{"id":8559,"date":"2022-02-11T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2022-02-11T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:43:07","slug":"pondathon-ii-quarter-1-round-1-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/pondathon-ii-quarter-1-round-1-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pondathon II: Quarter 1 Round 1 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One quick disclaimer: all of the amazing graphics were created by CW of The Quiet Pond and belong to her<\/em><\/p>\n

In case you didn’t see my intro post<\/a>, Pondathon is a year-long readathon themed around gardening and helping forest creatures. Well, the first round of Pondathon is complete and my little character has been very busy gardening. I think I did quite well this round, reading ten books, six of which also counted for the side quest, and completing the companion quest. I’m having ever so much fun with this. For the most part, I’m reading everything I normally would (hi, ARCs) but getting cute plants for it!<\/p>\n

This first round went from January 10 to January 29.<\/p>\n

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Round 1 Quests<\/h2>\n
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\"Pondathon\u00a0Wow, nothing like starting out with a bang with some absolutely gorgeous rewards! I think my personal favorite was the lavender, possibly because it’s one of the few plants that I’ve managed to grow in real life. I also really liked the hedges and someone on the Discord group even mentioned making a hedge maze for the character! How awesome would that be?<\/p>\n

\"Quest<\/p>\n

The side quest this round was encouraging Xiaolong’s flowers to grow<\/a>\u00a0by reading to them, which, hi, so adorable. What it meant for us was reading diverse books with each book read earning either a planter box or garden bed as a reward. I mostly opted for the planter beds – I’m a fan of raised gardening in real life – but I opted for a few garden beds as well. Also, reading three and five diverse books would earn special rewards, including a badge for our character cards and some pretty cool stickers. For the purpose of this quest, diverse books are those by an author with a marginalized identity (or identities) about characters with a marginalized identity (or identities).<\/p>\n

\"Companion<\/p>\n

The last quest was a companion quest<\/a>, courtesy of Racquel Marie, the author of Ophelia After All<\/a>. It ran from January 17-January 29. To complete that quest, we had to design a rose based on our favorite book, and then for an extra prize, post about the new book on social media. The prizes were a pride rose tree (OMG) plus a prom accessory set.<\/p>\n

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What I Read<\/h2>\n
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Here’s the books I read for the main quest and the prizes I received.<\/p>\n

\"Q1R1<\/p>\n