 Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura and this is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video I am doing the winter essentials tag Tagged by Annalisa who is another booktuber. I will have her channel linked down below so that you can go and subscribe to her as well She tagged me right at the end of the winter season last year And I decided that because it was right at the end of the season that I would save it until it was winter the next year And it's winter of next year. There is snow on the ground as I'm filming it So even if it's not like officially past the winter solstice, it's winter. There's snow Minnesota, it just is perpetual winter. Mine is like two months So I will be doing the winter essentials tag and this was a tag created by Taylor Reads And I will have their channel linked down below as well so you can follow them and see the original video But without further ado, let's get into the tag So the first question is crackling fire Who is a cold character that you warmed up to or that warmed up? And I'm gonna go with the main character from a deadly education by Naomi Novik But this main character was very much like Doesn't care about anyone else. It's got a friend for herself It's got a lot on her plate doesn't have any friends and I didn't mind that but as the book goes along She kind of starts to open up to other people and she becomes less cold-hearted and more warm-hearted And so I thought she was a perfect character to fit this prompt number two snowflakes a book full of unique characters and I decided to go with House of Hollow by Crystal Sutherland this follows three sisters and Each of those sisters are just so unique and who they are like they're just so different from each other So they're definitely each their own snowflake and I loved it number three gingerbread family a family You would like to be a part of and I have an interesting answer for this one. I think it's interesting anyway I'm going with the inheritance games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes because it follows a girl who found out that she has inherited Everything from this billionaire in Texas and she doesn't know why but the thing is in order for her to inherit everything she has to go down and live with the family for a year this family who has just been disinherited so Honestly, I wouldn't mind being a part of this family because I mean I'd be living pretty richly up until that point And even then he gives everybody like a little chunk like this person gets like a hundred thousand This person gets like two hundred thousand and but everything for the most part goes to our main character and Honestly, I wouldn't mind being given just like a small chunk of money to go off and like do my own thing to invest it either in my Own company or you know buy my own house with it and then figure things out from there like I wouldn't mind You know, I say this as someone who is not rich and Who does not have this experience but like that life doesn't seem too bad like So I wouldn't mind being a part of that family plus I I love watching drama even if I hate being a part of it, so I Really wouldn't mind Number four Blizzard a book that confused me the whole time a Book that confused me the entire time was Catherine house and this is by Elizabeth Thomas. I Just was not understanding what The plot or purpose of this book was like I understand that this main character got into this really hard school Somehow we don't know how And There's something Sneaky going on at the school. There's something shifty happening like it's dark academia, but like I don't It just it didn't make sense and the plot points didn't make sense And the book was repetitive and it just it kind of felt like it. I skated in circles and it just kind of went everywhere, so Number five gift giving what was the most recent book you were gifted and for me That was the other side of perfect by Mariko Turk This was given to me from a friend of mine who thought I would like it because it has Dance as its main theme and I'm pretty sure she's gonna be right. I think I'm gonna love this It's about a girl who was a dancer and then she breaks her leg and it kind of ends her dancing career So she learns to fall in love with musical theater and this is definitely right at my alley So it's it was a great gift number six snowball. What is the biggest book you've read? This is such a difficult question because like I never remember What was the biggest book I've read? So I always turned to my shelf and then I'm like, does this have more pages? or does this have more pages and So I feel like every time I I answer a question like this It's always a different book But it's because I never know which one's actually bigger and I'm too lazy to check for this one I'm probably actually gonna go with Breaking Dawn. Um, it's it's pretty big. It's chunky. It's ginormous, but I finished it I mean I listened to the audiobook of it. So like The only way I was gonna get through this monster, but yeah, this this thing is huge I I know if it isn't the biggest book I've read I know it's pretty darn close Number seven wrapping paper. What is your most beat-up book and my most beat-up book is definitely Gulliver travels This was my grandfather's copy of the book. And so when he passed We were going through his things and he had boxes of books And I really wanted to keep this because I didn't have a copy of Gulliver's travels and I thought it'd be really special and Really nice to have one of the books that he had and I didn't know that he liked to read So to have that in common and to have something to remember him by that I'm gonna see on my shelf every day I like it, but because it's so old It's very beat up like Spine is the spine is almost completely come apart from all the pages So I'm I want to handle this with care with extreme care I don't I don't have a lot of books that are damaged or worn out Because a lot of my books are either new or I keep in very clean new ish condition So number eight Christmas lights a book with many colors on the cover and for this one I decided to go with everything everything by Nikola Yoon Nikola. I've heard it said both ways. I'm sorry I don't know which one is right But this has so it's mostly white and blue, but it has a lot of color here So I thought that was fun And it kind of reminds me of Christmas lights because white and blue are kind of winter colors And then you've got all the actual Christmas lights colors Number nine is ice skating and this is a book with a plot all over the place and I kind of Kind of similar to the question about a book that confused me, but I chose a different book For the sake of the video and so I kind of went with the final girl support group by Grady Hendricks. I just The plot itself wasn't all over the place. Like it was pretty straightforward There's a support group full of girls who survived slasher films type And someone then starts killing them. So it's happening all over again So our main character has to figure out who it is and put a stop to it It is a simple plot But I feel like we were just taken all over the place with this book We start off here We suspect this person so then we went to this person then we went to that person then we went over there And then we learned about this other new person So then we got to go figure out who that person is and what they have to do with the story I just felt like there's so many elements and so many red herrings that you just couldn't trust anything So it's just kind of it Got you going all over the place and it just it was it was everywhere Number 10 Christmas tree. What is one of your favorite characters? I had such a hard time With this one just choosing one character to be my favorite I tend to like a lot of the side characters in books The side characters the best friends they tend to have the personalities that I think are more interesting than the main character But I decided that the main character of this book that I have chosen is probably one of my favorite main characters I re-rose from stalking Jack the Ripper She is one of my favorite main characters. I love how she Stands up for herself and is very confident in herself and her scientific knowledge So she won't let any man tell her no because it's historical fiction You know women are like push-down, but I also love that she recognizes that she still has a lot to learn And she wants to continue growing in her skills So I think she has a very nice balance And she's very like strong-willed And I love the romance and so I think she is one of my favorite characters and finally the star What is one book you could reread every year and the I don't like rereading books I just I don't do it much But I think the one book that I said when I read it And I think it's still true that I could read every year is the Stars in April by Peggy Wargo So I read this when I was camping over Memorial weekend in May and I loved it It was it was such a good book. I just very much enjoyed everything about it It's based on a true story of one of these survivors of the Titanic And it's like short enough. It's it really was like the perfect length and the perfect story for camping Honestly, so I might make it a yearly tradition to read this book while I'm camping over Memorial weekend because camping over Memorial Weekend already as a tradition in my family So I think I might bring this book with me every year and read it every year while I'm camping Alright, thank you all so much for watching this video I hope you had fun if you did give it a thumbs up to let me know Otherwise comment down below any of your answers to this tag if you want to do it. I Tag you go right on ahead. 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