12th Annual Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon

I am excited to join the 12th Annual Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon. This year’s event will take place on Thursday, November 21st through Monday, December 2nd, 2024. During the event, participants will read or listen to as many holiday or winter reads as they can, while taking part in challenges. Prizes, hot cocoa, bookish friends and more!

You can join here!

12th Annual Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon

This year the annual Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon will begin at 12:01 am Thursday November 21st and will end Monday, December 2nd at 11:59 pm in your time zone. Giving us twelve days of fun.

Get your holiday & winter setting books and be prepared to have fun! Audiobooks, library books, ebooks, old books or new books we don’t care. Don’t forget the hot chocolate!

I'll be sharing my progress here in this blog and also at my Goodreads profile and Threads with the #2024HoHoHoRAT.

You can join here!

My TBR List:

A Cat Cafe Christmas by Codi Gary

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore

My Updates:

Nov 21

6:39 am: I'm starting this Readathon and joining the 12 days of Bookstsgram Challenge. You can see my first pic here Instagram

9:29 pm: The Christmas Bookshop 41% read. I'm really liking it.

Nov 22

3:30 pm: The Christmas Bookshop 60% read. I hope I can finish it tonight. It's really good. Also I posted day 2 of 12 days of Bookstagram Challenge here.

8:53 pm: I finished The Christmas Bookshop and absolutely loved it! Read my review here.

9:15 pm: Starting The Christmas Tree Farm!

Nov 23

6:07 am Good morning! I just participated in the Library Sleigh Challenge for the Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon.

6:19 am: I just participared in the HoHoHoRAT Mini Challenge! Share a Holiday Recipe. I shared 3 of my favorite recipes for the season, they are from Venezuela and Chile, where my family and I are from. We love cooking together and listening to Christmas songs, even my 5 yeard old son helps.

- Venezuelan Hallacas (Hallacas): https://mommyshomecooking.com/traditional-venezuelan-hallacas-recipe/ (We already did this one and froze many Hallacas for the season)

My Hallacas. Not perfect but delicious.

- Venezuelan Ham Bread (Pan de Jamon): https://www.curiouscuisiniere.com/pan-de-jamon/ (my favorite)

- Chilean Fruitcake (Pan de Pascuas): https://www.thespruceeats.com/chilean-holiday-fruitcake-pan-de-pascua-3029403

Nov 25

10 am: progress 34% The Christmas Tree Farm. I didn't expect to be so busy but for the next two weeks I have a Christmas event at school almost every.

Nov 26

6:33 am: I woke up super early and have been reading for a while. Progress: 60% The Christmas Tree Farm.

12:49 pm: Finished The Christmas Tree Farm, really liked it. I also posted day 4 of the 12 Days of Bookstagram on my instagram @gabyimaginarias

5:00 pm: I took a break from romance and read How the Grinch stole Christmas!. I've never read it before, can you believe it ?

5:21 pm: I posted day 6 of the 12 Days of Bookstagram Challenge.

Nov 28

I posted day 7 of the 12 days of Bookstagram Challenge on my Instagram. Also I started reading A Cat Café Christmas by Codi Gary.

Nov 29

9:40 am: I just posted day 8 of the 12 days of Bookstagram Challenge on my Instagram.

I'm still reading A Cat Café Christmas by Codi Gary 😸

December 2

7 am Finished reading A Cat Café Christmas by Codi Gary, it was lovely.

8 am Now I'm starting to read The Christmas Book Hunt by Jenny Colgan. It's a short novella so I think it would be perfect to wrap up the read a thon.

11:30 am progress 56% The Christmas Book Hunt

3:50 pm I finished The Christmas Book Hunt by Jenny Colgan. My fifth and last book for the read a thon.