 Today I'm starting a reading blog. Why am I starting a reading blog when I am crazy busy this week? Because I've been wanting to a reading blog for my main channel or my main channel. Hey, stop it! To do a reading blog for the channel because I've mainly blogging just for my patrons and like doing one vlog a month It's like kind of as much as I would have been doing before if that much. So doing a second blog It's kind of a lot Not because of filming it. Filming vlogs is very well pretty easy Editing vlogs takes a million years, but anyway, um, I'm blogging This week today is Monday. Kat! Would you like to be sprayed? Okay, where was I? Today is Monday. It is a workday. Um, and as is this entire week I work from home as I think you probably know Kat, what is wrong with you? I'm chilling all morning. Soon as the camera starts Well, it causes chaos a lot, but like especially when a camera is on. Well, as you see this week, um Tonight I'm recording a podcast episode with Bethany after I'm done with work and on Thursday I'm meeting with a friend. I don't know if that's a secret Well, anyway, I'm meeting with a friend, um, quite far So it'll take me a while to drive there And then to hang out and then to come back. So like Thursday night is a wash. Nothing will occur Like that is productive. And then Friday my brother's coming over because on Saturday I am going to see Hamilton like on stage like we are going to see at my brother and I So we're going to see a matinee on Saturday So he's coming over Friday night spending the night so that we can like chill at my place Saturday morning and go To the play together because I live in downtown LA So I live much much closer to the theater than my brother does So Friday night nothing productive will occur Saturday Nothing productive will occur because I will be with my brother slash out the theater. So Sunday Might have the opportunity to do something productive, but that really leaves only well tonight the podcast So I really only have Tuesday and Wednesday Night to like do productive things including reading editing of videos Et cetera, so Again, why am I vlogging? But anyway, just like all of that going on here are the books that I'm prioritizing this week 16 Ways to Defendable City my patrons chose this for our buddy read. This is doable. I have the audio for this as well I'm not like loving the audio. It's not bad It's not like bear the night and get a cast. Can we really not with the plastic right now? No doubt you can hear it, but actually I can do well I could lock on the bedroom But then she would just yell the audio narrator is like it's fine But like I don't love it. So I might you know flip back and forth. It's like audio is very efficient My hold for the audio for Ship of Destiny has not come in yet But my buddies for the read Mara looks like well and Jade from the time work for him would like to start this week So I mean this long-ass book. So I mean I'll start it physically and then if my audio comes in Then I'll probably do some audio Then for the killing of Kings, which is garbage, but I need to finish it for the end of the month So that me and Heather can rant about it. Um, it's short at least or relatively short So I'm not looking forward to that and then I need to start Dancing Dragons So that I don't wait until the day of to try to cram all of this because it's also very very long And even though the audio for all of Sunrise and Fire except for Feast for Crows where they got a different narrator And he was great But they didn't use him again for Dancing Dragons because because they hate me. But anyway I've all of the audio done by Roy for all of the other books is pretty terrible But Jimmy's already warned me that the worst of all is Dancing Dragons because Roy was like already getting kind of ill and he was like even older and like he wasn't Like very good at his like at the peak of his ability using Game of Thrones that this is like noticeably way worse So I did get the audio So I might listen to a bit of it just because this is so so long And there's garbage trucks outside because of course there are garbage trucks outside while I'm trying to film Anyway, so I mean it is efficient to be able to like do at least some of this But I'm still making progress like it is better to sit down and read it because the narrator is terrible for all of the book But um It is the long so like if I can be making some progress in between When I sit down and read it It's very helpful So I'll do some audio and I'll report back with how actually atrocious it is So That's what's on the docket this week. Those are the things I'm doing the things I'm reading the things that will be stressing me out So yeah for that um for now I must send you so that I can finish my breakfast and also get to work work. Um And I will talk to you Later Cass, what is that on your face? Do you not feel that? Do you not feel that? Okay, you're very adorable This is why I shouldn't vlog in a week where I am insanely busy. Um, it is now 8 30 p.m And I just got done filming the podcast episode for the chapter 3 podcast on um I mean the topic being before they are hanged by Joe Abercrombie. I don't know if you know this about me, but I like first law Glock ties my spirit animal. I have not eaten since The bagel that I showed you So, um That was my my lunch. It seems too late to eat But I also should eat. I don't like going to bed on a full stomach But if I don't eat now, I'll be starving tomorrow. But also I need to read I haven't read anything today anything at all and all my to-do list today. I put start this read this start that continue this None of it's happened None of it's happened, baby kitty None of it, none of it. Are you ready for me and tell me what happened? You want your dinner? How have you been? I'm so cute Can I boop you? No, okay. It's fine. So anyway, um I should eat and I should read But I will probably not eat and not read It's the wonderful reading blog I know you're welcome So never fear. I'm eating I'm having uh, I guess a parfait vegan yogurt and It's vegan yogurt with banana and granola. That's dinner While I eat this or after I eat this because I'm eating it right now Um, I'll read Stone of Sears That wasn't on my list this morning, but I'm supposed to start Ship of Magic. No I keep saying that. Ship of Destiny because my reading buddies are starting it But they haven't said anything about starting it today, so Might be off the hook Mm-hmm It's hitting the spot. Oh, yeah There's lingonberry jam in here too Wouldn't want to mislead you There's not a lot of sweet things I like But banana And lingonberry Which are my favorite things So today I also filmed some videos other than the podcast Because you know, anytime I have to put makeup on I have to make it count One of them is an Abercrombie video Call Superies But the other one I don't think I can post it It is a review of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami And by review I mean Rage and Ranting Non-spoiler And then spoiler And I think I'm too angry Like, I don't think it's fine I don't think I can post that to the internet Especially because Okay I said in it And I mean it And I've said this to many people now privately And I mean it But I just said it so angrily in the video That if you like Norwegian Wood Like if you gave it any more than one star And even if you gave it five stars for sure Then I don't want anything to do with you And like if you are that person To never speak to me again But see, I didn't say it the way that I just said it I said it like Deadly serious And completely angry So like I mean people hated me enough When I was like I don't get why Way of Kings is so good Staring dead-eyed into the camera Saying don't ever fucking speak to me If you like Norwegian Wood It's like Admittedly a little much But also Was I kidding? Not really Cause if you think that book is good I'm scared of you Cause you think within it Is okay And that scares me I guess if I'd said it like that in the video Then I was like I'm scared of you Instead of like Don't ever speak to me again Yeah, I don't think I can post that See This is what happens when I film videos On an empty stomach Glow blood sugar Makes me crazy Although the Abercrombie video is fine I think it's fine I haven't watched it back yet Granola is a little bit stale Whoops I really don't eat sweets very much Including granola. I think I've had that back at granola for A year I don't think it's supposed to keep granola that long I actually think I can read now It's almost like food gives you energy Or something Okay I feel possibly a sugar high But regardless It is energy Yeah, because It's like your butt Do this all night Does it interest? She scratched my chin I hope I'm not bleeding Might be, who knows Hello, you coming to finish the job? Yes, precious You know, being happy to use an A For the office today We'll see how I feel Although I'm leaving in a few minutes I'm guessing not But I will be This is a reading vlog I will listen to the audio book For 16 Ways to Defend a Wild City In the car To and from And On my way home Some basil So that I can make the Viral TikTok green goddess salad I have everything else I was gonna make it last week So I still have everything that I got last week But my basil started to mold So I need a new basil Then I have everything else I have cabbage and I have the Cucumbers and I have I have all the things So I just need some basil So yeah, that's my update for you As you saw, I had some Tasty, tasty oatmeal This morning I haven't done any reading for this Reading vlog yesterday No reading occurred I didn't even listen to an audio book because Even though I said I'm gonna listen to this in the car Like I said, the audio is not Really working for me I love listening to audio books Especially for complicated things It's hard to follow I'm not really in the car And I might end up being like Nope, gotta start from the beginning again And read it physically Hopefully not But tonight I don't have any Plans Like I don't have to record anything Or do anything Or whatever So tonight I can In theory read So To put some real pants on I guess the makeup And Get out of here I'll catch you when I get back I have made quite a mess But I have made the viral Tiktok viral Green Goddess salad Which the interwebs tells me If you have a chick Now that's a salad I can get behind So Let's see Basically just like Pesto on cabbage So like, I mean That sounds like it would be fine People are acting like it's legendary It's literally a pesto but Mm-hmm I'm gonna taste Exactly like I expected It's like pesto coleslaw Basically So, yeah That is lunch today I'll probably eat way too much of this I made a giant bowl of it I don't think it'll last for that long in the fridge Like, did this go viral because people don't know what pesto is? Mm-hmm Like I guess also It's what it's a vegan pesto Because like, I've been making pesto basically like this For years I've let you the nutritional uses of cheese And like, and lemon juice To make it cheesy kind of tangy And then spinach To make it like a little healthier And literally it's basically the same pesto that I normally make Just like They added shallots And Chives, which I don't usually do Recommend So I finished eating I didn't finish the entire salad, my god But I ate what I was gonna eat And cleaned up What I was gonna clean up I still have some things to clean up But I realized, why am I over here When it's over there When books come yesterday And the one thing that was bookish about yesterday Was books arriving And I didn't share it, so You know, it's a reading vlog and whatnot So, mini book haul Very uninteresting It's, ugh These three books So, Dunkin' Egg or The Night of Seven Kingdoms With illustrations I'm looking forward to how short this is After all this time I was in Fireworks And then I'll I'll be lulled into a false sense of security And put this off even longer than I normally put off In Fireworks In a given month and Put it off to the end and then be late again But anyway, because we're continuing on After Dance with Dragons To Night of the Seven Kingdoms And then Fire and Blood Both of these I've never read before I've read all of the Fireworks before But I've never read Fire and Blood So I'm looking forward to that And then there's the vlog project That I want to do So I guess I guess this is spoilers for that future vlog That may never happen because I have so many ideas For like a vlog project Like not regular vlogs But like a specific themed vlog And then I just am always like Ugh, not yet, not yet, not yet There's like three from last year that I was going to do And I still haven't done Point being, that's what I bought this for So this may or may not happen someday But in the meantime I've got it This is Dalloway by Virginia Woolf In this very cool edition Yeah, so what the fuck Anyway, those are the three books that arrived yesterday And um And uh, yeah That's all I have to say I still have to work A few more hours today And then maybe I can read Or something, crazy, crazy idea Anyway, um Catch you later Officially done with work unless I get an emergency email Which is why I'm not going to check my email If I don't know about it, I can't do anything about it Um So I need to figure out dinner and then read I'm playing the treats game With Kaz, which I think I've explained before And she's struggling She can't find the treats Kaz, where are the treats? You didn't find them yet Kaz, Kaz Let's see if we can help you, okay Over there Over there There you go Is there one on the chair? Is there one on the chair? Maybe Right there Is it over here? You found it Kinda, lots of help So I'm pretty pooped, but I'm not going to lie Um, it's been It's been a very long day Um I did try listening Some more to the audio book For 16 Ways, which is over there I'm not going to go get it And I The audio is not working for me Why is your disgusting old crow on the couch, Kaz? Okay, so back to me And my book problems Yeah, like I mean I think I like the When I read the very beginning of it Two years ago now Physically, and I loved the style of it Um, when you listen to an audio book Like You can try to like divorce the narration from the words And just like repeat the sentence in your head And be like, how would I have said that in my head If I had been reading it physically So like, his delivery is It would work if he was just reading like I don't know Something quick, but like He does this weird thing where like He like pauses after every sentence Sound like the final sentence Every single sentence And like it's a style of Speaking that I've heard before But like for an entire audio book that does not work So, you just like can't get a flow with that Um, and okay, so like I told Alan And I told someone else That Katie Parker's authorial voice Really really reminds me of Guy Ritchie Like it sounds, it feels like you're reading the Reading the book of a Guy Ritchie Movie that is like set in like Full-timey times, so I guess King Arthur But it's so Like the way that it like Describes things in convoluted detail With like a lot of like dry humor And sarcasm Is like exactly the way those like Expository narrations are in Guy Ritchie Movies, like when he like monologues At you, and I mean it's not Guy Ritchie Doing it, but you know like in a Guy Ritchie Movie When someone is monologuing at you about like how The criminal underworld works or like how This particular trade worked or How this particular business dealing Goes and all the connected Parties and how they are associated And how they double cross each other and how It all circles back and whatever And it's like very quippy and Quick and very snappy And sarcastic and very dry And quirky And yeah, like that's not how I can Explain it, so it's like an entire book That's like that Which like I'm a huge fan of Guy Ritchie movies So like That's I love it So in my perfect world This book, the audio book would be narrated By like Jason Statham Or Mark Strong Or someone like that But it isn't so I think that means I have to read it physically It's not terribly long But the thing is Having at least one book that is on my TBR As an ongoing audio book Is the only way I can get through my TBR Because Then I'm always making progress Because if I'm busy running errands And doing things that I can be listening And then when I have time to sit down I can be reading And so then like throughout the day For most of the time I'm making some kind of progress Like unless I have to use my brain Or something else, like work But like some of the work I do Like I can still listen to an audio book If it's like admin, data entry and that kind of thing But yeah, so Dancing the Dragons That's a horrible audio book So, yanks And clearly 16 Ways are not working for me Ship of Destiny has not come in yet That'll be fine, I mean it's a great audio book Or at least like the narrator The narrator has been good for the first two installments So like I anticipate that being a fine audio book And then, oh yeah I'm definitely not doing any of the sort of truth books on audio Because like for one, they all have different narrators And for two Like the one that in particular does tone up tears I didn't like, but I also like Well different, no And I wasn't able to find an audio book Before The Killing of Kings Well that's not true, you can get one But you have to pay for it, since I hate the books And absolutely not, yeah So like none of the books on my TBR I can really do an audio Like I've got Dance and I've got 16 Ways Downloaded But like I won't listen to those For the aforementioned reasons and explanations So What I'm saying is I am fucked I really read all of these books And the only way that I'm able to get through them Is because some of the time I'm listening to it on audio So anyway This evening I do have time to physically read So the audio thing isn't a problem But I guess the reason I bring it up is because I'm trying to think, okay So which one is the priority Like which is the one that now that I do have a minute To like actually physically read Which is the one that's most urgent I kind of feel like it's Dance of the Dragons The ship of Destiny audio pretty soon I should anyway 16 Ways is a much shorter book So I could get through it like At the last minute if need be And there is no, I mean there I'm gonna have a chat with it Chat about it with my patrons But like that's always like The first weekend of the following month So I have extra time for that In case I don't quite manage to read it by the end of the month But I do have a live show for Dance of the Dragons And I do have a live show for Stone of Tears So like it's quite fresh in my brain Like I really do want to re-read it So that it's like absolutely fresh in my brain I'm not shirking The re-read But it's been many many years Since I read Dance of the Dragons That is not fresh in my brain So I think That solves it right But I've arrived at the answer What I need to read tonight is Dance of the Dragons Okay I'm glad we could figure that out together Off we go Wednesday It is late morning Early afternoon I had some frames arrive Because there's some posters that I want to frame My mom had These professionally framed for me I'm not doing all that So I just ordered some frames from Amazon Hopefully they'll look nice So yeah you can watch me do that I picked them up One to go I haven't decided if I definitely want it there But right now That's where it's going I like it It's a little small for that space Or at least a little short I don't know But if you don't know what this is from It's from The Scorpio Races The book by Maggie Steve Otter Which I love very much Okay Onto number two I'll do myself again That was so stupidly difficult to do I will never Ever frame something myself again And I think You know alternatively To clean up this mess But I need food in order to have the energy To clean up this mess You sunbathing baby You having a nice time Some small amount of progress has been made Read like over 60 pages And that's what that looks like For Dance with Dragons Not encouraging But you know It's more than I did yesterday Or the day before Wow Yeah I have not done any reading for two days What an excellent reading blog this is So um I mean obviously I'll talk about this a ton During the live but There's so much more warging In the books than in Or in the book than in the show I noticed it If Jimmy hadn't pointed it out But the fact that warging The fact that warging is so similar to the wit In the realm of the elderlings And apparently like That's no accident cause Hob and Martin are friends So that's cool I'm thinking about that more Kat She's been really into sharpening her nails Really Which is just wonderful A little devil child You think you're so cute And innocent You are cute but you're not innocent Y'all done now? So that's uh That's where I'm at Um I need to be reading Hob as well I don't think that's gonna happen tonight Um I had some new tea arrive When sampling that I also got a mug from them That's just what I need Look how cute it is This is cute little stag on it And it's Kat stop it I can't read it backwards Oh yeah no errors, no graces Just fine tea Kat is gonna attack my hand again Oh my god I'm in danger Look at this little monster Look at this little monster Plotting against me Kat what are you doing Okay bye bye Oh god Are you gonna attack me again? Please don't Okay yes As I was saying I've been sampling that tea Well that was fun I didn't catch it on camera Kat's paw just came out of the couch Seized hold Of the skin on top of my hand On the back of my hand And then Pulled so like her nail Was like I could see my skin lifting Up and off of my hand Oh my god I don't know why I keep her around It's certainly not for my health Anyway Tea is good And the tea thing worked out A whole lot better than protein bars That I ordered because I ordered some vegan protein bars That were recommended Not like personally to people Like I saw them recommended And they're vegan and gluten free So I was like great And some of the flavors have peanuts And I was like okay not those Because I hate slash I'm like Teeny tiny bit allergic But mostly I just cast What the fuck are you doing What is this Why Please don't hurt me Okay stop it This is not your personal jungle gym What I've been trying to say For like 50 Loud music outside This is just not my night What I've been trying to tell you Is that I learned because I obviously didn't check Early enough but oh my god Why is that music so loud I pitched two flavors that sounded good No peanuts no peanut butter for me Like I'm not fucking kidding My brother and my mom would always eat Like all my Halloween candy Because like all of it had peanuts and peanut butter And I couldn't even eat a lot of the candy That had been next to the peanut butter candy Because it smelled like it Anyway Point B I chose non peanut flavors But I don't know why I checked Now I double tracked But I double checked the ingredients now And I got them And all of the flavors have peanut butter Which I'm like that's peanut butter is it not Anyway all of the flavors Except one that I did also order But it hasn't arrived yet But like literally all of their flavors Except for like that one I have peanut paste in them So I was like so excited to get those bars And then can't eat any of them So I'm gonna give them to my brother So he's excited for that Luckily the tea situation Is just fine I am currently trying The um Spiced pear flavor I also got well I'll just show them to you Let's go to the kitchen shall we Shall we go to the kitchen guys Okay good talk Let's us to the kitchen where the new tea is Maybe I'll just try a bunch of tea tonight So yeah I mean like this is The mug that I just showed you This is the tea that I was just trying It is I can't really taste the pear But it just like tastes Nicely spiced so that's nice Then I got jelly and ice cream They had the Christmas flavors on the sale So I got the glue vine And I got It's popcorn tea that's what they call it But like I'm pretty sure I've had this before Like not from them but like one of my favorite things Is green tea with brown rice in it The toasted rice in it And that's what this is Yeah Really? Right now? You just want attention? You can quiet this whole time Can I tell them about the tea now? Are you done? Yeah it's green tea with toasted rice That's like literally that's all that's in there I mean I drink that all the time I decided to try theirs They call it popcorn tea And yeah that is my little tea haul Much more successful than my protein bar haul What do you think guys? Smell good? Knock it off the counter Okay bye Word to the wise, don't make my mistake These bars I hear are phenomenal I was super excited for the cookie butter flavor But all of these flavors have peanut paste in them So if you can't have peanuts Then don't get them I'm meant to check in this morning And then got sucked into work I don't think I've said it all But like part of my like daily schedule In 2022 so far has been Or like I've planned to And mainly stuck to it Up my weekday mornings between waking up early And writing and waking up early And catching up on like watching Booktube replying to comments That kind of thing Two things which like throughout all of last year I was always like I'll do that When I have time instead of making time for those things So that's what I do every morning now Unless you know something comes up But me either writing or Watching Booktube or replying to comments On my Booktube channel And I'm squeezing into that Now also trying to write reviews on Goodreads Since that was one of my goals for the year Is actually doing that again Anyway it is Yeah it's almost one o'clock So I need to make a lunch So I thought I'd check in I might be able to sneak in some reading While making lunch And Yeah tonight I am meeting up with Hilary From Book Born She's at Disney She's at Disneyland But we're going to meet up outside Disneyland For like dessert and what not And to I guess she already let the cat out of the back During our American Gods Live That we're doing a TBR swap in March So instead of mailing the books to each other Since we're going to see each other We're just going to hand each other the books So anyway I live decently close to Disney But like not and it's not like an extor So Like Eat some food and then head on over there And that'll be pretty much my night gone By the time I get there Hang out with her and get back Won't be much time left So I'll probably listen to an audiobook Um In the car on the way to Infrome Which will be Probably Dance With Dragons Because I'm stressing about finishing That book It's like the longest book in the Song of Ways Or we're reading it in February Who planned this read-along I did But who planned this Any who sees Just thought I'd check in since I haven't today And I won't really be able to do much tomorrow Or today I meant to say tonight but I said tomorrow But that's also true Tomorrow I don't think I'll have too much work to do Like work work So I might be able to squeeze in A little bit of reading time But now that I've said that It's guaranteed that there will be a work emergency That's just how the universe be I'm wearing my Glockta shirt today Because it felt, I don't know It fit my mood This is really comfy I really like this Um This style of article of clothing Um lunchtime I'm about to head out to Disney Hence the Peter Pan shirt Looking festive And uh I just also finished editing My Norwegian Wood review Which will never see the public light of day Because Hilary's always too spicy to post To YouTube So I'm just going to make it a Patron bonus video Um So All done I'll show you the thumbnail because I couldn't resist making a thumbnail for it That's the thumbnail I made for it We'll never see you two But anyway um yeah It's late it's late Um And I Need to be heading out What are you doing my child? What are you going to do while I'm gone? Wreck shit You've been sleeping all day You should have saved all that sleeping for when I'm gone You're just going to be sad Are you going to be sad? You look so fat right now You're not fat But you sure look it right now Look how tubby you are Think you need some exercise You need some exercise Yeah Can you let go? These are my six of crows socks Please don't destroy them Please let go I want you also to know that I will be using my Peter Pan Lounge Fly backpack as my purse tonight And um Wearing a Disney sweatshirt Even though I'm not even going to Disneyland I'm just going to downtown Disney But you know Gotta be fast Yeah I will listen to Dance with Dragons On the way there and on the way back And that will be my evening So if I don't talk to you Later tonight then I will See you tomorrow morning Good morning and happy Friday I got back Um at like almost midnight Maybe it was midnight I think it was almost midnight And then went to bed after midnight of course And uh I obviously did not wake up Maybe that's not obvious But I did not wake up at my super early pre-dawn time That I have set for When I want to get up before work To have time to write such watch book too Friday is a writing day I was supposed to be But um yeah I did not get up At the early hour Because now after 7 I might do a bit of writing Or Have to like get to work and what not But yeah it was really fun seeing Hilary In the flesh She was like It's really weird seeing you in 3G I was like yeah I know what you mean Um Yeah so we talked for a while And I have my books from Hilary now So I know what I'm in for next month And she has the books for me I can't open this water bottle when handed I clearly have not had coffee yet I'm really thirsty I did not realize So today Uh I might write a bit Maybe I'm pretty pooped Um I might just review Uh some of the other stuff I've already written So I feel like I guided Did something today Um then I have work Um hopefully I can squeeze in some Reading today I think it should be A decently light birthday Um And then I have to go Pick up my brother And I think My mom wants to watch a movie Tonight so I think that's what I'm doing Tonight um but anyway My brother's coming over here And That's the night gone and then tomorrow My brother will be here So We'll be hanging out Until such time as we have to go to Hamilton I have to go until we go to Hamilton And then hang out in the evening Then Sunday Sunday I'll be free again So I don't know I think I'll vlog on Sunday as well But um I need to film some food videos For my food channel Because I've gotten behind already as I knew I would I knew this would happen The thing is like To cook it's easier But like bad filming book videos Is one thing But bad filming food videos Means like making that much food So like if I film like Five recipe videos That means I made five things of food That I have to eat So I have a lot of recipes Planned that I want to film I just have to film them Maybe I'll do that Sunday Or not We'll do it eventually I have so much to read I don't have time for food That sounded bad I don't mean that I don't have time for food I mean I don't have time for food content Anyway I need coffee And Yeah I'll check in Hopefully when I'm reading something I did listen to Dance of the Dragons All the way to and from Disney Yeah What can I say about a book that I've read before But that has been so long There's like nothing in it Really surprises me you know Because like it's mostly like Unlocking the memory banks Or like oh yeah Oh yeah It's wild to me How much of song wise in fire That when I think of the books and within the books And in particular within the books It's versus the show Which I'm realizing that most of what I think of As a song of wise in fire Is Feast for Crows and Dance of the Dragons Because like all the stuff that I like think of Is like oh yeah that gets so weird And bizarre in the books That's mainly what I think of Obviously there's you know the red wedding And things like that But most of the stuff that I'm like When I think of reading the books I'm thinking of Feast for Crows and Dance of the Dragons All that stuff It's in those books Here we go This is it I just didn't remember that that's where it is So I'm not like terribly far into it Actually I can tell you how far I'm into it Almost 30% I'm slightly less stressed No finishings for the end of the month But though I want to read it The audiobook is pretty terrible It's pretty terrible So like I'm glad I've read it before So the audiobook isn't like Forming my very first impression Of all this stuff Mostly I can like try to ignore the voice And just try to pay attention To like which part of the story he's telling So I can be like oh yeah It's that part Anyway needs must I need coffee And a nap I'll talk to you later hopefully When I've done some reading Well I did manage to squeeze in A little bit of reading today For ship of destiny And I made it that far I made it to page 35 And I must shortly be going To pick up my brother I will probably listen to some more Of dance with dragons in the car On the way to pick them up And then Not read anything Until Sunday which I guess I'll vlog I hadn't really decided I won't vlog Saturday Because my brother will be here But Sunday Let you know how Hamilton was And we'll see if I actually read Something So I'll see you Sunday So hot take I know Hamilton was amazing Seeing it in person is different And I have to say I think the cast That we had here everybody Except for Lafayette I think I liked better Here, Hamilton like Alexander Hamilton for sure Because I mean Lin-Manuel is a genius and all but he doesn't have The best voice This Hamilton was not just better than Lin-Manuel He was very very good just like he just was And the guy who played Burr had a really Beautiful voice and the guy that played George Washington had a really powerful Great voice I mean everyone was amazing The only person in it that I was like The original is Lafayette But So good Yeah If you needed further convincing To see Hamilton You heard it from me it's amazing It has been a minute since I last checked in And today is Sunday And it is coming up on new This morning while I was tidying up After my brother's visit because you know We make a mess Dishes and I still have to put away But did most Basically mainly the dishes So I listened to Dance with Dragons while I was tidying So I've made some respectable Progress On Dance with Dragons I am currently 35% Of the way in So not shabby Considering I still have half the month to go Well yeah half the month And Yeah So yesterday I went to see Hamilton As my brother as you know And it was amazing I talked about it on my Insta story I went to bed way too late last night And I feel really Exhausted today I mean we did a lot But like not that much It's mainly I think I feel really dehydrated And really I'm tired I think from the fact that also I was like Trying not to drink too much water During the show and I was having to be At the intermission anyway Which like at the Pantages Theatre Is it's own adventure So I guess I'm dehydrated for no reason Because I ended up having to be anyway And then yeah I just got back late last night And stayed up late And because I watched Started watching the recording of Hamilton On Disney Plus Oh last night because I was in Hamilton mood And so I'm having Or I'm gonna have a lot of tea today I think Had some coffee to wake myself up But now I need tea So today for what is left of it Which is most of it Is not even noon yet I want to make a significant dent In Ship of Destiny Because my reading buddy is Wally Smara Has already begun Is starting today and she's a faster reader than me And I'm like well I did start it I'm like 35 pages in To page Oh perfect I was gonna say it's 200 And I was like well whatever's the nearest that But a chapter ends on page 200 So if I can read to page 200 today I will consider that A success And if I do not reach page 200 It will be a failure But there will be no punishment exacted So it doesn't really matter So yeah I just want to chill Cas what are you doing She's been trying to climb the walls lately But she keeps trying anyway Anyway So The rest of today I'll probably listen to some more of Dance Dragons when I finish Hiding up putting the blankets away But mainly I will be drinking Buckets and buckets of tea To rehydrate myself And reading pages and pages Of Ship of Destiny And that is the plan And then I will end this blog today So let's actually do some And this reading blog For 35 pages Already extremely interesting No one is surprised Cause we're talking about Roman Hop here So yeah That is yes baby kitty What are you doing Cas yet The people they want to see You want to say hi You want to say hi What are you doing today What are your plans Okay good job Ow I'm sorry I asked you your plans We'll never ask again Okay bye bye That's where we're doing Off we go But I was special You think it was mine You were the devil Lost your baby keeper And I swear you didn't You thought she was your heritage Out there It turns out That they kill your contract Well it is coming up on 8 o'clock And I made it to page 200 I did the thing And actually I might read some more tonight That was my goal In the vlog Cause if I do read some more tonight it'll be like right before bed Yeah Ship of Destiny is So far amazing Unsurprisingly Robin Hobbes writing is just It's the opposite of When I'm hating a book and I'm like Why am I not interested in this Like is it me? Do I just not like books anymore They're describing these epic things But I just don't give a shit Is it me Versus reading A book where I'm almost It's almost the opposite where I'm like Why am I so captivated by this When like often times The scenes and the Chapters are describing I mean it's obviously interesting to me But it's not really that epic And a lot of the time it's like In terms of the plot we've inched along In the plot And I'm just like Can't get enough of it Absolutely mesmerized by her telling me The word of ship and the intricacies Of the relationships between the people And like we learn like a little Piece of knowledge that's like What does it mean As opposed to like the big reveals And other books where I'm like I don't care So I guess I just like slower Facebooks I like that even Small amounts of information Feel like an incredible revelation Because as compared to what we have known It is more than we've known before And it also makes It feel more real to me because like Like the difference between like you know Actual police investigation and like a crime of the week Show where they just like figure out Who did the murder Bing bang boom Arrest the person and we're done And onto the next mystery whereas like in real life It can take a very very long time To piece together something like that And it's Following up a ton of tiny detail And figuring it all out Instead of like big Aha revelations So I guess that's what makes this feel real to me too Is that like when we do get some More big big revelations They feel big because More typically in this world It's a little things happening A little bit at a time to little people And that's why the books are so long I like it But for people who don't like how I think that's what they don't like That everything takes a long time And we're just in the muck of the detail Of everyday life I love it And I was kind of right About When I said that the mad ship Didn't really seem to be about Paragon as you would think Going into it that it would be And I was like I think she's trying to make the point That all the ships are mad And I think that's basically like It's not quite been confirmed in the way that Like Spoilery to explain what I mean Like she wasn't trying to say that all the ships are mad But she was I think talking about all of the ships So in that much I think I was correct Fair I think If you read them I think you know what I mean And I think you would agree Yeah it's also just been interesting Reading these books while revisiting Sawing Rights and Fire and knowing The Georgia Martin and Hobber friends Just in the ways that like some of their The things that they seem to be interested in And their magic systems and how those function Like don't feel like plagiarism or anything like that It's just These people seem to be on a similar wavelength But they are drawn to similar things In their storytelling and they're drawn to Similar things in their lore and world building And they're similarly slow paced Cause Sawing Rights and Fire is also that way Where we inch along in the plot and we're Scattered everywhere and it's a lot of little things Happening that amount to a bigger hole So there's a lot of similarity Um Like there are, if anyone said Is the next game of the knowns I'd be like No you're stupid, it's not the same at all But there are things about their storytelling That you can see Why these two would get along They're like you know what I'm trying to say You know what I'm trying to say anyway What I'm trying to say is that I'm enjoying Ship of Destiny and I can't wait to read more Which is why originally tonight I planned to Once I hit 200 Then to either switch to reading something else Or to like listen to Dance of Dragons and Tidy some more I don't fancy tidying So I think I'm just going to read some Ship of Destiny tonight But I am going to end the vlog here I think it's probably a Stupidly long vlog at this point So I finally did some reading in it Today so Yay for that Yeah let me know in the comments down below Your thoughts and feelings about my Thoughts and Feelings And whatever you want to know I post videos on Saturdays Other random tops of all of W Saturdays So don't forget to like and subscribe Join my Patreon if you feel so inclined And I'll see you in a sec Bye