On tonight's program ladies gentlemen, we have something that's gonna make you sick
Hello there, my name is Jack Edwards and welcome back to my youtube channel today
I'm going to be attempting a challenge emphasis on the word
attempting but basically I've seen a few people on YouTube making videos where they try to read solidly for 24 hours and I thought
Maybe maybe I could do that. And so that is what this video is going to be. It's currently 9 a.m
one thing I would like to point out right at the beginning of this video is that if you can see that clock in the
Background it doesn't work
I took the batteries out of it as soon as I got it because it was so annoying but no matter what video I make
Someone always comments being like you're lying about the time
So believe me when I say that clock does not work, and if you don't believe me, just look at the second hand
It doesn't move it doesn't move
Anyway, the reason for doing this challenge well while there isn't really a reason I can't lie
But the reason I can justify spending 24 hours just reading is that I do an English Lit degree
So I'm thinking that this could actually be quite good in terms of getting ahead of the game for some reading for lectures and stuff
So I've got a bunch of books that I want to get through obviously
I'll keep you updated as the day goes on the first one. However is
Trainspotting which i've been reading over the last week and i've got about
200 pages left. So I'm hoping that I can wrap this up today. And yeah without further ado. This is my 24 hour
reading challenge
Wish me luck
Okay, so book number one is done. I've just finished 'Trainspotting', I would give this book a
4 and a half stars out of 5
So one book down and quickly moving on to 'Prater Violet' by Christopher Isherwood
My dissertation is actually on a Christopher Isherwood's fiction. So this is this is kind of actually work
I am halfway through 'Prater Violet' and we've been going for three hours now
So if 3 hours is a quarter of 12 hours and 12 hours is half of 24 hours, then that must be
One eighth one eighth the way through I think
I absolutely
loved this book. Oh my god.
That was one of the easiest books to read all in one go ever.
Big big big fan of that and the next book is
going to be Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', which is a book I've wanted to read for so long. I haven't read any Toni Morrison
so I'm very very excited to read some and this book is actually probably double the length of
'Prater Violet', so this is gonna take considerably longer but am I tough enough? Hell yeah, I'm tough enough
I can't lie
'Beloved' is taking me considerably longer to read per page than the other 2 books that I've read so far today
I think that it's one of those books where you kind of need to like break it up, like it's hard to read all in
one go and that's kind of what I'm trying to do
So I think I might need to sort of break it down and read some other things in between
I'm gonna keep going with this for now and then we'll see where we're at
I think at the moment we've been going for 6 and a half hours
So that's a quarter of the time gone, which is pretty cool
But also not much. As much as I loved reading and I've quite enjoyed it so far
I can't imagine doing this 3 more times, but we'll see, you know
Okay, so it is now gone 5 which basically means I've done a whole working day of just reading. The overarching
question is still why? Why would you do that? But it's going okay. I feel kind of fine
My eyes are starting to go a little bit like losing focus. So I've got a Red Bull
Well, it's like the Tesco own-brand version of red ball because I'm a uni student and it really be like that
sometimes. I've also just made myself some lunch
So basically my thought process is that if I delay all of my meals slightly then and have dinner say like 1:00 a.m
Then hopefully that should kind of get me through the night. But yeah, this is taking some effort to get through this book. So, um
Back to the grind
We have hit the 10 hour mark
I just finished reading 'Beloved' and then ate my body weight in cheese as a reward
Normally eating cheese gives me like crazy dreams, but since I'm getting no sleep tonight
Um probably shouldn't make too much of a difference unless I start like hallucinating and going insane
Which is quite it's quite likely with or without the cheese to be honest at this point. That being said
on to the next book
Another book down, completed it mate. It has gone midnight now and
I'm shattered. I don't know why I'm so tired really because I like
haven't really done anything today. We've got about 9 hours to go. Ahhhhhhhhh
It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fineeeee
Is it gonna be fine? Yeah, no, it's gonna be fine
Why the hell did I think this was a good idea. Ohhhhhh
I literally don't know what I'm doing. My eyes aren't working anymore. I just finished 'Kari'... Carrey? It was really good
It was like beautiful and heartbreaking and a super cool
Graphic novel. I've never had a graphic novel before but actually there was a lot of text in it
And it was such a cool story. So
Yeah, I'd really recommend that. Next on my list is 'The Crying of Lot 49'
This is a really ugly cover, but I'm excited to read this book. One thing that may be a slight issue
Is that the text is really really tiny
so I think I might head upstairs and read this with a torch on because then I think I'll be able to focus on the
words bit easier
It is currently quarter to 3 in the a.m. And it's dinnertime.
Apparently. I'm really flagging, really really really flagging.
So hopefully having some dinner now is going to perk me back up
obviously, I'm going to have to read whilst I cook but the thought of food right now is going to get me through.
I have to say, not bad for a boy with no talent (also not bad for someone who was reading whilst making it)
I basically got broccoli, rice and a fillet of salmon with a soy sauce
Honey, and garlic sort of marinade thing... sauce that I made on top of it
So I've just finished this, can't lie guys
This was the worst book I've read so far today in the last 24 hours did not enjoy that at all
Okay, so it is 4:00 a.m. In order to kind of mix things up a bit, I'm going to read my next thing online
So this is 'Polly Honeycomb'
The next book I'm reading is called 'Outline'. It's by Rachel Cusk
This is a book that I completely judged by its cover, but I just read the first 10 pages and they were
Immaculate, so quite excited by this. I think it's a narrative told through like 10 different conversations. So really cool concept
This should be good. Also, the text is bigger, which is helpful because my eyes not working so much
I'm not gonna lie to you guys. My eyes did close for like 15 minutes maybe, however
The Sun has risen. I never thought I'd see this day. So close now. Oh my god. I literally cannot keep my eyes open
When I've watched other people do this, it looked so easy, but it's really nnooottttt
I'm just so tired. I just finished reading 'Outline', which was really really great. I really enjoyed it. 1 hour to go
So I'm gonna start a new book
and see how far I can get. Also a pretty
major issue that I didn't I didn't really think about until now is the fact that because my 24 hours goes from like 9 a.m
to 9 a.m
when I end the challenge it's going to be the morning of a brand new day
which basically means I can't actually sleep, like I have a lecture at 10 and I've just remembered that I've got a head shot being
taken at 12. I am going to have eyebags so big that Tesco could sell them for 5 pence. This is not good
at all. Oh, well, we're gonna roll with it. It'll be fine. Maybe possibly potentially, I don't even know, I'm just too tired right now
Wow, we have really come full circle
So I just made breakfast because it's actually a whole new day and I'm still reading
I'm honestly questioning my entire existence at this point like every part of my being wants to give up now
But I know I'm too close to the end to stop. So cheers guys
Okay, guys, this is the big moment we are approaching 24 hours of reading non-stop
We did it
24 hours of non-stop
reading. Completed it mate, yes. Oh I was going insane. I don't want to see another book. I don't want to think about a book
Except for the lecture I have on books in like 10 minutes. Oh my god. I'm so pleased that's over
This was totally unprovoked totally unnecessary, but we frickin did it. Yes
I'm so happy
As I've been going along I've been logging all of the books that I've read on Goodreads
so if you want to see what books I did read and my reviews of them and you can head over to my Goodreads account
which I will link down below. Thank you for watching this chaotic vlog. I don't know why I do these things to myself
But this has been today's Jackuary video. There will be another brand new video at 5 p.m
tomorrow if I stay awake get to that point
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And I will see you next time. Bye. Bye
In case I don't see ya good afternoon good evening and good night