 So every week I do reading sprints with my patrons and every single reading sprints during the breaks and reading we play some little daily games together and a little while ago I got a suggestion on our patron discord saying why don't you use those daily games to pick what you read and I said absolutely I don't think it's such a fun way to pick what I read it's such a stupid way like how am I gonna get these daily games to pick what I read I don't know but that's all we're gonna be doing in this reading vlog we're gonna be using the little daily games that we play together to pick what I read now the three that we play every single reading sprint there's a few other ones we sprinkle in but the three that we play every single reading sprint without fail are connections colorful and contextual so I think those are the three I'm gonna be using and I think we'll do them one at a time so we'll play a game find out a book we're reading read that and then do it again so I'm not gonna know what I'm reading for this whole video like at all until I finish next book which is exciting so shall we just dive into it I'm very excited this is I love stupid ways I'm thinking what I read this is so exciting to me let's go find out what the first book we're gonna be reading is hello friends it's time to find out what the first book we're gonna be reading in this vlog is I'm very excited in terms of the books that I want to prioritize these are the oh bloody hell calm down these are the five books that have been on tbr kudos so far this year that I don't have set plans to read so in a video like this where like I don't have a specific tbr has a cat just got up no there's two cats there I was worried I'd just upset one of them by talking they're a very fragile fragile bunch if I could give you one piece of advice it would be shut the fuck off yeah in in videos like this where I don't have a set tbr I always want to try and fit some of these in because otherwise I'm gonna read them yeah if we can fit any of these in with the prompts then we will do but if we don't we don't and the next priority stuff is probably like new releases that I really want to get around to I figured the first game that we play we're gonna play them in pretty much the order that we play them in the patron live reading sprints so the first one is connections there's always what warms us up we're pretty fucking good we're pretty good at all these games to be honest I never really play them alone though because I don't I don't think I was good without them so yeah we always play connections fast which if you don't go connections I'm sure most of you know these games but with connections there's four groups of four and you have to find out what links them basically holy shit are you tough enough for the job no and looking at that and I have no clue so with how this is gonna help us pick a book I want to pick a book that is related to one of the categories right we're gonna have four categories and if I can make a link between something that happens in that book or the plot of that book or the genre of the book or the title of the book I want it to be a link between a category and the book because that's how we're gonna pick it right I feel like we've got wrench rip yank tear there we go there we go huh using force I don't know I don't know what um I don't know what I'm gonna make a book link based on that one this may this may be a stretch but if I can make a link I'll make a link okay oh routine drill practice exercise there we go bit of repetitive training so maybe like a sport book I don't know if I have any of them bloody yeah okay I'm doing all right spirit oh isn't it American um um airlines airlines right fuck okay oh fucking something she was playing if I had that falling book that would be a good one I don't have that though and then what's this last link sundry beginning beginning with day abbreviations fryer monkey sundry running do any of these books begin with a no no no um oh the beginning of day abbreviation sun that does excuse me I'm a genius look we do have a beginning of day abbreviation sun all I was thinking Paul using force here me out like force is sciencey these are the seminis novellas and like they're pulled towards each other because of fate and they're romantic and the chemistry forcing them together but I don't think I think maybe I have to go with she who became the sun for beginning with day abbreviations sun I think that's a good pick psych so it turns out I forgot that I'm actually gonna be reading um she became the sun next week it is in fact planned for a video I was incorrect and it's not really something I can swap out so we're gonna have to read something else I like I've not realized this the next day guys I don't know it's crazy but yeah I am reading she became a sun for something else so we have to pick another book and I am gonna go with love theoretically because whenever I think of force I think of science class and these are you know ladies and stem and fate and love is pushing them together was it push your pole using force and they're pulling them together pushing them together they're being drawn to one another by love and fate no one says that but yes okay work I know it's a bit of a stretch okay the other two we love it with you the other two ways we're gonna pick books are gonna be a lot more straightforward and like not open to interpretation but connections was always going to be open to interpretation so I am so excited to start love theoretically you guys this is like a five star prediction I can't wait to read it I love it so much love Ali Hazelwood so much so we're gonna read love theoretically and I think I'm gonna have amazing time because I always do with Ali good morning friends oh my god I don't know how I'm gonna talk about this I am halfway through love theoretically I'm obsessed you know I'm just having the best time ever Ali Hazelwood I just don't understand how she gets me why do I love Ali so much like truly there's no other romance girly out there that I just immediately connect to like Ali Hazelwood I'm reading it so fast I'm literally flying through I don't think I'm even reading it properly because I'm just like okay so obsessed with it so I love I love the premise of this one so our girly is like a science professor but she's also because she ends like no money because she's adjunct is that how you say that I don't know you guys get us a lot like if you read a lot sometimes if you've only ever seen a word or you see the word predominantly written you don't actually know how to say it because you've always read it anyways on the side she's doing fake dating for hire so she'll go with people to like lunch with their colleagues or dinner with their colleagues or family and like pose as a fake girlfriend and she is fake dating this one guy who she really likes and she goes to a family thing and she meets this dude right his brother and he's like oh it's going a certain way here the cover tells a certain story but she meets him and he's very stern he doesn't seem to like her whatever and she's also applying for like the biggest job of her life like it's it would change her life if she were to get this job and there's one guy in particular who wrote a um what's the word like an article many years ago against theorists inside in her kind of is it physics you have theorists versus experimentalists physics is force I learned about sorry I'm just trying to justify my choice of this like keep saying it just keep saying it keep saying it out loud and maybe you will convince hope so when she finds out that he is at this school she's like oh shit you know he's gonna be my enemy whatever turns out it's him so she's like applying for this dream job and he's like you're not gonna get it like whatever and it's there back and forth and he also thinks that she's been lying to her brother because at the founding event she's like oh I'm a librarian he's like why are you lying to him why are you hurting my brother but she doesn't want to tell his brother's secrets to him and his brother's at like a wellness retreat with no phone and it's just I love their chemistry Ali Hazer was writing it's absolutely incredible it makes me feel things and like nothing halfway you know nothing's really happened between them physically things have been set but nothing's happened between them physically and I'm still like I just think a it's a great romance right great chemistry but the premise is so fun I why do I love Ali Hazer so much because someone explained to me is it because I liked fanfic when I was younger and like she is and she originates from fanfic and forget some of the tropes of fanfic and maybe writing so I don't know that's what I always say because I used to love One Direction fanfic I only read and there's never really the fanfic websites but I loved Tumblr because I was on Tumblr like Tumblr fanfic not any of the dodgy stuff but just like the normal cutesy stuff you know and perhaps that's where that's where it originates I don't know so I'm having the most fun I'm having the best time I like I say I love their relationship I love the discussions of like financial issues for people in academia in particular it's very interesting I'm eating up what is there to say about romance like I'm just having the best time I'm having the best time I think it's going to be a five star I just had a five star if you haven't seen it in my Pride and Prejudice vlog that I did it's flopped but that's okay and it was going to I just wanted to read Pride and Prejudice I know that series isn't going to do the greatest but I'm just like living with that because I want to read more classics this year and that's like kind of the way for me to do that so um I but I why am I loving romances I'm in like a silly giggly mood at the moment I seemingly love all the romances I'm reading so I'm gonna go ahead and finish this today I'm literally just gonna go do a little bit of editing and then I'm gonna sit down and read this and I'm so excited because I'm having the best time I'm absolutely loving it guys I loved it it's five stars talk about the club classic if you're not on your feet today's dancing I don't know what's gonna make you was this in my five star predictions video I always forget I always like completely remove my memory what's on that list because a lot so I can react to it afterwards was this on there have I got a hundred percent success rate so far if I do this on myself but I love this I mean it's a romance and it's the same thing that Annie Hazel has done every single time before like it's in STEM it's he's massive and she's small actually no she's not tiny in this one she's medium everything let it be known but he's so much bigger than she is tiny in comparison she's kind of like you did see it a little bit like anxious and like over aware and he's just a guy who's just obsessed with her and in love with her like it is the same thing she has done in every one of her adult contemporary fictions it's the same formula but guess what I eat it up every time I eat it up every time and I go back for seconds you ate that I don't know why I love what she does so so much so if you haven't enjoyed previous Ellie Hayes words but I recommend this to you now don't try but I do think this is a very good installment there I've seen a lot of people saying that it's their favorite so far I just really loved the relationship in this I really liked the career this is like probably one of the most career I mean they've all been career heavy because they've all been like workplace-ish romances but I just really enjoyed the career discussions and the career movements and like all of that stuff that happened in this book and here's the thing as someone who is not a regular romance reader I do think the third act conflict is fucking stupid fucking stupid so that's why I love Pride and Prejudice because they like start off on the wrong foot and then it builds there's no third act conflict in my prejudice as far as I'm aware and it builds nicely that doesn't always need to be a third act conflict right I think it's stupid and you can see it coming a mile off right and I think the third act conflict in this the reasoning is pretty stupid but I did like the resolution of it but at this point I just don't really pay attention to that at conflicts because I know books gonna do them and I know I don't like them and I just like okay you do your thing I'll look away I'll just be happy with the rest of the book I just read I loved it I loved it Ali Hazelwood ah I'm having the best reading time of the moment I've had two five stars almost backed back with a little book in between but we can ignore that I got almost backed back that's crazy oh my god my reading is going so good so I'm on a reading high I want something you know sometimes you want to sink into like a long book and I enjoy that I read this so fast I want to keep that speed going I'm like raveness I want hopefully whatever book I read next to be a similarly fast pigs like oh my god like oh my god I love reading feeling so I'm gonna dive into something tonight so shall we go pick he's a daily game to pick what book I'm gonna be reading next okay so the second game we're gonna be playing is colorful which if you've never seen before is basically word all but you have a color there's actually two ones a day the normal one and a hard one we play them both there's a color and you have to make that color up by making other colors you have to create that color and I think there's some this one sometimes trips us up sometimes we get to like the last round and we're like ah we were so close like between two colors and we end up going with the one that we don't get so how I'm gonna use this to pick a book is that the color that we're creating has to be on the cover of the book I read and I want it ideally to be like the predominant color if not one of the dominant colors I don't want it to be like I don't know a tiny color that's on the cover like I want it to be a big color on the cover otherwise I'll use it to get away with something and I have to get it right in order to use that color if I get them both wrong today I don't know what we're gonna do but I have to get there right that's an added pressure in order to use that color so let's go to colorful interesting that's kind of like a pale yellowy gold I would say so usually I'm playing this I get like oh wait no that's the hard one no I guess we're starting with hard whoa okay I like to get some obvious colors out the way I'll throw that one in for good measure okay I'm doing so good right so we got yellow fast then this and this are both in there so I'm just gonna swap them round and what do I want to put instead that was too limey so maybe the brown instead holy shit is it the white no orange this is serious business guys no this this is getting difficult right I'm gonna try white first no I'm gonna try this peach am I because then if I'm wrong oh shit I could do what we call an elimination round which is kind of cheating but it's where I do four possible options to find out which one it is let's do that let's do that I ain't mama don't raise no fool I would do that it's none of them what a nightmare literally a nightmare what I'm not gonna get to use okay wait which is my closest that one where there's orange but it's like two orange okay okay it's either gotta be one of these two right I'm going with the lavender oh my god I'm wrong I'm wrong I was so close so I can't use that color I think that would have been a difficult one to find on the cover anyways so oh okay like a pale buttercup a pale buttercup yellow if I don't get this there's something wrong okay right no so that means white is first then the no then the yellow then the orange okay I got it I can't believe I didn't get that first one they're pretty similar colors though right I mean this one's just a bit more greeny and this one's more yellowy right what do I own that color no that's too dark I don't know if I own something actually do you know what is that the color that was on the other one I don't think it is that's too gold right we're gonna have to go over to the book cart what do I have that color how could you do this to me question mark like that's way too like neon that's not the right color no that's too dark I don't know if I'm ready to read this okay here's a problem I said predominant color but like I feel like that oh I'm not even in focus how long have I been out of focus so I feel like that and that I feel like that's the right color but it's not the predominant color but am I going to get anything that's that color do you think that hang on I need to go hold it next to the screen I can't tell if it's like if this kind of is the color or if my eyes are just tricking me into thinking that it is what am I going to do I've got to be one of the worst okay I've recruited help in the form of Tom right that's the color I need and I can't find it that one that's not close I did think I don't really want to read this yet though but like that yeah look like that well you want the you want the prevailing color I want the prevailing color to be it's regular figure then my camera is not liking us filming this for some reason yeah there we go yeah I think that's there we go he's gone and done it it's the cat who saved books yeah that's it with the center bit me save books for everyone okay looks like we're gonna be reading the cat he saved books I was gonna be reading this like in a couple weeks or a month or two anyway but we're going out get out of the way now and it's very short I'm very very excited to read this one it's been recommended to me a lot of times because I love the traveling cat chronicles but I don't read it a plot also I think it's so short I may I can't promise I'm going to check in halfway through I may just end up reading the whole thing and then checking with you we shall see oh this is such a good pick yeah that definitely is the right color particularly like in the center there yay okay I'll check on you when I'm either halfway through this or if I finish it tonight because I may do hello friends it is the next day I have finished the cat who saved books it was okay it was fine I think I'm gonna end up giving this three stars it was like I said it was okay it was fine so we're following this boy this young man whose grandpa has just died and he's left him their second hand bookshop and this talking cat walks into the bookshop and takes him on these like bookish quests to save books because I think that's really all you should need to know going into it and you know I enjoyed aspects of this but I was also a little bit bored and that's really what my three star comes down to and I'm it's I enjoy about it which I'll talk about in a second but it just felt a little bit underwhelming I felt like we could have gone further with it it just felt a little bit like oh is that it you know what I mean I don't know I don't know if I wanted it to be longer though because I kept wishing that it was over but I just like it didn't do enough with the great premise that it had I will say I did like the messaging that this has about books we have four different scenarios about the book that kind of teaches us about society's attitude towards books but without saying too much I also do think it like backs itself into a corner perhaps but I think it has valid critiques I don't want to say what any of them are because again I think this book should kind of be experienced for the first time without knowing that kind of stuff but I do think it like it kind of says this is wrong and this is wrong and this is wrong and it's kind of you know eliminating um some ideas of reading although I do agree with the world a lot of it's saying you know I just think it's like it does back itself into a corner perhaps somewhat something that I thought was interesting it just felt like a little bit nostalgic to me was like the we kept meeting people in each world we'd meet like little people leading up to like the big final boss in that world and the little people reminded me of like little people you'd meet on a pokemon route like little fisherman you know they do fight their magic up and then you go and fight the gym leader and that's what it felt like I don't know how to describe you're chatting shit just the way they were talking you know when you meet someone in the pokemon world they like say like two lines that's what the hell they would say and it would be like their personality and then you meet the gym leader and they've got some like overarching like plot you know worldview that we're gonna we're gonna dismantle by fighting them with our I don't know what one do I like yamper I've got yamper and wulu on the bookshelves anyways um that's besides the point that was just a little nostalgic element that I enjoyed but for the most part I was just kind of bored and just felt a little bit like cluster one thing that's interesting actually is I looked at the back the translator is the same translator as the one who at the very least has translated the first uh hongin murders book which I really enjoyed I don't think she translated the inigami curse because he doesn't specify but she has then translated death on guckman island which is my next one to read and I just found that interesting because these books feel so different and isn't that interesting how you can have the same translator but seeming me she's doing her job so well of translating these very two different writing styles because I could not have told you there's no similarity between those books and for me in terms of writing style but they have the same translator and I think that's just fascinating I would love to know more about the art of translation of book she does have a little note at the back kind of explaining some of her translation decisions but I just think that's so interesting how I feel like they're written so differently but it's got the same person translating it into English so yeah I'd love to know more about uh translation and how it works because I think that's such an interesting side of translated fiction like the lens how much does the translator have to do with the lens to which we view the book I think is fascinating but anyways it was fine let's go let's go find out what our final book of this reading vlog is gonna be I'm very nervous but I'm excited so for our final game and choosing our final book we are gonna be playing Contexto where this game there is a secret word of the day and you have unlimited guesses to get to it that word is number one every other word has been sorted in the English language by how closely they are used together so like a word that's super commonly used with like treehouse I don't know they probably wouldn't be the closest to each other but like the closest one's the number two number three number four whatever and you have to try and figure out what the word of the day is everyone we do have a daily game section on the discord and everyone's been getting this one really quickly today I feel like so seems to be an obvious word and the rule for this for in terms of picking a book is gonna be if I have a book on my tbr with that word in it I have to read that book or I think that's unlikely or um if I don't then we're gonna do it by word association so say if the word is like cafeteria I'd pick a book set at a school right so we're gonna again this I'll have to use a little bit justification but um it should be fine okay we always do book as our first word um tree how did everyone get this skin camera I'm doing terribly makeup terrible terrible um I need to think outside orange let's do a color oh okay orange gets us a bit closer let me do blue and see okay no bad bad bad holiday um vacation just wanna see what that ends up okay um treat oh okay 199 treat treat gift no treat dog no treat is 199 treat special hmm I don't like I never play this one alone without everyone else so I don't like it um treat spent I pleaded I begged I cried I tried I pushed as hard as I could until I couldn't push anymore right um I'm gonna put hospital because there was an ad for Grey's Anatomy on the side she can't see I'm trying to do something out the box house beautiful no oh my god I can't believe I'm doing so bad um chimney I'm just saying things I can see now treat treat meal oh dinner interesting meal meal lunch oh shit lunch is 16 box lunch lunch is 16 let's put breakfast just for good measure let's see where that is 37 okay lunch is our closest school that's lie lunch sandwich sandwich I got it 25 is not terrible it's not the best but it's not terrible right now we have to see I don't think I have anything with sandwich in the title but we can look okay my books my books sandwich no okay what do I have that is related to food let me go on my own shelf and we'll just scroll through it on date added I need something related to food right like the immediate thing that comes to mind is that Elizabeth that's a failure book but I've read that sandwich I need something food related that could be an option the wizards guide to defensive baking by T. Kingfisher a familiar it's a sourdough starter oh come on I have to read that because sourdough bread sandwich oh my god I have to oh that's so exciting I think that's a great pick a wizards guide to defensive baking we're reading that we're reading a wizards guide to principating let me go find it one sec here she is I'm excited for another T. Kingfisher because that's quite a lot of T. Kingfisher's I've read now and I've heard such good things about this one oh absolutely absolutely I feel like it's that's a wonderful pick I also believe I have got the audiobook for this so I'm gonna start that I need to pack up some stuff to go around Tom so I'm gonna start the audiobook now but yeah I'm very pleased I feel like that's you guys that's a good pick right based on sandwich her familiar is a sourdough starter so I'm gonna go start this I'll let you know what I think when I'm a little bit the way through but I think this is the perfect pick for me right now good morning friends I am about halfway through a wizards guide to defensive baking and I am enjoying it it's a cute little cozy fantasy book you know what I mean I will say the familiar that is her starter has had a very small presence in the book so far which is quite upsetting but I still think I'm valid picking it for the prompt listen to what I have to say because I'm right so we're following Mona who is a wizard but only her magic only really extends to bread like magic to do with bread but then a dead body is found on the floor of her bakery she finds it and it throws her into this world of like assassins and duchesses and people trying to get her and her running away from them and whatever I don't want to spoil too much because I feel like actually at the halfway point this kind of what is actually happening is only just starting to come together so that's all I'll say I am enjoying it I want to like this I want to say my revealing feeling is I'm enjoying it I'm loving reading it I'm very excited to pick it up like I can't wait to finish this clip and then hopefully just like finish the book and take the book back up and finish it but I have a few things to say number one I don't think this is like a four star that's great right but it seems like Teaking Fisher is a solid four star author for me like CJ Chuda I always give CJ Chuda around a four star and I think I've always given Teaking Fisher always around a four star I think the highest I've given is a House of Good Bones that was a 4.5 I think I've given her a 3.5 at some point and everything else has been a four so like that's a good thing to know you're gonna enjoy anything really an author puts out but I keep saying I feel like we've got a five star in house and maybe we don't maybe we don't have a five star in us um maybe it's just always a four star and maybe that's okay I will say I've read a lot of now this is like Teaking Fisher's horror and fantasy and they're quite separate I would say there's a little hints of each other in both of them but this is more of her fantasy right and it's YA I think this is the first YA I've read from her and there's just moments where the character like her youngness annoys me like there's just little saying she'll say that'll make me roll my eyes a little bit I don't know like we're she where it feels like Teaking Fisher is trying to be like funny or like downward the kids and I'm not sure entirely she's like this is what a young person would say but it doesn't actually feel like what a young person would say does that make sense but on the whole I think this is a lovely little story if you're looking for something that's like cozy fantasy particularly after maybe you've enjoyed legends and lattes I think you could enjoy this I don't think you're gonna enjoy this as much but I think it could still be an enjoyable read I'm liking the story like I said I'm excited I just kind of want to go and finish this whole thing straight away so I'm enjoying it but I think me and Teaking Fisher I think I need to maybe like give up on the dream of having a five star and if it happens it happens one day but the moment maybe she's just a very solid four star author for me hello gorgeous humans it's the next day and I have finished a Wizards guide to defense of baking by Teaking Fisher and this is a really strong four star for me I much preferred where this went in the second half I was gonna almost spoil anything for you but I thought it was so fun the way that her baking bread and her magic for that is like incorporated in the second half I just loved it it's so ridiculous it's so fun it's camp it's camp I don't know what to tell you I think if you're looking for a fantasy that's kind of like a dark fairy tale twist on traditional fairy tales Teaking Fisher would be my number one recommendation I can't speak my number one recommendation with things like this nestle and bone a thorn hedge they're all kind of in a very similar field and I think this one is such a strong iteration a lot of like my my problem of like some of the stuff she's annoying me in the first half completely dissipated I had the most fun reading this and I think what this is an allegory for in terms of like how war can affect the individual particularly the individual with lesser power is very interesting and I think this would be a book that would be great for a lot of people to read I just think like if you're looking like I said for a little cozy fantasy you can't really go wrong with this do I have a lot of thoughts on it no like I kind of just read it I was like oh like that's kind of how I feel about it but Teaking Fisher I I'm taking I'm retracting what I said I still believe we have a five star in us yes at the moment she is just a very very very solid four star for me but I'm renewing my hope what is life if we don't have hope I can't believe I wake up every morning I have hope that I will get a five star eventually I've been looking into what I have left to read from Teaking Fisher and a lot of it seems to be in this kind of one series or world where there's like Sawtar and Paladins there's like a whole series where it's paladins fate or paladins grace or something I don't know a lot of it seems to be in that which I think is more fantasy I do think I prefer her horror I think the horror is what I prefer with a house of good bones I gave that 4.5 oh and I have the new um the sequel to what moves dead what feast at night so I do have that treat I do have a lot of Teaking Fisher left to read but I feel like I've made my way through a good chunk of the backlist so yeah I wouldn't recommend this if you're looking for a cozy fantasy and I hope you guys enjoyed this video this was just a fun little way to pick what I read and I read some books I mean I had no plans to read this or what was the first book love theoretically I'm so glad I read I read love theoretically yes I maybe pushed it I know I think the prompt was a good one I think I fulfilled it but um yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this video it was a super fun way to use the games I play all the time of my patrons to pick what I read so let me know which of these games you're best at do you have any daily games that you're really really strong at let me know if there's any other books you think I should have picked for any of the prompts and I'll see you very soon in another video 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