hey guys it's Ana and welcome to the
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so today I wanted to film a video
to go over not one but two
challenges that I'm going to be doing
this month so my first challenge is
called the cramathon and that one runs
from July 6 through July 12th
the first prompt for the cramathon is
a book by a black author and for that
one I chose all boys aren't blue by
George M. Johnson and basically this is a
memoir about a black queer man
growing up in America and his
experiences I've heard nothing but good
reviews so far on different booktube
reviews that i've seen so i'm really
looking forward to reading this one the
second prompt is a book that is less
than 200 pages and for that one I chose
the body by Stephen King this is the
book that was originally adapted into
the film stand by me so I'm looking
forward to reading it it's really short
so I should be able to get through it
fairly quickly
the third prompt is a book that was
released in 2020 and for that one I'm
gonna be going with the shadows by Alex
North this is actually a book that is on
book of the month
and I'm actually gonna be buddy reading
this one with two of my other friends so
looking forward to that one and the book
should be getting here sometime this
week prompt 4 is gonna be a book that is
own voices and if you're not sure what
own voices is or if you've never heard
that term before I'll leave a definition
down below in the description box so
that way you can check that out and for
that one I'm gonna double up and I'm
gonna go with all boys aren't blue once
again and the last prompt is a book that
is nonfiction and once again I'm gonna
go with all boys aren't blue I want to
make sure that I get through my
challenge so that's why I'm doubling
this book up this one's actually
covering three of the prompts which I'm
kind of glad about because with
something like a memoir I really like to
take my time reading I don't want to
just rush through it so this will give
me a few extra days to really take my
time
let everything sink in and really
appreciate the memoir as a whole
coffee
break
so my second challenge for the month of
July is gonna be the reading rush and
the reading rush runs from July 20th
through July 26 and if you've never
heard of the reading rush or if you'd
like to participate in it as well
I'll leave the original video down below
the girls are awesome the prompts are
really fun and on this one I actually
have a little bit of a bolder TBR so
let's get right to it
the first prompt says read a book that
matches the color of your birthstone I
was born in April so my birthstone is
diamond and to be quite honest a lot of
people associate diamond with white but
I think of a diamond like more like a
clear type of gemstone because you can
kind of like see pretty much right
through it especially depending on the
quality so I actually found this book
permanent record by Mary HK Choi and it
has a clear cover how cool is that so
this will be my book for my first prompt
the second prompt is read a book that
starts with the or that it has the in
the title so for that one I'm gonna be
going with the knock out queen by
rufi thorpe and this one was actually
a Book of the Month Club pick in May I
never got around to reading it so I
figured that this would be the perfect
time number three read a book that
inspired a movies already seen and for
that one I'm going with the mist by
Stephen King I love this movie quite a
bit I know that there's also several
series based off of this book as well
another really short Stephen King novel
so looking forward to reading this one
also as Stephen King is one of my
all-time favorite authors and I'm trying
to get through as many of his books as I
possibly can number four is to read the
first book you touch and as you can see
back here
I have three books that I bought
specifically for this so long story
short I got rid of a bunch of my books
and so now I'm slowly trying to build my
library back up and fill up these
beautiful shelves that my husband gifted
to me as a late birthday present so
moving on back to the prompt read the
first book that you touch so I have
three books back there they're kind of
like poetry books and I'm gonna just go
ahead and close my eyes taking off the
glasses so you know it's legit and here
we go and it's gonna be the princess
saves herself in this one and by Amanda
Lovelace and it says the story of a
princess turned damsel turned queen in the
back so I heard a couple of like mixed
reviews for this one but I'm still
looking forward to reading it
should be fun glasses on okay back to
the prompts so prompt five read a book
somewhere other than your house so um I
work part-time at a local coffee house
here so I'm probably gonna be reading
that book more or less there for the
majority of the time and for that one I
picked Coraline by Neil Gaiman I'm a
fifth grade teacher actually so some of
my students have read this one and I
want to be able to talk to them about it
so I figured that this one would be a
good one and it's pretty short so I
should be able to read it at the coffee
house without annoying my manager too
much not at all but too much number six
read a book in a genre you've always
wanted to read more of the genre that
I've always wanted to read more of
honestly is romance I've never been a
romance reader even when I first started
delving into books even like yes I read
the Twilight series I mean it is what it
is I know that there's a lot of hate on
the Twilight series but hey but even
that for me was not a hundred percent
romance because it was more like vampire
lycan human love like that kind of a
trope I didn't consider that full-on
romance for me but I've always wanted to
be like a girly girl
romance reader in a sense so for that
one
I chose beach read by Emily Henry I
follow quite a few book tubers my
favorite one by far is Gabbyreads so
Gabby if you're seeing this video I love
you
you're awesome um Gabby did not like
this book another one of my favorite
booktubers is books like whoa Mara and
Mara really did like this book so a
couple of mixed reviews there I I really
like both of their opinions a lot when
it comes to books I really take it a lot
to heart so this one was kind of a split
for me I also kind of looked on
Goodreads about it and I saw some mixed
reviews there so I figured I'd give it a
try we'll see what it is it is what it
is there you go so genre that I'd like
to read more of romance beach read we'll
see how it goes
and the last prompt for the reading rush
is a book that takes place on a
different continent than where you live
so I live in North America so for that
one I'm gonna be reading a long walk to
water and this one takes place in Africa
I really don't know too much about it um
so I'm looking forward to reading it
this is also like a middle grade book so
I'm also kind of like ulterior motives I
want to see if this would be something
good for me to read with my class in the
upcoming year so yeah I would kind of
want to preview it on my own so these
are gonna be my picks for the cramathon
excited for that this is my TBR for the
reading rush so we'll see how that goes
there's one really larger book but the
rest of them are kinda thin so I'm
hoping that I'll be able to get through
it all I really do want to read a lot
more in the month of July so that's why
I'm really challenging myself to both of
these challenges especially the reading
rush trying to give each
prompt a book I don't know if I'll make
it through the whole thing I might end
up doubling a couple of the prompts with
one book we'll see how that goes
hopefully I won't need to do that
especially right now since it's summer
and I'm not working right now other than
little things that I'm doing on my own
at home so we'll see and just a couple
of other notes before I leave first one
I am gonna be trying to post weekly
mainly on Sundays if I can I'll try to
post again during the week just as
updates and things like that but for
sure I am gonna be trying to religiously
post on Sundays and also I'm gonna leave
a couple of links down below in the
description box that you can look at as
far as just as for Vanessa Guillen which
i think is a really important movement
right now at this time and also of
course for the black lives matter
movement as well so that's it those are
my two reading challenges for the month
of July I really hope that you all
enjoyed this video please like subscribe
share let me know down in the comments
if you're gonna be doing the cramathon
if you're gonna be doing the reading
rush if you're gonna be doing both if
you've read any of the books that I'm
that I'm going to be reading for either
challenge remember you all are beautiful
people I hope that you all continue to
have a beautiful week and happy reading
bye
