I am so excited about this year's reading rush! In case you don't know: the reading rush used to be called booktube-a-thon, but the organisers rebranded it to make it more accessible to everyone outside of booktube (i.e., me). It's giving me some NaNoWriMo vibes with its new website (add me @esther if you want)
These are the challenges this year:
Read a book with purple on the cover
Read a book in the same spot the entire time
Read a book you meant to read last year
Read an author’s first book
Read a book with a non-human main character
Pick a book that has five or more words in the title
Read and watch a book to movie adaptation
It has been pointed out that "Harry Potter and the philospher's stone" COULD count for all of these challenges if you're desperate, so I have an illustrated edition I can dive in if all goes wrong. However, I did compile a list of books I want to read for these challenges that were on my tbr anyway.
Het Gilgamesj Epos (challenges: 1, 5)
This is a Dutch Translation of the original twelve tablets of the story of Gilgamesh. This is the only book on the list in my native language. It has been four years since I last read this material, and I am excited to go back on adventures with king Gilgamesh and his good friend Enkidu.
The O'Brien book of Irish fairy tales and legends (challenges: 3, 5 ,6)
Another book in the mythology realm, with stories I haven't visited since I took a mythology course four years ago. I got this as a present in Dublin and haven't gotten around to reading it (despite it being very short).
Again, but better (challenge: 4)
What I know about this book is that Christine wrote it and it's about a girl who is disappointed in college life because somehow you have to actually go OUT into the world to meet people? Sounds like me. This being almost 400 pages is going to be the main read of the week. To be honest, I am not sure I will be able to finish it, but the important thing is that you read more than you would normally read, right?
For challenge 2, I think I'll be reading the Irish myths in one place (my bed), because it's not a book that's comfortable to carry around but short enough to read quickly. I think I will skip on challenge 7. I am generally not a big fan of adaptations anyway and decided it would be more fun for me to ignore this and read what I want than try to fit my reads into every single challenge. (Might still watch HP, but that is unrelated.)
I also have some other books that meet at least one challenge lined up, in case I don't feel like reading these books (which is not likely because I can't wait!!)
