Saturday, March 9, 2019

Reread-a-thon


This read-a-thon starts @ midnight March 10 and ends @ 11:59 PM March 16. The start and stop times are in your specific time zone where ever you are in the world.

The name of the read-a-thon says it all! We will be rereading some of our books or giving some people second chances. Whether those second chances be people you have read a book by them before, liked/loved them and want to try others or you tried an author, wasn't fond of them and want to give them one more try (1st prompt)!

There are some prompts for this that I probably won't do. There's a couple that may fit a few prompts and that's great but I am choosing books that I have been wanting to reread for a while. I am not big on rereading books but when this read-a-thon came around last year, I took the opportunity to reread a book (even though I wanted to read more but I just wasn't in much of a reading mood last year when this came around).

Some of the books I have audio books for some where. A few, I don't. This TBR is tentative. I can switch at any moment if I feel like I am not in the mood for some books. I may start in the middle of a series or even read the last book in a series. I may even attempt to listen to books I no longer own but wanted to give another try. That is a big maybe though because for whatever reason, it's hard for me to listen to books that I don't physically own or have borrowed. We will see how that works out.

I have some books that I didn't pick up that would also fit some of these prompts but because it has been so recent since I have read them, I am not ready for the reread of those (i.e. Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson would go well with "Recent Favorite").

Here are the prompts for the read-a-thon:
1. Give a book a 2nd chance
2. Recent Favorite
3. Old Favorite
4. Game Changer (book that changed what you read/genre changer)
5. Underrated/Unpopular book
6. Childhood Favorites
7. Popular book

Here is a video with the best description that I have found so far of this Reread-A-Thon:
(Of course, this is not me but one of the hosts of the read-a-thon this year)


My tentative TBR:




Twilight Saga could fit the "Game Changer" for me because that is when I started reading Young Adult (YA). 

And "Old Favorite" could be Malcolm X & Anna and The French Kiss. Twilight saga could fit here as well. 

Shadowlands is part of a Trilogy and I only picked on of the books out because this is a book I don't have an audiobook for. 

Timeless is a duology (along with one Novella). I only own the first book because it was my favorite of the two. I tried to buy the 2nd one some years ago but never did because it never fit into my budget. I haven't looked for it in at least a year or two. I remember a little about this book and remember loving it. I got this book because someone on my Goodreads list loved this book if I remember correctly. She and I don't read a lot of the same books when it comes to "fantasy" type books but this is one of two I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, the 2nd was a part of a series/trilogy as well that I never finished. Maybe I need to. 

Timeless and Kindred is some what underrated. 

Kindred has just 68,471 ratings while Timeless has 9,820 ratings on Goodreads. Which would fit Underrated/Unpopular (according to Goodreads).

So, I guess I have more to fit the prompts that I thought. 

I don't have audio books for Monster, Shadowlands and Timeless so I may only get to one of those. I hope that I can listen to at least one book before the week is out and maybe sit and read a short easy read. 

I will be going for books that will be easy to listen to and get through in a weeks time. But still have books like Monster & Malcolm X just in case I want something a bit heavier and can get through them within a few days while also reading/listening to easier books. 

No, I am not expecting to get through 7 books or even 4 books. This is just some books that I would like to attempt to reread one day. Especially seeing that I haven't read Malcolm X since after the movie came out in the 90's.

I'm done rambling. Hopefully those reading this, got this far and are participating! 

Are you participating? Let me know. 

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