Ok everyone, I have been a bad blogger recently... I apologise.
I have been really busy as I am coming to the end of my year long internship at The Walt Disney Company, and had essays to write for university so I have been neglecting you. But I have been reading so there is some good news.
For those of you who follow me, may know that I have set myself a challenge to read 200 books in 2013 and raise some money for child abuse at the same time....
So I thought I should give you an update on my progress in my challenge. The last update I wrote was a long time ago and it was to let you know that I had read 50 books and was 25% into my goal... well now it is the 6 July and I should be well past 50% with 100 books down, however, I have not got that far.
I have read 86 books, so I am well past my 75 books milestone, that my couch bought me a little gift to celebrate. I will detail that in a seperate post. :)
If I have any supporters out their, I don't know, but I hope I do... do not fair, I have not given up on my challenge and I am confident that I will be knocking down those books within the next couple of months as I will not have a job or any essays to complete until I return to university in October.
If anyone would like to donate to the NSPCC through my Just Giving page then please do, any support will be greatly appreciated! And it is a great cause.
Showing posts with label The Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Challenge. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Monday, 22 April 2013
Monday Morning Blues
If you read my post last week, you will know that I had been set a challenge by my 'coach' Jenny to read three books by the end of the weekend... Well it is Monday morning now and the weekend is well and truely over and I only managed to complete two books. I am 70% into my third book now so I nearly did it, by still not good enough! :(
Now I have to tell Jenny that I failed and get my next challenge - hopefully she will not be too disappointed in me...
As the image shows... one failure doesn't mean you will fail! I am still going to complete my year long challenge of reading 200 books in 2013! :)
Thursday, 18 April 2013
The Celebratory Muffin
Yum Yum, a beautiful blueberry muffin...
My friends Jenny appointed herself my coach on my challenge. So far she had sent me motivational messages, set me targets and today she gave me a congratulations muffin (as I don't eat cake!).
She set me a target for this week which is to read three books by the end of the weekend... I am current 47% into my first book so it looks like I am on track to achieving my target.
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
It began with a Book
I have been meaning to set up my book blog for SOOOOOOO long now, but you know how life is, you say you are going to do it this weekend and then you start to read a book and before you know it, it is Monday again....
So, I bit the bullet.... And created a blog.
Ok! As I am sure you have gathered this blog is about books (and me).
A bit about me: Believe it or not, I have never really been a big book reader, until last year when I started my internship in London and started my daily commute to work (which totals an hour and a half, EACH WAY). To fill this time I started to read books on my journeys as a space filler. However, I came across some issues, when I was nearing the end of a book, I needed to take two books to work so that I could continue reading, when the current one was finished. Then I got a Kindle and my life was transformed. Now I am OBSESSED and read whenever I can! Seriously… I have gone a bit book crazy.
The Challenge: The name of my blog is The Year Books-the reason is that I have set myself a challenge to read 200 books with an average of 300 pages per book in 2013 and as this is an ambitious, I am raising money for charity at the same time.
The Charity: I have decided that I want to raise money for the NSPCC, which is a fantastic charity that does amazing work to help children who are abused, whether emotionally or physically, by those who are supposed to love and care for you. Cruelty to children must stop. FULL STOP!
The Purpose: I aim to use this blog to share my opinions about the books that I read, update people with my progress towards my goal and hopefully collect some donations for the NSPCC.
So if you would like to donate some money please follow the link below to my Just Giving page.
http://www.justgiving.com/Arianne-NSPCC
:)
So, I bit the bullet.... And created a blog.
Ok! As I am sure you have gathered this blog is about books (and me).
A bit about me: Believe it or not, I have never really been a big book reader, until last year when I started my internship in London and started my daily commute to work (which totals an hour and a half, EACH WAY). To fill this time I started to read books on my journeys as a space filler. However, I came across some issues, when I was nearing the end of a book, I needed to take two books to work so that I could continue reading, when the current one was finished. Then I got a Kindle and my life was transformed. Now I am OBSESSED and read whenever I can! Seriously… I have gone a bit book crazy.
The Challenge: The name of my blog is The Year Books-the reason is that I have set myself a challenge to read 200 books with an average of 300 pages per book in 2013 and as this is an ambitious, I am raising money for charity at the same time.
The Charity: I have decided that I want to raise money for the NSPCC, which is a fantastic charity that does amazing work to help children who are abused, whether emotionally or physically, by those who are supposed to love and care for you. Cruelty to children must stop. FULL STOP!
The Purpose: I aim to use this blog to share my opinions about the books that I read, update people with my progress towards my goal and hopefully collect some donations for the NSPCC.
So if you would like to donate some money please follow the link below to my Just Giving page.
http://www.justgiving.com/Arianne-NSPCC
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