew a new winner. The winner is Ashley. Congrats, Ashley! Please email deweyreadathon(at)gmail with your mailing address so you can receive the “grab bag” of 3 (new) surprise 2010 ARCs from Aaron’s Books.

Still happening:
• Trisha‘s Excerpt Expert mini-challenge,
• Drea‘s Guess the Book Cover mini-challenge, and
• Kara‘s Perspectives mini-challenge

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This is my last hour! Hannah will be taking over for the next 6 hours doing postings, and I’ll be tweeting, visiting readers,

Mini-challenges

Drea from Book Blather is doing a guess the book cover challenge! The winner will receive 3 books of their choice from the Prizes page.

Kara from Opi’s Ramblings is doing a mini-challenge called Perspectives. The winner will receive a copy of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and a couple of other goodies.

Winners announced

The winner of Trish’s Where in the World is the Read-a-thon is Audrey from Brizmus Blogs Books. Congratulations, Audrey! Contact Trish at trish(dot)heylady(dot)net to claim your prize.

The winner for the people participating for the first time is Jennifer from My Tea Time is Book Time. Congratulations, Jennifer! Please email deweyreadathon(at)gmail to claim which Hachette set of books you want. You can find that on the Prizes page.

The winner for the multiple times participating is Eva from A Striped Armchair. Congratulations, Eva! Please email deweyreadathon(at)gmail with your mailing address so you can receive the “grab bag” of 3 (new) surprise 2010 ARCs from Aaron’s Books.

The winners from the readers of the hour from Hour 3 are:

• Book Bliss
• Morph
• Chocolate & Croissants
• Erica
• Irish

Winners from readers of the hour, please email your book choices (you get to pick TWO books!) and address info to deweyreadathon(at)gmail. You can find your book choices on the Prizes page.

Still ongoing

Bart’s mini-challenge

Excerpt Expert

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