The 2015 IL Book Lovers Readathon Contest

saktips · Feb 27, 2015

Finished reading the book.

Sahana1 · Feb 27, 2015

All the best to participants ;-) ;-) ;-)
Regards,
Sahana

jingi92 · Feb 28, 2015

hi priyasrini
still no way to get the book .. but hv told my son to see if he can download it (he stays in chennai and has a much better config lappie) ... and send it to me ... hope to read it soon ... this is the first book i cudnt download .. but am nt giving up ...

PriyaSrini · Feb 28, 2015

Nice work @saktips :thumbsup

Hope you get to read the book soon @jingi92

helpmeangel · Feb 28, 2015

oops! forgot to post that I have completed the book yesterday.. :hide:

PriyaSrini · Feb 28, 2015

The Innocent Man by John Grisham, this book has been an interesting and a challenging read for me. Interesting? Well the style of writing, how the facts and details have been presented were good. A non fiction that had me wishing, "it cannot be true". Challenging? Again it's the facts and details, there is so much details and characters in this book that it was sometimes hard to keep track.

And this hide is the excuse for my delay in posting the questions for the final week of the contest. I kinda feel like setting a paper for a school test.

But the job needs to be done, so here is the final set of questions. I will extend the deadline to PM the replies to Tuesday, March 3rd.

1. What ought to be depressing has been celebrated. What event has been described as Ada's proudest moment?
2. What proof does Jaunita have that on the night of December 7th, her son Ron was home?
3. Dr. Foster notices three general themes in Ron's maniacal screaming, what are they?
4. Despite the torments, false accusations and even the unjust verdict, Dennis Fritz never gives up? What could have been the consequence if he too had given "a dream confession"?
5. Why do you think Dennis Smith and Gary Rogers were hell bent on accusing Ron Williamson as the murderer?

deepslikes · Feb 28, 2015

I just started reading this book
Hoping to read 24 books this year - 12 fiction and 12 non-fiction. At least I have a start now, hope to join you all in a book club.

PriyaSrini · Mar 4, 2015

We have crossed the finish line, the Readathon contest is now officially closed. While we await the results, please take a min to share your comments/ opinions on this contest.

Would you like to have this as an annual event at IL? Were the number of books too many? Was a week's time too short? The choice of books.

Any feedback you have please post it here. This feedback is open to all IL, participants and non participants of the contest.

Tagging @Kishw @dvl @chillbreeze @SRK @RamyaVaradharajan @Tavishi25 @madhuprabha @Laks09 @deepslikes @helpmeangel @saktips @Indhradhanu @jingi92

helpmeangel · Mar 4, 2015

@priyasrini

I loved the concept of the Readathon and felt a great satisfaction once the last of the quizzes were answered.

To your questions, 1. Yes, this should be an annual or a semi annual event in IL. 2. A week's time was pretty decent for a voracious reader. But we cannot predict unforeseen circumstances when our reading may be delayed. So a min of 10 days to a max of two weeks,will make us enjoy the book better. 3. I liked the chosen books and loved reading all of them.

We can also have a cut off date for reading and answering questions..also have a day or two alloted for discussions on the book. We can talk about it while it is still fresh on our minds.
All in all, a wonderful event.. Kudos to you and Deepa.:hatsoff

chillbreeze · Mar 4, 2015

Hi Priya, readathon was really a nice concept and the choice of books were varied and interesting.

I would love to have this as an annual (or semi annual as HMA said) event so that I can participate next time and get to read more books. I feel if we could reduce the number of books to 4 and increase the reading time, say 10 days, it would encourage more people to participate. This is from my personal experience because of which I couldn't participate actively in this readathon.