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Who’s ready for Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon 10-year anniversary?! ;-)

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Who’s ready for Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon on Saturday, October 21? I am! This year marks the 10-year anniversary of this wonderful event. Stay tuned for updates. I’ll be blogging and reviving the ol’ book blog (at least for the readathon).

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Ready for the biggest reading party of the DECADE? So are we! We’re celebrating 10 years of Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon, and if you’d like to READ during the event, sign up here! Do you have to read the whole 24 hours? NOOOO! Do what ya can. We’d love to have you! We will have…

via October 2017 READER Sign-Ups! — Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon

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mailbox monday

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//MAILBOX MONDAY: new releases on my radar, incoming, outgoing, currently reading, read, up next…//

  • UP NEXT: books to pull off the shelf soon

That’s it for this week, friends! See you next time for another Mailbox Monday sampling! 😉

Your Friend in Books,

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It’s time for Dewey’s on 10/22!

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dewey11Can you believe it’s already that time of year again?! On Saturday, October 22nd, we celebrate yet another wonderful Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon! I am so excited to say I have even more responsibility this time around. I’ll be hosting Hours 11 and 12 on the (sadly neglected) blog here and also on the official Dewey’s web site. Andi and Heather have given me the keys to the castle. I am drunk on power…not really, but I feel pretty darn special!

 

I’ve already set aside my TBR pile and now I must brainstorm some ideas for co-hosting duties. I’m beyond psyched to be a part of this event and the Dewey’s community. I’ll be doing more reading this time around because I’m determined to take a break from social media during the event. Of course, I’ll have hosting duties for those 2 hours and will be glad for the break during the half-way point. Other than that, I’ll be off Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, the blog, etc. so I can actually get some reading done. I’ve decided not to cheer this time, although we could always use more cheerleaders for our awesome readers!

Will you join us for yet another awesome reading marathon? If you’d like more information, please check out the following link: http://www.24hourreadathon.com/. We’d love to have you! READ ON and I’ll see you all later! (By the way, sorry I’ve been absent on the blog).

Stay thirsty (for books), my friends,

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Mailbox Monday

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//MAILBOX MONDAY: new releases on my radar, incoming, outgoing, currently reading, read, up next…//

  • UP NEXT: books to pull off the shelf soon

Your Friend in Books,

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Mailbox Monday

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//MAILBOX MONDAY: new releases on my radar, incoming, outgoing, currently reading, read, up next…//

  • OUTGOING: books I’ve finished in the last month
  • UP NEXT: books to pull off the shelf soon
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon 2016!

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Hey guys,

Just a quick update post to let you know that I will be participating in this year’s spring readathon (APRIL 23, 2016) in a major way! After handing in two rather disappointing attempts at readathon, I’m upping the ante this time and doing just about everything: READING, CO-MODERATING THE EVENT, HOSTING TWITTER PARTIES, CHEERLEADING, etc! I’m so excited to be a part of this growing network of readers and participants! It’s super-nerdy of me to admit this but: THIS IS BECOMING A FAVORITE HOLIDAY!

If you would like more information on the event, you can find EVERYTHING (and I do mean EVERYTHING) you need to know by clicking here: Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon and by navigating the always helpful Twitter account. We’re now on Facebook as well as other social media platforms, so get to clickin’!

I’m busy with many bookish duties right now, most importantly the mini-challenge post I’ve been approved to submit for Hour 2 of the event. I hope to post it either tonight or early this week, as the post is still incubating in my noggin. In other (but very related) news I’ve joined the Goodreads community in a major way recently, by participating in several groups for buddy/group reads and other miscellaneous fun.  And I’ll also be hosting Hours 5-6 for the official Dewey’s group on Goodreads, so yeah I’m pretty BOOKED lol.

In sum, I will be busy reading and knocking out my eternal TBR for the foreseeable future. Not going to lie, it feels so nice to be amongst my people.

We would love more people to join us for Dewey’s, it’s just a big ol’ reading family and a bi-annual bookish event that we all deserve access to! If you LOVE to read, why on earth are you NOT doing this already?! *shakes head in confusion* Get educated on the event details and start crackin’ those book spines!

See you around the blogosphere very soon,

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Traffic Thursdays

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//IN PROGRESS: FICTION//

  • Still reading Insomnia by Stephen King…
  • The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff, 304 pages, Current Interest level: 7/10; got it back from the library not too long ago and I need to get back into it. About halfway through, and really enjoying it. Hope to Finish: within the next week or so.
  • Purity, Jonathan Franzen, 576 pages, Current Interest Level: 6/10; read more of this book in the past few days and it’s starting to pick up a little; I’m not super-interested in the subject matter but I’m listening to it on audio while reading so it adds to the drama of the presentation. Hope to Finish: looks like it’s going to be a few more weeks, minimum, this is a huge book, but I’m making good progress.

//IN PROGRESS: NON-FICTION//

  • Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story, Jewel, 387 pages, Current Interest Level: 9/10; just put it down a few minutes ago to write this blog post. Hope to Finish: within the week.

//IN PROGRESS: GRAPHIC NOVELS//

  • Black Hole, Charles Burns, 368 pages, Current Interest Level: 2/10; just not in the graphic novel mood right now, I guess… Hope to Finish: within the next few weeks because I’ve got so many other things I’d rather read at the moment!

//RECENT READAGE//

  • Here, Richard McGuire, 304 pages, Date Finished: March 20, 2016, Rating: 3/5 stars

//TBR STACK//

Hope you’re all having a wonderful week. See you later!

Forever Between Pages,

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Traffic Thursdays

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//INCOMING, make way…here’s a long-overdue Traffic Thursdays post. You thought it was gone forever, huh? (I did too lol)//

//IN PROGRESS: FICTION//

  • Insomnia, Stephen King, 663 pages, Current Interest Level: 7/10; I’m into the story so far and was missing the King. Hope to Finish: No idea, it’s going to take a little while. I’m reading so many other things right now, but it’s a daily-reader for me at the moment.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1), Stieg Larsson, 590 pages, Current Interest Level: 5/10; enjoyed the series when I first read it (in 2012), but I’m enjoying it even more listening to Simon Vance narrate on audio. Since it’s a re-read and I’m nearing the end (after having seen the Swedish-version film several times), I’m kind of over it. But being the 95% completion-ist that I am, I Hope to Finish: In a few days.
  • City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg, 911 pages, Current Interest Level: 7/10; THIS BOOK IS HUGE AND WEIGHS AS MUCH AS A NEWBORN…I’m sinking into it very slowly, and that’s okay. It kind of HAS to be okay, because that’s how it’s going to be. Enjoying the story though, no doubt. Hope to Finish: Within the next year…don’t laugh too hard. Have you seen this book in hardcover?!

//RECENT READAGE//

Sadly, I haven’t finished anything of note in the past few weeks. My Goodreads profile reflects the meager pickings of late. Hoping to remedy that with the quickness. Maybe I’ll have something to report next week, or the next…

//TBR STACK//

That’s all I have time for this late Wedn- (um, early) Thursday morning. Hope you’re knocking out some serious readage and getting through your week with a smile!

Goodnight (good morning) from bookgirl1987,

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