 I was tricked. I was fooled. I was gagged. I was shit. I don't ever feel that attached to characters. I would die for them. Morning. Welcome. It is Sunday and it is the start of the Thousand Doors read-a-thon. The read-a-thon started at midnight last night and I stayed up till one reading where everyone was going to be reading and just seeing everyone like funny find out kind of what the read-a-thon entails. Oh, it's just amazing seeing everyone's reaction to it. Hi. For my first prompt, I'm going with my own prompt. My own first prompt because it meant I could plan what I was going to read and it's Ah, That's History by Queen Whitney. So I'm reading European Travel for the Monstrous Gentleman. Now. See, when you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite. This book is 700 pages. Why am I doing this to myself for an eight day read-a-thon? Anyway, the pages are quite short though and I flew through this book last time. So I'm hoping for good things. I also have the audiobook, which I'm going to go listen to like whilst I make food and whilst I get ready for the day. So like, hopefully I'll listen to quite a lot of it in that time. The audiobook is 24 hours long. I think it's the longest audiobook I've ever listened to. This is the second book in a series to a series I loved and Buddy reading it with Riley Marie. And yeah, she's already like 130 pages in so I've got to catch up. But I'm hoping I'm going to love it. I want to finish this in like maybe the first two to three days, maximum four. I think that gives me enough time to get through the remaining four prompts. So I'm going to try and like daily vlog this as I go. Usually when I do a reading vlog, like I don't check it every day. I'm going to try to. And today I would like to get at least 200 pages into this book. I think I can do it. I'm so excited to go back into this series. I've been getting ready and I made my lunch. I've listened to the first 80 pages of European travel for the monstrous gentleman. So I just realized once again, this is becoming a habit. I didn't give you a very good synopsis of this book. This bitch, here she goes again. So the first book, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, we follow Mary Jekyll as her mother dies. She finds out that her mother was paying for the kind of living costs of a girl called Diana Hyde for many years. And that leads her on to discovering her sister Diana and eventually discovering all of these girls who have some connections to like well-known men in Victorian literature. So we have Catherine Moreau, Beatrice Rappuccini and Justine Frankenstein. And it is them, with the help of Sherlock on Watson, discovering what the Société d'Aganisse is. What dark goings on they are performing. But we are following the girls again in this book and they are still trying to uncover the truth about the society. The key element which I will speak a lot about in this vlog is that they cut in. So Catherine is writing the book. So the whole thing is kind of like in her voice. And the other girls will cut in with their kind of beliefs on what is being said. So Beatrice goes, you make me sound so dramatic Catherine. And Catherine goes, well you are dramatic with your long black hair and clear olive complexion. That is the best part of this book, seeing them complain and cut in with what Catherine is writing. Okay, I think that's a pretty good synopsis explanation. Back to me. I love it. These characters are amazing. The writing style is so funny. Like the way they cut in to each other is so funny and brilliant. Even just little touches, like the book will go, you can read about this in the last book, Strange Cases of the Atmos Daughter, available for two shillings. And then one of them will cut in going, maybe we shouldn't advertise this much. It's just so fun. It is brilliant American literature. And I don't care what anybody, it is. It should be taught in schools. We're back with the gals, back with Sherlock and Watson and they're trying to find out more about the society of scientists that they were trying to uncover secrets about in the first book. Also, we are hoping for a Mary and Sherlock romance. Like I feel like we're gonna get it. I believe we're gonna get a Mary and Sherlock romance and it's gonna be so good. The audiobook for this is incredible, but I'm really happy that I have the physical book so I can read a bit physically later. I mean, I just love this series, so it would feel wrong not to have the physical book. It's just some of the funniest, wittiest, clever writing because it's not like it's trying to get laughs out of you all the time. Like it's very occasional. It's just the right amount. It's a little dusting on it. So I'm gonna go edit tonight's vlog a bit because I haven't finished editing it yet. And then have the live show and then upload the video tonight. So I probably won't see you again till this evening. Riley was saying it's one of her favorite characters ever, like as a group of characters. And it's so true. Like they're all just so unique and clever and funny and brilliant. I just love it. Booktube is really sleeping on this series. It's so good. Okay, I'm just about to go sleep. It's been a long day. It's been a really amazing start to the read-a-thon. Like I can't believe how many of you are participating. All the stuff I'm being tagged in on like Twitter and Instagram. It's like I can't actually keep up. Like it's just crazy. I today have gotten 191 pages into European travel for the monstrous gentleman. Riley's like already on page 400 or something. Like I'm just not gonna catch up to her. I can accept that. I love it so much, you guys. I love it so much. I love it so much. Sorry, this is incredible. If you want a Victorian with murder mystery tendencies or detective girl gang found family, like they're just amazing. I will say this forever. This is what stalking Jack the Ripper wishes she could be. Stalking Jack the Ripper looks in the mirror and says, why am I not this series? These characters are amazing. They make me want to be a character person. Usually I'm a plot person. But these are literally the best character I've ever read. They all bring something so different and unique to the table. I love reading about these funny, clever, witty, imaginative, creative, fearless girls. The woman that you are today is just beautiful. Your love is amazing. The way you love people is inspirational. You are the definition of unconditional love. At the moment, we're kind of in two different storylines. And whenever I skip between them, I'm like, you're my favorite character. No, you're my favorite character. Every time I go back to them, I'm like, I love you. I love you so much. A couple of our girls have gone to Vienna. They traveled on the Orient Express and they've gone to Vienna to uncover a mystery that's going on there. And then a couple of them have stayed in London. I'm really enjoying seeing Victorian Europe. I think that's a really cool thing. Usually all Victorian things are set in London. So it's nice that we're venturing out a bit and exploring. The girls cutting in will never get old. The structure of this, I think it's even better than in the first book because in the first book, you don't meet Catherine until I would say maybe two thirds of the way through the book, at least halfway through the book, you don't meet her. So for a big chunk of it, you kind of don't know who she is, this kind of narrator. But in this one, you finally know who she is. And she's amazing. And I think even more so, you can tell that the book was written by her as a character. It's a really interesting character choice. The whole of the book is in some ways a characterization of her because she is the one writing it. It's done so well. I can't wait to read more of this. I want to read a really big chunk of it tomorrow, hopefully. I'm going to be running some Twitter sprints and hopefully I'm going to do an Instagram live tomorrow night as well. I would really like to do a read-in with everyone. It's just pure genius. I don't want to speak too soon because I'm only 190 pages in, but oh my God, I love this series. Oh my God. Why has no one else read this? It's so good. This is really sad, but there was a point. I just read a line, I think it was from Catherine, and I was like, I love you. And I almost cried. I just almost cried over how good it was. Dear Lord, what a sad little life, Jane. Is that weird? Morning. I am about to go leave for a doctor's appointment and I'm going to listen to your new book as I go. I am 27% of the way through evening. It is currently about half seven. I've just had my dinner and I spend most of the day doing stuff for uni, like lectures and stuff. I'm so tired. So I'm just going to spend the rest of the evening reading. I have got a Instagram live reading with everyone in about half an hour. I am currently on page 265. All the progress I've made today has just been through the audiobook, like On My Way To My Run, where I had to go out to run errands. I don't have much more to say other than I'm still loving it. Like, I cannot see a world where this isn't five stars again. I adore this series. Something that it's doing really well, actually, is that it's like spoiling stuff for us. It's going to happen in the rest of the book. You naughty, naughty. You teasing me. You naughty, naughty. Like when the girls cut in, so Catherine's writing the majority of the story and then they will interject, here, can you see it's got their names and then like little things that they're saying. And they're spoiling stuff for us. It's going to happen in the book. They're like, I can't believe I ended up getting trapped in a tower or something. And then Catherine will be like, can you try not to spoil the story? So there's so much we know, kind of. There's going to happen to the characters. And I think that's just so fun. The book kind of spoiling itself for us is something I've never read before. And it's just really funny. And I would really recommend the audiobook for this. Is this kind of past section that I've read has just emphasised how good it is to me because there's so many different accents in this and they're managing to show off like so much nuance in the accent. And there's a character who's kind of from America. So like America is at the base of their accent. But it's kind of been covered up with time, like through living in lots of different places, living in Europe a lot. And like the way that the Americanisms come through in certain aspects, just the crafting of that and all these different accents is just so good. Like then the range is amazing. It really brings the story to life even more for me. Diana, like when she narrates Diana, it's so good. Hello. It looks so dark. It's only like three o'clock. It's not like that late in the day. I don't know where the day's gone. I woke up today with like such a bad cold. That's what happens when they make you go to the doctors when you don't want to, do you have your blood pressure taken? So you're gonna have your pill. What is the most hideous experience for me to go through how I want to? I was like, I really don't want to do this. And look what happens. I get ill. I spent the morning editing the video up till now which should not have taken me that long, but it just hurts because I was just so ill. You know when like you're ill? So like basic tasks take you so long. So I've decided to like sack the rest of the day off. Like I was supposed to be doing other things. I can either do them for my bed or not do them at all. That's the decision I've made. So I am going to go try and finish the European Travels for the Monsters gentlemen. I mean, I don't know if I will. I have got like half of it left to read. That's never gonna happen. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. I'm like wearing Tom's clothes. That's when you know I'm ill. I just feel like I just want to like wrap myself up in a ball and no one to see me, but the show must go on. I'm feeling a bit better today. It is now Wednesday. So we're on day four of the read-a-thon. But I'm gonna finish this today. I am on page 400 and 65. I'm still loving it, but I want to finish it today. So I'm gonna try and not speak to you again till I've finished it. So I'm gonna try and finish this before the live show at six. I don't know how realistic that is, but I want to try. Just gotta keep positive and keep busy. One thing I don't want to say is I didn't realize how many characters there were from Dracula in the first book. There's loads of Dracula characters and I didn't realize. And also Mrs. Paul is from Jane Eyre. There's so many famous fictional characters and there's the I didn't even realize because they haven't read all of these classics. I'm so excited to finish it because I am loving it, but I am also panicking about finishing the read-a-thon. So it's brilliant. It's wonderful. Because it's incredible, I just need to hurry up and read it because feeling shit yesterday I just did not read enough. I finished European travel for the monstrous gentleman last night at like 11 o'clock and I'm giving it five stars. I just love it so much. It's so good. It's so good. Thank you universe. Like I can't get over how much I love these characters. I've never been a character person. Like I could give less than a shit about characters. Like whenever anyone says then my child, I love them. I don't get it. Like I don't ever feel that attached to characters. I would die for them. I would like give my life protecting them. Not that they need me because like they're a lot more skilled than me. I would say the last 200 to 150 pages there were some scenes that could have been cut. It did get a little bit slow but it does not impede how much I love it at all. I think the audiobook is like essential. Essential to reading this. Oh my God there's so much I want to say. Diana writes. Like Diana is an icon. She's a business woman. A TV star. A host. A producer. An actress. A philanthropist. She's one of the most influential, popular, wealthy women in the world. She's this like 14-year-old girl who just gives no shits. Like she just has a go at everyone the entire time and tells them how shit they are the entire time and I just like live for it. We've got vampires. Vampires are like the big addition to this book that we're dealing with. We're dealing with the vamps and I loved it. I loved how it kind of framed vampirism. I don't want to give too much away but like the way it talked about why someone would be a vampire and kind of explained it in the context. It really added this like spooky or tumble feel to it. Catherine is one of my favorite characters. The one who's writing this. I think she's brilliant. I think she's so funny. I think she's so witty. I love that these girls are also funny in their own way. Clever, skillful and they've just got this wonderful friendship. It is like such a wonderful found family. They care for each other so much. They rely on each other when they're in times of need. I just love it. Like there's literally nothing bad about this. If you like classics, if you like Dr. Jack on the Mr. Hyde, Dracula, there's some characters from Jane Eyre and there's Frankenstein. If you like books like that, read this. Read this. I think it really takes those characters from classics with respect and twists them and reimagines them in really, really fun ways. I really liked how the group kind of split in half for the first part. They started together. They split in half for the first half of the novel to two thirds and then they came back together at the end. It was just really fun to see the characters in isolation from each other and then back together again. And the way that it ended, I am just so excited to read the last book in this series. I need to get my hands on it so bad, but I'm on a book buying van until my birthday next year. So I've just got to hope someone from my family gets it for me for Christmas. Like I'm just gonna like cross my fingers. So now I have to find out what my next prompt is. Right? So I need to click on four to five stars. That sounds like me. Is it me? Oh, hi, it's me. Okay. It is a meme of Queen Charity Shopsu going, I'm back. So the idea of this is that you read an author you read before, you read another part of a series, you read characters you read before. I literally say in the video that I want to read this for this prompt if I get it. I'm gonna read Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman, which is a really short novella about the characters Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper, which you know is one of my favorite graphic novel series ever. I just finished Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman and I love them so much. So if you don't know, this follows Nick and Charlie, who are the characters of the Heartstopper graphic novel series, which is my favorite graphic novel series of all time. They are the most perfect, cinnamon roll, cute, wonderful, lovely humans ever. And this is basically a novella about Nick going away to university. So it's set like, I think, a year after the most recent Heartstopper graphic novel. It's about Charlie being really worried about Nick going to university and that kind of pressure to like break up when one of you goes to university. And like, first I've got to say Nick Nelson goes to university of Leeds. A.K. where I go to university. A.K. why haven't I met him yet? Why are you laughing? I mean, here's the thing, it's predictable. It's easy to read. Like it took me about 45 minutes to read it. You know where it's going to go. You know the conflict is, you know what the conflict's going to be. I don't want to say it in case anyone's like, you spoiled the book. But like, we all know where it's going. What I love about this is how like soft their relationship is. And they basically just love spending time together. They spend all their time together. They have what they call a boring relationship. And I think it's really nice to read about a relationship that like the I myself can relate to and like the idea of. If that makes sense, like I think relationships and romances are often like really dramatic. Or they go on loads of adventures together. Or they live this like crazy life. Or it's you know, it's so eventful. They're always going out together. It's just nice to read about something that reminds me a lot of my relationship. I am going to give it four stars. It just kind of felt like a nice companion to the Heart Stopper graphic novel series. It didn't necessarily feel like something in its own thing. Part of what makes Heart Stopper so good is the illustrations, how pure they are, how cute they are. I still really enjoyed it. It was lovely to be back with Nick and Charlie. They are like some of my favourite characters in the world. But yeah, I think what I enjoyed most about it was that appreciation of like a boring relationship. Cause I don't see it enough. All of you, if you actually saw what my day to day life is like and how I never leave the house, lmao. I don't want to be a bitch, but you guys are really boring. It was just cute. They're just so cute. And it was a lovely read. And look at me. I'm two out of five. I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Listen, I told you I could pick a 700 page book. I told you. So I need to go now and find out what my next prompt is going to be. Did you guess where it was going? No. Yes, but I didn't mind. Yes. DNF. Okay. I did guess where it was going. The question is, did I mind? I'm going to say yes, but I didn't mind. I'm going to say yes, I didn't mind. Because A, it was just cute and fun and quick. And it's like a novella, like you kind of are going to guess where it's going to go anyway. So who have I got now? Oh, I've got Tasman. My third prompt for you is a book that feels like Marvel. Now you could interpret this as the MCU. You could interpret it as the comics. You could take a character that you really like or a character that you dislike, a certain character trait. For example, I big time relate to Gwen Paul. Yes, I'm writing a fanfiction about her. Everyone can fuck off with their judgment. I don't have any more in the series. And it would be too long anyway. Okay, I'm going to go look and I'll be back. Last night, I decided to sleep on it because basically my reaction to that prompt was what do I pick? Because I don't tend to read a lot of superhero stuff. I've seen some Marvel films. My family love Marvel. So my family and my parents and my brother have seen every Marvel film known to man. But I've only really seen The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy. I asked on Twitter basically if I could fit the book I felt like reading into the prompt somehow, which is The Empress of Sort Unfortunate by Niveau. I actually just got sent this by a lovely subscriber, Madeline. I haven't had a chance to show it on my channel yet, but the note in this was so touching and lovely and kind and like made me tear up with it. It was so kind of you to send me this. And I just felt like reading it last night. Let me get Twitter up because people inform me I could get away with it. Tammy said it was a bit of a stretch but I think it could work. Elena said it features a Civil War. So Captain America Civil War. Some said badass royals. So I just took it to fit. You're that girl I knew you were. I just really wanted to read this. It is another really short book. It's only a hundred pages, so it's a novella. It basically has this like cleric chi whose pronouns are they them and they have this bird on their shoulder who they can communicate with and they've come to this town to kind of like document stuff and they meet Rabbit, who is this old servant of an old monarch of the old Empress of Sort Unfortunate and it's the story of resilience and resistance and living whilst forgotten because the Empress was exiled by the Emperor and it's about these women having sacrificed a lot and having lived through a lot together. It's only very short obviously but it's a very touching story. It was so intimate, like it was so contained and just this magical whimsical story told by this old woman full of old folklore and mythology and belief in the stars and fortune tellers but really at its heart it was a story of like women, women coming together and being each other's family and making mistakes and loving each other regardless and it was lovely. I can't wait to read more of Nevo's writing. I thought the writing was exquisite and beautiful but also so simple and the writing was very efficient like it only used the words that needed to be said if that makes sense, which makes sense in the story because like Rabbit kind of like is no bullshit like Rabbit is going to tell you it to the point what happened. So I loved it. I can't wait to read more from this author. I love what Tor do with these short stories and I need to look into more of them. So let's go through the next story. The question of this one is did you like the main character? I would say like the characters weren't necessarily there to be liked or to be attached to but I really enjoyed reading about them and I liked their story and who they were. So I'm gonna say yes. When does this lead me? Oh it's back to me. This is like quite bad. I'm getting all me. Prompt is I'm an acquired taste. You don't like me? Acquires of taste. I love that. I do love that meme. What a great meme. So the idea of this one is to read a book you've heard mixed things about. I've heard a lot of really mixed things about burn our bodies down. I just thought of I could read The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Peckinen. This is one I've owned forever. What I might do is post a poll on Instagram. Also wait I just realized I forgot to say I'm giving, where is it? I'm giving The Empress of Sword and Fortune 4 stars. I really enjoyed it. Hey everyone. Welcome to Yoga with Adrienne. I'm Adrienne. And this is Benji. And this is yoga for when you feel dead inside. Morning. I've had a really productive morning actually. I cleaned the bathroom. I did some yoga. I know I put the poll up last night. Burn our bodies down. You inevitably won it. But then I realized I can't actually get the audiobook for it. It was available for pre-order not to actually buy on Audible. I just didn't see that when I looked it up on camera. And so I was like nah. I don't see it for me but okay. I need an audiobook because I knew that this morning I would only have time to like listen to an audiobook. I wouldn't have a lot of time to physically read until like more of the afternoon. And then I thought of something that I'd forgotten about because it wasn't on my book cart. I completely forgotten about it. And I was like that totally works and I'm so in the mood for it. And it is The Murder of Roger Atcroid by Agatha Christie. So I've heard some people say this is one of her best. Like this is one of her best pro novels. I'm working my way through them in order of publication because although you don't have to read them all in order of publication, there's a few that spoil each other. And so just for the sake of it, I'm reading them in order. I've heard other people say it's a bit basic, a bit boring, a bit average. It hasn't really got anything like super exciting to it. I'm really enjoying it so far. I've managed to listen to the first 126 pages whilst I've been cleaning this morning and like making my lunch. So a woman named Mrs. Ferris has died. The doctor in the village goes to kind of do an autopsy or whatever. Then he goes to his friend Roger Atcroid's house who had kind of been romantically linked with this woman. Roger Atcroid admits that she confided in him that she murdered her late husband a year ago. And someone has been blackmailing her for the past year and it's someone in Roger Atcroid's kind of wider circle. He tells Dr. Shepard that she committed suicide and then it turns out she's written a letter to him telling him who the person who was blackmailing her was. And Roger Atcroid wants to read the letter on his own so he sends Dr. Shepard away and then Roger Atcroid is murdered and the letter has gone missing. Too much drama for me. So obviously it's someone linked to the blackmailing who has committed the murder. And it's just a fun, simple mystery. It's set in this, like, gossipy town like this quaint little English town with a few big houses and everyone just milling around in the countryside and they all, like, gossip on each other so everyone, like, knows little things about each other. Okay, here's the thing. Here's the thing. This actually gets me a bit upset. Everyone seems to hate simple mysteries. I love simple mysteries. And the thing is I don't feel like enough modern authors do it. Like, if Agatha Christie wasn't one of the only people out here doing the simple mystery well, I wouldn't be reading her as much as I was. I'd be reading modern ones. But for me, like, the guest list is one of them. One by One by Ruth Ware, which has just come out is definitely a very simple mystery. And it's getting really bad reviews. Everyone says it's boring. There's not enough twists. And, like, sometimes you don't need that many twists. You just need a group of characters. All under suspicion. One of them have got secrets to hide. One of them commit the murder and you find the clues out and it's wonderful. I love simple mysteries. It's so much fun to be back with Proro. He has been living in the village like undercover and he's like, okay, I'm coming at retirement to solve this. Like, when there's all of these mysteries from them afterwards. I'm just really enjoying it. I'm just having a lot of fun reading it. I'm now 200 pages in and I still don't have a clue who did it. Like, I have no idea. I'm getting older. I don't know if I can, if I want all this drama all the time, if I'm being honest. I'm enjoying it, but I don't think I'm going to have any idea of what my rating is until the end. Because it's in this more like domestic environment. It's not like an exciting environment, like on The Orient Express. It's slower. I don't, yeah, I'm not going to know my rating until I find out who the killer is and it all comes together at the end. Okay, can you all say hello? Oh my God. Hello. Oh my God, hey everyone. Oh my God, I just realized my mic, my camera mic wasn't on when I was filming you. I pressed the wrong button. We may have to reenact it, everyone. My mic. Okay, we may have to act like that didn't happen. We may have to do it again because I need the shot. Oh my God. Oh my God. I was tricked. I was fooled. I was gagged. I was shit. Miss Agatha Christie. Girl, you have done it again. Constantly raising the bar for us all and doing it flawlessly. I didn't know, I didn't, I could never have guessed this. Oh my God. Almost happened to the end. I was like, maybe it's a 3.5, a 3.75, maybe a 4. But the ending without a doubt has made it like a 4.5. Like it's the ending. This was like peak trickery, leaving everything in plain sight for the reader in terms of the murder. Making you feel like an idiot for not realizing it sooner. Oh my God, it was so good. It was like peak, simple, mystery, well done. Revealing it slowly. It was so good. Oh my God, the ending was amazing. Something I will say, I was really happy when I realized that the narrator of this wasn't Hastings. Hastings is the narrator of like the first three pro-roy books. I don't know if he's the narrator of like the further ones or if he stops now. But like I didn't vibe with Hastings. Like me and Hastings, we just didn't really get along. Me and the narrator of this one got along. I liked him a lot more. I just thought he was a more interesting character than Hastings. I thought he brought someone into the table but also blended into the background when he needed to. The murder was so clever. The way it all played out was so clever. There were a few things I called. There were a few twists that I called earlier on. But nothing in terms of like who the murderer was. This just makes me so excited to read all of Agatha Christie's stuff. Like one day I want to have read all of Agatha Christie's stuff. Like I just think she's a genius at setting up these characters and introducing something new to the like simple classic mystery. Proro just being so funny. Like he's just so weird, the stuff he says. Like calling himself Papa Proro. Like what the hell is this guy on? This is disgusting. I like it though. I'm giving this 4.5 stars. It was really good. Now we must find out my final prompt. Wherever I put my earphones. Then come back here and I'll be asking you whether you enjoyed the setting. Did I enjoy the setting? Yes I did. Hi there, I'm Monica. And I'm so happy to hear that you loved the setting of your last read. My prompt is language. And you can take this in a couple of different directions. Maybe you want to read a book that has a completely made up language and alphabet like The Lord of the Rings or the Artemis Fowl series. Or maybe you want to pick up a book that plays with language in a fun way like Carry On by Rainbow Rowell where different phrases are used as magic spells throughout the novel. Or maybe you want to read a book that's been translated from another language into your own. So for example I have Grass or Kim Ji Young born 1982 another Korean novel. Language. You good? No you're not. You're not baby and it's okay. You're not good and it's okay. You don't need to be good all the time. Okay I was stumped by this for a hot second because I knew I wanted to read a translated book for this. And then I just decided to look up the books that Monica recommends in the video because like what's the point of her recommending me these books if I don't pay attention to it. And the last one that she mentions Kim Ji Young born 1982 I found on Audible so I'm gonna listen to the audiobook of that tomorrow it's only three and a half hours so it won't take me that long. Yeah I don't know much about it but I'm trusting Monica. So I finished Kim Ji Young born 1982 and I enjoyed it but I think I'm gonna give it like a 3.5 stars. We follow Kim Ji Young and we meet her as an adult and she's married, she has a child and she starts to take on the personalities of other women in her life without realizing it. So a woman dead and alive she starts acting like them and speaking like them and then she can't remember it afterwards and from there we go back throughout her life and follow her throughout her life essentially trying to break out of the gender boundaries that are placed on women and the everyday sexism that is placed on women. The premise of it I love the execution of it I love it's a book I would recommend and recommend and recommend I think it does such a great job of looking at the systematic oppression and sexism that women face and how the world is not constructed for women's success but I just think that the style of writing wasn't for me and prevented me from enjoying it I think for me writing is like the first barrier into whether I enjoy a book then it's plot then it's characters and it reminded me a lot of I think it's called lullaby or the nanny depending on where you live it's got different names in different places reminded me a lot of that in this short character study of a woman very different subject matters but kind of literary fiction and I just think I don't enjoy that that kind of like cold Kim Ji-young and I just think that that kind of style of like more literary fiction I just don't vibe with so it wasn't that it wasn't I would recommend this book loads I could see how if this is a style of writing you like or style of writing isn't something that like necessarily affects your enjoyment of a book you could easily give five stars like I can I can completely see that but I just didn't feel immersed in the story at any point it's sad you know it's it's a shame thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so much if you joined us for the Thousand Doors read-a-thon I have had the most fan like the most fun ever I feel so lucky that so many people participated me Tasman and Emma have all enjoyed it so much like I did not think as many people would participate and the amount that you guys have been engaging with it and just enjoying it has been absolutely incredible like I really can't believe it I feel so lucky I'm so glad that so many of you have enjoyed the read-a-thon one of my favorite experiences on booktube in the kind of year and a bit that I've been on here like it's literally been my highlight of booktube so far I can't tell you how amazing it has been just seeing all the books you read and how how much fun it's been I just feel so lucky so thank you so much if you've joined us make sure you subscribe to Tasman and Emma if you haven't already I don't know why you wouldn't have done but if you haven't already make sure you subscribe to Tasman and Emma that's it from me I hope you enjoyed this vlog I know that I read one book for a very very long time but I had a lot of fun I had a lot of fun so thank you all so much for joining and yeah I will see you very very soon in another video bye