BookQuest Readathon – Sign-Up

What better way to start a new reading year than with a readathon? My motivation is still super high and I want to get a head start on my reading in 2020 so when I stumbled upon this amazing-looking readathon, I knew I had to participate. BookQuest runs from January 5th through January 25th, which makes it even better. I like readathons that take more than a week because it’s just easier to organize my reading around my other activities if the time frame is longer.

The organizers at The Paper Tavern seem to have put a lot of effort into this readathon. There is a bounty board, there will be a possibility to level  up and check up on our reading stats and it all just sounds wonderful and exciting.  I can’t wait to get started!

This readathon’s quest is to defeat a scary dragon, which you can do by joining either the Mages of the Guild or the Knights of the Kingdom team. Depending on which team you choose, you get different reading prompts for a total of seven books. That includes the group read, The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White (which fits well into my 2020 Retellings Challenge, yay!).

Normally, I would immediately go for the team that has magic – because magic is awesome – but for this readathon, I have decided to join the Knights of the Kingdom, led by Sir Chris the Dullhead. I mean, how could I resist. 🙂

Naturally, I already thought about what I am going to read for these prompts. Knowing myself, I may change my mind on some of these choices but I like having a TBR prepared so I don’t have to stress about finding books when the readathon is already underway.

The readathon allows for single books to count toward several prompts but as I want to read as much as possible, I picked one book per prompt.

Pick out a Weapon: Andrzej Sapkowski – Sword of Destiny
Meet With the King: Benjanun Sriduangkaew – Winterglass (re-read)
Get Fitted for Armor: Brandon Sanderson – Starsight
Visit the Stablemaster: C. A. Fletcher – A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Defeat Your Sparring Partner: Shelby Mahurin – Serpent & Dove
Sign Up for the Joust: Elizabeth Lim – Spin the Dawn
Study the Code of Chivalry: Kiersten White – The Guinevere Deception

I look forward to checking out those books. Maybe, if I’m really fast with the first quests, I’ll switch up my TBR for some bigger books. I already started reading Starsight but since one book can cover several prompts, I don’t think this readathon will be super strict about that.

Are you joining as well? If so, what team will you support and which books will you read? Let me know in the comments!

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