Good Morning! Welcome to a special edition of Sunday Salon, featuring the end-of-event questions for Dewey’s Read-a-thon. I participated in the read-a-thon yesterday, although I did more cheering than reading. My earlier update posts:
- Introducing myself, my garden, and my new niece-in-law
- Best of my reading year lists
- Mid-event progress report
1. Which hour was most daunting for you?
The ones in the mid-afternoon where I was trying to decide if I should read, cheer, or plant the veggies and herbs that I bought at the plant sale in the morning. I ended up doing a bit of all of that.
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year?
I kept going to the one on my phone, the second in the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. Funny!
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year?
Perhaps a Google+ Community
I can’t summarize this, at all, without a spoiler to the first book in the series — so go read The Name of the Star!
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?
I loved the spreadsheet for the cheerleaders!
5. How many books did you read?
Parts of 3.
6. What were the names of the books you read?
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson
Changeless by Gail Carriger
7. Which book did you enjoy most?
The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson
8. Which did you enjoy least?
I like Quicksilver but it’s starting to make me feel like a failure as a reader that I can’t finish the darn thing! I don’t like it when books attack my self esteem.
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?
I loved how the spreadsheet was so motivating. I wanted my initials on every line and that kept me going! I may have been a teeny bit giddy when I finished.
Got thru the #TeamButler cheer list. I HAZ ALL THE CHEERZ. #Readathon
— Joy Weese Moll (@joyweesemoll) April 27, 2014
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?
Cheerleader and Reader, but I need to be realistic that I won’t be reading that much especially if something like my garden also calls for attention.
Did you participate in yesterday’s Read-a-thon? What are you doing to recover today? I’m going to do a bunch of social media, like I didn’t have enough of that yesterday. I want to visit the Weekend Cooking and Saturday Snapshots posts that I neglected yesterday. I also want to see everyone else’s wrap-up posts for the Read-a-thon. And, I was so busy with blogs yesterday that I mostly ignored the Twitter party, so I want to revisit that and maybe find a few new people to follow.
What are you up to this fine Sunday?
