#littlereadathon

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Reading to premmie babies matters. Posted @withrepost • @lltfoz MEET OUR LITTLE READERS READATHON AMBASSADOR, MICHELLE WORTHINGTON @michelle.author is an internationally published award-winning author of empowering picture books for children of all ages. Her books have been nominated for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award and Speech Pathology Awards. She was also awarded a highly commended in the prestigious 2018 Hilarie Lindsay Children’s Book Awards and is a two-time winner of the International Book Award and finalist in the USA Best Book Awards! Michelle also received a Gellett Burgess Award and a Silver Moonbeam Award for her contribution to celebrating diversity in children’s literature. Phew! Michelle is also Founder of Share Your Story Australia, and an international guest speaker on the importance of storytelling. “My goal is to inspire all children to believe in themselves and encourage reluctant readers to fall in love with books.” Michelle's book, 'My brother Tom' tells the story of a baby brother who arrives earlier than expected and is written for older siblings of premature babies to help them make sense of what’s happening at a difficult time. Royalties from the sale of each book are donated to Life’s Little Treasures Foundation in the name of Tom Worthington Walker. We are delighted to have Michelle as our Ambassador for The Little Reader's Readathon, in partnership with @australasiannidcapcentre and know that the families at Westmead Hospital yesterday felt thrilled to have Michelle read to their bubs! #readingmatters #littlereadathon #NIDCAPAustralia #makingadifferencetogether #familieshelpingfamilies #michelleworthington #michelleworthingtonbooks #michelleworthingtonauthor #authors #authorsofinstagram #read #prematurebabies (at The Children's Hospital at Westmead) https://www.instagram.com/p/B19uOakgv1n/?igshid=itdjy2i8fvlq

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#LITTLEreadathon wrap up

So... I didn't do very well, as expected. I have finished 4 books and 3 graphic novels/comic books. (Not all of them were on my TBR pile, but who cares about that).

Here's the overview...

DAY 1:

Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese (235 pages)

Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl (first 146 pages)

DAY 2:

Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl (rest of the book, 120 pages)

DAY 3:

Carlo Goldoni's La Baruffe Chiozzotte (102 pages)

(60 pages of) Petr Babák's Octobriana

DAY 4:

Sam Keith's Wolverine/Hulk (96 pages)

(67 pages of) Road Dahl's Switch Bitch

DAY 5:

Garth Ennis' Thor: Vikings (128 pages)

Road Dahl's Switch Bitch (rest of the book, 141 pages)

(73 pages of) Truman Capote's Summer Crossing

DAY 6:

Truman Capote'S Summer Crossing (rest of the book, 87 pages)

(15 pages of) Virginia Woolf's A Room of One'S Own

(17 pages of) Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

DAY 7:

(another 16 pages of) Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

(56 pages of) Garth Nix's Sabriel

So... total page count is: 1 361 pages

Not so bad, even thou I was hoping to actually finish more of the books I'm currently reading instead of reading different ones. But what can I do... I just had to buy Switch Bitch and Summer Crossing and they were too damn short to not read them.

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#LITTLEreadathon

So after a week-end of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV shows (Outlander, check. Sleepy Hollow, on track.) I've decided to join a readathon organized by Catriona of LittleBookOwl.

I made myself a TBR pile, but it's only fair to say I don't expect myself to finish all of these books and since I'm terrible in keeping with my TBR piles, I might even read something else. It just happens to me, like always. So here we go...

Garth Nix: Sabriel (I'm on page 92 from 367 right now)

Caitlin Moran: How To Build A Girl (on page 172 from 343)

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: Les liaisons dangereuses (on page 160 from 416, it's a school thing but also a classic - yay!)

Joe Dunthorne: Submarine (on page 196 from 318, it's a copy from library that I have here for ages)

Lena Dunham: Not That Kind of Girl (just got this one in the mail today)

Jan Němec: Dějiny světla (library copy, need to get it back some time next week)

Gene Yang: American Born Chinese (a short and small graphic novel)

Virgilia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (on page 27, need to finish it already!)

Vernon Lee: The Virgin of Seven Daggers (a short story collection, I hope to read a story every now and then)

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: La folie journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (play, reading for school)

Carlo Goldoni: La baruffe Chiozzotte (another one for school)

Ed Brubaker: Captain America Omnibus Vol 2 (it's a Czech edition, I have no idea what does it actually collect, I'm gonna figure it out later)

Deleuze & Guattari: Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure (a school thing, hopefully will give me some credits!)

Alan Moore: From Hell (i wanted to read this graphic novel for so long!)

Joe Sacco: Footnotes from Gaza (this graphic novel looks really interesting!)

So here I go. Way more books that I can read in a week. But whatever.

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Dewey's 24 hour Read-a-Thon + Little Read-a-thon

So once again I've decided to take part in a read-a-thon, or I should say two!

I will be participating in Dewey's 24 hour Read-A-Thon on the 18th of October and will continue on in Catriona's Little Read-A-Thon from the 20th till the 26th! As the 24 hour Read-A-Thon  doesn't start until 2PM for me, I'll be continuing on with the other Read-A-Thon to make sure I read all the books that I plan on reading or at least as much as I can.

I'm not going to set myself a goal, because I will be on holidays in Budapest from the 18th till the 24th, I still hope I can get as much in as possible. Therefore I will be setting myself a TBR list of books that I would like to read in this period of time, with no guarantee that I will read all of them.

Those books are as followed:

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

Covet - Tracey Garvis Graves

Uncharted - Tracey Garvis Graves

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith

Chasing Daisy - Paige Toon

Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma

Find you in the dark - A. Meredith Walters

Bully - Penelope Douglas

Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor

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Me & Hannah = Twinzies or How not to Finish a Readathon

Hannah Hart and I shared a moment this past week :

HOW TO GET AN ATHLETIC INJURY WHEN YOU ARE NOT AN ATHLETE

So yeah, I was in the hospital for a bit getting shot up with drugs so I could move and walk again. Then I was zZzZzZz for the rest of the littlereadathon basically.

On to the next one....

[weetzie79]

Littlereadathon - Day 1 & 2

Day 1: FINISHED My Drunk Kitchen by Hannah Hart (Review to come!)

Day 2: 23 pages of The Poisoners Handbook by Deborah Blum 109 pages of Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire

[weetzie79]

The next Read-a-thon!

My favorite book vlogger, Little Book Owl, has started her own read-a-thon. So why not join? Its not like I have anything else to do this week... #train3newpeople #workagazillionhours

Anyway...

It'll be running for a week starting today, September 1st! #LITTLEreadathon.

My (little) goals for this week:

My Drunk Kitchen by Hannah Hart

The Poisoners Handbook by Deborah Blum

Happy Reading!