#BookTubeaThon 2014

Aagggghhhh!!! 

It's almost here. 
Booktube-a-thon will officially run on 14 Jul up to 21 Jul 2014.

This is going to be hard, we have a total of 7 challenges, thus, theoritically, we are going to have to read a book a day. WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT? I can feel myself failing. Arrgghhh! But hey, pushing our reading capacity to the fullest is going to be a blast and just over all enjoying the challenge and being a part of the reading community will be a total gem in itself. Are you guys ready?

The Reading Challenges:

1. A book with pictures (graphic novels are okay).
2. Start and finish a series (a duology is okay).
3. A book with anything red on the cover.
4. A book someone else picks out for you.
5. A book from the genre you've read the least this year.
6. A book to movie adaptation.
7. Read seven books.

I have here a list of my TBR based on the challenges offered:

1. The Night Film This year, i have read similar books in S by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst and House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski and i quite adored both of these novels. So i am very excited and a bit nervous (is this a horror book? i have no idea) because i am diving into this without really knowing anything about the book that much. I have scanned it a bit on the bookstore and found some really creepy ass photos inside and knowing my own twisted mind, it stuck and i just had to go grab it. 
2. Series that i'll be reading is a Duology: Eon and Eona
   
   
    From what i can gather, this duology is sort of like Mulan. I loved that movie and it's time for some new book inspired by that movie! I can tell she is going to be one kick ass protagonist. 

3. Something Red on the cover - Jellicoe Road

It's always good to read a quality assured book. Jellicoe Road has the following awards and nominations: (as presented by Goodreads)

Australian Book Industry Award Nominee for Book of the Year for Older Children (2007), 

Printz Award (2009), 

Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2007), 

W.A. Young Readers Book Award (WAYRA) for Older Readers (2008),

Cybils Awards Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2008)

I have been wanting to read this book since the beginning of this year and i have not heard any kind of buzz about this book in Booktube TBH (until recently, a few people have talked about it) so i am diving right into reading this as i am very curious and very fascinated about how this book has so many awards.

4. A book someone picks out for you-

I have a TBR List pasted on my wall. I asked a friend to pick 3 random numbers between 1 and 70. She picked 27, 23 and 1. Books number 23 and 1, i have already read (which were Ghost Story by Jim Butcher and The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J Maas) so that leaves me #27 which is The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken.

This follows a girl who at ten years old, was locked up in the garage by her own parents as they call the police due to something bad that had happened. She has survived a plague that kills off children but is left with terrifying abilities she cannot control. At 16, she excapes the camp and i guess her life starts to unfold from there.

The plot sound soo good! I'm thinking Jessica Alba in Dark Angel. 

 

5. The least genre that i have read this year is HORROR. I really, really want to get back into reading weird, nightmare inducing books more because i was a Stephen King fan through and through when i was in my early teens and i admit, i miss reading horror books. For this challenge i choose The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It's only 246 pages.

So, if i finish this real quickly, i would also like to read another horror book (but more on middle grade) by an author i really love and respect (i have read his Bartimaeus Sequence except the latest book which i am still hoping to get into this year) and this book is The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co. series). Set in a world plagued by dangerous ghosts and chilling apparitions, the book follows a young girl who aims for a career as an agent/detective in one of the Psychic Investigations Agencies. She ended up in the most underdog agencies, perhaps known to men, and ghosts lead by the charming and charismatic Anthony Lockwood. And so her ghost crime fighting life begins...

6. My choice of book to movie adaptation is Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

I have heard a lot of buzz about this book from notable readers outside the Booktube community and i am VERY curious of the plot and writing style of Diana Wynn Jones.

Also, i have never watched the movie adaptation but i am sure to watch it after reading this book. This is going to be golden!

The plot is about this young girl who has sought the attention of a wicked witch who turns her into an old lady (poor thing) and now in order to break the curse, she has to travel to this Moving Castle of a fire demon named Howl and fight the witch that has cursed her.

Sounds like your staple children fairy tale classic! I can't wait. 

7. All in all, i have total of 8 books toward the challenge. I do hope i get to start and finish all of these wonderful reads from respectable authors and i will sure to enjoy reading as part of the growing Booktube community set for bookworms like me.

Please tag, link and let me know what are in your TBR list for this year's Booktube-a-thon organized by the quirky Ariel Bissett. 

Happy Reading all!