Fall Into Reading | Read-a-thon

Hey guys,

So this is my first attempt at participating in a read-a-thon! I'm really excited :) If you want to join, click on the banner and it will take you to the host website!

I want to read 2 books, 4 graphic novels. I will try and push it to 3 books, but with school and everything, I don't know if it'll be possible. I will try though!

I plan on reading:

1. Carnival by Rawi Hage
2. Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso
3. 100 pages of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (so I can make my video on Friday)

I don't know what the graphic novels will be yet because I need to go to the library :p

You can follow me on goodreads and twitter where I'll try to update a lot!

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

I'm still alive (and announcing the 30 day challenge).

Hey guys,

For some of you who are wondering where I am. Well I'm here! Life's been sort of on the sucky side the past month, and I didn't have the energy to make posts/videos. I read quite a few books that I plan on reviewing at some point, but I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

Also in the booktube community, there has been talk of a 30 day reading challenge. I think originally the idea is to read 1 book a day, but there's no way in hell I can manage that. So I'm going to modify it a bit. I want to read an average of 200 pages a day for the next 30 days. Which means 6 000 pages.

The challenge starts on June 17th and ends on July 16th. It will overlap with the read-a-thon that's from July 15th to July 21st. I'll post more about the second challenge when the time comes.

I don't have a set list of books that I want to read, but I have a few books from the library that'll have to get through. For this challenge I'm only including books and graphic novels (though I only plan on reading one).

I'm going to try and make a video for the challenge. I don't promise anything though. And also I'll update every 4 days about my progress and what I'm reading.

Let me know in the comments if you plan on participating and what you're going to read!

My own Book Jar

This idea of making my own book jar came from these two booktubers (one, two). I picked 25 titles of books I want to read this year, and I put them in the jar! Every time I won't be able to decide what I want to read, I'll draw a title.

At first I wanted to make different jars for different genres, but then I might not be able to pick out a genre so one single jar it is!

Here the making of video of my jar! :)

Page to Screen Challenge!

My friend Gill over @ livejournal started this Page to Screen challenge! Basically you have to read the book and then watch the movie adaptation (or vice versa). You can choose how many books/movies you want to challenge yourself to complete. Since it's I already have a lot of challenges going on this year (reading and others), I only challenged myself to read/watch 10. Rereads count, and I will link to the reviews when possible :)

From January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2013 (6/10)

01. Pride and Prejudice: READ | WATCHED
02. A Clash of Kings: READ | WATCHED (s2)
03. Warm Bodies: READ | WATCHED
04. The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy: READ | WATCHED
05. Coraline: READ | WATCHED
06. Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief: READ | WATCHED
07. The Invention of Hugo Cabret: READ | WATCHED
08. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: READ | WATCHED
09. Percy Jackson & the Sea of Monsters: READ | WATCHED
10. It's Kind of a Funny Story: READ | WATCHED

Last updated: July24th, 2013

The BBC Big Read List

At the start of the year, I made a list of 30 things I'd like to accomplish before turning 30 and reading all of the books on the Big Read List is one of them. I think I read about 20 so far which means I have about 80 to go. EEP! 

Here's the list. Bold means I've read it! Italic that I own a copy!

19/99

1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series, JK Rowling 
5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
6. The Bible**
7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
11. Little Women, Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch, George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
34. Emma, Jane Austen
35. Persuasion, Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières
39. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
41. Animal Farm, George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
45. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
50. Atonement, Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
52. Dune, Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
62. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
72. Dracula, Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses, James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal, Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession, AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web, EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection, Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
94. Watership Down, Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
100. Les Misérebles, Victor Hugo.

** I don't plan on reading the Bible.