The Quiet Pond is a character driven book blog with characters that live around the pond. From that standpoint CW and her co-hosts blog about books. Some characters do reviewing, others are for recommendations.
With this as the basis, CW created a story-driven readathon. Something is amiss at the pond. CW wrote parts of the story with introductions to the read-a-thon. You can read them here, in this order: Prologue / Choose a Team / Sign-up. And here is a tutorial.
The readathon runs from January 24th to March 7th so that is quite a long time which completely suits me. Week long readathons and I have not been friends since I had a child.
On a personal note: I hurt my back almost two weeks ago and on Monday took a tumble with the bicycle and Merijn. I have extra pain meds for the next week or so but they also make me really tired and heighten my depression. Because of that I am not very present in replying to blog comments/blog hopping/online. Sitting behind the computer is not the greatest unfortunately. I hope it goes away soon but these type of back pains can last 6 to 12 weeks. Oh joy.
The Character
Meet Signourney, my stick whapping butterfly who will silently judge you as she looks at you over her glasses. I choose to go the traditional route because I am just more comfortable with that in the long run.
The Team
Signourney choose to go with Team Xialong. As much as I liked some of the other teams this team just works out the best for me at the moment. I can read my arcs and endless fantasy if I so desire. For every 10 pages I get a point and with every book I finish an extra 15 points. That should amount to a nice total.
CW is also organizing a few sidequests along the way that I am sure we can collect points for.
The TBR
Book | ARC | #YARC | #SoYS | Turtle Recall | Go Big |
Belle Revolte | X | ||||
City of Stone and Silence | X | ||||
The Wind Reader | X | X | |||
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | X | X | |||
The Sisters Grimm | X | ||||
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness | X | ||||
The Electric Heir | X | ||||
The Dragon Republic | X | X | X | ||
The Tyrant’s Tomb | X | ||||
The Serpent’s Secret | X | X | |||
The Candle and the Flame | X | X | |||
The Ten Thousand Doors of January | X | ||||
Foundryside (Reread) |
Above are some of the books I’d like to get to in the next 2 months or so, during this readathon. I also marked if they worked for some of the other reading challenges I am doing.
The Spread
And lastly I created a spread for my new bujo for this readathon to keep track of everything. I really got into bujo in the last few weeks as it is easy to do with Merijn running around most of the time.
Ouch. I hope your back heals quickly. Good luck with Pondathon! Your spread looks awesome. I’m on Team Varian, but I haven’t picked a TBR.
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Still hurting unfortunately.
Thank you!
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Oh man! Hope you get better soon.
I’m thinking to join the readathon since it’s for a longer time.
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I hope you joined. It is a lot of fun.
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Knap dat je het weer zo mooi hebt uitgewerkt in je reading journal. Voel je je ondertussen al weer een beetje beter? Ik hoop het echt zo hard voor jou.
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Helaas. ._.
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Foei, stout lichaam! Laat mijn vriendin eens een beetje met gerust!
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Hallo, Hallo Annemieke,
I’m so dearly sorry to hear about your physical pain & your back! 😦 I’ve thrown out my back and have had other injuries to contend with as well – so in some regards, I know what your facing and I am sorry you have to go through that. Its not easy to transition through or out and I hope time is kind and helps the healing process move a bit easier and quicker! Aside from that – I keep seeing everyone posting about the #Pondathon and I’m seriously the most confused wannabe participant of the event! 😦 I just #dontgetit and I will resolve to enjoy everyone who is posting about joining it.
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Fingers crossed the physiotherapist pratcice calls me this week that they have a space for me. I hope you are doing okay too.
Haha cw did put up a lot of information. But it is basically just a readathon where you can choose which team you want to be apart of.
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What a cute idea! Good luck. 🍀
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Thank you!
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Yikes, I hope your back heals up sooner than later! I love the character you designed for the Pondathon. I also signed up with Team Xiaolong 🙂
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Thank you. Hello teammate!
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