Tome Topple Round 9

-Because we already have celebrated that I finally completed my TBR for one month, let's get crazy. I just found out that this readathon is happening this month.

 This was created by Sam from Thoughts on Tome. I'll leave the announcement below.

Duration November 9-22 

We get to share your thoughts on a community, find info below.
Follow @tome_topple and use #tometopple to talk to everyone participating! 


Books read should be over 500 pages. 
Co-hosts info: 
Sam 2 - @willread4booze - http://willreadforbooze.com 


PROMPTS: 
1. Read more than 1 tome 
2. Read the tome that has been on your TBR the longest 
3. Read a tome that is part of a series 
4. Read a tome in a genre you don’t usually read 
5. Read an adult novel

So I will place two new books in my TBR, I will use one of them to try to cover most of the prompts.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. This is an adult novel, in a category, I don't normally read.
The second book I might pick in order to cover a few of the other prompts I will read The Blade Itself by Joe Ambercrombie. This is the first book in a series, this will help with the read more than one tome and has been in your TBR the longest. I have heard a bit about the book and have yet to start the series so its a good pick.

Side note: My TBR keeps growing and I have only finished one single book so far, one if not the smallest of the option jajaja.

Let's check (looks away, wastes time looking for my TBR and count the books included). Ok not so bad, I have to read 23 books this month.

Why is it so hard?
Monday 4, is the first day of a work schedule change which will go from having all afternoon free to read to work all afternoon. I will now work from noon to 8 pm instead of the morning shift and get off work at 2 pm. 
To top it off for over a week, from November 15 to the 23 I will be off work and go visit my family. I have not been there for a few months. We will have a very good 8-hour bus ride on the way there and back, but other than that, not much time. I will be visiting my mother, grandpa and the rest of the family in several small little towns close by one another so, most of the time will be spent chatting and catching up with people of our loves the last couple of months. 

I have only managed to read over 23 books on a single month on 3 occasions this year. So it is not looking very promising, especially because yesterday and today, the start of the new month I had more than enough time to read and I spent it playing games, watching videos ad not being able to get into a single story. Damn!

We'll see what happens at the end of the month.

Also, there is another readathon happening, that I still have not seen the prompts and such because I don't think it is humanly possible for me to try to participate in another one... But I really want to see what it is about, maybe I can use boos from the other readathons and double them up to use for this other Readathon. It is the Readathon to Rule them All. I will swallow on that for a few hours and post the TBR if I decide to participate in it later.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bird Box

Image
Author: Josh Malerman Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Horror Original publication date: March 2014 Book description:  Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster? Thoughts: So this is a reread. The first time I read it was last year mainly because of booktube recommendations and the movie was released in N
Read more

Mid Month Wrap up (Hous Pocus + #AYearAThon)

For the beginning of the month, I participated in two Readathons. So I will do a wrap up of those two first ones that ended on the 13th. The first one was HOCUS POCUS READATHON. The goal was to cast a Spell to become immortal. Goal accomplished! It consisted of 7 challenges out of them, 6 were reading related. Read a total of 6 books. In those the total pages read were 2,263 In average it represented 377.67 pages per book  Not bad for the first two weeks of the month but yeah most of the book were on the shorter side. The second readathon accomplished was #AYearAThon in which we had to read a thriller. In a very good coincidence, these two overlapped allowing me to use a book from the previous challenges to cover this one as well. For this readathon only one book was finished, Misery and this one contained 370 pages.
Read more

The Diabolic

Image
Author: S.J. Kincaid  Series: The Diabolic #1 Genre: Sci-fi Original Publication Date: November 2016 Book Description (from GoodReads):  Nemesis is a Diabolic. Created to protect a galactic Senator's daughter, Sidonia. There's no one Nemesis wouldn't kill to keep her safe. But when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the galactic court as a hostage, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Now one of the galaxy's most dangerous weapons is masquerading in a world of corruption and Nemesis has to hide her true abilities or risk everything. As the Empire begins to fracture and rebellion looms closer, Nemesis learns that there is something stronger than her deadly force: the one thing she's been told she doesn't have - humanity. And, amidst all the danger, action and intrigue, her humanity might be the only thing that can save her, Sidonia and the entire Empire. Thoughts: This is a very interesting story the religion
Read more

Frankisstein: A love story

Image
Author: Jeanette Winterson  Genre: Sci-Fi, LGBT, Original publication date: May 2019 Book Description (from Goodreads):  In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life. But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.' What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and f
Read more