Book Chatter

1. Which hour was most daunting for you?

Hour 21. I was awake but the words were not making sense to me.

2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?

I started Cemetery Dance late the game and perhaps I should have started that one earlier. It is a real page turner.

3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?

It would be great to maybe have a sample template for posting. I made one up but I kept getting confused with the number of pages read, recorded, etc.

4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?

Twitter was surprisingly useful.

5. How many books did you read?

I finished 2 but read a few more than that in bits and pieces.

6. What were the names of the books you read?

sTori Telling, Guernsey, The Spare Room and Cemetery Dance.

7. Which book did you enjoy most?

Cemetery Dance.

8. Which did you enjoy least?

The format for Guernsey really slowed me down.

9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?

I was a reader but the cheerleaders did great!

10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?

I’d like to be a reader again, but plan a bit more beforehand. I entered so late this time around. I really thought I could just throw a stack together and do it but it was difficult with the kids in the house, etc.

The sun is up and so am I. After a full day, well almost full day of reading for the 2009 Read-a-Thon, I hit the sack and then couldn’t fall asleep! I turned in at 2am and probably did not fall asleep until 4am. I woke this morning to an empty house and a raging sore throat. The empty house part was sort of nice, but not the sore throat. Taking vitamin c now.

This was my first read-a-thon and it was a lot of fun. If I ever do this again, I will definitely put more thought into the books I read and try to schedule my reading time a bit differently. I spent a lot of time reading other blogs to see what was going on with them, and then keeping up with the read-a-thon page and challenges . Since the kids were in the house, it took awhile for me to get settled back into reading each time I strayed from the book.

That said, I cannot believe the amount of effort that went into this event. It’s truly impressive and I think all of us had a really good time being a part of it.

Today at noon, I will be logging on to Ticketmaster to (hopefully) get tickets to some of the Festival of Book panels that takes place next weekend.

I’m still half asleep so that’s it for now 🙂

Chatting with friends about books and life…