BookTubeAThon day five.

I really can't believe how well this is going. It's making me very inclined to try out more readathons in the future because I honestly can't remember the last time I read this many books in such a short space of time. Whenever it was I was probably on holiday and not making short videos every morning about how many pages I read the day before, so I think it's fair to be ever so slightly pleased with myself. Just two more days now and I only have one book left on my TBR!

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BookTubeAThon day four.

Amazingly, I actually managed to complete my goal of finishing Stardust yesterday and I started reading Look Into My Eyes! I can hardly believe we're already half way through the BookTubeAThon and that I'm still on track. Honestly, I never thought I would manage to read all these books in a week but I'm hoping to finish Look Into My Eyes today and then I'll only have Man at the Helm left for days six and seven!

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BookTubeAThon day three.

As predicted, I read nowhere near as much on day three as on day two, but I have completed four books now and I'm into my fifth so things aren't going too badly! My goal is to finish Stardust today but since I'm not even half way through it and I have more things to do today, we'll see how that goes!

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BookTubeAThon day two.

Well I certainly managed to read a lot more on day two than I did on day one. I doubt I'll get a chance to read as much today because I've actually got other things I have to get done, but I'm at least hoping to finish The Magician's Nephew today. See you tomorrow for another update!

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BookTubeAThon day one!

Okay, so I decided to do the daily updates after all. You're welcome.

I didn't get much reading done on day one unfortunately, but that's what happens when you decide to take part in a readathon while it's already happening and then spend most of the first day making your TBR video.

Anyway, here's the update video, and I'll see you tomorrow (when hopefully I will have read a few more pages than I did yesterday...)

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BookTubeAThon 2015.

Two posts in as many days??? I know. Don't worry though, this one is going to be even shorter than yesterday's.

So the third annual BookTubeAThon started at midnight last night and while I was watching everyone's TBR videos over breakfast this morning I made a bit of an impulsive decision to join in! I don't know if I'll be doing daily updates or anything like that, especially since it took me about five hours just to make this minute and a half video, but here's a little TBR video for you at least.

Now I'll leave this here, if you don't mind. I've got a lot of reading to do!

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Shortbread.

Let's just pretend it hasn't been over a month since I last posted, okay? Thanks.

This is just a simple, short and sweet post today. For a recipe that is also all of those things.

I had planned to make bread earlier this week, until I realised that the bread flour was about a year out of date. So, instead of doing that I thought I'd try this super easy recipe from one of my favourite youtubers. I've never made shortbread before but after seeing firsthand just how quick and simple it really is, I'm sure I'll be making it again very soon (and probably far too often.)

Ingredients

• 6 oz butter
• 3 oz caster sugar
• 9 oz plain flour
• A pinch of salt

Method

• Preheat your oven to 160C or 140C for a fan oven and grease a cake tin
• Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl using a fork
• Add the flour and salt and mix together with your hands until the mixture is fully blended
• Transfer the mixture into your cake tin and pat it down
• Use a knife to gently score four lines down the centre of your shortbread (watch the youtube video. She makes far more sense of this step than I am) and use a fork to create the fluted edges and poke shallow holes in the shortbread (seriously watch the video)
• Bake in your preheated oven for about 45 minutes until the shortbread is just turning golden around the edges
• Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely
• If you want to, you can sprinkle a little caster sugar over the shortbread when you turn it onto the wire rack, while it's still warm. This is optional but I highly recommend it!

I seriously can't believe how quick and easy this was. I am going to be making a lot of shortbread, I can tell.

Let me know if you try it out yourself!

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