Preparing for Dewey's 24 Hour #Readathon

Reposted from my Sapphired Reads Blog

In a few hours time, I will starting to participate in what I think is my third Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and this time, despite the really late I signed up post ;-P, I am prepared with a capital"P".

Due to a house inspection earlier today, all the housework for the weekend has been DONE!  My four year old is enjoying a sleepover at Nana's house so I will be child free.  This leaves the rest of my weekend wide open to do nothing but READ! :-)

Now one of the most important parts of the readathon comes before it even begins and that is putting together your Readathon TBR pile.  I started preparing mine about a week ago with a goodreads shelf

Nikk's Readathon TBR Shelf

                 

Then I started pulling the physical books out.  I may have gotten a just a little enthusiastic :-P

Finally narrowed it down to starting with these below and then can pick from my above image depending on my mood.

Again this is always subject to change.


The next thing to consider is The reading space.  I love my reading space.  It gets great sunlight during the day and I have a nice light in the evenings.  Its comfy.  I can spread out, and its right next to the book shelf for when I am ready to move on to my next book :-)

Next is reading materials.  I visited the library earlier today for a last minute browse for anything worthy of adding to the TBR pile.  3 of those books made it to the very top!

Even more exciting was the new purchase I made just a couple of hours ago.  My previous kindle paperwhite was stolen a few months back so I finally purchased a new one this afternoon.  It's charging and i have already loaded it up in preparation :-)

The last important thing to organise is snacks.  The right snacks make you read faster!  It's true, I promise! :-P

These are my pre-readathon preparations, I am ready to go as soon as we hit the start. Are you reading this readathon? What books are on your TBR pile? As do you have any pre-readathon rituals or things you like to do in preparation?

Comment below and let me know.

I will be updating on Sapphired Reads every few hours to update my progress as well as on instagram so keep popping back to see how I go.

Happy Readathon everyone!  May you have a great 24 hours of reading!

Deweys 24 hour Readathon: Opening meme #readathon

It's less than half an hour until the Readathon starts and I already have my first book and first snack ready. Its 10 pm here and i haven't had dinner yet so starting small with the snacks/drinks

Here also is the opening meme so you can find out a little more about me and my reading habits :-)

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?

I am reading from Sydney Australia and as mentioned my start time is actually 10 pm on Saturday 23rd 

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

I have a few i am looking forward to but probably The Winners Kiss and The Glittering Court

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?

Probably the meat pies i will have for lunch tomorrow which will be just past the midway mark

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!

I am a reader/blogger in my mid 30s and this is my second readathon.  I tend to read a lot of paranormal romance and urban fantasy and also like YA again mostly in the genres of paranormal, urban fantasy and paranormal romance.  That being said though I am kind of an eclectic reader so will read a whole assortment of things if the mood takes me.

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?

I am going to try and cheerlead more and be more social today as well as getting my read on.  


Well only 10 minutes till show time.  i guess I will see you at the other end :-)

Good luck and happy Reading!