Summer Lovin' Read-a-thon Wrap-Up

 

The Summer Lovin’ Readathon is a week-long readathon event hosted by seven independent bloggers! (Oh, Chrys!, Tumbling Books, Effortlessly Reading, Love Life Read, Shelf Addiction, Read Sleep Repeat, and Reviewing Wonderland)
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MY SUMMER LOVIN' READ-A-THON GOALS

 

I unfortunately did not reach any of my goals.

I did read 2 and a 1/2 books but I had hoped to read at least 4. I was just super busy with the 4th of July holiday and Camp NaNoWriMo.

 

I did finish:

'The Bridge of Dead Things' by Michael Gallagher

Thief's Covenant by Ari Marmell

 

and started:

Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde

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I also didn't have the chance to blog about my progress everyday (I hadn't planned on it) or participate in any Twitter chats or challenges. I did check in on the blog every few days and saw this neat BINGO challenge that they were doing and thought it would be fun to see how  much  little I got done on it.

 

Here's the BINGO card:

 

  

Here's how far I got:

 



 

There were a lot of things on there that I could have done, but I just never got the chance.

 

Despite that I didn't reach my goals or get much reading done at all, I still very much enjoy read-a-thons. I just join them now even though I don't have time to dedicate to them. They are still really fun and great motivation.

In fact, I'm also participating in the Once Upon A Read-a-thon that starts today and ends on the 10th. I just probably won't get a ton of reading done for that one either.

Summer Lovin' Read-a-thon Goals

 

 

The Summer Lovin’ Readathon is a week-long readathon event hosted by seven independent bloggers! (Oh, Chrys!, Tumbling Books, Effortlessly Reading, Love Life Read, Shelf Addiction, Read Sleep Repeat, and Reviewing Wonderland)

Spend the week reading at your own pace, when and how you want too.
 There will be daily challenges for awesome prizes and opportunities to get points toward the Grand Prize Packs.

As if that weren’t enough – the week will end with a 24-hr marathon readathon! Twitter parties, mini-challenges, games, prizes given EVERY HOUR, and more chances to get points toward the Grand Prize Packs.

Sign-ups will be open through July 6th.

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CLASS ORIENTATION

Hi! My name is Stacy Renee. I'm from Florida (United States) where it is practically always summer. We have cold months but the leaves don't change colors so I can't call that Fall and it doesn't snow and it usually hot around Christmas so I can't call that Winter. :(
I've been reading for the majority of my life. There was nothing special that got me into it at a certain age because I've just always been a reader. My mom taught me to read when I was 2-3 and I've been doing it ever since. I did have a pretty crappy childhood and homelife so reading was a big escape for me as a kid. I've always been fondest of the fantasy genre. I prefer made up worlds to reality even to this day.
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Today starts the read-a-thon and I'm already behind thanks to everything I decided to do this month while still trying to get things done from June. It really doesn't help that I am participating in Camp NaNoWriMo or that today and tomorrow are my fiancé's days off this week and we had plans. Wednesday night is my town's fireworks celebrations and the fourth of July is obviously going to be pretty busy as well. And on top of all that, I still have to update this blog with memes and reviews daily! It's okay, though. I love a challenge and a bigger workload keeps me from procrastinating so much.

 

Other than stating my goals in this post, I won't be updating on this blog every day. Instead I will make an end of the read-a-thon 'wrap-up' post showing what I read, how many hours I spent reading, how many pages I read, etc.

I will be updating my progress on Twitter so be sure to follow me @LazyDayLit or track the #SummerLovin13 tag. :)

 

BOOK GOALS

(subject to change)

 

~ Read 150 - 200 pages a day

~ Read at least 4 books

 

Books I may or may not be reading:

I'm using this read-a-thon as an excuse to finish the ebook of The Bridge of Dead Things by Michael Gallagher. I've been sidetracked by all of my library books these past few weeks and haven't had the chance to read it.

 

I'm also going to try to stick to fantasy novels after that since I am writing fantasy and I think staying within the genre might be a good idea.

 

Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde

The Moon and the Face by Patricia A. McKillip

Thief's Covenant by Ari Marmell

Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde

The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda

Wayward Spirits by Brian Rathbone (Ebook)

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Are you participating in any read-a-thons this month?



Once Upon A July Filled With Read-a-thons



The Summer Lovin’ Read-a-thon is a week-long read-a-thon event hosted by seven independent bloggers (Oh, Chrys!, Tumbling Books, Effortlessly Reading, Love Life Read, Shelf Addiction, Read Sleep Repeat, and Reviewing Wonderland). The event will last from July 1st to July 7th.

You can spend the week reading as much as you want at whatever pace you'd like. There will be daily challenges for awesome prizes and opportunities to get points toward the Grand Prize Packs. The week will end with a 24-hr marathon read-a-thon! Twitter parties, mini-challenges, games, prizes given EVERY HOUR, and more chances to get points toward the Grand Prize Packs.

 

Sign-ups will be open through July 6th. I’m in, are you?!

 

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 This Read-a-thon is hosted by Angela & Loretta at Reading Angels, Candace at Candace’s Book Blog and Lori from PureImagination. It runs from 12:01 am on July 8th to 11:59 on July 10th.

 

Sign up here!

 

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BookTubeAThon

July 15 - 21

 

A read-a-thon specifically for booktubers, this read-a-thon was created by Raeleen from padfootandprongs07 and Ariel Bissett from youtube.

 

While I don't 'booktube' (mostly because I do better behind a camera than in front of it) I will still be participating in this read-a-thon because I love the booktube community, I enjoy watching their videos, and I would love to participate in a read-a-thon with people that I feel I have a long distance (and somewhat imagined) friendship with.

 

To make things a bit more fun, they have created some challenges for everyone to partake in (not required).

 

CHALLENGES:
1) read an average of 300 pages a day
2) read a book with over 500 pages
3) re-read one book
4) finish a series/trilogy
5) read a book that's been on your shelf forever
6) listen to an audiobook
7) read a classic

 

There is no official sign-up page. If you are a booktuber and want to participate, you can make a video stating that you are and put it in the 'responses' section to Raeleen's video.

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July is going to be SUPER busy for me.

Some of you are aware that the second Camp NaNoWriMo is in July and since I didn't participate in April or November of last year, I plan on writing in July. Instead of doing the whole 50,000 words, my goal is to write at least 25,000. I'm hoping that isn't too steep considering that I will be participating in 3 read-a-thons and partaking in the rest of 'life' that month. I've participated in two read-a-thons in the past this year and have deduced that I can read for about 3 hours a day. I have no idea what happens to the other 21 hours (besides sleeping, eating, driving, working, cooking, etc) but I feel as if that is going to be cut down to 1 1/2 hours a day for reading and 1 1/2 hours a day for writing. I'm really going to have to prioritize. Not to mention that running a blog is not quick and easy, no matter how much scheduling ahead you do.

 

We still have a week left before the Summer Lovin' read-a-thon starts so I don't know what book I'll be reading on the 1st.

Here is a list of books I hope to get around to reading for these 3 read-a-thons.

 

The Bridge of Dead Things by Michael Gallagher

(ebook that I need to read/review but set aside so I could finish my library books)

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

(my book jar chose this one months ago but I still haven't gotten around to it)

 

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

(ebook)

 

What Really Happened in Peru by Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

(ebook)

 

(and I'll add to this later)

 

 

BOOKTUBE-A-THON CHALLENGES:

Read 300 pages a day: I'm okay with reading about 200 pages a day but 300 would be pushing it with how much else I need to get done.

Read a book with over 500 pages: Even though it doesn't have to be read in just one day, I just really don't think I'm up for this one.

Re-read one book: I did this for the Bout Of Books read-a-thon but I really want to re-read The Hobbit before the year is over so maybe I'll get to it this summer.

Finish a series/trilogy: This one depends on whether the 6th book in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series by Michael Scott which I have on hold at the library comes in.

Read a book that's been on your shelf forever: Hmm. I'm going to have to go take a look at my shelves for this one

Listen to an audiobook: I recently downloaded The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater so that is perfect. It will be my first audiobook ever.

Read a classic: I've had A Room With A View by E.M. Forster on my shelves forever and it's a classic that I've been meaning to read lately. It's short, too, so that will be perfect to fit in.



Summer Lovin' Read-A-Thon

 

 

The Summer Lovin’ Readathon is a week-long readathon event hosted by seven independent bloggers! (Oh, Chrys!, Tumbling Books, Effortlessly Reading, Love Life Read, Shelf Addiction, Read Sleep Repeat, and Reviewing Wonderland)

Spend the week reading at your own pace, when and how you want too.
 There will be daily challenges for awesome prizes and opportunities to get points toward the Grand Prize Packs.

As if that weren’t enough – the week will end with a 24-hr marathon readathon! Twitter parties, mini-challenges, games, prizes given EVERY HOUR, and more chances to get points toward the Grand Prize Packs.

Sign-ups will be open through July 6th. I’m in, are you?!

 

The hardest part will be figuring out what I'll read! :)