 Hello, hello, and welcome to today's video. My name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's little library Excited I am having this is my first time filming this intro. So welcome to my Vlog for thrill till the weekend. This is a read-a-thon happening September 1st Wednesday for 72 hours So that's until September 3rd on Friday and they have different events happening Wednesday It was a movie night. So we have movie night coming up tonight, and I'm really excited Thursday is a Reading sprint and chat kind of time, which I'm very fortunate to take part in So if you haven't seen that go check it out. It'll probably be up by now And then Friday is a book discussion for the group book for this little mini read-a-thon I kind of decided last minute that I was gonna vlog it just because it seemed like a fun thing to do But it's already a little past five on Wednesday. I just got home from work So I haven't been able to and it's my first day of work, too So like I got up early and I went to work and I haven't been able to like actually do much today Yet, but there are plenty of things I need to do because we're in our brand new apartment So there's obviously a lot of setup that's gonna happen Which is perfect for audiobooks, which is perfect for this read-a-thon because I will be focusing on two audiobooks I have my sister the serial killer and this should only take me about two hours to get through so I'm really excited to just kind of plow through that get it read and then the other Audiobook that I have that I want to read is the cabin at the end of the world So I am really excited to read that one as well and hopefully I'll be able to finish them both during this read-a-thon And then maybe also a physical book who knows because I do have to work All three days of this read-a-thon. I have to work my eight hour shifts every day So we'll see if that actually happens, but that's why I'm like focusing I really just want to get the audiobooks done because I have no excuse to not listen to them while unpacking in the evenings so Yeah, that's that's kind of the beginning. That's what's happening here It is Wednesday, and I realized I have not had time to film tomorrow's video Which is going to be my bullet journal for September and I switched my theme last minute So I have to like redo all the planning so I am going to plan that video and then film that video and Edit it and upload it for tomorrow. So that's kind of the top priority I'll be able to listen to my audiobook during this, but Yeah, so that's what I'm gonna do now. I Just realized I left a turkey sandwich at work that I wanted to eat for dinner That's a bummer Anyway, I will check it with you guys Probably when I finished filming those videos and have actually read something for this read-a-thon Okay, it's much lighter. It's it's 12 o'clock And I'm tired and I should go to bed But here's the thing So I did finally start reading a book. I started reading my sister the serial killer. I'm almost halfway through it I really like it. I think it's very fun. Very interesting I'm waiting for it to pick up just a little bit like it had a really good intro But I feel like it's about to go into a wall not because Like it's a lull in the book. I think it's just a lull in what I'm interested about It's not quite taking the turn. I was hoping but that's okay Because I'm hoping to get through it very quickly. I'm hope I'm gonna finish it tomorrow I'm like I'm gonna finish it tomorrow. It's gonna be finished tomorrow for sure But the thing is is that my my clips just uploaded on my computer So I I want to edit them, but I'm also just so tired and I just want to go to bed So tomorrow's video might be late because I have to wake up early to go to work and I work all morning. So my video for sure will not be going up at the normal time Unless I stay up really late tonight to do that, but that's just too much work. So Yeah, tomorrow's video is gonna be up late, but it is gonna be up probably after work and Yeah, isn't it's not much of an update. I did do the movie watching event with the thrill till the weekend Discord chat and I Agree with most things that were said in that discord chat of There are some things that were interesting and I liked but many things where it's big eye roll classic horror movie So yeah, I watched that's what I did. I watched the movie. I started a book. I started editing I'm gonna go to bed and I probably won't update you until after work tomorrow When I am about to edit or when I've hopefully finished my book So then I think about my sister's serial killer is that it's only a four four and a half hour long audiobook So let's think to it at two point speed. I get it done in just a little over two hours. So I'm almost Halfway through so I've listened to it for about a little over an hour to get it to two hours Ish But yeah, I'll update you later tomorrow with this fun little thing Good night. I'm a person because I did not update you yesterday like I thought it would or that I was planning to Basically, I got home from work and I was really really tired and I realized that my video wasn't ready to go up yet and I had the live show for thrill to the weekend and I was really excited and I was preparing for that and then it Got to a point where I was ready to go to bed and I didn't update you at all and Then here we are so now I'm gonna update you I did finish a book I finished my sister the serial killer and I liked it a lot. I rated it four point five out of five stars There were just a few little things that I wish had been added or better explained in the book Like I wish there was a little bit more of the sister relationship and I wasn't really satisfied with the ending but Still phenomenal book still highly recommend. It's a nice short Perfect intro into spooky season read And I feel like I don't need to give too much of a description because when I listen to the audiobook And it's only four hours long and the title is my sister the serial killer You kind of you kind of get the idea that There are two sisters one knows that the other one is the serial killer She just also happens to be the one who cleans up at the crime scenes So Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I loved it I am gonna start listening to the cabin at the end of the world For the thrill to the weekend even though that ends tonight and it's a nine and a half hour audiobook And I don't think I can finish it in one day But I'm gonna try I did also let me grab the book. I did also restart reading where the briars sleep I am 70 pages into it and I'm pretty much to reach the point where I stopped reading it last time And I stopped reading it last time Because it wasn't the finished copy and I was really enjoying the book and I'm still really enjoying it But now I have the finished copy and I was told that certain plot holes were fixed So I wanted to start from the beginning to see if there were any like important changes due to Like plot holes being fixed and there were so I'm very glad I started from the beginning But I'm all caught up now, so I'm about to head into new territory and I am super super excited for it I'm also thinking this may not just be a thrill till the weekend vlog just because I don't Have a lot of footage of just these three days because these were the first three days that I started work And I do work full-time so And I did just move into this new apartment as well, so we're still unpacking some things So this might also include the weekend because exciting things are happening on Sunday So and I kind of want to capture that so it's gonna be like an extended weekend vlog like a Wednesday to Sunday type Thing it's the intro to spooky season vlog That's what it will be intro to spooky season, which is gonna be great, so Yeah, like I said, I have a ton of things to do and I hope to listen to more the audiobook I probably won't finish so then I've only read one book for the 72 hour read-a-thon, but you know what I read a book The shortest one you can get because it was a novella, but it still counts so Yeah, I'll catch up with you guys later when I've actually done some reading and hopefully that will be Later today and not like two days later Hello, so it is 1115 and I did some more reading I well listened to the first three hours of the cabin at the end of the world and Enjoying it, but it's not unique So Basically, I I started listening to it and I was hooked and I didn't want to stop listening to it But I ran out of things to do while listening to it So then I would get fidgety and then I would zone out and that Doesn't work obviously when you try to listen to an audiobook. So I Stopped listening to it three hours in and I started watching only murders in the apartment The new show with like Martin Short and Celine Gomez and Steve Martin and blah blah blah on Hulu and I'm loving that more than I'm loving the book a little bit just because the cabin at the end of the world So they're unrelated like they're they're they're not related in the slightest the cabin at the end of the world so this happens within the first three hours is that There's this family vacationing in a cabin And then these four random people with like weapons come and basically say you have to choose one of your family members to kill And then you have to kill them or the apocalypse comes and all of humanity dies Which it's not that it's been done before except that it's been Done before in very similar ways Like it just doesn't seem Unique at all or fresh or new or anything and so I'm kind of struggling I still have six six and a half hours left in the book So I'm really hoping it will pick up and I will continue to read it probably tomorrow But for now I'm gonna watch the TV show because I love it and then I'll go to bed And hopefully I'll update you tomorrow when I'm more interesting things and can spend more time reading Morning, it is Saturday morning. It's just past 9 30 and I have the whole apartment to myself For a large chunk of the day So my plan for today is So first off, I'm gonna eat breakfast and then I might do a couple things on my computer But I'm going to largely hopefully spend the day listening to my audio book the cabin at the end of the world and Cleaning our room slash organizing slash unpacking the last two boxes in our room. We're super excited Brennan Put together the two nightstands that we got from Ikea the other day so I can actually Finish unpacking and put things in places, which is really nice and one of those nightstands I think we'll be replacing a desk, which is really interesting not that we're gonna use it like a desk, but It's gonna keep all of our desk like things on there so That yeah, that is kind of the loose plan for the day And I'm really excited and hopefully I mean it'd be really nice if I could finish the audio book today And I think if I stay focused I can so and Then when all that is said and done If I don't continue to work on my computer or even after I continue to work on my computer I'm gonna read where the briars sleep. I will finally be able to actually read more of this book and Yeah, I'm really excited for that. So hopefully this day will be full of reading and productivity. I really really hope All right, let's get to work wanted to stop and say that I got this from an antique store and this is what I'm gonna keep all of my baking recipes in because It's a treasure chest. They're my treasure. I finished Unpacking both of the boxes, but now I got to put everything away The hard thing is that one of these night stand needs to go on the other side of the bed But there's no room for it, and I don't think I can move our queen size bed alone because I am weakling So I'm gonna try and do a little bit more work in here listening to the audiobook. I am enjoying it I'm three and a half hours in I've got like six hours left Um It's fine. It's kind of a little slow at the moment because it's just like the the the people who have them captured are Doing something Kind of but then everyone in the chair is just kind of sitting there And I'm just like, okay, when is something gonna happen here like this is a tense moment Have something happen here Resolve the tension don't draw it out because you're starting to lose me here doing it so far So I'm gonna keep working on this and I'll catch up with you later. This is exciting So it is now what time it's now four o'clock and I've got a lot done I've been very productive, and I'm quite proud of it. And also, this is the first time I'm sitting in front of my bookshelves in the new apartment to like sit in the film And it's Wonderful so Yes, I did get new glasses and I've been wearing them all day for like the past couple of days minus at work Because I still wear my old ones. So I need buy vocals technically. I'm supposed to But I refuse because I hate them So I have one pair for far away things and one pair for close-up things So like the far away things I wear at work when I'm driving when I'm like watching TV across the room But these are my close-up glasses They're what I use for reading and looking at computer screens and phone screens blah blah blah anyway But yeah, I just wanted to in case anyone was curious that it's a new thing on my face, but Anyway, so I decided that in this vlog. I'm going to include a mini haul Because I'm going to do a large haul in a couple weeks, but I'm gonna do a go book buying with me plus haul in That video and it's going to be spooky season themed So subscribe if you haven't already so that when I upload the spooky themed videos You could be ready for it So I have a stack of books right here of non spooky Books or books that will not be included in it Why did the lighting just change? Oh? So I'm gonna quick run through these books there are quite a few of them So I'm just gonna share title author and live one or two sentences about of what they're about so we're gonna try and keep it brief, but yeah, I'm really excited to share these books with you and That I have this nice little Set up also the lighting keeps changing during this video It's because the Sun keeps going behind clouds, but not but I have a ring light here So you'll always be able to see in my face Anyway, so let's get started with the books first up is Beauty Queens by Libba Bray And I got this from a friend of mine. She read it and loved it and said I had to read it And she says this is about the contestants in the Miss Teen Teen Dream pageant Was gonna take a trip to the beach and then they get stranded so they have to survive But they're all a bunch of beauty queens, so I think it's entertaining I definitely think this would have been a perfect summer read, but I'm kind of heading into Fall reads and spooky reads So I don't know if I'll read any more summer reads this year or if I'm going to wait until next year or until I am longing For a sense of summer which will probably happen sometime in December No, I'll be excited for Christmas, which will happen in January And then I have this this is Briar Heart by Mercedes Lakey or Lackey And this book I believe comes out next month in October of this year So it is an art. It was not sent to me by the publisher. It was sent so To explain some of these books will have not been released yet, but weren't sent directly to me They were sent to a friend of mine who has since then gifted them to me either because she hasn't read them and Wants me to and tell her about them or she's read them and she wants me to read them So I'm getting these but not directly from the publisher not in exchange for a review or money or anything like that All opinions are my own But anyway, this is a feminist retelling of sleeping beauty. This basically follows sleeping beauties half sister who Has been tasked to protect princess Aurora so that Aurora can rule the kingdom and I believe she not only has to Physically be able to protect her sister like a badass But also wield some sort of magic or has to be able to magically Protect her sister as well from threats from like the faith Hmm, gee, I wonder why so I'm really excited to read this and I always love more fairy tale retellings anthology type So I hope to be picking this up pretty soon Moving on the next book that I would like to talk about is called the other side of luck by Ginger Johnson And this also is an advanced readers copy, but it did already come out in July So don't worry. This is a middle grade and it's really I'm really excited because I've been wanting to read more middle grade I've been saying, you know, I want to read middle grade and then I just flat out haven't So this follows a princess and after her mother dies her father basically says, you know Anyone in the kingdom must go out find this flower whoever does gets a hand at the princess and she's like Excuse you and so she also goes in search of this flower for herself And it so it follows her that also follows one popper who does go and try to find the flower So, yeah, it's it's not too thick, which will be kind of nice Just a short little made middle grade to hopefully kick off a long Line of reading middle grids, I can't speak anymore The next book a season of sinister dreams by Tracy Bankhart and she's the author of grace and fury which I have not read Again another arc that I got from my friend that is already out. It came out in June of this year So go ahead and read it this also has two characters that we follow and one is a princess who Does not who has magic and then the other is a farm girl who doesn't have her magic And they end up going on a journey together and they both want to save the kingdom because the men are destroying it So sounds like fun the next one that I have here is spindle and dagger and this is by J. Anderson coats and This one I believe is out. Yeah, this one came out last year and This is very interesting because the summary has a lot of plot points in it, but it's not that big of a book so basically we're in Wales way back in 1109 and These this person her kingdom gets taken over by this horrible king and she ends up all of her family dies And so so she convinces him that he needs her that she is very valuable to him and Then other political things are happening between him and another country and she's trying to find ways to influence While not giving herself away of someone who's actually not important in the eyes of the court, but I think it'll be very interesting I think this will be a nice Like addition to political intrigue books without being too deep because it's not that big so Yeah, so be a good winter book I feel like I don't know why I feel like that But I think it will be and then I got somewhere between bitter and sweet and this is by lake and zea kemp and This is a contemporary and I believe it has to do with rivals who make food So she wants to own her own Pastelleria, which is right next to her family's taco shop, but that's not what her parents have in mind They're like no you're going to be a perfect Mexican daughter and you are going to go become a doctor or lawyer or whatever and Then there's this guy who has just been trying to find a job And so he finds a job at her family's taco shop, but I believe Issues of immigration come up for him and his family. So this will be a really good one I was going through a bit of a contemporary food bean phase This past summer So moving on to the next and last contemporary that I have on this list is instructions for dancing by Nicola Yoon I have heard good things about this one So our main character is able to see people's Relationships but also how the relationships end and so because she sees all this heartbreak and sadness she's not very motivated to have her own relationship and Then the love interest comes along and that's all I know about it And that's all I really need to know about it. Um, I love the colors of it though. It's so Pretty it's definitely going to Brighten up continue to brighten up the corner of my shelf where I have all my contemporaries Fucking right along through here trying to go as quickly as possible. The next book here is Sunshine and this is by Marion Dain Bauer. I think that's how you say her name. It's a sad story I know this is gonna be a sad story that just rips my heart out And I don't know if I'm ready for it and because of that I feel like and because of how short it is like it's Only like not even 200 pages I feel like this is a book that I'm gonna need to sit down on like a Saturday or a Tuesday Like one of the days I have walked from work and just sit down and read it all through it once Because I'm not gonna want to be stopped through it It's it's been it's this little boy his dad and his dog and that's all he has and so he struggles with the loss of his mom not in death But in she left them as well as this feeling of rejection from his dad so he finds comfort in his dog And it's just gonna be so sad and heartbreaking So I'm just gonna need to sit down and read this one day Probably at the end of the year when I'm like, oh shoot. I did not complete my good read school I better read something short and quick. This is probably what I'll jump to and I'll make me cry and Okay, and I just now noticed that the outline of the picture is the dog like Getting all emotional. Let's move on to the next book because I'm getting all emotional So this next book is The Wicker King and this is by K. Ancron And basically all my friend told me about this when she gave it to me is Phenomenal queer story Okay Interesting, you know, we're always here for queer stories especially because I think this is a queer romance Which for it being a mostly black cover you wouldn't really think Queer romance when you look at this but what I what struck me about this book is The format it's like normal. It's got some pictures and then as you go in the pages get all like So I feel like this will be another quick read that I don't need to know a lot about or I'm not going to Because I know I'm just gonna sit down and read it because she told me to read it. I'm gonna read it I'm sorry. I know that's not very motivating for you to go out and pick up the book, but That's what I got now this next one. I'm really excited about I was so excited when she gave this to me And that is the Hawthorne legacy and this is by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This is the second in a Series, I don't know if it's a duology or if there's even gonna be another book after this But I know that the inheritance games is the first book and I listened to that on audio like last Fall or winter or spring? I don't know I listened to it a while ago and I loved it everyone is every I've only heard good things about it I'm only really preaching good things about it. It's like knives out If y'all want to go down that route It's full of puzzles and games and it follows this girl who all of a sudden finds out that this Billionaire left everything to her instead of his family and she's like What the fuck why? Why what connection do I have to this billionaire? So she has to go down to Texas Live with the family in that house for a year So she can officially inherit everything and she's like I mean me and my sister need this But like and so I absolutely loved that. I love the ending. I didn't know there was gonna be a second book But now there is a second book and now that's in my hands. I am so excited What does this come out and this comes out this month? I don't know if it has come out or not because I'm filming this on September 4 I feel like it either has come out or is about to but I know it comes out this month So if you haven't read the first one the inheritance games, it's got the green cover Read it so you can pick this up because oh my word. It is so much fun the next couple books are still books I got from my friend and They're kind of spooky-ish But I don't know if I'm gonna have time to read them this spooky season because my spooky season TDR is Gynormous and I already have it all planned out and that will be explained in a future video So again subscribe if you're curious about what my spooky season reading plans are because those will be coming out In a week or two. I think yeah, maybe next week or maybe week after I don't know I need to look at a calendar But these could be good spooky reads if I have time I'd love to fit them in but they're not my top priority And so that is we are the ghosts by Vicki Skinner So basically the main characters brother died in a car accident and she is Investigating it and as she gets close to the people around her brother secrets unfurl Things happen and she figures stuff out and is like Whoa So it's yeah, it sounds interesting and Like like I said, maybe I'll read it if I have time But it's not exactly at the top of my priority list, but if you have read this Please let me know It says it's an advanced readers copy And but it came out in August of 2019 So if you have read this Please let me know what you think if you think it's worth the read if you enjoyed it If you think I would like it if I should make it more of a priority for this year's spooky season Let me know in the comments below. I would love to hear your thoughts Same goes with like any of these books Some of them may be arcs that like just came out or about to come out But like if you've read any of them, let me know your thoughts because I would love to hear other people's actual Opinions about these because so many of them I didn't I hadn't heard of until my friend was like here Take this entire stack of books and I was like, okay. Next one is verify by Joel Sure, but no Joel is show me no if you want to the French way Joel Sure, but no And this one too. So this is another like could be spooky book and it follows our main character Who lives a great life? Oh, it says a world without lies like it's very peaceful She's very happy now. I'm son her mother dies and when she has these questions that no one is answering. She's like Yo, wait, what's up with this? And then she realizes that there are so many questions that nobody is wondering or finding answers to and she's like This isn't right. So she goes down this long investigation to figure out what happened to her mother and what's going on I don't know if it's kind of like a dystopian or if it's just Murder mystery II. I'm not sure But again, it's another one of those like I would love to read it if I have time now this last one I have heard people Briefly mention on Instagram or people talk about it on Instagram But I'm just not super sold on it but just the fact that other people are reading it and loving it are making me question my Ideas about this book and that is mercury boys by Shandra Prasad and so this is a recent release and The synopsis is kind of hard for me to understand, but it seems kind of dark academia ish I think but it's the idea that these girls figure out that using mercury that can go into really old Portraits and need these boys Pass that I don't quite understand what the like plot of the book is if they're trying to keep It is secret of how they're meeting these boys if there's something suspicious going on with these boys. I Don't know, but they start a club. It's the mercury boys club It sounds like a really cool idea in premise I just don't see the plot of it, which is why I'm having a hard time picking it up But you know what if other people are reading it and loving it. I should also give it a chance If you know anything about it, please let me know down below Please I'm begging you because I have no clue about this one. Obviously now We're actually gonna get into the books that I bought that I spent my own money on Yeah, the first one I'm gonna talk about I am super excited about and I'm gonna try and pick it up this month it's on my TBR for the read-a-thon that's currently going on the Magical read-a-thon through a rillium with G and I have I'll link my TBR video down below and in the description of that I do have the announcement video Linked in that description. So if you want go ahead and click on my video And then you can get to the original or you could just sit there and watch my video So I'm really excited to pick it up and I'll probably be picking it up once I finish my current physical reads Anyway, it's Curse of the Spectre Queen and this is my Jenny Elder Moke Celtic mythology That's all I needed Celtic mythology and I am sold. I believe that she does start off in a bookstore as well Like I've heard that this is Indiana Jones with Celtic mythology with a female lead That's all I needed to get hooked on it. It's got a little one here So I'm assuming it's gonna be a series, but I am super excited to pick this up I I saw it and I saw this knot and I was like, hmm That's like Irish kind of Celtic-y and I looked up the description. I was like So I will be reading this very soon if I can help it Then I've got two more books in a series and I have already read them I I bought them and Instantly read them because I have the first book and I love it and those are so those books are the T-Dragon books that we have the T-Dragon Festival and the T-Dragon tapestry and their seasons summer and fall and I don't know if more are coming out, but now I'm caught up in these and I adored them five stars each I just can't do anything but rate them five stars and love them and talk about them So I am finally caught up on those And those are all the books that I have to talk about I did buy more books but like I said those will be featured in a haul coming in a week or so and Yes, so stay tuned for that. Yes, the lighting is changing again. It is the Sun. It is out of my control but I Also figure I should probably give you a reading update while I'm here because I have been doing a lot of listening to my Audiabug I have been cleaning up the apartment finish unpacking the boxes Put away the boxes because we're keeping them for when we move again in two years Don't you love? Don't you love it when you move into a new place? And you know that you're eventually going to leave and it's not even like an eventual in like five or ten years Is that it's a soon-ish thing? Yeah, like that's my that's my favorite But anyway, I think I've gotten lots of good productive things done. I'm excited to put these books on my shelves I've got about an hour and a half left in the cabin at the end of the world And I gotta say it's done a pretty good job of keeping my attention like for there to not be a twist so far It's done. It's done pretty good because like everything that's happened has like made sense It hasn't been surprising. It hasn't been twisty like kind of knew what was going on from the beginning But they've done a great job of capturing my attention I guess I did hit a big twist that I wasn't expecting but like Okay, so there was one good twist, but I don't even see it as like a twist I would say it's a surprising event happened rather than like a twist But yeah, so it's captured my attention. I am completely here for it. I'm going to finish it today. So help me But yeah, I'm thinking It could be a four-star book I'm thinking it really just depends on how this ending goes because I do have some little critiques But I need to not let one small bad thing prevent the book from being a five stars Because the book would still deserve five stars, even if it's not perfect And plus it's just not fair for the book. So yeah I I'm gonna try and finish that audiobook and then I will do some actual physical reading But I do have a friend coming over super exciting. I am so excited Um, so we'll see where the evening takes us. But yeah, that is where I'm at so far Talk to you later So it is 11 30 at night and I'm about to go to bed But I did finish The cabin at the end of the world and I'm giving it 3.75 Because I feel like it was a very strong book But it also there were just so many things that would just like take me out of the story Or I felt like it would try and lean into the tension so much that it took forever to actually get anywhere So it would be like this tense-filled moment and it would keep talking about useless things as I'm sitting there waiting for things to go on and I felt like There it wasn't as twisty and turny as I hoped it would be there was one kind of big twist thing But I don't even consider a twist. I think it was surprising But also if you if you read thrillers, you'll see it coming Like I think because I'm new to the thriller genre. I like Like it didn't surprise me but I could have seen it coming had I read other Things, you know, like it just it was an interesting idea, but it was never fully I don't know Like I'd still recommend it like 3.75 stars. I'd still recommend it. I'd still say it was pretty good But I definitely think there's a lot more in the genre that I'm gonna like more But Yeah, so I just wanted to update you on that. I finished it. So now I'm gonna So now I'm probably gonna concentrate more on my physical reams. I do actually I just realized I do actually have beach read as an audiobook right now And I'm and I know I said I'm getting into the fall vibes like I'm like Starting to fall in spooky season like I'm where I'm reading another like Victorian gothic novel But I might just try and quick read beach read Like I feel like if I were to read it though, I would listen to the audiobook While following along in the book because I did start it physically And that's how I'd like to finish it But I don't want to take the time to read the entire thing physically because I want to hurry up and get into spooky season So I might do a mix of audio and audio follow along physically But we'll see I might just kind of give up and say okay next summer So But yeah, so it's Saturday night I finished the second book for this vlog, which is really exciting for me Because I've been in and out of reading slumps a little bit Or like not even in a reading slump But just like wanting to read but just not having the time and prioritizing like work and cleaning and sleeping and whatnot. So Yeah, it's kind of nice to have say like I finished two books Tomorrow is going to be really fun I have something very exciting happening tomorrow, which is why the vlog is being extended through sunday So I probably won't finish another book, but I'll keep you updated on my reading and this fun event that will be happening tomorrow. So See you in a couple seconds when it's done Hello, happy sunday. So we are We have finished running a couple things, but now we are in the midst of picking up our big surprise It's really well. It's not surprised to us because we know exactly what's happening, but we are super Super excited that this is happening. It is just absolutely wonderful And it's here in the car There's a glimpse So as you may tell it is pet related, but obviously it's not something too big. So I will show you clips when we have them set up at home as well as give all the information about it We're super excited Also I did finish the cabin at the end of the world last night I had listened all the way up until there were like four minutes left in the audiobook and then I Had to do some things that were time sensitive And then it took me so long before I could actually listen to the last four minutes And I got to say the ending was a little drawn out I think they had the same issue that I had with the tension where it was like, okay You're taking forever and you're losing my interest, but I was satisfied with the ending. I enjoyed it I rated it 3.75 stars. Um, so on Goodreads, it looks like a four star, but on Storygraph It is 3.75 stars because it was a solid book like it's a good thriller I think it's definitely a good beginning thriller like for someone like me who hasn't read a lot of thrillers, but was interested um Because it really did dive into the suspense and everything but Yeah So it's a solid book I would still recommend it for people who like the specific kind of thriller, but if you're unsure, but if You don't like this kind of thriller then like don't read it and I mean Yeah, but I feel like if you like thrillers in general, you'll probably like this book It was just it was just solid, you know, not too great not like bad at all. It was just it was a solid It was a book. It was worth my time So I'll let you know more about what I'm currently reading when I get home and I introduce you to our new little friend Okay, now we're home and I am ready to show you guys our new surprise say hello to haku He's our new russian tortoise. He's quite shy, but I mean that's kind of how tortoises are they like to burrow Yes, he enjoys getting Yes, so we got a tortoise His name is haku We are so excited to have haku with us We named him haku because of speared it away. It's one of our favorite studio ghibli movies and one that I grew up with and Yeah, so really excited to have him. We've been wanting to get a tortoise for a while now Well, we've really been needing a pet, but I'm allergic to fur and we just didn't feel like a cat would do well in our apartment So we got a tortoise and we're really excited We're gonna do some different things with his cage though because we don't want to keep him in a glass tank Because he keeps bonking his head and that's not fun So we are going to kind of do a cool homemade thing eventually so But yeah, just wanted to show him to you I haven't done any reading because I've been kind of preoccupied with haku Um, but so I will end out the vlog here Uh, I extended it to sunday purely so that you guys could meet haku But yeah, I read two thriller books Which is really exciting my sister the serial killer, which I really enjoyed and I cabin at the end of the world Which was a pretty good book So yeah, it's a great way to start off spooky season. I'm super excited And yeah, don't forget to subscribe if you're new And make videos every thursday However, not only will I be releasing videos on thursdays, but I will also be releasing bonus videos on Either mondays or tuesdays. I haven't decided which yet, but I will be releasing a second video every week during spooky season so all so Starting after this vlog goes up. I believe no starting before this vlog goes up. I'll have my first bonus video But yeah, so all through september and october I will be posting twice a week because I love spooky season and I feel like there's so much content to play with So I'll see you all sooner than normal and until then I wish you a happy reading