 Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's Little Library, and welcome to today's vlog, which is my haunted house vlog. It is themed around haunted house stories or just any haunted situation. It doesn't have to be a house, it could be an apartment, it could be land, you know, take it how you will. But something, some habitation has to be haunted or ghostly affected or something along those lines. I have two books lined up for this week. The first one is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I've been wanting to read this and I got a copy over audio from the library, so I was like, oh, great, perfect timing. And the other book is one that I bought for this event that I really wanted to read, and that is White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson. So I've heard lots of good things about it plus this cover is absolutely gorgeous. So I'm really excited to pick this one up physically this week. It'll be nice. I'm taking a little easier on myself this week because two things. One, I cannot believe Halloween is literally two weeks away. Like that is insane. I'm gonna have a lot to do because I will be planning some things for Halloween and I am hoping to do some more activities that are Halloween fall-esque. So I kind of want to just give myself some time to do that. And then the second reason is to avoid burnout. I don't feel like I'm getting burned out, but I don't want to push myself too far to then feel like I would be getting burnt out at some point. So my goal is today is Monday. My goal is to read The Haunting of Hill House because I have an audio and there are a couple of things I would like to do that I can listen to an audiobook for. And then I just have the whole week to read this book. I'm just gonna allow myself to take a little easy especially because the next week is the thriller week. It's the final week and I have so many books that I want to read both for thriller week and just for spooky season in general. There are a couple other books that I'm like I didn't get to them but I still really want to read them now. So I'm also allowing for those books to have a chance to be read as well. So like I said today is Monday. It's as usual one of my days off from work. So what I need to do today I need to film one video. I would like to plan another video. Do some laundry. Kind of not really clean because we recently did a whole apartment clean down but like I can make things real messy real quick. I need to change my wardrobe over from like summer clothes to winter clothes because it has snowed twice already. And it's October like 16, 17. It's October 17 and it's snowed twice already which is like okay slow down here but whatever. So I need to get some of my sweaters out for that so I'm excited to just kind of reorganize my wardrobe a little bit but yeah otherwise it's pretty chill for today. I don't have to do too much which hopefully means I can get to reading some books. Fourths two-thirds of the way through. I've got a little over an hour left in the audio book. It's pretty good. I think the issue is that it's a bit of an older book and I've been reading so many other spooky things that it's not quite hitting satisfactory level in terms of spooky things. Like don't get me wrong spooky things have happened but I just felt there was such a long introduction even though we immediately started with the characters. I just I think if the spookiness was a little more concentrated but the book was also a little longer I would probably enjoy it more but or like I don't know maybe if the characters didn't seem so dismissive because they're like they know they're living in a place that could be haunted. They don't know they're there to determine if it's actually a haunted house and every time something super creepy super haunted happens they're like it was probably one of you or it's fine no one needs to panic about the writing and blood in the wall. It's fine and just to be so dismissive about the horrific things that you're there to experience and lose your mind over it just takes away from the book for me I think personally. So I'm gonna finish that but I think that's kind of the vibes I'm getting at I don't know yeah so I'm gonna finish that I am gonna do a couple other things and yeah probably pick a white smoke today honestly there just isn't too much I need to do but I also want to like take it easy. I might watch something spooky we'll see we'll see I just gotta remember not to have too many cups of that pumpkin spice hot cocoa because that is one of my favorite things oh my goodness I am obsessed with it it's so it's not like pumpkin-y pumpkin spice are just the spices you use when you make pumpkin pie so it's like cinnamon nutmeg cloves um maybe a slight bit of allspice like they're they're just the full spices that you just put in a pumpkin pie that are now like that's what pumpkin spice lattes are and that's probably what this pumpkin spice hot chocolate but like the the spice hot chocolate with a little bit more nutmeg on top I just love it so much anyway so that's my update for now short and sweet I will see you after I finish the hunting and pill house and probably watch something spooky hey y'all it is Tuesday and I do not have a reading update for you as I have not read anything but I did do something really exciting tonight that I'm super proud of I baked a cake well I didn't bake this one I just decorated it I bake cakes all the time but I finally decorated this one and for the first time employing those techniques I think it turned out really well of course there are a few adjustments I would make but I decorated my first cake yay I'm excited so I just gotta write my little thing on the cake and I'll probably do that tomorrow take a picture post it everywhere and then eat it anyway yeah so like I said no reading update but I just want to let you know that's what I did on Tuesday I went to work and then I went to a cake decorating class and I decorated a cake hopefully I'll read tomorrow but I also need to edit my video and finish this cake so no promises yo guys guys guys guys guys guys guys people I have been so excited for this okay so first off it's Wednesday no I don't have a reading update I'm sorry I've been busy doing other things in my life that I enjoy and I don't have an audiobook to listen to while I do so for example writing a recipe for the Latvian pretzel cake because we're having a catering order for that coming up in the next two weeks and no one in my bakery has ever heard of it before so I get to do all the research find out what it is what it's used for key elements of it what makes it a part of what makes it specifically Latvian pretzel cake versus what makes it some other kind of cake that is not Latvian or pretzel or cake so I get to do that so that I can be able to make it for this order which I'm super excited about I love researching cultural baking and giving it a try so anyway that is not the point this is not a baking channel even though I did show you my cake anyway I'm giving you this update because the school for good and evil is out I did get invited to watch it a day early and then what did I do yesterday I worked oh and then I had the cake decorating class and then I came home and I was tired so I didn't watch it the day early but it's out now and I'm so excited to watch it like look at this it's on netflix I've read the whole series if you haven't read the series read it and then watch the movie hi it's sunday brandon's watching football let's go lions please with please so I have not done a good job of vlogging this week because I just haven't been reading I have been doing other things and just wanting to kind of relax and catch up on other things I did read the first chapter of white smoke and I hope to do more reading of that today but we just went to the farmers market where we got like one little thing of sauerkraut and then we went to an event called the taste of Asia and they were doing a vaccine booster and flu shot drive and they gave us a hundred dollars worth of food voucher at the event if you got your vaccine booster so we got our second booster as well as our flu shot and that's where all this is we spent a hundred dollars worth of gift cards on the food because it was only for the event so like what are we gonna do throw them away no we're gonna buy a hundred dollars worth of food so we are gonna go to an apple orchard once we eat some food and hopefully that'll be fun and then I'll give you a final reading update all right it is Monday and the end of this vlog so I really only read The Haunting of Hill House I read the first chapter of white smoke and I'm intrigued I want to read it I just didn't read this week I took a bit of a break as well as I was feeling lightly slumpy not like a long serious slump but like I just there were so many other things to do and I was kind of tired so I decided to let myself have a break this week like I said I do still want to read White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson I it's just not the time for me yet so I only got 25 points but that is okay next week is going to be the thriller week it's the final week because it's leading up to Halloween so be sure to subscribe to get the notification of when I post that vlog I'm posting other videos because I post on Sundays and Wednesdays but I have been pretty busy lately so I'm posting when I can otherwise if you like this give it a thumbs up comment down below what you've been reading now hopefully I do more reading next week but thank you for watching and until I see you all in the next video I wish you happy spooky reading