YES! 😀 Tome Topple is back and I’m gonna participate!
I’ve wanted to do this readathon ever since booktuber Sam from Thoughts on Tomes started it last year, but never got the chance to. But I think I’ll have the time now. All I’ll do is work and read. 😀 That’s paradise for me, y’all (except the work part).
The whole point of Tome Topple is to read big books (over 500 pages). Being a readathon, it crunches the allotted time to complete the book(s) to 2 weeks. Of course, there’s no pressure to actually complete the book(s) during that time. The readathon simply encourages us all to read the larger books on our shelves.
This round of Tome Topple will run from midnight on August 4 to 11:59 p.m. on August 17. I’m so ready for it!!
There will be reading sprints and smaller challenges on Twitter and IG, in addition to those listed below, but I doubt I’ll participate in those extra stuff. I hardly tweet and won’t have the energy to do IG stuff.
Challenges
Read more than 1 tome
Read a graphic novel (over 500 pages!)
Read a tome that is part of a series
Buddy read a tome
Read an adult novel
With that in mind, I’ve chosen these books for my TBR:
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda, illus. by Yuu
Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
The Iliad by Homer, trans. by Robert Fagles
Being tomes, these are a lot to read. However, my focus will be on Kings of the Wyld and Wolf Children, which together knocks out 4 of the challenges above. I won’t be buddy-reading anything. If I end up reading faster than expected, then I’ll move on to either Isle of Blood, which I really want to read to continue Yancey’s Monstrumologist series, or The Iliad, which I’d love to start this summer.
Zezee with Books 
Hugeeeee books are always so much fun to read, although it’s just such a pain to complete… Takes foreeeever! Best of luck on your quest. 😉
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They do unless they’re really interesting, like Brent Weeks’s The Way of Shadows. I ran through that in just a few days. The assassins in it are freaking awesome!
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Ooh this sounds like good fun! Unfortunately real life is getting in the way of my reading time at the moment. Good luck! I hope you get through all that you want to!
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Aww I know how that is. Well, I hope it all clears up and gets less busy soon.
Thanks!
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This is a great idea! It’s so easy to end up with lots of tomes on your shelf that are too intimidating to pick up (at least, I often feel that way) and it seems to me most bookish goals these days are related to the number of books rather than pages, which doesn’t exactly add any incentives to tackle those giant books. Anyway, good luck!!
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Thanks! And I think that’s exactly why lots of folks sign up for this readathon.
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Wolf Children is one of my very favorite movies and mangas I hope you adore it!
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Thanks. I hope so too. I’ve always wanted to read/watch it. My plan is to try watch it after reading.
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ooh this sounds fantastic!! I’m tempted because it might be good to try to read some of the books that I’ve already started and haven’t finished because they’re so long…. but the challenges seem a bit tough for me!
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Also I really hope you enjoy the iliad and I really want to hear your thoughts on kings of the wyld!
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Yup, I def will share my thoughts and Kings of the Wyld and fingers crossed that I’ll get it on with the Iliad this summer. 😉
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Oh awesome!! Yes!! 😉
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Well, you can join and just focus on just one book and don’t bother with the challenges.
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Yes that seems like a good idea, I still have a couple of days to think about it 😉
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Huge cheer for Kings of the Wyld!
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🙂 Yip, yip!
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Cool! I join in as well 🙂 haven’t participated in anything in a while and this month i should have more time yay!
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Awesome! What d’you plan to read or are you just gonna wing it?
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I ended up not taking part 😦 I didn’t know it all takes place on goodreads where I am not very active unfortunately.
But I found this other cool challenge 😀 i really wanted to join one!
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Aww no prob. 🙂
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That looks like so much fun – thanks for posting about it! I joined the GoodReads group – I think I might try it. Now I just need to decide which books to read!
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Great! Yes, join the fun. I almost selected my books at random.
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