BookTubeAThon - Day One | treesofreverie read-a-thon - Day Five

Day one of the BookTubeAThon read-a-thon and day five of the treesofreverie read-a-thon! I was hesitant to do a read-a-thon inside a read-a-thon, but it also sounded fun and I caved under the avalanche of TBR videos that I saw this week - and I had a ton of fun last year and such. So - here I am, still not vlogging, but still participating.

I hope to be able to knock out all of the challenges by the end of the week and read as much as I can today, put as much time as I can into reading, maybe tomorrow, too, we'll see how it goes.

Number of Books Completed Today: 5

Book(s) Completed:
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (started and completed - 371 pages)
In the Shadows by Kiersten White, Jim Di Bartolo (started and completed - 384 pages)
I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You by Yumi Sakugawa (started and completed - 128 pages)
Boxers (Boxers and Saints #1) by Gene Luen Yang (started and completed - 325 pages)
Saints (Boxers and Saints #2) by Gene Luen Yang (started and completed - 170 pages)

Book(s) Currently-Reading:
I haven't started anything new that I haven't finished this read-a-thon. Unsure what I'll be diving into tomorrow, but we shall see.

Pages Read Today: 1,378

Total Number of Books Completed for treesofreverie: 8

Total Pages for treesofreverie: 2,103

Notes/Thoughts:
I didn't start at midnight like I have for other read-a-thons. I really didn't start reading until probably noon and then after I was finished with In the Shadows I ended up on my laptop to try and complete my 2k for the day (It's a goal to write 1-2k every day, travel/con days are free days, maybe a read-a-thon day).

And - I ended up reading much more then I thought I would be able to today, since I've been in a bit of a reading slump since the end of June. It's about 9:30 as I'm writing this and I'm completely exhausted - reading is tiring work.

Now onto the challenges I was able to knock out today, as I was writing that, I just realized all of the books I read today counted towards the book with pictures in it challenge - all of them. Also red on the cover  is in there twice. And then I actually did start and finish a series with the Boxers and Saints duology, which was actually a complete accident. I was trying to figure out, with a little over two hours left, if there was a way I could do all of the challenges in one day (I should of thought of this easier) but it seems like that might be a tad impossible, but just a tad.

Anyway, it was a great first day for me. An unprecedentedly good day - do not expect this to possibly every happen again. Ever.

How was your first day of the read-a-thon? If you're taking part. If you are or not: what are you currently reading? How is it? Also - have you read any of the books I read today? Opinions?

The books

Bout of Books 9.0: Day One Wrap-Up

My friend Haley and I had a sleepover last night and I kind of poked her into it earlier in the week and we both started reading at midnight (because that's what you do at sleepovers, right?), and that's kind of how the day started. I read until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and then when I woke up, I started reading more.

I struggled a little bit at first, flicking between books, reading a couple paragraphs, just couldn't settle on something, and ended up setting on the two weirdest books to read together probably ever: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wool by Hugh Howey, but it apparently worked for me.

The problem is I've already read so many books this year, my brain is a little slogging, so hopefully I can push through that. Participating in the Bout of Books chat on twitter in the afternoon definitely helped that a lot, it was awesome and insane. And now onto the updates.

Number of books I've read today: 1

Books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (started and completed - 180 pages)
Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey (started - 191 pages read)

Books currently-reading:
Well still reading Wool, obviously. Not technically anything but tomorrow will be picking up Attack on Titan Vol 4 and that's all that's for sure.

Number of pages read today:  371

Notes:

I didn't get as much writing today as I wanted to. I ended up having to write, I - hard to explain, and then the premier of Teen Wolf. Which I wasn't going to watch but I ended up watching anyway. And then my eyes, my poor eyes seem to be suffering from eye strain and since I've read like 12 books in six days plus some, this isn't surprising, so might be just reading physical books tomorrow (aka: no reading of Wool, but we'll see).

I did write like six thousand words today, though, so there is that.

Hope you all had good reading days and days in general. If you want to see my progess more real time: twitter, goodreads.

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