Hey guys! It''s Olivia here from Olivia's Catastrophe, and I'm so so so excited because
today I get to announce that there is adultathon running in February and
this is an adult fiction based readathon! There's a lot of us here on booktube who
read adult fiction and I'm excited to
read all the adult fiction books with
you guys. We have some wonderful co-hosts
who are Jessikah from Read by Jess and
Kasha from Kasha in Bookland. Te
read-a-thon is running from the 1st of
February to the 29th of February 2020. We'll be using the hashtag #adultathon
on Twitter for any posts or
reading updates that you want to share. And
the same one for bookstagram if you
choose to do this readathon through taking
photos of the books that match the
prompts and posting them on the day the
prompt is set for. Having it said that you
don't have to read the books on the set
day of a prompt, you can just read the
books whenever. I just thought that it'd be fun to
base the adult fiction read-a-thon on a
workday week because that's kind of how
we roll as adults. So even though this
read-a-thon is running throughout the
whole month there are only 7 points to
make it easier for us. And so we can just
take it at our own pace and I'm gonna
raed you through those prompts now. Monda:
don't we wish it was yesterday. Read a historical fiction book or read
a classic. Tuesday: it's still only the
start of the week. Black coffee, please!
Read a book with dark themes. Wednesday:
happy hump day! It's a long week. Read a
book with 350 plus pages. Thursday: let's
pretend this is Friday. Adults can have fun
too. Read a book by an author you already
love or a sequel to a series that you
love. Friday: we survived the week. Listen
to an audiobook to give your eyes a rest
or if audiobooks aren't your thing, read
a book that's 100 pages or less. Saturday:
time to live it up with friends, finally! Buddy read a book. However, if buddy reading is
not quite your thing and you're a lone
wolf, read a book with either the words
night, dream or moon in the title. And
that can also be in the series title!
Sunday: the day to chill at home with a
good film. Read a book that has a film
adaption. So there are your prompts! I
welcome blog posts, bookstagram posts,
vlogs, booktube based adult fiction recommendations...
Give them all to me! And let me know if
you post one because I would love to
read it and share it around the
interwebs. And I'm just going to quickly
tack onto this video my own TBR for
the read-a-thon which I'll just tell you
about very quickly. So for the Monday
prompt of reading a classic I'm going to
read Island by Aldous Huxley. I know that
he wrote Brave New World which I have
not read but Island was available to me
and I just thought maybe I should just
give his work with a quick try before
I try Brave New Worlds which is one of
my sisters favourite books. Then for
Tuesday, reading a book with dark themes,
I'm finally going to take a dip into
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff. I've heard
so many things about this series and it
IS adult fiction even though many people
seem to mistake it for young adult. So
I'm gonna be reading it as a show that
hey, this is truly adult fiction. For
Wednesday, reading a book that's 350
plus pages, I'm gonna be reading Eggshell
Skull by Brie Lee. The cover to this one and
the pale pink colour just instantly
grabbed me when I saw it on Goodreads,
I believe. And it's about a legal system
and taking your victim as you find them.
So it sounded very complex and
interesting and I've been intrigued by
reading more books based on law things so I'm looking forward to seeing if
I'll enjoy this one. Quite different from
what I usually read. Thursday, reading
a book by an author I already love. I
decided to go with one of my favourite
poets and that is Audre Lorde. I'm going
to be reading Your Silence Will Not
Protect You and this is her nonfiction
work. And it's not actually poetry but I
know that I love her writing, and I've
read some of her essays before. So I'm
very much looking forward to seeing what
this one is going to bring me. Really
digging the pale covers as we can see. For Friday I'm taking the option
of not listening to an audiobook by
reading a book that's 100 pages or less. For
that I'm going to be reading Aftermath
by Alexis Hall. This is a short novella.
Only... it's like 28 pages, I believe. And
it's a continuation that continues on
straight after the events of Glitterland by Alex's Hall which was one of my
favourite reads of 2019. And I really just
love this new adult m/m
romance book. So I'm going to just
continue on and read this novella to see
what happens immediately after the
conclusion of the first book. For my
Saturday prompt I'm not gonna buddy read,
but I'm gonna read something with night
in the title. And that's gonna be The
Night Mark by Tiffany Reisz. And I
really don't know anything about this
book other than I read The Bourbon
Thief by Tiffany R and I just loved that
book so much. It was so intense. It was so
steamy and it just hooked me from
beginning to end. So it's about time that
I try my second book by her. If I don't
have time to get around this, I believe I
will, but if I don't, I can double up this
prompt with Nevernight by Jay Kristoff.
Then for my Sunday one I'm going to be
reading The Girl on the Train by
Paula Hawkins. I got this one from
somebody unhauling it which doesn't
always make me too hopeful about whether
I'm going to enjoy it or not, but I'm
going to try my very best to and
hopefully, fingers crossed, I can make
myself watch a film on my own and watch
the movie adaption as well. So there you
have it! That's my TBR and this is the
read-a-thon. Please let me know in the
comment section down below:
are you planning to join in with the
readathon? And if you don't think
you'll be able to let me know a very
good adult fiction book that I should
consider reading as soon as I possibly
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see you the next one. Goodbye!
