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Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Summer Wrap Up Read-A-Thon: Day 4 Update

Non Reading Activity: When I finished my 3rd book I decided my eyes and brain needed a little break so spent the rest of the evening watching the Olympics, on twitter, watching New Girl and then watching Youtube video's before bed, now I feel re-charged and am hoping to tackle an entire book on day 5.
Thoughts: I'm starting to feel much better now, my coughs settled down so that means I've been getting a better night’s sleep giving my body chance to fight my cold, my appetite is back, and I'm ready to start getting back to normal, wooh! However I might milk this snuggling up in bed all day reading thing for one more day, I was too poorly to take advantage of it before, and you guys won't tell anyone I'm starting to feel better right? ;)

When reading in bed for a long time, does anybody else have this problem?

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Signing Up For The Review Copy Cleanup!

Review Copy Cleanup is hosted by Vicky at Books, Biscuits and Tea and Celine from Nyx Book Reviews, to find out more about it or to sign up click their button!

There are so many fabulous sounding books coming out over the next couple of months so that means that my review pile is through the roof! I'd like to get around to as many of these books as humanly possible and share what I thought with you guys, so when I saw this challenge on Vicky's blog I thought, perfect!

I have a really large selection of books to choose from so I don't want to limit myself to what I'm going to read by stating down a few here and sticking to a list, it will be much more fun if I can just choose what I want to read from my piles on a whim, there are a few that I do REALLY want to make sure I get read though and those are the books I've pictured above. I also really want to tackle a few Netgalley books as they always tend to get neglected in favour of actual review copies.

I'm taking part in a readathon at the moment so am taking a little break from review books so I don't have the commitment of having to write reviews for them all but as soon as that's over on the 12th you can bet I'll be attacking those review books for the rest of August! Wish me luck! Hopefully I'll get lots read and reviewed :)

Summer Wrap Up Read-A-Thon: Day 3 Update

The Summer Wrap Up Read-A-Thon is hosted by Jennifer at Some Like It Paranormal and Jude at In Between.

What I Read: From What I Remember... by Stacy Kramer and Valerie Thomas
Number of Pages Read: 316
Pages Read Total: 961
Books Read Total: 2
Challenge: No
Reading Snacks: I finally has a snacky picture to show you! My cough is finally starting to settle down which means I can start to introduce some dairy again so I went for some mini muffins which only have the tiniest amount of chocolate in with them being y'know mini and all! They're mainly really fluffy sweet muffiny goodness and are perfect bite sized snacks for a readathon! I also had a bowl of my favourite crisps Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli which are sweet and spicy bites of deliciousness. Yay! For having my appetite back and finally being able to break into the readathon snacks!

Non Reading Activity: As well as currently watching Lost I also started to watch Pretty Little Liars when I got sick, mainly because I'm not allowed to watch Lost without my brother as he's addicted to it too and I have to wait for him! I'm not as addicted to Pretty Little Liars as I am to Lost its kinda cheese and far-fetched at times but the whole mystery to who A is is pretty addictive! I watched a couple of episodes of this when I felt like taking a reading break and I only have a few episodes of season 1 left to go!

Thoughts: So I didn't manage to finish a book today but From What I Remember is a pretty big book so I wasn't expecting to anyway. It's good so far but I have to admit not as good as I was expecting it's really fun though and I am enjoying it and looking forward to seeing how it ends as I take it into day 4.

Monday, 6 August 2012

Summer Wrap Up Read-A-Thon: Day 2 Update

The Summer Wrap Up Read-A-Thon is hosted by Jennifer at Some Like It Paranormal and Jude at In Between.

What I Read: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Number of Pages Read: 323
Pages Read Total: 645
Books Read Total: 2
Challenge: Wicked Summer Cover Challenge
Non Reading Activity: I spent most of the day solidly reading, but I did spend a lot of time in the morning catching up with other readathoners and bloggers I follow and I did the Cover Challenge which took up a good couple of hours hunting down all of the covers but was, although at times frustrating, really good fun! I felt so satisfied when I finally found them all!
Thoughts: I'm doing a lot better than I thought I was going to hitting my original target of a book a day which I set before I got sick. If I had to describe Hex Hall in one word it would be FUN! I'm a little bit in love with Sophie and want her as a friend. She's loyal, smart, but most of all HILARIOUS. For example early on in the book there’s a werewolf charging at her ready to rip her throat out, Sophie is a witch and could, you know, easily defend herself but in her panic what does this particular witch do? She shouts "BAD DOG!" people! *Snort* I stinkin’ love Soph already and can't wait to get around to the next book. The Hex Hall series would be the love child of JK Rowling and Louise Rennison for sure and I'm hoping to read the whole series during the readathon, but next up I think I'm going to take a little trip down contemporary lane...watch this space!

Sunday, 5 August 2012

Summer Wrap Up Read-a-Thon: Wicked Summer Cover Challenge, I gots them all!

The Summer Wrap Up Read-A-Thon is hosted by Jennifer at Some Like It Paranormal and Jude at In Between.

The challenge is to find the following items in book covers...

~~Sun~~

~~A teeny bikni~~

~~Beach umbrella~~

~~Sandcastle~~

~~Oceanscape or a beach scene~~

~~Sunflower~~

~~An American flag (4th of July)~~

~~Lemonade/Iced Tea~~

~~Sunset~~

~~Sailboat~~

~~Camping equipment (tent, sleeping bag, etc.)~~

~~Sunglasses~~