Dewey's Read-a-Thon

This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and you have made it to the finish hour. Can you see the finish line? No, seriously, it is right above. Can you see it? Well done everyone!!! Whether you have done 24 hours or just 1 hour, you have done amazing! It has been so much fun hanging out with you all and I eagerly look forward to our next readathon. Thank you to all the cheerleaders and volunteers. We have had a lot of fun!

Random Fact of the Hour:

One more: The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth. So next time you bite into one, you know the real origin of its name! Enjoy!!!

Current Minichallenges:

Mad Lib The Hurgry Readers
End of Event Meme We’re Hosting

Winner:

Beth from Too Fond is the winner of  Read-a-thon-a-crostic mini-challenge, hosted by Martina from Book Drunkard

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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This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and I will be your cohost for the rest of the readathon! I hope that you have gotten a few of the books you planned on reading off of your list! It is scary to be that high on a stack of books (see above image).

Oh my goodness, you all, there are just two more hours of reading!!! Can you believe it! Seriously, where has all of the time gone? With only two hours left, you don’t want to give up now. Get up out of your chair and stretch out your legs. Get the blood running again. Eat a piece of fruit. Eat of a piece of chocolate (the dark kind is suppose to give you energy). We are so close that you don’t want to give up now!

Thanks to all our cheerleaders who keep us going and help us stay awake and alert!

Random Fact of the Hour:

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. So be careful this Monday… we will all be suffering from a lack of sleep. So take it easy and avoid stressful situations.

Current Mini-challenges:

Mini Dance Party at Good Books and Good Wine

Mad Lib The Hurgry Readers

Now enjoy your last few hours of reading. Read something that is light and humorous so that you don’t feel even more weighted down and tired!

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This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and I will be your cohost for the rest of the readathon! If you are still reading, you deserve a star award. As a matter of fact, consider the above image to be your superstar award! You deserve it. And if you are just joining us, or returning, go ahead and claim the reward as well. If you have read even a page today, you deserve the reward, because if you read, YOU ARE AWESOME!

Thank you for keeping me company, any readers or cheerleaders who are still out there. You have been awesome. I hope that you are having fun… and that you will be able to get a lot of sleep when this is all done with!

Random Fact of the Hour:

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. So the next time you are doing a penny toss to decide something, pick tails, you are more likely to win.

Current Minichallenges

Read-A-Thon-A-Crostic Book Drunkard
Mini Dance Party at Good Books and Good Wine

Now stop reading this post and start reading a book. I am serious! I see you lurking!!!

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This is Kate from Kate’s Book Nook and I will be your cohost for the rest of the readathon! I don’t know about the rest of you all, but this readathon has just been flying by. I have had so much fun interacting with the rest of you all. I don’t get as much reading done during the readthon that I ever plan on, but I have so much more fun than if I had just spent 24 hour reading by myself. Hope the rest of you all feel the same way!

Random Fact of the Hour:

Marie Antoinette was frequently said to have shouted, “Let them eat cake!” at a hungry crowd. However, the incident came from a book written before Antoinette ever arrived in France. The passage described a “great princess” and the quote was attributed to Antoinette completely by mistake. Ironically, it’s her most famous quote, and the one usually used to judge her character in the history books. Moral of the story, don’t believe everything you read in history books… or in historical fiction

Current Minichallenges

Read-A-Thon-A-Crostic Book Drunkard
Theme Songs at Letters Inside Out
Culinary Catastrophe At Random

Winner’s Announced (these were all listed on the last update, but in case you missed it, here it is again):

•  The winner of Library Experience mini-challenge from Kanaye Speaks is Sheila from Bookjourney
• The winner of Re-Reading (Hour 16 mini-challenge) from The Bluestocking Society is Melissa from Avid Reader’s Musing
• The winner of Book Appetit mini-challenge from Book Journey is A Journey Through Books
• The winner of Picturiffic mini-challenge fromMemory  is Zara from The Bibliotaphe’s Closet
• And our random reader winner is Erica from The Book Cellar

I know, I know, your eyes are probably getting tired now. You think to yourself, what will one hour of sleep hurt. I will just close my eyes for a second… DO NOT GIVE IN TO THE SLEEP TEMPTRESS. I give into her lulling charms around hour 7 and she claimed me as her helpless victim for 4 hours. *Sigh* Best of luck to you! It is a fight everyone must decide to take part in or surrender to.

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Are you awake after that? Have you caught your breath yet? I hope so because we are entering the HOME STRETCH of the readathon and it is time to dig deep down inside yourself and find the will to keep reading on! 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!  This is your last chance to pull out that book you have been meaning to get to and give it a chance… seriously, it just wants a friend

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. You give us the strength to push past the weariness and keep reading on!

Random Fact of the Hour:

The term “mad as a hatter” (the Mad Hatter) began to be used hundreds of years ago when hat makers really did go mad. They used mercury to treat furs and would inhale the vapor, which over time caused brain damage and psychological problems…. So the next time some one tells you that you’re mad as a hatter for doing a 24-hour readathon, you can give them a little education.

Mini-Challenges:

Reading for Charity We’re hosting
Theme Songs at Letters Inside Out
Culinary Catastrophe At Random

Winner’s Announced:

•  The winner of Library Experience mini-challenge from Kanaye Speaks is Sheila from Bookjourney
• The winner of Re-Reading (Hour 16 mini-challenge) from The Bluestocking Society is Melissa from Avid Reader’s Musing
• The winner of Book Appetit mini-challenge from Book Journey is A Journey Through Books
• The winner of Picturiffic mini-challenge fromMemory  is Zara from The Bibliotaphe’s Closet
• And our random reader winner is Erica from The Book Cellar

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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It’s the reason we are all here…each and everyone of us share a love for reading. We desire the written word. And while reading may mean different things to different people, it still unites us as one which is the main reason that I love this readathon. As I say good bye and turn hosting over to another, I want to thank you all for being a part of this experience and for being a reader.

Below is one of my favorite passages about the magic of stories and tales and what they can mean in our life. I hope you enjoy and good luck in the final stretch. I know you can do it…and I know this because I know you love to read or you wouldn’t be here. It’s been a pleasure. ~Courtney

“The great stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen.They are as familiar as the house you live in or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In a away that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In great stories you know who lives, who dies,who finds love, who doesn’t and yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.”

~Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things

Current Minichallenges

Reading for Charity We’re hosting

Me and My Book at One Literature Nut

Theme Songs Letters Inside Out

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Our literary companions and reading buddies come in all shapes and sizes. From our spouses/significant others and children to our little furry friends who keep our feet warm as we dive into a good book. Do you have a special fur ball by your side at this moment as you fight to make it to Hour 19? If so we’d love you to share. You can comment and share the moment, a memory or even a picture in a link below. Let’s give these special little hearts credit where credit is due! Even if they did possibly fall asleep on you at this point of the readathon…you know they’re just resting their eyes right?

Keep Reading! You can do it! We’re almost there. Coffee, snacks, a splash of cold water to the face? It’s every reader for themselves now! Go for it and as always Happy Reading to All! ~Courtney

Current Minichallenges

Reading for Charity We’re hosting

Me and My Book at One Literature Nut

Winners

From Library Experience at Kanaye Speaks: Sheila @Bookjourney

From First Line Quiz at Fictionally Inclined: neabarabea

From Your Favorite Trouble Maker at The Fake Steph Dot Com: Melissa from @One Librarian’s Book Reviews

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Well…it’s after midnight now here where I am so I thought I might treat you to a little something to wake you ladies up. Sorry to the gentleman I just could not find the equivalent for you in this respect. But I know there have to be some Janeites and period film fans out there among you who are swooning as we speak. Are you awake after that? Have you caught your breath yet? I hope so because we are entering the HOME STRETCH of this year’s first amazing readathon.

Perhaps some of you might be reading some Jane Austen as we speak? Anyone out there delving into classic literature this late at night…would you like to share what you are or have read this readathon that might fall into one of those categories? I would love to see and chat as we head into Hour 18. So wake up…stretch those muscles and press on my dear dear friends! We can do it!

Or perhaps Louisa May Alcott was right “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”

Let’s prove her wrong!

Current Minichallenges

ReReading at The Bluestocking Society

Picturrific Memory

Me and My Book at One Literature Nut

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You did it! You made it one more hour! I knew you could. Now it’s time to lighten the mood and keep the words flowing off the page and into you’re amazingly absorbent minds. So to give a little giggle I thought a few literary jokes might just hit the spot and keep you going on to Hour 17. So here goes…don’t throw books at me…or bookmarks, book lights and especially not the shelves!

Joke One

“A chicken runs into a library, goes to the main desk and says, ‘Book, bok, bok, boook.’ The librarian hands the chicken a book and it tucks it under its wing and runs out. A while later, the chicken runs back in, throws the book on the desk and says, ‘Book, bok, bok, bok, boook.’ Again the librarian gives it a book, and the chicken runs out with it. A few minutes later the chicken is back, and returns the book saying, ‘Boook, book, bok, bok, boook.’ The librarian gives the chicken a third book, but this time follows it as it runs out. The chicken runs down the street, through a park and down to the river where a frog is sitting on the bank. The chicken holds up the book to the frog, saying, ‘Book, bok, bok, boook’. The frog replies, ‘Read-it, read-it, read-it…”

Joke Two

“A writer dies and Saint Peter offers him the choice of Hell or Heaven. To see what he has in store Saint Peter takes him to Hell where rows of writers are chained to their desks being whipped by demons in a steaming dungeon. However, when they get to Heaven the writer is astonished to see that nothing has changed – rows of writers are chained to their desks in a steaming dungeon being whipped. ‘Hey!’ says the writer, ‘this is just as bad as Hell!’ ‘No, it’s not,’ replies Saint Peter. ‘Up here you get published.”

Okay I have punished you enough…off you go! If you’d like you can share your own book/literature related jokes in the comments below. I am sure they are better than the ones above. Everyone needs a laugh to get through these last few hours! Happy Reading and see you next hour!  ~Courtney

Also let’s honor one of our FANTASTIC CHEERLEADERS. Drum Roll please…congrats to Brenna of Team Polonius!  Please contact us for your prize and way to go on keeping the spirit up! Well deserved. Bravo!

Current Minichallenges

ReReading at The Bluestocking Society
Picturrific Memory
Library Experience at Kanaye Speaks

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Well Hello all you Rock n’ Roll readers! My hope is that Hour 15 finds you all well and that my little stroll down Sesame Street memory lane may have perked you up a bit!  My name is Courtney and I blog at Stiletto Storytime where I blog about just about anything book related for all ages and genres.  I will be your host for the next few hours of the readathon and I am super excited since this is my first time ever co-hosting. As a librarian I love sharing the written word and am so excited to be a bigger part of the readathon than I have been in the last four times that I have participated.

First I hope everyone is just chucking along in their reading. Easy Peasy, right? I know it’s getting into the big push soon. But we can do it!

Secondly, I did want to mention three giveaways I am having on Stiletto Storytime. This gives everyone a chance at just maybe winning one or two prized tomes for their shelves. Below are the giveaways. No need to follow or do anything other than comment. I don’t try to get big numbers of followers….I just love to get books in people’s hand with the hope that reading will occur. Also if you would like to include a giveaway you might be having on your blog in the comments below…please do. Let’s help up the ante for readathon! Good Luck to All and Happy Reading!

Giveaways at Stiletto Storytime

• Win a copy of Sarah Pekkanen’s latest These Girls (Fabulous Adult Contemporary Fiction for Women) Enter Here.
• Win a copy of K.L.Glanvilles’s 2108: Eyes Open (YA Science Fiction/Fantasy) Enter Here.
• Win one of two copies of Susie Moloney’s The Thirteen (Creepy Adult Contemporary Horror for Women) Enter Here.

Current Minichallenges

First Line Quiz at Fictionally Inclined.
Picturrific Memory
Library Experience at Kanaye Speaks
MidEvent Survey We’re hosting!

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