#readathon: A Whole New Respect for Cheerleading...

Who says cheerleading is easy? Lol :-) I think I ended up getting a *little* obsessed (in a good way, I suppose) with this whole cheerleading for the 24 Hour Read-A-Thon... I've really enjoyed stopping by everyone's blog to leave a comment. And I think I did hit just about everyone participating--if I missed you, I sincerely apologize because it was my honest intention to visit every reader out there. I can't imagine how you guys must be feeling by now, we're nearly halfway through the day!!

I guess I've really spent most of the day commenting, though my official scheduled times were 8am-11am this morning, 10pm-11pm tonight, and 7am-8am tomorrow... It's just so hard to stop when there are so many people out there to cheer on :-) I've also been doing a lot of tweeting with all of you, too! Of course, in between all of my Read-A-Thon activities the hubby and I were working with our meat smoker, trying our hand at a pork butt today. At the moment, I feel like I smell like a charcoal briquette but it's worth it--our pulled pork was AWESOME, especially for our first time trying it ourselves!

But back to the Read-a-thon... One of the best things about being a cheerleader? Finding new blogs to follow!! Since I haven't been in the book-blogging community for too long (just realized today's my 2-month anniversary!) I know there are a jillion blogs out there just waiting for me to find them... Today I added 30... yes, 30!!! to my subscription list and blogroll. I'd like to take this moment to share with you those "new-to-me" blogs:

1) tickettoanywhere.blogspot.com
2) diaryofaneccentric.blogspot.com
3) ashleyslibrary.blogspot.com
4) smsbookreviews.blogspot.com
5) books-movies-chinesefood.blogspot.com
6) www.bartsbookshelf.co.uk
7) bookpsmith.blogspot.com
8) bookjunkiereviews.blogspot.com
9) books4alison.blogspot.com
10) agignac.blogspot.com
11) crazycommamomma.wordpress.com
12) alainereading.blogspot.com
13) abookloverforever.blogspot.com
14) fantaghiro23.blogspot.com
15) awaitingserenity.net
16) callistahogan.livejournal.com
17) birdbrainbb.net
18) hiddenplace.wordpress.com
19) wordsbyannie.blogspot.com
20) thefriendlybooknook.com
21) thebookgirl.net
22) bookslovejessicamarie.blogspot.com
23) kbpinkbookmark.blogspot.com
24) lastexilewords.blogspot.com
25) lissaslongyarn.blogspot.com
26) chikune.com/blog
27) gimmemorebooks.blogspot.com
28) librariansbookreviews.blogspot.com
29) karinlibrarian.wordpress.com
30) relatedreading.wordpress.com

What new blogs did you find today?!

Now If only I could find the time to finish the last few minutes of Deadly Exchange so that I can write that review!!

HAPPY READ-A-THON DAY!

Yay! So excited it's finally here, though I will not be participating as a reader this time around... I'm looking forward to cheering everyone on and reading posts throughout the day! Good luck, everyone! Love all the pictures of snacks and reading spaces out there.

Hubby and I made the mistake of trying to get a Boston Butt in the smoker this morning... Interesting experience that made me about 20 minutes late getting to the Read-A-Thon (nearly typed Read-A-Thong, wow) but I'm here now! Hope to do a LOT of commenting and finally get my review for Deadly Exchange posted today. (It was like reading 24, except that it wasn't about just one day...) And I'll have another Blogger Tips post coming up soon, too!

Good luck to all you readers out there! I'll be stopping by as many of your blogs as I possibly can to share the love :-)

24 Hour Readathon Coming Up!

I'm sure most of you have heard about the 24-Hour Readathon by now, or at least seen this darling image in my sidebar and on other blogs. If you'd like to learn more about it, please go here.

The big day is April 18th, starting at 8am Eastern (for me). This will be my first time participating, as I wasn't even book-blogging the last time around! I opted to show my support as a cheerleader. With so much going on in my life right now, I wasn't sure if I could commit to being a reader, though with my mountain of unread books it was certainly a tempting idea. Instead, I'll do my fair share of reading and leaving encouraging comments on everyone's posts that day :-)

I encourage all of you to consider participating, whether as a reader, cheerleader, or mini-challenge host!