Showing posts with label #TheReadingQuest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #TheReadingQuest. Show all posts

Monday, September 18, 2017

#TheReadingQuest Wrap-up


Aentee at Read at Midnight created this quest, go check out her sign up page for all the details.

It's been an intense month of acquiring health and experience points, leveling up my character, and reading as much as I can. #TheReadingQuest gave me an opportunity to read several books that I've been meaning to read, but just didn't feel like it was the right time. Without further ado here are my character stats for the end of the challenge.

Stats: 
Character Class: Mage
Level: 3
Experience Points: 105 exp
Health Points: 204

Total pages read: 1,080
Total minutes listened to: 1,787 (≈29.75 hours)


Mage Quest:
A book with a one word title: Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith 
A book that contains magic: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 
A book based on mythology: The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín
A book set in a different world: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 
The First Book in a Series:

Side Quests
Mini-Game: read a graphic novel, novella or poem collection: Lumberjanes Vol. 3: A Terrible Idea by Noelle Stevenson
Open World: read whatever you want: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia 
Grind: A book with 500+ pages: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

While I did not complete my character quest, I did do quite a bit of reading this month. I completed 3 of the side challenges and 3 1/2 challenges of my character quest. I listened to 3 audiobooks and read 2.5 books and 1 graphic novel.

I'm currently a little over halfway through Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and I am absolutely loving the writing and the characters. Normally, I would have powered through and tried to finish the book at the last minute, but I really want to savor it so I gave myself half credit.

I had so much fun reading through these challenges. If #TheReadingQuest happens again, I definitely plan on participating!  If you participated in #TheReadingQuest, I'd love to know how you did; did you finish your character quest? Which books did you read? Happy reading all!

Friday, September 1, 2017

#TheReadingQuest Halfway Update



Aentee at Read at Midnight created this quest, go check out her sign up page for all the details.

So it's just over halfway through #TheReadingQuest and I've had a lot of fun reading the books I've picked out. And I'm doing pretty well if I do say so myself. I have finished 2 books, 1 graphic novel, and 1 audiobook. That's quite a lot for someone who reads slowly!

Lauren at Wonderless Reviews created an amazing spreadsheet to help calculate the experience and health points, which is wonderful because I didn't want to compute the numbers. (cuz I'm lazy. >.<) And now I don't have to. Thanks!

Stats: 
Character Class: Mage
Level: 2
Experience Points: 85 exp
Health Points: 144

Total pages read: 937
Total minutes listened to: 913 (≈15.25 hours)

I've shifted a couple books around to better fit my Mage quest challenges. I just started Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and I'm just over halfway through The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín.  When I finish both of those, I will have completed the Mage quest!

Currently Reading:
A book based on mythology: The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín
A book set in a different world: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 

FINISHED BOOKS
Mage Quest:
A book with a one word title: Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith 
A book that contains magic: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab 
The first book in a series: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

I've also completed some of the side quests. Who knows how many more of them I will get to as I am going to focus on finishing my character quest.

Side Quests
Mini-Game: read a graphic novel, novella or poem collection: Lumberjanes Vol. 3: A Terrible Idea by Noelle Stevenson
Open World: read whatever you want: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia 

Overall, I'm doing fairly well with this challenge. I'm getting to some books that I've been putting off and enjoying new finds as well. If I finish my Mage quest I might just have some time to move onto either the Knight or the Bard quests and of course some more side quests.

If you are participating in #TheReadingQuest, I'd love to know which books you've been reading and which character quest you have chosen. Happy reading all!