treesofreverie read-a-thon September 2014 - Wrap-Up

Another treesofreverie read-a-thon has come and gone. I'm going to list all my final stats, the books I read, reading challenges completed. I wasn't very involved on the social media and such side this time around, I guess I just wasn't really feeling it. It's been a weird, strange month, but I did get a ton of reading done during it.

Anyway - this is definitely a read-a-thon I'd recommend. It's very laid back and everyones very nice, of course, and Sarah's great. I don't know if there's going to be on in october, but her blog will tell you when it's decided.  (Read-a-thon tab)


Number of Books Read: 13

Number of Pages Read: 4,105

The Books:
The Battle of the Labrynth (Percy Jackson #4) by Rick Riordan
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5) by Rick Riordan
Revolver by Marcus Sedwick
Single by Saturday (Weekday Brides #4) by Catherine Bybee
Taken by Tuesday (Weekday Brides #5) by Catherine Bybee
Opal Fire (A Stacy Justice Mystery #1) by Barbra Annino
Not Quite Dating (Not Quite #1) by Catherine Bybee
Not Quite Mine (Not Quite #2) by Catherine Bybee
Purity in Death (In Death #15) by J.D. Robb
Portrait in Death (In Death #16) by J.D. Robb
The Little World of Liz Climo by Liz Climo
Girl on Tour (Kylie Ryans #2) by Caisey Quinn
Imitation in Death (In Death #17) by J.D. Robb

Challenges Completed:
Finish an entire book in ONE day
Read a book by an author you haven’t read before
Read out loud (read a minimum of one full page!)
Finish a book in a series you’ve not yet completed

Read a book in the fantasy genre

Read a book in the contemporary genre

Take pictures of your reading progress

Show off your books by taking more pictures

Read a book you’ve heard a lot of good things about

Read a book you’ve never heard of before

Read a book from your Goodreads to-read shelf

Re-read one of your favourite books

Pick up a book that looks like a fun/light read

Read a book you’ve been meaning to read

Read a book you’ve been avoiding

September 2014 Read-A-Thons Update Post (treesofreverie) (3)

This is part three of my September read-a-thon update posts. Whew, that's a mouth full. It's been a great month so far! And the treesofreverie read-a-thon pretty much finishes out the month (ending the 28th). Tackle Your TBR is officially over, sadly. (Wrap-up post here) There's some overlapping for books for these two read-a-thons, because they did overlap.

Sunday, September 21st

Number Of Books Read Today: 1

Total Number of Books Read (treesofreverie): 9

Pages Read Today: 355

Total Number of Pages Read (trees): 2,951

Books(today):

Purity in Death (In Death #15) by J.D. Robb (started and finished - 355 pages)

Notes:
I finally got back to the In Death series - I really like this series, mostly for the characters, but also the plots are always really interesting in every book that I've read so far. Which is impressive for the number, also I'm told they stay fantastic - there are like 40 books in this series (no, really).

Monday, September 22nd

Number Of Books Read Today: 0

Total Number of Books Read (treesofreverie): 9

Pages Read Today: 80

Total Number of Pages Read (trees): 3,031

Books(today):
Portrait in Death (In Death #16) by J.D. Robb (started - 80 pages)

Notes:

It wasn't a great day for reading or really anything - I had a headache that I just couldn't shape. Anyway, I'm enjoying this so far, I don't know what'll happen tomorrow. Hopefully no headache.

Tuesday, September 23rd

Didn't get anything read but a few page, which I'm just going to count for tomorrow since it was less then ten. I hope you all day better reading days, and day in general (I didn't read much before I had a headache, such).

Wednesday, September 24th

Number Of Books Read Today: 2

Total Number of Books Read (treesofreverie): 11

Pages Read Today: 427

Total Number of Pages Read (trees): 3,458

Books(today):
Portrait in Death (In Death #16) by J.D. Robb (finished - 267 pages)
The Little World of Liz Climo by Liz Climo (started and finished - 160)

Notes: 
I'm so glad I'm back into the In Death books, even though it's completely thrown off my plan for the last week of the month. I'd missed these characters, a lot more then I thought. Portrait in Death was fantastic, possibly my favorite so far but there have been some really good ones before.

The Little World of Liz Climo is really just a book compiling all of her adorable, awesome illustrations. She has a Tumblr - it's adorable and full of her stuff, you should  check it out (unless you have something to do right now, you might want to save it for later, you'll get lost).

Thursday, September 25th

Number Of Books Read Today: 1

Total Number of Books Read (treesofreverie): 12

Pages Read Today: 181

Total Number of Pages Read (trees): 3,639

Books(today):
Girl on Tour (Kylie Ryan #2) by Caisey Quinn (started and finished - 181)

Notes:
4am, when probably a good 85% of bad decisions, if not more, are made. I couldn't sleep, so I picked this up. I forget when I read the first one, but I hadn't been planning on continuing the series. I haven't found many New Adult books I enjoy, and I don't really understand the genre (it's - it's just romance). Anyway - this was... whatever. I gave it 2/5 stars, read it in probably an hour and a half, maybe two. I'll probably read the last one at some point just to finish it, we'll see.

I think I might be able to get to 200 books for 2014 this month? It seems insane to me. This has been such a strange year, but wonderful for reading.

Friday, September 26th

I didn't read anything today - I meant to, I went to, but I got completely distracted by 

Saturday, September 27th

Number Of Books Read Today: 1

Total Number of Books Read (treesofreverie): 13

Pages Read Today: 342

Total Number of Pages Read (trees): 3,981

Books(today):

Imitation in Death (In Death #17) by J.D. Robb

Notes:
This book was so good. This series is just - really good. It can be cheesy at points and eye roll inducing at others - but mostly I just love the characters too much so I just love those moments. It's great fun, I promise.

Sunday, September 28th

Number Of Books Read Today: 0

Total Number of Books Read (treesofreverie): 13

Pages Read Today: 124

Total Number of Pages Read (trees): 4,105

Books(today):

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

Notes:
Ah - Sanderson. If you follow me at all, or have seen just about any post from me, you might know of my obsession with Brandon Sanderson. I haven't finished really all of his currently published works, I'm making my way through the list, but I just keep loving them all. So much goodness. I'd suggest giving him a try, start anywhere, read everything.

And, uh, I kind of forgot this was the last day of the read-a-thon. My sleep has been a bit messed up, insomnia has been kicking my ass, so that's what I'm blaming because I didn't sleep and then slept late. And there was something else I wanted to add and promptly forgot, so I guess I'm going to leave it there.

Anyway - read-a-thon complete. I'm think I'll post a full wrap-up in a few days, probably. I'm quite happy with what I read, anyway, and I hope you had fun if you participated. Or, at least, had a good week.

September 2014 Read-A-Thons Update Post (Tackle Your TBR & treesofreverie) (2)

Have you guys realized my read-a-thon addiction? It's getting pretty series, this is the second time I've done two read-a-thons at the same time and it's technically more then that. Anyway, the Tackle Your TBR read-a-thon goes until the 20th, while the treesofreverie read-a-thon takes place from the 14th to the 28th (15 days in total).

Sunday, September 14th:
Number of Books Read Today: 1
Total Number of Books(Tackle Your TBR): 7
Total Number of Books(treesofreverie): 1
Pages Read Today: 583
Total Number of Pages(TBR): 2,409
Books(today):
The Battle of the Labyrinth (PJ #4) by Rick Riordan (started and finished - 368 pages)
The Last Olympian (PJ#5) by Rick Riordan (started - 215 pages)

Notes:
I didn't actually mean to binge read all five of these books in a row, but shit happens. I'd totally forgotten how big of a Percy/Annabeth shipper I am. Also - how just plain thick Percy is at points is eye roll inducing.

I seriously love this series, though. So sad, but excited, for the companion series to draw to a close early next month.

Monday, September 15th:
Number of Books Read Today: 2
Total Number of Books(Tackle Your TBR): 9
Total Number of Books(treesofreverie): 3
Pages Read Today: 412
Total Number of Pages(TBR): 2,821
Total Number of Pages(trees): 995
Books(today):
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #3) by Rick Riordan (finished - 168 pages)
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (started and finished - 204 pages)
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan (started 40 pages)

Notes:
I am really glad I reread the Percy Jackson series now. I'd really like to read all the short stories (and Percy Jackson's Greek Gods) and then reread the Heroes of Olympus series before the last one comes out, and they're fun. So far - Percy Jackson's Greek Gods is making Greek mythology seem even more ridiculous, which is pretty impressive.

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick was surprising and very good. I'm not sure what I was expecting, I just knew it was probably going to be tense - and it was and I really enjoyed it and will definitely be reading more of is stuff.

Tuesday, September 16th:
Number of Books Read Today: 1
Total Number of Books(Tackle Your TBR): 10
Total Number of Books(treesofreverie): 4
Pages Read Today: 457
Total Number of Pages(TBR): 3,275
Total Number of Pages(trees): 1,452
Books(today):
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan (continued - 142 pages)
Single by Saturday (Weekday Brides #4) by Catherine Bybee (started and finished - 315 pages)

Notes:
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods is a ridiculous amount of fun - mostly because some (most) of the Greek myths are a little ridiculous and in Percy's voice they become very more ridiculous. Basically I'm loving it and I highly recommend it for fans of the Percy Jackson series - just be warned the book is the actual size of my torso.

The Weekday Brides series is romance fluff and, apparently, I am addicted. I really like the characters, and it's the same group over and over and then getting together with people and then random serious things happening. I have no idea why I can devour them in one sitting, but they're perfect for breaks, even though I'm surrounded by books I currently really want to read, that in itself can be slightly frightening. (And I definitely have a cold and some fun fluff is good for that, I think, and not having to think too hard, mostly).

Saying all that - they're not bad books, by a long shot. I'd probably give the series a solid 3/5 stars - liked it, but nothing that made me head over heels for it, I've got one left of the out books.

Wednesday, September 17th:
Number of Books Read Today: 1
Total Number of Books(Tackle Your TBR): 11
Total Number of Books(treesofreverie): 5
Pages Read Today: 308
Total Number of Pages(TBR): 3,583
Total Number of Pages(trees): 1,760
Books(today):
Taken by Tuesday (Weekday Brides series #5) by Catherine Bybee (started and finished - 308 pages)

Notes:
It was not a good reading day - I had a severe case of kind of panicing about all the books I wanted to / could be reading. And just ended up procrastinating and not really getting anything done until I forced myself to get off my laptop and read something.

Thursday, September 18th:
I honestly didn't read a single page today. Stuff happened, but I did manage to work out for the first time in over a year! And ow, but it happened, hopefully it continues to happen just maybe not tomorrow, depending on my soreness. Anyway - I hope you had a better reading day then I did or just a good day in general! What are you currently reading?

Friday, September 18th:
Number of Books Read Today: 1
Total Number of Books(Tackle Your TBR): 12
Total Number of Books(treesofreverie): 6
Pages Read Today: 276
Total Number of Pages(TBR): 3,859
Total Number of Pages(trees): 2,036
Books(today):
Opal Fire (A Stacy Justice Mystery #1) by Barbra Annino (started and finished - 276 pages)

Notes:
This week I've, apparently, been really using Kindle Unlimited, it is nice to not have to buy all the kindle books I buy. Or try and find them on Overdrive. Anyway - I only gave Opal Fire 2 stars. I almost DNFed it after 25 pages, but ended up finishing it. I'll admit I skimmed parts of it, and I don't think I'll be continuing with the series, sadly, but at least it was something that was quick to read to try and pull me out of this funk I've fallen into.

Saturday, September 20th:
Number of Books Read Today: 2
Total Number of Books(Tackle Your TBR): 14
Total Number of Books(treesofreverie): 8
Pages Read Today: 560
Total Number of Pages(TBR): 4,419
Total Number of Pages(trees): 2,596
Books(today):
Not Quite Dating (Not Quite #1) by Catherine Bybee
Not Quite Mine (Not Quite #2) by Catherine Bybee

Notes:
I might of been up until 3am accidentally reading Not Quite Dating - I don't know what it is about this authors books. You just get invested fast, well I do, and then her series are with the same group of characters and, apparently, I'm a sucker for that. I don't know if I'd really recommend them, though I did enjoy and live them and gave them three stars.

And, with that, it's the end of part two of my September read-a-thon updates posts. Part three will contain the remaining of the Trees of Reverie read-a-thon (link will be here when posted, could be a few days).

And I'll be posting a wrap-up of all the books I read for the Tackle Your TBR read-a-thon and my final stats for it and thoughts. I hope you're having a great day and month, in general and in reading.

September Read-a-Thon(s) (Tackle Your TBR & treesofreverie)

Read-a-thons are fun, I like read-a-thons (you've probably realized this if you've seen, really, anything of my blog) and I said in my September TBR that I didn't think there were any read-a-thons going on. And then I found like all of them? 

And I didn't want to make separate posts for everything, but I split them into two posts,* because that would be a lot of posts and annoying if you don't care about read-a-thons. So theres the Tackle Your TBR read-a-thon from September 8th to September 20th and the treesofreverie read-a-thon from September 14th to September 28th. Go to the treeofreverie announcement post to find out out to officially sign up. I don't think you have to officially sign up, but it's not too complicated. 

Since Tackle Your TBR actually starts, well, tomorrow as this is going up - then I feel like I can actually even try and make up a possible list of books I might read, though I have honestly no idea what I'm going to be reading.

• The Girl of Fire and Thorn by Rae Carson (I really want to read this, and I splurged for the rest of the series, so I could binge read the whole thing)
• Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan (This book is huge - in size and it's like 300 pages, but I want to at least start it next week).
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
• Saint City Sinner by Lilith Saintcrow (I'd like to eventually freaking finish this book - also The Queen of the Tearling).
• Something Sanderson - I just read Mistborn, I need more (I haven't read The Alloy of Law, maybe that?)

And as for what I'd like to get done for this read-a-thon, I'm currently in a really reading mood, but also I haven't gotten to play a lot of the Sims 4. So these two overlap a little - so I'm going to do the first part of the Tackle Your TBR in one post, and then when these two start to overlap, a separate post, a wrap-up for Tackle, and then finishing out with trees. Did that make sense? I think so (if you're confused, I'm sorry, but I can try and make it better if you want?)

If you're participating in any of these read-a-thons - let me know with a link to your blog so I can see what you're reading/up to!

*I divided the two posts into two groups. This one is the shorter read-a-thons - while the other one is The Raven Cycle read-a-long and R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril IX. My post about them.

Complete Wrap-Up: treesofreverie read-a-thon

This is my final wrap-up of the treesofreverie read-a-thon so it's going to be quite a long post. This read-a-thon was pretty much the whole month, it took up the whole month for me and it kicked me back into reading since I hadn't read anything the beginning of the month.

I considered listing all the books I read for this read-a-thon, but there's a lot of them and they'll all be listed in my monthly wrap-up or they are listed on the BookTubeAThon wrap-up (and update) posts - which are all linked below. I did end up listening the challenges and prompts I completed, which was much more then I expected.

Total Number of Books Completed: 25

Total Page Count: 8,933

There isn't much more to say, but I hope you all had a good month (reading or otherwise), and links and such below!


BookTubeAThon wrap up.
Day Six
Day Five
Day Four
Day Three
Day Two
Day One
First treesofreverieupdate

Challenges/Prompts I've completed:
Read a popular or well-known book
Read a book you’ve heard a lot of good things about
Read a book you’ve never heard of before
Read a book from your Goodreads to-read shelf
Read one of your best friend’s favourite books
Pick up a book that looks like a fun/light read
Pick a colour and choose a book with that colour on it’s cover
Read a book you’ve been meaning to read
Finish an entire book in ONE day
Read a book by an author you haven’t read before
Read outside (this one didn't last long, because sunlight, bugs)
Read out loud (read a minimum of one full page!)
Finish a book in a series you’ve not yet completed
Read a graphic novel or manga
Read a book in the Fantasy genre
Read a book in the Contemporary genre
Read a book written by or focusing on POC
Take pictures of your reading progress
Show off your books by taking more pictures
Read a book you’ve been avoiding
Read a book with an LGBTQ+ character

Update Two: treesofreverie read-a-thon

My BookTubeAThon updates were also treesofreverie updates, but now that BookTubeAThon is over and I have read things to update you on. First off, I'm not going to list all the books I read during the week of BookTubeAThon, because I've already done that (at the bottom of this post there will be links to the BookTubeAThon updates, the wrap up has a list of all the books I read during that week).

Monday, July 21st - day twelve

Books:
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita #2) by Ben Hatke (started and finished - 224 pages)
The Return of Zita the Spacegirl (Zita #3) by Ben Hatke (started and finished - 240 pages)
Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant #2) by Derek Landy (started - 183 pages)

It was a much better reading day then I expected because I didn't actually start reading until 8pm, I took most of the day to relax after the insanity that was the last week. However - I got way more read then I expected. I really loved the Zita the Spacegirl series, and the ending left me very happy, I'd definitely recommend this series.

I feel like I accidentally was taking part in the UnderHyped read-a-thon, the whole Zita series don't have as many reviews as I expected. I'm not taking part in it officially, though, even though I'm going to be keeping up with the people that are - I'm thinking of continuing my reread of Cassie Clare's books and then moving onto the ones I haven't read (Never read Clockwork Princess, I just knew it was going to hurt, and now I only vaguely remember the first two books).

Total pages for the day: 647
read-a-thon total: 5,472

Tuesday, July 22nd - day thirteen
I did not get as much reading done today as I wanted to, or expected to. It ended up being a surprisngly stressful day, actually stressful enough I couldn't focus on reading (normally I read to ignore stress). Anyway - hopefully tomorrow will be better, though I did read some.

Books:
Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant #2) by Derek Landy (continued - 117 pages)

Day total: 117
read-a-thon total: 5,589

Wednesday, July 23rd - day fourteen
Another day! I got a surprising amount read, considering how much time I spent on my laptop.

Books:
Playing with Fire (SP #2) by Derek Landy (finished - 103 pages)
Clockwork Angel (Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare (started and finished - 479 pages)

Day total: 582
read-a-thon total: 6,171
books finished: 20


Thursday, July 24th - day fifteen
And another day, another book finished, I'm weirdly proud of it considering how long it was! Though, Clockwork Angel was almost as long.

Books:
Clockwork Prince (ID #2) by Cassandra Clare (started and finished - 500 pages)

Day total: 500
read-a-thon total: 6,671
books finished: 21

I'm going to link my join BookTubeAThon / treesofreverie updates here, because I don't want to make this post longer by listing books I already have.
BookTubeAThon wrap up.
Day Six
Day Five
Day Four
Day Three
Day Two
Day One
First treesofreverieupdate

Challenges/Prompts I've completed:
Read a popular or well-known book
Read a book you’ve heard a lot of good things about
Read a book you’ve never heard of before
Read a book from your Goodreads to-read shelf
Read one of your best friend’s favourite books
Pick up a book that looks like a fun/light read
Pick a colour and choose a book with that colour on it’s cover
Read a book you’ve been meaning to read
Finish an entire book in ONE day
Read a book by an author you haven’t read before
Read outside (this one didn't last long, because sunlight, bugs)
Read out loud (read a minimum of one full page!)
Finish a book in a series you’ve not yet completed
Read a graphic novel or manga
Read a book in the Fantasy genre
Read a book in the Contemporary genre
Read a book written by or focusing on POC
Take pictures of your reading progress
Show off your books by taking more pictures
Read a book you’ve been avoiding
Read a book with an LGBTQ+ character