Reader Rayna

Month: July 2016

  • Biannual Bibliothon Day 1: Message in a Bottle

    Hey there everyone, here is my video for the Biannual Bibliothon challenge for day one! The challenge is called Message in a Bottle and you’re supposed to write a letter to your favorite character, so I chose to write to Aelin from Throne of Glass (because did anyone NOT see that coming? I mean, seriously.) I had a lot of fun with it even if it is a little choppy, but I’m still very proud of it!

    If you want to skip over the TBR section, my entry starts at 3:23.

    As far as stats go for the readathon, I’ll post what I’ve read on the next day’s blog post. So for today, since it’s the first day, I won’t post my stats of what I’ve read until tomorrow’s post, and so on.

    Let’s Chat! ≧◡≦

    Who would you write a letter to? Would you write it to your favorite or least favorite character? Or would you write as one of your favorite characters to another character, such as Clary writing to Jace?

  • Biannual Bibliothon TBR

    Hey peeps! I obviously love doing things the last minute because I’m joining in the Biannual Bibliothon! If you don’t know what that is, it’s a readathon that’s hosted twice a year by some lovely people: Emma @ emmmabooks, Kelly @ Kellys Bookspill, Momo @ The Booktube Girl, Selena @ OhxXxSNAP13, Sierra @ sierrareads, Brittni @ Brittni Finds Books, Kassie @ MissSassyKassie, Red @ Little Red Reader, and Meagan @ Meagan Precourt and it’s all about coming together as a community to read some books, make some fun videos, and have a good time. This particular summer readathon is taking place from July 3rd to July 9th.

    So for this summer’s readathon, there are seven reading challenges and seven video challenges, all of which I’m going to do my best to participate in. You are able to double up on the reading challenges, so I’m totally going to cheat and do that.

    Reading Challenges

    1. Read the group book – The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson.
    2. Free read/wild card – Choose whatever book you want.
    3. Read a book from the host’s recommendations:
      • Momo’s Choice: The Clockword Scarab by Colleen Gleason
      • Selena’s Choice: Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
      • Kelly’s Choice: Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
      • Red’s Choice: Sorta Like a Rockstar by Matthew Quick
      • Emma’s Choice: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
      • Meagan’s Choice: The Archived by Victoria Schwab
      • Kassie’s Choice: Arabat by Clive Barker
    4. Read a book with your favorite mythical creature – Witches, werewolves, vampires, oh my!
    5. Read a book you’ve been putting off picking up – You know the one that’s staring at you right now.
    6. Read a book from an author you’ve never read before – Spread your wings and reach out to the horizon!
    7. Read a book in a different format than you normally read – This can be in any form you don’t read most, so if you read physical books, try an ebook. Or read a webcomic, manga, graphic novel, audiobook, whatever!

    Okay, so I’m going to double up on a few of these challenges, so here are the books I’m planning to read this week:

    Now I’m not expecting to finish reading all of these this week given a) I’m a slow reader, b) I have a full time job, and c) I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo this month so I also want to focus on that. I’m going to try to read partials of all of the books, but really try to finish a couple of them.

    Video Challenges

    • Sunday, July 3rd – Message in a bottle: Write a letter to your favorite (or least favorite) character.
    • Monday, July 4th – Character Channel Take Over: Let a book character take control of your channel for a day.
    • Tuesday, July 5th – Redesigned: Redesign a book cover.
    • Wednesday, July 6th – Creative Book Review: Film a book review in a creative way (i.e. poetry, while baking, singing, etc).
    • Thursday, July 7th – The Missing Scene: Create a scene that is missing from your favorite book to movie adaptation.
    • Friday, July 8th – What Would I Do?: Insert yourself into a scene from a book and react to it.
    • Saturday, July 9th – Scavenger Hunt: Find the list of items (or create them): President Snow’s white rose from The Hunger Games, Thalias tree from Percy Jackson, a creepy doll from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Harry’s glasses from Harry Potter, a witchlight from The Mortal Instruments, antique key from The Archived, Edward’s jacket from Twilight.

    I’ll be posting the first challenge later on tonight and then I’ll also link it in a new post later on tonight, too. This week I’m going to have some days where there are two posts per day, so that’ll be fun!

    So that’s what I’m planning on reading and doing for this Biannual Bibliothon! I’m pretty pumped because I love that they gave a lot of creative ideas for the video challenges, so maybe that’ll help to inspire me in not only my video making, but also my writing.

    Let’s Chat! ≧◡≦

    Are you participating in this readathon? If you are, what video are you most excited to make? What book did you choose for the one you’ve been putting off? Tell me all the things.

  • Camp NaNoWriMo: July Edition

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    It’s that time again! It’s actually going to be my first time ever participating during the summer session of Camp NaNoWriMo, so I’m pretty pumped about it.

    If you don’t know what Camp NaNoWriMo is, it’s a more relaxed version of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in which the goal for NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words in one month. NaNoWriMo takes place every year in the month of November, but Camp NaNoWriMo takes place in both April and June of each year. The only thing is is that the goal for Camp is set from 10,000 to 999,999 words. So you have a much broader range in which to write!

    Check out their FAQs for any questions you might have.

    So I’m going to be doing a totally different story for this session and I’m going to also be writing for a smaller word count goal. I’m doing this partially because I don’t want to overdo myself like I did last session, but also because I feel that this goal is very attainable. So here’s the stats:

    Word Count Goal: 15,000 words

    Average Words Per Day: 484 words to meet my goal by the end of the month.

    Synopsis:

    Celezar is a soldier in his father’s army, a strong warrior who was brought up to hate Dragons and to fight against them for the kingdom. But he never really believed in what his father said about Dragons to be true, but he also does not want to disappoint the only family he has in the world. His heart is for the people and he would rather help and heal them than slay a Dragon.

    Talia is a Firedrake and she has always been told that her destiny is to “bring a new world from the ashes of the old,” but all she wants is to become a scholar and read books – mountains of them – and to educate the world about Dragons. As the daughter of the Dragon Lord, though, she always knew that her place would be among the court, not traveling the world to learn as much as she can.

    As the war in the kingdom wages on, Talia and Celezar must do what is in their power to stop either side from wiping out the other. But can they do it alone, or will they have to rely on each other – and others – in order to do so?

    I’m pretty pumped because I love dragons and I want to write my own version of them. I’ve already talked a little bit about Celezar’s childhood and who he is, but I’ll talk a little bit more about each of my characters in my weekly recaps for the month. Also each week I’ll talk a little bit about writing, my writing progress, and any tips and tricks I may have.

    If you want to check out my progress and add me as a friend, you can check out my profile!

    Let’s Chat! ≧◡≦

    Do you plan on participating? What is your story about? How do you feel about dragons? What is your word count goal?