Summer Lovin Read-a-Thon: Class Orientation

“Class Orientation” Participation Post:
Introduce yourself and set your goals for the read-a-thon. Some interesting information to include in this post would be Where are you blogging from? What got you into blogging/reading? What is your favorite genre? The possibilities are endless, just be creative!

Blogging from the Land Down Under (cue song)

Brief Introduction
We are both university students from Australia who love reading and wanted to share our thoughts about the books we read. We've been blogging since November of last year, so we are still a bit new! We started blogging because we both wanted some sort of ongoing hobby to help us get through the holidays, and ended up continuing past that because we enjoyed it so much!

Favourite genre

Nara: I honestly don't have a favourite genre. I have favourite books, but they aren't defined by what genre they're in. A good book is a good book no matter whether it's contemporary, fantasy, dystopian or whatever else. (That being said, I do love a good high fantasy.)
Chantelle: haha I'm similar in that I don't have a favourite genre (although I don't like sci-fi - aliens creep me out, and not in a good way). But whatever I read, it has to have romance. Basically my philosophy is, the better the romance, the better the book. 

Plan for the Read-a-Thon

Nara

Here is a photo of the 25 books that I want to read/reread as a part of this read-a-thon and the Once Upon a Read-a-Thon (if you haven't signed up for that one link here). There are a lot there (that's basically my summer to-read pile there), so I realise I probably won't get them all read, but I'll definitely make an attempt :) I decided to restrict myself to only hardcopies that I own.

The pile on the right over there is my priority pile. I want to at least get through that pile!





Chantelle
I'm a far, far, far slower read than Nara;  if I spend every second, of every minute, of every hour of that day in bed, reading, I can probably finish 2 books so my reading plan is no where near as badass. However, I am an idealist, so I'm aiming to give 12 books some good ol' Summer lovin'.

Challenge 1: Teaser Tidbits

Hosted by Shelf Addiction

Challenge Rules:

• Grab the book you're currently reading (or recently read) 
• Open to a random page 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page NO spoilers allowed! Choose passages void of spoilers. The goal is to entice, yet not ruin the book for others! 
• Share the title & author, so that other participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Nara

So I'm reading Paper Towns by John Green right now. Here is the teaser:

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one

Chantelle

I recently read Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma, it is a tear-jerking must-read!

Teaser 1: Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. 

Teaser 2: "At the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?"