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Smiling Shelves

Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon Updates

10/17/2015

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Today is the readathon! I've gotten everything out of the way that I could (except for laundry), and I am ready to read! Bring on the books!

And for the first time, I'll be tweeting! I just created a Twitter account on Thursday, so I'm definitely new at this. You can follow me at @SmilingShelves.

Introductory Meme

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
The beautiful state of Michigan, which is full of fall colors at the moment!

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
Probably Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams. I've been wanting to read that one for a long time.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
I'm going out to lunch, and the restaurant has these really amazing parmesan mushroom sticks. They kind of hard to describe, but oh, are they good!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
I live in a 120-year-old farmhouse, and my husband is spending the day redoing our eaves so that we can keep out the invasion of the bats this winter. Hopefully, at least! (I hate bats!!)
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?
The biggest difference for me is that I now have a Twitter account that I'll be using to tweet throughout the day. Totally new for me!

Hour Six Update​

Time spent reading: Three hours and 46 minutes
Number of pages read so far: 209
Book I'm reading from: The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
Number of books finished: One (Around the World on Two Wheels by Peter Zheutlin - and only because I had just 30 pages to go!)

Hour Nine Update​

Time spent reading: Five hours and 43 minutes
Number of pages read so far: 338
Number of books finished: Two (Around the World on Two Wheels by Peter Zheutlin & The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland)
Book I'm just starting:​ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (I'm listening to an audio production of it while reading along. Should be fun!)

Hour Twelve Update​

Time spent reading: Seven hours and 3 minutes
Number of pages read so far: 385
Book I'm reading/listening to: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Although it turns out the book I have is the original version, and the recording I'm listening to is the revised version. That makes this really confusing occasionally!)

Hour Fifteen Update​

Time spent reading: Nine hours and 24 minutes
Number of pages read so far: 473
Number of books finished: Three (Finally got through the confusing-ness of The Importance of Being Earnest.)
​Best snack so far:​ Cinnamon-sugar cider donut!

Hour Seventeen (and final) Update​

Time spent reading: Eleven hours and 7 minutes
Number of pages read: 561
Book most recently read from:​ Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams
Number of books finished: Three (Around the World on Two Wheels by Peter Zheutlin; The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland; The Importance of Beiing Earnest by Oscar Wilde)
Number of times my eyes have closed involuntarily in the last hour:​ Too many to count
Sadly, I think I'm going to have to call it a night. I'm loving the book I'm reading, but I just can't keep my eyes open anymore. It's crazy how fast this day always goes. But as always, I had a marvelous time, and I can't wait for this next round in April!
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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz link
10/17/2015 08:30:55 am

I've never gotten the hang of Twitter (I'm at debnance or is that @debnance or #debnance...don't know!) Good luck with the readathon!

http://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-16th-deweys-24-hour-read-thon.html

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 02:28:19 pm

I'm learning a lot about Twitter as I go, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing yet! :)

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Debbie link
10/17/2015 08:40:01 am

Gooooo JULIE! (I'm not even an official cheerleader!--but it feels good to cheer, so you go!! )

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 02:28:50 pm

Thanks, Debbie! Good luck with your readathon-ing!

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Signe link
10/17/2015 08:51:56 am

Hello Julie!
Happy readathon!
Congratulations with your twitter account;) We will look for you on twitter later. Happy reading:)
Signe

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 02:30:03 pm

Hi, Signe! I'm slowly figuring out this Twitter thing. :) Happy reading to you, too!

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Kate @ Mom's Radius link
10/17/2015 09:20:24 am

Enjoy! I'm jealous. I wish I was going to be reading all day.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 02:31:50 pm

I hope you get to participate in this readathon sometime, Kate! It's so much fun!

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O link
10/17/2015 10:32:17 am

I'm jealous of your farmhouse! And I love bats so I think we should swap ;) Have a good reading day!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 02:32:17 pm

You are welcome to my bats. I'll send them your way! ;)

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Emma link
10/17/2015 12:56:31 pm

I'm spending most of this readathon reading and part of it cheering so I wanted to stop by to wish you luck with it! Hope you enjoy twitter - I'm @funkyfairy22 and I'm basically addicted to it.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 02:32:51 pm

Thanks for visiting, Emma! Hope you have a great readathon day! :)

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Sherry Ann link
10/17/2015 06:54:04 pm

Parmesan mushroom sticks - yum! Looks like you're having a great Readathon so far. Good luck in the second half!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/17/2015 07:30:25 pm

They were so delicious!! Good luck to you, too! :)

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Deb Nance link
10/18/2015 06:45:45 am

Oh my! You are doing great! I'm impressed!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/18/2015 05:21:40 pm

Thanks, Deb! I got more read than I was hoping for, so yay!

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Jade Louise link
10/18/2015 01:21:06 pm

It sounds like the readathon went well for you. And yay for twitter, I hope you had fun interacting there too.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/18/2015 05:22:59 pm

Twitter was really fun. It was a little overwhelming jumping into an event like this because there were A LOT of posts, but I enjoyed being able to give quick updates throughout the day. Twitter is definitely something I'll be doing against next readathon!

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Katie @ Doing Dewey link
10/22/2015 07:22:51 pm

Haha, I stopped being able to keep my eyes open at about the same time you did. Three books is great! And it seems like you had some good snacks too. The donut sounds delicious :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
10/25/2015 06:30:38 pm

The donut was definitely one of the highlights! :)

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