Hour 24: Read-a-thon

It’s 5.30 in the evening here in India and I did not manage to read much because my cousin dropped in with his wife and we chatted for a long time. BUT…I finished the short story Pop Art from 20th Century Ghosts. yay!!!

And we are at the end. I think we all did great!!!

1. Which hour was most daunting for you?
I think around 1.30 in the night. I took a nap for half an hour and felt really good. Naps work people.

2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?
Short books, romantic, chick lit, Young Adult, humor and so on. Something which does not require too much concentration.

3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
Ummm…could we keep the mini-challenges a little less complicated? Lol, no, honestly? Nothing, it went so smoothly

4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?
Cheerleaders, as always

5. How many books did you read?
One book, one novella and one short story and a little from a book.

6. What were the names of the books you read?
The Thousand and one days by Shannon Hale.
The novella, The Teacher from Upon a Midnight clear by Jude Deveraux and short story Pop Art from 20th Century Ghosts
66 pages from The Everafter by Amy Huntley

7. Which book did you enjoy most?
I enjoyed all the books actually. I took care to stop reading and do something else, like cheerleading if I felt very tired.

8. Which did you enjoy least?
None.

9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?
I wasn’t an official cheerleader. But no advice, they were all wonderful.

10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?
I think being a reader works for me because I do comment on other blogs anyway in my break time. But it really depends on how much I can commit at that particular time.

Finally, thank you so much to all the Readathon organizers and volunteers. You seriously rock!!!

Hour 21: Read-a-thon

Hello everyone!!!
It looks like I spend most of my time reading and blog hopping than reading, lol. It’s 1.30 in the afternoon.

Anyway, I was out for about 1.5 hours on errands. By the time I reached home it was lunch time. I did read 15 pages on the bike though but I started feeling a bit nauseous, so I didn’t.

Anyway, veggies look elsewhere. This is part of my lunch, one of my most favorite dishes in the whole wide world Chicken Lollipop.

I’m so full now but I don’t feel sleepy. I realize I need to change books because doesn’t look like I’ll be able to finish The Eevrafter and right now I need the motivation of something that says “done”.

I guess I’ll pick up 20th Century Hill by Joe Hill. I’ll probably start with Pop Art that Eva suggested that also happens to be the next story. I like reading in sequence and I’ve already read the first 2 a few days back.

I think I’ll blog hop some more, it’s fun to see what other people are upto

Hour 18: Read-a-thon

First and foremost, thank you to those who commented. You keep the spirits high

My last post was at 3.00 in the night. After that I shut down the computer and went to bed with a book, a collection of short stories, novellas rather- Upon a midnight clear.

I finshed the first story which was 90 pages long as a really good way to stay awake, I said romance can keep me awake, didn’t I?

I slept at 5.00 in the night after finishing the story, woke up at 9 in the morning and read 50 pages from The Everafter by Amy Huntley. Yes, I found my previous readathon books

Title of book(s) read since last update: None
Number of books read since you started: One, The book of Thousand days
Pages read since last update: 140
Running total of pages read since you started: 440
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 3 hours
Running total of time spent reading since you started: (keep track of this one to be eligible for a prize!): No Idea
Mini-challenges completed: Don’t remember, 2 I think
Other participants you’ve visited: A few, I did a little cheerleading last night.
Prize you’ve won: none

Now my sis is making tea and I get to drink it, I think I’ll do a little blog hopping for some time now. Then we have to out to collect some things for my bro-in-law. Hopefully it won’t take more than an hour. See you around. How’s your reading/ cheerleading going?

Hour 10: Read-a-thon

I have finished my first book of the Readathon, The book of a thousand days by Shannon Hale and I loved it. I especially loved the end where everything was so neatly tied up.

It usually doesn’t take so long for me to finish a book but I got detracted many times I was also very sleepy and tucking myself in a blanket doesn’t help too.

So I took a half an hour nap which worked wonders.

It’s 2.50 in the night and I’m wondering what to do. Should I start another book or should I go to sleep?

If I start one, it will probably one of the storied from this one. Its romance and I know that if anything can keep me awake is probably romance.

I’m going to do some cheerleading though before starting anything else.

I’m wondering what to eat, butter pepper popcorn or some Maggie noodles cooked my style

Title of book(s) read since last update: One, finally
Number of books read since you started: One, The book of Thousand days
Pages read since last update: 140
Running total of pages read since you started: 300
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 2 hours
Running total of time spent reading since you started: (keep track of this one to be eligible for a prize!): No Idea
Mini-challenges completed: one, the first
Other participants you’ve visited: None
Prize you’ve won: none

Hour 6: Read-a-thon

Title of book(s) read since last update: none
Number of books read since you started: none
Pages read since last update: 72
Running total of pages read since you started: 162
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 1.5 hours with lots of twittering.
Running total of time spent reading since you started: (keep track of this one to be eligible for a prize!) 5 hours with lots of twittering and a little commenting. (I’m doing some really wrong calculations, lol)
Mini-challenges completed: one, the first
Other participants you’ve visited: Only 1 DocShona But I’m going to visit many after I finish my first book. I’m only half way through.
Prize you’ve won: none

I had dinner within 15 mins and I’m back to reading. Had some yummy cup cakes and yummy chocolate biscuits before that. The thing is I cannot concentrate while eating, I mostly tend to admire how the chocolate melts in my mouth, yum.

Now with my Belly full I’m felling a little sleepy, it’s almost 11 in the night after all

Still reading The book of a thousand days by Shannon Hale and still enjoying it, it’s quite a sad book though.

Hour 4: Read-a-thon

Title of book(s) read since last update: none
Number of books read since you started: none
Pages read since last update: 90
Running total of pages read since you started: 90
Amount of time spent reading since last update: 4 hours with lots of twittering and a little commenting.
Running total of time spent reading since you started: (keep track of this one to be eligible for a prize!) 4 hours with lots of twittering and a little commenting.
Mini-challenges completed: one, the first
Other participants you’ve visited: 3 I guess, DocShona, Laura, and one more, I don’t remember who
Prize you’ve won: none

By the Way, I’m loving The book of a thousand days by Shannon Hale

Kick Off: October 2009 Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon!

It’s 5.30 in the evening in India and yes this is my first Readathon post.

We went to watch Julie and Julia at 2.00 pm which is an awesome movie. I was afraid I wouldn’t reach home on time. But here I am. I can’t find my initial Readathon books so I have selected new ones. As Care says “thank goodness for a very high stack of want-to-read books!”

Watching Julie and Julia has made me real hungry so my sis is cooking masala rice…yum and some hot tea after that.

Oh yes, these are my snacks for the Readathon. It includes maggie of course. I’m most excited about eating butter pepper popcorn

And this is the book I’m starting with.
The book of a thousand days by Shannon Hale which also happens to be my first book by this author.

I will post updates every one hour or 2 hours, I think, but Twitter will be running in the background

Mini challenge:

3 facts about me …
I live in India
I am a software engineer
I’m getting married in November

How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours?
I don’t know, so far I’m eying 3 books atleast…hopefully.
Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)?
Nope, no goals, I just want to read as much as I can and enjoy myself with the others.
If you’re a veteran read-a-thoner, Any advice for people doing this for the first time?
Nope, just taken part in last Readathon but yeah…have fun 

My Readathon Stack…

We have a family function on the Readathon weekend but I didn’t know whether the date was 24th or 25th. Now I know it’s 25th, yay. It’s a 2 day function so we’ll be going out of the city for 2 days but we’ll leave on 25th morning. So I still have 12 hours to participate in the Readathon.

I wanted to post a photo of my book stack because I love seeing everyone else’s pics, but my pile of books would have looked ridiculously small, so you get me with my books too

The book in the center is Everafter by Amy Huntley, its YA and it doesn’t look that huge, so I will probably be finishing it. Since I only have 12 hours I am not being too harsh on myself. I have added Stitches, a graphic memoir, which Stacy sent me. Thanks Stacy

And the left most book is Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke. I may or may not read it. I’m also planning to read a short story or two from 20th Century Ghosts if I find the book. I don’t remember where I kept it.

Anyway, so this is it for now. There may or may not be any additions to it.

Read-a-Thon The last hour

1. Which hour was most daunting for you?
11th hour. It was I think 4.30 in the night or morning and it was way too difficult to stay awake
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?
Bad girls don’t die which I was the first book I read. Also I think Scott Westerfields books would be really good.
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
NO!!! I think it was perfect just the way it was.
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?
Ummm…everything? I don’t know. I think everything was good. I guess Twitter added a new dimension to it.
5. How many books did you read?
Three
6. What were the names of the books you read?
Bad girls don’t die
Memoirs of a fortune teller
The Techyon Web.
I also read a couple of stories from Fragile Things which were a little weird
7. Which book did you enjoy most?
The first 2 were good in their own way.
8. Which did you enjoy least?
The Techyon Web. Too much scientific jargon. But the story is interesting.
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?
No. They were all great. I did a little cheerleading even though I hadn’t signed up as one and it’s definitely not easy.
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?
I will definitely participitate next time. I would like to do both the roles next time. Reading as well cheerleading.

The power went off during the last hour of Read-a-Thon. So I had to wait for almost 2 hours before updating. I spent the time taking a bath and getting ready to go out for dinner with a couple of friends. Even though I am tired I cannot back out. I’ll check out other posts when I come back.

A huge thank you to Hannah (WordLily), Ana (Nymeth), and Trish (Hey Lady!) for doing such a fab job with the Read-a-Thon. And yes, three cheers to Dewey to whose memory this Read-a-Thon was dedicated to.

Read-a-Thon hour 20 complete

How many people are awake???

The Tachyon web

It’s 1.50 in the afternoon here, that’s just about a little over 20 hours up? I am reading The Tachyon web by Christopher Pike. It’s a Science fiction book set way too ahead in the future. I have read 60 pages so far. I thought it would be an easy read, but it isn’t. There is way too much scientific jargon in it than I bargained for. Anyway the story is interesting. So that’s keeping me going. Besides I spent a lot of time visiting other blogs and commenting on them.

I have to go and have some lunch right now, just some rice and potatoes. I wouldn’t want to eat heavy food and then nod off.

Please keep going people, we are almost there.

Thanks again cheerleaders and those who have commented. It’s really motivating.