Off Tangent Thoughts… during read-a-thons
Good morning bookworms!
Today we are doing another Off Tangent Thoughts (OTT) which was created by Charvi @ Not Just Fiction. This fortnight’s topic is thoughts I have during read-a-thons.
I LOVE read-a-thons. I love getting a list of prompts and finding books that work for them. I’m just really bad at the execution of them… because… I am a mood reader. ?
- OMG! A read-a-thon!
- *cue internal SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!*
- *pores over list of prompts*
- *runs around room finding books that match each prompt*
- *opens giant ‘BOOKS’ spreadsheet*
- *creates new tab*
- *puts all prompts and intending to read books into new tab*
- *drafts blog post and commits to reading said books*
- *bounces up and down as read-a-thon doesn’t start for two more days*
- *starts a different book to fill in time*
- — Read-a-thon starts —
- *puts other book down halfway through*
- Ooooh, where shall I start?!
- *pores over intending to read list*
- Huh… I don’t want to read any of these…
- *looks over bookcases to find another book to fit prompt*
- Uhhhhh… maybe I’ll just finish the other book first.
- *picks up other book to finish*
- *finishes book*
- Now what?
- *does some blog hopping*
- Oooh, that book looks good!
- *finds book either on shelves or on kindle store*
- *reads random book*
- *totally forgets about read-a-thon and just reads random books for the remaining time*
- *starts seeing wrap-up posts on people’s blogs*
- OHHHH SH*T!!!!
- *finds spreadsheet tab*
- *randomly retrofits books read to prompts*
- Uhhh, that … kind of …. works??
- *posts wrap-up post*
- AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I will NEVER do that again!!
- *sees new read-a-thon*
- OMG! A read-a-thon!!
- *cue internal SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!*
As you can see, my life is one perpetual cycle!! ?
18 Comments
J.R. @ Eternity Books
This is hilarious ?? I’ve never participated in a read-a-thon because I highly doubt I’ll be able to do it ?
Meeghan reads
Hahahaha, well, clearly you never need to actually do it as I never seem to stick to it!! ?
Mandy @ Book Princess Reviews
Omigosh, I never thought to put all of my books in a spreadsheet and then put readathons tabs. Mind = blown. Omigosh, I have now found my next project. And it’s so true of the cycle – but it is a rather fun one. Great post! 🙂
Meeghan reads
Thanks Mandy!! I was actually just thinking about posting all my spreadsheets in another month or so. I might need to clean them up a little first!! The you can borrow/copy them all!! (I’ve just done my NEWTs one…)
kierasbookishthoughts
Haha, this is so fun! I don’t usually participate in readathon because I forget about them or dont feel like doing them halfway into the readathon. Great post ?.
Meeghan reads
Thanks Kiera!! Unfortunately I do sign up for them… and then forget about them anyway!!
evelynreads1
Hahaha! This was fun to read!
(www.evelynreads.com)
Meeghan reads
Thanks!! All the prompts are really fun to write!!
Charvi
OMG I love your post!!
I’m such a mood reader so I really get what you’re talking about. I’ve also over the course of time learnt what kind of books to pick for a readathon and keep different genres so that at least something will appeal to my mood XP
Meeghan reads
I just spend so much time putting together a TBR, and then I’m all “I don’t wanna read that now” when it comes!! ? I am legit the worst…
hannawsreads
That is so me with readathons! ?
Meeghan reads
(I’m getting the feeling that this is secretly all of us and I have accidentally exposed us all… ?)
Veronika @ Wordy and Whimsical
This!! ? I’m a huge mood reader, as well, so any tbr I set for myself – be that for a read-a-thon, a monthly tbr, or anything like that – is one I always fail. It’s funny, because I can spend hours creating tbr lists – I even made a tbr jar… TWICE – and then never use it, so it’s all just wasted effort/time. ?
Meeghan reads
Oh, that’s so good!! (I mean, not good, but interesting…?) I’ve always wanted to make a TBR jar, but then I think I’d just keep pulling titles out until I got one I wanted… which kind of defeats the purpose?? ?
Veronika @ Wordy and Whimsical
That’s what I did ? I’d pull 10+ titles out, and even when I found one I wanted to read… I’d end up choosing something else later. ?
Meeghan reads
OMG… soul sisters!! ??
Ruqs
so many emotions haha!!! ???
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