I've really been enjoying doing readathons lately and I'm currently working on my second one and the first one that has been really active. So since I have another month of summer before my classes really bounce back into a full-time mode so I thought to look for a readathon for July. I have a couple that has found that seems pretty interesting. There is a YouTuber that also has a blog that keeps up with a calendar of active readathons and I'm in love with her list! Here's the calendar she has, and it is so detailed!
So far I've been doing month-long readathons because I'm generally a slow reader and I like having a whole month to work on it. With the HouseCupaThon I've learned that I love when there is a discord so you can talk real-time with people doing the same reading challenges, I love Instagram and still despise Twitter, and I when there are prompt and a point system. The prompts thing is something that I truly fell in love with over on a group on Facebook that I did for Spring and was pretty devastated that there wasn't a summer one published so far, which is why I want on the hunt for readathons. This is how I found HouseCupaThon and the fact that these groups use discord quite a bit. So let's look at the potential readathons that I found that I'm currently curious about for July!
Page-A-Thon
Page-A-Thon is a month-long readathon that uses a set up really similar to HouseCupaThon. First, you get divided into teams, which this one is by your birthday and the teams are seasonal. They have like a google doc that explains the rules of this readathon. The points are broken down a little more simplistic than the last readathon is, which is AMAZING! So you get a point for every page you read, every book you finish is automatically 25 points, and then you get 5 points for every bok that hits one or more of the seasonal 'bonus criteria.' I wonder if these bonus criteria are like a bunch of tasks that I can make into pretty grids for Instagram! I've really fallen in love with those things and I enjoy making them! The finished books need to be added to the Finished Book tab so that is new to me, I think it goes on the google doc that this readathon is tied too. The document explains that books that are over 100 pages, in any format, and are on Goodreads can count. They need to be at least 50% read. Or it can be a combination of short stories, but it needs to be at least 4 stories. Or the book can be fanfiction.
The Seasonal Bonus Criteria is already listed! So your book can get 5 extra points per each thing. So it isn't really a chart thing, but I have an idea of how I can make it into one. I think I could make the list and for each one that the book takes off I'll have the book cover it and then whenever I finish the book I'll be able to use that picture to tell which ones it works for. It might not make sense here but it sounds likes a good idea in my head, and I do better and showing an example. So if we do this one we will definitely do that. Anyways the list is:
- The cover is mostly red and/or yellow
- The book is set mostly in summer
- A book with the word 'Summer' in the title
- A book with a summer-related word in the title
- A book written by a queer author and/or has a queer character(s)
- A book that was written by a black author
I was really confused about the prompt that says the summer-related word in the title but it has a link in it that takes you to a list and it is HUGE! Here is that list, and it definitely explains all my confusion away. Now that I see the list I can definitely work with it and I love it.
This readathon sounds like a lot of fun and really laid back, which are both things that I definitely need. It seems like the point system is pretty laid back too. I already joined the discord for this one, but I don't know if this is what I'm going to do yet, but I definitely do like how it is set up. Plus it is a little different from what I have been doing. It is is also very doable for me. I'm really in a contemporary/romancy mood which is usually ALL about summer/summertime aesthetic. Plus I got tons of backstock that can work for this. My goal for summer is to only read backstock books, especially my Book of the Month ones. So I can definitely work with his.
Here's some book ideas since I don't tend to do TBRs ever since I love having the freedom to just pick up whatever I'm feeling like reading in the moment:
- Books that are mostly Red/Yellow:
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- I know I'm super late to this one but it has been sitting on my shelves for a couple years. I've been really curious about a lot of Albertalli's books that has come out since this one but I haven't picked any up yet. So I would love to get to this one finally
- Forever in Blue by Anna Brashares
- This is the fourth book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series and I've honestly been wanting to reread it ever since the very last one came out and since I'm contemplating doing the To Be Continued Readathon then this one would definitely work for both!
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- This is a series much like the Sisterhood one that I would love to reread since I now have Inkdeath.
- Evernight by Claudia Gray
- This series I would love to go back too since it was so cherished to me growing up but I never finished it. I now have the whole series and would love to go back into this world. I didn't know I had so many series that I need to complete until I started really looking at my shelves.
- How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
- Technically I could pick this one up for my current readathon since I picked this book up and read like the first couple chapters then lost the book so I unknowingly DNF. But I found it (under the couch) and it is back on my shelves now. I loved Things You Save in a Fire and really want to read all of Center's books and she has a new one that just came out too. So I need to read this one ASAP. If I don't get to it in June then we will get to it in July hopefully.
- Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stig Larsson
- I've had this one for forever! I remember trying to read it but I know I couldn't get into it, but this was back in high school so over ten years ago!
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Um, this one is read AND yellow AND beginning of the series! So I feel like this one is a must-read!
- MULTIPLE In Death Books by JD Robb
- Originally the only reason I was even thinking about doing the To Be Continued readathon because I really want to do a complete read of the In Death series starting at the very beginning! There are multiple books that are red, yellow, and even summer related. There are 50 books in the series so there's a little bit of everything in this thing.
- Books Set in Summer:
- All of the Sisterhood Books
- Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
- Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
- I loved this book when I first read it and I would love to reread it. I'm thinking about doing some rereads of books that I loved growing up and seeing how I feel about them today.
- 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
- Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
- Starburst by Robin Pilcher
- The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
- Books with the word 'Summer' in the Title:
- The Summer House by James Patterson
- The First and Second books in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
- Summer and the City by Candace Bushnell
- Books with a Summer-Related Word in the Title:
- Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkin
- The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
- Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
- A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall by Andy Abramowitz
- Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin (BOTM)
- Sweet Indulgence by Debbie White
- Bittersweet by Danielle Steel
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (BOTM)
- Under the Lights by Abbi Glines (Book 2)
- Lights Out by R.L. Stine
- Books Written by a Queer Author/About Queer Characters:
- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (BOTM & Reread)
- Immortal Instruments Series!
- I've been wanting to read them all because I want to read Magnus and Alec's book!
- Books Written by Black Authors:
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
- Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud
To Be Continued Readathon
This one I've had on my radar since I've found HouseCupaThon. It was initially the one I was going to do in July, and I still might but I don't know yet. I kind of thought for this one I could binge read through my In Death series, which is something that I've been really wanting to do for a little while now. This group has a twitter account that seems pretty active and a discord. I don't use Twitter that often so I only look at it sometimes.
For this readathon, you have to complete prompts to 'level up,' which means you care to complete a bingo and each bingo is a level. There are 8 levels. The only requirement is that the book is part of a series. There are no stipulations on any of the genres or types of books. You can also double up on prompts, which means one book can go in multiple places. I should do that since I don't read that much but I try not to do that. This is all listed out on a google doc. This document has the sign-up sheet and where they keep track of their books and buddy reads. They also have a discord, and I've been in it for a little while and it seems like a good readathon to do. So let's look into these prompts and what you have to do to get a bingo:
- Top of the TBR Pile: A book in a series that you are most excited to get too
- New Kid: The most recently published book in a series on your TBR
- This Road is Long: Read a book from a series with at least 3 books
- WildCard: Read whatever you want, as long as it is part of a series.
- I Like Them, Another!: You know the last book (that was part of a series) that you read? Read the next one in that series. (so read two books in a series back to back)
- Procrastination (Pick One): There's always that pesky book, side-eyeing you from the shelf. Read a book in a series that has been on your TBR the longest that up to find intimidating, OR that you've simply been putting it off for no good reason!
- Right Back Where We Started: Read the first book in a series
- Boss Level (Pick One): A book in a series that features a mentor OR a villain OR someone larger than life
Right now these are the only two that I've found that last all month. Like I mentioned earlier I could potentially do both of these readathons. It just depends on the online class that I'm doing right now. I also hope to start a new job really soon! But where they could easily be worked together I could see trying to double up on them since I don't plan on doing any more readathons except maybe the Triwizard tournament in the fall, which we will talk about closer to the beginning of that one since it is long and definitely more complex.
Since I did such a long list of could be read books for the Page-A-Thon I decided I needed to do something down here. It's going to be shorter (hopefully) and I won't go as in detail as I did above since it's going to be a lot of repetition.
- Top of the TBR Pile:
- In Death Series by JD Robb (I could honestly put this down for ALL OF THE PROMPTS)
- New Kid:
- This one I'm not really sure. Technically my newest In Death book was published in February but I know I won't be ready for that one. Then BOTM book that is a series I've already read it. I'll need to really need to look into what one I have that is the newest published one.
- This Road is Long:
- Alison Weir 6 Queen series. I have the first three but they are CHUNKERS!
- WildCard:
- I have so many that I can just pick up for this and the fact that it can be anything as long as it is a series I can definitely make this prompt work if I do the readathon.
- I Like Them, Another!:
- Procrastination (Pick One):
- Right Back Where We Started:
- Boss Level (Pick One):
- Vicious by V.E. Schwab
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