BookTube-A-Thon: Day One

So this morning I decided to participate in BookTube-A-Thon. For those who don't know, BookTube-A-Thon is a read-a-thon for BookTube (the youtube book community) that happens every northern hemisphere summer, but luckily I'm still on uni winter break. It runs from midnight Monday 14th July to midnight Monday 21st July. I'm not going to be making videos or anything but I normally watch a lot of peoples so I thought this year I'd give the reading challenges a go.

Because I decided on the spur of the moment, I spent my booktube-a-thon time for day one selecting which books I'll be reading. The overall challenges (there are extra challenges for different days) are: 

Challenges:

• a book with pictures
• start and finish a series
• a book with red on the cover
• a book someone else picks out for you
• a book from the genre you've read least this year
• a book to movie adaptation (read and watch)
• read seven books (aiming for 300 pages a day)

My Choices:

Hollow City - Ransom Riggs

For my book with pictures I chose Hollow City, which I've been meaning to read since it came out. I loved Miss Peregrine so am very excited to read the sequel 

Reboot by Amy Tintera

Rebel  by Amy Tintera

The series I'm going to start and finish is a duology I've been wanting to read for a while now, perfect for this challenge because there is only two books and they were pretty cheap on iBooks. 

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

In the picture it looks more pink than red, but on my actual cover it looks very red. I've wanted to read this for ages as well, despite mixed reviews. I desperately want it to perfectly encapsulate my own fangirl feelings so we will see how it goes.

Turn Here by Jackson Pearce

My sister picked this out for me. I like the other books I've read by Jackson Pearce, and it is a short story so it shouldn't take too long to read. 

The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy

I had a look at the books I've read this year and (probably because I'm no longer studying English lit) but the genre I've read list was literary fiction. This is a book I picked up on impulse at the library today, and it fits in with my attempts to read more broadly.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

BBC miniseries

I've been wanting to reread North and South for ages now, and I always love watching
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell (and the BBC) (a book to movie adaptation)

....and all up that equals seven books but one is a short story so I'm adding in The Devil Latch, which I picked up at the library today because it is a book I loved as a teenager and I felt like rereading it.

The Devil Latch by Sonya Hartnett