 You want to say hi? You want to say hi? Welcome to the reading vlog. I asked y'all what you wanted. Y'all said you wanted a vlog. Oh no, good catch, good catch, good catch! Okay, bye bye. So, um, I'd been sort of planning to do a vlog for this for a while, and uh, look where we are. I have an arc, an e-arc of The Atlas Six. Or Atlas Six? Is it The Atlas Six or Atlas Six? Like I'm Jack. The Atlas Six. And it's such a, like, hyped, talked-about book, but I just thought it'd be fun to do a reading vlog for it. So here we are. That said, it is not on my TBR. The book from my TBR that I'm currently reading is A River Enchanted. I'm not loving it. I don't hate it, but it's gonna be probably a two or a three unless something drastic changes. Anyway, that is not what this vlog is for. I mean, I bring it up because, like, I will be listening. That's my current audiobook, so, like, I will be listening to it, so... I may mention how I'm doing with that, but my new physical book or my about-to-be-current physical book will be The Atlas Six. And, uh, vlogging it. And that's the story of this video. I just filmed some regular channel videos, and I just complained on my Insta story because I had to film them twice because I have this curse that I don't know if I've mentioned. But literally every single time that I post or that I film a Abercrombie-related video, it doesn't matter what else I'm filming that day. If one of the things that I am filming that day is an Abercrombie-related video, then my camera will be ever so slightly out of focus. And I was filming... One of the videos I was filming today was an Abercrombie-related video. And as I was filming, I was like, I feel like I am slightly out of focus. And a little voice in my head was like, you're filming an Abercrombie video. You're guaranteed that you're slightly out of focus. But I was like, no. Then I, like, overthought it. You know, like, double... double bluff. Or, like, okay, no, the way it's gonna get me is if I try to fix it now, because I think it's out of focus. And if I try to make it be in focus, that's when it'll go out of focus if I take that step. So really, I mean, like, honestly, like, if I had tried to focus it, that probably is how it would have gone. Because that's... that's the nature of my curves. So I looked at it, and usually when that's happened, it's been frustrating, but it's been just in focus enough to where I'm like, this is not ideal, but whatever. I'm not gonna film it again. This time, it was too out of focus. I was like, I absolutely cannot. I cannot. So I had to film it twice. I do think the second time through was better on all of the videos. So I guess that's a good thing. But it took a lot more of my day than I had planned. I had planned to use some of that time editing one of the videos so I could post it tomorrow, but it's not gonna happen. I am exhausted and I need to start this reading work. So I will be reading very shortly. That's what this video is for. Cool. I also just, like, wanted to explain why I have a full face of makeup on because I don't just live like this. I did not wake up like this. Um, yeah, okay, I think that's all I have to say. Yeah, so I'll start reading and I'll let you know how we go. I am one page, well, one, no, one screen into Atlas 6 and I would just like it to be known that when it said Library of Alexandria, my brain automatically read that as the Library of Alexandria. So I finished part one of Atlas 6. Part one, I was kind of leaning. I mean, I didn't really realize I was gonna be at the end of part one, but I figured each chapter in the beginning was introducing one of the Atlas 6 on how they're getting, like, who they are, what their magic skills are, and why or how and why they're being invited to buy Atlas to this as yet unexplained special group, which has something to do with the Library of Alexandria. And I'm intrigued. The writing isn't like spectacular or anything. It feels quite, it feels very YA and it feels sort of quippy and gimmicky. I mean, it's certainly no secret history. Sorry, this isn't gonna be sort of like pretentious, velvety dark academia that nothing is. I mean, I will forever be chasing the secret history high. But so far, it's intriguing and the characters are each quite unique and it's quite a, you know, a hook. These mysterious people with magical abilities and I think it's being explained pretty organically. Like it's dumping you into the world, right? And through how each of these people is being invited to the society, you get a little bit bigger idea of like how magic works in this universe, in the world of this book. Like who is a magic user and how that all functions. So overall, I think the exposition is being handled quite well, better than a lot of books I've read recently. So, so far I am moderately impressed. But it is quite late. I am, it is 10% of the way through the book, part one. But it is, I started kind of late. So it is, it's 10 o'clock and we did just spring forward. So that used to be not a glow, but I went to bed really, really late the last couple of nights because of the springing forward and I'm all like messed up because of it. I fucking hate daylight savings time. It's the stupidest thing in the world. Anyways, uh, yeah, that's my update. Um, and I must go to sleep. Hey, that's rude. Child. Hi, guys, you guys, come here. You wanna say hi? You wanna say hi? You like the atmosphere? Okay, goodnight. So, I woke up with a sore throat today and I think I have a cold, which is great. Um, I did finish the audio book for River Enchanted. So yay for that. I hated it. So yay for being done. Um, that's over. I put in a grocery delivery order for tea and emergency and for stuff to make veggie soup. Um, so that's arriving shortly. And in the meantime, I will probably listen to, I just got my hold in for the audio book of Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney. So, let me start listening to that. Um, but uh, yeah, I'm just gonna probably get into bed and read Atlas 6 tonight, but a very little b-roll, because you do not need to be singing the in bed sick because nobody wants that. I don't want that. And I don't have a choice. Um, if I don't live by death, then I might give you a reading update, um, tonight if I read, like, if I make some progress. But tonight I also, I really need to post thumbnails for the lives that I'm doing Friday and Sunday and also I cannot be singing because I have lives on Friday and Sunday. I'm supposed to be going to get brunch with people on Sunday morning and I don't have time for this. So, gonna take it easy. And uh, hopefully, recover speed only. So, I can get back to this vlog and to all of the things. Talk to you later. It is Thursday morning. I clearly did not film any clips last night. After editing a video for my channel, I pretty much, I brought my book to bed with me, but I just went to sleep. And um, I've taken today off work. I'm sick. So, my plan for today is to pretty much stay in bed and read as much as I can. Naturally, today they're also coming to do some work on my sink, like the maintenance people for my building. I mean, I don't have to be around for it much, but not great timing. Today is St. Patrick's Day. I had originally planned. I have Irish flavored coffee and I have vegan sausage and potatoes and cabbage. I was gonna have all that today. But um, don't think that's gonna happen today. I don't even think I'm gonna have coffee. I will have some tea. Otherwise, I will have a caffeine withdrawal headache. So that's where we're at these days. But um, yeah. That's the story with me. Hi baby kitty. Kaz is very, very shipper this morning. She's running all around chasing your little bolly. Chasing your bolly? Yeah? Wanna say hi? Okay. Bye. Anyway, um, that's my update for you. The vlog is not going according to plan. But um, we're making the best of it. And um, I suppose this is uh, this is realistic. Vlogs are supposed to be used seeing onto a little bit less, you know, curated life. So just see me be sick. You're welcome. Oh, I did a reading update for you. I think I told you I finished River Enchanted's audiobook. And I hated it. So not too much to say about that, except that I don't recommend. It was sold as adult fantasy, which I got from Book of the Month. Then it feels like very bad YA romance, which if it had been sold that way, I wouldn't have picked it up. Um, and then I had a really quick audiobook. I got Rizio from the library, um, which is a novella. So the audiobook at normal speed is like two hours. So I listened to it on double speed for an hour. And that was pretty good. It wasn't great. Um, I gave it three stars. It's a, it's I guess from a new series where they're having various authors retell, um, like do novellas about like events in Scottish history. So the author of this, um, I believe is a crime thriller type of author. But this novella is about the murder of David Rizio, who was like the confidant of Mary Queen of Scots. Um, so this novella is like right before his murder, and then the events like right after his murder and how that affects everybody and like why that was done. And like, if you don't know anything about that part of history, like there was like an attempted coup. So anyway, it's like it's a real skinny little slice of like Mary Queen of Scots history just to do with his murder. I thought it was pretty well written and I happened to know a little bit about that because I just like history. So then like, I didn't, I didn't major in history, but like I watch a lot of like historical documentaries and historical films and like films that are based on real events in history. So like, again, I'm by no means an expert on British history or on the history of Mary Queen of Scots, but like I did know who this guy was and vaguely that like he had been murdered and that there had been some kind of shenanigans. Like I kind of knew about this a little bit, which if you don't know anything about it, I don't think you can really understand it. Like I've seen some reviews say that oh, the author clearly knows her history, but she writes in an accessible way where you don't need to know it. I disagree. She writes it excessively, but does expect you to know it. So like if you kind of know, like if you recognize all the names of it, that you like don't necessarily remember exactly why you know those names, then you're probably going to do okay. But if you don't know anything about Mary Queen of Scots and you don't know anything about this event, I think you'll be very confused. And I personally, even though I knew about these events, felt like it was this was it felt like it should have been like a couple chapters any longer book. And I know the project of this is novellas, but nevertheless, like I don't think it works as a novella. I think it really feels like I just like flipped through a book and skipped to the good part. There was an interesting final chapter that also was quite, and I looked at reviews was quite polarizing. Some people really liked that final chapter. I thought the people really didn't. I didn't feel strongly about it, but I liked it. So I guess I'm on the side of liking it, but I wasn't like, there were some reviews that were like, this book wasn't good, but the last chapter was a great idea. I feel like the last chapter was a good idea, but I didn't like wasn't like the saving grace with the book or anything. I thought it was interesting. Anyway, so nice lukewarm review for you. I'm going to go make some tea, clear up the kitchen and get in bed and read Atlas 6. I read like half of a chapter in Atlas 6 last night. And I am enjoying the writing style. So I feel like I will be able to binge this book today. And luckily it's on Kindle. So like reading in bed is a lot easier on Kindle because you can like be facing any which way and you don't need to like be in the light and it's like lightweight. So it's easy to like hold up for laying down. So I think pages is easy. Like if you don't need two hands, I can read it one handed. So if I need a tissue, I only need my thumb to move the next page. So it's kind of a good thing that the thing I'm blogging is an e-book. At least something went right. Um, okay. Oh, you know what I can do today? For Irishness. I have some steel cut oats. So is that Scottish or Irish? Oh, is that me? Is maybe that Scottish? Whoops. No, I think it's Irish. Well, regardless, I think having porridge of any kind is pretty Irish. Maybe I'll have some porridge. But right now I just want tea. Um, talk to you later. Maybe by this evening, if I stay in bed all day, I'll be ready for some more interesting content. But okay, talk to you later. Yes, I am in bed. Um, but I just wanted to tell you that one of the characters is talking about the galley kitchen that's in the apartment or house, how apartment I think that he's living in with some other people. And so that person goes into their galley kitchen and this is the description of the kitchen. Retreating hastily to the galley kitchen, which had not been updated aside from Max's so-called hacks, a.k.a. mild property damage, since the rise of refrigeration and which possessed only the meagerest counter space necessary to be considered a kitchen at all. That is a description of my kitchen. I felt so seen. So my building is an old, a very old sort of historic building that I think if I think it used to be a hotel. Um, it used to be an apartment building. They converted it. But my kitchen is, I mean, I don't show it a ton in videos because there's not much to see. It's teeny tiny and like very old fashioned. Um, so, and it has mostly the original fixtures. They've just been like painted and here and there fixed up. But like, I have a teeny tiny fridge because that's all that would fit there anyway. Um, and there's like pretty much no counter space like at all. That's why I have a table that I use as my kitchen counter. Anyway, yeah, I just, I just wanted to mention that I felt seen by the description of a kitchen. Well, I'm about halfway through the book and I've had a shower so I feel, feel a little bit better temporarily. Um, so I thought I'd check in now be a good time. Also, I did find my, uh, Blarney which is it? Blarney Tech. Um, switch. And it is St. Patty's Day. I even found green sweatpants. So like, we're being sick in bed. I'm quite festive. Um, but yeah, I thought we could talk about the book for a second. I'm liking it so far. I don't think it'd be like, you know, all time favorite or anything, but it's very readable. I mean, I'm sick. And I'm pretty much, I'm well, I'm not flying through it because I have to keep stopping. For sick reasons. I'm getting through it pretty quickly. And I'm pretty interested. And I'm finding that both the plot and world as well as the characters and their interest dynamics and personalities are a lot more interesting and nuanced and have more depth than I expected. Like, I don't want to make it sound like it's the most deep thing I've ever read. There's a lot more than I expected from this. So overall, I would say I'm enjoying and I am intrigued and I'm very curious to see where it goes. And I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that a book called The Atlas Six would have six perspectives. But I'm finding them each to be unique perspectives. So like, that's been my complaint other times of their books where I'm like, these perspectives are indistinguishable versus here. I mean, it's nothing like Joe Abercrombie where like, from line one, you're like, I know whose head we're in without you telling me. Obviously, it's not that. But they are very different perspectives with very pretty unique personalities that I find interesting. So, yeah, I'm liking it again more than I expected to. I'm foreseeing like, probably four stars, like unless it gets really bad or if it blows my mind to the end, it might even pull out five. Who knows? We'll see. It's already four o'clock so I don't know if I'll be able to finish today. But I'll definitely read a lot more and then hopefully finish tomorrow, I guess. Yeah, so I'll talk to you later. So it is now two days later. Michael got significantly worse Thursday night. So I couldn't read and then it was even worse all of Friday. So I even canceled the live, well postponed the live that I was supposed to do Friday night. I'm doing it now. Hence the makeup. I feel so much better today. Like, I was worried that postponing it only one day. Yeah, yesterday when last night, I still felt awful. I was like, I pushed it back one day but maybe I should have pushed it back more. But I feel so much better today. Just kind of like exhausted like a a wrung out dish towel. But I feel pretty good. Yes, guys. Um, anyway, I just thought I'd check in let you know. I mean, I physically could not read anything. So I just listened to audio books. Hey, what are you doing guys? Were you my nurse maid? Did you help me when I was sick? No, you didn't. Ow. So rude. Kaza dutifully sniffed all of my tea, stole all of my tissues and tried to drink all my water. She was such an excellent nurse maid. Yeah, so that's just my quick update. Um, I've just been chilling today. You know, still recovering. Didn't want to, you know, decide to dive into things too quickly only to relapse because tomorrow I have to go to brunch and have another live. So thank God I'm feeling better. So anyway, live tonight about Hob and maybe I can squeeze in some reading of Atlas 6 again tomorrow morning before the brunch or tomorrow night after the live. Um, so no, no real progress to report. I did read up it after checking in last time, but not too far. So I still have about half the book to go and yeah. Um, that's, that's all I'm saying. So catch you later. Good morning and happy Saturday. Um, I, I'm trying. I'm going to try to read a little bit of Atlas 6 now before brunch. Um, I have like maybe an hour. Probably not quite an hour. No, I have an hour. I have an hour. So I'm going to read it for an hour, but a quick reading updates. Um, I did, I mean, I did, I don't know, what did I have to do with yesterday? I just thought I wasn't dying anymore. Um, I did binge a lot of audiobooks while I was sick. Um, so I finished, I started, I don't know if I mentioned this at all. I don't think I did. Okay. So I say Patrick's Day. Um, I had my audio book that I was about to start, which like, I actually thought that day and I was like, I'll update them about this and then I was dying. Um, so I didn't get to eat, you know, bangers and mash and have Irish coffee and all that, but I was listening to beautiful world. Where are you? Next one by Sally Rooney. Um, and she's Irish and they are Irish in the book and the narrator is Irish. So that was, I didn't really think about it. I just been wanting to read that for a while. My hold came in. So I was like, yeah, I'll do that. And I was like, actually, this is perfect timing. Irish. Um, and I loved it. I gave it five stars. Um, Sally Rooney is very much not for everybody I gather. I loved normal people. I think that was a favorite of the year. No, that's my water. Hi guys, guys. You made a real demon this morning. But you got to say, okay, good talk. Yeah. So I love normal people and I loved beautiful world. Where are you? Five stars. I, it would bother me the no quotation marks thing, but I did both on audio. I started normal people physically and I was like, no quotation marks. I cannot with that. So I did it on audio. And then I didn't even think about it for, for beautiful world. Where are you? I was like, obviously I'm going to do it on audio again for the same reason and the narrator was really good. So I would recommend it. However, apparently a lot of people don't drive with Sally Rooney. So I personally do. So I would recommend it. Um, trigger warnings for like all of the things. Um, her books aren't liked. Um, then I also binge read or binge listened to A Good Marriage, which is the book of the month, the club book that I got ages ago. I'll just get these books. I'm being lazy, but I'll get them and show you. I stack all the books as I read them in a month. So that when it's time to do the wrap up, my stack is already ready to go. Beautiful world. Where are you? Loved it. Five out of five stars would recommend. Um, and I have one more. I have another Sally Rooney book that I haven't read yet. It's her earliest one because I think she wrote it before. Normal people mess. Conversations with people or something like that. Um, hi Kez. So anyway, I loved it. Then I listened to A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCrate. And I got this from Book of the Month, obviously. Um, a while ago. Um, because I have not all, but like I've tried to move my unread books to my bedroom so they can haunt me. So I was laying in bed unable to function. Kez, can we not? What are you doing? Kez. Hey. Kez. Stop it. Hey. Stop it. Being naughty. Wanna get three? No, that's what I thought. I saw y'all. I was laying in bed unable to function. Then I had like all my unread books and I have a whole shelf. It's like just Book of the Month Club books. And I was like, all right, which of those is available on from the library? So that's kind of what I was doing. Um, so anyway, I actually really liked it. Um, I gave it four stars. I don't read a ton of like mystery thrillers. So I'm not an expert. But for me, who doesn't really know the like maybe it's like super predictable for people who've read a lot of thrillers. It kept my interest. I was also dying. So there's that. It's not like I was high functioning when I was listening to it. But it kept me distracted and interested the entire time. I didn't super love the ending. Like I didn't hate it. But I was like, oh, okay. Um, anyway, so yeah, it's like a four stars, not five. But I would, I would recommend it. Then, um, I finally listened to Ray Bear, which I've been looking forward to forever. And I have the super cool, very loot edition of it. Cause I was convinced that I would at least like it. And I did not like it. I thought it was terrible. So I do not recommend that. Um, I ate that and I was talking to my friend. Hey cats. I was trying to find a way to describe it. And I was like, so it's, it feels to me like cats. What the fuck? It feels like if you went to like a buffet for, um, themes, magics, tropes, identities, magic systems, whatever. And like you were starving and crammed everything onto the plate, but then served that plate as like, an intentionally paired entree. Cat! Oh my God! Okay. What I'm trying to say is it was like overcrowded with like everything. Like the author had all of these ideas for magic, for world building, for, um, the politics, for them, for everything, for identities, for, um, like, themes and points she wanted to try to make kind of allegorically. Just like everything. And I was like, individually, a lot of these things could be cool, but they are all just too crowded in with other things that like, everything is like, it felt like a drag to even though it was just like bursting all the time, but that's because like, we didn't have time to actually engage with anything. Everything was info dumped and rushed through. So then because you don't care about what's happening, or at least I didn't, then it feels slow because I'm waiting to care, but it's actually not slow. It keeps like speeding through things. Um, and there's so many baffling choices like, there is like a mystery to do with like erasure of memory, but like the book opens where you see that past already, and then you see the moment when the memory gets erased. So you already know the past, and then like you watch this character not know their past for a bit, and then they get their memories back. And it's like, why wouldn't you open it with them not having the memory? So we would also wonder like, what was the point of that? It just felt all over the place. And again, like when you have like an entree from a restaurant, you know, like there's a lot of tasty things out there, but you can't put them all in one plate. You pick like your, the main key like the centerpiece of the entree, and then pick out some flavors that you think will like help to like balance it or pair well with it or enhance it to go with it. You don't just put everything you think tastes good on one plate. I mean, unless you're at a buffet. But anyway, so that's how I felt about it. And I do not intend to read the second one and that too. I mean, honestly, the way that this one ends, it feels like the happy ending just has a wrench thrown in it for the sake of having an excuse to have a sequel. And I was just like, absolutely not. I do not care. What are you doing guys? What are you doing? My God, you're so cute though. Nothing made you cute. Can you chill now? You ready to chill? Yeah, take a nap. Okay, two more to go. Got through a lot. Then I listened to a lady's guide to etiquette and murder. Actually put this on my wish list. I mean, Amazon wish list pretty recently. And then when my patients sent it to me saying, you know, this looks like some light, fluffy one for recovering from being sick. And then I got the audio book from the library. He was available because I was like, yeah, it does sound like light, fluffy, fun, but I cannot be going to physical book right now. And I thought I could have a three star. At first I thought I liked it more, but it kind of like kind of lost me a little bit. It wasn't terrible, but like the mystery was I don't know, I fizzled a bit in my opinion. And then I didn't like the ending like the answer to it. I was like, I don't like that. So I didn't hate it. I thought it was pretty good. And I would read some other book. I think the third book in the series, because they're all the ladies guided something and something. And they're all like mysteries. And the third one, I think once some awards. So I mean, I would read it's like it's light. I read it. I listened to it all in one day. You know, it's short. So it's not like amazing, but it was fun. I might read or like casually listen to some more even when I feel like it. The last is my sister, The Serial Killer by Oyan Kan Braith White. And I really liked this. I get four stars. It is a very unusual book and it's it's very, very short. So I listened to this quite quickly as well. I've had this for a while. I had like seen it and wanted to read it immediately. And then of course, I didn't read it immediately even when I buy books with the intention of reading them immediately unless it's an obligation book. It's not a thriller in the traditional sense because you're not like trying to figure out who the killer is. You know who the killer is. There isn't really a mystery. It's just her sister, the main character's sister is a serial killer. Like it's literally the title of the book. So it's just kind of like, I don't know, delving into what that would be like to be complicit and an enabler of a serial killer and how it's quite complicated in their family dynamics. And it makes some interesting points about appearance and sexism and the way people perceive you often dictates their perception is like more important than truth when it comes to like how people view you or the judgments that they make. So anyway, I would recommend it. Didn't give it a full five because I was like, I can't, there's no specific reason like I hate the ending or something. I just like I like I quite like this but like not five stars anyway. So yeah, that's this is what I got up to while I was sick. So now I still have I have like 45 minutes to read Atlas 6 and then I don't want to be at brunch for a long time but not really up to me because my parents are picking me up. So I can only leave when they leave. I told them I have to be back in time for my life but we'll see the idea of coming back even sooner than that. So I have time to read and do my life not holding my breath. So anyway, I'm going to read now and maybe when I get back and maybe after the live depending on how late that goes. Otherwise, I'll probably be finishing this on Monday. I thought I would finish this. I started with this on Wednesday the day I got sick. No Tuesday and then I got sick on Wednesday. So I mean I for sure thought I'd be done by Friday. Things did not go according to plan. So here we go. I am excited to finish this book. I've been really wanting to finish it but I was like I cannot unless I have it on audio because I can't I need to be laying down and I cannot like hold a book and read. So I'm excited to be able to read again. I feel so much better. Like I feel like I've looked and sounded so healthy during the live with Mara last night that I feel like people think I'm lying that I wasn't really sick because they're like you don't seem like you've been sick for three days because I don't even feel like I've been sick for three days. I mean a little bit. I feel kind of like tired and dehydrated but I mean the difference between Friday and Saturday like if my boss thought that I was faking because like I said I was sick Friday and then saw me Saturday I was like there's no way you were. I wouldn't blame him because I seemed so fine and I feel so much better. Like it's staggering how quick the turnaround on that was. So I mean yay. I don't want to still be sick but yeah. I mean I know I acknowledge that I do not look and sound like I've been sick for three days. So anyway, reading. Yes. That's what's happening. Cool. Talk to you later. So this vlog just in every conceivable way has not gone according to plan. Okay. So it is like a I don't know when I last checked in but it's like a week later. My it just be getting sick made everything get pushed. Did I already explain this? I don't know but like I originally thought okay like I don't have to start some other books yet because I have like a weekend and a week to do those things. So back when I started this vlog I was like I'll finish this book in this vlog in a couple days and then by the weekend I can in that weekend I'd be able to read a bunch of books that I had a coming lives for and all that just got like push and push and push and so then I just had to like pause this so that I could read the books for the lives that were now imminent. And now finally, finally today I have a bit of time. So I have a live this morning. I didn't have to read a book for this one. Thank goodness. And after after I'm done with that live I was originally going to have another live today that got moved to tomorrow. So I have the rest of the evening to read and vlog for you because tomorrow which is Sunday my mom is coming over so we can binge watch Bridgerton and this has become urgent because Beth me also do a podcast episode about Bridgerton and she got to do it like like record it pretty soon. So I have to see all of Bridgerton immediately and my mom and I watch it together. So I bought like I have always wanted one of these so I got like a tiered dessert tray and I'm going to make scones and we're just going to like have a little girly binge party. I don't I all try maybe I'll record some of like the final dessert display. I don't think my mom wants to be in a vlog but we'll see I get some footage of that but my hope is to finish both the book and for the most part the blog today and then you know maybe tack on some Bridgerton extravaganza footage maybe I don't know we'll see because I have to do another blog for my patrons like immediately I'm so blind anyway just letting you know the situation and how just none of this vlog went according to I thought it would be like a couple days of like vaguely dark academia reading a hyped book and that's the whole log but instead I did a bit of that and then got sick and then read a whole bunch of other books that I told you about and then just couldn't do anything and now I'm going to like throw Bridgerton into this like I don't know what the fuck this blog is anymore but we've gone too far so I'm going to wrap it up and I don't know what I'm going to call this video when it's all done but okay great yes I must to the live this morning and then I'll circle back for some reading that's what this blog is for I finished the Atlas 6 it is about 10 o'clock and I had half a book to go today don't do that again please and I really liked it I did not love it but I really really liked it I think I'm going to give it four stars because I do think the pacing was at times the pacing was brilliant and at other times the pacing was like really dragging overall though I mean four stars still quite high it just like wasn't like quite there for it to be five but the concept is really cool and then I kept doing much more clever things I think I said this it's been so long since I started this journey I think I said this in the beginning that it was like doing a lot more clever things than I expected then I went into it thinking that would be likely to find in this book I had pretty low expectations honestly I thought it was possible that I would find it to be amusing but I had pretty low expectations for it being interesting or clever and it is actually quite interesting and quite clever both in terms of like the world and like concepts that it's introducing as well as the way in which it goes about revealing slowly those concepts to you and revealing the mystery of everything that's going on slowly the slow unraveling of the mystery and the way that different the it's not nested storytelling necessarily but it's kind of almost like nested storytelling so it's quite clever in the narrative structure as well there were again like with the pacing there was also like passage of time was like really difficult to gauge sometimes where there'd be no because we have all these perspectives right and we jump around but so we'd be in one perspective and like some thing happens you know between them and then we go to the next perspective and there's like no way to know how much time has passed until you know somewhere halfway through that perspective this person thinks to themselves about how man and they hadn't even talked to that person whose perspective you were in previously since that thing happened between them a month ago and you're like oh okay so a month has passed I guess since that thing happened I read in the last chapter but it would just be like there wasn't even like a montage here's what we've been up to for the last however long it would just be these gaps it would be just jumping so we would have this chapter where like there's like significant interaction occurs between person A and person B that was in person A's perspective and then we go to person B's perspective and you're like when are we and person B is like man and I haven't even talked to person A since A and I had that intense interaction and you'd be like okay but it's like what happened since then what have y'all been doing so it was just like stuff like that where yeah it would just be like the weird gaps in time and like you don't have to show me everything that's happening every day but usually there's still I don't know I feel like books usually have like it's clear why time has skipped or what has happened during that time skip or whatever I don't know it was something that I was like I'd feel like whiplash sometimes about stuff like that overall it's really interesting and actually I was thinking this when I was reading it that it's too magical for me to really think of it as like great dark academia but it is more dark academia than like a fantasy story so it is kind of this like sweet spot between the genres like you put it on lists for both and also what I was thinking was that the vibe of this book and the way that this all goes down and the mystery and the magic of it all and the secret society of it all is actually a lot more what I would have expected 9th house by Lee Bardugo to be I think by the time I picked up 9th house I'd heard enough about what it was going to be that I no longer had those expectations but like originally when I heard Lee Bardugo was going to be writing a dark academia slash like a fantasy dark academia that's based on her experience at Yale and the secret societies of Yale what Atlas 6 actually is is much more what I would originally have imagined and expected 9th house to be so got there in the end it's obviously not taking place in Yale and it's obviously not really for you but this is the kind of story that I would have expected I is definitely not what this is I don't want to listen I'm not saying this is a good read-alike for 9th house because it's not it's a good read-alike for what I originally thought 9th house would be anyway yeah I liked it and I would recommend it and I was actually thinking that I might recommend this to my dad which I also would not have expected just going into this book that I would be like I'm gonna make my dad read this but I think you would really like it which surprises me as well anyway I need to get some sleep so that I can wake up early and make scones and things for my mother yeah so that's that I might get some footage of that not sure but in case I don't thanks for watching and I'll hopefully see you in another future vlog that is less chaotic than this was so good night