And once again it is October, which means it’s time for another Dewey’s Readathon. Once again this means 24 hours – or in my case 25, as in Europa tonight is the change between summer and winter time – of reading, snacking and … how ever you call excessively using social media to stay in touch with readers worldwide.
Aaaaand it’s Readathon again. Thanks to RikeRandom as a motivating factor I decided to once again sign up.
So again, I’m here, writing English, at now almost 7 am, and about to start into up to now 47 hours of reading. (Let’s be honest, I’ll probably won’t make it past 15 hours, but that’s okay.)
So here you’ll find the summary of my challenge answers as well as my reading status, whenever I find the time and the brain to update it. And now, off into battle … err, book.
So this year I decided not to go for the 24 hours. I won’t clock my time. Because right now I’m a little ill and I already had to lie down and sleep once after 2 hours of reading – and my concentration is on vacation somewhere other than here, it seems. So I’m rather sure I could not make it to 24 hours of reading time anyway and don’t want to pressure myself with trying. But I still want to read as much as I feel good with this weekend. So here’s my summary of the challenges.
Bitte entschuldigt, dass es in letzter Zeit so still war. Ich lese gerade an einem Roman mit knapp 500 Seiten, der einen teilweise so ärgert, dass man ihn nicht an einem Stück weglesen kann. Hinzu kommt noch das ‚Enthüllungsbuch‘ zu Trump, das wirklich furchtbar zu lesen ist. Mich gibt es noch, ich hab nur seit langem kein Buch mehr beendet. Also ‚lang‘ nach meiner Definition.
This year is the 10 year anniversary of the Dewey’s readathon so there is an all-day-long challenge to recommend a book for every year the readathon took place.
Thankfully Goodreads has an option to sort books by publication date (both of the read edition and of the book in general), otherwise I would not be able to participate in this one. So now I only hope, the dates added on Goodreads are right.
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milkyway 😉
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
Actually I don’t have a real stack this time. I read almost every book I was obsessively looking forward to earlier this year, so now I just read whatever comes along. Moving through my shelves and take what looks best at the moment.
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
I still have cotton candy left, that I saved for a special occasion. Maybe I’ll eat it today.
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
28 years old, sociologist, aspiring writer (first novel finished, in 2nd beta phase). I eat, drink and breathe Star Trek – especially Spirk, I’m sorry. Snape Defender – though I do NOT like everything he did.
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?
This time I won’t even try staying awake the whole time. I know I can’t do it.
So, have fun you all 🙂
Once again it’s time for a readathon. This time it’s Dewey’s again, so ‚only‘ 24 hours and this time I won’t even try reading the full time. Especially since I’ve already been up for 6 hours when it finally starts.
Good morning everyone, it’s already 7 am here in Germany, so my readathon actually ended hours ago. But here’s my Closing Survey:
How many books did you read? Pages? (If you didn’t keep track, tell me that too!)
4 books finished, 2 of them were CRs. Among them 2 audio books. It’s been ~ 13 hours of audio books, but I did not really track that.
I didn’t really keep track of my books either, but thankfully I made updates on my summary post. So I read more or less 700 pages.
How many hours did you read?
24, plus the minutes read in the bathroom that I didn’t track.
What do you think worked well in this readathon? What do you think could be done to improve the readathon for next time?
I don’t know a thing that did not work well. I would love to have more Germans signing up, but that’s nothing you could change and I’m always advertising the ‚thon. Apart from that? It’s been fun, I’ve got no complaints.
Will you participate in a future 24in48 readathon?
SURE!
Thank you all very much and good night, dear American friends. Good morning Europe. On to a new day of reading.
So here it is. The opening survey again. Now it really feels like readathon.
And now have fun reading
Hey guys,
I warned you, that I’d switch to English again, so here it is. The readathon.
I’ll do it like I did last time, and try to post or link everything here, so both you and I can find everything easily. But the written challenges will be posted in posts of their own.