 All the unpacking is still happening right in front of my bookshelf! All my college stuff. Here's a welcome back to my channel. If you haven't seen my past couple of videos and you might not know that yes, I am home and that is why my background has changed and right now I'm just kind of sitting on my bed because all of my stuff that I'm currently unpacking is in front of my bookshelf on the floor. So it's kind of hard for me to film there plus the lighting is just crazy because I have this little hub corner room on the main floor and it just does not have great lighting. There literally is no light in this ceiling. The light that I get is from lamps around my room. I have one big lamp in the corner over a table where I do my homework and then I have a little desk lamp over my bookshelf but it's really not great for filming or anything like that. It's just to try and get some more light in here especially when there's no sunlight coming from outside and it's kind of a bummer. So I'm still trying to figure that out as I'm unpacking. But today is April 1st and it is like 4, 5, 30 right now. I just got done with all of my classes and I made dinner. Dinner is in the oven. I get done with my homework right before dinner or right as it's time to start making dinner. So most of my reading is going to be after dinner, mostly in the evening which is great for one of the prompts, for the astronomy prompts because that's to read a book only at night or while it's dark outside but I may have to end up doing it with all of my books just because that's how homework works out with me. I do homework in the morning until all of my classes are done especially with my online classes. I have a couple that are kind of later in the day but other than that I'm going to try and develop as much time to reading as possible but homework will be a priority. That being said, it is the beginning of my owls. April 1st, a very great day in my opinion for many, many, many reasons and I've decided to start off with a book that's going to complete one of my arrhythmancy prompts and that prompt is to read something that's not your favorite genre so I'm actually reading Miss Paragram's Home for Children Home for Peculiar Children The Story is by Ransom Riggs and the art is by Cassandra Jean My room is also right by the back door so anytime anyone comes home or leaves it's going to be right here. It's great. So this is the graphic novel version of Miss Paragram's Home for Peculiar Children I've chosen this because it is a graphic novel for two reasons One being it's April and my goal was to try and read as many graphic novels as possible over the month of April but with the library shutdown that's going to be really hard because I don't own a lot of them and two, I've chosen to read this one because both are kind of not my favorite genres both graphic novels but also like thriller almost I'm not quite sure what it would be because it's not like horror but it's not quite thriller, you know, just like it's not quite my genre the spooky I like it around Halloween and in movies but not so much in books so that's going to be my first read I'm also choosing it because hopefully I'll go through it very quickly so I can kind of get a good start on this because it is going to be quite a busy month this is when all of my papers are due right before my exams so we're just gonna do our best here but I will catch up with you guys later once I've had a chance to do some reading so, stay tuned in like two seconds whoo-hoo-hoo who's ready for some spooky lighting it is the end of the first day of April the first day of the OWLs and I'm getting ready for bed and as I normally do before bed I am getting ready to read and the first book that I've decided to read is one for my Arithmetic class and is a graphic novel which fulfills my April thing that I've talked about many times in the past couple of videos and that is the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children written by Ransom Riggs but the art is by Cassandra Jean I'm excited to start this and that's kind of why I made the lighting this spooky because it's an eerie tale I think so I'm gonna start this I'm hoping to get a decent chunk of the way through it there's a little part of me that wants to finish it tonight and that would be really cool but it would also be a bad idea because I need to sleep for school tomorrow but I also really want to just read this plus it would just be a great kickoff too on the first day I have already read a book there aren't page numbers but it doesn't seem super thick and it's a graphic novel so I think I'll read it pretty quickly but yeah, so that's gonna be all I do for day one um I'll check in with you guys tomorrow to know how much of this I read and what my plan is for the next day or so so here I go good morning everyone it is almost 10 o'clock on April 2 and I just woke up I woke up an hour later than I meant to but you know I think it's okay because I stayed up pretty late last night because I actually finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children the graphic novel I actually finished it I finished this entire book it's a graphic novel so like I hoped it did not take very long for me to read it took maybe like 45 minutes I wanna say but there are a couple parts I wanted to go back and reread because they weren't like super clear or I just wanted to make sure that I understood it correctly because like it was good and I really enjoyed it I really enjoyed the method of it like I had obviously the art from it being a graphic novel but it still included the pictures from like the original novel and like the movie and stuff that were of the kids like the old fashioned pictures which was really cool I really liked that and then another really cool thing that this thing that this book did was that they made it so when he's in the real world everything is in black and white but then when he crosses over into the loop it's in color and I really appreciated that because it was very easy to tell like especially with the transitions when it would end a conversation with him in the loop and then the very next scene would be him in black and white talking to his dad and like if it weren't for that color change I would be very confused like all the time so I appreciated that they did that it was a very fast paced you know like this happened and this happened and this happened and this happened like the beginning it was ever so slightly slow but it just picked up and went off after that which I didn't have a problem with I really enjoyed it but then it's like when it came to these moments where I had a lot to explain it was like okay I'm gonna need to read it a couple of times just to make sure that I got it but it also just wasn't that confusing I think but it might have also helped that I have seen the movie before this so I know what things are called and I know how different things work but yeah I enjoyed it I rated it 3 out of 5 stars it wasn't my favorite I still have a couple other little things that I was like eh but yeah so able to 10 o'clock in the morning one book done yay I am now gonna do my school work and then after my school work I will film and let you guys know what I'm going to read next because it's probably gonna be another one of the shorter books but I'll get there when I'm done with my classes and stuff so here we go alrighty it is 12 33 so it's technically in the morning of April 3 but I haven't gone to bed yet so we're just gonna say it's the night of April 2 last night I finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children the graphic novel and I have not been able to read yet today because I have had to do five classes today not a great excuse but also just not a great situation to be in especially this early on in a read-a-thon so because of that I thought I'd start reading another short book maybe I'll finish it tonight but I don't think it would be quite as quick to read as the last one was so maybe I'll finish it tomorrow because tomorrow there is less on my plate in terms of my schedule so I am going to read Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Barry this is from my potions class because it is under 150 pages this one is actually 148 pages so I'm just barely fitting the prompt but yeah so I'm gonna start this tonight and hopefully I can get halfway through it maybe a little more just depending on how quickly I read this depending on the style of the writing and density and stuff like that so we're gonna head to bed reading this in terms of how much I'll be vlogging I'm gonna try and vlog as much as possible but I also know I'm really only gonna vlog if I'm reading during the day which is a very hard for me to thing to do so I'm gonna do my best to not only vlog during the day I'm gonna try and vlog at night but I also don't wanna vlog when it's 12.30 at night if I'm gonna vlog it's gonna be early on in the night which really just depends on my homework load in the day so I'm not making any promises but I'm gonna try and do my best so yeah I'm gonna start reading Peter Pan finally for my potions requirement it is April 4 and it's about 5.30 I just got back from a walk with my wonderful father listening to some audiobooks but now I'm finally going to sit down and do some reading and I'm going to be reading more of Peter Pan I read the first chapter and then I went to bed and so now I'm gonna sit here I'm gonna really try and finish it soon slash I'm gonna finish it today it's just a matter of if I can finish this and still have time to start another book or if I'm just gonna finish it and that's gonna be like be a chief this room this is darling pages on Goodreads it says it's like 176 or something but that's because it includes like the end notes and other things that aren't part of the story but it says on page 148 the end at the bottom of the page and there's no more story afterwards there's no epilogue or anything like that so I'm still including this as a completed requirement for my potions yay I have two classes down which I was hoping to have maybe three down by now but uh we'll see but yeah I Japan has this very own unique magic which is and I don't mean like magic system but I mean like you know it's just a very nostalgic story and I knew everything that was gonna happen but to actually like read it and get a little more description with the characters was just very interesting and like oh I don't know I just had a special place in my heart and the ending was so I don't wanna say melancholic but it was like oh you know it drains the emotion out of you which I actually normally I I don't typically go for that but like this time it was right it was a great way to spend my Sunday afternoon was to finish it I mean I feel like I can't give spoilers for this because like everyone knows the story of Peter Pan but the thing about this is that it had so many different themes, lines actions from you know the cartoon or if you've seen the movie hook like it had some of those elements in it like with the character hook being all about good form or you know death is the next greatest adventure and just things like that and why don't little children love me but you know still it's book done so now I'm going to go choose my next book alrighty so now I'm choosing a new book and these are all the books that I have yet to read they are all what I need to read in order to finish these books over here these two over here are for the seminar that's the mermaid and the little prince so I'm gonna try and save those for last which means these are really the books that I am choosing from sorry my space heater is on in the background I'm gonna wait for this one my ancient runes one because I'm reading this for my college class and so I'm going to read it during that time so that I can get my homework and this readathon just kinda be double productive here so I'm also not gonna choose that one as well as two which means I have these ones left and now I'm going to choose this one I'm saving for night time so it's not one I'm gonna start right now I'm thinking one of the ones on the top either this one to finish the series because you know I recently read the first three books and I don't want to forget too many details before I move on to the next one versus all the rest of these are just kinda staying the low to my knowledge so I'll have the same time I'm already up to chapter 8 which is pretty nice considering all of the things I did today that weren't just reading before I go to bed I'm gonna do some reading but I don't think I'm gonna do it out of here I think I'm gonna get started on the night circus by Erin Morgenstern because this is the book that I want to read only when it's dark outside and it is a bit of a thicker book for this month so I'm just gonna get started on this one and I'm gonna try and have it where I only read night circus when it's dark outside and then all throughout the day I will be reading center just to try and get two books done I'll be more productive in that way if I'm not doing anything during the day then I can pick up center and I don't have to be like oh but wait I'm reading the night circus and I can only read that when it's dark out then at the same time when it's dark out I can afford to read something else that you know it's hard to be when it's dark out so it just allows me to read something whenever I have the time or whenever I have the urge to sit down and start reading something normally growing up I actually read multiple books at a time and that was very common for me and I never got confused and I just I handled it really well I was able to do that really well in recent months and in kind of in recent years I've stopped doing that just because I know why I stopped doing it I just stopped enjoying it and I feel like I don't know it's just so much easier to just read a book all the way through and I feel like that's really what you should do with books I mean if you guys read more than one book at a time I'm not saying that you can't or anything crazy like that I'm just saying I used to do that and I had nothing against it but now I'm kind of sitting here and it's nice to just have a book to sit down and focus on but because I'm trying to do so much doing this read-a-thon and some of it is not time sensitive and I have to get it done soon but like it matters when I read it I think I am going to read two books right now at least until I finish the night circus and then I'll go back to just doing one book whenever I want yeah so I am not going to read very much of the night circus because it is pretty late and I do have classes tomorrow because it's a Monday so I'm just going to read the first couple of pages and head to bed and call it a night so sweet dreams my reading warriors so I haven't vlogged in a hot minute and it is now April 8 at like 11 o'clock in the morning I just finished one of my classes and I am at like chapter 13 14 of center and I was kind of hoping to have it done by now or at least almost done but I'm going to still try and finish it today if not make a lot of progress I kind of have a lighter homework day that's not to say that I will always have lighter homework days on Wednesdays though especially since tomorrow I will have a presentation and I'm kind of freaking out about that but yeah so just a quick little update also I'm not getting very far into the night circus yet just because like by the time I get into my room like to get ready for bed or to read I'm always just super tired and just end up falling right to sleep I love that I can sleep I'm kind of like just not at all