I'm Giddy With Anticipation!

Tomorrow is the big day—Dewey's 24-Hour Read-A-Thon!

I'm so excited—even though most likely I'll be doing a 10-Hour Read-A-Thon. Still, that is about 9.5 more hours than I usually have to read in a day.

I've been reading a lot of posts about people's plans and tips and suggestions. So I thought I would lay out my own game plan for tomorrow. (By the way, Mr. Jenners thinks this whole thing is silly and ridiculous but he is being supportive anyway. But as a non-reader, I didn't expect him to get it. I just want him to take care of the kid for the day!)

First, reading other posts made me wonder if I had enough books picked out. Some people seem to have stacks that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and I have a crummy 6 books. I console myself that if I should somehow burn through all 6 books in 10 hours, I still have at least 94 books sitting on the downstairs bookshelf I can read. So no problems there.

Second, my primary focus will be on reading. I don't get uninterrupted reading time very often so I'm all about the reading and less about the challenges or blogging or anything else. To that end, my basic plan is to read for two hours and then take a short break (20 to 30 minutes) to update my progress on the blog, check out the mini-challenges (if they are short and sweet) and then jump back into reading. So at most, I'll probably only have 4 to 6 updates tomorrow.

Third, I'm not going to attempt to even write book reviews tomorrow but I will share some "top of mind" thoughts during my updates.

Fourth, I'm planning on going to bed early tonight so I'm rested and refreshed and don't accidentally fall asleep while reading.

Fifth, I'm just going to have fun with it and not stress about how many books I've read or not read, whether I participated in enough "community" events and whether I provided enough updates and so forth.

If you're doing the Read-A-Thon, have fun with it and happy reading! : )