Hey guys and welcome to Olivia's
Catastrophe! You're here for the second
part of my OWLs reading vlog and also my
30 books in 30 days reading vlog. I've
had a pretty productive morning. I
couldn't sleep last night so I did a lot
of reading and I just finished When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon. Trying
to get you to see the cover. And it was
just it was fantastic. It was so cute and
I was smiling so hard by the end of this. So I'm so happy I finally read it. All of
you guys who kept pushing me to read it:
you were right,
I loved it. And I need to read more books
by this author. I want to say thank you
to Gaia Athena for buddy reading this
with me because it was so much fun to
read that with you. So this is day 8 and
that is my seventh out of 30 books. I
need to get reading and read some more
but I've got quite a lot of books that I
am currently reading and have been
progressing with. So let me show you those and
then we'll just get on with the day. Simone,
what did I do in your room
before we're doing what we're doing now?
Simone: Exercise.
Yes, I did a long workout and then what
did I forget to do throughout it? Simone: vlog. Olivia: yeah,
but that's okay because what are we doing
now? Okay yeah, but tell me what are we
watching. Simone: Merlin.
Olivia: And that is who Simone thinks is the
hottest character... Simone: what??
What're we doing this morning? Mum: we're going for an early morning walk at seven in the morning.
Olivia: nice and
early... Good morning, guys! So as you could
just see it is day 9 and I woke up at 7
a.m. and did a 3.5km long walk with my
mum before there were too many people
outside and it was too busy. So yesterday
I got very very sidetracked. I spent the
whole day just chilling with my sister. We
watched Merlin, we had some really great
conversations and it was just a lot of
fun. But I do need to crack on with some
uni work and actually crack on with some
reading because I'm quite behind on this
challenge. So I'm trying to dedicate
today and tomorrow to finishing my
assignment and then I want to have two
days where I kind of do nothing but read
and get ahead on this reading challenge.
And maybe read through one of my entire
middle grade series that is on my TBR. I am
truly just dressed up for me, myself
and I today. And I've been slacking with
booktube. I haven't been watching that
much but I did a bit of a commenting
spree yesterday and I also haven't put
out a video. I skipped my Monday video
I'm gonna put up one out on Thursday and
then maybe you're gonna get back-to-back
videos. I haven't decided 'cause I did have
a lot planned for this month. But yeah,
I'm just going to keep studying -- keep
studying -- keep working on getting that
video out for you guys now. I've done the
subtitles so it's just tags and the links
and all of that jazz. And then I read
yesterday, half of The Master Builder
which is the final play I have on my TBR
by Henrik Ibsen. And I want to finish
that today and then tell you my thoughts
on that and start another book probably...
some of my buddy reads that weren't on
my TBR but they are happening anyway.
Hey guys, apologies for the weird lighting
but I just want to give you a bit of a
reading update. It's still the same day
but it's later in the afternoon and I've
mostly just spent today chilling with
family, reading and doing some paperwork
for getting refunds for things like my
Australian health insurance seeing as I
won't be using it for the full duration
of time and things like that. So yeah,
still doing a lot of paperwork despite
having been back for about two weeks. But
I did do some reading. I read 93 pages of
The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi and this
is something that was sent to me by
Panmacmillan Australia right
before I left. This is a very
interesting concept about sin eaters that
did used to exist before and I'd never
heard of them. And I'm buddy reading this
with the feminist bookworm on Instagram. So the first 93 pages were really
interesting and the concept is really
developed. And it's just explained in a
very clear way. I really feel for the
main character already, for the situation
that she's in. And I really like the
writing style. I'm so intrigued to see
where this one is gonna go and 93 pages
is a little bit under a third of the
book so that's actually quite a lot for
the first day. But we're
trying to read this within about a week. And then I also finished reading The
Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen which is
the last book in this collection of his
plays that I have to read. So now this
whole book is finished and The Master
Builder was such an interesting play. It
was quite deep and dark and it really
explored the theme of grief which if
you've been around here for a while you
know that something I am very interested
in reading about. And the way it
portrayed the master builder and how we
get a different opinion and feeling on
him and his personality with every
single character we meet who shares a
perspective on him really blew my mind. So that was a very interesting book and
I'm looking forward to developing my
thoughts on that one a bit more. I'm now
gonna spend the rest of the evening
ironing. And ironing is something that I
find very therapeutic and calming to do. And I'm looking forward to just relaxing.
And while I iron I'm going to be
starting my first audio book for the
month and that is going to be one of the
Sherlock Holmes audiobooks. Not sure
which one I'm in the mood for first but
I will be getting back to you with my
reading progress. On another walk. Another
morning walk.
Hey guys, so it's the 10th of April and
it's Good Friday. So this is day 10 and I
just finished listening to The Return of
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
and I really really enjoyed it. I'm
always so happy when I find Sherlock
Holmes book that I can really enjoy because
there's no racism in it. 'Cause I have to
admit so many of them have racism in
them but this one was completely racism
free and I was able to enjoy the
mysteries. I do find that I don't like
them as much as Agatha Christie. I just
can't help comparing the two. And that's
because Agatha Christie gives you all
the clues so then you can have fun
trying to guess who it is. But
Sherlock, he doesn't like to give you all
the clues. He likes to keep things secret
so he can have a grand reveal without
giving you a clue so you can't always
guess who has done it. I mean, in some
cases I was able to guess who did it but
not how they did it. So I did really
enjoy listening to this. I managed to
inch up my audiobook speed which is
usually at 2 times speed 2.3 speed. That helped. But I still was listening to
the audiobook for about 6 hours which
means I did 6 hours worth of ironing!
Which you can't really see. Thanks my
family for always having so many clothes
ready for me to iron. So that's 9 out of
30 books. So I'm still a book behind but
I'm doing just fine, just pretty tired
today. Gonna go write my essay now and
read some more for The Sin Eater because I've
got to read my buddy read chapters
So Mamma Mia 2 and bananagram is over but
now I have my glass of wine and I also
have my current read. Which I just
started, which is Prince Caspian. I'm
already a third of the way through. Not
sure you're supposed to pair a middle
grade book with a glass of wine but I'm
doing it anyway. And we're just going to
read the evening away.
Hey guys, so it's day 11 and I've just
been having a bit of a chill day. I
haven't been too active and talkative. I'm just been taking things at my own
pace which is also perfectly fine. So
it's day 11 and I'm finally caught up
because last night I started and finished
Prince Caspian by CS Lewis. And I really
enjoyed it overall. Like, I do have a bit
to say about the beginning but I'll save
that for my wrap-up. But overall I really
did enjoy this and reading this just
made me want to re-watch the two movies
of Narnia that I like. Which are the Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince
Caspian. We can just forget about the
voyage one. I've also been reading a lot
of the Sin Eater by Megan Campisi and I
just, I really like it. We are over 2/3 of the way in, I believe. We've
got like 150 pages left and it's just
been so interesting and intriguing... how
the author has melded history, the
concept of the Sin Eater, and how the
sin eater is going about solving this
conspiracy theory that she's all caught
into and how it relates to her... it's just
such an interesting book. And I can
already tell I'm gonna really like this
one. If the end holds up I'm gonna really
enjoy it. And I'm going to need more
books by Megan Campisi because it's just
so good. As you can see I've got my
writing setup. I'm sitting on my floor. I
really spend a lot of time just sitting
on the floor of my room rather than
sitting on a chair and I hope that I can
get some words done because I've totally
been ignoring camp NaNoWriMo and that's
not good. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
I've been reading this this morning and
almost finished. I've got like 25 pages
left so I'll definitely finish it today. And then I'll have finished my 11th book
of the month and I'll be finishing up
the Sin Eater in two to three days so
that's gonna count as an extra book so
I'm still on track. It's Easter Sunday!
We've got an Easter egg hunt that's gonna
happen inside the house. And I'm looking
forward to that.
What are we doing, sister? Simone: We're taking a little trip in the car. Olivia: yeah,
where are we going? Simone: to drop off a baby
present to a pregnant lady.
Hello, it is quite a few hours later
because I ended up doing a lot of family
things like going for a drive and having
a great Easter dinner. But I finished The
Voyage of the Dawn Treader and it made
me smile. I was a bit nervous at first
because I know that this is the last one
where the original gang are featured or
some of the original gang, and I don't
know what the rest of the series is
gonna be like because I've got another
three books. I do want to mention in the
order that I read this in. I read it in
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe and then
ascending order towards there, and I'm
gonna go back to the Magician's Nephew
afterwards. That was my choice. I've heard
about the other way of reading it. I
decided to read it this way. Anyway,
that counts my Transfiguration OWL
because there was shape-shifting in it. So, so far so good so. My plan for rest of
the day is I've got a few chores to do
and I'm gonna listen to an audio book
of The Valley of Fear and start that
novel. Which is a Sherlock Holmes novel
while I do so. And then I'm going to do
some phone calling of family... my
aunty and my grandparents because it's
Easter Sunday. And that's something that
we celebrate. There's the Easter egg hunt
still to come, Bible study session with
my family still to come, because it's Easter Sunday. And I'll probably start another book or
maybe I should read the next five
chapters in The Sin Eater for my buddy
read and start reading more of Godsgrave. So maybe I won't start another
book today.
I found all of my eggs!
Hey guys, so nothing's really gone as
planned
today. I was supposed to get a lot of
reading done but I got a bit sick. I
spent a lot of today reading. I did spend
a little of today reading but I spent most
of it sleeping because I've just been so
tired
all day. I kind of want to go back to bed
right now. I read 150 pages of the Silver
Chair which is the next Narnia book. It's
alright... it's just all right. I kind of
miss the original gang, so there's that. And I was supposed to finish this but
I've still got a hundred pages to go of
the Sin Eater.
And I've still got 40 pages of this to
go and I'm supposed to finish both of
these and be back on track for reading
today and I just don't think it's gonna
happen. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go watch
How to Train Your Pet Dragon 3 with my
family. I've just been switching between
being really hot and really cold all day
long, but yeah. I'm gonna watch that and
maybe work on getting my first vlog up
because it's almost the end of the
second week and I should really post my
first vlog. I know it's dark but can you
tell them what we're watching right now? How to Train Your Dragon.
Which one? 3.
Ho ho hey hey I declare a reading
day! So today's going to be a reading day.
It is day 14 and I am quite a few books
behind on my thirty books in 30 days
challenge but today the main thing that
I'm going to be doing is reading with a
couple of other things as breaks. I have
started this morning. It is now 9:30 a.m.
and I just finished reading the Silver
Chair by CS Lewis and it was okay. I am
missing -- I am missing the original
characters and I have to admit while I
do like these characters, I'm not as in
love with them as I was with the
original gang. So this was just an okay
read. I've got two more books in this
series. One of them's a prequel one, one
of them is a finale but I think I'm
gonna take a bit of a break because I'm
not a binge reader.
I find binge reading series really... it
gets really boring really quickly
because it's the same genre, same
characters, same kind of plot lines and I
start to predict everything. So I don't
actually like binge reading even though
I've been doing it lately. So that book
is done. That is book 12 out of 30.
Doesn't count towards OWLs or anything. And I've got a hundred more pages left
of The Sin Eater. My buddy reading -- my buddy reader
also finishing it today so 100 pages of
this to go. Gonna make this last day
productive. I've also been thinking about
my hair because in my first week I had
it loose and then in this week I've had
up in a bun. But this bun is getting a
bit messy so I might let my mum plait it in thick plaits and then have it wrapped
for my third week of vlogs. But let's get
going with the reading! Update! I did
sleep for a bit because I am still a bit
ill and my throat is starting to hurt a
little bit more, but I did finish reading
a Sin Eater by Megan Campisi and all I
can say is that I really did enjoy this
book. I think it just the writing style
was perfectly atmospheric and
setting the tone. And it was just such an
intriguing concept. That the ending was a
bit rushed in one plot point regard but
other than that really really enjoyed
this. And I just can't wait to cook a
feast for the bookstagram photos to go
with this.
Okay guys, I think I'm gonna close the
vlog here. But please let me know in the
comment section down below what was the
last book that you -- what was the last book
that you really enjoyed reading? Please
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