BookTube-A-Thon Wrap Up

Hey guys!  During the last week of July, Alexandra and I both decided to tackle the BookTube-A-Thon!  This is a readathon that I’ve participated in for a few years now, and after dragging Alexandra with me I thought we’d talk about our prospective experiences.

The BookTube-A-Thon is hosted once a year by Ariel Bissett, and took place on July 24-July 30.  It’s the largest readathon on Youtube and overall a really fun way to read more during the summer and explore your TBRs and bookshelves.  So without further ado, let’s get started!

So the Biannual Bibliothon took place during the same time, and I tried to be ambitious and complete both readathons. I even had a pool of books to choose from to give my week some variety. But between my summer classes and the two readathons and a bunch of other events I had that week I basically did not complete any of the Biannual Bibliothon challenges :(

when you just wanna read but math is no fun
and e v e r y t h i n g distracts you

And because of said classes, at the end my BookTube-A-Thon basically turned into a 24-Hour readathon.  Thankfully, most of my books overlapped challenges but for the sake of seeing everything clearly I matched only 1 or 2 books to a challenge. I think I was definitely successful this time than my previous attempts, but...well you’ll see why.

1. book with a person on the cover:
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
2. hyped book

- One-Punch Man Vol. 1
3. finish a book in one day

- Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1) by Bryan Lee O’Malley
4. finish a book completely outdoors

- Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O’Malley
5. read a book about a very different character from you

- William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars #5) by Ian Doescher
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2) by Bryan Lee O’Malley
6. read a book you bought because of the cover

- 48% of Starflight by Melissa Landers (It was pretty much half so I consider that a win. But now I'm glad I'm taking a little longer because it's really good!)
7. read seven books

- N/A

Yeah I know a bunch of them were graphic novels, and actually both Scott Pilgrims and Perks were rereads.  I was trying to complete the book-to-movie adaptation challenge for the Biannual Bibliothon, and wanted to redeem my 12-year-old self and watch Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. But that didn't happen.

However Perks somehow ends up fitting that one hard challenge every year for the summer readathons, so it’s become almost a tradition to read it every year.  And honestly, I kinda like it. It’s an incredibly touching, moving, and I love rereading it and learning even more little lessons than I had the previous time.

Challenges completed: 5.5/7

While Izzy was calm and collected throughout the
week, this was probably me in the background
panicking about what to read.

So I had been contemplating participating for a while and hadn’t initially planned on doing it, but I last minute changed my mind and decided to participate in BookTubeAThon with Izzy (which is why I didn’t post anything here about it).

Anyway, it happened and I didn’t do terribly? Normally I’m not so good with these things but I did alright all things considered, especially because I was away (and had to rely mostly on ebooks which usually take me forever to read and are usually not my priority TBR) and I didn’t have much time to read during the week. ANYWAY ENOUGH RAMBLING. Let’s go see which challenges I completed, shall we?

1. book with a person on the cover:
- A Reaper of Stone by Mark Gelineau and Joe King
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

2. hyped book: The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

3. finish a book in one day
- A Reaper of Stone by Mark Gelineau and Joe King
- Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

4. finish a book completely outdoors: N/A

5. read a book about a very different character from you: Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

6. read a book you bought because of the cover: A Reaper of Stone by Mark Gelineau and Joe King

7. read seven books: N/A

Okay, so truth be told, I only read 3 books (as you could probably tell). To be honest, it was more like 2 because A Reaper of Stone was the length of a novella. Don't look at me like that. I tried my best. Okay, fine. I could have tried harder and I am disappointed in myself too. Especially because I didn't even try to squeeze a few more novellas or graphic novels or anything in last minute (and I totally could have because I was back home for the final three days of the readathon...) But hey, I still completed more than half of the challenges!

Challenges completed: 5/7