One of
my favourite memes hosted by the lovely Shelia over at Book
Journey!
Crazy hectic week- full of 21st parties, surprise work, goodbye drinks, visiting injured friends and driving around the countryside! Which means I had less time to blog as these events were all pretty spontaneous. This is a rushed post purely as I'm leaving for Graduation in half an hour!!
Reviews Posted
If I Stay and Where She Went by Gayle Forman- two amazing books!
Other posts
Stacking the Shelves- Find out what I picked up this week!
Follow me through my Readathon journey!
First Post ->Last Post
Read!
Loved all of these- great reading week although it tapered off after the readathon.
Reading and To Be Read
Heading back for Graduation week and taking these with me so depends on which one I pick up first :)
I'm thinking Someone Else's Life!
Upcoming Reviews
To be Rewritten (still) due to random busy week!
- Matched by Ally Condie
- Mockingjay/Hunger Games Review- eaten by Blogger so being rewritten grrr!!
- I Heart Lindsey Kelk- basically an overview of Lindsey Kelk's fabulous books. Also eaten by Blogger!
Upcoming Posts
Series Vs Stand Alones- The biggest casualty of blogger eating posts! I am furiously rewriting this one :(
I will also be putting together my bookcase so maybe a bookcase post??
Signed up for another Readathon so I'll be posting my top ten books for that!
Let me know what you've been up to blog wise this week and your plans!
Much Love
Lettie
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This Readathon is hosted by Lori at Pure Imagination, Candace at Candace's Book Blog, and Angela at Reading Angel f. It runs from 12:01 AM on July 9 to 11:59 PM on July 11th.
Objective- To set a goal for yourself to read more books that is beyond your average number of books you read. There is no minimum, it's all up to you!
Aim-To read five books
Daily Updates- Monday (including challenge), and Tuesday.
Result
Finished
Princess of Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George- 272 pages
If I Stay by Gayle Forman- 250 pages. Review
Where She Went by Gayle Forman- 260 pages. Review
Started
Love of the Party by Lauren Barnholdt
Thoughts
I loved this! Why haven't I done a readathon before! I've already signed up for my next one- Summer Wrap-Up Readathon here.
I didn't meet my goal but I always set unattainable goals so I guess that's ok at least
all the books I read were so good!
I loved the Mini Challenges- well done to the hosts. Only wish I'd participated in more of them :)
I gained followers- Hi new followers!
All in All a successful and fun few days :)
Did you take part- how did it go for you?
Know of any other readathons??
Much Love
Lettie
xxx
This Readathon is hosted by Lori at Pure Imagination, Candace at Candace's Book Blog, and Angela at Reading Angel f. It runs from 12:01 AM on July 9 to 11:59 PM on July 11th.
Cover Mini Challenge!
Question 1:What is your favourite cover that has been revealed this summer and why?
I have only just seen the Reached cover so I think it must be a recent reveal but I might be wrong!
Reached by Ally Condie- I love how it fits in so well with Matched and Crossed. On the Matched cover the girl was trapped inside of a ball, Crossed the girl is beginning to break out. Reached, the final book in the series, features the girl completely free of the ball- clever and beautiful!
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini- Again a cover that fits well with the previous book! I love the vivid colour and the continuation of the lightening theme. I can't say how well it fits with the series itself as Starcrossed is on my TBR list but this beautiful cover is bumping it up my list!
Question 2: Do you rely on the cover to help you choose whether you want to read a book or not?
If I'm browsing in a bookshop then yes an attractive cover will be the reason I pick up a radom book, this happened recently with Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi. I'm much less likely to pick up a book with a boring or ugly cover- for example the original blue and orange Hunger Games covers made me think they were 'boys' books so I didn't give them a second glance.
However if I'm browsing online I'll go on the books recommended on the Amazon page of a book I already love or check out what's popular in the blog world and see if I like the sound of it! I also have been known to buy the US version of books if I really dislike the UK cover. Still need to learn not to judge a book by it's cover!
Progress So Far
If you saw my goal post here you will see I completely deviated from my plan! This book snuck up on me and I'm loving it! It's hard to keep up with all the names and ages due to reading so quickly. I'm also being a good blogger and making review notes on it so I won't get confused when I write a review after the readathon. :)
Next- Who Knows!
Let me know what you think of the Reached and Dreamless covers!
Are you taking part in the Readathon? How are you doing so far?
Much Love!
Lettie
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