BOOKTUBE-A-THON!!

So I have decided to participate in the first Booktube-a-thon, created by Raleen and Ariel. The links to their channels are right below.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ArielBissett
http://www.youtube.com/user/padfootandprongs07/featured

They created this read-a-thon with all the booktubers in mind. I do not have a booktube channel but I do have a blog, so I figured I will participate in it and write a blog post about my progress every day. I really want to accomplish a lot of reading this week and I know it will be a challenge, but I am willing to try my hardest. I am excited for all the videos that book bloggers on Youtube will be putting out every day.
They decided to have a twist on this one with a bunch of challenges. I will try to complete as many as I can but I have my to be read pile already picked out so I will most likely be reading from that pile. The challenges are:

• Read at least 300 pages a day
• Read a book that is at least 500 pages. 
• re-read a book
• finish a series/trilogy
• read a book that's been on your shelf since forever
• listen to an audiobook
• read a classic

I am not participating in every challenge but I think some of them are great ideas. But for the books that I will be reading for the Booktube-a-thon!

I will be finishing Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, which is a total of 489 pages. So close to being a 500 page book. I have been reading this book for awhile and it's good so I want to finish it. It is considered a contemporary classic, so I still count that as a classic.

I will be finishing two books that I have started earlier this month but have yet to finish. The first one is Divergent by Veronica Roth. I have only 150 pages left and it has been on my bookshelf since last summer. I finally have got around to reading it. I like it but don't love it like everyone else does, and I am excited to write a review of that one on my blog.

The other book I will be finishing is A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks. I love this movie so much and I finally decided to pick the book up and read it. It is extremely different from the movie, and you will see in my review. I do not have that many pages of this one left either. So once I finish both of those books, I will be caught up with my reading challenge on Goodreads, because currently I am behind.

The other book I plan to read that does not have to do with any of the challenges is The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson. This is the second book in The Shades of London series. I enjoyed the first book so I am excited to see how the second book turns out. I borrowed this one from my library and it is due back soon, so I hope to read this one this week. Doesn't seem like it will take me that long.

The last book that I will read does actually cross off a challenge. I will be listening to an audiobook. The other day when I was at my library, I remembered the challenges and decided to look at the audiobooks. But instead of an audiobook that are CDs, they have the playaways that you just put headphones in and can listen to them while you are doing anything. They are that easy. So as I looked at the playaways, I saw True Believer by Nicholas Sparks. That way if I listen to this, I can cross off a Nicholas Sparks book off my list. The audiobook takes a total of 10 hours, so I will be listening to that during my fun cleaning the house times.

I am very excited for this reading challenge. A total of five books will have me very busy this week but I hope to complete them all this week. It officially starts tomorrow, which is Monday July 15th and ends July 21st. I do work this week for a total of 33 hours and they are early hours. But I will be reading whenever I can. I also will be updating every night and hope to have a great time with this!