Monday, October 24, 2016

Spookathon 2016 Update for Days 4-7

Day 4
Time Read: 1 hour
Currently Reading: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs
Pages Read of Current Book: 24 pages 
Total Pages Read: 263 pages 
Books Read: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs

Day 5
Time Read: 1 hour and a half
Currently Reading: The Telling by: Alexandra Sirowy
Pages Read of Current Book: 31 pages
Total Pages Read: 294 pages 
Books Read: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs


Day 6
Time Read: 3 and a half hours
Currently Reading: The Telling by: Alexandra Sirowy
Pages Read of Current Book: 95 pages
Total Pages Read: 389 pages 
Books Read: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs


Day 7
Time Read: None
Currently Reading: The Telling by: Alexandra Sirowy
Pages Read of Current Book: 0 pages
Total Pages Read: 389 pages
Books Read: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon 2016 TBR

I am so beyond excited because this morning starts the Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-thon, and after participating for more than a few years now, this is something that I look forward to! Not only do I knock off a lot of books on my TBR for the month and get a lot of reading done, but I also meet a lot of people with the same love for reading that I have! This time around I got one of my friends at my college, McKenna to participate with me and I am so beyond ecstatic!

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-thon is where you read as much as you can for 24 Hours. Some people read for 24 hours in a row and some people just read as much as they can, around their daily lives and work and such. It is also a whole day where you can connect with book worms like you, participate in challenges, and knock some books off of your TBR pile! What more could a book worm want?!

It is unfortunately too late to officially participate this year, but if you want to find out information here is the link!






Books I Am Also Reading for The Spookathon:





 I can't wait to get a lot of reading done during this readathon! I hope to at least finish "The Telling", read "The Vines" and read another book as well. However, if I just read two books I will be happy, that's more than I normally would read in a 24 hour period! If you are participating good luck! Also, if you are participating comment down below what you are planning on reading during Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon! Good luck lovely readers and happy reading!

Thursday, October 20, 2016

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" : A Really Unique World To Live In






"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive." 

At first this book was really hard for me to get through, for the first few chapters or so. However, when I finally read 50 pages or so of the book, I kept on turning the pages and it became an addiction. I have been in a really bad reading slump for the past four months or so, where I didn't feel like reading ever and I always wanted to go on a Netflix binge. However, this book totally got me out of my reading slump and now all I want to do is read.  This book at first didn't have me hooked and I almost gave up reading it, but I am glad I kept on pushing through, because sooner or later it had me hooked. For the past few days I didn’t have a life. I couldn't put the book down and I kept reading page after page. After page 50 or so, it’s kind of like candy, once you read one page, you have to read another and another and another.

This book wasn't really a horror book to me, but I don't get scared very easily so it could be to you.  This book to me, was such a mysterious and really thrilling read.  It reminded me of "X-men" in a way because of all of the children with magical and peculiar powers. It also reminded of "Narnia" in a way because of the magical island. However, this book has its own story and is unique from anything I have ever read before. Every page turn brought a new surprise and I never saw the surprises coming. This book wasn't predictable at all and was a non-stop roller coaster, with a lot of twists and turns. 

I also love the wonderful character development. Each character and each ward has their own back story, their own flaws, their own streaks and some of them even have their only magical powers. The Ransom Riggs describes his bizarre, unique and peculiar characters in a way that makes you feel like they are your friends and like you know them personally. The pictures of each of the characters also helps bring the characters to life and helps you to imagine them better.

Also I adore the world, on this creepy little island, in this magical little world. I could see myself living in the world because of how well it was described. Even though the creepy, weird pictures helped me to imagine the world and the characters even more, with Ransom Riggs' writing style I felt like I was living in the world with the characters, and experiencing what they were experiencing.  

The world of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Children" is a unique, creepy, magical and (a little) weird world that I love to live in! I highly recommend it if you want a paranormal and magical read that you won't want to put down once you start reading it. It is definitely the perfect Halloween read!

Paw Prints: 4.5 out of 5



Spookathon 2016 Updates for Days 1-3


Day 1
Time Read: 2 hours
Currently Reading: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs
Pages Read of Current Book: 62 pages
Total Pages Read: 62 pages 
Books Read: None


Day 2
Time Read: 2 hours
Currently Reading: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs
Pages Read of Current Book: 65 pages
Total Pages Read: 127 pages 
Books Read: None


Day 3
Time Read: 4 hours and 10 minutes
Currently Reading: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by: Ransom Riggs
Pages Read of Current Book: 112 pages
Total Pages Read: 239 pages 
Books Read: None



Saturday, October 15, 2016

My 2016 Spookathon TBR

I am so beyond excited to announce that I will be participating in the Spookathon hosted by Paige's Pages, BooksandLala and Bookerly on YouTube. It starts on October 17th and it will end on October 23rd. The goal of this read-a-thon is to read horror and thriller books. There are also five different reading challenges you can participate in. The only challenge I am not doing is the challenge "read a book with a spooky word in the title", since I don't currently have any books that would fit that challenge in my dorm room. There is also a read-along for the book "The Telling" by Alexandra Sirowy going on during this readathon that you can also participate in! Most of my books I have on my tbr are relatively shorter, so I hope I can get through all of them during this readathon, but if I get through at least half of them I will be happy. 

Click the following links to learn more:




1. Read a Thriller

2. Read a book with red on the cover

 4. Read a 2016 Release

 5. Read a book with a paranormal character/ creature


I can't wait for the Spookathon this coming week and I can't wait to read all of these scary and thriller books! I will be doing daily reading updates on my blog, so follow my blog if you want to know how I am doing during the readathon. Are you participating in the Spookathon? If so, what are you planning on reading? 




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