 I'm so stressed out. Pretty sit, sit. There we go. However, I'm electing to ignore you. I'm starting with the last. So what are you going to do about it? We're reporting it. Are you going to arrest me? Welcome back to my channel. So today is the first daily vlog for the reading rush. And I'm terrified. I'm so excited but I'm terrified of daily vlogging. However, I think we've got this in the bag. We've got this. We're going to be fine. Today is just like, let's just get as into this as we can. Let's just have a great day. Let's read a shit ton. And then every other day, hopefully this week, I'll be doing some kind of activity. So I think I'll be baking brownies tomorrow. I'll be going to the beach on Wednesday to get you excited. Oh, y'all wanted a twist, Dave. Come on. Reading rush vlogs. I am going to have a little bit of a book haul and like a book related item haul in this video though. I can see the parcels that arrived yesterday and I've been waiting to open them. So we'll do that a little bit later. These videos aren't going to be as heavily edited. Although I've probably done some heavy editing in this intro, but like going forward there'll be a lot of times I need to just cut shit together to get it out. So as long as you're okay with that, we're okay with that. Not as many memes, not as many zoom-ins. So let's quickly go through my TBR again. I do have a whole video on it. I'm going to be reading The Last by Hannah Jameson. This is for the first two proms which are read a book with a cover that matches your birthstone. Mine is Garnet, which is red and blue, and read a book beginning with The. Then, number three, read a book that inspired a movie you've already seen. I'm going to be reading Angus Long's Unfall Frontal Snugging based on the British cult classic. Oh, no. The British cult classic movie is based off of. I'm going to be reading A Song Below Water for read the first book you touch. You would have seen me already actually start that. I'm only 3% in and I've literally listened to a chapter, but it's good so far. But I don't have enough thoughts or have listened to enough to tell you anything really. Then for read a book completely outside of your house and read a book in a genre you always want to read more of, I'm going to be reading, helps if I've got it the right way out, The Bloom by Kevin Finetta and Savannah Gnucho. For The Last Prom, which is a read a book that takes place on a different continent than where you live, I'm reading My Sister the Serial Killer. I'm so excited. This is my first time daily vlogging the reading rush, so I'm really glad that you're all coming with me. I've had a massive influx of people over the past couple days and it's been pretty crazy, so I feel like it's come at the perfect time for us all to enjoy the reading rush together. I did do a poll on my Instagram. I did two polls between the two audiobooks and my two physical books that aren't in the graphic novel. And for the audiobook I'm listening to you, it's a low-water one. But for the physical book, you all voted for me to start My Sister the Serial Killer first. This is the much more hyped out of the two. It's a very popular book and it's super short. It's only 240 pages. However, I'm electing to ignore you. I'm starting with The Last. So what are you going to do about it? We're reporting it. Are you going to arrest me? Are you going to give me a ticket? So this is a murder mystery where nuclear war has happened and there are 20 survivors in this Swiss hotel and a body turns up. I've actually to tell you the truth, I've sat here and I've read the first 14 pages in like two minutes. It is such a quick start. It's so engrossing at the beginning. People have already died by suicide at the beginning because they can't like they don't want to live in a world where nuclear war is happening and they may be there any survivors and they're completely cut off from society. But I think a body turns up that has been obviously murdered. My aim today is to get I would say at least halfway through this. I think that's really reasonable. You can come up on the sofa if you want. Come say hello. Come here. Come on, get a good bit. I am also going to try this whole week to do all the Instagram challenges and so the first one today is recreate a book cover. So we'll do that in a little bit as well. I'm going to go start the book and then we'll do stuff like the book haul and the Instagram challenge. So I am a hundred pages into the last so for some reason going into this I didn't realise how terrifying like a nuclear war is. Dum dum! Just things you don't think about like how they have to find someone to carry on with normal life but you know that probably all of your family are dead you know that the world is pretty much over. It's a really cool setting for the book to be in, for the thriller to be in I've never really read anything like it before so I'm really enjoying that aspect of it. I don't know if it's going to be a murder mystery because my impression before coming into this was that someone is murdered and they know that it's happened in the past couple of days but actually what happens is that a little girl is found in one of the water tanks on top of the hotel which obviously she couldn't have got into a by herself because she had to lift these heavy lids. They think that she died around the time of the nuclear attack on someone who's left the hotel. They know what child she is now they know who her parents are they've supposedly left and so I don't know if the story is just going to go down a different route and the murder isn't actually going to play a big role but I'm really enjoying it so far. Hey! Success! Oh another thing I would say is that I think I told you maybe just in my TBR video that it's in diary entry so like it's day 12 day 40 or whatever that's the highest point of view and our author is female whereas the guy narrator is like the most stereotypical male author you've ever heard the way he describes women the way he describes certain events is like very very male and I think it was like a purposeful decision because then some characters call him out on it and I'm not hating it but it does feel a bit surface level like she's gone oh he's going to be the most obnoxious but just like privileged white man we haven't had anything yet other than the body being found that's really spurring the story on let him in come on he wants to come say hello see they can't even see him sorry for barking sorry for barking sorry for barking sorry for being so selfish male to open so the first thing I've had for a couple days I've been waiting until now to open it but let me cover up my address isn't that cute how she wrote my name this is from Sabine from Sabine's book nook it is from her store and it is her bookmarks and I ordered two of them and I'm so excited to open it I haven't had a bookmark I love for such a long time and I'm just so excited to see these in the flesh oh my god oh my god even the bookmark is wrapped she sent me a third one that I didn't order no I didn't order that one isn't that so lovely don't you love them so these are the two I bought let me focus it in on them aren't they so cute I don't know which one I'm going to use first I think I'll use this one first but they are both so lovely and then this is the one that she sent me that I didn't order which is so lovely of her so then we've got two book packages from Waterstones I ordered such a fun age by Kylie Reade this is one that has just come out quite recently and it is also the group book club read for the readathon for the reading rush I don't think I'm going to get round to this just because I don't know if it will fill any of the prompts for me all I know about this is that it is about a black woman who is babysitting a child looking after a child she gets like arrested or apprehended because people assume that she kidnapped the child and the mum of the child is like a blogger who tries to make everything better but she ends up making everything worse that's all I really know about it but it's been one that's been like heavily pushed okay the sun was too bright just like one of the most popular books that's come out recently and I've heard that it kind of like delves in privilege and racism and stuff like that so I'm excited to get to this when I do and then I'm not 100% sure what this next parcel is but I think I know oh my god I have sweets oh I'm for that this is milkshakes for the almost dead by Lulu Wood what I know this is a YA book I love this cover oh my ears just like I love this cover I think it's such a nice like colourful colour it's kind of like a young adult horror or mystery where one of the I think the main character moves into this tiny seaside town and she meets another girl there and they become friends and then they find out that there is something really ominous in the town and I'm just really really excited to get to this one the author did send this to me full disclosure she is my dad's cousin but she has been reaching out to loads of bookstagrammers and booktubers and sending them the book I'm really excited to get to it and the cover just looks so good in person I'm gonna go have some lunch edit some of this video and then I will read a bit more and we'll do the Instagram challenge in a bit so we are currently doing the Instagram challenge of the day which is to recreate a book cover and we are trying to decide which of these to recreate new skirt so for the two what would you call your ones Tom? got antlers and cone cone heads that's not the finished article yet we are gonna find some flowers to sell the tape in between your fingers three foot flowers sell the tape in between your fingers you'll put your hand on Freddie's head yeah yeah yeah yeah that's clever I hope you're having fun what is in the wrong spot scoot your bum over mate Freddie sit, sit there we go Freddie, I don't know so it is now the evening and I'm now 200 pages into the last which is where I said like bare minimum I wanted to get to today it's just over half way so I'm really happy with my progress in that shit is starting to go down it's a slow book but a fast book at the same time like you read it very fast but the shifts in tension and like things happening that make you feel a lot more nervous are like very subtle you know like it's a very kind of subtle build intention for the characters and you really have to pay attention to like how the power dynamics shift and what that means it was a it was scary it was scary it was really scary nuclear war is fucking scary who knew I mean I've said before I love when you have an isolated cast of characters in my thrillers like that's always what I love but you are like this is beyond isolated because you may be the only living people left in the world and you have no idea who could be out there like you have no clue this is isolation beyond anything I've ever known or read the thing about this book is is that normally when you have the thriller at least ones I've read you have like six main characters whereas in this there's like 19-20 people left this hotel and there's quite we've gotten to know quite a few of them in some capacity there's not many I'd say there's maybe two that we know on like a much deeper level than any of the others and so it really could be anyone who is behind the occurrences that are going on or a group of people but it's starting to feel like there could be this is just me theorising but it's starting to feel like there could be like a lot of people at full possibly but I don't know how that would happen because these people don't know each other so I'm scared I'm really scared but I'm really enjoying it so far I don't think it's gonna be a five star there's just something about just something about the book it just doesn't feel like a five star but at the moment I'd say it's a four star but at least another 50 like I think I couldn't do that tonight I really don't know how to trust like I have no theories but it's kind of being revealed to us but I'm like is that the truth or are you tricking me I feel like I need to use that mastermind again but that's really like not the truth right now not a mastermind I'm so dumb okay I'm gonna go read some more hopefully this evening hopefully this isn't the last time we see each other it won't be I'll see you again okay is that enough it's not enough is it need a bit more right there please good evening apologies I know I look a bit crusty dusty musty I did with another 50 pages so I'm on page 250 I've only got 140 pages left to go tomorrow so I'll hopefully finish this tomorrow morning I'm so stressed out when I said shit was starting to hit the fan it's really doing that now stuff just keeps happening keeps going wrong there's this sense of like hallucination or just like deliriousness under everything because of the just like extremely ridiculous situation they all find themselves in they are all in a state of grief essentially they are all in shock they all have like certain things they can't fully remember or things that they get confused by and so like you're constantly trying to figure out like what's the truth what's going on but it's becoming clear people are lying people are not telling the truth which when you are stuck with just these 19 people and your life basically rests in their hands that is not good I'm really excited to finish this tomorrow I've loved today I feel like we've had a great first day of the reading rush I feel like it's unrealistic to think that this would just be great the entire time I will see you tomorrow thank you so much for watching the first day I hope you've enjoyed it and I hope the reading rush is going really well for you if you're participating if not I hope you're enjoying watching all the content and yeah see you tomorrow when I am more awake bye