Friday Reads 07/25/2014

Hi friends! It's been a while since I wrote something, so I thought I'd give you a little update on my reading. I'm currently reading Lovesick, I'm around 60 pages in. This book is actually better than the other two, it's going great for now. After that I'll be reading Sarah's Key, because I'm really excited about that book and I've put this off for so long it's just getting ridiculous.

Also, I wanted to mention two things. First of all, I'm currently part of a "band", let's say, that plays "Christmas Song" every year from my school. And I have to go to rehearsals every Monday, Thursday and sometimes Saturday, like this week. So my reading time is a little cut off those days. And second, this Thursday is my Birthday! So I won't be getting any reading time, at all. So that day will be my free reading time. And, I really doubt it, but maybe, just maybe, my parents will give me a book as a present. I really really doubt it, but it's a possibility. *cross fingers*

And that's pretty much everything I wanted to say. Sometime soon I will post a review. Don't know when. And it's a surprise so, you'll see.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful, full of books, no-spoiler day!

Soooo...

Yeah, I feel like I need to tell you what happened.

After day three of the BookTubeAThon I just continued feeling really bad in general. I had a hard time getting out of bed in the mornings and my headache made me keep my head rested in my pillow all day. Thanks to this I really didn't make any progress in the BookTubeAThon. I did manage to finish Ghostgirl. And that´s it. That´s all I did.

I feel really bad about not doing the BookTubeAThon properly. I've been waiting for the BookTubeAThon for over a year and have been preparing myself to do it for so long. And I was really excited when BookTubeAThon week finally came and then it just had to be ruined by me being sick. I really feel horrible about it, it's really sad and my heart is breaking a little about it.

Anyway, after this BookTubeAThon fiasco I have decided to finish the TBR I had planned for last this and once finished resume reading City of Lost Souls.

I am now feeling better and can hopefully read properly. I have already finished Homecoming and is currently reading Lovesick.

But anyway, thanks for reading guys and I hope you have a wonderful, full of books, non-spoiler day! And, remember, DON'T GET SICK IN BOOKTUBEATHON WEEK.

BookTubeAThon Day 3

Hello fellas, here I come again.

I'm feeling a little more optimistic about the BookTubeAThon. I've decided not to stress myself over it and just do the best I can. And in real life, I'm actually feeling pretty bad. My throat got infected and it hurts like hell. I can't even open my mouth to talk properly. And my head hurts as well. And this of course affected my reading. You see, when I'm sick, I just want to cuddle in a bundle of sheets and never get out again. My apetite goes missing and my normal joyfullness goes as well. And normally I would just like to sit and read a good confy book. Buuuuut, if my head hurts, then I'm screwed. I don't even want to watch TV. It's pretty horrible. Thanks to all this, I didn't read as many as I wanted. I did past the middle of the book, but it isn't much.

But, tomorrow is a new day and new opportunities. My new plan is to finish Ghostgirl tomorrow and to start Homecoming. Then on Friday I would finish Homecoming and start Lovesick. After that, on Saturday I would finish Lovesick and start Catching Fire. And on Sunday, finish Catching Fire and maybe start Sarah's Key and see if I can finish it. This way, I will be completing four challenges, maybe five. This is the plan and I hope I can make it.

Moving on to the challenge of the day, I have to draw a better cover for any book. I chose my horrible cover of Animal Farm. And just decided to change it a little.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

I drew the title as if it was written by the animals. If you've read this novel, which you should, you would know that the animals learnt about writing and reading. So I though I'd write the title like if it was some kind of kid writing it. Then, I drew the sign saying the very famous quote "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others", that I kind of butchered because I didn't remember it exactly. Oops, my mistake. And behind that sign I drew some fences to make it look like a farm and everything.

And that was my beautiful recreation of Animal Farm, hope you liked it.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful, full of books, non-spoiler day!

BookTubeAThon Day 2

So, guess what? I read as much as I read yesterday. I'm a complete failure.

Yes, I do have and excuse, I was really sick and didn't want to touch anything. My throat is killing me and I feel like I'm slowly dying. Very sad story. So let´s not talk about my failure and move on to todays challenge.

Today I'm supposed to find the items of three different covers. My books chosen for this are:

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

I'm not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

They're very easy, not a really complicated challenge.
 

Yeah, so the Thirteenth tale is a book I absolutely adore, you should definitely read it. I gave it a 5 stars rating in Goodreads. And it has old books on the cover so I just had to take a picture of one of the sections of my dad's library (yes, I have a library for myself and my dad another one and so does my mom).

Dragonriders of Pern is a book I have yet to read. I actually absolutely adore dragons and I'm obsessed with them and I'm really excited to read a book about them but then I found out that it's actually a series. That book is probably older than me (it's my mom's) and I doubt I'll ever find the second copy, so I'm not really sure I want to start the series if it's going to leave me unsatisfied. And the picture of the dragon is an old stuffed animal I had when little, so it was perfect.

Next we have I'm Not A Serial Killer. This is really good, I think it has this very good reflections in it and it's very interesting in general, but I have a problem with one of the things that happened that completely ruined the story for me. So I ended up giving it a 3 stars rating in Goodreads. And the picture is from a paper. Nothing very complicated.

And that was my second day of the BookTubeAThon. It doesn't look very promising but we'll see.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful, full of books, non-spoiler day!