 thumbnail is gonna be impossible. Oh no. Oh no no no. Oh bad idea. Bad idea. Hello hello everyone my name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video which is my continuous on TBR. This one is a read-a-thon that I am hosting at the beginning of April from April 2 to 15 with Jane from the bookaholic and Hugo from the Sciences Reading World. I'm so excited this is the very first read-a-thon that I have created and am hosting and I just cannot wait for it to get started. It is a read-a-thon based around continuing and finishing series because I feel so many of us have so many series that we're in the middle of reading and so this is just two weeks to set aside to focus on those. If you want more information about the read-a-thon including badges and more specific events that are happening such as reading sprints I'll go ahead and link our announcement videos down below and up above here somewhere so you can go ahead and watch that if you would like more information. I've got some stacks of books here. It's gonna be quite a lot. I'm also thinking that because I have so many books that I want to read for this read-a-thon but because it's only two weeks this might also just be my April TBR as in I'm not gonna get to all these in the two weeks for the read-a-thon but I'm hoping that once I really get into reading all these series I'm just gonna keep going even once the read-a-thon is done so I might end up devoting all of April to the read-a-thon like two finishing series. Mine is like a book or two here there after the read-a-thon is done so I won't be posting in April TBR this is just gonna suffice. The first ones on my priority that I'm going to read probably like April to maybe even April 3 if it takes me that long. Spy X family I've got the last three. I've got the last three volumes here that I own and the anime is going to be coming out this summer. I have been saving these books for the read-a-thon just so I can up my number so these will count for continuing a series. I don't know this volume is the last one I think it's just the last one that is out so I won't be able to complete it but I will definitely be continuing a series three times which already gets me up to the second badge so I I will be needing this especially so I will I didn't mean to mention I will be vlogging the two weeks I'll probably have them in two videos like week one and week two I will vlog the experience I do have some plans the first weekend happening um because it is Brennan's birthday and so I've got some fun surprises for him up my sleeve so which is also why like the read-a-thon is like April 2 to 15 rather than one through 14 but yeah so I will be starting off most likely with these and then the second book that I will be getting to I currently have is an audiobook but I haven't started yet and that will be The Crown's Fate by Evelyn Sky I read the crown's game quite recently and I enjoyed it and then I learned that it was actually a duology so I went ahead and got the second book as an audiobook from the library so I'm going to be completing a duology by reading The Crown's Fate and I am pretty excited for it this was not a series that I like I started it very recently like this past week so I'm happy that I will be completing it and it won't be on the end of the year's video of series that I want to finish in 2023 which a lot of these series here are most likely on that video so if you're curious like what other series I have whether I mentioned them here or not I will hopefully be reading more of those I will also have that video linked up above somewhere this next one is the one that I want to take priority after I finished those first two but it's the one that scares me the most yeah I think this one is going to finish the prompt for your oldest series just because before this my oldest series was the Grisha verse but I actually finished that which was great um it's gonna scare me so much but that is the toll by Neil Shusterman I loved the first two books in the Ark of the Scythe trilogy um I like I enjoyed them so much that I put off reading this one because I didn't want it to end like I didn't want to be done with the world and with the characters and then after a little bit when I kind of recovered from the second one I just didn't pick it up because of how chunky it is and I need to get this done I need to get this finished so if I do end up finishing this I will be able to do uh complete a trilogy but like this is the third highest on my priority I just fear that it's gonna take up the majority of the two weeks that is my biggest fear so we'll just have to see hopefully that won't be the case but yeah this is this is what sparked the need for this readathon because I knew that unless I had a specific push to read this book specifically I just might never read it so this is this is the one this is this is it and the next book I'm gonna talk about is gonna be an interesting one because I don't talk about this series a lot but I believe this is the longest series that I have on here it's it's one of two series that are the longest they're actually the same length um I will only be able to accomplish one of these as my longest series because you know I can't have two series that are the longest so I'm just gonna have to choose whichever one and I'm gonna choose whichever one I actually finish um but that is Unravel Me by Sahara Moffi so I read Shatter Me two years ago and I liked it a lot the issue was is I read it as an audiobook and I don't like switching my style of reading partway through a series so I wanted to pick up Unravel Me as an audiobook but none of the libraries had it as an audiobook so I've been putting this off because I just I did want to read it in a different format but I think it's been so long that it's it's not gonna matter but the other issue is that I don't know if I remember the ending of Shatter Me I remember the premise in like up to the first half and I remember the three main characters but so I might have to either read a spark notes or I honestly might have to reread Shatter Me in order to read Unravel Me so they would still be able to complete prompts if I did that but I'd be kind of sad if I have to reread Shatter Me just because it's only two weeks long I want to make as much progress as possible and I feel like rereading it isn't making progress I mean it is it totally is but like I have other series that I want to just progress in so and plus this might be a fun like reading vlog but I would want to get the rest of the books too like that's the other thing is this is the only book that I own I don't own Shatter Me and I don't own the rest of the trilogy or the books following that's the issue here the series that would compete with it with being my longest series is The School for Good and Evil so I actually got the audiobook for the second one which this is the second one that I'm holding up and I actually already read it I had no patience and I just wanted to get it read so I will be needing the third book if I can get the audiobook for the third work book or get it from the library that would be great again there's a movie adaptation for it coming out this summer so that's why that is my driving force to keep reading this series this very much like Shatter Me there is an original trilogy and then there is another trilogy after it that kind of makes it six books because like we're still following the same characters but there's this like divide between the setting for the first three books versus the setting of the last three books so it's two trilogies smushed into like a six book series so it's a little complicated but that's why this one might also be in competition for my longest series so I'm definitely not going to be able to read more books in the two weeks but I'm gonna put more books on this tbr just in case something magical happens but also because I want to be able to pick and choose I am a mood reader so I don't want to have to like I have to read this specific book next you know once I get past the first three that I really want to read um so I will be putting way too many books on this tbr just so that I can choose between them the next series that I am reading is the Hunt of the Grimulcan by Danny Swanson I read the first one the Hunt of the Grimulcan uh last spooky season I believe and I I liked it I had a bit of a rough time with it I liked the ideas behind it but I've been told that the series gets better it's a trilogy plus a companion novel um a standalone companion I own the trilogy and the companion novel but I'm going to count it as like a series so I need to read the second one Lily Quinn and the Grimulcan um and these are pretty short books so I'm hoping that I can actually just like get through the trilogy plus the companion which is the Circle of Owls so these I think are pretty doable if I'm in the mood like I read Hunt of the Grimulcan in essentially one sitting like one reading session I finished it so I think there's a pretty good chance I just need to be able to sit down and read them and then the last trilogy that I physically own the Darker Powers trilogy so I read I read the summoning last spooky season during my ghost reading vlog um because this deals with our main character who can see ghosts I just realized I haven't given a description of any of these books so I'm sorry but it's kind of too late for that um so I read the summoning and then there are two more books in the trilogy I would love to continue the trilogy if I don't finish them now I'll probably read them during spooky season but I do want to read them before I forget what happened in the first book so I'll be reading the reckoning and then the awakening there are like two more series that I if I can get access to the next books I want to read them so the first is the wayward children series I read the first three books I own the first two the wayward children series every hearted doorway down among the sticks and bones and then beneath the chigri sky I did read that one as well um so I would love to read the fourth one and I believe the sixth book for that one also just came out so theoretically it could also challenge the other series for being my longest um again whichever one I end up reading is the one that I'm going to count for that prompt yeah because you cannot double up on prompts I can't do longest series and continuous series I can't double up like that but so I would love to keep reading the wayward children series final series that I am putting on my tbr for the continuous on is a is another trilogy I do I read a lot of trilogies um so I own the first one alive by scott sigler it's the generations trilogy I've read the first one I have the second one a light from the library as an e-book on my kindle so I need to charge that thing up and read it but this was another series that I kind of looked at it and I thought you know I want to continue reading the series like I want to finish the trilogy but I need a push to do so like it's it's one that I was interested in because there was a massive twist ending but it wasn't anything that I was super hyped about it like my curiosity is peaked but I'm not super motivated so again I'm using this readathon to motivate me to make progress in this trilogy hopefully finish it that would be great but uh there are plenty of books here that I would love to finish so we'll see but yeah so this is another sci-fi series that's the other thing is I don't really read a lot of sci-fi um so that's why I haven't been gravitating towards this series again because I'm much more of a fantasy reader plus I also want to finish reading this trilogy so that I know if I want to buy the rest of the books in the trilogy or if I want to donate this one that's the other point so I'm not gonna buy them so I have it as an e-book which it's my only e-book at the moment because I just don't read a lot of e-books like I have a kindle and it's very nice and I love it but I prefer physical books but it'll be good for travel and whatnot so yes I have how many series I've got like nine or ten series on this tbr and for some of them it's not just the next book in the series it's the entire series so I've got nine or ten different series that I want to finish in two weeks that's not gonna be possible but it's gonna be fun watching me try that's for sure so thank you all so much for watching like I said if you want more information uh the announcement video will be linked down below and those do have links to the google docs with all the prompts and the badges and whatnot so yeah be sure to check that out otherwise subscribe down below I post videos on sundays and wednesdays I have a bunch of other bookish social media linked down below that you can follow me there to get more reading updates and to chat with me about some of your favorite books give this video a thumbs up if you liked it let me know in the comments below if there are any series that you want to read and if you're participating in continuous on there's no official like sign up or anything you can just kind of join in whenever you're ready during the time so like I said we'll have reading sprints and then you can start earning badges comment down below what series you'll be reading or hopefully finishing but other than that I didn't say what my shortest series was one of the prompts is shortest series but that is the crowns game and the crowns fate because that is etiology but again they won't be doubling up so anyway thank you all again so much for watching and until I see you all in the next video I wish you happy reading