 Well here we are another year come and gone and I just realized that I wore this same shirt in the video from last year too so I don't know what to do with that but whatever cool it's tradition now but this year wound up being different than I anticipated in terms of you know books and stuff I read because it started off really really strong like the first couple books I read this year were like the last part of the broken empire trilogy and or economics and so I was thinking yeah this is gonna be great but around spring time so not long after I moved it started to go downhill precipitously well that sucks and weirdly enough as you'll see later I read several book series that followed that exact pattern you know starting off strong and then just completely collapsing by the end I don't know why that is but hey I felt the need to mention it and to be honest I feel like I I just read too much damn young adult stuff this year like it's what the audience demands so sometimes you gotta give the people what they want but man I watched too much or I read too much YA stuff this year that said there's plenty of stuff to enjoy this year and there was plenty of stuff to mock this year and there's plenty of stuff that I don't know you just you think you read it and you think about it and go huh that's weird uh so let's do that and also keep in mind that this is just stuff I read this year this isn't necessarily stuff that came out this year and also if I mention something there will probably be spoilers so just be aware but yeah let's uh do best and worst of 2023 let's go this is the introduction song it's not very good but it's not too long so the biggest letdown of this year by a pretty big margin was the lost medal and technically I did start reading this one at the end of last year but I didn't finish it until this year and it wasn't featured in last year's list so fuck it it's it's it's here this time uh yeah the lost medal it was um not horrible but there was about six years of hype behind it you know because there's six years between the bands of mourning and the lost medal and the bands of mourning had an insane ending which made people super excited and we just wanted to know what happened next we wanted to know how Wax and Wayne's storyline would uh get wrapped up and how that would possibly lead into the greater Cosmere a bit but it um it wasn't that you know the whole thing really just felt like it was a commercial for more Cosmere stuff and that's a big part of why I haven't been reading much Cosmere stuff lately is because like I haven't touched any of the secret projects or anything yet like I'm not saying I'll never read them I just am not that excited for them partially because in the not just lost medal but a couple books before that as well it just feels less and less like these are self-contained stories which tie together in some ways and more like just hey look we're gonna do cool stuff later if you don't understand this reference then this isn't gonna make sense but if you do then it's really cool and it's just it's just getting more and more annoying and obnoxious and I'm not into it and the lost medal even on as its own thing it's good again pretty good solid conclusion but it doesn't really feel like it's meant as a conclusion it feels like it's just advertising other stuff the weirdest book I read this year no contest it was struck by Jennifer Bosworth and this one is I mean it's about a girl that's addicted to being struck by lightning and I mean I say that and you're gonna wonder what happens next and what happens next well there's two cults there's a massive earthquake which destroys most of Los Angeles there's people who have weird X-Men powers there's a skyscraper with an eternal rave to celebrate the end of the world like it's people just partying going yep we're all gonna die soon might as well make the most of it and that's like a major part of the end of the book the climax of the book okay it just what am I meant to do with that like and don't get me wrong I like struck you can go watch my video on it if you don't believe me I liked struck it's a good book it unfortunately leaves itself very open for sequels and seems to be baiting sequels really hard but we're never gonna get any because the author not only has remarried and changed her name but she's also just not interested in being an author anymore it seems she's working on other stuff which you know good for her but it's been like 12 years we're never getting more struck but yeah good or bad it was the strangest thing I read this year the runner up for the strangest thing I read this year was breathe and its sequel resist by Sarah croissant I I described this book in my review of it as an edgy Lorax ripoff and yeah that's basically it it's like humans destroyed all the trees so now there's not enough oxygen for people and so now they just live under big domes and they have to pay for air like that's just that's a thing that happens and that is the plot of the Lorax movie and even outside of the main premise it's just a strange book series with strange things happening like apparently oh okay outside you actually can breathe you just have to condition yourself to do it so you have to get used to having less oxygen or how there's a cult except the cult is kind of not evil but they're kind of our evil and then no one is sure who the villains even are in the final battle it's just there's a big final battle it's it's a weird and not particularly good book series but it's it's not as weird as struck the best nonfiction I read this year was easily street sword practical use of the long blade for self-defense stupid light is reflecting weird there you go practical use of the long blade for self-defense by Phil Elmore I'm sorry I keep meaning to do a video with this but uh I haven't gotten the chance to and the only reason that's the best nonfiction I read this year it really should be this one black flags the rise of ices because this is a fascinating book but I'm not finished with it yet so I don't think you would be right to put it on the list so street sword that's the best nonfiction this year the funniest book series I read this year is easily the flintstones comic from 2016 because man even just thinking about it for a little while makes me chuckle like seeing all the weird stonepunk technology in the flintstones was always amusing always gave me a couple of laughs even when I was a little kid but seeing that done to an even greater degree here and with even more modern technology done in a stonepunk version is great here but on top of that it's also just very biting political slash social satire like especially if you look at it uh based on what was going on in the united states politically back in 2016 this is a there's some pretty clear parallels here which it's making fun of uh and it's all just in a weird setting so there is some separation between that and the real world which helps prevent it from feeling like it's you know being preachy or anything and even outside of that there's some great jokes here like there's a soldier with ptsd who calls the suicide helpline and they put him on a hold as soon as he calls and he says all right but this better be some damn good old music like yeah there's some really good jokes in there runner up for the funniest book i read this year is easily swooned because swoon is a stealth parody of twilight like you know there was twilight with sexy vampires and then a whole bunch of other books ripping off twilight about sexy boys who are some other supernatural creatures sometimes they it was just vampires other times it was like fairies or leprechauns or werewolves or whatever and swoon is again it's a stealth parody it doesn't really advertise itself as such so it might be a little while before it becomes obvious but it instead of being about sexy vampires it's about a sexy ghost who later turns into a sexy golem and he tries to get revenge on people by making old people have orgies and stuff like it's swoon is a hilarious book it's not for everybody i don't think but it's a hilarious book i loved it the book series i read with by far the most missed potential this year and if you've seen my video on it it should not be hard to guess what this is it's red queen you know again not a good cover here i've seen people describe these covers as great i don't know what they're talking about i think red queens covers are terrible but whatever that's just me and i'm not here to talk about the covers either i'm talking about the missed potential because it's a pretty basic setup for a story just okay girl discover she has magical powers and is going to be made one of the elite nobility who run the country but she has to hide who she really is and then there's also a rebellion that goes off like that that's a pretty basic setup for a story but there are so many points where it brings up the possibility for doing something really cool not even necessarily unique but at the very least interesting or something that would be fun to read about or something that would be cool to read about or at the very least just you know something something beyond the absolute most basic surface level stuff they have so many opportunities to do that they could go into detail about things like the morality of war and terrorism because there are parts where yeah the main characters do some unpleasant stuff but they don't really dwell on it or the trauma that all this violence could happen i'm just gonna eat that all this violence could inflict upon not only the main character but other characters as well or how about the silvers the ruling class of this world actually being puppets of other people like i thought that was going to be an actual thing here or at least i thought that would be cool and just nothing nothing happens you know red queen was really just obsessed with writing tropes and then only giving them the barest of explanations and justifications for why those tropes exist but not really doing anything else you know there there's no subversion there's no surprises there's there's nothing there's nothing there and that's part of why i disliked it so much the biggest shock i had this year was realizing that servants of fate is erotica now servants of fate was something i read earlier on this year and i'll tell you right now it's a good book series or at least a decent book series because i did like the actual story of it and there's some of the characters and stuff who i were i was really into as well the world that takes place in is kind of interesting but it is just erotica you know like a little while into the first book i when it was going into a lot of detail and spending a lot of time describing characters like genitals and stuff i was like okay i think this might this might be smutty erotica such stuff uh what's going on here and then the first sex scene came and i was like okay yeah this is this is basically just porn and you know the story and everything could have been better but overall i did enjoy it it's just it really caught me off guard because it wasn't advertised as erotica the most boring fantasy i read this year i don't know if i'd call it the worst but by far the most boring is Leviathan by r.m. huffman and man this is another one that had at least some potential to be cool and interesting but it just did nothing with it because it's literally just a bible freak rewrote the story of noa but then sucked out all of the character all of the theme all intrigue and most of the action you know like there there really is nothing there that is interesting like it the only reason that someone would like the character of noa as he's portrayed there is if you're already a weirdo religious person who is just obsessed with noa and thinks yes he is amazing he is god's chosen person he's the best ever we love noa isn't that right like that there's no reason to actually like him but the story just accepts that you do like him and look up to him so rather than seeing somebody go on some sort of journey and do stuff that's great he just is great you know and so for that reason leviathan was the most boring fantasy i read the book series with the biggest drop in quality from beginning to end shouldn't shock you if you've seen my video on it it just came out a couple days ago is everneath of course if you haven't watched my video on this go go do that i know it's long but just go please go do it because i need to justify spending that much time on it and man the first book wasn't perfect it had some issues in there which i pointed out but it was the first book was a cute romance with some tragedy and a you know an actual story where the characters were working towards some sort of goal and overall they were decent people except for the villain but then in the later books a magical rapist turns out to be the love interest and the main character literally kills thousands of people and never even acknowledges or thinks about the fact that she did that that is in no way an exaggeration go watch my video if you don't believe me it was it was nuts and so yeah this book series started off as genuinely good i enjoyed it but by the end it's one of the worst things i touched this year it was horrible the runner up for the biggest drop in quality from a book series this year from beginning to end was the dust lands trilogy aka blood red road because the first book is just called blood red road and again the first book is just like everneath it's really solid it starts off with a girl witnessing her brother get kidnapped and her father is killed by these strange men that come to their home and she sets off to rescue her brother like it's a simple goal that she's working towards and she has to go through a lot of trouble to get there and again the first book isn't perfect but it is a good adventure story where we're following this young girl who's thrust into very difficult circumstances and is fighting against horrifying odds just to save her loved one you know it's it's great and the end of it is still open for sequels obviously but it does wrap up the story pretty well and then we get into the second and third books and it's about this weird half-assed revolution and then at the very end they literally defeat the villain by pointing out to his followers that the villain's son is deaf again if you want context you're gonna have to go watch that but like you know it's just it started off as good and then it just loses all steam it loses its own identity and just like everneath the two of them have some weird similarities because they're both trilogies they're both were following trends in the young adult market at the time that they came out and they both started good and then you know fell off obviously and then they both feature a love triangle between the main character who is a girl and two men and in both cases one of the men that they're in a love triangle with is named Jack and both of them choose Jack and are in a relationship with him at the end of the series like that's that that there's weird similarities here is what I'm saying that's weird the best science fiction I read this year goes to the Empire of Man series by David Weber and John Ringo and this one again it's a simple enough setup it's about a prince of an galactic empire who gets stranded on a planet full of barbarians alongside his marine bodyguards and they have to literally walk to the other end of this planet so that they can reach a spaceport and then they have to take over that spaceport so that they can commandeer a ship and go home and this isn't really spoilers because they bring that up like before they even land on the planet as they're running away they're like okay that's our plan and then it takes them three books to go through it and then even once they get off the planet there's still some more issues they got to deal with once they get home so like it's a very personal story following just a couple of people in any real depth but it's still very expansive because you see how they're affecting entire civilizations but both when they're you know just a relatively small group on this planet and once they go out and start affecting the entire empire I really loved it because like it's it's pretty clearly military science fiction yes but it's also a space opera and it's been a long time since we've had well okay I was about to say it's been a long time since we've had a proper space opera and that's not true we've had a couple over the past few decades but it's been a long time since we had a lot of good ones you know and if more people would take advice from stuff like empire of man or the expanse then yeah we'd be in a good place the worst romance I read this year again shouldn't shock anybody it's from everneath it's nicky and coal now I know that coal is ultimately the losing leg of that love triangle and nicky winds up with jack like I said it's just a minute ago but still the fact that he was a love interest at all is just gross because again he is a magical rapist like that's that's all there is to say about him really he's a magical rapist he lies to her he abuses her he manipulates her he does this magical ritual to her thinking that it will kill her but then it turns out it doesn't and that's just a happy accident on his part like he would have gladly killed her if he needed to like he's not a good person in any way and the fact that the two of them had a real thing going on even if he dies at the end to redeem himself please note the quotes around the word redeem himself is just it's just gross the runner-up for the worst romance I read this year is from night bane which is the sequel to lightlark if you were unaware and that one is going to be isla and grim grim is also a magical rapist why is this such a common thing that's weird whatever not important yeah those are both books where one of the love interests in a love triangle is a magical rapist but grim isn't as bad in night bane as coal is in everneath so I guess I just I don't know he's not as bad he's the runner-up that's still a spot in the hall of shame worst protagonist I read this year give me a drum roll everybody it's everneath again it's nicky from everneath I hate everneath I really do again if you haven't watched my video on it just go watch it seriously there's so much context you're missing here but nicky is literally a mass murderer at the end of the series and it just it never even comes up like like the last couple of chapters after she murders thousands of people she never stops and goes oh wait I just murdered thousands of people and she it'd be one thing if she thought about it and then found some way to justify it because you know there were some justifications at least that I could think of but she it just never even crosses her mind she's a horrible person and even though she started off as an okay protagonist by the end she just no the runner-up for the worst protagonist I read this year easily easily violet soren gale from fourth wing also get it she's a dragon rider she soars on the wind she's soaring on the wind she's soaring on the gales soren gale do you get it yeah that's that yeah that that name had more thought put into it than everything else in that book combined like fourth wing absolutely horrible for a lot of reasons violets a bad person she's stupid she's selfish she she doesn't you know mass murder people the way that nicky does but you know she does some questionable stuff and no one ever really calls her out for it she's also just amazing just because she's the main character so she's amazing at things and they try to make her disabled in order to make her like relatable and give her flaws but then her disability doesn't actually affect anything it's like no she's she's horrible but she's not as bad as nicky and I mean she at least has some personality that's something third place for the worst protagonist I read this year is again Noah from Leviathan like he he suffers from a lot of similar problems to violet soren gale where he's just amazing just because and he does morally questionable things but it's fine because the author agrees with the morally questionable things he does and the author doesn't have the self-awareness to acknowledge that the things he's doing are morally questionable it so you know that's all fine he's just amazing just because and he doesn't have much personality because that he's getting married to his cousin it's like just a lot of stuff man a lot of stuff it it's hard to get through but you know again Noah doesn't do as many bad things as the other two so he's slightly lower the best protagonist I read this year is prince roger mclintock also from the empire of man series and man if you had told me that right at the beginning of the first book I don't think I would have believed you but his journey here is genuinely fantastic like I don't know if I'd call it a redemption arc per se but watching him go from a spoiled not entirely useless but mostly useless prince to being an actual emperor and being essentially a bloodthirsty barbarian who knows how to keep himself tempered at at least when necessary is genuinely fascinating to watch and also just it's great you know I love seeing his journey and I again I don't know if I call it a redemption arc per se but you could consider it one and if so it's probably the best one I've ever read or at least one of the best ones I've ever read and just I don't know what watching him his journey was fantastic you know some protagonists are great from the beginning others have to grow on you and roger mclintock definitely grew on me the best book series I read this year is the dark prophet saga aka or economics because you know the first book is or economics now I've only read the first two books here because I read them both as audiobooks and the third one is out but it doesn't have an audiobook yet so I'm just like waiting for that to happen whenever it happens it happens but you know I'm excited for the end and man it's just it's a great story you know it's not especially derivative of other adventure or fantasy stories I've read over the years but at the same time it still feels really familiar you know it's about a washed up old adventuring hero named gorm ingerson who gets roped back into being a hero and has to go with this party on a quest and then that blows up and becomes a much bigger thing in a much bigger conflict in the second book and man it's just it's just great you know it has great humor it has fantastic satire of the real world not just real world you know economics and it's not surface level either goes pretty deep but like real world economics it and real world governments and stuff but it also pokes fun at and I don't know if I call it a parody per se but it does poke a lot of fun at like fantasy tropes and the way that rpgs work particularly dungeons and dragons because a lot of the world building here is based in broad strokes on dungeon and dragons and the world's there it's just I don't know it's fantastic and it's really fun and lighthearted at first but then it has some really really dark twists and the story gets much more serious in fact this is one of the darkest things I read this year and I read the last couple of broken empire books this year but you know it's not crazy over the top dark and that never overtakes the story you know like these characters are still the same characters we knew before and even if they're traumatized and have some serious issues not just in the past but in the present they are still the same goofy dudes we knew and after fantasy has largely been going in a darker and darker direction in the past like 15 years it is really nice to see something that is dark but it serves an actual purpose and it doesn't let the darkness overtake everything you know so dark prophet saga genuinely amazing fantasy books if you're looking for something fantasy at all give those a shot and if you find the humor or anything off-putting and you think it's just going to be silly and goofy throughout just read until the end of the first book and then come back to me the best protagonist with lightning powers I read this year oh this is a three-way battle because for some reason this year I read three different books where the protagonist was a girl a teenage girl who has lightning powers or I guess technically one of them is 20 years old but you know what close enough you're all children to me but yeah I read struck I read a fourth wing and red queen all of whom had protagonists with lightning powers for some reason and all of which I didn't really know about going into it and the best protagonist of those three is Mia Price from struck look it's not a high bar to clear but Mia was at least you know as one she was an actual character she wasn't a total blank slate and number two she was likable enough and you know did good things and didn't kill a bunch of people for no reason or anything uh second place is violet from fourth wing because as awful as she is when it comes to protagonists I will take one that I hate over one that has no personality at all and third place is mare from red queen like again mare is I guess more likable than violet but there's just nothing to her you know she's just the main character girl and she has lightning powers so yeah I Mia price wins now the runner up for the worst book I read this year is going to be pariah yeah I when I put out a video on this I I said pariah is the worst book I've read this year so far and that was that was good instincts James because you knew it was going to get worse than that and pariah is pretty bad though I don't blame you if you've never heard of it it's basically about a bunch of people trapped in a building after the zombie apocalypse and they're all slowly starving and then one day a girl walks by and the zombies are all just leaving her alone and they want to know what's going on there and that that might sound intriguing but they don't really do anything with it so because there's basically no plot here every character is an asshole there's nothing in the way of identifiable themes or world building because we don't know anything about what's going on outside of this very small area which I mean that could be fine but again there's no plot so there's like that there's nothing to distract us there but the real the real sin of this book is just the way it's written because that is actually disgusting like there's no easy way to put this there's a scene in this book where one of the main characters describes a woman as sexy by comparing her to prisoners during the holocaust disgusting I'm not making that up it just like when I read that line I was still relatively early in the book but I knew from that moment forward like okay I'm going to fucking hate this thing and I was right it didn't get better after that I can't say it got worse than that but it didn't get better either so yeah pariah easily easily the second worst book I read this year and it's not a big jump from pariah to the number one spot I'll say that and the absolute worst thing I read in 2023 that there's a couple of good guesses you could put here but at the end of the day I had to put it as fourth wing like fourth wing is the worst thing I read this year like to the point where I'm just not touching the sequels ever I don't care if it would get me a lot of attention or anything I number one I don't want to give the people making this more money because that just encourages them and number two I just do not have the mental energy to go through that shit I just I just don't anymore I I hate fourth wing so much there is pretty much nothing in that book worth praising it's 500 pages and there's nothing good there like it is just porn pretending to be young adult fantasy pretending to be adult fantasy like that that's the simplest way I can think to describe fourth wing violet is as I said earlier stupid selfish she's disabled because she has uh eds but that that doesn't affect her that much you know and I mean sure there are forms of eds which are extremely debilitating but the form she has isn't really that bad and so she doesn't really come across as disabled and even if she did she just sort of powers through all of her obstacles so there's nothing going on there and she's just great at everything and gets hot boys just just because you know if you're looking for porn like okay there is smutty stuff in here there's graphic sex scenes but they don't come up until 370 pages in so even if you're looking for that it's a bad example of that sort of thing like people got on me for calling it porn because again it takes forever for the porn to start but like it's still porn even if it takes forever for the porn to start guys I don't think I mentioned this in my video on it but you know violet again she's disabled she's physically weak as they put it but she has lightning powers and she's a dragon rider so couldn't they just have her fly around and rain lightning on their foes you know be like a fantasy version of an a10 warthog wouldn't wouldn't that be cool wouldn't that have been a way for her to work with her disability instead of just ignoring it what that that would have been cool in my opinion but whatever I guess nobody cares what I think and then their government is just evil but more than that they're just stupid like most of the stuff their government does that comes across that's supposed to come across as evil just looks stupid like for example the dragon rider academy students are just allowed to murder each other for literally no reason it's it's not even like they have organized duels or anything they're just allowed to murder each other whenever they want for no reason and they also just go through stupidly dangerous testing like not even stuff that could be dangerous but there's some supervision and safety in the way you know to like teach you something and it's just if you fuck up really bad or get really unlucky you die it's just like stuff that is designed to kill you and if you get lucky you get past it and you learn nothing you know like there's just so much dumb shit here but probably the dumbest is that the main character is you know forced into this by her mother but a lot of other people are you know also conscripted or they volunteer for this academy you know to go through all this dangerous stuff so that they can become dragon riders but then also the children of people who led a rebellion a while ago were also forced to become dragon riders and they were forced to do it as punishment so number one you're taking all these people who are a security risk and giving them the most powerful weapons in your kingdom but also you're doing this as punishment but also you're just allowing your regular kids to do it at the same time none of this makes sense absolutely none of this and it becomes even more fucking nonsensical when you get to the latter chunk of the book where Violet is like shocked to find out that her government is evil i don't even know how her government's evil or what exactly they're doing that is evil all i know is that they're apparently on the wrong side in the war that's going on but i have no context in order to understand what's going on so maybe people who have read the second book could explain that but i don't care i just fucking don't and then you know obviously everybody tries to kill Violet just because you know again she's the main character she's the best like it's just fourth wing is just pure wish fulfillment which isn't inherently bad but the fact that it's not even trying and the fact that people are hyping we're hyping it up so much and talking about how amazing it is because you know it just gives them exactly what they want in the exact way that they want it all the time instantly that just set me off that just pushes all of my buttons and you know what just i fourth wing deserves to be the bottom of the list here okay because it is by far the worst thing i read this year i don't care if people are gonna get salty at me with about that they're gonna go oh you only hate it because it's roman fuck you okay i have an hour long video talking about all of the problems i have there none of which are that it has a big focus on romance because it really doesn't even have a big focus on romance like the main love interest is a guy named Zaden who falls in love with Violet just because she's the fucking main character like there's no moment in the book i can point to where they really fall in love and start to like each other they just they each think the other is hot from the beginning and then after a little while Violet realizes okay Zaden isn't actively trying to kill me so i guess he's fine and then just that they're in love now like that's it there is basically no romance here it is fucking porn it is wish fulfillment okay like if you if you like it just be honest with yourselves about what it is so uh that's the end of that it's like uh another year has gone by uh we're all a little bit older than we were last time i did this but you know it's uh that's just life you know time moves on whether we want it to or not and in terms of books yeah 2023 could have been a lot better for me but in my personal life things went okay and i hope the same can be said for many of you you know i finally live on my own don't have to deal with roommates or family or anybody you know i'm just i'm here but you know things also haven't been perfect you know i tried adopting a cat a while ago but i just had so much anxiety about not being able to take proper care of him that i had to send him back and that broke my heart but you know he got adopted he has a decent family now and i wish him nothing but the best and i mean in terms of youtube as well this is uh i had a bit of a iffy period during the summer but i heard a lot of other people did too and i realized uh after that where i you know made that video just saying hey i'm changing up some things on my channel and i also took a bunch of advice from the people watching and used as much of it as i could and things are looking up now you know channels doing better but i'm also realizing that being on youtube is very much a push and pull between things i want to make and things that will sell you know like these things these aren't mutually exclusive there is overlap between them and i think any youtuber watching this can probably uh identify a bit with this but there that overlap uh is ideal but for some people there's only a little bit and some people there's a lot you know i didn't read fourth wing because i wanted to or because i cared about it at all i read it because a lot of people wanted me to so i was like okay fine we'll check it out and it was terrible you know red queen wasn't as terrible but again i really only picked it up because hey i figured people wanted me to talk about it and that was one of my best performing videos this year you know so i it worked out okay i'm not complaining too hard but i think that is a struggle that even if you're not a youtuber every creative person has to deal with or at least every person who does creative stuff professionally has to deal with you know what sells and what you want to make is not always the same thing and you know ideally you can make the overlap as big as possible but it's never going to be 100 but whether i succeed or fail i'll always have you you know i i'll always have at least a couple of people who are into my stuff and that that really does mean a lot you know and outside of youtube i was able to work on my own book a whole lot more i didn't quite finish editing or anything but you know that's life gets in the way sometimes and i i know i mentioned a while ago i wanted to write like a parody book uh like a parody young adult fantasy thing that wasn't again it wasn't a super obvious parody it was a stealth parody kind of like swoon but uh i want to do that for nano rimo and i realized i was spending a weird amount of time on it and so i just decided okay that time should just be spent on my other book that i'm writing so that's just what i did maybe i'll get to it one day i do have like an actual outline and everything written but hey uh life happens and i can confidently say that throughout all of 2023 i was just always tired but i can also say that i was always progressing you know i took a lot of time to try and be better in a lot of different ways and i hope all of you did too so if you're watching this i hope you have uh merry christmas or happy holidays whatever you may celebrate or may not celebrate have a happy new year and here's to a bunch more books hopefully better ones in 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