Booktubeathon July 2016

Booktubeathon started last Monday and ends tonight at midnight.  A few kind people ask me if I was going to participate and the first instinct was total panic - I can barely read one book a week.  My second reaction was 'but it is for booktubers and I just watch/comment, I am not making videos.  But then I thought "Why not?  I can just do it to challenge myself."  I was happy to see that a there were quite people participating on Twitter and Instagram that don't make videos but were reading along also.

Booktubeathon July 2016 hosted by Ariel Bisect

Reading Challenges
Read a book with yellow on the cover.		Current edition has some yellow on the cover.  There is another edition that is ALL yellow.
Read a book only after sunset.	Easy since I work. That is usually when I read anyway.	Not so easy since the first two days I feel asleep after only reading a couple of pages.
Read a book you discovered through booktube.	Obviously I knew about this book already but I never wanted to read it until listening to the review by MementoMori  on BookTube.	Sorry MementoMori I did not love this story.  It was only mildly interesting to me.
Read a book by one of your favourite authors.	X	X
Read a book that is older than you.	1925	Way older than me!
Read and watch a book-to-movie adaptation.	I planned to watch the Leonardo DiCaprio version	NetFlix was only streaming the Robert Redford, Mia Farrow version. Ok-a classic for a classic.
Read seven books.	X	X

While I did not love the story, I did fall in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald. The way he uses language. So evocative. “The blue honey of the Mediterranean” “Her voice is full of money,” “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

As for the movie, it stayed fairly close to the book except they invented more interaction between Gatsby and Daisy. It was only mildly interesting but at least there was Robert Redford in the swimming pool! I will probably still try to watch the new version just because I want to hear the soundtrack.

Overall it was a good experience, I read a book I wouldn't have tried otherwise. The Twitter sprints were lots of fun and I did a few of the Instagram challenges.