30 Day Book Binge!

This month, I'll be taking part in Misty's 30 Day Book Binge. I tend to watch many more movies than read books during the school year, so I'm trying to get back into reading more. Misty made some wonderful printables for our use, but I'm opting to keep track of my progress below. Feel free to join or just observe.

June 1

* A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess - 122 pages

Daily total: 122 pages
Challenge total: 122 pages

June 2

* A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess - 160 pages *completed*
* Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo - 32 pages

Daily total: 192 pages
Challenge total: 314 pages
Books completed: 1

June 3

* Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo - 18 pages
* Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw - 3 pages

Daily total: 21 pages (sadness)
Challenge total: 335 pages
Books completed: 1

June 4

* Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo - 39 pages
* Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw - 10 pages

Daily total: 49 pages
Challenge total: 384 pages
Books completed: 1

June 5

* Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo - 86 pages
* Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw - 39 pages

Daily total: 125 pages
Challenge total: 509 pages
Books completed: 1

June 6 

* Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo - 189 pages
* Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw - 50 pages

Daily total: 239 pages
Challenge total: 748 pages
Books completed: 2

June 7

* Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw - 251 pages
* An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson - 15 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 15 pages

Daily total: 281 pages
Challenge total: 1,029 pages
Books completed: 3

June 8 & 9

* An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson - 75 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 31 pages

Daily total: 106 pages
Challenge total: 1,135 pages
Books completed: 3

June 10

* An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson - 23 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 8 pages
* Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen - 128 pages
* Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen - 109 pages

Daily total: 268 pages
Challenge total: 1,403 pages
Books completed: 5

June 11

* An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson - 13 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 16 pages

Daily total: 29 pages
Challenge total: 1,432 pages
Books completed: 5

June 12

* An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson - 70 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 41 pages

Daily total: 111 pages
Challenge total: 1,543 pages
Books completed: 5

June 13

* An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson - 108 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 8 pages
* Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh - 100 pages

Daily total: 216 pages
Challenge total: 1,759 pages
Books completed: 6

June 14

* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 80 pages
* Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh - 269 pages
* Warcross by Marie Lu - 70 pages

Daily total: 419 pages
Challenge total: 2,178 pages
Books completed: 7

June 15

* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 56 pages
* Warcross by Marie Lu - 283 pages

Daily total: 339 pages
Challenge total: 2,517 pages
Books completed: 8

June 16 & 17

* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 8
* Odd and True by Cat Winters - 26 pages

Daily total: 34 pages
Challenge total: 2,551 pages
Books completed: 8

June 18

* A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas - 293 pages
* The Killing Lessons by Saul Black - 190 pages

Daily total: 483 pages
Challenge total: 3,034 pages
Books completed: 9

June 19

* A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas - 181 pages

Daily total: 181 pages
Challenge total: 3,215 pages
Books completed: 9

June 20

* A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas - 28 pages

Daily total: 28 pages
Challenge total: 3,243 pages
Books completed: 9

June 21

* A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas - 197 pages

Daily total: 197 pages
Challenge total: 3,440
Books completed: 10

June 22

* A Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh - 243 pages

Daily total: 243 pages
Challenge total: 3,683 pages
Books completed: 10

June 23

* A Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh - 150 pages
* Outpost by Ann Aguirre - 234 pages

Daily total: 384 pages
Challenge total: 4,067 pages
Books completed: 11

June 24

* Outpost by Ann Aguirre - 83 pages
* Odd and True by Cat Winters - 21 pages

Daily total: 104 pages
Challenge total  4,171 pages
Books completed: 12

June 25

* Odd and True by Cat Winters - 93 pages

Daily total: 93 oages
Challenge total: 4,264 pages
Books completed: 12

June 26

* Odd and True by Cat Winters - 221 pages
* A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho - 4 pages

Daily total: 225 pages
Challenge total: 4,489 pages
Books completed: 13

June 27-30 (got lazy about recording)

* A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho - 180 pages
* Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire - 187 pages
* All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater - 120 pages

Challenge total: 4,976 pages
Books completed: 14

Beat the Heat Read-a-thon Progress

So far so good! I'm very pleased with my progress so far.

Sunday, August 30

* The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent - 210 pages

Total pages for today: 210
Total pages overall: 1,122
Total books overall: 3

Monday, August 31

* The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent - 61 pages FINISHED
* Deadtown by Nancy Holzner - 4 pages

Total pages for today: 65
Total pages overall: 1,187
Total books overall: 4

Tuesday, September 1

* Deadtown by Nancy Holzner - 4 pages (abandoned. Way too much going on, much like the book cover, and crazy amounts of infodumping in the first few pages.)
* Fire and Ash by Jonathan Maberry - 34
* Horizon by Sophie Littlefield - 20 pages

Total pages for today: 58
Total pages overall: 1,245
Total books overall: 4

Wednesday, September 2

* Fire and Ash by Jonathan Maberry - 31 pages
* Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith - 20 pages

Total pages for today: 51
Total pages overall: 1,296
Total books overall: 4

Thursday, September 3

* Fire and Ash by Jonathan Maberry - 17 pages
* Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith - 20 pages

Total pages for today: 37
Total pages overall: 1,313
Total books overall: 4

Friday, September 4
* Fire and Ash by Jonathan Maberry - 34 pages
* Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith - 20 pages

Total pages for today: 54
Total pages overall: 1,367
Total books overall: 4

Pick Your Thon Results

I didn't meet my challenge goals. :( I was one off from both, but I still made progress!

Here's what I read and reviewed:

Reviewed:
1) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2) Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell
3) Cows by Matthew Stokoe
4) Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet
5) Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

Read:
1) Innocents by Cathy Coote
2) Expiration Date by William Campbell Powell
3) Looking for Alaska by John Green

I still have a massive list of books to read and review, but it was nice to get a few things done. There's another one in early August if you still want to get in on the fun!

Pick Your Thon

Join me over at The Book Monsters to Pick Your Thon. You can either review or read or do both on as many days as you like. I have a stack of books I've read waiting to be reviewed and my TBR pile is always threatening to tip over and crush me, so I'll be doing both on all the days! Sign up and join in on the fun!

I plan to review at least 6 books and read at least 4 books. I'll be keeping track of books and reviews completed below.

Reviewed:
1) Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2) Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell
3) Cows by Matthew Stokoe
4) Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet
5) Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

Read:
1) Innocents by Cathy Coote
2) Expiration Date by William Campbell Powell
3) Looking for Alaska by John Green

Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-thon Wrap-Up

I did pretty well this read-a-thon! Here's what I read:

* The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (reviewed)
* The Queen is Dead by Kate Locke (reviewed)
* White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (gave up on at about page 150)
* The Shining by Stephen King
* Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters
* American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (still reading at page 180)

This was super fun and really motivated me to read this month. I enjoyed just about all of them and reviews for the The Shining, Bedbugs, and American Psycho should be up this month.

Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-thon Progress

I've now read over half of the books I listed for the read-a-thon! Here is my progress so far:

* 10/13 - finished The Evolution of Mara Dyer (reviewed)

* 10/14 - started and finished The Queen is Dead

* 10/15 - started White is for Witching

* 10/16 - gave up on White is for Witching after 150 pages, started The Shining

4 more days! It isn't to late to sign up if you want to get in more spooky reads.

Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-thon

More spooky read-a-thons! I need to be motivated to read more spooky reads, so I am participating in yet another read-a-thon. This one is called Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-thon and is run by My Shelf Confessions. It runs from Octover 11th to October 20th and has some fun challenges to participate in. Here are the books I am planning to read:

* The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
* The Queen is Dead by Kate Locke
* White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
* The Shining by Stephen King
* Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters
* American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

I hope to read all these by the end of October even if I don't ready them all by the 20th. What spooky reads do you want to read this month?

Frightfall Read-a-thon Wrap-up!

This Frightfall Read-a-thon was awesome! These are the books I read:

* Asylum by Madeleine Roux - reviewed
* The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman - reviewed
* The Coldest Girl in Cold Town by Holly Black - amazing! Love, love, loved it!
* 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil - I've only read 50 pages and it's intriguing so far.

This was a great read-a-thon! I got a lot of reading done and all of the reads were exceptional. :)

Frightfall Read-a-thon

October is my very favorite month of the year. It's the only month when horror movies are on sale and on TV on a regular basis and Halloween is month long celebration for me. So of course October is going to be filled with dark, scary, and sinister reads. To aid my need for creepy reads, I've signed up for the Frightfall Read-a-thon. It runs from September 30 to October 6th. I hope to read the following books to start with:

* Asylum by Madeline Roux
* The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman
* 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil
* The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

IF I get through these, I'll worry about adding some more. Go to Seasons of Reading to sign up!