This is a choose your own adventure style readathon hosted by Emma from Drinking by my shelf, Meg from Megwithbooks, and Tazmyn from TeaBooksandTazmyn with a few guest hosts helping out. You can find one of the announcement videos here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdbHSGLjnY How it works? It is a month-long readathon, with the opportunity to win prizes. The prizes can be candles from the online shop Grace and Honey ran by Becca from Beccaandthebooks. I am sincerely not going to race to complete this and win the prices but I want to play. I love the choose your own adventure TBR games.  The lovely part of this readathon:  -DNF is allowed -Prompts open for interpretation -Can be achieved by existing TBR, no need to go for specific books. This is the formula for the perfect Readathon! There are 3 possible starts. We are encouraged to watch each one and select our start point. In the video, we have two main parts.  1. The first provides you the prompt. ...

  I did leave the easiest one for last. But then I started reading the book and I realized this is one of those times where you know you get what the words mean but the greater meaning is not as easy to grasp. This last one had the lowest page count and yet it made you think so much, in the end, it was not as easy to get through it as I had expected. Really good merit to the book. A lot of the time that happens with some nonfiction books I need to reread them to get more out of them, that's what happened this time.  Anyhow the challenge itself was a great experience. I felt pressured but not overly so. It was just the necessary push to make myself get things done and with very reasonable goals. Once I started to get things done, the sense of accomplishment was enough to encourage me to keep going.  I will try something similar later on for sure! On we go, now to talk about the book itself. Title: The book of five rings Author: Miyamoto Musashi Genre: non-fiction Origin...

  It has been a successful challenge. I am not going to say it's been easy but much better than if it was the 30-day long I have seen other people do.  I am happy with how it turned out to be. I was expecting to have more posts because I was going to update once a day as each ay was completed but it turned out to be even more due to technicalities I had not foreseen. That was a fun ride. And we're almost done. Moving on this was the next Agatha Christie book. Just for myself next time I reread her works I might just do it by series instead of publication order, that would be very fun. I have found I enjoy Miss Marple or Mr. Quin a lot more than Poirot even if his adventures are more fantastical.  Sidenote: Her works have been around for a while but still, why are the titles changed? I have found for most of her books there are several possible titles and I don't just mean the translations. In English, a single one of her books has at least 2 or 3 different titles, which m...

Okay day 3, it went a bit better. I did finish reading this until very late at night. It would have been much easier had a finished the Knight's shadow the day it was supposed to be.  Either way, I managed to get it done. Funny thing the most difficult thing was to catch up with the reviews posted. I decided not to publish them out of order. So I had to hurry to finish writing them.  Title: The thirteen problem Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Mystery/Thriller Original publication date: 1932 Book description:   The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes. One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes. The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death. Now pit...

  So after struggling to get through the book for day 2 I managed to barely finish it the third day. It might have been faster had I only one book to read but I did have to finish the previous one and the corresponding for the current day, so I do pat myself on the back. I did great! One thing at a time. Let's review the second book for this challenge. Title: Knight's Shadow Series: Greatcoats #2 Author: Sebastien de Castell Genre: Fantasy Original publication date: December 8, 2014 Book description:   A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland. Thoughts: Warning ...

  This is pretty self-explanatory. I have seen people do challenges of reading 30 books in 30 days and while that seems like an amazing idea, it's very unlikely to happen. But I still want to try something similar.  So baby steps. This first attempt will be a 5-day challenge in which I will have to read 1 book each day.  Rules: -Start and finish the book that day. -Do not include graphic novels or manga. Nothing wrong with that but I already read a few of them this month so I'll try to pick up something different.  -Make a blog review for each book read, the day after it was scheduled to be read. This way it gives me all day, and into the night to finish it.  I count the day from the time I woke up to when I go to sleep so even if I finish the book at 1 am, it will still count as I have yet to go to bed for the day. The challenge is going to take place from Monday 19 to Friday 23. The book review is going to be posted the next day. So you can expect to see me po...