 So yes yesterday sorry for my voice. It's early in the morning, and I'm always a zombie in the morning But I am still in bed And it's 10 o'clock in the morning Yesterday I did finish the audiobook so I finished a graveyard book and oh my word. I love that book I ran it four out of five stars It's one of those books where it's a bunch of different stories all in one book and It's it's just a bunch of different stories, but it's all the same characters It's like as the boy grows up in the graveyard like at this age this thing happens at this stage This things happen and at this age something else happens that relates to the first one, but like You're not lost if you didn't read it. I love it so much. It's such a wholesome like Perfect Halloween book but like It just made me so happy Like I love the characters and all of the names and I just I just love everything how it was put together So that means that I have completed another challenge I have now read three books and I have completed three challenges I have started Frankenstein and I am on chapter three of Frankenstein The hard thing is that Frankenstein at the beginning had letters and that has part one part two and part three So I read the letters at the beginning and I'm on chapter three of the first part It's not quite 200 pages. I think it's like a hundred ninety seven pages and The pages are pretty thick But I am also reading it a little bit slower just because you know, it's a little bit of an older book I really want to understand everything that's going on. I'm debating on reading stalking Jack the Ripper Right now because I know like that's gonna be a quicker read, you know, it is a bit longer It's over 200 pages So I'm deciding what I want to do with that I think I'm gonna read a little bit more Frankenstein since I did start it and just see like How fast or slowly it's going because the chapters are pretty short and I am very motivated with short chapters Let me know if you can relate to that in the shorter of the chapter the better But yes, so I will continue reading Frankenstein, but I might switch over We shall see I have a couple hours to just kind of chill in bed I got all my homework for a Monday done. So like I can just kind of relax a little bit this weekend I am going to a haunted house tonight So that will take a bit of time out of my day Which is why I'm sending spending this morning and early afternoon Reading as much as I can of the last two books that I have to go. Yay Otherwise, I also Can read tomorrow as well because tomorrow is the last day But like I don't have to work Monday morning So I can stay up a little bit later and I'll be okay So I believe I can get this done and I believe that you can get this done. However far you are at this point So, yeah, happy reading So I've been really bad about doing this vlog and This readathon may not have gone as planned, but I'm still trying So it is Sunday, it is the last day and it is 645 at night Yesterday I did some reading and then I went to a haunted house I went to Valley Fair and they had these haunted houses all set up through the park And we had a lot of fun and then we came back and I was super tired and I went to sleep And then I woke up and I I finished Frankenstein Today which was pretty big because I was only a few Chapters in To Frankenstein. I liked it I feel like there are a couple paragraphs that were just flat out unnecessary repetitive and me But overall I did really like it and I found it interesting and I can definitely see why it's on a lot of high school And college reading lists because it's definitely a very discussion filled book And I would love to discuss it with you guys so comment down below if you want to get that discussion started But I did really enjoy it and I'm thinking 3.5 maybe four stores kind of going back and forth because good reads will only let me do three or four and I'm like Yeah, so 3.5 is my unofficial I still got to figure out what my official one is But that also means that I have five hours to read Stocking Jack the Ripper. I have so far Read I have thus far read one chapter It is a 300 page book with 30 chapters So let's see if I can get that done in five hours and 15 minutes I probably won't but I'm gonna try it anyway And that'll be the end of this spook-a-thon. So my first year doing it not be most successful, but you know Teach their own You know the one that this is fulfilling is read a thriller And I'm sure I'd some of the other books I read were thrillers, right? so like if you stack books for challenges that I've completed it, but That's not my initial intent and so therefore I have not completed it, but we shall see I should stop vlogging so I can get to reading it. So I'll give you an update a little bit later It is 1143 and I finished Stocking Jack the Ripper my fifth and final book for spook-a-thon. I finished it with 15 minutes to spare Well technically 17, but who cares? Woohoo. I did it. I didn't think I would but I did and let me tell you This was quite the book to end the sun. I gotta say it's a really good Halloween read I'm slightly freaked out a little bit, but it's great So Yeah, and with that I'm gonna head to bed because I have meetings all Throughout tomorrow as well as class, but I will be doing a review of each of these books at the end of this So I guess for you in like a couple of seconds. Who knows anyway of Just my opinions on all the different books still debating whether or not they will have spoilers if they do have spoilers then I will let you know because I Really, I did enjoy this book a lot, but I also want to talk about the ending and I don't want to ruin it for you so Yeah, with that Spook-a-thon is officially over for me and I'm gonna go to bed because sleep. I will see you all in the morning Happy Monday, everyone. Yes, spook-a-thon is now officially over for this year very sad But what can you do except? Anticipate next year and get ready for next year because yay. I just love Halloween Halloween has not passed yet, but you know the spook-a-thon has and that is just a sad time But now that it is Monday, and it is the end I'm gonna go through and do a short little review of all the books I've read I'm gonna go through them in the order that I finished them As to not be confusing. I did kind of do like first reactions a little bit with each of the books But now I'm gonna like actually say This is what this book is about and this is what I liked and yada yada So the first book that I read well I have all the books behind me as to make this easier and also just kind of theme the whole background everything Sorry, I already took it down, but everything from around here is like Halloween-y except Everything everything over here, but that's because I was running out of books that I brought from home And it's one that I'm going to be read, but that'll be at the end of the video anyway First one House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A Craig. I loved this one There were a couple points where I wasn't expecting it and a couple points where I had like Ideas and I was like oh it'd be really cool if it was this but ended up being something different And it was kind of nice The main character was pretty alright, so it's about yeah this family that has There's a father and he has 12 daughters and he has just remarried and so it's about all these girls who Have a stepmom except they're all being murdered slowly One off at a time starting at the top so the oldest and the next oldest and the next oldest until the fourth one Has died and you start with her funeral with her death at the very beginning of the book Which was a lot of fun fun But yes, I very much enjoyed it. It's about the main character She is right in the middle of all these girls, so she's not the youngest and she's not yet the oldest and She is trying to solve these murders and try to stop them from happening while at the same time dealing with problems with their stepmom and Um Just life on an island honestly You know these girls are trying to be married off because no one wants to Date them because the guys are afraid that they're just gonna die Which is really sad one thing I love about this book is I love the description of the dresses Like when they dress up and go to parties and balls and like their shoes and things like that like It's it's described really well in this book and it just it sounds like a fairytale when I read it and I absolutely loved Loved it when they went to the ball was because then I would read about their outfits and their makeup and their shoes And I was like, ah, it's so cute So had really good description. I also love the mythology behind it. They were like little hints of it here and there So it wasn't super overwhelming But it was also, you know part of the culture as I'm living on this island So and of course there is a romance plot there as I said during the video There's a bit of a love triangle But that is shut down pretty quickly, which I really appreciated But then at the end when you learn something about it and you're like, oh okay, I Love talking about books and it's hard to talk about books without like talking about the ending So I'm warning you now. Okay flashing spoilers are coming spoilers So there is the guy who's been her friends's childhood and then there's this other guy and then you find out that like the guy from her childhood was dead the entire time and It was just this evil like spirit thing I don't even know like in happening his body during all that and you know and like I was personally rooting for that Cuz I was against like the new guy. I was like, uh, I hate if a new people show up You know always stick to the original that turns out. He wasn't even alive. He's controlled by this creepy-ass witch thing And you're like, oh, oh my goodness that drove me wild I was like holy crap and that is just so Trippy about like the illusions and like literally her mission of driving them insane by like Giving them dreams and visions and like, oh my word that would just I would honestly kill myself that happened like I It would honestly drive me insane as it was a whole point of the book, but oh my word That ending was just intense Okay Spoilers are done now. You're all good. If you reach this point or beyond All good. No more spoilers for this book at least next book that I read for this spookathon was murder on the Orient Express So this copy specifically has all the different Hercules pirouette Mysteries hercules pirouette. I took French for four years. I know what I'm saying Mm-hmm. Nope. Anyway, so this has more than just the murder on the Orient Express But I just read the murder on the Orient Express But I will be reading more because I did enjoy this book I Was sitting through and I was like, I'm gonna catch all the little details and I'm gonna solve this and then like I didn't and I didn't solve it. Well No, I didn't solve it But I really liked it. I enjoyed all the different characters and I really do love this Set up and of course, it's a good traditional who done it Which is always great. It's always perfect for like this time of year So I mean there isn't too much to say about it because it's a classic and like it's really nice So that's the spoiler free part of the review if you have not read this book Somehow or you don't know what happens and you would rather read it to find out rather than like watch the spoilers of this video Then just give a head But okay, so obviously these spoilers are like very tell-tale. So spoiler time Spoilers spoilers spoilers Everyone Literally everyone on the train hated him. I wanted to kill him and teamed up together like That is one of the most organized things ever in life like to get all these people from all these different places with these different kinds of connections to like Come together on a train be seemingly random and just kill a guy all together like What That's what blew my mind not always been necessarily like super clever things about the detective But like how they all came together and did that I did. Oh my goodness But honestly, there was one thing in here that I did catch and I was very proud of myself for was that the H on the handkerchief is actually the Russian N being a Russian student and You know learning the Russian language. I had an idea of oh, I know the strip Cyrillic alphabet So like what if it's not an H? What if it's actually the N sound because there is a Russian whose name starts with N like But not very many people could put that together without having previous knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet or Russian or Ukrainian or Anything that follows that rule I was very proud of myself for that but otherwise Yeah Good book and end of spoilers The next book that I read was actually the audiobook and that was the great book that was the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I gotta say that was probably my Favorite of the spook like I admired all these different books for all these different things but like The graveyard book was my favorite and on cuz like It was very appropriate for Halloween But it's also like a family-friendly book and like I just love how like you mix those two together But also like me as a 19 year old. I loved reading it on my own So basically it's about this boy. His name is nobody except they call him bod and he basically gets orphaned and the ghosts in the graveyard Rates him like so everyone that he was raised around is dead their ghosts or you know things living in the graveyard but He's alive So he's trying to learn the different ghost things and he's trying to navigate that The nice thing about the book though is that was kind of like short stories Each chapter was like a different story as he grew up. So, you know, you start off with Him when he was really young and some stories about like his experiences younger And then like when he gets older and he meets these people and he has this experience until like he's old enough all the way up until he leaves Spoilers I need to catch myself before I start doing the spoilers But um, but yeah, it's just all these different stories and they're all so cute and wholesome But also still like Halloween like how he would fade into the shadows like a ghost could and like things like that was really cool The characters were great, obviously, I mean yeah spoilers for this one I don't really know if you consider it much of a spoiler, but like when he leaves the graveyard at the very end because like he gets old enough and Ugh, that like broke my heart. I was like, no, don't leave Silas. No But uh, I'm the hounds of God like miss L something. I don't remember her name. I'm horrible at remembering characters names I just can't remember their names unless I talk about them with people Anyway, not much spoilers for that one, but like Ugh, there's very little that I have wrong with that book if anything honestly Yeah I just realized I haven't been giving the star reviews for each of them. So I think I did four Four and graveyard also four Again, I don't give out five stars very often because I believe that those are reserved for like the perfect book But I always believe that every book can be better So you're not gonna see me do a lot of five-star reviews, but like I will do a lot of four-star ones So just have that like in the back of your head as this process continues Speaking of this process continuing on to the next book Frankenstein Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I mean again It's another classic that I just hadn't read until now and I shouldn't have waited this long because oh my goodness This book wasn't as hard to read as I was expecting It was still a bit slower of a read for me Just because I had to read it slower to really like understand But it really wasn't as hard as I was expecting it to be which is why I put it off for so long So I was gonna be like, oh, it's old English. I'm not gonna understand. It's gonna take me forever But no, it really wasn't that bad in terms of comprehension of the English language Which I should be because native speaker, but not really Not very well apparently I The characters in this book were very interesting and I can definitely understand why So many high schools and colleges make their students read this to discuss it because you can have a whole discussion about like Who is really the monster Frankenstein or his monster and like just a whole like human motive thing So if you guys want to have that discussion like comment down below and like we can have the discussion in the YouTube comments or Like DM me on Instagram or on Twitter or you know Contact me over Goodreads. I Don't know but seriously. I would love to have this conversation and know what you guys thought about this book Yeah, so if you don't know somehow Frankenstein is about this man Named Frankenstein the doctor's name is Frankenstein not the monster Who goes through life and has a very happy childhood but then becomes obsessed with creating life and studying human biology and how it works and He attempts to recreate life and then he's like, oh my gosh, I created a monster. He's hideous. He's ugly Blah run away And then these mysterious things that are happening in his life because of it and You so it's really interesting because you get his perspective like he's the one telling the book But then when he meets up with the monster like in a long time from then and then the monster tells him this story So like the entire book is from Frankenstein the doctor's point of view But you still get to hear about Frankenstein's a monster and what he went through Why is humanity like this like this is so sadly accurate I'm just Makes me sad for humanity Anyway, so yeah That's about all I can say about this book and I'm not gonna do a review with spoilers because Don't feel the need But yeah, this is a totally fun book I sat down and I read this completely on Sunday I started it on Saturday because like you've got letters at the beginning and then you've got three volumes Each volume has like somewhere between eight and nine chapters So I read the letters and like the first two chapters on saturday But then I read majority of the book slash the rest of it slash Most of it on sunday the last day of the readathon yesterday, and I finished it Stuck inject the river by Kerry man's decal I can't say that man is galco Kerry man is galco This book Gotta say it was not what I was expecting because like when I first heard about it I had this idea in my mind about what it was gonna be like and then when I bought this and I read the back of it I was the girl who loved the ripper Then I had a whole new like whoa, it's totally not what I expected it was gonna be And then I read the book and I was like That still is not even close to what I expected it was gonna be So like my first expectation and my third My first and my second were totally different and then my first and second were totally different than what it actually was And so it was very very interesting um, so it is about this girl who lives and like this is in the fall of 1888 and What I really admired about this book was the main characters views and opinions of course Of course, you're gonna get this from a female main character written by a female author But like it just made me so happy that like She was the main character because like so what i'm talking about i'm gonna actually tell you what i'm talking about now What i'm talking about is that the main character Audrey rose is a huge feminist But she's a feminist that It's so hard to explain like She's not super extreme like here. Let me give an example She believes that she can have any job that a man can have and do it just as well if she works just as hard So when she wants to be a mortician like she believes she can be just as good a mortician as her uncle As the other guys and things like that which is totally great But then she was also like yeah putting on makeup. It's fun. I like to wear nice dresses and nice shoes Sure. I'll participate in the girly things Just also don't underestimate me and what I can do Which is Really nice because I have those exact same opinions Like I am a very strong like feminist which really is just another word for believing in equality for both genders That's what it is So I very much share the same beliefs as her is that like I Um, I want to be paid the same amount as any man that I work with on my level And I want to be treated the same as any man in the world and things like that But that doesn't mean i'm not gonna dress up or look nice on the occasional day Like I don't really wear makeup on a day to day basis Obviously, you can tell this by a lack of makeup in my videos But that's not to say that like when a fun occasion arises I'm won't put on some like mascara lipstick or blush or something like I'll still dress up and I'll still love to wear dresses and heels and embrace all of that but Don't underestimate me just because I'm wearing heels Because you know what if I kick you wearing heels it's gonna hurt a hell of a lot more than if I was wearing flat shoes Mm-hmm Anyway back to the book Many tangent there But that's what the main character believes and that was really nice to just kind of connect with her on that level The only thing is about her is that that's all she talks about Is how she wants to be equal with the guys and she wants to do a good job And like she's annoyed with all the girls trying to get her to go to tea time all the time But then she ends up going and she's like oh this is actually kind of nice But like that that's all that I know about her like I don't know of any other hobbies or interests like all she ever talked about was dead bodies and Wanting to be treated the same as men So I wish she was a little more fleshed out and a little more well-rounded in terms of just being a human Um, which was probably the only bummer about it Um good mystery interesting Um Yeah, definitely a page turner like I Again, I didn't start this book until like seven o'clock at night And I read it all the way through like in one sitting. I only got up a couple times to like get food Like that wasn't pretty much it Um, so I definitely not what I expected. I was kind of going into this with a very like Ah, of course I chose this book, but I actually came out really enjoying it and really liking it Um, some of the other characters were pretty great. Um, thomas was hilarious and he's one of those characters were like I hate them, but I actually just love them so much like Yes So yeah, I'm gonna do a spoiler review for this So just hang on tight if you haven't read it and you want to because spoiler time Spoilers spoiler. Okay biggest spoiler of all happening right here right now her brother was the ripper Like I feel like at some point in the middle of the book. I was like Like when their dad went away and her brother started getting really stressed I was like, um, it's her brother but then as the book went on I kind of Forgot about that theory because the brother wasn't mentioned all the time and I just totally forgot about him And so I forgot about my theory of him being the ripper and then she was like so focused on her dad And I was like, yeah, it's her dad. It's her Is it her dad? It is her dad Is it her dad? It is her It's her brother Oh my gosh, it is. Okay. Okay. Okay. Very beginning. I was like, oh, yeah It's totally thomas because you know it says I was a girl who loved the ripper Like you think of like that as like a love interest So of course you start off the book thinking it's thomas And then it's obviously not her uncle because they actually do take her uncle away during all these events, but then it's like You're waiting for her to really start to suspect thomas and like she jokes about it and she kind of does but like she never really goes for it But like you're waiting for it and then all of a sudden it really does get tied back to her family And you're like, okay, so love does not the romantic sense. It's the familial sense Like well, that's really cool to just kind of play on us and to like Yeah, I'm always so just books everywhere. Oh, I'm hot. I'm gonna use that as a fan now. But yeah, okay Spoilers are done. No more spoilers beyond this point good book I rate it four out of five stars Because it's not what I expected and I really enjoyed it I liked that how the last page this is not a spoiler the last page sets up for her next one, which was Hunting Prince Dracula So on the very last page it kind of alludes to like, hey, is this echo in Hunting Prince Dracula? And I think I might actually read it if I can get my hands on it this fall I'm definitely gonna read it definitely recommend Okay, so that is the end of the review part of this vlog um Yay, there you go. I hope you had a also very successful Spookathon and I'm very curious about books you guys read how you enjoyed them if you'd recommend them um, if you Have read any of these books and what you thought of them like I'm always up for discussion Because that's why I'm kind of doing youtube is to like talk about things and discuss things with people and like And if you see this and you're like, oh, she would like this book or I want to hear her opinion on this book Then let me know in the comments below feel free to like this video subscribe to my channel and hit the bell So you know that when I upload although I'm trying to upload every two weeks on Thursday Friday-ish depending on You know just busy-ness because it is midterms for me right now so Yeah, I spent all that time reading and I have an exam a debate a quiz and a project proposal all this week so Yeah, we'll see we'll see how wise of a decision this really was But We'll see. Um, just a heads up Um, I will be posting hopefully a lot of different kinds of videos for you guys But if you have any suggestions or things you want me to do also again Contact me comment down below follow me on instagram twitter something anything But my tvr upcoming is so I brought seven books with me to college And I bought a few more as I was here Um, but there are two books that I bought and brought with me to college I have not read yet one of them being scythe right here and this is going to be my next read as soon as You know my exams paper project quiz debate Happens as soon as that's all done I'm gonna start reading scythe because again I think it's another good halloween read and I still got some time before halloween and I'm really excited So that's next up on my tvr But also everything everything which is a contemporary novel which is something I do not normally read But I am trying to push myself and try new things new genres And I'm even thinking about doing videos about reading books of genres. I don't normally read and what I thought of them So if you like that then like again Like this video put a comment down below. Just tell me communicate with me guys. I love communication here Yeah, so these are the last two books that I brought with me to college I have not read yet And so those are kind of next up on my tvr as well as finishing series of unfortunate events because Yep, I'm still doing that Um, yeah, so that's pretty much it for this video. Um I guess I'll see you guys later when I upload and feel free to catch me in the next video