daydreaming about books
We cordially invite you to join your favorite people to have tea and sandwiches and pastries in this Love-A-Thon fest. Joining your tea party will be a fictional character, a book blogger OR BookTuber OR Bookstagrammer, and an author of your choosing.
Paint the scene for us—who’s invited, where is this tea party taking place, what’s on the menu, and what you will be talking about.
Be your own Emily Dickinson or Pablo Neruda or E.E. Cummings because we’re asking you to create poems with your books! That’s right, spine poetry is back!
After the success of last year’s spine poetry, I was even more excited to create some more poems with the books I own. This time, I’ve created two poems—one using my ARCs and one using the hardcovers I own.
You don’t need a camera to do the Love-A-Thon Bookshelf Challenge that’s specifically for BookTubers. You can do it too! I know I am. In post form at least. In this challenge, we ask that you pick books based on the color of their spine (listed below), and then follow the prompts.
Won’t you join me in a game of bingo?
Let’s see how many bingo squares you can cross off in our official Love-A-Thon bingo card! We’ll be giving you various tasks to tackle during the Love-a-Thon, and challenging you to make them all happen before the event is over.
As you can see, I’ve already crossed out so many. (Five before 4AM! Ha!) I’ll be crossing out the ones I’ve completed throughout the event. Even before this goes up, I’ve already completed three squares! Huzzah!
You have to cross off at least 3 squares before they can enter the giveaway. If you want to be entered in the giveaway for this challenge, you have to link up at The Daily Prophecy. Please link to a post/tweet/photo showing us your progress with the bingo card with the #LoveAThon hashtag! (If you’re not awake yet, don’t fret! The linky will be open until the event officially ends on February 22, so add yours any time before then.)
We all love books, but there are other things we’re passionate about too! Mash-up a non-bookish hobby/passion/talent/fandom with your bookish life. Do it through photos, art, videos, etc. Get as creative as you’d like!
I totally did not follow the instructions because I had no idea what to do with this Mix and Match challenge. Instead, I did something that was different, but stayed true to the Mix and Match challenge name. One of the things I love are looking at book covers, and better way to look at them than by guessing what they are?
I was inspired by those sliding puzzles I used to play with when I was little. Unlike those, the tiles do not move here, but I’m sure you can see what covers they are.
Welcome to the 2016 Love-A-Thon! Alexa of Alexa Loves Books, Hazel of Stay Bookish, Mel of The Daily Prophecy, and I are so excited that you will be spending this two-day event with us!
For those who do not know what Love-A-Thon is, it is an event—a lovefest—that is dedicated to spreading positivity and love. It’s time dedicated to visiting other bloggers/Instagrammers/BookTubers, leaving a comment or two, making new friends and fostering positivity among the members of our amazing community. (You can still sign-up if you haven’t: just go to this post.)