 Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel. So for today's video, I wanted to start a little vlog This is gonna be uni reading all of that. So it is currently the 13th of January. So happy new year everybody Yeah, I hope you're all staying safe. And I if you're interested I uploaded some like end-of-the-year videos like my best books my worst books Most surprising books and some of my goals. So if you're interested in those videos I will have them linked down below for you guys But I first thought we'd start off with my textbooks So I don't know if any of you care, but I have four textbooks this semester and I thought I'd show them to you guys So I only have four courses of the semester because I took six last semester So I'm gonna be like less busy, but that just means like put more work into these courses Time for reading and time for my YouTube channel. So I think it'll be pretty good But first off I have a criminological theories for my first textbook This is for my crimp course Obviously some nice graphs going on in here But yeah, we'll see what this is gonna be all about I don't have a textbook for mythology just because we do a lot of just online reading and stuff So that's that's my course from last semester, but it's a year long. So it's gonna be this semester as well So I have criminological theories Criminological theory and then I have my course the classical mythology So I decided to take an English course This semester as well. So I'm taking foundations of literary study So for this we got the the Norton introduction to literature, which this seems super fun I just took the plastic wrap off. So it's like brand new, but this one I'm already really liking this class. Like we just I just read a short story for it, but Basically it talks about you know fiction plot like going into subplots narrative point-of-view character settings symbols like all the stuff I like poetry. There's a whole bunch of stuff on poetry in here theme and tone understanding the text analyzing it Situations and setting visual imagery figures a speech symbols So there's a lot of things that this talks about that I'm really excited about So there's this and then along with that class. They also wanted like it was required to get a glossary of literary terms So we have that and then my last course is called death. So it's A philosophy course on death. So I thought that was super interesting So I've been super excited for this course, but I have the Oxford handbook of philosophy of death. So Yeah, this one. I'm excited to delve into this course I feel like it's gonna be super interesting and I love my philosophy courses last semester and I think my best grade last semester was philosophy So yeah, this just talks about death and how people different people view it I guess and different cultures view it and I don't different Analyzing different parts of it. I don't know exactly, but either way. I'm super intrigued. So yes reading update I did just to read a short story. It was it's short. It's not that long trust trust like it's not Too impressive, but I've already had two things this year. So two out of 80, which I'm happy about but I read Story of an hour. So like super short thing and the thing is they didn't even tell us to read it They just kind of gave us like a sheet full of like stuff about it and then I looked it up and I just read it because I want to actually read it as well, but It's basically I don't want to give it away, but apparently it was originally published in vogue It came out in like eight the 1800s. It's kind of feminist in a way It's about this girl it's about this woman named mrs. Mallard who has a heart condition and she gets the news that her husband dies and she goes to her room to think about it and She's maybe a little Joyous about it Yeah, so it's it's what it was pretty interesting. I don't know what I would rate it because I don't know it's for school I sometimes I don't rate books for school sometimes I do But yeah, that one Was not bad. I just finished it So I don't even really know what I want to give it the actual first novel I completed this year It's 5 4 3 2 it's not 5 4 3 4 3 2 1 by Courtney Sedans this story follows different teenagers as they board bus 21 which a Man on the bus has a bomb and the bomb goes off And we have four survivors in this story and we follow them and how different people process Trauma even though maybe they were all like even though they were all on the same bus They all process trauma differently and effected all of their lives completely differently So we follow that in each person and their struggles does have some Trick or warnings like suicide and self-harm. There's any more I'll put them on the screen last time I put them down below and like my video got linked to monetize and I was like, oh, so yeah I'll probably put them on the screen for you guys, but it was really it was a really interesting Work and that's also a fundraiser going for them to contribute to their college education So each chapter has like these the money for the survivors so for example chapter 4 they're up to $12,000 in donations and stuff and Yeah, overall this was super interesting I'm excited to like go through all my tabs again and write my good reads review and get my thoughts all out But I think I'm giving us around 3.5 I'm not sure but it was still like super super good and I just find it really interesting to see how different people react to trauma and Even though this the same event happens these certain amount of people It doesn't mean like everyone deals with it differently and everybody, you know, there's some ways that people deal with trauma that are You know, not healthy obviously and there's some ways that people deal with trauma that other people wouldn't agree with and Yeah, so I just found it really interesting to read and I really liked it. So I think I'm giving it a 3.5 There's also a female-female relationship in this. There's some disability rep within this I'm one of the survivors lost his legs in the accident. So yeah, it was a pretty good story though I'm glad I read it. Hey guys, so it is the next day The lighting is really weird because it's like 530 sunsetting. This is my lamp So that's what we're going with but for today. I did that in the breeding anything so far well except for school stuff So I worked on my Criminological theory class and we mostly talked about like biology of crime and then I also started my death class And I just watched those lectures and like read some stuff for that. We looked at a lot of images. So like Yeah, that's what I've been up to And yeah, last night I was also playing like VR which was super fun My boyfriend has it and so him myself and one of my other friends all played together and it's super fun I'm I really like it. I'm so cuz I've never played VR before so very interested in it But yeah, I stumbled upon like in the middle of the night. I couldn't sleep I'm getting a phone call. I don't want to answer it Okay Yeah, so it's just when I like I was watching Jordan and I's collab Jordan Hardy Jordan Harvey our club from like a few years ago And we did one on her channel and on mine and I watched both of them in the big It was so long ago. We're both so little and I don't know. I was just like looking at myself I'm like, who is that? I think it's really interesting like for any creator That's been creating content for a long time if you look back at your old stuff And then at your snooze stuff and it's just really cool to see where you were then and where you are now And then you know, sometimes it feels like you don't really see the progress until you do look back So when you do look back you're like, oh damn, I actually improved So that's all I really wanted to say but I hope you guys are doing well. Let me know what you're currently reading down in the comments I'd love to know And yes, I'm holding the pen like Do you guys ever do this with yeah, I don't know That's all so I wanted to show you guys some of the stickers that I got recently from Planning with K. They had their Black Friday sale So I ordered a bunch of stuff and it finally got here I used a few of them already, but I want to show you what I got. There's 50 of them here So I'll try them and get fast as possible. It's like the most amount of stickers I've ordered at once very bright lighting and it's hurting my eyes, but Good morning. It is Friday or Saturday? I think it's Saturday. I Just did a little journal spread that I shared with you guys. Yeah, this is really bright That looks worse So I shared a little journal spread that I did with you guys I watched Corpse Bride yesterday, and I really really liked it and never seen it before and like I love a nightmare before Christmas So I was excited to watch it and it was so good It was better than I thought it was gonna be and it was a lot shorter than I thought it was gonna be It was only like an hour an hour and 10 or 20 minutes So if you have the time for it, I would recommend it, but I did a little journal spread for that So hopefully that angle turned out. Okay. I know it's weird I don't I don't know how to film journal videos like I don't want to get that up shot But like my tripod, I'm trying to make it do that, but it doesn't do that and I have like three tripods So I really don't want to buy a new one but I Also just watched Ali's video with her like spreadsheet that she made so I Like made a copy of that and then I've been adding the two books in that I've read so far this year in there So I added that so I get to like I'll just show you guys how cool it is But I'll link her video like down below get like a walkthrough as well because I watched the walkthrough just to be sure I didn't know what I was doing But essentially you have your books read your yearly stats your monthly stats your habit tracker books read or sold releases own library Readathons and video ideas So I did delete some things that I was just interested in and I still don't know if I'll use the habit tracker Just because I don't track my pages read every day. I just don't And I it's the 16th and I've yet to do that so it would just leave this thing with like like The 16th starts here, but I didn't track it at all here Because I usually don't track it So then it would look blank and then there's like a bar on the side as well Like Ali puts so much work into this so definitely check it out But so far for my books read you can track like a whole bunch of stuff and then there's more stuff I Like the trigger warning section. I usually track it on here not gonna lie But I can also I think I'm gonna use both because this is like a much simpler version But it's just to have on my notion. I guess. I don't know excited for all the graphs. So I already fucked something up Which is great I'll go back and fix it because I'm kind of them it like I'm pretty familiar with spreadsheets. So I could probably fix it but yearly stats I Here so this is what it's looking like so far My sub drum genre like put as feminist in a mental health because like I didn't know what else the sub genre was But so far classic and contemporary We got like all the format stuff here Where it was read from so borrowed other Traditional publishing There was a problem. I love that for me. Okay. Well, I'll just leave it like this Point is it's a Pretty great. So that's what I've been doing. Do you guys make completed spread for this guy? It's all right. I tried my best to draw her. I did I really did like it took it didn't take me that long But like I tried I'm probably gonna erase marks after I sketched it with pencil first. So I'll probably do that Yeah, but I think it kind of looks like her and then I printed out a little photo from black and white And I have this guy which if that was perfect This sticker from blending with K and then this one as well and then this nice quote when I watched it And I gave it four to five So I just think that's nice. But yeah, these are some of my Other spreads I got like a bunch of stuff in the mail and like one of them came with like a wax seal So I put some stuff in here. I have like my assignment tracker over here. I Have my reading tracker like this is for school And then my quiz tracker so I'm working on that as well But yeah, that's my journal for this year So today is the 19th and right now I'm just about to get started on some English work that I have to do I have like my textbook out and everything but I want to give you guys a reading update. So on the 16th, so a few days ago I read this Basically, it's a short story. I don't want to butcher any names right now So I'm just not gonna say the title of the author, but it was from a mythology class I put this as like a no rating just because I don't really know how to rate it but it was like enjoyable I guess it was just for class and It was one of the only stories like that that actually has kind of a happy ending Which was a little weird to see because usually everybody just you know dies or bad thing have bad things happen to them in Mythology or they get turned into a rock or a river So it's nice that somebody got a happy ending kind of so that's for that But I also started and finished the one and only Bob by Catherine Applegate This is a sequel to the one and only Ivan and it is so so cute It's basically about this dog and he's friends with the gorilla and an elephant and it's their little journeys but there's a tornado that happens throughout this book and he has to kind of Survive and we follow Bob who is the dog on the cover and he has to survive and we just kind of see like his friends that he has and The situations that he goes through and like animal captivity and things like that because the gorilla is in like a mall Or he used to be in a mall and that's where they all met was in like this Mall like exhibit kind of thing where they had like a gorilla and an elephant there So that's what this is about. It was super cute. There's nice illustrations. It's a middle grade. We got big font So it's super easy to read it like I surprised I finished it so fast Just cuz Yeah, no, but the back says I'll always give a dog the benefit of the doubt life is short plays good And there are plenty of tennis balls to go around Yeah, so if you're looking for like a nice like light read that's really fun Also, like my lip is fucked up here But if you're looking for something that's fun and enjoyable easy read that kind of thing then I would recommend it this So there you guys have it that is going to be my vlog. I hope you guys enjoyed this video If you did let me know in the comments down below comment Just hearts in the comments any color that you prefer and yeah, thank you so much if you stay till the end I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I'll see you super soon You