 Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. Yes as I said in the intro it is spook-a-thon time which means I will be starting my vlogs for book and lala's books and lala's spook-a-thon challenge which is the read-a-thon for the next week the 14th to the 20th and I will be reading five books to complete the five different challenges. So the first book that I'm gonna be reading is actually gonna complete challenge number four so I'm not gonna do all the challenges in order one two three four five just because of the length of the book and what I think I can actually finish in a week and why. So I'm gonna be starting off completing the fourth challenge which is a spooky setting. So anywhere that seems spooky, creepy, scary, Halloween-y whatever and so as I said in my announcement video the book I chose for that is the House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A Craig. I'm really excited to read this one this has been recommended a lot on booktube and I've seen it everywhere in bookstores and everything like that so I'm really excited to read it and form my own opinion on it and see what I really think of it. I say it's set in a spooky setting because it's in a house where all the daughters keep getting murdered. I wouldn't want to live there so therefore it is spooky and I say it fits the challenge. So this is what I will be starting with tonight as soon as it turns midnight which should be in about six minutes but I'm honestly gonna say this now is that I'm gonna read like a chapter of this and then I'm gonna go to bed because I have class in the morning and I want to have sleep for class so this is gonna be a very interesting readathon because it's gonna be balancing class, homework, sleep, and reading. So we'll see how this goes. The second book I'm going to read actually completes the fifth challenge which is something you wouldn't normally read. I just flat out don't normally read mystery, thriller, horror just because every time I try to read a mystery book especially mystery books I always choose the bad ones that I predict and are duds and I know that they're not all like that but I just I have bad choice apparently and it bothers me because I know I would love them. But oh well what can I do I just keep searching and so I figured for this one I can't go wrong with Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. I chose this one to be next because it's a shorter book and it's obviously a classic and it's something I don't normally read. It's only 250 pages and it's a beautiful book to carry around so I'm really excited. So I chose this one to be the second one I'm gonna do because after the one I most excited for I'm gonna start doing with what are the shortest and more likely that I can get done in a week. So challenge number five. The next shortest book that I have I mean book that I'm going to read completes challenge number two which is to have red on the cover and in my TBR I kind of went back and forth between two books I divided on for this. One was the Scythe book which I really want to read but I think it's just too big for me to attempt to read that and for other books in a week so I opted to go with my other choice Frankenstein because again it's another classic that I haven't read which is completely disastrous of me. I know it's horrible. I love classics and yet I haven't read the most famous classics. I don't know how but Frankenstein isn't gonna be too long. It is a bit of an older read so we'll see how well I get through that but I'm gonna do my best. So my third book is going to be Frankenstein and it completes challenge number three and I'm hoping that I can read at least these three books plus the audiobook. I'll explain that right about now. So as I just mentioned I will be listening to an audiobook and therefore I don't have a actual physical book but it's going to be the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman. That's gonna complete the third challenge which is having something spooky in the title. I mean a graveyard is pretty spooky especially around this time of year. So I decided to go with that one and it will be an audiobooks. I'm hoping I can get that done especially since it's actually due for the library online. In four days so I have to actually finish it before this week is up and I just bought a new pair of headphones so that I can walk between classes and listen to it because my last headphones broke. I'm not going down that route but so my goal is to finish at least those three books as well as the audiobooks so I can get four out of the five challenges done. That's the goal that's the plan and we're gonna find out how that goes but if I do manage to finish all that and have a day or two to spare then yes I will try and finish challenge number one the one they keep the same every year of course is the one I might not get to. Casual classic I know. But challenge number one is read a thriller and so for that one I've chosen another book that's gotten a lot of chatter recently and I've been seeing everywhere but I'm really excited for and that's stalking Jack the Ripper by Carrie Menestecala. I chose this one because it's not just a thriller but it's also historical fiction and so it's gonna be a little bit more than that which peaks my interest a little bit more than just a thriller because I actually tried listening to a Stephen King book. I tried listening to Pet Sematary and I only got a couple hours in because I just didn't care for it. I liked the premise of it but I just didn't like like his writing or his characters all that much so I just kind of dropped it and just returned it to the library. I'm sorry I tried so thrillers just aren't my thing which is why I chose this because it'll have a historical element to it and hopefully it'll just be something that peaks my interest a lot more than just a plain thriller. So yes those are the five books that I plan on reading slash listening to for one of them for the next week and it is actually 12 o'clock right now so I'm going to read a chapter of my first book and get started on it and then just go to bed and see what all I can do tomorrow so I will see you in the morning although you're not gonna see this until probably the week is done because I'm just gonna do one giant vlog so but I will start recording in the morning as soon as I get a chance to crack this book open again but for now a chapter and good night. Yo so I stayed up way too late last night and read way too much because I am now on chapter 13 on page 113 I said I'd read one chapter and then that just didn't happen so I'm like really tired I had to wake up this morning to do homework so I made a bad decision but it's also a really good head start on this read-a-thon so we'll see how it goes if I can keep up this pacing it'd be great but we will see hopefully I can get some reading done at work I won't be able to vlog very much throughout today at my daily life because you know I'll be at classes and like moving around and people and what not so I will mostly just update you when I'm actually in my dorm but I have a very busy day so we'll see how that is but I have one of those wonderful jobs where it's like if there's no work to do then do your homework if you have no homework to do then do whatever you want so if I can get all my homework done then I will for sure be able to read for a couple hours today at work so we'll see but yeah I'm dead tired and I made that mistake but I also kind of don't regret it so haha so a couple of updates first off I have the best job in the world okay maybe not in the world best college job ever my bosses are amazing and I have so much time and it's wonderful also college is hard it's no easy math it's no easy magic trick you can't just snap your fingers and oh everything is done and perfectly completed and what did you know not even close and but going back to the first point I have the best job in the world because I can read and I'm now on page 208 of the House of Salt and Sorrow which is exactly halfway through the book so I have managed to read half of this book I'm slightly frazzled both by real-life events and also what's happening in this book because I feel like there are so many things going on and like as soon as it talks about one thing I'm like oh so excited and it switches to another and I'm like oh wait for the last thing oh but this thing and I'm bouncing from thing to thing and I'm just I need to read it and finish it I'm not even listening to the audiobook of the graveyard book yet because I am reading this book as I'm walking so because I'm just so entranced by it right now a couple of things so far on the horizon that I'm not super on board with like there's a love triangle forming which I'm just not the biggest fan of for a couple of reasons one so many love triangles and so many books I'm just I want something new and different I'm kind of sick of love triangles and two it's very I it's a very clear I want her to be with this guy and it's I have the exact same opinion for every single love triangle because it's again it's the childhood friend and this new mysterious stranger I will almost always go for the childhood friend and they always go for the mysterious stranger and then that fails and then they go back to the friend and it just I it annoys me so much because everybody does it it's no longer a new unique thing like everyone has done it and so that's starting to form the book and I'm not super excited about that because I just want her to be the childhood friend because it's just so obvious but no she has to go it's a whole thing but yeah so that's the update it's 532 so I am done with all my required things I do have a couple of things yet that I have to do this evening so I should probably get started on those and then once I'm done with that I'm just planning on spending the rest of my time reading so my my goal is to get the 300 pages is to be three-fourths of the way through the book so that I can finish it tomorrow and hopefully start the next book tomorrow which is Murder on the Orient Express I had to check it's Murder on the Orient Express to start tomorrow and obviously I'm gonna hopefully get going on that audiobook so yeah that's the update let's go continue to be productive I'm back stuff got done home Rick is finished tap was tabbed reading was read I'm now on page 286 of the house of salt and sorrows and oh my word it is a page turner let me tell you I am going through it quickly and I'm reading much faster than I normally do I'm so excited like I have a theory and then there's this whole twist that came in that I actually wasn't expecting but like I'm still holding strong to my theory but I might be wrong I don't know I have ideas and I'm almost done I'm probably gonna finish it tonight even though it's just past 10 o'clock and I should go to bed but I could also finish this book and I honestly I'm having a hard time blogging right now because I just want to sit and read the book I've got 124 pages left and I'm like so I really want to know and it's driving me crazy so I'm just doing a short little update okay two things one I'm ditching my old theory I don't think I was right so my initial thought was that the oldest daughter died and then got lonely in death and started killing her sister so that she wouldn't be alone I think I'm wrong I'm on page 294 chapter 30 and so I'm completely abandoning that theory at this point so I think I'm wrong and it's something else and I'm intrigued and then the second thing was what was the second thing I don't remember what the second thing was but like oh I remember what the second thing was the second thing was so I complained earlier about the love triangle and how I'm just sick and tired of those and it's in this novel and I'm like hey they've kind of stepped away from it which I am enjoying well but like one of the guys was very mature about it and was like all right yep she didn't go for me all right he's out which was really nice it was a very non-dramatic and not in very subtle way of just like getting rid of the love triangle thus far at least hmm so I'm not I'm obviously not gonna spoil who she picks and stuff like that but I'm just happy that they kind of moved away from it and it's not a main thing slash it's kind of not a thing anymore at this point so yeah that was the second thing I have a hundred and six pages left in this book and I'm just so excited but the time is I'm a check 10 35 at night so I really should sleep but also my roommate isn't here and I don't want to go to bed without her so like I'm just gonna keep reading she keeps mentioning we all grieve in our own way which I like because that is true we all grieve differently and it's very interesting to see in this book how everybody grieves differently and how other people handle that but yeah so confused this book is really starting seriously like I'm scared out of my mind a little bit I know I cannot stop tonight because if I do I'm gonna like stay up not be able to sleep or I'm gonna have nightmares or something and I like slightly freaked out anything that makes a noise in my room I'm just like it is 12 17 in the morning and I just finished the house of salt and sorrow don't quite know how to react cuz it was so good and phenomenal but at the same time like I'm thinking so much I loved this book I really enjoyed it oh it's just crazy I would probably my instinct is to give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars cuz I don't like giving out perfect scores I don't like giving out perfect 5 stars but like this comes pretty darn close because oh my goodness like the twists and turns but the possibilities and it's like oh I thought this but then I was wrong but then I was actually right but then like wait not quite it was crazy but it's late at night and so I finished a book I read this book all today so one book for spookathon done on day one and it was probably the longest book of them all it was exactly 400 pages like exactly and what's really cool is the author went to the University of Michigan wood wood I'm not a student there but I am from Michigan so Michigan pride I mean Detroit wood wood but yeah so I'm gonna go to bed now and just kind of let this book incubate in my mind cuz I can't quite formulate a response or a view yet because I just need to let it sink in because I knew I wasn't gonna be able to go to bed without finishing it and I'm really glad I stayed up and finished it but now I'm gonna be dead tired tomorrow but we'll see at least the murder on the word express is only 240 pages so I mean hey but yeah so with that it's 1220 I'm gonna sleep but it was a good day hello everyone it is now Tuesday the second day of spookathon and it is 322 in the afternoon I'm sorry I didn't have time to vlog this morning and give an update I had to wake up and immediately get out the door to meet people and do things and it was slightly hectic especially since I did not go to bed until a little bit later last night because I stayed up finishing the house of sultan sorrow yeah I read all 400 pages and I finished it and you all know this because literally the last clip was me freaking out about it and I think at the end of this vlog I'm gonna give a review of all the books that I've read throughout this week just so that I can have time to process it all and also just kind of say which was my favorite of the five and which was my least favorite and etc and so forth because of that I have I have been able to start murder only Orient Express I'm only reading the first story even though in here there are three different stories and I am four chapters into this already on page 30 I'm right at the beginning of chapter four so that's coming along but yeah I have one more thing to do tonight and to get dinner so hopefully I can get a lot of reading done it'd be nice if I could finish the book but we'll see I'm not super set on I have to finish it because I was expecting house of something sorrow to take longer and then it didn't so now I can just kind of coast my way through but also still make sure I'm reading things it's because it's seven days to read five books and like I said one's an audiobook and one is already done update on the audiobook I haven't really started it yet because my headphones they have to go through a converter for my phone and that converter no longer works so I can't listen to anything on my phone without or with headphones so I'm slightly stressed and annoyed at that so I have to go out and find a new converter which I'm not excited about otherwise I have to read a seven and a half hour long book in my dorm room or in a room where I'm not disturbing people by not having headphones so pretty much my dorm room when my roommate either isn't here or does have headphones so we'll see how that goes yeah good afternoon it is 207 no that's when I went to bed last night 207 p.m. thank you roommate and I had a very busy morning which is why I didn't do any sort of vlogging this morning but yes I did go to bed at 2 a.m. technically this morning slash last night and I really didn't do any reading I stayed up doing other things which is not the smartest thing to do in college or for a readathon they were bookie things they were just creating books rather than consuming books did get a bunch of reading well maybe not a bunch but I did get to read during work today which was nice so I've murdered on the orange express is divided into three parts and so this morning at work I finished the first part and I'm about halfway through the second part so I'm like halfway through the book my goal is to finish the second part before I have to go to another thing at three so that gives me just under an hour to do that and then today I want to just finish the book and I will be all caught up with what my plan is and then I can get started on my third book which is Frankenstein haha but first I need to finish murder on the orange express and I'm really enjoying the books before I didn't actually think I would because like for the first third the first section of it I was like kind of confused because there are so many characters and like some of them have personalities and some of them kind of didn't I was just like trying to figure everything out but like how she did the second part of it was just all the interviews and gathering evidence so each chapter was interviewing a different person and I love I love that format it's so much easier to keep the character straight to understand what's going on to really just take a minute and be like so what happened okay next person so what happened okay next person so what happened you're starting to get piece-by-piece what's going on so this the second section is so far my favorite but you know we'll see until I get to the third section when everything actually comes to a close and we find out who actually did it but um who knows maybe that'll be my favorite maybe the second bit will still be my favorite don't know but I need to get reading so I will update you tonight before I go to bed or before I start reading before I go to bed who knows it honestly just depends on how late I stay up reading and how much I read but yeah so I hope your spookathon is going well at this point probably more productive than mine but hey I chose shorter books what can I say it's probably the smartest thing to do for a college student yeah I'm gonna read now so goodbye and I'm back and it's 10 19 at night I have finished everything I need to do I've had a little bit of a flexing time I got a lot of cleaning done in my room and in the dorm which has been great because I've been able to listen to the audiobook for that the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I'm really really happy about it I'm a good two hours in I've got another five hours to go in the book but I'm listening to it at 1.6 speed so it tells me that I have five hours to go but it's gonna be more like two and a half maybe two hours to go before I finish it which is good because it's due in one day and 21 hours so I pretty much need to finish it tomorrow which is not a lot to ask or at least the day after tomorrow before that time kind of thing so yeah I finally started and have made a good chunk of progress on the audiobook and then for and then for the murder on the Orient Express I'm hoping to stay up and finish that hopefully it won't take me too long because I really want to sleep because of the lack of sleep I have a last night so and the night before that because I stayed up reading so we'll see I definitely am going to finish murder on the Orient Express tonight no matter what because that was the goal that was the plan and I can sleep in a little bit tomorrow but yeah I'm about halfway through it right now but it's a pretty quick read and it's only a total of like 200 something maybe 250 at the most yeah something like that so it really shouldn't take me that long so but I'm gonna get to that and I'll see you in the morning hopefully I don't snooze my alarm too much in the morning and I'll update you then sorry this vlog has not been very entertaining at this point but um so I haven't vlogged at all today and I'm so sorry it is 9 20 at night college life it really does get too busy but I was able to get a lot of reading done at work today I am now three chapters away three or four chapters away from finishing murder on the Orient Express it took me a moment there it looks like I have a lot more that's because this is the addition that has and other hercule puerro mysteries so the detective it's murder on the Orient Express plus two more books in here actually so it looks like I'm not quite close to being done but I am actually really close to being done I am 25 30 pages from the end and I'm really excited because it's like you're this is the time when everyone's figuring out who is lying about what and why they're lying and like how that affects the case and things like that so it's really it's not super intense it's like a good relaxing just traditional who done it like Agatha Christie who done it they're all on a train someone died there are a bunch of people now you know most of the information except for like the lies and who actually did it and why so I'm gonna finish that right now and then afterwards I'm going to listen to the audio book and do some things as I listen to the audio book I'm hoping to finish both books tonight because I have let's see I'm three hours into it so I've got like four and a half hours left but again it tells me I have four and a half hours left but like I'm also listening to it just over double that so it should only really be just over two hours left for me so then that way I can get started on Frankenstein and I'm really excited to do that yeah so I've also got my trusty tea here I made this tea a while ago so like the mug doesn't show but it's got like the marauders map around it and it's a Harry Potter themed mug it's one of those ones where it like it heats up and the design comes out but I've been letting it sit for a little bit now and so it's not there anymore but I've got my crayon I've got my apple cinnamon tea with me because it's fall so I'm gonna have those themed drinks okay no more stalling I'm going to finish this book last 10 pages you would go find out who it was apparently he knows but I don't so I'm gonna read now and find out Mrs. Hubbard very accurate of certain American women but she's so funny I'm not done think I see where he's going with this I think it's all coming together I really should read more mystery novels especially novels of this style easy to comprehend calm but still want to know who did it so that is the second book done for this readathon murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie completes challenge it completes the challenge number five something I wouldn't normally read because I don't only read mystery mysteries I should but I don't but so now that this is done and I have two of the challenges completed and two books completed and it is what time it is 9.52 I do have to wake up early tomorrow to go to work but I still want to listen to the audiobook and see if I can't get it done tonight because you know how awesome would that be plus it's the audio book is due tomorrow before like dinner time ish so I really do need to get it done very soon I have less than 24 hours I know that so I am going to just do some other things and listen to that I can't really record or film when I do that because I'm listening to the audiobook on my phone so I'm just gonna go ahead turn this off and if I finish the audiobook tonight I will give you an update if I don't then I probably won't because I'll probably be really tired so yeah so if this is good night then good night good morning I'm at least trying to have some fucks behind me for one of these vlog videos just to get the aesthetic together but yes it is 7 23 in the morning I've woken up and I've gotten ready so that I can go to work and then go to class I did finish murder on the earnings for us last night as it was very obvious in my vlog that I did so I did listen to a lot more the audiobook I have but I haven't finished it I have about two hours left but I bumped my readings beat up to 1.8 times quickly so hopefully I'll have just a little over an hour left of actual listening to it instead of a full two hours I'm really enjoying the graveyard book though it's like one of those things I don't want to rush it because I love it but I also need to finish it today or the library will take it back so we're gonna see what we can do about that but yeah so that's my morning update that's my morning update 7 30 in the morning I need to go to work I am starting Frankenstein today I did not start it last night cuz I need to go to sleep so I could wake up early and woke up at 6 30 and so at work today I'll work a couple of hours and I'll probably get some good reading down there and I'm really excited and I'm especially really excited to read Frankenstein because it's a classic that I haven't read yet and I do love reading classics so yeah we'll see how this thing goes and I'll update you later I know I know it's Saturday morning and I haven't been vlogging but I have been reading