Good morning! Welcome to day one of ContemporaryAThon. I am so excited to
get this read-a-thon started because I have so many contemporary books that I
need to get to. It's Monday so that means I have to go to work. I actually have to
work six out of seven days of this read-a-thon and I feel like that keeps
happening to me. People keep scheduling readathons that I want to participate
in on weeks where I just work the whole time. So we're gonna do our best.
Today I really want to get started on Turtles All the Way Down - John Green's
new book - and hopefully be able to get through a decent chunk of this. I'm very
excited to get this started. I was actually planning to start it this
morning but I actually ended up doing other things like wrapping up BorrowAThon
stuff and, you know, making my morning smoothie, and hanging out with
Brett and things like that. But that's the plan for today. I have to work until
about seven o'clock tonight but I will have a lunch break where I can read
during and then I'll read some more later tonight. This week - actually today -
starts a fitness challenge at work where you can get entered into a raffle for a
couple different things if you hit a certain number of steps on average
between today and December 22nd. So I have my watch on I've had it on all
morning. I'm already at 294 steps just walking around the house. So, crushing it.
Gonna try and just like, not stop moving for the next month and a half.
Brett's gonna hold me accountable. He's not gonna let me stop moving. BRETT: MOVE!
But I will be going to the gym after work between my last meeting of the day which
is just a training for students. You guys need to keep me accountable to just make
sure I'm always moving. BRETT: MOVE!
Hello! It is about 8:30 p.m. now. So it's like
12 hours since I checked in. I'm just getting home for the night. I went and I
worked out after work and I'm just getting home and my headache has been persisting
since yesterday. I felt pretty good during the day at work today but
headache is back. So I'm just gonna relax and read some Turtles All the Way Down. I
am - I got to... where am I going? I got about 50 pages read during my
lunch break today. So I'd like to get up to page about
like 160 or so which will put me just over halfway done and that will put me in the
position to get the book finished tomorrow hopefully. Really enjoying it so
far. Really liking it and - and I would hope it just continues to be good. I have
high hopes for this book.
Poppy is being very demanding tonight.
Does not want me
to stop giving her attention hmm? What's the matter Pop? Huh? Thank you. Thank you. Thank
you. (laughs) Stop!
It's okay Poppy. Hmmm? It's okay. You do look super comfy, though. Sinking right into the
blankets. (laughs) Morning! Happy day two of ContemporaryAThon. I have some tea here.
Brett's been sick for the past few days and I woke up with a scratchy throat, so
trying to fight it off with some tea. I'm up early. It's 7:00 a.m. I just
showered and I'm going to hop into more Turtles All the Way Down. I did manage to
get to page 161 last night. So I'm really happy with my progress thus far and I am
going to try to finish this today so then I can start Little Fires Everywhere.
That'll be my next book. Goal is to get this finished today. I'm gonna read
for about a half hour before I get ready and leave for
work. Yeah, that's the plan. I'll check back in with you guys a little bit later
when I have hopefully this done. It's snowing. Oh my gosh. I'm not ready for
winter. Make it go away! (sobbing) Hello! It's a lot later now and it's
about 9:45 p.m. and I have just finished my first book of ContemporaryAThon. I
finished Turtles All the Way Down by John Green and I really enjoyed it. This
book is very quintessential John Green. He, in my opinion, is a beautiful writer.
He really loves to interweave other works of literature into his story and
he has like, these beautiful quotes that I just like want to highlight and just
like think about and that's just very John Green. That's how his writing has
been consistently throughout the years for me. Also, in a very John Green way,
there's no like, really overpowering plot to this. I feel like John Green is very
good at kind of creating a world that's very believable in the fact that, you
know, in life, usually nothing super spectacular happens, if that makes sense.
But this book is very focused on the anxiety and mental illness of our main
character Aza. I think that's how you say her name.
Aza. And John Green, I know for a fact, does live with anxiety and
obsessive-compulsive disorder, I think. So this is like, a very real representation
of an own voices mental health piece of literature and it's just like, it's very
genuine and the way he writes it is very believable. Like, you know that this
author has experienced the things that Aza has experienced in his
own mental illness. Maybe not exactly, but very similarly, and it's just - the way he
wrote this book and represented her mental illness just like, you could tell.
You really could tell which I really appreciated because I also live with
anxiety. Everybody's mental illness is different but I could - there were some
things that Aza was experiencing in this novel where I was just like, "Yes.
I've experienced that, and I know exactly what John Green is trying to do here and
represent here." It's very hard to capture a mental illness and put it into words
and I think John Green did a really fantastic job. I'm having a hard time
deciding what I want to rate this. I think I want to give it a 4 out of 5
stars. I feel like if I think on it a little bit more I might give it a higher
rating. For right now I think 4 out of 5 stars makes sense to me. I really did
enjoy this book but I would say this is 4 out of 5 stars. I think it's a great
representation of mental illness and just give it a try if you want to check
out John Green's new book. I feel like if you're a John Green fan, you'll enjoy
this book. So like I said, it's about 9:45 right now and Brett and I are
about to watch The Challenge when he gets home which is so funny because
we've been watching The Challenge since mid-July. The same season of The
Challenge since mid-July. I'm fairly certain in my Booktubeathon vlogs, we're
watching The Challenge and it's been the same season. It's been the same season
forever but tonight is finally like the reunion and the finale and everything. So
today will be the last day of watching this season of The Challenge which has
been fantastic so far. So when he gets home we'll watch that. I think I'm going
to put some laundry away while I wait for him but my next read is going to be
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. This is my adult contemporary book and
this is going to be one of my buddy reads with Michael. I'm excited to get to
this one. Michael's already like, in the middle of it and saying he really enjoys
it. So I'm excited to hop into this one as well. I'm hoping to get a few pages of
this done tonight and kind of introduce myself to the book.
Good morning! Happy day three of ContemporaryAThon. I have about a
half hour before I have to leave for work. So I'm going to get more of Little Fires
Everywhere read. My goal today is to get halfway done so then hopefully tomorrow
I can finish this. I read the first couple of chapters last night and
already very intrigued. So I'm excited to continue reading and see what I think of
it and hopefully I'll enjoy it. Hello everybody! It is a lot later. It's about
7:30, :40? 7:30 or :40 pm on day three and I haven't read
much else. I read a few pages before work today and that's about it.
My goal is to get about halfway done. Brett just left for the gym so I have
some time before he comes back and we watch the new episode of Are
You the One at ten. So hopefully I can knock out quite a few pages. That's my
plan for right now and hopefully I can make it halfway. We'll see. I am really
intrigued by this book so far. So I'm excited to continue to read it and
hopefully I can get quite a few pages done. The good thing is tomorrow I'm
working from home. So that means I don't have a commute tomorrow which is nice. So
I have two extra hours in my day where I can read. So I think it is pretty
realistic that I can get this done by tomorrow which is what I want to do and
then move on to my next book which I haven't decided what it's going to be
yet. But this is my main focus and hopefully I can get a good chunk done
tonight and then finish it tomorrow. Good morning! I'm surprised I haven't vlogged
from the car yet so far this read-a-thon. But it's Thursday. Day four of the
ContemporaryAThon. Last night I didn't get halfway done Little Fires
Everywhere, I got more of like, a quarter of the way done of Little Fires
Everywhere. Night reading has just really become not my thing.
It's often been not my thing, but lately I've just not been able to pay attention
when I'm like, all comfy. All I want to do is fall asleep. But I got to about
page 98, but today I'm working from home meaning I have quite a bit of extra time
on my hands. I don't have a commute so I have a couple extra hours during my day
that I can read which is nice. So hopefully I will be able to focus on
Little Fires Everywhere and get it finished. That's really what I want to do
today. I do have an exciting announcement. If
you don't follow the hosts of the ContemporaryAThon, Julie and Chelsea, what
are you doing? Seriously they're both great people and
they both have wonderful channels, but Chelsea has been doing daily vlogs. I
mean they both have, but Chelsea has been doing daily vlogs, and every day she
recommends a book - one of her favorite books - at the end of her vlog, and then
she also does a Booktuber recommendation and yesterday I was her Booktuber
recommendation which was so nice of her. So thank you for shouting me out, Chelsea!
You're the best! She is on the other side of the country from me so this all happened
while I was sleeping last night. But she recommended me and put her vlog up
yesterday night while I was asleep and I've been really close to a thousand
subscribers for a little while now and her recommendation put me over the edge
and I now have over a thousand subscribers which is so exciting! There
it is! I think the last time I checked I had like 990 or something
like that? That's so crazy! So thank you everybody who is subscribed to me, first
of all. Thank you all for coming and hanging out with me. But also thank you
to everybody who has come over from Chelsea's channel. Welcome! I hope you
like my videos. (laughs) And yeah, big shout out to Chelsea for shouting me out and kind of
helping me towards that milestone and getting my name out there. So, thank you
so much. If you don't follow me on Twitter you might not know that, it was
last weekend - two weekends ago, I put out a Twitter poll, knowing that I was
getting close to a thousand subscribers saying I want to celebrate in some way. What do
you guys want to see? And I had a couple of options, and option that won was a 24
hour readathon with a vlog. So I'm going to be doing a 24 hour readathon sometime
soon. I just looked at my calendar and I think like, the best time for me to do it
is in January. So it might not be for a little while just because we have the
holidays coming up and I'm gonna be very busy, but January things will simmer down
a little bit. So then I'll do a 24 hour read-a-thon with a vlog for you guys for
my celebration of this awesome new milestone and I can't wait! It's gonna be
good. I'm gonna need a lot of caffeine but
it'll be great. Speaking of caffeine, I'm about to go get
some coffee and then I will come home and I have a little bit of time to read
before I need to start doing work. But I will check back in with you guys in a little
bit after I've done a little bit more reading. So I'm about to go for a run and
I put a hat on because it's like, cold and raining, but like, with my ponytail in
a hat it looks like I have such a short haircut and I'm like really into it.
What do you guys think? It's nice and short. I think it looks cute. I used to
have really short hair but I get lazy and then I don't cut it. But I kind of
like it. What do you think? Hey everybody! Happy day five of ContemporaryAThon. I'm off
to work. This is day five of six of working this week and
today I don't have a lot on my plate. I have a big long meeting this morning, so
it looks a little bit earlier than I usually do. But other than that I don't really have a lot on
my plate. I'll probably go to yoga and lunchtime.
Should be a pretty low key day. So yesterday I really wanted to finish
Little Fires Everywhere and I didn't do that. I got really close, though. I read
about 175 pages yesterday. So I only have about 65 pages left of the book which is
awesome, and so I plan to finish that today at
some point. Probably tonight and then I can finally
start a third book for ContemporaryAThon and probably focus on that over
the weekend. Tomorrow I do have to work but I don't have to work until 6:30 p.m.
I'm working late tomorrow. I work until about 11:30/12:30 tomorrow
night. So I'll be at work late, but I have the whole like, morning and most of
the afternoon to read which is great. But today I'm just
focusing on finishing Little Fires Everywhere which is actually getting so
good. I really, really am enjoying the book. And then starting a third book and
I'll check back in with you guys after work. Hopefully when I have a finished
book for you and then we can talk about what I'm reading next. Hello! I have an update
for you guys. It's Friday night. It's just past 9:30 and I just finished
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. This was
my adult contemporary pick and it was really good, you guys. It was really,
really fantastic. I really enjoyed this. I would say this is better than Celeste
Ng's debut novel, Everything I Never Told You. The way that she wove the
characters lives together and kind of like, took you through the
layers behind everybody's back story... it was just so fantastic and I just loved
it so much. This wasn't what I was expecting in terms of plot. I thought it
would be more focused on the mystery of the house burning down, but it's way more
focused on like, just like, the really intriguing backstories and just kind of
like, showing that people are more than what they seem from the outside. This was
just super fantastic. I really, really enjoyed it. This book had a bit of a
slower start to it and I would have liked a little bit more from the ending
but I would say overall is just a super enjoyable read and it's just like a
really wonderful work of literature. So kudos to Celeste Ng.
I really enjoyed this book. I'm gonna give it 4.75 out of
five stars. So not quite a five stars but still really close and really, really
enjoyable and I would definitely recommend checking it out. Especially if
you liked Everything I Never Told You, you'll really enjoy this. So it's, like I
said, it's a little past 9:30 and I'm already feeling super tired.
So I don't know if I'll read any more, but my next book is going to be How to
Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran. This is my "not set in summer" challenge and I'm
really excited to get to this. I've been wanting to read this for a long time now
and so I'm excited to hop into it. I might start it a little bit tonight
and then try to read a lot more of it tomorrow but we'll see. But this will be
my next read and I'm excited to get to it. Good morning! It's day six - Saturday - and
I'm up doing my normal Saturday ritual of going to get coffee and breakfast
sandwiches. I woke up around - I think I woke up at like quarter to seven because
I went to bed at like 10:00 last night as I predicted. And so I've just been
awake. It's about 10 o'clock right now and I got up and I read a bit of How to
Build a Girl. I read about 30 pages and it's - I'm not sure how I feel about it
yet. (laughs) It's pretty over the top which I kind of like, but we're just gonna have
to see how the book progresses to see what I think of it. Like I was saying
yesterday, I do have to work tonight. I don't have to leave until about 5:30, so
I have the good majority of the day to just read and hang out with Brett. So I
think I'll be spending most of the day reading. I do want to edit another video
and upload one to my channel. But the majority of the day will be
spent reading How to Build a Girl and getting closer to finishing that. It'd be
great to finish that book this weekend and then start More Happy Than Not so
then I can at least say I finished three books and started a fourth, but we'll
just have to see how the day goes. Hello! It is quite a bit later. It's 5:04
p.m. and I'm just getting ready to leave for work but I wanted to give you guys a
little bit of an update. I did get to page 100 of How to Build a Girl. Liking
it a lot so far. It's - it's like I said. It's really over the top. So it's just
like, entertainment, but I'm excited to continue reading this. Hopefully I'll
have some downtime at work tonight and I could perhaps keep reading it, get more
pages in, but that's never a promise. So we'll see how that goes, and then I also
edited two videos today, which I'm really happy about. Anyway I'm going to order
myself some dinner so I can pick it up on the way to work and then I'm working
until like 11:30 but maybe I'll check in with you and I get home.
Chances are I'll just fall asleep but we'll see. I'll check in with you guys
sometime soon.
BRETT: How many subscribers did you just lose from this face?
RILEY: Let me know in the comments if you unsubscribed. We're out to breakfast at Annie's
Country Kitchen. Trying someplace new.
Brett's being destructive. (laughs)
RILEY: The reason I'm losing subscribers. BRETT: WHAT?! (laughs)
RILEY: Just kidding. You're probably the reason why I have so many.
BRETT: Everyone's like "who's that weird kid Riley's hanging out with?" RILEY: (laughs) Oh, it's just Brett.
Hello! It is 11:20 a.m. on the last day of the ContemporaryAThon. Brett and I just got
back from breakfast which was delicious and I managed last night to read about
50 more pages of How to Build a Girl and that's where I'm at right now. I'm about
150 pages into this. My goal today is to finish this. I have about 180 ish more
pages to go... math. Yeah, 190. So I have quite a bit of reading to do. So what I'm
gonna do right now is hop in. I might fall asleep
because I didn't get that much sleep last night, but I'm gonna try to read
as much as possible and we also have the Patriots game at 4:25 today that I'll
watch on and off. But other than that, I think I'm just gonna focus on reading and
hopefully get this done. That's the goal to have at least one more book done by
the end of the readathon. RILEY: Check out Brett's - what do you call it?
BRETT: I don't know. Some company sells them. They're dope.
RILEY: (laughs) Your mouth is moving with
the mouth! Say something! BRETT: Uhh.... sup guys! I'm a skeleton!
RILEY: Oh my gosh! It's so funny! BRETT: Rar, rar, rar!
So it's about 6 p.m. now.
Brett just left to go hang out with some friends. I read about 50 more pages of
How to Build a Girl before I stopped reading. So I have a little under 140
pages left of this book and so I need to really buckle down. The Patriots game is
on right now but I have it muted. So I'll just have it on in the background. I just
finished putting away a shit ton of laundry. So I'm feeling good about
being somewhat productive today. So what I'm gonna do is - I have an iced coffee. I
have some Dunks ready to go, and I'm going to read my face off and hopefully
read until I finish this book. Hello! It is 9:20 p.m. on day seven and I just
finished How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran. This book is about our main
character Johanna. Her family is a low SES family and she is trying to come up
with ways to help support her family financially and so she finds out that
she really enjoys writing and she starts writing for a music magazine and this is
a coming-of-age story from her age 14 to 17, about writing for this magazine, kind
of discovering herself, reinventing herself, and you know discovering things
like alcohol, drugs, sex, things like that, all while trying to support her family.
This book - I've been saying it's really over the top and I think it is. I think
the humor in this is wonderful. The humor is just like right up my alley. It's like,
super dry, and I just love it, and Johanna and her family are super charming. You
really are rooting for them the whole time and I just loved hearing about her
adventures. However the pacing of this is really
strange and I feel like it kind of messed with the story overall. I would
say it - like, towards the middle it just got really slow
and I really wanted to hear more about Johanna's family and how her new
lifestyle is kind of impacting them. I thought that was the most interesting
part of this story - kind of the balance between her relationship with her family
and her coming-of-age kind of plotline of her discovering herself. Because of
that I am rating this 3.5 out of five
stars. I feel like if the pacing was a little bit better, it would have
definitely been like a four to a 4.5, but I feel like it definitely
kind of took away from the story when the pacing kind of slowed down and we
went several chapters without checking in with her family and like her
relationship with them. So ultimately I'm giving this 3.5 out of five
stars. It's a really enjoyable read and it's really fun and like I said, the
characters are very charming, but the pacing just kind of put a damper on
things for me. This book fulfilled my "not set and summer" challenge. There are some
parts that are set in summer, but it's over the course of three years that this
book takes place. So you see a lot of different seasons. And that's gonna do it
for my ContemporaryAThon experience. I really enjoyed ContemporaryAThon. It was
such a fun read-a-thon to just focus on contemporaries. I would really love to
see another round of this in the future. So shout out to you guys, Chelsea and
Julie. I hope you guys will put together another round in the future and I would
totally participate and thank you guys so much for putting on such a great
read-a-thon. I had a blast. I'm gonna share my final totals with you guys. So I
read 962 pages this week. I managed to finish three books and complete four
challenges. I finished the "not set in summer"
challenge with How to Build a Girl. I completed the "newest to your shelf"
challenge with Turtles All the Way Down and I completed both the "adult
contemporary" and the "Buddy Read" challenge with Little Fires Everywhere.
And that's gonna do it for this vlog. I hope you guys enjoyed. If you did please
leave a big thumbs up. Subscribe if you haven't already. I do try to post a new
video each and every week and I will see you guys again very soon. Bye!
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