It’s that time again! Today is my favourite event – Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon. For the uninitiated, the readathon takes place from midnight on Saturday, October 26th until midnight Sunday, October 27th, EST. (You can find out what time it starts in your time zone here.) Where I am, that means it runs from 5AM
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READATHON | DEWEY’S 24-HOUR READATHON APRIL 6-7, 2019
If you’ve been around this neck of the woods for a while, you’ll remember that pre-baby I used to participate in a wonderful event that takes place twice a year called Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon. I haven’t been able to participate in it for a few years because either I haven’t had the stamina or
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READATHON | DEWEY’S 24 HOUR READATHON
It’s that time of year again – time for Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon! It starts tomorrow (for a list of start times by time zone, go here) and goes all day long. I was supposed to be away right now, so I’m a bit late to the party, but better late than never, right?
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READING CHALLENGE | BOUT OF BOOKS 14
It’s that time again – time for Bout of Books! The 14th Bout began yesterday and runs to Sunday, August 23rd. For the uninitiated, here’s some background info from their website (find out more here): The Bout of Books Read-a-Thon was created by Amanda @ On a Book Bender on a complete whim in
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READATHON | #24IN48
I’ve been having a hard time reading lately. I don’t know if it was having a succession of challenging books that threw me off or if life has just picked up a bit, but whatever the reason, I’m feeling a little lacklustre in the reading department. Serendipitously, this weekend is the #24in48 readathon! For
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READATHON | BOUT OF BOOKS 2015
So I’ve decided, at the very last minute, to join in the Bout of Books read-a-thon! It starts today and runs right through the next week. Here’s a bit about Bout of Books in case you’re not familiar: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly
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DEWEY’S 24 HOUR READATHON | PROGRESS REPORT
Good morning and welcome to Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon! At this point the Readathon is about 4 hours old, and I’m just getting started (I’m not a morning person. Sue me.). I’ve got my cozy socks, my comfy chair and a whole stack of fantastic books just waiting for me to dive in! Opening
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DEWEY’S 24-HOUR READATHON | HOW TO READATHON LIKE A PRO
It’s nearly here! Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon is coming up on Saturday April 25th (AKA tomorrow!). It only happens twice a year, so I spend a lot of time (about 6 months) counting down to the next one. In case you’re new to this wonderful bookish event, Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon is pretty
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WWW Wednesday #19
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading
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Readathon April 26 – Book Selection and Updates
I’ve started my Readathon! I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with my progress rather than creating a bunch of new posts because I want to minimize time away from reading. Here’s the stack of potential books I’ve picked out: 1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin2. Champion by Marie Lu3.
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It’s Readathon Time!
It’s time for the Spring 24 Hour Readathon! This will be my second Readathon – and I’m hopeful that I’ll do slightly better than the first time around! My first Readathon (last fall) was a bit of a gong show. Not only was it my first, but I didn’t find out about it until the
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DEWEY’S 24 HOUR READ-A-THON REPORT
So as you guys know, I participated in Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-a-thon for the first time yesterday. Hundreds of other booklovers joined in, either as readers or cheerleaders, posting and commenting on blogs, Instagram and Twitter. I expected to enjoy spending a day reading, and challenging myself to get through as many pages as
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24-HOUR READ-A-THON STARTING IN T-5 HOURS!
OMG, you guys, I just found out about this and it made my day. No, it made my whole goddamn week. So here’s the story. Dewey’s Read-a-thon takes place twice a year, in October and April. On each of the two selected days, hundreds of book bloggers and reading enthusiasts sign up to read
