 Hey booktube, it's 1138 p.m. So I'm about to head to bed, but I do need to give an update for day 5, and I'm sorry I haven't vlogged a lot today, but it's been a very uneventful day reading-wise, but a very eventful day for me in general. So I have been listening to my audiobook. I have just under four hours. I've got three hours and 53 minutes. So that's pretty good. I still haven't read any more if I'm number four, but I'm gonna read at least a few chapters before I go to bed tonight. And that's really all I have to say reading-wise about today, because I woke up, I went to work, I came home, I edited videos, and I recorded for the challenges, and then my sister and her boyfriend came into town, and we went out for dinner to celebrate my mom's birthday, and then we played games. So, and I think that's pretty much how this weekend is gonna go. I really just need to finish I'm number four and watch Maleficent, and then I'm technically good. It'd be nice if I could read more, but I just don't know if that's really gonna happen. Alright, so with that I'm going to, did you do good nights? I'm gonna read a couple chapters and go to bed. I'll update you if I can in the morning, but again I have another very busy day, so we'll see. 9.16 in the morning, and it's day six of the reading challenge, but as you can probably tell by now, I'm here with my dad. Yeah, we're nervous, it's great. And we are actually downtown Grand Rapids right now. We're participating in The Color Run, which is the happiest run on the planet. It's a 5k, it's the happiest 5k in the world, thank you dad. So yeah, my dad and I are walking it, because I hate running, and he has a bad knee, but we finally got him to do it this year. Yes. I am going to be listening to my audiobook throughout this run. I have just under four hours left, so I'll get a good chunk of it done today, if not the entire thing. And my dad is also listening to his audiobook. He is like the original audiobook listener of the family. And so yeah, I'm just going to take you along this run a little bit. We're about to get very, very colorful. The first color station is coming out, so this is not going to be clean anymore. Yes, I did it. The first two color stations. The first one was a tie-dye pink and yellow. And our first drink. Yes, and our first drink, because I just chugged. So I don't give you a lot of time to drink that. And then our second one was like a green blue. We haven't gotten very much color yet. You're going to get my pants. Right, we're getting there. It's like on our number pad rather than like our white shirt. So I'm going to see if I can't fix that for the next color station. What do we have coming up? Do we have blue? Do we have blue? I thought we just had some blue. Oh yeah, we have blue coming up. So we're going to get some more blue. And then I know purple is the end. I am listening to...oh, I forgot the name of it. Do you know the author? Um, something Cramer. I'm listening to the turncoats, Gambit, Andrea Cramer. Are into it, are you? Do you like it? Yes. Would you recommend it to other people? Yes, I would. Is it a regular series or a trilogy? It's a trilogy. I like trilogies, because you know how many there are and it's pretty clear how it's going to go without like knowing exactly how it's going to go. I love trilogies. What genre is it? Um, teen fantasy. Is that...you listen to a lot of that, right? Yes. What are other genres you like to listen to? Well, for me, I like Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. But I also like other fantasy ones. You know, like, um, you know, I've got a lot of Hunger Games. I listen to two series by David Baldelli and Baldushi. And those more are not fantasy, but they're more kind of crime-solving kind of stories. Yeah. So a little variety of everything depends on what I'm going to move for. Like, you have to change it up. Completely fair. Like, I've been trying to read more fantasy, or no, I've been trying to read more mystery. And that hasn't been a huge motivation for me recently, just because mysteries can be like very hit or miss, and I'm too afraid to read a miss, uh, mystery. So, what do you like, what's the best part of books you like? Do you like the plot, the characters, world building, language? Well, a lot of times I like the character building, but this one takes place during the time of the Revolutionary War. And so it's kind of mirroring that a little bit, but its own way. You know, this just talks about things that went on in Boston with their own, having their own kind of revolution. So it's like a revolution within the revolution. That's interesting. Yeah. Alright, well, we're about to go through the next color station, and I'm borrowing these headphones from my mom, so I've got to turn this off. But like I said, hopefully we'll get a little more color on the actual white parts of us, and I'll be back. Just went through two more stations. This last one was perfect, and he wanted the hair purple. And that's his favorite color, so I admire him for that. Homeway stretch. But yeah, my book just keeps getting more and more intense. So I keep like opening my mouth and being like, but the thing is that if I get close to a color station and I do that, all the color is going to go in my mouth, and that stuff will be disgusting. And I haven't seen another water station, so I don't know if I could watch it out. Doing great. I'm feeling like royalty because I wear the color of royalty. The royal booklistener. But yeah. Pretty well, but I had to stop because I wanted to get to a point where I know what's going on and I'm not going to stop in the middle of a cliffhanger. Yeah, I'm in the middle of a cliffhanger. So I understand what you're saying. One slash walk for us has not taken near as long as I thought it would, but I guess it was because in previous years when I've run it, it seems like it's forever because I hate running and I'm not a very fast runner anyway. So I guess it always seems like forever when you're running, but when you're walking, it's like very leisurely. It's almost enjoyable almost. Yeah, but for like the parts of this where it's a lot of stuff. It's a lot of sun. Like when we're by buildings in the shade, it's great, but the sun is like... Yeah, so I haven't listened to it much in my life, but that's also definitely on me for like also vlogging this much. Yeah, I think I'm going to listen to the rest of my book until the end and then I'll update you then when I'm just... Why do you start a race? In order to finish the race. And we did. We finished the color. Did not get very far in my audiobook. Live longer, press. I'll update you later. Race is great. We even got these little unicorn medals. It was a lot of fun. And then my family actually did the thing where they also give out color packets. We all huddled together and we threw the color in the air and my aunt got me who really did with her green in my hair. Yes, it was great. I got to listen to my audiobook. So did my dad. Got plenty of color and I'm going to take a shower and I'm going to take a shower very quickly because every one of my family needs to take a shower. So bad. This is Frederick. He is my sister's cat. He's Jenares. You do kisses? He's one of now three cats in the house. Two of them are my sister's. One is Polly, who you have previously met. He's also really heavy because he's really big. He's also really poofy. So now without further ado, the challenge. I'm excited, but I'm also really worried. So for those of you who don't know what that is, that is the book spine challenge. So basically, you've got to spell out your name with the first letter of a book title. And they added the twist of making it all one color. But yeah, so you're supposed to choose a color. The thing is, it's like, I'm not sure I can actually do this challenge. I don't know if I have five books of the same color that spell out my name, Laura, L-A-U-R-A. I'm really worried about the U. So I think pretty much I'm going to look for the U first. I want whatever color that is. That's what I'm going to do. I really hope I have a U. So I'm going to get this started. I've got two minutes on my computer. What I'm going with was white, because I only have one book that starts with a U. And it is white. I did stretch it on a couple of these, but that's the only way I was going to get it done. But yeah, so let me show you these books. So first off, we have Lion Witch and the Wardrobe. This is actually the script I used when we did the play in middle school. It's technically the Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, but I'm excluding that. So yeah, majority white because it's a script. So Lion Witch and Wardrobe L. Next we have An Unkindness of Magicians. It's majority white. And this book is by Cat Howard. So a beautiful book that starts with you is Ugly's by Scott Westerfield. The first in the Ugly series. And the only one of the Ugly series I actually own. I need to get the rest of it. But this is actually the second cover. So the first cover came out and it's not white at all. It's actually a really dark kind of gray. Frederick, are you going into my closet? This is where I stretch it even a little more. Because it's Reflections on the Songs, which is by C.S. Lewis. It starts with R. It's majority white. Like most of it is white. And then the last one. This is where I probably stretch it the most. It's called Alive. It's by Scott Sigler. It's white and blue. I mean like it's got white hints. It'll definitely stand out among the rest of it. But I don't have another book that starts with A. That's completely white other than the first one. So yes, here's my name. L-A-U-R-A. Laura. And yeah, everything except probably this last A works. I don't know if this really works. I don't think I quite completed the challenge. I did my best. But oh well, this just means I have to go buy more books. The thing is, I am much more of the person who goes to the library, checks out books and reads them. And then only if I really like them do I buy them. So I just don't own as many books, but I have read a lot of books. Don't worry. And then books I do have I generally get from things. Like I have a friend whose mom is an editor and she gets sent all kinds of books. And so sometimes I'll find them from her ginormous books garage sales for really cheap. Or she'll even give some of them to me. Or like she also does like different activities of where you can win books. And I love participating in those. So I have a lot of like bookish adult friends. I have a friend of mine who is an author, a very accomplished author. And she's really cool. I've gone to her writing camps a few times. So like yeah, I don't own very many books. So this was really hard. I did the best I could, but I don't think I completed it. But um, take a picture of your stack spelling your name. I almost, the thing is while I was looking as I also noticed I have a lot of red covers. And I would have been able to do it in red if it weren't for the stupid you. So if you guys know of a book that has a red cover, red cover that starts with you, let me know and I'll buy it. I prefer that we're a good book, but purely for this, I want that book. Alrighty, so that is the end of the challenge and I'll update you guys later. 12.41 in the morning. I still have an hour and 10 minutes left in the audio book. But the John Billy on concert though. That was really good. That was absolutely phenomenal. We biked to and from. So we got to see a bit of Chicago and that's why we're back so late. But yeah, did you like the concert? I did a few of my songs, my favorite songs were played and we got to jam to that. Yeah, it's pretty great. The opening acts were really good too, the opening bands were pretty good. Talking about the marriage proposal. Oh yeah, we even saw a cute little marriage proposal. One of the opening acts was singing this really sweet song and one girl had texted him saying it was her favorite song. So he invited her up on stage and then halfway through she turns around and there's her boyfriend kneeling with a ring. And she said yes and it's absolutely beautiful. That needs to be in a romance novel. Someone contacts her a dozen or some other romance novelist and just be like, this is real life romance. Use it. Yeah, I can talk about my beef with romance novels later if you guys want. But yeah, so technically it's Sunday morning really early in the morning. Well because it's 12, like 45, so this is the beginning of the last day. And we have to drive back to Grand Rapids tomorrow which is like three days and then we're going to play a lot of games. But you know what, I will get these books done. Comment down below and let me know how your readathon is going, have you completed all the challenges you wanted to, how many books have you read. And if you like these vlogs and want to keep watching them make sure you rate, comment, click the subscribe button and just let me know what you guys think. Want to hear your opinions and join, become reading warriors like us. You know, anyone and everyone is welcome to be a reading warrior. Good night. End of the reading rush. Yesterday was the last day and I am pleased to report that I did follow through and finish both books last night before I went to bed. I was falling asleep but I did it. So I did officially do all of the challenges required. My first one, once upon a dream, twist a tail, purple on the cover meant to read last year. Psych Sky for crime fighting, for the totally unqualified, five words in the title and more, read it in one spot. I'm number four, non-human main character and then I keep forgetting them. And then Children of Blood and Bone, author's first book. What was the other challenge? The book to movie adaptation and I watched, so seven. I watched Maleficent because I figured Maleficent had the most similar story to any of the books I did read. So I'm gonna count it. And yeah, so I counted it, so I did finish. I only read four books, one of them was an audiobook. I enjoyed all of them. I think I'm gonna do a separate video reviewing each of the books I read. So I can actually talk about them in depth, especially since the last two that I finished. Especially Children of Blood and Bone, I was like, the ending. So I'm gonna try not to give anything away in this video so that when I do a video actually reviewing it there will be spoilers in there. And so I just don't want anyone to spoil it because I know a couple of people who are reading it or who are just about to start reading it. And so I want them to be able to relate but also not be afraid of spoilers. Because that's one thing when I watch book reviews is I'm so afraid if the person will be like, spoiler alert and then say it. Or if they're just gonna come right out and well, now it's all out there in the open and I just, I can't. So I am gonna do a review of that soon and so while the reading rush may be done and I'm very sad, I will, I have a lot of time now to actually edit the videos that I took during the readathon so that I can actually get the vlogs out there. And then I can go back to making a normal video schedule. I didn't plan or make any videos during the reading rush because I barely had enough time to read as it was with family coming. But I really wanted to make sure I got to spend time with my family because I don't actually get to see my sister a lot. And I love my sister so much and so it was really great. I just said goodbye to her. So I'm also really emotional from that. So yeah, now we get to go back to our regularly scheduled programming. So yeah, just to let you know, I will be doing reviews of the books I read. And I did complete the challenge. I hope you guys go down below if you completed what you hoped if you completed part of it or if you didn't complete it at all. Like let me know because I'm curious because I was just so close to not finishing it. But I'm pretty happy I got to do all the videos and the pictures and some of the Twitter sprints. But for some reason I'm not getting my Twitter notifications until hours later. So I had a really hard time doing it. But yeah, and then if you liked the vlogs or even if you didn't and you just rather me do regular booktube videos. Make sure you subscribe and then click the bell so that you know when I am doing those videos. 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