 Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel, I hope you are well and today I'm coming at you with one of the most exciting announcements ever. So sorry to be, yeah, seriously, but this is the dream. A lot of you have already heard rumblings about this so you knew this was coming but I am hosting a read-along for the Winter Night trilogy by Catherine Arden. This is one of my favourite series ever and it's just so perfect for a read-along for the winter months and I read this before I had my booktube channel and so I really wanted to reread it again and share it with all of you and we can all read it together and I'm just, my voice is cracking up, I'm so excited. The first of the series is The Bear and the Nightingale which is the most well-known one but we are going to be reading one book a month starting in November so we are going to be reading The Bear and the Nightingale in November, The Girl in the Tower in December and The Winter of the Witch in January and there's going to be a live show at the end of the month where we can discuss everything together and talk about our experiences with the book, hopefully loving it and everyone giving it five stars. Wishful thinking, you're a dreamer, you dream a lot in your sleep. I am just so excited to finally do this with all of you guys. I really want everyone to read this series, I feel like it's such an underrated series, I just can't wait for you all to experience it if you haven't already or reread it with me. If you've read it before come join me on a reread because I am just so excited. This is about a young girl named Vasya who lives in Old Russia and she soon discovers that she is able to understand sorcery and magic and is able to talk to the house spirits and is just able to connect to that old magic of Russia. There is this kind of dark force growing in power in the woods nearby Vasya's home. She lives in this very small community in the middle of the kind of the woods and it's all set in the snow so it will all be surrounded by snow the whole time we're reading this which I'm really excited for because the first time I read this series I read it in the middle of summer so I'm really excited to actually read it when it's cold and we really see Vasya growing power throughout this series so in this one she's trying to save her town in this one she's trying to save like her city and this one she's eventually trying to save the world. I just think this series is incredible magical whimsical cold with the winter but like warm as well it's just so good. She's an icon she's a legend and she is the moment now come on now. So good I can't wait to read this with all of you it's gonna be absolutely amazing and I'm so excited to just be able to encounter this story again. So yeah the live show will be towards the end of the month or just the beginning of the next month thereabouts and I'm going to be joined by some lovely co-hosts for this read-along who are Riley Marie Aaron from Booked and Busy and Nicole from the Colt and her book so make sure you subscribe to them all down below. I am so happy that they all are going to do this with me they are all channels that I love they're like pretty much my favorite channels I just think they're the perfect people they're all going to bring different kinds of expertise to the read-along. I have made a Goodreads group which you can go and join down below for the read-along and I'm going to break each book up into like three or four parts roughly and that way we can discuss the book together as we read along but without spoiling it for ourselves so like we can discuss the first like nine chapters or something without spoiling the end of the book but still discuss as we go along and talk about all the nuances throughout the story so I'm so excited for that. Also make sure you go follow the Twitter that I've made down below this is going to be the place to get updated on all of the live shows and stuff like that and I'm also going to be hosting some sprints as the month goes along occasionally probably like once a week just to kind of chill out and check in with the mother and see how we're doing or who read it even if you've finished it already in the month just read whatever you're reading along with us but I think it's just a way to like stay connected even more. Let me know down below if you are going to be joining me I want as many people to join me as possible I'm so excited. I would really recommend the physical book for this I mean I haven't read it audibly but a big part of how I was able to understand this book and a part of the world building is a glossary at the back which will teach you about all the different kind of old Russian words that are used in this and I think it's kind of like a key part of it. You rude how you want to read I just think the glossary is a really key part of the world building. I can't wait to dive into this world of snow and old magic and house spirits and a young girl figuring out her place in the world. I can't wait to dive into all of it with you I'm really excited. I hope you can join me make sure you go check out the Goodreads group and the Twitter down below and I will see you very very soon bye