{"id":1849,"date":"2014-11-22T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T10:07:13","slug":"read-a-thon-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/read-a-thon-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Read-a-thon your life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#ANovelNovember continues! Speaking of which, do you despair of all the books you have piled up but don&#8217;t have time to read? Well, these read-a-thons are just the thing for you. The minute a long weekend is coming up (and in Karachi, every other weekend is a long weekend. Boo for city halat, yay for reading time!), get set and start reading. So what exactly are read-a-thons?<\/p>\n<p>Simply, just substitute the number of kilometers run with the number of pages read (isn&#8217;t that far more fun?). Many read-a-thons have a set number of pages to read each day, anywhere from a 100 to 300.<\/p>\n<p>Intimidated yet? Don&#8217;t be. While these read-a-thons are huge in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxmagazine.com\/2014\/10\/five-booktubers-you-should-be-watching\/\">BookTube community (i.e. people who make videos about books)<\/a>, you don&#8217;t have to stick to them to the T. Take them as inspiration to make your way through your TBR (i.e To Be Read in BookTube speak).<\/p>\n<p>And now for some awesome YouTube-spiration to get you started on your Read-a-Thon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ytpak.com\/?component=video&amp;task=view&amp;id=BWcLi_w5QtU\">Catriona from Little Book Owl has some awesome tips and tricks<\/a> to get you started on your read-a-thon. Rincey from Rincey Reads has lined up her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ytpak.com\/?component=video&amp;task=view&amp;id=NTgp23dPjj0\">#FridayReads and is taking part in a Read-a-Thon<\/a>. And if you need ideas for what to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ytpak.com\/?component=video&amp;task=view&amp;id=Og9A4U3QtE8\">Ashley from Climb the Stacks has you covered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Reading folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ANovelNovember continues! Speaking of which, do you despair of all the books you have piled up but don&#8217;t have time to read? Well, these read-a-thons are just the thing for you. The minute a long weekend is coming up (and in Karachi, every other weekend is a long weekend. Boo for city halat, yay for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[419,359,358,365],"tags":[398,428,426,429,430,427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}