Hey guys, and welcome to week 3 of my 30
books and 30 days reading vlog. Coming at
you from my parents room. But okay, so
this week... this week is gonna be my
reading week! My hairstyle's gonna be a
wrap that my mum did for my hair. So thank
you to my mum. Shoutout to her for
lending me this head scarf. And yeah, this
week is gonna be a reading week because
I am one book behind. It's day 15 and I
read 14 books so far this month which is
absolutely amazing. That's more than I've
read every single month this year so far.
But we're aiming big here, guys. We gotta
go for the goal. So I started off this
morning by reading a hundred pages of
Cherry Crush by Cathy Cassidy. And this
is a reread for me. It's a book I read in
my childhood and as I was reading I just
kept remembering things that are gonna
happen. And it's just it's making me
really really happy if you couldn't tell by
this smile. There's gonna be some major drama
because she falls for her older
stepsister's boyfriend. So I know the
drama's coming. Can't wait. And the
synopsis -- it's not a spoiler -- but also she
has to move because it's about her
starting with her new family because her
dad has a new girlfriend. And when they
move she's like: oh, I can keep in contact
with my friends by email and MSN. Email
and MSN! Those were the days, guys. Okay,
we only have 70 pages left of this book
and I need to give a little bit of an
update. So, Shay. There's no cheating which
I'm very very impressed that they've
managed to make no cheating even though
she's falling for somebody else's
boyfriend. But Shay is always like: oh,
Cherry, you're the only one who listens
to me. I'm like, what? There's been no
chemistry! There's been no listening! But
now there is chemistry and now there is
listening after he said she was the only
one who listens, so I guess I can give them that.But I do feel like I needed to
mention that their relationship starts
off having no real chemistry. Like, they
say things have happened to make them
closer than they really are that just
haven't happened. But now they're
happening. So I really like this book. I'm
really just enjoying it and seeing the
dad and the mum work together to try and
get their chocolate box company off the
ground.
They're both really
about their passions and making it work
for them even if they have to start from
scratch. And that always is something that
really inspires me when I'm reading and
it makes me want to work harder at my
writing and at my booktubing and book
blogging, bookstagramming and all those
creative endeavors that I do as well as
uni. It just makes me feel really
passionateand  excited. So I always love
books like this and I know that the
whole series is gonna make me feel that
way. And I just need to -- I need to -- I need --
I need books like this that fuel my
motivation so that I can get somewhere
in life in the artistic way that I want
to. Hello! So I just finished reading the
chocolate --
I mean, Cherry Crush by Cathy Cassidy. I'm
not gonna say too much as I've already
talked extensively about this book.
But I really liked where it left off and
I cannot wait to continue the series.
This is my 14th book of 30 and puts me
back on track
if I finish another book today. And it
also counts for ancient runes OWLs
because it has chocolate hearts on the
cover. So that's definitely counting as
well as that. I'm 200 pages into It by
Stephen King. I'm gonna reserve my
judgment because it's just... it still
feels like the beginning even though I'm
200 pages in. This is an incredibly
slow-paced book but the writing is
incredibly detailed. Kind of like A Game
of Thrones. And I really like detailed
writing in big books. It's just something
I like even if it slows the pace way
down.
Guys, it was my turn to make dinner and I
made spinach and feta frittata. You can
tell by the different salads on the
plates that different family members like different vegetables.
Hey guys, good morning! It's day 16 and I
just wanted to do a quick wrap-up of
what happened yesterday 'cause it was quite
a lot of b-roll and not quite a bit of
me talking. So what did we do? When I
left you... oh, I worked on my short story
assignment for my short story class,
wrote a thousand word short story, edited
it, everything, handed it in. So that was
good to get all of that done. I also
worked on some work for my Australian
literature class, did all the prep I
needed for Monday's classes. That's also
done. So it was quite productive on that
front. I also read another hundred pages
of It by Stephen King while I drank a
litre of tea because that teapot can fit
a lot into it. But yeah, I am still at the
part where they're children. I really
like the characters of Eddie, Ben and
Bill. And that means I'm a quarter of the
way through this because it's about a
thousand two hundred pages. But yeah,
enjoying it so far, but it is very
detailed and slow paced. But very
creepy. Then after drinking a litre of
tea I proceeded to do my yoga flow and I
felt very stretched and relaxed
afterwards. And then I started to read
some more and I read a few pages Wizards of Earthsea.
The first book of Earthsea which is The Wizard of Earthsea. And I'm reading these
four Le Guin Along. This is a bind up of
the first four books but I'm not gonna
read all four this month. Just the one so that I can do the live
show. I read 28 pages which is not much
but I proceeded to fall asleep after 28
pages. And I'm just gonna go because it's
only 166 pages long but the font is
quite small, so there's quite a lot of
words on page. But I'm gonna go read the
other 166 or whatever pages and finish
this right now this morning. Hello!
Welcome to in bed Olivia. Cramps have
happened today
and when cramps happen my focus is
completely shot through. And I'm not
really good at doing anything other than
watching the same film that I've watched
a billion times because that's what I do
when I'm in pain. But I'm okay now.
I'm getting by. I've read some more of A Wizard of Earthsea. I'm actually almost finished and
forty pages away from the end. And I do
enjoy it. It's not the most exciting book
and that's because it's a classic. So
it's got that kind of slow fantasy
feel to it kind of like Lord of the
Rings but then it's far better than the
Lord of the Rings. Best way I can describe this is the
fantasy side of Lord of the Rings with
it only focused on wizards, combined
with The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Because while more stuff happens in this
one and there's more stakes and such, I
also feel like it's really about this
wizard, who goes on a journey and he
learns along his journey. By doing the
wrong things but he learns. So that's
kind of how I'm feeling about this one.
Don't think I'm gonna get much done
today other than just reading this
because my mind's just a little bit not
focused.
Hello, I think you can tell I'm somewhat
better by the fact that I decided to get
up and get dressed again. And I'm out of
pajamas. But I wanted to tell you that I
finished aAWizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin and I really did
enjoy this one. I feel like it's not
gonna be a book for everyone because as
is all classic fantasy, it's quite slow. And in the end while it was climatic to
me and I felt like it dealt with the
themes very wel.l I feel like to some
people who like things to be a bit more...
I don't know how to say this but physical
with their plot will find the end a bit
anti-climatic.
But for me it worked well and I really
did enjoy this book. I feel like it's got
a lot of like, deeper themes stirring
under the surface. And it's so quotable.
So I really did enjoy it and I'm looking
forward to reading the rest of these
with Le Guin Along. So my plan for today...
it's now 4 p.m. so it's quite late and
all my plans for today are out of the
window. I do need to start -- This is my
15th read out of 30 so now I'm halfway
through my challenge 16 days in. And it
also means I passed my history of magic
owls because it deals -- because it deals
with wizards and you needed to read
something with sorcerers or wizards which this
definitely has. That
replaces The Sorcery of Thorns because I
don't know if I'm actually gonna finish
that one this month. We'll see if I get
back in the mood to continue reading
that one. I need to start a book for class and that is
Manfred by Lord Byron which I believe is
another play. And that's gonna deal with
like, good and bad and grief. Which are
all things that I really like and it's
gonna be a bit gothic and dark. So I'm
looking forward to reading that play. I'm
going to make apple crumble tonight
because I want apple crumble which is
essentially why I'm gonna be making it.
I'm back! This has been quite a talky day
so I'm sorry for that but I just
finished Manfred by Lord Byron. And I
have to say this was just an okay read for me. If you are gonna start reading Lord
Byron I recommend you actually start
with Cain rather than Manfred. But it was
interesting reading this edition of
Manfred. I had two endings. So act 3:
there's the unedited version and then
there's the edited version. I did prefer
the edited version because it felt like
Manfred was choosing his own pathway.
Let me just leave it at that; no spoilers. But in the other version it felt kind of
out of character, what he ended up doing. And I didn't really like that as much
so in this case I do prefer the edited
version. And that play took me like, an
hour to read. And I read acts 3 twice but
different versions so it's a really
quick read. That's done. That's my 16 out
of 30 reads. It doesn't count towards my
owls or anything. But that means I'm
caught up because it's day 16 and I've
read 16 books so to get ahead I'm gonna
read some more of It before I go to
sleep. But I don't think I'm gonna do
much more reading than that. It's just
making a crumble and relaxing and
watching the lecture for the rest of the
night.
Hi guys! So it's almost 3:00 a.m. and I'm reading
Falling Fast by Sophie Mckenzie. Because it's for my owls but you have
to read one while it's mostly dark. Doesn't mean do it at one AM but I
was down and out with cramps all
yesterday evening, didn't get much done
after that last check in with you guys,
so I kind of slept all evening and then
night time happened and I'm awake. But
let's talk about this book. Outrageous! I
just can't believe that this is the
thing that I grew up reading and I
turned out okay. Like, I believe I turned
out okay. Because this is just sending
me all the wrong signals. So first of all
her name is River and she's like: oh my
gosh, everybody doesn't understand my
name when I say it the first time and
they ask me how to spell it? Stereotyping her friends... she's actually --
she thinks really meanly about her
friends . Why are they her friends if she
thinks all these mean things about them? Okay, so I read over half of
Falling Fast so I guess I finished a
prompt because I've read more than half
to be able to sleep?? Oh good morning! And
welcome to day 17. We already were on
day 17 but we're going with it. So I just
finished reading Falling Fast by Sophie
McKenzie and boy, was this a wild ride. It had ups and downs and I'm gonna try
and talk more about it in my wrap-up
because I have a lot of thoughts on this
one. I feel like the beginning was not
good and then the second half of the
book got a lot better and it dealt with
the themes in a much better manner.
Although the character still says some
questionable things and all of that jazz. I
have problems with it. That said I'm now gonna work on
editing a video. Got my laptop that says
Adam Parrish because I am a Raven Cycle
nerd. But I'm gonna edit a book haul that
I would like to post ideally today. I
need to get back on top of my video game
again. And then I've got Bible study
which will happen at 12 to 2 p.m. Gonna eat food and then while my video
is exporting from my editor and then
uploading to YouTube which takes like an
hour here because the internet is not
that great with uploading stuff here at
home, I'm gonna be reading or starting
Rebel by Marie Lu. Thank you to Sydney
Stories for gifting me this. So excited
to delve back into the Legend world and
see what's waiting for me. Yep,
dust jacket being removed. We know the
drill here: no dust jacket when you're
reading a hardcover book! At least for me.
I'm so excited. Day 17 has been going well. Forgot to
mention because I always forget these days
forget to mention this was book 17 out of
30 so I am bang on track. And it also
counts for my owls as I read most of it in
the night. Going through my planner to
find out what owls prompt it counts for.
Astronomy! I have graduated from
astronomy class. Who keeps telling Marie
Lu that it's a good idea to put coloued font in her books. No it is not! We do not
want to read purple font.
We are the muses. Goddesses of the arts, and proclaimers of heros.
Heroes like Hercules. Honey, you mean Hunkles! Ooh, I'd like to make some sweet music from that. Our story actually begins long before Hercules, many eons again.
Then along come Zeus. He hurled thunderbolt. Simone off screen: OH NO. OLIVIA. NOT FUNNY. Olivia: How you feeling sis?
Simone? Simone! You're on camera. Simone: you can't use that. Olivia: I'm gonna use it.
Simone, what are we watching? Turn and face them. Simone: Coach Carter.
Hey guys, and welcome to day 18. I have
just been feeling really mellow today.
That's just the word of the day today
mellow. I've done nothing all day but
read so I finished Marshmallow Skye by
Cathy Cassidy. And I had such good taste
as a child reading this series because
it's just making my heart so happy and I
kind of want to go back and read all of
her books from my childhood so. What I
liked in this book was the fact that it
wasn't so romance centered because even
though everybody around her is getting
into romance, she is not about that life.
And it's about how you can grow up in
different ways than just falling in love
and all of that jazz. And it was just so
nice to have a character who loves
history so much. While the end did get a
bit too fairytalely for me. Just at that
last two pages, just might a bit too far. So that is my 18th book out of 30.
Soesn't count for owls or anything. What
am I gonna do now?
I think I'm just going to do some chores,
do some cleaning. When I'm feeling mellow
I really like to just do practical
hands-on work where I can listen to
music and not focus on anything else. Maybe another cup of tea, some of the leftover apple
crumble... grapes. Sounds like a good plan
to me.
Hey guys, it's time for a bit of an
update. Once I started cleaning I just
couldn't stop. I switched over to do
ironing and then once all the ironing
was done I made dinner with my mum and
we made burritos. So we made everything
they need for the inside of the burrito. Had a little impromptu dance party to
Lionel Richie because he is the best. And
then I started to draw and I can't show
you what I'm drawing because I know that
my sister sometimes watches these videos
and she requested that I draw her
something for her birthday. She already
knows she's gonna get something so
that's no surprise for her. But yeah, I've
just been drawing. I only draw once a
year and it's been a bit rough getting
back into it. I did three failed ones but
I'm now onto the final and it's going
well. And while I was doing all of this
today I listened to an audiobook and I
started and finished The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan Doyle. Which is the last
Sherlock Holmes novel that I needed to
read and my second last Sherlock Holmes
book that I need to read until I read
all of the Sherlock Holmes stories. I
didn't think The Valley of Fear was
amazing. I thought the first part was
good. It read just like usual Sherlock
Holmes mysteries. And it was interesting
enough but then the second part was kind
of a history of all of this jazz that we
didn't necessarily need. And I felt like
the book could have just been the first
part and started and finished there,
summarized everything that happened in
part two and it would have been
wonderful. It just dragged on too long in
my opinion. So I'm actually quite happy
because that is my 19th book out of 30
and that means I am a day ahead the
first time ever. But it's good because
the next book I want to read , well... that
might take me two days. I'm just shooting
some YouTube videos about airpods. The
original airpod and airpod pro about
how it fits into the ear and the
different attachments you could make to
get a benefit. And what are your social
media? What are you known as? Social Jedi on --
Social Media Jedi so you'll find me as Social Media Jedi on You Tube.
Hello, it's day 20. What happened to day
19 you might ask?
Day 19 never happened. It was a horrible
day full of cramps and then I had night
classes so nothing much happened. Didn't
do much except cry on my own so we're
gonna go from day 20 onwards. And it is
now 12 which is midday. I spent all
morning reading and I've started reading
Six of Crows which a lot of you guys are
very excited for me to read. I'm a
hundred and fifty pages in and this 500
pages so that's a bit over a quarter of
the way in. And I'm liking it a lot. I
really like the world because Ketterdam is literally the Netherlands but
with magic. So I'm kind of glad that I'm
in the Netherlands while I'm reading -- I'm
kind of glad I'm in the Netherlands
while I'm reading it because it feels
like I'm at home
but magical. I'm not convinced by any of
their ages. I'm sorry. They are not as old
as they are because they talk as if
they're much older than that. And I know
they've seen a lot of things and done a
lot of things in life but I feel like
they're essentially adults in adult
bodies but then they just say that
they're 15 or younger. And it's just like
no no no. They are adults. They are just
adults.
I don't read as much today and
that's because I had night classes so
then the next day I'm pretty exhausted
and tired. And I did a lot of reading
this morning and I finished Burning
Bright by Sophie McKenzie and I did not
like this book. It's more of the same as
the first book but it is worse. This is
the sequel to Falling Fast and I'm
telling you these teenagers are out of
control. They don't respect their parents.
Flynn is just terrible now, he's off the
handle. He's angry at everything and he's
actually dangerous to be around.
Their relationship is so toxic. River
only thinks about him; is terrible to her
parents and to her friends. And to
literally everyone. She is the worst. And
they are just terrible characters and
they're doing terrible things and they
are not thinking about anybody else. The ending was decent. They made some
good choices at the end. However, it
doesn't justify everything that went
wrong and they didn't really address
everything that went wrong about this
book. So I kind of just
hated it. I've been thinking about continuing the
rest of the series and whether I want to
continue or not because it might be a
bit painful to do so. But I just cannot
believe that younger me read this series
and was digging it back in the day. Like, younger me didn't have any taste. However,
to cheer myself up from reading such a
bad book I'm going to reread another
childhood one that I know I will enjoy
and thats Summers Dream by Cathy Cassidy.
I've been loving this series and I have
about an hour and 15 minutes until I'm
gonna have a group call with two of my
friends so I am going to make a nice cup
of tea and read as much of this as I
possibly can. And then afterwards I'm
just gonna keep reading because once
I've had night classes I let myself not
study for the rest of the day because
I'm pretty tired. And also I don't have
to with the way my schedule works. So woop woop. And another reason I didn't film was
because my sister's stairlift was being
put into the house yesterday.
We've disinfected it and everything but
I will make sure I show you her using
that swanky stuff. But it was quite loud
so I couldn't really film this morning.
What are we doing right now? Simone: playing uno. Olivia: who do you think
is gonna win? There's only one right
answer. It's me.
Good morning and welcome to day 22 of
this reading vlog!
I am currently reading Summers Dream and
I have just about 60 pages to go. Her
parents divorce and also her parents new
relationship is also very much the
forefront of this novel. I'm feeling some
type of way about this one because
Summer really wants to be a ballerina
she's aspiring towards that. She's
working so hard and I relate to her
feeling of ambition and wanting to do
your creative endeavor that people say
it's not really a good career choice. I
also really relate to her being labeled
as perfect and seen as always in control,
good time management, able to do
everything. And then when it comes to
asking people for help she doesn't want
to break that image. That is something
that I fall into quite a bit. I know I
need to get over that. The eating
disorder side of things is really at the
forefront at the moment. It's getting
quite emotional and it's like, it's
affecting me. Okay, it's affecting 21 year
old me reading this so younger me
reading this... I would just love to go
back and know what I thought about it then. But I think this might be my favourite
one in the series so far.
Wow it's been 50 minutes and I finished
the book. This is honestly my favourite in
the series. It really does delve into the
eating disorder thing but it also did a
very good job of delving into the
divorce side of things because while the
other characters... I'm not gonna say they
took the divorce in their stride or they
took this new family combining in their
stride -- definitely not, especially with
Honey. Definitely not. But in this one you
really get some of her conflicting feelings
on the whole matter and it was just -- it
was hitting me hard. I've never had
to experience a divorce, I never had to
experience the eating disorder, but both
sides of this this book were just really
getting me so emotional. Just so deep and
it felt so raw and honest and I'm just a bit
shake it up actually. Hi,
so it's afternoon time and I'm gonna
start reading Airhead: Runaway which is
the book that the random numerator chose.
I would have just unhauled this but a
random numerator to chose it because I read
the first two books like, over 10 years
ago. And then this came out in 2010 and that's when I bought it.
But I haven't read iit since and I have to
be honest, although my memory of books is
very very good generally speaking. It's
not ten years good. So I just read the
synopses on Wikipedia for books 1 & 2
because I'm not gonna have time to
reread them before I start on this
endeavor. And the story plot sounds
absolutely insane. I remember thinking
it's so good and when I read it. I was so
convinced and really enjoyed it. However, like, reading it on Wikipedia
just makes me realise how crazy the
story actually is. So I think it's one of
those series where when you read it, it
makes more sense and it was good and
that's the biggest memory I have. Just
loving this series. It's gonna be
interesting reading this third one after
all this time but I'm curious to see what
I'm gonna make out of it. Gonna smash
through some of this now. Got a writing
session with my sister later and then
it's dinner time.
Okay guys, so it's evening time. It's just
pproaching 9:30 but I've read halfway
through Airhead Runaway and all I can
say is that this book is another one of
my childhood ones that's not exactly
holding up. It's absolutely insane and
crazy. But sort of in a ridiculous way
and our main character is very two-faced.
She says things and judges people for
certain things but then she has the same
thoughts herself. It talks about feminism
but then she's like: I need to protect my
boyfriend's fragile masculinity. And it's
just it's really like, two-faced.
Everything is two-faced and the plots
just out-of-this-world ridiculous. Dinner
was a success tonight. I made some pork
steak with some fancy toppings and stuff.
I spent about an hour talking to my
sister. I worked out today. I got a lot of
things done but I just haven't been in
the mood for vlogging and I've been told
on Twitter not to force vlogging when I'm
not in the mood. But I have been in the
mood to talk about what I've been
reading so you've just been seeing a lot
of reading snippets back to back. But
I've planned what my next hairstyle will
be for my next week. And we've got some
very exciting things happening in my
final vlog especially as a certain
someone turns 18. And I'm gonna be
reading lots of books because I gotta
get there! So I'm gonna read as much of
this as I can tonight but I'll give you
my update in my next video. Thank you so
much for watching this one. Week three, we're
almost there. Next vlog you should see me
finish Six of Crows, finish It by Stephen
King and read the rest of the books that
I need for my last three owls, and also
to make thirty books in 30. Please let me
know in the comment section down below
what is the last book you read and
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