 So you might remember that every year in December I do a video reading the nominations for the Goodreads Mystery Thriller category in the Goodreads Choice Award. I love doing that video so much that I wanted to do it again, but I can't do it again so I want to do something similar and there's a certain challenge I've always seen people doing. Some of my patrons do it, some YouTubers do it and I've always wanted to do it and so today I'm reading all the winners of all the Goodreads Choice Awards categories that I have not yet read because chances are I've read some of them. So we're gonna be going through finding out what the winners are and then reading them all and seeing whether they deserve to be winners because this is not just the nominations for a category. This is what Goodreads is calling the best of the best. We'll see about that. The winners when they find out I didn't like their book. You spend all that time thinking you've won. It turns out you've got nothing. We all know Goodreads Choice Awards is just a popularity contest so I thought it'd be interesting to go through the winners and see why I think they won, do I think they were worthy of being winners and what I think of the book. So that's what we're going to be doing in this video basically. So without further ado I will hand you back to past Megan on the day the Goodreads winners were announced finding out what we're going to be reading in this vlog. So you'll have already known what the winners were a long time ago but this is me finding out what I'm going to be reading for the first time. You'll have found out like a month ago at the very least. Now I'm hoping I'll have already read quite a lot of these. I think I will have when I was going through like looking at the cartoons. I don't think I've read any of the non-fiction ones so I'm going to be reading a lot of non-fiction. But for the most part I think I've read quite a bit of the fiction. So let's go see through what one I was just reacting to because if you watch the vlog what I'm still very angry. I'm still very angry but I've read it. It doesn't say that I've read it yet because I haven't updated my Goodreads because my video when I'm filming this my video isn't out yet. It was so bad. I don't even want to think about it any longer because I have no idea how that one. Okay let's go have a look at what one fiction. I think Yellowface is gonna have one. Yellowface one. Oh with a lot more votes in second place. Interesting. Oh I think I thought Mame would have a better chance of being high up. Okay well we've read Yellowface. We don't have to read that. Historical fiction. What did I think was going to read historical fiction? Wayward was the only one I'd read and I thought I had a chance. There was another one. I can't remember what it was. Let's see what it was. Oh Wayward won. Didn't like it. Wow I can't believe I won. Oh yeah the Covenant of Water was the other one that I thought I went because it had a very high average rating. Didn't like Wayward. Wow gave that two stars. Wow. Okay Mystery Thread I've read. So we've read all the first three. That's pretty good. Romance Emily Henry is gonna have one right? But by how much? And it Allie Hayes would come second. Allie Hayes would do come second and Emily Henry won. But oh and Abby Jimenez came back. I'm good. I really enjoy Abby Jimenez now. Abby Jimenez is one of my romance girlies now. Okay we're reading our first ever Emily Henry everyone. That's that's quite the statement. I've never read any Emily Henry ever. So I'm excited to see what I think of Emily Henry. I'm very excited having never read anything from Emily Henry. Everyone always tells me I'm gonna have Emily Henry. So maybe Emily Henry will become another one of my romance girlies. Romantic Fourth Wing is gonna have one and I've read it. By how much? Jesus Christ. You're like you are kidding me. That is insane. What proportion of the votes they have out of 570,000? It had basically 400,000 votes. Wow. Oh my god well I've read it. Thank god two stars. I didn't like Fourth Wing. We know this. We only talk about it again. Fantasy. Will I have read the fantasy? I thought hellbent value buddha go was gonna win or trust the emerald sea by brandon sanderson was gonna win which I've read both of them. Let's see what one. Oh my god they were I'm a genius. It's almost like I'm a genius guys. It's almost like I'm a genius. How could I predict for like every other category what was gonna win apart from fucking mysteries sorry how did I know everything that was gonna win apart from this user I was like absolutely not. That is not winning. I guess what it won. That's like my job. It's embarrassing. Right I've read hellbent. I enjoyed hellbent. I get four stars. I'm surprised that one over brandon sanderson. Sci-fi I have no idea what's gonna have won this. Oh my god I've read it. What the fuck guys? I've already got one back on my tbr. In the Liza Puppets. Interesting. Interesting. Well I've read it. I did it. It's my least favorite TJ Klune. So again we don't want to talk about that. This top list ain't the best for me. Hora, Grady Hendrix or Stephen King will have won. Oh my god. I've gotta read Holly. Okay I'm happy with that. I'm happy with reading Holly by Stephen King because I have read the rest in the series. I've read the whole Holly universe. So I'm actually quite excited for this. T. King Fisher was my vote. Um wow I thought that would be tighter between those two but it's not really. I thought Grady Hendrix was probably gonna win but I suppose Stephen King has the name you know. Okay we've got two books on our list. Young adult fantasy and sci-fi. Divine Rivals with one and I've read it. Divine Rivals won by a lot. Wow that wasn't a competition. I've read all these fucking books. What? What is going on? It's almost like I'm good at reading the books that are gonna be hyped for the year. Wow. Wow Megan, not bad. I gave it three stars. Didn't get the hype. I don't think. Oh Five Survive? Ready to end up fiction? No. Wow. Five Survive came third. Ally Hazelwood won. Everyone told me when I was doing that um I was reacting to the nominees and my patrons. Everyone told me Ally Hazelwood was gonna win. I was like no Holly Jackson's gonna win. I reckon that's people who haven't read it and it's people who only read Ally Hazelwood's adult stuff and they're just voting for it. But I'm listen this is good for me because I love Ally Hazelwood. You guys know I always give her like 4.5 or 5. She's my kind of girl but it comes when it comes to uh to romance. I love Ally Hazelwood. Wow that's so interesting. Daily novel I won't have read and I have no idea what would have won this. Oh wayward won it. Fucking hell how did wayward win two categories? Oh disgusting. This book is so boring. I demand a recount. One for Martin. Who for Martin? Would you like another recount? No. Oh my god well that's good for me. Another book I don't have to read. Okay we're gonna have to read the four non-fictions though. I know what the bread memoir. I don't know what will have won um the other ones. Poverty by America. Okay oh Butts was so close though. I'm excited to read this but Butts was my vote because I want to read it. I want to read about the history of Butts but I suppose poverty by America is probably more something I should read to educate myself but I wanted to read about Butts history. I reckon loads of people haven't read that and just voted for it like I did because it's fucking it's a but on the cover. How many? It has 25,000 votes and 5,000 ratings. That is so funny. We all just voted for it because it's a fucking ass. Memoir. Actually I don't know what I think Britney's gonna have won this. It's Britney or Prince Harry. I've read Prince Harry's but I think Britney's gonna have won because we all love Britney. Yeah yeah yeah not even fucking close. Not even fucking close and I'm so excited to read this. I mean I've I've read Spare and I gave it four stars. I found it quite an interesting read. Aspects of it an interesting read. Um but I still voted for Britney because it's fucking it's Britney bitch you know what I mean? This Britney bitch. Okay these two I'm not interested in reading. Whatever wins I'm not interested in reading. History and bug free. I knew you were gonna win. I should have said. I should have told you. I knew the wage was gonna win. It's about a ship. Okay. Profiles of bloody fate, 18th century British warship that generated two groups of survivors each telling a different tale of what really happened. Okay I'm not. It could be worse at the end of the day. Now I think I think strong female characters should have won humor but I don't know if one of the biggest celebrities have got like got their face on the cover just based on recognizability would have won. Let's see. Oh wait strong female character came like sick. Are you kidding me? That's crazy. I'm gonna be honest I don't know who this guy is. Is that bad? I don't know who he is. I hate to say it. I hope I don't sound ridiculous. I don't know who this man is. I mean he could be walking down the street. I wouldn't I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man. What's he been in? And I've got to read his autobiography. How long is it? Who is he? I'm so sorry. I know that what's the fonds in happy days? I know nothing about that. What is that? Well I guess I'm gonna be reading about it. Okay that is all the winners. Wow. For the most part is why I expect it. I just I can't believe I can predict every category other than freaking mystery dinner. So my TV hours for this video are Happy Place by Emily Henry, Holly by Stephen King, check and write by Ally Hazelwood, Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond, The Woman in Me by Britney Spears, The Wager by David Grant and Being Henry by Henry Winkler. I'm excited for some of them. Most of them actually. That's not a terrible list. Okey dokey. I'm gonna go get my hands on those books and I'll see you probably like a month. I'll be doing this vlog after you read any of these books and I'm excited. I'm excited to have read all the best books of the year according to Goodreads but I know it's not true because I disagree with most of the ones that one that I've already read. So see you in a bit. It is now time to start this vlog and I have gotten my hands on all the books, all the winners that I have not read. There's seven of them. That is the seven books that we have got to read. Now looking at it I realize we have got four non-fiction and two romances. So I think I should either start with a romance or a non-fiction to break it up and you know what I'm leaning towards. Okay I've just got a level with you. I need, need, I need to have a five star or even a four star. I need a four star. I need a four star. Please. Please. And so I really want to go for what I think I'm gonna enjoy and so I think I want to start with a romance. I think I need something light hearted and fun and listen Allie Hayes would I always give five stars but I kind of want to save that. I think I want to start with happy place by Emily Henry. I know I'm a little bit nervous about it but I think this is where I want to start and I don't know the plot about this one. Is it about like a second chance romance? Oh yeah it's about a couple who broke up six months ago but their friends don't know and they're going on like this big friend holiday that they always go on and they don't want to tell anyone that they've broken up and you guys have told me for so long to read Emily Henry and I've never read an Emily Henry and I really think I you know as you guys know I have a very small circle of romance authors I trust. Currently it's only really Allie Hayes' word Talia Hibbert and Abby Jimenez are really my only romance girlies and so I feel like we could induct Emily Henry into that hula fame so I think I'm gonna try and read Emily Henry today. I'm actually really excited for this. I think I could love this. I don't know some people tell me this isn't the Emily Henry you should start with so I don't know if I'm necessarily predicting a five star. I believe I will say I do believe in my heart of hearts that Emily Henry has got a five star somewhere for me. I believe there is a five star in Emily Henry's oover. I just don't know which one. So yeah I'm gonna start with happy place and I'm really excited to get into this one. Really really excited. Oh okay I'm gonna go cozy up and I'll check in with you probably about when I'm halfway through. Good morning friends. It's a very dull and dreary morning. Probably looks very dark. Hopefully it's okay. But I have some good news. I am halfway through happy place by Emily Henry and I'm really enjoying it. Now I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. It's not feeling like a five star. It's not feeling like a five star but it's feeling like, hang on let me turn my monitor on. That would get us some additional lighting. It's not feeling like a five star but it's feeling like a very strong four star. Not a tentative four star, like a very strong four star. And I'd say this is really the first book I read this year on like the 31st of January that I have genuinely been excited to pick back up and have really enjoyed the process of reading and just found the process of reading easy. You know what I mean? So we've got these two characters who have been together for eight years. They're engaged and they basically go on this trip every year with their friends at one of their friends like family houses. They initially agree that she'll go and he won't go because they haven't told anyone really. They haven't even told their families that they've been separated. They've been separated for like five months but she turns up and he's there. Oi! He's not meant to be in here. Has he got in here? Get out! Because it turns out two of the friends are getting married and they told him like you have to come because you have to be there for this etc etc. So they are faking still being together for the group whilst grappling with what it's like to be around each other and be acting like this etc. There are a few things we need to talk about. Number one it is kind of your timeline. Now here's the thing it's not two timelines competing for dominance which is when I have an issue. We've got very much like the present timeline is very much the dominant one. We just have flashbacks to the past one and it's like happy place in the past versus real life now. I think I mean you have to have that in this book because you have to have flashbacks to their past relationship and understand the dynamics of when they were together whilst still having the present day moving it forward. It wouldn't work for example if you were like here's us in the past and then midway through the book like the hook gets added you need that hook of them like faking it from the beginning right. So it makes total sense. Something that I think is interesting about this is that it doesn't feel like your typical romance right. Obviously it doesn't because they're kind of not the romances in the past and there's like hints of that they still feel stuff for each other but it's not necessarily the same as like a typical romance in terms of that. What I mean is it's not following the same formulaic plot beats that like every other romance follows. When I read an Allie Hayes' word Italian Hibbet and Abbie Jimenez like they do follow the same structure quite closely. This feels more like kind of literary it just feels like more like fiction do you know what I mean? And I feel like probably Emily Henry's books all feel like that. I feel like she is people enjoy her because it's a different kind of structure and different kind of plot beat to it. I'm really enjoying the writing. I don't know I mean I keep saying I think Emily Henry's got five stuff for me somewhere. I don't know if this is necessarily it but who knows. Like I'm only halfway through and I feel like the beauty of this book is going to be what it builds to and the journey that they go on together and like the ending could go either way. I think I might be finishing this in the car later today around people I don't really know. Is that gonna be good? Maybe I'll cry. Maybe I'll cry. I'm not gonna cry. Maybe I'll cry. So yeah today we are traveling for an event for Tom's work so I'll probably see you later. I don't know if I'll finish this before we go but we shall see. I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I think the audio book is great. We're having a good time so I shall see you once I've finished it. Hello friends. We're in a primary. We've basically gone from North Wales. No from South Wales to North Wales. It was a long day of traveling yesterday and in the car I did manage to finish Happy Place by Emily Henry and I'm giving this a 4.5. Finally! I certainly can't. I certainly cannot believe that we're getting a 4.5. Wow what a moment. I really enjoyed this. The reason it's not a 5 is because I don't think it's particularly my favorite trope combo. I can't speak this morning. It's very early but Emily Henry can write. My god can Emily Henry write. I think this is just a wonderful romance book. It felt so different than other romances ever from before. It's so refreshing to not know how a romance is going to end. Throughout this whole book, I especially because I also haven't read. I'm going to turn this camera a bit. Especially because I haven't read Emily Henry's before. You constantly don't know whether they're going to get back together or not. Either ending I can imagine happening. You're preparing yourself for either ending. Whereas when you read another romance you know okay they're going to end up together at the end. You know what I mean? It's going to happen. I found that very refreshing. I think sometimes the traditional romance structure with the progression of romance or the third act conflict then the way everything ends at the end is a bit tired. Whereas this had a completely different structure and I really do appreciate that. I am so excited to try all other Emily Henry's. I'm really excited. Emily Henry is going to become one of my romance goodies everyone. We knew it was going to happen. I just had to wait till I was ready. I really enjoyed it. The one thing I will say. Does anyone ever listen to an audio book? I'm listening to lots of audio books at the moment. Every physical book has an audio book with it pretty much. I'm in great need of audio books. Does anyone ever listen to romance audio books? And when they're like it's always a female narrator but when they have to do the man's voice like it's hard to do a deep man's voice without making him sound like not the kind of character he is. Like the audiobook narrator he sounds very when she's doing him, this character, the guy in the romance. He sounds very like suave and like almost stuck up but that's not the character's like and that is a little bit off-putting. I don't know. I think it's very hard for a female narrator to do the man in a romance without making him sound like a fucking dingbat. You know what I mean? But yeah, I really enjoyed it. It did cause me anxiety at times. I think maybe that's why it's not five as well because it's like here's this couple have been together eight years and broke up and like me and Tom have been together seven whatever years seven and a bit years and I'm like oh please no. The idea of a couple breaking up after that amount of time is incredibly scary to me. Like I just imagine trying to do that all over again. Jesus Christ absolutely not. So I think that made me feel a bit anxious at times but I really enjoyed it. I really really enjoyed it. I think it is just such a readable, lovely, heart-tugging book. In the car yesterday and last night I did manage to start The Woman and Me by Britney Spears which listen, it's Britney bitch. We love Britney. It's just a movie. It's pretend you're an adult. You shouldn't know that. But I'm only like 50 pages in so I will probably finish this in the car ride home today and I will check in and let you know my thoughts because I have thoughts but I want to, I think with this one I want to finish the book before I talk to you about it. I want to like let my thoughts marinate. So I'll see you in a bit. I'll see you once we're back at the flat this afternoon and finish it with my thoughts on this but I'm very excited to continue. Good morning. I have finished The Woman and Me by Britney Spears. The first thing I have to say is fuck Jamie Spears, fuck Lynn Spears, fuck all of them. Death to all of them. How dare you Mr. Spears. You had me fooled and you too Mrs. Spears. Death to all of them. I have a lot of thoughts about this book. The main, my main feeling coming from this is that I really enjoyed it. I found it very compelling. You know she really goes into detail about a lot of the stuff she went through. Obviously I'd heard a lot about the stuff in this book from like social media. Like everyone was talking about the stuff that happened with Justin. Oh yeah, fuck Justin Timberlake as well. Sorry. Fuck Kevin Federline. Fuck. You know I'd read a lot about what happened in this but I really think like it did make me reflect on particularly my perception. I mean how old was I when all the stuff went down with like her shaving her head. I was like seven, eight. So I did consume all of this through the media. I used to watch, this is really bad, I used to watch E news like every day when I was like eight, nine. So I did consume this story right but when you think about it, when you think about she had two children, they're born, they're born within a year of each other right. So she was pregnant within three months of having given birth and just the hormones and like what that does, like what that can do to you right. If you're not probably, if someone's not in your corner right, you haven't even got anyone in your corner supporting you. It did make me think so differently about the way that it was reported on, the way that you'll think about that time. You know what I mean? Like she was a new mum, completely unsupported, no wonder she did what she did. And also it's very interesting hearing about her reasoning for doing certain things and about why she shaved her head. Like the idea of no longer being something for everyone to commodify and her body being like something everyone else owned, I thought was very compelling. And I thought the tone, because obviously this wasn't written by her, we'll get into that in a second because I think that is interesting. But I think the tone really captured this whole running the themes around the book was particularly about the conservatorship and about how it made her into a child, like being controlled like that, being told what she couldn't do, not being unable to make decisions for herself, made her into a child. And I think there is, you see it in her Instagram captions as well, there is like a naivety about her and the way she thinks and speaks. And that's like not a, that's not a bad thing. What I'm saying is I think that this has really captured her perspective very well. However, I think whenever I read a celebrity book, I am very interested in the ghost writing process. And from the beginning of this book, I felt like we were rushing through it. We were really like, this has a pace to it. You don't spend a lot of time one moment. Like there's a moment, we talk about it for a paragraph, we move on. And it made me want to know about the ghost writing process. And so according to the New York Times, Brittany did a really in depth interview with one ghost writer who wrote the book, but they felt like having her and her team felt like it didn't capture her tone. So then she did another interview. And I think this new ghost writer had all the previous interviews and work and stuff, but she had another interview with this guy. And then I think there's like another editor. So it's like three ghost writers that this book has been through the path of. And I think you can feel that this is from interviews with her. It doesn't go, when a moment happens, it doesn't go into the depth of that moment in how someone would reflect on it if they were writing it. It is more of a conversation. You know, it like if someone was writing that moment, or you know, not celebrities, the, the, the degree to which is a subject of memoir is ghost written versus that subject did have a part in writing it. It's always varied, right? But I did feel like you couldn't get into the meat of some moments because it was through interviews with her. And I was not, I was talking about this on my Patreon last night. I don't necessarily see that as a negative, but I think that that context helps explain elements of the book and why it's like that. So I'm going to give it a four star. I really did enjoy this. My prevailing feeling of it is that I thought this was incredibly, you know, I'm so glad she finally got to tell her story, incredibly brave story to tell. But there were moments, it's very quick, right? The audiobook is five hours long. This isn't a long book. And there were moments where I wished it could have gone into more depth, but I also understand why she couldn't do that, right? Like when she's talking about the conservatorship and the 13 years that she was under that, it's almost like a black hole. Like there's not much, that's 13 years is a long time. And it's really not a massive part of the book. I mean, it is, but like in terms of detail, she's kind of just like, I just coasted through it. I was a robot. So I can understand why a lot of elements of this would be really painful to go into. But yeah, I'm glad I read it. It was very, very interesting. We love Britney. The album's amazing song to song. I can't stress it enough. She could release every song off here and it could be a single. There was all this stuff. Honestly, fuck Justin Timberlake as well. Because he's relaunching. Now that I'm reading this, obviously this came out like, you know, a couple months ago, that he's like released this single and he did that thing on stage last night. It was like, I want to apologize to absolutely fucking no one. Get out of here. Get out of here. What a cringe human being. Okay, next, I think I'm going to read The Wager by David Grant. I'm in the mood for some history. I'm in the mood. This is going to be my first like proper nonfiction of the year because I'm not counting memoirs towards my nonfiction goal this year. My nonfiction is to read 12 nonfiction. But in this video, we're going to read two. We're going to be a sixth of the way there. That's the way to think about it positively. I mean, granted, I don't think I'll read any more in February. So like we'll be on track because we'll be a sixth of the way through the year. That's scary. I'm going to start this. I've heard really good things. And also I didn't realize that this is by the author of Killers of a Flower Moon, which is that film that's just been made, isn't it? That has been nominated for all the Oscars and stuff. Also, this isn't very long either. This stuff of the book, it's all notes and acknowledgments and like references. So the book is only this long. So I'm really excited to give this a go. I like learning about niche things in history. So I'm excited. I'll check them with you probably when I'm about halfway through. Love with you. I gotta be honest with you. I haven't vlogged in like a week. I honestly, I don't know how that's happened. I don't know how that's occurred. I don't know how a week has passed, but it's happened. I am halfway through the wager. You might have seen me. We went on a walk at the weekend. That was so pirate-y. It got me certain. These technically aren't pirates, but it got me so in the mood. We don't want to just walk around the coast of near Swansea where we are. I think like Tom was saying the Welsh government have made it so that you can walk around the entire coast of Wales, which is just incredible. I think that's so amazing. And we went on this walk and it was super like foggy and rainy and misty and the waves were crashing and it was just so atmospheric. It was incredible. It made me feel so like inspired and in awe. You would have thought that would have made me inspired through this book, but it wasn't. Up to today, I've only read like 30 pages. I've read the rest today and gotten into it, but I just didn't want to pick this up for a while, which I don't really know why. Anyways, we are following the story of a shipwreck basically that occurred and we know we learned at the beginning that two different groups of men, one landed in Brazil and one landed in Chile, and they're all saying different things as to what happened. And so then David Graham, the author, has pieced together different diaries and log books and stuff from the time to find out the truth of what happened. And the point I'm up to, they have, the shipwreck has occurred and we're kind of getting into like them being trapped on this island, stranded on this island and like what that does to the society that they've built up there. I'm enjoying it now. Now I will say, I didn't want to read it for like three or four days. I didn't pick it up and I did fall asleep earlier whilst reading it. I think you can tell by my face that I'm extremely tired today. Which I don't often fall asleep when reading stuff. Like, you know, that's kind of like a bad, that's a bad, you know, vote for a book if I fall asleep when reading it because I don't, it means I'm tired and I'm not interested, you know. But now that I'm into it, I am into it. I can see why this has been so popular. It's not necessarily, you know, it's not going to be five star. It's probably going to be like a 3.5 or a four. But I do think it's interesting how it's telling this story from history that otherwise I would never have fricking heard about. And in a way it's reading like fiction. So I am enjoying it. I love when I read nonfiction, I learn about something that I never would have otherwise learned about, you know. And I think it's very well written, very well researched, there are certain characters in the story that you're rooting for. And I'm very, we don't know who is in the two separate groups who have different opinions on what happened and saying different things. And so I find that very interesting kind of thing of who is going to be in what group and kind of what opposing sides of the story they're going to try and tell. But yeah, I'm going to finish this today. I don't think it should take me that long to finish it. And then I've got reading sprints in like an hour and a half for my Patreon. So I'm definitely going to finish this then. And then probably start, I need to start another one tonight. I'm probably going to start Holly. Because I feel like I think it's the longest one we've got left. And I feel like it's a little bit intimidating. And then once I've got that out of the way, it's not as an intimidating selection like poverty by America. A I think it's going to be a very interesting read. And it's pretty short. Check and make by Adi Hayes. Word is going to be easy. And then we've got that being Henry Guy. Sorry to that man. I still don't know who he is. I'm going to wait for the book to find out. Anyways, I'm going to finish this. I'll check with you once I have done so. But yeah, I'm going to try and get even more into the priority mood. I think it has got a good mystery running through it by telling us at the beginning what happened, but not telling us who was part of what. It has got a mystery propulsing it forward. I can understand why this is something that appeals to masses. It's not necessarily going to be my favorite book. But I think I'm going to be like glad that I've read it, you know? Okay, I have finished the wager. I'm going to settle on a four star. I actually really did enjoy this. I think it's very, very well written. And I haven't read anything like this in such a long time in terms of a nonfiction. My one critique in terms of why it's not a five star is I do feel like this book, like you expect everything that's going to happen. And yes, I know it's like a shipwreck and like, oh, how exciting. But like, everything that happens is kind of what you expect to happen in scenario. I know it's real life. It's not like you can like make shut up. But just as a reader, I it leaves you feeling a bit like, okay, yeah, I could have told you that a lot quicker, David, that that sound was going to break down. But I did really enjoy it. I definitely be interested in reading more from this author in the future. I think it was incredibly well researched. I think you brought together the different narratives really well. And I thought it was subtle, but at the end brought it all together around themes such as colonialism and British empire and like, how they got in this scenario, etc, etc. It kind of sprinkled little dustings on it throughout the book and then really brought it together in moments at the end. I thought it was done very, very well. I just can't believe that like artists or deals, some of these men went out like sailing again, I would never leave the country again. Are they crazy? Spoiler that like, I mean, you know this from the beginning, but they're like shipwrecked for like years. And they just go out sailing away again, like hundreds of men died. Like, yep, okay, I don't know why they're in a rowboat. According to me, I can objectively see how well written it is where their moments where I was bored. Yes, a little bit. But the second half, it really does pick up. But like nothing shocked me really, you know what I mean? And I don't know if that's also because of how he wrote it. Some of the later elements that happened could have shocked me, but I feel like he hints at it. He knows a story so well that he almost can't reveal that too later. You kind of know from the beginning and the general beats the story, I feel like. But yeah, I did enjoy it and very, you know, it makes me excited to read more nonfiction, maybe some more historical nonfiction this year. In terms of what we have left, we have these four left. I think I'm going to tackle the biggest one that's most intimidating, Holly by Stephen King, which won horror, because I do tend to read these Stephen Kings quite quickly. I've always read Stephen Kings quite quickly. I mean, the only Stephen Kings I've read are the ones in this series because they won the Goodreads Choice Awards in previous years. And that's the only reason I've ever read Stephen King. I probably should try some of his older stuff that people think is better. I know you don't love this stuff as much. But me, having only ever read this series from him pretty much, I quite like it. I don't dis, I mean, I don't think it's amazing. And they've all been like a three to a four somewhere in that range. Holly is a character that's in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and then is in the Outsider. And then this is the next book that she's in. I don't know anything about the plot. I don't want to know anything about the plot. I'm just going to enter it. I'm going to go into it, not knowing anything. But do I think Stephen King should have won horror? No, but I'm just glad he's out. Let me through through the category. So he's no longer has a hega mini sort of pronunciation over my category. You guys in horror can take him. I'm very sorry if I've let anyone down or if I've caused any ag, but I have to look after number one. Anyways, I'll check with you on a little bit way through this, but I'm actually, I'm excited. I know I'm probably going to have an all right time reading this. I don't think it's going to bore me. That might be famous last words, but I don't think it's going to bore me too much. Good morning. Let me make sure the cameras focus on me. We have so much to discuss. By the way, I always clear my bedside table before I film up here, but I've gotten fed up of doing it. I hope you enjoy my bedside table. Bedside table tour is some toilet paper for my permanently blocked nose, my bedtime sleep spray, my switch, my switch case and my pill. I tried to hide that a bit. You don't need to know my medical info. Anyways, we have a lot to talk about because I am halfway through Holly. I'm really enjoying it. Loving it may haps. I feel kind of tentative to say that because I know not everyone loves Stephen King, but I am really enjoying this. Also just noticed this mark is my skin care. I just did my skin care and then I hit my face on my hoodie and like, okay, let's talk about the book. I'm really enjoying it. So the thing that this book is, even though it's not marketed as a series, it is, maybe I'm going to put it as a companion book because this is the fifth book now I've read with Holly Gibney in it. She's in the Mr. and Sadie trilogy. Then she's in The Outsider and this book is really Holly. Do you know what I mean? We're really focusing on Holly more than we have in any other books. She was kind of a side character in the first book and then I'd say her character has grown. I'm loving it. It's so readable. Goddamn. This is what it feels like to actually read a book. I've been in the trenches. I have been in the trenches for the whole of January. I love good news. Love good news. I just love good news. Although I really enjoyed, you know, a lot of the other books I've read for this vlog, but there is something about this one that is maybe the most readable so far. Sailing on by Stephen King, but I do read his books very quickly. They're like quite long. This one's like 420 pages, but I just get through it. I just get through it. I really enjoy the audiobook. Oh, it's something I think it is nice this year. I was saying actually in my wrap up that I've read almost entirely from new authors, authors. I have not read from before either their debuts or I haven't read from them before. And it's so nice to read from all the way from before. This is my first book this year. There's an author I've read from before that isn't a reread. And I'm just very much enjoying that familiarity, like seeing these characters that we know so well, like Holly or Jerome and Barbara who are in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy. Barbara is so grown up now and she is now starting to play quite a big role in this book. And I'm really, sorry, the discord's popping off. The discord has got really active for my picture. I couldn't do it just so it doesn't keep buzzing against you. Yeah, it's interesting to see how Barbara is grown and I'm loving seeing her as a character. I have so many points. I wrote points. I very rarely write points down, but there's so many things I need to talk to you about. So let's go. I love Holly as a character. I think, you know, the thing with Holly is she is coded as neurodivergence. So I can understand why people would have criticism of Stephen King for writing this character. And when I read the Miss Mercedes trilogy, I said, like, I'm not entirely sure if, you know, Jerome was a big character in the first one. And I'm not entirely sure if he handled all aspects of Jerome being black and Holly is neurodivergence with total care. But I will, what I will say about this book, I think it is my favorite of all of the ones in this series that I've read from so far. And I'll say I can understand people being perhaps, I mean, I'm not neurodivergent, so I can't speak on the, on the, you know, adaptation of Holly in that regard. But what I will say is it's like, you can tell that Stephen King loves this character. There's a lot of, he has like a deep love for Holly. And you can read that in the book. He adores this character as a character that he really wants to show you. And you just, you can tell he's a rooting for her and he loves her, do you know what I mean? So I think that is a positive. I really like Holly as a character. One thing that I have seen a lot in the Goodreads reviews. I'm in danger. Or even the reason I first saw it and I was looking up like reviews of the audio book. COVID is very present in this book, right? We're set in like the summer of 2021. And they just keep constantly mentioning COVID. And like all the people who don't like, you know, like COVID isn't real. Don't wear your mask to hate that he's written this. They absolutely hate it, girl. They're out there with their pitchforks. They are so mad that he has written like a book where COVID is heavily present and is very critical of like, you know, MAGA, like anti-mask, Trump people, you know what I mean? And I will say, it's very interesting that perspective. I have so much to say guys, we're gonna be chatting here for like 10 minutes about this book. It's very interesting. I have not read a book yet that places COVID at such a forefront. Books are either pretending COVID hasn't happened and doesn't exist, or like they maybe mentioned it in the past, like we got over it, do you know what I mean? But a lot of the books that are coming out now are books people wrote during 2020, 2021, the height of COVID, right? And so it's interesting to read a book where it is such a prevalent element to the plot. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I'm enjoying it. And it's making me think a lot. Like, at first it was jarring, like people saying, oh, are you wearing your mask or are you vaxxed or whatever. But like, that is kind of what it was like then. I was thinking back and I was like, really? In summer of 2021, was it still that bad? But I remember me and Tom were still living at uni then. And like, we, I really wanted to go for a walk. And like, we couldn't, because we didn't have a car, and you weren't allowed to go by train other than for like work, we couldn't go. I couldn't, I was stuck in leads in the city. And I just wanted to get the train to Oakley and go on a little mental health walk because we were stuck in one room flat. And we couldn't. So it was still like that. And so I think it's interesting how quickly we forget and move on. And this book is kind of bringing me back to that time and place. It's very interesting. So I'm all for a I mean, it's his point of view is very obvious. People have not enjoyed that people like, he's leftist, wokie, like that's what a lot of the anti reviews are saying. But I think it's an interesting perspective, right? We still have loads of more of points. Oh, also, I love any book that reminds me of Nancy Drew. If you don't know, I loved the Nancy Drew games growing up. I played loads of the Nancy Drew PC games. I'd love to get back into them. Sometimes I go through spurts playing them again. I love the Nancy Drew games. Love them. And Holly's giving major Nancy duties. Just in the, there's like a few elements, like sometimes Stephen King would have characters speak kind of old timey, like young characters. Also like an old timey phrase. And that was very Nancy Drew. And also a big thing in the Nancy Drew games. Oh my god, I'm getting like a stress red mark on my head. Oh my god, the camera's focusing on it. The camera's got just like a little box around whatever this is. Oh yeah, a big thing in the Nancy Drew games is she like an older character or something would be like incapacitated. We'd be like put out, you know, wouldn't die, but like couldn't travel to solve this. So like, Nancy would have to take over the case because of them being incapacitated. And in this, Holly's business partner, Pete, has COVID. So he's like out of action. And he's like calling her up on the phone to talk about the case that she's working on and Nancy Drew, you'd call them up on the phone and like talk about hints and get hints on them. I'm like, Oh my god, this is major Nancy duty. So I'm loving that. It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. I'm going to save some of my other thoughts for the next check in that I'm looking at because I feel like I'll be better just to discuss them once this book is done. So we save those thoughts because we have been chatting for like eight minutes already. But I'm going to go do some laundry, prep some food for the week, keep listening to the audio book, look a bit more human than this. And I will check in with you once I have finished the book. But yeah, I'm really, really, really enjoying it so far. I need to pick up some old Stephen King because all I've read from Stephen King is this series with Holly. And I feel like I need to give some of his older stuff a go because I am really, I'm really enjoying this guys. This is my favorite Stephen King I've read so far. I think the highest rating I gave the rest of the series was maybe a four, maybe I gave Mr. Mercedes a four. And then I felt like the outsider was my least favorite. And I didn't like the middle one in the trilogy, but I liked the last one. Maybe the last one was a four as well. Then the others work three, maybe even like a outside was like maybe like a 2.5. So we'll see. But I'm really enjoying this one. And I also really like the cover you pretty can't see on camera, but it's got like a really grainy and I think it's got like a cool look to it. Anyways, I need to stop rambling. I'll see you later today. Once I finished it, bye. Guys, I need us all to take a moment. I need us all to take a moment, take a deep breath. Right. I want us all to cast our minds back to what I've been through so far this year. Like just the absolute torture and agony I've been through with how bad my reading year has been. And I just want you to imagine how I would feel when I finally have some good fucking food on the table. You know what I mean? And so I don't want any judgment. I don't have any judgment when I say I'm giving this five stars. Yup, yup, yup, yup, yup. I actually didn't say that properly because I felt so nervous. I'm giving it five stars. But let's just, let's just like, let's just that you're crooked. Let's just remember what I just said. Like I have been in the trenches. I have been reading awful. Have you guys seen that guy? You guys might not have seen this. He's on Instagram and he's like, I don't condone. I think a lot of what he says is rubbish because like he takes it too far. But like he goes in the shops and he's British and he goes in like shops and he gets like a chocolate milky bar or something. And he's like, this is fucking shit. Wake up. Fucking wake up. Have you seen this guy? I think it's called Eddie or something. I've been fed fucking shit. Like what he says every food in the supermarket is because he says it's all like, this is a tangent. He says it's too much sugar and like whatever. But you're like, pick up an apple and be like, this is fucking shit. Wake up. Anyways, I've been fed fucking shit, right? And finally, I get some nutritious stuff, but it may not be like the tastiest to other people. Like I love cabbage. I love broccoli. No, everyone else does. You know what I mean? That's not a good comparison. It's whack-a-doodle time. It is whack-a-doodle time. Stephen King just knows how to, with the information you know, but the characters don't know, leave you feeling so nervous. Like other characters be walking into situations. They don't know the full ramifications of, but you do. You know what's behind that door. You know what's behind that door or you know how it's leading up to it. The way he leads out, the way the plot moves was so good. I read this so, you could not tear me away from this today. You could not tear me away from this day. I read it in less than 24 hours. Listen, for someone who's not been reading, that is a feat. That is a feat. And I feel ready to go. I feel pumped up. I really enjoyed it. Now I do have something to say. This is not a horror. This is not a horror. This is not a horror. It is, it should have gone in the mystery thriller category of Goodreads. I feel so gratified by. I feel empowered because I said this should have been nominated for the mystery thriller category because every other one in the series was nominated for mystery thriller. And it's Holly being an investigator. It literally, it's a mystery thriller. Now, now, now. Even though I gave it five stars, do I want this? Do I want Stephen King to be in mystery thriller? No. Although this, I mean, freedom of fan and one this year. Would I have rather this one over freedom of fan? Yes. But long term next year, for example, there may be a book I would rather win than Stephen King, you know, and so we have to put him, let's just put him in horror forever for you. Horror girls have to suffer with him winning every year. And we don't. I mean, I gave this five stars. But what I'm saying is I think it's boring when Stephen King wins, you know, that that opinion has not changed. I can't say whether I think this should have won horror because I haven't read many of the other horror books, but I do think it's boring when he wins. I don't want him to win. Even though I gave this five stars, I don't want him to win. But yeah, I really enjoyed it. One thing I do have to say is Stephen King, this is a terrible time. This is this, this conversation has been had to death. But I do just want to warn you guys that Stephen King does love to make his bad evil villains racist, right? And thus, they say slurs. You know, it's never the good people. It's always the villains, but there's a lot of villains already that I've read from him, the racist. And it's like one of their prevailing characteristics. And it's just lazy. They were already bad people. You don't need to make them racist. And he got so close not to having the N word in it. There was a couple times where it said N word and I was like, okay, Stephen, we're learning. And then there was one of the black characters, Barbara, like when we're in her head, the N word is referred to as like her not liking it. And I'm like, Stephen, you're so close. You don't need to put it in there. So I don't like that aspect of it, right? I think it's just lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy. You can show your villain is horrible in other ways. In terms of me needing like a mystery thriller horror hybrid to like wake me up from this book slumber that I've been in this, it gave it to me. It gave it to me. I definitely need to pick up some old Stephen King. What do we think misery? I feel like misery is the one I should go to next. But I really enjoyed it. So three books left. I think I'm gonna, because I feel raring to go. I think tonight I'm gonna get through as much of being Henry as I can. Everyone loves this man. And when I say sorry to that man, I don't know this man. I recognize him. All I know about him is that he's a nice man. Like everyone thinks he's a nice man. But like, I don't know anything about him. But I think he narrates the audiobook. So I'm gonna pick the audiobook up as I make dinner. And I'm gonna try and get through as much of this as I can tonight. Yeah, let's go see how it goes. And this one's for humor. So you better, you better make me chuckle, Henry. You better make me have a good dog chuckle. Okay, bye. Okie dokie. I finished Being Henry by Henry Winkler. Um, here's the thing. I don't think I've ever watched a single thing this man is in. I haven't watched Happy Days. I haven't really watched any Anne Sandler movies. I haven't watched Barry. I haven't watched Arrested Development. All these things he's saying to me. I have no cultural reference for, okay? But, you know, it was fine. So we're following Henry Winkler who had a lot of success, I think in like the 70s, maybe 80s, I don't know, on Happy Days. And then it's basically like him struggling to find work then for the rest of his life and like getting lucky and getting some good roles occasionally, particularly in the last couple of years. I think this is a nice memoir. I think here's the thing. I think you'll really enjoy this if you enjoyed him in any of the things he's been in and you know him. I recognise his face but I really sorry to that man. I don't know anything about him. I think it is a well-written memoir though and I did really enjoy the audiobook. He does a great job of narrating the audiobook. I noticed when I read it physically he would change up what he said in the audiobook to make it feel more conversational. He would like reframe some sentences to make them feel more natural with him speaking them, which I think is a great addition. My favourite part of this is undoubtedly his wife. His wife has a few inserts where she gives her opinion on things and she not only has written these sections in it but she voices it in the audiobook. And honestly I love this woman. Women. She's just like behind every successful man is the most incredible woman you've ever met, which you know is not the best. We don't want them always to be behind but I think it's important to recognise the role that she had in like raising their family and being his emotional support and like she just fucking, I just love her. I want to read her book. I don't really want to read his. I'm going to be honest, I'm not really interested in this guy but I loved her. Stacey, you're my girl. I'm gonna give this a three star. I think he was interestingly written. He did a great job on the audiobook but like do I care? Not really. Not really you know and like there were certain points towards the end. I thought the first part was stronger and as we got to the end there was just certain points where he said a few things that annoyed me. I can't remember what it was but he said certain things and I was like ugh. I can't remember what it was but just certain things he said. I was like okay you know. But some of his you know insights into the behind the scenes of the acting industry, how ruthless it can be, how like tough it can be. I think it was interesting. So I'm landing on a three star you know. I think this one, the humor category or whatever it won because the cover is literally just a massive picture of his face right. A lot of the other celebrities had like pictures of their faces on it but like maybe their bodies were in it too. This is just his face right. So if you recognise his face you just go oh I'll just vote for him. Do you know what I mean? That's why I won. I've connected the two dots. You didn't connect shit but I've connected them. Because even though I recognise his face, even though I've never watched anything he's been in, I recognise his face. I've seen him around you know what I mean? But if you've watched Happy Days you know I can see you really enjoying this book. For me it was fine you know. I am now going to pick up Poverty by America. I'm going to save Miss Allie for last, I think it's a little reward. I'm really interested in this. This is the kind of non-fiction I'm interested in. Kind of talking about I guess you could call it a political issue right and really unpacking it and examining it by someone who seems to be kind of like an expert in this regard. I think he's another book kind of around this topic in the past. So I'm really excited. I'm going to start this now. Hopefully I will finish it by this evening because I think it's going to be pretty quick. It's only 194 pages the actual book and the font is huge. So I think it'll be a pretty quick read. So yeah I'll check in here this evening once I finish this. Hello. Okie dokie. I finished Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond. So this is non-fiction discussing the issue of poverty specifically in America, how it's been created, how it continues and offering suggestions as to how poverty can be eradicated, be improved, how we can improve the situations of the poorest in society, how we can prioritize the needs of the poor in society. Here's the thing. I want to make clear that the subject matter that is tackled in this is like a five star. The way that he's talking about it is as a five star. The way that it's discussed is a five star. The importance of having these conversations and pushing for these changes is a five star. However, I'm giving this a 3.5 personally in terms of my personal enjoyment for two main reasons. Number one, it's too short. It's very very short. It's 180-ish pages with a massive font. The audiobook is like five hours and I didn't feel like, although everything he was saying was very very interesting and very important to discuss, I never felt like we really got into the meat of it. I think with my non-fiction I really like us to like go beyond the surface level and I really felt like this was a little bit surface level in terms of, you know, these are the causes of why poverty still exists in society. This is what we can do to change that. I like my non-fiction to sometimes go into offshoots and to explore some different areas of the topic. Do you know what I mean? And I felt like this was a bit rushed for me personally. And I think the biggest issue for me was how American-centric this was. And I want to point out, I don't think that's a bad thing. I think for people in America this would be an incredibly transformative book to read. But for me, as someone from the UK, there were cultural references I just don't understand and it just wasn't as engaging to me because he would refer to like something the UK does or whatever. But his resolutions for fixing poverty is completely America-centric. He is not proposing stuff for the world. He's not proposing global solutions. He is saying these are the problems in America. These are the problems we have to do in America specifically to fix that. And I think that's important, right? I think it's important people read this. But for me as a reader, it left me feeling a little bit disconnected from it because like he'd be talking about things. Listen, I know I think a good amount of American history, but he'd just be referring to stuff that happened in the past. And I don't really know about that. I mean, in the way that I wouldn't expect other people to know about British history in the way that maybe I do or other people in Britain do. Do you understand what I'm saying? There's nonfiction I've loved. For example, let's say natives by Akala, which is a five-star nonfiction for me, which is all about race issues in the UK, particularly from the perspective of empire and like Britain's role as empire, etc. I think it's amazing. However, I wouldn't necessarily recommend that for everyone because I think if you're not from the UK, it's very British focused, right? There's a lot of British history, a lot of British references that you may not understand. So I think this is similar. I think if you're from the US, I would really recommend this. If you're not, I don't know how the reading experience would be for you. Does that make sense? I hope that makes sense. So what this is disgusting as a five-star in terms of personal enjoyment for me, it's getting a 3.5, unfortunately. But guys, I've now read two nonfiction this year. Well, technically I've read four if we're counting the memoirs, but I've read two towards my 12 nonfiction goal, which I'm feeling pretty great about. I mean, you'd think by February, yes, I would have had to have read two, but in my opinion, it's still, you know, us being on track is quite revolutionary. So our last winner was the winner. I think this was just the winner of the YA fiction prize. I think there's only a YA fiction and YA fantasy, isn't there? I think so. We're going to be reading Check and Mate by my girl Ali. I'm so excited to read another Ali Hazelwood, but I am nervous to read a YA from her. I'm not necessarily holding out the same hope for this as I am with things like Love Theoretically and Bride, which are adult books from her. I own three Ali Hazelwoods on my TBR right now. Crazy. Ali's like popping them out. Absolutely crazy. So yeah, I'm excited to read this. I actually need to go a spoiler there. I'm actually going to read before I read this, my book club pick all today. Go with another by Bernadine Everitso, which I'm a little bit, you know, intimidated by and nervous about. I've got to read this by this evening. So this will be a nice little palette cleanser, I think, after the intensity that I think that is going to have. This will be an easier read. So I don't know if I'll chat with you about halfway or far. Just read the whole thing. It depends on feeling and what I've got to say. But I'm very excited to get into my next Ali. I love her. Okay, I'm giving Check and Mate five stars. I can't with you. Ali Hazelwood, why are you doing this to me? I don't know. I'm speechless. She's incredible. She's a beautiful person. Her talent and brilliance is beyond. Ali, Ali, Ali, what a brilliant YA debut from you. Oh my God, I loved it. So all you need to know, it's a romance between these two chess players. One, our main girlie who we were from perspective of played chess with she was younger and for some reason for the past like four years, she's about 18, past four years hasn't played it. And the guy is the, he's like the world champion. He's the best chess player in the world. And it's a romance between them. That's all you need to know, right? The rest you can go and discover when you pick up this book. But guys, I absolutely loved it. Firstly, I love, I've said this to you so many times, I love books that center on an each topic. I love books about chess. I haven't watched The Queen's Gambit but I read it many, many years ago and I loved it. I need more books about chess. We need this. This is essential. This is a crisis. Not nonfiction. I'm not interested in learning to play chess, but give me more fiction books about chess because I loved these characters and how much they loved chess. And I just hit myself in the face and like getting them getting nerdy about talking about chess. Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it. I don't know why I love books about niche topics, but if you can give me something a little bit like different, you know what I mean? I love it. I think this is a wonderful YA debut. It is YA, it does talk about sex quite a lot and there are some sex, not sex scenes. There's like fate to black stuff going on. So it is like, you know, up there in what YA, what I'd class as YA, but I think it's all handled in a way that is like, yeah, this is fine for like upper levels of YA because it's like teenagers have sex. Like the characters, like our girl is 18, do you know what I mean? Like, I think there are a place for discussions around sex in YA, not younger YA probably, but in kind of older YA because there's echelons to YA. Like, I feel like we need to make three different age categories in YA. But I felt like it was handled well and I just loved their relationship. I loved them. I was like sitting here like kicking my feet. Like, how does Alie Hazel do this to me? How am I Alie Hazel's bitch? I'm looking at Bride over there right now. And I'm like, hmm, I know I've got love theoretically sitting over there. Guys, I love this. I don't even know what to say to you. A little bit shell shock. I'm a little bit like emotionally like, I just thought it was so well-paced. I thought it was so interesting. The characters were great. The family relationships were great. Do you know what? I think Alie Hazelwood did a great job of writing a young YA, a young character, and it wasn't cringe. And there's multiple young characters because she's got her younger siblings who are like 12 and 15. So they're a bit more of that kind of like, what generation is that? I don't know, that generation who's going into Sephora and pumping out drunk elephant products. And they felt realistic without feeling cringe so much. Like, so often I read YA, and to me YA romance, I think it's hard to do because it's not like you've got like a fantasy or a mystery kind of like, you know, maybe obscuring some personalities a bit. Like with the romance, they are on display. And so often I find it cringe, but I didn't. These characters felt young, felt modernly young, but didn't feel cringe. It didn't feel like the author had no idea what they were talking about. Miss Alie has got her finger on the pulse. She is unstoppable. I cannot believe, actually, let's think about this vlog for a minute. I cannot believe how well this vlog has done for me, particularly with the three fiction that we read. We had two five stars and a 4.5. My reading has turned around from this moment now. I mean, obviously the reading's been great throughout, but I did read these books very slowly. So we've had the good ratings now. Now it's time to speed things up a little bit because I've read these books very slowly. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this vlog of me reading all the Goodreads Choice Awards winners that I have not read yet. Let me know what you thought of any of them. Do you disagree with any of my, any of my opinions? Or did you love any of them as well? Or what were your opinions? I'd love to know. If you got up to the end of the video, comment a trophy emoji and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!