 So I want to be doing a lot more re-reading in 2020. Oh my gosh, 2020. I just realised. How many people are scared? Me too. I was really really scared. Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel and as you can tell, our location has changed. I am back home from university so I'm gonna be back here for about a month but I'll probably film quite a lot of videos in that time so it might be a bit longer for you than a month that I'm home. But we shall see. Anyway, today! We are gonna be filming my 1K Q&A. I'm so incredibly excited to do this. I really can't thank you enough for helping me hit 1K. It's something which I never dreamt would happen let alone so fast and I just really can't believe that. I just feel so lucky. I really can't put it into words. Oh, the light has gone. Okay. Oh, it's coming back. Come on. I'm filming with a lightbox today. I do have lightboxes here back home so yeah, I'm gonna be filming with this hopefully for a while and hopefully it makes the quality a little bit better. Anyway, I just don't have the words. I really never thought this would happen and I'm not very good. I feel all like, I feel like all on edge. I feel like under the spotlight. And I can't explain to you how thankful I am and how I just don't really know what has happened to me. But yeah, thank you for every, even if you've only watched one video, if you've watched all of them, if you've, you know, I always say however much you've supported this channel, I am so, so thank you for. So yeah, if you want to give me a little bit of a present for hitting 1K, hit the bell. I'm not gonna say that often. I don't really like saying it, but it does help me out a lot if you hit the bell. So is it that side? So I got a lot of questions. Thank you so much if you did send a question in. I've separated it into bookish questions and then more personal questions. So we're gonna do all the bookish questions first and then just kind of more general personal ones. I'll put a timestamp, but for some reason you only want to watch the personal ones, but I don't know why that would be. So anyway, the first question is what is one book you read because of Booktube or Bookstagram? Now there's quite a lot of books I'd say that I've read because of Booktube, but not necessarily because of like a universal hype, more because of like one person's recommendation. So like Dead Mountain, I read because of Lala. This is all just gonna be Lala's recommendation. The Diviners because of Cat. I guess maybe Ninth House because everyone was hyping it up. Like In the Lead Up might be one. Girls of Paper and Fire because of Lala. Turn of the Key because of Lala. I should really hold these up. Oh definitely The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one that I read because of Booktube. Like everyone was talking about it and I just had to know what everyone was talking about. So probably that one is I guess the one I've read that Booktube as a whole was hyping up. Have your reading habits changed since starting a Booktube channel? Yes. It's more difficult definitely to find the time to read. You have so much less time because you're filming and editing and planning videos and that takes up so so much time. No one really like knows. I don't think as a viewer I never knew just how much time it takes up, but it takes up a lot. So yeah I definitely have less time to read but I'm still, you feel a little more pressure to read because you've got to read for videos. And I guess I'm reading a lot more for videos not necessarily picking up the book I want to read most sometimes. And then I've read a lot less non-fiction since starting my channel because I guess I just feel like it's not something a lot of people are interested in on Booktube. And if you want me to talk about it more I guess I will but like let me know. I don't read it as much at the moment because I feel like no one's going to be caring about it and reading it also. What do you think about reading books from controversial authors? I think if an author has done something in their personal life that I don't agree with it's going to be very unlikely that I personally read their book. If they've done something that I really, and this is, I mean I don't, by controversial maybe not all controversial authors have done something that's terrible but if I find out they have I just kind of like, I don't want to give them my coin or if they're saying super problematic things in their personal life as their opinion because I think there's a difference between writing problematic books and saying something as your direct opinion, you know? Because it can be difficult in books to figure out whether it's like a personal opinion of the author or a character's opinion, like how do you tear that up up? But yeah, I don't want to support them with my coin. That's just a personal decision though. I think everyone should be able with all the information that is out there to make their own decision on what they do want to read and what they don't want to read, so... What are your plans for your channel going forward into the future? Okay. I have a lot of videos planned that I'm super excited about especially ones that I'm able to film when I'm back here. Other than that. No. I'm really excited. I feel like... I don't know why I'm joking about this. I have a lot of plans for my channel, but also I felt like... I mean, I started my channel right before my uni semester started and so I felt like for a long time I was kind of trading water just trying to get out of the content I wanted to get out and not having time to sit and breathe and I'm hoping I've got a lot of stuff due mid-January and after that for the rest of January I'm kind of free and the plan is to just really figure out what I... like the core where I want my channel to go and like as stupid as it sounds I think the design of channels is really important and I haven't been able to think about that as much. I mean, no one cared about this. But yeah, I guess I want to... I have a lot of plans which I'm not going to tell you now. A lot of really fun reading like secret TBRs I'm doing. I'm so hyped for and... Yeah, I'm really excited for all the content I'm going to be bringing away. So... Ring the bell! Do you plan your videos or film whatever you're filming at the moment? It really depends on the video. So some videos you do have to plan. Like if you're doing a recommendations video so like my RuPaul's Drag Race video or my Bon Appetit video where I recommend you books based off of those people or whatever I have to plan that because I have to figure out what books fit best people best and I have to figure out what links I'm going to make when I'm talking about them so I have to plan that and have like not a script but like just some bullet points I know I want to fit in. But in the majority of my videos I say I don't plan them I've experimented with it because I think it's important if you are a creator yourself to just figure out what works best for you because for some people having a kind of bullet point script for all of their videos will really really help and you know it'll make them... it'll make it easier for them to like get all their thoughts across but for some people it really stunts their personality and for me I find like I need to sometimes just be off the cuff a little bit but I'd say for my vlogs when I do reading vlogs I... well sometimes when I'm reading the book because I don't want to be checking in all the time right I want to say to myself I'm going to check in at this page I will write on my phone just little things I want to make sure I say because otherwise I'll forget it when I get like further in the book so in terms of planning that's basically all I do and I don't think I really like... I mean obviously this isn't scripted I've just turned up so yeah it's a bit of both but I think for me non scripting works best do you reread your favourite books? now I want to reread my favourite books much more so obviously many of you know I read a lot when I was younger and then I had a couple years where I stopped reading and for me like I feel I don't know how to compare the books I read before the break and the books I read after the break so I feel like I need to reread a few of my favourite books that I read before so like the kite runner and the book feed that the two had come to mind I loved them when I was younger but I don't know how I feel about them in comparison I guess to some of my favourites of this year for example so I want to be doing a lot more rereading in 2020 oh my gosh 2020 I just realised how many people are scared? me too I was really really scared the first book you remember reading I remember in primary school we have reception which is when you're 4 or 5 you had to like read up levels which is kind of stupid like you should just let kids read whatever they want to read you had to start at level and only gain access to other books as you work up but there was this series that we all read and it had different levels and it was like a dog and I can't remember if I can remember what the series was called I'll put like a picture up somewhere yeah that's the first book I remember reading series of books and it was just really short kids book any genre you'd like to get into more I'd like to get into horror more I haven't really read any horror I'd like to read more like dark shit you know like I don't know just stuff that will freak me out a little bit I want to be freaked out a bit who are your booktube inspirations okay I say most people probably know books with Lala, Kayla is like probably one of my biggest inspirations I just love the content she's making and it's the kind of content I want to watch so it's the kind of content I want to make I think other than that my inspirations are probably Riley who I love everyone knows I love Riley Chandler as well Cat from Paperback Dreams and Ariel Bissette they're probably all the YouTubers I want booktubers I watch the most and so they're definitely who I look up to the most and who have inspired me to start my channel so I've just exposed myself but yeah they're probably the people whose content I aspire to emulate what okay okay what is the first poetry book you remember loving it was Charlie Cox it was she must be mad by chat she must be mad by Charlie Cox yeah who I met in another vlog that's probably why she's asking this I haven't read a whole lot of poetry than her but I do definitely want to but yeah she's the first poet I ever read oh wait no no no first poetry book you remember loving oh I'm lying I'm lying I'm lying to you it wasn't it was this it was Egghead by Bo Burnham if you don't know as a comedian so these are all like funny poems like joke poems but like clever I can't remember which one of my favourites but it's great it's amazing so if you want like funny poetry or like a family member you think a family member would like funny poetry this is a great book I've never been able to recommend it like I've never been figured out a way to slide it in oh my god it's so funny if you haven't watched any of his comedy specials that he's got like his routines ones on YouTube, ones on Netflix, his newer ones but I think he's quit for a while have anyone seen the advert for that movie with the revenge one what's it called where's the violin where's the the the the violin cover of toxic it's like revenge a revenge story he's like the friend she meets from her school in the film so that's what I want to see it because I love Bo Burnham I adore him so that's actually the first poetry book I remember loving oh my god I almost completely forgot about that okay has it gotten really dark in here apologies if it has should I go get another light the light out there is going so I might go get us another light and we'll just see what we think about it if anyone remembers my cats from my other videos look how big my kitten is now come say hi what the hell is going on Megan you probably can't tell how big he is because his head is still tiny he doesn't want to be held right now what would your Scythe name be okay so I think I would go with like a famous author a mixed name a famous female author from like the 18 whatever like Jane Austen time like Scythe Austin or like I love George Elliot because obviously it's like you could not get a more masculine name but she was a woman and it wasn't her real name but like her I just feel like I'm so bullsy for your fake name to be George Elliot do you know what I mean so maybe Scythe Elliot after her what is one book that you don't think gets as much love as it deserves okay I will always say I will always say The Bear and the Nightingale series I'll always say that because some people do talk about it but I don't think enough people talk about it and I think it's like the best the absolute best I just think that series is so magical so wonderful so like oh it's just perfect it's just perfect so yeah I would go for that I would have to say I'd go for that it has your opinion of you or booktube changed since you started making videos not really and a lot of people will say I came on to booktube or I came on to book twitter and then I realized what the truth was and I'm like well I don't feel like it's changed I don't feel like my opinion has really changed to be honest with you I still feel the same way so yeah that's probably a bit of a boring answer but I really I don't feel like my opinion has really changed that drastically okay so now we're going to get on to the more personal general questions so let's start favourite movie you're about to judge me you're about to judge me my favourite movie is probably Connor starring Nicholas Cage John Kusek John Malkovich so maybe you don't know what Connor is it's basically a movie where a lot of prisoners are on a plane and they take over the plane and Nicholas Cage is a prisoner but he was being transported he'd been released from prison and he was being transported home it's just like a bad 90s film but I just love it okay so these are from Riley so she said who are your top 3 Bon Appetite chefs and I would probably say I think Claire and then do you say Brad or do you say someone like Gabby because I really like Gabby if you haven't watched my Bon Appetite chef's books video I will link that that's why she's asking me these questions because she knows I love it and follow up which challenge would you rather do Claire's Goimax or Chris's reverse engineering I think I have a better chance of the reverse engineering just because like baking is really sciencey I just feel like I've got more of a shot with reverse engineering because it's kind of general cooking and I feel like I have some general cooking skills but baking I only really bake like I have very specific things I do well but I don't know the general science of it so I feel like in something like that I'd do worse what's your favourite Pokémon Drifloon Drifloon is my favourite Pokémon without a shadow of doubt I actually made the Christmas Fears back I made my boyfriend a Drifloon plush I meant to take like a video of it before we left Leeds but it's up in Leeds I don't know if we've got a picture of it anywhere Drifloon is a really special Pokémon to us because it was one that was in my team when we did our first ever full play through of our first like he's played all the Pokémon games he was playing with them again with me and so yeah I just love it it's just my favourite Pokémon dogs or cats cats I'm just so happy to be back home with my cats I course I miss my family what would your ideal day look like when you have no responsibilities I guess get up I'd like to get up like a good time because sometimes if I sleep in really late I feel like I've lost the whole day I'd like to do some yoga I'd like just to spend time with my family and read a bit I guess that would be it have a roast or have a really great dinner as well but yeah just if I had no responsibilities I think just spend time with my family maybe go out somewhere if I had no responsibilities I would just want to chill with everyone I think when did you first get into yoga when I was like 14 15 I went on a big self-improvement like I don't know if anyone watches these people but like Lavendaire, Ruina, Sai all the people I watched and where it's like how to improve your life I fell in love with yoga as part of that and I think Adrienne who I'd always do yoga with Adrienne videos she is just like the most what's the word I'm looking for genuine person she's so incredibly genuine and she's just so calming and her yoga I feel like is super accessible to all people and yoga in my view and I guess in her view as well isn't just something like these strict poses that you've got like crown of the body into like breathing in a certain way as yoga to me or like doing some kind of stretching when you're at uni or work or something just to calm your body is yoga like she's made me see how yoga I guess transfers into all these different parts of our lives so yeah probably when I was about 14 like I read books like oh my god Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Creative Living Beyond Fear maybe I should read this again who knows it's a god massive font we got going on here boys Elizabeth Gilbert said blur it up but yeah all that kind of like I don't know I don't really read stuff like that anymore but yeah I went through a phase let's just say that and I had loads of inspirational quotes up on my wall yeah what are some other hobbies you enjoy besides reading so I guess yoga would be one meditation I love playing Nancy Drew games like old Nancy Drew games hit me up in the comments if you played Nancy Drew because the best game so my favourite game was I'm trying to make Tom replay them now we've replayed two fully and another one most of the way through so I'm hoping we can get we haven't done in a while so I need to up the pace I like playing Pokemon and yeah I don't have loads of hobbies I like going on walks do you plan on visiting Australia one day that's from the Coal I would love to visit Australia one day actually Australia would be someone I'd love to travel to like one of the top places I'd love to travel to yeah I'd love to see what it's like I remember being I used to be so jealous of all the kids who got to go to Australia for holidays and they'd come back and say yeah I went Australia you'd be sitting there you know what do you study at uni I study journalism so my degree is kind of like it used to be called broadcast journalism my degree but I study like TV, radio and online and that's essentially mostly what I study but my course is kind of like a mix of practical and theory I'd say it's half practical, half theory which I really like the mix because I've been creative by also like being stretched academically do you do any sports I love going to the gym but I only really go to classes at the gym so I go to like Zumba body combat which is like punching body jam which is another dance one body pump which is weights like I only really go to classes but I really like going to the gym but in terms of like individual sports not really, I've always wanted to get into rowing I feel like it'd be something I'd be good at I loved kayaking when I was on holiday where Tom's family was I think I've spoken about it before kayaking even the right word, I think it is it's not what we did I would never get a set up to film like I'm like I doubt myself current favourite songs I don't listen to music as much as I used to anymore I love AJR love them love Mariana's Trench I used to love Walk the Moon Walk the Moon used to be my favourite band ever but after they're talking as hard album I felt like they didn't love making music anymore do you know, do you ever feel like a band you loved when they get super famous something that love for music has gone a bit anyone, just me but yeah, I listen to music as much as I used to I listen to it all the time I know I definitely don't listen to it as much what's one thing you know you have to achieve in your lifetime God I don't know I just don't think this is like great for me I don't want to do it I want to go home, like I can't take the pressure of it I don't want to think any job interview have to I definitely want to have a family so I really want to have kids one day and I want to have kids quite young I'm definitely the kind of person I don't know if you can tell quite a bit of like a homebody and just wants to like settle down quite early what's your dream job I'd love to work in documentary journalism so like telling stories of disadvantaged communities of people whose voices aren't being heard enough I'd love to tell their stories so that's what I'd really really love to do if I could have any dream job in the world anything you're looking forward to in the next month Christmas I love Christmas in case you didn't know but it's because we're not staying here for Christmas I love New Year's I'm like always the person who's most excited for a new year because I love that clean slate of setting goals for yourself like January is always I don't know I just love it like I just yeah I really love New Year's so I'm excited for that clean slate that beginning yeah excited last question what do you wish in 2020 or in the near future for yourself so I guess this is a good ending I want to work really hard on my booktube channel it's something that has brought me so much joy I haven't really spoken about this much but I have always experienced seasonal affective disorder or seasonal depression or whatever you want to call it and for me this winter so far TouchWord has just been incredible for my mental health it's been like the best it's been for years and years and I think I have booktubes thank a lot for that not only the community but also just something to keep me busy keep me motivated keep me excited and I think yeah it's just been so so important so I really want to put a lot into this I want to keep up my health I want to keep up in both mental and physical I want to read a lot I'm starting to think about what my reading goal will be next year and I think I'm going to aim high which I'll see but um yeah no I just want to really just continue growing as a person continue nurturing my relationships and continue learning the skills that are really important to me it's a bit of a boring answer if we're like girl we wanted some tea but you ain't got any so yeah I just think just to keep doing well and getting better and improving that's always what I want to do I'm that kind of person who's like I have like when I feel like I'm improving and growing as a person so yeah it's probably a bit of a boring answer but that is my answer so I don't know I was like this is going to be something presiding end question and it was kind of like ah well okay anyway thank you so so much again for watching this video I think it's been quite long and supporting me as always I just I just really can't believe all the support I get on here so I feel so incredibly lucky and oh I just can't thank you enough I really cannot thank you enough I feel like the luckiest person in the world so thank you so much I will see you very soon with another video make sure you let me know down below if there's any videos that you would like to see from me if there's any kind of content that you want to see me make more of or that you feel like I could do kind of well I don't know but yeah until then I hope you have a great time I hope Christmas is going great for you like the lead up to Christmas you know what I mean anyway I need to stop talking I love you all so so much I really cannot communicate how much I love you and how lucky I feel and I'll see you soon with another video bye