Hi, it's Maija here, and this is my Reading
Rush weekend vlog, so I will go through
Friday, Saturday and Sunday of The
Reading Rush and I've vlogged a
bit of what l I have read and a lot of what
I ate for some reason. On Friday I didn't
vlog that much, so you don't get that
many clips from that, but I vlogged
more on Saturday and Sunday, 
so hope you enjoy!
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So this is day 5, it's Friday, and
it's 8 p.m. and I haven't read anything
today yet. Well, I have read 4 pages or
something from this Kindle short story
magazine, I have the final short story
from The Dark magazine - I can't remember
which issue - left, so I read a couple of
pages of that on the subway. I woke up at
12 PM - AM? - no, AM is like in the night?
Anyway, noon! I woke up at noon, because I
hadn't been able to fall asleep until
like 3:00 AM, because it was so hot in
our apartment. I woke up for the first
time at 9, then I was awake for one hour,
and then I thought that no, 6 hours isn't
enough sleep for me, so I am going to go
back to bed, and then I slept for 2 more
hours and I woke up at 12 PM. Then I
had a quick, small breakfast and then I
had to go the gym, and after gym I came
home, had a shower, and then I had to go
get my boyfriend's laptop off of him, from
the city centre, because he was going to
a role-playing convention, role-playing
game convention, he was going
straight from work there. He didn't want to
lug his laptop obviously around for the
whole day, so I went and got his laptop
from him. And then I made the mistake of
just like "visiting" a library, so I went
to a library, and then I was there for an hour. I
did grab like a smoothie on the way, but
I was just really hungry, and I then just
quickly went to the store, came back home,
had dinner (that you saw), now I'm eating
strawberries and maybe reading something.
I was eating and watching Queer Eye -
I still have Queer Eye on, on pause. But maybe
I'm gonna read for a while now.
I think I'm gonna finish Descender Vol. 3,
because that's something quick and easy
because it's a comic. And then I'm gonna
try maybe and finish this short story. It
says that it takes me about 25 minutes. I
have read a couple of things so far for
The Reading Rush: I have read the first
two volumes of Descender, I'm liking them
okay, a bit better this time around, I
have read the first three volumes before.
And then yesterday on The Reading Rush
Read-In - participants were me and Reija
from The Book Finch, so two Finnish people
were there - and I did finish the novella
The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch there,
which I am substituting for my purple
book, because I decided to continue
reading Under the Pendulum Sun by
Jeannette Ng, but to be honest I don't think
I can finish it this week, so I needed
another purple book, so I read this. And
then I have also read for the book with
five or more words in the title, The Lion, 
the Witch and the Wardrobe, even though I
did read the Finnish edition. And I
watched the first two episodes of the
six-episode old BBC TV adaptation, it's
sort of a movie. I need to watch the last
four episodes and then I get the Book to
Movie Adaptation badge or challenge
completed. But anyway, that's how I'm
doing today, I hope to vlog more and read
more tomorrow when I have the whole day
and I don't need to go anywhere. Maybe
I will actually start reading now!
Good morning! It's now Saturday, so day
six of The Reading Rush. I finished
Descender Volume 3 last night, but
then I didn't read anything else. So I
really need to get my reading on today,
because I have read most of my stuff on
day one and after that I have been
slacking, so. I'm gonna do a short workout
now, gonna do it inside, 'cause outside
it's 30 degrees and it's fine inside for
now - because Finnish houses like to
gather warmth, so it's gonna be warm in
here in the evening. So I'm gonna do that
now, then I'm gonna have breakfast and
decide what I want to read today.
So I finally finished that short story, so I 
finished The Dark issue 37, I think it is.
I finished Priya Sharma's The Crow Palace. It was my favorite of the issue, so that was great.
And now I'm thinking about what to read
next, because if you remember in my TBR I
said I was gonna read Under the Pendulum
Sun for my purple book, and the debut
book, and a book that I meant to read last
year, so I need a new debut book. And I
just bought Octavia Cade's Trading
Rosemary, which I think I found is her
first novella, so I am going to read this.
It's only 80 pages, so I should finish it
today. For purple book I already finished
The October man, and then a book that I meant
to read last year, I have to think of
something for that. And then also I could
continue with Descender, not fulfilling
any more of the challenges, but I have
all the volumes out from the library, so.
And this is a volume that I haven't read
before, I have read the first three. But
for now I think I am going to begin
Trading Rosemary by Octavia Cade.
I started Trading Rosemary, I've read one
chapter of it so far, and so far I've
really liked it. The main character has this
library of memories. So in this world
people can record their memories onto
these coins and these coins are used as
currency. The main character has a
library of these coins, so she's a
collector of rare memories. So that's the
first chapter, it's just the premise, but
it's very intriguing. Now I think I'm
gonna go to a cafe that's supposed to
have a tomato-lentil soup today, so that
sounds good, so I'm gonna go check it out.
And I'm gonna take my Kindle and read
some more there.
So, I am currently 44% of the way through
Trading Rosemary, and now I'm gonna have
a break and I think I am going to watch
Lala's vlog. And then I will either watch
an episode of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
or read Descender Volume 4 - but now,
a break and some YouTube. Just watched
some Narnia... the people in the animal
costumes: Good content!  I'm doing
Books and Lala's Twitter scavenger hunt where
we're looking for books, and we still
have two prompts to go so we're almost
done, and it's so hot in here. Getting all
sweaty, trying to find books! Just in
case you're interested, here's what I got:
first is Stars, then Upside Down, the
Letter X, Fire, Beautiful, you know, Font.
Snow, chaos, beverage, green, oldest book.
An open-mouth, an animal, free space which is my
favorite book, fruit or vegetable - the
writer is Banana Yoshimoto, Joy.
Space, the Number 8, Stripes,
a Creature, Month or Day of the Year.
Flowers, Wings, Newest book, so this is my
most recent purchase, Reflection, and
Shortest Title. So here's what I just
spent an hour doing.
Okay, so it's now Sunday, the last day of
The Reading Rush, and I have finished two
more things. Last night I actually didn't
read Descender Volume 4, I read Rolling
in the Deep by Mira Grant. I had it as an
audiobook, it's a novella, it's only
three hours. I had forgotten to mention
that I had started listening to it
earlier during the week, but I finished
it yesterday.
Killer mermaids, lots of fun, a very quick
read. And then today I finished Trading
Rosemary by Octavia Cade, I gave it three
stars. It's not like my favorite of
Octavia Cade's works, just because it
doesn't, like, cater to my specific
interests. It was still really interesting,
but The Convergence of Fairy Tales is still
my favorite, then I think The Don't Girls
comes next, and then Trading Rosemary. So
I have finished the challenge for
reading an authors debut, because I
think Octave Cade had only written
short stories before she wrote Trading
Rosemary, and that was her first
published novella. So, author's debut, and
also I have finished the read seven
books challenge. So now I have left the
read a book you meant to read last year. I have
two ways to finish this and one of them
would be to read The Victorian Chaise-Longue
by Marganita Laski, and this one is only
99 pages and it has quite big margins, it
doesn't have that much text per page.
Or then I could try and finish the
last hundred and fifty pages of Patricia
A. McKillip's The Cygnet and the Firebird. I
am so close to getting a thousand
pages. I'm gonna get that badge just by
reading a bit more. But now I need to go
hunt for some lunch, I need to go to the
grocery store, I need to eat something,
and then I can decide what I'm gonna
read next. I still want to watch one
episode of The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe, then I have watched two hours
of it, so that's sort of like one movie.
If I would watch the whole series, I
would need to watch, like, one and a half
more hours of it - it's three hours long,
as a whole, the whole series, so I don't
think I can do it today if I want to
finish one more book. Also I thought
it'd be fun to show you this: I was
planning to do the challenge for the
first day - I think it was - of
drawing a book character, a random book
character in 30 seconds. I chose The
Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison,
because I thought, well,
everything that I pick is an elf, so I need
to draw an elf; I can draw an elf fast.
But then I forgot how many characters,
how many courtiers and side characters
this book has, so I like tried so many
times. I opened the page at random and I
got a character I had no idea who that
character was, so I didn't do that. But
before I had started trying to choose
a character, I had tested as a bit of a
warm-up, I tried to test how much time
was 30 seconds, what could I do in 30
seconds. So this was my first try at an
elf in 30 seconds and I ran out of time.
After this I knew how much time it was,
so I tried to draw Maia from
Goblin Emperor in 30 seconds. So I did
this Maia in 30 seconds, and this in 30
seconds, then I felt like I was
ready, and picked up the book. And well,
you know how it turned out. But I thought
I would show you that I tried to complete a
challenge! While making food I just got a
brilliant idea: instead of trying to read
a whole book for the last challenge,
spend my whole Sunday doing that, I am
going to read a Hugo nominee, I think in
the novelette category: If at First You
Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again by Zen Cho,
which is available from the Barnes & Noble
website. I'm going to read this, it came
out last year, I meant to read it then,
because I like Zen Cho. I get some of my
Hugo reading done, I finish a book I
meant to read last year, and this is 30
pages - it's also available as an e-book
and that is 30 pages - which will push me
over the thousand page limit, so I will
get that badge, as well. So I'm gonna read
this today and then maybe Descender
Volume 4, and don't worry about the rest.
Maybe I'll read something else, maybe
I'll just finish watching the whole of
Narnia, let's see. But I'm feeling so
proud of myself for coming up with that.
So The Reading Rush is now over, I didn't
film any more updates on Sunday, but this is
now my Reading Rush wrap-up. I completed
all the challenges, and I read: The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
for the challenges of read a book with
5 or more words in the title and watch a
book to movie adaptation. I watched the
1988 BBC TV adaptation. I gave this book
four stars, it has a lot of nostalgia
points for me.
I read The October Man by Ben
Aaronovitch for the purple book
challenge and this I gave 3.5 stars.
I listened to Rolling in the Deep by
Mira Grant - I don't think this completed
any of the challenges, but I read it anyway -
I gave it 3.5 stars. For the challenge of
reading an author's first book, I read
Trading Rosemary by Octavia Cade,
which I gave three stars. And for the
challenge of reading a book that I meant
to read last year I read the novelette If
at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
by Zen Cho, and I gave this one four stars.
And this also completes the challenge of
reading a book with a nonhuman main
character, since the main character was
an imugi, which is sort of this Korean
dragon-like serpent. It's a serpent
who wants to be a dragon,
basically. And I also read Volumes 1 to 4,
plus half of Volume 5, of Descender by
Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen. This had a
nonhuman main character and I read a lot
of these in the same spot the entire time.
And I gave most of these three stars. I
forgot to say that I also read the final
short story from The Dark magazine issue
37, The Crow Palace by Priya Sharma, which
I gave three stars. So those were the
reading challenges completed. I also
got the badges for reading seven
books - I read nine - reading over a
thousand pages - I read 1191 pages. I
participated in a Twitter sprint, posted a
Reading Rush Booktube video, and I
went to a Read-In, I went to one with
Reija from The Book Finch. So that
concludes The Reading Rush, I had a lot
of fun, I completed all of the challenges
and got most of the badges. I think
I'm gonna participate next year again, as
is sort of my tradition. I hope you had
fun too if you took part, and that's all
from me for now, I'll see you in my next
video.
