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May & Fantasy JourneyAThon Wrap Up

Post author By Eliza Eames
Post date May 31, 2020
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It is the last day of May & also the last day of the Fantasy JourneyAThon! So, let’s chat about what I read in May and how I went during the ReadAThon!

After reading only 1 book in March & 4 in April, I actually managed to read 11 books in May! Which I’m super happy with. I read 3 eBooks, 5 Audiobooks, 2 Graphic Novels & 1 eARC which also happened to be a Graphic Novel.

Graphic Novels

Firstly let’s just mention the 2 Graphic Novels I read in May. I have spoken about them more in my Recent Reads & Currently Reading post, so I’ll just pop the covers up here!

eBooks

Next onto the eBooks!

Firstly I read book 2 & 3 in The Extraordinary Adventures of The Athena Club series by Theodora Goss! Which I absolutely loved!! European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman & The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl are Historical Mysteries with fantasy elements, which is right up my alley. I loved all the characters, the setting, the plots were super unique and unpredictable & I was just absolutely hooked on this story. This is definitely one I would consider rereading and Scribd happens to have the audiobooks, so this might just happen soon!
Next I read The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller and I actually enjoyed this one more than I thought I would when I started out. This is a YA Fantasy Standalone which sounded good to me, however, this is also a Romance and usually I’m not a huge fan but I actually really enjoyed this one. I enjoyed the characters & the setting. The plot was also unpredictable and just kept me hooked.

Audiobooks

Now, onto the Audiobooks

Firstly, of course I reread Philosopher’s Stone, Chamber of Secrets & Prisoner of Azkaban.
I also reread Quidditch Through the Ages which I especially love the audiobook for as it has bonus content of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, which is not featured in the original book.
Then I was bored one afternoon and looking through audiobooks and started listening to The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky as it was short and thought would help with points for Fantasy JourneyAThon. I did not realise at the time that it meant ‘Getting Lucky’ in the sexual sense. So, that was an interesting read. Slightly funny but I don’t think it’s something that you really need to read for the story. It did help with points though, so all good!

eARC/ARCs

Lastly, we have the eARC that I read which was Kriss: The Gift of Wrath by Ted Naifeh & Warren Wucinich and I have reviewed this one so you can check that out HERE if you wish! This one just wasn’t for me and I didn’t understand the point of it really.

Fantasy JourneyAThon

The path I took included 7 books and I did use my Shadow Walker ability to jump from Garon to Mount Paedris.

Haroyell: Read a first book in a series – The Backstagers: Vol 1
Dupressa: Read a short book – The Backstagers: Vol 2
Garon: Read a book from your favourite genre – European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
*SHADOW WALKER ABILITY TO JUMP USED*
Mount Paedris: Read a book with a map – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Maroo: Read a book with a monster – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Tryllin: Read a book featuring Royalty – The Shadows Between Us
Nialas: Read a predicted 5 star read – The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

What was your favourite read of May?
Mine would have to be either European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman or The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl! They were both so good! I can’t choose.

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June CramAThon 2018 Wrap Up

Post author By Eliza Eames
Post date June 19, 2018

So the CramAThon finished last night as I am soo happy with how much I read! I completed all 7 challenges as well as partly listened to 2 other audiobooks & partly read another book. I’ll just tell you here what those books were as they weren’t actually for the CramAThon.
Also here is my reading vlog for the full week of CramAThon

During the week I was listening to & finished Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone. I didn’t record what the starting point was for this week but it was fairly early into the book & I completed it during this week. I also read 27 more pages of King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist which is a book I’m slowly making my way through. Lastly, I listened to 188 pages of The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken on audiobook.

Predicted 5 star read

A book that is out of your comfort zone

A book that has been on your TBR for a long time

LGBT Own Voices

Something that is not a standard novel

A book with your favourite colour on the cover

Read 7 books

Well, that is all the books I read for CramAThon!!

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Scallywagathon Wrap Up

So the Scallywagathon finished yesterday and I completely didn’t realise. For some reason, I was thinking that it was finishing today! Anyway, luckily I finished the last 2 books for the challenges yesterday and had started another book today that didn’t go towards the challenges, it was just an extra.

Here is the map

5 > 8 > A > 9

5: OPEN WATERS – BLUE ON THE COVER

8: TELL IT TO THE PARROT – OVER HYPED BOOK

A: MAROONED – A STANDALONE

I was originally going to read the eBook of this but I wasn’t finding it that interesting, so I decided to give the audiobook ago. I still didn’t love the book, but it was easier to get through using the audiobook than physically reading it.

9: CLEAR THE DECK – FROM YOUR OWNED TBR

Did you participate? How much did you get read?

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September 2017 Duodecathon Wrap Up

Post author By Eliza Eames
Post date September 25, 2017

So I didn’t read too much during the Duodecathon this time but I completed 1 challenge, so I’m happy with that. On the weekend I was helping my dad a fair bit and then went out on Saturday night too and then went to bed pretty early on Sunday as I only got 2 and a half hours sleep on Saturday, so I did absolutely no reading on the weekend. So this is what I read for the first 5 days of the ReadAthon.

I started this book before the ReadAThon and finished it during.

This book completed the challenge ‘someone else’s favourite book’.

I started listening to this audiobook and have got a bit over a quarter in.

I also started The Last Namsara. I read 82% of this book during the ReadAThon.

Here is how I’m going so far with the challenges (ones in bold I have completed)

Read 1,200 pages
Start OR finish a series
A 2017 debut author
A short story
A Graphic Novel
A Non-Fiction book
A Book that has been on your TBR for 2+ years
A book with multiple authors
A book you picked up because of the cover
A book that has to do with travelling
Someone else’s favourite book
The first book on your shelf you haven’t read

That is all. Hopefully, I will get a bit more read in the October Duodecathon!

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#TheReadingQuest Wrap Up

#TheReadingQuest is over in about an hour and I won’t be finishing any more books in that time so I may as well post my Wrap Up now.

You can find my TBR HERE & my mid-way update HERE!

First, here is the Challenge card.

And here is the challenge board with the book I’ve completed.

XP points are in blue next to each completed books!

Knight Challenges:

The First Book of a Series – This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab (10)

A book with a verb in its title – When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (20)

A book with a weapon on its cover – Graceling by Kristin Cashore (10)

A book with a red cover – Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (10)

A book that has a TV/Movie adaptation – Coraline by Neil Gaiman (10)

Mage Challenges:

A book set in a different world – The School For Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (20)

A book that contains magic – Half Wild by Sally Green (10)

A book with a one word title – Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (20)

MINI QUEST CHALLENGES:

Potions – A book concocted by 2+ authors – The Iron Trial by Cassandra Clare & Holly Black (10)

Multiplayer – Buddy read a book – Passenger by Alexandra Bracken (10)

Grind – A book with 500+ pages – The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon (10)

Time Warp – A book set in either the past or the future – Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (10)

Open World – Read whatever you want – Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (20)

Expansion – Read a companion novel or short story – Because You Love to Hate Me (20)

Mini-Game – Read a graphic novel, novella or poem collection – The Wicked + The Divine: Vol 4 by Kieron Gillen (10)

The Points:

Have you participated in #TheReadingQuest? How much did you read during the ReadAthon? What books did you read during the ReadAThon!? Let me know in the comments!

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AYearAThon May Wrap-Up

Post author By Eliza Eames
Post date May 9, 2017

So the AYearAThon actually finished a couple days ago now, but I haven’t been home. I didn’t read a tonne in the ReadAThon, but I’m happy with how much I did read!

So I only finished 1 book in this time but I finished 1 and started 2 others.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is the book that I finished.

I finished Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake, I read 183 pages of this book during the time frame of the ReadAThon

I started Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth, I got to 35% of this book and then put it down. I received an eGalley of this, so I don’t know exactly how many pages, I only know the percentage as that is what the kindle app shows. This book is so slow and it took me a couple days to get to 35% where I would usually finish 1/4 of a book in a day easily and because this book was taking forever, so I put it down to read something that I could actually read in this ReadAThon and I will pick it up after!

I also started Nevernight by Jay Kristoff. I was 203 pages in that book when it hit midnight on the 7th!

And that is all I read for the ReadAThon! If you participated then let me know how much you read!

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Dewey’s 24 Hour ReadAThon Wrap Up

Post author By Eliza Eames
Post date April 30, 2017

So the Dewey’s 24 Hour ReadAThon has finished and I honestly didn’t do that great in this ReadAThon! I knew that I wouldn’t get TONNES read as I knew I would have to sleep and work. When I first decided I was going to do this ReadAThon I didn’t know that I was going to be working, so I planned on read all day today but that didn’t happen.

I started reading last night at 10:00pm, which was when the ReadAThon started in Aus. I went to sleep at about 1am and listened to an audiobook until I fell asleep.. I couldn’t get to sleep straightaway so I actually got an hour and a half of listening done. I woke up at 8 and worked from 9 till 1:30 and then had to come home and have something to eat and do some jobs. I then read for about 2 hours and then had to do some more jobs and cook dinner and then I watched My Kitchen Rules as it is the Grand Finale and I had forgotten it was on tonight till about half an hour before it started. I thought it was tomorrow night for some reason. So I watched it instead of reading as I’m not missing the grand finale after watching every damn episode of the season haha. So this wasn’t the best ReadAThon for me.

I read 223 pages of Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

I listened to about an hour and a half of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

I don’t know the exact time as when listening to audiobooks before bed I put it on a sleep timer of 15 minutes and then reset it if I’m still awake. That way if I fall asleep then it will be easy to go back a couple minute to what I remember.. So I listened to somewhere between 1hr 15min to 1hr 30min.

Well that is all for this wrap up. Hopefully I will have a better time with the AYearAThon which starts at midnight tonight! Atleast it goes for a week, so I can get more read in that time haha.