Bookswapathon TBR || Little Free Library Adventure
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- I'm so excited for the BookSwapAThon next week! Here are the books I'll be reading! I'd love for you to join in the fun!
Readathon dates - 19th-25th August 2018
Bookswapathon twitter: / bookswapathon
The challenges:
1. BUDDY SWAP - Swap a book with a buddy
2. UNHAUL SWAP - Swap a book with a library/thrift store
3.TBR SWAP - Swap how you usually choose books for your tbr
4. GENRE SWAP - Swap your usual (go-to) genre for something a bit out of your comfort zone.
5. SETTING SWAP - Swap setting - Either read in a different location OR read ABOUT a different location - or BOTH!
6. COVER SWAP - Read a book with the letters S-W-A-P on the cover - can be anywhere...title, author, blurb.
The hosts this year are:
- Derby @ Derby_Lane Reading bit.ly/2uhPY2o
- Krista @ BooksAndJams bit.ly/2J4Vc77
- Kerryn @ RatherBeReading bit.ly/2u4FCUg
- Rachael @ Rachel Rae bit.ly/2MZg8yK
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I'd love for you to join in my Goodreads book club group (BooksandJams Readalong) if you haven't already. Here's the link to the group -
/ books-and-jams-readalong
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Let's be friends!
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Twitter: @booksandjams
Email: booksandjams@gmail.com
It's always fun seeing how different each little library is. They're so cute!
I know! There's so many in the Richmond area. I still have tons I want to explore. I just wasn't impressed with the ones I found. I do love how they're all so different though.
One of your little library finds Hillbilly ellegy is a good non fiction read. Every note played will make you cry...great book!
I've heard a few people say Hillbilly Elegy is good. I will give it a try one of these days. I don't read too much non-fiction.
I read Every Note Played earlier this year. Fabulous. All of LIsa Genova's books are incredible. I also read Inside the O'Briens last year. All her books deal with an illness or disease - so interesting and well written. Ms Genova is herself a neuroscientist, so she KNOWS what she writes about.
I love that she's a neuroscientist! I can't wait to read Every Note Played. I've also heard it's a real tear jerker. I can't wait!
I love Lisa Genova but both of those books are so sad! I love that you found some LFL’s!! SO fun!! ❤️
I don't mind a sad book. I love a book that can make me cry. (It's not too hard, I cry all the time!) haha. I am glad I found some LFLs too, but wish they had better choices! I have more to check out. I only went on the West side of town. Some other day I'll check out a chunk more! There are tons!
Sorry the little libraries didn't work out so well! Hope the readathon is fun though!
It was such a bummer to go to so many and be disappointed over and over! haha. Oh well. I still have tons more to check out on the other side of town...someday!
Loved seeing all the little free libraries :) It's encouraged me to hunt down some street libraries in Australia - such a great idea for the community.
I love the term Street Libraries! I hope you find some!
One of these days I'm going to do the Book Swapathon, I promise!! The timing just isn't right for me this time either. I'm trying to finish up some big projects and we're right in the middle of adding onto our house!
I love that this readathon has encouraged people to explore their Little Free Libraries. Sorry that your day was disappointing though. It's definitely hit and miss, but such a great program. I've been the steward for our downtown LFL for about four years. I am also planning to put one at our house too, but can't seem to make the time to get it done. You have sooo many in your area! I don't think we have that many in our whole county! LOL!
It's hard to pick a date for the readathon because there are just so many to choose from in the summer. We were a little late nailing things down this year so we didn't get it on the lists and on people's radar early enough for much planning. I had so much fun exploring LFLs around me. There are tons more too! I guess it's one of the perks of living in a bigger city. Bummer they didn't have more things I wanted though!
"I'm a box shaker"...that made me laugh so hard! I do the same thing Krista. hahaha . Great TBR xoxo
Lol. I was going to edit that out, but it made me laugh too. Haha. Silly.
I wish my area had more little libraries! My grandma just read Hillbilly Elegy and loved it! I put it on hold at the library on her recommendation 😄
Haha. Go Grandma! I love that she's recommending books to you! That's so special! My only living grandparent doesn't read anything except the newspaper.
This was such an adventure I am watching the video a second time ;-)
I am just finished a book for the readathon and so happy you guys gave me a reason to read a lot this week
That's awesome! haha. I bet you have some LFL's in NYC too! Hope your reading is going well so far this week!
Yay for Hillbilly Elegy! This was so fun to watch, glad you didn't give up on the first few!
They were pretty disappointing, but I'm glad I did end up with just a couple. I've heard Hillbilly Elegy is interesting.
BooksAndJams haven’t read it yet but my boss thought it was a valuable read.
I'm joining in, Krista! Already got my book swap-what a surprise I got two!! So excited about both of them but I'm going to read Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. For the genre outside my comfort zone, Scfi Fahrenheit 45. Flip a coin for my TBR and it will be Glass Castle. My unhaul haven't done yet. So excited and hope I can read most of these.
Fun that you got two books! We are such a generous community! Hope you like Fahrenheit 451 better than I did. I enjoyed the story, but hated Bradbury's writing style. Happy reading!
I'm participating! Already started and plan to complete all 6 challenges with 4 books :)
Woo hoo! Good luck with your reading this week! I hope you're able to hop on some of the twitter sprints!
I am planning on participating! I got my book from my swap buddy in the mail and just need to finalize my tbr and I will be good to go!
Yay! Glad you'll be participating! Hope you enjoy all the books you pick up this week!
I wish we had Little Free Libraries here, they're so adorable! ETA: I Googled it and apparently this is a big thing and there's ONE IN MY TOWN! I know where I'm going for a walk this week!
Awesome! I hope you have better luck than I did at these ones! You'll have to keep me posted!
We have very few Little Free Libraries in Adelaide but I’ve never found anything worth picking up in the ones I’ve been to either 🙃
Good luck with your TBR!
I’m so excited the readathon is here!
It was so disappointing to visit so many and have such stinky luck! Big bummer. I still have quite a few in my city on the other side of town. Some Saturday I'll check those ones out and hopefully have better luck.
BooksAndJams I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you!
Great TBR Krista! Xx
Thanks! I am looking forward to these reads...especially Every Note Played. Swap buddy knocked it out of the park!
Lisa Genova books are powerful. Each deals with a different neurological disease and usually taken from the sufferer's viewpoint. She is a neuroscientist so is extremely knowledgeable in the field and she writes a great story. It's hard to put them down. Inside the O'Brien's is also an excellent story but be forewarned the language is atrocious in that one if you are sensitive to that. Too bad about the no luck in the Little Libraries.
I read Love Anthony by Lisa Genova and it was pretty emotional. I am definitely looking forward to reading another by her.
Oooh, I haven’t heard of those books but Every Note Played sounds so good.
Also I must search and see if there are any little free libraries near me. If it wasn’t for Booktube I would never know they existed.
I'm reading Every Note right now and so far I really don't like the main characters, but am sure it will get better. At least I'm hopeful! I love that Lisa Genova is a neuroscientist and writes about brain diseases in her books, but in a way that's so relatable. I hope you find some LFLs near you! I meant to put the website in the description so people can check. I'll go do that now...
I don't think we have the concept of Little Free Libraries in Lancashire! It might be an idea to read .'Wolf Hall' before 'Bring Up the Bodies' and, although they may not be for you right now, they are worth reading as Hilary Mantel has changed the face of historical fiction with them. There is also a very good BBC production-starring Mark Rylance and Claire Foy- which combines both books and is top notch. I think it-or at least parts of it-is still available to see on the internet. It created a massive stir in the UK!
I ended up not keeping Bring Up the Bodies anyways. I am interested in Wolf Hall someday...someday.
I loved Faithful so much! That one can definitely be read in an afternoon so it’s a good readathon choice. I’m going to go vote for it 😁
Faithful won! I will hopefully be reading that later this week.
Hi Krista!! Right now I'm reading Dancing at the Harvest Moon. I plan to participate. Not sure how much reading time I'll have because I'm in school, but I'm gonna try. Gotta figure out my TBR. I know it starts tomorrow, but I probably won't get my to film my TBR until then.
No worries! Glad you'll be able to participate even a little bit! Don't stress yourself out! :) Happy reading!
BooksAndJams May not do a TBR video or all of the challenges!!
I loved Inside the O Briens! Hope you do too!
Sweet! that's good to hear! I have liked the 2 Genova books I've read so far, so I'm sure I'll like that one too.
Faithful is really good! I hope that is there one chosen. Did you get Hillbilly Elegy. That one is pretty good also at least 2/3 of it I really enjoyed and I think the last third could have better. I hope you vlog. I've really enjoyed your previous vlogs.
Faithful is the book that was chosen! woohoo! I was kind of hoping for that too. I am excited to read it. I did keep Hillbilly Elegy and have heard a few people talk about liking it. I don't read much nonfiction but will get to it...someday!
Reading Tailspin by Sandra Brown like it so far.
Sweet! I have never read a Sandra Brown book. Glad you're enjoying it!
I am glad that you didn't pick up a Husband's Secret. I don't think you would like it. If I remember right it had some infidelity in it.
Hillbilly Elegy has been on my TBR for a long, long time. I hope you read it soon and give us a report on it. Maybe for non-fiction November???? My favorite place to read is outside at night with a book light around my neck.We have a Little Free Library near our house, It isn't very good either. Have fun with your readathon.
I didn't take it because I think I already own it. I may have read it a few years ago, but I don't remember it at all. I do like Liene Moriarty though. I would love to read outside at night because it would be so much cooler, but I'm a bug magnet. Those dang mosquitoes attack my ankles like crazy!
Fortunately, we do not have a lot of mosquitos but I do light some citronellas.
Much Ado About Nothing is fun, enjoy! :-) Have you seen the Joss Whedon version? I read quite a few Shakespeare comedies (including MAAN) when I arrived early at my Jewelry and Metal Smithing class in college. Sorry you had such bad luck with your little libraries, they sound like so much fun! There's only one remotely close to me as far as I know (just looked it up).
My Dad and sister both like Sourdough, btw and said it was similar in tone to Bellwether by Connie Willis, which I loved. I haven't read it yet, but I will eventually! I liked his other book fairly well.
I listened to Much Ado on my long drive on Sunday. It had a full cast and was so much fun! I'm not sure which version of adaptations I saw. After reading it I'm very interested in watching it again. I've heard mixed things about Sourdough, but it didn't get chosen for this week. I still plan on reading it before the end of the year. Hopefully I like it!
The Whedon movie of MAAN is in black and white set in modern era but with the same script, and nicely done if you're in the mood for something like that. :-) I'm on book two of Farseer-- Royal Assassin-- now (about a little over halfway through). Gotta say the mind meld during /all aspects of life unless blocked/ is a bit creepy. 0.o I also can't see this going anywhere good at the moment and I'm kind of dreading the ending.
Much ado is one of my favorite Shakespeare's! I really hope you enjoy it :)
I listened to it on audio and loved it! I want to go rewatch the movie now!
BooksAndJams awesome! There's a retelling that just came out called Nothing Happened, I haven't read it yet but I'm looking forward to it :)
So excited to start on Sunday. Probably won't get much reading done until Monday. Because Sunday is Church and grocery shopping day. Monday nothing is going on. Wednesday is my B.Day, so since my husband won't be home that day, we're going to celebrate it Tuesday. Than Wednesday thur Saturday, nothing is going on. Because hubby leaves Wednesday and won't get home until Sunday. So I should be able to get a lot of reading done on those days.
Woohoo! I didn't get too much read yesterday because I was driving from NY to VA, but I finished 2 audiobooks, which fulfilled 4 challenges! haha. That's way more than I expected for the first day. Happy early birthday! Hope you have a fabulous week!
@@BooksAndJams we're going to go out today at celebrate my Birthday. Because tomorrow my husband is going to go to my family's house and fix the garage for my brother. I say family house because my mom lives with one of my sisters (I have 6 sisters and of course me) and than my brother. My brother, and 2 of my sisters, plus 2 of my nieces and 1 of my niece and one of my nephew all live in that house. So that place is nuts, plus I forget how many animals they have. I believe 3 or 4 dogs, and 2 cats. My niece Nevaeh loves animals and I believe she found the 2 cats at different times and just brought them home. Families are crazy sometimes aren't they? But you have to love them!!!!!
@@BooksAndJams Also I finished like I mentioned on Twitter and Instagram that I finished my manga yesterday and I am about half way through all the birds in the sky. Which I am not sure how I am feeling about this book. Its interesting but a little strange and confusing to me. But I am intique, so I am still wanting to read it. I am also participating in the newts readathon which I am doing really bad at. And I am currently reading Vicious and I am on pg 80 or 90 in that one. Very interesting book, I really don't read books with the villains point of view, so this is definitely really interesting and very insightful.
Nice try finding a novel that would work for you ... you were definitely determined. **hahaa**
Oh boy. It was getting a bit frustrating that I couldn't find anything that sparked my interest! But it was a fun adventure!
I'm participating! Already started listening to Red Badge of Courage which meets the challenge of reading a genre you don't normally...not really loving it...haha
Journey of Becoming :)
Yay! I don't remember loving Red Badge of Courage. I think my librarian read it to us when I was in elementary school. I remember being bored by it. haha. Hope it gets better for you!
Why why WHY do I never know about readathons until they're starting - I'm so useless!
Ha. I never pay attention to which readathons are coming up either. There are just so many now! When I first started a couple years ago there were only a handful. Now the sky's the limit. There's a readathon almost every week! haha.
I'm planning on participating...my mom and I are going to swap books, I need to find one for her, she's going to give me Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie, kind of excited to read it, as it's going to count towards my genre swap challenge, as I don't usually read a lot of these kinds of mysteries. I need to go swap some books and get one for that challenge, maybe like you, go to a little free library or go swap some at a used bookstore?? As for different setting, I'm going to try to go someplace different, we'll have to see...and the challenge with the word swap, I need to figure that one out too!! Hopefully I'll get it all together soon!!!
I really want to read Murder on the Orient! I am glad I'm not the only one who hasn't read it yet! haha. Happy reading this week!
Wonderful video just a thought I would donate all my books to little free library because the good ones are the ones thrift store took the other ones are the crappy ones that little Free Library people probably will not want as well just saying
I hear ya.
Don't read Sourdough .... waste of time.
Uh oh! Bummer you didn't like it! I have heard others say it was pretty good. I do plan on giving it a go before the end of the year, but will lower my expectations.