reading for 24 hours straight 🫠🌼 book sleepover 📖

last week me and my bookish friends attempted a 24 hour readathon aka we tried to read as much as possible within 24 hours!! this was honestly SO much fun! i think it's so fun that this is becoming a common activity among booklovers so i hope you will try this too with your book bestie and take some inspiration from my cozy time with @NinaCatharina_ and @leoraaileen

Books mentioned:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevski
A Graphic Guide to Chaos Theory
Against Interpretation & other essays by Susan Sontag
Emily Wildes Map to the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

🌼 s o c i a l m e d i a
• twitter: @thebookleo
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 25 year old girl from the Netherlands who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave).

🌹 m u s i c
Music, art, and video by Jokabi

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[TheBookLeo]

🌼Watch the other two vlogs of this readathon to collect all three POVs!

[hadiyaiqbal]

They are such a perfect, genuine little friend group. They are all so distinct in their styles, reading tastes and personalities. Soo cute. Loved this video!

[lucijamiskovic]

The real question is, how do all 3 of you have such beautifully aesthetic magical apartments

[aspreigl]

My friends and I take a weekend twice a year where we rent out a place and do nothing but read the whole time. We talk during meals and meal prep, otherwise no one talks to each other. Everyone has massive stacks of books, and plenty of snacks. After we check out on the last day, we head to brunch and start planning the next one. It is so amazing to do. And I'm the friend that sits and knits while reading book propped up and all, happy to hear I'm not the only one!

[leoraaileen]

this was incredible to relive by watching this vlog also losing my mind over the whole “I have shoe! I have book! I have Nina! I have leonie!” 😭😭😭😭 you can really tell that is when the brainrot came in swinging, no longer to be kept at bay after endless reading lmao

[nazrye]

Wow everyone in your friend group has such beautiful homes! It’s all soo cozy and aesthetic

[milramas]

not only was this video extremely visually pleasing due to the beautiful scenery and homes, but it also made me smile multiple times because you were enjoying so much the marathon and being in a silly goofy (and tired) mood arround your friends

[flenaanelf]

4:14 Love how the description of The Perfume makes a normal person think "sounds absolutely horrible and vile". Meanwhile, my German high school apparently went "sounds absolutely great" and made us all read and discuss the book (and watch the movie) for German class in 10th grade 😂

[Sharletwitch]

Women friendships

Such a wholesome and peaceful video. Thanks for sharing 💜

[berkekayar]

İt is soo cute to see some people having 24 hour reading marathon :) idk why i do watch theese videos but it makes me feel better when i am tired idk, thank you Leo!

[stitchedscorpio]

omg yesterday there was haley, sara, and destiny’s 24 hour readathon and now another triple release of bookish sleepovers!!! i need some irl book friends to do this with!!

[didip]

The fact that you read only 150 pages in 5h makes me feel much better. I was avoiding watching this vid because i was expecting you to finish like one book an hour, meanwhile im struggling to focus to read 50 pages 🙃. I know i shouldnt feel ashamed to be reading so slowly, but sometimes i feel so unaccomplished when it happens.

[joncarrier]

I did this on my own (due to no friends that like reading😢) recently. I found it very energizing and thought the experience was great. Would love to do it in a group setting.

[dvckduckgoose]

god i wish i had friends to do this with. not even a reading marathon but just hang out and have fun like this, you all make it look effortless

[toffeefuchs]

Watching the video made me realize that I basically do a readathon with with my mother every year when we go on vacation in the fall. We always reserve at least a couple days purely for sitting in the shade on the beach or in a garden or something and reading. We have been doing that every year since my parents got divorced, which coincided pretty much with when the I started getting into reading around age 10 or so. We always joke that half my luggage is books and (since she has an e-reader) half of hers is the coffeemaker, because those are the things we need for a great time: books and coffee.
The only years we skipped were during the pandemic and the year when I was abroad as an exchange student.
She also usually does an extra shorter spring reading vacation just by herself in Sardinia where we have friends, and she does nothing but read and go for walks with the dog for 5 days. This year she was pleasantly surprised that I wanted to join her because she always thinks I go on these beach vacations with her for the swimming and the nice weather and it's too cold for that in the spring. But really it was one of the best vacations I had in a long time.
I never realised how special our little tradition is and how thankful I am that I can share this hobby with my mother even though we have wildly different tastes. I am 28 now and usually when people ask why I still go on vacation with my mother every year I just say it is because she pays for it and who would say no to a free holiday. But actually I love those weeks where we both get away from all the stress and just enjoy out shared love of books and stories.

[abhiramvedaraman]

omg i just wanna say as a 14 yrold
that you are the prime reson i got into reading!, everything from your asthetic, your home, your commentary, even simple things like how much you like candles just make my days, thank you Miss Leo, hope you find pleasure in making videos and happy reading!

[lianabohnensack]

I just had to read Das Parfum for school and it‘s so interesting to see someone reading the book voluntarily and enjoying it so much lol, for me it was just ok but for an assigned reading it was pretty good

[imfromneverland]

I know I commented something similar on your last video, but your vibes make me feel so happy to be a woman? Like I always envied the friend groups that consist only of boys and when they made movies and stuff they always felt so loyal and so carefree and I felt that I couldn’t have that being a woman. I guess it just feels that way to me because of the -lack of good- representation of female friendships in media. You make me feel so comfy and make me appreciate my girlies so much. They are the best. I love seeing “us” romanticised ❤😅

[cherryblossom]

PLSSSS I NEED ME FRIENDS LIKE THISS T.T this was such a gem of a videoo Leonie never disappoints

[naksudefender]

the vibes in this video is immaculate i wish i had book friends that lives nearby 😭