Wow!!! That’s so many readathons! I could never keep track of all of them. Best of luck to you 🤩

Yay! I love connecting the book community 🥰 I hope you have so much fun hosting your readathon!

You’re welcome! Thank you for creating a community to celebrate body positivity. ☺️

I was shocked at how many there were this month 😅. I hope a few new friends find your readathon!

Happy to spread the word! I hope it sends a few friends your way. 🎃

I totally agree! Thanks for sharing your own creativity with the rest of us 🍁

I think the pressure of being on camera forced me to just pick 😅 otherwise I second guess myself.

@@manda_made I'm sorry I just laughed so hard at this 🤣

@@RyeMiArt 😅 i also edited out about 2-5 minutes of just me staring at the options 😂

Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for watching 🥰

Three readathons is a lot, and hosting too?! 😅. I did that to myself in August. Thankfully most of the prompts I was seeing this month were pretty flexible, and would allow double ups well. Have so much fun! I hope my video sends a few more friends your way. ☺️

Yay! I'm glad you're enjoying them. I was so impressed with how many there were this month. I've added this to the overall playlist as well so others can find it. Thanks for the recommendation!

My pleasure! I love hearing which readathons people pick. There are so many niche ones to connect with.

Thanks Kelsi! It’s on Etsy if you wanna match me www.etsy.com/listing/1288132569/.

Happy to shout out all the fun things! I appreciate you putting together Readathons that are thought out and easy to follow, and I like the duel themes you’ve been doing too.

@@manda_made Thank you!! I go a little crazy with planning but everyone seems to enjoy it 🤣❤️

Yay! Glad to help. Which TBR Harvest Activity are you doing? 🍁

Happy to give it a shout out! And I hope it sends a few new friends your way 🎃

Thank YOU for creating such a well thought out readathon! I'd love to connect with you on some future co-hosting opportunities. Message me on instagram @book.bound.besties and we can chat 🥰

Awe! Thanks Chloe! Totally agree with you about Lock Every Door… I wouldn’t have made the same decisions lol. I go back and forth on Colleen Hoover books. I loved Verity, and enjoyed it Ends with Us, but I think her books could use a LOT more editing. Then again, romance is not my favorite genre, so I can’t rate her too hard. Just not my thing.

I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 🫶🏼

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Yay! Can’t wait to camp with you! Do you know where you want to start yet? A vlog sounds so fun! Following so I don’t miss. 🥰

@@manda_made Awe thanks! I'm thinking I might start in the main lodge. I have so many good picks lined up so might just see what I'm feeling reading when that week comes. 😁

Lol! I think vocal fry just comes with the territory of growing up in Southern California. I’ve got that strong Valley Girl accent. Though I try to keep my “likes” to a minimum 😂.

Welcome! Thanks for hanging out in my corner of the internet. 🥰 Pango books is an awesome app that lets you buy and sell used books. The sellers usually wrap the books and some include stickers or bookmarks. pangobooks.com/bookstore/windmillbooks

So ambitious! I love it! Be sure to share your journal spreads in the Scribe Tower on discord, because I want to see 👀.

Ahhh! Hi Jashiicorrin10! It helps so much when you tend to use lots of papers and pockets and folding elements in your journal. I know my journal is inevitably going to be bursting at the seams, but at least I can help it the tiniest bit. 😅 And as you know, the A&O journals are so well made, that I’m not worried about them falling apart at all. Ps. I’m a longtime fan and follower of your journals! Excited to share this space with you. 🫶🏼

Thank YOU for all the work you put into creating this readathon! It sounds so fun and I hope you all have a blast!

Happy to spread the magic! And so looking forward to fall equinox. Loving the Guild Emporium too! So much fun.

Thanks for sharing! I’ve added their video to the playlist so others can find it too. Have you narrowed down which short books you’ll read?

@@manda_made I haven’t actually matched my books up to the prompts. I like to read classics and I have 5 that are on my September/October pile of possibilities. For spooky season I have eight of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. I enjoy sci-fi movies and tv, so HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds has been on my radar since I was a kid. He was a Victorian author so I am getting a jumpstart on Victober with that book and two others of his. Anthony Trollope is another Victorian author that classics readers rave about but he is new to me. I am going to try out The Warden.

That all sounds like a very classy reading month! If you want something whimsical between your classics, try Big Fish by Daniel Wallace. Only 192 pages. I just read it and was blown away.

I know! So many creative minds out there.

Your readathon sounds incredible!!! Happy to help share the fun. 🥰

Adventurerathon looks so fun! What a creative world and community you’ve built! I hope this video connects you with some excited participants. I really liked the idea of the two phases of game play too. Well done!

I thought that was in October?! I love Kelsi. Great energy. I’m going to add her video to my playlist so others can find it too. Thanks for suggesting and have so much fun.

@@manda_made it’s starting I think the first day of Autumn till Halloween I’m going to do that readathon and the squash that series have so many 🤣

@chriswildfire Im always in Squash-that-series mode haha

Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. The hardest part is choosing!!!! 😂

Amazing! My character Aodia is an elf too 🥰

@@manda_made Where is she from :)

She was found as an infant in Darkmeadow, but her lineage is likely from elsewhere. She was raised by Iltirians and was apprentice to a Dwarf. (I love a complex backstory!)

@@manda_made Ooh I do too I didn't get to make a backstory I just went in headfirst doing all the things I had to do to setup

I might work on it cause I do have character art for her for every semester she completes

Order of the Crescent!

@manda_made cool me too.. I'll keep an eye out for ya in the guild chat. Did you see G posted the book club book today?

@hopenparker I did not! But I’ve been at work. Checking it now 🏃🏼‍♀️

Ooh. Interesting! I hadn’t heard of this one.

@manda_made I didn't either. I managed to put a hold on it at my library. Hopefully it comes in during readathon

Great choices! I hope you have so much fun. Thanks for being here!

No way!! I love how similar we are! 😂 Every month I am shocked at people’s creativity in starting a readathon. So many cool ideas!!! Still working on my Magical Readathon Journal. It’s looking so good, but I won’t have it done before we start fall equinox. Have you added anything else to yours?

@@manda_made ah, no not yet, I only picked it up to count my points :D I wanted to add lore next but I completely forgot about that so I did not make any progress ooops. I'm probably going to add new Guild Emporium pages and make a page for Autumn equinox next.

The Guild Emporium is so cute! She amazes me with the attention to detail. So creative.

I have so much fun making these, so I’m glad you enjoy them 🤩 I would be joining you for The Mystic Readathon, but I already did a TVD readathon this year. I wish I could do them all!

That makes my little creator heart so happy to hear 🥰 thank you.

I’ll be doing Orilium and hopefully Survive the Night! This month was hard to choose from because there were so many things I loved. But I did already do a TVD readathon this year, so I guess I don’t need another. 😂 This is also a big birthday month for us, so I’m just hoping to finish my 8 books off my TBR 😅

Yay! That’s my goal. I love hearing what you’ve enjoyed as well. I used to read mostly historical fiction, and have recently become a fantasy girlie. I’m hoping Outlander is the book that pulls me back in. 🫶🏼

How fun! Thank you for the recommendation. Adding to my TBR 🏃🏼‍♀️

Glad you liked it!! There were lots of fun spreads this month. 🥰

Thank you! I was looking for this type of video too when I was first discovering readathons, and found NO ONE compiling a list, so I thought I'd do it myself (haha.... enneagram 3 here 😅). After that first video, I found another creator, @PageswithPaige, who also does Readathon announcements. So give her a follow too because we may find different ones to share! Which readathon did you pick for August?

@@manda_made I’m doing the Deck of TBR and also trying to do the Ketchupathon. My friend is really into readathons so she introduced me to them and now I love them lol. They help when I’m in a slump.

@Liesl618 yes! I love that. I’m trying to get my bestie into readathons too.

That is such a huge compliment! Thank you. 🥰 I think most of the pamphlets you've seen are part of the Readathons I participate in, and were created by the host. So I just print them out and make some type of pocket to store them in, But otherwise Canva is an awesome tool. They have so many templates you can adjust for your own purposes. I just use the free version, and find that I can still make really cool things. I'm putting this down in my "video ideas" list because I agree that when I was first learning Canva, it would have been nice to follow a video with the tricks. I'm certainly not a pro, but I could share some simple set up things.

Of course! I invested in a really nice one, but I've always had cheap printers before that were such headaches. Most of what I print is journal stuff, photographs, and art prints. I LOVE this one for what I use it for, but it is specifically for photo printing. So, It does not print on copy paper well, or at least what I've tried so far. I use the thick paper for flaps and the thinner brochure paper for most other things. I highly recommend if its in your budget and you would use mostly for photos. If you want a more multi-purpose printer, I'd check out the other Canon Pixma models. Also, If you have an okay printer already, sometimes all it takes is the right paper to make a better print. My bougie PHOTO printer - Canon Pixma Pro a.co/d/4WJpH7W 66lb THICK photo paper - A Sub Glossy Paper a.co/d/c5nAzmr 37lb THIN photo paper - Uinkit Brochure Paper a.co/d/9siyUkT

@@manda_made Thank you so much for sharing! I will definitely be getting these soon! Bougie printer here I come! haha 😁 Also I'm sorry but I did just notice you shared the equipment you use in your description.. hehe 😅

@JosephineSingh. I actually added it there after you asked, so it wasn’t there when you looked.

@@manda_made Oh okay! Well thanks again for sharing what you use for your journaling. It's greatly appreciated:)

Thank you so much for your feedback! I appreciate this kind of response because I am still learning the audio stuff. I'm just using an iPhone to film, so nothing too fancy. I am watching the video back, but I don't hear the sound you mentioned. What time are you hearing it at?

@@manda_made Oh thank God you responded! I couldn't find my comment to let you know it was MY audio! You are all good! So sorry to worry you! Keep up this good content! xo

hahaha! well thats good to know 😅 I hope you could get your audio fixed. Thanks for being here and having my back friend. I appreciate you 🫶🏻

I am so pleased that it turned out like it did in my head. Sometimes I have big ideas and then cant make the paper work for me. I'm so glad you liked it!

Thank you!!! You will get there too. Your videos are my favorites 🥰

​@manda_made aww you so sweet ❤ thank you ❤

Hi Laura! Thanks for the ideas. I ended up printing out the graphics I made for my mid-year freak out tag, and making a spread in the back. I’m also going to transfer the vocabulary I’ve been documenting in my phone back there too. 🥰

@@manda_made both cool ideas 😁

Right?! The first book was so good, but I read it back in my college years when I had very little recreational reading time. Now I’m just not as hyped about it I guess. There are newer books that always grab my attention!