Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

1. How many books have you been reading? Have you finished any? Are you on track with respect to your readathon goals so far?

2. Have you eaten real food today? (Not just junk food, ACTUAL HEALTHY FOOD) What was your favorite food or beverage so far?

3. Have you been participating in any of the activities on our social media (sprints, photo challenges, discussion questions, BINGO, etc.)

4. Are you growing sleepy? Do you plan to nap, or stop early, or are you extending the readathon hours to include sleep?

5. Have you been outside yet today? Have you had much exercise (besides the heavy lifting required to hold your book)?

6. How is your readathon going, overall?

1) Finished one book, read one cover to cover. I'm on track, I hope, to start and finish another one.

2) Yes! Sesame chicken from my favorite local Chinese takeout restaurant.

3) Bingo, sprints, some of the photo challenge.

4) Yes, but working through it.

5) Took a 30 minute walk.

6) Really well! I'm not doing as much social media as I'm not good with Discord. I miss when Twitter was a safe place, I miss the friends I made there during past readathons.

1)How many books have you been reading? Have you finished any? Are you on track with respect to your readathon goals so far? I've finished on book so far. And my focus seems to be Book of the Month books, so I'm meeting my goals.

2) Have you eaten real food today? Not really. Its a junk food kinda day for me. And my favorite drink is, as always, coffee.

3) Have you been participating in any of the activities on our social media (sprints, photo challenges, discussion questions, BINGO, etc.)
Ive posted a few pic on Instagram and the reading sprints here.

4) Are you growing sleepy? Do you plan to nap, or stop early, or are you extending the readathon hours to include sleep? I may nap a bit later on. So far I'm awake (thanks to all the coffee!)

5) Have you been outside yet today? Have you had much exercise (besides the heavy lifting required to hold your book)? I try to get up and walk around every hour.

6) How is your readathon going, overall? I love readathon day. This one is going great!

1. How many books have you been reading? Have you finished any? Are you on track with respect to your readathon goals so far? - I haven't finished any yet, but I've read from 4. My goal was to read 1000 pages, and so far I've only read 194 pages so I am a bit behind

2. Have you eaten real food today? (Not just junk food, ACTUAL HEALTHY FOOD) What was your favorite food or beverage so far? Yes, we ate actual breakfast at the start of the R-a-T & now we are eating a quick dinner. We snacked for lunch. My favorite so far has been carrots and veggie dip

3. Have you been participating in any of the activities on our social media (sprints, photo challenges, discussion questions, BINGO, etc.)-I haven't been the best at checking in online, etc. But I try to participate in sprints & catch up on discussion questions when I have a lull.

4. Are you growing sleepy? Do you plan to nap, or stop early, or are you extending the readathon hours to include sleep? I don't exactly plan to nap, but I keep dozing off in my chair so I am napping throughout

5. Have you been outside yet today? Have you had much exercise (besides the heavy lifting required to hold your book)? No to both

6. How is your readathon going, overall? So far it has been enjoyable. I try not to stress myself out too much regarding "must read, must read" and just go with the flow. I want reading to always be enjoyable and relaxing for myself.

1. How many books have you been reading? Have you finished any? Are you on track with respect to your readathon goals so far? So far. I've finished one audiobook, almost finished a second, and am halfway through a print book. I'm getting drowsy though.

2. Have you eaten real food today? (Not just junk food, ACTUAL HEALTHY FOOD) What was your favorite food or beverage so far? I had a big salad for lunch, and an almond paste filled pastry for breakfast, with coffee. My next snack will be bread and butter, maybe with blackberry jam. The pastry was really tasty.

3. Have you been participating in any of the activities on our social media (sprints, photo challenges, discussion questions, BINGO, etc.) I've checked out some of the discussion questions on Goodreads. I'll do more on social media this evening.

4. Are you growing sleepy? Do you plan to nap, or stop early, or are you extending the readathon hours to include sleep? I will be doing the full 24hrs, and trying not to doze off.

5. Have you been outside yet today? Have you had much exercise (besides the heavy lifting required to hold your book)? I walked to work this morning, and did some reading on the porch this afternoon, for 30min or so.

6. How is your readathon going, overall? Pretty good. I'll be better when the caffeine kicks in.

1. Total of 4 books finished
2. Yes, I snacked on a big bowl of grape tomatoes this afternoon, and I've had a ton of water.
3. I'm checking in every few hours and I've done most of the hourly photo prompts on Instagram.
4. I'm okay for now. I don't think I'll make it the full 24 hours, but I bet I've got 19-20 in me.
5. I spent all afternoon outside on the balcony in the sunshine. Honestly could use some exercise though, my body's getting a little creaky from all of the sitting. I might break and do some yoga to loosen up.
6. Having a lovely day!

1. My read a thon has been lazy today. I have fallen asleep a few times. It is gloomy here today and we are expecting rain. I have read parts of 3 books

for a total so far of... about 354 pages

2. I went to lunch with a friend and had a delicious Cobb salad!
I also had some honey mustard pretzels

3. I have been doing the hourly checkins, some sprints. Trying not to get too caught up in social media because my reading time has already been limited. I will check everyone's thread at the end.

4. I have dozed off a few times already. I will probably stay up late reading because I napped a little, but I will go to bed and sleep. I am going to try to get up for the last hour, which is 4am for me!

5. I took my dog on 2 walks today. It is cool and coldy and blustery so it was good to get outside.

6. It is going great! I am happy to be reading and relaxing, both. It is what I like my RaT to be.

1. How many books have you been reading? Have you finished any? Are you on track with respect to your readathon goals so far? I've finished 5 books so far, read for 10 hours and 16 minutes. I had no explicit goals, but I'm pretty happy with my progress so far.

2. Have you eaten real food today? (Not just junk food, ACTUAL HEALTHY FOOD) What was your favorite food or beverage so far? I've only eaten meals today, no junk food, because one readathon, I made the mistake of only snacking, not wanting to take time out for meals, but then I didn't feel so good. Muffin, apple, and frappe for breakfast, egg salad sandwich, chips and salsa, and orange juice for dinner.

3. Have you been participating in any of the activities on our social media (sprints, photo challenges, discussion questions, BINGO, etc.) Just some discussion questions here and there. I love doing this with the sense that other people are doing it too, but I like to concentrate on the reading.

4. Are you growing sleepy? Do you plan to nap, or stop early, or are you extending the readathon hours to include sleep? It's only 8 PM where I am, so not remotely tired yet, even though I got up at 7 AM which is early for me.

5. Have you been outside yet today? Have you had much exercise (besides the heavy lifting required to hold your book)?
Oh yes, I've been outside much of the day and it's been perfect. Not much exercise besides the occasional stretch and walk around the yard.

6. How is your readathon going, overall? Great! I love it!

Answered these questions on my blog:
https://greatmorrisonmigration.wordpr...

1. I read from three books: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Radetzky March in print and The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization as an audiobook. No finished titles yet!

2. I had a proper dinner and a very unhealthy snack. Now on my first cup of tea of the day (black, with lemon and honey)

3. That reminds me, need to update my Bingo board. brb! I'm also participating in hourly discussions and reading sprints, whenever possible

4. I have just woken up from a good night sleep

5. Had a morning walk with my dog and plan to do some exercise later

6. Very happy with my progress and our community here on Goodreads! Now back to the reading