Hi lovelies💕✨

Dare to Dreamathon is a Disney themed readathon that is taking place 1-30th September over on twitter and discord✨

RULES💕
You must choose a sidekick, you can read your prompts in any order that you wish. However you have to read all of your sidekick’s prompts before you start on the advanced challenges. When you get to the advanced challenges you can read as many or as little prompts as you wish. All formats count, as long as they can be found on Goodreads.
We are asking for you to only double up once.

SCORING💕
Your scores are based on the page count, the team who has read the most amount of pages at the end wins. We will announce the winner in October.

SIDEKICKS💕
There are four sidekicks you can choose from Stitch, Pascal, Olaf and Lumiere. Each sidekick has 5 prompts attached to them, you must read all of these before you can start on the advanced challenges.

❤️ Stitch (@OnceUponADee)

• Ohana means family: A book that features a strong family bond
• Captain Gantu: A book that you find intimidating
• Release Year: A book published in the year 2002
• Experiment 626: A book with a number in the title
• Luau: A book featuring fire

💛 Lumiere (@bookentusiast3)

• Enchantress: A book that features a curse
• Cogsworth: A book with a clock on the cover
• Lumiere: Read a book at night
• Tale as old as time: A book that features a ball/dance
• The Library: A book within a book

💚 Olaf (@AStarlightPanda)

• Olaf: A book with a loveable sidekick
• Anna & Elsa: A book with a strong bond
• Frozen 2: To read a highly anticipated sequel
• Arendale: a book set in the winter
• Kristoff: A book with a loyal friend

💜 Pascal (me)

• Rapunzel & Flynn: A book that features the enemies to lovers trope
• Mother Gothel: A book that contains a power hungry character
• Pascal: A book that has a colourful cover
• Frying Pan: A book with a weapon on the cover
• Tangled: A book with a one word title

ADVANCED CHALLENGES💕
After completing your sidekick’s prompts you can choose as many or as little of these as you want. Keep an eye out for my recommendations post which will be coming a bit closer to the readathon.

Winnie the Pooh: A book about something sweet
The Little Mermaid: A book about a topic you know nothing about
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: A book which a main character that has a disability
Pocahontas: A book written by a POC or where the MC is a POC
Hercules: A retelling
The Great Mouse Detective: A mystery
Big Hero 6: A sci-fi/a book featuring a robot/AI
The Fox and the Hound: A book about an unlikely friendship
Maleficent: A book where the MC is a villain
The Sword and the Stone: A historical fiction
Onward: A book with LGBT+ rep
Cinderella 2: A sequel

We hope that you will join us🥰

Which team are you planning on joining?💕

Much Love

Books&PixieDust💕✨

Hello lovelies💕

I have completely magpied this idea off of That Artsy Reader Girl but decided to change the day to Friday. Every Friday I shall be posting a bookish top ten, this week I am starting with BOOKS I WANT TO READ THIS YEAR. There are so many to choose from but I have managed to narrow it down to just 10.

1). Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

This is the first book in The Legend of Orïsha series. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha was full of magic. Burners ignited flames, Tinders beckoned waves and Zèlie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But the night magic disappeared everything changed, maji were killed leaving Zèlie without a mother. She has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the ruthless king. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outrun and outwit the crown prince. However Orïsha is full of danger with snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits lurk in the waters.

2). A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson

Five years ago Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The case is closed, the police know he did it, everyone in town knows he did. Pippa Fitz-Amobi however isn’t so sure. As she researches the case for her final project she uncovers secrets that someone in town really wants to stay hidden. With these secrets uncovered how far will they go to keep Pip from telling the truth?

3). Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

In the real world Eliza Mirk is shy, weird and friendless. However, online she’s the online creator of the ever popular webcomic Monstrous Seas. She can’t imagine liking the real world as much as the online one she has created and she has no desire to even try. That was until Walace Warland, the biggest fanfic writer for Monstrous Seas is transferred to her school. Thinking Eliza is just another fan, he manages to pull her out of her shell and she finds herself wondering if a life offline might be worthwhile. As her secret identity is accidentally revealed her whole life begins to fall apart.

4). The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

Michael comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-raced gay teenager. Then once he starts university he finds his wings as a drag artist called The Black Flamingo

5). Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father comes to visit her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport and comes face to face with a crowd of crying people. In NYC Yaharia Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance and secrets the two girls are forced to come to a new reality that their father has died and that their lives have changed forever. Then when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they find out about each other.

6). Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

Roger and Dodger are twins. Roger is skilled with words and understands how the world works through the power of story. Dodger on the other hand is all about numbers, her obsession, her everything. What they don’t realise is that they aren’t actually humans. And they aren’t exactly gods, either, not yet anyway! Reed, a skilled alchemist created the twins, he isn’t their father but has a plan to raise them to the highest power and to claim their authority as his own.

7). Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Computer geek Chloe Brown has a chronicle illness, she also has a list, a goal, a plan. After almost dying she comes up with 7 directives to help her “Get a Life”. Having moved out of her family’s mansion she has already completed one. So what’s next? Her options: to ride a motorbike, enjoy a drunken night out, go camping, have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex, travel the world with just hand luggage and do something bad. What Chloe needs to be bad is a teacher, and that teacher is in the shape of Redford Morgan more commonly known as Red! With tattoos and a motorbike he is the perfect person for the job.

8). The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

A world divided. A Queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed Queen Sabran the ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her using forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Meanwhile the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos rise from their sleep.

9). The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski

Each suitcase at the Strangeworlds Travel Agency transports you to a different world. When 12 year old Flick Hudson accidentally ends up in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency she uncovers a wonderfully fantastic secret. There are hundreds of other worlds just steps away from ours. All you have to do is pick the right suitcase to jump in. When Flick gets an invitation of a lifetime: to join Strangeworlds’ magical travel society and explore other worlds. The city right at the very centre is in danger. The buildings and even the streets in Five Lights are disappearing, it’s a race against time and Flick must travel through uncharted worlds to stop Five Lights before it collapses and taking our world with it.

10). The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

Tiffy Moore and Leon Twomey each have a problem that needs a quick fix. After being dumped by a cheating boyfriend, Tiffy urgently needs a new flat. Earning minimum wage at a publishing house means her choices in London are extremely limited. Leon on the other hand is a palliative care nurse, is more concerned with other people’s welfare than his own. Along with working nights shifts, his sole focus is raising money to fight his brother’s unfair imprisonment. Leon has a flat that he only uses from 9 to 5, Tiffy works 9 to 5 and needs a place to sleep. Their solution to the problem is to share a bed. As the unusual arrangement becomes a reality, they begin to connect through post-it notes left around the flat.

What are some books that you want to read by the end of 2020?

Have you read any on my list? What were your non-spoiler thoughts?

Much Love

Books & Pixie Dust💕✨

Hello my lovelies💕✨

Today I am bringing to you my second WWW Wednesday post. I have decided to do these every other week (at the moment) as I don’t feel like I am reading enough to justify posting one every week as I will essentially be repeating myself every week💕

Just like before I am going to be sharing with you the book I have most recently finished, my current reads and what i’m planning on reading next, I will also be giving you a brief synopsis of each book📚

WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?

SCARLET BY MARISSA MEYER❤️

I am currently reading Scarlet by Marissa Meyer which is the second book in The Lunar Chronicles series. In this book we follow Scarlet who’s Grandmother has gone missing! She meets Wolf, a street fighter who may know more than he is letting on in regards to the whereabouts of her Grandmother. She is loath to trust him but they are both drawn to each other. As they uncover one mystery they encounter Cinder, who has recently broken out of jail. Together they must stay one step ahead of the evil Queen Levana, who will stop at nothing to make sure Prince Kai becomes her husband, her prisoner.

I am 12% in at the moment and so far I am not loving it as much as I loved Cinder. I hope it gets better the more I get into it, which I am 99% percent sure it will.

WHAT HAVE I RECENTLY FINISHED?

Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne🐻🍯

I think everyone knows the story of Winnie the Pooh, this book contains stories about the adventures of Christopher Robin, Winnie the Poh and all of his friends. They go on wild expositions to find the North Pole, they rescue Piglet using an umbrella and use a balloon to get some honey.

I love Winnie the Pooh! A A Milne’s writing is gorgeous to and the story telling is amazing, it definitely gave me all the feels and took me back to the my childhood🥰

WHAT DO YOU PLAN ON READING NEXT?

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab👻

Cassidy Blake’s parents are The Inspecters, a (somewhat inept) ghost-hunting team, but Cass herself can actually see ghosts. In fact, her best friend just happens to be one. Cass and Jacob head to Edinburgh, Scotland with The Inspecters as it is said to be ultra-haunted. When they arrive Cassidy is surrounded by ghosts, not all of which are friendly. She then meets another in-betweener who can see dead people, who tells Cassidy it is their job to send ghosts permanently beyond The Veil. Cassidy’s power will draw her into an epic fight that stretches through the worlds of the living and the dead, in order to save herself.

This middle grade sounds amazing, it has been on my TBR for so long and I cannot wait to start it. I really want to dip my toes into more spooky/horror books so I thought a middle grade might be a good book to start with. This will also be my first Victoria Schwab book and I cannot wait, I have another of her books on my TBR for this month💕

What are you currently reading?

What book have you recently finished?

What book are you planning on reading next?

Much Love

Books&PixieDust💕✨

Hello lovelies💕

Today I bring you my extremely ambitious TBR for the Musical Mayhem readathon. I will be very surprised and it will be completely unexpected if I read all of these😂

The Addams Family👨‍👩‍👧‍👦: City of Ghosts
The Lion King🦁: Prince Charming
Mary Poppins🌂: The Night Circus
Hamilton⭐️: Wave Me Goodbye
Wicked🧙🏻‍♀️: Dorothy Must Die
Next To Normal🎶: Eliza and Her Monsters
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat🌈: Illuminae
Waitress👩🏻‍🍳: Rosie’s Little Cafe on the Riveria
Hadestown🔥: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Sweeney Todd✂️: Dangerous Girls
Mamma Mia🇬🇷: The Poet X
Bonnie & Clyde🐴: Spellhacker
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang🚗: Disney in Shadow
Mean Girls👯‍♀️: The Black Flamingo
Oliver!👦🏼: Murder Most Unladylike
Beetlejuice🧟: The Twisted Tree
We Will Rock You🎸: Daisy Jones and the Six
The Wizard of Oz🌪: Winnie the Pooh
Les Mis🇫🇷: Anna and the French Kiss
Heathers🛍: Wilder Girls
The Sound of Music🗻: This Savage Song
Matilda✨: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Six👑: Scarlet
Group Read🥀: A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Books & Pixie Dust✨💕

Hello my lovelies✨

Myself and Rae’s Reading Corner are hosting a month long musical themed readathon in August where you play on a bingo board🎉

INFORMATION

There is 24 prompts and a group read for you to choose from. To “officially” complete the readathon you must get a line. There are two teams TEAM WEST END and TEAM BROADWAY!
You can double up on prompts but only 1 book for a maximum of 2 prompts🥰

THE PROMPTS

There are 24 prompts in all which are:

Hamilton⭐️: A book about or that features a historical event or person
Next To Normal🎶: A book that talks about mental health
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat🌈: A book that has a colourful cover
Wicked🧙🏻‍♀️: A retelling
Waitress👩🏻‍🍳: A book that features a baker or a waitress
Hadestown🔥: A book that is based on greek mythology or tragedy
Newsies📰: A book about or that features a movement or revolution
Sweeney Todd✂️: A book about or that features revenge
Mamma Mia🇬🇷: A book with a strong mother/daughter relationship
Bonnie & Clyde🐴: A book about a thief
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang🚗: A book that features a magical object
Mean Girls👯‍♀️: “on Wednesday we wear pink” A book with a pink cover
Oliver!👦🏼: A middle grade book
Mary Poppins🌂: A magical realism book
Beetlejuice🧟: A book with a black and white cover
We Will Rock You🎸: A book about or that features a band/musician
The Wizard of Oz🌪: A book set in your hometown or home country
Les Mis🇫🇷: A book set in France (fully or partially)
The Lion King🦁: A book that features royalty
Heathers🛍: A book that is set in a high school (fully or partially)
The Addams Family👨‍👩‍👧‍👦: A book that you feel has a spooky feel
The Sound of Music🗻: A book set during a war
Matilda✨: A book where the main character has magical powers
Six👑: A book that features strong, independent women

THE GROUP READ

We have a group read for this readathon which is A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer🌹

However we know that some of you would have already read this book so we ask you to either read the sequel A Heart So Fierce and Broken OR if you have read both another Beauty and the Beast retelling is fine💕

POINT SCORING AND TEAMS

For this readathon you will have to pick a team. The two teams are TEAM WEST END and TEAM BROADWAY. The winning team of the readathon is the team that scores the most points.

The point scoring is as followed:
• 1 point per page read
• 10 points per square
• 75 points per line
• 150 points for a full house

We do allow DNF’s to count towards the page count if you have read over 25% however it will not count as a completed square.

SOCIALS

Twitter Musical Mayhem

Instagram Musical Mayhem

We hope you will join us💕
Much Love
Books&PixieDust✨💕

Hello my lovelies✨

I am restarting my blogging journey with a new WWW Wednesday (originally hosted by A Daily Rhythm, and revived by Taking on a World of Words, I am going to be sharing with you the book I have most recently finished, my current reads and what i’m planning on reading next, I will also be giving you a brief synopsis of each book📚

What are you currently reading?

NEVERMOOR: THE TRIALS OF MORRIGAN CROW BY JESSICA TOWNSEND✨

Morrigan Crow is cursed! She was born on Eventide which means she is blamed for everything that goes wrong from thunderstorms to heart attacks. Morrigan is doomed to die on her 11th birthday, but when a strange man called Jupiter North appears as she is awaiting her fate he whisks her off to a magical city called Nevermoor. When she arrives she finds out that she is competing for a place at the Wunderous Society, for her to join however she must compete in 4 trials which are said to be dangerous and difficult against hundreds of other children. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good she must find a way to pass the tests or leave the city to face her deadly fate.

I am only 2 chapters in and so far I am loving it, it is so well written and I am definitely hooked. I have a feeling this is going to be a favourite middle grade of mine which I will be reading to my future children🥰

What did you finish recently reading?

FENCE VOLUME 1 BY C.S. PACAT✨

Nicholas is the illegitimate son of an ex fencing champion. He is a scrappy fencing wunderkind who dreams of getting the chance to train and actually compete. After getting accepted at the Kings Row private school, Nicholas is thrown into a cut-throat world. He finds himself facing the unbeatable and mysterious Seiji Katayama who is not only his roommate but his half-brother. Through clashes, rivalries and romance between teammates, Nicholas and the rest of the boys realise there is much more to fencing than just foils and lunges.

This graphic novel was really good, I’m starting to become a fan of graphic novels because the illustrations are always gorgeous and tend to get me out of reading slumps💕

What do you think you’ll read next?

A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES BY SARAH J MAAS🌹

Feyre’s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill in a cold, bleak forest during the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the woods being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for flesh, but in order to do so she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price.
Dragged to a magical kingdom by a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre’s presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turns from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become and even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will loose him forever.

I cannot wait to read this book, I am such a big Disney fan and absolutely love Beauty and the Beast so I cannot wait to get stuck into this retelling and finally break my Sarah J Maas virginity🌹

Check back next week for another WWW Wednesday and keep everything crossed that I will be talking about different books🤞🏼

Much love
Books&PixieDust✨💕

Lara Jean Song writes love letters to the boys that she has loved/had a crush on, she even addresses them and puts them safely away in her Mum’s hatbox. When the letters get posted to the recipients she must come face to face with all the boys she has previously loved one of which being her next door neighbour.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My thoughts
I had such a tough time thinking of a rating for this until the last part of the book where I just felt all of the emotions. My biggest problem with the book wasn’t actually the books fault but that I had already watched the Netflix adaptation which I loved so was very dubious about reading it.

I love near enough all the characters and the way they are portrayed. I love how her older sister Margot was portrayed having a much bigger part in the book. The one character I wanted more from in the book who had a bigger part in the movie was Lucas Krapf.

Just like every book to movie adaption there were so many things that weren’t included. I loved reading these and being able to use my own imagination as how they were being played out. My favourites being the scene between Peter, Lara Jean and his friends in the parking lot of Tart and Tangy and the road trip to the estate sale. I absolutely loved the ending of the movie compared to the ending of the book.

I can’t put my finger on why I can’t give this book a 5 star but there is something telling me that it’s ‘only’ a 4 stars. I’m definitely reading the next in the series before I watch the Netflix adaptation

In July I am hosting an extremely laid back month long readathon. There are seven prompts all based on the colours of the rainbow🌈 below I will be posting the prompts and the readathon twitter page. If you want to join me feel free to give the twitter page a follow and join the discord chat😊

https://mobile.twitter.com/ReadaRainbow1

Much Love✨x

Hi Book Friends💕

There are so many books on my physical TBR that I predict are going to be a five star read. For the purpose of this blog post I am going to list 10 of those books✨

1. The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
2. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
3. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
4. Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
5. One Of Us Is Next by Karen M McManus
6. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
7. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
8. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
9. The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
10. Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens

What are your five predictions? Have you read any of mine? What did you rate them?

Much Love✨xx