Hi Booktube!
I am back.
I have been gone, since I think the end of last year.
Life was happening, the good, the bad, the really bad and things are getting better,
things are looking up, life goes on and I am ready to get back to some of the things
I enjoy the most and one of those is Booktube.
So, I've been trying to think of a way to get my channel started again and I thought
what would be better than BookTube-A-Thon?
I have watched BookTube-A-Thon for at least the last three years, but I think I saw on
someone's channel that it's been going on for five.
So, anyway this will be my first time to officially participate in BookTube-A-Thon and today's
video is going to be my TBR.
I think it starts today at midnight.
I will not be reading at midnight.
I will wake up in the morning and start reading.
I am not sure how successful I will be, because I do work a full-time job and so I'll probably
basically be doing it before work, on my lunch break and in the evenings, but I think it
will still be fun either way even if I don't complete all the challenges successfully.
With that being said there are seven book challenges this year and I have them on my
phone.
I'm going to go get my phone and we will just start with the TBR.
So, the first book challenge is read a book with a person on the cover and the book that
I have chosen is the Vicious Circle.
This is a short story collection of mystery and crime stories and I'm really excited about
this and you will see why in a second.
The description says most of the renowned writers that made up New Yorks notorious Algonquin
Round Table in the 1920s are remembered today not just for their costic wit that led them
to dub their group the vicious circle, but also for essays, plays and literary fiction
they produced during it's hay day.
Yeah, so this is a short story collection of authors from the Algonquin Round Table
one of them being Dorthy Parker, Alexander Woolcott, Edna Ferber, just some really famous
people that were around in the 1920s.
I think it will just be a fun mish mash of stories to read anyway I'm really looking
forward to this and that is my book for challenge number one.
Now, challenge number two is read a hyped book.
This didn't take me any time to figure out what book I would be talking about.
It is the Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild.
Now sometime in the last year I believe this book was up for an award and so around that
time a lot of the like British and European Booktubers were talking about this book and
I could not get my hands on it.
I live in Oklahoma.
It took me I would say a good year and a half from finding out about this book before I
could actually find a copy.
Now, I know I could have probably ordered it on-line, but I'm just a little weird about
ordering things on-line.
I just want to find it in person.
Is that weird?
I don't know.
How do you guys feel about finding books on line.
I prefer to buy from a shop, but I don't really know why just my preference really, but anyway
the Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild has interested me for a very long time.
In The Improbability of Love we meet Annie McDee, thirty-one, who is working as a chef
for two rather sinister art dealers.
Recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, she is searching in a neglected secondhand
shop for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover.
Hidden behind a rubber plant on top of a file cabinet, a grimy painting catches her eye.
After spending her meager savings on the picture, Annie prepares an elaborate birthday dinner
for two, only to be stood up.
The painting becomes hers, and as it turns out, Annie has stumbled across a lost masterpiece
by one of the most important French painters of the eighteenth century.
But who painted this masterpiece is not clear at first.
Soon Annie finds herself pursued by interested parties who would do anything to possess her
picture.
So some of the reviews that I heard have mentioned that he painting itself narrates through the
book and that it's kind of snooty and I think that is one of the reasons I'm excited, because
I just think that would be funny.
Anyway, that's my hyped book.
Challenge number three is to read a book in a day and the book I have chosen for this
challenge is Tales of the Islanders by Charlotte Bronte.
On a cold December night in 1827 the four Bronte children each choose an island and
a chief man to rule it.
As story lines gradually are fleshed out over the next years Charlotte records the momentous
events that were to take place in the islands kingdom.
Populating the distant island with a school full of wayward children, bullying ruffians
and villainous nobleman and making the home of the Duke of Wellington and his family.
The children's imagination spawned swashbuckling adventurers, benevolent intrigue and benevolent
spirits.
I think this will be a really fun read to do in one day.
I thinks it's only 88 pages.
Monday is my day off and I am hoping to get through this on Monday.
So, fingers crossed.
Challenge number four is read about a character that that is very different from you.
For this challenge I am going to be doing and audio book it is the memoirs of Mary Queen
of Scots.
Born queen of Scotland married as a young girl to the King of France Mary took the reins
of an unruly kingdom of Scotland as a young widow and fought to keep her thrown.
Many believed that she and not her cousin Queen Elizabeth I was the Fulbright Queen
of England, but this only fueled their bitter rivalry ending in Mary's execution at age
44.
From her pampered childhood, to the legendary scandals that surrounded her adult life, the
vividly detailed, elegantly written fictional account brings readers into the heart and
mind of one of history's most famous woman.
Yeah, I am nothing like Mary Queen of Scots.
First of all I am not a Queen, second of all I did not have a pampered childhood or legendary
scandals.
So, I think this will be fun.
It is nine hours long, so I'm not quite sure where I'm going to find nine hours to listen
to this, but we'll see.
I figured I'll listen to it in the car.
Challenge number five finish a book completely outdoors.
The book that I thought would be really fun to read outside is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
because the book takes place outside with animals and fun creatures and it's magical
and amazing and I'm really looking forward it.
It's not very long, it's only 86 pages so if I was going to read it indoors this week
I would probably finish it, but because I have to read it outdoors that makes it a little
tricky just because in Oklahoma the last week it has been in the hundreds so yeah I don't
know how long I wan to stay outside, but we will see.
The next book challenge is read a book you bought because of the cover.
This cover is beautiful!
I totally bought this book because of the cover and fortunately it is very interesting
to me.
It is the Visioninst and look at this cover it has like this gold leaf on this like weird
like transparent milky cover and then when you lift it back...
How cool is that!
I thought this was so pretty.
So so pretty!
So anyway what it is about it says in this spell binding debut 15-year-old Polly Kimball
sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother
find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called the City of Hope.
It is the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker enclaves all across the Northeast
are being visited by extraordinary mystical visions, earning them the honorific of "Visionist"
and bringing renown to their settlements.
The City of Hope has not yet been blessed with a Visionist, but that changes when Polly
arrives and is unexpectedly exalted.
Yet Polly's past haunts her as a young arson investigator, with his own complicated history
is on her trail.
As she struggles to keep her dark secrets concealed in the face of increasing scrutiny,
Polly finds herself in a life-changing friendship with a young Shaker sister named Charity,
a girl who will stake everything-even her faith-on Polly's honesty and purity.
And the final challenge is to read seven books.
So, I just picked a seventh book that I have been wanting to read and I'm going to be reading
Sherlock Holmes a Study in Scarlett on my Kindle.
I have been interested in reading Sherlock Holmes for a long time, but it's just one
of those things that I have never done, so anyway I think on-line it said that is is
like his first Sherlock Holmes novel.
So, I'm looking forward to that.
Hopefully because I've mad it a challenge I will actually start reading it, which would
be amazing.
I have one week to read seven books.
I have no idea how I will finish all of these books in one week, but it will definitely
be fun trying, so yeah wish me luck and I will keep you guys updated on my progress.
I might do an update at some point and I'm definitely going to do a wrap-up video.
So, I hope you all have a good week and I'll see you later.
Bye!
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