When I did my 500+ page, I started at 3 pm and got a normal amount of sleep and did nothing other than reading, sleeping, and eating. Give it another go!

Aw, fun! Great coordinating of activities and reading and filming--executive function, hoooooooo!

Did you make that spreadsheet?

Aw so cute, I miss you guys ❤

This was such a fun video, you ladies looked like you had a blast!

Loved the Honeys! Glad you liked it so much!!

I love that most of your stuff includes your mother, I still live with my mother and spend a lot of time doing things with her as well. My family always been very close and it’s nice seeing other people close to their family and enjoying good times together.

I loved your summer camp!! We used to do yearly trips with my aunts and cousins and this made me miss it!!

So fun!

omg, I need a "be kind...of a... 😜" bracelet!

So excited to watch this!

Enjoying this with my breakfast smoothie, perfect way to start my Sunday!

📚🐝🐝🌞 I felt the same with Camp and really didn't like the "gay sex 101" section where they are on the island. Ugh. Not because it is gay, just because it is a "101" in a YA book.

I am so jealous of you all ladies hope you all have a great time love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤

I’m so excited 🎉🎉🎉🎉

That fruit cup looks amazing! I loved Soul Eater!

Was that green bug a praying mantis? so cool! I love Hearst Castle! Elephant Seals!!!

Yup I agree, wine is fruit!

You sure are brave to start the HRCYED challenge! Love to see you with your dad and brother.

I always intend to not add more... and then I add more! :) It's a problem in more than just books!

Parable of the Sower needs to be high on your list. That series was so great!!

I love Octavia Butler. I haven't read Dawn yet, but I'll be picking it up!!

"You're killing me Smalls!" ;)

Catching up on videos... I'm so behind!! Also, those baby goats are super cute!!

You ladies did such a great job on your Summer Camp shirts, they look wonderful!

The t-shirts look amazing and I loved to see all the nature footage! 💜

picking up pointers... 🥸

HOW DOES YOUR HAIR LOOK SO GOOD before YOU GO TO GET IT DONE?! 😭I need to talk myself into paying $65 for a simple cut. Sigh.

👋I love how your summer camp shirts turned out.

The tshirts ended up looking great! Can't wait to see the summer camp vlog, sounds like so much fun! And I'm glad you had a great first day of school!

You can rewatch the Gilmore Girls thing...that's all the seasons lol.

The Temple of My Familiar is actually related to The Color Purple! It's marked as Book 2 on GoodReads, but I don't think it's a direct sequel

If you do watch Rocketman, the kid who plays little Elton John is Kit Connor...aka Nick Nelson in Heartstopper!

I'm so glad im not the only one who cannot do 24 hour readathons! Just thinking about it makes me tired!

I love sleeping! I will never do a 24 hr readathon where I don't sleep. No thank you.

I don't think I could manage a true 24-hour reading period - I love sleep too much and I'd get loopy lol. I could handle a 24 in 48 challenge - maybe that's a good middle ground for you next time.

I don't honestly feel like most people actually succeed at these challenges. Timed reading challenges like this are really hard! Even with my 24 in 48s, it took a great deal of practice and failed attempts before I finally succeeded. You did great!

The only reason I managed to get through both 24h marathons were two very long (7+ hours and 15+ hours) rides (train and bus) where I had no energy to do anything else. I don't think I could do it on a normal day, too many distractions 😅

Maybe cry a comic (saga is incredible!) or continue a GN series like heart stopper which can be a quick read

I just watched your video. It's 8:30 am on a Saturday. I'm home alone, nothing planned so I'll do mine starting from 10:00 am this weekend 🎉😊

Do you think it would help to start later in the morning, so 11/12? So you can get some zzzs in part way through? This was a fun vlog! Good luck for the next time!!

This was fun. I haven't gotten to this one or the 500 pages in a day yet... I've only read like 4 or 5 books since HRCYED began. I have yet to find an audio book narration I like, but when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is released (next year, I believe) with full cas, I will give it another go. Honestly, I just enjoy sitting down with a physical book in my hands. Q/Stephanie is an avid reader. I've been watching her channel for years and years, and she never ceases to amaze me with the volume of books she reads. When it comes to audio books, she's used to listening to them at a much faster pace. I think she said at 2 or 2.5x normal speed... I don't like regular audio books, I couldn't deal with that, and I don't think I could keep up. I work on the phones all day, so that also kinda makes me turn away from audio. I plan to give Shipped a try. My Mom had her own travel agency in the early '00s, and we used to go to luncheons on cruise ships in Port Canaveral and Miami. She used to get all kinds of discounts, it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I get seasick, but she and my Dad had many great trips! Can't wait to see part-two. :)

I'm not doing HRCYED and I've never purposefully done a 24-hour readathon, but I know I can read a 500 pg book if I have no plans for the day! Loved the "what did I learn" section at the end, such a teacher approach 😅🤩

Oh my goodness. My brain made me completely forget about the Hardest Reading Challenge 🫣 I’ve tried so many 24 hour challenges in the past several years and every time I try, I suddenly can’t focus and end up not completing it 😅 at least now you have some tips for yourself to try to complete it next time 🙌🏻

Loved hosting with you! ❤

I've tried and failed this one the first time too. I ended up dnf-ing my 300 page book. I just couldn't get into it. Kept putting it down too much and then couldn't find another option. My plan for next time is to choose an author I really enjoy and the other two books will be cozy mystery audiobooks from the series I listen to exclusively through Libby on audio. And I'll choose a 24 hour period where I have no plans for the day and ignore my phone and other distractions. I completed the 500 page book by reading Crank by Ellen Hopkins. It's told in verse so it was a very quick engaging read. I've learned I love to savor a 500 page novel so reading it quickly doesn't work for me but in verse is perfect. Really is turning out to be the hardest reading challenge. 😆

Ooof... I feel this in my bones. I think I've finished one 300+ page book in 24 hours and that was definitely pre-tiny human and when I was 10 years younger. LOL. 3 sounds like a herculean task! Loved your insights into how you might be able to accomplish it in the future!

For the 500 page book challenge, I'm hoping to immersion read Obsidio (#3) in the Illuminae files. I think it will be faster because of all the mixed media. For the 3 books in 24 hours, I chose The Celebrants for the over 300 pg book (wouldn't recommend), Brides of High Hill (novella in the Singing Hills cycle by Nghi Vo (would recommend), and the 5th Heartstopper graphic novel, which I loved. Good luck!

Hi Amy, I'm getting caught up on your vlogs. I recently listened to the audio of Get A Life, Chloe Brown. At the end of the audio, there is an interview with Ms. Hibbert. She mentions that she does have fibromyalgia.

I know which IG account you're talking about! And I love her account!