Last Thanksgiving, Candace from Beth Fish Reads, Jen from Devourer of Books & I unveiled Thankfully Reading, an excuse to do an obscene amount of reading over the long Thanksgiving weekend. I’m excited to announce that we’ll be doing the event again this year!
Here are the details:
There are no rules to the weekend, we’re simply hoping to devote a good amount of time to reading, and perhaps meeting some of our reading challenges and goals for 2010. We thought it’d be fun if we cheered each other on a bit. If you think you can join in, grab the button and sign on to Mr. Linky. If you don’t have a blog, use the comments!
During the weekend, come back and link any Thankfully Reading Weekend posts to the Mr. Linky we’ll put up here on Friday, November 26. Feel free to link as many posts as you’d like. On Sunday will put up another Mr. Linky for your wrap-up post.
We’ll also be checking in on Twitter using hashtag #thankfulreading. Join in for the weekend or for only a single day. No rules, no pressure!
This year, we will be doing some fun Thankfully Reading mini-challenges over the weekend. Be sure to check back Thanksgiving weekend for more details!
If you are interested in hosting your own Thankfully Reading mini-challenge, please don’t hesitate to contact me at jennsbookshelfATgmailDOTcom.
*Edit: Each participant of Thankfully Reading Weekend will receive a copy of Shelf Unbound, a new digital monthly magazine featuring the best of small press, university press, and self-published books!
So, if you are interested in participating, please sign up with the Mr. Linky below!
Count me in!
Oh, I might have to just join in on this fun!
I am IN! Definitely was planning on tons of reading anyways.
Twitter: jennbookshelves
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November 8th, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Fantastic! We’re glad to have you!
Sounds like a great idea! But between the holiday with my mother, two new kittens, and getting my Christmas tree up and decorated over the weekend, I won’t have time to read!
I’ll follow your progress on twitter. Good idea to come up with a hashtag,
Twitter: jennbookshelves
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November 8th, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Oh that’s a shame!
Twitter: tscreates
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I will definitely give reading a good attempt but it all depends on how many guests I will have on that weekend.
Thank you so much for doing this! I’ve been looking for a great excuse to just stay home and read all weekend, and lookie here! You just provided one! Thanks
This is perfect!! Not Thanksgiving weekend here…we do that in October…but it IS the last weekend before the lobster fishing season starts which makes it the last peaceful weekend until after Christmas. So…I am THANKFUL to have a reason to spend a wonderful weekend reading!
Twitter: girlsgonereadin
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My email isn’t working right now, but I would be happy to do a mini challenge.
Twitter: FoodieBooklvr
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Sorry my Mr. Linky says “tabbouleh” in parentheses. I guess it was from my “weekend cooking” post from Beth Fish Reads blog. I didn’t realize that the text stayed.
Twitter: Alleluialu
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I only read like one book last year over Thanksgiving, but I’m willing to give it another go this year!
Thanks for hosting!
I’ll give it a try… don’t know how much I’ll get accomplished though! LOL
Twitter: melissawiebe
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I have joined. Its surprising how many readathons there are on a weekend.
Just to let you know I am hosting my first readathon the next weekend. You can find the information here: http://jaynesbooks.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-first-readathon.html
I hope you can join or even if you can’t, that others can join.
Twitter: bookaliciouspam
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Woohoo! If you need me for a challenge event let me know.
Twitter: thebookeaters
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I’m sooo in!
Sounds fun! We jut order takeaway Chinese so reading will add to the festivities.
Twitter: undermyappletre
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I’ll probably only get one book read due to all the other distractions I might encounter over the weekend but I’ll give it a go.
Twitter: BooksAndCooks
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I really enjoyed this last year so count me in!
Twitter: crutch9
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Sounds wonderful! I may even have to skip any school assignments I have to dive into my to be read pile. It has grown quite large!
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Twitter: bitsyblingbooks
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I’m in and very excited to have an activity to keep me busy this holiday. It’s my first one alone without my children. I will be eating a lot of pumpkin pie, drinking hot apple cider and reading, reading, reading….
Grateful!
Charlie
Bitsy Bling Books
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Twitter: michelleerin
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I’m going to be out of town over Thanksgiving but I still hope to get lots of reading in (perhaps more than if I stayed here).
Sounds like fun. Thanks for hosting.
Twitter: byBookeater
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Excited about this reading challenge! This will be my first reading challenge ever–and what better way to start than with a Thankfully Reading challenge? I’m signing up.
Twitter: booksnyc
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love, love, love this idea! Thanks for hosting! I made a mistake with the Mr. Linky – it populated with my last link and I didn’t check it before hitting upload – sorry.
Looking forward to the long weekend . . . .
Twitter: joyfullyretired
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I love the spirit of this event. I’d much rather be reading than in a mall fighting to spend my money. Looking forward to the long weekend.
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Thank you for tweeting the reminder! I just stated to the husband last night, “When Thanksgiving is over, all my friends are spending the weekend shopping. Do you know what I want to do???” Yes, book fans, he got the answer right…Read?…”Yes, honey, read.”
He’s a good man.
Having trouble grabbing the button…
Twitter: utahalison
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I’m looking forward to some good reading over the weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Count me in. This is exactly what I need. Thank you for hosting.
Twitter: iubookgirl
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I’m going to try and read as much as possible over the holiday weekend! Hopefully, this will encourage me to keep at it.
I’m all in! Loaded up the e-reader today.
Any excuse to read!
Twitter: ellenfbrown
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Looking forward to knocking whittling down a stack of books that is almost big enough to serve as a bedside table.
Twitter: raimalarter
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Hmmm…do you think it’s possible to do both NaNoWriMo and a Thanksgiving weekend reading marathon? I’m so far behind in NaNo, though, that it might be better to spend the time reading other people’s novels! lol
Sound like fun! I’m in!
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Twitter: RaeOhio
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I’m in! I have a nice stack of Christmas books (my favorite this time of year!) just waiting to be read. So much better than crowded malls & stores!
I would love to participate, thanks Jenn!
Twitter: shae_twcsph
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So exciting. I was planning to read a couple of books anyways.
Deal! What a great way to relax…I mean celebrate
Yes! A challenge doing my favorite thing…reading. The planets must be aligning this weekend.
Sounds like a plan. I am spending the holiday weekend alone and with no car (my daughter is borrowing it to go out of state) and no money and was starting to feel sorry for myself. Now I’m excited about the long weekend! I’ve got over 400 books on my Kindle that I have not had a chance to read so I’ll read all weekend!
Twitter: thatneilguy
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Hooray! Another excuse to read more!
Twitter: melissawiebe
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Count me in. I have the Friday off due to a school pro-d day.
I love to read so count me in.
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Twitter: belenesq
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What a wonderful idea! I intend to spend most of my weekend reading and watching movies. (No shopping frenzy for me!) Looking forward to reading all your updates.