Showing posts with label 24-hour read-a-thon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 24-hour read-a-thon. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 October 2010

Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-Thon Mini-Challenge 1: Back in the Day Children’s Books

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This first mini-challenge is hosted by Elizabeth from Miss Wisabus and she asks us to tell about her favourite children’s books. Those books we loved as a child, or discovered as an adult.

I’ve previously talked about my love for anything by Astrid Lindgren. You really can’t go wrong with any of her books. I also love love love Anne of Green Gabels. But I want to talk about one of the authors whom I plan on reading during these 24 hours: Sven Nordqvist. He writes these fantastically funny sweet stories with the most amazing illustrations. And many of his books have been translated into English. They are the kind of books that you can read over and over and over again and never grow tired of, both because the stories are sweet but mostly because the illustrations are incredibly funny and detailed! You see each page has a main illustration but within these illustrations you can find a million more pictures. It is really hard to describe but I really urge anyone to read his books.

I will be reading Pettson Goes Camping later today!

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24-Hour Read-a-Thon: Start and Stats Post

 deweys-readathonbuttonSo here I sit with Tea Cup and Unseen Academicals ready to start my very first 24-Hour Read-a-Thon in Dewey’s memory.  Although I’ve been a blogger for two previous Read-a-Thons I wasn’t able to take part those times so this is my very first one. I am super excited!

I will be updating my stats for the day in this post but doing new posts for different mini-challenges as I take part in them.

Today’s Stats:

Books Read: 2

Pages Read: 396

Books Finished: 1

Cups of tea drunk: 2

My total Read-a-Thon time: 13 hours

Other things accomplished: Lunch and a catnap (I didn’t sleep well AT ALL last night and just couldn’t keep my eyes open, Dinner, hanging out with the parental units, cheering, SLEPT, ate breakfast

Mini-challenges participated in: 1

Update 3:

Books Read: 2

Pages Read: 115

Books Finished: 1

Cups of tea drunk: 2

My total Read-a-Thon time: 2 hours (I slept for over 9 hours)

Other things accomplished: SLEPT, ate breakfast

Mini-challenges participated in: 0

Update 2:

Books Read: 1

Pages Read: 143

Books Finished: 0

Cups of tea drunk: 2

My total Read-a-Thon time: 11 hours

Other things accomplished: Dinner, hanging out with the parental units, cheering

Mini-challenges participated in: 1

Update 1:

Books Read: 1

Pages Read: 142

Books Finished: 0

Cups of tea drunk: 2

My total Read-a-Thon time: 4 hours

Other things accomplished: Lunch and a catnap (I didn’t sleep well AT ALL last night and just couldn’t keep my eyes open

Mini-challenges participated in: 0

 

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Dewey Read-a-Thon List Post

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So I have been going back and forth on whether or not I would be able to take part in the 24-hour read-a-thon. School is kicking my butt and my parents are home for the weekend before heading off on leg two of their mammoth holiday BUT thanks to a cancelled meeting this past week things are a little bit less stressful for me this weekend so I have decided to participate as much as possible. I will be starting a bit before the official time slot since I am in Europe and I can’t really stay up all night :D so I want to get some reading in while it is daytime here. I plan on starting at 11am CET. So on to my list of possible books!

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Om Gud (About God) by Jonas Gardell

Pettson tältar (Pettson Goes Camping) by Sven Nordqvist [picture book]

Och jag läste att det var omöjligt att leva lycklig förutan dig (And I read that it was impossible to live happily without you) by Mark Levengood

How To Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler

True Compass by Edward Kennedy [audio book]

To the Edge of the Sky by Anhua Gao

I might slip in some other books as well but these are the ones I am feeling today :D

I figure I will be updating once every two hours or so, this will cause a bit of a barrage of posts from me today and in the early part of tomorrow. Those of you not interested in these posts, feel absolutely free to just press that magic “mark all as read” button :D.

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