 everybody. It is day 5 of the reading rush and it is just after like 1.30 and it's been a busy day because I woke up and immediately went out on errands with my mom for picking up wedding things and now I have to get my fancy from work and if I leave now then I can have like five minutes of reading time waiting for him but I cannot count on that and then after that I have my first bridal shower and I'm super excited but it's like a really busy day so we'll see how much reading I can get done. This is just kind of the introduction for the day saying I don't know how much reading I'll get done but I really want to read the Secret Garden. But the thing is is so I just got notifications from my library and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get the Princess Bride in time because I tried to get it as an e-book but there was a really long wait and I still am waiting for it and I called the library this morning and they might have it for me tomorrow because they're not actually open today so we'll see. I'm hoping that I can but otherwise if I can't get it tomorrow then I have tomorrow and then the day after to read another book where I've seen the movie but I haven't read the book and I don't have very many of those on my shelves if I have any or at least not ones that I've read before like I saw Peter Pan before I read the book but I read the book earlier this year things like that like I saw the movie Le Petit Prince before I read The Little Prince but again I read the book earlier this year so I don't I don't know because I don't want to reread them but like they're such quick reads that I could just to get the challenge done but we'll see I'll worry about that tomorrow but for today I'm just gonna focus on the Secret Garden whenever I have a minute to quick do that since I've been out and about so much today I just got home and I'm just about to leave again so it's been easy to fulfill it in the read it outside of your house but yeah so that's my update for now I'll catch up with you guys later to see if I actually read anything today busy days busy days it's day six it is Saturday and I am outside ready to read for the Secret Garden hopefully I should hear back if I don't hear back from the library today about getting The Prince's Bride then I'm gonna have to choose something else to do and so I will film that later although my sister is coming for the bridal shower today and she'll be here until tomorrow the last day of the reading rest so I don't know everything's just so open the air right now and it's my mom's birthday so we're also celebrating that after the shower so plenty of things are happening and so I'm hoping I can get reading done I just don't know if I'm gonna complete all the challenges because I value sleep I do so yep here I go I'm going the end of day six the beginning of day seven for the reading rush and I just got done going through all of the gifts from the bridal shower that I had today and just kind of putting those together with the bridal shower the gifts from the bridal shower of yesterday and just kind of seeing okay so what all do we have are there any repeats and things like that kind of getting it organized but then also with how Brennan and I are going to move to Minnesota because we have a Prius we're not gonna be able to move everything in one trip so we're also organizing it into what do we need for the apartment immediately versus what can wait until my parents come up the next weekend over Labor Day Weekend to bring us the rest of the stuff so that has been that has taken up quite a bit of time and my sister is in town as well so of course I have to spend time with her and I need to play games with her and everything like that but before the bridal shower I did actually manage to sit outside in front lawn as you all saw and actually read like I literally read like the first third of the Secret Garden and I think it's getting better it moves kind of slowly but it's also like a fast read because you know the language is a lot easier to understand it's a big print so like I can read it quickly but I feel like the story in the plot moves kind of slowly but I'm also kind of okay with that I just I just need to get it done so I did not get word from the library about if my book was in if the Princess Bride was in so I'm gonna assume I'm not gonna get it on time because the libraries are not open on Sundays so I was going to look through my shelf and try and choose a new book but so many books I just like recently read and so I don't want to reread them but as I literally turned my head right before filming this I saw that on the top of my shelf I owned the help and I realized I have seen the movie the help so I could do that and I could switch up my TBR and read the help instead as that would still complete the prompt of watching the movie before you read the book because that's literally the only prompt that I do not have covered by either the gilded wolves which I have completed or the secret garden so the thing is tomorrow is the last day and I am playing a 10-hour board game with my brother my fiance and some my cousin and a friend of ours so we shall see I did not plan that very well we actually did not plan it very well because my sister is in town and so we wanted to spend more time with her but oops everyone's been super tired and busy so I mean but yeah so one of the prompts that I was doing for the secret garden was reading it outside of the house and I've done that all the way up until this point however at this point I just kind of want to get it done as soon as possible so I can try and read the help because the help is not exactly a small book it's not huge but it's not exactly small either so I don't know if I'll be able to complete it in the reading rush which would be such a bummer but I'm gonna do that I need to read now and I don't want to start the help because I for sure want to finish the secret garden first because it is a classic in July is supposed to be my month of catching up on classics but also if it fills more prompts so they because of the pandemic and because of COVID-19 the reading rush has kind of allowed us to stretch the rules quite a bit in that you they've said you know if you can't go out of your house for whatever reason then do something special for reading the book and so I'm thinking of sitting here in my bed and reading the secret grounding because I'm not going outside right now no because skunks live around here we've been trying to catch a groundhog but we're super scared of catching the neighborhood skunk so I'm not reading outside but I do have a window right here next to my bed that's where I hang my lights so I am debating on opening up the window and reading it by the window as that's as close as to outside I can get right now and I may even play some like nature outdoors ASMR or kind of nature sounds to kind of go along with it and put me in the vibe of being outside so I might just do that and try and read a little bit more secret garden before I go to bed tonight and I want to stay up too late because I'm gonna be playing such a longboard game for all of tomorrow and it's a huge strategy game and that is not my forte so I do need sleep but also I really want to read so yeah that's the update for now I would like day seven to be its own thing because I'm hoping to also do a wrap-up in that vlog even if it's the next day but for the most part I've been pretty proud of my vlogs because a they haven't been super long because my computer hates really long videos and b I've done something in each vlog I didn't do a day three vlog at all because I didn't do anything book related on day three it was just a complete wedding day for me but other than that I have been doing really well with vlogging and so I'm just a little proud of myself because I've noticed that I get really repetitive in my videos like I'll say something at the beginning of the book and then when I review at the end I say like three or four times so I'm trying to be better about that so yeah so I'm gonna say this is the end of day six because I'm gonna do a little bit of reading and I won't go to bed and so that's gonna be the end of this vlog and so everything else will be in the next video so stay tuned for that feel free to like comment subscribe continue following me on this journey of the reading rush but also different genres every month and then next year I will have a little bit more of a normal reading type year where I will mostly read genres that I like yeah so with that I'm gonna wish you guys a happy reading