Reading Percy Jackson in 24 hours | Drinking By My Shelf (sponsored by Books2Door.com)

it's happening my most requested video ever if you're new here this is drinking by myself my name is emma and every few months i torture myself by forcing myself to stay awake for 24 hours reading a full book series i read the entire series of unfortunate events i read the entire princess dary series i read the entire anger songs and full frontal snogging series but you guys kept asking and asking and asking for me to read the percy jackson series so i'm doing it the reason i have been so hesitant to do this one and i'm very sorry if you're one of the people who commented asking me to do this and i replied with something like no way in hell is because this is fantasy and i basically never read fantasy like ever the other reason is that i've never read these books before and every other time i've done a 24 hour series readathon it's been with the series that i'm at least familiar with the first couple of books so i know i will get on with them this is brand new territory i'm nervous i have no idea how this is gonna go but the reason i have finally been swayed to do this is two reasons really firstly i have been very much enjoying following the author rick ryden on twitter he seems like a total gem he seems like someone who is genuinely so willing to listen and learn and he's really progressive and he just seems like a sweetheart so that has really changed my mind and the second big reason which i'm not gonna lie swayed me a lot is that i'm being sponsored to do this video by an amazing company books to door so i will link to their website below as well as to the product page for this lovely box set which you can buy from them they are basically a website where you can buy series and box sets of books for amazing prices so they used to specialize in children's books but they've now started adding adult books as well so you can get things like the anne of green gables series there which by the way will be coming up soon you can get like an agatha christie book set so it's not always necessarily a book series it might be a collection of books by the same author there's some really really cool things on there and genuinely amazing deals so usually when i do these 24-hour series readathons i end up spending a ton of money on getting all of the books but i might be able to do a lot more of them now i found a website where you can get them for genuinely such good prices so thank you so much to book to do for sponsoring this video i am genuinely so excited to have found this website and we'll be shopping there a lot but now to the percy jackson books so i actually know not very much about these books i know they are middle grade fantasy inspired by greek mythology which is cool i'm actually really into greek mythology so that might be something that helps me get into fantasy so a little bit quickly about how this readathon is gonna go and then i will shut up because i'm sure you're just waiting to start watching the actual vlog first things first i have changed my like time schedule back so the first time i did this i read from 8am to 8am but every time since then i've changed it to starting at 3am finishing at 3 and that way i don't have to stay up through the whole night which is the hardest bet but for some reason the thought of doing that tomorrow fills me with dread i think it was fun when i did the series readathons with my sister because then we woke up at 3am together the thought of waking up at three in the morning by myself is not as exciting so i'm reverting to the original 8am to 8am time schedule we will see how this goes staying up through the night is a real challenge for me i love sleep but i'll see if i can convince audrey to stay awake with me and we can order some pizza and stuff like we did last time because that was really fun there are only five books in the series this time which is better compared to like the 13 books i had to read for the lemony snicker ones but these books are all quite a lot bigger so there are just over 1700 pages in total that i have to read in the next 24 hours how am i going to do this i think that's everything you need to know so we can get on with the video i will probably be doing a giveaway once i finish for somebody to win this box set so check the description box for all the details on that you'll also find a link to my patreon below i always post deleted scenes from my readathons exclusively to my patreons so do sign up if you want a little bit of bonus content but now it's time for me to get an early night and get ready for my 25 readathon see you at 8am well that can happen in a day can you see that clock it's exactly 8 am let's start reading this first one is called percy jackson and the lightning thief half boy half god all hero what am i doing to myself chapter one i accidentally vaporized my pre-algebra teacher what is pre-algebra this can be very american i can hear through the world of neighbors saying happy birthday to the little kid who's like i don't know all them bothered ages but i told her so that's sweet and perfect [Music] okay what is going on that was a wild first chapter that was really fun i have high hopes now you guys know how nervous i was but that was great i'm hungry though so maybe it's time for 14 pages and it's time for my breakfast break i am an incredibly basic person i like to have the exact same cream cheese bagel breakfast every day love routine so i will say one inconsistency that's kind of annoying me why does his latin class involve greek mythology if he's learning greek mythology that should be for his greek class you know those two are not the same thing and that annoys me [Music] his real name i was even thinking beginning of this book that percy is such a rogue name for like a teenage boy like who names that kid percy no offense if her name is percy but it turns out it's because it's short for purse use of course it is look how regal she is you want to come to summer camp for half gods she has literally no time for my okay this is the most america-centric thing ever so mount olympus used to be in greece but it has moved to america because the gods move with the heart of the west apparently they spent several centuries in england i like them better now so this is where my greek knowledge kind of fails me so chiron is his like teacher a mentor in this and he's like yes he is the i am bending down so that if he can still be in shock as well as me he's like yeah he is the chiron from the myths the trainer of hercules but in the disney movie hercules the trainer of her case was called phil it's short for something that i can't remember so did disney get it wrong or am i remembering wrong what did this get it wrong why don't you fail me out let me let you know because you see me oh my god mountain lion pisses at the top of the empire state building that's classic where was it in england my prediction is he's definitely going to be poseidon sun because water seems to be a theme and more clues that he's going to be the son of poseidon because poseidon is one of the big three so i really like amping up poseidon when are we gonna find this out i already know i was right all hail perseus jackson son of the sea god smashed it lol so not only is mount olympus at the top of the empire state building the entrance to the underworld has also moved to america and when he asks where chiron's like i thought that would be obvious enough the entrance to the underworld is in los angeles it's a funny joke about l.a sucking so grover who by the way i haven't mentioned is a satter so he's like half man half goat and he carries around a set of reed pipes but he only has two songs on them mozart's piano concerto number 12 and hilary duff's so yesterday great choice grover so far i'm enjoying this book a lot more than i thought i would it's very funny which is my favorite thing like the action sequences i don't care as much about i'm always a bit like that in books i will just kind of like skim read when he's having like fights um but when it's just like him and his pals going around making jokes loving it all of the references to greek mythology loving it so i tried to take hippo on a walk but she literally lay on the ground and refused to come she does not understand things that are supposed to make normal dogs happy so i'm on my walk by myself which wellness is much easier anyway it's been a day stressing out like crazy bringing my coat was definitely a mistake it is so nice and warm today here's the little weirdo that didn't want to go on a walk here's the other hippo in my life this one doesn't go on walks either i haven't talked about the chapter headings yet but i love that this book has like real chapter titles you see that very often in books but i guess probably because i don't read like um middle grade and young adult books they're probably more common there but i just really like them they're very funny but this particular chapter title i'm very excited about there has been some big mystery going on through this and i am desperate to find out this is cute this is a fun ending oh wait it's not over yet i've forgotten about the prophecy and some things still haven't added up [Music] okay okay so i'm one book down that took me just coming up on five hours to read the first one but i was also quite distracted i kept like looking at my phone and stuff so i might be able to speed up even more for the next ones but i really enjoyed this a lot more than i thought they would like i said it was really funny which is great that's like exactly what i was hoping for but wasn't sure um i really liked the way all the greek myths were weaved in so i like the overall premise that percy jackson is the son of poseidon and there's this summer camp half blood hill is that what it's even called i just read the whole book and i've already forgotten the name of the camp so he spends the whole summer there and has to go on this quest to find the lightning thief who stole zeus's bolt that was really good fun let's see what book two is about so this one is going to be called percy jackson and the sea of monsters and i guess it's going to be set the next summer because he's back at camp half blood it says now camp half blood is under attack and unless i can get my hands on the golden fleece the whole camp will be invaded by monsters so gordon fleece that's another thing that i remember from hearing all of the greek myths when i was younger so i've got a little break before i have to get started on that so i'm going to go to the shop and buy some cucumber because then i can make some yummy cheese and cucumber sandwiches for my lunch i also while you're all here i wanted to take a little quick pause to talk to you about something that's really important to me and just because these videos do tend to get um a lot more views i didn't want to waste that platform so i did want to take a little quick break to talk about black lives matter so there's been a lot of amazing conversation recently about the ways in which we can all challenge our own implicit biases um and that's a really important conversation and something that i'm continuing to work on but there's also if you do have the means to financially donate there are lots of organizations that could do without help right now so i've committed to donating a portion of my adsense every month and i just wanted to talk about three of the organizations this month i'm particularly looking at in case any of you also wanted to donate so i'll put the links in the description box below so the three organizations i've been looking at this month in particular there is black girls brunch uk which is an organization that um looks into empowering black professional women in their careers and they have a patreon and the money goes towards organizing events and workshops and networking opportunities then there is stop hate uk which is a charity that offers support to people who've been affected by hate speech and they also organize and support projects like community cohesion projects and then finally there's stopwatch uk which is a research and action organization working to highlight the realities for people on the receiving end of police powers and also promoting more fairness and accountability within the police so those are just three organizations of many amazing ones i am constantly researching and i'm going to try every month to highlight new organizations for anyone to support if they do have the means i'll put the links below for how you can support but also i have committed to donating a portion of my adsense so if you don't have the means to donate yourself then you are also donating by watching my videos okay thank you for listening to that little intermission i'm gonna now go and buy some cucumber for my sandwiches so i got a little sidetracked at the shop i got my cucumber which is what i went to get for my sandwiches but then i also saw air bubbles and i had to buy them because it is a readathon day then i saw some more of my favorite crisps so i had those i'm gonna need something to help me get through the night and then i saw these i haven't had these biscuits in maybe like seven years but arj and i used to be obsessed with these and i haven't seen them in ages so i couldn't resist we like heat them up in the middle melts and it's delicious so that'll be a snack for later and i wasn't even planning to do my main snack shop right now but i think i just did it it's been a day we gonna get wavy layer on some diamonds and some pearls maybe we could go to the mall so audrey tried taking hippo for a walk and it worked fine it's just me she doesn't like and we even have fun in the park oh my god even fun okay here goes we kick off book number two with always my least favorite part of reading a series back to back like this there's always such a lot of catch up there's that whole like previously on percy jackson section and i'm like i know this i read it like an hour ago [Music] so this like entire year percy has been friends with this guy called tyson who it turns out is a cyclops and he never noticed because he's very tall and he never like looked up above his mouth low percy has singed the hair of his arms and eyebrows so many times i'm surprised he has any hair left to sinjar i just had a great idea why am i not outside right now aji is in the process of planting us a vegetable garden so there you can see it's like half done there's plants ever right now i should be sitting here to be reading this is way nicer i love this so another one of the things where rick ryden gives like things from our real life world explanations from greek mythology is he talks about the sea of monsters that used to be the mediterranean and it's the sea from all of the stories it's like where are this you sound through but just like how martin olympus excuse me i'm trying to talk it but just like how mount olympus moved from being in greece to being in the states because it like follows the heart of western civilization the sea of monsters has also moved and where it is now the bemidji triangle which i love because i always used to be obsessed with the bermuda triangle and all of the mysteries about it and i still like locally love conspiracy theories and here we go i've solved it it's the sea of monsters from greek mythology da why didn't i think of that before i like to drive by myself and of course hermes invented the internet of course he did no no i pulled the hippo so cool okay i have an interesting update are you ready for it so so far i'm like halfway through book two i'm not enjoying this one as much as i did book one but i just texted my wonderful friend and fellow booktuber emma tobias um one of my favorite people ever i will link to her channel below and percy jackson is one of her favorite series she has been trying to get me to read this for years so i don't know if she's like excited that i'm reading it now or just like low-key annoyed that i never listened to her before the ice cream van can you hear that oh it stopped um so i texted her my update and she said that she thinks book two is the worst one so i shouldn't feel disheartened by the fact that i'm not really enjoying this one as much she also said she thinks book three will be my favorite so i'm very intrigued and it's not her favorite she said book four is her favorite but she's predicting book three for me so hopefully the best is yet to come it's been a while since i've seen your face and it's been a while been a while oh my god cliffhanger of course i smashed it i've just finished that one a whole hour early which means i've got a chance to go for a nice walk with rg and the sunshine i didn't know that book as much for most of it because it was very very like adventure quest plot driven which i think this whole series is going to be but um i like my favorite bits so just when they're being funny and hanging out at camp but that cliffhanger at the end was big and major and i'm really excited because emma says that she thinks i'm gonna like number three the best number three is called percy jackson and the titans curse and look at him raging on the front cover so emma said i would like this one because it's more about the gals girl power um and a very major character just appeared at the end of what did i just read this one so i can see what she's gonna mean about it that's very exciting [Music] what a dream audrey how have you found this 24-hour read-a-thon experience so far oh um a walk in the park well that was a nice little rest for my eyes and now i am bang on time to start book three back in my ideal reading spot i'm gonna work a hundred miles new character i'm gonna whistle all the while so we've just met apollo he might be one of my favorite characters ever also i see what emma meant about the girl power in this book and loving that already question is it pursues or perseus this seems like a question google can answer perseus perseus that is 100 not how i pronounced that when i was growing up perseus okay i'm gonna run right up this hill summer sky or winter chill [Music] if i gotta take a break [Music] well that was a fun little 30 minute workout so now i am running myself a bath always my favorite part of a readathon and i have this like real craving to pour myself a glass of wine for the bath because that's always like one of my favorite treats having wine in the bath but i'm only just coming up on halfway through these foods on i will then have 12 more hours and i don't think drinking wine is going to give me the energy i need to stay awake for 12 more hours so guess i'll resist i just had two matches in a row just something really weird i've never seen happen before so when i went to light it it like sparked off the side of the box and part of the match broke off and like threw back at me and like whacked me it didn't burn me because it like went out when it hit me it was so weird so it happened once and i was like wow freak anomaly and then the second match i did did it again so weird has anyone had that happen is there something wrong with the box should i throw that box away anyway they're safely lit now so i'm gonna decompress from that stressful experience with my book i got back dressed again instead of into my pajamas because i don't want to get too cozy and too sleepy too early but it is now eight o'clock so let's take a moment to celebrate the fact i'm half way through [Music] i was just doing my halfway dance and there's two people just looking at me through the windows i'm also going to celebrate my halfway party with my first diet coke of the day i've been really trying to ration myself so i don't end up drinking these like literally for 24 hours but i mean it halfway so i'm allowed to crack into one [Music] i think we will also probably order some pizza soon so that'll be exciting [Music] i'm getting serious deja vu at this part so they're in this like big junkyard and there's a giant metal statue of a giant um which is like lying down flat and just as they're looking at it it comes to life and at first they're looking at its foot and then see the whole statue stand up and reading that scene described has given me such deja vu what movie does that happen is it jason and the argonauts this is another case for google yes oh my god look i was right this is from jason argonauts a movie i have not seen since probably 1993 here it is oh my god how scary is that moment and i remember it how weird is that i got deja vu from that moment when i genuinely will not have seen that movie in over 20 years now i really want to rewatch it i've been thinking about that movie so much recently there's like this scene with all the skeletons which is the most famous moment from that film but i did not remember that scene at all until reading it in here and being like where have i seen this before oh my god chills where do you think this movie is do you think it's on netflix disney plus amazon should i watch it right now instead of reading the rest it's time to order pizza yes it is what are you gonna have i don't know i'm looking at the deals tell me stop talking to me i can't read and talk tell me okay are we getting um a pizza each duh like what's here that was so speedy it was this video i haven't even finished my book yet i need to i need to finish that much in the next like 10 minutes yeah i'm gonna make it i'm gonna finish it really quickly before i eat my pizza i'm so excited hello pizza you're just gonna be my background eating your pizza okay i'm just too impatient there's still one more chapter left but i don't want my pizza to get cold you're laughing at me oh my goodness i have missed you baby oh god and i finished book three exactly on time as well so i have to go straight in this one was probably my favorite um emma was right that i was gonna love it it was so about the women perfect timing emma literally just texted me so i'll reply and tell her that she was right i loved it it was so about the girls which was really fun we also get to hear more about the prophecy which is going to be this like running theme throughout the next two books what else happened this one i just think had like more emotion in it you get little backstories to a lot of the new characters that you meet and the characters you already knew and yeah i just had a lot more emotion wrapped up in it one thing i will say is i for the first two books was like this is gonna be great this is gonna be a series that doesn't have any romance in it because i always find that stuff boring um not in real life in books i do um but i'm getting a hint that's not going to be the case i think mary is going to be some romantic tension between percy jackson and his best friend annabeth and i just sometimes want to read a series where the friends are just friends that'll be nice but i don't think that's gonna happen anyway i'm gonna text em my thoughts and then i'm already now eating into my time i need to get started on percy jackson and the battle of the labyrinth that'll be fun we already met a minor tour like right at the beginning of book one so is there gonna be something even worse in this labyrinth we will find out i wonder if it's time for a change of scenery because i have been on the sofa for most of today i could try sitting upstairs for a bit thing is this sofa is like the complex one in our house so i move around i try and find different places to settle but ultimately i always want to be lying on this sofa by the end but let's go on a journey together let's go on an adventure just like percy jackson would just like one more bit of pizza before we go i obviously need sustenance for my journey upstairs hey look a change of scenery my sunflowers are quite dead i will buy some new flowers tomorrow but for now i'm gonna read what's this called the battle of the labyrinth chapter one i battle the cheerleading [Music] squad uh-oh i am getting sleepy which is not allowed because it is not even 10 30 and i have to be awake for another nine and a half hours yes [Music] okay i'm gonna try heating up one of these melty cookies except that audrey just told me these aren't the ones we used to get and apparently aren't as good but any warm melty chocolate cookie is gonna be delicious right so let's try it what you thought i'd do without you i'm so much better like you never met me i'm doing anything i want to yeah these are not actually the best cookies in the world they're crunchy rather than gooey but you know i'm not complaining still chocolate [Music] that was a little experiment called can i still do a forward roll and the answer was no percy jackson is on an adventure again it's all he ever does it's midnight to know what that means what does that mean it's our anniversary oh happy anniversary for six years today do you like me more now than you did then every day hey it's so nice hi my name is me baby i love you shut up you gross okay midnight means i think i'm allowed to get into some snuggly pajamas oh you know just a casual eight hours to go just like i just arrived at the start of work and have a full work day ahead of me no big deal whatsoever i just got a tip on instagram from one of my patrons ellie that when she was doing night shifts she used to stay awake by getting some cold fresh air so let's see what it's like outside right now just a bit scared of the dark fresh air pressure i would go and actually read out there because we do have a little light but i'm just a bit of a scaredy cat just had a genuinely surprising plot reveal that was cool didn't see that coming at all quite a few things i've been like guessing as we go which i don't mind at all i actually think it's really fun when you're able to guess what's going to happen and then watch it play out but this latest reveal genuinely did not suspect a thing [Music] so when you see me talk to strangers no don't you let it get the best of [Music] so we think they've got a different model now this is where i'm at now he's facing away i think so that you can't tell he's not the same model as the guy in this book i guess because he's supposed to have aged like look that guy's weedy and 12. this guy's like a teenage boy but actually i think they're all different boys like your face wouldn't change that much from being 12 to 13. who's this guy interesting or actually not that interesting in retrospect i think there's a little message in here about how we all need to take responsibility for climate change so cool will do [Music] four down one to go i really liked this one though so this is the one that emma said is her favorite and it was a lot of fun so it's set a lot of it is in the labyrinth which in this book is like absolutely massive it's not just like a big maze like in the original story it's like the size of a country or bigger it's just like this kind of infinite magical labyrinth so a lot of the book takes place in that um and it's pretty fun enjoyed that a lot we also had a lot more of the battle between the gods and the titans and now we're moving into the final book that's all gonna come to a head um what's the name of the guy who's about to wake up typhon so i don't know very much about the titans um or at least didn't before this like i know i'd heard the story of chronos by his name um who's the father of zeus and ate his children so they wouldn't overthrow him and then zeus and the other gods and goddesses like cut their way out of his body did that happen that might not be exactly how it happened i think it was more like cronus's wife fed him a rock instead of a baby anyway anyway irrelevant irrelevant um i'm just sleepy it did explain it in the book so i knew roughly that but i don't know who typhoon is i've just been like wikipedia a bit but he's gonna be like the most powerful most powerful of the titans and he is stirring so that should be exciting sleepy levels i am coping i had like a real low at halfway through this book but i'm feeling you know the diet coke is kicking in but it is still another six hours to go so we're going to have a lot more lows to come i predict right and back on my favorite sofa where we all knew i would end up again in the end and everything's about to kick off in this book so this one's called percy jackson and the last olympian who is the last olympian going to be and here's what's going to happen he's going to turn 16 and according to an ancient prophecy the fate of the entire world is on him but no pressure also lord of the titans is beginning his attack on new york city oh dear not what you had planned for your 16th birthday what did i do on my 16th birthday probably just got drunk somewhere in a park it's two in the morning emma what would you like to do go to bed or read an entire book easy decision [Music] we're in the walking aimlessly around the stairway stage of healing it always happens in the end should i take a nap we're just gonna stay constantly moving while we read that's gonna help but without actually standing up because i'm too tired to stand up okay we're back up on our feet staying awake staying alive mama mia here i go again there's a show again it's actually already getting ever so slightly lighter the sky is a lighter shade of blue now rather than pitch black so i might stand outside here and read for a bit to get some fresh air it does feel refreshing being out here but look a new day is starting already [Music] all right quite enough of that energizing we're back on the sofa hippos here too a recurring joke throughout this book that i haven't mentioned yet but i really enjoy is grover who's the sata he just eats like just random so the first thing we see him eat is like a diet coke can and then just like throughout the books he's just eating such weird stuff and right now he's like dressed for battle ready to go having a snack in the living room eating the furniture sorry percy it's just louis 16 furniture delicious oh my god look at this light coming up oh we're finding out more backstory stuff i don't know what's gonna happen okay i have a risky strategy my eyes keep going to sleep should i have a nap that is generally considered like good advice if you're driving a long way or something it's just that for me anytime i have a nap i always end up way more groggy so it's risky because i might have a nap and then not be able to finish but if i can manage to do like literally a 20 minute power nap because i think i have time because i'm kind of ahead of schedule right now where i then wake up full of life to finish the book and actually understand the book because i won't be falling asleep i'm gonna risk it i'm gonna set a 20-minute alarm and i'm just gonna lie right here on the sofa and try and nap for 20 minutes i hope this isn't the worst decision i've ever made good night i feel pretty good i think that might be my first ever successful nap where i've woken up feeling more awake not less awake so good strategic decision also poor hippo slept with me for the nap she gets very unsettled when i do these because she always sleeps when we sleep so when we've done these staying up all night 24 hour readathons she also stays up all night and gets all confused so just then when i woke up from my nap she was lying on me sleeping and i woke up and she got all confused and ran away so she's awake again now and i just want her to snuggle down and go to sleep this challenge doesn't have to affect you here bro poor little creature anyway where was i i actually can't remember exactly what was going on because the last few pages i read i was just not taking in so have to go back and reread some stuff give it a go i'm sprightly now the neighbors are awake with their kid that's how long i've been up [Music] i did it it is just coming out for seven a.m so that's 23 hours so they managed to finish the entire percy jackson series and i'm feeling great and overall i really enjoyed that like a lot more than i was expecting to a lot more than i think other people were expecting me to like i've had so many people sending me messages throughout this being like oh god i'm not sure you're going to think of these but i was really fun and i actually would be tempted to read the heroes of olympus which is like a i think related series that rick ryden wrote um especially because i've heard i think he wrote that one later and i've heard it has like really good representation in it so like apollo is in it and he's bisexual and like fun little things like that so i would be interested in reading that not right now give myself a break but yeah i'll probably be open to that so if you're looking for a pretty like chilled fun fantasy series even if you don't usually read fantasy like me if you're a fan of greek mythology that's a great way in because it was so fun like knowing all of the greek characters and i will put a link below to where you can buy these from bookstore once again thank you to bookstadore for sponsoring this video go and check them out like i said at the beginning they've got so many cool deals and i do have another video coming up with them shortly where i'm going to show off their amazing anne of green gables box set so watch this space for that one that one's going to be a slightly different format it's not going to involve me staying up all night but i think you will find it just as fun but for now i'm going to take myself to bed a whole hour early because i smash this because i'm the best but when i say things like that it's like i'm actually the worst well that can happen in a day and now for the most important part of my whole 24-hour read-a-thon the part where i go to bed good night i can take a life away you

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Length: 37min 10sec (2230 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 16 2020