#ReadYourFaceOff Readathon Vlogs {April, May, & June 2018}

As you may know, I've been doing a bit of catch up on my blog after experiencing some technical difficulties with my personal computer. I realized a few weeks ago that I haven't had the chance to share my #ReadYourFaceOff 24 Hour Readathon Vlogs with you all at all over the past three months! So I thought I'd stick them all in one blog post for you all to catch you up to speed.
April 2018
 
Books Read:
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 1-3 by Hiromu Arakawa The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
May 2018

 
Books Read:
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera Pregnant Butch by A.K. Summers
June 2018


Books Read:
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren Sourdough by Robin Sloan
If you weren't aware, the Read Your Face Off Book Club does a 24 hour readathon every month to help boost your reading! The next readathon will be July 14-15, 2018 from 9AM on the 14th to 9AM on the 15th in your time zone. Make sure you join the book club on GoodReads to be aware of all of the upcoming dates for the #ReadYourFaceOff 24 Hour Readathons!

Summer Readathon TBRs: Clean Out Your E-Reader (#COYER) Challenge & #TomeTopple Round 6

Hey folks! Apologies for not updating here regularly in the past few weeks. Unfortunately, earlier this month, my laptop decided it does not want to boot up anymore, and I'm still trying to figure that out. I have identified a replacement laptop for the moment so I can still upload and edit, but I have been a bit thrown for a loop these past few weeks and have fallen out of a routine for keeping the blog and channel as up to date as possible. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things a bit more while I attempt to get my computer fixed, and I thought I'd kick that off by getting you up to speed with a couple readathons I'm participating in! #COYER

First up we have the Clean Out Your E-Reader (#COYER) Challenge. This reading challenge, as the name suggests, focuses on reading your e-books and audio books, which is SO NEEDED right now. If you missed my spring book haul, I bought a TON of eBooks over the last few months, and have been needing an excuse to get cracking on them. This is the perfect opportunity to do just that!  This reading challenge started on June 9th and will last for the entirety of the summer up until August 31st. That's a lot of time for reading eBooks and I'm all about that! There are 3 levels of the #COYER challenge which include:
Lightly clean: Read 1-10 eBooks Spring clean: Read 11-20 eBooks Deep clean: Read more than 20 eBooks
Because this is my first #COYER and I don't want to overwhelm myself, I'm going to shoot for the lightly clean range. It'd be great to read 10 eBooks this summer and hopefully I'll be able to accomplish that goal! The books I'm going to focus on include:

The 8 Mistakes of Amy Maxwell by Heather Balog

Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

99 Days by Katie Cotugno

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

TOME TOPPLE ROUND 6

Tome Topple Round 6 starts this Friday, June 29th and I have been *slaaaackingggg* on my reading for my Harry Potter reread so I thought, why not hop in on this round of Tome Topple and get some dang HP reading done?! This round will last until July 12th, so I'm hoping that gives me enough time to get through the next two HP books in my reread as well as attempt a couple more tomes! As usual, this round of Tome Topple has optional reading challenges which include:
1. Read more than one tome (a book with 500+ pages)  2. Read a graphic novel  3. Read a tome that is part of a series  4. Buddy read a tome  5. Read an adult novel Most of my TBR will touch on all of these challenges, so hopefully I'll get a few of them completed over the course of the 2 weeks of Tome Topple! For this round, I will be reading the following books: Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 4-6 by Hiromu Arakawa Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin ---
I will definitely be planning on participating in more readathons this summer (24 in 48, BookTubeAThon, the NEWTs Readathon... just to name a few!) so be on the look out for more TBRs coming your way soon!

Spring 2018 & Birthday Book Haul!

Alright, I really need to cool it on the book buying. Seriously. XD Over the course of the last few months, I somehow accumulated 48 books?! #whatswrongwithme I'm, of course, very excited for all of these books, however, and I'm thinking I'm going to take a bit of a break from buying books. At least for a month or two. I need to give myself the chance to get all of the literary goodness that has come my way over the last season!

Birthday Gifts

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Autumn by Ali Smith
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
North: Finding My Way by Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek

Book Depository

The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 1-3 by Hiromu Arakawa

Amazon

Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 4-6 by Hiromu Arakawa
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Save the Date by Morgan Matson

Book of the Month

April

The Oracle Year by Charles Soule

Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

The Stranger in the Woods: the Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

May

Still Lives by Maria Hummel
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

June

The Anomoly by Michael Rutger
The Book of Essie by Meghan Maclean Weir
When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

Book Outlet

First We Were IV by Alexandra Sirowy
American Street by Ibi Ziboi
Dreamology by Lucy Keating
Everything All at Once by Katrina Leno
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Kindle

Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

Bandwidth by Eliot Peper

Ms. Marvel, vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Radio Silence by Alice Ozeman
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
99 Days by Katie Cotugno
Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer

Audible

Running Man by Charlie Engel
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

May 2018 Reading Wrap Up!

May was one of those months that both dragged and flew by. It seemed like we were in May for a LONG TIME, yet at the same time, I can't believe it's already June. I am super psyched that the summer months are here, though, and I'm SO looking forward to all of the reading the slower months will bring! May had its fair share of excellent reads and I may have even found some 2018 favorites this month which is always so exciting and I'm so happy to share them with you all! :)

READING STATS FOR MAY

Particpated in 2 readathons (#ReadYourFaceOff & #BorrowAThon)

Completed 2/10 books from 10 Book TBR #2 (6/10 total)

Started 1 series

2,692 pages read

14 books completed

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
Kindle eBook, 1/5
Book 1 of 3 in the All for the Game Series

The Rosie Project by Grahame Simsion
Physical copy, 4/5

Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone by Brene Brown
Physical copy, 4/5

Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag by A.K. Summers
Library copy, 4/5

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Physical copy, 3/5
Read Your Face Off Book Club May 2018 Pick

Giant Days, vol. 3 by John Allison
Physical copy, 4/5

Lumberjanes, vol. 8: Stone Cold by Shannon Watters et. al
Physical copy, 5/5

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Kindle eBook, 3/5

2 AM at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
Physical copy, 5/5
TBR Jar Pick for 10 Book TBR #2

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Library copy, 3/5

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, vol 1: BFF by Amy Reeder
Library copy, 4/5

Paper Girls, vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughn
Library copy, 5/5

Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Library copy, 3/5

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Library copy, 4/5