 Hello and welcome to a reading vlog. You know this isn't super on-brand for me. Me who has skulls and crows and blah blah blah but this mug gives me so much joy. It was kind of an indulgent purchase but it gives me so much joy. I don't even like sweets and it's covered in little cookies but every time I look at it my day gets just a little bit brighter. Worth it I think so. I also have been drinking a lot more raspberry coffee ever since getting this mug. I think because all the jammy dodgers on it make me think that it needs to taste like raspberry. And I didn't even. That's what's bringing me joy lately. Thought I'd share but what am I reading? I have finished a lot of what was on my TBR but I have a couple things left by which I mean three even though a couple means two. Don't tell my dad because my dad's one of those people that will say a couple and then when someone wants to know how many he means he screams that a couple means two. Except for when he says it casually and then you give him two and he's like well I meant more and I'm like well you said a couple so. So yeah this is what I'm working on right now. I'm almost done with my third read of Six of Crows so I'll probably read that during this vlog. I need to read Winter of the Witch because me and Bethany are buddy reading it and she's already been reading it but slowly. So probably honestly my plan is low key to read this all day today. Did I say this this is gonna be a weekend reading vlog? Today is Saturday. I don't think I said anything. It's been a while since I've vlogged. Don't know how to do this anymore. Today is Saturday. Tomorrow is Sunday. I'm vlogging today and tomorrow. Today will be a reading day. Tomorrow is a filming day. I didn't film it all last weekend because I got my second dose of my vaccine and it really knocked me out for like 48 hours so no filming occurred. So I have some catching up to do. I can't not film this weekend. Anyway so yeah. I'm hoping to devote most of today to reading and then a big chunk of tomorrow to filming videos and then also getting some reading done. So anyway hoping to spend most of today reading this or at least until I finish it so that I can catch up to Bethany and then I split this. This is the patron buddy read for May and for our tat in the Discord I split it into six chunks and I've read the first chunk so I'd like to read the next two chunks so I can be like halfway through. That's a good goal so that I have the rest of the coming week to finish it and then I have it at all touched sort of cry again which is supposed to be buddy reading with my dad but he read it way ahead of time. So I think it only fair that I read it late. I mean that's actually not why. It's just basically I keep forgetting about it because I don't know if it's a copy of it so if I don't have it in front of me. Uh anyway yeah I kept looking at my study. I was like oh I'm almost done reading everything. Oh fuck sort of crying again. These are the four books that I will be reading some part of today and tomorrow but today as I said this is today's goal winter of the witch let's fucking do it to take your mind for happiness so strange she said you were here to part but you wrote me sweating I wonder why you didn't ask she was sleeping in the she's gotta get to class all day if they find out if you could take it all I haven't checked in with you like verbally since this morning I keep I mean I guess I make good progress um not as good as I was hoping because I keep stopping and not because it's bad I'm actually really loving it but I went to bed really late last night watching Fringe as one of the rewatching Fringe um I haven't been like sleepy enough to take a nap but I've been kind of like I don't know you know how it is when you are running on low sleep like you're awake you're not sleepy but you're not firing on all cylinders please be quiet out there I keep changing my clothes too which like maybe you've seen I don't know how much of me has been visible next time you see me I'll probably be wearing you had a different outfit um anyway I'm hungry hence me eating now I haven't food shopped in the month I considered ordering pizza I'm not gonna lie very nearly did there's currently a pizza I'm in my cart on whichever app I was using door dash post me who knows it's like no be a good girl you have food so I cobble together a bowl of stuff right so are you shitting me can you not what are you doing out there anyway yes winter of the witch and loving it it's really good third book in a series so I can't say too much this is a great chicken I'm totally so good I'm just hungry I think why did I want why did I decide to check in while eating why didn't I just eat a net chicken yeah so I am like a third of the way through is that a quarter a third a third yeah that's definitely a third month page 128 which I mean considering how often I've stopped to watch youtube videos or make snacks or change my clothes I think that's pretty okay I do think honestly that I can finish this book today I originally thought I could finish this book and finish Six of Crows that is looking less likely unless this amazing bowl of food that I cobble together gives me that second wind or I finally take a nap there is a little mushroom character that I am living for he was only just introduced and I'm squealing a lot over the little mushroom and it's quite fierce I love it so much it weirdly made me crave mushrooms which like I don't want to eat him but in fairness he gathered mushrooms for Vasia to eat so like I don't I'm not going to dig too deep into the like the cannibals and vibes of that it's very cute I am hooked and curious and quite enjoyed and I will finish it today I'd say that now I mean next time I check in on how many in my gym jams saying hey I didn't finish it see you tomorrow it's quarter to midnight and I finished the book I made such good progress um after my last check in and then I got a bit cocky and watched thought I had time to watch a couple of youtube videos and a couple turned into several and turned into many don't know where the time went and for some reason even though it happens every year the sun setting later later completely fucked with me I like I thought it was five and I checked my watch and it was like quarter to eight and I was like anyway I finished the book just in the nick of time obviously not gonna be finishing six of crows tonight smelling the cards did change my outfit again as promised I'm very tired I didn't like this as much as the first two I give this four stars you have the first two each five stars I was so it was good but uh I was thinking to myself about what I was gonna say I checked in and now I've forgotten everything um what any event um I felt like this book dragged a bit I'm realizing now that the thing that I was thinking of saying I can't really say because it's spoilery and there's no real way to be vague like even if I'm vague about it can't help it is there a way to kind of say it a certain thing was resolved like two-thirds through the book we should have this whole whole third where like this thing had already been resolved and now we just like have more stuff happening that I just like don't care that as much about and I don't think anyone cares that much about because like I think that was a bigger deal was already resolved so like the plot is ours nothing like this kind of like game of thrones when like the night king was like taking care of in season eight and towards the beginning of season eight and we were like but what are we doing for the rest of the season it was like kind of like that and like there's a very specific reason why that had to happen when it did unlike with game of thrones where you're just like why that had to happen in order for other things to happen I got to get that nevertheless the the book hadn't done a good enough job getting you or me or whoever invested in this other stuff then that would be the only thing left to care about after the thing that I personally was most invested in was already taken care of so again I get why but then you needed to get me to buy in to the next bit and you didn't feel like that sounds really harsh I didn't like it I gave it more stars but the first two were better girl in the tower might be my favorite but then no one is surprised who's most of the time second book in a trilogy nearly always is my favorite okay I think it's time to go to sleep I'll see you tomorrow Sunday uh which began in a bit of a rush because I had to wash all my dishes make coffee and settle in for the premiere of Mara's Jane Eyre essay which I've been eagerly anticipating so it is already 10 30 fml for the long video essay worth the watch highly recommend oh my god it's been quiet out there are you serious are you freaking serious right now okay so I've got to film videos today I'm gonna have to prep for some of them which is not a thing that I ever do I usually just turn a camera on and start talking and hope for the best and I'm not scripting anything but I do need to prepare a little tiny bit of notes and lists for filming today and the day is is a wasting so I need to do that and then film the videos and then when I'm done with all that then then I might be able to like finish Six of Crows or something fun like that don't know I mean Six of Crows I'm reading just for shits and giggles it is not required reading this month not that any of booktube is required so I should be reading this I want to read Six of Crows story of my life um yeah okay so I have to do my notes stuff put makeup on so that I'm ready for the camera unlike now you're welcome and film videos how many do I need to film for also I keep writing tbr's for June and then every single like list has forgotten something I'm trying to compile the the true final list because I keep like this will have like these specific buddy reads and commitments on it but I missed one then I make a fresh list and it has it has the one that I missed but it it forgot one of the ones in the first list uh I think I'm finally have a list that has them all on there I have a lot of commitments in June I don't know why I thought earlier this month it's like June I'll just kind of like read whatever I feel like and then I started writing down on my commitments and I'll play what else am I filming to there a list video a discussion video an overview video probably something else that I'm forgetting okay well whatever I need to do the things and stop telling you about it okay quick update is now noon is it noon yeah well like 11 55 um still haven't filmed anything but I'm like nearly there I doubt anyone with me has noticed or if you maybe I don't know but sometimes my videos are like ever so slightly out of focus like the bookshelf behind me is like slightly more in focus than me who's in front of it that's because I have to manually focus my dslr because the autofocus is really like noisy and shitty uh usually I do pretty okay with this but every now and again always when I'm filming an apricot related video I I fuck it up so I finally looked into how to use my computer as an external monitor so that I could actually see it better and focus it better but I read it quickly and ordered the wrong thing so I tried setting it up and then it wasn't working and then I looked into it some more and I was like fuck um but it turns out even though it's like teeny tiny I do actually have the kind of cord that I need for this and I had it all along I mean now that I know what I need I'm probably gonna invest any longer one and the cord that I did buy that I didn't need it's the wrong one I don't know what the fuck I'm gonna do with it let's go in my box of cords because I am a dad so after all of that hard work then I had time because I figured I'll just you know I'll set up my camera because also I ordered this cord like a week ago and it was like well I'm not gonna test it out because why would I I'll just wait till the last minute because I did and all this happened so like I was eager to test it out and get it set up and I was like and then I can relax and prepare my videos but then it was quite an ordeal so I got it figured out I got it set up and then started preparing my videos which now I am kind of done at least enough to film but I need makeup on today's really getting away from me make it work it's not I let you know I don't know why you'd care about any of this but maybe you do in which case you're welcome if not I'm sorry okay I filmed some videos chaos is evidence of that I haven't filmed everything that I wanted to film but it is past three o'clock and my camera is running on battery and the last video that I was hoping to film today will be kind of a long one that I need the camera to just be kind of rolling for so I will either do that tonight or not at all in the meantime though I think I'm gonna order pizza I'm very pooped and I haven't eaten since breakfast and it is three eleven and I cannot be arsed to cook okay ordering pizza kind of take an hour what am I gonna do for an hour I could film a video for an hour but the battery is out where's my whole day gone it's insane so I've been sitting here watching you two videos waiting for my pizza and like watching it on the app and it's been saying that your postmate is gonna pick up your pizza for like 15 minutes and it's supposed to be here at 415 it's 407 now and I was like googling like does like what happens if no one picks it up like what the fuck and now while I was googling that things have changed now it says uber eats is picking up my order because an uber eats driver that partners with postmates is gonna pick it up I don't understand and still hasn't picked it up it's 408 I want my fucking pizza the point of this was because I didn't want to wait for food I'm being punished by the universe at this point I'm like not even I mean I am hungry it's getting to the point where my body's giving up and we'll keep watching you two videos I will eat pizza I'm gonna film my last video and I will read six of crumbs um no it is saying no the order is taking longer than I expect the new ETA is 449 the pizza has been ready since 345 it is gonna be an hour cold why would have I done to deserve this I mean other than ordering takeout instead of making food myself I could have like made a box of macaroni or something and macaroni sounds really good right now it's really good I'm hungry the carrot sticks sound good right now oh delivery I got the text the text why does it say 34 minutes when his little car avatar is so close to me progress is being made my pizza still be cold but it'll be here let's not make making noises soon my lovely soon I'm losing my mind are we ready for this I'm fucking ready I'm coming to make it first because I did I tell you what I ordered probably not I forgot to tell them no cilantro live and learn cilantro it's like so full of course the moment that the pizza arrived my battery reached fully charged status so I can film now not right by me for spicy pizza it's good though although I'm really hungry so I don't know if it's tasty or if I'm hungry or both but um it's hitting the spot all the time as well no thirsty well I am finally done with that so I have to edit everything always takes a million years not today time's it six o'clock oh my I have the rest of the evening I have about two hours left of six of crows um I'm not listening to an audio I just unkindle it tells you how much time they think is left in the book two and a half so I think see if I started it now I'd be done by 8 30 I'm about one about 8 30 so I'm gonna continue to be productive and read some of the chat about what was lost until until like 8 or 8 30 and then I'll switch to six of crows and finish it tonight and go to bed on that note just like a dream of Casbrooker okay that's that is the plan so pooped in that last video I filmed I don't even know it's very good for all that but I did it it is what it is time to read this fucking raven block I can't seem to focus and you don't seem to know this I'm just you check your complexion to find your reflection so I haven't quite finished um reading the the chunk I set myself the next chunk then I mentioned splitting it into chunks yes probably maybe but I'm checking in now because well the sun is still up but that's not actually why because they're talking about seeing the king oh he says that one problem the king isn't there terrace mile slipped what there's still a delegation near him rushed to assure him but it's led by the princess terrace frown then this is the name of the princess and I bring this up because that is the Latvian word for queen that's her name with Katalina spelled exactly like that is the word for queen in Latvian which I think is strange and that makes me wonder if this author knew that and thought it would be fun to name his princess the word for queen I don't know but as soon as I saw that I was like what now yeah Katalina I don't that's gonna how I'm gonna have to pronounce this because that's a word to me and that's how you say that word I don't know maybe I should like pull up the audio book maybe someone can tell me if you've listened to the audio book of this book how does how does Michael Kramer say Katalina because that's how you pronounce that and I'm having trouble picturing Michael Kramer say Katalina Karly Karlyne yeah I bet he says Karlyne I bet I bet that's what he's saying nearly done this book that I'm not loving everyone was right I love he hated okay finished to my to my marker to my checkpoint I've read actually quite a bit of this book I feel like I'm still in the beginning of it so I still don't feel very invested in anything what's going on or any one that's in it this feels like like it was written by a child except that it was it says it's weirdly I don't know there's this weird juxtaposition because like the writing itself the characters how they talk everything feels really childish and kind of badly written but then like it just has these like spurts of just like really aggressively gory violent stuff which kind of just like happens it's like launching the sweet life of Zack and Cody but then every so often Tarantino just like directs a scene but then we go back to the sweet life of Zack and Cody and then Tarantino and then the sweet life of Zack and Cody and then Tarantino it's it's it's jarring it doesn't fit the tone it's just like kids being whatever and then like blood you're like kids being whatever blood also I just like I feel like this cover I don't know these look like adults but not the ages of the characters and their behavior is really childish like all the characters like this feels like YA like really young YA but you're orange how could you it is just a little past 8 30 so it's time to finish Six of Crows I've earned a good book this is a good book do I change into a Six of Crows jumper or is that too extra because I've made such a substantial effort I wanted to show it off from my Ketterdam jumper to my oh don't fall Six of Crows socks my decaf s'mores favorite coffee it is a quarter to midnight and I finished Six of Crows read last sentence and then as I was closing the book just said so good freaking good you haven't read Six of Crows why not is my question so so good so yeah definitely way better than this other what was lost yikes funnily enough again I don't really like I don't like to shitting on YA because there's a lot of amazing YA and YA gets shadowed enough but like this feels so much more adult and grown up and mature and well executed and the pros is better and the characters are better and and it's just so much more than the shadow what was lost but this is YA and that's adult fantasy I guess I mean like it's a very like backhanded compliment I guess you forget me this is on my top 10 favorite books of all time so I'm allowed but I'm just saying like for all the shitting on YA like this is YA that's adult I'm just saying it's so good gotta read crooked kingdom it's not on my tbr for June but Six of Crows was not on my tbr for May and I read it anyway maybe I'll just read crooked kingdom in May as well instead of sort of kaigan and shadow what was lost anyway I think that'll let that do it for this vlog so thanks for hanging out with me hope you enjoyed I had a great time reading Six of Crows anyway yes let me know all the things in the comments down below I post videos on Saturdays other random times as well but that's my Saturdays so like and subscribe join my patreon or don't see when I see you this is like my fifth time saying this today because of all the filming I did see you when I see you bye