Spring Into Summer Read-a-Thon Updates and Mini-Challenges - Day 2

So, I kinda let myself sleep in a bit today. I read about an hour after my Report post last night before I called it a night, so I didn't get too much reading done last night or this morning, but I some is better than none I guess. :P

#1 ~12:00 PM
Mini-Challenge: If you had bookshelves FULL of all of your favorite books, how would you organize them?

Honestly, I'm terrible at organizing my bookshelves. I have so many that are just too different in size to be next too each other, so I usually just organize them by series and then wherever they fit best. Of course, I also have too many books to fit on my shelves now, so there are some all over my room. :P If it were a perfect type of world and all books were the same height, I'd probably organize them by my favourites, or by my favourite author. I'd still keep them with series though. I might even go crazy and try and organize them by colour. ;)



Update

Total Books Read: 2
Total Pages Read: 612
Books Read Since Last Update: 0
Pages Read Since Last Update: 112
Total Time Read: 10 hrs, 2 hrs since last update
I'm Currently Reading: Subject Seven by James A. Moore
How I'm Currently Feeling: Still a bit sleepy to be honest, I may just have to chug some kind of caffeinated beverage in a bit. :P

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#2 ~ 2:30 PM

Mini-Challenge: Create an anagram of your name/pseudonym.


I decided to use my middle name too because with my first and last name I got On Trashy Bum. :P

Update

Total Books Read: 2
Total Pages Read: 672
Books Read Since Last Update: 0
Pages Read Since Last Update: 60
Total Time Read: 11 hrs, 1 hr since last update
I'm Currently Reading: Subject Seven by James A. Moore
How I'm Currently Feeling: Stuck, I haven't read much for the last little bit, but I did have some coffee and now I'm feeling a little more awake. :)

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#3 ~ 6:00 PM

Mini-Challenge:If you could live in the world of one book, which would it be and why?

Hmmmm, that's a tough one. There are so many books worlds that I find amazing, but also at the same time they';'d be a freaky place to live in. I kind of want to say Inkheart by Corneila Funke, mostly because you could just read yourself into another story if you wanted to. :P But....I think that's a bit of a cop out, so I'm going to say either The Mortal Instruments or The Iron Fey series, any world where Jace or Ash actually exist would be so awesome. I would love to be a Shadowhunter, and I'd love to live in Meghan's world with the fey, but I have a feeling in both worlds it might not turn out the way I wanted it to. :P


Update

Total Books Read: 2
Total Pages Read: 866
Books Read Since Last Update: 0
Pages Read Since Last Update: 94
Total Time Read: 12.5 hrs, 1.5 hrs since last update
I'm Currently Reading: Subject Seven by James A. Moore
How I'm Currently Feeling: Distracted, focusing has not been my friend today.

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Books Completed:
1. The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan
2. Sweetly by Jackson Pearce

Spring Into Summer Read-a-thon Updates and Mini-Challenges - Day 1

I'm going to just make this into one big post now.
I'll separate each update and mini-Challenge with a line. :) 

#1

Mini-Challenge: Tell about your favorite and least favorite movie adaptation of a book.

• Favorite book-movie adaptation: Hmmmm, that's a tough one. I really enjoyed The Notebook and A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, the movie versions were amazingly well done. :D I also just recently watched Flipped based off of the book by Wendelen Van Draaen adn I thought it was so well done. :)
  
  
• Least favorite book-movie adaptation: I've had a fair few book to movies that I haven't really liked, or that I was 'meh' about, but I'm not sure about which one I liked the least. I absolutely hated the movie version of Inkheart though, that one was just nothing like I pictured the book at all, and they changed so many little details that I remember just being annoyed pretty much during the whole movie. 

Update:

• Total Books Read: 1
• Total Pages Read: 188
• Books Read Since Last Update: 1
• Pages Read since last update: 188
• Total time read: about 3 hours
• How I'm currently feeling: A little morose after the last book I read, but this one's not as dark so it's looking up. :P

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#2

Mini-Challenge: Create a wordle for your blog. 

My Wordle:

Update:

• Total Books Read: 1
• Total Pages Read: 261
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read since last update: 63
• Total time read: 4.5 hrs in total, 1.5 hrs since last update
• How I'm currently feeling: So-so, I'm hoping to kick it into high gear with my book, Sweetly, soon, and make some real progress with it.

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#3 - 6:44 PM

Update: 

• Total Books Read: 1
  
• Total Pages Read: 461
• Books Read Since Last Update: 0
• Pages Read Since Last Update: 147
• Total Time Read: 7 hrs total, 2.5 hrs since last update
  
• How I'm Currently Feeling: I'm getting very absorbed into my book right now,  I'm loving how Sweetly ties in with Sisters Red, I didn't expect the little connections. :) 

*I've been skipping the last few Mini-Challenges, I had a job thingy I had to do and I kind of want to get bag into my book. :P 

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Books Completed:
1. The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan (180 pages)
2. Sweetly by Jackson Pearce (320 pages)

In A Past Life (Read-A-Thon Challenge) from The Nerd's Wife

Here's a link to the challenge for the Read-A-Thon if you're participating: http://reading.thenerdswife.com/2010/12/in-past-life-readathon-mini-challenge.html

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So here are the questions:

Choose a character from the book you're currently reading and answer the following questions in the comments of this post.

•What historical figure do you think they could have been in a past life?

•Why did you choose this figure?
•What similarities do the two share?

•Be sure to tell us the book and the character you chose.

The book I'm currently reading is Night Star by Alyson Noel. Which, coincidentally enough is filled with past lives.

I think for the character, I'm going to choose Sabine just because we don't know of any of her past lives, Ever would've been a more obvious choice, but I think that's cheating. :P

I think in a past life Sabine was someone who was perhaps taken in by the mystical, so I'm going to say she was Alexandra Romanov of Russia. Since she was royal she would know the workings of the law, which being a lawyer Sabine, is extremely interested in. She also does not approve of or 'believe' in psychic abilities or other spiritual stuff like that, which would suggest that she's been spurned by it in the past...or past life.

If you're doing the Read-a-thon, don't miss out on the mini-challenges, the link to this one is at the top of this post :)

Happy Reading!!!
♪♫ Ambur