 Hello friends. Today we're doing a reading vlog that I have put off for years and years and years and years and that is stopping my screen time for reading. It's almost time for Meg to serve. I'm late to this. As we all know, like everyone in their mother has done this reading vlog, I have not because I'm scared. I don't like the idea of being told I have to read for this many hours a day. There's gonna be hours because I do spend a lot of time on my phone. I do. I do. I do. But like, here's the thing. I watch a lot of YouTube, right? I watch a lot of YouTube. I'll often have a YouTube video up when I'm cooking or doing the laundry. It's either that or an audiobook, right? Are the two things I'm consuming. And YouTube makes your phone so fun. Sometimes my phone will be open when I'm doing other things. Anyway, it's not really to defend myself. But anyways, I have never done this vlog because I have been too afraid, but I think that it's time. So today we're gonna be doing a week of stopping my screen time reading. Every single day I have to read the amount of time I was on my phone a week before. I've seen a few people do it different ways. Some people do it. They have to read like the average screen time amount every day. But I think it's more fun to get a bit of variation. So we're gonna be doing like what I was was what day is it today? It's Thursday. Double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon. How long I was on my phone last Thursday is how much we have to read today and so on and so forth. So yeah, are we ready? We're gonna go find out what those those times are together. And then we'll discuss the books that I'm planning to read for this video. I'm intrigued to see whether it feels like I'm reading a lot or whether it doesn't feel like I'm reading a lot. Do I read more than this usually? Like is this gonna be a walk in the park or is it gonna be hard? I don't know. So last Thursday, is that last Thursday? I guess it is. Last Thursday, I spent four hours on my phone. So we have to read today for a nice round four hours. Oh, one thing I'm gonna say is I'm not gonna be physically reading. I will often I'm counting listening to an audiobook. And when I listen to an audiobook without physically reading also, I'm reading slower. I read at slower pace. So it's not gonna be four hours if my page counts like Megan that's low. I'm not gonna be necessarily like physically reading for four hours every day. I will be in I will be counting the moments where I'm listening to an audiobook while I'm doing a dishwasher whilst I'm cooking, etc. Anyways, four hours of reading today. It's currently caught past two. And I don't have a ton of other plans. Say I got reading sprints, my patrons tonight, which is very well timed. I would like to try and end it when I'm ending the reading sprints, although they are going to then cook dinner. So you know, we got a bit of got a bit leeway, but I would like the reading sprints are at five. So I've got a couple hours before then. And I would like to get some reading done before that. But I have got a few other things I need to do. Anyways, tomorrow Friday, shorter, two hours and 53 minutes. What was I doing when there's that big spike? I must have been watching. Oh, that's like dinner time. I just said I threw caution to the wind. And I obviously watched something on my phone whilst I was cooking dens. That's probably what that big spike in the day is like. Otherwise, that was a really low day. Saturday, four hours and 23 minutes. Okay. I feel like this is a lot of reading every day. Sunday. Okay. No. Okay. Sunday is the only day where we're not going off of the total because that says five hours and 57 minutes. However, you may zero in there on one hour and 10 minutes on a health and fitness app. That is all trails. As you can see, don't look at Royal Match. That's my audio book. I mean, Tom were on a walk and he had my phone and he was using that app to like see our course for the walk. So I was not on my phone. You're on your honor. It's false evidence. We're just normal men. What do you mean normal men? We're just innocent men. Oh, so what is that? That's four hours and 47 minutes. Yeah. Four hours and 47 minutes. I have to read on Sunday. Monday. Oh, five hours and 13. Then Tuesday, four hours and four minutes. Oh dear. And yesterday, four hours and 54. So some of our higher ones are on the end there. Interesting. And I spent that much time on Instagram. What am I doing? Get a grip. Leave my life Instagram. In terms of books, we're going to be reading. We have three books here that have been on TBR Cludeau so far this year that I do not have set plans to read. So we've got Helly and Death. We've got How to Kill Your Family and A Curious Beginning. So I would like to use this blog to get round to these. However, another book, whenever I've envisaged doing this vlog, a book I always picture myself reading is Night Film by Marisha Pestle because I don't think, if I don't read it in this video, I don't think I'm never going to read this book. I'm just terrified of it. It's very long. It's about 600 pages. The audiobook is like 23 hours long. So I think I'm going to start with this in this vlog and I want to prioritize this because I really want to read this. This has been a five-star prediction for me in the past but it still is. I don't know why I'm talking as if it's no longer a five-star prediction. But this is a five-star prediction for me and I want to read it but it's so long that I feel like I'll always be put off. However, I think if I do it in a vlog where I'm probably going to be reading quite a bit, I think this would be the perfect time to tackle it. So that's what we're going to be starting today. I'm going to go make some late lunch and start the audiobook and I'll probably check in with you when I'm starting reading sprints later because I'll probably read a little bit, do a little bit of work, do reading sprints and then we will see where we are. That is the plan. This is our TBR. I feel like this will probably be the amount of books we're going to get through. I think we're going to read roughly this amount or something close and I'm going to go start the audiobook for night film. I'll probably just listen to the audiobook for a bit and then I'll pick it up physically when we've got reading sprints and we will see how we do. Then we just had dinner. Yeah, call pass 10. I have done. Oh, let me show you the proof. I've got to show you the proof. I've got to show you my hard work. I read for four hours and one minuté. It was how much I read for. Focus please on her. I did it. And what page of night film am I up to? I'm up to page 200 exactly. Actually, no, 201. Page 201 of night film and I'm loving it. I'm loving, loving this book. I'm having so much fun reading this book. Now listen, four hours to read 200 pages is not the quickest. However, some of that quite a lot of today was me listening to the audiobook whilst I did other things like cooking, et cetera. We open up with a girly dice, right? It seems that she k-worded herself and alive herself. She is the daughter of this infamous cult horror movie director, right? That is very secretive. No one knows much about him. He's got all these fans who like have all these conspiracy theories and there's this journalist who once said that he was like bad as these killers because this guy's films are like spawned copycat killers of the horror movies, et cetera. And so this guy is known for being like an opposition to this director and he decides, oh, I'm going to investigate. I'm going to investigate the death of this girl and then he's kind of formed this unlikely group of detectives with him and I'm loving it. If you guys don't know, it's Mixed Media Baby. Look at these pages. Look at the stuff. Throughout. Throughout. There's loads of stuff. I mean, there's also chunks where it's just loads of text, but there's also... And I'm just having so much fun. I love Mixed Media. I love Mixed Media. Why can't every book be Mixed Media? It's just so fun. Like giving me photographs and being like, oh my God, this is Cordova spotted in a 1960s ballroom. Absolutely. Absolutely. I didn't know it's your neck. I just listen. I think, I think my love for Mixed Media comes from I was, I was a drama kid, right? I was a theater kid, right? I did drama lessons from when I was like four years old. I did drama all the way up to A level at school. I just, and when I did drama at A level in particular, I, when I was making a show, right? Because when you did drama at A level, you have to be like, you have to stage stuff. You have to direct stuff. You have to like come up with a concept. I just love creating a moment. I love a concept. I love a concept. I love a dramatic concept. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like you're not just there acting shit out. You've got a motive. You've got a reason. You've got a whole creative vision. And I feel like that's what Mixed Media often gives me. I just think it's doing it so well. And I also think this is written really, really, really well. I think it's written really well. I've never read anything from Marisha Pestle before, but this book, it's flying by considering I've read 200 pages. Like that's not bad during the day. If I could finish this in three days for a 600 page book, I think that's pretty impressive. I just can't stop reading it. I just can't stop reading it. I can't stop turning the page. I'm so excited. This is perfect. This is the perfect book for this reading vlog. I am so happy. I'm having so much fun. And I have so many questions about her and her dad and the reasons behind everything and the truth behind everything. And there's so many little interesting seeds being laid as to what could be going on behind the scenes behind these secretive scenes and why she would do what she has. I mean, has she been murdered? What happened? Was she not? Like what? There's just so many questions being laid. I am having so much fun. I just think it's just, it's everything I want. It's everything I want. Oh, I'm loving it. I don't know what else to say to you. I'm loving the cast of characters we built up, but just the mixed media, babes. The mixed media does it for me like, give me an email. Give me a website with a photo. I think I can explain to you. I am getting five star feelings. I'm getting five star feelings from this. I'm getting perhaps a five star, perhaps a five star in the making. So yeah, tomorrow hopefully we'll make a good chunk away through it. But listen, reading 20 pages of it today, I'm not upset about it. And it is only day one, but I did not feel like it was a struggle reading the amount I did. However, I may be saying something different by the end of this vlog. It's only the first day, but I'm feeling great. I'm having the best time ever. So I'll see you tomorrow in the morning, but we are off to a wonderful, wonderful start. Good morning friends. It's Friday, Friday. Today is our shortest reading time. I just checked. We got ready for two hours and 53 minutes. Very specific now. Again, to like specific numbers. It was a nice round for four hours yesterday. Yeah, 252 minutes today. So it was our shortest amount of reading we're going to do any day. I'm going to go to Waterstones today. I'm going to go to the Waterstones Cafe and read. Now, I can't promise you how much I'm going to film because it kind of stresses me out a little bit. I may, I'm going to bring my camera, but I may just film stuff on my phone because a little bit less, you know, makes people a little bit less sidelight, like whip out my phone and things. They think, oh, should she take a cute Instagram story or whatever? We're putting out my camera. They're like, uh, so I'm going to try and film. I'm also going to have a little browse for books. If I see any, I want to buy it. I'm going to have myself buy them because I haven't bought any books this year yet that weren't for specific videos. I'm feeling like if they have a copy of the Warm Hands of Ghost by Katherine Arden, I will probably pick it up. I'm probably picking up because I'm very excited for that one. So yeah, that's the one I'm thinking of getting if they have it, but I'm going to have a little browse in the books, but then I'm going to go to a cafe. I'm going to have lunch in the cafe. I might also have like a hot chocolate later. I'm going to like sit up for quite a while. I'm going to do some editing there. So I might edit first and then read or read and then edit. I don't know. I'm going to spend probably quite a lot of my day there now today. My goal is to read more physically today. I mean, I did read quite a lot physically yesterday, but then I like cooked and did stuff, where I listened to the audiobook, whereas a lot of this section is like, we've got to get through it. You know what I mean? It's like not a lot of mixed media, whereas there is a lot towards the end. I would like to read like another 200 pages today, even though I've got a bit less time. If I read more physically, we can read more per hour. So yeah, let's see how much reading we get then. I'm going to go go to Waterstones, wish me luck, wish that I don't get too scared. It may just be Phonefish. I don't know if you can tell the difference, but I feel different filming on my phone versus like, oh my god, my camera. Anyways, I love you guys. Let's go. Have a nice day at Waterstones. I'm so excited. A lot of the amount today, I actually went three minutes over. Say sorry. I couldn't contain myself. No, I was listening to the audiobook whilst I was making dinner and I went over the time without realizing it. So I'm still loving it. I'm still loving it. We've got, we've got stuff to talk about. However, I do want to just acknowledge I chatted this big game about going to the Waterstones cafe yesterday. I went there. The cafe was shut. Cafe was shut. So I was very upset about it. I had to go elsewhere for lunch. It was a very traumatic experience. This is what trauma looks like. But I did pick up two becks to cheer myself up. I just shake really. You saw me pick them up. I didn't film anything else in Waterstones. I was too upset. I was few men. My plans would even ruin. No, I picked up all the hands of ghosts by Catherine Arden, which I said I would look at the spread. I'm so excited to read this. I'm like, in buying these books, I'm like, should I sec the other, the rest of TBR and just read these books right now? But they're on T-Belkudo. They're on T-Belkudo. So I'm like morally obliged to read them. I am so excited for this. I feel like I've heard wonderful reviews and then I spot a book. That somehow I'd somehow missed off of my like new releases spreadsheet. I've missed off of my most anticipated releases for the start of this year video that I did. But I'd followed the author on Twitter for years since this book was announced, since it was like in the, I don't know, publisher's weekly, whatever that like book announcement thing is that I spotted it is Miss Austin Investigates by Jessica Ball. Excuse me. A murder mystery with Jane Austen as the detective. This is a potential mother. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What do you expect me to do? What do you expect me to do? You expect me to not buy this? You expect me to not buy this? Also, I had 10 pounds credit on my Waterstones card and then I paid for the rest in cash. So like, these were free. These were free. So yeah, I'm very excited for both of these. But let's talk about night film. I am still loving it. I'm still loving it. I'm still loving it. I'm still loving it. This is making me think of like, I do, I don't read them very often because I'm scared off, but I love a big book. Can you stop insinuating things, please? I love a big book. Like, it's making me remember why I love so many books that I love. I love spending time with a long book. I'm thinking back to like, some of the Jade Ward, Jade Legacy books, or the Secret History, or all my other favorite books that are long. I just sometimes I love a long book where you really, there's just, if I'm enjoying it, it couldn't go wrong because if you're bored, you're bored. But if I'm enjoying it, I love just how into the depth of the story we get to go. I always say I don't, for me, a book should be like a tree, which have the main trunk of the story, but we should have little branches, and those branches break off into different branches. Or like, this is my like, Thursday middle club, right? I feel like those books constantly have little, little diversions on it. I hate when a book is just like, just nothing. You know what I mean? It's just like, one line. Whereas there's probably some parts of this that aren't gonna be relevant, but it's building up this complex mystery of Cordova, and this family, and what happened to Ashley, and the secrets. And I'm just, I'm so enjoying it. I'm so enjoying it. I love how we're getting to get into the depth of these characters and the storyline and the mystery. And like, I'm loving it. I need to read more long books. I mean, this might be the longest book I read this year. I think this is longer than the longest book I read last year. It's like 580 pages. I'm just adoring it. I'm adoring it. I'm having so much fun. Tomorrow we have, I just had a look. Tomorrow we have, I've already forgotten. We've got read for four hours and 23 minutes tomorrow. At my physical reading speed, I've got four hours and four minutes left of the audio. So the goal is to finish this tomorrow. Also, I just want to say, the other day I posted my February wrap up. And in it, I'm talking about how a lot of the books I read, I have them physical with the audio. And I'm like, oh, it's not sustainable. I know I should be not reading as many audiobooks ever. And some people in the comments think I'm like bashing on audiobooks as a form of reading. Absolutely not. I am the biggest defender of audiobooks you've ever met in your life. Whenever I meet anyone, who's like, audiobooks aren't my reading. I pounce on them like a tiger. I won't have it. I am the biggest proponent of reading with audiobooks. What I'm talking about is how it's not financially sustainable. A lot of the books, a lot of the audiobooks I read last month, but I was talking about that though, I got from either my library or from Everand. So I didn't pay for them individually. This one's on Everand. But sometimes like the books I want to read are audiobooks are not audible. And it's not financially sustainable to buy a audiobook, nor do I want to like create the perception that like, you know, it's different for me because it's like this is my job. So like, I can kind of justify that way. But I don't want to create a perception that like everyone should always have an audiobook. Do you know what I mean? So that's why I say that shit. I'm not like people shouldn't use audiobooks. They're not real reading. I'm not saying any of that. I love audiobooks. That is I'm more saying Megan need to come back because it's like not a financially sustainable move. So I just wanted to clear that up because I got a few comments. I'm like that is it never crossed my mind that people could think that's what I meant because I'm the biggest fan of audiobooks. I did not explain myself correctly. So anyways, I'm going to continue listening to a new book for this and reading it physically. I feel like it's going to be a five star. I feel like it's going to be a five star. I am absolutely loving it. There's nothing else to say. I am probably not going to check on me tomorrow till I finished it. Could I just this is the kind of book that I just I've already spoken to you quite a bit about it. I just want to finish it. I don't know what I think. So I'll see you tomorrow evening. After four hours and 23 minutes of reading and hopefully I'll finish it. Hopefully I will finish this book and all of our other books are going to be so fast. I can pry us into this but we have a 600 page book in three days. That's pretty impressive. Anyways, I'll see you in the morning. No, one morning tomorrow evening. Bye. It is Saturday evening. I have had a bit of a weird day. I woke up feeling like I was coming down or something. Whenever I'm starting to get ill, my like glands in my throat, I've spoken about this before. They like swell up and get really painful and they were so painful today. So I spent the whole day basically just reading and sleeping. I napped twice. I never napped anymore, but I napped twice. So I was kind of just trying to nip it in the bud because I don't want to be ill for the rest of this vlog. So I just thought if I take it chill today, then I can be successful the rest of the vlog. I need to go brush my hair. Hang on. Also, I keep filming with you whenever I've literally just eaten dinner, but I've got a high school musical movie night, high school musical three movie night in eight minutes with my patrons. So I have to film now. But let me show you my timer. I have read for the whole lot of time today. I read actually, I think for like three more minutes that I have a space to. And I finished my film and I'm torn and want to give it. But I think it's just going to miss out on being a five star and it's going to be a 4.5. But I think I'm going to rate it a five on Goodreads, which I have stopped doing. I stopped rating 4.5 stars as fires on Goodreads. I'm running them up like reserving that for just the five stars. But this is so close. I just didn't love this like latter third as much as I love the rest of the book. There's this section, I'd say like 150 page from the end that's written in a bit of a weird way. And it just kind of lost my engagement a little bit. I just stopped caring as much, which is a shame. But I think also with a book as ambitious as this, it is hard to stick the landing completely, right? This book is trying to do so much like, look at how excited I was getting while I was reading it. Oh, my glands are bad again. Oh, my God, I've got to do a husband's movie night. Hopefully I'll survive. I feel ill. I can't sleep all night. Yeah, it's trying to do so much. It's leaving so many little trails of things that like, I don't necessarily blame it if it doesn't completely stick landing. I can understand why some people wouldn't enjoy like the end ending. I did. I think it's a pretty fitting way to end the book, but I can see why some people wouldn't enjoy that. But I loved this. And also the length wasn't a problem for me. I loved how long it was. I loved how long we got to spend these characters. I really grew to love our characters a few bits of it. I'm like, there's like a romance, no, not a romance, there's a romantic interest that just does not need to be there. I was like, Oh, God, stop it. Release me from these shackles of this happening in books. But I'm so glad I read this in this video. Otherwise, I probably would never have read it because it is such a daunting task. But I've read it in three days. I think that's pretty impressive for like, a 600 page book. And I really did enjoy it. I think the writing is very fun. I'm interested in trying more from Marisha Passell. I think she's only got two other books. So let me know. Are they all quite different? Nothing else give me the same vibe as this. I know one's called Never Well and Wait. And then there's her debut. I don't know what that's called. On the whole, this is a very, very impressive book. I am kind of sad. It hasn't quite made it to a five star. And I was like, kind of, should I just like give it a five? But if I'm honest with myself, it hasn't bit that last third. It started to get a little bit like, trapped by the amazing traps that it had laid throughout the rest of the book. Does that make sense? And the weirdly written bit kind of lost me a little bit. I was like, oh, I don't know if we like the route we're going down. And I was scared it was going to be that for the whole book, but it wasn't. It was like a little section, but still, it lost me a little bit. So we have to decide what we're going to read tomorrow. I remembered also that Merd isn't easy, which is a nonfiction about the forensics of Agatha Christie is on TV Alcludo. And I have not got plans to read that. So these are four options. Here's the thing. These three are all like, I think could be five stars, right? I think could be a similar level of enjoyment to this. So you think I want to pick these up? But I feel like after enjoying a book like that so much, for me, it's a lot of pressure to like pick up something I think is going to have to try and match. This is why I'm not a mood read dad. This is stressing me out trying to figure out what order to read these books in or like, I'm probably not going to read them all. So which ones to read? Oh my God, I'm stressing me out. I just need to be told what to read. I can't I can't make this decision, please. I can't make this decision. I thought about giving my patrons the vote, but I know they're going to pick a curious beginning. And I don't know if I'm ready for that. I am leaning towards how to kill your family. Because when I pass on what do you like to know? Loads of you told me you didn't like it. Loads of you told me you didn't like it. So I'm kind of tempted to go for a book I don't think I'm going to enjoy as much and just try to bash it out quickly and then pick up one of these ones I think I'm going to enjoy more. I know that does not make a lot of sense. Okay, I'm aware of that. I'm aware that does not make a lot of sense. Because these are all books I'm more excited for. But I think I'm more like this world to like make room for these and other videos. Whereas this could just be on TV, including get kicked down the path. So I'm leaning towards reading this. I mean Richard Osman blabbed it saying I loved this book that gives me hope might be misplaced hope, but it gives me hope with three days into this I'm often finding myself especially yesterday when it was my shortest reading day I really wanted to read more yesterday I had to stop myself today not so much day was like a little bit of a weird day because I didn't feel very well. But I'm often finding myself wanting to read more I'm probably going to regret saying that because tomorrow is our longest day yet isn't it is like four hours 40 or something. So we shall see I have got the audiobook for this on ever and we shall see what I pick up but I am leaning towards this because I feel like I just need to read something that haven't got any pressure around. Hello friends I've just realized I'm sitting in pretty much the same place as last night's clip but we have to live with that we're set up here now it is Sunday we have a lot of walking today me and Tom we want like 10k so I'm very tired I have not read for the full amount of time yet I am on two hours and 58 minutes so I've got like an hour and 45 minute left of reading to go but it's like eight o'clock so by the time the friend is reading I'm gonna be I'm gonna like close those book pages and go because we all know I have a grandma I like to go to sleep very early so you're not gonna see me again tonight however I am about halfway through how to kill your family by Bellarmacchi I decided to pick this one up next because I did want something where I was like no pressure you know I mean I've read this very slowly I've pretty much just read this via the audiobook today and it's fine it's fine but here's the thing I don't care I kind of went into it with that expectation right because I when you've been reading a lot of oh they're just fine books you know it gets annoying but when you're coming off the book or something great it doesn't bother me as much so in this basically following a girl who's killing her family I don't believe in the glorification of murder I do believe in the empowerment of women basically she was raised by her single mother her mother has died and she is killing off all the horrible members of her father's rich ass family her father's like one of the richest men in the UK he gave his mother nada nothing or if he's to recognize her as a daughter she's like I'm gonna kill this horrible family's lineage of one by motherfucking one so that's what's going on and I mean the writing is just fine like this is a very popular book in the UK this is like you see it in all the supermarkets like Deirdre loves this book for some reason you know I think the writing is okay the character is annoying right she's annoying but she's not meant to be a like or character but like she isn't she's a bit insufferable she's a bit insufferable and she doesn't have to be likable but when you're just in her head you're so in her head it's very voicy it's very like it's from her perspective but it's incredibly like narrated it just gets a bit much you know what I mean like we're basically reading her do these murders over and over again and like reflecting on doing these murders and it she told us in the beginning there'd be seven and I think we've had four people murder so far and it's just getting a bit repetitive I'm hearing the same conversation over and over and over again like her tracking them down and figuring out a fun way because each of them like has a way to murder them that's like personal to them she's like how what's the most ideal way I can murder this person because their characteristics and traits and lifestyle that wouldn't be clocked do you know what I mean I don't want everyone to know that I've murdered them they've all looked kind of like accidents so far and then she like goes to the process of researching and planning and oh I get so nervous but excited before I kill them and it's just getting a bit repetitive it we're just following the same pattern over and over again and it's not very fast paced so here's the thing it's fine it's like a three star at the moment I don't think it's egregious but it's not doing anything particularly you know or inspiring for me but I don't mind that because it kind of feel like it takes some of the heat off those other books down there that like five star predictions it kind of makes me chill out about reading them a little bit more so yeah I don't know it's fine but am I excited to pick it up not really however do you know what I am excited for I got a parcel when I arrived home from the walk today this is from my Amazon wishlist I'm very excited to see what it is so shall we open it together I have no idea what this is someone has very kindly sent me something we've opened it I'm guys this is really main minute oh my god there's two books oh my god it's from Kersi Kersi is one of the kindest people on discord what has Kersi sent me oh my god okay okay okay so we've got night watching which Kersi's was a five star and then we've also got Andrea Kersi's been trying to get everyone on our discord on our patreon discord to read this oh my god Kersi you're so kind thank you so much I have been planning on reading this and night watching was on my t-da and a thriller that I've heard really really good things about this is about a woman who tucks her kids into bed and but there's someone in the house and she's like I think trying to figure out should she run is she gonna hide what's going on I think like the first chapter the first line is there was someone in the house the drama Kersi thank you so much Kersi is always gifting people stuff on the discord we then we had Kersi mess where everyone banded together to send Kersi back works it's honestly one of the most amazing things how the community has grown over there and everyone's making friends and Kersi has been a really cool part of that so thank you so much Kersi I'm so excited to read both of these oh my goodness and I have never had someone tell me to read a book as much as Kersi's so much to ask for Andrea so I've got to do it now I'm very very excited this one is about three women who were all murdered by the same man and I think we're reading from their perspectives I don't know if they ghost I don't know how it works I don't know how it works I don't know if we're reading before before they're murdered or after but thank you so much Kersi oh my gosh I gotta go send her a message so tonight I'm not going to check in with you again tonight but I am going to go read for another hour and 45 and I'll probably get close to finishing this tonight and then I will just finish off in the morning and check in with you and then we'll decide tomorrow what I'm going to read tomorrow and where we're going to go and who I'm going to do anything if I'm going to stay at home and read who knows the world is our oyster anyways I shall see you tomorrow once I've finished this but let's not expect great things good afternoon friends hello we've had a good day walking spots got some ice cream and I have finished how to kill your family we haven't finished reading for today the amount we have to read today is five hours and 15 ish minutes and so far I'm on four hours now if you're a perceptive you notice it's taken me a little while to read this but why not really I've read it in two days but like I could have read this a lot quicker than I did the majority of this I just listened to the audiobook when I was reading it which does mean I read it slower I think I'm going to settle on a 2.5 maybe a two maybe three I think 2.5 is a good middle ground because I'm kind of like two three two three so let's just call it a 2.5 I've been thinking about this because it's Richard Osman is on the front saying I love this book okay okay Richard interesting and listen I listened to Richard Osman's podcast and he they spoke about blurbs and like the you know book author quotes the other day and he's saying you know we know it's already but the idea of these is to give someone who picks up an a book store an idea of what the book is going to be like so I'm thinking hmm why is Richard Osman on here how is this similar to the Thursday Meta Club other than the fact that like there's deaths and killings whatever and the thing is the Thursday Meta Club is very much I always say this it holds up such a light to human nature and really examines the ways that we behave and the ways that we act and what we like what we don't like right the difference is Thursday Meta Club is a very positive outlook on humanity this is the most negative look on humanity you can ever imagine obviously she's killing her like rich family members but in the process of doing so she manages to like this main character hates everyone hates absolutely everyone I found this good read of you about groups that this hideous main character hates okay bear in mind I do not write this list so I cannot remember examples of all of these but quite a few of them I can remember examples of so these are the groups that this of society that this main character at some point according to this reviewer I can I can account for a fair few of these not all of them um hates fat people women bonus points for plastic surgery Asian people old people people with dementia gay people people with eating disorders mentally ill people people who like frogs rich people also poor people teenagers people who struggle with addiction stupid people pret middle-aged women people who take baths pansexual people people with chronic illnesses people who care about social issues influencers of any kind her mom one direction the reader so that is very much true she's just this incredibly negative outlook on humanity I'm not saying books can't have critiques of humanity but this is just like dear god my god really there's nothing it's just it's just it's just a negative fest and that's just not what I want to read I don't I it's fun to read from an unlikeable main character if they've they're giving me something they're giving me some drama but my girlie is just like just so negative about everything and she's exhausting to read I also think that the plotting is not good the story is not paste while the ending is so so anticomactic it's so anticomactic like it is such a disappointing ending to what you've built up throughout the book it just feels like dear god like why have I read this entire book I am glad I finally read it it's an interesting book to have become so successful within the British population I think it's like millennial women millennial women humor and I'm not in that age bracket you know I mean millennials are kind of this elusive age bracket to me because I feel like whenever you're alive you kind of get to know the ways and habits of like your parent generation and your generation and there's usually this generation in the middle where like you don't have a lot of people in your life at that age because of the way like family ages work do you understand what I'm saying I don't have a lot of millennials in my life so I just think that's possibly who this is um marketed towards so I'm gonna give it a 2.5 I don't think it's the worst thing I've ever read but girlie should go back to who she written for guardian vogue advice yep so we've got like an hour and 15 minutes to the reading left to do today and then we've got two more days of reading so we're gonna get through as many of these as we can now here's the thing I am so excited for all of these that I really don't know what to pick and I might go off piece we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see in terms of what I'm gonna pick up next I've been going back and forth between all three each day throughout the day I'm like I'm gonna start this one next I'm gonna start this one I'm gonna start this one the majority today I was thinking I was gonna start a curious beginning next however I cannot get my hands on the audio but anywhere it's not available seemingly anywhere in the UK and I think for this challenge an audiobook is essential it's really essential an audiobook because they need an occasional like while I'm cooking to make up that hour in order to like get stuff done so I don't know if we're gonna be reading this in this video it might have been put aside I'm excited for both of these but right now I am really fancying murder isn't easy the forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine and I kind of feel like whenever I'm getting a little you know little feeling like oh yeah I can read some nonfiction I have to pounce on it wow I have to I have to pass that feeling because otherwise I could put off for so long this I've owned this for a very long time I've owned this for a very long time and I've been assured there's no spoilers in it and I'm just feeling like I'm kind of in the mood to read it and I feel like I have to make a while the sunshine I mean because otherwise it could be like another four years and it hasn't been for us I think I've owned this like two years so I think I'm gonna pick this up next it's all about Agatha Christie and her knowledge of forensics which was so ahead of the I think I've told you but when did I tell you about this I told you about it in T-Belklude but things I know about her she invented the phrase scene of the crime I think that was in was it in I'm not sure if it was in the mysterious affair of styles or murder on the links but it was one of the first occuparrow books was the phrase scene of the crime she invented that and she was also before she started writing during World War I she was a nurse and like a hospital caring for like injured soldiers and she developed a really good knowledge of poisons there she like ran like she also like wrote a little newspaper about going to hospital anyway it's very interesting so that's what I know about her but we're gonna go much greater into detail on this and I'm just feeling like a bit of nonfiction and listen we all have I have my nonfiction goal this year which the goal is to read 12 nonfiction by the end I'm already on two so in order to get caught on the way there that would be wonderful so yeah I'm gonna pick this one up next I'll check it with you probably tonight I'm gonna go make dinner now it's only making the conflict chicken the other night but I made it like a perry perry sauce I'm making it there's chicken cats you carry tonight so I'm gonna go make that and listen to the audio but I'll probably take up most of my time I will give you my first impressions hello friends it's bedtime but I'm just checking in the dishwasher's aren't apologies if that's noisy I have read for my a lot of time and I am how many pages into this I might I haven't got a bookmark but let me try and show you visually I'm about 56 pages in so I've made like a good start but I'm not gonna say any thoughts yet it's too soon it's too soon I can't check in this thing with a nonfiction I have to let the ideas percolate in my brain I have some thoughts but I'll share them in your morning anyways I'm going to bed but I have read for my amount of time I'm starting to get a bit fed up of this I've had it enough you know what the first couple days I was absolutely thriving Pascara's have been like I want to do things other than read you know I'm just consuming a lot of information I'm just reading for a lot of time every day but I am also enjoying or will have thoughts again but I'm enjoying not having to read a certain amount only having to read for some amount of time I think often my reading has a lot of pressure to read like I have to read a whole book today I have to read 100 pages like I have to read this amount today whereas I just have to spend a certain amount of time reading it's a different different element but like I just want a day off you know often I'll read like really heavily for three days then maybe not read for a day and then read very heavily like my reading naturally goes through kind of peaks and troughs where my peaks be even more than I'm reading in a day at the moment and my troughs would be like nothing and I'm missing those troughs you know because I think my style of reading does work well for me so yeah just girly things anyways let me go read some more tweets about Kate Middleton conspiracy because I'm very pulled up very deep in it and then um and then I'm gonna go sleep okay bye good evening friends sorry I haven't spoken to you yet today it's been a very busy day in terms of I filmed a video an edited video also just wanna say I don't know how much I've won this in this vlog because I'm this is my favorite hoodie at the moment but I'm doing a lot of clothes washes I want but we already have a lot of clothes drying space here so I'm having to do a lot of clothes washes just like keep up with the demand um so I've washed us at least once in the course of this vlog if not more I am halfway through um mad isn't easy the friends that I personally buy kill the Valentine I didn't say that very well oh shit my internet just cut out and I'm on a live stream I'm enjoying it but there are some caveats well I first I want to say I'm listening to audiobook like with everything in this video in order for this video to happen in order for me to read this amount every day I have to have the audiobooks in order to like make up that counter you know because I have to listen to one dream make up or while I'm cooking this book is very voicey nonfiction in terms of like it's very full with the author's emotions and the author's opinions and the audiobook writer they've chosen has time set by the audiobook writer of this is so like affected is that the right way to say it like keeps saying stuff and a very interesting way to actually laugh in a way that's saying stuff it's getting weird I don't know how to explain the way that she speaks but it's like sometimes it goes like trying to be funny I don't know how to explain it I really I don't know how to explain it you have to hear it to understand I needed to like bookmark some point in the audiobooks I could play it to you I looked up the audiobook narrator narrates a lot of like women's fiction I hate that I hate that you know terminology but if you saw let me find some of the covers this is important investigative work right this is very small on the screen but these are some of the other books that this author has narrated and like there's a lot of there's a lot of I scroll to this other day there's a lot of books that look like that do you understand what I'm saying like I think that can help you understand the the tone this audiobook writer is striking but anyways in terms of the book itself I think it's very very interesting so far in terms of like forensic details with Agatha Christie we have covered fingerprints trace evidence guns basically and documents and handwriting and it is very interesting I really really appreciate the author not spoiling things there's no spoilers in this which you know I've been very excited to read Lucy Wersley's Agatha Christie book but I'm only has spoilers fucking everywhere so there's no spoilers in this and I do think it is interesting but there's just something about the writing that I'm not loving I don't think it's like the best written nonfiction you I've ever read right I think writing style writing quality is still as important in nonfiction as it is in fiction in terms of the way that you've put that information together and the way that you convey the information and I just don't know if I'm like obsessed with it it's fine at the moment sitting like a 3.5 or 4 it's very very interesting it's making me want to read more Christie like absolutely right this second I'm really enjoying it but like as a piece of nonfiction I'm not like oh my god this is the best thing I've ever read you know it's incredibly interesting to me and my niche interest but I don't yeah I don't think it's like out of this world incredible so I'm gonna continue reading it tonight as moments where I feel like it is having to bulk out certain elements of information with like other real-life cases or you know there was one we had a whole long chapter on guns and it's like Christie didn't like guns she didn't use them all that often or her knowledge of them wasn't the best but let's have a whole chapter on them like I feel like there was moments where it's reaching a little bit and trying to pad out the book and it could have been shorter and tighter and really focused on Christie and there's moments where I feel like I mean listen a wider forensic knowledge is still needed and important and interesting like it's needed for you to understand everything else that it's saying like this this guy invented this forensic research or whatever but sometimes I just feel like it's the weaving of the different things it's trying to bring together isn't necessarily like perfect because that makes sense also I know that like most of the time I'm in the shadow of my camera and I film in this spot I need to change that hello I have read today so far for where's my timer about three hours so I'm probably not going to check in again tonight I'll include a screenshot here's my screenshot of me finished reading tonight JK I actually ended up reading for like an hour longer than I was meant to just very slowly but yeah I'll see you tomorrow once I've finished finished murder isn't easy okay friends I ended up reading this a lot slower than I usually read I think just because it's non-fiction I really end up rereading parts of this and like taking my time with it and really slowing my reading down so today I have read for three hours and 30 minutes but since I over read last night I think I mean how much was I supposed to read yesterday four hours and four minutes so you're over read by like an hour and a bit yesterday so yeah between last night the more that I read last night I've read what I was supposed to do today sorry that the lighting isn't ideal by the way is that better I don't know Tom's got my ring light so we're having to deal with natural lighting it's the life of a day for I I enjoyed this I'm gonna give it a 3.5 I think the reason I really had to slow it down was there is something with the writing that was not 100% doing it for me it just took me a little longer to read then something I this is a topic I'm so interested in there was just something about the writing that meant I had to slow it down in terms of my reading one thing I don't think I told you that was so interesting hang on I think it was at the start of the guns chapter it talks about how are you ready for this Cludo was partially inspired by and then there were none I've connected the two dots you didn't connect shit but I've connected them originally when the game was originally devised it had 10 guest characters the same number as how many there are and then there were none and then there were none and they also have more weapons in the final edition and many of the weapons also feature and then there were none ah there was a bottle of poison and axe and a hypodermic syringe which are all including the original game and will all cause a death in Agatha's book Agatha even jotted down an idea for a Cludo themed murder mystery story like my worlds are just converging my worlds are converging that made me so happy to find out but anyways yeah the whole forensic side of this was very interesting it's a topic I don't know a ton about I found it interesting but like it took me a long time to read it it took me a long time to read it there was just another writing that didn't 105 of me so I don't know if I'd read more nonfiction from Carla Valentine it just didn't 100% but I still think if you are a big Christy fan this is an interesting book you know it really brings to like her knowledge of forensics however like I said sometimes I think it is struggling for things to say sometimes the the source material is a bit lacking and it's like trying to make bigger points and it hasn't doesn't necessarily have the source material it reminded me of when I was at uni and like I really wanted to make a point in an essay but like I hadn't really read anything in any of my readings that really backed it up and I was like struggling I was like trying to bring in things that don't necessarily link up I'm like just really trying to get that um yeah to get that to link up so we're done reading for the day because we read over the past two days kind of the right amount I could have read more I think I haven't felt great there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that's very exciting life stuff but it's also taking up a lot of my brain space and a lot of my energy so I think I read these fairly slowly well definitely the latter two night film I think I did read quite quickly and this is really the big highlight of the vlog for me because I don't think I would have read this any time soon if not for this video I think I would have put it off for years and years and I really really really enjoyed this I cannot recommend it enough in terms of how I found the experiment at the start of it I really enjoyed it I really enjoyed knowing I mean that could also be there on my shorter reading days I struggled more towards the end when I was reading more but um yeah at the beginning I enjoyed it because I liked knowing I have to read for a certain amount of time versus I have to read a certain amount because often I'm like trying to read as quick as I can but just saying to myself you just have to read for four hours and however much you read is however much you read I enjoyed but in the last past couple days also I am not feeling very well I've had a really bad headache the past couple days but the past couple days I've been kind of like um what if I don't read I just don't want to read and also the way that my personal reading goes is I'll often read for like six hours one day and nothing the next I don't read consistently amounts every day like sometimes I'll read loads over two days and then won't read anything for two days and so on and so forth so I think there were certain points that I was like I need a day of not reading and like doing other things in life you know but I think it's an interesting experiment don't know if I'll do it again these two well this one was not successful this one was successful with a few caveats and this one was a very successful read so let me know if you read any of these and what you thought of them but I had a lot of fun making this vlog I hope you guys enjoyed it I don't know how long this is going to be it's either going to be like really long or actually not not that long and that's most vlogs anyways guys I love you guys so much thank you so much for watching to the end of the video and I'll see you very soon in another one bye