April 18th | #genrethon wrap up

I ended up taking part in genrethon this week - which I made a post about earlier in the week - and I'm so glad I did because I really needed to give my reading a kind of kick. I didn't get as much reading done as I wanted to, but then again I never do. Is anyone else super hard on themselves in that area? I mean I'm hard on myself in all areas, but readathons I'm always just like 'could of read way more.'

Honestly, I'd just like to have never-ending readathons, all back to back. (The Booktube community seems to think the same because there's another themed one from April 18th - 24h, authorathon, probably won't take part because the end of that is Dewey's and I need to be ultra focused for Dewey's).

Books:
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes by Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley (5/5)
I am not an easily scared person with horror books, but apparently fear of animatronics can be terrifying even in writing, when you can't see the animatronics. Of course, I know exactly what they look like because of my obsessive watching of a let's play of this game - it's so good, the lore is so interesting, which was the main reason I read this. The fact it honestly scared me was just a bonus point for it (might have to do with reading it after dark, maybe don't do that - highly recommended otherwise).

Dimension, W: Volume 1 by Yuji Iwahara (5/5)
This was so good. I'd watched the first episode of the anime before realizing manga (duh, of course there's a manga). After reading this I accidentally marathoned the rest of the twelve episodes. Whoops, except it was fantastic. Next volume doesn't come out in the US until May, though, sadly - but that's okay. Technically, I don't have to read it because I know what happens, but also I do have to read it because so damn good.

The Type by Sarah Kay (5/5)
I'm not sure this should even count? it's a small, gorgeous little book of one of Sarah Kay's poems, illustrated. And it's amazing and gorgeous - if you don't know who Sarah Kay is, she's an incredible spoken word poet, go to youtube immediately - but it only took me two minutes to read. Well, four, because I immediately read it again (and then listened to read it because yes).

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (5/5)
Ah, this series, especially how this book seems to happen. I don't know what it is about it, because it's actually kind out a diversion from the story arc in general - but it also isn't? This whole series is just so good (The Raven King is so soon!!)

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz (5/5)
I picked this up on a whim in a Barnes and Noble - I've heard a lot about his other novel, but next to nothing about this one. So I picked it up. And was not disappointed. I still can't put my finger on my I loved this book so damn, it might just because I haven't read anything like it in a while and the writing was just really enjoyable (it was beautifully written but not in a flowery language kind of way?)

Stuff:
The first thing on my mind is how close the release of The Raven King is. Is anyone else ready for that? I'm not ready, at all, my chest hurts when I think about it. That's one of the few series I've honestly fell in love with, and I'll be so sad when it's over. But it's also one I can probably reread, and relisten, to hundreds of times.

Besides that - I mentioned above next weekend is Dewey's 24 hour readathon, which I will probably put a post up later in the week (so I can include my TBR). I love this readathon. It's such a focused amount of reading time and it's so great to see everyone freaking out on twitter and such. I won't make it all 24 hours but I'd like to read for a good percent of the time I'm awake - but also spend time on twitter/such because that's a large part of the fun.

Anyway, all of that is for a post all about the readathon. If you're going to be participating, though, feel free to let me know!

I've been logging my time - which is and isn't a good thing to do - which started because a few weeks ago I was trying to log how long I spent reading (hello finally using a time logging app I had downloaded). So update for you, this week I spent 8 hours, 48 minutes reading, which I'm very pleased with.

Besides that it's been a pretty quiet few weeks here, which is exactly what I wanted. Though, I'm honestly looking forward to locking myself in my apartment for the weekend to read. What have you been up to?

#Genrethon (readathon) TBR + kick-off

I meant to write up and put up a post talking about TBRTakedown and genrethon but, as you can probably tell, I didn't do that. It's currently the last day of TBRTakedown and the first day of the genrethon. They're both readathons started and run by booktubers, different ones and the later many.

This is about genrethon, though, since the other is already over. (I'm never sure if I should put the hastag when just talking about the readathon, but it looks weird when i do. Also never sure about writing 'read-a-thon' or 'readathon.') Besides all of that, genrethon is - you probably guessed - all about reading different genres.

Technically about trying to read things out of your comfort zone, but I'm a reader whose pretty much up for anything. And, so far, haven't found anything I haven't liked enough that it's put me off a genre. There are some I don't read a lot, though. So my TBR is more like a pile of things I want to read right now that I'll end up choosing from, no where near what I'll be reading entirely.

First off, I'm currently rereading the Kingdom Keepers series by Ridley Pearson, so I'll keep going with that, but I also want to take a breaks/read other things along side them. So there's a large stack:

• The Bands of Mourning (Wax and Wayne #3) by Brandon Sanderson (I know... I know, I can't believe I haven't this yet either, but might not get to it this week because want to be able to focus on it but who knows)
• Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1) by C.S. Pacat (I have the others if I want to keep going, keep hearing rave things about this - but also not so good. Considering what I know, though, I think I'll be more on the rave side).
• Dimension W, Volume 1 by Yuji Iwahara (Manga! Haven't read one in a while and I miss it, and watched the first episode of this show, which was really good. A tad... fan-servicey, but still good).
• A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly (I heard someone rave about this and ended up buying it and now, for the life of me, I can't remember who or find the review. Dammit, ah well, still sounds really good).
• Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes by Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley (This came out at some point recently, and my slight obsession with these games is pretty extreme for only have slightly played the 1st one. Watching someone else play it is way better, made me jump more but not I'm almost use to them. Still awesome, as is the story. Now to read this one, in the middle of the day, probably)

Besides that, I've got a thought to read some poetry, a collection probably, and also a graphic novel or two (genrethon, here I come). It's been a surprising amount of time since I've read both, obviously a graphic novel more recently but still a while. 

I've got my "spring" TBR about ready to go, just got to finish it up and post it, these will be included in that list, too, so if I don't read them in this week, hopefully soon. Besides that - taking part in this readathon? Whether you are or not, let me know what you're currently-reading/planning to read next!