 Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to the channel. My name is Laura, and this is my channel Laura's Little Library. So I'm now beginning this week's vlog. It is the last vlog that I will be doing for the Reading Extravaganza. So sad, but still kind of exciting, so a couple of things I'll need to catch you up on. So first off, this week's vlog is Witches. So spellcasters, witches, wizards, warlocks, sorcerers, whatever. I have three books that I'm hoping to read. The first one is the Ravens, and I do have the audiobook for this one. So hopefully I can, this is the one I'm planning on starting with, and I hope to start it today. And then I also have the Nature of Witches, and this one I think is going to be such a gorgeous like fall read. So I'm really excited for it. I don't know a lot about this plot going into it. And then the last one I have is Sweet and Better Magic, and I actually just got the audiobook for this today. So I might read this one second, just depends. I'll read it after the Ravens whenever I can listen to the audiobook, but yes. So those are the three books. They all have like kind of this pretty color scheme, like the little bit of black and pink, blue and purple, purple, and blue-ish. Anyway, so those these are the three books that I plan on reading, and I am really excited to do so. Now first thing that I should mention about this vlog is this. I have no idea how this vlog is going to go, because I am actually flying to Canada this weekend to visit family. I live in the States, but I have family in Canada, and we are flying tomorrow, which is Friday, and we're going to be there until Tuesday. So that's going to be like majority of this vlog is going to be in Canada. I want to film as much as possible, but I'm also going to put family first. But that also means so we are flying instead of driving, because normally we would drive, but normally we would be driving from Michigan rather than Minnesota, so we're flying. That does mean I will have plenty of airtime to listen to the audiobooks, and it is technically international travel, so we will have to get to the airport really, really early, and then we'll end up sitting and waiting. And then during the flight, it's just prime reading time, and I'll bring my crochet along so that I can get things done. But yeah, that that is just something to keep in mind. I will be in Canada. So yeah, great opening clip, right? Yeah, I'm sure. So I am just going to quick do a little bit of cleaning of my little bookish area. Oh, one more thing I almost forgot because I'm lame. I got book mail. So I was so very excited. One of these things I like just ordered and the other I ordered months ago and have been waiting for it. So what I just got that I just ordered was The School for Getting Evil, A World Without Princes by Samam Chainani. And I ordered this because I own the first book. This is the second book. And I want to reread the first book and then continue on with the series. I remember the idea of the first book, but I don't really remember the ending. So I want to make sure I know all the little details before I start the second one. I want to read it one because it is the group read in the Frady Cat readathon and two because there is a Netflix adaptation coming up. So that's really exciting. So I want to finish the series before that gets released or at least make progress in the series so that when it is released, I can start watching it but hopefully not spoil myself. So I bought the second book and I'm really happy. It's such a pretty cover. Look at his shinies. And then so what I ordered a long time ago and what has finally come, not all of it came either. So I don't own manga but I do now. So I ordered the first four volumes of Horde Nia and volumes one, two, and four came. One, two, and four. I think I've read one, two, and three. So I will definitely be reading this but I'm just where is my third volume? Is it like was it not in stock? I don't quite know. So I'm going to go and make sure that I ordered the third volume but yeah I have one, two, and four and then the other ones are Spy X Family. Now Spy X Family I've again read like the first two, maybe three volumes four but I got volumes four and six and I know I ordered one through six. So I'm a little confused that I didn't get all of them in one order and now I'm paranoid that I did something wrong but maybe they're just coming in a package later. I don't really know. So yeah that's I have started with manga. I've started reading a little bit of manga. I have a friend of mine who he has recently been like you would like this manga and it's Lighting Change My Ring I Died. It's okay. So he has gotten me interested in a select few manga that he's really liked so I've decided that I'm going to buy them and then I'm going to actually do more research into other manga that I might like because I do follow YouTubers and book talkers who read manga and there are some that I think oh I might enjoy that so I might dive into manga a little bit more in the future and then I finally have them although I have no room on my shelf to put them there but you know what that's okay I'll figure it out because it's definitely worth it. I'm gonna go now. I'll catch up with you later. So it's Friday now and we are getting ready to go to Canada. Brennan is making lunch but I started reading The Nature of Witches last night and it already has influenced my dream a little bit. It was kind of interesting how so I like the concept of it how each witch belongs to a different season except for our main character who's an Everwitch and she does all the seasons you know because that's that's how books are but and it already started to influence my dreams just a little bit in terms of like changing seasons but one thing that I did not realize until I opened this book so I'm only like how many pages in I'm only like 20 pages in but like guys look at this. So the cover is nice you know it's autumnal I like it and I and I didn't realize until I saw these bottoms and I was like wait a minute so I finally took the dust jacket off and look at it look at this this is gorgeous I had no idea this was underneath the dust jacket I love it so much it's so pretty it's very obviously naturey and I think it'll fit the book and I just oh my word I cannot get over how gorgeous this is so like the cover is nice and everything but like so I don't know how I'm gonna keep it on my shelves if I'm gonna keep it with the dust jacket because it's easier or gorgeousness oh my goodness yeah so anyway I started reading it because that's the one I don't have an audio before however on the plane I so I will be bringing this to Canada and I will also be bringing the Ravens here to Canada as well um because I have that's backwards I have the audiobook for this so I might listen to it on the planes and in the airport because I'll probably start listening to this on the plane and yeah but then I could also fall along if I want to but I also really want to keep doing my crochet project so I'm bringing those two books and my crochet to Canada I because we'll be there until Tuesday so like and we won't get there until very very late tonight so it's really Saturday Sunday Monday it's three days um but I want to make sure you know everything is like family focused so I don't think I'll finish both books but I will have them both along just in case I finish one and then worse comes to worse if somehow I magically finish both books I have the audiobook for sweet and bitter magic so I could start it even without the physical book but yeah but for now I'm only bringing those two and I will be traveling with them without the dust jackets because I am paranoid that they will rip as they have in the past for me so that's the update I probably won't update you until we're in the airport it'll be interesting I won't be able to film a lot in the airport because I'm not bringing a film stand and that's just kind of tricky so whenever I see you next is gonna be when I see you next so we are currently stuck in the Chicago airport we took the wrong covid test so we had to switch our flight to accommodate taking a covid test tomorrow morning which really really really really sucks for so many reasons but we want to be safe so I was able to listen to like the first 60 70 pages of the ravens on the plane and I expect I will be listening to much more of it now that I have to spend the night in the Chicago O'Hara airport I'm enjoying it I'm a little sad that I'm reading it in bad times but I'm enjoying the book so far I like the description of magic and I like how the sorority is being portrayed it's very interesting especially as someone who is not a sorority member I just it's interesting so I will I hope I won't update again in the airport because we want to get out of here but yeah there you go so I'll be listening to more of the ravens I don't think I'll finish it but you know I only have four hours left and I will be here for a long time anyway but at least I brought the nature of witches with me as well I was not thinking I was gonna get through these two books but now I'm kind of reconsidering that possibility so yeah there's my update wish us luck because this is this is horrible this is absolutely terrible anyway bye bye all right good news it is Saturday night and we are in Canada we are in the apartment that we're staying in what a relief uh it's been quite a journey I finished a book so I actually finished the ravens by um Cass Morgan and Danielle Page I started this as as you saw in the previous clip and I ended up finishing it mostly through audio but I did do like some physical following along in the airport and on the plane so I read this I'm rating it four out of five stars I loved the atmosphere the spooky witchy vibes like the magic system oh my word I loved the magic system I think my my main critiques of it were uh the romance subplots were kind of subpar and then it seemed like they at times were more important than the main plot which did not make any sense because I mean like romantic interest where something small happens versus your best friend's life is at stake and you have a limited amount of time to find her kind of seems like there's an imbalance there sometimes um so there I had an issue with that and then I I wish we could have gone in depth a little bit more with the magic system but that's just me wanting more I'm still satisfied with what the authors wrote but yeah so I very much enjoyed it I felt like a lot of the twists were um like you could see them coming or you could guess like okay there's going to be a twist with this idea I maybe I don't know how but I know that that's what it's going to be and so I just felt like I was able to predict most things that were going to happen but again I'm not mad because I still loved the characters and I loved setting and the vibes it was perfect way to catch off witchy week it was wonderful so because I finished it already uh I did actually start listening to sweater bitter sweet magic which is the audiobook I did not bring the physical copy along because I didn't want to bring the physical copy for three books but okay so I probably won't be putting much time more attention into that one while I'm in Canada but I'll probably listen to that on the flight's home um I'm enjoying it I think it's interesting so for now though while we're here I will be reading the nature of witches before bed I am like 20 pages in and again I'm enjoying it so this is what I'm going to be focusing on but yeah I just thought I'd give you a quick little updated review of the fact that I finished the ravens already so there we go all right I'm gonna go to bed now because I'm really really tired because I had to sleep in an airport again so good night hey y'all I feel like I I feel gross and I look gross so that's a great start but it is Wednesday morning we got back late last night surprisingly we were supposed to get back during the day but our flight ended up being delayed quite a bit so we got home ordered some pizza watched the Great British Baking Show and just kind of went to bed um I did do a lot of listening to audiobooks but there's a bit of a catch there um so today I'm going to finish the book that I've been listening to try and read as much of the witches books that I can as it is the last day for this vlog and today it's also I think the last day of the sweater weather readathon and a lot of my witchy books I had planned for that readathon so I need to finish some books and I've been really excited to finish them I just haven't done that yet so basically what happened was uh so I finished the ravens that I already gave my review of that I am about an hour into sweet and bitter magic but then I realized that my audiobook of the final girl support group was going to expire today and I realized this yesterday so I had like a day and I didn't have the physical copy with me and I just didn't know if I would get the audiobook again so I've been listening to the final girl support group instead and I'm sorry because that is not what was planned for this week but I am about an hour and a half from the end of it so I would like to finish that and then listen to as much as sweet and bitter magic and read as much as the nature of witches as possible but I'm not making any promises I'm hoping I can finish a second witchy book this week but I don't know if that's gonna happen but I'll probably end up finishing these before Halloween anyway but this video needs to go up on Thursday so whatever is is I took today off work uh because I needed sleep and I needed to just take it easy and kind of recover from all this traveling um I know sitting on a plane just can make you so tired especially if you're like me and you can't actually sleep on planes but you spent a night in an airport and that was but shout out to O'Hara airport for actually having cushioned seats without the arm things so that you can lay down and sleep they're really thin though so like I would almost roll off it was anyway that's not the point so I I don't have a lot to do today so I'm just going to relax you know take a shower do some reading kind of recover from traveling and hopefully I won't finish at least one book outside of the final girl support group today all right hi so it's later in the day it is just past three o'clock and I finished listening to the final girl support group by Grady Hendricks and I like this book I don't quite know what I'm gonna rate it I'm thinking either 3.5 or 4 I don't know like it was it was a solid book but I just felt like there was so much of it that I was I just wasn't a fan of I think it was a mix of the writing the characters and the plot like the obviously the three main things like all of them were kind of at like a three or four star level there wasn't like I didn't think the writing was phenomenal I didn't think the characters were amazing I mean I liked the characters and how they tried to be unique but I think the main character just drove me insane and I think the plot was I think the plot was great I just think it was executed poorly um but like in the end when we found out who the people actually were it was like okay yeah sure okay like it wasn't some big twist that I didn't see coming but it wasn't something that was like okay hurry up I mean I was kind of like okay hurry up and tell me but not in the I'm annoyed with this way but in the this book keeps going on and on kind of way there was just a lot of movement without a lot of things happening I felt like but I still would recommend it I still think it was an interesting read definitely you know like a slash or film in a book and I enjoyed it but I don't know which I liked more Grady Hendricks is the other book that I read the southern vampires or this one I think they were both kind of on a similar level I think the writing was better in this one but I think the other one the plot was just a little more exciting for me so yeah uh yeah so I finished this and that was not the plan also you know what else I read actually sat down and read pumpkin heads by rainbow rile and faith erin hicks today um I meant to read on the day that we went to a pumpkin patch but I also wanted to read it for readathon the ends today so I thought I would just uh just go ahead and read it it was adorable it's the artwork is great the plot is cute I'm a little disappointed on a little thing at the end but whatever you know it's 200 pages it took me like 30 minutes to read so it was cute so I've read three books this week and I I can't decide if I want to end the vlog here or if I want to see if I read another book but because this video needs to go up tomorrow morning I need to be able to edit download and then upload to youtube so yeah I will keep listening to sweet and bitter magic I will keep reading nature of witches and the next video that I do where I talk about like books like actually give a review they'll probably be there so if you want to see that video click the subscribe button and hit the bell so that you can be notified I post on Thursdays I had also been posting on Tuesdays and I would like to keep posting twice a week I've been enjoying doing that um so I might keep posting on Tuesdays Thursdays I also might change around the days that I post so I might do like Sunday and Wednesday instead just because with how my work schedule is those are kind of the days that are a little bit lighter so I can focus on booktube things um so again just subscribe so you know when a new video is uploaded but I will always post at least one a week if not two um comment down below if you've read any of these books or what you are planning to read for Halloween I would love to know and I would love to just chat with you guys about bookish things in the comments like this 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