#TBRTakedown read-a-thon wrap up

Yay!! I made it through the #TBRTakedown read-a-thon (see my initial post here)!! This is only the third read-a-thon I've ever participated in and I'm happy to report I was mostly successful. I did cheat a tiny bit by buying one of my books to read during the challenge... but it was on my Goodreads TBR for several months so I'm saying it counts. Here are the books I read for the read-a-thon:

A First book in a series

 An unread sequel

 A book from your most recent book haul

As I predicted, I was only able to make it through three books during the read-a-thon. Part of that might be because I got about 1/3 of the way through a different book before getting a serious case of the Mood Reader Curse and switching to something else. Overall, I feel like it was a successful week!

Reviews for these books will be posted later in the month, but I definitely didn't read a bad book during the read-a-thon! I'll definitely be participating again next year!

#TBRTakedown Read-a-thon

So... today when I was pursuing the interwebs I came across a read-a-thon that seems to be picking up a lot of speed in the BookTube community. Even though I'm not going near YouTube with a 10-foot pole, I thought it sounded like a lot of fun and might even help me with these physical TBR issues I've been having lately.

Here's the announcement video for the challenge!

The idea behind this read-a-thon is to whittle away at all of those books that have been slowly piling up on your bookshelves over the course of a week (June 1-7). There are five mini-challenges to make it a little more interesting!

1. A book that's been on your TBR shelf over a year!
2. An unread sequel sitting on your TBR shelf.
3. A first book in a series on your TBR shelf.
4. An "out of your comfort zone" book on le TBR shelf!
5. A book from your most recent book haul!

Five books in a week is a little too ambitious for me since it's physical copies only and audiobooks don't count so I've decided to combine some of these categories and plan to read a total of 3 books.

Here is my TBR for the read-a-thon (I'm an extremely indecisive mood reader and can't make this decision now... so these are the options):

A book that's been on your TBR for over a year/A first book in a series 

   

An unread sequel/A book from your most recent book haul

   

An "out of your comfort zone" book

  

So there it is! The read-a-thon begins on Monday and I am SUPER excited to get started on this one! Is anyone else planning to participate?