 Hey guys! So welcome to my first ever weekly reading vlog. My cat's rubbing is facing us a tripod. Let's hope it doesn't fall. If you're wondering what these are, these are runes from Halloween. So I don't feel like taking them off. So for now I'm all tatted up. But I thought I'd start reading weekly reading vlogs because you guys actually requested them and I really enjoy watching other people. So I thought you know what? Why not? So it's November 1st. I'm starting this on a Wednesday because I want to start on the first day of November update. I'm currently reading if you do not see my TBR video. I'm currently listening to the audiobook for the drawing of three. I think I'm about two and a half hours in and there's I think I have like 10 hours left. I don't know. So if I'm doing anything that requires me like that I can listen to an audiobook while I do it then I'll do that. But I don't know how much of the audiobook I'll get done today. And then I'm also reading The Childfinder by Renee Denfeld. So I'm, I read some last night as well. So I'm about 146 pages in. So I really hope to finish this one today. I think it's pretty doable. It's 120 pages but we'll kind of see how it goes because I want to clean up around my room and I need to prep some videos, do some planning for November that I haven't like I planned some stuff but I want to do the rest of my planning for November. And I might have to film today as well just to get more videos on the roll, on track. Hey guys so it is much later in the day. He always just shows up. It's about 7 p.m. and I wanted to update you guys that I did finish The Childfinder by Renee Denfeld. I'm still thinking about all my thoughts. Like as you can see there's a lot of tabs in it because the writing is very beautiful and whimsical and like I feel like this is the story that's gonna stick with me and the ending made up for like the the last part made up for a lot of it. But then again it deals with similar to low-lita like pedophilia at one point as well. So that's there and there's also a relationship between two people that were foster siblings. So I think that might be controversial for some people. I don't know they weren't related but I could see how some people will be take that the wrong way or just find it disturbing. So same with the pedophilia obviously. But yeah I'm still gonna think about this one a lot. I think I think it's around a 3.5 but I'm not sure. Like I'm not sure. I can see why this would be like a five star rate for people and why this would like why this could be like a lower rating for people as well. So yeah I finished this. I'll let you guys know my official rating probably tomorrow. But I also got book mail today. So in the mail I didn't I forgot I ordered this but I got an order to live by Yainomi Park because I hope is how you say it. This is about a Korean woman who is escaping North Korea with her family and it's her story. And obviously if you watch the news or are just online you know how bad North Korea is. So this is her story. So I'm really interested to read this and kind of see someone who actually experienced it and their experiences. Wow I said that a lot. Okay I've heard great things about this and it's not fictional ever. So maybe I'll slide this in my TBR at one point. I don't know. So I got it from Book Pository. I literally forgot I ordered it and it also came with like a cute little bookmark and like the designers from Malaysia and it has all these like types of buildings on it. I thought that was kind of cool. So yeah. I'm currently sitting at my desk area but last I haven't read anything today because I was really not feeling well today and I'm about to go to physio but yesterday last night I finished two books after the trial finder. So I ended up reading Entwined by Cara Beatrice which I was sent for review. I really didn't end up enjoying it. A lot of the poems were really cliche I found. I found it was nothing new to the table. There was only a few that I liked and the poems were really short which typically I like short poems but in this circumstance it was like like a few lines but they're like basic lines that I've heard before unfortunately and like if you've read a lot of poetry or you've been on Tumblr it's basically that and basic analogies, basic lines, that sort of thing so I wasn't a big fan. I gave it two stars unfortunately which I was really hoping out like this and then after that I read another book that I thought I would love and I didn't and that is Ten Count. So this one my friend loves and this one it's a mail mail romance. I didn't like this one at all. I was just there for the romance and I knew in this book it wasn't there was nothing really it was just angst so there wasn't any you know stuff happening but basically I really didn't like this. I thought in terms of the illustrations for the panels it literally like it felt like they literally took panels out that should have been kept in so like it was show a scene but it was like panels were missing that's how I felt like the story was so scattered it felt like some things were just missing and I'm like wait this happened this person fell like it doesn't show everything so I'm like what is happening and then I also found like I had no connection with the characters or the plot or I want to continue and then the most the thing that pissed me off the most was the I forgot that deals with OCD. I remember my friend mentioning it but the thing that really bothers me about this and I know some people might disagree or I don't know but this pissed me off so much but Ten Count basically there's this guy right and he is an obsessive hand washer and he wears gloves because his hands are all you know raw from washing his hands all the time and he wears gloves and so this random guy goes up to him's like you're germaphobic you should see a psychologist and this guy goes oh okay and he goes I'm a psychologist here's the office and I'm like okay and he basically gives him ten things to do so like touch a door handle without washing your hands do this do this and they said and literally I quote after you do these ten things you will be completely cured I just think that's so unrealistic that if you follow a few steps you're gonna be completely cured and I'm not saying these steps were easy but I'm saying it's just not realistic especially for people who don't know too much about OCD or mental illness which I'm not a professional but obviously I'm not a professional but from what I've learned and from like experiences of my own it's not that easy at all and it's not ten simple steps and you're completely cured like mental illness is something you fight for your whole life and that really bothered me that people are gonna read this and think oh you know OCD is just about hand washing and like you know hot guy approaches me on the street and so they need to see a psychologist and I'm gonna go and ten steps and I'm done and then I get this nice man which it's so unrealistic I hated it I give it two stars though I might boost that down I think it deserves less but I'll leave it as two for now I guess so I've already read three books this month and today I haven't read anything I'm the movie for what is it to modern order and express comes out on the 10th so I still have a little bit to read that but I renewed my drawing of three audiobooks so I'm waiting for that to come back in and then I think I'm gonna start without merit or into the wild today I don't know we'll see how I'm feeling I'm feeling kind of shitty today so yeah and if you've never been here this is my desk fun well I love Redbubble like that to the it's that site that booktubers have gotten sponsored by and stuff but Redbubble is actually so cool and they have these awesome stickers and I die and like my friend what's her name Olivia she's such a deer and she makes her own stickers on there so I got this one from her and it's so pretty it reminds me of like Akutar so yeah I'll see you guys tomorrow later Saturday now and I'm sorry I didn't update you yesterday but I just start without merit by calling Hoover which is entertaining and the only problematic things that I've noticed so far for the record I am 145 pages in right now yeah we'll finish this probably before Monday so either today or tomorrow I hope to finish it but I'm not really in a rush I've read quite a bit this week that I'm pretty happy with so yeah but the only thing that I've noticed is just like the way that she meets the love interest and I think that's gonna be the love interest it's just in a creepy way which is in all her books anyways so nothing new hey guys so it is Sunday now and excuse the appearance um it's currently 8 30 so last night I finished without merit and you know I said that the first 150 pages weren't too bad yeah it just dropped after that so I don't know how she can go from writing it ends with us which wasn't a five-star read for me but I appreciated like the rep in that and I know so many people love that book and like I agree with a lot of those aspects as well to then writing this which don't get me wrong I've liked many of calling Hoover's books but I haven't liked some of her books as well but I'll continue to read her books just for the pure fact that I've loved some of her other work but don't merit let's just say I'm nervous to pick up her next book when it's released um I gave it one star maybe 1.5 or 2 but wasn't good I just made a whole ranty Goodreads review on it so I'll have that link down below if you're interested and I might make a YouTube review let me know if you would want to see it or if you would watch it but yeah not my favorite at all so I'm actually going to be ending the vlog here so close that so basically I think I'm gonna be ending the vlog here so I vlog from the first to the fifth I haven't read anything today just because I have a lot of school stuff to do today so I don't know how much reading I'm gonna get done and I want to edit this vlog and make sure I get it up and stuff but I'm hoping to start and then there were not in there and I read that right around there and express tonight or tomorrow and finish it by Friday so I think I'll vlog this coming week but we will see let me know if you guys like this vlog though but for a wrap up of my reading this past week and I'll talk about these more in my wrap up and if you guys want to see individual reviews let me know but I read these four so I finished up The Childfinder by Renee Denfeld which I gave about a 3.5 out of 5 by Cara Beatrice which I gave two stars I read Ten Count which I gave two stars which is generous and then I wrote without my hair which I gave one star so definitely an interesting reading week but oddly enough I don't feel too badly in a slump like I'm a little bummed out that I haven't liked the last three books I've read but I hope we're on the next Orient Express doesn't let me down and it's a fast read because I don't know I'm feeling kind of iffy a little bit so yeah I'm pretty happy with that four books four books down off my TBR like yes I never stick to TBRs so this I'm like yes yes so that's great so thank you guys so much for watching this let me know if you guys like these or not because if you like them then I'll make an effort to do more of them and if you hate them just let me know but I kind of like doing little clips throughout this week so let me know and thank you so much for watching and I'll have all the links down below if you want to check me out on other social media platforms so yeah I'll see you guys all very soon bye