Every year, I always say that I'm going to do all these readathons and challenges - and I do some of them, but not ever as much as I say I am going to. So, I thought I would write out what I want to do here to encourage myself to stay on track (and to try and convince more people to join in on reading challenges and readathons with me!)
The Booket List Monthly Challenges - Every Month, one of my favorite book groups on facebook does challenges where you can try to read books that fit in with a certain theme and earn points throughout the month. Last year I had to best laid plans to do more, and I think I tried 2. So, this year, I am really going to challenge myself and try to get on board each month!
Fiction Feud Society Monthly Challenges - Just like The Booket List, FFS does monthtly challenges, and I am pushing myself to try each monthly challenge this year!
Bout of Books - this is, hands down, my favorite annual readathon! They host it 3 times each year, and it's always cool, and totally low key.
This year, their readathons are taking place on:
Bout of Books 27 - 1/6/2020 -- 1/12/2020 Bout of Books 28 - 5/11/2020 -- 5/17/2020 Bout of Books 29 - 8/17/2020 -- 8/23/2020 Bout of Books 30 - 1/4/2021--1/10/2021 Library Love Challenge - I signed up to do this last year, and while I did technically read a lot of books from the library, I didn't record a single one through this challenge. So THIS YEAR is my year. I wrote a blog post here about it the other day, so stop by and check that out. Dewey's 24 hour Readathon - this happens 2 times a year, and I used to do it pretty regularly, then stopped. So I want to do it again this year, and actually try to read the whole 24 hours each time!
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So, reader friends - do you do any readathons or challenges throughout the year? What are your favorites? Drop me a comment down below!
Hi reader friends - welcome to Day of Bout of Books 25! HAPPY TUESDAY! It's raining here right now, so what better way to spend the day than reading and doing a wrap-up from day 1 of the readathon.
What Did I do Monday?
Books Started: 1 Books Finished: 1 (I started it right before the readathon over the weekend, and it was an easy read, so it was easy to finish on Monday.) Pages Read Monday: 234 Total Pages Read: 234
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And Now, reader friends: A little bookish challenge!
Today, the bout of books challenge is: Bookish Favorites.
I am picking my favorite bookish YA romances!
1. When Dimple Met Rishi - Sandhya Menon - This is tied for my #1 fave YA Romance. Fun, sweet, cute, and funny. (Just wait until Dimple's mom asks Dimple if she has Pond's wrinkle cream!)
2. Lucky In Love - Kasie West - Total cheeseballs, but total cuteness overload.
3. I Believe in a Thing Called Love - Maurene Goo - My favorite part of this book is the relationship between the main character and her dad.
4. The Way You Make Me Feel - Maurene Goo - This is the book that almost beats out When Dimple Met Rishi - they are tied for #1 YA romance for me! There was seriously so much I loved about this book!
Hey Reader Friends! So, several (six) years ago - I decided to do this little reading thing called The Classics Club. I love classic books! LOVE THEM! I didn't finish that list I made. So, I decided this year is going to be the year I start a list of classics I want to read over the next five years and get it done :)
If you are curious about this Classics Club - stop by there blog!
This post will change as I read each book - meaning I will come back and hyperlink to blog posts and update the list as needed when I finish each book. So, check back often, and feel free to join in the club and read some classics as well.
I am going to aim high - with 100 classic books in Five Years. I might be a little crazy!
But, really, no. I am excited!
And yes - if you are new to my blog, you should know I will find any excuse I can to use a Supernatural gif!
My start date: January 18, 2019
My goal end date: January 18, 2023 (!!!!!!!!!!!! Are we really almost to the 2020's?!)
And My List:
1. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
2. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
3. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
4. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
6. Emma - Jane Austen
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen
8. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen
9. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
10. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
11. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
12. Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas
13. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
14. The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
15. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
16. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
17. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
20. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
21. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
23. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
24. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
25. The Grapes of Wrath -John Steinbeck
26. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
27. Ulysses- James Joyce
28. Tess of the D'ubervilles
29. Lolita - Vladimir Nobokov
30. Leaves of Grass -Walt Whitman
31. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
32. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
33.Don Quioxte - Miguel de Cervantes
34. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
35. Animal Farm - George Orwell
36. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
37. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
38. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
39. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
40. Sexus - Henry Miller
41. Plexus - Henry Miller
42. Nexus - Henry Miller
43. The Man in The Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
44. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
45. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
46. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
47. 1984 - George Orwell
48. Animal Farm - George Orwell
49. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
50. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
51. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
52. The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
53. The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
54. One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
55. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
56. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
57. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
58. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
59. Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
60. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
61. Watership Down - Richard Adams
62.
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B Du Bois
63. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
64.
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
65. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
66. Utopia - Thomas More
67. Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings
68. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
71. Kaddish and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg
72. The Fall of America: Poems of These States - Allen Ginsberg
73. Whither - Dawn Powell
74. She Walks In Beauty - Dawn Powell
75. The Bride's House - Dawn Powell
76. Dance Night - Dawn Powell
77. The Tenth Moon - Dawn Powell
78. Big Night - Dawn Powell
79. Jig Saw: A Comedy - Dawn Powell
80. The Story of a Country Boy - Dawn Powell
81. Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell
82. The Happy Island - Dawn Powell
83. Angels on Toast - Dawn Powell
84. A Time to Be Born - Dawn Powell
85. My Home is Far Away - Dawn Powell
86. The Locusts Have No King - Dawn Powell
87. Sunday, Monday And Always - Dawn Powell
88. The Wicked Pavilion - Dawn Powell
89. A Cage for Lovers - Dawn Powell
90. The Golden Spur - Dawn Powell
91. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92. The Complete Poems - T.S. Eliot
93. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
94. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
95. Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
96. Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
97. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
98. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
99. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
100. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
And in closing: Let us all sing a song of angry men. (Because Les Mis is one of my favorite musicals.)
Hi reader friends! I can tell you all are just SO SURPRISED that I am signing up for another Bout of Books!
If you've never heard of Bout of Books - here is a simple explanation!
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly
Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am
Monday, January 7th and runs through Sunday, January 13th in whatever
time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are
challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are
completely optional. For all Bout of Books 24 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team
If you are interested in signing up - here is a direct link to the sign up post.
Hey readers! Happy Tuesday. I am sure you remember me talking about Bout of Books! So, today, here is my Day 1 (Monday) update for Bout of Books 21.
Books Started: 1 Books Finished:0 Pages Read: 108
Books Currently Reading:
And NOW: A little challenge. This challenge is SUPER easy and Fun: Share your 2018 Reading Goals!
In 2018, I want to read at least 75 books!
I want at least 30 of those books to be part of the BeatTheBacklist challenge.
AND: I want to finally finish The Grisha Trilogy, and the Six of Crows Duology.
