it is the first day of the reading rush, i
stayed up until 1:30 in the morning but i
didn't read anything, um, it is a beautiful
sunny day i am currently walking to the pharmacy
so i can get my monthly injection very exciting
and i have brought the fifth season by n.k.
jemisin with me
my plans for the week are extremely ambitious
i have four books to fill the challenges for
the most part and then i'm also in the middle
of two other books so i don't think i'm going
to finish anything but what am i if not overly
ambitious and so i'm reading- this vehicle
in front of me is called the pickle apparently
um i am reading the fifth season for a bunch
of the prompts i don't quite remember which
ones and sage and i are buddy reading burn
our bodies down by rory power which is for
both of us i think filling the prompt of a
genre you want to read more from because both
of us want to get more into horror and i'm
reading words will break cement which is the
book about pussy riot that i bought in L.A.
um for a book set on a different continent
than you live in i think thats all oh maybe
the one for reading outside your house and
then i'm reading captive genders: trans embodiment
and the prison industrial complex which is
a great book so far i am 130 pages in and
i am writing so many notes um i'm reading
that for this is cheating i'm reading it for
the um read a book that inspired a movie you've
already seen i am cheating and saying that
this could be seen as source material for
13th um and disclosure both on netflix because
they deal with the prison industrial complex
and disclosure deals with trans individuals
and representation in media and what that
does to our treatment of trans people in real
life so thats what i'm using those for which
i know is cheating but i want to read it so
and i'm also in the middle i'm exactly half
way through patsy by nicole dennis benn um
i'm listening to the audiobook with andrea
and we're loving it and i am exactly halfway
through assata shakur's autobiography so those
don't super fit any prompts unless i like
read them outside the house i guess so yeah
thats what i'm reading wish me luck day two
it is i think 11:30 11:45 i read 20 pages
this morning and i just listened to maybe
45 minutes of patsy while playing animal crossing
my page total for yesterday was 80 pages which
is not at all what
i was hoping to get to i was expecting to
get to a lot more to be honest um every time
i've done the reading rush or booktubeathon
i've finished a book on the first day so this
is a little weird to have not done that but
its fine its not a big deal um i read more
of captive genders and i wrote some more notes
this book oh my god i am now in that classic
reading rush spot where i want to be reading
but everyone's uploading their vlogs so i
also want to be watching people's vlogs so
we've just got to figure out how to balance
that so i'm going to do a little bit of reading
probably cross stitch and watch some vlogs
later i might go down to the dog park and
sit outside and read its not super nice today
but i gotta get out of this room at some point
it is very cloudy and its like 25 degrees
but it very much doesn't look like its nice
out i am getting rained on a little bit so
we'll see how long this lasts but i am going
to go find a bench to sit at and read for
a little bit because i can't focus on anything
i read to the first interlude of the fifth
season and oh my god this book is very good
i'm sorry it took me so long to get to it
sage woah all the phones oh iris is a professional
day three still haven't finished a book it's
fine i am 150 pages into the fifth season
150 pages into captive genders i have not
started any of my other books i don't have
any audiobooks on my tbr so i can't listen
and do other things like i can only physically
read um last night i watched the scott pilgrim
live read reunion with sage and iris um and
i realized that if i want to complete a challenge
today i can read the first volume of scott
pilgrim vs the world for the read a book that
inspired a movie you've already seen so i
can do that if i just want to knock a book
out of the challenges even though it wasn't
on my tbr so we'll see my goal for today is
to read at least 100 pages of the fifth season
um at least i think 2 essays from captive
genders hopefully scott pilgrim and maybe
start burn our bodies down that's ambitious
because its d & d night today so from 6-9
i will just be playing d&d and will not be
reading i've been staying up until 1 or 2
in the morning every night recently so if
i will use that time to read tonight instead
of aimlessly scrolling through tik tok another
day another walk to the post office i am 190
pages into the fifth season and 200 pages
into captive genders thats it i haven't been
reading my page count yesterday was 120 pages
so not a lot in terms of reading its fine
um as i said today is d&d so this evening
will be spent playing d&d not reading i brought
my copy of scott pilgrim volume 1 to possibly
go sit on a hill and read that to try and
knock out two challenges so we'll see just
kidding it's so fucking hot its so hot i cannot
sit out in an open field with no shade and
read i'm gonna go home and sit on my deck
and read oh how do i log a badge 22 hot dang
fuck 17 it is 10:30 i just woke up i read
my 100 pages of the fifth season yesterday
that was my goal and i finished scott pilgrim
and this morning the seattle NHL team announced
their team name and its the seattle kraken
and i am so excited like more excited than
i need to be i am straight up losing my mind
about to look for apartments in seattle hockey
is back in under a week oh my god what a blessed
morning let's get this bread oh and taylor
swift is dropping an album at midnight? i
am over stimulated there's too much going
on a blessed day again can't focus keep getting
distracted i am 59 pages into burn our bodies
down it is um a hard read so far um the main
character has a really bad relationship with
her mother her mother is very emotionally
manipulative so it is a hard read for that
so far but it is interesting my goal its a
lofty one my goal for today is to read this
whole book but i keep getting distracted and
i didn't start it until noon and it is now
3pm and i'm 50 pages in and all i wanna do
is watch fantasy high sophomore year and cross
stitch what what rory power what *speechless*
what i'm going for a bike ride haven't read
anything today got a new phone though so thats
exciting but no reading i feel like i haven't
talked too much about my actual what i'm actually
reading so the fifth season i'm liking a whole
lot i'm just shy of 300 pages through i very
much enjoyed burn our bodies down i think
the fact that i read it in one day lends itself
to the fact that i really enjoyed it i think
if i had read it over a few days or a lengthy
period of time i wouldn't have liked it as
much the ending very much packs a punch but
i agree with what kayla said in her i think
day 2 vlog which was that i wish the explanation
for the weirdness had happened earlier so
that we could have gotten more weirdness throughout
the rest of the book and so there would have
been more creepy aspects this has been marketed
as YA horror and while there is a creepy aspect
at the end like the explanation for the weirdness
is creepy it wasn't as creepy as i wanted
it to be i wanted to be creeped out and i
was pretty grossed out at the explanation
but i wanted that throughout the whole book
i also feel like the mystery could have been
researched more by the main character but
overall i really liked it trigger warnings
for emotional abuse and gaslighting just right
off the bat know that going in and i am 230
pages into captive genders and it is just
so good i genuinely think that everyone should
read this book especially if you are a cis
queer person we need to talk about why the
abolition of policing and the abolition of
the prison industrial complex is a queer issue
and why gay rights um shouldn't have stopped
at marriage equality and why we need to be
advocating for the rights of those who are
the most disenfranchised because when you
help those at the bottom out everybody else
on the ladder benefits i don't know that that
made sense i don't think that was a good metaphor
but its just so frustrating to read and major
major trigger warnings for transphobia and
violence and sexual assault like its a book
about the prison industrial complex and transphobia
mainly um but its just so angering to read
about like the loopholes in the prison industrial
complex and the um what am i trying to say
like the ways in which uh majority white cis
gay men looked at the issues going on in their
specific community and said we need legislation
that protects us we need laws about this we
need laws about we need to be allowed to get
married so then we can have healthcare through
our same sex partner's job as opposed to advocating
for healthcare for all and its a very american
book but instead of advocating for healthcare
for all which would help every single person
so like we just need to reframe our thinking
of what gay rights is and what queer rights
are and what the movement should be and the
movement should be protecting and helping
those that are the most affected by policing
and the prison industrial complex because
ultimately the prison industrial complex um
villianizes queerness that what it does it
is a fascinating read my mind is being blown
and i feel like i'm not explaining it to the
best of my ability or the best that i could
but its a lot like its a lot of essays on
a lot of topics and i feel like i'm learning
a lot and i feel like a lot of people could
benefit from reading this book don't go into
it thinking that it is going to be a how to
step how to guide on how to abolish the prison
industrial complex thats not it this is the
theory behind why the abolition of the prison
industrial complex would benefit trans and
queer people yup ugh so good i don't think
i'm going to finish a book today quite frankly
i don't know if i'll finish a book tomorrow
i don't know if i'll finish a book sunday
but it is what it is and i'm enjoying everything
i've read so far and that is the most important
it is the last day of
the reading rush it is quarter to ten last
night i stayed up until 1:30 and i finished
the fifth season which i didn't really expect
to do but i did it admittedly i am kind of
confused i think because i read it at 1am
and i wasn't super absorbing the last 100
pages when sage and i were reading together
i was like oh i can definitely finish this
today because i had 100 pages left and my
intention was after dinner to sit down and
finish it but then i decided to watch fantasy
high and i watched like 4 and a half straight
hours of fantasy high instead it is what it
is so that is 3 books down and a myriad of
challenges finished because the fifth season
counted for many challenges and technically
if i want to "complete" the reading rush and
complete my tbr um i have to finish captive
genders today which i don't think is going
to happen and i have to read all of words
will break cement which i also don't think
will happen but words will break cement is
for the set on a different continent than
you live in challenge and technically the
fifth season counts for that because its like
a fantasy continent that doesn't exist and
i think i will use that if i don't get to
words will break cement but yeah that's today
i think i might convince my mom to take me
to michaels so i can buy yarn because i want
to start a new project for when i watch fantasy
high and i just cross stitched two things
over the last two days so i don't want to
start anything cross stitch wise so we'll
see my phone is giving me notifications that
elizabeth is telling me to get a mullet don't
tempt me yeah day 7 i can't believe we made
it back in this angle it is 4pm and i think
i'm going to end my reading rush experience
here if you follow me on twitter you've seen
my tweets admittedly i'm not super impressed
with the way things have been handled by the
reading rush in terms of like messing up and
not taking accountability and i don't want
to push myself to speed through this very
informative nonfiction book just for the sake
of finishing it in a day so thats the end
of the vlog um i very much enjoyed documenting
my reading over the week it gave me and excuse
to get dressed and go outside um i went outside
every day this week which is really good considering
i don't often do that and it was very good
for my brain i read scott pilgrim vs the world
volume one burn our bodies down and the fifth
season and i'm very very happy with my reading
if you watched this whole thing i greatly
appreciate you um again i will have links
in the description for stuff that you should
be caring about um i'm gonna try to focus
those links on the topic of what i've been
reading which is captive genders and the prison
industrial complex and stuff like that um
Black trans lives matter and we are not free
until all of us are free so therefore we have
to liberate those who are the most disenfranchised
first so let's care about that let's keep
working towards that so thanks for watching
if you want to see more reading vlogs from
me let me know i don't know if they'll happen
but we'll see you can follow me on twitter
at stringbeanbooks and on goodreads under
the same name thanks for watching let's be
pals let's do the dang thing
