More pathetic read-a-thon stats. *sigh*

Reading Progress:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 0
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 0
• Total time read: 0
• How I'm currently feeling: I'm thinking that I'll read tomorrow. My brain is tired from so much crafting.

Cyborg Arm Progress:

• Completed Today: Cut out chest and back guards
• To-Do Tomorrow: Mold inner arm, cut out pattern for shirt
• Episodes of Doctor Who Watched: 0
• Episodes of Fringe Watched: 0
• Episodes of Downton Abbey Watched: 0
• How I'm currently feeling: Worn down. I can't do much more until my new can of spray paint gets here, so I think it's time for a break.

This might be my most epic-fail read-a-thon ever.

Oh dear. I believe I'm going to fail at my own read-a-thon. I truly am obsessed with this cyborg arm I'm making, and I know I won't have time after the semester starts so I'm trying to get as much done as possible now. Eeps! So, here are my pathetic read-a-thon stats. Hopefully yours are better:

Reading Progress:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 0
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 0
• Total time read: 0
• How I'm currently feeling: Lame. I wish I could split my focus between reading and costume design, but I've got a one-track mind.

Cyborg Arm Progress:

• Completed Today: plastic molding & sanding completed on finger joints, shoulder guard, and outer arm. Inner arm pattern completed and cut out.
• To-Do Tomorrow: paint shoulder guards
• Episodes of Doctor Who Watched: 2
• Episodes of Fringe Watched: 3.5
• Episodes of Downton Abbey Watched: 1
• How I'm currently feeling: Frustrated, but persistent. The weather is so bad that I can't do any work on my cyborg arm outdoors. And much of it requires places with lots of ventilation (namely the heating of the plastic and the painting). That means that I'm going to end up working in my basement with all the windows open.

I can watch TV while I'm working on the arm, but it's too bad I can't read while I'm working on it. I'd be reading like crazy!

It's time to start your eyeballs!

The read-a-thon technically starts now, but I'm going to go to sleep. I can't read if I'm tired. And it's a crazy blizzard here which always makes me sleepy.

For your first post, would you please share all the books you hope to read during the read-a-thon? Either leave a comment with the titles, or a link to your post.

Here are mine. I hope to read at least three from this list (excluding Witchlanders):

• Witchlanders (Partially read already)
• Seige and Storm
• Shades of Earth
• Asunder
• Stormdancer
• Shadowfell
• Falling Kingdoms
• Curse of the Wendigo
• Frostfire

I hope I can get through three! But I'm also really consumed with my project to create a fake cyborg arm right now. So... I might get distracted.

Good luck! What are you reading?

I think the name of this read-a-thon says it all. Have you reached your goal? Yeah, me neither. *glares at all you goal-finishers* But the year isn't over yet! We may have procrastinated, but there's still hope!

Even if you have met your goal, I hope you'll join us for the oh-my-word-the-year-is-over-and-I-haven't-reached-my-goal read-a-thon!

The read-a-thon will go from 12:01am MST on December 27th and go until 11:59pm MST on December 29th.

This is a self-motivated read-a-thon. What does that mean? Well, in a nutshell it means I won't be giving away any books or prizes. You're participating just for the love of reading. This way there's no pressure to skip out on holiday festivities in order to participate.

There will be only 4 updates (instead of one every 2 hours. Geez. What was I thinking?). At the start of the read-a-thon, 24 hours, 48 hours, and the end of the read-a-thon. And I'll provide a Mr. Linky here for you to link up.

No mini challenges. I want you to focus on reading.

Well? Is anyone out there interested in participating? Or will I be read-a-thon-ing by myself? Sign up using the Mr. Linky if you're going to join in the fun. If you don't have a blog, feel free to sign up and just link back to my blog. :) Below Mr. Linky is where you can grab the read-a-thon button. If you do post it on your website, be sure to let me know in the comments so I can come look!

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Wahoo! If you're reading this, finals week is finally over! Even though my finals week wasn't very hard, it still felt like FINALS WEEK and so I had this strange guilt about reading. But that's gone now, and it's time to read!!!

I am WOEFULLY behind on my reading goal, but I hope to read at least TEN BOOKS before I go back to school on January 7th. The the top ten books I'm hoping to get to can be seen in this list, but what I want to know from YOU is...


In order to meet my goal I would LOVE to have another read-a-thon (last year's read-a-thon button is pictured). If you would be interested in participating, please let me know which of the following dates are better for you:

Or if there are enough people who want to do both, we can do both! Let me know in the comments!

Stop your eyeballs! The read-a-thon is over! Did you meet your goal? Exceed it? I didn't. But that's okay! I had fun! Link to your final reports below! Many of you have already welcomed in the new year, but I'm about to in ONE MINUTE! So exciting! Here's wishing you many happy books in 2012!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 2
• Total Pages Read: 702
• Books Read Since Last Update: Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
• Pages Read since last update: 228
• Total time read: 8.5
• How I'm currently feeling: Wow. Read-a-thon FAIL! Only two books? I usually average 100 pages per hours, so 700 in 8.5 hours is NO BUENO! It toom me a lot longer to read MiA than I thought. Well, didn't come anywhere near reaching my goal, but I'm still glad the read-a-thon happened!

Link to your updates here!

36 hours down, only 12 to go. How has your reading been this morning? Link your 3rd updates below!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 1
• Total Pages Read: 474
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 0
• Total time read: 4.5
• What I'm currently reading: 60 pages into Midnight In Austenland by Shannon Hale
• How I'm currently feeling: WOW I hate mornings. Why did I host a read-a-thon where two whole sections went from midnight to noon? I didn't read AT ALL. Blargh. Well, I guess that just means I really have to kick it into gear this afternoon.I want to finish MiA and one other book. That's my goal.

Link to your updates here!

The read-a-thon has officially been going for 24 hours, which means it's UPDATE TIME! Link your updates below!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 1
• Total Pages Read: 474
• Books Read Since Last Update: Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
• Pages Read since last update: 369
• Total time read: 4.5
• What I'm currently reading: 60 pages into Midnight In Austenland by Shannon Hale
• How I'm currently feeling: After a day of work, designing a new blog layout, my dad's birthday party, and incessant stirring of chicken cacciatore sauce, It feels so wonderful to be lost in a Shannon Hale novel again. However, I am getting a little sleepy. I think I shall retire to my bed soon. But I do so love meeting up with Mrs. Wattlesbrook, Miss Charming, and Col. Andrews again.

Link to your updates here!

Tee hee. The read-a-thon looks really funny when you turn it into a string of letters. Anyway. Update time! My updates will be in the following format, but yours can look however you'd like!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 105
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 105
• Total time read: 1.5 hours
• What I'm currently reading: Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
• How I'm currently feeling: I hit a small stumbling block in that I have to work for 4 hours today. But in two more hours I'll be free to read like crazy! I'm really liking Bloodrose but I've forgotten who a lot of the characters are. There are a TON of characters in this series.

Link to your updates here!

Strap yourselves in, boys! (Even though... well... none of you are boys, right?) It's read-a-thon time!

Time for your start-up posts! Post your booklists, how close you are to your goal, and anything else you want!

I will do this... in the morning. I dunno why I started a read-a-thon at midnight. That's far too late for me to START reading. So I shall start in approximately 8 hours with Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer. Yee-haw!

Post your booklists in the comments, or link to a blog post below.

I think the name of this read-a-thon says it all. Have you reached your goal? Yeah, me neither. *glares at all you goal-finishers* But the year isn't over yet! We may have procrastinated, but there's still hope!

Even if you have met your goal, I hope you'll join us for the oh-my-word-the-year-is-over-and-I-haven't-reached-my-goal read-a-thon!

The read-a-thon will go from 12:01am MST on December 30th and go until 11:59pm MST on December 31st. I know that this falls right on new years eve, which might bother some of you, but I don't really celebrate that holiday. This'll probably be the only thing that keeps me up until midnight.
And this is a self-motivated read-a-thon. What does that mean? Well, in a nutshell it means I won't be giving away any books or prizes. You're participating just for the love of reading. This way there's no pressure to skip out on holiday festivities in order to participate.

There will be only 4 updates (instead of one every 2 hours. Geez. What was I thinking?). At 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours, and 48 hours. And I'll provide a Mr. Linky here for you to link up.

No mini challenges. I want you to focus on reading.
Maybe this'll become a tradition too. A read-a-thon in June, and one in December.

Well? Is anyone out there interested in participating? Or will I be read-a-thon-ing by myself? Sign up using the Mr. Linky if you're going to join in the fun. If you don't have a blog, feel free to sign up and just link back to my blog. :) Below Mr. Linky is where you can grab the read-a-thon button. If you do post it on your website, be sure to let me know in the comments so I can come look!

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The winner of the international read-a-thon contest never e-mailed me, so I picked a new winner! Here you go:


You are the new international winner! You have 48 hours to e-mail me before I pick someone else.

I FINALLY have the winners picked. Winners, I did not get your e-mails so it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EMAIL ME in 72 hours. If you don't e-mail me, I will pick a new winner. My email is SqueakyBooks@yahoo.com.

Without further ado, winners!

THANK YOU to all participants! Squeaky Books will be back to normal starting Monday.

Hey, y'all,

I'm in a major read-a-thon hangover. Trying to get through all of the links and pick winners is probably going to take up most of my time this week (Mr. Linkys are not as nice as Google Docs). Don't expect to see winners until the end of this week. Maybe we'll see them earlier than that, but probably not.

Hope you all had fun!

This was a page and I needed the page-space, so I'm archiving this as a post.


Here is your ultimate source for everything about the Spring into Summer Read-a-thon! Check out the links below for everything you need to know! More links will be added as more posts are made.

The read-a-thon is officially over! Feel free to keep reading, but from now on your reading no longer qualifies you for the "most read" prize. You have until MIDNIGHT MST to post this update, which gives you 4 hours. But remember ONLY READING DONE PRIOR TO RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE (8:00pm MST) counts. I don't really have any way of making sure you do this, but I like to think people are honest.

Here's the questions for Report #2. These reports are for my benefit. This is the first read-a-thon I have ever participated in (so it's obviously the first one I've hosted). I'm still learning! Your answers will make the next read-a-thon even better! SO BE HONEST. You won't hurt my feelings. I promise.

1. First of all, give us an end-of-read-a-thon status update. Books read, pages read, you know the drill!
2. What is your favorite book you read during the read-a-thon?
3. Did you participate in any mini-challenges? Which ones?
4. Which mini-challenge was your favorite?
5. What has been your favorite thing about the read-a-thon?
6. Are you satisfied with how much reading you got done? Did you do more than you expected? Less?
7. What did you think of the updates? Too close together? Didn't like the time limit?
8. If you could change one thing about the read-a-thon, what would it be?
9. Would you participate in another read-a-thon hosted by Squeaky Books? Why or why not? (Again, I won't cry if you say "no")
10. Any last comments on the read-a-thon?

MY ANSWERS:
(if these are blank that means I haven't gotten home yet. Hopefully I'll fill them in soon!)

First of all, give us an end-of-read-a-thon status update. Books read, pages read, you know the drill!
Update:

• Total Books Read: 3
• Total Pages Read: 1,167
• Books Read Since Last Update: 1
• Pages Read since last update: 33
• Total time read: 13 hours
• How I'm currently feeling: Feeling pretty nauseous due to poor eating habits today. Too sick to read in the car, so I only read 33 pages. A bowl of cottage cheese and some ibuprofen has made me right as rain!
• Books read: finished the last 30 pages of Legend by Marie Lu, Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer, Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer, and The Roar by Emma Clayton.

What is your favorite book you read during the read-a-thon?

• I really liked Wolfsbane. A great continuation of a great series.

• Why yes, yes I did. All of them. I sort of had to. *wink*

• Hm... I still really liked the picture puzzle one.

• It was nice to have a justified reason to just sit and read. I've never done anything like this before.

• The first day was REALLY disappointing. I hardly got even 2 hours of reading in. However, my goal was 1,000 pages, and I met it. But I know that if I had read the WHOLE read-a-thon, I could have easily doubled that.
• I brought a lot of really short (meaning around 200 pages) books for the read-a-thon, because I thought I would feel more fulfilled if I read more books. Instead, I ended up reading two of the largest books in my pile. But if I HAD read 200-page books, I would have read aroud 5 or 6, instead of just three. So I guess I still feel pretty fulfilled.

• I think I made a mistake in tying the updates and the mini-challenges together. And the two hour time limit wasn't as nice as I thought it would be. If/when I host another read-a-thon, I'm definitely going to reconsider the format of the updates. I think maybe once every FOUR hours would be better than every two.

• I would make sure that I had BOTH days available. And I would change the frequency of the updates as mentioned before.

• I don't think I would. If I'm being completely honest, I think Squeaky Books is a joke, and Enna Isilee is a jerk. (I didn't really write this survey for myself... awkward.)

• THANK YOU to everyone who participated. I honestly didn't think I'd have anywhere CLOSE to this many people reading with me. I was hoping for around 20, and I got nearly 200 people who signed up! It was a great first experience.
• Please give me some time to pick giveaway winners and such. I'm not even going to give you a "this is when they will be announced" date, because I'd like to take the time to go through all the links, and comment on all of your blogs. And that should take me a while.

Link up to your end-of-read-a-thon reports here! Remember you have until MIDNIGHT MST which is 4 hours from the posting of this. (Some leniency will be given to those in weird time zones who are currently asleep, etc.)

ONLY TWO HOURS REMAINING

It's time for the eleventh update & mini-challenge! Here's your challenge: If you could live in the world of one book, which would it be and why?

Here's my update and mini challenge answer!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 2
• Total Pages Read: 1,134
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 197
• Total time read: 12.5 hours
• How I'm currently feeling: I'm feeling great! But my hotel is kicking me out now. That's why this post is late, the wifi turned off and I'm typing this on my phone. I'm going to go home now, maybe I'll read in the car. Don't worry. I'm not driving.

Mini Challenge:
I had to think about this for a long time. Most of the books I read have worlds that are not-so-pleasant. That's why they're interesting books! I stared at my shelves for a few minutes, and eventually decided that living in the world of Harry Potter would be the coolest, but that felt like cheating. So I went with the world of Divergent. Even though there is some serious troubles in this world, the world itself is nice. It's organized and neat. And I love the factions.

I know one world I would definitely NOT want to live in, though...

If YOU participate in this update and mini-challenge, you will be entered to win a SIGNED copy of The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan! Link to your post below in the Mr. Linky.

If you want to link to your post, but do not want to be entered to win The Forest of Hands and Teeth, merely place two asterisks before your Mr. Linky  entry.

EXAMPLE: **Enna Isilee @ Squeaky Books will NOT enter you to win but
Enna Isilee @ Squeaky Books WILL enter you to win.

This giveaway is for bloggers and NON-bloggers. Non-bloggers should post their answer in the comments.

This giveaway will only be open until Report #2 is posted at 8:00pm MST.

As always, be sure that you have read and understand everything in the STUFF TO KNOW post.

It's time for the tenth update & mini-challenge! Here's your challenge: Tell me, what is the funniest/most inspiring thing you have read so far in the read-a-thon?

Here's my update and mini challenge answer!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 2
• Total Pages Read: 937
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 181
• Total time read: 10.5 hours
• Currently Reading: The Roar by Emma Clayton
• How I'm currently feeling: I'm feeling good! The book I'm reading is really WIERD though. It's kind of like enders game, but has too much experimenting on children for my taste. Over half-way done, though! I'm definitely going to reach my goal!

Mini Challenge:
The three books I've read so far haven't really been funny or insipring... one was about a cutter-girl, one was about an extremely distressed wolf-girl, and one is about experimenting on and kidnapping children. There was one pretty funny character in Wolfsbane. Lots of mooning and inappropriate jokes. I chuckled a couple times.

If YOU participate in this update and mini-challenge, you will be entered to win a copy of How to take the Ex out of Ex-Boyfriend by Janette Rallison! Link to your post below in the Mr. Linky.

If you want to link to your post, but do not want to be entered to win How to take the Ex out of Ex-Boyfriend, merely place two asterisks before your Mr. Linky  entry.

EXAMPLE: **Enna Isilee @ Squeaky Books will NOT enter you to win but Enna Isilee @ Squeaky Books WILL enter you to win.

This giveaway is for bloggers and NON-bloggers. Non-bloggers should post their answer in the comments.

This giveaway will only be open until Update #11 is posted at 6:00pm MST.

As always, be sure that you have read and understand everything in the STUFF TO KNOW post.

It's time for the ninth update & mini-challenge! Here's your challenge: Create an anagram of your name/pseudonym. Details below.

Here's my update and mini challenge answer!

Update:

• Total Books Read: 2
• Total Pages Read: 756
• Books Read Since Last Update: 1
• Pages Read since last update: 160
• Total time read: 8.5 hours
• Currently Reading: The Roar by Emma Clayton
• How I'm currently feeling: For some reason I actually feel really grumpy. I think it's because the only thing I could find to eat (that sounded good) was an 80 calorie soup-to-go and some candy. I need real food! But it's not stopping my reading!

Mini Challenge:
There's this really great website that takes any name and turns it into a really cool anagram. CLICK HERE to use it and share with us your anagram!

Here's mine:

There is no giveaway associated with this update, but I hope you'll still participate! Link up below!

The giveaway associated with this update is INTERNATIONAL ONLY, but anyone can participate in the update.

It's time for the eighth update & mini-challenge! Here's your challenge: If you had bookshelves FULL of all of your favorite books, how would you organize them?

Here's my update and mini challenge answer!
Update:

• Total Books Read: 1
• Total Pages Read: 596
• Books Read Since Last Update: ALMOST 1 more
• Pages Read since last update: 200
• Total time read: 7 hours
• How I'm currently feeling: Feeling good! That last 2 hour period was the best for me. I'm heading out into town now to find some lunch, then I'll be back for more reading!

Mini Challenge:

• I'm MAJOR OCD when it comes to my books. I have to organize by author's last name and it has to be perfect. If there are more by the same author, I either organize them by the order of the series, or alphabetically by title.

If YOU participate in this update and mini-challenge, you will be entered to win any book of your choice under $15 from The Book Depository. Giveaway open anywhere the Book Depository ships. 


If you are international, link in this Mr. Linky:


If you are US (and therefore not entering) link in this Mr. Linky:



If you want to link to your post, but do not want to be entered to win merely place two asterisks before your Mr. Linky entry.

EXAMPLE: **Enna Isilee @ Squeaky Books will NOT enter you to win but
Enna Isilee @ Squeaky Books WILL enter you to win.

This giveaway is for bloggers and NON-bloggers. Non-bloggers should post their answer in the comments.

This giveaway will only be open until the end of the read-a-thon.

As always, be sure that you have read and understand everything in the STUFF TO KNOW post.