August Wrap up and September TBR

I read a total of 14 books in August.  I'm pretty pleased with this amount because the lead up to school starting and after school started were both hectic times.  BookTubeAThon was in August, though and that did help!  Check out my Wrap up video to hear about 13 of those books.  (Totally left out Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee -- which I gave 2/5 stars).  This video also includes my September hopefuls!


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What was your favorite book from August?  What do you plan to read in September?

Thanks for reading!
-Rachael xo

May Wrap Up and June TBR

Thanks to several readathons, I had my best reading month ever!  I read 19 books in May!  WOW!


The #ayearathon readathon that runs the first week of June is centered around Finishing Book Series, but this first week is kinda hectic for me, so I plan to work on finishing series this entire month. Here is my TBR for June!



How was your May reading-wise? Any series you are planning to finish in June? What is your favorite series?

Thanks for reading!
-Rachael xo

Bout of Books 13.0 and #CrushYourTBR Readathon Wrap Up

What a reading month this has been!  I just completed my third readathon for the month and started my fourth today!  I'm loving on the motivation to read!!

With last weeks double readathon I did pretty well.  I got in several graphic novels (one of my goals this year) and finished two novels!   Check out my video to see what I read and hear my final (amazing) totals!


Yeah.  I'm pretty excited about my reading achievements this week.  And unbelievebly there is ANOTHER readathon that started today - RYBSAT aka ReadYourBookShelfAThon.   I had a heard time narrowing down my self and finally settled on my "borrowed shelf" - mostly library books.  Here's a look at it:

As you can see, I have several graphic novels and a few novels to choose from.  I don't anticipate finishing all of these as I am still working and just started my last college class for an endorsement program.  Also, I'd already begun reading two other books.  So....we'll play it by ear and see how this FOURTH READATHON IN A ROW goes!

What are you reading this week?  Have you enjoyed in on my tbr shelf?

Thanks for reading!

-Rachael xo

PS.  If you are interested in participating in RYBSAT, check out the info video here.

ReReadathon Wrap Up

I had high hopes for myself last week during the ReReadathon...but feel short of my goals!
Check out how I did in my Wrap Up video!


What are your favorite books to re-read?

Thanks for reading!
-Rachael xo

April Wrap Up

This month I read ELEVEN books!  I know - I can't believe it either.  This has been my best reading month by far -- ever!  I really attribute this all to joining the BookTube community.  I've already received comments and support via Twitter and YouTube and have gained my first 5 subscribers to my YouTube Channel!

(Which, by the way, *shameless plug*, you should go subscribe too if you have not yet!

Check out the books I read and what I thought of them in my wrap up video.



What books did you read in April?  What do you plan to read in May?

Check back tomorrow for my TBR video for next week's #AYearAThon!

Thanks for reading!
-Rachael xo

Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon Wrap Up

For firsts.... the readathon was SO MUCH FUN! If you are interested in participating in a readathon at all, I highly suggest it! There was so much support and encouragement from everyone involved and it was so fun connecting with other readers!

 Seconds - I did ok. I was a little under the weather and found myself napping on and off throughout instead of reading for the full 24 hours like I had initially envisioned, but... I still got in plenty of reading - more than I expected! I ended up reading about 2.5 books and about 560 pages! Here is my wrap up video and some things I learned from my first readathon experience.



In closing, I think I'm officially a readathoner now!  I can't wait until the Bout of Books readathon (a weeklong readathon!!) in may and for the next Dewey's 24 hour readathon in October.  So so so much fun!

P.S. I'm also very excited to announce that I'm already 60% of the way to making my goal of 25 books this year on my Goodreads 2015 Challenge! I might have to up that challenge total a bit! ;)

Happy reading!
-Rachael xo