destiny ♡’s Comments (group member since Feb 28, 2019)

destiny ♡’s comments from the Unexpected Readathon Time / Books Out of the Blue group.

Hi, everyone! It's time for our first readathon round of the year! 🥳

Thursday, January 25th to Wednesday, January 31st

Since this round is a week long, we have a few optional prompts:
❄️ start a new series
❄️ read something you meant to read in 2023
❄️ read something with a white, blue, or snowy cover

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both). Happy reading!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yHnXTareA9

I forgot to ever make my TBR post, but here's my readathon wrap-up! Happy New Year everyone!

🎇 day 1 →
✅ finished re-read of Hark! the Herald Angels Scream (200pg)

🎇 day 2 →
✅ read Marla (288pg)
✅ finished Craven Manor (122pg)
= 410pg

🎇 day 3 →
⌛ continued The Shadow of What Was Lost (38pg)

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🎇 TOTALS →
pages read: 648
books completed: 3

Hark! the Herald Angels Scream ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (re-read)
Marla ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Craven Manor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hello, friends! I can't believe it's already time for our last readathon of 2023! 🤯 This one goes from December 29th to 31st, so we're closing out the year together. 🥳 I can't wait!

We have ONE optional prompt this round:
🎇 read a book that you think you'll love!

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both)!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yHnXTareA9

I need to catch up on some group reads this week! I'd love to catch up on a bunch of my November TBR picks too, but I know I won't get to all of them.

🤗 possibilities →
• A Court of Mist and Fury (RE-READ; family & thankful)
• Nestlings
• Boys in the Valley
• Pet Sematary
• Nettle & Bone
• Intercepts
• Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror

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🤗 day 1 →
⌛ started A Court of Mist and Fury re-read (106pg)
⌛ started Boys in the Valley (238pg)

= 344pg

🤗 day 2 →
✅ finished Boys in the Valley (97pg)
✅ finished This is Where We Talk Things Out (93pg)

= 190pg, 2 books completed

🤗 day 3 →
⌛ ACOMAF re-read (75pg)
⌛ Nettle & Bone (60pg)

= 135pg

🤗 day 4 →
⌛ continued ACOMAF re-read (131pg)
⌛ started Intercepts (49pg)

= 180pg

🤗 day 5 →
⌛ continued ACOMAF re-read (44pg)

= 44pg

🤗 day 6 →
⌛ started Christmas and Other Horrors (31pg)

= 31pg

🤗 day 7 →
✅ finished ACOMAF re-read (270pg)

= 270pg

———

🤗 TOTALS →
pages read: 1,194
books completed: 3

Boys in the Valley ⭐⭐⭐⭐
This Is Where We Talk Things Out ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Court of Mist and Fury ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hello, friends! It's time for another readathon, and this one is a week-long round! 🥳 These are my favorites, hehe. This one goes from Friday, November 24th to Thursday, November 30th to give us a chance to finish up our November TBR lists before the big BINGO starts on December 1st!

NOTE: If you want to join the December Bingo event, you'll need to join the Discord server! (link below)

As always, we have some optional prompts...
🤗 read a book about family (found, adopted, blood-related, etc.)
🤗 read a book that makes you feel thankful (maybe a favorite author, a series you love, or just a trope you're grateful exists!)

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both)!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yHnXTareA9

Mr Pink Ink wrote: "Happy Birthday, @destiny!"

Cobwebby Eldritch SpookyReads Reindeer wrote: "Joyful Birthday, Destiny, and a Joyous Year🥳🧚‍♀️🍨🍰🎂"

Thank you both so much!!

Bexx wrote: "Happy early birthday! My birthday was last week and I went book shopping last weekend."

Thank you and happy belated birthday to you! 🥰

I'd love to complete most of my pre-readathon current reads (and maybe do some spooky novella mood reading)!

🎃 TBR →
• finish Rule of Wolves
• finish Drowning
• finish The September House
• finish Hollow
• finish Starling House

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🎃 day 1, 10/13 →
⌛ started The Last Haunt (10pg)
10 pages read, 0 books completed

🎃 day 2, 10/14 →
⌛ continued The September House (85pg)
✅ finished The Last Haunt (105pg)
⌛ continued
205 pages read, 1 book completed

🎃 day 3, 10/15 →
✅ finished The September House (106pg)

🎃 day 4, 10/16 →
⌛ started re-read of The Haunting of Hill House (38pg)

———

🎃 TOTALS →
pages read: 359
books completed: 2

The Last Haunt ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The September House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Cobwebby Eldritch SpookyReads Reindeer wrote: "Joyful Birthday-to-come! (My daughter's is October 11]

TBR:

10/13:

10/14:

10/15:

10/16:

Prompt:

October Spooky:

All Titles Read:"

Thank you, hbd to your daughter too! I hope they have a wonderful day!

Omg it's never let me put the discord invite link in the post before 😂 yay!

The server is super active all the time, not just during readathon rounds, so please feel free to join us!

Hello, lovelies! It's time for another readathon! This month's readathon is only supposed to be for the weekend, but between Friday the 13th and my birthday on the 16th, I just HAD to add on a little extra reading time for us. 😂

Halloween is right around the corner, so our bonus prompts are...
🎃 read something with orange or black on the cover
🎃 watch a spooky movie (and let us know what you watched!)

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both)!

DISCORD: https://discord.gg/GsUMnFp9Ff

Darque wrote: "destiny ♡ wrote: "I need to get a LOT of reading done this week because I have a bunch of group chats coming up! 😱 As usual, most of my TBR is spooky stuff. 👻 I'm sure I won't get to all of these, ..."

Alex wrote: "Joining late, but I happen to be reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, which qualifies for monstrous, and possibly spooky. :D I'm currently 53% in.

Can I get a Discord invite?"

Absolutely! DMing you both! :D

Darque wrote: "Cobwebby Eldritch Reading Reindeer wrote: "What do I ever read that isn't Spooky 😅?
TBR: The Stars in Their Eyes Hoopla Virtual
Blood of the MantisTBR PILE Challenge..."

Happy early birthday!!

Darque wrote: "Hi all, I'm Adrienne, aka DarqueDreamer. I am a 36 year old housewife, type 1 diabetic, fur mama, music addict, gamer, and lover of books. I used to run a book blog, Darque Dreamer Reads, from 2016..."

Welcome in!!! I'm so glad you were able to join us!

I need to get a LOT of reading done this week because I have a bunch of group chats coming up! 😱 As usual, most of my TBR is spooky stuff. 👻 I'm sure I won't get to all of these, but I'm hoping to make a really big dent.

🍂 goals (as many as possible) →
- finish Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
- finish Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
- finish Starling House
- finish Off Season
- finish Black Sheep
- finish Drowning
- How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
- Tangling With Trolls: A Sweet Small-Town Troll Romance
- The Ghost Tree
- The September House
- Masters of Death
- The Handyman Method
- Camp Damascus
- Night's Edge
- The Jasad Heir
- finish Small Spaces (re-read)
- Dead Voices
- Dark Waters
- Empty Smiles

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🍂 day 1 →
✅ finished Small Spaces re-read (63pg)
⌛ started Dead Voices (61pg)
⌛ continued Black Sheep (97pg)

221pg, 1 book completed

🍂 day 2 →
⌛ continued Dead Voices (50pg)

50pg, 0 books completed

🍂 day 3 →
⌛ started Tangling With Trolls (35pg)

35pg, 0 books completed

🍂 day 4 →
⌛ started Plastic Monsters (148pg)

148pg, 0 books completed

🍂 day 5 →
✅ finished Plastic Monsters (49pg)
⌛ continued Tangling With Trolls (185pg)

234pg, 1 book completed

🍂 day 6 →
✅ finished Tangling With Trolls (75pg)
⌛ started Kingdom of the Cursed (20pg)

95pg, 1 book completed

🍂 day 7 →
✅ read We Need to Do Something (188pg)
✅ read Asylum of Shadows (49pg)

237pg, 2 books completed

———

🍂 TOTALS →
pages read: 1,020
books completed: 5

Cobwebby Eldritch Reading Reindeer wrote: "What do I ever read that isn't Spooky 😅?"

I feel this 😂 happy early birthday to you and your grandbabies!!

Hello, friends! It's time for another readathon! This one goes from Monday, September 18th to Sunday, September 24th.

This readathon overlaps with the changing of the seasons, but as usual, I'll give the northern and southern hemispheres different seasonal prompts — pick the ones you like best!

🍂 read something with spooky or monstrous vibes (horror, thriller, mystery, or even paranormal romance!)

OR...

🌸 read something fluffy and fun!

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both)!

If you would like an invite to the Discord server, please message me here on Goodreads or comment below and I'll DM you an invite link!

I have some buddy reads I really need to finish, so that's my big goal for this weekend!

🏫 goals →
• read 10 chapters of Rule of Wolves
• finish Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
• finish Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
• finish Starling House
✅ finish Role Playing



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🏫 day 1 →
✅ finished Role Playing (137pg)
✅ finished The Midnight Meat Train (30pg)
TOTAL: 167 pages, 2 books

🏫 day 2 →
⌛ 58pg of Rule of Wolves
⌛ 85pg of Oh Fuck Oh Fuck It Hurts: A Collection of Medical Horror
TOTAL: 143 pages

🏫 day 3 →
✅ finished Oh Fuck Oh Fuck It Hurts: A Collection of Medical Horror (86pg)
⌛ 44pg of VenCo
TOTAL: 130 pages, 1 book

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🏫 TOTALS →
pages read: 440
books completed: 3

Cobwebby Eldritch Reading Reindeer wrote: "Yay! I was worried we'd miss out this month!
TBR:
08/25:
08/26:
08/27:

Titles Read:
Prompt Read:
Pages:"

hehehe no way! 🥳

Hi, lovelies! It's time for another readathon! This one goes from Friday, August 25th to Sunday, August 27th.

Since the school year is starting anew, our optional prompt is...
🏫 read a book about school or learning! (a book that takes place at a school, a book about learning a new hobby, a nonfiction book, etc.)

Post your TBR and progress updates whenever you're ready, here or in the Discord server (or both)!

If you would like an invite to the Discord server, please message me here on Goodreads or comment below and I'll DM you an invite link!