 Welcome back! So I've decided kind of last minute that I'm going to do a Halloween day vlog because Halloween takes place on a Saturday, so I was able to get most of my homework done today, not all of it, but the idea is that I'm gonna try and spend all of tomorrow reading spooky books and watching spooky blueberries and doing as many Halloween themed things as I can. Hopefully we'll also cover pumpkins, right babe? So it's 1 a.m. on Halloween and I just uploaded a video that I meant to upload on Monday. So that didn't happen, but I have another video that I want to upload and then I want to like kind of film my day doing Halloween things and then upload that the next day. But anyway, I'm gonna try and start reading. I'm gonna start the spooky beans with Catherine House, which is a dark academia that I recently got and I'm really excited for. So yeah, this is just gonna be a very short, just kind of like, this is what I think I'm gonna do for Halloween. So I'll catch up with you guys after I have gone to bed, woken up and started my day. So see ya in just a second. It is about 9.40 in the morning. I slept in a little later than I wanted to, but at the same time, I wasn't sure I had an alarm set. So thankfully I did and I woke up at 9. So there are a couple of things that I do have to do today other than just sitting and reading. But I did start reading Catherine House. I'm on page like 10 and already I love the roommate so much more than the main character. So this is gonna be interesting. But yeah, so there are a couple of things I'll have to do today, but hopefully I can still spend a majority of it reading a few books and then watching at least hocus pocus and probably something else. So I'll catch up with you guys when it's like a little more significant in the day. They were supposed to come on Thursdays as I would have them in time for Halloween to read them on Halloween. Today is now Halloween. And the package said it was delivered, but it wasn't. Like I thought I didn't get it. I had ordered two books at the same time, all in order. And those books came. They came on the 23rd. No problem. So like there's nothing wrong with the address or anything like that. That package just hasn't arrived. So I was gonna go to the post office. I was gonna go to Target and get a bag of mixed candy and like bring my husband to work. And then all of a sudden we get in the car and we start to move and the engine is roaring and screaming and just like making this loud, deep growl. And we have a Prius. Like our car is a Prius. It is a silent, like quiet, like you don't know it's on until it's moving sort of car. Like it doesn't make noise. And then for all of it to make this loud, low, grumbling noise every time I try to move, it was like, oh my word, what's going on? What's something's wrong with the engine? Which is really bad, obviously. And it's not like something we can just have fixed. And I'm afraid to take it anywhere, but we can't afford to have it taken anywhere. But yeah, so now my husband has to take public transportation to work and we live in Minneapolis and he works in St. Paul. So what turned into a 10 minute car ride to get him to work is now going to turn into anywhere from half an hour to an hour of public transportation. Thus making him super late for work. And meaning that I can't go to the post office because it's way too far to walk. I could still walk to Target. But I'm still really annoyed at like what all of the sudden is wrong with her car. And why don't I have my books? So now I have to walk to Target, which is going to take a lot more time than I planned. And I don't actually currently have an audio book, so I might try and find one before it goes. I can continue reading, but I don't know. I'm just really annoyed about the car and now I don't have my books and so I'm starting to fall apart and it's only like 12, 10. It's just barely into the afternoon. So yep, we'll see. I'm probably going to start walking to Target soon, get some candy, come back and continue reading. Oh, here is a bookish update for you though. I'm gonna walk over here because my arm is getting tired. So I am one-third of the way through Catherine House and it's interesting because I feel like not a lot is happening and yet I'm still reading it really intently. Like it's weird because the chapters are like 40 pages long. Like they're super long chapters and normally I hate 20 page long chapters, but for some reason I'm able to just plow through these no problem, which is weird because the only thing that's been happening is the main character is sleeping around, partying and drinking, skipping classes. That's like the only thing that has happened other than like a small plot point here, a small plot point there. Like I just feel like so little is happening for the amount I've read, but at the same time I'm still reading it like really quickly and really intently. So yeah, we'll see. I'll definitely finish the book indefinitely today. It's just now I'm gonna have less time to read because I'm gonna have to walk 20 minutes to Target. So yep, I'll catch up with you later. So I got back from Target and I got the candy and I got some cookies and I got some mac and cheese, but a huge thing I wanted to get while I was there was apple cider because we finished our apple cider a while ago and I want more and this nose finally melted so it feels like fall again and it's Halloween. I want apple cider and Target didn't have any apple cider. What they had instead was eggnog and don't get me wrong. I love eggnog, but it's Halloween. We're in the middle of fall. Like I get that people start drinking eggnog in November because people start celebrating Christmas in November, but seriously, there should still be apple cider. It's still apple season. Oh, so I'm really annoyed. I'm just, I've been having not the best day here people, which really sucks because I've been looking forward to Halloween for the past like two to three months. I've been like preparing for this day, but just so many things have happened and it's just, it's been a frustrating day. So I'm going to relax and watch some booktube and I might put some Halloween nails on and I'm gonna eat some cookies and I'm gonna just relax a little bit and then I'm gonna continue reading Catherine House. So yeah, we're gonna do some of that now. They do this all the time and it's very distracting, very annoying, but they do it all the time. So hopefully I can still, I mean I can still read. It just annoys me, but now that I finished with the videos and just kind of calming down from what always happened today, I have turned on a 10 hour long video of just the fire crackling to kind of give it like a warmer atmosphere. And I'm reading more of Catherine House and I am just about halfway through and I'm still having very much the same vibes as before where it's like all it talks about is her skipping class, drinking and repeat. And so I just find it to be very repetitive, but I refuse to stop reading it and I don't know why. So I'm gonna go finish this now. Just contacting the post office and then being like we'll see if we'll do anything. And then I went to Target and I was gonna record all the different candy options and I was gonna be like, oh which one am I gonna buy? And then as soon as I pulled my phone out it was like, and you got 30% battery but you're gonna die. And then later on after I charged my phone I had some issues with filming and so the day just kind of fell apart a little bit. Luckily I still got some footage of us carving pumpkins and watching, well we watched, we watched like Hocus Pocus Nightmare Before Christmas and we started the haunting at the high house, the haunting of Hill House. Yeah, the haunting of Hill House as well as rewatching Charmed. I also just quick sign up, I did my nails to be like little pumpkins. I mean like they're the kind that were pre-made and I put them on. I'm not talented with nails at all. But yeah, so like Halloween was just kind of hard but I had a great night with my friends in costume and carving pumpkins and watching. So, but because our car broke down I had to spend a lot more time not reading when I was hoping to read so I only read Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas. I was hoping to read this and at least one other book. I was going to read The Something which is the start of the Darkest Powers trilogy but I didn't quite get there. But I did read this entire book and this book is a Dark Academia and I gave it three out of five stars but I was honestly debating giving it two. So it's more so a Halloween vlog slash Catherine House vlog. But yeah, so Catherine House is a Dark Academia book where the idea is that you apply and you go through a rigorous application progress to get in. You spend three years studying here and then when you graduate you can be whatever you want have whatever career you want. You know be however successful you are but if you don't graduate bad things happen or you just can't not graduate. I believe it was like if you didn't graduate you die but that really wasn't very prominent in the book. So like I said I gave it like three out of five stars debating on lowering it to two for the following various reasons. First off I didn't like many of the characters. I feel like they weren't super fleshed out. I felt the book was extremely repetitive because I felt that so the first year of her at the universe or at Catherine House was interesting but that's just because they're learning how to do things but it was very much she her daily routine was wake up don't go to class get drunk sleep with someone repeat and then one big actual event happened in year one and then year two was wake up sometimes go to classes get drunk sleep with someone repeat and I just felt like that's all that happened in year two and then when it got to year three it was very much wake up most of it's pretty good go to class get drunk sleep with someone repeat but then like the ending but then the last 50 pages it started to actually accelerate into a story with a plot with an idea with a purpose but then the last 10 pages it just completely flopped and it was very anticlimactic and it seemed way too easy for her to just for the book to just end the way it did it really wasn't that creative and ending in my opinion um and then a whole a major theme in the book that seems like it was supposed to be plot points but it was more of a theme rather than a plot was that um there's this thing called plasm and that's what the that's what Catherine House studies like that's kind of what they're known for like scum schools are known for their nursing degrees others are known for business and blah blah blah they seem to be known for their new materials plasm program but uh the author did not describe plasm in a way that I understood it was very much like oh everyone at Catherine House knows what it is because that's what they do so we're I'm gonna very briefly tell you what it is but I'm sitting here like I have no idea is it like matter is it what things are made up of and so the idea is that you're mending things or like it just wasn't explained very clearly or in a way that I was able to understand what plasm was and then for that to be such a big theme in the book I just kept getting lost at what was happening and then like a lot of the descriptions were things I didn't care about and then the things I did care about I didn't get descriptions for um and there are just a lot of lines in there that was literally like why was this necessary why was this kept in there like who edited this book and I obviously was edited and it was like well written but the like I said the descriptions threw me off there were lines in there that was like that really wasn't that was not something I wanted to picture because it was like I just I just didn't need to um and yeah and I feel like it didn't get very like intense until the last 50 pages where you could kind of see the psychological thriller take hold and then like I said the the ending was just so anticlimactic that seemed like everything just dropped and it was like too easy or kind of like they had given up on the ending I feel bad saying all these bad things about the book but that's in my opinion that's what I thought I thought this book just didn't have much of a plot and the theme that it stuck with I didn't understand and then was not consistent and so that was the book that I read on Halloween was yeah Catherine House like I don't know I was still very uncaptured by it though just because it seems like I was reading the same thing over and over again with like not the descriptions that I want like it wouldn't describe places or people it would be like I went to the bathroom I peed I then went and did this and I was like I what was the whole point of I don't need to picture that I don't need that to be what I take away from this section of the scene and so I just felt like was so much of that in there it just it didn't quite I don't know but I was still uncaptured I was still wanting to read more I was still actively like I want to keep reading I want to know what happens because I desperately wanted there to be a better explanation about plasm and how the students were being affected by plasm and the horror psychological aspect of it which like I said I got in the last 50 pages but again there was no satisfactory ending so yeah that's kind of what I thought of the book and then that's all I did on Halloween as I read this book carved pumpkins watch like Hocus Pocus Nightmare Before Christmas and started watching The Haunting at Hill House so you know it was okay I dressed up I was in costume I had a couple close friends over Halloween was pretty good it's just the only book I read with Casper in House and it really in my opinion was not my cup of tea or as the characters do at every single meal it was not my cup of wine yeah they were served wine at breakfast lunch dinner and then they drank harder liquor in between it and that was and I was just sitting here like how do you expect to like actually study and graduate if you're just consistently drinking and drunk like that part of the thing also didn't make sense like as a university student it's extremely hard to study and pass classes if you're constantly drinking so yeah anyway so that is going to be the end of this video and then I will have a video about kind of what I'm going to read in the next couple months of the year and I'll start kind of doing yearly wrap-ups and like what I want to read November December so subscribe if you want to get notified for those videos as well as feel free to like this video comment down below what you did on Halloween what you read what you watched what you did super I just want to hear from you guys um so yeah feel free to do all those youtubey things and until I see you guys in the next video I wish you a happy reading