Friday, August 17, 2012

JLA Read-a-Thon Opening post


So excited to start this read-a-thon!!!  LOVE Jennifer and her books and can't wait to dig in.  Ready...set...GO!

In the comments or in your own blog post (please leave a link in the comment to it),  please give us your plan.  What books are you reading?  What days are you participating?  Are you coming to the Chat, the twitter party, doing challenges?  One of the prizes will be how well you rocked your plan - so plan well.

Here's my plan:  I actually have to work Friday and then I have some read-a-thon business to deal with so I may not read as much as I had hoped.  BUT I will re-read Onyx.  If I get that done, I will be happy.  Should I have more time, I'm gonna re-read Deity.

Challenges:  The first challenge will go live in 4 hours.  Challenge winners will pick prizes off the prize pile.  There will be two more post, Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Author Chat:  Jennifer will be doing a chat with us at 6PM EST here.  She will have a prize pile pick to giveaway.

Twitter party:  The twitter party will be Saturday at 10PM EST.  We will be using the hashtag #JLAReadathon. Jennifer will not be online for this but I will be there giving away some Daemon bookmarks to peeps that can answer my questions.

Random twitter stuff:  I've cancelled this part of the readathon to reduce my stress level - sorry guys.

Prize Pile:

(3) Signed copy of Elixir (US)
(3) Cursed t-shirt (US)
(3) Obsidian + Daemon bookmark(US/Canada)
(2) Onyx (INT)
(2) Choice JLA Book (INT)
Daemon Bookmark (INT)


If you haven't signed up but would like to participate, please feel free to join us!  Sign-up below.








43 comments:

  1. Oh hey I didn't even know you were planning this but now that I saw it I will join in! ;-) I have only just barely read Cursed to I need to read more. I have Obsidian and Shadows so I plan to read those. I have a ton of blog tour books I need to read but if reading goes well I do have Half-Blood and might read that too but I shouldn't push my luck. I have a lot of swimming to do also lol and reviews to write. I'll come to the chat and twitter party. I'll do the challenge as long as it doesn't require knowledge of the books since I'm barely reading them for the first time.

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  2. I plan on being apart of everyday, rereading Obsidian, Shadows and Half-Blood and if Onyx arrived then that as well! I'm hopefully going to be there for the chat but I'll definitely will be there for the twitter party! I can't wait for the challenges!! Awesome job Valerie!!!

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  3. Oki ^^ i will try to read a bit everyday but i'm not sure oh much time i will have but i will do my best.
    I planning on reading the second edition of obsidian and if i manage onyx ( and take some note for reviews if i can't write the complete review at that time)

    I will try to participate in teh challenge if i can and depending on what time it will be in my country i would like to participate in the chat

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    1. LOVE your plan!!! "i will do my best" Best plan ever!!!

      Valerie

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  4. Hey Val, here's my JLA Read-a-thon Plan!
    It's gonna be a fun weekend! =D
    Book Me!

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  5. Is to re-read Half-Blood and then to read Pure. My goal is to knock out Half-Blood today and tomorrow morning. Sunday might be a little tight so I am hoping to read most of Pure on Saturday.

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  6. Hi,

    I won't get as much chance to read this weekend as I'd hoped, but my plan is to re-read Obsidian and then read Onyx. If I have time I'll also read Shadows.

    I will be around for the twitter party if I can get the time difference worked out :)

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    1. YAY Kristy! So glad you'll be at the twitter party.

      Valerie

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  7. I am so excited - I'm one of those weirdos who haven't read any JLA yet. Not after today!!!

    Here's my JLA Read-a-Thon plan!

    Thanks for doing this, Valerie!

    Gin @ Addicted to Words

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  8. I am going to try to read all of Cursed during the read-athon, but I am reading two other books right now too, so I don't know if I will get all the way through it. I would love to re-read Onyx again, but that probably won't happen this time. :)

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  9. Sigh, I won't be able to read anything since I'm busy studying, but I will take some time out for the live chat, & the twitter party tmrw. I will def try to do at least 1 challenge too! :)

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    1. So glad you were at the chat and hope to see you tonight at the twitter party!

      Valerie

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  10. I plan to read Onyx and Deity, and will try to do at least one challenge. I suck at the play lists, so I'll have to try another one :)

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    1. The easy challenge is Sunday - just sayin'

      Valerie

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  11. A read-a-thon? Fun! Have a great time, Val!

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  12. Yeeey!! FInally it has started!! :) So excited :) :) You can find my opening post here:
    http://neabarabea.blogspot.com/2012/08/jla-read-thon-opening-post.html

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  13. I'll be reading Onyx and Shadows for the first time. I'm also trying to be at the author chat with Jennifer Armentrout (I might be eating dinner...) and be at the twitter party (I'm going somewhere tomorrow and I usually don't get back until 10:30). I'll also try to do at least one challenge!

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  14. I really want to participate but I am already doing bout of books. I didn't hear about this until just now. So I have already started reading my book for today. I haven't read any of Jennifer Armentrout's books. I do own Half-Blood and Obsidian but haven't gotten around to them yet. This challenge is just the thing to get them off the shelf. Shucks.

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    1. I'm sorry you didn't hear soon enough to join us. Another time.

      Valerie

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  15. Yay! I love read-a-thon's! This one will be fun. Unfortunately, I won't get to participate as much as I'd like because our school year has started & I'll be working today. Although, I did at least get to start my book this morning.
    I will be reading Onyx (I saved it just for this this!) and then Daimon (do the Novella's count?), Half-Blood and hopefully Pure. I haven't read JLA's Covenant Series, so I'm gonna try it out! I will be reading Aug. 17, 18 and 19 and participating in the challenges as much as I can. I won't be able to be on Twitter much, so I'll miss JLA =(. I was hoping to have my blog up & running by this time, but that didn't work out lol. I'm like Tech dumb lol! So I'll just report on here!
    I hope everyone has fun! I'm practically bursting at the seams to read Onxy!

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    1. Novella's so count! Hope you love Onyx! I did. I had to work yesterday too so I'm behind where I wanted to be but it's all good. Any JLA is good!

      Valerie

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    2. LOVED Onyx! I cannot wait for Opal now lol. Even though I fell a little behind schedule with work, I flew devoured Onyx. So I made up lost time quickly. Great book.

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  16. If someone need help to know the hour for the chat this site could help ( if i had an idea of which city i must focus on^^)
    http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

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  17. Woot Woot! I'm gonna do a jig. Love JLA. Here's my plan!
    http://oopiepoopiethebibliomaniac.blogspot.com/ my first read-a-thon...

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  18. Dang!!!! I wish I'd have known about this sooner!!!! This is what I get for freaking being a blogger hermit when life gets insane!!!!

    I have been DYING to read Half Blood & Obsidian FOREVER now!!! I'm going to sign up!!! :D

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  19. I just found out about the JLA twitter chat tonight & I was like "I HAVE to do this." I'm kind of already participating in Bout of Books, but hey, you can't read too much, right? So, I'll be participating in the Twitter chat tonight, I'd like to do the challenges for today and tomorrow, and I'm going to try and reread Obsidian. :D Sounds like fun!!

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    1. Welcome! So glad you are joining us and good luck with all that reading.

      Valerie

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  20. I'm planning to re-read Daimon, Half Blood, and Pure for this. I will also be at the chat and the twitter party. Hopefully I will have time to participate in the challenges, but not entirely sure about that. This is gonna be fun!! :D


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    1. How fun to read them straight through! Never done that. Enjoy.

      Valerie

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  21. Here's my plan :) http://hwasun-kang.blogspot.com/2012/08/jla-read-thon-kickoff.html

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  22. My plan in on my blog- Onxy Aiden ftw!

    http://readingcave.blogspot.com/

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  23. I plan on re-reading Shadows, Obsidian and Onyx :D

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    1. How fun! Reading them straight through like that would rock. Hope you enjoy.

      Valerie

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  24. I am going to be re-reading Shadows, Obsidian and Onyx. I missed out on the chat last night, had to work late. Boo. But I will be there for the Twitter party tonight! Have to work on the challenges too. Thanks for hosting this, it is so much fun!

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    1. So glad you are reading with us! I really like the idea of reading them straight through like you have planned. Enjoy.

      Valerie

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  25. I plan on re-reading Shadows, Obsidian and Onyx this weekend. (Again!) I couldn't make it the the chat last night (had to work late, Boo!) but I will be here for the Twitter party. Having fun working on the challenges too! Thanks for hosting the read-a-thon, it is so much fun!

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    1. Excited you will be at the twitter party! Really like what you chose to read. Enjoy.

      Valerie

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  26. Wow.. Never commented on this, haha duh. Okay! So I already did one of the challenges, I was there for the whole chat with Jen-> I'm proud of my zombie apocalypse and Aiden invasion questions. I was current during the twitter party->thank you very much for the bookmark! And I started to re-read Half-Blood and hopefully I will get through Pure today as well. I started to re-read them a little late because I was in the middle of another book and I have this OCD where I can't flip-flop between books, now JLA has my full attention. Thank you for hosting the #JLAReadathon!!

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