Read-a-Thon Recap

I had no idea how much fun the Read-a-Thon would be. I had a blast! I loved settling in for a cozy day of reading and good snacks, doing mini-challenges, reading posts from other participants, and tweeting with everyone. I'm already excited for the next one.

Here's a recap of how I did - book reviews to come. I also have several non-Read-a-Thon books that still need reviews posted.

Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 691
Blog Posts: 9
Mini-Challenges Completed: 11
Coffee Consumed: 2 mugs, plus 1 Starbucks Doubleshot around hour 15
Hours I Participated: 18 (some more successful than others)

Books I finished:
Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon
Making Mischief by Gregory Maguire
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

Blog Posts:
Hour 1
Hour 2
Hour 4
Hour 7
Hour 9
Hour 12
Hour 13
Hour 17
Hour 18

Mini-Challenge Won:
I was so excited to win Erika's Mini-Challenge! I won my choice of 2 books from the prize page, and a set of bookmarks! The books I chose were:
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent 

Money raised for 826 NYC:
I decided to donate $10 for every book finished and $3 for every blog post to 826 NYC. So with 3 books finished and 9
blog posts, that's $57 for 826 NYC!

If you're interested in signing up for the next Read-a-Thon, follow Dewey's Read-a-Thon for updates.

Congrats to Michelle, Dominique, Vishy, Claire, Vasilly, Amanda, and everyone else who participated! And HUGE thanks to all the amazing Cheerleaders!

Comments

[Bina]

[das ist gut] Wow, congrats! Three books, that´s amazing and it´s great that you had so much fun doing the read-a-thon :)

[Vishy]

[this is good] Congratulations to you too! Congratulations on winning the mini-challenge too! The bookmarks must be lovely :)

[Michelle]

[this is good] Good job! I had a lot more fun than I expected, too.  It was the interaction with everyone else that made it so enjoyable.

And I really want to read The Man Who Loved Books Too Much so good pick.  :)

[M-----l]

I didn't participate in any read-a-thons, but I did read a few hundred pages this weekend and finish two books.  I don't think I had as much fun as you, though.

I look forward to your review of the Eggers.  Mine still hasn't arrived yet.