Friday Reads | 30th August 2013

Well hello there, stranger! I know, I know, I'm being really bad at updating this wonderful blog, but never fear, I have remembered you!

No, seriously, why am I such a let down. My bout of books readathon updates have been left alone, and I shall hopefully address this in my 'August Wrap Up', but in the meantime, here's a 'Friday Reads' post. 

This Friday I will be reading: 

'THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR' by Lemony Snicket

Recently, when the bout of books page count was getting too much for me to handle, I decided to re-read 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', by Dan Handler's pseudonym, Lemony Snicket. 

This is the sixth book in the series, and I haven't actually read this one before. So far, it's as brilliant and as wonderful as ever. Book 6 carries on from the rest of the series, the never-ending cycle of Count Olaf trying to get his hands on the Baudelaires and their fortune. 

'The Ersatz Elevator' sees Violet, Klaus and Sunny stay with The Squalors, a very rich, very brilliantly satirical couple who are only now looking after the children because they're 'in' at the moment, meaning it's very favourable and stylish that you have orphans. 

The series kind of wilted with book 3/4 but now there's a more interesting story line developing and I can't wait to see where Violet, Klaus and Sunny end up. 

That's all for this week, hope you're having a wonderful 'Friday Reads' and I'll speak soon,

Robert :)

Bout of Books 8.0 | UPDATE

Hey guys!

So, I haven't been very good, have I? 
After my first and only update on this readathon I've been going out for entire days and only just managing to read, so the updates have definitely taken a back seat. 

I thought I'd make a MASSIVE wrap up post/video about the readathon that I've so easily failed at. I haven't taken part in any challenges/chats really and I'm annoyed at myself for getting so behind.

UPDATES:

I've finished Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.
I abandoned 'Misery'.
I started re-reading 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', starting with book 2. Now on book 4.
I'm also reading 'Uglies' by Scott Westerfeld. 

How did I get so far behind and rubbish at sticking to TBRs?! I'm only 75 pages behind my goal, which isn't that bad.

Final update will be coming Monday, hopefully.

Thanks for reading, bye!

Bout of Books 8.0 | Update One

Hey guys, this is my first update in the Bout of Books 8.0 readathon.

You can see the Bout of Books blog here, and my introduction and goals here.

I'm currently reading 'The Sea of Monsters' by Rick Riordan and it's brilliant! This is the second in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, a 'Children's' fantasy novel that is rooted in Greek mythology, in which the gods of Olympus have come down to earth and had children with mortals and thus creating 'Half-bloods' such as Percy.

Percy has such a unique voice through the way he words things. But he introduces everything to the reader once again, at first I thought it was just a part of Percy, now it's annoying, but I guess it is so that children who read it don't forget information and can follow the books easily. It makes me wonder if Riordan continues this throughout the series.

So, I'm 101 pages into 'The Sea of Monsters', as I finished the remaining 135 pages of 'The Maze Runner' by James Dashner. I posted a review of it here. It wasn't the best book in the world but it had its moments.

I read 236 pages yesterday so I'm on top of my goals, today I haven't read anything though and it's already 12.30pm. I better get making progress.

Hope the readathon is going well for everybody, leave your blog in a comment if you wish so we can spur each other on together. 

I'll post a shorter update tomorrow and will probably post a mid-week update on my channel. 
See you soon, 

Robert.