GraphicsAThon TBR 📚 Round 4

Hello fellow bookworms 📚 It’s time for another Readathon TBR post ~ which is one of my favorite types of post to wite! I haven’t done one since April as I didn’t join any official Readathons in May but this June the GraphicsAthon is happening! I joined the previous round of this Readathon back in January and it was SO much fun that I was excited to see it return for a fourth Round ❤ I have been reading more graphic novels in the past years and they can be helpful to change up my reading habits, so I highly recommend the GraphicsAThon if you love graphic novels or want to try them out for the first time 🥰 I first saw the announcement of the Readathon on Ellyn’s blog ~ one of the cohosts of the Readathon ~ and it totally made my week! Let’s get into what the Readathon is about, the prompts and lastly my TBR plans! 📚

Me excited to read more graphics again 💕

Information

The GraphicsAthon is a Readathon dedicated to reading graphics, meaning anything with mainly illustrations e.g. graphic novels, comics, webcomics (It’s also okay to listen to the graphics on audiobook if that’s a format you like). It’s a week-long event and the fourth round is taking place from June 21, 2021 12:00 AM (your time zone) to June 27, 2021 11:59 PM! 🥰 I’ve taken the list of hosts and prompts (as well as the bingo card) from the hosts announcement posts!

Hosts

• Ellyn @ Allonsythornrax ➽ https://allonsythornraxxbooks.com/
• Rebecca @ bookishrebecca ➽ https://bookishlyrebecca.wordpress.com/
• Bec @ becandbooks ➽  https://becandbooks.com/
• Ally @ allypallystaken ➽ https://allywritesthingsblog.wordpress.com/

Reading Prompts

Main prompts 

1. A New-to-You Author
2. A 2020 or 2021 release
3. Read A Graphic Written By An Indigenous or BIPOC author
4. A 5 Star Prediction!
5. An Age Group/Genre You Don’t Usually Read For (out of your comfort zone)

Bonus prompts

• Read A Graphic In A Different Format
• Rainbow on The Cover 
• An Adaptation
• A Host recommendation
• A Non-UK or US author
• A backlist title
• Continue a series

My GraphicsAThon TBR

My TBR this time is pretty ambitious, as there were so many great books to choose and I wanted to have at least fill out the bingo board with my options! In total I choose 7 Books for my TBR but I likely won’t get to all of them. Nevertheless, I love having so many options to choose from, so I will always find something to fit my mood ❤ The Readathon only runs one week, but I can read graphic novels really fast, so I feel confident about my options 😄

• The Tea Dragon Festival (Kay O’Neill) ➽ 5-Star Prediction
• Princess Ever After (Kay O’Neill) ➽ Backlist, Host Rec (Rebecca’s Top 9)
• The Girl from the Other Side Vol 4. (Nagabe) ➽ Continue a Series, Non UK/US Author
• Monstress Vol 2. (Marjorie Liu) ➽ Written By A BIPOC author

These are all the books from authors that I’m familiar with, as I couldn’t pass up the chance to continue series/read more by authors I like 😊 On the top of my list are The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon book #2 that I didn’t get to, despite having read books 1 and 3. I really want to finish this series!) and Princess Ever After (this has queer rep and looks great!) by Kay O’Neill who has such a wholesome and lovely art style that always makes me feel cozy inside. I cannot wait to read more by them! 🥰 I also want to continue The Girl from the Other Side, a manga that I discovered in the first round of the GraphicsAthon! It’s amazing and I’m on volume 4, though my library sadly doesn’t have the entire series! Lastly, I want to give Monstress another chance. I had mixed feelings about the first volume, as the worldbuilding was interesting but not introduced in an accessible and easily understandable way. I hope the next volume will clear things up though! 🙏

• Locke & Key Vol 1. (Joe Hill) ➽ An Adaption, New to me Author
• Spy x Family, Vol. 1 (Tatsuya Endo) ➽ 2020 Release, OOCZs
• On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden) ➽ Different Format, Rainbow

Next up are books by new-to-me authors that I have been wanting to read for a while! I watched the Locke & Key Netflix adaption, which got me interested to check out the first Locke & Key volume, as the world is intriguing and unique! The art style sadly isn’t my cup of tea, yet I still want to give at least the first book a chance. Next up is Spy x Family, a manga I saw recommended by 24hryabookblog and which appealed to me a lot as it seems to have assassins, fake marriage and maybe some found family? 🥰 Lastly is a book I’ll only read if I’m finished with everything else as it’s 500 pages long 😂 I heard great things about Tillie Walden and On a Sunbeam & I choose it for the different format prompt. I usually borrow my graphic novels from Overdrive, but On a Sunbeam is also available as a webcomic for free 😊

Are you participating in GraphicsAThon? Have you read any books on my TBR? Any recommendations for graphic novels? 📚