Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon Wrap Up!

The Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon has finished, and the whole thing was a lot of fun! Thanks so much to April, Tabitha and Bex of My Shelf Confessions for hosting this event!

How did I do? Well, I managed to meet all four of my goals, though admittedly not the last one quite as much as I would have liked. So... success! :-D

- Goal - finish 2 of the books I was already reading.
- Result - I finished 2 of the 3 books I had on the go at the beginning of the read-a-thon. I read:

- Goal - Take part in at least 2 mini challenges.
- Result - I participated in 4 mini challenges.
- Goal - Take part in one Twitter chat.
- Result - I took part in one of the Twitter chats. (the other was too late at night for me, otherwise I would have joined that one too. I love Twitter chats!)
- Goal - Visit and comment on other blogs taking part in the read-a-thon.
- Result - I visited other blogs and commented, though not as much as I would have liked. Hopefully will be able to visit a lot of people's wrap up posts though.

How did everyone else's read-a-thon go? Did you manage to meet your goals?


Updates from the Week:

I'm starting on Friday, so no Thurs updates.

Friday: Lots of reading time in the afternoon, especially at the laundrette (we accidentally pinkified some of our sheets, whoops!).

Black Feathers (Black Dawn Vol 1) - 10% read, 52% through
City of Bones - 38 pages read, 138 pages through
Of Mice and Men - 42 pages read, 42 pages through

Saturday: Not much time for reading as I was in town most of the day. Still made some good progress on Black Feathers though. Really enjoyed the Twitter chat!

Black Feathers - 63% through
City of Bones - still 138 pages through
Of Mice and Men - still 42 pages through

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Sunday: Finished Of Mice and Men, and then fell asleep on the sofa! Was a nice, relaxed day.

Black Feathers - 63% through
City of Bones - 145 pages through
Of Mice and Men - Finished!

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Monday: Busy day! Got a fair bit of City of Bones read at bed-time and stayed up a bit too late reading it... I was at a really good bit! :-)

Black Feathers - 65% through
City of Bones - 213 pages through

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Tuesday: So. Full. Of pancakes.

Black Feathers - 70% through
City of Bones - 236 pages through

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Wednesday: Good reading day, finished Black Feathers! Unfortunately, my laptop cable broke and I had to turn my computer off in the evening, so didn't get to be sociable or complete the last mini-challenge. Nevermind, it did mean more reading time!

Black Feathers - Finished!
City of Bones - 236 pages through

Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon Mini Challenges

The Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon is a 7-day reading event hosted by My Shelf Confessions. There are mini-challenges every day, hosted by different blogs, and lots of lovely prizes to be won!

Sunday

Today's mini-challenge is hosted at Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

The challenge is to pick a dress, a date, and a means of transportation from different book covers.

I don't even want to tell you how long I spent poring over book covers for my dress choice. Much longer than I spent on the date, anyway!

Dress - From the cover of Everneath. This dress is gorgeous, and looks very easy to dance and swirl in.

Date - Alistair, from Dragon Age (the guy on the right). Hehe, so I'm cheating a bit because this is really a video game character, not a book character. But look, he's on the cover of a book! So it totally counts. And I can't pass up the opportunity to go to a ball with him can I? He's technically royalty, after all. Besides, you know he'd be a lot of fun, and would be making people laugh all night. Unfortunately I don't think the artwork captures him very well at all here, but it's the best I had.

Transportation - Considering the choice of date, nothing that swoops. Cos swooping would be bad. So we will be arriving in... Howl's Moving Castle! That's quite the entrance. :-D

Monday

Lines of Love: Today's challenge is hosted at My Shelf Confessions. The rules are to roll four dice and add the scores to get a sentence number. Then alter the sentence to make it as romantic as possible. You don't have to use the whole quote, and you can add words, but you can only add half the amount of words from the full quote.

Here's my random sentence:

 "Around him the world was cloaked in swirling clouds, low and grey and heavy with moisture."

16 words, so I can add another 8. And I don't have to use the full quote. Okay, here goes:

They kissed, cloaked in swirling clouds of petals, under the dew-soaked blossoms heavy with moisture.

The Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon - Goals and Updates

The Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon has started! This is a week-long reath-a-thon, in which participants simply challenge themselves to read as much as possible. There will be mini-challenges and Twitter chats (#wwreadathon), and it looks like a lot of fun! Join in here.

My Goals:

I'm actually not feeling too well at the moment, so it's tempting to just set my goals as 'read and sleep'! :-) But I definitely want to try to take part as much as possible, so, here are my relaxed goals for the week:

- Finish at least two books (I've got three on the go at the moment, so hopefully this should be easy enough)
- Take part in one of the Twitter chats
- Do at least two mini-challenges
- Visit and comment on other participants' blogs


Updates:

I'm starting on Friday, so no Thurs updates.

Friday: Lots of reading time in the afternoon, especially at the laundrette waiting for the laundry. My husband managed to pinkify some of our white sheets, then in an attempt to fix them managed to get a semi-circle of bleach on the bath-mat, lol! >_<  Good job I'm not one of those precious-about-home-things people. I'm only really precious about books! :-)

Black Feathers (Black Dawn Vol 1) - 10% read, 52% through
City of Bones - 38 pages read, 138 pages through
Of Mice and Men - 42 pages read, 42 pages through

Saturday: Not much time for reading as I was in town most of the day. Still made some good progress on Black Feathers though. Really enjoyed the Twitter chat!

Black Feathers - 63% through
City of Bones - still 138 pages through
Of Mice and Men - still 42 pages through

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Sunday: Finished Of Mice and Men, and then fell asleep on the sofa! Was a nice, relaxed day.

Black Feathers - 63% through
City of Bones - 145 pages through
Of Mice and Men - Finished!

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Monday: Busy day! Got a fair bit of City of Bones read at bed-time and stayed up a bit too late reading it... it was at a really good bit! :-)

Black Feathers - 65% through
City of Bones - 213 pages through

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Tuesday: So. Full. Of pancakes.

Black Feathers - 70% through
City of Bones - 236 pages through

Mini-Challenge - Done!

Wednesday: Good reading day, finished Black Feathers! Unfortunately, my laptop cable broke and I had to turn my computer off in the evening, so didn't get to be sociable or complete the last mini-challenge. Nevermind, it did mean more reading time!

Black Feathers - Finished!
City of Bones - 236 pages through


Wrap Up:

So, by the end of the read-a-thon I've managed to complete all of my four goals, though admittedly not the last one as much as I would like:

- I finished 2 of the 3 books I had on the go at the beginning of the read-a-thon.
- I participated in 4 mini challenges.
- I took part in one of the Twitter chats. (the other was too late at night for me, otherwise I would have joined that one too. I love Twitter chats!)
- I visited other blogs and commented, though not as much as I would have liked. Hopefully will be able to visit a lot of people's wrap up posts though.

Success! :-) How did everyone else's read-a-thons go? Did you manage to meet your goals?


 

Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon Sign Up

I'm signing up for the Wicked Valentine's Read-a-thon, hosted at My Shelf Confessions. I've taken part in two read-a-thons on my blog now, and they're just so much fun! Reading, mini-challenges, Twitter chats, getting to know other bloggers... what's not to love?

This one will take place Feb 7-14. The goal is simply to read as much as you can to get through your To Read pile. You don't have to have a blog to join in, just somewhere to post updates - Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, etc.

Why not join in the fun? Sign up here!

Find my goals and updates here.