Category: Book Challenges

Beat the Heat Readathon Sign-Up and Progress

Posted August 25, 2015 / Book Challenges, Features / 0 Comments
Beat the Heat Readathon Sign-Up and Progress

I’m joining the Beat the Heat Readathon!  As usual, you may be thinking I’m crazy for joining another challenge and/or readathon. I mean, I JUST finished Bout of Books on Sunday and am still (technically supposed to be) participating in ARC August. Here are some details about this two-week long readathon, hosted by Novel Heartbeat and Phantasmic Reads: The Beat the Heat Readathon runs from August 24th at 12:00 AM to September 6th at 11:59 PM. What does this readathon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for three weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal! There will be mini-challenges throughout the Readathon for participants, along with a grand prize giveaway at the end! Simple enough! Last year I made my own personal readathon during this time of year to challenge myself to get to all of those light, summery contemporaries before “summer” was officially over. I liked the idea of it but had only been blogging for a few months at that point, so it was pointless to try to host something like that. I found this readathon this year, so that’s even better. Goals and Potential TBR Overall goal → Read between 6-10 books during the two week time period August 24th through 31st → Read books for ARC August, as well as my Book Club’s pick for our July meeting (We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach) […]

Bout of Books 14 Challenge: Four Seasons

Posted August 20, 2015 / Book Challenges, Features / 12 Comments
Bout of Books 14 Challenge: Four Seasons

Check here for my sign-up post, TBR, and tracking of progress. I’ll be updating you with the books I’m currently reading in these challenge posts. Learn more about Bout of Books here. Challenge: Four Seasons in Book Covers For this challenge, you need to convey the four seasons in book covers – through color, title, cover, etc. You can be literal or take a more creative approach. Anything goes! Just show me four seasons in book covers. (From Kimberly Feye Reads) I decided to share a bunch of pictures for each season because I found too many good ones! Summer reading: (starting top left) reading on my back porch, reading on the beach, books about summertime, swimming with a book and a smoothie, fourth of July colors, book with a beachy cover, summer books (two to read, two already read), summery book haul for Bout of Books, summer watercolors. Autumn reading: (starting top left) creepy books with birds, reading on the back porch with the barren forest, creepy book with Halloween candy, another creepy book with a hot chocolate, apple candle and book, watching football while reading. Winter reading: (starting top left) holiday short stories with a mug of hot chocolate, book Christmas tree, winter-themed read, holiday lights and hot chocolate, holiday book with my Charlie Brown Christmas tree, Christmas book with lights, two holiday reads, three holiday stories with the festive Starbucks cup, holiday story with a gingerbread latte. Spring reading: book with flowers on the cover, springtime-colored sunset, book about softball and baseball, pastel-colored books, […]

Bout of Books 14 Challenge: Scavenger Hunt

Posted August 18, 2015 / Book Challenges, Features / 7 Comments
Bout of Books 14 Challenge: Scavenger Hunt

Check here for my sign-up post, TBR, and tracking of progress. I’ll be updating you with the books I’m currently reading in these challenge posts. Learn more about Bout of Books here. Challenge: Scavenger Hunt Find books that fit into the categories below. Take pictures, share them from Instagram, find them online – either way, show off the books! I decided to do a scavenger hunt through my Instagram page, since I’m completing this one at work without access to my books. Here goes… Book that begins with “B” for Bout of Books A photo posted by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit (@bookmark_lit) on Nov 18, 2014 at 6:15pm PST Book you’re planning to read or currently reading for Bout of Books A photo posted by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit (@bookmark_lit) on Aug 17, 2015 at 8:50am PDT   Blue book(s) A photo posted by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit (@bookmark_lit) on Apr 10, 2015 at 5:37pm PDT Books from your favorite genre A photo posted by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit (@bookmark_lit) on Jun 16, 2015 at 6:25pm PDT Book on your TBR shelf or your full TBR shelves A photo posted by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit (@bookmark_lit) on Jul 10, 2015 at 4:58am PDT   Currently reading and recently finished CR: Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland This book has been on my TBR for a very, very long time. I started reading it yesterday as my first read for Bout of Books! It’s actually my Book Buddies read for August and it fits perfectly […]

Read-a-Thon Wrap-Up: Make Me Read It

Posted July 26, 2015 / Book Challenges, Features / 8 Comments
Read-a-Thon Wrap-Up: Make Me Read It

Starts at 8:00am on July 20th and ends at 12:00am on July 27th #MakeMeRead tag on Twitter/Instagram Check out the intro pages (Val’s or Ely’s) and the rules below: Look at the books you own, either physical, e-book or ones you’ve borrowed from the library and pick out a few you really want to read, or feel like you should read. It’s up to you how many you pick, personally I’d pick a few more than you expect to be able to read in a week. Example: if you think you’ll only read two, pick out five books or if you think you can read seven, pick out ten. Make a list of these books on your blog, or make a video, or a Goodreads shelf or post a picture on Instagram—whatever is easiest for you. Then get friends, other bloggers/booktubers etc. to vote on which books you HAVE to read. When the read-a-thon comes along, you read the books in the order of most votes. For example, if one book gets 10 votes—you read that first, then the one that got 7 and so on. If there’s a tie, then it’s your preference. The goal is to read as many as possible. Wrap-Up The read-a-thon started on Monday of last week and ends late tonight, so here is my wrap-up! I had a few obligations to read during it, so I didn’t do as well as I hoped in the beginning… but I’m glad I forced myself to read some […]

Read-a-Thon TBR: Make Me Read It

Posted July 19, 2015 / Book Challenges, Features, TBR Lists / 14 Comments
Read-a-Thon TBR: Make Me Read It

Starts at 8:00am on July 20th and ends at 12:00am on July 27th #MakeMeRead tag on Twitter/Instagram Check out the intro pages (Val’s or Ely’s) and the rules below: Look at the books you own, either physical, e-book or ones you’ve borrowed from the library and pick out a few you really want to read, or feel like you should read. It’s up to you how many you pick, personally I’d pick a few more than you expect to be able to read in a week. Example: if you think you’ll only read two, pick out five books or if you think you can read seven, pick out ten. Make a list of these books on your blog, or make a video, or a Goodreads shelf or post a picture on Instagram—whatever is easiest for you. Then get friends, other bloggers/booktubers etc. to vote on which books you HAVE to read. When the read-a-thon comes along, you read the books in the order of most votes. For example, if one book gets 10 votes—you read that first, then the one that got 7 and so on. If there’s a tie, then it’s your preference. The goal is to read as many as possible. Votes have been tallied – here are the results! The read-a-thon is starting TOMORROW and I cut off voting a few days ago, so I could prepare myself (and this post, lol). Here are the books I’ll be reading in rank order. As the rules suggest, you […]

Read-a-Thon Sign-Up: Make Me Read It

Posted July 15, 2015 / Book Challenges, Features / 20 Comments
Read-a-Thon Sign-Up: Make Me Read It

Starts at 8:00am on July 20th and ends at 12:00am on July 27th #MakeMeRead tag on Twitter/Instagram Check out the intro pages (Val’s or Ely’s) and the rules below: Look at the books you own, either physical, e-book or ones you’ve borrowed from the library and pick out a few you really want to read, or feel like you should read. It’s up to you how many you pick, personally I’d pick a few more than you expect to be able to read in a week. Example: if you think you’ll only read two, pick out five books or if you think you can read seven, pick out ten. Make a list of these books on your blog, or make a video, or a Goodreads shelf or post a picture on Instagram—whatever is easiest for you. Then get friends, other bloggers/booktubers etc. to vote on which books you HAVE to read. When the read-a-thon comes along, you read the books in the order of most votes. For example, if one book gets 10 votes—you read that first, then the one that got 7 and so on. If there’s a tie, then it’s your preference. The goal is to read as many as possible. Now help me choose the books! I have quite a few books I’ve been saying that I NEED to read – primarily the three library books sitting in my living room – and just never get around to it. I have soooo many of them. During this […]