It’s been a long time (+1 year), my blog, but for 2020, I want to give you a little more love. Starting with Pondathon!
This is a story-driven read-a-thon created by The Quiet Pond, that will be running from 1/24/2020 to 3/7/2020. There’s a schedule of events/ side quests/ challenges that will be happening during the readathon to be revealed (presumably) as we move through the weeks. Right now, they’re in the character-designing, team-joining phase. There are five teams to join:
Team Xiaolong – Gain points for your team based on the length of the books/audiobooks you read each day, with bonus points each time you finish a book
Team Varian – Gain points for your team by reading books in different genres, with bonus points for chain three books from three different genres
Team Gen – Gain points for your team by reading books published before December 31st, 2018, with bonus points for reading books with fewer than 3,000 ratings on Goodreads
Team Sprout – Gain points for your team by featuring the diverse books you read on your blog/bookstagram/bookstube/etc., with bonus points for also recommending four more diverse books to your followers
Team Cuddle – Gain points for buddy reading your books, with bonus points for budding reading with people from Team Cuddle
Since I have a massive backlist of books and am trying to read down books I already own this year, I joined Team Gen. My character: a book-loving turtle. Hopefully that won’t jinx me into reading very slowly. I did a count of my owned books, and at least 82 were written before 12/21/2018 (I stopped counting with many more books left, since 82 was already more than I’d ever read in 6 weeks). Let’s see how many I can read before March 7th!
Adventures in Writing 