MY BIRTHDAY WEEK _ Reading Vlog November 27-December 3

A Long Day and a Busy Week Ahead

I'm taking a really long time to get everything done, so probably not. We are just leaving to see The Nutcracker and I just put my hair up in a bun with braids. I don't normally put my hair up and I'm going out but I just really didn't want to do it and then I'm wearing this nice peplum shirt here which there's really no attractive way to show you and then just dress pants and then I'm gonna wear boots.

But we're gonna go dude oh my god this dude is really creepy hello and happy Saturday my kitchens a mess because I have been filming down here in which I never do but I was filming my bookish DIY book mystic or video and it went a lot better than the first time I tried doing it. I got most of the crafts done, I think there's just one more one or two more that I have to do but I'm going to go and get hot chocolate because I am home alone tonight so my plan is to edit like all of the book of mists videos because earlier today I had kind of a big moment of panic because I realized that book miss starts in 11 days and I only had one video actually like ready to go which is definitely not good.

So now I have 9 almost 10 videos filmed because I'm almost done this one and I just have the one that's edited, I have two that are like 98% edited I just need to finish them up and then I'm hoping that I'll be able to get those two finished tonight and get a bunch of the other editing done tonight so then I can film all day on Monday. I was going to just like spend the day with my parents today but I honestly ended up filming all day long which was not the plan but it's fine.

I just want to get this stuff done so then I can be kind of stress-free and no more like I have to film all these videos, I'll just be able to relax. But like I said now I'm going to go and get myself a peppermint hot chocolate because I needed some writing or not writing, I don't even know what I'm saying, I need some editing fuel.

Where's number three up Santa's face oh you got a fun indoor ball new campaign more movin Haley's videos it's not happening not happening we picture tree again welcome to the end of this reading blood that was interesting but it happened. So I actually do have some books to talk about at the end of this reading blog which is exciting because the past few I haven't had any because I've been so busy with other stuff this time of year is just absolutely insane and it really still is like this week you guys saw me hardly talking about reading mostly just hauling books and then talking about all the stuff I had film and stuff cuz book miss time is crazy by.

I initially this week had picked up The Queens Rising by Rebecca Ross and I was on like page 60 or something of this and it's not that I wasn't enjoying it at all, like I do definitely plan on picking it up again but I had forgotten to bring a book with me to work yesterday which yesterday was Sunday today's Monday.

But I'm closing out the vlog today because that's what I always do by on my break I was looking for something to read and I had just purchased Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory so I ended up picking this up and I'm actually on page like 49 or something like that which isn't super far considering the fact that original 10:00 last night I started reading a book and it's very much like expository so there's not a ton of dialog.

I'm quite impressed with how quickly I've been moving through it so I think what I'm done with this one, I will be picking this one up again but I just kind of picked this one up and I was just on a whim picking it up because I didn't have anything else and I really was liking it. So I'm looking forward to getting into this more.

But I'm totally I've read like a hundred pages this week which isn't awesome but I'm happy with it it's better than I've been doing recently so I think that is solid. I also bought another book that I forgot to show you, so I'm gonna go and get that and show you. Picking up Uprooted by Naomi Novik which is a fairy tale story which I'm super in the mood for because I've been taking courses online on fairy tales and I have been loving them so now I'm just like give me all of the fairy tale things right now.

The Week's Rating Vlog

Now, I'm going to go and get some stuff done because I have a crazy busy day once again.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome to a new reading vlog so I'm hoping that this week's reading vlog will be a little bit better than last week last week was just an absolutely crazy week this week is the last week of NaNoWriMo and I've kind of decided that I want to just take a break and I kind of still consider myself just for me a winner of NaNoWriMo because I wrote thirty five thousand words or almost 35,000 words in a really short period of time when I was really having a lot of trouble getting started with my work in progress so I'm still really happy with that but right now I just need to take a break on it because I'm going to lose my mind also my birthday is later this week which is kind of exciting I'm not really doing anything for my birthday so it's not that exciting but this Thursday I turned 22 and I honestly think that I'm just going to be filming a video on my birthday but I'm waiting for my hair to dry because I need to film a video today I film the first part of it yesterday and then I need to film like the intro part I also I went to Michael's this weekend and they had a crazy sale so they had 70% off for Black Friday so I picked up a bunch of stuff like look at all these flowers that I ended up picking up so I would really like to get some Instagram photos taken but I don't think that's going to happen just because I have so many things I want to accomplish today but I have to clean my room and then later today I'm going out for dinner with my coworkers which should be fun we're going for all-you-can-eat sushi which will be good right now I'm just editing stuff I have spent a ton of time making booked miss intros because I've decided that I'm doing a different intro for every single video because I don't know why I really don't but I just feel really like disorganized and scattered right now so my goal for today is to kind of clean up stuff I have so many emails that I have been putting off so I need to respond to emails and I just need to like get my life organized and together again because I'm just like all over the place right now I also haven't even started editing the vlogs that I supposed to be going up today so that will be interesting but I'm going to go and start editing hello it's Tuesday and I got a fair amount of stuff done yesterday but still not as much as I had wanted you and not stressed because I have like so much to do I did get my first book Miss video completely edited and exported and stuff so that one is ready to upload which is very exciting I have a couple more that are mostly edited and can probably be exported soon but I need to clean my room right now because surprise surprise it is a mess again at least I'm consistent you know it's not like awful I think it looks worse than it actually is but I want to get it cleaned quickly because I want to film today since I have like the majority of the day off I work at 6:00 tonight so I have a good few hours like right now it is 11:30 7 so I have quite a few hours to get some stuff done so I'm hoping I will be able to do that also I haven't given you guys a reading update and that's because I still haven't picked up a book from last week I just haven't been reading I think that shows how busy I have been if I'm not reading I have so many titles that like I'm just looking at my shelves and I'm like I don't want to read you but I haven't had time so I think what's my room is clean and I have a few more book most videos filmed then I will finally be able to pick up a book which I just I really want to do so I'm really hoping that I can do that but right now it is clean and time the time lapse of me cleaning my broom commences and now hello so I'm just going to go and change my lipstick because I have to go to work and not feeling red today I am all Christmassy and such because I was pre filming for book miss I filmed one video and it was good and everything it was fine my chairs really low because of the other video that I was filming that's much better but I filmed the one video and it was good like that one went well and everything and then I was like I don't know what I want to film next because a lot of the ones that I have to do are kind of my end-of-the-year wrap-up ones and I should still do them but I'm kind of liking that kind of want to give it a little bit but I think I'm going to start doing those either on Thursday or on Friday I'm not really sure so instead I decided to try and tackle one of the ones that's going to be kind of difficult and that's one where I'm doing crafts and stuff but like it just not turning out how I pictured it at all and I knew it wouldn't be perfect obviously because I'm not Kraft or anything like that but like the one was going really well and I was really happy with it and stuff but then I realized I hadn't hit record which is so annoying but it's just what I'm doing like different videos like that or doing a video in a different setting I don't even think about it so I'm super annoyed about that and it just ended up not really going how I was wanting it to which sucks but I'm hoping that it will turn out okay or I might have to go and buy the stuff again but like it was kind of an expensive video to do just because I mean I have to get so many crafting supplies and like I don't know I'm just really frustrated with the whole thing but it is what it is I mean I'll try it again maybe go out and get some more stuff and see how that goes but yeah I need to get ready for work now my room is clean actually which is nice and I wish I could film all day tomorrow like pre films and stuff because I really want to get that stuff done but I'm working all day tomorrow so that's not gonna happen but I'm just going to enjoy my hot chocolate and I actually might pick up a book because I kind of want to read right now it'll make me feel a little bit better hello in happy Thursday today is my birthday so today I turned 22 years old which is no different than 21 except for the fact that I really like the number 22 why I have a whole package of books that I order from book outlet that showed up today as well and a couple of them are gifts so I'm not going to show you those just in case the people are watching but I'm going to show you the rest also as per usual if you want to know more about these books I will talk about them more in my book haul I'm just gonna kind of show you them right now so first is bone gap by Laura Ruby which actually I saw the UK cover after and I kind of regret getting this because the UK cover is gorgeous next is love lies and spies by Cindy Anstey I have been super in the mood for Victorian historical fiction lately so this is perfect actually just historical fiction in general I want to read like all of it but next is these vicious masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zack Zeca and this is once again a Victorian historical fiction and then we have duels and deception by Cindy and ste once again the author of love lies and spies and this is another Torian novel next is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this is the books of wonder edition which I don't have but now I do next is the darkest magic by Morgan Rhodes the sequel to a book of spirits and thieves and then finally is map of fates by Maggie Hall which is the sequel to conspiracy of ice and then the rest of the stuff in here is gift so I'm not going to show you that so I've had a pretty low-key day which is totally fine by me I've just been editing the video actually that I wanted to go up today and other than that I went into my work chapters and was shopping a little bit with my friend but I didn't pick anything up yet because I'm gonna go tomorrow morning since we have our Employee Appreciation Event so I'm gonna go and actually pick up the stuff then then tonight I'm just going out for dinner with my parents and I think that's about it I'm just having kind of a relaxing day which is nice but I'm going to go and get this video finished editing and uploaded below fun fact I have been filming for like 10 minutes or something but I never pressed record and it's like the second time I've done this in a very short period of time I don't know what's happening to me also if you were keeping track yes I am wearing the same sweater in a different color every single day of my life but that's what my life is just comfy sweater if it ain't broke don't fix it so happy December today get to start my advent calendar which is very exciting I have this lint advent calendar which is super fancy it's from Costco and I'm very excited about it also thank you to my dad for getting this for me but yesterday is my birthday and I didn't really film a lot because I honestly was just kind of chilling I wasn't doing a why I went out to dinner with my parents and we went to a local burger place which was really good and that was fun and that's about it but let's dive into this thing because then I have a haul to do because we have our staff appreciation event this weekend at my work chapter so I've gone a little crazy day one why is it oh oh oh woah-oh I mean it keeps this g-rated but there's definitely some PG things that could be said bright fresh okay so once again I have two bags this big oh it's full of boats and then this bag here which has quite a few gifts in it so I can't show you everything but I'm gonna show you what I can so I'm gonna start off with the non books because that is the smallest piles so first I got two candles here so we have balsam and cedar and winter white I think it's called does it have a label no yes winter white so both of these smell kind of like woodsy and a little bit similar to each other but I really like having a candle lit when I'm writing and I like woodsy sense for it and I didn't really have too many woodsy sense so now I do and then the only other thing that I got is this blanket here so it's a cable-knit blanket which I always like cable-knit blankets because they are very pretty but usually I find that they're not the coziest that this one is furry on the inside so I really wanted it and it's gorgeous and it's on sale actually all three of these items were on sale so they're on markdown for you guys and then the rest of the stuff in that bag is gifts so I'm not going to show you that even though the people are likely not watching this video but just in case and now for the books these are all for me so of course they are I don't even know when I got to be honest that's so bad so first I got river secrets by Shannon Hale which is the second book of the books of Baron I don't really know and then I got Forrest born also by Shannon Hill the fourth book no this is the third in the fourth book of the books of Bayern the second one isn't sold in stores for whatever reason so I'm gonna order that one online but I've really committed to Shannon Hale as an author after enjoying the book of a thousand days so much so hopefully I will also enjoy goose-girl and these ones because I'm kind of just going for it next I got booked you and me a land of Story series The Enchantress returns by Chris Colfer next I got through the looking-glass by Lewis Carroll because I don't have this copy I don't think at least I very well might need to double check on that and while we're on the topic I got Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this is the classics reimagined edition that is illustrated by Andrea idiotic we know why I'm gonna say that wrong I'm sorry so these are like really creepy and avant-garde fun next I got 99 days by Katie keen to go which I honestly got because she has a book coming out that is a sequel to this that's about backpacking you're up so it's like well now I need to read the first one because I need to read it next is a wrinkle in time by Madeline Madeline Liang Liang Liang well I can't speak French but this is coming out as a movie 8 so I figured it was apropos guy I jump on the bandwagon of reading it next I got dare mighty things by Heather his cat Zinke cuts stinky why can't I say anyone's name but I'm kind of apprehensive about this one I don't know if I'm actually going to keep this I kind of just was like I kind of like the cover and the concept sounds cool so maybe but I might return this one if I do decide to return it it probably will have happened by the time you see this video and remember books and wala is where I found out about this book but then I think she thought it was just okay or something I don't really remember but let me know what you thought of it next is our dark duet by Victoria Schwab the sequel to this savage song next is the chaos of standing still by Jessica Brody which is a Christmas book is it blue everything is so blue fun fact I used to love Elvis as a child I don't know why but there was like a year of my life where I was obsessed with Elvis who knows then I got the orphan Queen by Jody meadows why did I save like that No now grab the bottom of the egg so I got cat and Meg conquer the world by Anna Prime aza can't say anyone's name but I've heard just amazing things about this book I've heard it's really good and it's kind of like fangirl so I'm like yeah I'm on board next I got the Crown's fate by Evelyn sky which I decided to pick up out because I really enjoyed the Crown's game even though a lot of people didn't enjoy the Crown's game I really liked it so I was like cool I'll give the sequel ago and speaking of I picked up the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I listened to the audiobook for this one a long time ago I don't really remember anything about it so I really want to reread it but this time like actually physically read it because I find that the main complaint about this series is that people say that it's way too similar to this one so I want to read this and then compare and see how I feel also it's a Heather's pick and speaking of I'm not heather's pick we have the nightingale by Kristen Hanna and this has been a book that has been interesting me for a very long time and then max over at welldonebooks he read it recently he really loved it so I decided I finally should just pick it up and the final book is the woman in the castle by Jessica should talk and this is probably the book that I'm most excited for to be honest these last three were all adult but I really been wanting to get into more adult reads and kind of moving beyond ye a little bit more it's not that I want to stop reading ye I just want to kind of start reading a little bit of different stuff but this book just sounds like everything that I have ever wanted so all I had to read was set at the end of World War two in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society it takes place in a crumbling castle in Bavaria it just makes me think of Newt when Stein and it just all I feel like this is going to be so amazing I have very high hopes for it and I'm super pumped I find that with adult books like the three that I have here I have one fantasy and then two historical fiction I find that I mostly gravitate toward historical fiction for adult and then fantasy a little bit but mostly I really like adult historical fiction that's all any guy I am now actually making orders online I'm kind of buying a bunch of books now so then I will have them for future hauls so you will see these kind of showing up a little bit just scattered throughout the next couple of months but I also made a whole order of pre-orders I'm just trying to like get as many books as possible so they can read as many as possible and give you opinions on as many as possible it's a very bad way to be playing with right now ala has like the loudest toy but she's like dragging it around to the shrimp playing with her shrimp don't eat the string like that why can't you just play with the actual toy part you're gonna break it this is why we can't have nice things excellent look at it she likes to drag her toys wherever she wants them and she'll do it at night she'll leave them like offerings outside of her door so there's just a lion a toy he's just going up the stairs she's sitting on her squirrel one and then she has these two here and she some wherever she wants them it's amazing well literally just wake up in late last night the hallway was just filled with toys but she just brought upstairs my buddy oh you are enjoying the Sun but anyways my plans for today I have kind of started cataloging my library using an app so I'm going to continue doing that but first of all I need to go and have a shower because I want to film some videos today I want to film some book myths videos and then I'll see what else I can get done hopefully I might be able to get some Instagram photos and there as well I don't really know because shopping online has kind of taken over my life at this point but my mom and I are going to see the Nutcracker tonight I know local performance so that will be fun if I can film a little bit of it I might because I'll be pretty montage all Christmasy and fun I'm just trying to step up the reading vlog game you know I washed my hair so step one - getting ready to film is done but it's like I think it's like new now yeah it's just about noon but I got a package from Amazon because I ordered something for books two grams so now open it it is butterfly stickers DIY for yourself interesting name but I got these up for books to grand purposes because they look so pretty which I'm not planning on actually putting the little sticker bits on them but I will show you them so it's got all sorts of different colors in here and make this look so fun oh they come in a little like resealable bag so we've got some blue in here it some like gleams and yellow is kind of a mixed bag there there's pinks and purples which are super nice some nice greens there we've got some more kind of pinky colors it looks like definitely more pink some whites which are very pretty you see there you go the lost focus for a second there you have some Reds which are very pretty once again and finally there are some like yellows and oranges which are really nice so yeah I have like a couple of little butterfly things that I use in my photos but these ones are super pretty and there's a ton of them in all sorts of different colors so I think they're going to be really nice so hopefully I will be able to kind of experiment with these today and take some photos but we'll see the way it's going I'm taking a really long time to get the stuff done so probably not so we are just leaving to see the Nutcracker and I just put my hair up in a bun with braids I don't normally put my hair up and I'm going out but I just really didn't want to do it and then I'm wearing this nice peplum shirt here which there's really no attractive way to show you and then just dress pants and then I'm gonna wear boots but we're gonna go dude oh my god this dude is really creepy hello and happy Saturday my kitchens a mess because I have been filming down here in which I never do but I was filming my bookish DIY book mystic or video and it went a lot better than the first time I tried doing it I got most of the crafts done I think there's just one more one or two more that I have to do but I'm going to go and get hot chocolate because I am home alone tonight so my plan is to edit like all of the book of mists videos because earlier today I had kind of a big moment of panic because I realized that book miss starts in 11 days and I only had one video actually like ready to go which is definitely not good so now I have 9 almost 10 videos filmed because I'm almost done this one and I just have the one that's edited I have two that are like 98% edited I just need to finish them up and then I'm hoping that I'll be able to get those two finished tonight and get a bunch of the other editing done tonight so then I can film all day on Monday I was going to just like spend the day with my parents today but I honestly ended up filming all day long which was not the plan but it's fine I just want to get this stuff done so then I can be kind of stress-free and no more like I have to film all these videos I'll just be able to relax but like I said now I'm going to go and get myself a peppermint hot chocolate because I needed some writing or not writing I don't even know what I'm saying I need some editing fuel where's number three up Santa's face oh you got a fun indoor ball new campaign more movin Haley's videos it's not happening not happening we picture tree again welcome to the end of this reading blood that was interesting but it happened so I actually do have some books to talk about at the end of this reading blog which is exciting because the past few I haven't had any because I've been so busy with other stuff this time of year is just absolutely insane and it really still is like this week you guys saw me hardly talking about reading mostly just hauling books and then talking about all the stuff I had film and stuff cuz book miss time is crazy by I initially this week had picked up the queens rising by Rebecca Ross and I was on like page 60 or something of this and it's not that I wasn't enjoying it at all like I do definitely plan on picking it up again but I had forgotten to bring a book with me to work yesterday which yesterday was Sunday today's Monday but I'm closing out the vlog today because that's what I always do by on my break I was looking for something to read and I had just purchased three sisters three Queens by Philippa Gregory so I ended up picking this up and I'm actually on page like 49 or something like that which isn't super far by considering the fact that original 10:00 last night I started reading a I ate last night and it's very much like expository so there's not a ton of dialog I'm quite impressed with how quickly I've been moving through it so I think what I'm done with this one I will be picking this one up again but I just kind of picked this one up and I was just on a whim picking it up because I didn't have anything else and I really was liking it so I'm looking forward to getting into this more but I'm total I've read like a hundred pages this week which isn't awesome but I'm happy with it it's better than I've been doing recently so I think that is solid I also bought another book that I forgot to show you so I'm gonna go and get that and show you so I picked up uprooted by Naomi Novik which is a fairy tale story which I'm super in the mood for because I've been taking courses online on fairy tales and I have been loving them so now I'm just like give me all of the fairy tale things right now so that's this week's rating vlog now I'm going to go and get some stuff done because I have a crazy busy day once again okay byehello welcome to a new reading vlog so I'm hoping that this week's reading vlog will be a little bit better than last week last week was just an absolutely crazy week this week is the last week of NaNoWriMo and I've kind of decided that I want to just take a break and I kind of still consider myself just for me a winner of NaNoWriMo because I wrote thirty five thousand words or almost 35,000 words in a really short period of time when I was really having a lot of trouble getting started with my work in progress so I'm still really happy with that but right now I just need to take a break on it because I'm going to lose my mind also my birthday is later this week which is kind of exciting I'm not really doing anything for my birthday so it's not that exciting but this Thursday I turned 22 and I honestly think that I'm just going to be filming a video on my birthday but I'm waiting for my hair to dry because I need to film a video today I film the first part of it yesterday and then I need to film like the intro part I also I went to Michael's this weekend and they had a crazy sale so they had 70% off for Black Friday so I picked up a bunch of stuff like look at all these flowers that I ended up picking up so I would really like to get some Instagram photos taken but I don't think that's going to happen just because I have so many things I want to accomplish today but I have to clean my room and then later today I'm going out for dinner with my coworkers which should be fun we're going for all-you-can-eat sushi which will be good right now I'm just editing stuff I have spent a ton of time making booked miss intros because I've decided that I'm doing a different intro for every single video because I don't know why I really don't but I just feel really like disorganized and scattered right now so my goal for today is to kind of clean up stuff I have so many emails that I have been putting off so I need to respond to emails and I just need to like get my life organized and together again because I'm just like all over the place right now I also haven't even started editing the vlogs that I supposed to be going up today so that will be interesting but I'm going to go and start editing hello it's Tuesday and I got a fair amount of stuff done yesterday but still not as much as I had wanted you and not stressed because I have like so much to do I did get my first book Miss video completely edited and exported and stuff so that one is ready to upload which is very exciting I have a couple more that are mostly edited and can probably be exported soon but I need to clean my room right now because surprise surprise it is a mess again at least I'm consistent you know it's not like awful I think it looks worse than it actually is but I want to get it cleaned quickly because I want to film today since I have like the majority of the day off I work at 6:00 tonight so I have a good few hours like right now it is 11:30 7 so I have quite a few hours to get some stuff done so I'm hoping I will be able to do that also I haven't given you guys a reading update and that's because I still haven't picked up a book from last week I just haven't been reading I think that shows how busy I have been if I'm not reading I have so many titles that like I'm just looking at my shelves and I'm like I don't want to read you but I haven't had time so I think what's my room is clean and I have a few more book most videos filmed then I will finally be able to pick up a book which I just I really want to do so I'm really hoping that I can do that but right now it is clean and time the time lapse of me cleaning my broom commences and now hello so I'm just going to go and change my lipstick because I have to go to work and not feeling red today I am all Christmassy and such because I was pre filming for book miss I filmed one video and it was good and everything it was fine my chairs really low because of the other video that I was filming that's much better but I filmed the one video and it was good like that one went well and everything and then I was like I don't know what I want to film next because a lot of the ones that I have to do are kind of my end-of-the-year wrap-up ones and I should still do them but I'm kind of liking that kind of want to give it a little bit but I think I'm going to start doing those either on Thursday or on Friday I'm not really sure so instead I decided to try and tackle one of the ones that's going to be kind of difficult and that's one where I'm doing crafts and stuff but like it just not turning out how I pictured it at all and I knew it wouldn't be perfect obviously because I'm not Kraft or anything like that but like the one was going really well and I was really happy with it and stuff but then I realized I hadn't hit record which is so annoying but it's just what I'm doing like different videos like that or doing a video in a different setting I don't even think about it so I'm super annoyed about that and it just ended up not really going how I was wanting it to which sucks but I'm hoping that it will turn out okay or I might have to go and buy the stuff again but like it was kind of an expensive video to do just because I mean I have to get so many crafting supplies and like I don't know I'm just really frustrated with the whole thing but it is what it is I mean I'll try it again maybe go out and get some more stuff and see how that goes but yeah I need to get ready for work now my room is clean actually which is nice and I wish I could film all day tomorrow like pre films and stuff because I really want to get that stuff done but I'm working all day tomorrow so that's not gonna happen but I'm just going to enjoy my hot chocolate and I actually might pick up a book because I kind of want to read right now it'll make me feel a little bit better hello in happy Thursday today is my birthday so today I turned 22 years old which is no different than 21 except for the fact that I really like the number 22 why I have a whole package of books that I order from book outlet that showed up today as well and a couple of them are gifts so I'm not going to show you those just in case the people are watching but I'm going to show you the rest also as per usual if you want to know more about these books I will talk about them more in my book haul I'm just gonna kind of show you them right now so first is bone gap by Laura Ruby which actually I saw the UK cover after and I kind of regret getting this because the UK cover is gorgeous next is love lies and spies by Cindy Anstey I have been super in the mood for Victorian historical fiction lately so this is perfect actually just historical fiction in general I want to read like all of it but next is these vicious masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zack Zeca and this is once again a Victorian historical fiction and then we have duels and deception by Cindy and ste once again the author of love lies and spies and this is another Torian novel next is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this is the books of wonder edition which I don't have but now I do next is the darkest magic by Morgan Rhodes the sequel to a book of spirits and thieves and then finally is map of fates by Maggie Hall which is the sequel to conspiracy of ice and then the rest of the stuff in here is gift so I'm not going to show you that so I've had a pretty low-key day which is totally fine by me I've just been editing the video actually that I wanted to go up today and other than that I went into my work chapters and was shopping a little bit with my friend but I didn't pick anything up yet because I'm gonna go tomorrow morning since we have our Employee Appreciation Event so I'm gonna go and actually pick up the stuff then then tonight I'm just going out for dinner with my parents and I think that's about it I'm just having kind of a relaxing day which is nice but I'm going to go and get this video finished editing and uploaded below fun fact I have been filming for like 10 minutes or something but I never pressed record and it's like the second time I've done this in a very short period of time I don't know what's happening to me also if you were keeping track yes I am wearing the same sweater in a different color every single day of my life but that's what my life is just comfy sweater if it ain't broke don't fix it so happy December today get to start my advent calendar which is very exciting I have this lint advent calendar which is super fancy it's from Costco and I'm very excited about it also thank you to my dad for getting this for me but yesterday is my birthday and I didn't really film a lot because I honestly was just kind of chilling I wasn't doing a why I went out to dinner with my parents and we went to a local burger place which was really good and that was fun and that's about it but let's dive into this thing because then I have a haul to do because we have our staff appreciation event this weekend at my work chapter so I've gone a little crazy day one why is it oh oh oh woah-oh I mean it keeps this g-rated but there's definitely some PG things that could be said bright fresh okay so once again I have two bags this big oh it's full of boats and then this bag here which has quite a few gifts in it so I can't show you everything but I'm gonna show you what I can so I'm gonna start off with the non books because that is the smallest piles so first I got two candles here so we have balsam and cedar and winter white I think it's called does it have a label no yes winter white so both of these smell kind of like woodsy and a little bit similar to each other but I really like having a candle lit when I'm writing and I like woodsy sense for it and I didn't really have too many woodsy sense so now I do and then the only other thing that I got is this blanket here so it's a cable-knit blanket which I always like cable-knit blankets because they are very pretty but usually I find that they're not the coziest that this one is furry on the inside so I really wanted it and it's gorgeous and it's on sale actually all three of these items were on sale so they're on markdown for you guys and then the rest of the stuff in that bag is gifts so I'm not going to show you that even though the people are likely not watching this video but just in case and now for the books these are all for me so of course they are I don't even know when I got to be honest that's so bad so first I got river secrets by Shannon Hale which is the second book of the books of Baron I don't really know and then I got Forrest born also by Shannon Hill the fourth book no this is the third in the fourth book of the books of Bayern the second one isn't sold in stores for whatever reason so I'm gonna order that one online but I've really committed to Shannon Hale as an author after enjoying the book of a thousand days so much so hopefully I will also enjoy goose-girl and these ones because I'm kind of just going for it next I got booked you and me a land of Story series The Enchantress returns by Chris Colfer next I got through the looking-glass by Lewis Carroll because I don't have this copy I don't think at least I very well might need to double check on that and while we're on the topic I got Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll this is the classics reimagined edition that is illustrated by Andrea idiotic we know why I'm gonna say that wrong I'm sorry so these are like really creepy and avant-garde fun next I got 99 days by Katie keen to go which I honestly got because she has a book coming out that is a sequel to this that's about backpacking you're up so it's like well now I need to read the first one because I need to read it next is a wrinkle in time by Madeline Madeline Liang Liang Liang well I can't speak French but this is coming out as a movie 8 so I figured it was apropos guy I jump on the bandwagon of reading it next I got dare mighty things by Heather his cat Zinke cuts stinky why can't I say anyone's name but I'm kind of apprehensive about this one I don't know if I'm actually going to keep this I kind of just was like I kind of like the cover and the concept sounds cool so maybe but I might return this one if I do decide to return it it probably will have happened by the time you see this video and remember books and wala is where I found out about this book but then I think she thought it was just okay or something I don't really remember but let me know what you thought of it next is our dark duet by Victoria Schwab the sequel to this savage song next is the chaos of standing still by Jessica Brody which is a Christmas book is it blue everything is so blue fun fact I used to love Elvis as a child I don't know why but there was like a year of my life where I was obsessed with Elvis who knows then I got the orphan Queen by Jody meadows why did I save like that No now grab the bottom of the egg so I got cat and Meg conquer the world by Anna Prime aza can't say anyone's name but I've heard just amazing things about this book I've heard it's really good and it's kind of like fangirl so I'm like yeah I'm on board next I got the Crown's fate by Evelyn sky which I decided to pick up out because I really enjoyed the Crown's game even though a lot of people didn't enjoy the Crown's game I really liked it so I was like cool I'll give the sequel ago and speaking of I picked up the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern I listened to the audiobook for this one a long time ago I don't really remember anything about it so I really want to reread it but this time like actually physically read it because I find that the main complaint about this series is that people say that it's way too similar to this one so I want to read this and then compare and see how I feel also it's a Heather's pick and speaking of I'm not heather's pick we have the nightingale by Kristen Hanna and this has been a book that has been interesting me for a very long time and then max over at welldonebooks he read it recently he really loved it so I decided I finally should just pick it up and the final book is the woman in the castle by Jessica should talk and this is probably the book that I'm most excited for to be honest these last three were all adult but I really been wanting to get into more adult reads and kind of moving beyond ye a little bit more it's not that I want to stop reading ye I just want to kind of start reading a little bit of different stuff but this book just sounds like everything that I have ever wanted so all I had to read was set at the end of World War two in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society it takes place in a crumbling castle in Bavaria it just makes me think of Newt when Stein and it just all I feel like this is going to be so amazing I have very high hopes for it and I'm super pumped I find that with adult books like the three that I have here I have one fantasy and then two historical fiction I find that I mostly gravitate toward historical fiction for adult and then fantasy a little bit but mostly I really like adult historical fiction that's all any guy I am now actually making orders online I'm kind of buying a bunch of books now so then I will have them for future hauls so you will see these kind of showing up a little bit just scattered throughout the next couple of months but I also made a whole order of pre-orders I'm just trying to like get as many books as possible so they can read as many as possible and give you opinions on as many as possible it's a very bad way to be playing with right now ala has like the loudest toy but she's like dragging it around to the shrimp playing with her shrimp don't eat the string like that why can't you just play with the actual toy part you're gonna break it this is why we can't have nice things excellent look at it she likes to drag her toys wherever she wants them and she'll do it at night she'll leave them like offerings outside of her door so there's just a lion a toy he's just going up the stairs she's sitting on her squirrel one and then she has these two here and she some wherever she wants them it's amazing well literally just wake up in late last night the hallway was just filled with toys but she just brought upstairs my buddy oh you are enjoying the Sun but anyways my plans for today I have kind of started cataloging my library using an app so I'm going to continue doing that but first of all I need to go and have a shower because I want to film some videos today I want to film some book myths videos and then I'll see what else I can get done hopefully I might be able to get some Instagram photos and there as well I don't really know because shopping online has kind of taken over my life at this point but my mom and I are going to see the Nutcracker tonight I know local performance so that will be fun if I can film a little bit of it I might because I'll be pretty montage all Christmasy and fun I'm just trying to step up the reading vlog game you know I washed my hair so step one - getting ready to film is done but it's like I think it's like new now yeah it's just about noon but I got a package from Amazon because I ordered something for books two grams so now open it it is butterfly stickers DIY for yourself interesting name but I got these up for books to grand purposes because they look so pretty which I'm not planning on actually putting the little sticker bits on them but I will show you them so it's got all sorts of different colors in here and make this look so fun oh they come in a little like resealable bag so we've got some blue in here it some like gleams and yellow is kind of a mixed bag there there's pinks and purples which are super nice some nice greens there we've got some more kind of pinky colors it looks like definitely more pink some whites which are very pretty you see there you go the lost focus for a second there you have some Reds which are very pretty once again and finally there are some like yellows and oranges which are really nice so yeah I have like a couple of little butterfly things that I use in my photos but these ones are super pretty and there's a ton of them in all sorts of different colors so I think they're going to be really nice so hopefully I will be able to kind of experiment with these today and take some photos but we'll see the way it's going I'm taking a really long time to get the stuff done so probably not so we are just leaving to see the Nutcracker and I just put my hair up in a bun with braids I don't normally put my hair up and I'm going out but I just really didn't want to do it and then I'm wearing this nice peplum shirt here which there's really no attractive way to show you and then just dress pants and then I'm gonna wear boots but we're gonna go dude oh my god this dude is really creepy hello and happy Saturday my kitchens a mess because I have been filming down here in which I never do but I was filming my bookish DIY book mystic or video and it went a lot better than the first time I tried doing it I got most of the crafts done I think there's just one more one or two more that I have to do but I'm going to go and get hot chocolate because I am home alone tonight so my plan is to edit like all of the book of mists videos because earlier today I had kind of a big moment of panic because I realized that book miss starts in 11 days and I only had one video actually like ready to go which is definitely not good so now I have 9 almost 10 videos filmed because I'm almost done this one and I just have the one that's edited I have two that are like 98% edited I just need to finish them up and then I'm hoping that I'll be able to get those two finished tonight and get a bunch of the other editing done tonight so then I can film all day on Monday I was going to just like spend the day with my parents today but I honestly ended up filming all day long which was not the plan but it's fine I just want to get this stuff done so then I can be kind of stress-free and no more like I have to film all these videos I'll just be able to relax but like I said now I'm going to go and get myself a peppermint hot chocolate because I needed some writing or not writing I don't even know what I'm saying I need some editing fuel where's number three up Santa's face oh you got a fun indoor ball new campaign more movin Haley's videos it's not happening not happening we picture tree again welcome to the end of this reading blood that was interesting but it happened so I actually do have some books to talk about at the end of this reading blog which is exciting because the past few I haven't had any because I've been so busy with other stuff this time of year is just absolutely insane and it really still is like this week you guys saw me hardly talking about reading mostly just hauling books and then talking about all the stuff I had film and stuff cuz book miss time is crazy by I initially this week had picked up the queens rising by Rebecca Ross and I was on like page 60 or something of this and it's not that I wasn't enjoying it at all like I do definitely plan on picking it up again but I had forgotten to bring a book with me to work yesterday which yesterday was Sunday today's Monday but I'm closing out the vlog today because that's what I always do by on my break I was looking for something to read and I had just purchased three sisters three Queens by Philippa Gregory so I ended up picking this up and I'm actually on page like 49 or something like that which isn't super far by considering the fact that original 10:00 last night I started reading a I ate last night and it's very much like expository so there's not a ton of dialog I'm quite impressed with how quickly I've been moving through it so I think what I'm done with this one I will be picking this one up again but I just kind of picked this one up and I was just on a whim picking it up because I didn't have anything else and I really was liking it so I'm looking forward to getting into this more but I'm total I've read like a hundred pages this week which isn't awesome but I'm happy with it it's better than I've been doing recently so I think that is solid I also bought another book that I forgot to show you so I'm gonna go and get that and show you so I picked up uprooted by Naomi Novik which is a fairy tale story which I'm super in the mood for because I've been taking courses online on fairy tales and I have been loving them so now I'm just like give me all of the fairy tale things right now so that's this week's rating vlog now I'm going to go and get some stuff done because I have a crazy busy day once again okay bye\n"