Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

My Read-a-thon Mini Challenge!

Welcome Read-a-Thoners to my Mini Challenge! Hope your reading is going great, we’re still early on so you should be full of energy! But that is no reason why you should not take a quick break to pace yourself and spend a few minutes taking part in a fun competition!

Just a warning, I recommended you limit yourself to five or ten minutes for this, because as I discovered, when I was creating my example, it’s very, very easy to waste more time than you were planning to perfecting it!

But, what am I talking about I hear you ask? ;)

Quite simple really, I want you to pull three or four books off of your bookshelves and use them to form a sentence, from the book titles, take a photograph and upload it somewhere you can link to it from. (ie: your blog, photobox, flickr etc… etc…) Come back and post a link to your blog post or photo in the comments section.

The challenge is open for two hours, and later in the readathon I’ll post all the entries and a poll to decide the winner.

Still not sure what I’m talking about? Well here is my example:

A big boy did it, eleven minutes after dark.

Which would obviously make my entry (and my comment):

A big boy did it and ran away, eleven minutes after dark.

http://www.bartsbookshelf.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/003.jpg

or

A big boy did it and ran away, eleven minutes after dark.

http://www.bartsbookshelf.co.uk/2009/10/24/my-read-a-thon-mini-challenge/

The winner will be able to choose a book from the official prize list AND a set of limited edition UK stamps (literary; notes by Neil Gaiman)!

So there you go, over to you. Don’t forget to have fun and then get back to your reading and cheerleading!

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Comments

76 Responses to “My Read-a-thon Mini Challenge!”
  1. “Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, kidnapped the invisible man, kicking and screaming.”

    See the pic on our blog.

    Thanks for the fun challenge.

  2. Lauri says:

    Oops…that wasn’t right…let’s try again!

  3. BookFiend says:

    Here’s mine: http://bookfiendo.vox.com/library/post/deweys-read-a-thon-2009.html

    Not sure if mine makes sense: Vampire Academy Tempt Me at Twilight To Beguile a Beast

  4. Kristi says:

    Hope I am not too late for this challenge – have been fighting my family for the computer! Here is my link.

    http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/10/readathon-barts-mini-challenge.html

  5. Woo Hoo! fixed the camera. I’m at the Lair

    Princess Nevermore had Thanksgiving at the Inn with the white Giraffe

  6. Kristi says:

    Ok – then I did it wrong -

    Short girls on the run shake the devil off.

    or

    Fearless, hot and irresistible mom, needs chocolate, bacon sandwiches and salvation.

    http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/10/readathon-barts-mini-challenge.html

  7. Alita says:

    This is such a fun idea!

    The future of music: lullabies for little criminals, according to Jane.
    http://alitareads.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/mini-challenge-and-update-1/

  8. Meghan says:

    I think I missed the cutoff but I did one anyway.

    http://chikune.com/blog/?p=1752

    “[A] Scandal in spring compromised the King of Attolia”.

    =)

  9. Jodie says:

    Ok I’ve got one: http://bookgazing.blogspot.com/2009/10/readathon-hour-6.html

    Each year you have the best minichallenge Bart (and in no way do I hope flattery will win me the prize :) !

  10. Amanda says:

    Fun!

    When worlds collide, the discoverers bite the reason for God.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41999764@N04/4039551211/

    (Found on my husband’s flickr account. Too much reading to do to set up my own.)

    Amanda (twyls)

  11. Laura says:

    I fear I’m too late! However, here’s my little contribution:

    The dead man walks into a room, lost in a good book.

    http://pleasepardontheinterruption.blogspot.com/2009/10/mini-challenge-dead-man-walks-into-room.html

    What a fantastic challenge!!!

  12. Bart says:

    Entries are now closed – Look out for the voting post!
    ##########################################

  13. Janel says:

    Just officially posting my entry here – even though the mini-challenge is over. I had made the post earlier, but couldn’t post to your site.

    First Family Vanished, President’s Assassin On the Run

    http://bibliophibian.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-title-mini-challenge.html

  14. Shanna says:

    Hearing birds fly away: tender to the bone.

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