You might remember that I’ve been participating in the Pondathon, a collaborative readathon hosted by CW @ The Quiet Pond. If you don’t follow them, YOU SHOULD. There are different characters that inhabit the pond, and each of them features different sorts of things!

Anyway, one of the features of this readalong is that there are side quests you can complete. In each quest you help the different members of The Quiet Pond with various tasks. For the most recent side quest, to get a bonus reward item we were asked to make a post about a book that helped us through a hard time. I talked about an important book to me on my Twitter, but there are so many that are dear to my heart. So I thought I’d make a blog post about it as well!

What is the Pondathon?

The Pondathon is a co-operative and story-driven readathon hosted and run by CW from The Quiet Pond. The aim of the Pondathon is to read books and collect points to protect the friends over at The Quiet Pond from the encroaching malevolent forces that threaten our friends in the forest.

Have fun participating in the Pondathon readathon by joining one of five teams, each with a unique way to collect points and signing up! You can also follow the story of the Pondathon as it unfolds, and participants can also complete ‘side quests’ during the readathon to collect extra points. The readathon takes place from January 24th 2020 to March 7th 2020. More information about the readathon can be found here.

Alright everyone – raise your hand if you know that Tamora Pierce is my favorite author. Everyone got their hands up? Okay good. In my early years of bookstagram, and waayyyy before I started blogging, I didn’t know anyone else who was as big of a fan as I am (well minus my mom who introduced me to Tamora Pierce). But luckily I’ve now found my people in Sakina and Gretal! We want to spread our love of her books and hopefully induct new people into our fanclub 😂. So we’re hosting a readalong of her books! This post will have all the info about it, I really hope you join us!

I mean, just look at all these badass ladies you get to read about if you join us!!! 😍

Hello everyone! I found this tag while reading other people’s lovely blogs (specifically, Drizzle & Hurricane Books) and it looked really fun so I decided to give it a go. I’m talking about books I love, authors I love, my reading habits, and etc! I hope you enjoy!

A – Author you’ve read the most books from

Tamora Pierce! I think I’ve read 32, and I’m pretty sure I’ve read every one of her books.

B – Best sequel ever

Golden Son remains one of my favorite sequels! But another favorite of mine is Lirael, the sequel to Sabriel.

I remember a few years ago, everyone was into the whole Six Degrees of Separation thing. It’s basically the idea that everyone is connected to any other person by six connections or fewer. I haven’t heard people talk about it in a while but I recently found the book version of it! Emma Chapman and Annabel Smith created #6DEGREES, where book bloggers share links between books in six moves. Here are the rules if you want to join in! Basically they choose a starting book and then you make your own chain however you want.

Today’s starting point is……How to be both by Ali Smith! (You’ll have to read all the way to the end to see where I end up 😉)