Journaling Through Booktube-A-Thon
Booktube-A-Thon has ended! If you haven't read “Booktube-A-Thon 2015”, you should check that blog post out. It’s all about what Booktube-A-Thon is, books I planned on reading, and other things of the sort. This post may not make sense if you haven’t read the previous one. To read the previous one, click here.
I read a total of 2.5 books during the reading marathon. It wasn’t my goal of four books, but I still read. That’s what I feel counts; not exactly the numbers but the experience.
I read:
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Cloaked by Alex Flinn (which I read half of)
I also completed two book challenges:
I completed the challenge, “read the book I last acquired” by reading Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
and
I also completed the challenge of, “a book I really wanted to read” by reading Pretties by Scott Westerfeld.
I tried the challenge, " to finish a book without letting go of it,” but failed. I was reading Cloaked by Alex Flinn for six hours. In that six hours, I ate food, went to the bathroom, and even took a nap without letting go of the book! That book and I got pretty close. Then when I was eating a snack, which is the easiest thing to do with a book, I accidentally let go of it! I was about halfway through the book when I let go!
Monday was my strong reading day. I stayed up until 12:10 am finishing my first book, which was Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. (If you’d like a book review, say so in the comment section.)
I started my week of reading strong, but throughout the week it became weaker. By Sunday, I only read for 30 minutes. I also became more busy as the week went on, so that had part to do with less reading.
I did participate in Twitter Sprints (this is where you read as much as you can for a set amount of time) and Instagram Challenges (where you have picture themes). Both of these activities you can win books from; but with my luck, I didn’t win any books. It was just super fun to be apart of it.
Twitter Sprints:
I did many twitter sprints, usually the night reading ones. These were so much fun to participate in because there was a good community of readers. One of my tweets even got retweeted by the Booktube-A-Thon twitter account! You can just sense the community reading it.
(Picture below is Booktube-A-Thon's retweet of my comment and the picture to the right is the content which was retweeted.)
Instagram Challenges:
For the Instagram Challenges, I only participated in one. This challenge was to “post a picture of a book surrounded by items that relate to the book”. All the entries for this challenge were so creative and chic. Here was what my picture entry was:
Overall, I had a great time participating in Booktube-A-Thon and I am super excited for next years Booktube-A-Thon and other readathons coming up! The books I didn’t get a chance to read during this time, I will be reading sometime soon.
Have you ever participated in a readathon?
I’d love to hear if you have and what it was like for you.
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Have a nice rest of your day and I will see you next week!