BOOKOPLATHON VLOG | 48 Hour Readathon | 20th-21st March 2021

hello it is past midnight so we are in the first live sprint for book operation and oh my god i'm tired already it's 10 minutes past midnight and i'm dropping um i know that cole and his friends are hanging out on discord so my plan is to finish my sister jody i did start this um i was gonna say last night a couple hours ago i started this and got 74 pages in in like half an hour so i feel like i can finish this in these sprints as soon as i finish this i'm going to sleep and when i wake up i will then be reading my other pick for these rolls which is snow white and the huntsman i should probably say this is my uh dark cover it's quite a dark purple i don't know why i feel like justifying it um and then the other prompt is fantasy so i've got snow white in the huntsman um which is the book based on the movie and it's relatively small i feel like it's under 250 pages so it feels doable um and yeah this is a jacqueline wilson so it is a technically a middle grade maybe pushing into ia i don't know middle grade so it's quite quick to read um but yeah i don't know how much i'm gonna update with this vlog i'm doing a dedicated vlog for the two days of the readathon so we will see if i have anything exciting um oh the roles are happening now so we need to find out how long we're reading for so yeah i guess i'll update you when i have something to say hello so it's only 20 past one and i am absolutely shattered i was struggling to keep my eyes open i've not had any like nap before this i've not prepped to stay awake so i actually feel if i go to bed now and get up at normal time i'm gonna have plenty of time to read before 12 and then i'm gonna have from 12 till 12 to read the next two prompts so i if i have to carry one over like it's not a big deal um i am on page 189 of my sister jody right now so i i've made a decent dent how long is this book i feel like it's well it's actually nearly 400 pages i have no idea it is 400 pages so i'm still shy of halfway but i'm reading it so quickly i read 60 something pages without really trying and having a scroll through my phone so it's fine i'm just too tired and i will be way more productive if i go to sleep and get up sort of early hello so i have literally just woke like opened my eyes um but steph is it's steph's prince now and she is doing scavenger hunts every however often during the sprints so her first prompt is a book that starts with a b and her second prompt is a book that shares your initials so i'm looking for a book starting with a b and then the author cm um this would have been fine before when i had my showers in albeck lauder but in color this is much harder b we have breathless by jennifer niven was right next to me so that's that one easily smashed and okay i'm gonna have to have a look so there officially aren't any i'm gonna check goodreads i check goodreads i literally don't own a book with the initials cm the only one i can find on goodreads is red white and royal blue which i've read and didn't like and i read that on my kindle so i guess that's as close as we're getting but i don't have a physical book to show you but red white and royal blue we have the next two prompts it is a number in the title and a star on the cover or in the title so number one by one by ruth ware self-explanatory let's go final draft by riley redgate there are loads of little doodle stars on there that one was so much easier i'm still going with my sister jody for the first cover of the first prompt of dark cover and i need to read snow white and the huntsman but i feel like i'm going to pick two very very short books for the next two prompts so i this is doable it's fine stop being weird bruce hates it when you do that okay steph just gave us two more prompts for her little scavenger hunt the first one is currently reading so my sister jody and i'll take the time to tell you now i'm 279 pages in so i have this little chunk left i realized my issue it went onto goodreads and it said that the hardcover of this book was 227 pages or something it's not it's 400 pages that's why i was confused so that's that done and the next one was colors we associate with becca so find a book with mustard and or navy this should be easy for me i don't have any mustard the closest thing to mustard is the spine of this freddie mercury biography and i guess it does have mustard and there's some nate well blue so i guess this one or if we want to go full blown navy oh that's not navy that's black midnight library by matt haig is definitely navy okay and steph's last three prompts for her scavenger hunt you can see i'm way more awake now i actually just had a video call with my grandad and my cousin so i'm like awake and the first one is a book featuring a game so i've grabbed the lying game by ruth ware i don't actually know how much of a game um ice and her three best friends used to play the lying game this is my sister's approximately pick for the month so i really need to read this at some point uh the next one is a book under 200 pages so i grabbed the story of babushka by catherine flores which i'm really going to try and fit into this readathon because it is teeny tiny it is a kids book it is a like picture with a little bit of writing book um so yeah i really want to get this one read this weekend and the last one was a book featuring an animal so let me go find something this is way harder than i thought it would be oh my god this is hard right i can start from the beginning i've got books with animals on the cover does stags have animals it's got again animal on the cover i feel like i don't have many middle grades which is where we're gonna get animals oh tell her life eight pounds by sara gruen which i haven't read yet but it's her um life of like spending time with bonobo bonabeau whatever we're calling them chimps so definitely animals and like real photos of them too um so yeah i am very very nearly done with my sister jody i think i'm gonna give it four stars i don't know i think four stars there's a few issues i have with it that i then thought well you've got to think about when it was written but it was written in like 2008 so that's not that long ago really um god i feel old but yeah so i'm going to read that i think i'm going to finish it i need i've been drinking some tea meet some cherries weirdly good for energy i found today um but yeah we're we're gonna do the last sprint for this round and i need to start snow white okay it's all fine i'm updating you far too much so this is a very questionable angle and that's just because my phone is on charge and but i just want to let you know i've finished my sister jody i'm giving it four stars i understand why i love this as a child i understand why this broke me as a child but i can't quite give it five stars like with what i've read now as an adult but yeah four stars really would recommend it very very very hard hitting and but i feel like it has a lot of important stuff in it so yeah that's that one done we still have 20 minutes left of the sprint i don't think i'm gonna start snow white i think i'm gonna leave that as my next book um but yeah i guess you will see me soon finding out the next prompts [Music] [Music] hopefully you'll be able to hear it okay but i will repeat them afterwards so roll drop two board one roll number two instead of on stream cinema um this is shared the right screen okay cool 2021 roll number two d7 okay so for some reason that was all very stressful i was grabbing a snack and the roll drops happened and everything happened at once so we are now in the first reading sprint of um on ashley's channel but i'm taking the time to get myself settled with the new pics and whatever um so the roll drops as you saw were poc rep and um a contemporary so i knew straight away the contemporary i was going to go for is summer of soul by katrina leno this will be a reread and it's very very short but i wanted to reread this because i have plans for this book um so yeah wanted to reread it perfect opportunity to do so it's short wait this has got magical oh no this has um magical realism elements um i'm gonna check goodreads and if enough people have classed it as contemporary then i'm gonna still pass it as contemporary becca said you can stretch the prompts and this screams contemporary at me so let's see let's see um but then for the poc rep i have three options and i've put a poll up on twitter that's going to go for four hours and i will read the one that wins i think i know which one's gonna win already and we have get a life chloe brown by talia hibbert the way you make me feel by maureen goo and mexican gothic by silvia moreno garcia i am 99 sure chloe brown is going to win um and ether said chloe brown is and i cannot stress enough that it's so i feel like we're going to be reading the tits um but yeah those are my three options we will see let me go check this i'll be straight back i don't know why i'm telling you that cause i'll just edit me moving okay i made my decision my decision is does it really matter um this is classed on goodreads as contemporary magical realism and fantasy with a fair amount of people going for all of those categories so it's going to be a contemporary and if people have an issue then i'm going to be reading another contemporary anyway like all of wait these two are definitely both contemporary this one's more of a horror i think but it does have contemporary elements so they all fit both um so yeah this is this is contemporary it's fine right so now i need to set down i've had my little snack so i'm gonna have a drink and read snow white in the huntsman um it is less than 200 pages long oh we still have the receipt in here thanks emily um and there is a movie fold-out poster oh how cool um but yeah this is 220 pages long so let's ignore this sprint it's a bit of a write-off for me because i just look like like to be prepared and so i feel like this is gonna be doable definitely in ashley sprints and then i will have from four till midnight to read probably these two we can do this or oh my god why am i doubting myself do i leave this in case there's a magical realism prompt we have all of tomorrow's prompts as well we're gonna leave it scrapping that idea and we're gonna read i don't know i do know oh my god okay so we're going to read whichever one wins the poll i'm going to read then he ate my boy and transfers by louise rennison which is the next one of the georgia nicholson series and i fly through these okay we're sorted that's fine okay let's have a sit down hello so it's nearly four o'clock now and i've got about 100 well less than 100 pages left of snow white and you know what i think this is going to be a two star i'm really really disappointed by it but i think that's just because it's a book of the movie and obviously to get to the movie if it was coming from a book they'd crop a lot out so this is practically word for word what happens in the movie so without the actual images i don't feel like there's enough and i'm just kind of skipping through it i have seen the movie i don't really remember it but yeah it's just not catching my attention at all so i'm gonna finish this off um we're in the last 12 minutes of a sprint on ashley's channel but um my parents popped around so i actually stopped reading an hour or so ago and um yeah i'm also just in a really bad mood now because i've had a letter from my old job to say apparently i'm using information that i gained there in my new employment like i'm trying to manipulate old information and it's i'm not gonna use words i wouldn't i don't want on my channel but it's a load of rubbish and yeah it's really put me in a down mood really really has so like it's just it's not worth it but i already sent an email to the woman who sent me the letter to say can i have some more details please because i need to know when i can work out who said something and like grasped on me for not even doing anything um then i can cut ties with that person because i know that i haven't acted in a way that i'm not allowed to like i'm not an idiot but she's a really really bad mood um i need to snap out of that because i'm trying to be really positive and read and i'm still on my second book of this damn readathon and yeah i'm just really annoyed actually really annoyed okay i'm done and this is a one star it's far too short for the story it's trying to achieve i understand that it's based on the movie but we had no foundations for any emotions really all the action just happened very quickly and i wasn't really sure what was going on yeah one star not massively impressed i'm now watching mel's sprints it's nearly five so i'm gonna order chinese food soon um but i'm gonna pick up then he ate my boying trances uh it's not a very long one and gay life chloe brown did win the poll so i'm gonna take that off my bookshelves and add it straight to my tbr car i know that makes no difference to anyone but yeah that i finished another book but annoying that it was rubbish we've acquired the goods chinese food ready people we have enough to feed a small family starting off with two fortune cookies so they've obviously presumed that this is for at least two people whatever they call this or they just whack it all in a sauce a rice and a plain charmaine i am very very excited this is still sprinting right hello it is 8 30 on saturday evening and i just finished book number three then he ate my buoyant trances and i'm gonna give this one a half stars it was pretty rubbish but it was no more rubbish than any of the rest of the series but yeah it's done now i've read it so it's an instant unhaul and i will probably never think about it again but that's another prompt finished so i'm going to add this to my little finish shelf of my tbr cart and as i said my next book is get a live chloe brown i'm probably going to give myself like even a 10 minute break just to refresh my brain um before starting that one and yeah we're only it's half eight so nine ten eleven work on a count three and a half hours away is that right yeah three and a half hours away from finding out our third lot of prompts so i'm really excited for that and gavin's live show is gonna be amazing everything is slumber slumber party themed i can't even speak anymore but yeah really excited excited to get around to this i think my main worry is that i'm not gonna love it as much as everyone else seems to and i don't wanna i don't wanna not like it i think that's why i'm worried but i guess we'll see what is it the right wall drop so share screen and the don't mind me uh it is this one okay are you guys ready for the first wall drop book uploads on board roll number three is an eight and that is the first book in a series did that play okay firstly i thought perfect oh my god okay so the first roll is the first book in a series i really hope this really fits with everyone i hope it's okay if it's with mine yeah it's not that i can change it or anything so and then are you guys ready for the second roll because i am ready for the second roll i think i'll just shut the screen again uh and then yeah so this is the second rule 2021 rule number three is a nine and that is a chance card and my chance card is confess by colleen hoover okay so you guys don't have to read confess by colleen hoover that's not what the child's got is so becca explain this to me so if you have um your tbr and you have a certain amount of books that you'd like to read you have to pick the same amount of books for the books that you want to read and the books that you maybe don't want to read as much you number them you give them each a number and then you can use a random number generator to pick which book you end up having to read so i mean you guys that is why we're not going to sprint until about half past about 30 minutes past just to let you guys have a chance to pick something um but yeah i mean that sounds fun it sounds like it could be anything you could pick anything you want for it okay so we just had the next roll drops um which as you saw were first in a series and then a chance card so i'm a little bit behind right now i didn't end up really starting get a life chloe brown i'm 32 pages in i just wasn't motivated and unfortunately like the sprints didn't jowl with me um i was maybe i was just tired so yeah i'm gonna use this for first in a series i'm gonna carry it forward and then if i do finish all eight prompts well yeah eight prompts but then i'll have read seven books i will then pick up another book that's first in a series or has poc rep so i'm not duplicating because i didn't really want to duplicate but i am behind so i need to give in slightly then the really important thing is shout out to sydney because she just helped me pick my books and first in the series and stuff like that um and she said you better shout me out so shout out to sydney um follow her instagram address oh i guess i'll link it um but yeah so what i've done is pick three books i really want to read right now and three books i am not too excited about reading the three i want to read secrets by jacqueline wilson uh obvious reasons on this one summer of salt by katrina leno i've already said i want to get to this one at some point during this readathon and the story for bushka by catherine flores again another one i want to get to it's picture book pretty much um so yeah those are my would like these my would not really like these are startled by fairy shorts by louise rennison which is book number seven in the series obviously reading number six earlier sword art online volume two by reiki kawahara this is the second volume of the light novels um for the anime that i love it won't take me too long but i really wanted to dedicate some time to reading this so i think if i got this i'd just be upset that i had to speed through it faster than i wanted um but i wouldn't be mad at reading the story that makes sense and then the one i'm most daunted for and i know now i've said that out loud we're gonna get this one is ted bundy confessions um conversations with a killer by stephen g macaud this is on my march tbr and i keep putting it off so maybe i'll have to read this who doesn't want to read true crime in an intense readathon so what i'm going to do is i'll stack them up in the order i just talked about them which they are one to six and i will get a random number generator which i'm filming on my phone so please just trust me um i'm sure you do but yeah i'm gonna get a random number generator i guess i will oh wait i can show you my screen can't i'll just film my screen okay here we go random number generator between one and six yes oh my god yes so that means we've got the story of babushka hello so it is now 10 30 on sunday so we've missed a little chunk of this vlog and i just got too tired so tired i did stay awake and i read the whole of the story of babushka obviously it's very very short but it counts um and it is a kid's book so like we're not asking for too much effort but yeah read it i'm not going to rate it because i'm definitely not the intended audience for this i would not know how to rate it it was very very cute though very cute but yeah so that is my chance card done so the only prompts i haven't filled yet the only prompts 2.7 filled yet is poc rep and um first in a series so my next book is get a live chloe brown i'm going to be reading this next regardless of what's going on but the next prompts are being revealed in an hour and a half so that'll give me two more books to read and then what i really want to do is read like i don't want to multiply i don't want to double up on anything i did want to read eight books so i guess we're gonna have to see what happens um but i'm not gonna do anything but read today i the one thing i need to do is clean bruce's cage and um a vacuum but you know i might do that tomorrow instead i just really really want to read all day um i i ended up going to bed about two after speaking to cole and his friends and then i got out of bed at ten um i woke up about eight didn't move till nine and then spoke to cold till ten so yeah i'm very i'm not awake but i'm so annoyed myself i am gonna go and get dressed now well get dressed i'm gonna put my little like matching loungewear thing on get dressed get cozy and read i'm so sad i missed gavin's sprints i was so excited for them i was staying awake to watch them till four and my body just couldn't do it i couldn't do it i'm a granny so i miss them i've just gone back to see him and lexi eat the sour sweets so that has really brightened my morning um but yeah they are about to do on the sprint as if it's happening a 45 minute sprint so i might go and get dressed do the 45 minute sprint as if i'm watching live that might be a good plan i'm going to do that but yeah just just sad i missed it okay everyone it's time da da roll drop number four the final roll of holiday 2021 [Music] is and that is other so that is any genre outside of the ones that you typically read on the all right so the fourth drop for the first board is other so if you have any questions about this this is my interpretation take your first two genres that you mainly read ixnay those go to the third one and beyond there you go that's why it's something you still own probably if it's like your third or fourth most rep genre um and you're good to go so lots of freedom with that one and we're not going to come in your home so whatever you think is best all right and now we're going to do the fourth for the second fourth row drop okay all right let's share that one and that is a book set in the present okay excuse the dressing gown i'm not quite with it yet we've just had the final roll drops um so set in the present and other so outside of your normal genres as you will see aaron said pick like your two favorite and if it's not in that then it's other it's not going to be policed but for set in the present i'm going to read summer of salt by katrina leno um oh wait no i'm not this is going to be my other because we decided yesterday that this isn't contemporary it's magical realism which i don't typically read so this is my other so now we need a set in the present right what have we got i want to go for something really easy because then i also want to go back and actually read another book with poc rep or the first in the series because i want to do eight books so we're going to pick something small for setting the present like how about falling for the cowboy that would be quick or i can finally get around to my reread of one of us is lying that's an option i'm gonna put a poll up i think so one of us is lying is an option no we're not gonna do we're gonna do a random one one of us is lying clean break by jacqueline wilson this is a book about like divorce in a family in the middle grade um why is this so hard when contemporary is my most read genre final draft by riley redgate don't know don't know about that one yeah go on it's gonna be an option let's do one more midnight by jackie mills i'm gonna do two jeffy wilson's so that is the order i pulled them off the shelf i'm gonna go do a random number generator you don't really need to see it this time and i will tell you what i get screw it i went to do it got a book i didn't want i'm gonna pick between midnight and clean break midnight we're gonna read midnight right so where are we what are we up to so we are gonna retract this is not going to be first in a series this is just going to be poc rep just poc rep we're not worrying about first in the series but this one then other magical realism summer of salt set in the present midnight by jacqueline wilson um i know this isn't like 2020 present which i know it doesn't have to be this came out early 2000s it's the present it's not like a historical fiction or anything so we then need a first in a series i'm going to decide on it later but i'm either going to do one of us is lying because i kind of do want to read that i need to start reading that series again so one of us is lying or we're going to do the first sabrina book because it's quite mini are we all up to scratch we're all up to date i'm now going to sit in air in sprints and do get a live chloe brown and as soon as i finish that i'm going to go for midnight we're going to do this but first i want chocolate and strawberries again hello i don't know what time is right now but i'm very very close to the end of chloe brown i think i can't even speak um i cried during a sex scene i cried like actual tears um i think it's because the main character is called chloe in this particular scene there weren't too many descriptions of what either character looked like and i haven't seen my boyfriend in over a year so i really started crying oh i'm jealous of chloe brown she's she's got everything she needs why am i so stupid why am i crying but yeah we have um we're on aaron's sprints right now there is like four minutes left of this sprint so i'm gonna try and read a teeny bit more but then i will finish this book in the next sprint um i'm crying it's smart genuinely crying it's smart what is wrong with me genuinely what is wrong with me okay it's half three and we've just finished get a live chloe brown um four stars i feel like this series has the potential to get so much better i absolutely loved the smut and the romance because the main character was called chloe as you saw it made me cry it's it's done a whole lot of stuff to me because i'm just so upset um but yeah i think we can all agree the start of this book is very silly and a bit juvenile like the actual premise of the book is a bit juvenile so i think that the next books are going to be way better um so yeah that's done so my next one is midnight by jacqueline wilson and i'll be starting that in cody's sprint i'm gonna chill for a second okay so we've moved to bed um i just wasn't vibing with the sprints that go in at the minute and i wanted to get some reading done so i've come to bed i'm using the forest app to do sprints reading midnight i'm now just over halfway through it it's pretty short on page 118. i remember this not being my favorite and i'm not enjoying it i'm well i don't think i'm getting any enjoyment out of this at all i know it's a children's book and i'm not a child but you know there's some good middle grade out there now that i would enjoy so i feel justified not loving it but i've got to read this and read summer of seoul and read season of the witch so like i need to get a move on but i just read about 70 pages in half an hour so it's fine i might brave a sneak if any of you saw my 24 hour readathon i tried sneak for the first time and i thought my heart was going to explode i'm going to dilute it as much as possible and just see what happens because i am like really lagging now i need some energy so i'm going to risk it okay so it's 20 past six and i just finished midnight two and a half stars there were some really interesting things in here about like um kids moving schools making friends with the new kids bullying of like early teenage girls there was adoption stuff in here that was really moving and like i appreciate the whole fairy thing that was going on but i understand why i didn't like this one as a kid so two and a half stars it's fine um now i need to scavenge some food and get reading summer of salt but i'm gonna i'm gonna get some food first i'm calling it i'm tired um i read about 50 pages of summer of soul and i'm just it's not that i don't care i have read it before and it didn't love it so like rereading it isn't my main priority and i do have plans for this book but this person will find out probably after this video goes up so hopefully it's a nice surprise i don't really know what more to say um i wanted to carry until midnight i want to keep the energy going i have just finished a sneak and i have like no more energy than i normally do at this time of night maybe it'll kick in i don't know but um i might like do the washing up and have a shower and normal human things like that which i've not done this weekend so yeah i'm too tired but um on that note thank you for watching this vlog i hope it isn't too long if you got to this point please leave me any sort of drink emoji only because i've just held up the snake and then i'm looking at my cup of tea that i've just made as well so any sort of beverage and i will know you got to the end of this video um but yeah thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed it and i will see you in the next one

Channel: Chloe Reads Books

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Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: booktube, bookoplathon, #bookoplathon, reading vlog, 48 hour readathon

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Length: 35min 29sec (2129 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 24 2021