Read.Read.READ-A-THON: Last Official Prize Post and Update(Tplus19)
It is getting late right? Yes, but we are still going strong!!! There are some of you still around. WHO IS OUT THERE!?! Comment on this post so we can keep keeping track of eachother. We are at T plus 19, yes only 5 hours left. 5 little hours.
Please forgive me, but this is going to be my last informational prize post. I may do another personal post I may not. But I want to be able to read as well. There is so much info in this post, make sure you read it all carefully and that you go enter all the giveaways you are interested in.
We have one last Breaktime Shindig to attend:
It is hours Shindig is hosted by Debbie Nance at Reader Buzz. Visit her Reader Buzz blog and talk about your favourite Christmas stories. She is offering a prize that you won’t want to miss out on: Amazon gift of $10 to the winner.
These Giveaways are Open Still:
This is going to be my last prize post, but I will have everything listed here, so please go enter EVERYTHING!!!
*Make sure to enter the I LOVE MONSTER pendant giveaway, I think she is leaving it open until after the Read.Read.READ-A-THON for the peeps who are just too busy reading to win anything 
Make sure you go there and enter it, it is so super sweet!
*Emily at Seriously Reading is into book covers, and she has a prize to giveaway on her blog for your answers! Win a copy of Keeping The Feast you don’t want to miss that book!!!
*Over at I HEART MONSTER! Take a little reading break and go over and visit with her about Ditching Naughty and Embracing Nice! I’d embrace nice if I were you and head over- it is to your benefit, she has a $10 Amazon gift card up for grabs!!! (This needs to be done before the end of the Read.Read.READ-A-THON for it to count in the drawing!)
*And also go to Reader Buzz blog and talk about your favourite Christmas stories. She is offering a prize that you won’t want to miss out on: Amazon gift of $10 to the winner.
We are going to do something different for the prizes for the rest of the eve (night/morning).
LAST Read. Read. READ-A-THON GIVEAWAY!!!
Three SUPA-LUCKY winners will be able to select a pack prize, of one of the following sets:
1. Angels By Chuck Fischer ISBN: 0316039705
2. Miracles By Karen Kingsbury ISBN: 0446557951
3. The Gift of an Ordinary Day By Katrina Kenison ISBN: 0446409480
4. Christmas Memories By Susan Branch ISBN: 0316106488
5. The Paper Bag Christmas By Kevin Alan Milne ISBN: 1599950731
1. Start-up Nation By Dan Senor , Saul Singer ISBN: 044654146X
2. The Monuments Men By Robert M. Edsel , Bret Witter ISBN: 1599951495
3. Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish By Shana Liebman ISBN: 0446504629
4. The Woman Who Named God By Charlotte Gordon ISBN: 031611474X
5. A Lucky Child By Thomas Buergenthal , Elie Wiesel ISBN: 0316043400
1. The Boy Next Door By Irene Sabatini ISBN: 031604993X
2. Mrs. O By Mary Tomer ISBN: 1599952580
3. Role of a Lifetime By James Brown , Nathan Whitaker , Tony Dungy ISBN: 0446541176
4. On the Line By Serena Williams , Daniel Paisner ISBN: 0446553662
5. Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales By Nelson Mandela ISBN: 1600246664
All of these giveaways are OPEN IN US AND CANADA ONLY. NO PO BOXES PLEASE.
The deets: I will select three winners, one for each of the Hachette holiday Book packages. So, if you are still around, and want to be entered comment on this post with the information below. This is open only to US and Canada peeps, and no PO boxes please.
How to enter the three rules for this giveaway:
1.)Comment on this post telling us what your favourite holiday memory is EVER.
2.)Tell me which you would like to be entered for. You can ask to be entered for all three. If you’d just like to be entered for one tell me. But I don’t want to send this pack of books to someone who doesn’t want them, so if you do not state which package you’d like, I won’t enter you. (sorry)
3.)Sorry, only US and Canada. No PO Boxes please.
If you are still awake, let us know by commenting here. We will all try and visit those remaining peeps. I don’t think there are many of us!!!!
Themocracy
I’m still awake! Barely…
Okay, my favorite holiday memory ever… is my the last year that I got a stocking at my Grandma’s house. Although it’s really a kind of sad memory. At my grandparents’ house for Christmas all the grandchildren have (or had I suppose) Christmas stockings that my grandma made for us. I am the youngest grandchild, so about two years ago was the last year that I got stocking stuffers and then my grandma told me that I could take my stocking home. I’m not sure why I like this memory, I guess because I’ve always been really close to my grandmother and it felt like validation that she thought I was grown up.
I’d like to be entered for 1 and 2.
*yawn*
& by one and two I meant Christmas and Hanukkah, boy it’s late.
I’m still awake, for now. I think I will make it, on my third wind now.
My favorite Christmas memory would have to be the one year my brother and I managed to circumvent our parents and sneak downstairs before they woke up on Christmas morning. It was still dark out, but the tree was lit, as were the electric candles in the windows. The stockings were bulging with presents and under the tree was overflowing with them, or so it seemed. It had all appeared over night as if by magic and we both just stood there and didn’t say a word and just looked. And, then went back upstairs and curled up in my bed and waited for the parents to wake up. We had our magic moment and it could sustain us until morning.
I’d like to be entered for Christmas only please.
i’m still in it. i’m so sleepy. power nap helped a little.
I’ve been reading all this time so I just now saw this. I’m still around. Not asleep, although I should be.
Favorite holiday memory is tough but as the years pass and I lose my siblings, I would have to say that the favorite memory is of being a child on Christmas day. My birthday is on Christmas and as a child I thought the whole world was happy on my birthday. That was a pretty special feeling. The best thing was that we were all together…my parents, my six siblings, and me. There were a lot of us and even though, at times, we fought, we were always there for one another. Now, with only three siblings left, I appreciate my brothers even more now that they are gone. I guess the favorite memory is of being together as a family on Christmas.
I would be happy to be entered for any or all of the packages.
And thank you. This has been a blast!
I am going very very slow. Haven’t finished a single book. Reading a shrt story collection. It is daytime and yet I am stressed out.
Yes, I’m awake…after a short sleepy interlude!
My favorite Christmas memory(ies)…my sister and I used to put on two man (girl) shows (we called them pageants) every year for my parents. We would choose several songs carefully from our Christmas record collection and we would make up routines and sing along. We took it very seriously, but it was such great fun!
I would be interested in Package 1.
Thanks for the giveaway and for keeping us motivated!
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I’m off! Bed calls and I think I’ve done fine for my first read-a-thon. Thanks so much for hosting! Too tired to even sign up for this fabulous giveaway so good luck to everyone who wins. It’s been great!!
I iz still here, and going strong with a new book that I’m enjoying! I’m crazy and on my fourth wind, but I’m loving it. It’d be wicked to be entered for the 2nd prize pack you got there
I’m in Canada. My blog is still being updated regular-like: http://perpetualspiral.blogspot.com
My Favourite Holiday Memory
Hands-down: Tickets to Disney World!! I was four years old, missing my two front teeth (and sick of hearing that stupid song about me wanting them back for Christmas!), and also got a stuffed Raccoon named Rocky. I think my mom still has the picture of me and my brother holding our home-made “tickets” to the Magical Land of Disney, so I can just see us now! Me in my yellow pajamas with the feet, holding my Rocky Raccoon in the crook of my arm, sh*t-eating tooth-missing grin on my little face! And I remember Disney World too, it was super fun, even for a little girl. Of course, we had to wait a few months before we went, but man, can you ask for a better Christmas gift? Nope!
My favorite Christmas memory: I remember the year my husband went to my Amazon wishlist and ordered twenty books from it! I had books to read for months and months.
I would be interested in Kwanza or Christmas.
You did an excellent job hosting this. I wish I could have participated! What fun.
This was a lot of fun. I had to sleep for a while, but I am going to make up for that by reading longer today. I love read-a-thons! So much fun!!! Thanks for doing this for all of us! It was a lot of fun!!!
Oh, I will post my favorite christmas story. On the Christmas of my senior year of High School, my mom stayed up all night sewing me a Regency Era dress. I had always wanted on and so she made on for me and then an outfit for my youngest sister (she was 4 at the time). I wore it to church. My parents are missionaries in West Africa, so they didn’t think it was out of the ordinary to wear an outfit like that in Western Culture. It was such a beautiful outfit and everything about it showed how much my mother loved me.
I finished just now – an hour late because I actually started an hour late. But I did it, without any naps! I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to books, can you tell?
I had a terrific time, and I want to thank Dreadlock Girl from the bottom of my heart for putting together such a great event. It was perfection! Thanks also to everyone who posted encouragement on my blog and who hosted the break fun on their blogs. So proud of all of us! I look forward to the next Readathon I can participate in
Take care all <3
Thanks for hosting this read-a-thon, Bethany. Even though I only participated part of the time, it was great to fit a bit of quality reading time into my weekend. Sweet dreams!
It is 2:20, Sunday afternoon, and I am ashamed to say that, once again, I only lasted to one in the morning. Thanks a ton for hosting!
Don’t be ashamed. You did it and you did what you could. That’s all that counts!
Hey girlie–just saw your tweet about missing your favorite commenter for your readathon.
My apologies. I haven’t been blogging in over a month and don’t even dare to check my Google Reader anymore.
Looks like you had a really successful readathon and lots of participants! Hope you’re doing well.
Congrats to all those who lasted the full 24 hours! It was fun. =)