The Readers of the hour this hour are:
I visited them both and left comments to cheer them on … I’m not sure how many people are still up and reading at this hour!
And I’m throwing in the towel. I finished my second book this hour -Tomato Girl, by Jayne Pupek. I’ll have to sleep on this one before I write a review. The writing was really good, the story is really dark…but ends with a glimmer of brightness. I met my goal to read at least 500 pages…and I stayed up for 20 hours and participated longer than in June – a total of 18.5 hours after deducting my “down” town. I will write a wrap up tomorrow after I have had a good 8 hours sleep!
Thank you to ALL the cheerleaders – especially Softdrink from Fizzy Thoughts who loyally hung with me and left comment after comment!
Update since my last post (or see it in a Google spreadsheet)
- Book I’m reading: None now – I’m DONE!
- Number of books read since I started: 2
- Testimony, by Anita Shreve (read my review)
- Tomato Girl, by Jayne Pupek
- Pages Read since my last post: 53
- Total pages read in the challenge:603
- Amount of time spent reading since my last post: 50 minutes
- Total amount of time spent reading in the challenge: 635 minutes (10.6 hours)
- Mini-Challenges completed:
- Intro during Hour 1
- Free-Rice.com with donation of 500 grains
- Thanking hosts (not sure this is a mini-challenge … but I’m counting it!)
- Meryl’s quote
- Freerice.com with donation of 1000 grains
- Name that Book Cover
- Walkin’ and Snappin’
- Mid-Event Survey
- The Very Mini-Library Cat Challenge
- Top Ten List
- Photo Caption
- Total amount of time spent blogging: 365 minutes (6.1 hours)
- Blogs visited since I last posted: 2 (see above)
- Time spent visiting other people’s blogs (and number of comments left): 115 minutes (1.9 hours) and 25 comments
- Down Time: 105 minutes (1.75 hours)
- Amount of Participation Time (less down time): 18.5 hours
- Prizes I’ve won: 2
- I won a book for the Walkin’ and Snappin’ Challenge!
- I won a book for the Hour 20 Reader of the Hour drawing!
The 24 Hour Read-A-Thon is also a CHARITY EVENT … and it is NOT TOO LATE to sponsor me and help support Triple Creek Ranch Inc!! You can also enter to WIN A FREE BOOK!Read my posts about:
- Triple Creek Ranch and How to Sponsor Me
- Horses Helping Humans
- What the Heck IS Hippotherapy?
- Therapeutic Horseback Riding
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= Good/Very Good
= Okay read
= Not recommended
= Ugh! Don't waste your time.
You finished 2 books, and you won two more–how cool is that??
Wendy, great job with the Readathon. I’m totally impressed with your ability to stick with it for so long, and the great job you did with your blog updates along the way. I hope you’ve had a good night’s sleep!
P.S. I did a double-take for a moment when I saw (another) Laura in comment #1!
Wow, well done on the reading, blogging, commenting, etc! I love the way you’ve set yourself a personal target and then gone for it, plus you’ve managed to do a wide range of things… it’s really inspiring. I’m definitely going to try take a leaf out of your book next time around – thank you, glad I dropped by!
Great job! Tomato Girl was dark, but I still thought it was great.
Awww, thanks! I wish I could have stayed up longer…that was a blast!
Great job on the reading and the blogging and raising money. And you won prizes! It was a most successful read-a-thon for you!!
Laura (Reading Reflections): *nods* My goal was to finish those two books…so I’m happy. And I was VERY happy to win prizes too
Laura (Musings): Thanks! I thought you’d like my updates (although I didn’t keep up with my spreadsheet!!!). I got a nice, solid 8 hours sleep…and now I see I have over 260 emails and over 450 feeds in my Reader to catch up on!!
Sarah: Thanks for dropping by
I learned a lot from the first time I did this in June – just things to keep me on target and keep going.
Kathy: I agree…it is a good book. I’ll review it later today.
Softdrink: You were awesome! *nods* I felt I did everything I set out to do