Monday 29 September 2014

Chills and Thrills Readathon! #ReadingCram


I just saw a tweet from Dana at Dana Square, in which she mentioned a Readathon! The theme is Halloween so OBVIOUSLY i had to participate!! I'm so excited to do this!

It's being hosted by the awesome bloggers at A Perfection Called BooksLittle Red Reader, Dana Square and Juliababyjen's Reading Room.

Details:

It starts October 24th and runs until Halloween October 31st.
You have to read spooky themes books:
Paranormal
Witches
Zombies
Vampires
Werewolves
Thriller
Mystery

If you want to sign up simply click RIGHT HERE and you'll be portkeyed to Dana's post!

Here's the challenge board schedule thing!

Oct 24-- TBR challenge--participants list what books they are planning to read for the readathon, on their blog, YouTube, etc

Oct 25--Teaser Challenge--randomly open the book they are reading and post 2 sentences from the read ADDING 3 spooky/Halloween words of their choosing into the teaser! Post on Twitter, blogs, YouTube, etc. Hosted by Andrew@ EndlesslyReading

Oct 26--A recreation of a book title and/or book cover (recreating in whatever way, drawing, acting, a photo, painting, etc). Like Fangirl is fanggirl. The night circus as the fright circus.
 
Oct 27--Song Challenge--pick any of their creepy reads and pick a song that best describes that book (or feel of the book) OR make a playlist for the book! Post on any social network.They can even do a Spotify playlist and embed in their blog post! Hosted by Book Escape Reviews

Oct 28--Spell it out Challenge--they can pick one of the following words: Ghost, Witch, Zombie, Howl--using each letter, find a title of a book they've read this year to "spell it out." FOR EXAMPLE
G Graceling by Kristin Cashore
H Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
O Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
S Sanctum by Sarah Fine
T Timebound by Rysa Walker

Q,X,and Z the letters can be anywhere in the title. Post on social media somewhere. Hosted by Rachel @ A PERFECTION CALLED BOOKS

Oct 29. Scary Make Up Challenge--Make themselves up to look scary and share a pic! They can base if off of a character, or just go crazy! Doesn't have to be gory necessarily, whatever constitues "scary" to them! Hosted by LITTLE RED READER

Oct 30 Twitter Synopsis Challenge--Make up their own synopsis for a scary BOOK (made up story) using 166 characters or less. Post on any social media Hosted by KellysBookSpill

Oct 31 Wrap Up challenge with Costume challenge (optional) Do a readathon wrap up on their blog, YouTube, whatever of what they read, etc, and also post a pic or dress up in your Halloween costume! That part is optional, only if they want to! Hosted by DANASQUARE

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