24 Hr Dewey Read-a-thon

6.30pm
To follow suit with some of my fellow book bloggers, I’m starting the 24 hours early. I’m starting with where I left off with my current book.

Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
by; Rick Riordan.
Pg. 369

6.40pm
Go Frank Zhang go!! Sorry I have to chant hahahah This book is a page turner!

7.00pm
Pg 404… wooo so close…

7.30pm  - 1st Hour
Pg 422. Still with Percy. Wonder if Hazel is related to Triple HHH lol

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Read-a-thon reading pile! #boutofbooks o.0

It’s tonight!! 24hr Dewey read-a-thon is tonight.. and #boutofbooks starts next week. And I haven’t choose all of my books yet. Yes, my reading will spill from 24hr Dewey to next week’s read-a-thon. Here is my reading pile. It ranges from children’s book, Young Adult to adult. Yup… I’m doing skinnies books for the read—thon, cause I’ve learnt my lesson on reading big fat books for this sort of events.

Vesra's read-a-thon book montage

Vesra I's favorite books »

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#Read-a-thon checklist

• Signed up? (#boutofbooks (10/24 – 10/30)√, Dewey 24hr (22 Oct 2011)√, Wrapping up 2011 Read-a-thon 22/12/2011 – 1/1/2012 √)

• Books planning to read. (?)

• Skinnies books (?)

• Comics? Graphic novels?

• Snacks. (?)

•  A comfy seat, pillow, bed, blanket..

• Will add to this later on

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Wrapping up 2011 Read-a-thon (Dec 22 – Jan 1st) #WU2011R

Hosted by Jessie’s Remarkable Reads
Join up Twitter chat with #WU2011R

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Heads up! Dewey’s 24 Read-A-Thon on October 22nd!

24hourreadathon.com

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Quote Break

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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Yes! #BoutofBooks Read-A-Thon

• Go Sign UP 

The rest of the information is copied from On a Book Bender

• Bout of Books will run from 12:01am 10/24 through 11:59 pm 10/30 (your time zone)
• Read as much as you can whenever you can.  I know that this Bout of Books is close on the heels of the Dewey Read-a-Thon; this was an oversight on my part, but if you plan on reading AT ALL, please sign up.  The only person you are competing against here is yourself.  There is no pressure.
• Bout of Books should be about networking with fellow bloggers in addition to reading.  You were going to read that week anyway, right?  Bout of Books gives you the opportunity to share your reading experience with other readers.
• Use #boutofbooks on Twitter to update people on your progress and what you are reading.  Feel free to follow me (@BookBender) and your co-hosts (links to follow) for Bout of Books information, but please do NOT @ me (or the co-hosts) with all your updates.  This happened during the last Bout of Books, and it was unnecessary and flooded people’s timelines.  Using #boutofbooks should suffice.  I will try to repopulate the Bout of Books Twitter list.
• Sign-up (beginning 10/6), the master list of participants, official schedule (up by 10/20?), and wrap-up post will all be here on my blog.  I will also give people the opportunity to post their read-a-thon goals and possible books to read.  My Bout of Books “starting line” post will go up on 10/22.

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Tonight’s full moon

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Top Ten Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time

Hosted by Broke and Bookish.

1. A Series of Unfortunate Events; Lemony Snicket. I don’t have to tell you why if you have read this one. If you haven’t you miss out on a very good book. Somehow I do wish this series would go on some more, but every good thing have to have an end…

2. Harry Potter; JK Rowling. I tend to love reading this one again and again and again, though one of the books within the series annoyed me.

3. The Count of Monte Cristo; Alexander Dumas. One of my favorite classics ever!.

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde. Another one of my favorite classics

5. Memoirs of a Geisha; Arthur Golden. Oh yes.. I remember loving this book as soon as I picked it up.

6. My sister’s keeper; Jodi Picoult. I wish I could go back and pick this book up. As sad as it is. I love the way it picks on my emotion. It’s just hard to find books I get emotional about

7. Narnia Chronicles. Yup, I remember picking on this book over and over when I was still my early Secondary years.

8. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I rmemeber hogging on this book back in my Secondary Years too. My librarian was annoyed maybe cause I keep checking this book out hahaha

9. The Three Musketeers; Alexander Dumas. I rmemeber the feelign of reading this book… I want to pick it up again!

10. Oliver Twist; Charles Dickens. The favorite literature orphan.

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Teaser Tuesday: The Son of Neptune (11/10/11)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

My Teaser:
”She made a fist. The gold bent like putty. Hazel forced it to twist into a giant, lumpy ring. Then she flicked her hand toward the ground. Her million-dollar doughnut slammed into the earth. It sank so deep, nothing was left but a scar of fresh dirt.”

~Riordan, Rick; Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune

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