Dewey's Read-a-Thon

Ummm, it is HOUR 24! You should be jumping up and down and squealing for joy if you have made it this far. I’ll wait while you do that.

But can you believe that there is just one more hour to go? It means that the end is near and that you have survived another readathon! Bravo to you!

Personally, I cannot wait to crawl back into bed, so I am sure that I will be doing that sooner rather than later (I do have to work in…5 hours). But it has been a blast spending the last few hours with you guys. You are all great! I am so proud that so many of you chose to stay up the whole time!

Mini-Challenges

The mini-challenge for this hour is to fill out the end of event survey and link it back here. We’ll choose a winner later on! Here are the questions you need to answer:

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?

Winners Announced

We have a winner from the Picturrific contest. Congrats to Vamps R Us! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

Still Ongoing

Challenge Hosts: email deweyreadathon at gmail when you have selected your winners and we can announce them later on today!

Referral Challenge

Bookish Humor (still haven’t heard from a winner)

Book Trailers

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

It was a blast hosting you guys! I’ll be around throughout the end of the hour, but shesten will most likely put up a wrap-up post later on today. Be on the look out! And thank you again for being you!

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You guys, look up there! it says HOUR 23. You know what that means? It means you are SOCLOSE to being done! What an acheivement and I am so happy to see so many of you still awake!

That being said, you’re either going to love or hate this picture. Me? I kind of want to see what happens if I try to remove a whole row.

Think it’ll fall on my head?

Right now I have a big mug of tea and a cat trying to crawl into my lap. He doesn’t understand that now is not the time for cuddles.

Mini-Challenges

Complete the referral challenge below to get the chance to win a prize for yourself and the person who referred you!

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Winners Announced

RANDOM

A few more random winners include: Myra, Samantha Joe, and Melanie H. Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

MINI-CHALLENGES

The winner for the Character Crush Mini-Challenge is Jessica from Nisaba be Praised! Congratulations! You will be contacted shortly about claiming your prize!

The winner for the Movie Madness Mini-Challenge is Bianca_82! Congratulations! You will be contacted by the host to claim your prize!

Still Ongoing

Picturrific

Bookish Humor (I should be hearing about a winner soon!)

Book Trailers

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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Hey you guys! It’s Allie (from that pesky blog A Literary Odyssey) and I am officially taking over the remainder of the readathon! WHOO! Are you EXCITED? You should be! There are only a couple hours left, and we are almost there people! KEEP GOING!

See? even the cats are still reading-you can’t give up now!

Let me know who is still up and chugging along-what are you guys reading? I am in the middle of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (it is excellent, btw).

On to the fun stuff:

Mini-Challenges

Book Trailers! Head to Quirky Girls Read for more info and to enter!

Winners Announced

RANDOM

Congratulations to Lenore and Mike the Librarian! You have both been selected to win a prize. Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

MINI-CHALLENGES

Courtney at Stiletto Storytime has announced the winner for the Classic Paranormal Mini-Challenge and the winner is Erin from Erin Reads! Congratulations! You will be contacted shortly to collect your prize!

Still Ongoing

Picturrific

Bookish Humor

Character Crush Mini-Challenge Time was extended, just waiting to see who won!

Movie Madness Mini-Challenge Time was extended, just waiting to see who won!

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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It’s my last hour to hang with all you guys! It’s been mighty fun, but I’m ready to get back into reading! Thanks for being awesome to me and hope you keep on truckin’

I’ll now be passing the torch on to Colleen! Give her the same love you gave me! Happy Reading Folks!

Mini-Challenges

Shanyn over at Chick Loves Lit wants you to create a sequel synopsis for one of the books in your pile! Go ahead and give it a try!

Winners Announced

These two lovely participants  for the hour Kathryn and Jex are winners!  !!Congratulations ! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

The winners of the Mid-Event Meme are

1st-   Katherine @ Katen Read
2nd-    NEW winner (previous pick had already one) M (@notarevolution)

3rd- Kim ( Page after Page)
4th-    Michelle @ The True Book Addict

Congrats! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

Still Ongoing

Book Habits

Book Sentence

Character Theme Song

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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Here we go into hour 15! Wow it’s been a long and hopefully fun for everyone! Are you still plowing along or are you puttering out? Get up and move around (but don’t forget your book!)

Also, I wanted to thank you all for the kind comments and encouragement! You’ve all made this the funnest I’ve had in like…ever!

WAKE UP!!! DON’T QUIT NOW!!!!!!

Mini-Challenges

Helena at Vamps R Us wants you to pick a character from one of the books you have read and tell her what their theme song would be! (include song and artist).  The winner will be allowed to select a book from the book depository up to 20 dollars in cost.

Winners Announced

This hour I get to pick a winner from the #readathon pool over at Twitter! Random twitter name is raychraych !!Congratulations ! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

The Bookish Crossword Puzzle mini-challenge hosted by Samantha Jo and winner of  a copy of The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter or another book (up to $10) from The Book Depository is…Heather congrats! Samantha will be contacting you shortly!

Still Ongoing

Book Habits

Book Sentence

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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So how are you all doing? Are you still plowing through the pages and noshing on delish goodies? I am so very jealous!

I couldn’t find any sufficiently amusing pictures or videos,  so I will leave this offering to inspire happiness and joy!

It’s a cute kitten AND a book! You are welcome! :p

Mini-Challenges

Kate from Midnight Book Girl wants you to make sentences out of book titles! What can you come up with? Prize is a  $15 gift certificate from Amazon or Book Depository!

Winners Announced

So this hour I get the absolute pleasure to pick two (2) awesome cheerleaders! I’ve picked at random  and PammyPam (@IYAMPAM) and Alita (@alitareads) have won!   Congratulations! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

Shel and Monica from The Hungry Readers have picked Sheila at Bookjourney as the winner of their Recreate the Cover contest! Her post can been seen HERE. Congrats to you!

Still Ongoing

Book Habits

Mid-Event Meme

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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Aw, this is my final hour as cohost. I’m terribly upset, so I’ve decided to post this MST3K video to cheer myself– and, by extension, you guys– up.

More important than Blast Hardcheese, you’re now officially halfway through the readathon! Congratulations, everyone! You’re doing SO awesome, and I know you can keep up the momentum. Read lots, take breaks, drink water and dance often!

Mini-Challenges
Yay, I get to host the mid-event survey! Post your answers at your blog and then come back here to leave your link.

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?

Sign the linky below with a link to your post with your answers. There will be 4 winners: 1st gets 1 prize packs of books, along with chocolate coins, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th get three books of their choice. This is only open until the beginning of Hour 14.

Winners Announced
Aw, this is my last turn to pick winners for prizes. I’m sad about that but very happy to say that two random readathon participants win a prize from the prize list! And those participants are: Yukino and Staci! Yay! Congratulations! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

Don’t forget about the Book Club Recommendations mini-challenge, where Shel is a winner of a fabulous prize of her own! Congratulations! Please visit the post to claim your prize!

Still Ongoing
Recreate the Cover
Bookish Crossword Puzzle

And finally, don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

It was so lovely to be your cohost. Thank you all so much for the comments and support! I had a lot of fun. I’ll still be around on Twitter, Facebook, and email for until the start of Hour 13, where I’ll pass the cohosting baton off to Melissa!

Exclamation marks everywhere!!

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I always advocate getting up and dancing around to loosen up the limbs after a few hours of reading. This next video will definitely get you into a groove– a futuristic one!

The band that made this video is called The Gregory Brothers, and they normally play a sort of alternative country/rock/soul…somethings. But they became internet famous first through their time-travelling band videos, and then through their Autotune the News series! If you haven’t seen any of their videos before definitely be sure to check them out– AFTER the readathon, of course.

Keep up the good work, everyone! And don’t forget you can email me if you’re having trouble with something! The readathon email is deweyreadathon at gmail.

Mini-Challenges
The Bookish Crossword Puzzle mini-challenge hosted by Samantha Jo starting now! Fill out the bookish crossword puzzle and you could win a copy of The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter or another book (up to $10) from The Book Depository!

Winners Announced
This time I get to pick a random Facebook participant to win a prize! And I (randomly) choose: Jessi! Wahoo! Congrats! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

Keep on rolling with the prizes: The Book Origami mini-challenge has a winner, and it’s Shannon! Congratulations! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

Still Ongoing
Recreate the Cover
In Other Words

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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I only had the one lolcat picture so from here on out it’s interesting Youtube videos. This one’s sure to either wake you up with its awesomeness or put you into a trance. So, y’know. Be careful?

Meanwhile, how are y’all doing with your reading? Still on top of things or have you been sucked into reading the #readathon tweets for half an hour?

India asked in the last post’s comments what I was reading– well, technically I’m not participating in the readathon beyond my cohosting duties (and a bit of unofficial cheerleading), but I started reading The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale earlier! Too busy refreshing email/blog/Twitter now to actually continue to read it, of course…

Mini-Challenges
Recreate the Cover is being hosted for the next three hours by Shel and Monica of The Hungry Readers! It sounds very exciting– basically you have to recreate a cover image of one of the books you’re reading for the ‘thon using only what you have around the house.

Winners Announced
What’s that? I get to pick MORE random commenters of the hour to win fabulous prizes? Yes! I do! And those winners are Muse, Melissa, Charlotte, and Stormi! Congratulations to all of you! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

The Book Boyfriend Matchmaker mini-challenge’s winner info is just a bit late, but I’ll update this post whenever I get it.
Update! The winner of the Book Boyfriend Matchmaker is Cathy! Congratulations!

Still Ongoing
In Other Words
Book Club Recommendations

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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Hello, everyone! I’m your newest cohost, Anastasia of Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog! This is my first time cohosting anything and I’m very excited. When I was prepping for my posts I realized I needed at least two things: interesting Youtube videos and lolcat pictures. So here’s a lolcat picture:

Did it cheer you up? More importantly, I know that hour 9 is generally when the near-midpoint lag starts to set in. Are you all feeling energized? Have you been taking breaks to refresh and refuel?

Mini-Challenges
Terri of BrownGirl BookSpeak is hosting the In Other Words mini-challenge this hour. Participants have to guess the book title given to them in CODE. Well. It’s sort of a code– go check out the post to see what I mean, and you could win a book of your choice from The Book Depository!

Winners Announced
Yay, the first prize I get to pick myself! It’s random commenter of the hour, Erin! Congratulations! Pick a prize from the prize list and email your choice to Vasilly at 1330vblog at gmail.

The Oldies But Goodies mini-challenge has winners, and those winners are Savs and Simplerpastimes! And two more surprise winners: Amanda and Jillian! Woohoo! Please email Allie to claim your prizes.

Still Ongoing
Book Origami
Book Club Recommendations

Don’t forget to add your completed books to the master list!

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