Thursday 17 July 2014

BookTubeathon Day 3 and 4

Shew! I am clearly still an overachiever.

Day 3
Read 379 pages.
Almost finished Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Started reading The Book Thief by Marcus Zusac

Day 4
Read so far: 266 pages
Finished Monsters of Men (IT WAS AMAZING!)
Still on The Book Thief - but it is going quickly. (Already wondering if I want to see the film adaptation. I love the characters in my head and I don't want them to change!)

Total Stats:
Books read 5
Pages read 1460
Number of pages to go 640
Average number of pages per day 365

Challenges:
1 Read a book with pictures  - DONE
2 Start and finish a series - DONE (YAY! IT WAS AWESOME)
3 Red on the cover - DONE
4 A book selected by someone else
5 A book from the genre read the least this year - DONE although if I have the time, I might read a different book for this one
6 A book to movie/tv adaptation - WORKING ON IT
7 7 books and/or an average of 300 pages per day - ON TRACK!




Wednesday 16 July 2014

BookTube-a-thon Day 2

Although I have not yet officially decided to do it, I am still accidentally doing it.

So here goes with the stats so far:
Day 1
Pages read: 444
Books completed:2.5

Day 2
Pages read: 371
Books completed: 1.3

Challenges
Read a book with pictures - DONE (Master of Dreams: Sleep of the Just (Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman)
Start and finish a series - ALMOST DONE (Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness)
Red on the cover - DONE ('The Knife of Never Letting Go' by Patrick Ness)
A book selected by someone else
A book from the genre read the least this year - DONE ((Master of Dreams: Sleep of the Just (Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman), although if I have the time, I might read a different book for this one)
A book to movie/tv adaptation
7 books and/or an average of 300 pages per day - STILL ON TRACK.

In case you have not heard of the BookTube-a-thon, here is the link to the youtube page. 

Oh well, I had better head off and carry on reading!

Monday 14 July 2014

Booktube-readathon

Still not sure about doing the readathon. Spent the day reading, just in case I decide to definitely do it tomorrow. :)
Today's progress:
Read a book with red on the cover - The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) by Patrick Ness
Read a book with pictures - Master of Dreams: Sleep of the Just (Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman
Start and finish a series - (halfway) The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) by Patrick Ness
Read 7 books - 2.5 done
Read 300 pages a day - 357 down and 1.5 hours to go.
Looks like I might end up doing it anyway! :D