Dewey's Read-a-Thon

The sun is up here! What time is it where you are? And how are you holding up?

For hour 19, we have 3 readers of the hour:

Blondie Rocket
Samantha
Deborah

Please go visit them and say hi! We’re getting to the final stretch, so I bet they’re in need of encouraging comments. We’ll draw 3 names from the comment to the readers’ most recent updates, and the winners will pick 3 books each from the list of prizes.

The winner of Karin’s mini-challenge is: I Heart Monster!

Winner of Erin’s mini-challenge is: Shelly B!

Congratulations! Please get in touch with Karin and Erin about your prizes.

Still happening:
Debbie’s mini-challenge (open until the end of the read-a-thon)
Jessica’s mini-challenge (open until the end of hour 20)
And don’t forget you can still vote for the best comic done for Kim’s mini-challenge!

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Hello read-a-thoners! This hour’s mini-challenge is hosted by Jessica at The Bluestocking Society, and it has to do with rereading. Go visit her to find out more! This mini-challenge will be open until the end of hour 20, and the winner will get a copy of Books by Larry McMurtry and Book by Book by Michael Dirda. (Really good book if you ask me!)

The winner of Tammy’s mini-challenge is:  Chris at Book-a-rama!

Congratulations, Chris! Please get in touch with Tammy about your prizes.

Still happening:
Debbie’s mini-challenge (open until the end of the read-a-thon)
Staci’s mini-challenge (this is the last hour for this mini-challenge)
Vote for the winner of the comic challenge

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Hello everyone!  Nymeth here. I’ll be in charge of posting for the final 8 hours. How’s everyone doing? These final hours will be the hardest, but I advise you not to sleep. Look what willl come for you if you do:

Just kidding! Do sleep if you get too tired. No cute kitties will attempt to murder you if you do.

(Or am I? Mwahahaha)

This hour we have a mini-challenge hosted by Staci at Life in the Thumb. The theme is: signs that you’re doing the read-a-thon. Go visit her to find out more! This mini-challenge will be open until the end of hour 18. The winner gets a $15 Amazon gift card.

The winner of the mid-event survey is:  Shauna at Reading and Ruminations!

Congratulations! Please e-mail Hannah at wordlily AT gmail to claim your prizes.

Still happening:
Debbie’s book crossing mini-challenge (open until she runs out of books to give away)
Karin’s creativity  mini-challenge (this is the last hour for this mini-challenge)
Erin’s reading madness mini-challenge (this is the last hour for this mini-challenge)
Vote for the winner of the comic challenge

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This is my (Trish’s) last post. After this I’ll be tweeting and helping with other stuff. Hannah will be posting your updates for the next 8 hours.

We have a new mini-challenge host this hour! Jessica from The Curious Reader is hosting the Love Your Local Library mini-challenge! Readers will be asked to answer various questions about their library on their own blog. Two winners will be chosen and will win one of two Pulitzer Prize packs, courtesy of The Biblio Brat.

Bart’s mini-challenge ended and he’s announced the winners! Lily from Related Reading got a perfect score and Valentina from Valentina’s Room was runner up. Congratulations, Lily! We’re all in awe of your knowledge. Valentina will coordinate with Bart to claim her runner up prize.

Still happening:

Kim’s mini-challenge (this is the last hour for this challenge!)

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This hour we decided to give a prize to one of the reader participants. Random.org chose MandaNikole from Literary Mumblings! Congratulations! You’ve won a box of Earth Day books from Hachette. Please email Hannah (wordlily at gmail) to claim your prize.

This hour’s challenge is to TAKE A WALK. It will revive you, I promise! When you take a walk, take a picture of what you see and post it on your blog. Come back and leave your link in Mr. Linky. If you don’t have a camera available to you, describe what you see. What’s the weather like? Is anyone else outside? Do you live in the city or the country? You don’t have to answer these questions, they’re just suggestions for things to mention if you don’t have a camera.

This challenge will only be open for this hour, Hour 7. We will pick one winner and announce that winner in Hour 9. The winner will receive a $15 gift card to Amazon.

Still happening:

Sarah’s mini-challenge (this is the last hour this challenge will be open)
Kim’s mini-challenge (will go until the end of hour 8 )

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Don’t forget to change positions! I don’t want to be blamed for the crick in your neck.

We have a new challenge starting this hour! Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness is going to have you draw a comic related to the read-a-thon. It’s open to both readers and cheerleaders, so go check it out! This challenge will go through to the end of Hour 8.

Winners from Hour 4′s commenters on Readers of the Hour are Carrie (who commented on Lissa’s blog), Laza (who commented on Anna’s blog), and Katrina (who visited Rhinoa’s blog). Congratulations! Please email Hannah (wordlily at gmail) to claim your loot.

Winners of Jodie at Book Gazing’s mini-challenge are Eva at A Striped Armchair and ferrywoman at Fire in the Hole!. Please email Hannah (wordlily at gmail) to claim your loot.

Still happening:

Sarah’s mini-challenge (will go until the end of Hour 7)

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How’s everyone doing?

We will announce winners from the Readers of the Hour commenters in Hour 6.

We’ve picked a winner from the Introduction Meme! The winner is Kim from Bold. Blue. Adventure! Congratulations, Kim! Please email Hannah at wordlily at gmail to claim your prize.

The mini-challenge for this hour is being hosted by Sarah at Behold, the thing that reads a lot. She’s got a YouTube video chain challenge that will give you a nice break from reading. Your eyeballs will thank you! This challenge will be open through the end of Hour 7.

Still happening:

Bart’s mini-challenge (this is the last hour for this challenge)

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This is a reminder that when you sign the Mr. Linky, please make sure you’re linking to the post where you participate in that challenge. For example, for the Introduction Meme, make sure your link is to the post on your blog where you answered those questions. Thank you!

This hour we’d like you to go visit a few readers. We’ve randomly picked three readers to be Readers of the Hour. Please pay visits to:

Rhinoa
Anna
Lissa

This will only be open for Hour 4. At the beginning of Hour 6, we’ll draw a name randomly from the people commenting on Rhinoa’s, Anna’s, and Lissa’s most recent entries. The winners will receive:

1. One book of winner’s choice from the prize list.
2. A commemorative bookmark made by Literate Housewife.

In the next hour we’ll announce the winner of the Introduction Meme.

Still happening:

Bart’s mini-challenge (this challenge is going through to the end of Hour 5)

Jodie’s mini-challenge (this is the last hour for this challenge!)

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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

Introduction meme

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The great thing about the read-a-thon is that everyone seems to get off to such a great start!

We have our first mini-challenge starting this hour! Head on over to Jodie’s Book Gazing to find out all the details. You’ll have to get a little creative with her challenge, but I know you’ll have fun doing it! Two winners will be chosen and each will win a handmade bookmark. This challenge will be open for three hours.

Still happening:

Introduction Meme

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