Beth F
Sandy
Jennifer
Michelle
Staci
I’ve decided that I’m starting the Readathon just a tad bit early. When the baby gets up it is going to get tougher to keep reading, especially because my husband will be gone for a few hours to coach his swim team (about 7:30 – 10:30, including travel). Daniel will be going over to his grandma’s house later today, but I may have to follow him over if he isn’t taking his bottle (which he doesn’t usually, so that’s probably going to happen). In addition, we are planning on spending tomorrow in downtown Chicago and staying at a hotel down there Sunday night. I’ll be going straight to work on Monday without going home. This, of course, means that I need to actually sleep some tonight. Therefore, I am going to start reading at 5:00 Central instead of 7:00 Central. If I can make it the whole 24 hours, I’ll have at least a good 5 hours of sleep before my husband is ready to get up on Sunday morning.
Anyway, enough about that. You probably want to see my final book stack:
This is pretty much the same as my original piles, with perhaps a couple of additions.
I’m not sure where I’ll be spending most of my time, I’ll probably have to move around quite a bit, but I DID figure out what charity I will be reading for. When I first moved to Chicago I was a member of Teach for America teaching 2nd grade in a high-poverty school on the city’s South Side. I found a current Teach for America corps member or alum that is still teaching 2nd grade in Chicago on DonorsChoose. This teacher is hoping to buy 36 quality children’s books for her class, but still needs a little over $400 for her grant to be fulfilled. I will be pledging $5 for every book I read over the next 24 hours to this grant (my dad’s pledging $10 per book!). Please consider sponsoring me and supporting this teacher or a literacy project in your area.
I will be starting the Readathon with a large glass of diet coke and “Confessions of a Slacker Mom”
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Yay!!!
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Woo HOO!!
I’ve been eyeing Savvy so if you get to it today I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on it. Good luck and happy reading
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Awesome pile there Jen!! Good luck and have fun!!
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Are you ready? =-.
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Happy Reading!
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Good luck especially as you’re reading for charity! I’m already sponsoring someone else but I’ll pledge you a flat rate donation of $20, just let me know how I should donate.
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I’m loving Donors Choose, too, and I’ve been donating to a similar project. If mine gets funded, I will definitely start sending money to yours!
.-= Alison´s last blog ..Read-a-thon, Hour 0 =-.
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I’m ready 5 minutes and counting…great stack of books there. Louise Penny is great.
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Looks like a great stack! I highly recommend LIAR.
best of luck today Jen!
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I hope you’re able to get a lot of reading done!
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Good morning
My name is Louise and this is my first visit to your blog (I think, although I may have been by before). I am already looking forward to visit again and check it out more
I live in Denmark and have been up for hours, since I am nine hours ahead of Pacific Time and 5AM Pacific Time meant 2PM in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I wish you much luck with your readathon. I have signed up this year for the first time, although I am not reading but cheerleading. Hope the baby will take his bottle
I am still going around the blogs orientate myself a bit, checking out the posts, hanging out on Twitter and so on. I might sneak in a bit of reading here and there, but my main thing is to cheer so GO! GO! GO!
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Hello! You’re doing great, keep up the good work! *cheers with pom poms*
LiyanaLand!
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What a great charity to read for! Good luck!
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Great charity Jen! Looks like a great stack of books too. I’m going to get a photo of mine for my next post. Hope you have a good day of reading in between all the other stuff. Give Daniel a big cuddle.
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