Great Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon! Thanks to everyone behind the scenes who makes it possible. I will be back in the Fall…hope others will join me!
Reading Results: By clearing my calendar, I had a pretty good readathon!
| Books Read | Pages Read |
| 5 | 1349 |
Reading for Charity: I committed to donating $25 per book read. That means that both Room to Read and Project Read will be receiving $125 each. However, I had also offered to donate $0.10 per book read for anyone who registered with me (there were 442 people signed up). Unfortunately, only Shaunesay registered; so, I’ve decided to donate an additional $40 ($10 per book she finished). I’m disappointed more people didn’t signup. So that is a total of $330 donated to these two great organizations: Room to Read and Project Read.
My First Mini Challenge: I hosted my first mini challenge this year. It was a survey on reading habits particularly targeted to people who read ebooks. 110 participates completed the survey while 27 gave up. I will post a summary of the results soon with a more detailed look later. Julie Merilatt of julzreads.wordpress.com was the winner of the $25 amazon gift card for completing the survey. The survey is still active if you want to participate – you just won’t be eligible for the gift card. I actually look forward to doing another one next year.
What I Read: Notice I had to go to shorter, simpler books the later it got
| Title | Author | Start Hour | Finish Hour | Completed | Pages |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons (Light Dragons, #2) | MacAlister, Katie | 8:00 | 11:41 | Hour 4 | 342 |
| Acceptable Risks | Natalie J. Damschroder | 12:00 | 18:26 | Hour 11 | 386 |
| For Services Rendered | Patricia Kay | 17:00 | 23:11 | Hour 16 | 228 |
| With This Ring | Patricia Kay | 23:30 | 3:00 | Hour 20 | 201 |
| Honorable Intentions | Catherine Mann | 3:00 | 8:00 | Hour 24 | 192 |
End of Readathon meme:
- Which hour was most daunting for you?
Hour 22…it was 4:30am - Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?
While I enjoyed the books I read, I’m not sure how much any of them would appeal to others. - Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
Even after 3 years, I struggle with reading, blogging, reading blogs, and participating in challenges. There is a lot going on! - What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?
- How many books did you read?
5 books completed; 1349 pages read - What were the names of the books you read?
See above - Which book did you enjoy most?
Not sure I can pick…they all offered different things. - Which did you enjoy least?
I enjoyed them all..but if I started to read a sample book and couldn’t get into it I set it aside because I knew I needed books that would keep me going. - If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?
I wasn’t a cheerleader. - How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?
I plan on participating again!
3 comments:
Woot! You are super generous my friend! I think it's just that people are so focused on their own read-a-thon experience they don't have a lot of time to visit and really read through what others are doing. I try to as a cheerleader, look down through their whole line of posts so I can comment intelligently, but it's such a hardcore day! *hugs* glad we do it together though!
Shauney!! I'm so glad we do it together also. At 4am this morning I was wishing we had gotten hotel rooms in one city and were all together. Meet me in St. Louis!!!
I had no clue how to register ... but I'm going to make my own donation to Literacy Texas. Ooooh! Meeting up at a hotel and ordering in good eats would be a great idea.
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