 Hi, my name is Danny and welcome to Esoteric Moments. Today, I just wanted to start making some videos for Book Tubathon. Book Tubathon is a reading challenge, hoping to get more people reading and engage in the community with different photo and video challenges each day. Today, I just wanted to post a quick TBR, or a 2B Red List, and explain what books I'm reading for which challenges for this big readathon. The first challenge is to pick a book with a yellow cover, and this book has been sitting on my bookshelf forever, but I really love the author, so I'm hoping to get to it this week. And that is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, because all about Frida, Carlo, and kind of history, and being torn between two different nations and what that means for the characters. I love Barbara Kingsolver, especially her prodigal summer, so I hope that this one will be just as enticing. The next challenge is to read a book only after sunset, and I've already started one. I chose Children of the Sea by Jesuke Igarishi. I don't think I said that right, but this is a graphic novel about some young people, including some that were raised in the ocean, and tells just a really beautiful story so far about friendship, and emotions, and growing up, and I love the art in this one so far. The next challenge is a book discovered on BookTube, or through YouTube, and I'm listening to the audiobook Fan Girl, which is about someone who goes off to college who's been writing all this fan fiction and what her first year in college is really all about. So far I'm thoroughly enjoying it, and it allows me to kind of cheat and read while I'm also at my day job. For a book by my favorite author, I'm going to read Echo by Francesca Lea Block. I adore this author. She was one of my favorites when I was in high school, and has continued to be thoroughly enjoyable, but I haven't read this one, even though I own a copy that I picked up at a half-priced books one day. So it's nice and short, and should be an easy read this week. I also had already started the Elf Stones of Shanara, which will fit perfectly for a book older than me, as it was published in the early 80s. This is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks, and is the second in the Shanara trilogy. It also just recently had an MTV series done about it, so even though I had read books in other parts of that series, and had read the Landover series by Terry Brooks, which is about a lawyer who buys a magical kingdom. I hadn't read his original books, so hopefully I will finish that this week. There's also a fun challenge to read and then watch, a book to movie adaptation. And since John Green is very popular, I'm going to read Paper Towns and get to watch the movie this week. Also another nice short YA novel, hopefully will be easy to sneak in while I'm working and doing other things this week. Then the final challenge is to just read seven books. So for my seventh and last book, I'm going to finish Pig and Dreaming by Nimue Brown, which is also a book that I had read bits and pieces of earlier, but I'm really going to sit down and just like, read the whole thing. I have left links in the description. If you're interested in joining in Booktubeathon, I hope that you do. It's a really fun thing that I've always enjoyed watching before, but haven't ever participated in. In the comments below, I would love to hear what you are reading this week, because I assume you are, of course, reading something, and hopefully you'll see more videos from me this week. As always, may you find peace in the sacred grove.