Spring 2015: Dewey's 24 hours Readathon: Hour 20

Hello everyone. I think this is my last hour. I will go to 1500 pages and call it a night, probably

Books finished: L'Oubli que nous serons by Héctor Abad (really liked it); How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (it was ok, it picked up at the end); The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro (Liked it, she has a very interesting style), Inés del Alma mia, by Isabel Allende (It was very good). I also finished The Yellow Wall-Paper Short story. Sex Criminals: Vol 1, Rat Queens #3

Books started: Rat Queens #4

Pages read: 1477

Hours slept: 0

Total hours reading: 19

# of Blogs visited: Wow, this year I'm with Team Mr.Popper. So far I've visited 131 blogs! 

Mini-challenges in which I'm participating: 

Opening Meme
4Seasons4Books 
Picture it
Treasure Hunt 
In 100 Years 
Mid Event Survey
Get Fit and Read 
Bookish Brews
Reading Story  
Shelfie
 
Back to reading!

Dewey Read-a-Thon: Hour 20

Hello everyone. Hour 20.Well, A has gone to bed and now is just me and the cat...and you guys off course!

Books finished: 4->The Witch Sisters; The Catcher in the Rye; The Sister Brothers; The Descent.
Books started: 5->The Witch Sisters; The Catcher in the Rye; The Sister Brothers; The Descent; Alif the Unseen
Pages read: 1089
Hours slept: 0
Total hours reading: 19
# of Blogs visited: 59 unique visits, but I just started re doing my rounds so we are up to 140 visits. I have officially done the round twice and I am starting my third round for some blogs :D

Mini-challenges in which I'm participating:  

• Opening Meme, 
• Shelfie
• Weird reading Position 
• Quotable Quotes 
• Book Staging
• Show it Off
• Recommend me a book 
• Mid-Event Survey 
• Color Cover 
• The Pet Parade
• Promote that Genre

Swedish Noir Novella: Is a great genre because it has the mystery of any thriller plus unbelievable dark yet beautiful settings. Authors from this genre seemed to have taken the darkness of a very long winter and put into their creepy characters to the dot!

Ok guys, back to reading :)

24h Read-a-Thon (Spring 2014): Hour 20

Hello everybody, I am afraid this will be the end for me. I had a big week, and as I mentioned before, I had to wake up quite early today. I will try to wake up to make the wrap-up meme.

Thanks to all the lovely people who participated in the challenge. I will announce the winner today 27th of April at 19h (Eastern Time)

Books finished: 4--> Going Over by Beth Kephart; Delirio by Laura Restrepo; The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker; The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Books started: 2-->The Giver
Pages read:945
Hours slept: 0
Total hours reading: 19

Mini-challenges in which I'm participating:Intro Meme, Pick a Paragraph (@ Cautious dot DK); Jigsaw Cover Puzzle (@ Little Miss Reader);Best of your Reading Year (@ Lisa's World of Books); Six Word Celebration (@ Estella's Revenge); Selfie (@ The Book Monsters); First Editions (@ The Bluestocking Society); Book Blending (@ Things mean a lot); Your Name in Titles (@ the Geeky Bloggers Bookc Blog)

Best off lucks to all of you guys!

24h Read-A-Thon (2013): Hour 20

Hello everybody,

Books finished: 3 (City of Ashes, Girl of Nightmares, Letters to a young Scientist)

Books started: 3 (Girl of Nightmares, Letters to a young Scientist, The Nightmare)

Pages read: 1350

Hours slept: .5

Feeling: Boyfriend went to bed so I feel a bit envious

Mini-challenges in which I'm participating/participated: A Puzzling Mini-Challenge from Just One More Thing, Read-a-Thon Mad Libs from Nisaba Be Praised, Book Trailer from Jehara, Self Portrait from The Estella Society`, The Best of Your Reading Year from Lisa’s World of Books , Audiobook Dream Date from The Geeky Blogger’s Book Blog, Cheap Thrills from Fiction State of Mind, Bookish Travel from A Reader’s Respite

24 hour Read-a-Thon: Hour 20

Hello everybody,

Books finished: 5 
Reading know: My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D
Pages read: 1089
Hours slept:1.5
Mini-challenges in which I'm participating:Book Sentence, Challenging Book Challenge; Time Flies, I Love Fall; Book Bingo; Turn to page;  Oldies but Goodies 

Initially I was supposed to only sleep for half and hour...but it seems like I was more tired than I thought!

Here is my entry for the Book Sentence Challenge:

In other news, I left my chair abandoned for a little while and guess who took it?

 He was pretty comfy in my spot!