 Hello and welcome to another reading vlog! So I don't know about you, but this one has flown by for me. Uh, I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving because I'm filming this this Saturday before Thanksgiving. I already like cut down the number of books on my TV year because I wanted to like leave time for other things. And um, the other things being like writing. I haven't done a like a writing, but World Hompers has taken up a very large, very joyous amount of my time. So like I don't regret it, but also like I was like, where did my whole month go? I've hardly read a thing. But yeah, so like I realized like yesterday that the live show for me and Amanda's buddy read is next Saturday. I have a week left to read the name of the wind. Luckily it's a reread. Also, I started rereading this earlier this year. So like, I read like 20% of it then. So like I have a bit of a leg up. I was like, oh fuck, I have to read that in a week. And like the week that is left between now and then is Thanksgiving week. So it's good. I mean, I'm not doing a whole lot for Thanksgiving, but still like it's. Anyway, so today I'm always, I always read more when I vlog, even though vlogging takes time away from reading in the times that I'm editing an f- well whatever. But I decided to vlog today so that I could motivate myself. Not that I need motivation for the name of the wind, but anyway, I'm vlogging today and I'm reading the name of the wind. I finished the name of the wind today, which is I'll continue reading Real Assassin probably because I haven't read that since the last time I've logged. And then I am currently listening to The Devil in the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. That's my audiobook. And I don't have too much left on it. So like I was listening to it again this morning while I was like washing dishes and stuff. And I've been listening to it every day pretty much like that while I do stuff around the house, wash dishes, put clothes away. Sometimes I just sit on the couch and listen for a bit. Alrighty. Oh and of course I'm wearing my waist down in a sweater because reasons. You know you know. This was delicious with my neighbor is once again making a fucking racket. I do not understand what they are doing. I think the only reasonable guess I have is that they are building furniture while wearing clogs. That's the only thing I could have imagined that could make this amount of noise. But anyway I actually complained to my property managers and supposedly they talked to my neighbor. And my neighbor clearly does not give a shit. Anyway so I'm gonna pop on my little noise canceling headphones, put on some loot filled music. Oh that's so weird. I feel like I'm yelling while I read Name of the Wind and Light. I have so many Name of the Wind candles. I know you're shocked. Okay I can't do this. This is too weird. I really can't tell how loud I am. This is my absolute favorite Name of the Wind candle that I have. Oh I have a butt fuck of candles for Name of the Wind. Every time basically any shop makes a Name of the Wind candle I'm like purchase. But this is my favorite scent. So like a lot of the labels I think are this is a nice label. It's fine. Like it's fine. But it's not like an amazing label. I have some with amazing labels. But the scent, this scent is my favorite. I think she discontinued this candle and it's from Spain. Like this if you look for this shop Book and Glow you can get all the labels in English or in Spanish but they like shipped from Spain. So this cost me an arm and a leg. Smells really good. Oh so I never want to burn it because like I'm like I'll never get it again. But that's silly because like candles don't last forever. Still smells amazing. So I keep sniffing it. Ah it smells so good. What does it smell like? Spiced wine? I don't really think it smells like spiced wine. It does a bit. But it has a kind of an almondy smell. It's like spiced like mold spiced something but also almond. You know like um like a bear claw or like um what's that stuff called? The liquor. So the almond liquor. Shit what's that called? It's gonna bug me. I used to use it all the time for cooking. Like literally all the time because it made everything taste yummy. Amaretto. Yes okay. So this candle smells like mold spiced like stone fruits and cinnamon but also amaretto. It's it's amazing. That smells so good. I think actually I think what happened? I think she changed the label. I think it's no longer the way stone in. I think it's now clothed and instead of this like nice like woodsy kind of border. This is a lot of time to be talking about a candle but I think the border is now like music notes which like yeah clothes plays music but not that kind of music. Like I don't think folk ever writes down musical notes. Like musical notes to me is more like it would be like for the kingdom of bat. I feel like when you're talking about classical music. Coat? Like that's not how like a traveling musician like a lute player a bard. Like that's you don't have you know what I mean? Like it should be like a picture of a lute then. I like this label way better. Anyway I recommend this candle which you can kind of still get the scent anyway. Maybe I'll link it down below if I can find it. That seriously smells so good. I need to just light it instead of sniffing it. Okay cool let's do that. Okay so where I picked up today like where I left or where I left off last time I was reading it was um right after both um is gone through admissions and uh like just after he's finished so he's admitted now and now he's like getting his tuition settled getting a bunk to sleep in making friends whatever and just now I got through I guess the spoilery where he just got punished just got through that bit. Oh my god I was just literally grinning while I was reading it but every time like it's been too long since I've read it like I still like I'm like oh I love that book but like the memory of why it's faded and I'm like is it as good as I remember? Am I over hyping it like in my memory and then I pick it up again and I'm like yeah no it's fucking great. The writing just sucks you in I can't even every time like when I first reading it I was like 50 pages go by and like nothing happened but it was the best nothing I've ever read and like even now like I was like what's so like technically what's going on like okay it's like he he's getting his bearings it's cool it's like basically orientation like can you think of a more boring thing to read about is university orientation but it's I'm just like grinning like a fool while I'm reading it because like it's written so well in clothes character like I know people hate clothes I love clothes like he's a shit he's the smartest dumbass there is and the dumbest smartass he's just every time he does something you're like but hi and yet like because he's such like a little bragger he's such a little shit but he can walk the walk and you're like there is a time to walk the walk and it's almost never the time to walk the walk you need to like shut up grin and bear it but he is incapable of that so I just I feel like people who like the book are feel the experience of quotes friends in the book because quotes friends in the book throughout are just like man I'm with you that's frustrating man I'm with you I know what that like what inspired you to do this thing but bro like did you need to like you do know how much trouble you're in now right all of us are reading it or like yeah dude we all love you but what oh anyway I need to make more coffee I think the most appropriate thing to eat on a day when I am is stew which of course takes a bit so a bit of time I should say so I'm gonna go make some stew this is a low key my best day ever there's cool enough to where like I can be in a snuggler's water with my blanket and drinking mead in the middle of the day does not make me sweat also I don't know why I do know why um I was putting off I got like a sample case of meads from uh grown fell and havoc meadery because they combine their meads this is uh I meant to talk my name this is quick mead tangent if you like mead I recommend um but like I don't like sweets which I think I've mentioned many times and so of the flavors that it came with this is like the last one that I hadn't tried yet because I was convinced it would be disgustingly sweet and it's not I mean it is sweeter than the other ones but it tastes really yummy I honestly think it might be if not my favorite one of my favorite flavors so highly recommend the old waferer um I did order their special edition because they ran out of it and then they did a second like second wave that you could pre-order haven't had it I mean I haven't arrived yet but they have for the season I think it's still available so I'll link it down below the wild hunt um they it's like a special edition mead that they're only doing for like the holiday season it's a cranberry orange flavored with the really cool uh can and I don't think I've ever done this before as we all know I'm running off of tankards they're doing a wild hunt tankard so I ordered both I'm really excited for that anyway um yeah the music that was the perfect lunch the mead my candle and name of the wind this is low key the greatest day of my life the writing is so so so good I love it so much and my heart hurts for both already because like I know when he's gonna fuck up the first time you read it you're like I think this is not gonna go well the second time you read it you're like I know but it's so good it's so good anyway um where am I at he just uh borrowed a bunch of money that he can't afford to borrow but he got a loot so he's all set um and his friends aren't making fun of him or the lady he's spending all of his time with except it's just his loot because he's a nerd yeah but we're about to get into the den of it we're about to get to Alan's favorite part you don't know what I'm talking about one of my fellow world hoppers Alan from the library of Alan's Andrea went on a bit of a rant during one of our world hopper videos because he hates Dana like a lot so about to get to Alan's favorite part and I will think of Alan the whole time I'm reading about Dana this book is so so so so good he don't want anyone to hurt growth even though it's totally his fault that people hurt him he's so dumb I just I'm Patrick Ross's writing style it's magic most like mundane stuff I'm just wow I just sink into it the way that like I don't really sink into other anyone else's writing literally nobody else's writing do I just sink into I'm like glowing from like just the right amount of like alcohol from the meat it's like six percent so I'm just like I'm just feeling good I'm just feeling real good so I shall carry on reading and feeling great and I'll check in later for more feeling good I have not planned it this way but I have some pretty excellent timing on these vlogs because I just got some packages to unbox for you just like I did last time I'm pretty sure this is a funco that I pre-ordered and this I know is coffee and mugs from Boans Coffee because I'm totally running out of coffee totally running out of mugs either pretty sure this is Peter Pan it's Peter Pan look at all aggressive look at the aggressive face uh you're not aware I'm obsessed with Peter Pan oh all fucking day I'm gonna kill my neighbor one of these days you're gonna see it in the news you'll be like I know why this happened I don't know this I hate packing larva what is it actually called packing popcorn I like popcorn how dare they this is larva so like believe from creatively craft the bookish mugs that I rep for um she looks especially I think she normally uses this stuff uh in her other packages to other people but she knows I hate it so she'll net she won't package my mugs and stuff with packing larva I appreciate it deeply but I forget when I get packages from other people that they they use packing larva so we've got caramel apple and I think I just had the one coffee because I had just bought a bunch of coffee when they um announced these mugs so I didn't really need a lot of coffee these are their Christmas mugs and I had just bought their Christmas coffee like in my last order so I really didn't need any more two mugs gingerbread man I don't really like this coffee that much like I got their Christmas sample packs so I had like a little packet of each of the Christmas flavors my favorite Christmas flavor from Boans they discontinued this year I was like what the fuck my favorite was the Candyland Winter and Candyland something about Candyland it was the cutest label and it was the best coffee and they don't have it anymore they have all the other shitty Christmas flavors which of course I still bought because they're Christmasy but oh fudge now I can finally I ain't got the eggnog one before I can finally drink my Christmas coffee oh I am tired I was feeling antsy wait my TV's making noise I was feeling antsy and so I decided I'd do the dishes from earlier and like a bit of reorganization of my kitchen which turned into reorganizing all my kitchen cabinets and doing all the dishes from making stew and breakfast so I just finished I haven't added for like three hours still a little antsy but like I'm yeah it's almost 9 30 like it feels really good to have like purged and sorted everything in my kitchen I feel like I can breathe again so I'm really pleased but it's like forever but it'll feel so nice tomorrow morning when I wake up I go into my kitchen and it's just like all organized originally I was only gonna vlog today I'm gonna vlog tomorrow morning and afternoon to make up for tonight I guess if I could get my ass out a bit early enough I would like to go to the lake first thing in the morning and then read name of the wind alternatively wake up early early early read some of name of the wind and then go to the lake but we'll discover together what I do of course tomorrow morning at breakfast I have to use my new Christmas mugs possibly drink one of my Christmas coffees although tv qh right now I'm feeling very limbo like I'm very into prepping for Christmas oh my god also if you have watched my channel for a while then you're probably aware of my obsession with the wonder bones coffee from bones I'm obviously obsessed with bones coffee just generally but the wonder bones flavor which is a seasonal flavor so I stocked up last year and I thought I had drunk all of what I stopped up on and I bought more this year while I was reorganizing my kitchen I stumbled upon a box that was entirely wonder bones coffee I have so much wonder bones coffee like I'm not upset because I love it but it's a little insane because like I've stocked up on it see like fall seasonal flavors because those also go away so like I have a bunch of the pumpkin spice I have so I just got some more of caramel apple I have like on deck a few of my favorite flavors that I just like to have on hand because those are my go-to flavors like like french vanilla and maple bacon and high voltage which is just not flavored so like the my like staple flavors a bunch of seasonal flavors and then like an entire shelf in my cabinet now is just just wonder bones I don't think I will need to buy coffee again for many moons it's a lot anyway so that's my update for you when you know the wind is a great book I got to I'm a past halfway I got to both getting his talent pipes and seeing denna again and that's like literally where I just ended he doesn't he hasn't even like gotten talking with denna like he was like you know when he's like stumbling around the only and being like I guess I'll never find out who she was that girl who sang with me and then like the chapter ends would it be like denna it's alan's favorite part I know I'm still feeling like tired like I don't want to do any more organizing but you know like buzzing from like doing all stuff like I can't sit still yet or like I can't like sit down and read a book so I might make a cup of tea and listen to what did I do with it under the dust jacket the devil in the dark water by stewardship really like all over the place I'm a complete mess right now which just goes without saying anyway oh sorry my brain went on a tangent and you weren't going with me on it so you won't I have to explain it now this whole time I kept thinking that in my brain these two went together my plague doctor and the devil the dark water but I kept being like but why though like they don't really go together at all and I was but and every time I would look at like the book on the couch next my plague doctor I was like oh yeah and those like go together but I was like why do I keep thinking they go together they don't at all other than like that they're kind of macabre but like why does my brain keep going those are connected like every single time my brain was like that's a pair they go together that's they they match they're like and I just now figured out why while I was trying to explain to you what my plan for the evening is like I just ah ha it's because the first book not this one the first book he wrote the seven deaths of evil in hard castle there is um like a figure that frequently appears in a plague doctor mask in that book and my brain is just connecting stewart turton with the plague doctor it's funny how brains work squash plegis and I will well he can't listen to it because it's going to be headphones so they'll just be next to me while I listen to the devil dark water which I'll be honest I'm a little underwhelmed with one last thing I'm going to take my hair out and I'm kind of dying to know what it's going to look like after it's been in braids all day I haven't had my hair in braids in years I'm gonna look like Hermione Granger I might delete this footage if it looks too atrocious but let's see oh dear oh boy that is quite crypt isn't it it's not as bad as I thought it could be a lot worse it's been a lot worse if I had braided it when it was wet it would be worse it's actually not too bad I'm low key sad that I'm going to bed now because I kind of look fine time for that cup of tea that I said I was gonna have good morning no lake walk today because I woke up late believe it or not I'm actually like low key sore from my kitchen reorganization so we're just gonna have coffee and read the wind I'm leaning if I'm gonna have Christmas coffee I kind of want pumpkin spice I'm gonna be drinking pumpkin spice coffee like every single morning and pumpkin spice seems more name of the wind appropriate doesn't it you see through that or drink eggnog coffee from my eggnog mug but even though I've decorated my apartment for Christmas I'm like it will really be Christmas when I drink Christmas coffee these trees and gnomes like that's not Christmas bones coffee that's Christmas okay so I think I'm gonna just have pumpkin spice right that's what I've decided sound like that's what I've decided oh okay I'm gonna listen to where is it the devil in the dark water while I put away the dishes I left to dry last night and while I make coffee I'm not reading with the wind we'll check in with you for reading and coffee and breakfast and nope that's it okay I've made it to pay 25 of names for the wind we know we know I'm leaving off where quote was met up with then again after the wedding you know you know it's just such Patrick Roth's storytelling you just get lost in it I just I didn't even notice how much time was passing you just get lost in in living it feels like a living and breathing world I think that's what the magic of it is because all these little details about it they don't feel like like absurdly detailed info dumpy real building they feel like just part of a lived in world so much fantasy especially YA not only but a lot of it it just it glosses over so much of the day to day because unless you're Rothfist for the most part day to day stuff is boring people don't want to read about it but the day to day problems that quote that like just the fact of him trying to get to um Treven that it wasn't just like I heard this rumor and off I go to find out like he'd like to off I go to find out but it's just I mean realistically you can't there's logistics so like there's time devoted to him figuring out like how to get the money to get a horse and to get food and to get there and then what to do with the horse once he gets there and like none of that feels like why do we have all this detail like just skip that get to the interesting part because Rothfist manages to make every bit of it interesting and you just feel like you're living in this world and you're like living this life with both the good parts and the bad parts so like it's not an idealized life because like you really don't want to be living both life because it's pretty rough but it is also still like a magical world to be in and being both vicariously is an experience it is quite amazing how much noise my headphones block because I just took them off now to like wrap up with you fine folks and then realizing how much noise I've been not having to deal with from traffic and planes and yeah I think that does it for this reading vlog not quite done with name of the wind but I read it before you know where this is going of course you'll see me talk about it during me and Amanda's live show I'm anxious about that because name of the wind don't shit on my baby quilt if it don't hurt him he has suffered enough anyway yep that does it I hope you enjoyed if you didn't then I don't know why you're still watching if you did like and subscribe maybe if you want to I post videos on Saturdays other random times as well definitely Saturdays so I'll see you when I see you