**A Holiday Readathon Challenge**

As I sift through my bookshelf and consider what to read for this holiday readathon challenge, I'm excited to dive into a variety of prompts that will help me discover new books and revisit old favorites. The challenge is designed to be flexible, allowing participants to choose from a range of reading prompts that cater to their individual tastes.

One of the challenges I'm most looking forward to is the "already owned" prompt, which asks participants to read a book they purchased last year but haven't had a chance to get to yet. This prompt feels like a great opportunity for me to revisit a holiday gift that I've been meaning to read for months. I know for sure I was gifted some books last Christmas that I haven't read, so hopefully I'll pick up one of those next.

Another challenge that caught my eye is "The Grinch," which asks participants to read a book with an unreliable narrator or an enemies-to-lovers plot. Since I'm always drawn to romance novels, it's no surprise that I'll be reading an enemies-to-lovers book for this challenge. It feels like a given! The more I think about it, the more I feel like you could definitely layer these prompts together if you don't want to read seven books. For example, you could easily combine dual perspectives with enemies-to-lovers and already owned prompts.

**The Reading Challenges**

For this readathon challenge, we have a range of reading prompts to choose from. We'll be reading seven books over the course of the holiday season, and I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with. The challenges are designed to be fun and engaging, and I know that they'll help me discover new books and authors.

**The Photo Prompts**

In addition to the reading challenges, we also have a range of photo prompts to participate in on social media. These prompts are designed to add an extra layer of fun to the readathon challenge, and I'm excited to see how everyone interprets them. The first prompt is "All I Want for Christmas Is You," which asks participants to post a picture of their TBR (to-be-read) pile for the readathon.

The second prompt is "Most Wonderful Time of the Year," which asks participants to post a picture with their favorite thing about the holidays. This could be anything from family and friends to food and drink, or even something more abstract like holiday cheer or nostalgia. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

The third prompt is "Let It Snow," which asks participants to post a picture of snow – either real or imaginary. Since I live in a hot climate, I won't be able to post a picture of actual snow, but I think it's an opportunity to get creative and come up with something else that captures the winter spirit.

**The Remaining Photo Prompts**

We also have photo prompts for "Mistletoe," "Rock and Roll the Christmas Tree," "The Christmas Song," and "Santa Baby." These prompts are designed to be fun and festive, and I know that they'll help add an extra layer of excitement to the readathon challenge.

For example, the prompt for "Mistletoe" asks participants to post a picture of a holiday book that they love. This is a great opportunity for me to share my favorite holiday read with everyone!

The sixth prompt, "The Christmas Song," asks participants to post a picture of their favorite holiday drink or treat. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with – and maybe even trying out some new recipes myself.

Finally, the last photo prompt is "Santa Baby," which asks participants to post a picture with wrapping paper and presents. This one feels like a lot of fun, especially since I love wrapping gifts and getting into the holiday spirit.

**Joining In**

One of the best things about this readathon challenge is that it's designed to be inclusive and participatory. We'll have a link in the description below where you can join in and share your own TBRs, photo prompts, and reading experiences. I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with, and I hope you'll join me on this holiday readathon adventure!

I love you all so much, and I'm already looking forward to seeing what we'll get up to during this holiday season.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my channel i hope y'all are having a fantastic day whenever you have decided to click on this video i am here to talk about a readathon that i'm co-hosting this december with zoe from the channel zoe delaney and spencer from the channel intentionally bookish it is called the merry and bright readathon and is going to be running from december 9th through 15th and we are going to be reading in the kind of holiday spirit there are going to be a number of reading prompts or challenges and also photo challenges and there's also going to be merch which i will link down in the description below zoe created all of the merch and she did such a fantastic job if you want to match me specifically i ordered myself a maroon long sleeve t-shirt that i will be rocking one of the days of this read-a-thon overall i'm just so excited to get to participate in this they'll know if you've seen any of my thumbnails i just adore the holiday season especially christmas and to get to participate in something like this and just add a little bit of extraness to this is going to be so fun i'm also going to be vlogging every day in december and i'm so excited to be able to kind of bring a little bit of like a challenge to my reading for the days that i'm going to be daily vlogging so you'll definitely see a lot of my reading for these prompts and these challenges during that time but let me go ahead and walk you through some of the reading prompts and the photo challenges that we've put together and you can kind of see what we're thinking and i will forewarn you i actually have not selected my own tbr for this readathon i'm really excited to get to kind of like mood read and select books for these challenges whenever the readathon rolls along just letting you know in advance but let me go ahead and read you the reading prompts so the first one is winter wonderland which is to read a book with white on the cover i feel like this is a super versatile prompt and you'll be able to find a book on your shelves that fits this next up is hot cocoa which is to read a book with cozy vibes and you can obviously interpret this however you would like i think i will probably read something like a cozy mystery or like a really heartwarming romance i kind of see myself maybe reading the new testament book that just came out that has like kind of a ted lasso inspired flair i think it's called window shopping maybe i don't know it looks super cute and i'm really excited to read that one so i'll probably read that for this prompt next up we have elf on the shelf which is to read a book that you already own again i feel like this is a pretty straightforward and easy prompt i have so many books on my physical tbr that i'm excited to kind of sift through and see what is going to perfectly suit my mood whenever i decide to read this particular challenge then we have last christmas which is a book that you have purchased last year and have still not read i love this prompt and i feel like this would be the perfect opportunity to read like maybe a book that you got for christmas last year that you didn't read specifically i mean it obviously doesn't matter when the book was purchased last year but i think that would be really fun i know for sure i was gifted some books last christmas that i have not read so hopefully i will pick up one of those next up we have the grinch which is to read a book with an unreliable narrator or a book with an enemies to lovers plot and obviously i'm going to be reading an enemies to lovers book for this challenge like it's a given and lastly for the reading prompts we have baby it's cold outside which is to read a book with dual perspectives and again i feel like this one perfectly suits romance readers most good romances have dual perspective and honestly the more that i'm thinking about it the more i feel like you could definitely layer the prompts for this readathon if you don't want to read seven books that's totally fine you could definitely in my opinion easily layer the dual perspective the enemies to lovers and the already owned prompt if you have a book that kind of fits all of those categories sure you could get creative with the way that you want to kind of layer things but those are the reading challenges and i'm super super excited to see what y'all come up with to see your tbrs next up let me walk you through the photo prompts this is gonna be super interesting for me i am notoriously bad about posting on instagram but i think i'm gonna make an effort to post all seven of these challenges hopefully you will join in with me the first challenge is all i want for christmas is you and this photo prompt is to post a picture of your tbr for the readathon which is going to be hopefully easy for me i don't know i'm just like my wheels are turning as i'm reading these prompts out loud i'm like how exactly am i going to accomplish this but post a picture of your readathon tbr the second prompt is most wonderful time of the year and this prompt is to post a picture with your favorite thing about the holidays and there are so many different options here obviously it could be family it could be friends it could be food it could be a special drink it could be literally anything then we have let it snow which is to post a picture with snow obviously this can be interpreted a million different ways especially if you live in kind of a hot climate like i do i definitely won't be able to post a picture of real snow but i think it's an opportunity definitely to get creative or maybe post a picture of a book with snow on the cover an idea a concept the fourth prompt is mistletoe which is a picture of a holiday book that you love then we have rock and roll the christmas tree which is to post a picture of a christmas tree or home decor you could take a picture of a book in front of your christmas tree you could take a picture of yourself in front of a christmas tree i guess it doesn't have to be book specific honestly the sixth prompt is the christmas song which is to post a picture of a holiday drink or treat i feel like this is the perfect opportunity to make christmas cookies especially the ones that you like break apart and they have a little picture of the christmas tree on them by pillsbury those things are the best i will probably be doing that because i am no baker and then the last photo prompt is santa baby which is to post a picture with wrapping paper and or presents which should be fun i'm sure by the time this readathon rolls around i will have things wrapped fingers crossed but those are all of the reading and photo challenges for this readathon like i said before i am so so excited to be participating so excited to kind of pull my tbr together like right at the start of this readathon and to hopefully participate with all of you again i'll leave all of the important information down in the description below and again a link to that merge if you want to match me and any of the other co-hosts i know that we ended up uh picking i think all like the same color for our merch which i'm super super excited about um there are a ton of different color options obviously but we all went with maroon and i'm excited to get my long sleeve in the mail and read all of these books during this holiday season so um that's all that i have for you all today i love you so much thanks so much for watching this video i hope you all are as excited as i am and until tomorrowhello welcome back to my channel i hope y'all are having a fantastic day whenever you have decided to click on this video i am here to talk about a readathon that i'm co-hosting this december with zoe from the channel zoe delaney and spencer from the channel intentionally bookish it is called the merry and bright readathon and is going to be running from december 9th through 15th and we are going to be reading in the kind of holiday spirit there are going to be a number of reading prompts or challenges and also photo challenges and there's also going to be merch which i will link down in the description below zoe created all of the merch and she did such a fantastic job if you want to match me specifically i ordered myself a maroon long sleeve t-shirt that i will be rocking one of the days of this read-a-thon overall i'm just so excited to get to participate in this they'll know if you've seen any of my thumbnails i just adore the holiday season especially christmas and to get to participate in something like this and just add a little bit of extraness to this is going to be so fun i'm also going to be vlogging every day in december and i'm so excited to be able to kind of bring a little bit of like a challenge to my reading for the days that i'm going to be daily vlogging so you'll definitely see a lot of my reading for these prompts and these challenges during that time but let me go ahead and walk you through some of the reading prompts and the photo challenges that we've put together and you can kind of see what we're thinking and i will forewarn you i actually have not selected my own tbr for this readathon i'm really excited to get to kind of like mood read and select books for these challenges whenever the readathon rolls along just letting you know in advance but let me go ahead and read you the reading prompts so the first one is winter wonderland which is to read a book with white on the cover i feel like this is a super versatile prompt and you'll be able to find a book on your shelves that fits this next up is hot cocoa which is to read a book with cozy vibes and you can obviously interpret this however you would like i think i will probably read something like a cozy mystery or like a really heartwarming romance i kind of see myself maybe reading the new testament book that just came out that has like kind of a ted lasso inspired flair i think it's called window shopping maybe i don't know it looks super cute and i'm really excited to read that one so i'll probably read that for this prompt next up we have elf on the shelf which is to read a book that you already own again i feel like this is a pretty straightforward and easy prompt i have so many books on my physical tbr that i'm excited to kind of sift through and see what is going to perfectly suit my mood whenever i decide to read this particular challenge then we have last christmas which is a book that you have purchased last year and have still not read i love this prompt and i feel like this would be the perfect opportunity to read like maybe a book that you got for christmas last year that you didn't read specifically i mean it obviously doesn't matter when the book was purchased last year but i think that would be really fun i know for sure i was gifted some books last christmas that i have not read so hopefully i will pick up one of those next up we have the grinch which is to read a book with an unreliable narrator or a book with an enemies to lovers plot and obviously i'm going to be reading an enemies to lovers book for this challenge like it's a given and lastly for the reading prompts we have baby it's cold outside which is to read a book with dual perspectives and again i feel like this one perfectly suits romance readers most good romances have dual perspective and honestly the more that i'm thinking about it the more i feel like you could definitely layer the prompts for this readathon if you don't want to read seven books that's totally fine you could definitely in my opinion easily layer the dual perspective the enemies to lovers and the already owned prompt if you have a book that kind of fits all of those categories sure you could get creative with the way that you want to kind of layer things but those are the reading challenges and i'm super super excited to see what y'all come up with to see your tbrs next up let me walk you through the photo prompts this is gonna be super interesting for me i am notoriously bad about posting on instagram but i think i'm gonna make an effort to post all seven of these challenges hopefully you will join in with me the first challenge is all i want for christmas is you and this photo prompt is to post a picture of your tbr for the readathon which is going to be hopefully easy for me i don't know i'm just like my wheels are turning as i'm reading these prompts out loud i'm like how exactly am i going to accomplish this but post a picture of your readathon tbr the second prompt is most wonderful time of the year and this prompt is to post a picture with your favorite thing about the holidays and there are so many different options here obviously it could be family it could be friends it could be food it could be a special drink it could be literally anything then we have let it snow which is to post a picture with snow obviously this can be interpreted a million different ways especially if you live in kind of a hot climate like i do i definitely won't be able to post a picture of real snow but i think it's an opportunity definitely to get creative or maybe post a picture of a book with snow on the cover an idea a concept the fourth prompt is mistletoe which is a picture of a holiday book that you love then we have rock and roll the christmas tree which is to post a picture of a christmas tree or home decor you could take a picture of a book in front of your christmas tree you could take a picture of yourself in front of a christmas tree i guess it doesn't have to be book specific honestly the sixth prompt is the christmas song which is to post a picture of a holiday drink or treat i feel like this is the perfect opportunity to make christmas cookies especially the ones that you like break apart and they have a little picture of the christmas tree on them by pillsbury those things are the best i will probably be doing that because i am no baker and then the last photo prompt is santa baby which is to post a picture with wrapping paper and or presents which should be fun i'm sure by the time this readathon rolls around i will have things wrapped fingers crossed but those are all of the reading and photo challenges for this readathon like i said before i am so so excited to be participating so excited to kind of pull my tbr together like right at the start of this readathon and to hopefully participate with all of you again i'll leave all of the important information down in the description below and again a link to that merge if you want to match me and any of the other co-hosts i know that we ended up uh picking i think all like the same color for our merch which i'm super super excited about um there are a ton of different color options obviously but we all went with maroon and i'm excited to get my long sleeve in the mail and read all of these books during this holiday season so um that's all that i have for you all today i love you so much thanks so much for watching this video i hope you all are as excited as i am and until tomorrow\n"