2015 #BookTubeAThon~~

It's that time of the year again and I couldn't be more excited! BookTube-A-Thon 2015 aka that-time-i-decided-to-read-all-the-short-ones. Killing it with all the classics! I wonder how many I will actually read before I break down and indulge myself in YA. Also, all of these are in Russian except for Animal Farm and The Virgin Suicides, which are e-books and in English.

TBR//challenges:

1// Read a book with blue on the cover:
Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam | 112 pages

2// Read a book by an author who shares the same first letter of your last name:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | 121 pages
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 277 pages

3// Read someone else's favourite book:
Animal Farm by George Orwell | 102 pages (thanks Ariel haha)

4// Read the last book you acquired:
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | 224 pages

5// Finish a book without letting go of it:
The Martian by Andy Weir | 369 pages

6// Read a book you really want to read:
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides | 249 pages

7// Read seven books:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 277 pages



TBR total: 1454 pages (over a thousand pages less than last year: maybe this year I will complete all the challenges)

#Readathon #Dewey: hours two & three

while i'm all in Anna and the French Kiss, thought I might take part in a mini-challenge :D here's a pic of my teeny-tiny bookshelf, which will probably break soon because there's like 50 really heavy books on the top one *sigh*
also, yes. love me my teddy bear!

#Readathon #Dewey: hour one

Finished Pieces of You by Tablo~

will post when i (hopefully) finish another book.

#Readathon #Dewey: hour zero

it's Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon time!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
Minsk, Belarus, Europe, yay~

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

The Night Circus, probably

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?

Cookies, whole lotsa them :DD

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!

I'm a uni student and I love books, cats and twitter. And cookies.

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?

This is my first time and i'm so excited *_* Gonna read as much as I can.

2014 #BookTubeAThon~

TBR/challenges:
DONE! 1. A book with pictures:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs | 352 pages

DONE! 2. Start and finish a series:
The Selection by Kiera Cass - 

The Selection (#1) | 336 pages
The Elite (#2) | 336 pages
The One (#3) | 323 pages

DONE! 3. A book with red on the cover: 

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes | 512 pages
The Elite by Kiera Cass

DONE! 4. A book someone else picks out for you:

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes | 516 pages

5. A book from the genre you've read the least this year: 

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne | 224 pages

6. A book to movie adaptation:
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 

7. Read seven books or 300 pages a day / 2100 pages total

TBR total: 2599 pages (oops)

Day 1: started and finished The One Plus One!
Total: 516 pages
Day 2: started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children~
Total: 200 pages [716]
Day 3: started and finished The Selection, started The Elite. My total for the day was the same as for day one, so, I guess, now I know my limits, hehe.
Total: 516 pages [1232]
Day 4: finished The Elite, started and finished The One. Then picked up The Last Letter From Your Lover, but only made it through roughly 50 pages. I guess 500 pages a day is really my limit XD
Total: 525 pages [1757]
Day 5: didn't feel like reading at all, damn you, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!
Total: 70 pages [1827]
Day 6: finally completed Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children! Also read about 30 pages of The Last Letter From Your Lover.
Total: 112 pages [1939]

july 2014 classics #AYearAThon!

TBR:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (#1) by Douglas Adams | 216 pages
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (#2) by Douglas Adams | 250 pages
Life, the Universe and Everything (#3) by Douglas Adams | 232 pages
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (#4) by Douglas Adams | 167 pages
Mostly Harmless (#5) by Douglas Adams | 218 pages
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | 268 pages

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | 1463 pages

Total: 2814 pages

Yay for all the sci-fi! Extremely excited about all of these books, but I'm gonna have a veeeery busy first half of the week and then I'm leaving for two days so basically all I have left is the weekend.. Not comforting. Not at all. Anyways! Les Mis is in my plans for the month so I'm definitely going to finish it by the end of July. And I'm already halfway through The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because I just couldn't resist the temptation. I just couldn't. But it's like an hour to midnight (when the actual readathon starts) so I'm just going to count it as part of my Monday reading.

I decided not to write any new posts but to update this one, gonna keep it nice and neat~

Day 1:
All done with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and made it through 40 pages of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Total: 256 pages.
Day 2:
Like a boss have done no reading whatsoever. Oops?
Day 3:
Finally done with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe!
Total: 210 pages.
Day 4:
Got through 153 pages of Brave New World, it was so exhausting I had to pick up a young-adult novel to relax =/
Days 5, 6 & 7
Was really busy, read nothing.

Wrap-up:
What can I say? Readathon failed. But at least I got through two and a half books, that's something.
Total: 619 pages.