Bookish People I Love, Part Two

I made this post about four of my favourite bookish people the other week, and I mentioned that I'd be doing another part because I have a long list of favourites. And here we are, PART TWO! Let's go.

Firstly, the whole reason I needed a part two. The incredibly lovely and hilarious, VAL of The Innocent Smiley. (Not so sure about the 'innocent' thing). This girl, I tell you, this girl. She honestly makes me cry with laughter, like every single post—there's something that gets me. My favourite thing is the fact that our friendship is mostly like this...

Secondly, Kelly of Diva Booknerd. Kelly is the sassiest, most ridiculous blogger you'll ever follow. I've honestly had the weirdest Twitter conversations with Kelly that revolved around hairy mermaids (?) and stealing Alice in Wonderland bags from people. She's kind of that crazy, but really nice family member that makes you look slightly more sane to the rest of your family.

Speaking of really nice people...Chiara of Books for a Delicate Eternity/Chiara Sullivan is a gorgeous human being. Chiara's been there for me through some of the suckiest times of my life and she's a great listener and friend, but she's also a really awesome blogger and LGBTQ+ writer. You should definitely check out. (Also, winner of the most gorgeous blog designs, yes?)

Keeping with the writing them, there's the lovely Inge of Bookshelf Reflections. Inge and I have recently become critique buddies, and the ideas she has for her novels—just wow. Seriously, just read these posts she has about writing and be envious with me. Also, she also talks about anxiety and depression and I really, really like those posts because one) we don't see them on book blogs very often, two) they're incredibly real. Just, Inge, you guys.

Do you follow any of these awesome people? Or have you become obsessed with one (or more) of the four I mentioned last time?

The Make Me Read It Read-A-Thon: VOTING

Today’s post is all about my sort of TBR for the Make Me Read It Read-a-Thon. If you haven’t heard, this read-a-thon is being co-hosted by Val of The Innocent Smiley and I. We announced it a week ago, both here and on Val’s blog.

The premise is, you pick a couple of books you really want to read and post a list somewhere then people vote on which of those books you HAVE to read. You try and get through as many on your list during the week, starting with the book that received the most amount of votes. (If you have any ties, then you can pick which you read first). Remember to pick out a few more books that what you think you’ll get through.

Without further ado, let me show you the books I’ve picked out. If you want to learn more about any of these, I've created a Goodreads shelf for them all.

Which books should I read?

The Retribution of Mara Dyer

The Murder Complex

Siege and Storm

Days of Blood and Starlight

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Stolen Songbird

The Demon King

Perfect Ruin

Die For Me

Sweet Evil

Crave

The Gathering Storm

Poll Maker

Announcing 'The Make Me Read It Read-a-thon'

I tweeted the other day about how I wanted to host a read-a-thon and now...well, welcome to my announcement for a new read-a-thon of mine. So without further ado, let me reveal the dates/rules for THE MAKE ME READ IT READ-A-THON!

Firstly, I'm lucky enough to be hosting this read-a-thon with my absolutely amazing/lovely friend Val of The Innocent Smiley. There's the possibility of another read-a-thon (focusing on WWII) later in the year, but we don't know if anyone would be interested? (Please tell us you'd be interested)

It's a week long read-a-thon to make sure you can all get through as many books as possible! The week it's running from Monday the 20th of July at 8:00am to Monday the 27th of July at 11:59pm. Like most read-a-thons, this revolves around your timezone. We'll be using the hashtag, #MakeMeRead on all social media. Remember to follow both Val and I on Twitter for updates!

What's this read-a-thon about? Welllll, if you're a blogger, booktuber, booklr, bookstagram-er or whatever else, I'm sure you've been told that you HAVE to read 'that' book. That's the premise of this read-a-thon...

Need more details? Here you go.

Look at the books you own, either physical, e-book or ones you’ve borrowed from the library and pick out a few you really want to read, or feel like you should read. It’s up to you how many you pick, personally I’d pick a few more than you expect to be able to read in a week. Example: if you think you’ll only read two, pick out five books or if you think you can read seven, pick out ten. 

Make a list of these books on your blog, or make a video, or a Goodreads shelf or post a picture on Instagram—whatever is easiest for you. Then get friends, other bloggers/booktubers etc. to vote on which books you HAVE to read out of that list.

When the read-a-thon comes along, you read the books in the order of most votes. For example, if one book gets 10 votes—you read that first, then the one that got 7 and so on. The goal is to read as many as possible.

I hope some of you are able to join in. I think it'll be a lot of fun, and Val and I will organise some exciting things for everyone to do during the week. I'll be posting my selections/TBR in about week. Don't forget to sign up in the linky below! And remember to check out Val's post too!

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