Vlog: #RYBSAT Round #9!

Hello everyone! This week on my channel I'm posting my #RYBSAT vlog & wrap up! RYBSAT was a wonderful readathon filled with wonderfully supportive people who cheered on your reading literally day in and day out. I would put my phone down for an hour at work and I would pick it back up to TONS of Tweets from the RYBSAT crew and it was amazing. I totally recommend joining in when Round #10 comes about!

I also want to take the time to note that I realize that a lot of my posts lately have all been on the topic of reading. I've been really enjoying my time participating in the reading community online and while I want to apologize for this sudden change in posting topics, I'm not going to. This has been a lot of fun! :P However, I don't want my blog to be *just* about my reading and books, so no worries - I still plan on posting about other things! It's just been a bit book heavy as of late because I am on an awesome reading kick and I do not want it to stop. I do have a few posts about running and planning coming up over the next few weeks so be on the lookout for that! <3 
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

RYBSAT (ReadYourBookShelfAThon) #9 Daily Progress Updates

Hi all! As you know I am participating in RYBSAT (ReadYourBookShelfAThon) this week and I thought I would once again share my daily reading progress here on the blog! I've been really enjoying my time during this readathon so far - it's been a welcome break from an extremely busy start to the academic year! I will again pin this blog post to the top of my Twitter page so you can access it easily if you would like to come back each day and see my progress! Happy reading, y'all! :)

DAY 1 - Wednesday, August 31st

Books read today: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Pages read today: 119 pages
Books completed today: None

DAY 2 - Thursday, September 1st

Books read today: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Pages read today: 65 pages
Books completed today: None

DAY 3 - Friday, September 2nd

Books read today: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Pages read today: 24
Books completed today: None

DAY 4 - Saturday, September 3rd

Books read today: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Pages read today: 92
Books completed today: None

DAY 5 - Sunday, September 4th

Books read today: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (165 pages) & A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (38 pages)
Pages read today: 203
Books completed today: 1 - She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

DAY 6 - Monday, September 5th

Books read today: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (167 pages) & Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (163 pages)
Pages read today: 330 
Books completed today: 1 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

DAY 7 - Tuesday, September 6th

Books read today: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Pages read today: 146
Books completed today: None

DAY 1 - Wednesday, September 7th

Books read today: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Pages read today: 290
Books completed today: 1 - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Total pages read: 1,269
Total books read: 3

RYBSAT (ReadYourBookshelfAThon) #9 TBR!

Guess what guys! I'm participating in ANOTHER READATHON!

But, Riley - didn't you just end a readathon on Sunday?

Yes I did. And I loved it. And much like DJ Khaled, I want ANOTHA ONE. I didn't know if I was going to want to give myself a bit of a break after Bout of Books or if I would feel comfortable hopping right back into a readathon, but after much consideration and generally just loving how much the readathon has prompted me to read, I thought WHY NOT. Let's hop right in. So I'm going to participate in Round 9 of the ReadYourBookshelfAThon (also known as RYBSAT) which is running from midnight on Wednesday, August 31st to Wednesday, September 7th (though it hasn't been clarified if that means the last day to read is 9/6 or 9/7.... I'll let ya know).

Anyway, today I'm sharing my TBR for the readathon! It is much smaller than my TBR for Bout of Books #17, mainly because I'm no longer on vacation and this is one of the busier times of year for me work-wise and I wanted to keep it as realistic as possible. So I'm breaking this up into a couple categories - what I know I can finish, and what I'd IDEALLY like to finish by the end of the readathon.

The idea of RYBSAT is to choose a point in your bookshelf and read as many books in a row as you can. I have a section of my shelf that I keep all of the books that I've chosen to fulfill the PopSugar Reading Challenge prompts and I stack them in the order of which ones I want to read during each month. These are a chunk of the books that I was hoping to get through during the month of September! I'll include their PopSugar prompts I am aiming to cross off with each title.

REALISTIC READING GOAL

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

A book from Oprah's book club

465 pages

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, Illustrated by Jim Kay

A book that is being made into a movie in 2016

216 pages

IDEAL READING GOAL

(I'll only move onto these books if I complete the books above)

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

A science fiction novel

599 pages

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

A National Book Award winner

320 pages

REALISTIC BOOK TOTAL: 2

REALISTIC PAGE TOTAL: 681

IDEAL BOOK TOTAL: 4

IDEAL PAGE TOTAL: 1,600

I have linked each title to their GoodReads page so make sure to check those out if you are interested in learning a little more about each title that I have selected for this readathon. I have also done a TBR video with quick synopisis of each title so give that a watch if you want a bit more detail for each book!

Again, I'm anticipating a fairly busy work week with little to no down time during the day to read, but hopefully I can get at least those first two titles done during RYBSAT! I will again be vlogging my experience with this readathon and of course sharing it with you all! I will also be doing a progress update post like I did for Bout of Books, and will be giving updates on my Twitter page as well! If you're participating in RYBSAT let me know in the comments because I would love to follow your progress and cheer you on! <3