 and welcome to my second day of the reading rush vlogs. This is gonna be, so this video I am going to complete the racing to read book tag for this year. It's another video challenge that I have and that's really gonna be most of what I have up for today's vlog just because I haven't been doing as much reading. I've been doing other productive things like doing the Instagram challenges or doing my wedding planning. So, and that's actually why I'm all done up is because the makeup artist we hired for my wedding came by and did a makeup trial today. So that was a lot of fun, but I'm just gonna get right into this tag and that's probably gonna be it for today, but it's gonna be fun. So the questions in this tag are all themed for the racing part of it, so it's gonna be a lot of fun. The first question is the warm-up, a book that stretches your mind and for this I would say any of the twisted tails by Liz Braswell or Jen Calonetta because those and I own five of them. I've read three of them so far that that's because you know they're based off of like the Disney movies and the original stories, but then there's a twist and so it always stretches my mind till I compensate for the twist and kind of accept the story as a possibility. So that's what I would say stretches my mind the most. Second prompt is the starting line. What is the book you started but never finished? I don't remember who the author was, but the book was called Gone. I checked it out from the library long time ago, started reading it, didn't really capture my attention as much as I hoped it would and then I had to give it back to library and I just never checked it out again to finish it, so gone. Third question, Sprint. What's a book you read really quickly? This is a hard question for me to answer because I feel that most of my audiobooks I tend to read really quickly or like obviously short books I do or if they were for a readathon I will read them very quickly because I have to because I always push them off for the last minute so I don't know if I have like one book that fulfills this question. Although I am I think for that one I'll say Aragon by Christopher Paolini. I think I read this quickly because I actually read this on the family trip to Montana and to visit my relatives there and I read this because I had seen the movie adaptation first and my dad and brother would just always be like oh the movie is so bad but I was sitting there like what's wrong with the movie? I liked it and they'll be like have you even read the book and I was like no and they were like oh once you read the book you'll understand so on a family trip to Montana I finally picked up the book and I just read it in the car which I cannot normally read in the car but I obviously read this very quickly on that trip so that's what I'm gonna say and I really enjoyed this and yes the movie sucks but I can save that kind of rant for another video. Next one Marathon what is your favorite long book? So for me a long book is gonna be like longer than 500 pages and I realized that I have a lot of books that are like in between 450 pages and like 490 pages but the book off my shelf and that I remember really enjoying even though it was kind of thick it's just barely over 500 pages and it's The Language Inside by Holly Thompson. This is a book about a girl who is Caucasian but she was born and raised in Japan and so she kind of deals with her identity as she doesn't look Japanese but she definitely doesn't feel American either so I really appreciated this book and it was just very wonderful to read. Next one are The Hurdles what is a book that had its ups and downs? For that one I'm gonna go The Tiger's Curse by Colleen Hoke because I started it and I really liked it but then it kind of went downhill and I wasn't liking the characters or what they were doing but then by the end I was like okay I should read the second book I should and it kind of just went up and down for me in that way. Finish line what is a book you are proud to finish and this one I'm gonna slightly tweak because I'm gonna go with The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black um so I was proud to finish this book not because like like it's a smaller book so it wasn't like that big of accomplishment on its own but this is the third and final book in the air folk trilogy by Holly Black and I was just really proud of myself to finish the trilogy because so often I will start a trilogy a series a group of books whatever and I just won't ever finish it for and it doesn't even have to be like oh I didn't like the book or kind of started to go downhill I just I'm so bad at finishing series so when I finally finished this trilogy the last book in the trilogy I was very proud of myself for that. The second last one is the Gold Medal best book you've read during a readathon and this one I had a fight between two books that I really enjoyed but ultimately this one won because it is a five star book that I've talked about quite a bit in some previous videos and that is An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard. I loved this one from start to end five star read all the way around. I read it for my OWL's this past spring so yeah this will be my gold medal. And the last question is the participation ribbon an underrated book you wish got more attention. I am gonna go with The Candle and the Flame by Nafisa Azad because this came out in May of last year 2019 and I heard some buzz about it but I really loved it and I loved like the mythology and the kind of magic with it and the characters. I just yeah I really enjoyed this one and I kind of wish I'd gotten a little more hype so that is the racing to read book tag from the reading rush for 2020 that was a lot of fun it was really hard for me to choose one book but also to choose a book for some of the prompts I'm not gonna do too much more vlogging of today just because it's been such a busy day as I said earlier on in the video um but if you guys have want to answer any of those questions because there's such fun unique questions please comment them down below letting me know um because I'm really interested in what you guys read and kind of your opinions on different books especially the participation ribbon um when an underrated book you wish got more attention like I really want to know what those are so comment down below um also subscribe to this channel for I will be doing um a video every day during the reading rush but then I will also upload a video every month after that and I'm doing a really cool project or at least I think it's a really cool project right now and hit the like button if you like this tag or if you saw any of the books in there and there and you like agreed with me or even if you disagreed with me like still like the video just saying um so with that I'm going to wish you guys a happy reading