Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

Just as it is time for turning toward the fall season and for the trees to start turning their leaves, it is time for some of us to also turn over a new leaf--in our reading--of course. Come take a look at our pre-readathon challenge: Turning Over a New Leaf.

Measures of Success:
4 Reads + 4 Activities = Complete Success
5 Reads + 5 Activities = Extra Lap Success
6 Reads + 6 Activities= Over Achiever Success

As always, this pre-readathon challenge is for fun, for gearing up the readathon, for figuring out what might work for you before the readathon day. Participate as much as brings you joy.

Turning Over a New Leaf

Activities

1. Answer Pre-Readathon Question: Are there particular genres or formats or something else that you read particularly during Dewey's official hours? Give up to three examples.

2. Read somewhere different, even just a different room or on the other porch for 30 minutes.

3. As the year progresses, our read goals often change. Tell us what have you changed this year, something big or small.

4. Post about a new or re-newed topic in your personal thread--could be about the experience you have doing one of these activities.

5. Wear your shirt or dress inside out for an hour as you read.

6. Try a different-from-the-usual snack during official readathon hours.

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Reads

1. Expand reading practice just for one day by reading a type of something book that another member reads. (See pre-readathon question.)

2. Read a book scarier or spookier or wierder or more mysterious or somehow more book than you usually read.

3. Read a writer's work you have been meaning to try.

4. Read a genre/sub-genre that you have never read or do not read enough of.

5. Read a format you do not often read book-- graphic novel, audio, ebook, paper book, picture book, art book, oversized book.

6. Read a new-to-you writer. If need suggestions, ask others or maybe use www.literature-map.com Write in a writer's name whose work you enjoy to find other writers who write in a similar style.

🍏 Thank you for your participation 🍏 Without it, we would have no readathon 🍎🍏🍎

Let's See

Activities

🍂 1. Answer Pre-Readathon Question. Give up to three examples. Sept 13

🍂 2. Read somewhere different for 30 minutes. Oct 15Read in laudry room of apartment building while clothes dried. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

🍂 3. Tell us what have you changed this year, something big or small. Oct 05 Every year at my classics group, we have a bingo card. This year I am doing both a fiction and nonfiction bingo card. In this way, I can read some old nonfiction books that somI have been wanting to read decades. (examples: On the Origin of Species and Love, Janis)

🍂 4. Post about a new or re-newed topic in your personal thread. Starting Oct 09, I and others started talking about baked apples on my prrsonal thread. Anyone/Everyone is invited to stop by and tell about your variation of baked apples 🍎

🍂 5. Wear your shirt or dress inside out for an hour as you read. Turned my summer dress inside out. Sept 28

6. Try a different-from-the-usual snack during official readathon hours.

Reads
🌿 1.. Expand reading practice just for one day by reading a type of something book that another member reads. (See pre-readathon question.) Don: Shortish Nonfiction Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil deGrasse Tyson Sept 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌿 2. Read a book scarier or spookier or wierder or more mysterious or somehow more book than you usually read. Horrorificker Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi Sept 19 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Read a writer's work you have been meaning to try.
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata or The Girl Who Drank the Moon


🌿 4. Read a genre/sub-genre that you have never read or do not read enough of. Humor South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land by Julia Reed Sept 30 ⭐️⭐️⭐️


🌿 5. Read a format you do not often read book-- graphic novel, audio, ebook, paper book, picture book, art book, oversized book. CoffeetableEllis Island by Wilton S. Tifft Sept 23 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🌿 6. Read a new-to-you writer.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Oct 21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Turning Over a New Leaf

Activities

1. Answer Pre-Readathon Question: DONE!

2. Read somewhere different.

3. Tell us what have you changed this year.

4. Post about a new or re-newed topic in your personal thread.

5. Wear your shirt or dress inside out.

6. Try a different-from-the-usual snack.

Reads

1. Read a type of something book that another member reads.

2. Read a book scarier than you usually read.

3. Read a writer's work you have been meaning to try.

4. Read a genre/sub-genre that you have never read.

5. Read a format you do not often read book.

6. Read a new-to-you writer. Fernando Trujillo Sanz - I am reading his fantasy saga La Biblia de los Caídos. Tomo 1 del testamento de Sombra

October 2026 Pre-Readathon > Pre-Readathon Challenge

Just as it is time for turning toward the fall season and for the trees to start turning their leaves, it is time for some of us to also turn over a new leaf--in our reading--of course. Come take a look at our pre-readathon challenge: Turning Over a New Leaf.

Measures of Success:
4 Reads + 4 Activities = Complete Success
5 Reads + 5 Activities = Extra Lap Success
6 Reads + 6 Activities= Over Achiever Success

As always, this pre-readathon challenge is for fun, for gearing up the readathon, for figuring out what might work for you before the readathon day. Participate as much as brings you joy.

Activities

❌ 1. Answer Pre-Readathon Question: Are there particular genres or formats or something else that you read particularly during Dewey's official hours? Give up to three examples.
Post #7:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

❌ 2. Read somewhere different, even just a different room or on the other porch for 30 minutes.
Sitting outside!

❌3. As the year progresses, our reading goals often change. Tell us what have you changed this year, something big or small.
I am only participating in two year-long reading challenge this year and I did add the Goodreads Bookmarks challenges. This is allowing me to self-select books without needing to fulfill challenge goals more than in the past 8 years or so...

❌4. Post about a new or re-newed topic in your personal thread--could be about the experience you have doing one of these activities.
I am so very glad to have limited the year-long challenges I am completing this year! Very wise of me!!

❌5. Wear your shirt or dress inside out for an hour as you read.
I ended up inadvertently doing this the other day as I had hurriedly thrown my T-shirt on over my head, not realizing it was on backward until about 2 hours later after I had been reading! LOL

❌6. Try a different-from-the-usual snack during official readathon hours.
I splurged and purchased some of those pretzel/crackers on opposite sides! I love those!

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Reads

1. Expand reading practice just for one day by reading a type of something book that another member reads. (See pre-readathon question.)
Possibilities:
*Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear Culinary #1) by Diane Mott Davidson
I ended up not being able to read either of these right now...

❌2. Read a book scarier or spookier or wierder or more mysterious or somehow more book than you usually read.
Strange Fascination (Essex Witch Museum #3) by Syd Moore
I don't read many romances nor books with paranormal activities/witches!

3. Read a writer's work you have been meaning to try.
*Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations #1) by Cara Black
I haven't been able to read this one yet...

❌4. Read a genre/sub-genre that you have never read or do not read enoughmuch of.
That would be romance. And one reason I don't read much romance is because I really don't need (or want) to read sexual details. My mind does an excellent job of providing that for me!
But I did read the second in the Summer Beach series, Summer on Sag Harbor by Sunny Hostin simply because I enjoyed Summer on the Bluffs so much. Though this one did disappoint me a bit by including more sexual details than I prefer...
September 13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

❌5. Read a format you do not often read book-- graphic novel, audio, ebook, paper book, picture book, art book, oversized book.
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy (Murderbot #2.5) by Martha Wells
In electronic format on ReactorMag.com: https://murderbot.miraheze.org/wiki/R...

❌6. Read a new-to-you writer. If you need suggestions, ask others or maybe use www.literature-map.com Write in a writer's name whose work you enjoy to find other writers who write in a similar style.
The Henna Artist (Jaipur Trilogy #1) by Alka Joshi
September 14 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🍏 Thank you for your participation 🍏 Without it, we would have no readathon 🍎🍏🍎

I'm in a reading slump, will try and join to get myself back to reading!

Maybe turning a new reading leaf will help! Try new things, things you thought would never work for you. Get a whole a stack of different kinds of books from the library, from the used bookstore, or both. Go on a 24-hour reading adventure. Think of it as a time of discovery, not of pages or books completed. See what happens.

Was really hoping to join in but I've got a long-haul flight that day, so wouldn't be able to post on here during it. Bought a bunch of books on my kindle to do my own personal readathon during the flight. Hopefully I can join in the next one. Hope everyone taking part has a successful readathon!

Eva, be safe.
If you want, you can read on readathon day and post in a day or to afterwards. We have cool down week. Also others answer the hourly qyestions for a day or two or more after the readathon. People update their progess the sane way. For about a week after the readathon, we finish what started from the pre-readathon, what started during the readthon, what we had hoped to read during the readathon. . . . .And you could chosse to just do the pre-readathon if you chose.

We are flexible. You do you.

Eva wrote: "Was really hoping to join in but I've got a long-haul flight that day, so wouldn't be able to post on here during it. Bought a bunch of books on my kindle to do my own personal readathon during the..."

You can always post afterwards! We’ll be reading together in spirit!
Have a safe flight!

Hey everyone !
This time I have the free time to participate in this readathon weekend . YAY
Answers to pre-readathon questions
ACTIVITIES
1 My regular genres Readathon are , periodicals ( assorted house and garden magazines and National Geographics ) fantasy and autobiographies .
2 Commuter buses are usually too noisy and busy with activity for me to settle down and read . But for the Readathon challenge I read a magazine article for 30 minutes the bus .
3 Reduced by reading goal from 20 books to 12 .
4 No new topic or renewed topic .
5 Haha . Not a problem . Wore one of my biking shirts .
6 I'll pass on this one . I gotta have my comfort food while I binge read .

READS
1 Another member is reading CATERING TO NOBODY by Diane Mott Davidson . I didn't like the plot or the recipes in that one , so I read CHOPPING SPREE by the same author . I liked the quiche recipe .
2 I'll pass on this one . I just can't do horror . Never could .
3 Read a Dustin Miller short story mystery . Not bad ! I used to be his babysitter so my copy is autographed by the author .
Hope he does a "dark academia" one day .
4 I'll pass on this one . Not interested in adding another genre .
5 I read two graphic novels TREASURE ISLAND and STAR WRS THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
6 I put in Sarena Ulibarri . She wrote STEEL TREE .

5 Reads + 5 Activities = An Extra lapper

Vanessa, oh no. I think you may have only seen part of the prompt. Please read the original prompt. Perhaps nothing entertains there, but then sonething might.

Read a book scarier or spookier or wierder or more mysterious or somehow more book than you usually read.

Could be a cozier mystery or shorter stories or any number of other things.

So far have done 5 Activities and had read 4 Books.
By end of the cook down week, I hope to have completed 5 & 5 🎃