Dewey's Read-a-Thon

A lot of you participants are really fast readers! You put the rest of us to shame.

Just a reminder – you don’t have to do each and every mini-challenge. Do what works for you!

This hour we’ve got five readers of the hour! Please go give these participants some encouragement! We’ll pick one random commenter from each blog (please comment on the latest post) to win one book of their choice from the Prizes page.

• Allie at A Literary Odyssey
• Alex at Luvvie’s Musings
• Elsi at Reading in Texas
• Bekah at Bekah’s Bytes
• Wendy at itsJUSTme

Have you participated more than once? Leave a comment on this post and we’ll randomly select 4 multi-time participants. The first winner will receive a $25 gift card to any independent bookstore, and the other 3 will win 2 books of their choice from the Prizes page. We’ll leave this open for three hours and announce the winner in Hour 7.

Mini-challenge

This hour’s mini-challenge is being hosted by Bobbie at ‘Til We Read Again. Her mini-challenge is called And the nominees are…. Go check it out! You’ll list nominees in four different categories. The winner will receive a copy of Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin.

Winners announced

None yet!

Still ongoing

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I hope everyone’s having fun! I know we (the organizers) are.

Our next mini-challenge for you is a map challenge called Where in the World is the Read-a-thon?. Go over to Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’? and pinpoint yourself on a map so later we can see where in the world all of our readers are.

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’s your readers to visit:

• Good Books & Wine
• True Harbour
• Aphazia
• Just One More Thing…
• Karen

We’re also going to ask who here has participated in the read-a-thon for two or more times? Leave a comment and we’ll randomly select one person to receive a “grab bag” of 3 (new) surprise 2010 ARCs from Aaron’s Books. We’ll leave this open for three hours and announce the winner in Hour 7.

Still happening:

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This hour our mini-challenge host is Bart from Bart’s Bookshelf. He’s got a bookcover quiz for you to try your hand at! The winner will get to pick two books from our stash of books. This challenge will be open for three hours.

Please note that if you check these posts early in the hour and a mini-challenge host’s post isn’t up yet, please be patient and keep checking back. Bart, though, is awesome and had his post all ready to go!

Nymeth, Hannah, and I want to thank everyone for doing such a great job of supporting the read-a-thon today! It’s with a little bit of melancholy that we are running this read-a-thon, because it’s the first read-a-thon without Dewey. Dewey was such an inspiration to all of us as she was one of the people who brought book bloggers together into a community. You never realize what you have until that something’s gone, and it’s very apparent as we work on this read-a-thon what we’re missing.

We’re comforted, though, in knowing that in continuing events like the read-a-thon and weekly geeks that not only does Dewey live on in our memory, but we’re passing her on to other people who’ve never met her. She will be talked about for years to come.

Still happening:

Jodie’s mini-challenge

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