 These are all the books that I read, at least, some part of. So the deal with May is that I am completely addicted to the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial. However, this week, they are off because the judge has to go to some conference or something, which is bizarre. So the trial is just like on pause for a week, which means I also have time to do things other than watch the trial. So I'm basically doing a little mini read-a-thon just to try to get through basically my entire TBR in one week. I wanted to start this vlog. Hey, ow! Kat is not on board with this plan. What's the matter, baby kitty? Why are you so hostile? Yeah? No! Okay, as I was saying, I basically want to get, obviously not my entire TBR read this week, but as much as I possibly can. Kat, why are you like this? As I was saying, I don't want to obviously read my entire TBR this week. Well, I would like to, but I cannot. That's not realistic. Kat! So destructive. I guess this is what I get for wishing I had my own stitch. You're basically stitch. You wreck everything you touch. Stop it. This is my TBR. Not Toys for Kitties. Stop that. Stop it. Anyway, as I've been trying to say over and over, but Kat won't let me. I'm trying to read as many books as I possibly can this week because the trial is off this week. Since I decided that since I'm basically having a mini read-a-thon, I would vlog it. So from my TBR, I have five books that I'm hoping to get through this week. My goal books. I currently, hey! You fed the beast, so I think she'll leave me alone for a second. So, as I was saying, mini read-a-thon this week. From my TBR, I have five books that I wanted to get through this week. One is an audiobook that I can't physically have a copy of right this second, although there's a physical copy of it waiting in my mailbox. That is This Woven Kingdom by Tahit-a-Mafi. My audio hole came in for it, so I just started it. And I think it's not totally long, so I can definitely finish that. I might even finish that today. And then, as soon as I finish this Woven Kingdom, I plan to start the audiobook for my patron buddy read for May, which is The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. I'm very excited to read this. I've heard amazing things about it. We'll see how the audio goes. One of my patrons started on audio and then didn't like the audio. It is long though, so it would be good for me if I could do it on audio, but we'll see. So I'll give it a go, at least, since I have the audio from the library. So, This Woven Kingdom, The Grace of Kings. And then, I didn't finish last month, Jade War by Fonda Lee. There's the name. So I would like to finish Jade War this month, though I have quite a ways to go. I don't think this is correct because I'm reading it on my Kindle. Yeah, I'm past that. I'm at chapter 22. So, let's see how far I actually am. Don't accidentally spoil yourself. That's where I'm really at, which isn't a lot farther than I was before. But anyway, so I have this much more to read in Jade War, so I would like to do that. I am buddy reading the next two, but trial being the trial, I'm sorry about the timing. I'm just reading it when I can. So, The Daughter of Red Winter by Ed McDonnell, which I'm buddy reading with Alan. I need to check in with him. He probably would be like, no, I'm not starting it until basically June, and I'll be like, well, sorry, I'm reading it now. Or maybe he's finished it. I have no idea. And then the book that I'm buddy reading with Al and Jesse, The Twelve Kings in Cherokee, and I don't feel bad for the timing of this at all because as far as I know, Jesse's already started it earlier this month, and Al's not going to read it until the end of the month, so I'll just read it in the middle, and we've got it all covered. Someone will be reading this book at every point in the month. So, yeah, those five books are my goal books, and then if I do miraculously finish those before Friday, then I also have Kaikei, Soul of the Fire and Bester of Cold. I didn't want to put Soul of the Fire and Bester of Cold on my TBR this week because Soul of the Fire and Bester of Cold are rereads, so, like, push comes to shove. Like, I can get, I mean, also have Bester of Cold on audio. Anyway, yes, I wanted to make sure to put on my TBR books that I'm physically reading, and that are not rereads to make sure that I get to those. So, yeah, that's the plan this week. I have a little time before work this morning to read, and then I do want to film some video aesthetics. I haven't filmed any videos and I need to film some videos. I'm thinking of filming a bookshelf tour, which I've never done before. I'm also thinking of doing in parts, like part one, part two, part three, because I have a lot of bookshelves. And yeah, so basically this is just going to be, I was going to say a chill vlog where there's nothing chill about a read-a-thon, but a chill vlog in which I try to read as many things as I possibly can Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I need coffee. Yeah. Did I mention why I didn't start it yesterday? I wanted to start this vlog yesterday, but I was tired from the weekend, and then I had a really busy work day. Cass, don't wreck my couch. Yeah, I'm talking to you. Hey, stop it. What are you doing? That's not toys for kiddies. Stop it. Yes, I'm already behind by one day. Five books in five days was already a stretch goal. And now it's five books in four days, so wish me luck. So I finished my first book, This Woven Kingdom. Like I said, I probably could. And I'll talk about that in a second. But the audiobook for This Woven Kingdom was read by Kate Redding, which is fine. Not my favorite, but it's fine. And then I just started the audiobook for Grace of Kings since I finished This Woven Kingdom, and I did not know that it would be read by Michael Kramer. So I'm feeling quite personally attacked right now by my audiobooks. You don't know Kate Redding and Michael Kramer are like the main Sanderson narrators. And it's not really because they read Sanderson. I don't care for them. Like honestly, I just, I like Kate Redding better than Michael Kramer. I really don't like Michael Kramer. Like when I was saying that someone said they didn't like the audio for Grace of Kings, I was like, oh, let's see how it goes. Yeah, well, if I had known it was Michael Kramer, I might still do a bit of audio just to like be able to make progress in the book when I can't physically sit down and read. You know, like while I'm cooking and stuff, but I might try to physically read it as much as I can. Because anyway, my lunch break is over and I must get back to work. It is the end of the day and I'm very tired. It is almost 7.30. But I did, as I said, finish this woven kingdom, discovered Michael Kramer. What's the narrator I have to look forward to for what is it called? Grace of Kings. But yeah, now I need to read tonight something. So my brain is fried. But I must read. I must read. I have to, I have to, I have to. So let's see. It's what I read Jane War. Which is going to be nearly right next to me. Do I start Grace of Kings over again? To erase the Michael Kramer from my brain? Do I start Daughter of Red Winter? Do I start the Twelve Kings in Shirakai? Which Elle tells me Jesse is hating? So, I mean, I gotta say, that does diminish my enthusiasm for the idea of starting that tonight. I don't know. I don't know. Figure it out. I have to read something though. No watching TV, Lana. You gotta read, you gotta read. Probably Jane War because I've already started it. So, why start something else? When I already have a book that I am part way through. Great, that makes sense. I mean the other ones are obligation books and this isn't. But I've started this one. So, okay. Good morning and happy Wednesday. I did manage to read a little bit of Jane War last night and this morning. I ended up getting really sleepy last night, and then I woke up like an hour later and couldn't get back to sleep for like three hours. So, did not actually get a ton of sleep last night even though I went to bed quite early. Yeah, so I'm a little over 40% through Jane War. I should have time today to read. I have confirmed that Jesse is hating Twelve Kings in Shirakai. So, not encouraging. And I think my plan... So, I mean, not doing Grace of Kings on audio really does throw a wrench in my plans because you know that I finished this Woven Kingdom thinking great. Now I can move on to my next current audio book of Grace of Kings, but I don't think I can do Grace of Kings on audio. At least not the bulk of it. So I think as soon as I'm done with Jane War I will read as much as I can of Grace of Kings physically and then do some on audio thereafter like for while I cook and clean and do things like that. And I might, even though there's no way I will have already finished Grace of Kings I will also start Twelve Kings to see how I go with that and if like, if it's also terrible for me and if Jesse is going to DNF it, she hasn't said she can, but if she's going to DNF it then I feel that I have permission to DNF it as well if I hate it. I mean, ideally I like it, but anyway. And then Alan and I are going to chat about daughter Redwinter on his channel closer to the release date. So even though I would like to read it sooner rather than later it's actually maybe a good thing to push back daughter Redwinter so that it's fresher in my brain when we chat about it, right? So it's the responsible thing to push it off, right? Yeah, like I always have an audio book as my current audio book and I don't have one right now other than Grace of Kings. I should have the hold coming in for another of my DBR books, Kaikei, or I guess I could start Besser of Cold. Maybe I'll do that. I'll start Besser of Cold on audio since Grace of Kings audio is a bust. Alright, change of plans. So today I will start Besser of Cold on audio and then I may do some of Grace of Kings on audio once I've actually got a flow going by physically reading it. I mean Jade War. Hillary already finished it and Vish already finished her reread of it, so like trying to keep up with my reading buddies has completely failed already so I really have nothing to lose by pushing it off again when I don't want to. I really only want to read Jade War. I don't want to read anything else. Anyway, I'll figure it out. I'm looking to be posted but I do have a work call this morning that I need to prep for so I must do that and I'll check in with you later. So I've sort of solved my audio book problem. Hi, by the way. It is nearing the end of the day. I have been quite productive. Been a busy work day and I also did laundry which I hate doing so very, very laundry. So I had a ton of laundry to do because I avoid doing it like the blank. Any hoosies. So while I was doing laundry, making lunch, etc. I did listen to an audio book and I realized that I had a bunch of credits on Leroy FM. I was like, you know what? All I need is a credit. I mainly get audio books from the library nowadays. If at all possible, I only get audio books from the library or as I used to constantly buy audio books myself. So I was like, you'll have all these credits. Just use one. Oh, I haven't said, I don't think I said what I used the credit on. 12 Kings and Cherokee. I feel like I've been listening to it for hours and hours and hours, but it's just quite a long book and it's quite dense. So I'm only into chapter 9. Is that where I am? Yeah, I just started chapter 9. And so far, so fine. It started out really strong by which I mean like the very first chapter. Like it opens with a bang. It's quite engrossing, you know, middle of the action kind of thing. It's an exposition and it's a lot. I mean, it's a lot of detail to try to keep track of and it's also just like a lot of it being delivered in an info dumpy way, which is the worst possible way to deliver that information. So kind of annoyed about that. But it is a pretty cool world so far and I am kind of sucked into the questions and mysteries of it all. But I mean like, in addition to the info dumping, there's like kind of like stupid amounts of detail. Like she's walking through this market eating kumquats. And then we're told that she's popping the grape sized fruit in her mouth and that she's enjoying the chewy sweet skin and the tart inside. And there's like three or four references to the kumquats that she's eating. I'm like, I fucking get it. She's eating kumquats. Okay, can we move on from the kumquats? So it's still like that. I'm like, okay, I know this is for like atmosphere but like maybe you can mention kumquats once for the atmosphere. I don't know if we get it, she's eating kumquats. Yeah, otherwise it's a pretty cool world that I'm more or less enjoying being in even if I'm a little annoyed at how the world building and story are being delivered quite ham-fistedly. But it's not terrible. It's... I'm pretty, I'm interested. So that's where we are with that. When I wrap up work and laundry, I will try to make some more progress on Jade War and also try to start maybe Grace of Kings before I finish Jade War. I don't know. I'm not sure. I haven't decided yet. I've listened to some more of 12 kings and I do not like it. I don't like it. I talked to Jesse a bit about it and we both agree that it's just doing... there's a difference between having like a descriptive writing style and just like listing descriptions of things. It's a subtle difference, but it's a big difference because I like plenty of authors' books that include sensory details. Patrick Rothfuss, Laney Taylor Those are the ones that come to mind. I mean Donna Tartt I thought of one and then... oh, Daphne de Montréal. But just literally sitting there and describing how everything looks is not the same thing. Telling us three different ways about cum quats. Is that not it? And one of my biggest pet peeves is like to convey that a character has had a relationship with another character that his like... that person just died or like they missed them or something like that. But just like to catch us up in the fact that they have lifelong or long time relationship with them there will be some like lists of things that they remember lists of things that they loved about this person or something like that and always be like they'll always miss how they used to go walking in the park together and the delicious cookies that they used to always make and the way that their nose scrunched when they laughed. It's just like just being oddly specific does not make this feel authentic. When you're thinking about a friend that you miss or a loved one that you haven't known your whole life like that's not what that sounds like that's not it. Because my entire brain is occupied by the depth herd trial in case this wasn't clear I am pro Johnny Depp. I don't understand how anyone could be pro herd at this point. But whatever part of you know the analysis and stuff that I've been watching is you know about why cause I'm talking right now and that was not the time for that. Why Amber Heard's testimony doesn't ring true and you know it's because she's doing that because she's like a bad author that includes like odd cats can we not right now? Including odd bits of detail to like try to make it feel authentic like you know noticing the color of the rug as you're lying on the rug after having been beaten and you're like yeah no one actually does that though that's not a thing and that's like what books that get it wrong that's how they are where like it's these weird details that don't add anything and aren't how people are and aren't something that someone would say or notice or feel and it's just and it's like a lot and you can just feel the author's hands all over it because you can just like see the author be like oh and I'll include this detail you're like no that's not that's not a thing. That's not how people are and also I just posted on my Instagram about this I would like you know what people make fun of for current phrases in books like let out of breath they didn't know they were holding etc that kind of thing. Well my my contribution or my suggestion to be added to that list is when a character hears screaming and then they realize that it's them that's screaming. I've seen that so many times to the point where anytime a character hears screaming I'm like I bet it's them screaming and then they realized it was them screaming and I'm like there it is. So yeah I am not into it. I don't think the writing is very good which is unfortunate because I do actually think that there's like the at the core as is my complaint with a lot of books a lot of the time is that there is like the seed of a good idea there's and somewhere in there a good premise but it's just not well written and with writing it's all in the execution which is why absolutely terrible story ideas can result in an amazing book if it's handled by the right author and wonderful story ideas can result in terrible books if it's handled by the wrong author. 12 Kings so far is just like I'm not doing anything egregiously bad but it's doing every amateurish thing that I can think of info dumping telling instead of showing overloading detail including extraneous and nonsensical and unrealistic details both in the narration and what the characters are saying and noticing and thinking and feeling characters that don't feel like characters because of how they're acting they feel like plot devices so I'll probably finish it since I bought the freaking audio book but not a fan not a fan you can't get it baby it's outside good morning I realized that I was so upset about 12 kings that I didn't even talk about my first impressions of grace of kings lots of kings guys you guys stop it so I'm not super far in I'm like 3 chapters in 2 chapters 3 chapters and I messaged a couple people to be like so the beginning at least anyway is basically fire and blood by George R. R. Martin because it's the conquering of 7 kingdoms in fire and blood no dragons as yet but um it was just kind of funny since I just read fire and blood so all this talk about there being 7 kingdoms and that like they were all separate until this dude showed up and was like I'm a rule all y'all um I was like this seems familiar I feel like I just read this but I am not I am not saying that grace of kings is a rip off of a sign of wisdom fire or a kingdom of thrones or a fire and blood you can have 7 kingdoms in your story it's not like George R. R. Martin owns the concept of multiple kingdoms numbering 7 anyway um so far so good very early days very early to tell but Ken Lee Ken Lee's storytelling is very good which I came to know in paper menagerie so at the very least I am certain that I will come away from this book feeling that the writing craft is excellent we'll see if the story works for me is again it's very very early to say how I feel about that we're just we're still really setting the scene getting to know what's what um it feels heavy it feels dark um but I kind of do that going in but that's the kind of thing this would be anyway I have quite a busy day today um I need to do some errands for work as well as for personal I showered so that's done for the day so I need to like hurry up and make some breakfast so that I can head out um take care of some things um and yeah that's the situation and um while I'm out and about I will be listening to 12 Kings and hating it so love that for me um but in the meantime not in the meantime I don't know what I'm saying I'll check in with you later when I've made progress on this that or the other and uh Kat will check in when she's doing something feisty isn't that right guys you guys you need to confuse ow it has been an eventful day um I made a little bit of progress on 12 Kings while I was running errands but um okay so I did run errands you know for work and for personal well actually just for work uh no personal too okay well whatever I haven't done everything that I wanted to today um but okay so I let's start with I got pulled over by a cop for the very first time in my life this never happened to me my entire history of being a human being a driver it's never happened and it happened because I didn't fully stop at a stop sign I like basically stopped but I didn't actually stop and like my like a little ticket thing that they write out like their their guess at my like miles per hour is 10 miles per hour when this occurred and I mean like yes technically yes I did not stop at the stop sign so that's going on my driving record love that for me anyway um yeah so that happened and then when I was making lunch today um I spilled chili sesame oil all over my jacket um and it was like a pale pink color jacket that like I was like too hot to still be wearing it but I couldn't be arsed to take it off and then it got covered in chili oil so I washed it in the tub and it is now drip drying in my bathroom lastly I realized that um I thought that I had another week before we were recording the podcast for Besser cold we were recording it on Monday so I need to read Besser cold I mean I've read it before so like you know it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if I didn't quite finish it but like I want to have a fresh in my brain was it ever gonna be so like if it's between listening to 12 Kings and Cherokee or listening to Besser cold I mean you don't have to tell me twice slight change of plans for the rest of what's so today is Thursday tomorrow and then my brother's here all weekend so like I won't have any time to read so I will put out, put pause on 12 Kings because it's not from the library so like there's no urgency other than I want to be done with it but I'm gonna switch gears and start Besser cold today and yes my physical books remain Jade War and Grace of Kings and you know what I'm just gonna yeah I'm just gonna focus on Jade no she focus on Grace of Kings right because I do have the audiobook from the library so like I want to take advantage of that while I have it I'm definitely not buying that audiobook because Michael Kramer oh and other eventful things this is after the other things this will be little but like I um watched Cas this morning come out of the bathroom and just drag her butt all over the floor spread her feces everywhere luckily she was doing it on like the hard floor not on the carpet I look over and she's just scooting her butt across the floor and I'm like what are you doing so I had to clean that up yeah so that's been my day there she is the lovely one herself say hi kid okay um yeah so what's the situation just thought I'd give you a quick update um I need to do some work um wash some dishes do some more work start Besser cold and uh yeah yeah so I'll check in with you later ah I mean I don't do I need to give you a reading update for Besser cold I guess if I like my chain by mind massively this time around but probably just maybe updating you on like ah so nice to be reading an abracadabra book again after reading such crap are you excited for Besser cold baby kitty should have named you Monsa are you the snake of talons are you Monsa Mercado are you plotting revenge woo child just look at my arm just ah just look at this this is mainly from last week a little from this week and then the other side I've got some fresh ones from today all my battle scars from fighting you my demon child you're so cute so cute bye bye are you messing with the curic again what have you done did you mess it up again did you mess it up you did didn't you why why do you hate the curic is this where this goes I don't think so why it's not twice for kitty stop put this back okay why must you do this you proud of yourself you guys where that goes why it's not you put it back you put it back it's not twice for kitty no no no you're gonna put this back okay put this in here where it goes okay okay so quick update I have started Vessar of cold and it's so good after sitting at 12 Kings however then I realized that I could finish 12 Kings tonight I'd be done with it and I would still have time to do Vessar of cold tomorrow and then like Monday morning afternoon like I would have time to finish it cause I also then I could film a rant with you tomorrow for 12 Kings so that's a new plan even though I started Vessar of cold now I'm actually gonna go back to finishing 12 Kings but I also need to get groceries and I can't decide if it's better to do that now probably tomorrow tomorrow I have food in the house I'll just go tomorrow as early as I humanly possibly can so I just need to get groceries that this is a good plan which means it must be a good plan can I rent a casing kit are you gonna fight me are you? just quickly checking in before bed an hour to midnight and I did finish 12 Kings in Cherokee and I gave it two stars to not get any better we did not expect it to and needless to say I will not be continuing with that series so it just remains to be seen what else can I think of it and then I did get about a quarter no, like a third more than a third I'm more than a third of the way through Vessar of cold so yeah, pretty good today tomorrow we gotta work I wanna film some videos well I have to film some videos because I don't have anything filmed for Saturday so yeah, tomorrow I will try to finish Vessar of cold I think and make progress on Grace of Kings those are my goals tomorrow we'll see how we do with those for now, it's bedtime is it bedtime baby? are you sleepy? good morning, I did in fact wake up like this this morning I'm gonna try to film some videos before I have to start work and edit at least one of those videos so that I can give it to my patients for early access for like a few hours and then get ready to post tomorrow for my guaranteed Saturday video I have a few in mind, there's like several videos that I have to keep wanting, they're like on my list to film and then every time that it's like a filming day I'm like okay but like not today though I don't have time today and I don't know when I imagine I will have time one of these days, today is not that day though today I don't have time I have a few videos in mind that I am gonna film I have a few videos in mind but I'm not gonna film cause I don't have time anyway, yes, don't have time to check cause I need to put my face on make some coffee and film not I mean I am filming right now but you know what I mean okay so, check in with you just popping in to say that it has come to my attention that today is Friday the 13th and that is extremely exciting to me I mean it makes me want to just like abandon all my plans to like film videos, do work do errands, I just want to like put on Haunted Mansion merch and like watch some spooky movies and just you know make a day of it but obviously I can't do that but I don't know if anyone else gets excited about Friday the 13th, I get extremely excited ever since I was a kid it's like a little mini Halloween in the middle of your year I mean in my very real Halloween would be 24-7-365 but I can't have that the next best is having some Friday the 13th sprinkled throughout my year so today is Friday the 13th and that brings me a lot of joy so I hope you're excited too I mean I guess it's not Friday the 13th but by the time this vlog is going up it will no longer be Friday the 13th but I hope you were excited and we like unconsciously could bond over it today because we were both contemporaneously excited about it or you probably don't care because you're an adult but this makes me happy so anyway despite what I would like to do I need to get going on filming videos hence the whole face of makeup so I'll check in later about reading and such well it is over 90 degrees today so I love that for me um I am approaching the end of my work day I'm gonna end a little bit early today I shouldn't tell anyone but I got finally my copy of This Woven Kingdom because I went to my mailbox when I say that I mean I don't mean like I literally went downstairs because I have a mailbox here too but I have a post box you know what I'm trying to say and that's where this was sent so I had to go there anyway it's stunning this is the Illumicrate edition and I ordered it before actually reading it because I had been wanting it and I found it was expensive but like the best price that I had seen for it because I was thinking about getting it and I was like I'm not gonna spend $100 on a book if I haven't read it yet so I got it on audio I was like I'm gonna read it see if I like it decide if I want it and then Kaz what are you doing? is there a bug bug? okay well Kaz is enjoying her day anyway um so yeah I was gonna read it before deciding if I wanted to spend $100 on that book and then I found it for less than that and I was like well I doubt this will be here for long and since it's going mainly for $100 I was like if I hate it I'll resell it for $100 and make $40 um but it is luckily I did like the book and this edition is stunning I'm on record as hating purple but this is a dark enough purple and it's like it knew that it was like hurting me a little bit by being purple the inside is orange so it is really gorgeous that's that um I made some small amount of progress while I was driving around and a little bit while I was just in the kitchen around here other great news today I went to Trader Joe's and they haven't had for I think like a year at least like many months but I think it's been a year since they had veggie chili and I used to buy their veggie chili on the regular because one of my favorite easy things to do I mean I don't really need to do that anymore because I don't go to an office so lunches to make ahead of time would be dea mac and cheese like their cheddar style vegan mac and cheese mixed with peas and like frozen peas and the Trader Joe's veggie chili and like a bucket of hot sauce and I would just like make that and then split it into like three pepperwares and bring that for lunch every day well not every day but many many days because it's like really satisfying and a great combo because by itself the chili is not that good the macaroni is not that good but mixing it together with hot sauce and peas so good I like literally brought that to Pollux so I bought like a bunch of chili they didn't have things that I regularly buy that have not been out of stock like they didn't cash in less happy news Trader Joe's avocado prices went up for like two years I've been buying their teeny teeny tiny avocado bags where it's like six avocados $4.99 they're the little ones and now six tiny avocados costs like 6 $6.50 or $7 or something inflation is hitting Trader Joe's it's still cheaper than buying it from Whole Foods but not great but they had some really gorgeous strawberries and gorgeous raspberries that were a decent price so I got those yogurt and some almonds because I mean it's like over 90 degrees so that sounded good because it's fucking hot so like fresh fruit and yogurt sounds good but yeah oh and they have a new flavor of sparkling water and if you don't know this about me I drink like unreasonable amounts of seltzer I would drink more seltzer if it was not like prohibitively expensive to drink more than I drink I'm excited to try it it's raspberry lime flavor so I was skeptical about their watermelon lemonade flavor and it was really good so we'll see how they do it anyway that's my reading slash Trader Joe's update for you I I need to ignore that mess I'll just turn you this way I do need to clean the kitchen a bit and I do need to listen to more of us are cold so I will devote at the same time and I still need to put some laundry away from two days ago because I was washing sheets so I have them like to drink because they weren't fully dry so I draped them over some doors and now I need to take them down and fold them anyway yeah good thing I have an audio and then I think maybe I could finish us her goal tonight that might be a stretch goal I don't know we'll see I'll check in with you non-reading non-food non-vlog update my friend Lee who I have not mentioned enough but who makes all the amazing mugs that are on my shelves such as my first law mug but I guess since I've mentioned it now I will show you in a second I asked her to send me something like not fun something that I couldn't find here and to send me that thing that I needed anyway it doesn't matter it's like a practical household thing so she was like sure and then she sent me that thing but she didn't just send me that thing she also sent me this Peter Pan mug let me show you properly it's got the whole crew on one side and little Michael drilling behind and then it says second star to the right and straight on till morning on the other side and inside is green and look at this like curly handle this is amazing I'm always complaining I'm always complaining that like there's never any Peter Pan mugs so I'm no doubt that's why she saw this and got it because she's listened to me complain about them enough because there's Tinkerbell mugs galore but no Peter Pan mugs and I'm like it's his freaking movie even the okay no one cares but the stitch crush is Disney line I love stitch obviously and I love Peter Pan and like one of the lineup promised to be Peter Pan and I was like why like perfect you know crossover you know amazingness and like some of the designs they were coming out with were super cute and a lot of them had like little hats and little accessories like Aladdin he looks kind of he has like a booze little hat and Pinocchio he's got like a Pinocchio hat and Pocahontas he's got the John Smith hat so I was like obviously he's going to have like a little Peter Pan hat maybe a little dagger it's going to be so cute no stitch crush is Disney they made him look like Tinkerbell because it's always fucking Tinkerbell and it's not it's not called Tinkerbell it's called Peter Pan she's actually not in it that much I have a Peter Pan mug is the joyful part of this store I couldn't resist complaining about the stitch thing though because that is unforgivable um anyway let me show you that first law mug that I'm not sure I've ever shown I keep meaning to like film a first law collection video and I'm always like I'll show that mug then but I guess that's a while coming so here we go this is the mug and it says on it as you can see there we go back to the mud and it kind of looks like it's covered in blood and I'm not picking it up because I've precariously balanced it as a dagger on it and if I move it I don't know if I'll ever be able to get the dagger in that place again anyway that's one of like legitimately 50 mugs that's not an exaggeration that she's made that I have she's made more than 50 for sure but that I personally have that she's made oh this uh this name of the wind mug is another of her amazing creations this red rising mug it's another one of her creations this other red rising mug is another of her creations she likes to do little like surprises but it has like a little wolf on it super cute super cute do you have any others on my shelves right now? I have a lot of them I like put away safely wrapped in bubble wrap because I don't want to think yeah it's over here Perfection has no place in love this is from the movie Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro it's not a book but most of her mugs are bookish it has an amazing bloody bottom and it's double sided vikings inspired mug it looks like it's ruins but it actually if you like look you can see it's actually like legible it says the space between life and death that's where we are the most alive this iconic blood splattered blood of my enemy is mug in a giant this is my hand so this is like a giant giant mug and it's blood splattered all over then the also iconic toss a coin to your witcher O Valley of Plenty mug that says fuck off bard on the other side and the bottom has a coin on it but not least is this vicious inspired mug plenty of humans were monstrous and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human that is but a fraction of my creatively crafts collection I have her shop linked down below all the time but I think hopefully I'll have updated this notes to selfly and I'll update this if it's wrong she had a website but I think she's moved to just being on Etsy but regardless you can find her on instagram and I'll have that also if it's not already in the description but it's creatively leigh leigh gh like we bar do go crafts and you can use my discount code are I a fancy influencer yeah so that's literally literally the barest fraction of my collection from her you can see why like I can't have them on my shelves because you literally would not be able to see the books because I have so many also because like we both like a lot of the same fandoms then the shelves would be really unevenly distributed because I have like probably 10 maybe more red rising mugs so like it would just be like a cluster fuck of red rising mugs with other bare shelves or like I have several six of crows mugs I think I have a couple of Schwab mugs yeah I have yeah there's a did I say I mean there's a lot of like Grisha mugs too like so I have a couple six of crows ones then I definitely have like a Nikolai Lantsov mug and yeah anyway point being her mugs are great and now that I have her reading first law she's got first law mugs coming she had me covered on red rising but now she also I told her she's like you know what first law might just be like up there with red rising for me and she like makes tons of red rising mugs because it's her fate and I was like I cannot wait for your shop to be literally 5050 red rising in first law and I've sent her jade city so hopefully hopefully we will soon have some green bone saga mugs because I don't have well that's not true when I ordered second hand the special special editions of the green bone saga I also got with them the the character bookmarks and some enamel pins and some like trinket dishes that I literally don't know what to do with I'm really pretty but like what the fuck do I do with a trinket dish they're really nice though so like yay but it's just it's a breakable thing that I don't know what to do with my mainly a source of stress any who's these yeah that's just my quick update okay back to reading and such well it is just past midnight so technically it is no longer Friday the 13th and it is the weekend and it is the end of this little read-a-thon vlog all in all it was not as productive as I had in my perfect world hoped and imagined but it was decently productive so these are all the books that I read at least some part of during this vlog I started grace of kings I made respectable progress in jade war and then I finished this will have been kingdom 12 kings in Cherokee and just now as of like two minutes ago I finished best of cold so I have the rest of the month to read Kaikei daughter of red winter soul of the fire legends and lattes to finish grace of kings and jade war which will be tough since I will be entirely glued to the trial but I will obviously do my best but thanks for joining me for this little week of reading and living and not reading as much as I would have liked but it is what it is so I guess that will do it let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings and whatever you want to let me know I post videos on Saturdays other random times as well but on Saturdays so like and subscribe join my Patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you