Good morning. Well. I don't know I haven't had coffee yet, so I don't think I can say it's a good morning. It's
morning
so zoe from read by Zoe is hosting a 24 hour read-A-Thon and
I'm participating. It's about 8:00 in the morning which means I am already down 8 hours because I was asleep
for like seven of those hours. I woke up at 7 and I did my makeup and haven't had coffee or food yet. Okay!
Let's do the TBR
Let's talk about what I'm planning to read today. Got a pretty ambitious little stack of books here
so let me tell you about them. So first up I have the Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by
Mackenzie Lee. This is the one I'm listening to an audiobook though
I'm kind of like listening and reading along and like switching back and forth. The audiobook is
fantastic the narrator is just -
He's great. I'm this far. No. I'm more far
I listened to the audiobook while I was doing my makeup, so let's see how many pages. I got 37 pages, okay?
I'm pretty happy with that like I've only been awake for an hour. I do kind of want to just
Fly through the rest of this and finish it because I am loving it so much, but I'm gonna put it on hold for
most of the day like I'm going to listen to the audiobook when I need a break from
Physically reading and when I'm like preparing food and whatnot so I'll probably make some progress
with this today
but it's not my priority. My priority for today is This Savage Song and Our Dark Duet by
Victoria Schwab
This is a duology which means that these two books make for a complete story
And I want to experience that complete story all at once so my like real main goal for today is
Read both of these if I make it through both of these books
I will consider myself very accomplished for today. So. If I finish these then I
Will be aiming to finish this next and I'm already the a decent ways in so I
It's not impossible
But what is impossible is getting to my 4th book which is Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
I know
I'm not going to get to this today like I don't think I can
read two and a half books in 16 hours
And then be like you know what I really want more. After I finish those three books
This is the very next book on top of my TBR
So I feel like I might be able to finish those three like today and tomorrow then this will be a nice book that I
Get to like linger with a little bit before we get to booktubeathon, another Read-a-thon
I'm participating in. I have another overly ambitious TBR plan for that one too. So stay Tuned.
TBR
Yay read all the books
read all the books
Read all the books. Gonna brew up a mug of liquid motivation and settle in to read This Savage Song
Let's do it
First coffee of the day.
update time so I've been reading for about two hours or so and I'm
This far and book I'm on page
123
but there's like
24 Pages of
Prologue kind of because it's counted in the roman numerals not page numbers by the time I got to page 1 I'd already read 24
pages, so I'm I'm really like
150 Pages
Into book, I think I can finish this duology today
Which is exciting. Starting to get pretty hot in this room since I don't have air-conditioning
So it's probably time for me to like change in the shorts and a tank top and head downstairs where the cold air lives
Also, I'm getting pretty hungry so I I think it's time for breakfast. I think I'm going to eat
I think what this vlog needs is a food montage, so let's do it
that was
Delicious oh my God I eat the same thing for breakfast almost every single day
And I never get tired of it cuz... like it's too delicious. It's too good. Anyway,
I intended to listen to my audio book Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue when I was like
Preparing meals and stuff, but I ended up not doing that like I just I wanted to stay in this book world
I didn't want to like jump back and forth between stories too much, so I just listened to some music and
Now it's time for more reading because that's what you do during a 24 hour read-a-thon
It's like reading coffee reading food reading coffee
reading coffee reading food that's my plan for the day this book is divided into sections a finished part one and
This is part two
I'm going to finish part two and then I'm going to reward myself with a Starbucks break so let's
Get back to reading so I can get a frappuccino and me as soon as possible
another update and
another
Outfit change, I swear, I don't usually change my clothes those many times in one day, but I'm going out okay
It's almost 1:00 in the afternoon, and I finished part two. I'm more than halfway done with book
It's getting really really good, and I kind of don't want to take a break
but also I kind of really want a frappuccino like I
I've earned it
Look how much reading I've done so I'm heading to the bucs, and I think I'm going to bring my book even though
I don't really plan and to read it there
I just maybe I will I don't think so, but I'll bring it anyways it's my friend today
I might also get lunch while I'm out. Even though I'm not super hungry, but
like Chipotle
Case closed I also feel like I can really justify it today because like if I'm spending less time cooking than I'm spending more time
reading in
Theory
Ok yeah, let's go get coffee and food and then I will finish this book
Holy hell it's hot
It's so hot. Help me!
So I just read like 40 pages
Sitting outside a Starbucks drinking my frappuccino. Which by the way is something I've literally never
done before I've never
sat outside of a Starbucks reading
Ever. So that was new but I liked it. Okay. It's 1:52
Can you see, can you see? It's almost 2 pm. There's a plane overhead.
ow the sun hurt me
It's a great time for Chipotle. Let's go
Okay
Chipotle acquired
That was really fast. what time is it? It's only been like eight minutes since I left Starbucks.That was real fast
Now I need air conditioning
God bless
This is my chipotle order
I get a burrito bowl with white rice, pinto beans, sofritas, medium Salsa
and then just slap some guac on there and it's perfect. It's perfect.
guaca guaca guaca guacamole
ok i'm going to eat this now
book completed
I finished book!
My hair's definitely in need of like a wash and a brush for that matter
It is 4:47 in the evening and book 1 is complete
I've read almost 500 pages today this book is
450 and then I listened to
37 pages worth of audio book of Gentleman's Guide this morning so almost 500 pages
And I still got seven hours of reading time left. So it's time to move on from this book to this book
oh my gosh. This book is
Just want a page number. I don't want any spoilers
510. Wait does it have a prologue part? Two pages. So if I can finish this book in the next seven hours
That'll put me at about a thousand pages for the day and also
Completing my goal of reading these two books
I think I can do it it might be kind of close like five hundred pages in seven hours is a pretty
Pretty fast reading speed, but I think I can do this. I'm still super full from Chipotle
So I definitely don't need to like break for food anytime soon. I'm not a very snacky reader
I don't like eating and reading at the same time I do like drinking warm caffeinated beverages while I'm reading
so I think I'm going to make myself a cup of tea and
Settle in with Our Dark Duet. Today it's been a pretty good day like I'm feeling really
Productive, but also, it's been like really chill. I've just been in
Story world and eating all day. It's been pretty great. But yeah it's tea time and then it's read time
Let's go
Wow, that's super dusty. It was better with the light off. I got tea. I got book I got bed
This is great that side table is so dusty I can't not see it. Now. Don't look at it. Don't look at it
Look at my book. I like reading in bed
I know some people don't because it makes them fall asleep
But I have trouble sleeping period So I like reading in bed. Time to eat this book
I'm going to drink my tea. Where's my tea at. Tea tea tea
Cheers
Okay, I need to stop fooling around now. It's reading time
Quick update it is just past 8 pm
I'm a hundred and thirty seven pages into book right yeah
137 so
510 - 137
is
370 pages?
372 pages about
Okay, four hours. I don't think I'm going to make it, but I'm trying.
2 hours to go and
200 pages to go. I want to sit here and read for two hours straight
It's goin' be real close. It's 11:00
I have an hour left and a 110 pages to go. Oh my God, it's so close. I'm not gonna make it but like
At midnight. I made it to page
472 so I still got
Like what
28 Pages
left I'm
so close
there's...
28 28
28 pages, and I would have read a thousand pages in a day
Maybe if I spent less time eating or I spent less time talking to you lot. I could have done it I do
Still feel very accomplished and I am going to finish this book tonight
I think I'm gonna take a short break and make some pasta because like my head and eyes are kind of tired from
reading for like the last 7 hours straight
so yeah, I don't think I'm going to film a pasta part because
like I'm tired and
it's pasta. You know what pasta is like
Do you if you don't I recommend it I like pasta
I'm obviously very tired right now, so yeah, the read-a-thon is over
I'm going to make some food
finish my book and
sleep and
I'll do a proper read-a-thon wrap up in the morning because like I'm I'm way too tired
I'm way - I can't I can't do it right now. I'll see you tomorrow
Hi, it is now
Monday morning, I spent Sunday just
Editing this video. I had almost two hours of footage cuz when I film like the montage bits
I just leave the camera running the entire time like literally
I have seven minutes of water coming to a boil just so I could get that two-second cup of tea Kettle whistle
But anyways, it's time for the read-a-thon wrap-up
I think the main takeaway of this read-a-thon for me was the fact that it definitely could have broken a thousand pages
if just managed my time a little bit better
And I'm so upset
With myself that I didn't push myself that extra a little bit to read 1000 pages in 24 hours because I was so so
so close
but let's maybe take it down a notch or twelve and
Back up a bit let's start at the beginning. Let's review
how I did. So I started with The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie
Lee I listened to a couple chapters of the audio book while I was getting ready in the morning
And it ended up being 37 pages for this one
Then I read This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab in its entirety. The final page of this book is
numbered for 27, but there are 23 pages of
prologue in roman numerals, so
grand total of 450 for this book. Then I moved on to Our Dark Duet and I read the first two pages of
Prologue were through count in roman numerals and I made it to page
473
before midnight
So for this book it's a total of 475 pages which brings us to a total of 962
pages read during the 24 hour readathon. I was so close
Like my math was definitely wrong earlier. I thought I was only twenty eight pages when I was thirty eight pages away
but still
Thirty-eight pages away is so close. I had planned to finish this book after
my midnight pasta
But I ended up just going to sleep like
Immediately after eating. I was real tired at that point
And I was also in the middle of like this epic finale
And I wanted to be like fully present to experience the awesomeness, so I just saved it for the morning
I was really happy that I decided to read a duology for this 24 hour read-a-thon
I imagine a single big book or like a shorter trilogy would have the same effect
but it was just really really nice to spend all day reading in the same story world and to get
almost that entire
Story arc all at once. It's kind of weird to think about how much time
Victoria Schwab spent creating these books like how many hours days weeks months were spent
devoted entirely to
bringing these into the world and
Then I just blow through them both in a day
It's kind of cray. Anyways, I think that's just about it for this video
I had a really great time doing this so I will definitely do another 24 hour read-a-thon in the future just not in the very
near future because
booktubeathon is coming up in like a week and I have
Another pretty ambitious TBR for that read-a-thon, too
So stay tuned. If you enjoyed this video then please let me know
Maybe give me a like or a comment. I'm thinking about doing videos like this for booktubeathon
If that's something you guys would be interested in let me know yeah, that's everything for this video
So thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it
I hope you have a wonderful day, night, afternoon - I don't know what time it is on your end.
You live your life
I will have another video up soon so I will see you then. Bye