Showing posts with label Chicken Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicken Challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Chicken Challenge Wrap Up

I know the challenge doesn't technically end until the end of the month, but I don't think I'll have time to really finish up any more posts for it. School, while going well, has sort of taken over my life again. And, anyways, I'd prefer to finish this up on a high note!


The Chicken Challenge was hosted by Lys from the Mad Reader and it was such an awesome challenge! I hope she does it again next year (hint, hint Lys if you're reading this I think you should do it again next year) because I had such a great time participating.

There were a bunch of opportunities to participate, but you didn't have to finish every single thing. I did at least a post a week for the challenge (or at least I tried to).

My goal was rather little- I wanted to finish one book during this challenge, and that book is Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard. Well, I haven't finished it, yet, but I'm on track to completing it by the end of the month, so I think I'm going to count that as successful.

I loved this challenge! It was such a fun time. I am a little biased since I helped create it, but, hey, it was great.

This was also a really great experience. I rather enjoyed this one, too. Although, I am, generally, a sucker for tags (I think they're great!). 

I hope everyone who participated had as good a time as I did!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Chicken Challenge Book Tag


This is part of the Chicken-Challenge which is hosted by Lys from The Mad Reader. I've been having so much fun participating and I'm kinda sad that it's drawing to a close.

1. A book that scared you.
I've only read the first two books in this series so far but when I read the first one, while it was an edge of my seat thriller, this one absolutely scared me, in all the right ways! I don't want to say how, since it happens in the last act of the book, but if you're looking for chills these books are a great place to start.

2. What's the funniest prank you pulled?
Okay, so it wasn't a purposeful prank, but one time my friends and I bought our other friend a bookmark. We didn't tell him and we had it mailed directly to his box. We expected he would know it was from us because it's something we would do. Apparently he thought someone was stalking him, though, and started to freak out and did a bunch of research onto the person we bought it from. When we learned this was what we thought we decided to leave a comment on the Etsy page that we bought it from and expect he would know it was one of us (particularly because we continued to tell him to check the comments section) but when he saw that he started freaking out even more and was so scared. We were all laughing so hard because he had never thought it was us and when we told him he just kinda breathed a sigh of relief. We apologized profusely but it's still one of the funniest things that has ever happened in our friend group and we don't let him live it down.

3. Share a spooky ghost story.
This isn't much of a story, but it's something that happened two me two years ago. When I go to sleep I pull the chain for my ceiling light and also flick the switch, just out of habit. But then, in the middle of the night one time, I woke up around 3am and the light in my room, which shouldn't have been able to turn on at all, was flickering on and off. I wasn't really scared but I was like "whoah" and then after it didn't happen for another half hour I went back to sleep and when I woke up was thoroughly freaked out.

4. What's the scariest movie you've ever watched?
Okay, this isn't a horror film but I was still so scared by it I was actually crying silently in the movie theatre, but Jurassic World. The Jurassic Park franchise just scares me (I'm not sure why) and even though I loved the film I don't think I could ever see it again.

5. What is your dream costume?
This definitely has a Celaena Sardothian vibe but even more then that it would be such a badass costume! Like, I would wear it around outside of Halloween.

6. What is the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Hahahaha I don't eat weird things. Like, I eat what I like and that is that because I'm super picky. I suppose it might be strange, but I love to eat Vegetarian Vegetable Soup with Pepperoni (I know I've talked about this before but it's still a little weird).

7. If you were a fictional who would you be and why?
I'd want to be an antihero of some kind, so maybe Mystique (but not the Jennifer Lawrence version, as much as I like her I don't think she does the character justice).

Thursday, October 13, 2016

The Book Scavenger Hunt

This is part of the Chicken-Challenge, a read-along and challenge hosted by Lys from The Mad Reader. This is the challenge I was most excited to do for the whole event (I'll admit maybe that's because I helped create it but also because it sounds like so much fun!) and since I didn't have the time to do every challenge I made sure this was one that I could do for sure.

The Rules: You have 2 minutes to think of as many books as you can corresponding to the categories given. 

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

Books with Royalty
Lunar Chronicles
Heir of Fire

Books with Murder
Throne of Glass

Books with an Unexpected Love Story
Shadow and Bone

Books with a Female Friendship
Lady Midnight
Queen of Shadows

Books with at Least One Animal Pet
Crown of Midnight
City of Bones

Books with Travels
Six of Crows

Books with Covers that Don't Match the Interior
Hunger Games

Books with a lot of Food
The Crown's Game

Books You Can't Read Outside (and give a reason)

Books with Illnesses
The Movie Version

This was so much harder than I thought but I had a lot of fun doing it! Two minutes is really fast and I just kinda froze as I was doing it and would just stare at the words and not comprehend, LOL. Great game!

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Chicken Read-Along


I'm participating in Lys' Chicken Challenge this month and I'm so excited for it! I can't do every challenge because I don't have the time (sad face) but I'm going to do the best I can. Besides this post I'll also be participating in the Book Scavenger Hunt (so excited!), the Tag, and perhaps the Guest Post. If I have time to do more I totally will.

For my TBR for this challenge I'm setting very low expectations for myself. I haven't been able to read very much lately because school has gotten in the way, so I'm only planning on reading one book for the challenge. I don't think it completes any of the challenges per say but it's got a spooky concept so I think it will fit in nicely.


This book is about zombies and necromancers and it's got a steampunk flair so I'm rather excited to read it! I haven't read a Susan Dennard book yet, though I've seen mixed reviews. Here's to hoping I enjoy it!