Mabuhay, friends!
I am terrible at readathons.
I just wanted to get that out of the way so you don’t have any high expectations of me. I am terrible at readathons and it hurts my little perfectionist heart. One of the main reasons is that I’m a mood reader, and another being, I don’t really have very many books or the money to purchase them whenever I want. But now that I have access to a library, I want to take full advantage of the resources and read the books that I never really could!

Avatar The Last Page Turner is a two week readathon (1 – 14 August) hosted by youtubers: KJ Reads Pages, Positive Writer, Ben Reads Books, and Kaela Clifton. I decided to join this readathon because of how much Avatar: The Last Airbender means to me. The show taught me so much about storytelling, and compassion; it’s one show that I could rewatch many times.
You can keep up with the hosts and the ATLA readathon updates on the Twitter account @avatar_turner14.

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For the Water Tribe book, I am choosing The White Girl by Tony Birch. A book about family, the author narrates the story of Odette whose grand-daughter is in danger of being taken away by welfare authorities because of being fair-skinned. Now, this is a history I am not very familiar with, so I hope to get my first introduction of Australia’s aboriginal history.
My Earth Kingdom book will be from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Depending on time, I will be choosing between Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.

My Fire Nation book will be Dark And Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore. I have a soft spot for re-tellings but this is the first re-telling of Hans Christian Anderson’s Red Shoes that I have come across.
For the Air Nomads I have chosen The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang. The cover itself radiates big Air Nomad energy, wouldn’t you say? This is a novella that I have been meaning to read for a while!


The optional group book for the readathon is Blood Heir by Amelie Wen Zhao. Luckily I already have a copy of this book, so I decided to have this for the Avatar State prompt.

BOOKS MENTIONED
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📚 The White Girl by Tony Birch: Goodreads // Book Depository
📚 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Goodreads // Book Depository
📚 We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Goodreads // Book Depository
📚 Dark And Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore: Goodreads // Book Depository
📚 The Black Tides Of Heaven by J.Y. Yang: Goodreads // Book Depository
📚 Blood Heir by Amelie Wen Zhao: Goodreads // Book Depository

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OHH THIS IS SO EXCITING! I didn’t know about this but I’m definitely participating. I plan to read The Black Tides of Heaven for another readathon, so it’s a great coincidence for this one. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your TBR!
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Have you finished reading The Black Tides? I just finished it today!
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I did! It was so good- i was expecting more on the world building and I think longer page count would help fleshed out the story more, but I also love it as it is 🙂
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Sounds like a fun readathon!! I found Blood Heir to be a great debut novel, hope you enjoy it too!
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Oooooh now I’m more excited! Are you excited for Red Tigress?? Have you seen how gorgeous the cover is?
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I cannot wait!!!
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I’m excited for this readathon! I’m finally deciding on my TBR and going to get started ^_^
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Yay! How did you find the readathon?
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It was so much fun! I finished 6 books for it! ^_^
How did it go for you?
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I finished two books but I’m continuing with the rest of my TBR!
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Good plan! I had one more I wanted to read for it and I will try to finish that this month as well =)
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