#crushyourtbr read-a-thon

A read-a-thon is a set amount of time when you read as much as you can. It can be 24 hours, three days, a week, or maybe something else. There can be contests and challenges during the read-a-thon as well. There are many during the year, and this one for example happens monthly. (If you want to know more, you can just write read-a-thon on Youtube, there will be a lot of videos explaining it a little better than I just did.)

And the one I'm going to talk about today is #crushyourtbr read-a-thon. It is hosted on twitter by two people, and lasts three days. The idea is to read the books in your tbr, I think it could be about the set tbr for the month, or all the books you own but haven't read. For me, it's the latter, since I don't do 'to be reads' monthly. This read-a-thon is going right now, it started at midnight on Friday and it ends at midnight between Sunday and Monday. Three days of reading.

I have never participated in a read-a-thon before, so I thought this would be a nice one to start with. The week-long ones scare me a little, to be honest, and right now I'm kind of in the middle of studying so trying to read a lot during the week wouldn't be very smart. So I'm just doing this one. :)

I just wanted to share my tbr for this read-a-thon, so here we go. First, I'd like to finish George Orwell's 1984, I have about a third of the book left. Then, during the weekend, I'd like to read as much as possible of Steve Alten's Resurrection, which I picked from my tbr-jar this month. And third, if I feel like reading something else, I'll pick up a Jane Austen book, either Mansfield Park or Northanger Abbey.

I'll be back in the beginning of next week to let you know how it went, now I have to start reading.