Showing posts with label readathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label readathon. Show all posts

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Books, Brains ‘n Blood Read-A-Thon: Cover Lover Challenge

Books, Brains 'n Blood Read-a-Thon
My Shelf Confessions is having a month long event celebrating all things Zombie and Vampire! All info here.

Who is having fun with the Read-A-Thon? I know I am and now, here's a challenge giveaway to make it even better. I'm hosting the Cover Lover Challenge. It's testing how well you know your Vampire and Zombie themed book covers. The giveaway runs from the 4th to the 10th of August to make sure you have a decent amount of time to enter. International as long as you're a part of the Vamps vs. Zombies event. Here's your chance to win $20 worth of any Vampire or Zombie themed e-books.

Hint? The top row are Vamp books and the bottom row are Zombie books. Good luck and have fun!

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Books, Brains ‘n Blood Read-A-Thon: Progress

Books, Brains 'n Blood Read-a-Thon
My Shelf Confessions is having a month long event celebrating all things Zombie and Vampire! All info here.

Hey everyone. The Books, Brains 'n Blood Read-A-Thon has officially started! This is the post that will contain all of my progress across the five days of the Read-A-Thon. I will also be doing my Wrap Up here. So when the Read-A-Thon is over, I'll just write a short summary of how I though I went. To see my goals and sign up, you can check out the post here. I will also be hosting a challenge from the 4th to the 10th and that will be in a separate post. I'm started to get pumped. Are you? Let's get excited!

Friday
Books completed so far: 0
Pages read so far: 66
Pages read today:  66
Percentage of current book: The Summoning - 17%
Saturday
Books completed so far: 0
Pages read so far: 183
Pages read today: 117
Percentage of current book: The Summoning - 47%
Sunday  
Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 391
Pages read today: 108
Percentage of current book: The Immortal Rules - 1%
Monday

Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 500
Pages read today: 109
Percentage of current book: The Immortal Rules - 21%
Tuesday

Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 572
Pages read today: 72
Percentage of current book: The Immortal Rules - 34%

Wrap Up
I didn't go so well but it's okay. I was really busy and I'm glad I read as much as I did. If this read-a-thon wasn't on, I probably would've read a lot less. I could of regret reading The Summoning because I only read thinking it was a vampire book but oh well, at least I liked it. Unfortunately I couldn't get to Feed but I might still read it one day. 

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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Books, Brains ‘n Blood Read-A-Thon: Sign Up + Goals

Books, Brains 'n Blood Read-a-Thon
My Shelf Confessions is having a month long event celebrating all things Zombie and Vampire! All info here.

I've been devouring read-a-thons lately. They're just so much fun and I can't help but do them. This time, I'm doing the Books, Brains ‘n Blood Read-A-Thon which is a part of the one month event Vamps vs Zombies. The read-a-thon runs from August 2 – 6th. I will also be hosting a challenge on the 4 – 10th which I'm super excited about. This is my sign up post just to let you know that I'll be joining. I'll also tell you what books I really want to read. Okay so now to the books. To fit the Vamps vs. Zombies theme, I want to read 2 vampire themed books and 1 zombie themed book.


At the end, I'll choose which type I prefer because after all, this is Vamps vs. Zombies. It'd probably be unfair if I do end up only reading one zombie book but oh well. May the best man, ahem, book type, win.

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Monday, July 8, 2013

Once Upon a Read-A-Thon: Goals + Progress + Challenges


The fourth annual Once Upon a Read-a-Thon is hosted by Candace at Candace’s Book Blog, Angela & Loretta at Reading Angels and Lori at Pure Imagination.

Being the lazy person I am, this time, I'm combining my goals, progress and challenges all in one post. Even though I joined a bit late, I'm still super excited.

Since this is a short read-a-thon, my goal is 3 books, one of them being an audiobook. I was already a couple pages in Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker and I want to try to finish this months TBR by finishing Walking Disasteby Jamie McGuire and Crash by Nicole Williams.

Continue reading to see my progress and my challenges.

Monday
Books completed so far: 0
Pages read so far: 120
Pages read today: 120
Minutes listened so far: 130 [82 pages]
Minutes listened today: 130 [82 pages]
Percentage of current book: Ten Tiny Breaths - 50%
                                             Walking Disaster - 19%
Challenges completed:
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1. Which book you are most excited to read in the coming year? It can be already released or coming soon.
This was easy for me. I'm super duper excited for Allegiant by Veronica Roth because, who isn't?
2. Which book would you re-read if you had the time and weren't so busy reading ALL of the other good things?
I don't usually re-read boos but since it said 'weren't so busy reading ALL of the other good things', I would re-read The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay because it's probably my favourite book ever.
3. If you could meet any fictional character who would it be and why?
I probably have the strangest choice but I'd love to meet Ridley from the Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia. If anyone has read it, you know that she's a b*tch but still, she's interesting.

Tuesday
Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 251
Pages read today: 131
Minutes listened so far: 503 [317 pages]
Minutes listened today: 373 [235 pages]
Percentage of current book: Walking Disaster - 73%
Challenges completed:
You're in a bookstore and you've just purchased 5 books you've been dying to read, when the apocalypse hits. You've got one chance at survival, what 2 books do you take and what 3 other items do you take?
Two books that I have being dying to read and would definitely bring with me are Shift by Em Baily and Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. As for the three other things, I'd bring a gun a gun because obviously, and my mum (mom, however you silly Americans want to spell it) because I love her, and I'd bring my pantry. I can bring my pantry right? 
Make your dream guy using characteristics, personalities, looks, and anything else you can think of from your favorite book boyfriends.
First my cheesy answer is, I don't know what my dream guy is because I haven't met him yet. But my second answer, all cheesiness aside, is... I want, from The Hunger Games, Peter's baking skills. From Hopeless, Holden's sense of humour. From, Legend, Day's intelligence, diligence, and his race because his part Asian.

Wednesday
Books completed so far: 3
Pages read so far: 466
Pages read today: 215
Minutes listened so far: 685 [433 pages]
Minutes listened today: 182 [116 pages]
Percentage of current book: ---
Challenges completed:
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Favorite genre right now is YA/NA Contemporary Romance but it changes all the time.
Favorite book from YA/NA Contemporary Romance would be The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay.
I don't usually have favourite characters but I'd say Beth from Dare You To.

Wrap Up
I normally do my wrap ups in a whole different post but I figured this is probably a whole lot simpler. I had a slow start but I'm proud that I read 3 books in 3 days. All these read-a-thons are making me break a whole lot of records. It's barely a third of the month and I've already finished this month's TBR. In total, I read 899 pages if you convert my audiobook into pages. That's basically 300 pages a day. I'm lucky I'm holidays right now or I would've never been able to read that much. The challenges were also super fun. Since I live in Australia, the Twitter thingo isn't until Thursday. As I'm writing this, it's almost midnight Wednesday. I plan on participating though. Overall, a super fun experience.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Debut-A-Thon: Progress

Debut-A-Thon

The Debut-A-Thon hosted by Books of Amber has well and truly kicked-off. I'm super excited to delve into my reading. Though I have three books I might want to read, my goal is two books since I still have school on Thursday and Friday. I started this read-a-thon on the 37th page of by. All my progress will go up on this post so remember to come back to check my progress. Leave your links in the comments because I'd love to check out your posts as well! Also, remember to enter the challenges that will be hosted on Amber's blog and mine each day.

Thursday
Books completed so far: 0
Pages read so far: 270
Pages read today: 270
Percentage of current book: Ink - 82%
Friday
Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 493
Pages read today: 223
Percentage of current book: Reboot - 42%
Saturday 
Books completed so far: 2
Pages read so far: 485
Pages read today: 262
Percentage of current book: Fighting For Flight - 12%
Sunday 
Books completed so far: 3
Pages read so far: 884
Pages read today: 399
Percentage of current book: -

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Debut-A-Thon: Sign Up


Debut-A-Thon is a read-a-thon hosted by Books of Amber to celebrate YA debuts in 2013. All information and sign ups can be found here.

I've been doing a bunch of things ending in a-thon lately but I'm not ready to stop. I find these super fun and they always give me a boost of motivation. This Debut-A-Thon starts right after my Review-A-Thon ends so I'll be heaps busy for a while. I was about 10% of the way through when I found out about this so I stopped reading that and started a different book. I thought I may as well save it for the Debut-A-Thon. Now four days is a pretty short time span and I honestly don't think I'll get that much reading done. My goal is to finish off by, read by and if I somehow I finish those two, I want to also read  by


Debut-A-Thon

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Friday, June 14, 2013

WW Read-A-Thon Vol. 2: Wrap Up

The five day's I've participated in this read-a-thon have really flown by. I didn't read as much as I hoped I would've but I did read a lot more than I usually would've. I was happy that I could participate in the last Twitter Party even though technically it was already Saturday for me. I was so excited to host a challenge and I had a lot of fun creating it. I also loved doing all the other challenges.


Sunday 
Pages read so far: 72
Pages read today: 72
Percentage of current book: A Million Suns - 45%
Monday
Pages read so far: 196
Pages read today: 124
Percentage of current book: A Million Suns - 77%
Tuesday
Pages read so far: 306
Pages read today: 110
Percentage of current book: A Million Suns - 100%
                                             Entwined With You - 5%
Wednesday
Pages read so far: 371
Pages read today: 65
Percentage of current book: Entwined With You - 22%
Thursday
Pages read so far: 447
Pages read today: 76
Percentage of current book: Entwined With You - 43%
Friday
Pages read so far: 528
Pages read today: 81
Percentage of current book: Entwined With You - 66%

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

WW Read-A-Thon Vol. 2: Cover Lover Challenge

Wicked Wildfire Readathon
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How well do you know your covers? Let's have some fun and test your knowledge. Six covers and six chances to win. This giveaway will be open for a whole week. Yep, all the way until Monday 17th. Just make sure you are a signed up participant of the Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon. Thank you for joining me here at Music Plus Books where I'm hosting the Cover Lover Challenge. 

 This giveaway is open worldwide and you will receive your prizes through e-mail. You could win $20 worth of ANY e-book or e-books. Good luck everyone.

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WW Read-A-Thon Vol. 2: Sign Up

Wicked Wildfire Readathon
The Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon is a time when we all get together to dedicate the days of June 7-14 to as much reading as possible. You read as much as you can in order to get yourself a little further through that huge to-read pile! We know real life gets in the way and even if you can’t participate more than one day, you’re welcome to join in on the fun!

I am a bit late with signing up for this read-a-thon but I guess it's always better late than never. I really wished I would've found out about this earlier but it's alright. I'll still participate from the 9th to the 14th. I'm really excited for this because it's a lot more carefree compared to the Bout of Books Read-A-Thon. I'm just doing this post to let you guys know that I'm doing it. Follow me on Twitter for all my updates. I'll be doing a wrap-up post at the end of this week. Look out for it!

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Bout of Books 7.0: Wrap Up


In the end...
I reached my goal!
Well technically I didn't have a goal, you can see my post here, but I did want to read 4 books to be proud of myself. I set out 4 books, which I didn't read in the order I planned to read them in, but I'm still super excited that I completed them. In total I read 1339 pages this week, which for me is absolutely amazing. I also wanted to do a few challenges and I did the Create A Cover challenge, which I'm pretty happy with as well. I've had a really good time doing this read-a-thon and I'll definitely make sure I do the next one.

Check out my previous posts on the Bout of Books read-a-thon:
Sign Up
Goals
Progress
Challenge
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Bout of Books 7.0: Progress

Bout of BooksI'm writing this on a Tuesday but this post will be for the rest of the week as well. If you haven't seen my previous posts, I'm doing the Bout of Books read-a-thon and so each day I will update you on my progress. By the end of this week, this post will have my progress for Monday to Sunday.

Monday
Books completed so far: 0
Pages read so far: 193
Pages read today: 193
Percentage of current book: Kafira - 64%
Tuesday
Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 387
Pages read today: 194 Percentage of current book: Beautiful Disaster - 1% 
Wednesday
Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 567
Pages read today: 180
Percentage of current book: Beautiful Disaster - 41%
Thursday
Books completed so far: 1
Pages read so far: 670
Pages read today: 93
Percentage of current book: Beautiful Disaster - 62%
                                                 Nothing More, Nothing Less - 7% 
Friday
Books completed so far: 2
Pages read so far: 838
Pages read today: 168
Percentage of current book: Nothing More, Nothing Less - 8%
Saturday
Books completed so far: 3
Pages read so far: 1049
Pages read today: 211
Percentage of current book: Legend - 5%
Sunday 
Books completed so far: 4
Pages read so far: 1339
Pages read today: 290
Percentage of current book: Vain - 1%

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Bout of Books 7.0: Challenge

Yesterday, I really wanted to do a challenge but there wasn't a challenge that appealed to me. Today though, there is a challenge called Create A Cover (hosted by I Talk Books) and as you guessed, I have to remake a cover. I chose the book I'm currently reading which is called Beautiful Disaster. I'm sure you've already heard of it. I wish I was creative enough to draw my own cover but instead I just took a photo. It's obviously a lot worse than the real cover but I tried to manipulate the concept it already had. Mine is on the left. Hope you like it!

Beautiful DisasterBeautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)


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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Bout of Books 7.0: Goals

It's Monday! Alright so if you read my previous post, you would've seen that I'm not reading a lot but I'm still reading a lot more than I usually do. I will be trying to read before I sleep and throughout the day whenever I can find the time. I don't want to make a set goal but this is how I will feel:
1 Book - Disappointed
2 Books - Fairly Disappointed (but not too surprised)
3 Books - Pretty Happy
4 Books - Extremely Excited
More Than 4 Books - I'll Probably Just Cry
I also hope to do a few challanges as well.


The books I plan to read in order are:

by
(^ Currently On Page 152)


by



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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Bout of Books 7.0: Sign Up

Bout of Books The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 7.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.
 - From the Bout of Books team

Hi everyone, I probably should've signed up earlier and probably am the last person to join this read-a-thon but I finally decided to give in and just do it. Unfortunately this week I have like a billion exams to do but I'm going to push through it and try to read more than I usually do anyway. My goal for this week will most likely be a lot less than everyone else but normally, I barely even read more than two books in a week. Be expecting a lot of book posts this week as I will be trying to update every single day. I'll throw in a music post somewhere in there but for the most post, this week will be book post after book post. Wish me luck!
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