Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Hour 13 - 16

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Welcome to 7:10 pm in Los Angeles.
Update time!!  I am so unfocused and I am a little freaked out by the number of book reviews I have to do too!  ARGH!

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Hour 5 -8

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Welcome to 11am in Los Angeles.
Update time!!  So far I am finally not sleepy and I have drank (2 cups) an ocean of green tea with lemon and honey. 

Hour 5: 

Back to reading after a quick nap.  And I am hosting the hour 5 read-a-thon mini challenge.  It's wrapping up soon so jump to this link to enter to win a great prize.  It's  fun!

The 5th Hour Challenge - Closed

 

Welcome to My Little Pocketbooks 

5th Hour Challenge!

This awesome read-a-thon is hosted by DEWEY'S 24 HOUR READ-A-THON

Right now it's 9:00 am here is Los Angeles, California.

How are you feeling? Just waking up and had your coffee yet.  Second cup?

 

 Well...You have been reading for 5-ish hours now.  And I know you are eying your  food reserve. 

Would a Challenge get your mind off of it?  Get you motivated and focused a bit?  

What about an easy challenge with a great return?  

That's what I thought!  

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon: Hour 1 - 4

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Welcome to 5am in Los Angeles.
Hi everyone!  And welcome to my quarterly updates as I am reading my eyes off for the next 24 hours.  I will update this post for the first four hours then do another post for the next quarter and so on.  So let's do this...  

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon: Goals

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April 25th.

It time for one of my favorite bookish events.  And this year I am planning on doing nothing but reading and reading as much as I can. 

Yep!  No mini-challenges (except the 5th Hour Challenge I am hosting).  No chatting on other blogs.  Just reading!  I am not 100% on what I will be reading but here are a few thoughts.  I might change my mind mid day.  

Goals 

It's A Read-A-Thon's Wrap

March Madness and Take Control of Your TBR Pile

I just did two month long read-a-thons.
One, March Madness hosted by Cedar Station and the other one was TBR Pile Read-a-Thon hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer.
And I read more books in the month of March than I have in two good months.  I am a four books a month a person so completing 16 books is so amazing to me.  Yep!  16!

It so helped to have the month off from work too.  I see how other book bloggers do it now.  I spent a minimum of one hour every single day reading.  No matter what!  And that helped so much too.  I am going to try and keep that rule going as long as I can.
Hopefully, I can do half of this for the month of April.  

Books Finished
~ *The Buddha in the Attic (audiobook)

~ *The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (audiobook)
*Blue Lily, Lily Blue (audiobook)
*When the Emperor Was Divine (audiobook)

TBR Read-a-Thon: Goals

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Start Date: March 13th
Ends: March 16th

 Rules

1. Link-up
2. Read/listen to books from your TBR pile published before 3/01/15. Can be arcs, novellas, audios, comics etc. Remember for those doing Take Control they must be 100 pages or more.
3. Books Must be read from March 13th through 11:59 pm on the 16th to be counted.
4. Read at least one- 300 page book to enter raffle or three- 100 page books -post mini review(s)This can be to blog, Goodreads, Tumblr, Facebook etc.
5. Share Add the button or share on social media
6. Share updates via Twitter with hashtag #TBRreadathon

March 2015 Take Control of Your TBR Pile

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I know! I know! I know!

I know I just posted I was jumping on the March Madness Read-a-thon but I forgot about this one and so the plan is a bit different now. I am going to do both! Yes! Two read-a-thons.  One for just reading as much as I can and the other to read the pile of books here on my bookshelf. Yes! Just the books I own and nothing else.

My 1st March Madness

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Ok this is crazy but check this out.  You know how there are 24 Hour Read-a-thon and Weekly Read-a-thons like Bout of Books, now there is a month long read-a-thon called March Madness 2015.  Yes!  Reading a much as you can for one solid month.  

Yes! I am going to try it and hopefully March will be a month of reading as much as I can.  So here is the game plan.

Goals

Read everyday from 3/1 to 3/31

2nd Annual Love for Books Read-A-Thon: Update #3

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As you may have heard I joined the 2nd Annual Love for Books Read-a-thon.  Well here are my stats as of end of day today.

Day One

Monday 2/9

Books completed: Nothing yet

Pages read:  177 to 221 in The Aloha Quilt

36 mins of The Book of Life

Day Two

Tuesday 2/10

Books completed: Nothing yet

Pages read: 221 to 255 in The Aloha Quilt

23 mins of The Book of Life

2nd Annual Love for Books Read-A-Thon: Update #2

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As you may have heard I joined the 2nd Annual Love for Books Read-a-thon.  Well here are my stats as of end of day today.

Day One

Monday 2/9

Books completed: Nothing yet

Pages read:  177 to 221 in The Aloha Quilt

36 mins of The Book of Life

Day Two

Tuesday 2/10

Books completed: Nothing yet

Pages read: 221 to 255 in The Aloha Quilt

23 mins of The Book of Life

2nd Annual Love for Books Read-A-Thon: Update #1

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As you may have heard I joined the 2nd Annual Love for Books Read-a-thon.  Well here are my stats as of end of day #2.

Day One

Monday 2/9

Books completed: Nothing yet

Pages read:  177 to 221 in The Aloha Quilt

36 mins of The Book of Life

2nd Annual Love for Books Read-A-Thon: Sign Up

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Yeah!  A read-a-thon that fits perfectly into my schedule.  I love doing read-a-thons because they really motivate me to get a few dusty books off of my nightstand.  

Starting today and ending on Sunday, Novel Heartbeat is hosting this read-a-thon and a giveaway as well to help get us me motivated to get some reading goals started.  You can join in anytime during the read-a-thon and "books do not have to be of the romance genre. You can read anything you like!"

For this read-a-thon I will post a new post to let you know where I stand.  But for now here are the books I would LOVE to finish.

Goal

Participate in mini challenge

Complete 3 books and start a new one

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon: I'm Sleepy

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I am tired ya'll.  I have not read for the full 17 hours and I am not planning on doing the remaining 7 hours.  I am just too sleepy.  It's 9:31pm and I went to bed late last night.  So it is now catching up with me.  But I am happy to say two book are officially off of my DNF list.  Yep.  Two.  I have a ever growing DNF list this year.  The first year I started blogging I only had one.  Last year, two DNF books.  This year the list was over 5 and that is not cool.  I have been starting and stopping so many books this year.  I have no idea if it is me or if it's the books but I need to pile to stop growing.  Yep! That means I finish books I don't even like.  LOL!

So here are my stats 

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon: Morning Progress

 Yeah!  One book in my completed list.  Now on to book two.  I decided like right now to just update here and there to let you know I am still here reading.  So here is what I have been up to so far.  By the way, breakfast is being made right now by my honey.  

#sohappy! 

#knockingoutmydnflist

Books Completed:

My Man Pendleton by Elizabeth Bevarly

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon: Getting a Late Start

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Hi everyone!  It's Hour 3 in the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon and I am just getting up and started.  I knew I was not going to make the 5am start time when I went to bed around midnight.  LOL! oops!  So let me play a bit of caught up here.  

Hour 1 Meme

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?  

Bout of Books 11: Wrap Up

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It's done! That's a Wrap!

I did it and I completed my easy goal!  YEAH!

This Bout of Books my goal was to start and finish two books.  And I did it!  I also started a third book.  Now I need to get on the ball and get a few reviews done. 

Books Completed

Sunday Delight: Not So Good Read-A-Thon

Good morning and Happy Sunday everyone!

OK!  So yesterday was the BIG Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon and of course I joined signed up.  This year the read-a-thon looked to be BIG and better than ever with the launch of the new website and a few new and improved sections.  I was so excited about it and I had my three books lined up.  One audiobook to listen to while I had to do things like drive, cook, clean and just for moving about the house; along with two unfinished books cluttering my nightstand.  Well, scheduled events, a headache and a sleepless night before all mixed together to create the perfect storm of not reading much.  I think the book I wanted to really finish was not interesting enough to keep me awake either.  Well, anyway as read-a-thons go this one was a NO GO for me!  Here is my not so interesting End of the Read-a-thon Meme answers.

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon: Mid Event

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Hi everyone!  This is read-a-thon day and I have not been reading as much as I wanted to.  In fact I am finally home and I am going to read from hour 12 to 24 to play catch up.  So let's start with the Mid Event Meme.

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon April 2014: Goals

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It's finally time to read all day long.  I am so thrilled this event is getting bigger and better!  It's the Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon ya'll!  This year I am doing to lock myself in my place, turn off the phone and read...read...read. Like a mad woman.  This time around I will not be hosting a mini-challenge but I volunteered to be a prize angel so I can focus on reading only.  I know, you know all about this event so I will not bore you with all the details.

 (Click the button up top to go to the site for more info.)