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bookgazing) wrote2009-10-08 10:36 am
bookgazing) wrote2009-10-08 10:36 am
Upcoming Events
There are a few exciting book blog projects gathering force at the moment, for those of you who like joining in (in real life it’s quite an effort, online much easier):
Dewey’s Read-a-thon – Participants sign up to read for 24 hours from 1pm GMT (5am Pacific )Sat 24th Oct – 1pm GMT Sun 25th Oct , or they can sign up to cheer on the readers electronically, or do both. There are already 146 readers signed up. I’m so impressed to see 39 cheerleaders this year, the cheerleaders really do keep the event going and it’s a great job for those who can’t take the whole day off to read as you can commit to cheer for just a one hour. If you’re an author passing through, a publisher looking for a little promotion, or just a generous person you can donate something by emailing the organisers at DeweyReadathon at gmail.
Rebecca has turned her tentative idea into a reality and begun setting up the ‘Classics Circuit’. In case you missed her original post Rebecca wanted to see classics getting just as much blog time as the shiny, modern books and proposed starting a ‘Dead Authors’ tour. That idea will get its first outing in Nov when book bloggers will have Wilkie Collins ‘stop by’ their blogs in a scheduled blog tour. I signed up and I’m really excited about this, I think it’s going to recreate the kind of excitement readers at the time felt whenever a new Collins, Dickens etc popped out. The tours restricted to dead authors, but there are still plenty of modern classic authors who qualify and to dispel any idea that classics only spring from the dead, white male canon an Elizabeth Gaskell tour will run at the same time as Wilkie Collins is dropping in on bloggers. You can get interactive right now and suggest a future tour.
Whatever you’re doing to try and hold Christmas back it is a-coming. Why not sign up for a book related Secret Santa at ‘Never ending Shelf’ and embrace the season?
Will you be taking part in any of these events? I see so many people mentioning Wilkie Collin’s ‘The Woman in White’ already, as an RIP choice, it almost seems he’s taking over the book world yet again!
Dewey’s Read-a-thon – Participants sign up to read for 24 hours from 1pm GMT (5am Pacific )Sat 24th Oct – 1pm GMT Sun 25th Oct , or they can sign up to cheer on the readers electronically, or do both. There are already 146 readers signed up. I’m so impressed to see 39 cheerleaders this year, the cheerleaders really do keep the event going and it’s a great job for those who can’t take the whole day off to read as you can commit to cheer for just a one hour. If you’re an author passing through, a publisher looking for a little promotion, or just a generous person you can donate something by emailing the organisers at DeweyReadathon at gmail.
Rebecca has turned her tentative idea into a reality and begun setting up the ‘Classics Circuit’. In case you missed her original post Rebecca wanted to see classics getting just as much blog time as the shiny, modern books and proposed starting a ‘Dead Authors’ tour. That idea will get its first outing in Nov when book bloggers will have Wilkie Collins ‘stop by’ their blogs in a scheduled blog tour. I signed up and I’m really excited about this, I think it’s going to recreate the kind of excitement readers at the time felt whenever a new Collins, Dickens etc popped out. The tours restricted to dead authors, but there are still plenty of modern classic authors who qualify and to dispel any idea that classics only spring from the dead, white male canon an Elizabeth Gaskell tour will run at the same time as Wilkie Collins is dropping in on bloggers. You can get interactive right now and suggest a future tour.
Whatever you’re doing to try and hold Christmas back it is a-coming. Why not sign up for a book related Secret Santa at ‘Never ending Shelf’ and embrace the season?
Will you be taking part in any of these events? I see so many people mentioning Wilkie Collin’s ‘The Woman in White’ already, as an RIP choice, it almost seems he’s taking over the book world yet again!