This is my first try joining an event like this and I quite satisfied with my wrap up result.
This event is like when we are book lovers agreed to read along together for the specific time and specific kind of books. 2018 Winter Biannual Bibliothon was hosted by several booktubers and have seven reading challenges that you have to fulfill. This read-a-thon happens on one whole week long from 21st January until 26th of January.
So here is my wrap up result:
1. Read the group book
The group book for this time is Otherworld by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller which I don't interest in reading it. I quickly browse the review on Goodreads and the rating was low for my average taste, it only has 3.66 stars. When I read the summary I don't think I will enjoy it. So I decided that this book will be my last reading material for this challenge if I still have spare time. I don't want to push myself to read something that I know I have no interest in and it would be throwing myself into reading slump. I ended up with not reading this group book at all because I ran out of time. Big fail for me on this challenge but I don't regret it. All is well.
2. Read a sequel
For challenge number two, I decided to go easy on myself and decided to pick two volumes of my favorite manga ever, Cardcaptor Sakura volume 10 and 11. This series has been my favorite since I was a kid and I'm glad that my local publisher decided to republish the whole series. When I go back to the Sakura's world as an adult now, I pick several things that the kid in me never realize before. CLAMP did a subtle job here to represent LGBT relationship as well as the age-different relationship. As always, Eriol is my favorite character ever and with the volume 11 end, my kid heart loves the closure CLAMP gave for Eriol characters. That's where I said goodbye to my childhood crush, Mr. Eriol. It's really great story, great characters, great journey. And now I'm waiting for the final volume to republish.
3. Read a book that you have never heard of before
Now, I'm a bit cheating on this challenge. I HEARD a lot about the hype surrounding on this book. So many people LOVED this book and the movie. The movie got so many praise and compliment. BUT, I never knew what exactly this book is about. Just from the cover itself, I know this is not the happy-rainbow type of book. So yeah, I'm putting my result for this challenge with The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. While this book is in simple read in letter format, I found myself hardly believe that I read from the perspective of 15 years old boy. I found a lot of immature in his letter and the way he thinks things. Another mistake I did was the fact I read it while listening to the audiobook as well. And the narrator just sucks. He has that deep old man voice. I really couldn’t fully concentrate while him describing teenager’s thoughts and opinions with that adult voice.
4. Read a book about mental illness
I have several book options for this challenge. I have considered Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella and also The Rest of Us Just Lived Here by Patrick Ness. I heard both of the books have mental illness representation and both have the average ratings on Goodreads, not really 4 stars high, though. And I decided to pick up Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. This is the newest John Green's book and everyone said it has great mental illness representation there, OCD in this case, with own voices novel coming from the author himself. Turns out, I really love this book. The main character is my favorite teenager in John Green's work. I've also written the whole review of for this book.
5. Read a book that was mentioned in another book/movie/TV Show
One of The winter biannual bibliothon rules is you can use 1 book for up to 2 challenges and I ran out the time. So this is the same book I use for this challenge like challenge number 3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower was mentioned in Gillmore Girls TV series. So, I can check my challenge number 5 done, can I?
6. Read a book under 200 pages
This is an easy challenge. I have several mangas that I own and need to read. But when my Hai, Miiko! volume 30 copy has arrived on Monday, I absolutely knew what's the perfect book (or manga) I need to read ASAP. Miiko volume 30 has 200 pages listed on Goodreads and with the justification of there are the title page, copyright page, etc, the story itself should be under 200 pages, right? ;) If I have to choose one manga over every other manga I could buy, I would always pick Miiko 100% sure. Hai, Miiko! has always and will always be my number one favorite manga ever. Also, I finished it in less than 30 minutes.
7. Read a backlist book
Read a backlist book aka any book released prior to 2017. You by Caroline Kepnes was first published in 2014. "You" was the psychological thriller from the perspective of the stalker himself. He stalked this one young woman through her public social media. Honestly, I had a mixed feeling about this book, somewhere in between intrigue and don't care for the victim's well-being at all because she got stalked by her own actions, I might say. I don't justify the stalker but if only the author made the victim more, I don't know, more lovable? Smarter? Then maybe I will enjoy this book more.
So this is my first read-a-thon wrap-up. I think I partially success with the challenges. I manage to read 6 books during one week, 3 are the full novels and the other 3 were mangas that I love, was a good achievement for me. I don't want to push myself really hard like I have to 100% success with all of those 7 challenges because reading is something that myself loves with all of my heart. Why do I need to push myself if I know I wouldn't enjoy it.
Will I join another bibliothon later? Yes, absolutely, if time and challenges are fit for me.
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