hello hello! nostalgiathon is only a few days away and i didn’t realize a never made an “official” blog post announcing it. a few weeks ago, breana @milkybooks, tiffany @readbytiffany, and i shared our announcements, tbr, and giveaway for NOSTALGIATHON!
what is nostalgiathon?
nostalgiathon is a ten-day readathon from august 7th to 16th that highlights our favorite childhood books. i think we all need something simpler and light-hearted – especially during these ~trying times~. in all honesty, the three of us just wanted to reread old favorites and decided to drag y’all with us. NO REGRETS THO. <333
twitter: @anostalgiathon – discord: *link released upon request
the prompts:
- read a childhood book with pictures
- read a friend’s favorite childhood book
- read a book with a fantasy element
- read a popular childhood book
- read a book where you wanted to be the main character
BONUS: read a fanfiction or wattpad book to bring back all the feels :”)
life challenges:
- watch your favorite childhood movie
- do an arts & crafts project
- play your favorite childhood game
watch party:
in addition to reading, we’ll be watching the babysitters club throughout the readathon! since there are ten-episodes, there’ll be a netflix watch party for each day of the readathon. the full schedule is still tentative, so be sure to follow our twitter and discord for all future updates.
GIVEAWAY!!
two winners will receive a copy or preorder of one of the following books:
- the dragon warrior, by katie zhao
- when stars are scattered, by victoria jamieson & omar mohamed
- the girl and the ghost, by hanna alkaf
- tristan strong punches a hole in the sky, by kwame mbalia
- ghost squad, by claribel a. ortega
- race to the sun, by rebecca roanhorse
- king and the dragonflies, by kacen callender
- other words for home, by jasmine warga
- way to make sunshine, by renée watson
- mindy kim and the yummy seaweed business, by lyla lee
all the giveaway books we chose are specifically focusing on own voices middle-grade authors. we as asian-americans saw there wasn’t much diversity in our childhood books so we wanted to spotlight an author of color for each day of the readathon!
I just posted my TBR today (https://theliteraryhuntress.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/nostalgiathon-tbr-%e2%9c%a8/) and I’m really excited to join! I’ve read some books and I’m happy to say that I still enjoyed them and they bring back so many nostalgic feels!