Hot Summer Reads Read-a-thon Goals

This read-a-thon is hosted Patrick @ The Bookshelves and Jen @ YA Romantics. It runs from July 14-20 and is a no pressure read-a-thon. They also plan on having a few challenges, but the main focus will be reading. I am trying for a page count rather than a book count, since I keep jumping back and forth between books. I am going to try for 500 pages and since I will be on a staycation part of the week, I have a good chance of meeting that goal.

Mini-challenge by Jen @ YA Romantics
Why am I reading these books? Jen wants us to pick one of the books and tell why we are reading that book. I will pick the Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel. I loved the cover on this book and I also wanted to know more about the great women behind the first astronauts. I sort of equate summer with space shuttles. When I was little our favorite place to go on vacation was Florida and although we never went directly to watch any space shuttles launch, we did see a few heading to space while there. This is seemed like a fun book and I need to brush up more on my Women's history.

Grand Central Publishing

Books on the list:
I would like to finish Opal by Jennifer Armentrout and The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel.

Novella:
The Prince by Kiera Cass

Other possible books:
Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama
Weather Witch by Shannon Delany
The Elite by Kiera Cass
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (reread)
The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross
My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike

Hot Summer Reads Read-a-thon

This read-a-thon is hosted Patrick @ The Bookshelves and Jen @ YA Romantics. It runs from July 14-20 and is a no pressure read-a-thon. They also plan on having a few challenges, but the main focus will be reading. I seem to read more when I participate in read-a-thons and since July tends to be my slow month at work, I have signed up for several read-a-thons. For this one I am going to try to read at least 500 pages for the week. I have been jumping back and forth between books lately and I think I will do better with a page goal rather than a book goal.

My reading list: Coming soon!

High Summer Read-a-thon

The read-a-thon will start on Monday, 7/22 at 12:00am CST and finish on Sunday, 7/28 at 11:59pm CST and is hosted by Michelle @ The True Book Addict and Castle Macabre. Click here for the signup link. This is a no stress read-a-thon and you can read whatever you like. This is my first High Summer Read-a-thon, but I have participated in her other read-a-thons before.  I will be picking a reading list soon!

Once Upon a Read-a-thon Wrap-up

I only read about 130 pages, so I did not finish a book. I am close to finishing Opal, though. I did complete 4 mini-challenges and participated in the Twitter party. I am finally understanding a little bit about Twitter. This was really fun! Thanks again to Angela & Loretta at Reading Angels, Candace at Candace’s Book Blog and Lori at Pure Imagination for hosting!

Dizneeee's World of Books Mini-challenge

One of today's mini-challenges is hosted by Lisa at Dizneeee's World of Books. For her challenge, she wants to know your favorite genre, favorite book in this genre, and favorite character. My favorite genre is definitely YA fantasy, mainly paranormal/dystopian. My favorite book is Hourglass by Myra McEntire. My favorite character is Finley Jayne from The Steampunk Chronicles by Kady Cross.

Once Upon a Read-a-thon Updates

Day 1 update
Currently reading: Opal, The Elite
Pages/Percent read: The Elite-34 pages, Opal 3 %
Mini-challenge: Cover2Cover blog's

Day 2 update
Currently reading: Opal, The Elite
Pages/Percent read: The Elite-2 pages, Opal 11%
Mini-challenge: Apocalypse Challenge

Day 3 update
Currently reading: Opal
Percent read: Opal-1%
Mini-challenge: Dizneeee's World of Books mini-challenge,  Rainy Day Ramblings Apocalyptic Jigsaw puzzles
Participated in the Twitter chat!

Apocalypse Challenge hosted by Kristen at Better Read Than Dead

One of today's mini-challenges is hosted by Kristen at Better Read Than Dead.
Here is her challenge:

Mini-Challenge Time!!!

You're in a bookstore and you've just purchased 5 books you've been dying to read, when the apocalypse hits. (Zombie, Demons, Vampires, Dean Winchester vs. Sam Winchester (yes, I'm watching Supernatural reruns) I don't care what apocalypse). You've got one chance at survival, what 2 books do you take and what 3 other items do you take?

 

I would take the Bible and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, because I try to read the Bible every night and I could read the 6th HP book over and over again and not get tired of it.

 

I would also take a hair brush, my cell phone, and my car, because those are the things I would miss the most, after my family, other people and my cat, of course.  (If I could cheat I would say I would take a bag like Hermione's and fill it with everything, but I will keep it realistic. :) ) 

 

Fun challenge!