*This post originally appeared on The Christian Sugar Addict*
This is it folks, the end of the Summer Lovin' Read-a-thon. I am quite sad to see it go. A full week inundated in book blogging and reading with a purpose. I am really happy with my progress. I have read some of the "Graduation Day" posts that were linked up already and O.M.G. Some of you people read 8, 10, 18 books!! Uff-da! Even if I didn't have a baby I think 18 would overwhelm me.
Here, again, were my goals:
1. Read and complete Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
2. Read and complete an ebook
3. Participate in the daily blog link ups
4. Follow at least 2 new book bloggers
I read and completed 2 ebooks on my Kindle, both of which will be reviewed over at Sunrise Avenue soon. I managed to take part in the daily participation posts, and even several of the challenge posts! I wasn't sure I would have time to get them all done, but luckily I worked ahead and had some of the posts written/started last week when the schedule went up. And I think I added 4 new bloggers to my Feedly and another handful on Twitter. I love seeing all the book related tweets on my feed!!
Well the semi-bad news: I still have 84 pages left of Folly Beach. :(( I put off writing this post until later this evening to see if I could finish it, but I spent a lot of the morning at church and then with family and this afternoon catching up at the gym (finally). Maybe I will still finish it off tonight since I foresee Baby Girl having an early bedtime.
Overall, this was probably the best read-a-thon to make my first read-a-thon. It had a lot of active participants, amazingly fantastic giveaways, a 24 hours Twitter Party (!!), creative challenges, and fun daily link ups. Read-a-thon Central will have another party in the winter, and I can't wait!! Until then, Christian Sugar Addict will go back to regular programming and the new blog, Sunrise Avenue, will be jumping in head first into the amazingly, awesome world of books!
Thanks for stopping in friends and have a fantastic Sunday evening!!
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Welcome to the word of book blogging--it is an amazingly diverse world. :) I am so glad you made Summer Lovin' your first read-a-thon! I feel very proud and honor to be apart of your experience!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing 2 books--that is amazing and it is an accomplishment! We all read at different paces and different types of books require more reading time. PLUS, you are a new mom too!!
I do hope you join us for our next read-a-thon, Winter Wishes in January. Happy Reading!