So I decided to participate in Nanowrimo for the first time this year.
In case you don't know what Nanowrimo is, it stands for National Novel Writing Month and its this huge event where people try to write a fifty thousand word first draft of a novel in one month (November).
I decided to join because it sounded like fun and I had been working on a story the last couple months every once in a while and wanted to push myself to focus on it a little bit more.
The main problem that I experienced this month while trying to participate was school. This was the month right before finals so I had papers to write and last minute assignments to do before the semester headed into studying for finals. I found that I just didn't have the time to write, and when I did have time to do so I was tired of staring at a screen.
I also had some random stressful events happen this month that did NOT help my focus! My car ended up being in the shop for TWO WEEKS and I had to make a trip to the ER for a kidney infection all within days of each other! Plus one of my professors surprised us with a seven page paper due two weeks before it originally was supposed to be due!
Not to mention the holiday, which I wanted to spend with my family.
So yeah, this month was insane and it left me with only six thousand words of that story instead of fifty thousand.
HOWEVER I'm so proud of those six thousand words. I've realized that I really do love writing fiction, which I never thought of before these past few months and I look forward to CAMP NANO in the summer, because I think the timing will be better for me!
Did you participate in Nanowrimo? How did you do?
Monday, November 30, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
MOVIE REVIEW | The Martian
I went and saw The Martian last night with my boyfriend and I absolutely loved it.
I did read the book (listened to it on audiobook) a couple months ago so I knew what was coming. I have to say that I was disappointed with the previews because it told you the entire story and all the surprises I don't understand why they did that but what can you do.
With that aside, walking into the theater I was a little nervous about Matt Damon. Mark Watney (the main character) is very funny in the books - sarcastic mostly but he made me laugh throughout the story - and I was nervous about Matt Damon making the role too serious. The story is intense, I mean he was left on Mars alone for over a year (almost two? more than two?) but there are so many funny moments in the book I didn't want those to get lost.
And he pulled it off! The movie did do a great job of including other funny people. Jessica Chastain's character, the commander of the Hermes ship, is also hilarious along with most of the team. Vincent Kapoor also has many moments with the girl who finds Watney via satellite that made me giggle. So overall I think they did a great job mixing humor with the intensity of the story.
I was also surprised by the casting of Kristin Wiig. She plays Annie, the person overseeing all of the press in relation to NASA and the Mark Watney situation, and she does have a really good line toward the beginning which I loved but they really cut down her role a lot in the movie. In the book she is constantly pointing out things and how the people of the world will see the choices being made, but for the most part she's just a background figure in the movie, and I wish they had utilized her more.
The one thing I didn't like about the book was the long drawn out explanations of how things worked and how Mark Watney was going to do things to help him survive. That got a little old and a little boring. So I was glad to see that a lot of that was cut out; the movie was much faster paced than the book and I enjoyed that!
I was disappointed that they took out one of the most intense parts of the book - the storm that Watney drives into on his way to the Hermes 4 mav in the crater. That was probably the part of the book where I was most anxious while reading and they completely cut it. Obviously I understand that time was a key factor in this - they didn't need a three hour movie - and so I get WHY it wasn't in it, but I'm also so sad that THAT is what they chose to get rid of.
This movie gets a 5 star rating for me, I would probably see it again in theater!
p.s. I saw it in 3D which I usually hate but they didn't over utilize the 3D aspects, it just barely added a little depth and that was pretty cool.
I did read the book (listened to it on audiobook) a couple months ago so I knew what was coming. I have to say that I was disappointed with the previews because it told you the entire story and all the surprises I don't understand why they did that but what can you do.
With that aside, walking into the theater I was a little nervous about Matt Damon. Mark Watney (the main character) is very funny in the books - sarcastic mostly but he made me laugh throughout the story - and I was nervous about Matt Damon making the role too serious. The story is intense, I mean he was left on Mars alone for over a year (almost two? more than two?) but there are so many funny moments in the book I didn't want those to get lost.
And he pulled it off! The movie did do a great job of including other funny people. Jessica Chastain's character, the commander of the Hermes ship, is also hilarious along with most of the team. Vincent Kapoor also has many moments with the girl who finds Watney via satellite that made me giggle. So overall I think they did a great job mixing humor with the intensity of the story.
I was also surprised by the casting of Kristin Wiig. She plays Annie, the person overseeing all of the press in relation to NASA and the Mark Watney situation, and she does have a really good line toward the beginning which I loved but they really cut down her role a lot in the movie. In the book she is constantly pointing out things and how the people of the world will see the choices being made, but for the most part she's just a background figure in the movie, and I wish they had utilized her more.
The one thing I didn't like about the book was the long drawn out explanations of how things worked and how Mark Watney was going to do things to help him survive. That got a little old and a little boring. So I was glad to see that a lot of that was cut out; the movie was much faster paced than the book and I enjoyed that!
I was disappointed that they took out one of the most intense parts of the book - the storm that Watney drives into on his way to the Hermes 4 mav in the crater. That was probably the part of the book where I was most anxious while reading and they completely cut it. Obviously I understand that time was a key factor in this - they didn't need a three hour movie - and so I get WHY it wasn't in it, but I'm also so sad that THAT is what they chose to get rid of.
This movie gets a 5 star rating for me, I would probably see it again in theater!
p.s. I saw it in 3D which I usually hate but they didn't over utilize the 3D aspects, it just barely added a little depth and that was pretty cool.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
TV REVIEW | American Horror Story: Hotel (S5E1)
So as always American Horror Story has been pumping us up for the season premiere of "Hotel" with sneak peaks, small excerpts, and the introduction credits.
I was so ready for this show to prove itself.
SOME BACKSTORY.
I binge watched Seasons 1 & 2 right before "Coven" premiered and I loved them both so much. They both are amazing seasons!
And then "Coven" happened and I wanted so badly to love it but it was a bit of a let down. My favorite scenes were the scenes of the past about Kathy Bates' character, and then they stopped doing that and it was just a little lame.
And then "Freak Show" happened and once again I had high hopes for redemption! They were going to do great! That credit introduction is divine. I was ready to be creeped out!
And it just wasn't that creepy. Did it even have a real plot line? Questionable.
So here I am waiting for "Hotel" wondering if AHS can redeem itself after two (in my opinion) horrible seasons in a row. But my main issue with the last two seasons was the weird Jessica Lange is singing and is also the same exact character in both and she's not in this season so maybe I have hope for a new plot line. -- literal jumbled thoughts heading into S5E1.
(Spoilers Ahead.)
So I watched episode one of AHS: Hotel. And we're getting some definite creepy "wtf" moments and then the detective comes into a crime scene and its so cheesy how he notices things I actually rolled my eyes. AND THE DUDE WAS STILL ALIVE UNDER THE GIRL'S DEAD BODY and the police are all just chillin' like what? That whole scene just destroyed the show because I was completely taken out of the story because its not even close to how real life works.
And then this detective just continues to be a shitty actor as he talks to his daughter on FaceTime (I THOUGHT THIS SEASON WAS GOING TO BE SET IN THE PAST. WHY DO THEY HAVE IPHONES) and I continued to roll my eyes.
Then we get Lady GaGa. Her introduction without seeing her face at first was pretty damn cool. And the not talking the entire time their picking up that couple at the movie and then taking them to their suite. That whole little spot was perfect. And then they just killed them with their pointy nails AND I LAUGHED. AHS is NOT supposed to make me LAUGH.
So then I'm thinking well is this season supposed to be campy? with the detective in the crime scene and then this I'm thinking that could be a possibility so at least they're doing it right even if I hate it.
The only part of the entire episode that gave me chills was when we see that the son of the detective went missing at the carousel. That was good.
But then it ends with that weird video game room (and GaGa trying to act) and I'm still upset that this isn't set in the past. Like MOST of the show feels like this is not present day and then they show us ear buds and a video game room (where all they play is tetris and other 80's games what is happening why)
All I can say is Sarah Paulsen was great and I don't understand why she's doing this show anymore or why they haven't decided to use her as the main character because she's fucking amazing.
Sooooo what did you think of the episode?
I was so ready for this show to prove itself.
SOME BACKSTORY.
I binge watched Seasons 1 & 2 right before "Coven" premiered and I loved them both so much. They both are amazing seasons!
And then "Coven" happened and I wanted so badly to love it but it was a bit of a let down. My favorite scenes were the scenes of the past about Kathy Bates' character, and then they stopped doing that and it was just a little lame.
And then "Freak Show" happened and once again I had high hopes for redemption! They were going to do great! That credit introduction is divine. I was ready to be creeped out!
And it just wasn't that creepy. Did it even have a real plot line? Questionable.
So here I am waiting for "Hotel" wondering if AHS can redeem itself after two (in my opinion) horrible seasons in a row. But my main issue with the last two seasons was the weird Jessica Lange is singing and is also the same exact character in both and she's not in this season so maybe I have hope for a new plot line. -- literal jumbled thoughts heading into S5E1.
(Spoilers Ahead.)
So I watched episode one of AHS: Hotel. And we're getting some definite creepy "wtf" moments and then the detective comes into a crime scene and its so cheesy how he notices things I actually rolled my eyes. AND THE DUDE WAS STILL ALIVE UNDER THE GIRL'S DEAD BODY and the police are all just chillin' like what? That whole scene just destroyed the show because I was completely taken out of the story because its not even close to how real life works.
And then this detective just continues to be a shitty actor as he talks to his daughter on FaceTime (I THOUGHT THIS SEASON WAS GOING TO BE SET IN THE PAST. WHY DO THEY HAVE IPHONES) and I continued to roll my eyes.
Then we get Lady GaGa. Her introduction without seeing her face at first was pretty damn cool. And the not talking the entire time their picking up that couple at the movie and then taking them to their suite. That whole little spot was perfect. And then they just killed them with their pointy nails AND I LAUGHED. AHS is NOT supposed to make me LAUGH.
So then I'm thinking well is this season supposed to be campy? with the detective in the crime scene and then this I'm thinking that could be a possibility so at least they're doing it right even if I hate it.
The only part of the entire episode that gave me chills was when we see that the son of the detective went missing at the carousel. That was good.
But then it ends with that weird video game room (and GaGa trying to act) and I'm still upset that this isn't set in the past. Like MOST of the show feels like this is not present day and then they show us ear buds and a video game room (where all they play is tetris and other 80's games what is happening why)
All I can say is Sarah Paulsen was great and I don't understand why she's doing this show anymore or why they haven't decided to use her as the main character because she's fucking amazing.
Sooooo what did you think of the episode?
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
August Favorites 2015
Favorite Book
CLOCKWORK PRINCE by CASSANDRA CLARE
guys. I just can't handle anything in this story. How did you people do it when you read these when they first came out because THOSE ENDINGS kill me every time. They are such intense cliff hangers that I can't fathom not picking up the next book in the series right after!
As for who do I ship Tessa with because I KNOW people will think its blasphemous not to discuss this question when I talk about this book.... I DONT KNOW. I love Jem and Will so equally for such different reasons that I really want Tessa to end up with both. Like polyamory is a thing so it could happen.
Favorite Movie
I'm going to choose to movies for this month because they were very different genres.
The first was Trainwreck with Amy Schumer. Oh my god I almost died because I couldn't breather because I was laughing so hard throughout the movie. I love the awkward humor where its mostly funny not because of some joke the actor said but more about the situation and how they're reacting to it. FANTASTIC.
The second one I just went and saw last weekend and it is The Gift. This movie was SO GOOD. I thought it was going to be way more jumpy than it was so I was apprehensive about seeing it in the theater but it didn't have too many scenes like that. Instead it was much more a thriller about who exactly is the problematic character in this scenario. I loved how the story kept you in suspense about who really is the fucked up person and who was the victim, that was awesome. I do have to say that I wasn't fond of the ending; it's not that it felt like we needed more it just wasn't happy. I don't like unhappy endings but that's just me.
Favorite TV Show
Okay I'm going to talk about a new show and then I'm going to talk about one that I'm rewatching. If you follow me on twitter you probably can guess what the second one is lol
So I have been LOVING The Fall on Netflix. Its about a cop trying to catch the serial killer but you also get to know the person who is doing the killing. You watch him with his family as well as with his victims while watching the cop investigating the murders.
It has some great actors in it as well but mostly unknown Irish actors because it's set in Northern Ireland. JAMIE DORNAN plays the serial killer and I can't handle that information its too perfect for my brain to make sense of. And the woman who plays the main investigator is from Hannibal, another favorite tv show of mine.
Okay I gotta talk about Grey's Anatomy. I'm sorry I'll keep it short but I LOVE THIS TV SHOW SO MUCH. Sometimes I question my sanity because I care about these characters so much I have to wonder if I'm not aware that they're not real. Like i love it TOO MUCH.
Favorite Thing I've Bought or Received
This may be weird but my sister went to Hawaii this month and bought me a souvenier. They're these PLASTIC shoes that look like Jesus sandals and I've wanted a pair literally for years since my friend went to Hawaii and got a pair for herself. They're plastic but SO COMFORTABLE and I have to say... Matt hates them and that makes me giddy with evil excitement. LOL. I'll link a picture here from instagram as soon as I post one :)
Favorite Booktube Video
SarahSunbeamz did a Speech Jammer challenge reading of Fifty Shades of Grey and she was wearing this red robe in her bed with candles and I died laughing. It was AMAZEBALLS.
Just go watch it because if you need more explanation than that that you probably won't enjoy.
Favorite Youtube Video
Basically every single Augest video of Tyler Oakley's but i LIVE for the Tyler v. Zoella Disney Song guessing because I like to play with them and guess before they do. Sometimes I fail sometime I win but its hilarious to see how competitive they get
Favorite Video of Mine
I really love my The Last Bookstore | Let's Go Backwards video where I took all my footage from went to the last bookstore in LA and reversed all the clips. I just went a little artsy fartsy and I love how it turned out. It also was the last day I got to spend with all my girls at vidcon and so it just makes me happy to remember getting to meet and hang out with everyone :)
Favorite Songs
I'm still obsessing over You Know You like It by DJ Snake but I've recently started singing Cheerleader by OMI over and over again and I think Matt may murder me because of it. It's such a cute song as in the lyrics but the melody is also so fun and just GOOD. Pentatonix also did a cover of it so that always makes a song better in my opinion!
Favorite Beauty Product
I haven't talked about a favorite beauty product in a while but seeing as I ranted about a shitty skin care product recently I wanted to talk about what I used to fix me skin after that experience. I was using my Benefit Eye Cream on my eyes and cheekbones as well as neosporin around my nose. For the rest of my face I was using the Boots Botanics organic body moisturising lotion. Along with using a little cleanser form a new product line that a family friend has started (i unfortunately don't know the brand name but when I do I will add it in) instead of anything too rough on my skin like my clarisonic, my skin healed in about 3 days.
Favorite Thing I've Done or Accomplished
I got through my last first week of the year as an undergrad. Holy shit that is terrifying to acknowledge.
But I am proud to say that! I don't know what lies ahead (i know my next step after graduation but not the whole story) but I am excited to move forward and get my Bachelor's and actually be able to say I AM A COLLEGE GRADUATE. ITS SO CLOSE!
Monday, August 31, 2015
TBR | ALL THE ARCS and other things (aka September)
Currently Reading: Clockwork Princess Cassandra Clare
I'm LOVING the shadowhunters world on all accounts and can't wait to finish both TID and TMI series! Don't ask me which series I like more because they are both so good and so different and have their own qualities that for me I can't compare them or put them in a hierarchal order.
Also don't ask me if I'm Team Jessa or Wessa because I love both of them and am hoping for a polyamorous relationship. I'm not kidding. That is my dream for this love triangle.
TBR:
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
Obviously if I have to finish TID then I have to finish TMI next! I cannot wait for COHF I have no doubt it will be glorious!
Then I have arcs on arcs to read so I'm going to go through these.
Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian (9/1/15)
Check the goodreads page here.
I received this arc at the book swap at Vidcon 2015.
This book is about a boy named Will who has his first kiss with his best friend Angus, so he's confused about whether or not he's gay. But then he meets a girl named Brandy and he really likes her so he knows he's not gay but he can't stop hooking up with Angus. Obviously this book is going to be frustrated since the main character is morally ambiguous, cheating on his girlfriend. It'll also be the first book I read with a bisexual character so I'm so interested about that as well! eep!
Echoes by Laura Tisdall (9/8/15)
Check the goodreads page here.
I was offered an arc copy of this book by the author for an honest review so keep an eye out on my channel for that. But this book sounds so good! It's about a female coder in high school who gets brought into some network of people who wants to expose corruption online. I is excite for this!
Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld (9/29/15)
Check out the goodreads page here.
The lovely Molly over at MagicalMolly sent me this book during a book swap, and she got the arc at BEA 2015.
I am a huge fan of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series so when I heard he was coming out with a new series about kids with super powers i NEEDED it. The thing I find interesting about this series is that the superpowers our main characters have are all double edged - not always exactly helpful or happy powers. So the group of kids nicknamed themselves "the zeroes" hence the name of the book.
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Check out the goodreads page here.
Now this isn't an arc. But the bibliothon girls decided to read (some of us are rereading) this book together so we could all get to Lair of Dreams together and soon since it just came out! We're not sure if we'll be doing a liveshow for this book but if we do it will probably be in October so if you want to read with us follow any of us on twitter! we will at least be live tweeting ;)
A Madness so Discreet by Mindy McGuiness (10/6/15)
Check out the goodreads page here.
Once again, I received this arc during the book swap at Vidcon 2015.
Sierra got this arc the day before I did and I swear to god I considered stealing it from her and hiding it in my bag. Luckily I actually have a conscious and didn't do that :p
This book is a historical thriller about a woman put into an insane asylum and ends up assisting at crime scenes. I don't really know anything else about the story but it sounds SO GOOD.
I might end up reading this one in October because this is a lot of books to read. COHF itself is like 700 pages! So we will see!
I'm LOVING the shadowhunters world on all accounts and can't wait to finish both TID and TMI series! Don't ask me which series I like more because they are both so good and so different and have their own qualities that for me I can't compare them or put them in a hierarchal order.
Also don't ask me if I'm Team Jessa or Wessa because I love both of them and am hoping for a polyamorous relationship. I'm not kidding. That is my dream for this love triangle.
TBR:
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
Obviously if I have to finish TID then I have to finish TMI next! I cannot wait for COHF I have no doubt it will be glorious!
Then I have arcs on arcs to read so I'm going to go through these.
Check the goodreads page here.
I received this arc at the book swap at Vidcon 2015.
This book is about a boy named Will who has his first kiss with his best friend Angus, so he's confused about whether or not he's gay. But then he meets a girl named Brandy and he really likes her so he knows he's not gay but he can't stop hooking up with Angus. Obviously this book is going to be frustrated since the main character is morally ambiguous, cheating on his girlfriend. It'll also be the first book I read with a bisexual character so I'm so interested about that as well! eep!
Echoes by Laura Tisdall (9/8/15)
Check the goodreads page here.
I was offered an arc copy of this book by the author for an honest review so keep an eye out on my channel for that. But this book sounds so good! It's about a female coder in high school who gets brought into some network of people who wants to expose corruption online. I is excite for this!
Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld (9/29/15)
Check out the goodreads page here.
The lovely Molly over at MagicalMolly sent me this book during a book swap, and she got the arc at BEA 2015.
I am a huge fan of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series so when I heard he was coming out with a new series about kids with super powers i NEEDED it. The thing I find interesting about this series is that the superpowers our main characters have are all double edged - not always exactly helpful or happy powers. So the group of kids nicknamed themselves "the zeroes" hence the name of the book.
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Check out the goodreads page here.
Now this isn't an arc. But the bibliothon girls decided to read (some of us are rereading) this book together so we could all get to Lair of Dreams together and soon since it just came out! We're not sure if we'll be doing a liveshow for this book but if we do it will probably be in October so if you want to read with us follow any of us on twitter! we will at least be live tweeting ;)
A Madness so Discreet by Mindy McGuiness (10/6/15)
Check out the goodreads page here.
Once again, I received this arc during the book swap at Vidcon 2015.
Sierra got this arc the day before I did and I swear to god I considered stealing it from her and hiding it in my bag. Luckily I actually have a conscious and didn't do that :p
This book is a historical thriller about a woman put into an insane asylum and ends up assisting at crime scenes. I don't really know anything else about the story but it sounds SO GOOD.
I might end up reading this one in October because this is a lot of books to read. COHF itself is like 700 pages! So we will see!
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Booktube-a-thon... wrap up? wait what??
So I was for sure planning to participate in the booktubeathon 2015! I set out my TBR and wrote a blog post about it. I started reading on Day one and I even managed to post the first challenge video on my challenge and link it in order to submit to win!
I even started writing my blog post reading wrap up:
"Day one
I even started writing my blog post reading wrap up:
"Day one
123 pages
Day two
Hof 125 pages
Queen of thetearling 9 pages (audio)"
and then day 2 happened and a couple things happened.
One: I just really love Grey's Anatomy and I started rewatching the entire series recently and could not stop. So I mostly watched netflix instead of reading at all ever
Two: Day one started out with a challenge from last year - the book dominoes. which I loved that they brought back and was like yeah i want to do it!
Then day two happened and it was also a challenge from last year... and i was like hmm.
And then day three happened and it was yet another challenge from last year so I was just like well are we going to get any new challenges? Cause I want to see if I can do something new!
Then the Movie Trailer challenge popped up in my feed and I started to get excited except I was just like how am I supposed to make anything decent in essentially 8 hours. Because they close the challenges at 9pm EST which is 6p PST so I have no time to think up, film, edit, and make something that is good.
So I didn't do it.
At this point I had decided already that I wouldn't be posting any more videos for Booktubeathon because I was disappointed.
I did like the chubby bunny idea but that and with the book stacking to your height my question in my head was How will they choose which video is the best? Particularly day seven's stacking contest... Will the tallest person who participates win? I'm confused.
Overall I just felt a little underwhelmed this year with the video challenges specifically seeing as we didn't get as many new ones, and some of the news ones didn't seem very competitive. The thing that I loved about Booktubeathon when it started was that the winners of the books weren't being chosen randomly like most giveaways are, and instead were chosen based on the quality of their challenge content. THATS AWESOME.
But I feel like they don't give us enough time to know what the challenges are to make content worthy of being uploaded. I don't want to make a fool of myself for these challenges, I want to make a quality video for my own viewers and to show what I can do to possibly win these challenges.
** I did forget that last year they did give us the video challenges ahead of time but that was not how you won a book. This year they didn't do separate giveaway challenges so maybe that's why they decided not to give the challenges ahead of time. I just think that was a poor decision**
Also if we're getting the challenges the same day WHEN DO I GET TO READ. Cause that's the whole point isn't it?
So that's why I didn't really participate in Booktubeathon this year. I really hope people don't read this and go oh she thinks she's so much better than everyone now because she runs a readathon too. This isn't about comparing the two, and I'm well aware that Booktubeathon is the biggest event of the year for book tube. I'm glad we have something like that! I just want it to be more awesome each year instead of less than last.
and then day 2 happened and a couple things happened.
One: I just really love Grey's Anatomy and I started rewatching the entire series recently and could not stop. So I mostly watched netflix instead of reading at all ever
Two: Day one started out with a challenge from last year - the book dominoes. which I loved that they brought back and was like yeah i want to do it!
Then day two happened and it was also a challenge from last year... and i was like hmm.
And then day three happened and it was yet another challenge from last year so I was just like well are we going to get any new challenges? Cause I want to see if I can do something new!
Then the Movie Trailer challenge popped up in my feed and I started to get excited except I was just like how am I supposed to make anything decent in essentially 8 hours. Because they close the challenges at 9pm EST which is 6p PST so I have no time to think up, film, edit, and make something that is good.
So I didn't do it.
At this point I had decided already that I wouldn't be posting any more videos for Booktubeathon because I was disappointed.
I did like the chubby bunny idea but that and with the book stacking to your height my question in my head was How will they choose which video is the best? Particularly day seven's stacking contest... Will the tallest person who participates win? I'm confused.
Overall I just felt a little underwhelmed this year with the video challenges specifically seeing as we didn't get as many new ones, and some of the news ones didn't seem very competitive. The thing that I loved about Booktubeathon when it started was that the winners of the books weren't being chosen randomly like most giveaways are, and instead were chosen based on the quality of their challenge content. THATS AWESOME.
But I feel like they don't give us enough time to know what the challenges are to make content worthy of being uploaded. I don't want to make a fool of myself for these challenges, I want to make a quality video for my own viewers and to show what I can do to possibly win these challenges.
** I did forget that last year they did give us the video challenges ahead of time but that was not how you won a book. This year they didn't do separate giveaway challenges so maybe that's why they decided not to give the challenges ahead of time. I just think that was a poor decision**
Also if we're getting the challenges the same day WHEN DO I GET TO READ. Cause that's the whole point isn't it?
So that's why I didn't really participate in Booktubeathon this year. I really hope people don't read this and go oh she thinks she's so much better than everyone now because she runs a readathon too. This isn't about comparing the two, and I'm well aware that Booktubeathon is the biggest event of the year for book tube. I'm glad we have something like that! I just want it to be more awesome each year instead of less than last.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Booktube-a-thon TBR 2015!
The Booktube-a-thon is upon us! It begins August 3rd and I'm planning to participate!
Here are the challenges:
Here are the challenges:
-1 Read a book with blue on the cover
-2 Read a book by an author who shares the same first letter of your last name
-3 Read someone else's favourite book
-4 Read the last book you acquired
-5 Finish a book without letting go of it
-6 Read a book you really want to read
-7 Read seven books
My To Be Read Pile:
1. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
2. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
3. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (red from littleredreader's favorite)
4. The Treatment by Suzanne Young
5. planning to finish The Naturals in one sitting
6. Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas
7. If I manage to read all of these books, I'll continue with the TID series to get to that 7 book challenge :)
Wish me luck!
p.s. I hope to get to some of the video challenges, but it will most definitely depend on what they are. Luckily I don't work or anything Monday or Tuesday so I'm hoping to have time to do them!
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