 guys, welcome to another vlog. Pardon me if I should have said here. Okay, perfect. I got back last night from Nantucket around midnight and this morning, I've just been unpacking, cleaning, opening packages, things like that. Today's vlog is going to be a cozy at home vlog. We're gonna do part reading vlog, which is something I actually really want to do on my channel now because I've been on booktube really lately and I'm like, listen, I read so much and my friend, they do talk about her book so why am I not filming reading vlogs? Let me know what you all think about booktube and how you would feel about me just doing reading vlogs also. That would be selfishly in my mind. I'm like, for work, I stay at home when I read two books, three books in a day. Like, sign me up, you know what I mean? I'm pretending it's fall in my head. That's just, it's what's happening. Nantucket was literally the best weekend ever. I'm just in such a reading mood. I finished Hotel Nantucket last night. Really loved it. You guys are not aware. My friends and I, last weekend, this weekend, we went to Nantucket because we were inspired by Ellen Heldinbrand's books, specifically Hotel Nantucket, but honestly, this was booked, I think, even before Hotel Nantucket. And then we stayed at the Nantucket to tell that it was loosely modeled after and it was just so much fun. We met Ellen. It was just incredible. Before we get into reading and talking about books and stuff, I'm gonna do the coffee. So we're gonna go on a little field trip, if you will. I think I'm gonna go to cafe duro this morning. That's the vibe. All right, y'all, I got an iced matcha. With one pump lavender, I normally do peppermint that I didn't have any. And then I just got breakfast. It's so good. Cafe duro, if y'all are in Dallas, on Greenville, cannot recommend enough. It's also probably the cutest coffee shop I've ever been in. Not even city-wise just in general, so cute. All right, I'm home now. I have my food also. Look at my cute new coasters. I got these from Keepsakes in Dallas. I'm sure you can also find them online. Gonna eat my breakfast and then I'm gonna start my book. We're back and it is time to read. First, I wanted to give you guys a little update of what I've been reading lately. I lit some candles. There's coconut. I also have this Brooklyn in weighted blanket. This is not sponsored. It's just the best blanket ever. One, it's just cozy and cute. Two, if you ever are stressed or anxious or just need to calm down a weighted blanket, I'm not gonna outlink this one below because it's literally the best thing ever. I bought a pack of money, I'm not sponsored. I just love it and it's the best blanket for reading. Okay, okay, let's go on my Goodreads really quickly. If y'all are ever looking to keep up with what I'm reading, don't go follow my good co-go. She always says this. Follow my books to Graham, KE Book Club. I update every single book that I've read with a review. I also post some reviews on TikTok and stuff, but if you need like a comprehensive thing of like what I've read, here's the thing. I love Goodreads. I use it all the time. They need a better interface and also it's so impossible. Every time I link my Goodreads, it like is the wrong link. It never, ever, ever works. My profile is Kenzie Elizabeth, I don't know. You can see that, that's my Goodreads thing. It's just annoying. So like I said, last night I finished the Hotel Nantucket. Reading that while in Nantucket and at the Nantucket Hotel was just a magical experience. I rated it four stars in Goodreads. I'm gonna give it like a four, three, four, five. The way in which I rate my books doesn't necessarily make sense, but it was good. I would definitely recommend it. I think it's one of those books that like most people will like. I read Josh and Hazel's Guide to Nodating by Christina Lauren. I don't even know why I picked this up. I think maybe it was short or something and I don't know, like I like some Christina Lauren. I think I do. I don't know if I've read a, I actually have read a good amount. I'm not like die hard is what I'm saying and it was a book that was like an easy read. Hazel was kind of annoying, but I like weirdly liked her and I don't. Once I've read like another five or six books I probably won't even remember that one. I honestly couldn't even tell you that I read that, right? I read Life with the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler and I loved it. I'm a huge Chelsea Handler fan. I hadn't read any like memoirs in a while so I decided I wanted to read that. Then I also read Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier and I have to say like I love Jennifer Hillier and she's actually my favorite thriller writer but I just didn't like Things We Do in the Dark. I felt like the plot lines didn't really come together well. It was really all over the place. I felt like you're winning two different books and then when it did come together I just felt like it wasn't seamless and I rated it like three stars. Like I just, I wasn't into it but I love Little Secrets. That's my favorite thriller book ever and there's so many The Butcher Evens Really Good. That one was, you know, whatever. I read A Flicker in the Dark which is a redhead's pick and I loved that book. I thought it was so good. Such a good thriller really got me back into like the swing of thrillers and I loved it. I read The Crossing the Line and Breaking the Rules series by Lucy Score. I thought the first book was actually just really bad. I didn't like it at all. For whatever reason I read number two because it left you on such a cliffhanger that I was like I need to read number two and I actually really liked the second book even though that one was the weird one with a really weird plot line. Like it reminded me almost of if you guys have just watched Nashville when Juliette Barnes, Juliette Barnes. Oh my God, that's literally my favorite show. The second Lucy Score book The Breaking the Rules has a very weird plot line that I would actually compare to when Juliette Barnes joins like a Kola Nationals. It was just odd, like a very weird thing even though it's not a Kola. It was kind of like so out of left field but I actually really liked that one. And this is the last one I'll talk about because I know I've talked about these before. I also read Kari Soto's Back by Taylor Jenkins Reed. I got an advanced copy. Definitely a must read. I thought it was really good. I loved Seven Husbands. Didn't love Daisy Jones. Didn't love Malory Rising. I like her earlier like romance novels a lot actually. Kari Soto's Back was good. Very unique read. I'm at 39 of 60 books. I'm two books I had a schedule and I'm right now hopefully today I'm going to finish Jeanette McCurdy's memoir which if you guys have seen all the press for it it's really crazy. It's titled I'm Glad My Mom Died which is you know a very like striking title. I'm at 31%. It's kind of like weirdly a heavy book. I don't know like I'm a very fast reader and normally I read things pretty quickly and I've kind of been like reading slower. Also I only have like two books left of Colleen Hoover's that I haven't read and they are in the Maybe Some Days series. I read Maybe Some But I Didn't Love It so I didn't read the next two. I thought it was like a very odd book but I want to like film a video of like I read all the books and like here's my ranking and so I need to read those books. So I'm also probably going to read those. We'll see but we're getting started. I love this book. It's this book vlog. It's so fun. I'm going to start reading. I had to put a playlist on it. I've been listening all morning to Taylor Swift Autumn Vibes but I do have a certain playlist that I'll listen to when I'm reading on planes mainly and not really at home. I'm kind of feeling this one today. I have two. This is my second favorite but this one's the one that's up. So just put it on my speaker and we're good. I ordered a bunch. I have groceries coming later today and I'm going to make ramen which I'm really excited for. This book is crazy. I don't want to like spoil it but I feel like because it's on every news article ever it's like kind of okay because obviously it's on every news article ever. I took a lot of the information out there. I just got to the part where Jo broke up with this girlfriend of five years for her and she's very, very inexperienced. It's actually the relationship that she has with her mom is really, really, really crazy and just the things in life that she like has no idea what they are. It's wild to read. Like this is one of the best I think celebrity memoirs I've ever read. It's so good so far. It's almost like she's like seven years old but in like an adult body and her mother is like so dependent on her. It's just like really crazy. So anyways, I ordered some food. I'm going to have lunch and then get back to reading. I really need coffee. I was just really kidding myself with that matcha earlier. Love matcha but like it doesn't give you energy. I mean it does but not like coffee does obviously. I've been ordering wraps for lunch. I feel like, I don't think that I'm being this big. Awesome, amazing, love that. And then I always get soup, potato fries and that's my lunch today. Once I eat this, I'll go back to reading. This book is so good. Okay, I only have about five percent left. So I'm going to finish the book. It is so good. I just finished the book. It's about three cam now and it was so good. Okay, I feel like memoirs are very personal because it really just depends on like how much you had invested into that person. Not always, but I think like obviously Jessica Simpson, I like grew up when my cousins were obsessed with her. We met her, like I was obsessed. Also the book was really good. And there are definitely memoirs that I've read and people that I wasn't like super invested in. Like they made more and stuff that I loved. And same with this, like honestly I wasn't like obsessed with Jeanette McCurdy. I watched, I've hardly growing up. I never watched Xamarin Cat or anything, but that was like my era, you know what I mean? I just want to say it was so good. It was well written, but it didn't like, I think her tone of voice was just like very apparent. It was so good. I was on Goodreads, they went to go rate up five stars. It's currently 4.74, which is crazy. Like that is maybe that is actually the highest Goodreads score I think I've ever seen. Like a 4.3 is insane. So 4.74 and like 12,000 ratings wild. I don't know if I'm supposed to like, again a true booktube vlog where I'm reading all that, reading every book, same thing. I'm like maybe supposed to, I don't know if it's just to spoil things is what I'm saying. What I found the most fascinating was her, obviously her relationship with her mother. I love that her and Miranda were so close. I understood her not wanting to do the iCarly reboot. I had no idea she had a country little stent like at all, country career. The book was just obviously so about her mom and the title is so brutal, honestly. But when you read it, you understand why and it was just so, so crazy. Anyways, I loved it. I'm gonna put the groceries away and it's making a little bit of an ice coffee because I'm very, you know, sleepy. I've been laying around all day. All right y'all, we are getting started cooking. I'm making a lot of ramen for the week. Hopefully I like this recipe. I already soft-boiled eggs. I have some green onions, mushrooms, carrots. Everything's cut up and pretty much ready. This is what I've been learning in my kids' classes. You need everything out and measured. The reason I don't have these cut up and stuff is because I don't measure this stuff so I wouldn't really make a difference. But yeah, this is what I have. I'm gonna make some healthy ramen, like healthy, I mean whatever, just the recipe that I found online. I'll keep you guys posted. I have pork, so I feel like I like that in my ramen better than chicken, but I don't really know. Made my first ramen. It looks and smells incredible. So I used a lot of carrots, mushrooms, obviously just like instant ramen, but without like seasoning packs. I did bone broth, kale. I also just did like soy sauce, sesame seed oil, all that stuff. I'm putting it as like a reel in a TikTok on my pages, but on my pages like I sat in 40. It looks beautiful. It's kind of like the perfect cozy recipe. I love cooking in the fall, but I like don't really love cooking in the summer because I like making soups. I like making pastas. That's like the stuff that I like cooking. I don't really like making an examin'. It's like not that fun to me. If you feel like someone's behind me, but it's just the smoke. So anyways, I feel like this is a good summer swap while it's still really hot out, but oh my God, it smells like so good. I also made my first soft boiled egg. So we're gonna see if it actually works. I'm gonna try here guys, we will see. Oh, nope, hard boiled. Well, love that for me. I feel like it's kind of there. You have to do it for like just six minutes and I put a timer on so I'm confused. This one, hard boiled. Not soft boiled, but we'll get there. Not the worst thing I've ever seen. I mean, could be better. You know what I mean? All right y'all here is my homemade ramen. I actually think it looks incredible. Smells very good. I don't like a ton of liquid on my ramen because it just gets messy. So that's why it looks more like this instead of too much I always put in with the least amount. But it looks incredible. All right guys, I'm in lounge clothes, it is 6 p.m. And I'm pretty much winding down for the night. My Monday nights, my bedtime is like 8 p.m. Like it's just my most ideal thing. I got a package from Mira. So how do you say it? I've never sounded that loud. I hope so. Anyways, I just got some products from them that I'm going to try out. I'm really excited. I haven't been able to try out that many products from them. And I'm actually out of the stuff I've been using. So I'm going to try this cleanser and then I'm going to do a little lip space mask and then use the rest of it in a little book news. I got some comments from y'all saying that Ashley Flowers is a book coming out tomorrow and that you guys are requesting me to read it and then review it. And at first I was like, well I don't watch crime drinking, but sure. And then I looked it up and I think she actually wrote a thriller which is absolutely genius for her. So I will definitely be picking that up. I don't know if I want to read the last two books of the Maybe Sunday series because if you, let me start washing my face one sec. Oh, I don't know if I want to read those last two books in the series. I actually think there's one more book I haven't read that is like she's a part of. Like I think each author got a different chapter or something like that. I'm totally calling you rare, which is interesting. I'm not like super, I just, I don't know, but hear me out. On one hand I want to be that bitch that's like, yes, I've read every Colin Hoover book. On the other hand, I didn't like the first one and I don't want two of those to be on my K.E. book lemons room. And then people think I'm like into those books and get the wrong idea of the books that I read. You know what I mean, it's kind of like a social experiment but I could also write the books just based off of that series and just like write them all together. I don't know, part of it wants to give it a fair chance because there are folks like the second book I like in the series with the one I was talking about before. So I don't know what I should do and Ashley Flammer still like comes out tomorrow and I really want to read that. So part of me is like, I could just download a Colin Hoover book tonight, the one of the last two and read the whole thing in an entire, in a night because I can do that. Like read the whole thing at night which I do like pretty frequently honestly but I don't know, we'll see. Maybe I'll just download the sample. Anyways, these loops face masks, like there's really nothing like them. All right, I've been getting a lot of work done but I think the next book I'm going to read is Can't Look Away. Okay, so Emily from Helps Reads. I was at Helps Reads, it's Helps Reads. Margaret's friend, but we would stage this cover, absolutely love her. Anyway, she's actually inspired me to even start a bookstagram in the first place which if you guys didn't know, I have one here at KE Book Club. All I post are book reviews. So it's really a great thing. Anyways, I think I'm going to read, Can't Look Away, but at least download it. I also am going to read this book because that's a redhead fic. I just like reading books that other people are, or have like recently read so you have someone to talk to about it. I love things you do at the dark. Oh wait, no, actually that's wrong. That's not the one I loved. I love the flicker at the dark. Anyways. All right, I ended up just getting really busy on my laptop, kept that on for so long. Wow. All right, so really what I need to do is use the apostrophe that's underneath to get like clear my skin tonight. But I have these new products, the Vita C serum, hydration recovery serum. Like there's no things that I want to use. All right, I'm currently about to start, Can't Look Away. I need to read the artist ways chapter for this week and I also need to read everything I know about all that stuff until I order 10s. So, oh you know what else? One of y'all recommended this book to me, Quarter Life, The Search for Self Early Adulthood. I also want to read that. I feel like that would be good for a podcast episode. Oh guys, I have good news. Okay, so the podcast is now going to five episodes a month instead of four. So we're going to have a bonus episode. I'm thinking it's going to be the first week of the month on a Mondays with the first Monday of the month. I definitely want to do a lot more solo episodes. I want to do one all about the pressure to overachieve. I also want to do one that's like you're not behind and give examples of people who started their careers at 40 and also just like your life path is different than everyone else's. Just I want to do almost like topical solo episodes and I'm really excited about it. So, I hope you guys enjoyed today's vlog. I'm going to go to bed and I don't want to keep filming but I love you guys so much and I will see you guys next time. Bye. I had to write in a lot of letters recently too. I'm going to be honest. I had a lot of bones and a lot of grievances to share then. I got a lot of bones and a lot of grievances to share now. Who are you writing a letter to in these days? I had to write one this morning. Oh God.