Read-a-thon: Update Hour 11-12 - HALFWAY!

Mid-Event Survey:

1. What are you reading right now? Anne Frank (will finish in the next session)

2. How many books have you read so far? 1 :( But will finish #2 soon!

3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? Coraline!!

4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day? Nope.

5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? Phone calls, hubby wanting me to look up stuff for him on the Internet. Handled with patience.

6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? How dang fast the time is going!! I can't believe we're halfway through. It certainly helps that the read-a-thon is earlier this year

7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? Same old suggestion--give us a definitive time of when mini-challenges end...even the hour # helps

8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year? It's going pretty well so far, but I might have my posts already drafted to save some time

9. Are you getting tired yet? Not tired, but restless--really want to finish Anne.

10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered? Keeping a schedule or routine. Definitely helping!
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UPDATE FOR HOURS 11 & 12:

Pages: 65 (from The Diary of Anne Frank. Will finish soon!)
Time: 75 minutes

TOTALS:
472 minutes reading (almost 8 hours--the rest spent blogging, etc)
415 pages (my last update I think was wrong?)
105 minutes blogging (including now)
Lost count on comments--next update I'll include some blogs i've been haunting
1 books finished: Just Out of Luck
2 caffeine beverages
3 mini-challenge entered

And now I leave you with my favorite Youtube video. Harry Potter fans will especially like, I think (yes, it is incredibly cheesy--my 12 yo brother introduced me to it). You'll be singing "Ron Ron Ron Weasley" "Dumbledore!" for a while so be careful... ;)



*Laura - yes the toy still squeaks but she doesn't squeak it too often
*Debi - I'm not THAT young ;)

And a note on Maggie and Lexi--they get along fine. Lexi is curious and doesn't know how to "handle" Maggie and will chase her around a little bit and then get scared. Maggie just doesn't care. Sometimes she doesn't even run away from Lexi anymore.