With the second hour upon us! - PRIZE GIVE AWAY!

Hopefully people have enjoyed the first hour and had fun reading their chosen books and made good progress without too many distractions! My book is slowly getting read and the more i read the more i get into it.

So, in order to keep you all going and to keep the nice community spirit going, i thought we would begin the first prize draw. This prize draw will run from now until 1pm. All you have to do to take part is post a comment between now and 1pm saying what your favourite book is and what you like about it.

All those who take part will be entered into a hat and the first name out will win a £10 amazon voucher. Nice and and simple. So if you are interested in winning a voucher then post your comment saying what your favourite book is and why.

Good luck with reading for the next few hours.

Equally if you want to post a comment about the book your reading or anything about the books, please feel free, it's as much your space as it is mine!

So, what are you reading?....

As we begin our first hour into the readathon, i thought it would be great to find out what everyone is reading. Either all the books you're planning to read today or what you are currently reading. Perhaps even a few notes about it, you never know, someone else might be interested in that book!

At the moment i am starting with 'On the run'. It's not exactly a heart warming book as it's about a difficult childhood. However the book was bought for me several years ago and it would be great to get it completed and off the bookshelf!

So, what are you reading?...

On your marks, get set, ready and go!

On your marks, get set, ready and go! We are off! Welcome to Dannie's 12 hour Clic Sargent readathon:-) A big thank you to all those people who have signed up so far. If you haven't already done so, you are welcome to sign up at any point during the day and join us. You can register here http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure It seems we have picked a great day what with the snow and cold about to appear!

I hope you've all got yourselves organised for a nice leisurely day enjoying a good book or two, or perhaps trying a genre you haven't tried before.

Through out the day i will be putting up posts on here to encourage you all to keep reading! There will be five prize draws through out the twelve hour period, so don't forget to keep tuned in. I will be asking people to post a comment every two hours if they are reading for the whole twelve hours, just so i know who has been reading for the twelve hours, ready for the super prize draw at the end:-)

It leaves me with nothing more to say, other than enjoy the day full of reading and lets all get off to a flying start with our books.

Happy reading everyone

It's here, the readathon begins tomorrow!

So i hope your all organised, you've all got your snacks in and are ready to snuggle up. I hope you've picked out the books you want to read and set aside either an hour or the whole 12 hours to taking it easy and losing yourself in a great story.

Thank you to everyone for registering and taking part, myself and Clic Sargent really appreciate it. The money will go towards helping families and children with cancer, so you can take it easy tomorrow, knowing you are doing something for a good cause.

Don't forget to set your alarms for 9.30am when the reading commences. Also to keep an eye on this blog for the give away and hopefully some motivating posts to help see you through the long hours!

Clic Sargent readathon challenge

DANNIE'S 12 HOUR CLIC SARGENT READATHON!

SATURDAY 4TH FEB 2012

Starting at 9.30am

Get yourself cosy, a pile of books organised, snacks sorted and sit back and relax ready to read for anything up to 12 hours in the Great 12 hour readathon!

£5 registration fee – Register online

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure or email Dannie for further details. dannie992@hotmail.com

you can get friends and family to sponsor you too, for however long you choose to read! Payments to be made via http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure

Prizes to be won along the way, from books to book tokens and signed books.

You can keep up to date on all the goings on on the day at the blog, including further details about the challenge.

http://thailandforclicsargent.blogspot.com

Part of Dannie's fundraising plans for Clic Sargent Thailand trek

CLIC Sargent registered charity number England 1107328

Get the date booked in your diary guys and if you want to, you can get fundraising and get people to sponsor you. Just contact me for a sponsor form.

Still going ahead!

Unfortunately the publicity drive for the readathon hasn't gone as well as i would have hoped, mainly due to the fact i have been out of action for a week and a half due to a nasty car accident which left me with injuries and unable to do very much whilst i was beginning to recover. I am now on the mend but would like to say a big thank you to all those people who have been telling friends and family about it so that the word continues to spread. This is especially important at the moment as i heard from Clic Sargent on Thursday that the lead from their roof had been stolen, costing them £15000 which is devastating and upsetting. It's unbelievable how low people can sink.

With now only two weeks to go i am keen to get as many people signed up to this as possible, purely to make it a more fun and enjoyable day for everyone. On Monday i will contact the local paper to see if they can run the story for me and hopefully we may get more people interested. Either way, no matter how many people take part, it should be a fun event. Really though, i just wanted to let everyone know the event was still taking place despite me not being 100% yet.

If people could keep spreading the word that would be great and don't forget you can sign up here. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/dannieadventure

And the prizes are.....

Today i have been donated the last of the prizes for the readathon with some great prizes to be awarded. I'm really pleased about this as the readathon appears to be really coming together. I can't thank enough the support and generosity of friends from in person friends to blogging friends. Friends have rallied around and informed others of the readathon and numbers of participants continues to increase. Today i went into my local town and put up a poster in the local library and on the community board in Waterstones. On Friday i will put up a poster in the library in Basingstoke and in their Waterstones. Next week i plan to contact the local paper and see if they will put it in there. I still have some book groups to contact and see if they would be interested in joining in, although to be honest they have been rather unwilling to get involved, but that could all change:-)

Don't forget though, that to take part you need to register and pay your £5 on the virgin page:-)

Now with just over three weeks to go, the readathon is in full swing and we all will have to start thinking about what book or books to set aside to read. I have so many books still to read that it shouldn't be a problem! There will be a prize give away every two hours so please follow the blog on the day! I will also be posting motivational posts to encourage all those who are participating for the whole twelve hours!

Prizes to give away
1) £10 amazon voucher
2) £10 amazon voucher
3) Signed book for the 6 hour half way mark
4) Johnathon Ross signed book
5) £20 love 2 shop voucher for someone who has participated for the whole 12hours.

So lots of lovely prizes and a fun day of catching up and chilling out.