Hey guys, and welcome to the Grabon Readathon reading vlog.
Today is April 1st and it is 7:30am, and I am going to start reading.
I didn't want to stay up till midnight to read because it is also Easter Sunday today
and I have a church service to go to.
Easter Sunday means a lot to me so I didn't want to be very tired for church.
So even though I usually start my read-a-thons at midnight tonight I decided that I couldn't
do that.
So what I'm going to do is read my 4 chapters of Blue Lily, Lily Blue for my buddy read
and then I'm going to be starting with my challenge of read a book in a genre that you
haven't read this year
yet which is horror, with My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix.
I'm going to try and read 100 pages of that this morning and then
if I can read any extra for the rest of the day, I'll be doing that.
See you on the other side!
Tensions are rising in the Roach family as we play Uno!
Hey guys, so after those riveting Uno games, I'm going to give you a bit of a reading update.
So basically other than church and spending time with family,
cooking Sunday dinner and playing games, I haven't really done anything other than read.
So I've read 100 pages of My Best Friend's Exorcism and it's way creepy,
it's quite creepy, creepier than I expected it to be.
Moving somewhere where it's a bit lighter -
also, this is not a good book to read for a read-a-thon because
it's a hardcover which means it's quite tall and it's pages are quite long.
The font isn't very tiny but it has taken me longer to read 100 pages than I thought
it would.
So, not a very good read-a-thon book but I just - while I was playing Uno I got a message
from the person I'm buddy reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue with, and she said she couldn't
stop reading
and she's finished the book now.
And I haven't finished the book so I'm going to sit down.
I'm so hyped to read the end of this, 'cause like finished and reading the buddy read chapters
this morning was so hard to do.
Tension, tension, tension!
So I'm going to sit down and read this book, finish it, I'll come back on here once I've
finished.
And then I'll give you a bit of an update before I go post on instagram and probably
go eat cheesecake with my family.
I just finished Blue Lily Blue, it was so good!
I can't wait to read the next one tomorrow.
Hey guys, it's April 2nd, the second day of the read-a-thon and I want to give you an
update.
So I don't know how much I am going to vlog today because it is my parents' birthday.
And yes, my parents are both born on the same day of the same year, they are the same age.
So, yes, we are celebrating together as a family, but yesterday
I did read until midnight.
I finished Blue Lily, Lily Blue
which is 60 pages of that down, and then I also, reading until midnight, read half of
this book.
A bit more than half, I'm up to page 184 of My Best Friend's Exorcism.
You guys, this is majorly creepy!
This is why I don't read horror that actually creeps me out.
This is so good - I literally need to finish it so I know what's up.
But today is the second day and I'm supposed to be reading - let me get it for you -
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi.
If you've seen my book review (it's got spoilers in it) of Shatter Me
link down below.
You can know how much I hated the first book; I was totally sassy about it.
But I read some of this this morning, I'm on page 78 now, and I'm actually liking it??
Sooo... it's a bit of a turn-a-round.
I'm not enjoying it a lot, but a lot more than the first one.
So I'm going to read up to page 128 of this
because 100 pages a day and I was already 28 pages in, so, page 128.
And then if I read 100 pages of this which goes so much faster than reading 100 pages
of this
because this is actually a big book and 100 pages are taller than little paperback young
adult quick reads,
I think I'll go back to reading this because I just need to know what happens next.
Yesterday I went to bed at quarter past midnight and I woke up at 7
but I really had bad dreams and I only slept, like, in little pieces of half an hour and
then I'd wake up.
So even though I woke up and I did yoga and I did some reading and I did all this jazz
it's now 11:15 in the morning and I had a productive morning but it's time to go back
to sleep!
Because I really have not got enough sleep.
I'm like yawning, crying because I'm yawning, so er,
it's midday naptime!
I'm on a walk, and I'm going to get a doughnut.
I'm very excited because I love doughnuts!
And um - my little sister is laughing at me, but it's true, I really love doughnuts and
I eat clean usually but
we're gonna get some doughnuts!
And we're also walking with my mum, let me show you her.
It's the birthday girl.
Happy birthday!
Thank youuu!
Look at these lovely flowers we bought.
And we got food, and doughnuts.
Good morning everyone!
It's April 3rd and it's the 3rd day of the Grabon read-a-thon,
it's 9:30am and I have read nothing so far.
But I decided to y'know, do some other stuff.
I am editing my March, end of March vlog which should be up by the time this video goes up.
And it's about 18 minutes long which always makes me nervous.
I'm always so nervous when I upload a long video.
But yes, I'm editing that and I'm gonna edit the beginning of this vlog so that my phone
has more space on it.
I'm going to hopefully read a bit of every book today.
I want to read more of My Best Friend's Exorcism, and more of Unravel me and more of the Raven
King, and
I'm going to be starting Looking for Dei today.
That's a lot of reading.
Hopefully, I can find the time because I'm also meeting up with one of my good friends
and we are going to lunch at The Happiness Cafe which is like a healthy, clean eating
cafe
and I haven't been there before and she also likes to eat clean so today's gonna be a good
day!
I realise I didn't do a summary of what I read yesterday so let's go.
I read 44 more of pages of My Best Friend's Exorcism, it continues to be crazily creepy.
And petrifies me by it's realism and yes that is stressful.
I've read 38 pages of The Raven King and the forecast reading of what is going to happen
in this book was very very intense.
The tensions are rising, the stakes are rising and please please give me more Adam.
Because Adam Parrish is BAE.
And I also read 106 pages of Unravel Me, and surprisingly, this book is better than Shatter
Me was so far.
I mean, the romance still makes me want to roll my eyes because I've never met two more
overdramatic people in love
other than Edward and Bella, but the difference is that I love Edward and Bella.
It's also kind of tripping me up that I'm reading two books where there are characters
called Adam, and I don't really like it
because there is one Adam that I really don't like and there is one Adam that I love.
It kind of bothers me that I'm reading two books where the main character has the same
name but y'know, gotta live with it.
Guys, I know you've only seen me in this shirt but I changed back into it because it's so
sunny outside, it's so lovely and bright
but I went out to lunch and I had this lovely nacho healthy bowl at the Happiness Cafe with
this brilliant smoothie,
nice time with my friend, and then I came back and I read the 4 chapters of The Raven
King.
It's literally breaking my heart.
I don't forsee this book ending well and that just - I just want it to end happily ever
after
but I don't think she's gonna let that happen.
Now I am going to do something, do something, hopefully do some more reading
because I haven't started the book that i was supposed to be reading today,
and also I haven't done much reading at all today.
I'm making dinner - yes there will be more food in this vlog.
Can you tell I love food?
Making this brie and artichoke, arti-arti- I can't say that word.
Artichoke, artichoke, artichoke - I can't say it!
Well, THAT and brie and spinach pasta for the first time, so, I hope that goes well
because I found this recipe online.
'Let the world know I am suffering' - My dad making jokes.
You can see the dinner, it was pretty good and, yeah.
I've just been doing this like getting my parents presents and stuff like that.
So, going to start Looking for Dei.
It's actually almost 9:30pm, so it's a bit late to be starting a new book.
But I was supposed to read 100 pages of this today so I'm going to try and read as much
as possible.
See where I go?
I'll probably fall asleep but hopefully not too soon?
Good morning!
So last night I only read 22 pages of this book before I fell asleep.
So I woke up today and it was like 6am?
And I couldn't sleep anymore because I'd accidentally fallen asleep so early.
So I've now read up to page 100 of Looking for Dei, which was what I was supposed to
read yesterday
so today I'm going to be starting my next read and hopefully making progress in all
of the others.
I don't know why I've started so many books.
I feel like that was a bad idea, I should have just chosen some and actually stuck to
them.
But so far I've read over 500 pages in the past 4 days, which is pretty good, pretty
good.
It's about midday, I've got Unravel Me here.
While I'm reading I'm listening to music on the televison
and my March wrap up video is uploading.
It's going to take about an hour, so an hours worth of reading time.
Let's do this!
About 40 minutes into the upload so, music's still on, pasta leftovers for lunch,
probably hear the music now, and I'm going to start my buddy read chapters!
Hi guys!
It's been a really long day and I am sooo tired.
Because I put my March wrap up video up, my March wrap up blog post, my newsletter is
up, I've replied to blog comments
and youtube comments, and sharing my posts on social media, and then as well as that,
visiting other people's blogs and channels
and then on top of that I was also doing some life admin stuff because my family
is a family of 6 in total, and every year we try and go on one summer holiday as a family
altogether,
which is a bit harder now that my two older sister's work and then my parents are working
here, and I'm in uni in England my sister is in school here
so it's hard to find somewhere that we all want to go.
Then we also have to get flights that are a decent price, and then find a holiday home
which is has wheelchair access
and then know what we are going to be seeing and plan out itinerary and it just takes a
lot.
So I did the research for 3 potential holidays today.
But it's twenty to ten at night and I feel like it's almost midnight, that's how tired
I am.
But I'm just going to like, get into bed.
I'm going to read only 25 pages of My Best Friend's Exorcism because I don't want it
to be the last thing I read before I go to sleep.
So I'll read a bit more of this and then I'll read a bit more of blogs or just do some like,
chill mindless blog stuff, and I don't know if I'll be doing anything more after that
my brain is really dead.
I'm tired - sometimes I get too tired to read.
Some people find reading to be relaxing, and I do,
for the most part, find it to be relaxing but when I'm really really tired I'd rather
just watch something because I have absolutely no brain power.
Guys so it is April 5th and I'm going to give a quick reading update and a life update.
So today, we've got like 3 more days on this vlog including today.
And today is another stay at home day where I'm going to be productive at home.
And then tomorrow I am going to meet a friend for cofee and chill, and then
on Saturday I'm also meeting up with another friend, so there will be some more life stuff
coming up.
Today I'm just going to be doing things like ironing, chores.
I'll try and show you guys but it's not that exciting.
Anyways so my reading update for last night, let's do this!
Before bed I read - the light is so bright today.
Ooh!
Okay, so, I read 31 pages of My Best Friend's Exorcism, it's creepy but it's coming up to
the finale and I'm looking forward to finishing it.
I read 54 pages of Unravel Me.
It's becoming bad again, which is not good but, yes.
It's not as good as it was in the beginning.
And then I read another 78 pages of this.
An indie book, but it's so good.
I'm actually really enjoying this fantasy.
And lastly I read 29 pages of this buddy read.
Which was... heartbreaking.
It's still being a bit heart breaking.
So this morning I did some yoga and literally broke my back.
No, I didn't break my back but I'm trying to do the king pigeon pose
which is really hard.
I don't think I've ever really shown you yoga on my channel so, next I'll put a clip of
me doing my yoga practice.
Maybe I'll put some clips of me doing my workout tomorrow in but it's all nasty and sweaty.
But whatever, anyways,
so yes, I did yoga, it's time to do some ironing.
Guys, chore number one on the go.
I actually like ironing.
I think it's calming.
It is time for me to start reading Great Expectations.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate
the deckled edges.
Can I just say that I am well aware that Great Expectations is not great for a readathon.
Look how small that font is!
It's going to take me ages to read one page.
Not readathon material and yet I'm actually enjoying it!
Hey guys, it's after dinner.
I totally forgot to vlog after dinner.
I'm in such a bad mood today,
I literally just stayed in bed, or read in bed, or did university work in bed.
So I'll give you an update on what I've been reading right before I go to sleep.
But right now, I'm with my little sister.
We're doing maths homework.
Vectors.
My maths is better than hers, naturally.
Cause I'm the smarter sibling and I stole all the brain cells.
It's day 6 of the readathon.
2 more days to go and it's time for an update.
So yesterday, last night before I went to sleep I did quite a lot of reading.
I read from Great Expectations, I read 66 pages.
So today I need to read another 44 pages to catch up with my goal of reading 100 pages
of each book as well as read 100 pages of the next book I'm supposed to start.
And I also read 77 pages of The Raven King.
So actually my buddy read person who I'm reading it with, my buddy, I guess
was reading 5 chapters a day when I was reading 4, so I was already about two to three chapters
behind
then I read the 5 chapters for yesterday, and then I also read the 5 chapters for today
ahead of time.
Because I couldn't stop reading and I kept wanting more.
So I'm ahead of the game.
So I read 77 and 66 pages.
And then I also going to meet a friend for coffee.
We used to be on the basketball team together
and I haven't seen her in like, years.
I don't think.
I haven't properly spoken to her in years, so we're just gonna grab a coffee
and it'll be nice to spend some time outside of the house.
Because as you know I've been in this house for a little while now.
Hey guys, so I just got back from meeting up with my friend Priya.
And we had the most delicious - well she had
a delicious looking waffle, and I had this shake thing that you saw.
And I'd never been to that place before in the city center so it was really nice.
It was good to have a bit of a break, because literally all day I've just been reading.
I've been reading a book that wasn't even on my TBR.
It's called Unica Looking at the Sea.
I forgot the author but there will be an image here somewhere.
And it's something I have to read for uni and I have to read it before I go back, so
I thought what better time,
because I cut into today some hours to do study, and y'know, reading is part of my study
because I have to read it,
so what better time to do so than during the readathon?
Hey guys, I just finished reading my ebook copy of Unica Looking at the Sea
and I so glad I read it because the ending was so sad and I was like
NOOO why does it have to end like this?
But it said a lot about environment, poverty and hope.
And it was also set in Latin America and if you've seen my wrap up in March you'll know
I read a nonfiction book about Ecuador and the political situation in Ecuador as well
as being an immigrant in Ecuador
and you should definitely check that out because it just showed me a lot about the Latin American
world
that really is just not really shown much in Europe?
I hear a lot about the USA, I hear a lot about Europe, and I hear some about Africa.
But not a lot!
But there is still a lot more of Africa that I need to discover, of Oceania that I need
to discover, and clearly Latin America
as well.
So I'm getting into Latin American literature to learn more and I feel like I've definitely
learned something about poverty reading this one.
It was so good.
Day 6 has definitely been my best reading day so far.
It's 11:30pm and I just finished reading My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix.
I read the last 45 pages.
And I really enjoyed this book up until the end.
I felt like the ending was just a bit too easy.
So I'm a bit suspicious.
I'm gonna read some blogs and actually
sit up and blog comment for half an hour.
Then it's midnight and that's my bedtime.
Tomorrow's the last daaaay.
Oh what am I doing?
April 7th - the last day of the readathon.
I'm so sore from the workout I did yesterday so I literally like, walking, no it's not
happening.
So no yoga this morning.
About to read my final 5 chapters of The Raven King.
In bed.
Yes.
Okay guys, so I just finished - well, I didn't just finish - I read 45 more pages of The
Raven King.
I accidentally went two chapters over.
Not accidentally, I'm not even sorry.
I went two chapters over the buddy read count so I have less chapters to read tomorrow.
But you guys won't be with me then.
And also, I am going to read Great Expectations.
I have 25 minutes before I have to leave to meet my friend
so just 25 minutes of reading.
Then I'm on my way, and then I come back and continue reading.
Oh yes, oh yes.
So, at the moment I am running lately, I am going into the garage, and getting my bike,
so I can go meet my friend.
I am so late, I'm supposed to be there in 20 minutes and usually it takes me 25 minutes.
I literally only read 4 pages of Charles Dickens because, I sat downstairs and watched Corrie
with my family while I was reading
and that's never a good idea because then I get distracted by the conversations and
the funny-ness humor that is Corination Street.
Proper British I know but I do love it.
Yup, now I'm on my way.
I'm going, I'm going, I'm going and I'll be there soon.
Hey guys, I just got back home.
It was so nice to see Guilia in town.
We had wok, and then we went to this park and we sat down and talked for ages.
Cause it is 23 degrees right now, which is amazing weather.
I'm going to make dinner which is pork in a mushroom sauce, then I'm on instagram on
all across my 3 accounts
which you should definitely check out down below!
And then I am going to keep reading Great Expectations and I've got to work on my school
essay so...
Don't think I'll be getting much more reading done tonight.
It's been a good reading vlog!
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