Grinchathon

I know that I have not been keeping up with this blog, but my first semester of college was crazy. I honestly was surprised at what I was able to get done relating to reading and writing, particularly when concerning Nanowrimo. Anyway, now that I'm back home for winter break, I'm trying to catch up on this blog to post once a week, or hopefully at least once every other week once the spring semester starts.

This is my TBR for the Grinchathon readathon over on twitter at @Grinchathon ran by @punkrockgirlpa. I'm sure that I'll be posting some more readathon tbr's over the next few weeks because I am trying to read as much as possible before I have to go back to school.

Grinchathon is relating to being a Grinch around the holiday season, and while I don't think this defines me, I really feel like I missed out on most of my holiday traditions since I was off at school. There are seven challenges for the weeklong readathon so in a week hopefully I'll be posting that I've finished all of them at the conclusion of the readathon event.

The first challenge is "cheap" and for this challenge, I chose to read All Fall Down by Ally Carter, the first book in the Embassy Row series. While I have not read any other books by Ally Carter, I really enjoyed the Gallagher Girl series, both when I read it in late elementary school and when I just reread the series over the past few weeks. I bought this book at a used bookstore, so it definitely was cheap in price and thus fulfills the prompt.

For the "black and green" challenge, I chose to read Ex-Mas by Kate Brian. I found this book at the local library (which I went to the day that I went home) and the cover is almost completely green. Green is the color of the Grinch after all.  I'm excited for this book because hopefully it's a cute little YA romance story, which definitely something that I want. Like I said, I would not classify myself as a Grinch so that is why I am interested in a book like this and hope that it is good.

For the next prompt, "easy", I chose to read Aces Up by Lauren Barnholdt. This is another YA romance novel, this one I own. The last Barnholdt book I read was pretty good, but I do hope that this one is better because the last one had some biphobic comments made by the MC that were never corrected. Other than that, I enjoyed the book and hope that this book avoids those ideas. Other than that, I really enjoy YA romance and can also read and finish them quickly so I do hope that I can get through this in a hurry to be able to get all of this stuff done.

The next challenge was "dark" and I am choosing to read A Lie for A Lie by Robin Merrow MacCready. I have no idea if this novel will end up being that dark, but it is a mystery and I hope that it will end up being on the darker side. While I do enjoy lighter reads, I really hope that this book in particular is a little deeper and a darker read. I think that I bought this book during the summer at the book warehouse, but I am not quite sure about the details.

My "diverse" book to fill that prompt is Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton. This is a reread for me because I bought this book a while ago and read it and really enjoyed it, but I do not feel like I remember the details well enough to read and fully understand the next two books in the trilogy. It was a great read the first time around, and I hope to enjoy it just as much on the reread, and also to hopefully get some more value out of the book to love the read even more.

For the "warm" book, I plan to read Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George. I have also read this book before, but it's so sweet and really good that I want to read all three of the related books while I am home for break, as the library has all of them and I have already checked all three of them out. These books are so sweet and warm my heart. I read them the first time when my family was displaced so while the time does not have particularly good memories for me, these books were still amazing.

The "cover" prompt was harder to figure out a good book for, but I ended up going with Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. I have heard a lot of hype for this book, so I am very excited to read this, but the cover is really cool looking. I found this at a used bookstore and was so excited that I would finally get a chance to read this. I really hope that it will live up to all of the expectations that I have heard, particularly on twitter. I am still really excited to read this and hope that it is a fantastic read. The cover is really neat as well, which makes it able to fill this challenge.

All in all, I hope that this readathon goes really good. I actually have a Christmas at my grandparents on Saturday and a few other things going on this week. I am posting this a little late, mostly because I forgot the start dates, but I can't wait to be able to get all of this stuff done. Are you participating in Grinchathon or another readathon over the holidays? What books are you looking forward to reading?