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.
Bonus: Admit to yourself that you’re not going to finish that one series you’ve put off for seven years. It’s not going to happen.
