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April 2015 Readathon: Finish Line!

April 26, 2015

Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-A-Thon is a bi-annual readathon, hosted at 24hourreadathon.com, where readers and bloggers get together and read for 24 hours, sharing their experience with others. Well, guys, how did everyone do? I completed my goal and read a bit more, which I’m very happy with! I wish I had been able to stay up longer, but ...

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April 2015 Readathon: Updates & Mini Challenges

April 25, 2015

Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-A-Thon is a bi-annual readathon, hosted at 24hourreadathon.com, where readers and bloggers get together and read for 24 hours, sharing their experience with others. Instead of writing several posts, I thought I’d just keep all my updates and mini challenges on one page, with separate posts for the Opening Meme ...

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April 2015 Readathon: Starting Line!

April 25, 2015

Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-A-Thon is a bi-annual readathon, hosted at 24hourreadathon.com, where readers and bloggers get together and read for 24 hours, sharing their experience with others. Hello everyone! I got started a little late this morning, and had to feed my baby and play with my older kiddo a bit, so I haven’t been able to do ...

Readathon Prep: 7 Steps to Ensure a (Somewhat) Successful Readathon

April 17, 2015

Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon is just around the corner (April 25th! Go here for more info and to sign up!), and I’m finding myself preparing for it. Because one does not just DO Readathon. Oh no, there is prep involved. Admittedly, this Readathon is going to be a bit different for me, since I have a newborn in the house (along with a ...

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A Day in the Life

March 27, 2015

A Day in the Life is a blogger event, hosted by Trish at Love, Laughter, and a touch of Insanity, where bloggers keep track of what they do for a day, and then share it with others. Hi everyone! I’m excited to be participating in this blogger event! I just found out about it the other day via Twitter, and I’m glad I ...

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2014 Reading Challenges Attempted

January 1, 2015

Happy New Year, everyone! With each new year comes a new set of Reading Challenges for me to participate in. To see which ones I’m attempting for 2015, go here. But this post is all about how I did with the challenges I attempted in 2014. I didn’t do as well as I hoped, but I did have a little snafu with my pregnancy ...

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Top Ten Tuesday: 2015 Goals, Resolutions, & Reading Challenges

December 30, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week there is a new topic. I’m a huge fan of lists, so this meme is right up my alley! This week’s topic is Top Ten Goals/Resolutions For 2015 — bookish, blogging or otherwise! So I’ve kind of broken this down into two categories: the ...

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NaNoWriMo 2014

November 5, 2014

Hi everyone! I just wanted to write a little note explaining why my blog is on a hiatus, yet again. Well, since 2009, I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo each November, and this year is no exception. So far my novel is going really well–I’m rewriting a novel I’ve been working on since 2010 and my goal is to ...

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Oct. 2014 Readathon: Finish Line!

October 19, 2014

Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-A-Thon is a bi-annual readathon, hosted at 24hourreadathon.com, where readers and bloggers get together and read for 24 hours, sharing their experience with others. Well, guys, how did everyone do? I failed, miserably. I think this was my worst readathon! But I’ll be back! I have to make sure ...

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Oct. 2014 Readathon: Updates & Mini-Challenges

October 18, 2014

Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-A-Thon is a bi-annual readathon, hosted at 24hourreadathon.com, where readers and bloggers get together and read for 24 hours, sharing their experience with others. Instead of writing several posts, I thought I’d just keep all my updates and mini challenges on one page, with separate posts for the Opening Meme ...