Hi friends, and happy Thursday! I hope you’re well. Today I’m posting something a little different. In today’s post I’m going to be wrapping up my reading experience during the Pondathon!

The Pondathon Readathon was hosted by CW over at The Quiet Pond.

I had such an amazing time reading and collecting things for my garden. This is one of the few readathons I’ve participated in and I’m so glad I took the plunge. I’m sad that it had to end early and that CW is closing her blog, but I respect her decision and wish her all the best! 😊 I also just want thank her so much for running this readathon because it was amazing and she did an incredible job!!

Now onto my wrap-up!

Over the course of the readathon I read 46 books! I honestly can’t believe I read so many books before we even hit the halfway mark on the year, look at me go!

In round one this is what my garden looked like:

The books I read (I’ve linked my reviews, where applicable) :

• Wintersong by: S. Jae-Jones
• Alex, Approximately by: Jenn Bennett
• Nightblood by: Elly Blake
• The Perfect Stranger by: Megan Miranda
• The Hobbit by: J.R.R. Tolkien
• Blackout by: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon
• Shadowsong by: S. Jae-Jones

In round two this was my garden:

The books I read (I’ve linked my reviews, where applicable) :

• Washington Black by: Esi Edugyan
• The Brink of Darkness by: Jeff Giles
• The Sleep Solution by: W. Chris Winter
• Witchshadow by: Susan Dennard
• The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by: Tamora Pierce
• The City We Became by: N.K. Jemisin
• Hunger by: Roxane Gay
• The Insiders by: Mark Oshiro

In round three this was my garden:

The books I read (I’ve linked my reviews, where applicable) :

• Satellite Love by: Genki Ferguson
• The Untold Story by: Genevieve Cogman
• All The Quiet Places by: Brian Thomas Isaac
• Goodbye Days by: Jeff Zentner
• She Who Became the Sun by: Shelley Parker-Chan
• Clap When You Land by: Elizabeth Acevedo
• Velvet Was the Night by: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Anne of Green Gables by: L.M. Montgomery

In round four & five (I combined this one) this was my garden:

The books I read (I’ve linked my reviews, where applicable) :

• The Collapsing Empire by: John Scalzi
• 100 Hours by: Rachel Vincent
• The Takedown by: Corrie Wang
• Maud by: Melanie J. Fishbane
• Disability Visibility edited by: Alice Wong
• Mexican Gothic by: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Rich Girl, Broke Girl by: Kelley Keehn
• The Consuming Fire by: John Scalzi
• Driven by: Marcello Di Cintio
• 99 Lies by: Rachel Vincent
• Into the Water by: Paula Hawkins
• The Deepest of Secrets by: Kelley Armstrong
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by: Mark Haddon
• The Someday Birds by: Sally J. Pia
• Raybearer by: Jordan Ifueko
• Once Upon an Eid edited by: S.K. Ali

For the last round of the Pondathon here is my final garden, in which I had to start over because my last gardens didn’t save and so I combined everything to make one garden:

The books I read:

• What Strange Paradise by: Omar El Akkad
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by: Gail Honeyman
• The Last Emperox by: John Scalzi
• Daughter of the Pirate King by: Tricia Levenseller
• Ghost Squad by: Claribel A. Ortega
• A Man Called Ove by: Fredrik Backman
• Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by: Crystal Maldonado

And that’s a wrap on the Pondathon readathon! I had so much fun participating and again, wishing the very best CW! Did you participate in the readathon? How did your garden come along? Let me know in the comments below and link to your gardens!