8/23/10

Dusk Till Dawn A Read-A-Thon ~ Sign Up

Are you ready? It's almost here!

Wait, what, you don't know, hadn't heard?

Well, let me tell you – The Dusk Till Dawn Read-A-Thon is getting ready to start August 25th, until August 29th from the hours of 8 PM until 8 AM each day!!! (But please, don't use this as an excuse not to sleep, we want you to sleep too!)

And now's the time to sign up....

First off, before the official sign up – I want to thank each of the blogs that will be hosting Challenges during the Read-A-Thon – they are going to make this a HUGE success!

25th
Jami with YA Addict – my co-host
Star with Star Shadow
Heather with Book Savvy
26th
Missie with The Unread Reader

27th
Elizabeth with Elizabeth Isaacs Blog
Melissa with Indiependent Books
Mrs. DeRaps with DeRaps Reads

28th
Courtney with Stiletto Storytime

29th
Liz with Cleverly Inked
Khelsea with Once Upon A Review
Jenn with Book Crazy

These ladies have come up with some WONDERFUL challenges, I can't WAIT to get started – One of them is going to have you talk about a book you were most personally influenced by, another is going to have you working on a movie cast for the book your reading, still another is going to ask you to recreate the cover for Mockingjay! The prizes are also awesome, included you might find a copy of Mockingjay, Sleepless and there might even be a copy of Beautiful Creatures and Beautiful Darkness in the works as well!

So...lets get this show started, just link up below to let us know your going to be joining us...It would be awesome to see what your hoping to read in the 5 days, so feel free to include that in your posts! Also if your not able to follow along with your blog, your welcome to join us at #Readathon on twitter, I will be sharing my updates there!

31 comments:

  1. can't wait to start, I've been seriously slacking on my reading lately. =)

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  2. I'm excited about this as it will be my first read-a-thon!

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  3. So excited and very happy to be hosting my first ever mini-challenge!

    Courtney

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  4. Oops don't know why it double signed me up on Mr. Linky! If you can remove me...I will re-sign up when I get my post up! Thanks...

    Courtney
    Stiletto Storytime

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  5. I am so in this. My ideal reading times. Not sure what I will have lined up, have to think about it or post as I go if thats ok. Thanks for hosting this. Wanna Check Me Out?

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  6. I am ready and have my line up! I have already informed my kids and hubby that they will be eating "fin for ya" for the rest of the week! :)

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  7. This sounds great! I'm excited. :) Thanks for putting this together.

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  8. I'm looking forward to this. A great chance to get back into reading.

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  9. I waited on the Hunger Games series just for this event! :-)

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  10. This sounds like fun! I just started my blog so this will be a good way for me to introduce myself and kick up my "quest" a notch :)

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  11. What a beautiful blog you have! New follower, wish I could participate, but the wkends are hubby time and I really don't read to much to be in a read-a-thon, but it looks like fun! Enjoy :)

    Paula
    Tomes Devotee

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  12. This sounds fun...hopefully I can get one book done each night...:D

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  13. Great idea! I need a push to get some serious reading done. Thank you for hosting this read-a-thon!

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  14. My first Read-A-Thon! Looking forward to getting lots of reading done. Thanks for hosting this fun event!

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  15. Alright, I'm in. Maybe I can even hold off on starting Mokingjay until tomorrow night...

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  16. Super excited! Can't wait to see how much reading everyone gets done:)

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  17. Yay! This is my first ever mini-challenge and I am excited!! I want to make sure that I do it right now... oh the nerves! Happy reading everyone :)

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  18. Okay, I am ready to start tomorrow! Sounds like fun :)

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  19. So much fun!
    But if you don't mind I will take the German 8pm to 8am otherwise I might get fired :)

    Have to prepare my list of book I will read the next days!

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  20. I can't think of many better ways to spend my evenings.

    I'll need to get my list of books together pretty quickly!

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  21. Cool concept! Wouldn't this be fantastic to inspire our local middle schools and high schools?

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  22. This is an AWESOME idea. Genius even. Enjoy everyone. I'm about to go curl up with my book now.

    Martina

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  23. I'm in... a bit late, but whatev.

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  24. Since I won't be able to read that much in the next couple of days, I decided to follow quietly. However, some of the challenges require you to sign up so I did.

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  25. Following quietly is just fine! You can read as much or as little as life will allow! :D

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  26. I'm late but count me in! I can't wait to start reading!

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  27. I know I'm joining in late, but this sounds fun!

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