MEDIA MONDAYS: BOOKTUBE-A-THON 2015

I'm not a booktuber - obviously - but occasionally challenges arise from other parts of the web that just catch your eye and you can't help but thrust yourself into them even though you will inevitably crash and burn. But I haven't learnt that lesson yet so this week I'm going to push through the 2015 Booktube-A-Thon.

The Booktube-A-Thon is a week long reading marathon, run by Ariel Bissett from the third to the ninth of August. The goal is to read as many books are possible, but the official challenge also offers some smaller challenges. You can complete each challenge as a separate read, have some that overlap or disregard them altogether. The challenges and my potential picks are as follows:

1. Read a book with blue on the cover - The Waves Virginia Woolf (167)
2. Read a book by an author who shares the same first letter of your last name - The Horologicon Mark Forsyth (241) 
3. Read someone else's favourite book - Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (401)
4. Read the last book you acquired - The Sleeper and The Spindle Neil Gaiman 3/8
5. Finish a book without letting go of it - The Sleeper and The Spindle Neil Gaiman 3/8
6. Read a book you really want to read - I Know I Am, But What Are You? Samantha Bee (239)
7. Read seven books - The Tales of Beedle the Bard JK Rowling (105)

Yes, the majority of these books have blue on the cover, if they aren't entirely blue. I've tried to put in a good variety of lengths and genres. Hopefully I'll be like this over the course of the week...

...and not this.

I have a lot of books in my to-be-read (or TBR) pile and with any luck I'll be able to make a bit of a dent in it and pull myself out of my 2015 reading slump. On the off-chance that I come to a book and just aren't enjoying it or don't feel like reading it, I have a small pile of books to swap out for some of the more flexible challenges:

This Year Will Be Different Maeve Binchy (261)
The Storyteller's Daughter Cameron Dokey (218)
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk David Sedaris (159)
Surfacing Margaret Atwood (199)
Hark! A Vagrant Kate Beaton (166)

Over the course of the week, I'll try to update this blog post with my progress.

If you're interested in participating, GO START NOW. Book Depository also have a sale running in conjunction with the challenge with some great reads on it (cannot recommend Oryx and Crake or Wicked enough).

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