Showing posts with label Once Upon a Read-a-Thon. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon: Final Wrap-Up!



Well the Once Upon a Read-a-Thon ended late last night and I'm pretty happy with how I did :) Over the past three days I got through five of the 6 books I had planned to read for the Read-a-Thon

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The books I finished are:

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan
Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle

And I got a little less than halfway through The Burning Star by Jessie Lane

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So overall I think I did pretty darn well lol. I had a lot of fun participating in the Read-a-Thon and the mini challenges, I'll definitely be looking forward to doing it again next year!

How did you all do?


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon: Day 2 and 3 Updates and Challenges!



Okay so I'm just gonna go ahead and combine my Once Upon a Read-a-Thon progress from yesterday with my progress from today into one update post then I'll do another one late tonight (or tomorrow morning) with all of my final stats and what not! And I'll also have my mini challenges at the bottom of this post as well :)

Yesterday I finished reading:

Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan

Okay so I totally loved this book! It was definitely creepy (like whoa creepy!) but that just made it all the better!



So at this point counting yesterday and Monday, I've read:

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan

Which is four out of my six books that I had planned to read, I'm pretty happy with that lol.

And right now I'm currently reading:

Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
and
The Burning Star by Jessie Lane

I had to work today so that cut into some of my reading time, but I'm hoping to finish both of these  up by the end of the night!

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Mini Challenge!

This challenge comes from The Reader Bee and the question is:

 "What is your most anticipated book of 2012?"

Okay I have to say this is a hard question because I have sooooooo many anticipated books for this year! Lol. Some of which have already come out, and I know we can use one that's already come out as our answer but I'm gonna go with one I'm still waiting on. And that would be:

Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter


Synopsis:

"She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real….

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies….


I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently.
I'd tell my sister no.
I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad.
I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words.
Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time.
I'd tell them I love them.
I wish... Yeah, I wish." ~See it on Goodreads

Seriously?! How could I NOT be anticipating that book!

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Happy reading lovelies!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon: Day 1 Update!



Well I just wanted to do a little update for the Once Upon a Read-a-Thon. I think I've been doing pretty well on my pacing so far, yay me! lol. I think at this rate I should be able to get through the rest pretty easily if I just stay on track!


These are the books I've finished so far:


Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
I liked this book a lot and I definitely see why so many other people did too! The humor was probably one of my favorite parts!



The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
I absolutely freaking LOVED this book!!!! All I have to say is Adrian Ivashkov *sigh* <3


The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
I liked this one, it took me forever but I'm glad I read it. And now I'm ready to see the movie :) (love Emma Watson!)



And the books I have left to read are:

Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan
Really looking forward to this one! I've heard soooooo many good things about it!


Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
I'm hoping I'll like this one, I can get a bit picky with my Shakespeare themed books lol


The Burning Star by Jessie Lane
This one sounds pretty interesting so I'm looking forward to starting it as well


Here's hoping I get my last three finished as planned! Hope everyone else is having as much fun with the Read-a-Thon as I am!!

Happy reading lovelies!

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon!

So I totally just came across some posts for this while I was visiting some friends blogs and was like, "Omg!" lol. I was too late to participate last year but I had planned on doing it this year, and surprise, surprise I completely forgot about it! *facepalm* But luckily I caught it in time to get in on the Read-a-Ton! I'm a tad bit behind on my reading (I've been trying to get caught up lately) so this is a great way for me to get back on track :)

The books I'm gonna try to get through are:

1. Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
2. The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead (This one will be devoured! Lol)
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan
5. Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
6. The Burning Star by Jessie Lane

I'm not sure if I'll get to all of these books but I'm gonna do my best and try to read them all! :D

If you'd like to get in one the Read-a-Thin before it starts just click on the button at the bottom to sing/link up! :)


Happy reading lovelies!