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Myself and Madeline, from Mad Novels (who's Youtube channel can be found here) are hosting our very own readathon! It takes place from midnight in your own time of 14th September, running right through to the 20th September. Exciting stuff hmm?
So, what is the focus of our readathon, I hear you all pretending to ask?
Well, we are focusing this readathon around fairytale retellings! So that means books such as The Lunar Chronicle, ACOTAR etc. We will be doing challenges (which we are releasing at a later date ;) ), and using the '#' #fairytaleathon across the social media platforms we use, including Twitter and Instagram, in order to promote our readathon idea in the hopes that people would like to join in!
Why are you doing a readathon? And why a fairytale retelling focus?
Basically, Madeline contacted me via YouTube (apparently thats a a thing!), and asked if I had a certain series of books, as she was interested in doing a readathon. Sadly, I lacked those books in my possession, so we settled for a different option in fairytale retellings, as we both have those on our TBRs!
Personally, I like that it's a fairytale retelling focused readathon, as it allows for the more unfamiliar books on our TBRs to be recognised, not just the popular ones I've mentioned before. We are able to discuss a generic theme of a book, but give eachother different options and ideas of where to head next within the theme, as it's such a diverse one.
If anyone has any questions regarding the readathon, or would like to participate, let me know in the comments down below! I was going to post a video for this, but my camera currently hates me! :(
See you all soon with hopefully another blog post, if not a video!
Rebecca x
Links:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/craftsandreads
Instagram: www.instagram.com/craftsandreads
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gNsTH21OANbS8mgoYfc4A
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Hmmm ... I don't think I own any fairytale retellings, but I'd totally be willing to search my local library for some in time for the readathon! Could you give me an idea of what sort of titles we'd be looking at? I mean, I know The Lunar Chronicles exists, but I'm not a massive fan of YA. So yeah, if you could throw some ideas my way, it'd help me out a lot xx
ReplyDeleteHello! I think my reply must have been e-mailed to you....awkward! I know of an author, Matthew Eldridge, who writes Fairytale retellings, his novel Whiter Than Snow was pretty good! I also know of freebies on Amazon and things, and that is where I've found one or two of mine, I've actually not long ago downloaded Snow White and the Eighth Dwarf xx
DeleteNo, I didn't get an email :( Thanks for the recommendations - I'll check 'em out! x
DeleteI'LL BE THERE!!!! You should do a pre-video saying where you can find some free ones on kindles and stuff maybe? xx
ReplyDeleteA pre-readathon video would be a very good idea :)
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