Thanks Dewey for hosting the 'thon and Hanna for orginizing all the prizes and all the work you are going to do in the next few days to close everything out!! Helping with the organization I see how much work it is!! Thanks for putting the time and effort into it to make this a fabulous read-a-thon!!
Here are the post-event survey questions:
1. Which hour was most daunting for you? 3:00 am! That is when I started to get really tired!
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? Life as We Knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
My suggestions are how I would approach it differently and I would change my expectations of what I can get done!! :)
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon? I thought it was very well orginized - it was great to win prizes and read and build a community with other readers. I have added about 10 more people to my google reader!! It was already busting at the seems!
5. How many books did you read? only 2, but I did some cheering and organization too - time just flew by!!
6. What were the names of the books you read? Sugar Queen and Hidden
7. Which book did you enjoy most? Hidden, but I really liked them both
8. Which did you enjoy least? none I liked both of my books!
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders? Nope I thought they were awesome!
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time? Absolutely I would participate next time! I think I would probably do the same roles, but I would expect less reading and I would also try to do more prep before the 'thon.
Showing posts with label Read-a-thon June 08. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Read-a-thon June 08. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2008
Read-a-thon Summary
*Number of books read : 2
Hidden - Shelley Sheppard Gray
Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
(I must have had a 3 name author thing going on!! :) )*Total of pages read since you started: 548
*Total of time spent reading since you started: at least 9 hours, but it could be more. I was awake most of the 24 hours. I took a 1.5 hour nap in the wee hours of the morning about 4:00am. :) I also gave Trish (my reading buddy) a crash course on blogging! I also cheered and helped coordinate which is why my reading time is low.
*Mini-challenge: 5ish
*Posts: 23
*Other participants visited: 62ish
*Prize you’ve won: 1
*Would I do the Read-a-thon again? Absolutely!! I think I will start with different expectations though...and also I would not schedule so much to do before the read-a-thon (I had a physical book club meeting) and if I am not reading at home I will scope out places to read with free internet access before the read-a-thon starts. Also if I coordinate I will know that the first couple of hours (or earlier) are dedicated to that. :)
*Summary of Hubby - My hubby did great with our little girl. They had a lot of fun and bonded a lot, so it was good for the whole family that I went away for a couple of days!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Read-a-thon Hour 24!!!
FINISHED!! I finished Sugar Queen!! Whoo hoo with 30 minutes to spare. I am going to pack and get home now! I am missing my family!
Btw- Hubby did really good with our little girl and I think it was good for them to have some bonding time!! :)
I'll do a summary later today! Thanks for all of you cheering me on!! I lucked out and read 2 great books!! :)
Btw- Hubby did really good with our little girl and I think it was good for them to have some bonding time!! :)
I'll do a summary later today! Thanks for all of you cheering me on!! I lucked out and read 2 great books!! :)
Read-a-thon Hour 22
Whoo hoo 39 pages this hour!! 60 to go - if I keep this up I can finsh by the end!! Better get back to it!!
Read-a-thon Hour 21
Pathetic...only 15 pages read this hour...lots of organization stuff going on since the 'thon is starting to wind down.! :) LOL!
I am determined to finsh this book before the 'thon is over I have almost 100 pages to go - so I am putting my nose in the book!! :)
I am determined to finsh this book before the 'thon is over I have almost 100 pages to go - so I am putting my nose in the book!! :)
Read-a-thon Hour 20
I read this hour!! :) Trying to finish Sugar Queen which I am really enjoying! 28 pages read, which isn't much - I'll see if I can do better in hour 21! ...also somewhere between 3:00 am and 5:00 am I read 30 pages that I didn't record! :O) I will blame that on sleep deprivation!
Read-a-thon Hour 19
What hour is it? 19? where have the hours gone?? No reading this hour...some breakfast and I made 10 more comments on people's blogs! I am wondering if my totals are correct now...I think I am actually counting less than what I am commenting on! LOL! oh well.... 23 more to hit my 100 total
I also won a prize this hour!! 5 Book mooch points!! Whoo hoo!! It pays to stay awake in the wee hours - less competition for prizes (well...really I slept for 1.5 hours!)
Ok - 1 hour of solid reading coming up!! :)
I also won a prize this hour!! 5 Book mooch points!! Whoo hoo!! It pays to stay awake in the wee hours - less competition for prizes (well...really I slept for 1.5 hours!)
Ok - 1 hour of solid reading coming up!! :)
Read-a-thon Hour 18
Well I took a little brief nap (1.5 hours) and feel much better! No reading this hour but I did write some comments on posts - so my comment total is 67 (including my updates) - I want to hit 100 before the 'thon is over so I think that is a doable goal.
I also want to finish Sugar Queen I am on page 134 and it ends at 276 so even with my slow reading this should be completely doable!! Though my total page count will be low!! HA! Maybe Dewey has a prize for the slowest reader!! :)
Next hour: some breakfast and coffee....
I also want to finish Sugar Queen I am on page 134 and it ends at 276 so even with my slow reading this should be completely doable!! Though my total page count will be low!! HA! Maybe Dewey has a prize for the slowest reader!! :)
Next hour: some breakfast and coffee....
Read-a-thon Hour 15
Still awake at 3:00 am EST. I only got 13 pages read, but I took a shower and posted some and Did the Wikipedia mini-challenge that Dewey is hosting. : ) I am noticing I have to get up and walk around more to stay awake, but the shower helped a lot. I really am liking the Sugar Queen which helps a lot too!
Read-a-thon Hour 15 Mini-Challenge
I am at Bald Slope, North Carolina. It is a fictional place but there are bald slopes in NC...Wiipedia says balds are mountains covered with thick native grass or shrubs occurring in areas were forests would be expected - no one knows why they are bald. There doesn't seem to be one called bald slope and I think the picture is misleading because in the book Bald slope is actually a skiing mountain...the picture looks more like a cross country mountain...
Facts about Bald Slope
* They have a bald headed festival (for bald people)
*The ski resort was founded my Marco Cirrini (the main character - Josey's father)
* The Cirrini house is the most prominent and unique house in the town
* There is a restaurant called the Eat & Run
* There is a eccentric woman living in Josey's closet (who seems a little imaginary to me - for example she thinks nothing of wearing 16 layers of clothes, never seems to eat, is getting more and more translucent, etc.)
Facts about Bald Slope
* They have a bald headed festival (for bald people)
*The ski resort was founded my Marco Cirrini (the main character - Josey's father)
* The Cirrini house is the most prominent and unique house in the town
* There is a restaurant called the Eat & Run
* There is a eccentric woman living in Josey's closet (who seems a little imaginary to me - for example she thinks nothing of wearing 16 layers of clothes, never seems to eat, is getting more and more translucent, etc.)
Read-a-thon Hour 14
I am still awake and I think I am posting for Hour 14? Anyway got in about 1 hour and 20 minutes in from my last post and 60 pages. Still on the Sugar Queen and really enjoing it!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Read-a-thon Hour 12 Mini-Challenge
Here are the questions to answer in your blog:
1. What are you reading right now?
Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
2. How many books have you read so far?
A measly one!
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?
Reading, reading, reading
4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day?
Yes - my friend Trish and I went to a hotel. It's my first time away from my 21.5 month old, so my hubby is super Dad this weekend. I was a little concerned early on when he told me he didn't realize our daughter signing (with sign language) Juice AND going to the fridge was an indication that she wanted something to drink- but he seems to have done well. Thanks to the Romps whose house he went to (they have kids too)! But really he is a good Dad and I am happy they have had this bonding time. I know my daughter and she will find a way to let him know what she wants! :)
5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?
Not too many once we got settled at the hotel - none of our kids around!
6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?
How fast an hour goes!! I look up after reading 10 pages and 30 minutes have passed...were did the time go?? Also since I so rarely get to read a book cover-to-cover I forget how fun that is!!
7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
I think the only suggestion is to have more lead time as the date. It is an effort to get the weekend off Mom duty. : ) But then on the other hand I could barely wait for the weekend to get here!
8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year?
I think that I would probably break the time out into Cheerleading hours and reading hours because time really does go fast! Also I would get settled where ever I was going to be earlier - it was inevitable today that I couldn't get to Georgetown until 12:30 (I live 1 hour away and had a physical book club meeting - since I organize and it's new I really can't miss) - so this cut about 2 hours off my reading time.
9. Are you getting tired yet?
Yep - my normal bed time is 8:30 -9:00pm...it's now 11:20 and I am feeling it - I have started the coffee. I am hoping to get a second wind around 3:00 or 4:00 my usual waking time!
10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered?
Not that I can think of - but I love the tips others are leaving. The one things that is nice is reading with Trish - every once in a while we stop and talk a little bit that helps keep us awake. :) I think next year that I will call it the 'thon like Dennis at Bart's Bookshelf!
I LOVE these 14 book prizes - where else can you get 14 books for free!! :) Go Dewey!! And if we haven't said this enough tonight - thanks for having this brain child and having the guts to do all the work to start it!! And whew is this a lot of work!! I can't believe you did this all by yourself without going insane last time!! :)
1. What are you reading right now?
Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
2. How many books have you read so far?
A measly one!
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?
Reading, reading, reading
4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day?
Yes - my friend Trish and I went to a hotel. It's my first time away from my 21.5 month old, so my hubby is super Dad this weekend. I was a little concerned early on when he told me he didn't realize our daughter signing (with sign language) Juice AND going to the fridge was an indication that she wanted something to drink- but he seems to have done well. Thanks to the Romps whose house he went to (they have kids too)! But really he is a good Dad and I am happy they have had this bonding time. I know my daughter and she will find a way to let him know what she wants! :)
5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?
Not too many once we got settled at the hotel - none of our kids around!
6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?
How fast an hour goes!! I look up after reading 10 pages and 30 minutes have passed...were did the time go?? Also since I so rarely get to read a book cover-to-cover I forget how fun that is!!
7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
I think the only suggestion is to have more lead time as the date. It is an effort to get the weekend off Mom duty. : ) But then on the other hand I could barely wait for the weekend to get here!
8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year?
I think that I would probably break the time out into Cheerleading hours and reading hours because time really does go fast! Also I would get settled where ever I was going to be earlier - it was inevitable today that I couldn't get to Georgetown until 12:30 (I live 1 hour away and had a physical book club meeting - since I organize and it's new I really can't miss) - so this cut about 2 hours off my reading time.
9. Are you getting tired yet?
Yep - my normal bed time is 8:30 -9:00pm...it's now 11:20 and I am feeling it - I have started the coffee. I am hoping to get a second wind around 3:00 or 4:00 my usual waking time!
10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered?
Not that I can think of - but I love the tips others are leaving. The one things that is nice is reading with Trish - every once in a while we stop and talk a little bit that helps keep us awake. :) I think next year that I will call it the 'thon like Dennis at Bart's Bookshelf!
I LOVE these 14 book prizes - where else can you get 14 books for free!! :) Go Dewey!! And if we haven't said this enough tonight - thanks for having this brain child and having the guts to do all the work to start it!! And whew is this a lot of work!! I can't believe you did this all by yourself without going insane last time!! :)
Read-a-thon Hour 11
I started reading the Sugar Queen this hour. I don' t know if I am slap happy at this point (I don't think I am THAT tired) or this book is just my humor! Has anyone else read it who has found it funny?
I do have one problem with it though...it is the story of a "thick" girl (Sarah Addison Allen's word not mine) who loves candy. From another thick girl who loves Candy I can assure you that the size 2 girl on the cover of this book is NOT in any way shape or form - thick! Does it drive you crazy when the people on the cover don't match the description in the book - or is it just me?
33 pages read this hour and 2 comments on other people's posts!
Read-a-thon Hour 10
Are we really on hour 10 or is my count off?? I can't believe it! Well I didn't read this hour but I left 18 comments on other people's blogs! People seem to be doing really well and reading a lot! I think I will start a new book now...oh the choices. :)
It's 10pm and I am starting to get tired, but I am going to have a cup of coffee. :)
It's 10pm and I am starting to get tired, but I am going to have a cup of coffee. :)
Read-a-thon Hour 9
Whoo hoo!! 1 book finished!! 40 pages read this hour! :) I can't remember the last time I was able to sit down and read a book cover-to-cover. Boy how I have missed it.
It's 9:00pm here and I am starting to get tired - also missing my baby girl since it is past her bed time. :) I am going to take a break and cheer for the next hour or so...
It's 9:00pm here and I am starting to get tired - also missing my baby girl since it is past her bed time. :) I am going to take a break and cheer for the next hour or so...
Read-a-thon Hour 8
Still reading Hidden - over 1/2 way through though and really enjoying it!
57 pages read this hour - Whoo hoo!! And I got in 1 full hour of reading! Yeah!!
57 pages read this hour - Whoo hoo!! And I got in 1 full hour of reading! Yeah!!
Read-a-thon Hour 7
Only 8 pages read this hour :( But my friend who is an US expat living in China called - she is in the States for 1 month and we talked for 30 minutes! :) It was nice to get in touch again. I send her all of my books that I read! :) She is a speed reader and always desperate for books!
I posted comments on 3 people's sites. : ) Back to reading!!
I posted comments on 3 people's sites. : ) Back to reading!!
Read-a-thon Hour 5
Title of book(s) read this hour: Hidden - Shelley Shepard Gray
Number of books read since you started: working on #1
Pages read this hour: 9
Running total of pages read since you started: 53
Amount of time spent reading: 1 hour
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 1 hour 55 minutes
Mini-challenge this hour: 0
Posts: 1
Other participants visited: 0
Prize you’ve won: 0
Number of books read since you started: working on #1
Pages read this hour: 9
Running total of pages read since you started: 53
Amount of time spent reading: 1 hour
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 1 hour 55 minutes
Mini-challenge this hour: 0
Posts: 1
Other participants visited: 0
Prize you’ve won: 0
Read-a-thon Hour 4
Title of book(s) read this hour: Hidden - Shelley Shepard Gray
Number of books read since you started: working on #1
Pages read this hour: 20
Running total of pages read since you started: 44
Amount of time spent reading: 1 hour
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 1 hour 20 minutes
Mini-challenge this hour: 0
Posts: 1
Other participants visited: 0
Prize you’ve won: 0
Number of books read since you started: working on #1
Pages read this hour: 20
Running total of pages read since you started: 44
Amount of time spent reading: 1 hour
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 1 hour 20 minutes
Mini-challenge this hour: 0
Posts: 1
Other participants visited: 0
Prize you’ve won: 0
Read-a-thon Hour 3
I actually got some reading done this hour!! Ok - only 14 pages in Hidden - Shelley Shepard Gray, but it looks like it is going to be a good one!! :)
Pages read: 14
Running total of pages read since you started: 14
Amount of time spent reading: 20 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 20 minutes
Mini-challenge this hour: 3
Other participants visited: 3
Other blog posts: 4
Prize you’ve won: 0
Pages read: 14
Running total of pages read since you started: 14
Amount of time spent reading: 20 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since you started: 20 minutes
Mini-challenge this hour: 3
Other participants visited: 3
Other blog posts: 4
Prize you’ve won: 0
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