Dewey's Readathon October 2016 Starting Line and Hour 4 Update

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? South Dakota
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Clockwork Prince
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? don't know (didn't plan snacks this time around)
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! My name is Rachael. I have been blogging for four years now. This will be my 8th readathon. I'm now a senior in college and student teaching this year. I just finished up my kindergarten placement and will be moving to my 5th grade placement on Monday. 
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?
This readathon is different in the fact that I now live at home and have many more interruptions than I did when I lived at college. 


Hour 4 Update
This readathon started off much differently than many of the other readathons in the fact that I didn't wake up until 9:00. I usually don't have a problem getting up at starting time on readathon days, but I'm a teacher now and weekends are the only time I don't have to get up early, so I let myself sleep in. I was planning on reading in bed this morning, but decided to skip that and just go straight to reading in the bathtub. I started Clockwork Prince. I wanted to start a new book today because I always find it interesting how much I can read in a day. I don't plan to finish it, but I plan to make a lot of progress.


9:10 to 9:55 pg 0 to pg 33

Pages Read: 33
Time Read: 45 minutes

My current book and my snack of donut holes. 

Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon October 2016 Sign Up

I decided to join Dewey's readathon again. Dewey is a lot different for me this year. In the previous years I have been in college and I literally just don't make plans and I just read the entire day. Now I'm living at home, I'm student teaching. On saturday we go grocery shopping and that takes the majority of our day. I'm planning to start the readathon in the morning take a break to go shopping and then when I get home start up the readathon again. I do not expect to get the statistics I have in the past just because I won't have as much time as I usually do. I'm planning on reading Small Great Things this Saturday. If I finish that I will move on to Clockwork Prince. 

Small Great Things Giveaway Winners

The winners of the Small Great Things Giveaway Are:

Congratulations to:

Lori W

Cait H

Ashlee T

Ashley E

Jaclyn D

I will be hosting a read a long in the goodreads group. I would love for you to join. 

Small Great Things Giveaway

I'm very excited to announce I will be hosting a giveaway for one of my favorite authors Jodi Picoult. Her new book is coming out on October 11th, so it is not far away. The publisher has contacted me to giveaway 5 copies of her new book.

I started reading Jodi Picoult in 2009 after seeing My Sister's Keeper in theathers. The book was better than the movie as always. My favorite books by Picoult are Leaving Time, Nineteen Minutes, and The Pact.

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Top 10 Books I Want to Read this Fall

Hosted by the Broke and the Bookish

Fall is crunch time for challenges and getting those books read that I would like to read in 2016. I created a list of 10 books I would like to read this fall, which is until around November for me. My reading time is going to be cut again as I start my student teaching journey. I will still read before bed and finish some books during the school year. 

These are the 10 books I hope to read from September to the beginning of December.

1. We Should Hang Out Sometime- Part of my sister's and I  book recommendation challenge
2. Stitching Snow- book number 2 of my sister's and I book recommendation challenge.
3. The Start of You and Me- a book I have been putting off forever
4. Golden- a book I own that I want to read
5. Friendship- the last book I need to complete our reccomendation challenge.
6. Small Great Things- an 2016 anticipated release
7. Home Front- another book I have been putting off forever
8,9,10. Princess Academy Series- a series I want to complete this year.