#continuathon

C O N T I N U A T H O N

Continuathon: A readathon to encourage reading/finishing those series you fell behind on! Also the funniest, stupidest name for a readathon ever probably. It sounds like you’re saying continuation but with a lisp. I promise I’m not mocking anyone. I’m just bad at coming up with names. 😂

This readathon will run from Sunday, July 1st, to Saturday, July 7th. This is a pretty standard readathon as the others in the past! A full week of reading, daily prompts, and some challenges if you’re struggling with a TBR (if you’re not like me with a stupid large pile of unfinished series). Neither are mandatory for you to participate in the readathon, and you can pick and choose which challenges/prompts to respond to. 

Use the tag #continuathon so we can all find each other’s posts (be it daily updates, pictures, or prompt responses)! I will be tracking it, and doing my best to respond to posts (note: I said try please don’t hurt me if I don’t get to yours; I am terrible and easily exhausted... like a child!)

Schedule / Daily Prompts

Day Zero (June 30) | Before you begin

I’m stealing @bibliophilicwitch‘s idea and starting the prompts a day before the readathon. Post your TBR! What are you reading, do they match up to any of the challenges, and why are you reading them?

Make predictions for your upcoming reads. Whether it’s on opinion or what will happen in the series. Just remember to tag your spoilers!

Day One (July 1) | Let’s get started

What is the best series starter you’ve ever read? Worst? 

Write a one-minute speech (or a love letter) for your favorite series (if you’re brave you could upload a video or audio).

Day Two (July 2) | Sophomore Slumps or Bumps

What’s a series with a second book that ~sucked~? 

What’s a series with a second book that was absolutely amazing? 

Take a series and recommend a song for every book in that series. Alternatively, put your playlist on shuffle and recommend a book based on the song(s). Do as many as you like.

Day Three (July 3) | Inhale Reads

What series did you inhale read? 

What series went uphill from the first book? Downhill?

Write a poem/short song about a series you love or that you’re currently reading!

Day Four (July 4) | Give and Receive 

Take a picture of your favorite bookish map(s)! OR Take a picture of a bookish blueprint(s)! OR Show us any book merch you have.

Sort the characters in a series into their respective Hogwarts houses. Tell us why!

Recommend middlegrade, YA, and adult series.

Day Five (July 5) | Unpopulars

Share a series that everyone loves but you hate. OR Share a series that everyone hates but you love.

Which do you prefer: duologies, trilogies, quartets, or more? 

Write an obituary for a character who died. Tag spoilers!

Day Six (July 6) | Marketing Strategies

What’s a series that you think should get a spinoff? Who/what should said spinoff be about? 

What series didn’t deserve a spinoff?

What spinoff series is better than the original?

Make a bookish rainbow, take a picture, and share it with us!

Day Seven (July 7) | Enders

What are the best and worst endings you’ve ever read?

Revive a dead meme and apply it to a book/series of your choosing.

Make a moodboard / edit for your favorite read for this readathon or for a series you love.

Day Eight (July 8) | Wrap Up

What did you read? Did you get to everything on your TBR or did you get sidetracked? Tell us about them! 

Summarize your reads using gifs! 

Challenges

Start and finish an entire series during the course of the week (can be duology, trilogy, quartet, or, if you’re adventurous, a 5 or more book series).

Re-read the first book(s) in the series and continue. (If you don’t want to, search here and here for recaps of books with plots you forgot) 

Finish a series whose last book came out more than a year ago.

Finish a series whose last book came out this year.

Continue/finish a series with a book that’s less than 250 pages.

Continue/finish a series with a book that’s more than 500 pages.

Reread a series you love!

Read a non sci-fi series!

Get caught up with an unfinished series.

Continuathon

Day 3: Inhale Reads

What series did you inhale read?

I absolutely flew through all of these in high school.  I remember people coming up to me and saying, “Weren’t you reading a different book yesterday?” and “Wait, weren’t you reading a different series yesterday?”  I just really loved Tamora Pierce’s world and characters.

Reading Update:

One book down!  I finished The Hero and the Crown, but I made almost no progress in The Winter King.  Hopefully I’ll be able to read more of it tomorrow and start Demelza.

The Hero and the Crown - finished

The Winter King - page 48 of 489

Demelza - not started

Enemy of God - not started

Continuathon, Day 6: Marketing Strategies

Series with second book that sucked? One that was absolutely amazing?

I can't really think of any second books that sucked... Shadowblack was the weakest entry in the Spellslinger (Sebastien De Castell) series, but it was still pretty darn good! I've pretty much decided that ACOTAR is a series not for me, and I liked the first book, but couldn't get into ACOMAF that much.

Books read: 7.5

Pages read: 3056

I am so proud of the amount I read this week! I could have finished my last book if I didn’t get distracted by moving my furniture around, but I am still happy with what I did.

I managed to complete four of the challenges throughout the week which were:

Start and finish an entire series

Continue/finish a series with more than 250 pages

Re-read a series you love 

Get caught up with an unfinished series

As you can see, The Rose and the Dagger is the book I am half way through. 

All in all; a very successful week for me!

a day late

make predictions you say?? I predict my messy ass will be a big Failure to Comply by the end of the week because noah fence to my mama but she absolutely did raise a quitter. 

still. an attempt will be made. 

and that’s the best I can do!!

anyway

🌺 🌺 🌺 🌺 🌺

T B R . T I M E , T O A D S

The Magicians Trilogy Start and finish an entire series during the course of the week (can be duology, trilogy, quartet, or, if you’re adventurous, a 5 or more book series).

The Last Star Finish a series whose last book came out more than a year ago.

Saga vol. 1-8 Reread a series you love!

The Bone Witch & Heart Forger Get caught up with an unfinished series.

Note to self: that’s literally 14 separate pieces of fiction, Camille. Good luck, you dumb goat.

WHY THESE YOU ASK?

Day Three (July 3) | Inhale Reads

What series did you inhale read? Quite a few when I think about it, but some of them required waiting for the next book to come out... The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Lockwood and Co. series, Graceling, Divergent, The Dark Tower series, Virals

What series went uphill from the first book? Downhill?  The series listed above pretty much went uphill from the first book. The Dust Lands and The Mortal Instruments are series where I read the first two books and just stopped. If I remember right I enjoyed them, but likely got side tracked. Would definitely give them another go.