GUYS! I’ve reviewed BOTH of Savannah Grace’s books on this blog, and I absolutely love them! If you love travel memoirs, you NEED to go check her out, and her books are FREE TODAY!
I know, Haley, LOTS OF CAPS LOCK! But I’m excited. Click the linky below and go grab her books right away! Think teenage Elizabeth Gilbert. You’re gonna love her.
What are you currently reading?
The Iliad by Homer
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
What did you just finish reading?
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin
Backpacks and Brastraps with Savannah Grace
Before I Go by Colleen Oakley
What do you think you’ll read next?
The Regulators by Richard Bachman
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
I’m always both sad to see a Readathon end…and a bit relieved. Sad, because Readathons are FUN! Everyone reads as much as they possibly can, we put aside everything else and go into marathon reading mode. Many of us forgo all TV and any other activities and plow through as many books we possibly can. There are reading sprints, friendly competitions. I always keep track of how much I’m reading each day and try to beat my numbers.
But, by the end of it, I’m usually ready for a TV day. My brain is worn OUT. It doesn’t help that I’m in the middle of rereading Game of Thrones right now, either!
So, how’d I do?
Books Read:
A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham
Before I Go by Colleen Oakley
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (Page 1-57)
Backpacks and Brastraps by Savannah Grace
A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin (Up to Page 408)
Plus a short story per day, usually 3-7 pages.
Pages Read: 2,900
I did all but one of the challenges. Sorry Saturday…I just am not graphically inclined enough to recreate a book cover!
I skipped over The Iliad, which technically was on my TBR list before most of these, but that would have sucked up the whole challenge time. I will read that soon, I promise. I also am overdue on an ARC, but it’s only readable on my tablet, which died right before the Readathon started. Yikes! Other than that, I think I did pretty well. I would have been able to read a higher number of books if I hadn’t been reading Martin, but I got through a lot of actual pages, so I’m happy with the turnout.
I knew I wouldn’t be able to wait very long before reading the next book in Savannah Grace’s saga. I was really looking forward to experiencing the next leg of her family’s trip, and I wasn’t disappointed!
Backpacks and Brastraps follows the family as they take a short, and slightly scary, stint up into Russia, through a few Central European countries and into Western China, Tibet, before finally arriving in Nepal in time for trekking season.
Savannah’s writing is really taking off in this second book. I could tell that she’s becoming more and more comfortable in her own skin as she’s out in the world, and she’s discovering more about herself. She’s not nearly as much the whiny teenager as she was in I Grew My Boobs in China, although there still is a bit of that, she is settling down and opening her eyes. I was pretty amused when a friend from home joins them for the trek in Nepal and Savannah almost rolls her eyes at her inexperience.
Overall, though, I love these stories and I can’t wait for the third book, which, sigh, isn’t due out until August 2016! I’ll have to mark my calendar for that one.
What are you currently reading?
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
What did you just finish reading?
Breeder by KB Hoyle
The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
What do you think you’ll read next?
Before I Go by Colleen Oakley
Backpacks and Brastraps by Savannah Grace
A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin
I am also overdue to read The Iliad, but I am saving that until after the readathon. I’ll be hitting that up as soon as this week is over, so we’ll see how many books I get though! I keep putting it off, and I need to get to it!
As I Lay Reading 