Saturday, January 17, 2015

Books reading for the 24 hrs Read-A-Thon

OK.. For a person that is working in go back to read, this was the best option, I forced myself to read in a 24 hours Read-A-Thon. I was afraid, I had no clue of what I have to do while the hours are going, I did mistakes and at the end, I learned how fun and productive they are.

My first mistake was begin a day early, I misunderstood that it was Friday at midnight and not the beginning of Friday at midnight.. for that reason, I can say that I did 48 hours Read-A-Thon.

My original list of books was with extra two books (one was almost in the last 25 pages) and the other was a half book, they were finish the first night, so they are not counted.

The day before i waited almost all day for midnight, so you can imagine how silly was that, so when then I notice at 8pm that I was in the wrong day, I rush to bed to wake up at midnight and begin in the right day (I was not able to sleep until 11:30), so when my alarm woke me up at midnight... I was already with almost 24 hours over my head and not coordinating so good.

So here the new order for the books:







The Read-A-Thon had some series of challenges that you can complete in some specific hours. I was not able to complete all of them, but I did some:

The first one was the list or To Be Read list, that It is the same that you have at the top.

Next challenge was to create a rainbow... I was so sleepy that I was not able to find the right colors.

Hour 8: Make a poem using book titles




17 Hours challenge: Create a Book Tower
And this is the way that you combine E-Books and physical books in a tower :)


At 9:30 pm, I decided to get help again from my survival kit to stay awake. More black tea and my determination to accomplish a 24 hours Read-A-Thon


One of my Kindles got out of battery, so I decided to begin one of the physical books that I have while my batteries were charging.. Big surprise, when I went to add the book to my Gooreads page,  it said that the book has 592 pages, when the copy that I had in my hands only 202. 

Later my husband found the book in the pile of garbage and he notice that the book was complete, all the book was divided in 3 and that was the reason the last page said 202... I need to pay more attention to what I do, or maybe I was falling asleep :P


Here is the recount of my 24 hrs Read-A-Thon

Time Read: 23 hours
Total Pages Read: 543
Books Read: 1
Challenges Completed: 4



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