 Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video. I'm finally back. So here's a life update and kind of going forward a bit. I'm on vacation and I pre-filmed a whole bunch of videos to go while I was on vacation and then that way I wouldn't have to like take a break from YouTube because then I would come back and keep filming. That was the intent. I did not intend to take a couple months of a break but things got very busy and very hectic because we moved from one state to another state and went on a two-month vacation almost all at the same time pretty much. So we moved our entire lives from Minnesota to back home to our current state and within a week we left for Europe and we were there for two months. So I'd pre-filmed a bunch of videos. Those went up but then when we got back we started jobs and school immediately and then also had to unpack but not unpack too much because we're actually in the process of buying a house which is crazy. I know but that takes up a lot of time and a lot of energy and so we just have a lot going on. We're constantly living in a state of partly packed and trying to move forward with this house so that we can have our own space again because right now we are with my parents and so it's a very transitional time. That's not to say I haven't been reading. This cute little stinger keeps adjusting the camera. I've been reading a lot. My Goodreads goal for this year was 100 books and that's what it is every year and I am currently at 119. So I have, do you need help there? Do you need help there sweetie? Okay. I have surpassed my Goodreads goal by quite a bit. I mean all that traveling I did a lot of listening to audiobooks which really helped and I haven't been physically reading as much but I am getting back into it. So I don't really know what my posting schedule will look forward, look like going forward. I do want to get back to posting two videos a week that honestly might be something that happens after we move into our house which hopefully will be in like a month. Who knows? It's a process here in the States. It is quite the process. So that is kind of the update portion. Life is busy. I'm gonna do my best but I don't plan on leaving Booktube and I'm still reading a lot and I'm adjusting to being back at school while working part-time and just having home life responsibilities. So but I have been reading. This is currently my TBR cart and it's kind of all the books that I have unpacked at the moment which is really sad but you know you make do with what you can. So for example I am currently reading Murder in the Family by Kara Hunter. This is a book that my international sister told me about and so we are actually buddy reading it together. It is about I mean you're literally trying to solve the case and I mean that as in this is about a TV show who's taking a cold case from years ago and is filming episodes trying to actively solve it. So we are reading manuscripts, we are doing interviews like almost like we are creating the TV show and the reader is actively trying to figure out who did it before you come to the end of the book and the TV show finds out who did it. So I'm very much at the beginning of this I think it's perfect for spooky season the weather just turned really cold so it's perfect sweater weather with a murder mystery and a hot cup of tea is what it is. A couple other books that I got recently and I might be able to do a proper book haul soon just because as I buy books they stay out they don't get put in boxes so I can update you on what I bought especially because I've read a lot of what I've bought but I got Home Before Dark by Riley Sager because I'm going to start reading his books. Finally I've been wanting to do it for forever and I just haven't but I also got The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. The fourth book of this just came out and I've had my eye on this literally since the first book came out so I'm going to act on this especially since this is like an old lady club solving cold cases and then I think there's like a new murder at their little old lady place and they start to investigate so a lot of like spooky season I do I miss doing my spooky season extravaganza I had it all planned out for this year and they just never never acted on it but this year is just a year of like murder mysteries but I do have I have read a couple of vampire books and stuff like that so yeah like I've got books out to read um I actually read this one and this one already so yeah like I this might be a very short video because it's just an update and it's a return to booktube but yeah I am I have content planned and hopefully now that my schedule has come down a little bit I will actually have time to film and edit so stay tuned more is coming and until I see you all in the next video I wish you happy reading