Hi, it's Maija here, and my channel turns
five years old today! In order to
celebrate, I am making my Reading Rush
TBR. Reading Rush was formerly known as
Booktubeathon, and I made my channel, I
started my channel for Booktubeathon
2014. And since then I have taken part in
Booktubeathon every year, except for last
year, when I made a TBR, but then real
life stuff happened and I couldn't actually
take part in the read-a-thon that week.
But I am back and taking part now in The
Reading Rush. So this read-a-thon takes
place from July 22nd to July 28th, and I
will leave a link in the description to
the YouTube account, the Twitter account,
and their website. Let's start with the
books! For the challenge of "Read a book
with purple on the cover", I am going with
the very purple Under the Pendulum Sun
by Jeannette Ng. This is "A novel of the Fae",
and this is about the Victorians, who have
discovered Fairylands and have sent
missionaries there. And the main
character is Catherine and her brother
has gone missing in Faerie, and she
travels there to find him. I'm also using
this for the challenges of "Reading an
author's first book" and "Reading a book
that you meant to read last year."
Then for the challenges of "Reading a book
with a non-human main character" and
"Reading a book in the same spot the
entire time", I'm gonna read whatever
volume of Descender I am at at that time.
This is a science fiction comic series by
Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, and I have
the whole series, the whole six volumes
out from the library. I will be reading
one volume on the same spot, on my couch,
when The Reading Rush starts. Then I am
combining the last two challenges of
"Reading a book that has 5 or more words
in the title" and "Reading and then
watching a book-to-movie adaptation." And
I am going to choose The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. This is the
first book, if you ask me, the first book
in The Chronicles of Narnia -
so this was written and published first,
but it's not first in the inner
chronology, but I think it's supposed to
be read this way. Fight me in the
comments if you want. But I don't know if
I'm cheating, because I actually want to
read the Finnish edition, which is just
three words long: it's called Velho ja
leijona (that means
"wizard and lion", nothing about the
wardrobe in that title). Is it cheating if
I read the Finnish translation? I don't 
know, but I think I'm
gonna do it anyway. And then I'm gonna
watch the 1988 BBC adaptation,
movie adaptation, of this book. I found it
on YouTube as a whole, so I'm gonna watch
that. I loved that as a kid, that was like
my favorite thing. And then if I feel
like reading something more, or if I have
time to read something more, because
Under the Pendulum Sun is quite long,
it's about 400 pages. So I have already
tabbed it for the week, I have to read a
bit under 60 pages a day. But if I have
time, I will also start Snowspelled by
Stephanie Burgis. It's a Regency fantasy
and I could use this for the "meant to read
last year" challenge if I have time, so
that I wouldn't combine so many to Under
the Pendulum Sun. So these are the books
that I'm going to be reading for The
Reading Rush. Let me know in the comments
if you're also taking part. And happy
five years to my channel!
I'll see you in my next video.
