I only come back to YouTube for magical readathons
*Typewriter typing*
Hello Strangeos I'm Rachel Verna and I'm a mage
so this is my TBR for the Book Junkie Trials
this is a read-a-thon that takes place for the full month of July and we'll all split into teams
Like I said I'm a mage so this is
the particular challenges for mages but
the challenges differ between each team
so if you are interested to find out where you belong in this readathon
I will link everything down below the announcement video and all the information
there's a twitter and a Discord and like there's lot of fun stuff going on
There'll be Miro challenges as well so should be fun
So the seventeenth book challenges in total but this is just my TBR for the mage
and the ones I have to compete so I can win
this map
there's a map that we need to go across
There's a total of 17 reading challenges and I probably will be attempting them all
But I'm just sticking to the mage challenges for now and
I'll think what I'll read if I actually manage to compete this whole map
it's five challenges so it's totally doable for me
I probably be able to do double that
maybe if this month goes well we'll see
so there's five challenges for me to be
able to get Holy Grail
the starting point of the map is Orc Grove for me so this that's challenges to you to pick that
Gruesome gory gritty because that relates
to orc culture so I'll be reading Dread Nation
so this is a Library book I have to
read this tomorrow which is where the
read-a-thon is starting for me as time
of filming this
because it has to go back to the library so yeah
but it also should be pretty gory because it has
zombies in it and zombies always bring
the gore
I'm sorry if this videos like bad it's been a while since I filmed
so that's my excuse for being a semi mess
the next point is old pirate Cove and this is to read a
book that set at the sea or part of the
sea anyway and I'm gonna be reading
Into Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
this has mermaids in it but they're evil I believe
this is how it's been sold to me and that sounds fun
and apparently there's some good rep in
here but we'll see we'll see
I've heard good things and I believe the sequel came out quite recently so I'm gonna give it
a shot
I've been meaning to read this for a
while and you know it's the sea so it's perfect
the next point is Glimmer which is to read a book that's beautiful and colourful
so I'm going for this one which is All
the Invisible Things by
Orlagh Collins
sorry I should have look the name up
before I started filming but I never think
to I probably said it wrong anyway if I
had looked up
I don't know what that's actually about it's just so pretty and I know it's a Queer book so that's enough
for me to buy it when I see it in a bookstore it's very pretty
so I think it definitely covers this
it's colourful and pretty so should work
the next challenge is Draconic island
I'm not the biggest fan of books with
dragons in them mainly because I find
them really hard to find
I also recently realized I haven't yet a fantasy like
a proper fantasy novel in over a year so I
probably should use this challenge as I
attempt to fix that and I kinda of am
This is also what I'll be using for the mage
uncomfortable weakness
this one is a middle grade book and I haven't really
had one of them in a while
I've read everything so there's nothing
like books that make me really
uncomfortable and I read horror so
nar nothing
so I figured this one be the best because Dragons just make me uncomfortable anyway
that's already my weakness
because they're so hard to find
So I don't have this book yet but I did order
so it should come and that is
The Girl who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
I've heard there's this a small pet dragging
and this book can sounds very cute
so and it should be short so
I won't have to stay near my weakness for long
And the final point is the Bookie Grail which is the book you need to read to win it all
so this isn't meant to be the group challenge book read book which is Stardust by Neil Gaiman
I've already kind of read Stardust slash I don't currently own it so I'm not going to read it again
I'm not that interested in reading it again anyway and I know it's
some people's favorite book so sorry I'm
not much of a re-reader anyway and I feel
like I know that story too much to
really enjoy it
I think I actually listen to the radio play
Goodreads says it counts so
I've read it
but the alternative if not to read Stardust is to read a
book
where there's an adventure to find something lost
and I wasn't sure what book I could go with this but I figured I would go with this one
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson so there's a mystery
here to find what happened to kidnapped people I believe
so that's an adventure
I mean I don't think she's gonna find them alive
but maybe I shall find what happened to
them
so this is currently my TBR for the Book Junkie Trials
if you are taking part please comment down below and tell me what team you're in
I can be found on the Discord with the other
mages if you're interested in finding me there
and obviously I'll probably talk about it on twitter more than video as the month goes on
obviously this is gonna overlap with my own readathon the StrangeAThon so I haven't
really doubled up on challenges because
Basically this readathon the start of
the whole July and the StrangeAthon
isn't towards till the end of July so I
wasn't really sure what overlap I would
have so
I know I'm definitely gonna read more books than this
and I know we have to stick to the challenges but I don't
have to stick to the challenges in the
strangeAthon so we'll see how much
I've read by that time
and see how much that readathon goes out the window
so I will see you weirdo next time where I will be teaching you the perfect
spell to get this colour of hair
farewell
Why does it always have to be dragons?
so *tapping of dog paws*
So this is a really cool-
*Book falling*
hello strangers I'm Rachel-
*taping of paws*
I don't know if they can hear you but I can
