hey what's up guys it's Steph and I'm so excited because the time has finally
come it's that time of year we have hit the
point I'm so excited it's the booktubeathon
this is the first really
big booktube event that I've participated and when I first joined
booktube last year i've been on a booktube for a little bit over a year
now and to be finally back at this point where i first really tried to get in
with the community and try to interact with the community it's really exciting
the challenges were literally just released earlier today I just watched
them and I built a TBR really quick and I'm really excited I'm
just so excited to revisit this event I'm gonna keep repeating myself-let's just get into it there
are a total of seven reading challenges and the first one
is kind of my favorite
the first challenge so you have to let a coin toss decide what you
read which it must be my lucky day because one I found a heads up penny and
two I picked up two books from a bookstore
well not the books store, from the thrift store so I get to coin toss between
these two books this one kind of reminds me in the scent of the Santa Clara diet
in the ways that it's a zombie but in our kind of modern society and they're
kind of shunned for being a zombie in ways it reminds me of the santa clarita diet but in
ways is obviously not like santa clarita diet this one is about a murderer where a
body is found and it's composed of six other bodies and it's tied together
hence the name rag doll both sound very fun one obviously darker than the other
but both sound very fun and both I picked up today so I'm going to use the
Lucky Penny that I got today and figure out which one I got for heads let's go
with breathless and for tails let's go with rag doll so
I think I lost my penny
wait wait it was tails those tails it came up tails it landed on a charger
don't ask me why a charger was right here but it landed on a charger and it
came up tails so I'm going to mean rag doll by Daniel Cole cool
the randomness
of that first reading challenge was why it's probably my favorite out of all of
the reading challenges this year the second challenge is straight about
something you've always wanted to do and for me I've always wanted to do a lot of
things when I was little I always want to be a paleontologist it was my
absolute dream to dig up bones and and mummies and find ancient artifacts it it
obviously didn't happen because I'm sitting here in front of a camera talking to you about
books but it could have happened in an alternate timeline Steph is living her
dreams grow up a little bit and I start watching bones I really get into
forensic anthropology and learning more about that in forensic science and
dealing with the morbid topic of bodies and murder cases and all that fun stuff
so keeping on that trend because it's still something I'm really interested in and
there's something I really enjoy learning about and honestly if things
have gone differently I would have loved to be a coroner or to work in forensic
anthropology I'm gonna be reading what the corpse revealed this was a collection
different stories about forensic science and murder cases I've already read one
so far very good I'm loving it and I'm just going to be finishing it because I
haven't read it in a hot minute so I'm gonna be reading with the corpse
revealed and finishing it and learning more about what I could have been doing
in another life once again alternate timeline Steph is living her
best life number three is to read and watch a book to movie adaptation and
this one I really wasn't sure what I was gonna do I'll be honest with you like my
first thought was to jump to the doms channel he reviews book to movie adaptations
and just like look through the ones on
there that do I have the book at home do I have access to the movie and what was
I gonna do and I also had my sister looking on the shelves in the hallway
for what books we had she said what about Tuck Everlasting and surprisingly
enough that's the one of the one videos from the Dom channel that I haven't
watched the book to movie adaptation what changed from the adaptation the whole
synopsis of the book and I don't know if I've ever watched movie if I have it's
been a while and I definitely know I haven't read the book and look we have
the movie tie-in cover as you can see it's a very short book it is one that I
probably have seen the movie I just don't remember it at all or anything
really about it so I'm going to read in this book and watching the adaptation
hopefully on Netflix or Hulu and if it's not available there maybe I have it on
DVD somewhere in the archives hopefully maybe
number four is read a book with
green on the cover and to be honest with you my first thought was to go with rag
doll if I didn't do the book toss but I ended up doing the book toss because I
figured this book has a lot a different story around it then rag
doll this is one that actually picked up from Roswell New Mexico in the alien
museum and it's the alien abduction files I'm really excited
I definitely overpaid for this book just because it was from Roswell New Mexico
but I had to pick up a book from Roswell New Mexico I could not leave and not
bring a book home about aliens or alien abductions it was mandatory and I did it
so it's about time I read it I've had it for a few months now I've been reading a
lot of nonfiction recently and say what you will whether you believe in aliens
or not this is technically classified as nonfiction so I'm gonna throw this into
the pile and read about some alien abductions
the next challenge is another
one that I love the concept of because you don't realize how many hats
I have snapbacks alone I have one for every day of the week I have several
fedoras laying around if you've watched my videos for a while sometimes I will
wear hats I love hats I have hats ever have all different
kinds of styles of hats but I have a very specific hat for the very specific
book I'm going to be reading it was the Hat that actually inspired what I was
going to read because I actually have three hats from this location so might
as well pick one to read through this for that would be reading myths and
mysteries of California and I'm gonna be wearing my ALCATRAZ hat. One of three but
this one simply because it's a swim team and one of the biggest mysteries around
California is all Alcatraz and how the prisoners escaped the penitentiary
and did they live did they die no one knows for sure
*Makes X-Files theme noises*
once again another short book this one that my dad gave me I want to
get on the beginning of the year on Christmas and I haven't read it yet but
to add into me reading a lot of more kind of nonfiction kind of conspiracy
kind of books I really want to get into this and I'd love to learn more about
some of the different hot topics around my state and mysteries and things of
gossip to be like did you know or spark up a conversation like hey yada yada I'm
not good at conversation but maybe this'll help
this next challenge is to read a book with a
beautiful spine and whenever I think of a beautiful spine, I think of beasts made of night
now this book the cover already the cover was like an automatic thing
that's why I wanted to buy it it was beautiful
ignore the red on mine because I got it from a second-hand dealer or whatever
um but the spine just the way it matches the front and it has its own little
aesthetic to it I absolutely love it and whenever you like shine a flashlight
on it or something because it's that reflective material it's uh it just goes
off it is not here to be quiet this one I actually started in October but I only
made it one or two chapters in and then it just got delayed on my shelves and
I've been really wanting to finish it so this is my chance and it's gorgeous
and the last challenge of course is to read seven books and I've only shown you six
that I'm putting on my TBR because breathless didn't make it.. sorry
What I am going to be adding for a seventh book just because I think will
be fun and just because I got it last month and I've been wanting to read it
so I'm gonna say Alice in the country of hearts this is the first one in a manga
the series that you have to read backwards because manga and it's
basically an Alice in Wonderland retelling so I'm really excited for it I mean I
really love the artwork in it or at least on the cover and I'm excited to
read this first bit it seems funny it seems good so *PWAP* I'm excited and that's my
TBR for the booktubeathon holy heck I can't believe it's this time of year again
Wow since this video is going up today on Monday let me just tell you that
right before the booktubeathon on I'm gonna be co-hosting a readathon that is going on
right now it's literally happening right now so if
you're here and you're queer or you're not queer but you like reading queer
things I'm co-hosting the lgbt+ read-a-thon so if you want to check that
out and jump in and join us please do it's gonna be a fun time I'll link the
video of my TBR our announcement at the end of the video if this isn't the end
of it video you know those last 20 seconds are hard to manage sometimes
when you're still talking I was really excited at for it to be booktubeathon
time again because this is the point moment in my channel history all right
like I said I really started engaging with the booktube community I started
like doing participating in things this is the first readathon I ever
participated and it was like my first time
interacting with channels have channels interact with me so it was really cool
and I feel like I've grown so much in this past year so it's just really
exciting to jump me back into this readathon again
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which if this is going on but my name will be a video about me talk about
Jeffrey Dahmer ooh spooky serial killers I'll leave that right
there like I said the announcement video is right there for my read-a-thon that
I'm co-hosting like this week right now before the booktubeathon
that's all I've
got for you guys today I hope you have a lovely day / night and I'll see you
later
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