Evening Westerosi and fellows sims! Welcome to Round 1 of Games of Books-athon and Sims-a-thon, because yes, you have probably guessed it, I am doing another readathon double header in June. There are so many challenges for the latter one that I have focused my TBR on the Game of books-a-thon prompts in the knowledge that they will probably fit one or more of the challenges in Sims-a-thon.
Thankfully, both are running from June 1st-June 30th, and the challenges overlap, or work for both so I have managed to get books to completely cross over! I have decided to do a combined thread on Twitter which is where I will post updates throughout the readathon.
A Game of Books-a-thon
A Games of Books-a-thon is a Game of Thrones themed readathon that is running through the rest of 2019. Hosted by the lovely Noura (you can find her sign up post on her blog The Perks of Being Noura), Round 1 is running through June and features bookish prompts centring around characters, books, houses, and places in the A Song of Ice and Fire world. Rounds 2 and 3 will be taking place in July, and then Round 3 through the rest of the year. To make things easier, the challenges for this readathon are coloured dark red.
Part of the readathon is also learning points for your house. After reliably doing a quiz on Buzzfeed (linked here if you’d like to do it too) I have been declared a Lannister. I’m not gonna lie, I’m quite pleased about this. They’re one of the best families in the books and the show (yes, best, not nicest!). I liked the books a lot and I am watching the third season of the show at the moment so it’s come at the right time!!
Sims-a-thon
Sims-a-thon is the brainchild of Bianca of Bianca Reads and is based on the video game The Sims. You play as a sim, creating a life and lifestyle and reading for career progression and life milestones. I never played The Sims too much, but I liked the game and love the idea of such a flexible readathon. There a lots of challenge so if I finish all of the Games of Books-a-thon prompts then I will try and read more for this readathon. To make things easier, the challenges for this readathon are coloured green.
TBR/Challenges
House Baratheon/Create a Household – Shades of Magic #5 Night of Knives V E Schwab, Enrica Angiolini and Andrea Olimpieri
Westeros/Build a House – Viper Bex Hogan
House Targaryen/Interior Design – The Burning Page Genevieve Cogman
Wildlings/Choose a Career: Secret Agent – Jackoby William Ritter
Daenerys/Get a promotion – Honor Among Thieves Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre
The Game of Thrones/Change your career: Writer – Assassin’s Curse Cassandra Rose Clarke
House Tyrell/Have a baby – What Happens Now? Sophie Money-Coutts
House Stark/Meet the Grim Reaper – My Sister, The Serial Killer Okinyan Braithwaite
House Lannister/Make a friend – All of This is True Lygia Day Peñaflor
House Greyjoy/Fall in Love – The Pirate’s Wish Cassandra Rose Clarke
A Clash of Kings/Have an affair – Her Royal Highness Rachel Hawkins
Wildlings/Choose a Career: Secret Agent – Jackoby William Ritter
What are you planning to read this June?
Are you taking part in either of these readathons?
Whoa the Sims one looks complicated! lol. I never played The Sims. The GoT one looks cool. Maybe I’ll hit that one up next year. I’m doing a 2-week scifi readathon right now at Seasons of Reading blog and #pagesathon on Instagram!
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That’s awesome, I hope the readathon goes well for you!!
Yeah the Game of Thrones one is cool, and it’s running for ages as a whole because this is just round 1!
Hahaha, I thought the Sims one seemed complicated at first, but it’s actually really easy. You just pick a start point and follow the arrow until you’re in Live Mode and you can then so what you want. It’s really flexible which is why I can do both readathon at once 😂😊
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OMG thank you so much for posting this, otherwise I would’ve totally forgotten that I’m joining the Game of Book a thon as well 😀 Good luck for this month!!!
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Haha you’re welcome!! Glad it helped!! Enjoy the readathon!!
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