Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

This year's pre-readathon challenges are designed to get us in the mood for reading, a particular challenge this year while so many of us are in real life watching the worst war in Europe since WW2. Whether you are reading to escape the messiness of real life (never a bad reason to read a book, really), or to learn more about the world around us, or for some totally different reason, it is time to start flexing your reading 'muscles' so that when we pick up our first book of the readathon, on April 30th, at 8am Eastern Time, we'll be ready to dive into 24 full hours of luscious reading time.

Challenge 1 - Short Stories - Author Challenges
In this challenge your goal is to read short stories by authors whose names start with each letter of the alphabet.
OR
If you are more map-minded, you can try to read short stories by authors from as many countries as you can.

Challenge 2 - Arts Challenge
Read a book about
- a poet
- a theater
- a music artist or ensemble
- a museum
- a painter or other visual artist
- a dancer or dance troupe

Challenge 3 - Warm and Fuzzies
For this challenge, read a book featuring
- a cat
- a dog
- a zoo
- a rodent
- wild animals

Challenge 4 - Our Classic Reading Sprints and Long Laps
Our week-long long laps are
March 26 - April 1
April 2 - 8
April 9 - 15
April 16 - 22
April 23 - 29
These are a great way to get in the habit of reading more. If you want to pick a start and stop time, that is up to you. Most of us have to work around schedules that make exact times awkward to keep up for 5 whole weeks. We'll also have hour long reading sprints posted on Facebook, and possibly Goodreads, Twitter and/or Instagram over the next 5+ weeks for folks who want to join in. If you are in our online community on one of our platforms and decide to do your own reading sprints feel free to invite others to join you, too.

Love them! Thank you all for putting these together ❤️

Looking forward to this!!

I recently learned that I'm going to be out of town for this readathon and won't be able to participate in the way I'd originally planned. BUT I'm excited about the long laps because I can get lots of reading in that way if I do most of the prep work in the next two days.

Did I imagine a bingo board? I thought I saw one, but now I can't find it

Oh, the short story challenge is right up my alley, I would opt for the A-Z version. I just joined this group so I am not quite sure where to collect/ post my progress. In here? In a post I keep updating? :-)
Ah, found it!