 at him pretty pretty hey me too touching his paw he doesn't really like me doing that hi how to get scratched um so it is Monday not sure the exact day I think the 18th but so far for reading nothing's happened but it's fine so I I'm reading my new crush gave to me this is a light YA holiday romance I am I am 63 pages in and I like it it's fun it's fluffy very predictable like I didn't even read the back but I know what's gonna happen because it's from it like I just it's predictable which I mean it's why it contemporary they're kind of all predictable but then I read the back and I'm like oh it just says it right on the back but I mean I still knew it so yeah I hope to read more about before bed I currently have stuff to do so it is 9 o'clock and I took a nap today because I slept like a few hours last night so I came home and I nap for a while so it's currently 9 I have been up for a while I have a video currently uploading that you can't see this one's uploading like it's gonna be scheduled and then I have another one that just finished rendering so those are all the videos that I have film that I have to edit yeah so it's done safe complete yay so that's done so I'm gonna start editing vlog tonight just cuz I want to get ahead on video stuff and I just finished replying to Goodreads messages and business emails so those are done which is great I always like getting ahead on that stuff I'm just excited because Christmas is a week from today so that's super exciting um so yeah I'll see you guys tomorrow hey guys sorry for not updating you yesterday but today is Wednesday and I have a few updates for you guys so I just didn't vlog yesterday just cuz I was in a bad mood and I was like if I come on camera I'm gonna be super bitter so I didn't but today I'm a little bit better so I thought why not and so for a reading update I did end up finishing my new crush game to me Shani Petroff or Shanae Petroff something like that um this is just a cute holiday romance story and it's about this girl who basically has a full proof plan to get this guy that she wants for Christmas to go to this party with because you need to bring a date and that's what this story is about I really liked this I could relate in ways to the main character about her schedules her plans I'm very much like that too and how not leaving things up to fate and just being like if I want this I'm gonna go get it or I'm gonna plan to go get it so that's kind of I could relate to it and I've never really read about a character like that before the writing was solid just a story was very cute like I really enjoyed it I think I'm gonna give it around like a 3.5 or 3.75 it was a really fun Christmas read so I suggested for that then in the mail I got sent illustrated poems and this is by Scott M. Meener I'm so bad with names you ever contacted me and wanted to send me his book in exchange for an honest review and basically this is a bunch of poems you gave me a little note in here too which is really sweet basically it's a bunch of illustrated poems that are from a bunch of different illustrators all around the world which is really freaking cool artist information yeah so there's people from Italy from South Carolina from Czech Republic from Taiwan California Australia Nevada Spain Romania London Victoria Canada like that's so cool so this is just an example honestly it's so pretty the only thing I'm worried about is like some of the cursive thought well not this one this one I can read but some of it I'm just a little worried how eligible it's gonna be I mean I can read cursive pretty well actually I think I should be good just there was a few there was one page that I was a little worried about but I'm really excited to read and review this you guys know I love my poetry so I am excited to give this one a read yeah see I can read this sort of but also on one hand not really but once I look at it closer I'll be able to see it properly but yes I'm very excited for this this is really pretty I think I'm gonna read this for Kramathon I'm gonna read it randomly at some time this week I don't really know but I'm really excited about it so yes it's so it is Thursday I just finished filming about four videos so I'm tired but I thought I'd give you guys a reading update so I told you guys I finished my true love gave to me my new crush gave to me and I read something last night so I'm gonna talk about it a little so I wasn't planning on reading this right away but I ended up starting and finishing the illustrated poems by Scott M. Menner meaner something like that um so again thank you to the author for setting this to me for exchange for an honest for in exchange for an honest review and I did end up really liking it I'm not sure of an exact star rating at the moment so what I did in the book was the yellow ones are my favorite don't like my favorite poems and then the orange is my favorite illustrations so some again have both I definitely had some favorites in here I didn't love every single poem and I thought a few of them are kind of just traditional but there was some good ones in here the only thing I'd say is if you're if you can't read cursive or certain types of calligraphy you might have trouble like a few of them I had trouble reading just font like I put a bunch of sticky notes in here saying stuff but just font like this I could not read for the life of me well this one was okay I actually could read that one a little bit my favorite by far was this page with the illustration and the poem so pretty I love this so much this one was another favorite sonics I love this one was really good too overall there's a beautifully made book like look at these illustrations dang so I really love that about this book as well just again there was just a few like yeah this is beautiful too yeah this was beautiful there was just so many in here that I really loved blue bird blues was really good too this illustration oh my god so pretty like I was astounded by some of these the only thing is this calligraphy with this image I cannot read this girl I cannot read this like I could not read this so if you have trouble reading cursive you're gonna have trouble here this book which I'm usually good at reading cursive but this type of calligraphy I couldn't read it like honestly it hurt my eyes but other than that it was full of beautiful illustrations and poems so I don't know I think I'm gonna give it around a 3.5 or 3.75 I did really like it so I definitely would suggest picking it up I think it's a beautiful book and it's really well done and I love how so many artists contributed to this and I think some of the poems are really solid and really lyrical and some of them rhyme it's just beautiful hey guys it is now Saturday so I apologize for not updating it's been a bit but um I just wanted to say that well one happy holidays this video is going up on Christmas Eve so I'm editing it tonight and putting it up for tomorrow morning so I really hope you guys are having a fantastic day if you're watching it the day of and that you just have a fantastic Christmas if you celebrate but yeah I hope just you're having a great time and I know I mentioned it in the video that's gonna go up on Christmas but just thank you guys so much for everything this year and I'm really excited for content in the new year so thank you so much for all your support we just hit a K so thank you phone it means the world to me so thank you and I just want to give you guys a reading update so by the end what is today today Saturday so by Christmas I'm I will probably have finished my current read which is the afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand and I am on page I'm I have like a hundred pages left I'm on page I'm on page 287 so I just have that little bit to go and I really like it so far it's actually like I might do a review on it when I finish it but I'm actually really really liking it like it's really interesting it's not what I thought it's a Christmas Carol retelling but that's all I knew about it so there's kind of more to it there's a romance involved which I'm all for so it better there better be a happy ending or else I'm going to be angry but yes so that was my reading update so basically I finished two books and three quarters of one so almost three books this week which I'm pretty happy with especially because the week's technically not over but yes let me know what you guys read this week and how your Christmas is went and all that in the comments how your Christmas Eve is going I know like maybe not a lot of people are gonna be watching this the day of the day it goes up but if you are thank you and comment a star down below if you're watching it on Christmas Eve cool um oh and look at my cat okay me ready hi Ray that is my camera strap no no no no no thank you