 Today, actual reading sprints, lots of reading, lots of reading needing to be done. So yeah, we're going to do lots of reading today, reading sprints. I feel like I was saying before I went live, I'm really nervous because I do only reading sprints now really on my Patreon. So now I'm doing one with like lots of people. I'm like, I feel like, oh my God, like I'm not used to doing lives with like loads of people. But hey everyone, we can get those reading done. I'm joined by Aaron. Aaron's keeping me company today. Wow. What are you going to be reading or up to? I'm only doing my make-up and listening to the audiobook for Electric Idol for continuing on with an echo of things with Tom. So I haven't started with this one and I'm like 40% of the way through this one. So we'll see. How many pages is that, Aaron? Oh, it's not too bad. It is. No. More than 29. Okay. It looks bigger. Yeah, it just seems like big paper. Yeah. It looks really, really scary. I'm going to be reading The Monarchs by Kers Morgan and Danielle Page. Oh no. It's saying my Wi-Fi. Am I like real fuzzy? Mm-hmm. Oh no. My Wi-Fi is bad. Okay. I'll try and fix that in the first sprints. Usually it sorts itself out. Oh my God. Okay. Anyways, let me just carry on speaking and hope it fixes itself. I'm reading The Monarchs by Kers Morgan and Danielle Page. I'm like just over halfway through. I want to finish it in these sprints. Aaron knows I was supposed to read this and two other books by today in order to get the vlog up today that I was supposed to be today. So that's why we're doing Reading Sprints instead because I'm so behind. I'm so behind. You can do that. I'm leaving you. And the thing that's panicking me is I'm going on holiday on the 2nd of July and I want to like make content for then and I'm like, I haven't had to do this in a while. I'm not like ready to make delicious stuff. Right. Let's see what everyone in the chat is reading. Why am I so bad? It's not usually bad for this long. I'm sorry, everyone. Hopefully you'll sort this out. Okay. I'll try something in the break in the first sprint. Okay. Let me see. All Thunderhead. That's my favorite in that trilogy. So enjoy it before the toll. You've reached Sam. It's like a great cover. The monics is good so far. I see this series as like just a solid YA fantasy series. It's kind of like comforting and just fun to read. I don't know if this would really be five stars anyone, unless you're the kind of person who gives five stars because they like enjoy a book. It doesn't have anything like crazy special about it, but I think it's still like a fun read. Ray Bearer. Yeah. It looked like a 10,000 page book on camera. I was like, oh my God. Now just big paper. Yeah. The Lies I Tell. Which one's that? I feel like I've heard... Is that one of the... That's one of the Book of Month ones, right? Yeah, that is. I have that, that. Sorry, I don't know. I'm struggling at the moment to like figure out how to prioritize what to read. I'm really, really struggling. Yeah, what should I read next? We have a thread and this board just polls. And everybody's like, okay, here's my options and whichever one wins. Because it really speaks to my butt sometimes. Yeah. Um... Oh my God. Hey, Katie. How are you? Ace of Spades. Oh, middle game. Oh my God. I love middle game. I remember saying up late to read that and I often don't say up late to read books, but that was one of them that I really said up late to read. Oh my God. My grandma has a little bit early, but my bedtime is in 30. My bedtime's 10.38. I'm lights out at 10. I sleep by 10.30. Usually is the aim. I like phone alarm at 9.45. It goes on D&D, so I can get any notifications, anything. Listen, I need my wine down time in the evening. I need it. I can't be on like... I have to like... Exactly. I need to like get myself in the zone. So anytime I say I'm a grandma, like it's just, it's true. I need to go to sleep early. I just need it. Katie, listen. I wish it was... I wish I could go sleep at 3 a.m. and function, but like... I don't think I can. I can't. I can't. Oh, stuck with you. I like... Wait, no. I didn't like stuck with you. I keep your names. I hope you enjoyed seeing that. Because I'm on TBR, I've heard really great things about it and the cover is stunning. What one? Still Live by Sarah Wynman. Oh. The thick. Oh, I get scared, but... Here's the thing. I used to read only literary fiction when I was like 14, because I didn't really know about any other books. And then I stopped reading and then I came back to BookTube and I discovered like other genres and so I don't really read literary fiction anymore. I feel like I could be that girl. We're having a good time. Sad girl, you know. What Aaron does in his dreams is tell me to go to sleep. Hold on, let me check the time. I think it's a reasonable time for you right now till you give me a week. Not pulling out the world clock. You can be awake at 5 p.m. You can be awake. Oh, Malibu Rising. I love Malibu Rising and I always get mad at how everyone said it wasn't very good, because I liked it a lot and I'm very excited for Kary Toto. Tell you something to read. I've been thinking about this lately. It's one of the only authors I've read three books from and they've all been five stars. Like there's not many other people, many authors who I can say that about. I'm very stingy with my five stars. Oh, I know. Five stars are like gold dust. Exactly. They come through very rarely. But when you know, when I give one, you know it's legit. Yeah, legit, yeah. Okay, should we do our first sprint? I feel like I really want to make some progress. How much do you have left of the Ravens? The Monarchs. Yeah, the Ravens is the first one. I have probably like 180 pages left. I'm going to listen to the audiobook on three times speed on script and just like speed through it. Okay. Because here's the thing, right? I can, script, no one thing that annoys me is it doesn't have anything between two and a three in terms of speeds. In America it's just, it max out at two. So be glad. No, you have, if you go to your desktop, like the website, you can get the three. You can't get it on your phone. That's what I have to do. But like I would listen to it like 2.5 if I could. That's what I would prefer to do. But a two feels too slow. So what am I supposed to do? I have to like speed to do it on a three. What author have you given the most five stars to? That's hard. Yeah. Probably only because I can think I'll talk my head. I know I would be Robin Hobb, three, five stars. We'll go with that. Okay. Good old Robin Hobb. Yeah. But here's the thing. Cause I was thinking like Theodore Goss, for example, I read a series from and they're all, they're all five stars. But like, I think it's almost more impressive when it's like stand-alones. Cause if you love a series, like, and you love the characters and the setting or whatever, it's more likely to all be five stars. But. It's probably like stand-alones. It's harder. Yeah. I've given him more five stars. Oh, okay. Good old Allie. She's out here doing, doing for us what we can't do ourselves. We're going to do more Seminist novellas. Isn't that what they call the Seminist series? Yeah. The Seminist, yeah. Seminist novellas. I've read the first two. I've read one, four point five and one of three. And I'm going to read the last one this month. Hopefully. Listen, you should definitely stay and read. That's my opinion. Listen, Katie, don't even talk to me about it. It stresses me out. It stresses me out. She's like a teacher. So I guess that's her full-time job. But I'm like, Peter Goss, I'm going to read all of her. Like she has lots of weird, like short story collections and stuff that aren't novels. So I'm going to read them. And I got, there's two short story collections with lots of other authors. So she has some on her own. And then there's two that she's been published, or have been published this year that she's in. I got someone in time, which is all like romance stories with like a time-travelling twist. And Theodore Goss is in there. Shauna McGuire is in there. Alexi Harrow is in there. And then there's another one called Lost Worlds and Mythological Kingdoms, which Shauna McGuire is in as well, actually. But yeah. How do you have two times five speed on script on your phone? What? That would like change my life. I need to know how to do that immediately. Oh my God, Ali just finished her book. She's been streaming for like ages. Oh my God. 24 hours, right? She's been having a long time. It takes me to finish this 800 page book. Oh my God. I could not do that. I couldn't do it. Okay. Right. First prince. How is my internet now, by the way? Is it like fine? You look fine. Okay. Maybe I won't. Cause I could like try and do a wired connection, but I'm scared of just like messing everything up. So I might just leave it. Wait. How do you people have two times five speed on script? I need to know. I just, I need to know how to do that. Cause I wish I had two times five to jump from two to three. Cause like when I'm on audible, I can like slowly increase my, my speed, like go from a 2.7 to a 2.8. Like I can build myself up, but it's very drawing to go from two to three. So, oh my God. Some of you are living in the future. It's not fair. Okay. Right. So how long do we want to sprint for the first sprints? Long sprint. Oh, maybe Android. Maybe I need to get an Android though. Just. Yeah. Times I have. I can manage switch. Okay. Shall we sprint for like, between 30 and 45? What do we think? Okay. Yeah. We'll do that. Okay. Right. I'm just going to zoom in. Probably going to be live for between three and four hours. So up to, if you're in the UK, like me, probably till like, between six and seven. Don't know. Somewhere between that. Okay. Right. Let me share my script. Okay. Okay. Okay. Don't know. Somewhere between that. Okay. Right. Let me share my screen and we will get reading. I've got to meet myself because I will be playing. My audio book out loud. Okay. Let's go. I hope the, the meow didn't scare too many people, but I like it. So I keep it on. I read in those sprints. How did everyone do? I read about 50 pages. I think. It's an easy book to read fast. And like fly through. Especially because I'm on three times speed on the audio. Um, listen to 31 pages. Well, that's good. I'm listening. So I probably got a little faster, but I'm cool with this speed right now. Cause I was happening. Yeah. Um, not everyone saying the meow scared though. So just prepare yourself that there's going to be a meow. Morning. Oh, hang on. 54 pages. 54 pages. I am reading the monics by Cas Morgan and Danielle page. Um, and Aaron's reading electric idol. Correct. Um, I have never read Laura Olympus, but people have recommended it to me. It's very good. Have you read it like on the internet? Aaron, or did you get the like graphic novel? I got the physical copy and like it's so well constructed. It's so well made. Um, colors are beautiful. Um, the story itself is very cute. Like I would, uh, read more. I plan on reading the second volume and collecting it, but it's very cute. Yeah. Oh, maybe I need to read it. Um, um, Oh, let me just jump one sec. One sec. Let me score it up. Um, I know good. It's a little too early to say, but maybe it's Katie Robert fan anyway. Cause like all her stories are recycled. She like, like the, her traditions and stuff is like literally the same story that she wrote. So she just changed a couple of things. Oh my God. Listen, you got to respect the hustle. You got to respect the hustle. Um, let's see me. I liked one by one by Ruth Ware, but I know a lot of people didn't. I really liked it. So four stars. That's, oh my God, Aaron, that's amazing for you. Um, 31 pages, 50 pages. Um, finish. I still need to read Finley Donovan. Okay. Don't look at me. Understand why I haven't started it. The series yet when like, he realized I've barely made a dent in the number of series. I'm currently in the middle of. So catch that. Oh, could you try again? Not my Apple watch. Trying to have its five minutes of fame. Um, because I'm going to do like a series. Um, what's what I'm looking for? Like review of how I've done. Is with you almost. So those checkings coming. Yeah. It's going to be a worth 16. No, 26. I think. Yeah. Because I have 16 that I can't finish that it's going to be ongoing. Um, that aren't finishing this year. So my goal is to have that plus 10. And I started the year on 41. And I think I've made much of a dent because I think I've kind of finished the same amount as I've started. But I, wait, have I finished one this month already? What did I finish? Yeah, I did. I finished one already and I'm going to finish four more this month. So how many juice are you going to start this month? Uh, maybe one or two. Mm-hmm. Wait. Yeah. One. I'm starting one this month. Wait. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Is she became the son? Yes. It's a series. It's the first in a while. I can't keep it under control. It's a problem. It's a problem. Anyways, let's move on. You got to plan your videos. Just plan a video that like for one whole month, all you're doing is marathoning series or finishing series, no starting a new series. And like five or six in one month. It's so hard. I find that so, I love starting series. Really? Anyways. Um, where do we get to? Uh, the text has jumped. Hang on. More people saying 15 pages, 30 pages. 20 pages of look every door. Look every door was the first. Right. Say, grow red. And I did enjoy it. Okay. One star. Cause literally the, the whole problem would have been saw how she just minded her business. Literally had you managed your business, you would have been perfectly okay. So her motivation is never really made sense. It was like early on in my thriller career. So I don't know. I won't feel about it. I know I'm going to love both these series. Okay. They're like my top two series to read. But. I have to finish a few before. It's funny being a content creator because there's like a long list of books that I want to read that I know I love and enjoy. But then there's a list of books I want to read in videos and somehow. They don't match. I don't know. I want to read. Don't get it. But it looks like I don't end up enjoying as much likely. I don't want to get it. Why are you describing my life? I hate this for us. I hate it. Why? Why? Why is it so hard to think of content ideas that are going to do well that match with the books you really want to read? Listen. Why is it so hard? You don't need them. We need to. We need to investigate this. Yeah, I know. I will love it. Just like, you know, just give me a moment. It'll happen. I've already started this year. Get the number as high as possible in the middle of 200 series. Yeah. No, but here's. Okay. Here's the problem. I don't like doing blogs that don't have a like theme to them. I get bored otherwise. I'm like, what's the point? I want to be investigating something here or like whatever, but then that doesn't match up with what I want to read. So, yeah. Um, this is a problem. I'm a bit nervous. I'm going to read a news of nightmares later this week. I'm a bit nervous and I'm forgetting things that happened in Strange the Dreamer. So I'm going to have to find a really good. I'm frozen my back. Okay. Um, yeah, I feel like I'm going to find a really good recap. So, yeah, I'm a bit nervous. Um, oh my God, I hope. Oh, wait. No, listen, I've been thinking of, I've been thinking we're going to need a, um, we're going to need a just mood reading for a week vlog to come at some point. Listen, I don't seem to be able to do that. Ali, I hope you're doing it. How are you awake? How are you awake? That is a question. Ali, I demand that you go to sleep. Like, provoke your internet access until Monday morning. Um, yeah, I just don't do that. I just read the first book and will never continue on with the series. That is my problem. I know I haven't, yeah, I know. I've written Veronica Speedwell like a lot of books. Like a lot of books. Yeah, I've written seven out. But you would love them though. So what does it matter? But it ups the number. It ups the number of books that you aren't necessarily loving either. So, oh my God. Has anyone here read Bitter, which is the prequel to Pet? Has anyone read that? Because I'm debating whether I want to finish. I'm debating whether I'm actually bothered about reading it or if I should take that off my series list. Yeah. Bitter was not a moment. Maybe I should just leave that then. Same. Yeah, that might, yeah. Because I didn't even love Pet. I feel like a lot of people would love Pet. Oh, we're definitely not. Well, I gave it like a 3.5, I think. So like, I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't like, I feel like everyone else had 5 stars, 5 stars. Well, if collectively the book that you gave 3.5 is the better of the two. I don't know. I'm going to make that decision right now. I'm taking that off my my series list. Another one bites the dust. Let's put it in DNF series. People that already enjoyed Pet seem to like it more than me. Yeah, I just think maybe I feel like I, I don't know. You really need to love Pet. It's a thought of reading their book doesn't spark joy. Especially if you don't even own it yet. Okay, well, I was just going to listen to the audiobook. I wasn't going to get the actual book. I'm just going to pretend Pet's a standalone. That's fine with me. That's fine. Okay, shall we count? I'm actually going to, because we're on the topic, we'll read again in a sec, guys. If you were here like a year ago, I would do reading sprints and then we'd read for like 20 minutes and then it's not going to be that, I promise. Okay. These are all my series. I'm zoom, I'm going to zoom in. I can't figure out how to zoom in. How can I zoom in on this? You can just magnify the screen itself. Like go from 100 to like 125. How do I do that? It should be like three dots in the center. Oh my God, you can do that. Yeah. I don't have that. Option on the three dots. I'm trying to zoom in for you. Oh, if you just make it bigger on your screen, it'll be bigger for us. I figured it out. There we go. Is that working? It's a little bigger. Let me go 200. There we go. Okay, there we go. So, one. Okay, this one. There's a lot of Nancy Drew books. I only want to read the next two and then I'm done. I'm not doing anything more than that. I just want to read the next two. Three. Four. Five. I feel like that was supposed to be done in like March. It was supposed to be on a video. Oh my God. No, it wasn't. I changed it. When was it? Was it December? I feel like it might have been December. God, right. One, two, three, four, five, six. Which isn't, I mean, I'm not finishing any time soon. Seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. This is bad. This is really bad for me. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33. You look like you know what you started the year with. 35, 36, 37, 38. We're on 38. So, from the start of the year, you've only had a difference of three. Yeah, because I've started one, two, three, four, five. So, I must have finished eight series. Is that the math? Aaron, it's bad for me. It's really bad for me. And I'm starting two more series this month. Yeah. It's really bad. Yeah. I'm just scared to read the last one. I'm really, I'm really scared. I'm really scared. Um, So, I'm up to date with all the way with children. So, that's just like, I'm waiting for the next book. I'm up to date with that. That's one that I won't finish this year. If you haven't read the book, it's not meant to be. Um. Don't lose in the marti. L-O-L, Teresa. L-O-L. Where? Oh. Mom and his island. I don't own any of them. I don't own any of them. So, I don't feel like that's going to be happening anytime soon, if I'm honest. Um. Yeah. There's not many books. Apart from the geologies, which I may or may not be, I'm not confirming anything. I may or may not be tackling. There's not many. I only have one left. I'm going to finish small spaces, that one, as soon as that last one comes out, for our audiobooks. If that book is underlined, it's because I own it. And if it's italics, it's because it hasn't, what? Oh yeah. It's because it hasn't come out yet. So, only the ones that are underlined, I own. Um. It will be one less once I've read the book I'm on now. So. Get rid of the murder-trenching series. Hannah! Like, honestly, the series you've been in love and you don't own, I would ask those. Because it's not going to attack your physical TBR, and you didn't love it anyway. And so, with you not owning it, there's really no incentive to read it. But I own one of the hashtag murder-trendings. I own hashtag no escape. It's a series where I didn't love what I've read of it and I don't own it anymore. I feel like you can ask those. Um. Oh yeah. I'm going to finish that soon. I'm going to end one in the mystery. Aaron, I'm still going to finish that series. There's no third book. Or like, it hasn't been announced at all this time. Yeah. Well, I'm hoping there won't be. Because then I can just read the second book and then I'm done. I'm trying to do it throughout the year. Finishing a few. So, you'll see me next week now. Finishing quite a few. Oh, Saga's on script, really? I don't know. Yeah, I know the next Thursday. You know how the New Great Angels was pushed back until 2023? Yeah, I put it in my new releases video and everyone was like, oh, no, Megan. Because all of a sudden I'm like, I could not be bothered to check all the dates if the dates are wrong. That's not on me. And then it was very embarrassing. Um. How many series are you up to date on? I don't think I can subtract it from the count. I don't think that counts. I'm not. It's not happening. Um. Hang on, hang on. I'm really behind on the chat. A Poppy War is when I want to finish this year. I've got a few video ideas that will mean I finished some of the trilogies on here. So, like, maybe the Poppy War, or maybe Robin Hobb, maybe Themis Files, I don't know, some of them. The ones that I own all the books for. Um. I don't have murder funding. I have no escape, which is the third book. I don't have the second book. Uh. Booktube's collective 2023 goal will be to get you out of series help by instilling nasty and effing in you. No, it's not me. I don't like it. I am going to do when did I do another series? I can't remember I did a series poem. Oh, why is every time I say series, series is turning up on my Mac on my watch. It's like, yeah, bitch. She said my name. Um, okay, right. That's enough of that. We don't need to see that anymore. But that's the current problem. I feel like, you know, it's okay, 38. I'm going to get that down two more this month because I'm going to start two more series and finished four. No, listen, it's fine. Uh, I think I enjoy series and stand alone equally. I think I'm a series gal. Yeah, I'm obviously not. Yeah. Also, Marathon a lot of series. Like if I love a world I prefer to start series that are already finished. Yeah, multiple books out because I like when I like something I want to dive deep. Yeah. I'm tempted. I'm tempted to get rid of the Nancy Drew series. Do it. Yeah, we're getting rid of that one. We're getting rid because I liked listening to the audio books for them. But I can't get the audio books anymore anywhere. Like I've it was a saga for a while. So I've read three. That's fine. That's enough. Okay. That's another one gone. That's another one gone. This is like painful for me. I don't like leaving things unfinished from what my original aim was. It's like it feels so harsh. I don't know if up-to-date is I don't think it is the same as finished. We'll see. Game of Thrones. Would you be counting that if you had read audio books for 10 years when the next book came out? No, because that's not my fault. Yeah. There's a few that there's not many that I'm up-to-date with then. There's like Heart Stopper and the Wayward Children series, I think is it. And Small Spaces, but I'll finish that this year. I'll finish that in August. Oh no, and the Singing Hill cycle. I think that's it. So there's like four that I'm up-to-date with and nothing else has come out. Yeah, 36 is a lot. We can get it down to 26. We've just got rid of another one, so we're at 37. We'll get to 35 by the end of the month. So that's only nine more the rest of the year. But you're going to start more series in the next six months. Yeah, but nine, nine total, nine net, that's the right word. I feel like I can do it. I feel like I can do it. Believe in me. Believe in me. Well, since I've been reading, I would say like on Booktube, right? In total. This is how many series I've finished, right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I think there's always going to be five volumes according to that. Yeah, I know. I think there's only going to be one more. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, I've only ever finished 20 series. So I've start, not the luck you just gave me. I know. I just I'm going to just look at one. So, um, the woman was two stainless feet. Technically, actually, it's 19 because I grouped my proro series in groups of five. So I'd finished the first group. So technically, it's 19. Interesting. Don't mind that. It's already been like three to four years of my life. We're talking here. Well, in three to four years, you finished 19 series, but in one calendar you wanted to finish 15. Yeah. How many have I finished this year already? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I finished eight this year. That's good. There's more progress than usual. Yeah. Sometimes series should have just been a standalone, like daughter of a condom. Oh, listen, what I did at the second book in the series and I was like, I had such a good time book one and another. I was like, what is this? Oh, see, I didn't love book one, but I'm still going to finish this. I think I only gave it three stars. Um, the expectations aren't expecting. Listen, um, uh, yeah, ninth house. I mean, how many books is that going to be? I think she wants, I went to a, I went to the signing of ninth house and I think she said she wanted to be like an eight book series. This is what I'm saying, like you're putting them out once every, like, what, three, four years or something. No, not that much. But like, come on now. No, it would have come out in 2020 or 2019. So yeah, three, four years. Crazy. I've got a lot of power. I mean, I don't know if I'm going to finish this series before I die. Like, that's the extent of the, the problem we have there. I've only read the first, uh, six plus two others out of order. So I haven't read a lot of them. Listen, if I didn't own the rest of the series, I would have denounced it, but look, look at it. Can I just put it on it? Sometimes considering some series of sound learns as an actor, self-care. Yeah. Listen. Uh, eight. She said that, like seven or eight. And I was like, Lee, come on now. Um, but that was when, I mean, that was when the signing was. So it could have very much changed. I mean, she wanted to call it gentlemen demon. I mean, thank God that didn't happen. So who knows. We shall see. Did you not know that? Yeah. Did you not know that? What does she want to call gentlemen demon? Hellbent. I mean, that's great. Well, hellbent is better than gentlemen demon. Gentlemen demon is like. This is why they are the office name books. We just should take that away from them. Oh, my God. You read 15 of the Poro series. She probably would have read more of them if it wasn't the, um, like trying to think of video ideas because they're quite hard to fit into stuff because it's like, who cares, do you know what I mean? Like they're not going to be on lists or like not a lot of other people on Booktube read a ton of them. So yeah, listen, we're going to get a lot. I do think like a solving murder mysteries video and read like four different murder mysteries and see if you're able to solve any of them. Yeah. I'm thinking of doing that, but I'm doing it for one, but it was supposed to be this month. It's now going to be next month, but I'm doing it for one specific book, I think, and then I might do it for like lots of ones. Um, I think about, we want to take a moment to think about if there is a lot of ninth house books, why are lives are going to be by the time the last one comes out? Like, every three years, five more at least, and that's just in this one series I'm like, okay. My grandchildren, you know, hold my pages for me. Yeah, legit. Oh my God, Ollie loves the way he did the wing. Oh, thank you. I could not read. I don't think I could even read all the paro books. There's like 40 or something. Like, it's going to take me forever. You're like, you're trying to read two a year. Yeah, legit. I want to read at least two more, well three more this year, because I have parallel entals, then large edgeware dies, and then a reread of murder on the Orient Express. Um, so yeah, I want to read at least those three this year if I can. Um, funny you should say that. Do you mean the glass hotel by Emily St. John Mandel? I assume so. Um, I've got my live show for my book, for my Patreon book club at like 8pm after this. I'm going to actually in this next sprint, I'm going to prepare my like topics for it and then I'll carry on reading. Um, yeah. Okay, shall we read again? Let's read again. I feel like it's time. Um, let's do a 45 this time. I feel like I want to get some serious work done. Well, I'm just going to write some questions down and then I'm going to read. Okay, let me show my screen. They're definitely going to be dead by then. Unfortunately, because they're old now. Um, okay. Let's share the screen. Okay, we're going to reach for 45 minutes. Let's go. How did we all do? I read, I think I read like 55 pages in that sprint because I did a bit of question planning for later for book club. So yeah, I only have like 85 pages left. So I definitely will finish this in these sprints. Not again. Not the cat, not the meow again. Um, meow is mean. Every time I try and prepare myself for the cat noise and every time it still makes me 31 pages of one by one. I read 57 pages and I obviously finished my hair and my makeup. So I'm making a progress. Now I'm trying to update my spreadsheet so that I can find the film I wrap up, but I'm still adding in books from April. Oh my God. Because I used, I had gotten good about doing it every single bullet and then I was able to have a look and I hadn't done nothing while I do it and then here we are. I always just, I use Ali's spreadsheet and I always just, um, I always do it at the end of the month. Like I, I'm not good at doing it. I feel like I should. Every month I say, this is the month. This is the month I'm going to fill out my spreadsheet every time I finish a book and then it never happened. But I always just have to do it at the end of the month. So now I'm trying to finish April so that I can do Mays so that I can have my stats out of them. Yeah. Yeah. I know the struggle. Sometimes in the morning I'll be like, oh, I have to film the wrap up and I'll get ready and then I'll be like, I haven't filled out the spreadsheet. I've got to go film out the spreadsheet. It's too late. Um, oh my God. Yay. Do you already finished a book? Start the next one. What do you start next? Oh, Dorche of the Moon Goddess. This is another one I need to read. But it's another series. So, alas. Well, at least with that one, while it is a series the second book is coming out this year. So you could start and finish it this year in November. Yeah. It's a geology, right? Yeah. I think I will start that soon. I'm debating also. I think I'm going to get the fairy loot of the sequel, even though I haven't read the first book. That's one of my favourite books I own. What did you say, sorry? Because I wanted to match. Even though I haven't read it yet it's sunny and light. I feel the need. Yeah. Me too. When does it go on sale? I wonder. Yeah, obvious, I think. Because maybe I'll have time to read Dorche of the Moon Goddess before then. Maybe. I'm just looking at the tweet. Let's see. Yeah, August. You could be like letting X choose what I read. Let's say it's a random number generator but all the numbers it's down there, let's say it's 20, any of the top 20 books you want to read. It's a regardless of the concept but it's just the books that you want to be reading. I've thought about doing that. I have thought about doing that. I don't know. We'll have to think. We'll have to... Mexican Gothic and all of that kind of been saying for years I want to read and that's yeah it's a problem. I just read The Beautiful Ones and I gave it 3 stars and I'm like I love her concepts and I love her covers but so far, 2 of the books that I've read I'm only reading 2, I'm giving them 3 stars and so I own more books of hers and I'm like am I, I need to read those before Dr. Maro comes out because am I really a 3 star author? Well listen, so I've got Mexican Gothic and Velvet was the night and I've pre-ordered Daughter of Dr. Maro. I've never read a Sylvia Muranagasi in my life. Never read a book. No, I've read Jade and Shadow, Certain Dark Things in Her Vampire Loop and Untamed Shore I think and Devil of the Night. I'm like The Beautiful Ones and Mexican Gothic I love the concept, I love the writing here but like the characters didn't really do anything for me and I wanted to focus on different things It's hard isn't it? Because that for me is Tiffany D Jackson. I've read 2 Tiffany Jacksons and they were a 2.5 and a 3 but out of any author out there who like gives me the concepts that I want and the covers, Tiffany Jackson is probably it but I've had 2 books that I've read that I haven't loved so I'm like when I was at a point, at this point I feel like I'm wasting my money and my time because if I'm consistent in 3 stars I would rather read a 1-star book than a 3-star book because Lisa has something to say about a 3-star book. And I feel like also it's not fair to the author for me to like keep reading their stuff and like reviewing it and saying oh I didn't like this if maybe I should just accept the author is not for me you know what I mean? Especially with YA, honestly I don't know all the ways to read them quickly so I can get rid of them because I'm just like I'm not loving them and most of the time it says I wanted to go a little bit further I want to explore this theme in a different way and I'm just like I want to read an adult book that's really what it is. I found myself drifting to more adult I feel like the past year maybe and not enjoying I've had a problem with a lot of the YA that I'm reading it reading really young like being young YA and I'm just really not interested in that like I like reading middle grade and I like reading older YA but I'm not as interested in like younger YA because I feel like it often feels like dumbing down an older YA book do you know what I mean and like it's still important those books are written for like you know some of these books I read and I'm like yeah like when I was 13 or 12 I would have eaten this book up right but for me now it's just not what I want to read and I but like I there's not an easy way when you find out a YA book there's not always easy way of like finding out whether it's an older YA or a younger YA book you know what I mean but YA just it gives me because they have such cool concepts and it's like this concept I'm interested in but I want to explore it in a way that is pleasing to me as another little in my big age not another series listen it's just it's just even if she starts it and finishes it yeah yeah it's fine it's fine I will say the fairy edition I don't I okay let me share my screen briefly like really quick one sec ah I'm messing up okay I wish it didn't have this thing here like on the spray edges this is really I wish it was just this I don't know what they are and then like a kind of gradient because I don't like the two things they don't feel connected to me it feels like when people are wearing a top and a skirt that don't work together you know what I mean I will say it's very busy yes yeah I don't know if you saw it in person it wouldn't feel like that because you've got the whole background going on as well so maybe in person it wouldn't feel like that and I don't love it as much that in the moon that's obviously before I got my bath you know when I see it in person I think that that is one of the most stunning books that they've done literally I hate to say it I really wish they put that same creativity towards adult books and I'm thinking that maybe they think that the adult audience doesn't want that much but I'm like that's the whole point is we want pretty adult books and very boring yeah I don't have the adult subscription I only have the Wyatt one because I like the like editions I feel like that one and six crimson cranes are my favourite two editions they've done I just love that I think thought of the moon goddess is one of my favourite physical books that I own the edition of it from war was stunning never picked a book but the edition was yellow I love it yeah that was nice um I'm waiting for Meg Trudy's silver marina Garcia book it's coming it's coming at some point and Rebecca um yeah I'm three of her books read none why is this a thing why is it one of the only books I've pre-ordered there's like authors who are coming out of books who I've loved I'm not pre-ordering their books I'm just pre-ordering silver marina Garcia to be fair I think I should pre-order uh Carisotto maybe I just haven't loved any of the covers so I'm like and book of the month might have it so I kind of like wait anything that I think book of the month might have I just wait I don't pre-order it wait um there are so many questions I'm like comments I'm so behind I usually give author three chances and then decide the author it's not for me but usually only if each of the books are in the three star range yeah I feel like that might be what I need to do with TCG Jackson I feel about oh my god hey Riley this is how I feel about Sarah Gailey I've given three of their books two or three stars by keep picking up because the concept sounds so good it sucks doesn't it because like you really want to love this author but it just keeps not clicking um yeah YA Book Range like I feel like we need so many other age categories for books because I'm fed up of picking up YA that ends up reading as like super young YA like for 12 to 14 year olds or 11 to 14 year olds do you know what I mean like that kind of age range that's just not what I want to be reading and if I knew that I wouldn't pick the book up but there's no way of really knowing it especially before the book comes out and like you're just excited about the concept um what else I'm reading The Monarchs by Kaz Morgan and Daniel Page and I'm only like 85 page in the end it's actually really good like I actually can't full-time it's just not a five star but it is like it's like very enjoyable to read but it's just not like it hasn't got anything like amazing but I feel like it does YA really well um I'm a such a sucker for YA especially contemporaries yeah that's understandable I feel like I go through phases as well I don't really much contemporary in general like something that's more like lit fit and I'm exploring like heavy things or whatever something for me yeah yeah this is a good point adults are only people spending all this money on these special editions like come on so give the adult versions the special editions as well oh my thing just jumped um I have not seen the pre-order incentive for Carrie Soto what is it, is it for the UK as well I haven't seen that but yeah I was just speaking to Tom my boyfriend's mum on a walk yesterday about uh Taejin because she's read them all as well and I give her all the Taejin to read and I was like this is what the next one is are you excited um um Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Johns I think give it a go I don't know if it'd be like your thing but give it a go I'm going to read Evelyn Hugo first I think yeah that's what I did I read Evelyn Hugo first then Daisy Jones then Mother Boo Rising but I just think she like kind of gets guess what she guess what I want you know but I'm nervous about Carrie Soto yeah the Carrie Soto covers are ugly the UK one is better than the US one but they're both ugly really ugly the same with the it girl ugly ugly ugly ugly covers ugly ugly ugly ugly the metallic the ashes no but the UK one is worse than that it's it's I'm showing you it oh I've got it actually I can share the file no I can't it's so bad I mean it looks kind of like um it looks kind of like UK thriller covers but I'm like surely mysteries where deserves better than that no surely we should be spicing it up the UK just has a problem with thriller covers in general though I think this is the UK cover excuse me it looks like 2008 right are we serious what the hell it's awful it makes me very upset why aren't there but boxes that do special editions of thrillers because that's what I need because I hate all the covers um I could do a I could test out three silver murder gaseas I was trying to think I wanted to do a video where I read because I feel like now my standard of a favourite author is I have to have read three of their books like a top favourite author I have to have read three of their books and they all be five stars so I have that I have that with theodora gas I have that with there's not many others actually but you know what I mean like that's kind of my standard and Courtney summers is one away from that and I have the it girl and then I was like trying to think of other authors who I have read two books from and they've been five stars and there's not actually that many Andy where was another one I thought I could try out his older book like Artemis or whatever everyone says Artemis is horrible so I would that's why I thought perhaps not perhaps that's not for me and I couldn't think of many other ones I've lost where I wrote it down but yeah just me trying to think of a fun vlog concept that includes uh I'm the girl by Courtney summers because I want to read it so bad but I want it to go in a great vlog and I'm like I can't connect the dots I have a question do you get books you know you'll enjoy or books you're interested in but wouldn't have picked if it weren't for Book of the Month oh that's interesting yeah because you can skip every month like a month if you want to um oh hang on I've jumped again that was an interesting comment sorry I'm just reading stuff uh oh yes I'm Janice I want like special editions of mysteries and like thrillers and stuff but that doesn't exist I will say after like maybe this is just with the romans but I feel like they're a lot harder to get they're a lot they do fewer of them and it's like you have to fight to get the edition that you want or like if there's one box if you don't know what the book's gonna be in the box and but it's so and I'm just like yeah make it easy for me to spend money don't make me work for it like come on yeah yeah that is true um literally why Ruth Ware deserves better than this she gives us like what you know mainstream thrillers with a bit of fun why she doesn't deserve this the character to pay the back is more expensive than the hardcover really that's strange Rachel I need to I need your skills in discerning younger way from older way because I just can't do it I just can't do it like for example the gilded ones by Namina Fauna I thought would be like an older one because it's got older tones to it and it wasn't and I was very sad see I feel like because her books are so good she should have better covers Daisy Jones I feel like wasn't okay cover but Carrie Soto isn't very good um see that's what I wanted to do but I couldn't find enough authors who would like reach who would be able to include in it and Andy Ware and there was like maybe one other but they were like a ten I think it was like there's authors I've given like a five star and a four star two but there's not many who I've given two like I've read but they're really authors and you own like two or three of their books on your shows because it could be like trying to find a new favorite author because you've read nothing from them but you own multiple books of theirs if you're going to give three five stars well let's see if we're trying to find a new favorite author yeah that could be good but also I feel like maybe I wouldn't enjoy authors books as much if I read three of their books in one go do you know what I mean I feel like I don't know but maybe I would now I found my list the other two that won the list were TJ Kuhn who doesn't have another release well I actually know he does he has older books huh maybe but Erin Morgenstin who would be like the top category but we're waiting like 20 years for that so that won't happen um oh apparently yeah people saying Artemis was not very good yeah he has a lot of sexism and like how much of a thing he's heard is the one that is the main character yeah and I read his short story to be fair in the forward collection and I didn't really like it and I want to know what you're thinking of um a lecture guide or it's fine it's fine it's all of that so far it's I want to murder you arrange where there's a convenient situation right now but it's okay hmm yeah you're right I do think the Daisy Jones cover could have been better um oh maybe I get nervous though talking about TJ Kuhn as like a favourite author because I don't want to like upset people and I'm just like conscious of it so I just don't want to like I almost don't want to include him I'm like ignore that ignore that I've given two books my stars um what's the best book you've read this year Aaron I do not know I don't know what miles would be how many five stars have you had listen I'm very stingy with the five stars my most recent star was you made a fool of death with your beauty love that one that's definitely a favourite I don't know what my favourite is hmm I don't know what my favourite the year so far would be that's really hard I have genuinely no idea uh yeah I really don't know I've had one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen five stars thirteen five stars this year but one was a reread and one no two of them are like 20 pages long so they're not novels they're like you know short stories I don't know I don't feel like any of these standouts my favourite book of the year yet so far they're like great for me how long it stays in my mind like a lot of these are very recent okay recently like if at the end of the year we're talking about time they would really set apart a favourite yeah I feel like as good as dead is up there for me by Holly Jackson Jade Legacy is up there and maybe The Broken Girls by Simone St. James I did like that um yeah Nevo I've given a four star and a five star too so I was like you know that's close it's close but it's not two five stars uh the energy and creativity of a Grady Hendrix cover on a TJR cover would be amazing yeah that's the energy energy we need um oh my god you haven't given a single book five stars so far this year I would just I'd shut down my channel at that point like no not enough um um okay yeah I don't know but I've had almost as many two stars as I've had five stars this year so that's not great for me because I don't typically give out many two stars I do when I was writing every book I don't even read every book now I don't care what I say what I feel about it and that's you know sufficient for me I've already had only one less two star this year than I had throughout the whole of last year so it's a lot more two stars like proportionally for me so far yeah I feel like there's people who like some people give out no five stars and then some people give out like five stars for like every book but also I read I have very varied reading so like I'm not always reading the same genre I read fantasy, I read romance I read contemporary, circle fiction I read nonfiction so I'm constantly reading something different if I only read like five star predictions I would probably give more five stars out because it would take a whole bunch of boxes for me yeah yeah okay should we read it again I'm actually really into my book I'm really enjoying it some stuff has happened and I'm like wow and I read a high volume in a book so like it's very easy I read 160 I think this year so far alright oh my god which is why this version is killing me because I was like 30 books a month I thought it was bad with like 10 with 10 I'm like oh god you've got to do like 30 oh my god okay how long should we do another half hour one this time works for me let's do another half hour one okay one second okay let me show my screen okay let me zoom a little bit there we go okay let's go hello how's this friendship going I've been in it I went to check the mail in a day on my blog and I like to throw it in my closet trying to find these tarot cards but oh god oh good I got distracted in that sprint I don't know what happened to me but I only read like 30 pages I got distracted you know when the book is getting good oh sorry what are you saying you don't know they might live right no I have I'm on page 381 and there's 434 pages so I'm almost the end you know when like a book is like then sometimes I have to take a moment before I like carry on reading I think that was it like it was very tense and I was like I need to take a moment before I continue yeah um got to 56% 25 pages 48 pages 30 pages listen when the other night when I was on page and sprints and I used it I did think my cat was like out of my room or something and I was like oh wait no so even I get I think I don't have it yet I'm just like I know it's a timer yeah and my cats don't meow that often but one of them has started to so I thought it was him um and I was because he like doesn't like he'll come into my room and if I start any kind of live he'll leave because he hates noise like he's very noise sensitive and he's like you're talking well if I go I finish stuck with you I actually love the novellas oh yeah I have only below zero left to read and I'm going to read that maybe next week so then I'll finish those but yeah I really like stuck with you no I didn't I liked under one roof I didn't like suck with you I get them mixed up 40 pages um listen I would like an app uh the cat timer made all three cats down here with me sit up um listen Hannah chores are still you know to do them yeah it's still productive so yeah but I know what you mean I hate chores I hate it I hate it and my mom and dad like Megan you are an adult in this house and I'm like I just I just forget one of my jobs is cleaning the bathroom and I just hate it I hate it I always make Tom do it for me so I actually it's not really one of my jobs um okay here's the thing right I often want to speak about this I typically don't love avocados it's just playing on my mind a lot but I feel like at some point in my life I'm going to be become a person who loves avocado I don't really like avocado either because of the texture so I have to have it paired with something that has a different texture so that like if I put it in a sandwich or like a burger or something all the other textures like will disguise it or like in a smoothie or something yeah some of the best like sandwiches I've had have had like a thin layer of it in there but I want to become a person who has it like when you go out for brunch you order avocado and toast but I'm just not that girl I would order like something probably sugary I'm like genuinely addicted to sugar I don't think I could do a day without sugar like some in some form it's bad I have like cereal bars you know what I mean or like one-worthers or something I have to have like a tiny bit particularly like I've just gotten myself to a place where after lunch or dinner I need a little dessert like whether it's just one-worthers that's enough but it has I have to have something sweet it's very bad it's very bad that table's reading me like how are you are you okay because I look finished trying to train wear oh my god yeah I was weeping and I need to read music nightmares like next week and I'm just not prepared I feel like I'm actually going to reread I'm not going to read the hot reread the whole of strange dreamer I'm going to read a recap and I think I'm going to reread like the last 50 pages or something before I read music nightmares just to get myself into the headspace of having just read that you know I will say like avocado texture is not great but it's the consistency of the smoothies it's fantastic it adds a really smooth consistency to the smoothies yeah I don't tend to have smoothies I don't know I prefer I'd rather like eat all the component parts than drink it I just like I just rather eat it all than drink it listen I'm glad glad someone's oh yeah Taylor's a mess so oh my god avocados and egg substitute in baking that's interesting wow because of the texture I think yeah like tools things together we've got an avocado hater avocado has an awful texture and zero taste and it's expensive so I mean that's really that's true that's true oh my god they were 250 at least oh my god yeah to be fair there's some things in life I don't let myself like because I don't even let myself really try it or like turn my brain like switch the brain on to like liking it because I know it's better for me if I don't like it like whether that like coffee is one I just I have never had coffee in any form can you believe it I can't imagine life without coffee I just know I would like it so much that I'm like my life is better for like my bank account and stuff if I just don't let myself Nutella as well I don't really let myself have Nutella because I could become addicted to that you know yeah it's like maybe I'll order some Nutella today oh my god no not the I like it in Nutella Danish oh my god to be fair I know I'm going on a cruise in like three weeks and I've been obsessed with looking at all the menus and one of the things they do in the morning is waffles with Nutella and I'm like yeah I'm gonna have that one you could have pancakes or waffles but I think it's like thick pancakes I think I'd prefer Nutella with like thin pancakes but yeah I mean here's the thing everyone's saying I have self-control no I have no self-control on any of the rest of my life particularly like when it comes to food this is what I'm saying once I like something I'm gonna have it a lot like I'm gonna want it all the time so I just have to with those two things not let myself like them because anything else I can't control it 70% of my blood is coffee oh my god no even if it's like a just a placebo in my mind like I have really long days I'm like oh I need to get me started and then like I feel like I need a coffee to pick me back up again yeah I don't know I wanna try I mean I worked in a cafe for like a couple years I was making all the different coffees and I could have just tried them but I was like no but listen anyone saying my restraint is unmatched if you live with me if we've got any of my family on here any of like Tom they'd say her restraint is zero maybe give me 1% for this because this is the one aspect I haven't restrained my life because it's a running conversation about how I have no restraint and it's a problem it's a problem I've got a little bit of blood in my caffeine stream yeah there's never been a day that I've not had at least one cup of coffee see my dad he works in London or did like before the pandemic and he would get like three coffees a day from like Starbucks or whatever like every day and so now he just hasn't had coffee for like six years or something because again I think we have a sim I'm very much like my dad I feel like we have similar personalities so like you know Mika please where I can't find where which one wait which one this is what how can you be around a coffee for hours I've tasted dish soap because it smells I love the smell I just yeah I just don't let myself because I know I've become addicted so I don't know I don't know like a vegetarian vampire like you work at a hospital or something you just never had a look like how yeah to be fair if I ever no that's actually embarrassing I can't admit that no I was gonna say if I ever needed to pick up at the cafe I wouldn't have coffee but I would have a sugar cube I'd get one of the sugar just a little cube oh it was bad it was bad sometimes sometimes you know it was like from 9am and we'd have no food and we'd be like showing up at 5 we wouldn't have lunch feels a busy day so it was tough out here and all I had at my disposal was a sugar cube we hate to see it dish soap doesn't taste that bad oh my god yeah I feel like if I were to have coffee it would have to be like milky sugary coffee I don't think I could do strong I don't think I'm that girl like very like you know caramel syrup kind of situation I like coffee sweet like even when it's strong I like it sweet so if I have like a cold brew I still want to be sweet like I want my coffee to taste like dessert even if it's like electricity in my name yeah like I'm lactose intolerant so like last week I finally made the adult decision to just start getting my coffee with oat milk and it's so hard because it doesn't taste as luxurious oh no real milk but I don't feel that way yeah see I don't like milk really either I'm not a big fan of milk like I could not drink milk on its own like when I have when I have cereal I like drain the milk off of each bite so I feel like yeah everyone is admitting that they eat so that's this not the dish soap temptation making soap is the ultimate test of I know I shouldn't taste this what? what is going on with you guys that dish soap is a little bit tempting don't they eat your cereal dry or that you're a water and cereal type of person oh no water I know some people do that I'm just like I can't get with it no I have to be milk or I have to make the milk like really chocolatey so what I often do if it's like Jeff Coco Pops or America Jeff Coco Pops so what I'll do is I'll put a tiny bit of Coco Pops in the bowl I'll put a bit of my milk serving in then I'll put it in the micro for 40 seconds stir in the micro for 20 seconds and then fill it up with my serving of Coco Pops so then I've got like Coco Pop milk that is always my like method for cereal yeah you know old milk is fine or milk is macadamia milk that is the top tier milk because it's like the closest inconsistency to real milk I've never tried because I just don't like milk I've never tried a milk substitute just because I don't have a lot of milk in my life but I was in Mark's and Spencer's the other day and I saw some I saw some oat milk and I was like maybe I should give that a go maybe I should give it a go yeah some of the milk are so thin like almond milk it tastes like it's trying too hard like it's like somebody ate almonds in the room next door it's like the La Croix of milk wow yeah I don't know because I have semi skimmed milk in our house we don't have full fat we have like half I don't know what your milk fat ratios are whole milk 2% is like 2% yeah like fat free milk 2% is a sweet spot I think that's the same we have whole semi skimmed and skimmed so I think it's pretty much the same why is everyone judging my warm cereal like why it's nice warm cocoa pops warm wheat of eggs I have my wheat of eggs warm I have wheat of eggs what's now like old people's cereals where's the fun hot fresh we don't have like fruit loops whatever you guys we don't have any of that shit I don't know Jamie Oliver or someone like I don't know stopped us having fun cereals we have like cocoa pops is like the most sugar I think you can have in cereal we don't really have that fun stuff that's good so yeah warm cereal is oatmeal yeah listen it's really nice guys it's really nice we don't have cinnamon toast crunch we don't have any of that fun stuff was it Jamie this man is a menace to people who love sugar he like changed school yeah he ruined school lunches he's this British chef guys that like was like you can't be unhealthy so yeah oh my god ice cream in her mic in the microwave now that I'm not on that level not Aaron considering it like I like a good melty you know like as I'm eating it and melting but I don't know like it was all warm and like just straight goo because the texture is kind of fun for me with ice cream yeah no I'm like I have to I get it straight out the freezer like my mom kind of leaves on the side for a bit she'll like take out the freezer and leave out for a bit before she eats it so it's like melted a bit I'm like no I want to hold that tub in a tea towel because it's so cold in order to like you know get it out of it why are you everyone's judging the warm milk and I'm just letting you know you're incorrect cocoa pop chocolatey milk is just the best the best um yeah wait why is ice cream in the microwave like a popular thing too crazy I need to move to Portugal evidently because they won't judge me that reminds me by the way if anyone's ever been to Palermo in Sicily and has anyone any good wrecks on restaurants I've just booked a holiday there and I'm very scared because my first holiday like since the pandemic I'm like shit how'd you do this if anyone's ever been dropped me some restaurants because I'm very I'm very nervous and scared I would just get back with a warm warm milk lifestyle it's so nice and it's a thing I don't have a lot of milk right so it's not like overpowering it's just like a it's just warm like it's like a warm dessert like you'd have like a warm cake or whatever like you can have cake isn't milk it's just like a warm sweet thing like it's fun yeah I wouldn't eat it so sometimes it's like you eat lattes I wouldn't eat a drink a eat a bowl of warm milk or like a warm milk with cereal but it's like often chocolatey milk or with Rita Bix I mix it up whole chocolate milk no I can't like milk listen Nikki has hit me we were like we love eating soap and now we're like ooh warm milk there's a line it's so nice it's so nice try it anyone who has cocoa pops go get a bowl put a little bit of cocoa pops in right a little bit then your portion of milk 40 seconds in a microwave stir 20 seconds in a microwave then pour dry cocoa pops on top of that mix it all in happy days try it and you won't be judging me because if you try it you see the light I'll drink room temperature orange juice like it's freshly pleased we're not putting it in the microwave and warming it up like no it's not no um orange juice yeah see mine is so fine but milk isn't even a self-eater I'm just saying I you know I'm not even a I'm not even a self-eater I'm just saying oh my god crazy yeah see telly warm weeks is good then you can extend it to um cocoa pops listen it's great please make our own child yeah absolutely not there's no way oh my god people are doing orange juice in coffee none mm-hmm yeah um I'm okay not Jessica saying warm is the natural state of milk y'all are confusing warm with room temperature because those are not the same thing but also it comes out at cow temp but then it's pasteurized and all the other things from the tea you know I'm trying to form a series of mega drinks coffee she's gonna have a good time I am not I want to be suffering not cow temp I don't know the natural temperature of cows I just know human tense cow temp oh my god yeah why is the why where's a bit community like trying to bring soap back so you should just oh my god and yet you're all judging me I just oh yeah what should I go to coffee coffee order I don't want to bring back some control I don't think I have a ghost at least not in the summer in the winter I go to which isn't really a coffee order but it's I get a tie with pumpkin cream foam and cinnamon on top wow velvet I'm a cobra girl these days whoa I like hot chocolate if you're going to give me a warm drink I don't drink a lot of things I drink water fruit squash a glass of milk before bed means a night of no sleep for me okay because my stomach is going to be rumbling and tumbling and it's not going to be a good time no not even the scale oh my god I have tried the chocolate coffee drink it's okay it's not great but it's not bad it tastes like chocolate milk and coffee hmm not matcha at Cal oh mocha at Cal 10 I get my Starbucks drinks at kids 10 because I like to drink them right then I don't sit with my drink for a long time yeah yeah everyone's giving us that oh I love lactate I was a lactate girly for the longest I even had ice cream and I would have my la dairy tablet no fruit squash how would I describe this like fruit juice like but we have like concentrated hmm so like you put a little bit of it in the glass and you like put water in it does that make sense so it's like mostly water but it's like this little like fruit I don't know if you've got a do you have ribina I know what a concentrate is yeah it's like that that's like mostly what I drink it's not it's like a very common thing here it's like a very common thing oh yeah yeah um cordial yeah something like that juice concentrate okay that's what it is in the frozen aisle why are you freezing it the hell preserved my god maybe it lasts like forever like it like not forever but like it's not like a it's not like orange juice where it's going to go off date like quickly I don't know anyways up until I was pregnant my mom used to dilute my juice with water so like when I had like juice out in the world for the first time I went oh my god it's so strong so tart it was cranberry because she had been diluting it for a long time oh I don't like cranberry juice I'm not a fan I love like strong really tart flavours oh I do have my juice quite strong to be fair I feel like naturally it makes me match weird UK food and drink with books listen I don't think this stuff is weird though this is just not like warm cocoa pops is normal for me for you I didn't notice it would be so divisive yeah why is everything called pudding is that it's not dinner tea and I'm just like but y'all also have tea and some people in the north sometimes it's like they call dinner lunch and stuff or like yeah it's very confusing even that confused me but like I feel like everyone says tea and dinner interchangeably like if you're playing out in the street your mum might be like you come in for tea you know and I'm just like do you mean a cup of tea no dinner this one's out when I found it I was like wow or like supper okay it's supper if you're posh I feel like posh people call it supper maybe no I don't really like chocolate milk he makes her fake chocolate milk on her own which is like actual chocolate milk like cocoa pop milk listen I'm confusing it's okay pudding is really specific yeah I just I feel like you could use there's certain things that are definitely pudding like sticky toffee pudding but like some people might just use pudding as dessert like interchangeably I guess I don't know now are you never have tea with tea or I wouldn't because it's like you wouldn't have tea with like a savoury dinner I don't think honestly I didn't know it'd be so controversial okay should we do one last sprint one last half hour sprint works for me it's probably gonna film a video okay perfect is that long enough for you yeah okay oh I just okay one sec I'm rushing I have tea with everything I don't really drink tea I'm not very British and that's it I don't really drink tea much at all unless I'm like feeling sick or my throat hurts or something yeah whenever I go to afternoon tea which is do you know afternoon tea is right tea in afternoon no so it's like it's like a thing that you go to a restaurant you do like a posh restaurant and like it will be like small finger sandwiches with like little cakes and scones with jam and cream and you're supposed to drink tea there like it's not like a regular thing like it will be like special occasion you might go for afternoon tea anyway when I've gone I like don't drink tea and like they'll come around and be like what tea do you want I always have to select one and I just make it very milky and sugary I'm not very British British yeah it's like an outing yeah I remember when we had a war and we went against the tea we put the tea in the tea we looked after people no tea you're missing out afternoon tea it's like it's a joyous it's like maybe like once every couple years you might go for an afternoon tea well I don't know some people might go for it on the reg but they're rich if they are because it's expensive it's like a special occasion okay right I actually are going to read I promise okay let me share my screen I'm going to get so close to finishing it in these sprints but I don't think I'm going to quite finish the book I'll be like 20 pages from the end I think okay let's go how did we all do I've got literally seven pages of the book left I've got like one what'd you say sorry I said you better do that knock it out easy today yeah I'll probably just like finish the audiobook like when I'm getting changed or something so yeah it's literally like the end chapter so yeah that's another series did you um did you film your video I filmed like a Patreon video but like it's because I need to film my wrap-up and I don't want to film my wrap-up and just like stall and was like not doing anything like I hate wrap-up so much I just might not film one of this much I'm gonna be a ham a wrap-up yeah they are annoying they're annoying they're so boring to film like you just sit there oh my god yeah especially if you've spoken about the books before a lot and it's like I understand like you know people don't watch all of your like each all of our vlogs or whatever but like in your mind you're like I've already spoken about this that's a damn problem out of me because I discussed them elsewhere so you choosing not to watch it that's fine but I have talked about for May I read 31 books oh my god getting myself to talk about even just half of them yeah not fun it's not fun yeah I'm really close I'm really close I could have probably finished it if I hadn't like I went downstairs briefly to talk to my parents I probably could have finished it if I hadn't done that half way mark of my book 49 pages read yeah listen summarizing books is just like oh my god like I've had enough oh my god wrap-ups are your favourite even as a viewer wrap-up I'm at least a video so watch yeah I don't watch a ton I only watch people who do I only watch wrap-ups I have stats in them because I find stats interesting so that's typically the only ones that I watch and if it's between a wrap-up and a vlog I'm always going to watch a vlog instead wrap-ups are your favourite I just don't understand this it makes sense because wrap-ups are some of the highest performing videos consistently but they're not really for me really yeah I would say like it's very consistent high performers and my vlogs like theme vlogs but wrap-ups don't do very well for me so I'm part of me just like I'll just suck it in I used to do new causes to be my number one videos but now vlogs are my highest views I think vlogs are mine and like TBRs TBRs always do and they're easy to read yeah I know it's easier to watch one wrap-up than a bunch of vlogs but vlogs are more fun I can watch an hour long vlog in one sitting because like so many different things are changing and my eye looks like a grip but like a 45 minute wrap-up I have to watch in like three sections yeah well I always find it really hard I find it like I watch YouTube in like 10 minute bursts so like I'll watch maybe a video throughout the day if it's a long video so I always find it really hard if someone does like a video like a few times but they've done ones like based on my favorite books or whatever and I want to it's an hour long or something and I want to sit down and watch that for like an hour but that's just not the way I watch YouTube so I end up like not watching it because I want to like dedicate the whole time to that rather than watching 10 minutes here 10 minutes there but I just watch YouTube like in like spurts throughout the day when it comes to vlogs I put a vlog on while I'm like making dinner while I'm doing what I'm doing here like I'm hanging out with my friend oh girl let's get this weekend okay yes let's talk about it while I'm getting ready um yeah I agree with you in vlogs even when it's better I used to do quarterly wrap-ups I liked doing quarterly wrap-ups that was fun but yeah the thing is once we get to quarterly I've forgotten so many other things I would have said otherwise like because some books just don't have a lot of lasting power in your mind actually when you read as much as you do like you read so much like I would not well thank you I tend to skip vlogs that are too long I watch everything at two times speed oh my god listen when I see a short vlog like I love Emily Fox but she keeps posting these 12 minute vlogs on my girl I man as soon as I got set up being with my drink no the vlog is over I don't know I get scared whenever a vlog that I have gets longer than half an hour because I'm scared no one's gonna watch it but people will love long vlogs but for me I'm just like I don't want to do a long vlog because I'm scared people will be scared off I think it's almost like you cultivate the audience that you want because like for a long time I did a lot of shorter videos but I knew that if I wanted to continue growing whatever I had to start making longer videos and then once I started making vlogs consistently those would be the ones that performed better and now a 50 minute vlog for me is gonna be one out of ten or the 30 minute vlog is gonna be like six out of ten yeah but some of my like this year the longer vlogs I've done have been the better performing ones and I'm like hang on a second maybe I could the longer you're on the ad the more I can show you so they're gonna recommend longer videos yeah it's crazy it's crazy the way different platforms prioritize what they want from you because they want different stuff like I said I wanna make shorter vlogs you know cut out some of the like lifestyle so people are like I really miss seeing the groceries I really miss this I'm like okay I'll put them back in there there's only so much time you can fit into a vlog though right and still speak about the books I feel like I speak longer about books now than I used to I'm like how I need to like trim my mental like editing down a bit like I need to like say less because I feel like I speak a lot longer now also I think it depends on the book like some books even if I did enjoy it I have a lot more to say it was fine and that's how well I had to say it and sometimes when I love a book so much I actually struggle to talk about it as much because it's like it's just great like what do you want me to say like it's just you've already done it that's it oh goodness yeah a lot of people say they prefer longer vlogs but I just get scared also that that content is gonna like die out like I get scared because of like tiktok and stuff I don't know I get scared and I don't have tiktok and that's just a constant fear for me like that I'm gonna like die on the internet because I don't have tiktok Melissa please what oh the people say we're all here hot cereal oh my god maybe I will I don't have this often guys but if I have cereal so I don't usually have breakfast is that controversial I don't I know you know breakfast is most important in the day but I eat I don't get hungry to 11 so I eat at 11 and then I have dinner in the evening and like a snack in the morning just starving after a long time like you gotta bed too early to not eat until 11 I don't know I just don't get hungry but if I eat say when I wake up at like 7 I'm hungry again at 11 so like breakfast and lunch there you go I don't know I just tend to have T-Mills I probably should have more than that I know but a themed reading vlog of hot cereal okay matching books to the different hot cereals I eat to be honest wheat a bex and cocoa puffs and wheat toes I don't think you guys have wheat toes in America it's just like circle I think it is really easy or material I don't have a t-mills yesterday so we got a grocery yesterday so we got last I'm I isn't weird I've always wanted to try something from Trader Joe's because we obviously don't have it I really want it so bad I want to like go shopping at Trader Joe's is that weird is that a weird design? I want to go to Waterstones so bad I am impressed I want to go to work songs but here's the thing I love Waterstones but vlogging in a bookstore is so much easier in America because you kind of like have aisles but in Waterstones the books are just on the wall so like if you're trying to vlog yourself everyone can see you because usually the books are just on the walls so it's like a lot more self-conscious I feel like I am so comfortable in the public I've just been talking to myself to be fair you're not the person you just vlog I had to get comfortable like solo traveling and then I was vlogging that so when I was solo traveling like talking to my camera was almost like how I kept myself company because I would be wherever in the world but I'm by myself but like talking to the camera we can't be company and so that kind of just translated because I'm like I'm by myself but I'm talking to y'all in the future yeah I need to like I don't think I'm very good at it and I need to like up my game because when I'm going on holiday I want to vlog and like everyone in the chat I want like me to make a manifesting circle for me I need to upgrade my camera my camera that I film on oh you're okay I just did like a COVID test my little timer what was I saying oh yeah so I've had my camera since I was 13 it's a Canon 600D it's massive it's done me a good service I feel like I feel like it's still you know fine but we need an upgrade I did all my research on the internet I went hmm let me research what camera I want I know what camera I want cause of the pandemic that you can't buy it anywhere you literally can't buy it I've had it ordered since like January and so at the moment we're hoping the shop I bought it from are going to get it on the 24th of June but if they don't I'm going to be out here on this cruise with all these old people vlogging on this in public so like that is not the energy I want so everyone please like pray that I get my camera what camera do you order the Sony ZV-E10 is that the vlog one like the creator one that's the one I want to get a secondary camera I was going to get a G7X but like now the girls are all getting this one and I like it looks so crisp oh it's so good Aaron it's the best camera so that's why I'm willing to hold out but it's getting to the point where like I need it I need them to like make it cause there's like a chip in it cause the pandemic not pandemic I don't know the computers are backward the chip thing so they haven't been able to make it and especially in the UK it's been so hard to anyone to get it so everyone please manifest the camera coming cause the camera is quite small but me trying to whip that out in public on the cruise with these old people looking at me is going to be so embarrassing listen people stare I'm just like no I'm going to keep going yeah but I don't have a very good phone either so I mean I have like it's fine I have the iPhone 8 but that's old now you know so it's not like the best for vlogging oh my god Aaron you're giving the girlies food inspo what do I want to try today and I have little signs and all this and like oh yeah let's do it listen I need to go try there's nothing I want more than to go to Trader Joe's where is Trader Joe's like what states is it in like everywhere or just some some but like it's usually in like a wealthier area I know there is no Trader Joe's in any city where the median income is like less than $100,000 oh my god what yeah yeah I've only ever been to no one judge me but in America I've only ever been to Florida and so I've never seen a Trader Joe's I feel like Florida like depending on what city would definitely have Trader Joe's oh I went Orlando every time because me and my family go to Disney World that's why I've been I've been there like five times don't judge me okay I don't want any judgment it's a wonderful place literally the happiest place on earth but this is my controversial opinion as someone who's been many times I think in Florida now Trader Joe's is better than Disney World and that's what Joe's it's so good and we always stay on the hard rock hotel bro Trader Joe's is affordable that's the craziest part the crazy expensive store yeah I just want it so bad I want it so bad listen Katie is coming up in here agreeing with me Katie knows also I have a strange obsession watching theme park history videos on YouTube you don't ask it's like a strange part of my personality so I'm like secretly passionate about this Orlando has won but only in the rich neighborhood that's where they are literally wow oh my god defunct land they're very small they're very small it's like three aisles in and out it's very small yeah I want to try this so bad oh this is like a deep desire of mine it's like on the bucket list go to Trader Joe's it's like sad like let me know I admit this yes Melissa so dangerous like back home it's the Trader Joe it's an apple all in the same place and then here it's a Trader Joe like one two blacks friend of Barnes & Noble and the Sephora and like a coffee shop that I go to mmm that sounds like a dangerous combo Trader Joe's and coffee listen I want everyone to know if you watch defunct land I've been there from the start defunct land is my shit I've literally been there since the first video maybe not the first maybe like the fifth but I'm obsessed with that YouTube channel yeah um uh Trader Joe's dark chocolate peanut butter cups are the best their dessert I got some sea salt brownies from yesterday they were so good I was eating them in the car no my life is like that I want Trader Joe's like even the frozen Indian food like the frozen foods are so good I'll go admit we have been to a few American I haven't been to Trader Joe's I've been to a few like American I don't know we call them super do you call them supermarkets what's the word yeah okay um my favourite one was Publix I liked Publix I love Publix they have such good cupcakes oh my god listen they did this thing when I was there called a caramel and chocolate dream pie and I was I had quite a few of them they were big they were like a pie and like in the end my family were like we're not letting you go back and buy another one I was obsessed I was so addicted it was so good what are the top things that the people know what are the top things that Trader Joe's so things that I always get I always get the sockeye salmon I always get the frozen rice because it tastes better than like regular fresh made rice I promise um I always get there like baked good salt this time I got banana bread and I got um the sea salt brownies which the sea salt brownies are already gone let me just tell it they're gone the garlic spread is so good the frozen butter chicken and tiki masala delicious like so good wow see my favourite food shop in the UK that's like kind of bougie it's Mark's and Spencer's Mark's and Spencer's has some good smell it sounds like it's fancy it is it's like you know one of my life aspirations is to become rich enough to do my shop at Mark's and Spencer's I've never had like something bad from there it's always so good for lunch yesterday I had some of their chicken with this like orzo and tomato pasta that they had and it was like oh my god it was so good it was so good listen Trader Joe's has the best frozen food they're frozen rice like I've made it for people and they didn't even realise it was frozen I'm like that's how we've got frozen rice reps in the chat listen listen I got they finally had them back and start the roasted potatoes or onions and peppers and I tell you it's so good I literally don't do anything to salt and pepper and it is just wow oh my god well on that note you've made me really hungry so I'm going to go have my dinner for the stream lunch I like I can smell it and all this talk of food I'm like oh my god I need to go eat right now so I'm going to end the sprints but thank you everyone for joining us and thank you Aaron for joining me it was so much fun thank you for having me I had so much fun I want to do public sprints more because obviously I do them every week on Patreon but I feel like I've forgotten how fun they are as well like on public I feel like I need to do more is he wants to get rid of the bots? is he we had no bots this time? it's like stress free I'm like wow this is amazing so anyway thank you everyone for joining us to read thank you so much and we'll see you soon